The Mech Touch novel Chapter 1766

Nothing about this made any sense!

How could something he threw out return to his ship so quickly and so silently?

The moment he stopped thinking about the escape pod and its indeterminate occupant, it instantly returned into the same space as before!

Ves began to grow angrier and angrier at this anomalous object.

He really wanted to get rid of it in a permanent fashion!

A part of him feared that if he failed to solve this problem, he might be haunted by this semi-living mummy forever!

At best, the mummy would stick to the Scarlet Rose, allowing Ves to get rid of it by giving up the ship.

At worst, not even this solution would allow him to get rid of this ghost woman!

If she was homing in on him rather than the ship, then Ves would always be confronted by this escape pod until the woman stopped insisting on following him for some reason!

Ves feared that the only way to truly get rid of this half-dead witch was to wake her up while her body was in a healthy state.

Whatever she wanted would soon become clear once they talked.

Yet the strength and power of her seemingly unconscious spiritual manipulation frightened Ves to no end. He really didn’t want to deal with the woman when she became conscious!

If Ves was really unlucky, then the woman might be aware that Ves attempted to throw out her escape pod and destroy her body several times!

No one would forgive such an affront!

Ves shuddered in his combat armor in fear. Despite gearing himself up with second-class equipment, he suspected that it was completely useless against an opponent who manipulated reality to such an extreme extent!

It didn’t make any sense!

Against such a powerful and inscrutable entity, Ves would rather deal with her while she was dormant rather than awake!

The chance of an amicable conversation was too small in his eyes! This woman was definitely targeting him! Otherwise, she wouldn’t be haunting him so persistently!

Though everything about the mummified woman and her escape pod confounded him to no end, Ves firmly stuck to his conviction that it couldn’t be repeated forever!

There has to be a price! Whatever magic this witch had cast must expend some energy each time she restored and relocated her body and escape pod!

Ves would just have to find a way to consume this energy until he scared her off or drained her empty!

"Since getting rid of you isn’t working, what about crushing you entirely?"

A devious idea entered his mind. He stepped back and activated his integrated comm. He called up a bunch of bots from the workshops and waited for them to arrive.

It didn’t take too long as the escape pods were situated very close to the mech workshop compartment. Evidently, the mobile supply frigate put mech designers first!

This came in very handy right now as he only had to wait a couple of minutes before a number of lifter bots arrived.

He first allowed a conventional lifter bot to approach the escape pod.

Just like with the forgotten scanner bot, the lifter bot suddenly shut off after entering the strange energy field surrounding the escape pod.

Theheavy bot collapsed against the deck and just happened to crush the fragile scanner bot resting underneath!

Ves shrugged. He expected something like this. The energy field didn’t seem to do anything but prevent bots from coming close.

Fortunately, he also called in a different bot.

A mech workshop always came with a variety of production equipment, production tools and production bots.

Because mechs were so big and heavy, many of the bots and equipment were rated to handle very heavy loads.

For a typical escape pod, just a regular magnetic or gravitic lifter bot was sufficient to elevate it from a distance!

The bot that Ves pinned his hopes on halted ten meters away from the mystery escape pod.

The air became more charged as the lifter bot activated its remote gravitic lifting system.

The gravity effecting the escape pod suddenly disappeared. Not only that, the gravity also started to shift further, allowing the lifter bot to retract the escape pod from the launcher tube and carry it out of the compartment while continuing to maintain a distance.

Ves followed after the bot and its cargo. The bot crossed the corridor and entered the mech workshop.

He approached a forging machine that was ordinarily used to process very difficult metals. He had already sent a remote command to activate it and warm up its chamber.

"Let’s see.. 7000 degrees Celsius. Still not hot enough."

He patiently waited for the internal temperature to rise. While the maximum temperature limit of the forging device reached an astounding height, the amount of energy it expended and the amount of waste heat generated in the process made it very troublesome to sustain.

Ves also had to wait several hours for the temperature inside the forging machine to reach its limit, so he merely waited for fifteen minutes before making his move.

"This should be hot enough to process the metal of the escape pod."

Ves had already noticed that the core structure of the escape pod was made of extremely resilient compressed alloy. Such metals were often utilized as armor plating for mechs and ships.

Ordinary production equipment wouldn’t be able to process this kind of material once it had been set.

Fortunately, the mech workshop was equipped to a very high standard. The Friday Coalition often handled comparable materials, so the forging machine they utilized should still be capable of handling this grade of materials.

"Here goes nothing!"

The gravitic lifter bot had placed the escape pod on a giant ramp. This ramp suddenly tilted, causing the escape pod to slide down a chute, which quickly closed in order to form an isolating seal.

Soon enough, an internal partition suddenly opened, exposing the escape pod to enough heat to melt most kinds of mech-grade armor plating!

Though the structure of the escape pod was a lot more resilient than he initially expected, it couldn’t withstand the heat of the forging machine!

According to the internal sensors, the escape pod quickly melted and deformed. No matter whether the body inside was alive or dead, the awesome heat instantly burned and vaporized all of the organic tissue without any resistance!