Chapter 56
byChapter 56
When Shiji left the underwater base where he was happily surfing with dolphins, Yu Tang took advantage of the break in the dormitory assignment to bring his consciousness back without leaving a trace.
Before he was shaken out of the sea of consciousness, the system had already imported the [riding a motorcycle and never overturned] skill card that Luo Ran left for them according to Yu Tang's instructions.
This skill card was reset by Yu Tang, and a basic action program was added. In conjunction with the instinct left in Shi Ji's body, it can complete basic communication and responses.
The fly in the ointment is that it uses part of the data of the Xiaohong card, and it is easy to get stuck when encountering complex situations that neither Shi Ji nor the skill card can handle.
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"These are dormitories that can be rented temporarily. They are double student apartments. The living room and kitchen are shared. There are also a few single rooms available."
The college dormitory is also in charge of the logistics major. The student opposite clicked on the selection interface and turned the electronic screen to Shi Ji: "Take a look and choose the one you want to live in...Classmate Shi Ji?"
Yu Tang just turned off the basic mobile program, came to his senses, and casually ordered a restaurant.
He was multitasking, thanked the other party, and sighed to the system in the sea of consciousness: "I didn't expect that the complex situation that Xiaohongka couldn't handle turned out to be a multiple-choice question."
System: "That's it. Xiaohongka will choose the one he is most satisfied with from the ten photos, and he will take me to choose with him for two hours."
“Without using the analysis function, I can’t see any difference in those ten photos put together.”
The system suffers: "He told me that one of the pictures had a star missing from the background..."
Yu Tang couldn't hold it back and laughed softly.
The system stared at the camera: "...Host!"
In the depths of Yu Tang's sea of consciousness, as his emotions changed, those colorful mysterious lights and shadows suddenly began to flow.
"It happens sometimes, just don't chase me."
Yu Tang was used to it and added a layer of shielding: "If I accidentally fall in, I have to find a way to fish it out... I have already thrown out more than a dozen sled dogs chasing the aurora."
The system asked: "Is this not controlled by the host?"
"No," Yu Tang said, "It should be a program made by someone. I decoded it and found that this code was added later."
Yu Tang had never noticed it before, but after being reminded by the system and looking at it carefully, he suddenly had a feeling: "It's quite beautiful."
"It's beautiful." The system flashed a small red light, "It's beauty that even artificial intelligence can analyze."
The light that was originally just floating lightly and slowly suddenly became brighter.
The light curtains merged and dispersed, and then reunited.
Reflecting the deep and bottomless darkness, it looks like fireworks that will never go out.
Yu Tang smiled. He took out the camera that Pu Ying gave him in return, and followed the standard process of "Teaching You to Learn Photography in 10 Days" to take a photo under those beautiful lights.
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In reality, the other party has already retrieved the dormitory chosen by Yu Tang.
The dormitory student looked up at him and hesitated: "Do you want to change to another room?"
Yu Tang asked: "Can't I live in this dormitory?"
"Okay." said the dormitory supervisor, "Have you not met Senior Zhan yet?"
Yu Tang nodded.
The dormitory student turned the screen over and said, "In the apartment you picked, he lives in the other single room."
Along the way, students majoring in logistics were mentioning Senior Zhan, so Yu Tang specifically asked the system to check.
Before leaving the last book, Yu Tang used the security department's system to search and found that there was no person named Zhan Shilin in this world, and there was no trace related to Zhan Shilin.
Senior Zhan’s name is Zhan Chen. He is a fourth-year student majoring in logistics and graduated this year.
This is a tool man who is more powerful than Shi Ji. His specific name has not even appeared. He is simply a "genius senior majoring in logistics". He has been booked by the military in advance and will directly enter a research institute directly under the military after graduation.
In the original work, he and Shi Ji once had an intersection.
It was after Shi Ji was admitted to the hospital and was judged unfit to fly a wingman.
The sudden arrival of the insect wave broke the peace of the entire interstellar. In addition to the alliance's active troops, students who had not yet graduated from various military academies also joined the battle in advance and were assigned to marginal battlefields where the fighting was less intense.
Shi Ji was worried about Sheng Yi and asked Zhan Chen for help in private.
Zhan Chen's specialty is mecha repair and modification. As a genius tool man in the logistics profession, he has nearly a hundred invention patents, large and small.
In the military academy, any mecha and wingman that he can personally remodel will have their strength significantly improved in a short period of time. Many people have made it to the top 100 rankings by relying on these bonuses.
The reason why he received the alliance's merit is because the personal protective equipment made by Zhan Chen did indeed increase the survival rate of military troops by three thousandths in the last battle with the Zerg.
"Shi Ji also came here for this set of protective equipment."
The system just finished taking this part of the notes and read to Yu Tang in the sea of consciousness: "This set of equipment refers to the physiological structure of the Zerg to create a portable mechanical individual soldier exoskeleton."
Mechanical exoskeletons are powered by energy, and when combined with humans, they can easily complete tactical actions that would otherwise be extremely physically demanding.Even after the mecha or wingman is destroyed, it can briefly resist the attack of hundreds of kilograms of iron beetles and quickly move to a safe area.
...But none of these are very important to Shi Ji.
For Shi Ji, the most important function of this exoskeleton is to enable his broken left leg to stand up again.
The system has searched for all relevant plots, extracted them for Yu Tang, and put them on the light screen.
"Shi Ji was originally supposed to be moved to a safe place, but he found the logistics senior who developed this equipment and asked him to make protective equipment."
System: "After a short period of recovery, Shi Ji left the military academy to join the war and became Sheng Yi's observer."
Yu Tang nodded: "I understand."
Shi Ji died in this battle.
He had experienced a real war and knew the dangers of this battle better than any other student, so he gave up the opportunity to move to a safe area and tried to figure out how to fly the wingman again.
With Sheng Yi's current strength, without Shi Ji's cover, it would have been impossible to save Ye Hanfeng from the insect tide and escape smoothly.
"In the original work, this logistics senior only appeared once, at Shi Ji's funeral."
The system said: "He repaired Shi Ji's wingman. Before the intelligent AI system integrated with Shi Ji was taken back by the military, he imported a lot of violin music into it... He let those violin music play in a loop.night."
But the intelligent AI system never gave any response.
Even if you try to have an interactive conversation again, the only response the wingman can give on the operation panel is "Hello, do you need me to cover you immediately?"
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"Senior Zhan is a very nice person and doesn't have any airs. He just doesn't like communicating with others."
A dormitory student said: "He prefers to study his inventions rather than deal with people. He spends most of his time in the laboratory and usually does not return to the dormitory until late at night."
Yu Tang thought for a while: "Do you need me to leave a light for him in the public area?"
"No..." The dormitory student thought for a long time and then stood up helplessly, "Forget it, just go and take a look and you will know."
Yu Tang recovered his mind and said thank you.
The military academies directly affiliated to the alliance are the elite of the elite, directly delivering manpower to the Zerg battlefield. The training and assessment are cruel, and there is a certain quota of casualties every year.
Correspondingly, students' comfort will be ensured to the greatest extent in terms of daily life and food-related aspects.
The dormitory Yu Tang chose was not very far away. There was a direct elevator on the top floor of the apartment building.
"There are no other dormitories on this floor. The rest of the area is Senior Zhan's warehouse."
The dormitory student stepped out of the elevator: "It is specially approved by the college. If you are not used to living there, you can directly apply to change the dormitory. If you report it, you may be criticized by the college teachers."
The system was floating in the sea of consciousness, and I couldn't help but ask: "Why report it?"
"These are all the semi-finished products of Senior Zhan's inventions."
Before Yu Tang could ask for him, the dormitory student continued: "Some of the energy has not been completely used up. It will make strange noises in the middle of the night, walk around by itself, and flash red light."
Yu Tang: "..."
system:"……"
"Some people can't stand this." The dormitory student was used to this reaction. He led him to the door of the dormitory and took out the electronic key. "If you don't mind, there is something else I want to remind you."
After the key verification was completed, the door lock rang and opened automatically.
The dormitory student opened the door and said, "Except for your own room, every decoration in this room must remain the same every day."
Yu Tang followed him through the door.
It was completely different from what the science geeks imagined. In front of them, this dormitory was even kept extra clean and orderly.
...It can even be called warm.
Soft fabric sofas, light-colored carpets, and wood-colored dining tables and coffee tables.
There are hollow planetary patterns on the curtains, and light leaks in through the gaps and rests on the translucent gauze curtain inside.
There were two portions of hot milk and two portions of biscuits on the table, one of which had no trace of being tampered with.
There are two large boxes of bubble gum on the bookshelf.
The TV was on, playing an old detective movie that few people had seen. The victim in the picture took his last breath in front of the police before he could tell the murderer.
There are several soft pillows stacked on top of each other on the sofa.
On the small side table next to the pillow, there is an open book, and the mechanical arm presses the opened pages.
There is a three-minute countdown on the robotic arm.
After finishing the last second, the manipulator moved under hydraulic control and turned the page lightly and steadily.
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"Senior Zhan lives by himself. If there is no one living with him, he will never bring anyone back."
The dormitory manager already knew what people who came to visit the dormitory would ask, so he was very skillful and spoke in advance: "But milk and cookies are not for roommates."
Although no matter how you look at it, this dormitory really looks like two people live there, it is true that only Zhan Chen lives alone.
Zhan Chen does his own thing every day, does not participate in courses, and occasionally takes charge of college affairs.
Every morning, he would get up on time to prepare breakfast, turn on the TV, and then pick a book and put it in the mechanical hand.
When he comes back in the evening, he will count the cookies on the plate again and re-measure the milk in the measuring cup.
If there is no change, he will eat these as a midnight snack, put the video tape away, and put the book back on the shelf.
On the next day, he will make two more biscuits, two cups of hot milk, choose an old movie that has not been played, and replace it with a new book that has not been opened.
"If you want to change dormitories, come to us at any time."
Dormitory manager: "If you think you can still give it a try, you may need to adapt to Senior Zhan's rules when living here. Don't move anything in the living room at will."
The dormitory student noticed his gaze and reminded him specifically: "You must not touch the milk and cookies."
Yu Tang felt a little regretful, looked back and said thank you.
The dormitory student registered, handed the electronic key to Yu Tang, and quickly left the dormitory.
Yu Tang lingered around the plate of biscuits for five minutes.
The system was a little nervous and reminded him carefully: "Host, we can't move around..."
"I know." Yu Tang sighed worriedly, "The biscuits are too fragrant."
Yu Tang can also make biscuits, but he can't make such a clean aroma of wheat and milk.
If he was still in the electronic storm and patrolling and saw someone baking cookies like this, he would be tempted to blow two pieces in with a gust of wind and take some milk with him.
If the master did not come back immediately, he could stay a little longer.
Play with the curtains and pillows, and read the movies and books people are reading.
For the first time, Yu Tang felt the inconvenience of being a human being: "Every gain comes with a loss..."
The system wanted to comfort the host and worked hard to perform its functions. It analyzed the molecular components of this biscuit fragrance and reproduced a special perfume for the sea of consciousness for Yu Tang.
The next second, Yu Tang's whole person was completely surrounded by this rich and attractive biscuit aroma: "..."
system:"……"
With everything in Yu Tang empty, he left the living room filled with fragrance, returned to his own independent bedroom, avoided the injury, and fell on the bed.
Before going to the underwater base, Shi Ji had already gone to the medical room to treat the injuries he sustained during the battle.
Those injuries were all superficial injuries, which looked scary, but were already commonplace for students at the Zhan Zhan Academy.What really made the medical staff frown was the hidden danger of old injuries suffered by Shi Ji before.
Shi Ji's recovery ability is stronger than ordinary people, and the six months since he was kidnapped and disappeared did not leave many traces on his body.
When he was rescued, Shi Ji's body was only slightly deficient in vitamin intake - the main reason was probably that there were not many ingredients on the desert island. Although there were enough small fish, he could not guarantee a balanced intake of vegetable nutrients..
The dolphins took good care of him.
All that was left on Shi Ji's body was a torn cruciate ligament that was irreparable.
There was an obvious scar on his left knee that spread all the way to his calf. It looked hideous, like a shackle that couldn't be peeled off.
Yu Tang closed his eyes. As soon as he relaxed his mind, subtle pains in various parts of his body began to appear again.
Yu Tang stocked up a hundred boxes of biscuits in the sea of consciousness, and stopped the system that wanted to adjust the body data: "No need to worry."
The system looked at Shi Ji's body values on the control panel, hesitated a little, and stopped with the small red light flashing.
Yu Tang asked: "When did Shi Ji's pain sensation recover?"
"When I first imported the card." The system played back the video. "I tried to take over his body, but it was too painful and I couldn't control it."
Yu Tang nodded.
It seems that the method they thought of is still effective.
The most serious problem with Shi Ji's body was not in his left leg, but in his lack of pain and negative emotions.
In the original work, the reason why Shi Ji's body collapsed so quickly was undoubtedly Sheng Yi's torture, but it was also because Shi Ji did not have these two feelings.
Shi Ji won't feel pain or refuse. He has no ability or consciousness to protect himself.
But he also met Sheng Yi, an extremely self-centered mecha operator.
Sheng Yi always only saw what he wanted to see and believed what he wanted to believe. Shi Ji himself had no accurate judgment on his body, so he turned a blind eye to Shi Ji's injuries.
He regards Shi Ji as a real tool. If the tool breaks, of course he will regret it and be upset.
But that's just regret and chagrin.
The bouquet of flowers presented to Shi Ji's grave contained Sheng Yi's regret for those mistakes, his denial of his arrogant and arrogant self, and his irrevocable regret of being buried with the past.
The only thing missing was an apology to Shi Ji himself.
"There's no need to block the pain. Shi Ji's body has to get used to it."
Yu Tang said: "In the future, he will return to the special operations team. He must remember how it hurts, and then he can remember how to protect himself."
The system is still hesitating: "But the host——"
"It doesn't matter." Yu Tang said, "I bought a box of analgesic bubble gum."
system:"……"
When Yu Tang makes plans, of course he will be well prepared.He peeled off a piece of bubble gum and threw it into his mouth, sat on the bed and opened the mission brochure.
Their task at this stage is to let Sheng Yi experience true despair, from being incompetent and furious, being hit to ending the rage and beginning to accept his own incompetence.
The mission objectives continued the old, rigid, and easy-to-exploit style of Chuan Bookstore, and were formulated very loosely.
It's so loose that it doesn't even stipulate the way they need to complete this task.
"Host, host." The system is already familiar with Yu Tang's style, "Should we use this opportunity to transfer to the mecha operating system?"
Except for Shi Ji, everyone else actually knew that Sheng Yi was just taking out his anger on him and wanted to teach Shi Ji a lesson, but he didn't really want to throw him into the logistics and chores major.
Sheng Yi just wanted to see Shi Ji's dilemma when he couldn't complete the task and was criticized by everyone in the college.
He himself had been talked about for half a year and was so angry that he was going crazy and had to find an outlet to vent his anger.
Sheng Yi doesn't understand what it means to do to others what you don't want others to do to you.He was used to being willful. Whenever his father was angry when he was a child, Shi Ji would be criticized and punished together with him.
But this time, for half a year, he was the only one who suffered from this anger.
Sheng Yi wanted Shi Ji to have a taste of this.
Yu Tang was noncommittal. He flipped through the plot and asked, "Can Shi Ji operate a mecha?"
"Can't judge." The system said, "Shi Ji chose the wingman himself... He likes to fly the wingman."
Sheng's father did not prohibit Shi Ji from touching the mecha.
For a fighting maniac like Father Sheng who has lost his humanity, whether Shi Ji ends up becoming a mecha or a wingman, the result is satisfactory enough - he even prefers to see Shi Ji become the best mecha..
But Shi Ji's interest was not in the mecha.
Compared to the heavy and clumsy mecha, Shi Ji preferred the feeling of piloting a wingman.
He likes to fly high above the target and use his own judgment to mark the most accurate position of the insect king. He likes to predict the next movement of the insect tide just by relying on changes in wind speed and light before all changes occur.
He loved hearing the tinkling sound of wind chimes as his wingman whizzed by.
He is a natural observer and commander.
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"But according to the rules, the observer is also qualified to contact the mecha."
The system dared to say: "In regular combat units of the military, the observers who control the wingman and the mecha pilots can swap positions at any time."
One of the tasks of the observer is to take over the operating systems of the wingman and the mecha at the same time when the mecha pilot is injured, and is responsible for temporary enemy attacks and emergency evacuation.
This operational exercise is also taught in military academies and is a required course.
It's just that Sheng Yi is too arrogant and possessive and never wants anyone to operate his mecha, so he has never done this exercise with Shi Ji.
"The host bought a lot of military skill cards."
The system said: "We can use these skill cards to improve Shi Ji's ability to operate mechas first, and then find a powerful observer to cooperate with us to defeat Sheng Yi..."
Yu Tang jumped out of bed, opened Shi Ji's luggage, took out a can of Coke and opened it: "What's the point of this?"
The system was stunned: "Aren't you going to let Sheng Yi experience true despair?"
"His ranking has fallen out of the top 100."
Yu Tang said: "In other words, it's not just Ye Hanfeng and his partners - there are at least a hundred mecha operators and observers in the military academy who can cooperate with each other to defeat Sheng Yi."
system:"……"
System: "Why isn't he truly desperate?"
Yu Tang couldn't help but laughed and took two sips of Coke: "Because until now, he still deceives himself into thinking that the problem lies with the observer."
Yu Tang was responsible for four books and was very responsible for them.
In line with the sense of responsibility to advance the plot, as a tool man, it is the obligation to end Sheng Yi's self-deceptive cognition.
"Shi Ji likes to fly, so let him fly."
Yu Tang said: "I just checked the information and found that 80% of the commanders in the military's special operations teams were observers before."
Yu Tang: "Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang was also an observer before."
Compared with mecha pilots, the lethality of wingmen driven by observers may be lower, and in the eyes of many people, they may not reflect the most intuitive power.
But in a battle, overall view, judgment, and coordination awareness are the keys to victory that can truly determine the situation of the battle.
In war, the most powerful thing is never the weapon itself.
"In this case, should we find another mecha pilot?"
The system was a little hesitant: "Shi Ji will not act as an observer for others. Even if we are OOC, the program implanted in his body will prevent us..."
"Don't let others take the blame." Yu Tang said, "I just checked, and one of Senior Zhan's researches is the automatic driving technology of mechas, which is stuck in the final programming stage."
The system was stunned for a moment.
"He is good at hardware modification, I am good at programming, and Xiaohongka is good at not driving the car into a ditch."
Yu Tang: "We can name this mecha Dolphin."
system:"……"
"Shi Ji will always be the first observer."
Yu Tang patted the system: "The reason why Sheng Yi can deceive himself and others is because Shi Ji has never partnered with anyone else."
"We have an obligation to let Sheng Yi understand." Yu Tang said, "As long as Shi Ji dumps him, even if he is paired with a dolphin, he can get the first place in the entire academy."
The author has something to say: Dolphin: 0v0
My heart skipped a beat thinking Zhan Shilin was gonna appear but it was just a false alarm… for now.
Ahh, he’s waiting for him too! Those are the host’s go to food and the gummys.
Is still remember when You Rang said that such things are the usual plots and can work when dealing with Pu Ying
Lol
That’s too many of Tangtang’s favourite things to be just a coincidence. Is senior Zhan someone who know Tangtang? Is he Zhan Shilin himself?? 😳
Honestly, if this story really need a protagonist, why wouldn’t it be senior Zhan? In term of talent, senior Zhan is renowned genius who didn’t stop improving himself even all the fame and glory he has been received. Meanwhile the only high-level attribute Sheng Yi has is his ego, always high ambition without sufficient skill to back it up. In term of personality, senior Zhan was well regarded and respect by all, be it his superior, his peers or his juniors. Meanwhile for Sheng Yi, it’s already a mercy of an entire heaven that he didn’t get murdered yet. Even at the end of the story when he is in his most upgrade version, he still refuse to apologise to Shi Ji. What drug had the author of this story been on while they wrote this story to choose Sheng Yi over senior Zhan??
[“He is good at hardware modification, I am good at programming, and Xiaohongka is good at not driving the car into a ditch.”
Yu Tang: “We can name this mecha Dolphin.”]
It’s good that everyone can take part in this project in some way. 😂😂😂