Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

A new month has arrived and the sign-in system has been refreshed. Li Qinwu opened a portal back to the island space and entered his room. Then he shouted to the system to sign in.

The next moment, a white light flashed and a metal object fell to the ground. Li Qinwu saw what was on the ground and exclaimed in surprise.

"Ah! Isn't this the mechanical arm of the Mechanical Priest?"

That's right, the thing he got from signing in this time is Warhammer 40k, the mechanical arm equipped by each mechanical priest, which can assist the mechanical priest in repairs and battles. The three mechanical claws on the mechanical arm can rotate quickly, and the blades on the mechanical claws can perform cutting and drilling. There is a scarlet laser probe in the middle of the mechanical claw, which can shoot lasers to cut large pieces of metal.

It can be said that each robotic arm is a multifunctional lathe. If an unlucky mechanical priest accidentally falls on a desolate planet, given enough time, he can use the robotic arm to climb the technology tree and build a spacecraft to fly out of the atmosphere.

Li Qinwu stepped forward and grabbed the robotic arm. He didn't know what material this thing was made of, but it was quite heavy. It had only three joints and a mechanical claw. Overall, it was a little longer than an ordinary person's hand and weighed nearly 30 kilograms.

He wondered if this thing was mounted on the back of the Mechanic Priest? Why was it so heavy? Wouldn't it bend their spines? Did the Mechanic Priest need to undergo spine strengthening?

He scratched his head. If he remembered correctly, the robotic arm had a neural interface and had to be connected to the user's nerves to be operated. It seemed that he had no use for this thing. Just like the STC cube he signed in last time, it could only be a decoration at most.

He felt disappointed. Why did he keep giving him high-tech stuff lately that he couldn't analyze or use? Was he trying to make him jealous to death?

As he was thinking this, the robotic arm in Li Qinwu's hand suddenly moved. He was startled and subconsciously let go, and the robotic arm slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

The robotic arm twisted on the ground for a while, then used its palm to grasp the ground and move its body forward little by little.

Li Qinwu didn't expect that the robotic arm would move on its own. He quickly stepped back a few steps and came to the door. He remembered that the mechanical priest would modify the robotic arm and install weapons on it. He was afraid that this thing would point its palm at him and shoot a lethal laser at him.

However, the robotic arm was not interested in him. It crawled to the side of Li Qinwu's metal bed. The central laser probe of the three robotic claws flashed red, and a scarlet laser shot out, cutting off one leg of the metal bed in one fell swoop.

Li Qinwu at the door was startled and took out his M1911 and aimed it at it. The power of this laser was really great. It could break the metal bed legs as thick as three thumbs put together. If it was aimed at him, he would be dismembered.

Li Qinwu was afraid, but he didn't leave. He carefully hid at the door, watching the mechanical arm tinkering in his room. So far, the things given by the sign-in system were all beneficial to him. The system would not sign in a terminator to kill him, right? He planned to see what the mechanical arm wanted to do first.

I saw the robotic arm grab the metal table leg that had just been cut off, squeezed it a few times, and formed it into a lump of metal. Then, a red laser was fired at low power for a few seconds, burning the metal block into a metal plate.

The mechanical claw performed a series of precise cutting operations, and a thing that was not much bigger than a fingernail and looked like a chip was produced. Then it pressed the suspected chip onto the "wound" on its tail, and continued to cut the metal bed.

"It's... repairing itself?"

Li Qinwu scratched his head with the muzzle of his gun. He remembered that the mechanical arm of the mechanical priest did not have an AI system, right? Why did this thing move by itself?

The human empire in Warhammer 40k has cracked down on AI, and this mechanical arm looks very ordinary, so it should belong to an ordinary mechanical priest. A mechanical priest of this level cannot get AI.

"Could this mechanical arm have a soul?"

Li Qinwu thought about it again and again and could only come to this conclusion. Warhammer is a world of chaos and chaos. It is not impossible for a mechanical arm to generate a high-level machine soul by itself due to some coincidence, and to have its own consciousness and be able to control the body to move freely.

But now the question is, how should he treat this robotic arm?

Seeing that it is repairing itself now, will it develop into a robot in the future? Will the other party be an extreme artificial intelligence that wants to shoot all humans?

Looking at the robotic arm that was inserting the third part into its body and welding it, Li Qinwu hesitated. The abomination intelligence was difficult to deal with even in Warhammer 3k. If the Omnic Crisis broke out in 40, humans would probably be extinct with the current technology.

But then he laughed again. In this era, communication technology still relied on telegraph and telephone. It was impossible for this robotic arm to control human’s smart factories through a developed network like Skynet in the Terminator, produce killing machines, and then control nuclear bombs to let all mankind play with radiation.

This robotic arm can at most make itself a metal body. With the materials of this era, its body strength won't be that outrageous. If the opponent really goes berserk, wouldn't it be enough to drag a few cannons over and blow it to death?

Moreover, this is an island space. The other party is under surveillance at all times. If they go berserk, at most the island space will be unusable, and it will not harm the real world.

Compared to the robotic arm going berserk and killing people, the technology it could provide made Li Qinwu extremely excited. Not to mention anything else, just looking at how sophisticated the parts it is currently manufacturing are, would it be able to make artillery and engines?

While Li Qinwu was daydreaming, the robotic arm suddenly stopped moving. It seemed to have discovered something, and its robotic claw stared at the bedside table like a head.

After a while, it stood up like a snake, and its mechanical claws just reached the things on the bedside table and easily pulled down the cube on the bedside.

"Ah! That can't be melted!"

When Li Qinwu saw the robotic arm grab the STC cube, he thought the robotic arm was going to melt it as if it were a material, and he became very anxious. This was a precious STC, and he didn't know what precious technology was stored in it. Although he couldn't crack it, it was always a thought. If it was melted by the robotic arm as metal material, he would be heartbroken.

Just when he was about to rush in to grab the STC back, he found that the robotic arm did not shoot out a red laser to dissolve the cube, but instead used its mechanical claws to feel around on the cube.

Then, the cube that Li Qinwu had been studying for more than a week but couldn't figure out was opened.

To be precise, it broke into square metal plates that were incredibly thin. When a 10-centimeter-long, wide, and high cube was opened, there were more than 300 metal plates!

This is not paper, this is metal. What technology can make metal so thin? I'm afraid the Trisolarans would be puzzled when they see this.

The robotic arm showed great interest in the contents on the metal plates. It carefully flipped through each metal plate, as if recording the contents into a storage system. It moved quickly and finished flipping through all the metal plates in less than three minutes.

It stacks the metal sheets neatly aside and continues cutting the metal bed.

Seeing that it had finished reading the metal plate, Li Qinwu quietly walked into the room, picked up the metal plate and went outside.

When he put down the metal plates, his hands were already covered in blood. The metal plates were too thin, and each one was like a blade. His hands accidentally touched the edge of the metal plate and were cut.

Fortunately, the wounds were not deep. He casually tore his shirt into pieces and made a simple bandage, then looked at the contents on the metal plate.

But then he was disappointed, because the contents of the metal plate were all binary languages. The binary languages ​​were so small that they were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and they were densely covered on both sides of the metal plate.

Li Qinwu felt discouraged. He opened the contents but still couldn't decipher it. What's the use of this thing?

He looked at the robotic arm that was making accessories, and various expressions flashed across his face. This guy had just carefully flipped through the metal plate and had obviously recorded all the contents on it.

The mechanical priests usually communicate in binary language. The iron plate that Li Qinwu couldn't understand was just like reading a book to them, which meant that this mechanical arm had mastered the technology in this mysterious STC!

Thinking of this, Li Qinwu called up a few of his clones who were resting on the island space, pointed at the mechanical arm in his room and said to them: "Go get some scrap metal for it, keep an eye on it, pay attention to its every move, and replenish it when the scraps run out. Don't let it leave this room."

Several clones nodded and began to act. Two stood at the door and stared at the robotic arm, while the others came up with a large bucket of metal scraps and poured them on the ground. Many of these things were picked out from the train station, and there were all kinds of parts.

When the robotic arm saw so many good things, it gave up gnawing on the metal bed and started to pick and choose among the metal scraps to find metal parts that were more suitable for making the body.

With these metal accessories, its efficiency has increased a lot. These metal accessories are quite large, and the robotic arm can directly cut them to produce the desired parts, eliminating the melting process.

Li Qinwu watched for a while, told his clones to keep a close eye on each other, then left the island space and returned to the house. He still needed to preside over the work at the factory.