The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7481

Chapter 7481: Initial Report on Woodsap Mechs

The commodore of the Red Fleet pointed out an important inconsistency.

His questioning forced Ves to rethink the situation.

What motives drove the archecruiser captain?

On one hand, his speech made it clear that the alien leader was a loyal patriot of his beleaguered people.

The arche had managed to survive and preserve their society after being driven from their planets because they showed the capacity to unite and work towards their common goals. Collectivism was not an ideal to them. It had become a necessity now that they had become worse off than many other races.

For this reason, their people held an especially dim view on selfishness and individualism. It was taboo in their society to pursue interests at the cost of making life worse for other arche. This should have been a universal principle for both low and high-ranking arche.

Yet this archecruiser captain also voiced beliefs and convictions that flagrantly defied the collective interests of his race.

From preventing the self-destruction of his invaluable archecruiser to compelling so many of his own crew to sacrifice their blood and archeshells to fuel his failed ascension, it became clear that this individual was more complex than his position.

What was his name?

What was his lineage?

What was his place in arche society?

How did he come to become the captain of this archecruiser?

All of these questions and more lingered in Ves’ mind.

He suddenly began to imagine more outlandish scenarios that suggested that this entire encounter may have been a conspiracy from the start.

Perhaps a cell of the Cosmopolitan Movement had schemed this meeting between the two races.

Perhaps the arche secretly wanted to form a somewhat clandestine connection with the humans or the Larkinson Clan in particular.

Perhaps the other major alien races had become so fed up by their arche ’comrades’ that they purposefully drove the latter into a trap!

Whatever the case, now that Ves had begun to think about these possibilities, he could not entirely dismiss them out of hand.

That did not mean he intended to waste his time on investigating this matter in person.

He was a mech designer, not a detective!

"I will pass on my concerns to our matriarch and intelligence director." Ves eventually told his old ’friend’. "As intriguing as this possible mystery sounds, it is best to leave this case to the professionals. I am only interested in the overall direction of the current campaign and stuff that is relevant to mechs."

The commodore nodded. "That is a wise outlook. I can tell you that our own truth seekers have begun to shift more attention towards the arche. We are harboring increasing suspicions towards this enigmatic race. What we know about them is mostly derived from the other major alien races. We do not have enough information that comes directly from the arche. That opens up the possibility that we are basing our entire strategy towards this race on inaccuracies or deliberate misinformation."

That sounded very probable to Ves. He wondered what the arche still held back from everyone else.

"Please let us know if you find anything alarming."

"We will, depending on the situation."

Once Ves wrapped up every problem about the archecruiser that demanded his personal attention, he was finally ready to return to the Tarrasque.

Before he left, Gloriana held him back for one brief exchange.

"By the way, Ves, do you need Lucky for anything important?"

"No." Ves shook his head. "Why?"

"In the event that the archecruiser captain decided to end his cooperation with us, we need a backup solution in order to preserve our prize. I want to prepare one of the proposals that you came up with before."

"You mean... you want Lucky to eat an entire archeshell belonging to the most senior officer that you can find?"

"Yes."

"This idea has a very low chance of working." Ves shared his own thoughts. "Even if Lucky’s body has already converted into archemetal, something as big and elaborate as archeshells are all unique and irreplaceable. Eating the shell piece by piece will destroy at least some of those essential properties. I highly doubt that Lucky possesses the capacity to reproduce those specific traits."

"You may be right, but we do not have any alternatives if you leave aside the proposal to transplant high-quality archeshells onto the bodies of low-ranked arche." Gloriana plainly replied. "I am willing to take my chances with Lucky. Perhaps he will be able to make it work. We still do not understand the working principles of his core systems. What I can state is that they are based on technologies that far surpass anything else we have come into contact with. I half-suspect that he is a product of the far future that an unknown party has somehow managed to send back in time for unclear purposes."

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