So, when a surprise ambush succeeded, Li Pan swiftly wielded his axe in a flurry of chops, dissecting the "Evil Ghost" like a butcher with an ox. He even held back, not scratching the samurai armor or its paint job, to ensure that he could sell these parts second-hand or third-hand to repay debts. That was indeed painstaking.
Continuing to dismantle the cockpit, just as Eighteen had said, there was indeed a "person" installed inside the mecha, serving as the "driving control unit".
Like the "tables", "chairs", and "livestock" on the farm, this "control unit" was clearly operated on, with amputations of the limbs for prosthetic body modification, and then densely interlinked with metallic tubes to the body.
However, this "control unit" differed from Eighteen and Orochi. They couldn't afford the most advanced brain can technology and equipment, and the surgical team obviously had limited skills, unable to completely remove the brain and spinal cord.