Chapter 267 Nick's Tragedy

After being turned into a tin man, Nick still refused to succumb to the evil will of the old witch. In order to protect his lover from harm, he used up his remaining sanity and swung an axe to chop off his head, and his headless body fell into a shutdown state.

Many years passed like this, and Nick still stood quietly at the place where he lost his head, with flowers and plants growing under his feet and vines crawling all over his body along his legs.

The tree spirit Enya lost her lover, but she did not give up hope. She has been guarding Nick for all these years, taking care of this silent tin man like a sculpture, driving away the birds trying to build nests on him, hoping that a miracle will happen one day in the future and her lover can be resurrected.

After so many years, just when she was almost desperate, she finally waited for a savior.

"Kind lady wizard, please help me!" The tree spirit begged with tears.

At the same time, Ma Yun received the main task issued by the system: help Enya wake up her lover.

"Enya, take me to Nick first. If I can help, I will not refuse."

"Thank you so much!"

The tree spirit cried with joy and turned around to lead the way.

Gao Fei, Jiang Feng, Ma Yun and the scarecrow Vita followed him through a bush and saw a statue shining in the moonlight from afar.

When they got closer, they saw that it was indeed a headless construct. It looked like an animated armor, but it had lost its power. The steel shell was rusty and mottled, and it held a sharp battle axe in its hand.

Opposite the headless tin man, there was a two-foot-high tree stump.

Ma Yun climbed up the stump, pulled off the vines on the tin man, tiptoed, and peeked into the inside of the tin man's broken neck, and found that his body was a dark cavity.

She casually used the "Dancing Lights" technique, and remotely controlled a ball of light to drill into the neck of the tin man, illuminating the cavity inside the body. She found that the inner wall of the metal was engraved with complex magic runes, which were similar to the construction process she had analyzed from the activated armor before.

Ma Yun nodded thoughtfully, and asked the tree spirit standing on the stump: "Enya, to make Nick move, his head must be reattached to his neck. Did you keep the head that was chopped off by the axe well?"

"This..." Enya looked frustrated, "Nick's head is not with me. It was taken away by the old witch Ivanora many years ago."

"What should I do..." Jiang Feng frowned, "With Xiaoyun's current spellcasting ability, I'm afraid I can't make the same head."

"It's not difficult to cast a similar metal head. The difficulty lies in enchanting the head so that it is consistent with the construction array in the tin man's body. Otherwise, it's useless to install it. It's just a decoration." Gao Fei also felt that this matter was very tricky.

Ma Yun scratched his head, and suddenly his eyes lit up and laughed.

"I have a good idea!"

As Gao Fei and Jiang Feng watched curiously, she opened the storage space built into the star disk and took out a shiny silver metal helmet from it.

"Is this... the helmet of the activated armor?" Gao Fei asked.

"That's right! Do you still remember the activated armor in the old witch's castle? If I'm not mistaken, the helmet of the activated armor is probably modified by Ivanola using the stolen Nick's head, otherwise it can't explain why the runes engraved on the inner wall of the helmet match the runes on Nick's body!"

"With the old witch's vicious nature, it is really possible to do such a thing! Xiaoyun, put the helmet on Nick and try to wake him up!" Jiang Feng urged.

Ma Yun nodded, held the helmet with both hands, and placed it upright on Nick's neck. The size was just right.

She then performed the "repair technique", using magic as solder to firmly weld the helmet to Nick's broken neck, making it a whole.

As soon as the assembly was completed, a silver halo appeared on the tin man's body, indicating that the internal circuit had been successfully restarted and was absorbing free magic from the surrounding environment and converting it into energy for its own activities.

"Wow! This trick is really effective! Xiaoyun, you are so smart!" Jiang Feng clapped his hands in admiration.

The tree spirit Enya was so excited that tears filled her eyes when she saw that her lover was expected to wake up.

Ma Yun smiled and waved her hand, indicating that it was a trivial matter.

She also noticed that there were several parts of Nick's body that were particularly rusted, and the steel plates had cracked and holes, and the magic in his body leaked out.

"Hmm... we need to find a way to fix these holes."

Ma Yun rummaged around in the storage space of the star disk for a while, took out a large piece of shiny steel plate, turned around and said to Jiang Feng:

"Sister Feng, you are strong and have a sharp sword. Help me cut this steel plate into pieces with a side length of about 5 cm. I will use it as a patch and hit the tin man later."

"Okay!"

Jiang Feng drew his sword and slashed at the steel plate. With a few strokes, he cut the 5 mm thick steel plate into the size that Ma Yun needed.

"Richest man, did you remove this steel plate from the activated armor?" Gao Fei asked.

"Yes! Using the professional ability of the mechanic, 'Scrap Recycling', I can disassemble any scrapped machinery or construct into parts, select the intact materials and store them. Now, won't it come in handy?"

Ma Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face flushed with excitement.

"Brother Fei! Let me tell you, this steel plate is really good stuff! The surface has been enchanted, just like being coated with a layer of anti-rust film. It won't rust even if it's exposed to the sun and rain. It's simply stainless steel from a fantasy world!"

"Alas! I really like the profession of a mechanic! I even regret it a little bit. If I had chosen to study mechanical engineering, would it be better than studying medicine?"

"Silly child, don't think so!"

Gao Fei hurriedly dissuaded Ma Yun.

"Games are games, life is life, the two cannot be confused! As a person who has been through it, Brother Fei has to tell you the truth. Mechanical majors are very hard, just a little better than our Tiankeng major of studying materials, how can they compare to noble medical students!"

"What's more, you are studying stomatology. Even within the medical field, in terms of treatment and social status, dentists are at the top of the pyramid. Don't think too much and do stupid things like throwing away watermelons to pick up sesame seeds!"

"Don't be angry, I just said it casually."

Ma Yun shrugged and spread his hands, took the small steel sheet handed by Jiang Feng, performed "repair" and patched the tin man.

After some repairs, Ma Yun quickly patched up the leaky parts of the tin man. The new and old steel showed different colors and textures, making the body brown and white, which looked a bit funny.

Not long after, the tin man finished charging. Through the visor grid, you can see two silver lights slowly lighting up inside the helmet, as if waking up from a dream and opening his eyes.