Chapter 66 Chapter 066

T/N: Thank you Akemi, Escape, weiyeung, Somebody, and Annie for your support! There’ll be 5 releases this week. 

-komorebi

Under the eyes of the public, when Bai Jiashi’s light saw attack was about to reach the top of the mechanical beast, it actually… disappeared in thin air.

Bai Jiashi was stunned for a second. During this second, the speed of the light saw slowed down significantly.

Afterwards, Bai Jiashi gritted his teeth and slashed towards the location where the mechanical beast was just now, but he only slashed the air.

That ugly cat is really gone.

“How is this possible?” Gamma’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Could it be that Yun Xingze painted the mechanical beast with hidden paint?”

“But even so, it will take a second or two for the mecha to go hidden…” Dieter added. “There was no warning before the cat disappeared. How did this happen?!”

Gamma frowned and said slowly: “Perhaps, he used a different paint.”

When everyone in St. Klito heard this, the originally fully confident group, became a little lost.

No one expected that Yun Xingze would actually hide such a big trump card.

The auditorium blew up fully. Everyone looked around for the figure of the ugly cat, and were extremely surprised by this sudden scene.

“Where did the cat go?”

“Look, Bai Jiashi is also looking for it.”

“How did this happen? Was the mechanical beast was transformed into a shadow mecha?”

“It feels more powerful than an ordinary shadow mecha…”

“Is this NCLM or a peekaboo contest?”

Bai Jiashi also wondered why the cat suddenly disappeared.

Of course, he could not have imagined that the “wave-sensing nano-coating” material that Yun Xingze bought from the material room of the Scientific Research Institute was one of the latest research results of the empire.

When it senses the approach of huge energy fluctuations, the coating will make corresponding induction and quickly enter the hidden state.

Because there is no need to use sensors or human control, the material can complete the process itself, and the time is greatly reduced.

It was as if the cat evaporated in an instant.

In addition, this kind of paint has good concealment, and the mechanical beast itself is small. After entering stealth, Bai Jiashi can’t catch its position at all.

“What the hell…” Bai Jiashi frowned, with a rare trace of anxiety on his face. “How could there be such a thing?”

During the “hide-and-seek”, Bai Jiashi not only failed to find the mechanical beast, but was also caught by Yun Xingze, and stabbed from the back a few times. He could only gnash his teeth in anger.

Although Bai Jiashi didn’t want to admit it, Yun Xingze’s sudden move did put him in a passive position.

However, Bai Jiashi has rich fighting experience. Under such circumstances, he did not give up looking for opportunities and launched a fierce attack on Yun Xingze again.

While the two mechas fought fiercely, the mechanical beast remained hidden, and everyone almost forgot its existence.

Ke Lei frowned slightly: “Why didn’t Xingze xuedi’s mechanical beast attack? Things will be very dangerous if he continues like this…”

“Maybe he is afraid that the mechanical beast will expose its position.” Ashley said after thinking. “So he had it lurk in the arena and look for opportunities to knock down the opponent with one blow.”

On the field, because the mechanical beast disappeared and did not appear for a long time, Bai Jiashi gradually mastered the rhythm of the game.

At this moment, the game has come to the twenty-second minute.

Richard stared at the screen closely. It was difficult for him to judge what Yun Xingze wanted to do for a while.

Bai Jiashi’s desire to win is obviously much stronger than that of Yun Xingze. Gradually, he merged with the comet mecha and entered a state of “human-machine integration”.

Yun Xingze could clearly feel that it was getting harder and harder for him to resist Bai Jiashi’s attack.

And although he touched the edge of “human-machine integration”, he still failed to highly integrate with the mecha’s neural connection system.

A light whip slid past him, only a few centimeters away from entangling him.

Yun Xingze’s mecha dodged at an extremely difficult angle.

The audience held their breaths.

Under the current circumstances, Yun Xingze’s situation is very dangerous.

Yun Xingze closed his eyes.

The reason why the mechanical beast didn’t appear was because he wanted to force himself.

Yun Xingze asked himself in his heart, does he want to win this game?

The answer is yes.

But why, he just can’t enter the state of man-machine integration?

Yun Xingze took a deep breath.

The game reached the twenty-fifth minute.

The timer beeped to remind the players that the battle time was coming to an end.

In the face of Bai Jiashi’s various tricky attacks, Yun Xingze tried hard to immerse himself in the desire to win, and the two sides fought hard.

In the arena, the two medium-sized mechas relied on strength to confront each other, and the green chain sword and the silver lightsaber kept colliding.

The balance of victory gradually tilted in favor of Bai Jiashi.

After a fierce collision, both sides stepped back, widening the distance between them. Yun Xingze’s physical strength seemed to be exhausted.

His mecha also suffered a lot of damage, mostly caused by the comet mecha’s specialized disassembly tools.

Bai Jiashi achieved his goal. In the next few minutes, he must seize the opportunity to dismantle Yun Xingze’s mecha and humiliate him.

Afterwards, Bai Jiashi turned the mecha’s engine horsepower to the maximum, picked up a chain sword and a light saw from a distance of 20 meters from Yun Xingze, and rushed towards Yun Xingze with the low-pitched engine sound.

At this time, the audience noticed that the mechanical beast, which had been in hiding just now, seemed to have played some tricks in the arena.

In front of Yun Xingze’s location, a bunch of shadow mines appeared on the ground.

The audience was a little surprised:

“When were those mines placed?”

“The mechanical beasts have been setting traps in the arena?”

“It’s amazing, when Yun Xingze and Bai Jiashi were fighting, he was still able to control the hidden mechanical beast!”

However, although the mechanical beasts had arranged a lot of mines, they didn’t have much effect on Bai Jiashi.

“Insignificant tricks.” Bai Jiashi sneered. He didn’t stop rushing towards Yun Xingze, and went directly over the shadow mines. “That’s it?”

He even thought the ugly cat would pose a threat to him. It seems that Yun Xingze’s tricks will end here.

Contrary to Bai Jiashi’s expectations, Yun Xingze, who was exhausted, did not hide, but assumed a defensive stance, preparing to confront the comet mecha.

Seeing this scene, no one in St. Klito could contain their joy.

Bai Jiashi’s comet mecha was full of power, and this time, Yun Xingze was dead.

Gamma raised the corners of his lips and thought, although Yun Xingze lost, but as an omega, this fight is not bad.

At the same time, everyone in the Xinghai school team stared at the screen nervously.

Across the major military academies, the live broadcast audience held their breaths and stared at the screens with wide eyes, waiting for the outcome of the match.

Just after Bai Jiashi crossed the mine.

There was a shrill sound on the field.

One after another of transparent silk threads, like straight strings, formed an invisible net above the mines, cutting into Bai Jiashi’s comet mecha.

Although Bai Jiashi responded quickly, deep cuts appeared on his mecha’s limbs in just a few seconds.

Bai Jiashi’s eyes widened before he realized that the ugly cat hhad secretly arranging a “heavenly net” just now!

In normal times, Bai Jiashi would have noticed something was wrong and avoided the nanowire.

But just now his attention was completely attracted by the landmines on the ground, and rushing towards Yun Xingze, so he was fooled!

The moment when the comet mecha was entangled, no one could react to what happened.

At this moment, the mechanical beast finally appeared.

It appeared beneath the netted comet mecha, wrapping two chain swords around his legs.

Afterwards, Yun Xingze slashed directly at the shoulder of the comet mecha with two lightsabers, just where it was tangled by the silk thread, severing Bai Jiashi’s mecha arms.

“Bang—”

After losing his arms, Bai Jiashi’s mecha fell directly to the ground.

The mines on the ground exploded like cannonballs.

Bai Jiashi, who thought it was a tiny, insignificant trick to deal with insects, cried out in pain.

Before all the mines were blown up, the referee’s countdown had already begun.

Yun Xingze’s main armor stood with the mechanical beast, calmly watching the comet mecha lying on the ground.

The audience was stunned by this scene.

“When was that nanonet deployed??”

“It seems that it was deployed when Yun Xingze and Bai Jiashi were fighting.”

“It’s amazing, to be able to deploy the shadow mecha’s ultimate move so quickly, and still win the game!”

“However, the net is actually a little small.”

“Indeed, look closely, it’s a miniature net…”

I wonder where those nanowires came from.

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 In the center of the arena, the nanowires are smaller than the ones arranged by Xi Bolai on the field. Only the central part called a net, and the surrounding density is relatively sparse.

Like it was shrunk in water.

At this moment, Xi Bolai and the Jicot school team, who were sitting in front of their optical brains to watch the live broadcast, were stunned.

The shape and direction of the nanonet completely referenced the heavenly net Xi Bolai used in the previous match.

“It, it…” He pointed to the big screen of the brain, opened his mouth, and said in a daze, “It stole my skills?!”

Cheng Jun nodded behind him: “Yes, Yun Xingze definitely collected your data last time.”

Xi Bolai felt a mix of anger and humor, and didn’t know what to say for a while. After a long time, he said: “Yun Xingze is really thick-skinned!”

However, this seemingly small nanonet also has enormous lethality.

It seems that Yun Xingze carefully calculated things, and deliberately lured Bai Jiashi to bump into it after setting things up.

It looked as though he was relying on instinct to fight just now, but in fact, he was still calculating everything precisely.

Gamma stared at the arena dumbfounded. The game would be over in two minutes, victory was just around the corner, but Yun Xingze was still able to fight back!

After a while, someone in the St. Klito school team gritted his teeth and said, “This is too insidious!”

The countdown ended.

The referee announced that Yun Xingze won the game.

The score on the field changed from 0:3 to 1:3.

There was still a gap in the score, but it managed to prevent St. Klito from taking match point.

After the Xinghai school team lost two games in a row, this victory can be said to be imposing.

Whether it is the audience supporting Xinghai on the spot or the students watching the broadcast on the Imperial Capital Star, they can finally applaud and cheer with great pride.

“Yun Xingze is awesome! Come on Xinghai School Team!”

“It’s amazing, he actually won against Bai Jiashi.”

“Make three into four! Make three into four!”1I’m not sure what this means. Get 3 points and make it 4 (to win)?

“Go Xinghai school team!”

The spectators supporting St. Klito were more or less disappointed.

In the first two games, St. Klito humiliated Xinghai Academy, but in the third game, the situation seemed to be reversed.

“It’s fortunate that we won…” Oriel sat back on the bench and breathed a sigh of relief. His back had broken out in cold sweat watching the match. “Otherwise, if we lost this group match, it will be difficult for us to qualify.”2Re: They’re in the group stage, and have to win a certain amount to qualify

Yun Xingze got out from his mecha, and Bai Jiashi also came out after a while.

The two looked at each other, Bai Jiashi frowned, and said bitterly, “Yun Xingze, you can be counted as having some ability.”

“You’re overpraise me.” Yun Xingze said slowly. “My promise will be fulfilled. Your pre-match declaration will be posted online.”

“You…” Bai Jiashi swallowed his words. Although his back was still hurting, he held back and said slowly, “I don’t care if you post it or not, but don’t forget what you said.”

Yun Xingze raised his eyebrows: “What matter?”

“Aren’t you going to tell me what the expert said?!” Bai Jiashi said with his eyes wide open.

“Oh, this.” Yun Xingze looked at Bai Jiashi and said calmly, “Experts say it’s hard to say such things as winning or losing.”

Bai Jiashi was stunned for a few seconds, then he clenched his fists angrily. “You are shameless. Absolutely no face, or morality!”

After leaving him hanging him for so long, he finally said such a sentence!

Yun Xingze didn’t expect that he would be called “shameless” by someone from St. Klito, so he took it as a compliment for now.

After returning to the Xinghai school team, the members fighting in the second team competition already left, and the remaining teammates celebrated Yun Xingze’s hard-won victory.

“You did a good job,” Richard stepped forward and hugged Yun Xingze excitedly. “You didn’t let me down!”

Yun Xingze was about to say thank you, but Richard immediately added, “Sufficiently lacking in morality.”3Recall Richard’s previous suggestion about St. Klito?

Yun Xingze: “…”

Luo Wenchuan handed Yun Xingze a drink and said, “Your modification has succeeded again. Now your mechanical beast can be used as a shadow mecha.”

“I actually didn’t have much confidence in the nanonet. It’s mainly because Bai Jiashi wants to win too much.” Yun Xingze said after taking a sip of his drink. “However, it’s still a pity…” His voice gradually became lighter.

Luo Wenchuan knew that Yun Xingze regretted not being able to enter the state of human-machine integration.

“Your performance just now was very close to human-machine integration. It seems that it is only a matter of time.” Luo Wenchuan reached out and rubbed his hair, and said in a gentle voice.

After the top of his head was touched, Yun Xingze couldn’t help but feel happy.

He raised the corners of his lips and looked up at Luo Wenchuan. When he met those long and narrow eyes, his heartbeat accelerated again.

Chi Yu stood to the side with a very unhappy expression.

He lost the team match just now, and couldn’t show off his strength at all. Seeing Yun Xingze and Luo Wenchuan’s intimate actions now, he was naturally upset.

Apart from Chi Yu, everyone else was very happy.

Because of Yun Xingze’s victory, St. Klito’s arrogance faded a lot.

In the team competition that followed, Ashley led Ou Rei and Sato En against St. Klito’s second team.

Before playing, Ashley said to her two teammates: “Xingze xuedi finally managed to pull back a win for us, and it was the most difficult win. We can’t let his efforts go to waste, we must do our best and win. Only then can we hope to qualify for the next stage.”

The two of them nodded in agreement with serious expressions.

After the start of the second team competition, the aura of the Xinghai school team was completely different from before. Everyone seemed to be injected with chicken blood, and they were ahead of St. Klito in the racing stage!

Part of it was the inspiration from Yun Xingze’s hard work, and the other part was their dissatisfaction with St. Klito.

Following, the blue light bean for Xinghai Academy lit up.

During the fight, Ashley’s lights remained on until the end.

“Let’s congratulate Xinghai Academy for winning another game. With the current score of 3:3, this school team once again staged the scene of tying the score and created a miracle!” The commentator broadcasting NCLM said emotionally. “Now, for the tiebreaker…”

The match was being broadcast live on the Xinghai Academy school grounds.

When Xinghai was pressed and beaten by St. Klito, and even humiliated, everyone’s faces were ugly.

After Yun Xingze won the game, the cheers of Xinghai’s students almost made the lawn vibrate.

Now that the score is tied, everyone sees the hope of reversing the game!

“Too strong, too strong, we can actually tie!”

“I thought Yun Xingze would lose that game, he’s really good!”

“Ashley, the eternal goddess! Ahhhh…”

“Let three become four! Victory is just around the corner!”

“Go Xinghai Academy!”4The originals said something I couldn’t translate, but was another cheer

At this moment, whether they were male or female, alpha, beta, or omega, everyone was looking forward to the upcoming victory.

Because, as long as they beat St. Klito, the Xinghai school team has a great probability of qualifying for the next stage.

If qualifying last year was a surprise, then this year, everyone wants to witness the miracle with their own eyes.

Lu Ranxu and a group of people sat in the auditorium, watching the 360-degree live broadcast screen. Trying to restrain his excitement, he kept sending messages to Yun Xingze’s account. “Ah, ah, how are you? I’m happy, I’m so happy…”

Taking a closer look, he has sent dozens of messages to Yun Xingze, like a barrage machine.

In one moment it was “I was so nervous I wanted to cry”, and in the next it was “St. Klito is dead”, like a schizophrenic.

Yun Xingze didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when he read them, so he sent him a message back, “Wait till after we win to be happy.”

The students of the Xinghai Academy were very happy. First, because Yun Xingze’s victory became a turning point, Ashley and others lived up expectations. Second, the protagonist for the next game, the final decisive game, is Luo Wenchuan.

The man who never lost at NCLM.

In fact, St. Klito initially considered the Tian Ji’s horse racing strategy,5Send strong to weak of sending the strongest players to the first individual competition to snipe the weaker individual soldiers. But because they guessed Luo Wenchuan would probably fight the last match, they had no hopes of doing so.

Haha, that LRX. And YXZ being called shameless 2x.

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 After the tiebreaker begins.

Luo Wenchuan entered the state of human-machine integration in the first minute of the game.

In the third minute, the opponent was beaten by him and fled everywhere.

In the sixth minute, the referee counted the seconds.

In six minutes and ten seconds, the game is over.

The rhythm of the entire game was firmly in Luo Wenchuan’s hands, and he did not give the opponent the slightest hope.

“The score is 4:3! Let’s congratulate Xinghai Academy for winning the second round of the group match…”

The voice in the broadcast seemed unreal to Yun Xingze’s ears. Although he still failed to enter the human-machine integration in this match, a warm current surged in his heart watching his teammates hug each other excitedly and cheer.

Yun Xingze seemed to feel that his hard work and dedication were valuable.

Not long after the end of the game, the name of the Xinghai Academy appeared on hot search.

The hot search terms that appeared included “Yun Xingze”, “Let three become four”, “Bai Jiashi hide-and-seek”, “Bai Jiashi made a big talk before the game and was face-slapped”, “Luo Wenchuan” and other entries.

If Xinghai Academy’s previous victory over Jicot was an upset, Xinghai Academy’s victory over St. Klito this time, became a god-like legend in the NCLM circle.

In the audience’s heated discussions, Yun Xingze had become a well-deserved main character.

One of the boring people posted a post on the interstellar forum and asked everyone who stood out most from Xinghai Academy. Almost all of them nominated Yun Xingze, followed by Luo Wenchuan, Ashley, and the rest.

“Actually, everyone’s performance is very good, but I think that after Yun Xingze defeated Bai Jiashi, the momentum of Xinghai was saved.”

“Upstairs is correct. Yun Xingze was playing the match point. If he lost, Xinghai will have had a hard time qualifying this year.”

“Momentum and confidence are too important for a team.”

“Yun Xingze xuedi… what is in his head. How can he think of transforming a mechanical beast into a shadow mecha, and why does it look more powerful than a shadow mecha?”

“I think that ugly cat is comparable to Xi Bolai.”

“Xi Bolai, the official member of the Jicot school team, also known as the little mechanical beast of Yun Xingze.”

“Pfft, hahaha, I don’t know what Xi Bolai will think when he sees it.”

This sentence quickly reached Xi Bolai’s ears.

And that’s what the Xi Bolai opponent told him when Jicot was playing against Yuanshan Academy.

“They said that you are not as good as a mechanical beast.”

After hearing this, Xi Bolai gritted his teeth furiously. “Did Yun Xingze send you to piss me off?!”

He added another grudge against Yun Xingze.

—–

The day after the Xinghai team’s victory over St. Klito.

The pressure on the school team lessened significantly. The tension that had been accumulated for a long time needed to be released, so Richard made an exception to let them rest for a long time.

In the early morning, Yun Xingze left the hotel and was about to go out to buy something, but he didn’t expect that Ming Xiao personally came to the door.

“Congratulations, your game has created a miracle again.” Ming Xiao raised his lips and walked in front of him. His dark green curly hair looked stylish and handsome. “There is good news, Dean Cheng has agreed to your request to talk to him.”

Yun Xingze was stunned. He thought it would be difficult for them to agree, but he didn’t expect Dean Cheng Yuan to agree so quickly.

“So, please come with me now.” Ming Xiao said in a low voice.

Yun Xingze nodded and followed Ming Xiao’s footsteps.

Since the Imperial Mecha Research Institute is willing to talk to him, he will go and see.

They boarded an aircraft. After a flight, the aircraft landed in a dense forest in the suburbs. The building covered with hidden materials was the Imperial Mecha Research Institute.

Under Ming Xiao’s lead, Yun Xingze went through layers of security and identity checks to the core area of ​​the research institute.

The material room here is much larger than the previous one. Everyone hurried about, large instruments ran constantly, and mecha models and accessories of various sizes are shining with cold light.

Under the white light, this place is like a large closed factory. Seemingly isolated from the outside world, but really breeding the future of the Empire’s mechas.

“Before meeting with Dean Cheng, please do a mental control test.” Ming Xiao said to Yun Xingze.

Yun Xingze raised his eyebrows: “Can this still be tested?” He thought that at the research institute’s current level, there was no way to make such an extremely difficult instrument.

“The scientific research institute has been trying to build a system for detecting mental power control,” Ming Xiao explained. “Because everyone is becoming more and more aware of the importance of mental power, which represents the efficiency of a person’s use of mental power.”

Yun Xingze nodded, and under the leadership of Ming Xiao, he did a mental control test.

Before the test report came out, he was taken to the dean’s office and met Cheng Yuan himself.

Yun Xingze read about Cheng Yuan online, but he seemed more energetic in person.

Early in the morning, Cheng Yuan was listening to a girl group song that was popular online. Yun Xingze was stunned by the brisk, rhythmic voice.

Seeing Yun Xingze and others coming in, he hurriedly paused the music, stopped his swaying, and raised his head. “You are finally here.”

The expression of being intoxicated by the music switched to serious and responsible in a second. Yun Xingze also pretended not to hear the song just now.

After sitting down, Ming Xiao left, and Yun Xingze got straight to the point. “President Cheng, I can help the research institute complete the experiment, but I have one condition.”

“Please, what condition do you have?” Cheng Yuan said simply.

“I want a laboratory along with supporting resources.” Yun Xingze looked at Cheng Yuan and said slowly.

Cheng Yuan did not expect that this military academy student not only played well in the game, but also was extremely mature in dealing with others. His act of putting forward such conditions was not humble or arrogant.

Cheng Yuan asked with interest: “Do you know what the Imperial Mecha Research Institute means to the Empire? In such a place that pioneers technological innovation, as a military student, you actually want the resources of the research laboratory?

“I won’t help with the experiment then.” Yun Xingze’s tone was calm.

Cheng Yuan’s lower lips hooked as he said, “You’re really brave, just like in the competition.”

“Have you watched my game?” Yun Xingze raised his eyebrows.

“I’ve seen it.” Cheng Yuan poured him a glass of water, and handed it to him. Then he crossed his legs, and said slowly while staring at him. “The scene where your mechanical beast went invisible was very exciting.”

After that, Cheng Yuan’s body leaned forward slightly, as he continued. “I know that your mental control is very strong. I can give you a lot of things, but a laboratory is the only thing I can’t give you. Also, you must know that there are so many strong fighters in the military. There are always people with better control than you…”

“Then there’s nothing for us to talk about.” Yun Xingze stood up, ready to leave.

Cheng Yuan’s throat rolled slightly, and he couldn’t help frowning.

This young man is still too anxious to do major things.

Just when Cheng Yuan was about to reopen the girl group song, his assistant presented Yun Xingze’s mental control report to him.

The most important reason why Cheng Yuan originally took a fancy to Yun Xingze was not because of how irreplaceable Yun Xingze was, but because he was a military academy student. Students were easier to control and would not reveal secrets.

Besides, no matter how strong his mental control is, how strong can he be? Can he reach SS-level?

Not long ago, many military leaders have participated in the evaluation of this instrument. It is rare for someone’s mental control to reach SS-level.

“Since Yun Xingze is unwilling to cooperate, there is no need to give me this report.” Cheng Yuan said slowly, “Destroy it, along with his personal information.”

After speaking, Cheng Yuan picked up a cup of coffee, and began drinking.

“D, Dean…” The assistant said in a trembling voice, “You, you, why don’t you take a look…”

Cheng Yuan frowned at him: “Why?”

“Yun Xingze, his, his mental control level is…”

The assistant slowly unfolded the report in his hand in front of Cheng Yuan.

“Ping–”

The coffee cup in Cheng Yuan’s hand fell directly to the ground. Coffee spilled all over the ground, but because he was too shocked, he didn’t pay any attention to the burning sensation on his ankle.

What level do you think YXZ is at? Hehe.

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