Chapter 19

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Gu Qingshan knew that the Impartiality Goddess was now on the line with the mainframe optical computer, so he bowed and replied, “I would like to request material and technical support from the Impartiality Goddess so that I can create a mecha.”

“Confirmed that citizen Gu Qingshan has the ability to create a mecha.”

“Confirmed that citizen Gu Qingshan’s Personal Meritorious Service points are sufficient.”

“Request granted.”

The Impartiality Goddess then said, “I would like to remind citizen Gu Qingshan of one thing. Chang Ning Mecha Tech’s mainframe optical computer here is able to take on 87.159257% of the world’s mecha research and creation work. With this in mind, do you still want to spend your Personal Meritorious Service points and seek my personal help?”

Gu Qingshan replied, “Yes.”

The Impartiality Goddess said, “To activate my personal help in creating a mecha, you will need to use up 2,000 Personal Meritorious Service points. Calculating citizen Gu Qingshan’s Personal Meritorious Service points now.”

Every Personal Meritorious Service point was important to a citizen of the Federation because the Impartiality Goddess used that to decide on one’s social standing, benefits, and the way one was treated.

Gu Qingshan had gone all out to accumulate points partly because he wanted to get into a good university, but also partly because he wanted to use these points in exchange for a mecha while in university.

Mechas were something that ordinary citizens couldn’t get their hands on at all. The aristocratic families wouldn’t generously contribute any unless you signed your life away to them.

He was only able to use his precious Personal Meritorious Service points to exchange for a mecha by connecting to the Impartiality Goddess.

Of course, his records had to be clean and he had to fulfill a string of conditions the Impartiality Goddess had.

In no time, a screen appeared in front of Gu Qingshan.

All the merits that Gu Qingshan had accumulated since his birth were all listed on the screen in front of him.

“Submission of a mini model to test the upper overload limits of power cores, +30 points.”

“Acceptance of Gu Qingshan’s original BBQ beef seasoning by gourmets, +2 points.”

“Published thesis: Making mechas move like humans, +10 points.”

“Volunteering to evacuate people during the fire in Changning County’s east area, +9 points.”

“Representing Changning County in the Federation’s intergalactic battleship fleet command competition and receiving the first-place prize, +5 points.”

“Attempted to save a girl who tried to commit suicide by jumping into a river. The attempt failed because of poor physique, but the spirit behind it is commendable. +0.5 points.”

“Raising making mechas move like humans as a hypothesis and advancing research in mechas, +80 points.”

…

“Citizen Gu Qingshan, your total Personal Meritorious Service points stand at 2002.41. Do you wish to proceed with using 2000 points so that I will help you create a mecha?”

“Yes,” Gu Qingshan replied without hesitation.

He had nearly used up all his points with this decision.

“Points successfully deducted. Starting preparations.”

The Impartiality Goddess paused for while before continuing. “The Intergalactic Fortress, “Shrine”, will be flying past Changning County in 1 hour and 25 minutes. Please prepare to board the fortress.”

With that said, a three-meter tall mecha walked out from an opened wall.

The mecha stopped next to Gu Qingshan, and the various electrical wires that were plugged into the mecha retreated into the wall and the cockpit of the mecha slowly opened.

Gu Qingshan glanced at it and said, “I have another request.”

“Please say it.”

“Please keep this matter a secret for me.”

“According to the constitution of the Federation, any citizen that does any form of invention, creation, or research will be granted privacy rights to ensure that this citizen is safe from any harm, and his knowledge will not be misused. Your request is granted, so from this moment onward, I will keep this secret for you.”

Gu Qingshan said, “Besides you, please don’t let anyone else retrieve the results of my research. I… would like to live quietly.”

“I will keep your research progress a secret according to the constitution, but I also have the right to make a request to use any research results by Federation citizens. Citizen Gu Qingshan, are you agreeable?”

“Yes.”

Everything was set in place, so Gu Qingshan smiled.

Even though the technology of this era was way behind how it would advance ten years later, he could probably fulfill some of his ideas with the personal help of the Impartiality Goddess.

This was going to be his birthday present to Su Xue’er, and it was the greatest kindness he could contribute to this world that was on the verge of being destroyed.

Time went by very quickly.

Gu Qingshan got into the mecha and made it leap out from the open roof all the way until it reached the sky.

In the high skies, there was a medium-sized battleship waiting for him already.

There was nobody on this battleship; it was completely controlled by the Impartiality Goddess.

The battleship allowed Gu Qingshan’s mecha to board and immediately flew into outer space.

One hour later.

In the dead quiet of outer space.

There were countless lights flashing within the huge Intergalactic Fortress.

Gu Qingshan stood alone in a completely sealed off space.

This space was as large as four soccer fields, and there was a holographic projector quietly floating in front of Gu Qingshan in this huge, empty space.

“Begin mecha creation,” he said.

The voice of the Impartiality Goddess resounded from all sides, “Mecha creation will begin. Please describe your design.”

Su Xue’er’s beautiful face appeared in Gu Qingshan’s mind. He went into a daze for a while before finally saying, “I hope that this mecha can give its pilot the hope to keep living, even in the face of cruel destruction.”

The Impartiality Goddess replied, “This description is too abstract. Please use mecha technical terms in your description.”

Gu Qingshan went quiet for a while, then said, “Activate Life Configuration Algorithm.”

The Impartiality Goddess immediately cut in, “Activation is not possible. The Life Configuration Algorithm is now merely a hypothesis. According to current mecha technology, there are two theorems that cannot pass, seven formulas that cannot be proven and twenty-nine technical issues that are unresolved.”

Gu Qingshan scratched his head.

It had been too long, and he didn’t know which issues hadn’t been resolved yet in this era.

Gu Qingshan replied, “Please list all of them out.”

Rows and rows of screens appeared in front of him in an instant. Each screen had one unresolved issue about the algorithm.

Gu Qingshan walked to the first screen and took a look at it.

“Oh, it’s a problem on multiple neuron transmission metric standards. I remember that this problem was solved just before the apocalypse arrived.”

“Let’s begin, then.”

He rolled his sleeves up and started calculating in front of the screen.

This problem was extremely difficult, and it took Gu Qingshan took a full half an hour just to solve it.

“Please test these equations,” said Gu Qingshan.

“Testing in progress,” replied the Impartiality Goddess.

The screen slowly sank into the ground and disappeared.

Ten seconds later, the Impartiality Goddess’ voice spoke again.

“Equations are correct. Metric standard has been established.”

That was good news. Once the metric standard had been established, the rest were easier to resolve. Gu Qingshan nodded satisfactorily and walked to the next screen.

He looked very seriously at the problem that appeared on the screen and said, “Oh, this one. Please help to create a model, and I will match the formulas.”

…

Gu Qingshan spent the next few hours continuing to solve the rest of the problems and slowly perfected the Life Configuration Algorithm, bit by bit.

In a place deep in the fortress that he couldn’t see, there was a massive screen calculating all the formulas, theorems, and structural ideas that Gu Qingshan had put forward.

When Gu Qingshan’s research had reached the halfway mark, there was a special hint that popped up on the massive screen.”

“Confirmed that target matches the 5th constitution of the Federation. The corresponding plan has been activated and will initiate a request for permission.”

“Contact the Senior General of the Army, Martial Arts Saint, Zhang Zongyang.”

“Contact the Commanding Officer of the Navy, Sea Emperor, Li Dongyuan.”

“Contact the Commander-in-chief of the Space Force, Song Tianwu.”

Three invisible waves shot out from the Intergalactic Fortress, ‘Shrine’, and headed out in different directions.

“General, a highly classified call has come in.”

“Hmm? The president?”

“No, it’s the Impartiality Goddess.”