CIATB Chapter 304 Azure Dragon!
Chapter 304 Azure Dragon!
Nie Qingcheng snorted, and the beauty mark at the corner of her eye curled up slightly with the movement of her lips.
"Next time I'll cook it five minutes earlier."
"it is good."
After finishing his noodles, Zhang Yan took a shower.
When she came out, Nie Qingcheng had already spread out a blanket on the sofa and placed two pillows.
One is hard, and the other is soft.
"Take a nap first." She pressed his shoulders and pushed him onto the sofa.
"Didn't we agree that we had important business to attend to—"
"We'll talk about serious matters this afternoon. I'm going to sleep now."
Her tone left no room for negotiation.
Zhang Yan did not insist further.
He was indeed sleepy.
When her head hit the soft pillow, Nie Qingcheng sat down next to him, opened a thick corporate financial report, and quietly read it page by page.
He closed his eyes.
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see her fingers turning the pages; they were very white, and she wasn't wearing anything on her ring finger.
He wanted to say something, but his consciousness was already fading.
My final thought was: once the Azure Dragon is finished, I'll buy one.
……
Zhang Yan woke up at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Nie Qingcheng was not in the living room.
The voice came from the study; someone was on the phone.
"...The batch of Blazing Sun Crystals from South Africa has already cleared customs and been sent directly to the underground warehouse of Tianji Security. Yes, it didn't go through the system for warehousing; they received it directly."
"Is the star sand gold inventory stored? How much is left?"
That's enough.
Zhang Yan walked to the door of the study.
When Nie Qingcheng saw him, she made a "wait a minute" gesture and hung up the phone two minutes later.
"Have you slept enough?"
"Mm." Zhang Yan sat down opposite her. "We got the Void Crystal. The last piece of the Azure Dragon puzzle is in place."
Nie Qingcheng's eyes lit up.
"When will construction begin?"
"The sooner the better."
Zhang Yan brought up the system panel and flipped to the complete blueprints of the Azure Dragon.
A holographic projection unfolds above the desk.
Compared to the Tyrannosaurus Rex's brutality and the Vermilion Bird's sharpness, the Azure Dragon's design represents a completely different philosophy.
It is 15 meters long and covered with scale-like stardust gold armor. Its streamlined body is long and elegant.
The limbs are short and powerful, with sharp five-toed claws at the ends.
Its head is long and slender, with two optical arrays guided by fragments of the Heavenly Heart embedded in the position of its eyes.
But these are all just outer shells.
The core of the Azure Dragon is that spatial folding module.
More than a third of the fifteen-meter-long body's internal space was dedicated to that system—the Star Sand Gold Frame, the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart Guiding Circuit, and the Void Crystal Core.
Three nested layers, mutually coupled.
Once activated, the Azure Dragon can create a temporary spatial folding field around itself.
It's not the kind of special effect you see in science fiction movies where a wormhole opens up.
It is a true local spatial topological distortion—bending, overlapping, or even closing off a region of three-dimensional space like origami.
The key to sealing the "Ruins".
"How long will it take?" Nie Qingcheng asked.
Zhang Yan considered it for a moment.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex took eleven hours.
Suzaku took six hours.
However, the precision requirements of Qinglong's spatial folding module are on a completely different level.
The installation error of the Void Crystal cannot exceed 0.001 millimeters; otherwise, the spatial field will become unstable and collapse upon activation, which would be equivalent to detonating a small black hole under one's own feet.
"At least twenty hours. There can be no breaks in between."
"Where is the location?"
"Tianji Security has three underground floors."
Nie Qingcheng stood up and picked up her phone.
"I ordered Qin Xiao to seal the building."
"Wait a minute," Zhang Yan stopped her.
Do you have time tonight?
Nie Qingcheng glanced at him.
"I couldn't help you build the mecha even when I was there—"
That's not what I meant.
Zhang Yan took out the A4 sheet of paper from his pocket. The one with forty-seven items.
"When you made the list, you drew something outside the list."
Nie Qingcheng's expression changed slightly.
"You saw it."
Zhang Yan unfolded the paper.
In the bottom right corner of the A4 paper, below item number 47 "Spare Batteries x3", there is a very small line drawing.
A ring.
The drawing was very casual, with crooked lines, but the shape was easy to recognize.
Nie Qingcheng's ears turned red.
"Um... I just drew it casually."
"Um."
"I'm not implying anything to you."
"Um."
"It really was just a casual remark—"
"Wait until the Azure Dragon is finished." Zhang Yan folded the paper and put it back in his pocket.
"Buy one."
Nie Qingcheng opened her mouth slightly, then closed it again.
She turned around, walked to the window, and stood with her back to him for a few seconds.
"If you dare to buy something cheap, I'll turn on you."
"When have you ever cared about the price?"
Nie Qingcheng's shoulders twitched.
It's not because of the cold.
"...Go and build your Azure Dragon."
It was 9 p.m. that evening.
Tianji Security has three underground floors, all of which are sealed off.
Qin Xiao and his men set up three checkpoints at the second-floor entrance, turned off all surveillance cameras, and turned the electromagnetic shielding system to its highest power.
Zhang Yan stood alone in the center of the core laboratory.
Take all the materials out of the storage space.
Stardust gold ingots, meteorite iron, deep-sea crystal, fragments of the Heart of Heaven, titanium carbide alloy plates.
The last item—Void Crystal.
Seventeen purple crystals of varying sizes were neatly arranged on the worktable. The air around them was slightly optically distorted, like a mirage formed by hot air on a straight highway.
Zhang Yan unfolded the Thousand Machine Arm.
Take a deep breath.
start.
Start with the vertebral skeleton.
The Azure Dragon's spine is the main load-bearing structure of the entire spatial folding system. Each vertebra must simultaneously bear physical stress and topological shear force from the spatial field.
The ductility of stardust gold is crucial here—too hard and it will break when space is warped, too soft and it will deform during high-speed maneuvers.
Zhang Yan placed the star sand gold ingot into the furnace, precisely controlled the temperature to 1,427 degrees Celsius, held it for 30 seconds, then rapidly cooled it to 800 degrees Celsius, and then slowly cooled it down.
The system drawings indicate that this heat treatment process takes 90 minutes.
It took him seventy-eight minutes.
The first vertebra is formed.
Then comes the second section.
Section 3.
A fifteen-meter-long spine requires forty-two vertebrae, each with different dimensions, curvature, and density.
The robotic arms moved across the alloy surface, sparks flying, and the laboratory was filled with the sounds of metal cutting and welding.
Four hours later, the spinal frame was completed.
Next are the ribs, limbs, and skull.
Eight hours later, the complete skeleton of the Azure Dragon stood in the center of the laboratory.
The fifteen-meter-long golden skeleton resembled a sleeping dragon; even without armor and power, its smooth lines exuded an elegance that defied the laws of physics.
Zhang Yan wiped away his sweat.
The hardest part is here.
Space folding module.
He arranged the seventeen void crystals on the worktable and activated the system's ultra-high precision auxiliary guidance mode.
Each joint of the Thousand-Machine Arm is locked to maximum rigidity.
The first Void Crystal was picked up by precise knuckles and slowly moved toward the core slot in the center of the Azure Dragon's chest cavity.
Installation error: not exceeding 0.001 mm.
Zhang Yan held his breath.
My fingers didn't shake.
The moment the crystal was embedded, the air in the laboratory underwent a visible distortion—all straight lines bent for a fraction of a second before returning to normal.
One.
There are sixteen left.
Each one is of the same precision, the same breath-holding, the same spatial tremor.
The twelfth hour. The fifteenth hour.
Zhang Yan's forehead was covered in sweat, and his shirt was soaked and stuck to his back.
The energy consumption indicator light on the Thousand-Machine Arm changed from green to yellow.
When the seventeenth Void Crystal was inserted, Zhang Yan's finger finally trembled slightly.
The amplitude is less than 0.0003 millimeters.
Within safe limits.
The crystal is in place.
The spatial folding module is complete.
Zhang Yan took a step back, leaning against the edge of the worktable, panting heavily.
In the laboratory in front of me, a massive mechanical dragon, its body entirely dark gold, lay quietly.
The 15-meter-long, scale-like stardust-gold armor gleamed with a warm luster under the lights.
Its eyes on the head were dark, and the stabilizing fins on the tail were slightly deployed.
System self-test starts.
Skeletal integrity: 100%.
Armor integrity: 100%.
Space Folding Module: Online. Stable.
Completeness of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart: 87%.
Neural synchronization interface: Ready.
Overall assessment: SS level.
Space combat capability assessment: unique.
[System Notification: The Mo Family Mechanical Beast - Azure Dragon has been completed.]
[The completeness of the Celestial Craftsmanship has been increased to 87%. The Space Folding System has been unlocked.]
Zhang Yan leaned against the worktable, gazing at the sleeping golden dragon.
Twenty-one hours.
He took out his phone.
Nie Qingcheng's last message was sent six hours ago: "Don't overwork yourself."
He typed.
"It's finished."
He replied two minutes later.
"...What time is it now?"
"Four o'clock in the morning."
"You've stayed up all night again."
"Um."
"Zhang Yan".
"Um."
"Do you have any say in the ring deal?"
Zhang Yan looked at the words and smiled.
"Calculate."
Two words popped up on the phone screen.
"Come back quickly."