Reboot: Mechanic

Chapter 103 Fixing

What Vanessa found joy in the interaction with Shi Tian wasn't because of his harshness and coldness directed at her. She was not a masochist that enjoyed being dismissed repeatedly or reprimanded.

It was for the fact that Shi Tian had treated her as a normal person, and not some wealthy heir with a lot of power behind her family.

The people she met in life would always let her have her way without disapproving or reprimanding her. Yet Shi Tian seemed to be the devil's incarnation, born to nitpick everything bad about her, regardless of how small the matter was.

He never bothered to sugarcoat things and would scold her whenever she made some mistake.

Hell, even when she was near death, Shi Tian didn't even bother to bat an eyelid except for that one particular time- which she still didn't know why he reacted in such a manner.

Those gentle eyes and worried expressions were so genuine that they touched one's heart and melted them softly.

Suddenly, like an electrifying shock had been inflicted upon her, Vanessa shook her head and quickly slapped her face to return to reality.

With a horrified expression, she was in complete disbelief. 'What the heck is wrong with me? Why did I reminisce about that moment?'

She was definitely not attracted to Shi Tian whatsoever and was only confused temporarily because of how different Shi Tian was compared to the people she met in the past.

To confirm such a matter, Vanessa stared at Shi Tian intensely and touched her heart. Her heartbeat was completely normal, and she breathed out in relief.

"False alarm, thank heaven. I must be losing my mind because I'm cooped up in this house for a long time and unable to go outside." She muttered, instantly finding a crux for her messy thought process.

And as Vanessa continued to be lost in her own world, Shi Tian finally figured out the problem with the refrigerator not working properly.

Apparently, it was the compressor, condenser, and electric control board losing voltages, resulting in a series of malfunctions and complexions.

Voltage is the electromotive force that powered the refrigerator, so without voltages, how could there be any functioning within the refrigerator itself.

Shi Tian's hands were holding a digital multimeter(DMM) and measured the voltage to be less than 40 while the ampere was around 1 to 2 value.

A working normal refrigerator should have a voltage of around 120 and an ampere value of 3 to 6, essentially proving the problem was within the electric control board.

Because the electric control board was unable to provide the necessary voltages across the other mechanical parts such as the compressor and condenser, it resulted in the refrigerator being unable to properly cool the interior.

"Luckily, Master Isaac has provided me with a decent amount of various electric equipment as well. Without it, then I would have been helpless as well." Shi Tian muttered, quickly plugging the soldering iron device to the wall outlet, and letting it heat up.

The most difficult task in troubleshooting was finding the problem, and since the problem was found, fixing it would be a piece of cake.

Time slowly passed by, and Shi Tian finally finished detaching the faulty pins and equipping them with new ones. Reassembling each of the parts back, Shi Tian then plugged the power cable back into the wall outlet.

The refrigerator turned on and after waiting for some time, Shi Tian felt the interior turning cooler. Checking on the temperature meter, it was indicating 38 degrees Fahrenheit, a clear evidence of the refrigerator functioning properly now.

"Isn't it just fixing a broken refrigerator? Couldn't you have just bought a new one instead of wasting so much effort?" Vanessa suddenly asked. She saw him smiling but couldn't understand why he would go to such lengths to fix it.

Meanwhile, Shi Tian's smile subsequently faded, and sighed softly at her perspective.

Just this statement alone proved that they don't belong in the same world.

Compared to her who had everything spoon-fed to her, poor people like him could never afford their extravagance.

"Even if I explain it to you, it still wouldn't matter. You wouldn't be able to understand it. Our perspectives are too different and we don't belong in the same world." Shi Tian stood up and said, pushing the refrigerator back to its original position.

"Also, I thought you were still mad at me for swindling your Dimension Ring. Why are you trying to strike up a conversation now?" He added.

"Tsk, I was merely curious." Vanessa harrumphed and turned around, quickly running back to the guest room.

At the same time, she cursed herself for saying such idiotic things.

Couldn't she have found a better way to express herself?

She didn't mean to offend him and merely wanted to compliment him for fixing it.

After all, fixing appliances isn't common these days when everyone is more focused on hunting monsters to earn a living. Only those without talents or courage would hide in the safe zone and do trivial tasks like this to earn some money.

Alas, what was done was done and there is no going back.

Even if she wanted to explain herself, she doubted Shi Tian would care considering his cold expression earlier.

"And why must he say we don't belong in the same world? Aren't we living in the same world, ravaged by monsters and other natural disasters caused by them?" Vanessa mumbled, feeling her mind and heart was in chaos.

While her emotion was in chaos, Shi Tian had already washed his hands and left the house.

With the refrigerator now fixed and able to store food properly without spoiling it, he was going to head to the Horology Restaurant and order a ton of food.

"A week or some more days' worth of food for Vanessa and some meat jerky for me to store in the Dimension Ring." Shi Tian murmured, already deciding on storing some jerky in the ring since jerky was easy to preserve and eat once he was in the wilderness.