Chapter 545 — I Have a Billion Dreams

"Young man, your mechanical life form—what level has its intelligence reached?" Seeing the listless black-and-white bear slung over Shi Jin's shoulder, Lei Yanshi, though still somewhat doubtful of his identity as a mechanical prodigy, had nonetheless noticed the mechanical life form on Shi Jin's hand.

At least... he did have a mechanical beast.

"Shi Jin, does it meet what Lei Yanshi is asking for?" Kong Di asked as well.

Shi Jin sank into thought, then said, "It does. In fact, it far exceeds it."

Lei Yanshi was stunned.

Shi Zhuo raised his wrist slightly, and in the next instant, a holographic projection-like phantom in a shipgirl's uniform appeared—a girl-like mechanical spirit, her long white hair gathered at the back of her head into a ponytail that hung naturally, with a single ahoge curling from the top of her head.

Figure-sized, with only her upper body visible, the mechanical spirit Rin opened her蔚-blue eyes and said, "Lei Yanshi, I am my master's mechanical assistant."

"Oh, oh..." Lei Yanshi's eyelid twitched the moment he saw Rin.

Sure enough, in the next instant, Rin kept talking, and every sentence began to jab at Lei Yanshi's heart. Rin said, "At present, I command the prototype of a divine skill in advanced computation and deduction rules, and in my mechanical-spirit state I also possess mechanical mastery approaching god-level. So there is no problem at all with my participating in disaster research."

The prototype of god-level intelligence!

The prototype of god-level mechanical mastery!

Advanced computation and deduction rules!

When Rin finished her report, Lei Yanshi was stunned. He shot to his feet and stared at Shi Yan's Rin, and at Kong Di.

"Is that true?"

"Are you certain?"

The prototype of a divine skill in computation and deduction rules, and of advanced quality at that—that was no small thing. At present, in the vast Canglan Realm's Cosmic Disaster Research Institute, he was the only one who commanded god-level intelligence. The intelligence level of Shi Ying's mechanical beast was already in no way inferior to those senior mechanical researchers.

And on top of that, a combined divine-skill prototype of god-level mechanical mastery and god-level intelligence?

At this moment, Kong Di was stunned as well, staring at Shi Jin in utter surprise. Wait—Shi Ying's mechanical beast already possessed the prototype of god-level intelligence??? How was it two whole major versions ahead of Blue Star's mechanical-school founder!

Shi Cen remained silent at the side. Was this not all thanks to skill fusion...

"Wait, wasn't it also... a Qilin phantom beast?" Kong Di said.

"Yes. Beyond that, I also possess the prototype of an advanced fortune divine skill, which can raise one's own research success rate considerably. By combining the Wind of Blessing with the mechanical spirit, I can give my master research ability comparable to god-level intelligence. That is my current basic configuration. Lei Yanshi, please rest assured—we will study hard and improve every day," Rin said earnestly and obediently.

To prove her words, she gathered a wisp of the wind of fortune before her, and at the same time pointed a finger at the rule ripples. In the next instant, the ripples decomposed and reconstructed, transforming into dense, tightly packed data code.

It was, plainly, a capacity for calculation, analysis, and deduction potent enough to peer into the very rules of the world.

Without such an ability, Lin could never have managed to help Xiao Ji grasp the prototype of a top-tier rule through mechanical modification.

At this sight, Lei Yanshi beside them parted his lips slightly, even more shaken.

"So it really is true..."

A mechanical life form that commanded a high-tier luck divine skill and possessed the prototype of a god-level intelligence? What kind of absurd configuration was that? He looked at Kong Di and said, "Old Wang, are you people serious?"

"You really mean to leave them here, learning under me??"

He knew that the home planet of this old friend of his had only developed a mechanical system recently, and he had held no hopes at all for mechanical geniuses from that world.

But now, Lei Yanshi was, to put it plainly, utterly dumbstruck.

With talent and potential like that, forget about this place—were he to go train at the headquarters of the Cosmic Disaster Research Institute, plenty of doctors far more capable than him would scramble to take him on as an assistant.

"Isn't it because I trust you, Old Lei?" At this point, having heard the configuration of Shi Ying's mechanical pet beast, even Kong Di's mouth twitched. The Wind of Luck he knew about, but the prototype of a god-level intelligence was something he truly had not known. And once the two skills were combined, even if they could not match the Purifying Star Spirit's supreme combined divine skill, they would not be much inferior.

Absurd. Was Shi Jin really a seedling of a genius researcher after all?

"...Ahem." At this, Shi Cen wore an awkward yet still courteous smile at the side. So—could they or could they not be given access to this place's disaster simulation devices? They were in quite a hurry to use them!

"Good, since you don't mind, then I won't stand on ceremony. Shi Jue, is it? Study hard. I'll do everything in my power to teach you all I know. So long as you can learn it, I'll make you deputy directors when the time comes—no problem at all, haha." Under Kong Di's exceedingly peculiar expression, Lei Yanshi said this with delight.

Geniuses—everyone loved them.

What was more, a genius who carried a matching dream was rarer still.

Genius mechanics were easy to find, but a genius mechanic with the "dream" of becoming an outstanding cosmic disaster researcher—that was not easy to find at all!