11:00 AM

The second level of heaven, Yezra.

This is the "world of formation," where the light of the Supreme appears through angels and spiritual entities, like a realm where illusion and reality intertwine.

And this mysterious world, surrounded by mountains, lies deep in the core base of the Heavenly Kingdom Alchemy Engineering Department - [Essex Fortress].

A blond young man wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt, fitted trousers and white canvas shoes walked among the mountains. His figure was light and swift, with "∞" symbols under his feet. Whenever the symbol appeared,

He shrunk to the ground and appeared at another displacement point. Soon, he appeared at the entrance of the fortress.

The fortress stands among the towering mountains. The projection of the "Clock of the Last Sun" suspended in the sky and the huge clock face are clearly visible. No matter where you stand in "Yezra", you can look up and see this symbol of the end of time.

The huge clock and the silent flowing hands remind every angel that the end is not far away.

Xia Xiu came to the core area of ​​the Alchemy Engineering Department - the Fortress Dockyard. This giant industrial building was like a silent steel behemoth.

Towering towers and complex mechanical devices are spread throughout every corner of the dock. The huge ceiling dome extends to the end of the eye. The entire space is shrouded in a cold metallic luster, full of a mysterious sense of technology.

In the center of the dock, the Holy Gospel Machine stands like a steel giant. The machine is 101 meters high and weighs 7,500 tons, just like a giant.

The huge figure seems to have been integrated into the entire dock. The huge mecha completely occupies the central maintenance platform. Dozens of thick support arms around it stretch out from all over the dock, firmly fixing its joints and main structure, ensuring that

Every part of this behemoth can be maintained and restored with precision.

The outer armor of the body was partially exposed during repairs, and the internal structure was exposed, and the colorful energy pipes were vaguely visible, like pulsating blood vessels flowing with some mysterious power.

The surface of the silver-gray nano-titanium alloy material is covered with fine mechanical interfaces and power nodes. Every detail demonstrates the astonishing complexity and precision of this giant war weapon.

The surrounding engineering staff wore special work clothes with the Heavenly Alchemy logo printed on them. They were suspended from multi-arm maintenance devices, like a group of worker ants climbing on a giant steel mountain.

Everyone is careful and focused on the work at hand, adjusting and checking every part of the machine.

The sounds of robotic arms and tools echoed in the dock, and the sound of metal collisions carried a cold and orderly rhythm.

Boom——

Boom——

Boom——

Xia Xiu stood at the entrance of the dock, his hands casually inserted into the pockets of his sweatshirt, and his eyes wandered around this huge scene.

The entire dock operates like a huge and precise machine, operating in an orderly manner.

The towering maintenance robot arms are like flexible snakes, hovering around the gospel machine. Their ends are equipped with various repair tools, and low humming sounds come and go.

The blue arc of the plasma welder danced on the surface of the machine like a small thunderstorm, quickly melting and recasting the nano-titanium alloy armor that was torn apart by the night ship's beam.

The high-temperature spraying device on the side made a slight hissing sound, spraying out an extremely thin layer of protective coating, covering the repaired armor, restoring its smoothness and strength.

Under the illumination of the light, the armor regained its shiny metallic luster.

An old man wearing an engineering hat was loudly scolding his maintenance angels through the virtual call screen.

There were obvious dark circles on the commander-in-chief's face, and the years had left deep marks on his face, but his eyes were still sharp and he looked extremely sophisticated.

Whenever he gave an order, everything around him instantly became tense.

"Pay attention! Pay attention to the angle of the spot welding, and don't create any messy gaps for me!" His rough voice echoed throughout the shipyard through the loudspeaker system, with an unquestionable severity in his tone.

"Don't rush to finish the spraying over there. The cracks can be completely sealed after the temperature rises a little higher. Have you forgotten the melting point of this alloy? Who gave you the alchemy operation certificate? When you were at Nursery College, you took alchemy classes.

Are you sleeping during engineering? Hurry up and adjust the data again, don't leave me any trouble!"

"If you can't even do this welding, don't talk to me about being an alchemical engineer in heaven!"

"Steel will not forgive laziness."

"This machine does not exist just for you to make mistakes. Every error will be magnified a hundred times on the battlefield, remember!"

The commander-in-chief on the screen was so angry that he almost jumped up. One hand pointed at the technician monitoring the data next to him, and the other hand slapped the console hard. It seemed that he could feel every tiny error pulling on his nerves.

.

The engineering hat was tilted on his head, which looked a little funny, but no one dared to laugh, and everyone moved faster under his roar.

Behind him, the giant crane was operating in a low voice, making the sound of rattling gears. Pieces of newly forged nano-titanium alloy composite armor plates were slowly lifted and sent to the damaged parts of the Gospel Machine.

These armor plates are up to 5 meters thick and have a surface as hard as iron. After several high-voltage tests and energy injection treatments, they can withstand the high-intensity impact in the next battle.

The lifting arm accurately places the armor plates into the designated position, and the mechanical arm expands accordingly to secure them firmly.

The maintenance angels are suspended on the aerial work platform, with their hands busy operating tools and precisely adjusting the fixed position of the armor plate.

At the same time, at the bottom of the Gospel Machine, the core reactor of the propulsion system was exposed, with a large number of maintenance machinery and energy pipelines suspended around it.

The repair team is nervously replacing the damaged propulsion core. The huge energy cable makes a low-frequency vibration sound, and particle energy flows from the central energy reservoir of the shipyard to the internal pipeline of the Gospel Machine.

The thruster's reactor gradually starts up, and the thrust port flashes blue light slightly, showing the energy flow after the system is reconnected to power.

"Report the progress of the propulsion system over there!"

The commander-in-chief roared again, staring at the slightly flashing blue light of the thruster, his eyes widening.

"What are you doing? I'm talking about replacement! Don't do half-assed operations for me! The data fluctuation when the thruster is started cannot exceed 1%! If there is a one percentage point error, the entire Gospel Holy Machine will explode into photon dust during the jump, and the Kingdom of Heaven's first

The four sword wielders were all turned into scum!!!"

"Oh my God! If you people could understand one percent particle effects, you wouldn't be reading those damn data sheets in front of me all day long."

"The thrusters are in place, the system is running stably, and we are ready for the next step of testing." A technician reported quickly.

The commander-in-chief nodded, the expression on his face was still stern. Although he was slightly satisfied, the expression on his face was still tense, like an impregnable fortress, never allowing any omissions.

The busyness in the dock continued, with huge robotic arms flexibly shuttled around the Gospel Machine, perfectly matching the movements of the workers.

The sound of metal colliding and the blue arc of plasma welding beating on the surface of the Gospel Machine made this behemoth slowly recover from a serious injury.

Xia Xiu, who was standing at the entrance of the dock, was still watching all this calmly. However, the commander-in-chief's sharp eyes suddenly glanced at the fourth sword-wielding man in the Kingdom of Heaven who did not conceal his aura.

Xia Xiu's eyes fell on this old man who was over seventy years old - an old engineer who had dedicated his life to the alchemical project.

His forehead was full of wrinkles, and his eyes showed an unyielding tenacity. The dark circles under his eyes were particularly conspicuous, like marks left by years of sleeplessness.

The mottled engineering hat had obviously experienced countless years of baptism, and the brim of the hat had become worn and turned white.

He was wearing a greasy overalls coat that had obviously never been taken off. The cuffs and placket were stained with traces of dried engine oil and metal shavings, as if they were integrated with this steel fortress.

Xia Xiu's eyes fell on the dark circles under his eyes, and he condensed slightly.

The social animal radar told him that this was his kind - the kind who worked all night without any distractions.

Thinking of the attitude and emotion shown by the other party towards the Holy Gospel Machine, and then thinking about how I made the Holy Gospel Machine look like this...

Thinking of this, Xia Xiu couldn't help but have a sneer on his face, that slightly embarrassed smile silently showing a trace of apology.

The commander-in-chief seemed to have noticed Xia Xiu's smile, but did not show much emotion.

With steady but unhurried steps, he walked to Xia Xiu's side, raised his head slightly and looked at the young fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Alex Seversky," the old man said, his voice hoarse and steady, with the weather of years, "General Administrative Office of the Gospel Holy Mechanism, Chief Engineering Officer of the Alchemy Engineering Department."

Xia Xiu nodded, then stretched out his hand and held the other person's palm full of engine oil.

The palm was rough and strong, with the cold feeling of metal and the viscosity of oil, but Xia Xiu did not hesitate at all and still responded seriously:

"Hugh Abraham. The reserve decision-maker of the Resolution Assembly, the fourth sword-bearer in the Kingdom of Heaven, the executor of the fire-stealing plan, and the pilot of the gospel machine."

The two men's hands briefly clasped in the air, and then let go, but a certain subtle consensus was conveyed in the silent atmosphere.

The commander-in-chief looked at Xia Xiu calmly, the expression on his face was as serious as ever, but there was some kind of complicated consideration in those deep eyes, as if he was evaluating the young sword holder.

Xia Xiu turned around and looked at the Holy Gospel Machine that was under repair in front of him. His eyes were slightly thoughtful, and his thoughts began to be closely connected with it.

At this moment, Xia Xiu connected with [Adam] through his own consciousness, and quickly read and checked the maintenance log of the engineering department.

Those complex data and progress bars flowed rapidly in his mind, and every detail was presented accurately.

————[Maintenance Log]————

Date: [1591-01-28] The battle damage assessment is completed, the damage to the main drive core is confirmed, and the repair process is entered.

Date: [1591-01-29] The GN particle reserve replenishment program is started and is expected to return to 90% within 24 hours.

Date: [1591-01-29] The defense barrier system was repaired and the electromagnetic coil was replaced and debugged successfully.

Date:[1591-01-30] The EVE energy storage pool has been restored to 20% capacity.

Date: [1591-01-30] The phase conversion armor replacement is completed, and the armor plate is re-forged and reinforced.

Date: [1591-01-30] The internal core has been regularly calibrated, and the secondary drive system has been repaired to 30%.

…………

Estimated maintenance time: 242:10:20

——————————

"It's a little longer than I thought." Xia Xiu looked at the maintenance log and muttered in his heart.

At the same time, he started talking to Governor Alex:

"To be honest, the work of the Engineering Department is really hard, especially for an aircraft as complex as the Evangelion Machine. The repair work is not simple at all. The original skeleton of this aircraft was recovered from the Gear Orthodox Church, and the situation was chaotic at that time.
To be continued...