Chapter 239

Chapter 239

Bai Xiaoyu saw that Little Prince was sulking again. He planned to cheer him up after logging off later.

By this time, the dragon cubs had quickly found the youth mechs, clumsily starting them up. At first, they weren’t very steady, probably because they weren’t used to the virtual mechs in the star network yet.

After a while, the dragon cubs finally got the hang of it, and one by one, the mechs lined up and approached the mech where Bai Xiaoyu was crouching.

This was the mech training area for children under twelve years old in the star network. All around were wobbly, unsteady mechs, indicating that this area was mostly filled with beginners. Those who hadn’t cleared the area were given an extra year, but after thirteen, they had to move on to the next zone.

They were in the outermost layer of the youth mech zone. Bai Xiaoyu wasn’t surprised that this area was filled with mech newbies. It was normal for beginners to start in the outermost layer when learning mechs.

To get to the inner layers, they had to clear the levels one by one.

Little White Tiger had already made significant progress. The little guy mentioned he had cleared dozens of levels a month and a half ago, completing them in just one day. Now, who knows how far he’s gone?

As for Little Golden Tiger, this guy was lazy. Even when forced to train offline, he always wanted to escape. There was no way he would actively train on the star network. However, after being dragged in by Little White Tiger and assigned mandatory training tasks by Big Black, he had no choice but to come up. If he didn’t, he would face double the training offline.

So, the little guy had no choice but to come up. Not long ago, he said he had passed almost ten levels, right?

But when Bai Xiaoyu checked, the first ten levels were for mech beginners and were relatively easy to clear. Little White Tiger had passed them in just half an hour last time.

Now, with over twenty youth mechs gathered at the outer layer, they quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding kids—and, of course, their guardians too.

After all, most cubs usually trained alone. A small portion came with friends, but only two or three at most. Who had ever seen such a neat line-up of mechs before?

The cubs wanted to show Bai Xiaoyu their recently learned mech skills, so they quickly found an opponent nearby and started fighting.

Basically, the top twelve leaders would find opponents among themselves, and the opponents weren’t fixed. One moment they were fighting this one, and the next, they were attacking the one next to them. This wasn’t a fair one-on-one fight but a free-for-all.

The vice leaders were the same. They would unite against a common enemy but fight among themselves when there was no external threat. Fighting was a common occurrence.

No one respected anyone else, just like their superiors.

Bai Xiaoyu watched as the cubs had almost mastered the basic functions of the mechs. The intelligence and eagerness to learn of these cubs were truly heartening.

Seeing Bai Xiaoyu nod slightly, his little tail wagged slightly too. Little Prince humphed.

Bai Xiaoyu turned to look at him and saw that the little guy bared his teeth. The little guy then turned around, got on a mech, and started it up. With great enthusiasm, he charged into the battle circles of the leaders and vice leaders, causing chaos instantly.

This scene of one against many quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people. They stared intently at the mech in the middle surrounded by others. This cub seemed quite impressive.

At this moment, Bai Xiaoyu twitched his animal ears. What was Little Prince trying to do?

The light blue youth mech controlled by Little Prince nimbly navigated through the crowd. From the start, his attacks were wide open, focusing only on offense without any defense. His strikes were fast, fierce, and precise, ruthlessly knocking flying one mech after another, sending them hundreds of meters away.

It wasn’t just Bai Xiaoyu. Even the surrounding cubs didn’t notice, but the older guardians could see that this cub seemed to have a personal grudge against those he was attacking.

With such ruthless and aggressive fighting, there was undoubtedly some personal grudge involved.

Was this the drama of the cubs?

The guardians were suddenly interested.

Little Prince’s mech wasn’t unbeatable. If it were offline and he was fighting the newly born dragon cubs, he could easily dominate them now.

But in the star network, using a mech, even though his control over the mech was better than the dragon cubs, he couldn’t remain unscathed. During this time, his mech also took quite a bit of damage. Although he successfully knocked them all flying, his mech sustained the most damage in the entire arena.

But Little Prince didn’t care at all. At this moment, he glanced at Bai Xiaoyu’s position, and the fire in his heart reignited.

"Hmph, hmph, hmph, look, he rejected the recognition of this prince and instead praised those weak so-called leaders. Now, they've all been knocked flying by him.

Bai Xiaoyu found it both awkward and amusing. Just then, Little Bai jumped up and sat next to Bai Xiaoyu, "White Papa, Little Breaker just acknowledged you as our emperor, but you rejected him, and now he's feeling crushed."

Bai Xiaoyu: "...But I really am not."

How could such a small, unnoticed thing make Little Breaker so furious?

Little Bai turned to look, saying knowingly, "White Papa, I know you need to hide your identity."

Bai Xiaoyu felt that he couldn't explain himself under Little Bai's gaze.

At that moment, the little Blood Fury Tyrant Dragon, who had been knocked flying, rose with fighting spirit and rejoined the encirclement around their prince.

Little Bai stood up as he watched the mech damage rate of the egg-yolk-colored mech continuously rising.

In the next second, the battle turned into a seamless cooperation between two mechs crushing their opponents. The dragon cubs were incredibly tenacious, getting knocked down but always rising again, their mech control improving rapidly.

The battle lasted a full thirty minutes, until the mech damage rates hit red and the system automatically stopped it.

The cubs dragged their battered mechs back to Bai Xiaoyu's side and surrounded him, each looking at him expectantly, waiting for his guidance.

Bai Xiaoyu, not very knowledgeable about mechs, could only say, "You've all made great progress; you're amazing."

The cubs were naturally delighted with the praise and eagerly wanted to fight again. This time, not only were they participating in the training, but they also invited Bai Xiaoyu, "White Papa, want to train with us?"

"Yes, can White Papa teach us?"

Bai Xiaoyu was looking at the repair fee list he had just received. The repair costs for the cubs' wrecked mechs totaled over a million credit points, still less than the cost of a new youth mech.

He paid the credit points, feeling a bit embarrassed under their expectant gazes. He didn't know anything about mechs right now; even one of these cubs could probably defeat him easily, let alone teach them.

Otherwise, he would just be misleading them.

This was the youth mech zone, but guardians could spar with the cubs here if they opened a private room.

He was about to refuse when he realized the cubs had already opened a room and sent an invitation.

He wondered which cub was so quick and familiar with the operations, only to discover that Little Prince had set up the room, leaving him speechless.

Oh well, he'd go in for a bit.

Who knew that as soon as he entered, he was automatically put into a youth mech.

Facing him were over twenty mechs, all waiting to attack him simultaneously. Bai Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment but, in the nick of time, found that his claws were unusually familiar and swift at controlling the mech. With just one glance, he spotted the gap in their fire net and, at an extremely tricky angle, narrowly dodged it!

After escaping, his mech hovered steadily in midair.

His furry little paws were still instinctively controlling the cockpit, and his tiger face was filled with confusion. When did he learn how to operate a mech?

He remembered that his previous form, the lazy little golden tiger, would be sleeping soundly at home at this time. Even after returning to his original body, his nature hadn't changed much.

He racked his brains but couldn't find any memories of operating a mech. However, he did recall attempting to control a mech before. Because back then, led by Bai Qi, the royal youths had mocked him, and the original owner, out of childish defiance, tried to forcefully operate a mech. But with his constitution, he couldn't even touch a youth mech. As soon as he officially started the mech, he was automatically ejected by the safety system.

He had been laughed at by his siblings for a long time, so he hadn't touched a mech since.

Now...

He stayed inside the mech, watching his stubby fingers nimbly dance across the control panel. The speed was almost as fast as when he was preparing medicine.

He looked down and realized, "Oh man, I'm over a hundred meters in the air. What if I fall?"

The thought had barely crossed his mind when he was hit with a wave of shame. *How embarrassing it would be to fall in front of Big White.*

Bai Xiaoyu almost immediately realized what was going on.

Below, the dragon cubs were even more excited, howling as they launched another assault.

They had originally thought White Papa was a weakling, but now he was dodging all their attacks—they couldn’t believe it! This made them even more fired up.

Both the Little Prince and Little Bai felt the same. For the Bug race, strength ruled everything. The stronger Bai Xiaoyu was, the more excited they became.

The Little Prince snorted, thinking that after watching White Papa’s weak performance for so long, this was finally something worth watching.

So, they both joined in, attacking Bai Xiaoyu's mech together.

Bai Xiaoyu saw another wave of overwhelming firepower coming his way, and in the next second, two more mechs jumped up, attacking his mech.

He immediately recognized the two mechs as belonging to the little ones. The mech piloted by the Little Prince was aggressive, as expected. Little Bai, despite his normally sweet demeanor, was just as fierce in battle, sometimes even more brutal.

For the first time facing the two cubs as enemies, this combined assault, along with the firepower from the dragon cubs below, made him feel like he was about to be shot down.

But in the next second, he dodged again.

Not only did he dodge, but he also launched a fierce counterattack.

The mechs attacking him were knocked down one after another in just a few breaths. His mech then vanished from the spot, only to reappear in the middle of the dragon cubs' battle circle...

Ten seconds later, Bai Xiaoyu's mech returned to its high-above position. Below, the cubs' mechs were left sprawling, completely incapacitated. Looking at his fat little fingers, Bai Xiaoyu began to doubt his life.

It seemed like Big Black had been guiding him all along.

He had never seen Big Black in action, but the fighting style of the little white tiger was somewhat similar to his own.

As Bai Xiaoyu was doubting his existence, the dragon cubs below became even more excited watching his mech. When they first got their mechs, they couldn’t take down the big dragons. If they could fight like White Papa, they would definitely be able to take down a bunch!

Bai Xiaoyu maneuvered his mech next to the cubs' mechs, which appeared undamaged but had their control systems destroyed by a single hit. Once again, he covered the repair costs for the cubs' mechs, which wasn’t too bad this time—only around 100,000 credit points.

After the repairs were done, the cubs swarmed his mech again, shouting, "White Papa, let’s go again!"

Even after getting knocked down three times, the cubs weren’t discouraged—they were even more eager to keep fighting.

They excitedly surrounded White Papa's mech, seemingly ready to attack again.

Bai Xiaoyu quickly shouted to stop them, "You guys should focus on building a solid foundation first, like clearing the levels."

He had realized that even though he couldn’t remember, there was a significant gap between him and the cubs. The cubs were newbies who hadn’t even laid a proper foundation yet, so fighting him directly wasn’t very effective at the moment.

The dragon cubs were stunned.

"Clearing levels?!"

After some explanation from Bai Xiaoyu, they learned there were 999 levels. Clearing them would allow entry into the junior zone for those between 13 to 18 years old. Additionally, unless all levels were cleared, they couldn’t enter the next zone until they turned 13.

The Little Prince and Little Bai already knew about this, but they hadn’t been very interested in mechs before. They only started learning because Bai Xiaoyu had equipped the other cubs with mechs. They had to have what the other cubs had, and they had to be better at it.

However, they had always preferred attacking in their original forms. Now that White Papa had defeated them, they had become more interested in mechs.

Bai Xiaoyu felt a bit relieved seeing the two cubs like this.

There is a ranking system for clearing the stages, mainly divided into personal and planetary rankings.

The personal ranking is self-explanatory and easy to understand.

The planetary ranking, on the other hand, tracks the overall performance of individuals from that planet, serving as a crucial measure of the strength of different age groups on a planet.

The strength of the younger generations, particularly those in the three age brackets from minors to young adults, is highly regarded by all planets.

Bai Xiaoyu had only read about it before and hadn’t actually opened the rankings.

Since he was here now, he decided to check out the planetary ranking. As expected, Imperial Star topped the list, leading in both average scores and total cleared stages. Imperial Star occupied 90% of the top 100 high scores and high stage numbers, virtually sweeping the board. There was only one individual from another planet in the top 30.

After glancing at the data, Bai Xiaoyu suddenly thought of the F73 planet.

With some self-awareness, he scrolled to the bottom. Planets occupied by the Bugs don't show up on the ranking, but you can still find them by searching; their icons just appear greyed out.

Seeing F73 at the bottom, Bai Xiaoyu frowned slightly. He remembered applying again for the cubs’ status, but it was rejected yesterday. They seemed to really look down on the human-bug hybrid cubs.

This meant that the cubs who were already training with mechs had to sneak in here, but with their numbers, it was easy for the main brain to detect them. He would have to do something about it. Even if their status wasn’t granted for now, the cubs should still be able to train here just like the others.

After looking at the planetary ranking, Bai Xiaoyu clicked into the personal ranking.

Then his eyes froze.

What’s going on with the number one on this list?

Bai Xiaoyu looked at "Great White's Invincible Little Baby" and felt a slight chill. He clicked open the personal profile. The kid was almost twelve and ready to enter the youth mech division, but their planetary citizenship was greyed out. The record showed 999 consecutive wins achieved in just two weeks and held for nearly eleven years.

This little baby was also the only one in the top 30 who wasn’t from Imperial Star.

Following standard procedure, if no one surpasses the top player within twelve years, they are automatically inducted into the Hall of Fame, and a new round of rankings will begin.