Chapter 244

Chapter 244

At this moment, Yang Teng walked over, looking at the human-insect cubs and nodding at Bai Xiaoyu.

Ever since he took over F73 planet and witnessed the growth and transformation of the cubs, he had been aware of their growth rate. He had already discussed with Bai Xiaoyu and prepared to arrange for the construction of relevant facilities to give these cubs a complete childhood.

This time, he came not only to get Bai Xiaoyu's signature but also to observe the battle performance of the cubs on their planet.

He could view the same data on the cubs that Bai Xiaoyu was seeing. Initially, from the cubs' battle performance and regular sparring, he had vaguely noticed something unusual. After all, he used to be a planetary administrator and had an in-depth understanding of the current state of cubs' qualifications on the planet.

The overall qualifications of the human-insect cubs were truly surprising.

When he discovered this, he talked to Bai Xiaoyu and learned the truth. Excitedly, he looked at the various data of the cubs. According to Bai Xiaoyu's estimate, after the cubs were completely free from the influence of dark substances, even 3S cubs would appear—and not just one!

These were the qualifications and strength that a large number of cubs should have had before dark substances affected them.

In the star system, where people's qualifications and strength had been deteriorating year by year due to the influence of dark substances, they had waited too long for such a large-scale restoration of qualifications in cubs.

Although these were the unrecognized cubs of the human-insect race.

Seeing Yang Teng's excitement, Bai Xiaoyu standing next to him said, "The future will be better."

Yang Teng nodded. Now that the dark substances had been overcome, future batches of normal cubs would be the same.

One group after another of human-insect cubs kept clearing levels with impressive win rates. Recently, more and more people had started to pay attention to them. Generally, individual cubs from concealed stellar citizenship wouldn't attract much attention. Only a group of such cubs would slightly draw attention. But when such groups kept coming, with similar ages, excellent qualifications, and entering the mecha zone in a disciplined manner like legions, how could they not attract attention?

Besides the cubs and their families from other planets who had interacted with them, many on the star network began to be curious about the identity of these cubs. Concealed stellar citizenship was rare, and applying for it required special applications, with only certain legions and planets having fixed quotas.

However, once these cubs concealed their stellar citizenship, their points and rankings would be hidden, and they would disappear from the planet's leaderboard. Usually, it was those with extremely poor strength who didn't want others to know.

For example, Bai Xiaoyu from the Imperial Capital planet had his stellar citizenship concealed after being kicked out by the mecha.

Clearly, these cubs were exceptionally talented and had arrived together. One or two doing this wouldn't have much impact, but now, a large-scale concealed stellar citizenship? Which planet would be willing?

Moreover, besides these human-insect cubs, there were another twenty to thirty cubs who had maintained a winning streak, having cleared less than a hundred levels so far, but their achievements were definitely top-tier among cubs from every planet. Usually, a planet would have at most five such cubs at the same time. Now, there were almost thirty!

Who were these cubs?

Some media had compiled the data of these cubs and posted it on the star network, attracting even more attention.

Everyone wanted to know where these cubs were from and how they had so many concealed quotas. Some even asked the imperial officials but to no avail.

At this time, various factions in the empire were also shocked by the strength and qualifications of the human-insect cubs. Although the empire's leadership did not officially recognize the human-insect cubs, they were shocked by the cubs' strength and qualifications, leading them to extract and study their data.

It was quickly concluded that the qualifications of the human-insect cubs were generally higher than those of ordinary cubs. Even though they didn't yet know that the qualifications of the human-insect cubs had not fully recovered, it was already shocking enough.

However, these qualifications were not enough to change their attitude. Instead, they became more cautious, especially since many people had started to take notice. They felt that these cubs were nothing but trouble from birth. They had gone through various incidents for them and even allocated a planet. Now, they had to find reasons to explain to the people of the star system. Canceling the concealed stellar citizenship would mean publicly revealing their identity, but not canceling it required an explanation.

While the empire's leadership was holding meetings to discuss this, the few people brought by Bai Qi had already cleared two to three hundred levels.

Their skyrocketing points and rankings drew significant attention. Besides the concealed stellar citizenship cubs that were in the spotlight recently, they were another wave of hot topics. After all, such genius cubs were rare.

Bai Qi was very satisfied with their performance, especially one of the cubs they had cultivated, who had cleared almost four hundred levels by now. Reluctant as he was to admit it, this was far better than his own performance back then.

After all, this was a 3S-qualified cub, and the speed was indeed different.

His speed had even caught up with "Big White's Unbeatable Prodigy." This achievement made Bai Qi narrow his eyes. After so many years, it seemed there was hope to surpass the other party.

Previous attempts we sent have never succeeded, and now only half a year remains. This time, we must drag them down from that position before they enter the Empire's Hall of Fame.

He had his dream shattered by the other party years ago, and now the other party wouldn’t get in either.

Bai Qi waved his hand to let them proceed with the passage.

He looked at their rankings and points, which, for now, placed them among the very best. However, their winning streak, below the 500th level, could also be achieved by other cubs with similar strength.

So, their main task now is to maintain their winning streak in the lower and mid-level stages. The real competition begins when they reach the higher levels.

At this point, they hardly ever encounter opponents with similar qualifications. After all, these specially selected youngsters have some of the best qualifications in the star system, and they have been trained exclusively by the Huang Family, making them extremely strong. Cubs with such qualifications and strength are extremely rare, so the likelihood of encountering them is very low.

Bai Qi felt at ease with the cubs he brought along. As they disappeared from his sight, he resumed looking at the data of the cubs from the Bug race. The more he learned about their qualifications, the more satisfied he became.

He now considered these Bug cubs as his subordinates, and the stronger they were, the more he liked them. Even the higher-ups of the empire didn’t understand these cubs as well as he did. After all, the Huang Family had already researched that the Bug race itself wasn’t affected by dark substances.

This meant that in the future, these cubs' qualifications would increasingly resemble those of the star system humans from thousands of years ago, when the star system people were so powerful that the Bug race hesitated to invade planets, constantly suppressed and at a disadvantage, with humans holding an absolute advantage.

Now, seeing that more than two-thirds of their records were winning streaks, who would have thought that cubs born not long ago could reach this level?

At that moment, one of the youngsters under his command was matched with an opponent. This youngster was about to break through the 300th level.

Given the youngster’s strength, clearing the level wouldn’t be a problem. Just as he was about to shift his gaze away, he inadvertently noticed the opponent who was also about to break through the 300th level. Seeing the opponent’s 100% win rate, he was stunned for a moment.

Previously, to avoid these cubs running into each other, he had already kept their rankings in a tiered gradient, so they wouldn’t meet unless their rankings were close. They had made efforts to avoid their own people, but they ended up encountering another high-qualification cub from a different planet.

The likelihood of this happening was extremely low, but it did occur.

Bai Qi couldn’t help but click on the opponent’s profile, and to his greater surprise, this opponent was also a cub with a hidden star registration. The opponent’s record was very impressive, also on a winning streak, and currently at the 299th level, their points were much higher than the person he brought along.

This cub not only had a winning streak but also had scores in each battle that could nearly match the 3S-qualified cub under his command.

As he saw the five-minute preparation countdown reminder for the level 100 promotion tournament, he wondered, could this also be a cub from the Bug race under F73?

At the same time, Bai Xiaoyu now had a silver-white tiger cub beside him. He also clicked on the opponent’s profile and, seeing the opponent’s impressive record, said, “Xiao Ji, this opponent is also on a winning streak, so be careful. Winning or losing doesn’t matter; just do your best.”

The countdown had 30 seconds left, and the little white tiger nodded, “Okay.”

Recently, he had been intensively trained by Big Black, and with the pressure from Little Prince and Little Bai, his mech operation skills had noticeably improved.

When the countdown ended, both sides were immediately teleported in.

As Bai Xiaoyu’s guardian, he could watch this match from various visual perspectives. Bai Qi was also watching.

The two mechs stood opposite each other, and at the moment the countdown ended, both mechs moved simultaneously.

At first, they seemed evenly matched, but the little white tiger’s mech clearly fought more relaxed, while the opponent was very tense.

Lately, Bai Xiaoyu had discovered he had a special skill when watching mech battles of the cubs; for instance, he could immediately identify the opponent’s weakness and then devise various strategies to defeat them.

Now, facing this opponent, he didn’t have any strategies in mind. It was as if his mech combat skills and awareness were not even in the same league as the opponent’s.

This thought flashed by, bringing a wry smile to Bai Xiaoyu’s face. It probably stemmed from his younger, more arrogant self from years ago in his dreams. With just one glance, he knew the opponent couldn’t beat the little white tiger.

Born as a war god, the white tiger was a king in the mech field. With Big Black as his teacher, it didn’t take long for Bai Xiaoyu to guess that the battle would end within a minute.

As expected, the little white tiger swiftly identified the opponent’s weakness and took them down in just over 30 seconds.

As the battle unfolded, Bai Qi watched the ID ‘Become Stronger to Protect My Brother’ as they controlled the mech. The movement, the fighting style, and the pressure they exuded reminded him of the ‘Invincible Little Darling of Big White.’

Let's take another look at 'Become Strong to Protect My Brother.' Could this be the opponent's sibling?

All these years, he had been trying to knock that person off the top of the personal leaderboard, but the other had never made a move. Now, seeing the 3S cub's flawless performance and high score, was he finally scared?

So, he sent his sibling to guard the challenge?

Over the years, Bai Qi had recalled countless times the moment he was knocked out with a single move. When the other had stormed through the levels back then, he knew that eventually, he would face them again. He had watched all of the other's battle videos.

So, no one knew the other's fighting style better than him. Now, this cub's battle was like a replica. He was sure he wasn't mistaken.

After the battle ended, Bai Qi continued to stare at the opponent, only pulling his gaze back when the opponent's mech was teleported out.

Good, he wanted to see if the opponent could hold their ground. This was a perfect chance to settle an old score. Besides, he had never been able to find out the other's identity back then. This time, he would get to the bottom of it. He'd make sure the opponent would regret it.

After going out and seeing the defeated teens, Bai Qi called him trash.

However, the opponent had underestimated him. Did the opponent really think sending just one person would be enough to stop him? After all, his best had already passed the 400th level and was now challenging the 500th.

And currently, he had only defeated one, but there were still many others by his side.

But from then on, Bai Qi kept watching the opponent's sibling's challenge matches, but it seemed the other only attempted to break through at fixed times and wasn't in a hurry, sometimes not showing up for an entire day.

This confused Bai Qi. Shouldn't the opponent be aggressively catching up to them, trying to defeat all of them? What was going on, were they still guarding or not?

Could it be that they were trying to make them relax, with some other trick up their sleeve?

After checking further, Bai Qi discovered that these hidden star-citizenship cubs, who had been on a crazy winning streak recently, had appeared a few days earlier than the human-insect cubs. Recently, their battle styles had also changed, and he gradually began to recognize a familiar fighting style in them.

Bai Qi's expression darkened.

It seemed the other side had really made thorough preparations and even sent many others to guard the challenge.

As a precaution, Bai Qi sent another few dozen teens up. Their strength was slightly inferior, though still sufficient to intercept these cubs.

Thus, recently, after completing each stage of training, the dragon cubs would come up to clear levels. A few dragon cubs encountered even stronger opponents and were instantly thrilled.

These new practice opponents were quite good and much stronger.