Gudu University, School of Mechanical Engineering.

The archeology program at Gudu University is excellent, but the mechanical engineering department's level is not so good, even worse than the Beast Taming department...

However, that was the past!

"Shi Yu..."

"You really intend to let me help you awaken mechanics."

"You really intend to contract a mechanical lifeform."

Hao, the dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering, rubbed his hands, looking excited.

"I have a feeling that you will be the pride of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Gudu University in the future!"

It's also reasonable for a student to be the common pride of the archeology, battle, Beast Taming, and mechanical engineering departments.

"No, no..."

"I'm just a newbie in mechanics, a pure rookie..."

Shi Yu said modestly beside him.

Behind them, there was also a sighing cat.

The Gem Cat was already thinking about what Shi Yu would train this mechanical pet into in the future.

It had to think in an Unscientific direction...

It looked at the sky. Would it become a space battleship, and then a planet-destroying cannon in space could destroy a totem country below?

Or would it become a time machine that travels through time and space?

"Haha, in that case."

"Leave it to me, I guarantee you'll be satisfied." Dean Hao patted his chest and said.

The most correct thing he had done in his life was participating in the research on the Iron-eating Beast's evolved form and helping Eleven create an evolved armor.

Now, he was helping Shi Yu with the initial awakening of a mechanical pet. What was this! In the future, when Shi Yu becomes successful, his name would definitely have a prominent place.

As for whether Shi Yu could become successful, that goes without saying. Dean Hao had never seen such a monstrous Beast Tamer as Shi Yu!

Although he wasn't at the National Competition in person, it didn't stop him from convulsing in front of the TV.

Thinking of his ten-year-old granddaughter's soul-searching question at the time: "Grandpa, is this the person you wanted me to learn from, Senior Brother Gao Xuan?"

"He's so miserable... I don't want to be a mechanical engineer, I want to be an archeologist!"

Dean Hao was speechless for a while.

Shi Yu was great, successfully making his mechanical engineer granddaughter lose her dream of becoming a mechanical engineer and instead want to become an archeologist.

...

Dean Hao took Shi Yu and the others to his research institute.

Inside the research institute were a bunch of messy mechanical devices, which Shi Yu couldn't understand anyway.

Beside him, the Gem Cat was as calm as ever.

Back then, it had tried to transform its clone into a robot cat!

Although it failed, resulting in the clone being blown to death, it had rich mechanical modification experience that a rookie like Shi Yu couldn't compare to.

As for why it hadn't left after sending Shi Yu over, it mainly wanted to see what initial instructions Shi Yu would set for the mechanical pet.

This was related to the mechanical pet's future personality and behavior, and it was very curious.

"This is it."

Shi Yu and the others arrived at a separate room. Inside this room, there was a huge experimental table with three large lamps above it.

Shi Yu felt like it wasn't a laboratory, but an operating room...

"What do I do next..." Shi Yu asked.

"Put the intelligent chip on the table, and then shine it with awakening rays for a while."

"Uh, it's as simple as the data said." Shi Yu.

It felt no different from the awakening mirror.

"Haha." Dean Hao smiled and said, "It's not that simple."

"You feel it's simple because the awakening device has already been set up."

"If you start from scratch to build this level of awakening device, it will cost at least hundreds of millions."

"In addition, the awakening ray release process will consume a lot of rare energy."

"The consumption of awakening a high-level intelligent chip can paralyze a town."

"Well, do the Changeable Stone and the adaptability device need to be assembled in advance?"

"No, to be precise, you can't do that."

"If there is a Beast Tamer with an awakening talent, they can directly assemble the three together... then use their awakening talent on it, and a mechanical lifeform of the king race can be born directly."

"But the awakening ray of the awakening device can only awaken the intelligent chip. If you assemble them together and use the awakening ray, the result can only be failure."

"The general process is to awaken the intelligent chip first, then connect other mechanical materials through the adaptability device, and finally, activate the intelligent chip to complete the combined evolution. If successful, it means the creation is successful."

"This process is more cumbersome, troublesome, and has an extremely high failure rate. Once it fails, the mechanical materials have a chance to be scrapped. It's not as safe and convenient as an awakening talent, but you don't have to worry. The reward you got from the National Competition is a complete set of top-quality mechanical materials with perfect compatibility, so there is no risk of awakening failure."

Shi Yu nodded.

Awakening talent was equivalent to "evolution talent" in the mechanical system.

It can increase the success rate and reduce the risk of failure of the combined evolution of mechanical lifeforms.

Having an awakening talent can make it easier for mechanical engineers to upgrade mechanical lifeforms.

"Of course, there is also a mechanical system with the highest risk of failure." Dean Hao said with a smile.

"Biological modification." Shi Yu said.

"That's right. This mechanical system is even more dangerous than a mechanical system that simply uses intelligent chips. So, except for Xingdu University, other universities don't have mechanical disciplines for biological modification."

Biological modification was very dangerous. As for why it wasn't banned...

The reason was simple.

Because the upper limit of biological mechanical modification was also extremely high.

The Divine Wind Country, also known as the Divine Eagle Country, was because they successfully transformed their native totem Wind God Eagle into a demigod-level Mechanical God Eagle.

In addition, there were also rumors that the current legendary Beast Tamer of Qidao was a "cyborg" involved in biological mechanical modification. Therefore, even without the power of pets, her own combat power could be called a Valkyrie.

After Dragon Palace City encountered the invasion of the Poison Dragon Totem, without concrete evidence, the reason why they didn't dare to directly provoke them and chose to investigate the evidence first was because they had a Valkyrie stationed there.

"A cyborg like in Dragon Ball." Shi Yu muttered in his heart. This was all gossip from the Sea Dragon King of Dragon Palace City. There were no records of this in Dong Huang at all.

Or rather, it wasn't good for ordinary Beast Tamers to know.

"Alright, let's begin."

As Shi Yu took out the high-level intelligent chip from the ruins space and put it in the groove on the experimental table, Dean Hao said.

Soon.

Under Dean Hao's operation, three lamps lit up, emitting red, white, and blue rays.

The three rays converged at one point, covering the entire high-level intelligent chip.

Soon, the transparent glass-like intelligent chip was dyed with three colors. The three colors, like liquid, began to flow and merge inside the mirror.

After about a minute, the colors on the high-level intelligent chip began to fade, returning to its original transparent mirror-like appearance.

At the same time, the light from the three lamps slowly disappeared.

The Gem Cat was watching expectantly from the side.

"Alright!" Dean Hao said with a smile, "Next, we'll assemble it with the Changeable Stone using the adaptability device."

Shi Yu nodded upon hearing this and took out the Rubik's Cube-style Changeable Stone.

The Changeable Stone wasn't big, but it was made up of 27 small cubes, like a Rubik's Cube, and could be turned in the middle like a Rubik's Cube.

Depending on the attribute, its color was also different. For example, the wind-attribute Changeable Stone was white and had a faint cyan halo.

The adaptability device was very similar to the high-level intelligent chip. If the high-level intelligent chip was like a hard, transparent lens, then the adaptability device was a pile of transparent stickers.

Although it looked simple, Shi Yu and the others had carefully observed these mechanical materials with Super Vision and found that both the intelligent chip and the adaptability device had countless dense codes on them, which were very cumbersome and complex.

"The Changeable Stone is easy to awaken, easy to combine, and easy to modify. You just need to stick the adaptability device on both sides of the intelligent chip, then insert it into the Changeable Stone, and then stick the adaptability device on the 54 small surfaces of the 6 external faces of the Changeable Stone to complete the assembly."

"Okay." Shi Yu immediately operated according to Dean Hao's instructions. It was indeed simpler than he had imagined. It was worthy of being the most friendly mechanical material to new mechanical engineers.

Soon, Shi Yu completed the operation completely.

At the same time.

Whether it was the Changeable Stone that was glowing, or the adaptability device that was glowing, or the three that reacted.

The cyan light instantly enveloped the entire Changeable Stone, which was very dazzling.

Seeing this, Dean Hao stroked his beard and said, "This is considered complete."

"Next, as long as you have physical contact with it, enter a meditative state, and maintain it for more than a minute, you can build a spiritual connection with it and set initial instructions."

"After this is completed, it will be completely activated. It will complete the final evolution and become a real lifeform."

"In addition, because it's a high-level intelligent chip, it will have a certain understanding of the world view as soon as it wakes up. It has a certain amount of basic knowledge stored internally, like a professional encyclopedia. It can be seen as a genius with a very good foundation. No matter what you want to teach it in the future, it can accept it quickly."

"Among them, it also includes some basic mechanical knowledge. Even if you don't know anything about the mechanical field, it can take good care of itself at the beginning without worrying about it getting sick."

"Of course, it knows a little bit of everything, but for now, it only knows a little bit of everything. For example, the knowledge in archeology and Beast Taming is definitely not as rich as the knowledge recorded in your Archeological Encyclopedia and Beast Taming Encyclopedia. So, if you want to upgrade its data chip later, you can also come to me. This will be faster than learning it later."

"However, although it has a certain foundation of world view cognition, it's essentially a newborn. What its acquired personality will be like is related to the initial instructions you designed. This process can also be regarded as 'early education guidance'."

Dean Hao explained to Shi Yu in detail.

After a moment, Dean Hao finished speaking.

Shi Yu picked up the Changeable Stone and thanked him, "Then thank you, Dean Hao. I'll go back and do the final awakening."

"Huh?" Dean Hao was stunned for a moment before nodding.

"Meow?"

The Gem Cat was also stunned, looked at Shi Yu, and said with wide eyes, "What initial instructions are you planning to set?"

"Set it up and let it wake up before going back."

Shi Yu refused. How could he let a cat know about such private matters?

The Gem Cat was furious, guaranteeing that Shi Yu definitely had no good intentions.

...

After returning to his dormitory at Gudu University, Shi Yu immediately drilled into the mechanical research institute in the ruins space, shaking off the very curious Gem Cat.

Inside his own research institute, Shi Yu sat on a stool and took out the Changeable Stone.

"Awu!" "Ugh!" "Yi!" "Mew!" "N咛!"

After Shi Yu came back, Eleven and the others surrounded the room, whispering and discussing.

They all knew that Shi Yu was creating a child inside.

"What are your thoughts?"

After Shi Yu sat and thought for a while, he opened the door and looked at the pets.

The reason why he came back was that he also wanted to hear the opinions of each pet.

Shi Yu's positioning of the sixth pet was an all-around mechanical type.

It would both research and be proficient in combat.

It would be best if it could research itself into a combat-type mecha that could accommodate multiple pets.

At that time, he would sit in the cockpit, Chi Tong would be the weapon, evolving into the Sea Sprite, and Su Su, who could connect to the contracted sea and have infinite energy, would be the energy source. Eleven, Worm, and Ginseng Baby would perform their respective functions. Wouldn't that be invincible?

Therefore, when setting the initial instructions, incorporating some of Eleven's and the others' ideas might allow everyone to cooperate better in the future.

In addition, in terms of daily life, Shi Yu also felt that he happened to be missing a butler and assistant-type pet, so he could squeeze it in that direction.

Now... it was like character creation in a game.

However, the game was creating appearances, and they were creating personalities, behaviors, and dreams.

"Ying--"

Outside the door, Eleven gave the first suggestion when Shi Yu suddenly poked his head out.

It hoped that the little mechanical type would have elements such as hard work, self-discipline, and diligence.

"Okay." Shi Yu nodded. Of course, that was no problem.

For mechanical types, as long as they don't die, they should work themselves to death!

"Ugh!! (It must be hardworking and willing to bear hardships!!)"

Worm also gave a similar suggestion to Eleven's.

However, Shi Yu's mouth twitched. He felt like something was wrong.

Were you afraid that the other party would be squeezing you when you research mechanical phantom beasts with the little mechanical type in the future?

"Yi!! (Knowledge changes fate!)" Ginseng Baby pushed up its glasses.

It heard that the new little mechanical type would be a scholarly type?

Heh, it seemed that there would be one more assistant.

Scholar Ginseng Baby looked up at the starry sky.

It had already imagined itself wearing a combat mecha and blasting a Bean Bear with one shot.

Shi Yu nodded. It definitely had to have that.

A mechanical type that can't study and research on its own isn't a good mechanical type.

"Meow!! (A girl!)" Chi Tong strongly suggested.

"Hmm...?" Shi Yu raised his eyebrows. Could this also be set?

It seemed that it could?

But why did it have to be a girl!

Was it going to balance the yin and yang in the team?

Of course, that was even more of a problem. Even if Chi Tong didn't say it, he was planning to do so.

A female voice system definitely sounded better than a male voice system.

"N咛." Su Su's idea was the simplest and most plain.

It hoped that the little mechanical type would like pollution-free energy.

After all, its hometown, the Variegated Islands, was polluted by the taboo mechanical power of Qidao.

"It will." Shi Yu nodded.

The Changeable Stone (Wind) mainly used wind power as its energy source. In the future, when it combined with Su Su, it could also use the sea's energy as power with the Sea Sprite's "Sea Contract". Wind power and hydro power were both pollution-free energy sources.

Shi Yu would naturally take this into consideration, otherwise, if Su Su and the little mechanical type started fighting in the team, it wouldn't be good.

"Alright, alright, you all go train."

After listening to the pets' ideas, Shi Yu drove them away and returned to the research institute.

He began to build a spiritual connection with the mechanical pet and set initial instructions.

Inside the bright room, Shi Yu sat expectantly, playing with the Rubik's Cube in his hand and closing his eyes to enter a meditative state.

A minute later...

Shi Yu seemed to have entered a virtual online game space like a VR game. His spirit was connected to the Changeable Stone, and the scenery around him was like a cosmic tunnel. Countless mechanical Rubik's Cubes revolved around him.

[First... gender, female.]

[Positioning: butler, assistant, secretary.]

[In terms of personality, hardworking, diligent, hardworking and willing to bear hardships, loves to learn, has a rock-solid willpower, has a very strong sense of responsibility for work and tasks...] Shi Yu set it for several minutes.

[See Eleven, Worm, Ginseng Baby, Chi Tong, and Su Su as companions... extremely admire and worship the world's most handsome and outstanding 'creator Shi Yu', and regard him as an idol...]

Shi Yu coughed.

[The dream is, or rather, the main line is to become the most powerful all-around mechanical type and help Beast Tamer Shi Yu and his companions become stronger.]

Shi Yu kept kneading the mechanical type in the spiritual space. The little mechanical type's initial settings were being perfected little by little.

In the room, Shi Yu was holding the Changeable Stone, talking to himself.

Outside the room, Eleven and the others were looking at each other. Why hadn't he come out yet?

Obviously, they didn't go to train and were all waiting for the results.

After a long time...

[Complete!]

After kneading slowly for a long time, Shi Yu finally exited the spiritual connection state.

At this moment, the high-level intelligent chip was completely activated.

The nine-square grid on one of the six faces of the Changeable Stone directly transformed into a smooth mirror surface, just like a mobile phone screen!

At the same time, because it was a high-level intelligent chip and had human language, the Changeable Stone directly said its first sentence after its birth in human speech.

At this time, the Changeable Stone mechanical type was like a smartphone, with the screen-like face lighting up, and a virtual avatar that was automatically synthesized based on the existing data and Shi Yu's settings appeared on the cube's screen.

This was a Q version of a girl of about ten years old with long white hair that was tied into a ponytail at the back of her head and had a cowlick on top of her head. She slowly opened her eyes and made a crisp and capable female voice that sounded like the wind: "You... are you my master?"

"Hmm?" Shi Yu frowned, looking at the Q version avatar on the Rubik's Cube screen.

"Why is it a Q version avatar..."

"You... are you my master?"

"The virtual image is Q version, so be it, but why is it pixelated?" Shi Yu was speechless as he looked at the blurred avatar on the screen that was made up of countless small grids. What era was this high-level intelligent chip from?

"You... are you my master?"

[Teaching Success Rate]: Medium

However, what made Shi Yu most happy was that the super-level skill teaching success rate of the high-level intelligent life was actually medium??

The initial was medium, how awesome was that?

"You... are you my master!!"

"That's right, I am your Beast Tamer." Shi Yu showed a thick smile.

"My master is the world's most handsome and outstanding Beast Tamer, you..." The newborn little mechanical type made a suspicious voice, causing Shi Yu's heart to skip a beat. Was there a bug?

Wasn't he handsome? Wasn't he outstanding? Even if he wasn't, it had to think "yes"!

Wait, was it saying that even if the initial instructions were set, it still had to be guided slowly?

Dean Hao seemed to have said that high-level mechanical life was different from ordinary mechanical types and was not a rigid low-level mechanical type that executed programs. It also had a certain ability to think for itself. The initial instructions only had a certain influence. If it wanted to make the mechanical life believe it without a doubt, it still had to strengthen the settings persistently...

"It's me." Shi Yu said firmly, "I am Shi Yu, the world's most handsome and outstanding Beast Tamer."

The avatar in the Rubik's Cube screen hesitated for a moment, then nodded and chose to believe it for the time being.

A high-level mechanical life was actually similar to a heroic spirit. It would have a certain spiritual connection with the person who set the initial instructions.

Therefore, even if it wasn't contracted for the time being, it would still see Shi Yu as its master.

Of course, it still couldn't enjoy the benefits of the contract before this.

"Next, I'll give you a name." Shi Yu looked at the glowing Rubik's Cube and said, "Hmm... let me think. You'll have to complete a research mission later and use the dream phantom of a Qilin fossil to transform yourself into a Mechanical Phantom God. This is also the evolution direction later, so I'll find a name from this direction."

"How about I call you Rubik's Cube?"

"?" The little mechanical type's avatar disappeared and turned into a pixelated question mark.

It could understand the meaning of the name, the meaning of the task, and the meaning of the evolution. Even with mythical beasts like Qilin, its basic information also had a simple record, knowing that it was a auspicious beast that represented the mythical era.

In short, it could understand every word Shi Yu said, but after connecting them together, it didn't understand why its name would become "Rubik's Cube".

"Hmm... it does seem to have nothing to do with it. It's so difficult."

"Should I just call it Lin?"

In Earth mythology, the male Qilin was called Qi and the female Qilin was called Lin, similar to how the male Phoenix was called Feng and the female Phoenix was called Huang. Although the Phoenix race in the Blue Planet mythological system didn't have this saying, Shi Yu still followed this saying and researched a name for the virtual assistant.

"It's not good... the name doesn't sound like a girl's name."

Little Mechanical: "..."

Wait, or should he call her Yaoguang?

Shi Yu pondered. Yaoguang in the Big Dipper represented auspiciousness, and the Qilin was also an auspicious beast. Moreover, this name felt quite compatible with a mechanical life...

Wait, after reading it carefully, Shi Yu felt that this name was a bit like a villain's name and wasn't friendly.

It gave people the feeling that she would kill her master and destroy the planet.

It wasn't auspicious at all.

The avatar in the Rubik's Cube said solemnly, "Please think carefully, Master..."

"Forget it, then I'll call you 'Ling'. I'll just change the pronunciation of the word 'Lin'." Shi Yu said, "Ling, solemn, serious about work, and serious. When you become a mecha later, it's best to be majestic."

The avatar was silent for a moment and silently accepted again.

It looked at Shi Yu, then looked outside the house, and was silent again before saying, "From today onwards, I will formulate strict study and training tasks for Master and your pets."

"Now, I'm collecting basic information. May I ask Master how long you meditate every day?"

"Uh, meditate? I meditate twice when I have time, and I don't when I don't. It all depends on fate and whether I'm free that day."

Ling: !!!

"According to scientific research, the best meditation time for a Beast Tamer every day is 8 hours. Therefore, in order for you to sign a contract with me as soon as possible, Master, you must maintain a strict meditation time of 8 hours every day."

Shi Yu's expression was strange. Wait, did something go wrong when setting the initial instructions? Why were you even managing me?

"I will formulate a training plan as soon as possible. Next, I will collect the daily training situation of my companions." After saying that, she wanted to go out to find Eleven and the others.

"No rush, no rush..."

"No, wasting too much time is my dereliction of duty."

"Ah..." Shi Yu looked at the Rubik's Cube that turned around, like a confused little shark, and looked at the ceiling. He felt like something was wrong with this design.

It seemed that he had designed a troublesome guy. How was he supposed to slack off? Why was she so serious?

Outside.

As Mechanical Ling came out, Eleven, Worm, Ginseng Baby, Chi Tong, and Su Su immediately surrounded her, looking curious and novel.

At the same time, Mechanical Ling also seriously observed the companions in the settings.

Iron-eating Beast... mid-level transcendent race. Unknown butterfly, suspected to be an insect type. Ginseng Baby, high-level transcendent race. Unknown spirit body, should be a necromancer type. Water Slime, high-level transcendent race!

Its main task was to help its master and companions become stronger. In addition, it was hardworking, diligent, willing to bear hardships, had a rock-solid willpower, and had a very strong sense of responsibility for work and tasks... Therefore, it immediately asked Eleven and the others about their current training task situation, wanting to formulate a more detailed and scientific training plan for them.

It believed that it could do it well!

The moment it saw its companions, Mechanical Ling's basic information quickly arranged and combined a theoretically very scientific training plan.

"Ying!" "Ugh!!" ...

Faced with the new companion's questions, Eleven and the others naturally answered seriously and in a chattering manner.

"Ying Ying Ying!! (Now is the stage of willpower training. I have to turn into a juvenile form and swim in volcanoes, and jump down from ten thousand meters high...)"

"Ugh!! Ugh!! (Recently, I've been chatting with the past Dragon Gods of Dragon Palace City in my dreams... piecing together the advantages of their race and sticking them to myself.)"

"Yi! (I'm recently studying the concepts of 'reincarnation' and 'rebirth'. Time Fruit, is it possible to summon the power of the reincarnated life's previous life?)"

Shi Yu followed closely behind, but it was still a little late.

Outside, Mechanical Ling's screen was blurry, and the expression on the avatar had turned into "@.@" blurry eyes. It seemed like it was overloading with thought. Eleven and the others looked panicked beside it.

They just talked about the daily training situation. How did it become like this!

Ling: "Analysis failed... Restarting... Restarting..."

Shi Yu: "..."

He should raise Ling's intelligence first.

With the current intelligence level, it might be difficult to understand Eleven and the others' daily behavior logic.

Not to mention researching mechanical phantom beasts and combined mechas, which were epic-level tasks, it was likely that it would be difficult to complete the novice tasks alive.

[Name]: Ling

[Attribute]: Mechanical, Wind

[Race Level]: High-level Monarch

[Growth Level]: Awakening Level 1

[Race Skills]: Changeable, High-level Intelligence, Wind Element Control

Shi Yu touched Ling twice.

[Teaching Success]

[High-level Intelligence (Entry) has been upgraded to High-level Intelligence (Proficient)]

At the moment, Ling's eyes instantly became a little wiser, but feeling the upgrade in intelligence, more than anything else, it was still confused.

"Unable to understand..."

Seeing the clumsy Mechanical Ling, Eleven and the other pets shook their heads. Mechanical life wasn't very smart after all. Was this a scholar?!