118: Mech, Flowing Flame

"Participate in the SSS-level gathering and confirm one's own status? What does that mean?"

Inside the forging space, Qin Yu narrowed his eyes as he looked at the simple yet confusing mission description on the professional panel, his mind churning.

Before the mission was triggered, Qin Yu truly believed that... Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength organized this SSS-level gathering.

They just wanted the SSS-level students admitted in this cohort to get together and become familiar with each other before the Freshman Assessment.

After all, this reason, no matter how you looked at it,

was quite reasonable and logical.

Until the long-unheard system notification sound rang out in his mind.

And after a rather rare random mission was triggered.

Qin Yu realized that this gathering

was definitely not as simple as the two of them claimed.

After all, more than ten days had passed since he successfully advanced.

During all this time, apart from the weekly and daily missions, no random mission had ever been triggered on the panel.

It was easy to see how difficult it was to trigger a random mission.

At the same time, it was also clear that the SSS gathering mentioned by Chi Tianlin and the other person would certainly not be as simple as they made it sound.

However, as for what kind of trouble Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength wanted to stir up,

Qin Yu didn't particularly care.

He only felt a slight surge of interest regarding the evening's gathering.

After all, even before advancing, relying on the heavy mechanical power limbs, his strength was already leagues ahead of the other students.

What's more, he had now successfully advanced.

He successfully unlocked a new talent: Mechanical Body, as well as Mechanical Power and the sub-class Engineering Mechanic. Furthermore, he had stockpiled a large batch of brand-new mechanical products, successfully creating the prototype for the Mechanical Legion Style.

With so many buffs stacked up, honestly, as for how far his strength had reached,

even Qin Yu himself wasn't entirely sure.

However, one thing Qin Yu was certain of was... if he encountered Li Xingwen again, he definitely wouldn't have to rely solely on the Mechanical Eye to sneak attack and win.

Just based on raw strength, he could easily kill Li Xingwen!

Therefore, Qin Yu genuinely didn't care about Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength's little schemes.

Thus, after confirming the mission requirements and thinking about it briefly, Qin Yu stopped wasting time on the matter.

Instead, he closed the professional panel and returned to the workbench, refocusing his attention on the semi-finished mechanical product on the table, whose exterior was entirely painted with flame patterns.

This mechanical product was none other than... the item that a Junior Mechanist, unlocked after Qin Yu's advancement, could forge:

The mecha: flowing flame!

To be honest, after successfully advancing, when he saw that a mecha had actually appeared among the newly unlocked mechanical products on the panel,

Qin Yu truly couldn't believe that his class would unlock something like a mecha so quickly!

In his impression, although mecha were universally recognized by all men as the ultimate romance between men,

the technological content required for them... was definitely beyond what the worlds of Earth and Blue Star could achieve.

Therefore, before this, he truly hadn't thought... that he would be able to build a mecha so soon.

He never expected that he had only just reached Level 20.

And he could already build a mecha!

Of course, although mecha were indeed cool and powerful, and Qin Yu had indeed unlocked two mecha blueprints, there were still quite a few problems that came with them.

Take, for example, the mecha named flowing flame that Qin Yu was currently building.

Leaving aside the necessary materials, just the prerequisite for manufacturing this mecha required learning 95% of the Junior Mechanic Knowledge on the professional panel.

Only then could the mecha: flowing flame be fully unlocked.

Furthermore, the forging time was equally troublesome.

Even though Qin Yu currently had the blessings of the sub-class Engineering Mechanic, Mechanical Power, and various skills,

according to the panel's prompt, it would still take him a full four days to successfully manufacture this mecha.

Moreover, even if it was manufactured successfully,

there was still a failure rate as high as 30%.

This showed just how difficult it was to manufacture a proper mecha.

"The current progress is about 40%. It seems there's no way to complete it before the Freshman Assessment..." Qin Yu patted the "Iron Lump" in front of him and pondered:

"And besides that, there's still a 30% chance of manufacturing failure."

"Tsk tsk, I hope my luck is better."

"Otherwise, with the remaining materials and money I have, I won't be able to afford building another one."

While thinking these things, Qin Yu's hands didn't pause at all; he immediately picked up the various materials that had already been prepared on the workbench.

He then began forging... Meanwhile, on the other side, Nie Yuxi, who, like Qin Yu, had found her Dormitory Attic and settled down,

and had even been sought out by Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength, was not idle at the moment either... Regarding the SSS-level gathering mentioned by Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength,

Nie Yuxi was even less interested than Qin Yu.

Therefore, Nie Yuxi rejected their invitation without hesitation, causing both Chi Tianlin and Fierce Strength immense embarrassment.

After refusing and returning to the attic,

Nie Yuxi immediately opened the Campus Network Mission Interface again and continued searching for a mission that would allow her to legitimately enter a Large Space Rift and was closest to the location she remembered from her previous life.

"If I remember correctly, the location of that extreme cold profound ice is in the central region of the Space Rift."

"With my current registration and authority, I can't accept missions of this level."

"I can, however, take some peripheral missions and then seize the opportunity to delve deeper."

Inside the attic, Nie Yuxi's gaze rapidly scanned the rows of missions, and relying on her knowledge of the internal situation of the Super-large Space Rift from her previous life,

Nie Yuxi quickly analyzed each mission in her mind:

"Harvesting Void Grass? This mission is too peripheral. No."

"Hunting the Spirit of the Dark Night? Although this mission is deep enough, the Spirit of the Dark Night usually operates in the lower region of the rift."

"It's a bit far from the location of the extreme cold profound ice, and on the way deeper, I would have to pass through the territory of a true Void Creature..."

After a round of analysis, Nie Yuxi's gaze finally locked onto a mission marked with the character "Danger":

[Yellow-Tier Mission (Danger)]: The Space Rift has recently experienced an anomaly, and the Academy urgently needs a large number of personnel to enter the Space Rift for exploration. Rewards vary based on the exploration location and degree of danger.

This mission requires: Entering the Void Bone Serpent Habitat to investigate whether the Void Bone Serpent Clan is normal, and whether the Void Bone Serpent King is still in the area.

Mission Reward: Trial Value × 1500.