Chapter 244

Chapter 244

Then, the evaluator from the Fourth Legion heard the rater beside him mutter casually, "This Omega’s kinda mediocre."

There was a hint of disbelief in his tone.

Immediately, the evaluator received a slow, piercing look.

This was the first time the Fourth Legion evaluator had ever heard someone call Bai Xingshu mediocre.

The one who felt the gaze: "?"

"What's wrong?" The evaluator glanced over in confusion, then looked down at the Fourth Legion’s notes in surprise. "Why haven't you rated him yet?"

"Taking my time," the Fourth Legion evaluator replied.

The other evaluator gave the Fourth Legion a strange look.

That’s odd.

Each Legion had multiple evaluators, with specialists assigned to different fields—after all, nobody’s an expert at everything.

But the combat evaluators were different from those in other specialties.

Frontline fighters could get axed any second, so they needed to jump on every chance to evaluate someone right away, starting their reports immediately.

Otherwise, if a fighter got knocked out, their file would be blank, leaving nothing to go on.

Once the initial evaluation was done, they’d revise it the next time the person appeared.

The evaluator was still puzzling this over when something wild happened onscreen.

The Omega seemed to mess up the controls during combat, accidentally switching weapons and slamming right into the enemy cockpit with the Loader Gun, damaging the hatch.

The evaluator immediately forgot his earlier thoughts and instinctively began writing.

He gave this Omega a harsh write-up!

If they’d screwed up any harder, wouldn’t that Loader Gun have pierced the actual pilot?

An accident like this during the league was a huge deal.

*This Omega must have a shaky nerve…*

Just as he was thinking that, the feed cut to the Omega’s cockpit.

He saw the Omega’s ice-cold focus on the screen.

His hand paused mid-writing.

Wait, hold on—

This Omega didn’t seem shaken at all.

Then came the moment that made all the evaluators do a double take.

Inside the cockpit, the Omega popped their harness.

The Omega opened the cockpit door. The Omega took two quick jumps—and walked across the Loader Gun like it was nothing—right into the enemy’s cockpit.

What?

Wait, what???

Under the confused stares of most people in the monitoring room, they watched as this Omega, under the enemy’s terrified gaze, cut down the opponent and secured the cockpit.

The next second, the pilot inside had been swapped out.

After switching, the Omega’s piloting skills improved instantly. He immediately opened his mech’s cannon and fired at his own machine, darkening its cockpit lights—marking the mech as “destroyed.”

Then he swiftly freed his mech from the jammed gun barrel lodged in the cockpit door and rejoined his supposed ‘allies’ in United.

“Yi Lan! Nice work! You’re actually the first among us to take down a Shoujun mech!” Everyone heard the cheers over United’s squad channel.

The raters were speechless.

Perfect—now one sentence was all it took for this Omega to reveal their identity.

“Heh.” The Omega, who had opened the squad channel, succinctly expressed their mood without revealing any information.

Witnessing this Omega seamlessly blending into the enemy ranks, the raters in the monitoring room fell silent.

They had never seen anything like this before. How the hell were they supposed to score this?!

The rater quickly recalled their Fourth Army colleague’s odd reaction earlier and turned to glance at them. Sure enough, there it was—the unmistakable “Yep, that’s the one” expression.

Without a doubt, this Fourth Army rater knew the person in the footage.

“Who is he?” Unable to contain their curiosity, the rater couldn’t help asking.

For fairness’ sake, all personal details of those being rated were hidden on their tablets. Only during evaluation did the corresponding footage appear, automatically generating the relevant scoring sheet.

Unless it was a big name—say, Lin Lie—theoretically, the raters wouldn’t know anyone.

So technically, the rater shouldn’t have asked—and the Fourth Army rater shouldn’t have answered.

But if the subject was Bai Xingshu, then it didn’t matter.

The Fourth Army rater slightly raised their chin, proudly declaring: “Bai Xingshu.”

No matter what kind of ratings others gave, good or bad, Bai Xingshu would always be with the Fourth Army!

A one-of-a-kind hire, tailor-made for him alone—no need to compete for the position, and no objections from anyone. Even if the Fourth Army marshal himself showed up, no one else could possibly meet the standard!

It was a match made in heaven!

Other army raters: “...”

Shit!!

“How come no one ever said Bai Xingshu was an Omega?!” The other raters felt frustrated and baffled.

Thanks to the Fourth Army’s past antics, causing chaos in every unit, Bai Xingshu’s *Squad Surprise* had spread far and wide, making his reputation legendary across all units.

In fact, right after the match started, these raters had secretly been watching the Shoujun footage, trying to guess which one was Bai Xingshu.

That poser Lin Lie definitely wasn’t him—that’s for sure.

After assessing numerous Alphas and Betas, they inform us it's an Omega?!

Fourth Legion Rater: "..."

Should he admit he'd only just learned this himself?

Bai Xingshu, meanwhile, gave no thought to scoring. After acquiring the name of the pilot from the commandeered mech, he staged a superficial clash with his supposed allies, then covertly monitored the squad channel. Once sufficient intelligence was acquired, he signaled his squad with a prearranged gesture.

Four versus four—with an embedded saboteur. Before they could react, they were neutralized.

—This time, there was no plan to assault the enemy command center, so there was no need to preserve any squad members—or more precisely, the squad leader—to handle potential inquiries from HQ.

Once the leader’s mech was eliminated, Bai Xingshu immediately commandeered the unit and retreated toward United lines.

With the squad leader out of the picture, command redirected their orders to the only remaining operational unit.

"Command to B15, respond. Status report?"

Having visited the command center and seen the surveillance footage, Bai Xingshu simply lowered his head slightly to avoid direct camera exposure and replied, "Threat neutralized. B15 is combat ineffective. Unit operational, pilot condition nominal."

This time, Bai Xingshu made minimal effort to disguise his voice.

The operative he replaced, being a non-command role, would have had limited prior contact with HQ anyway.

Combined with differing academies and specialties, and already wearing the replaced operative’s combat gear, as long as the correct squad ID was reported, HQ would likely overlook inconsistencies in voice or physical appearance.

Sure enough, Command appeared unfazed and promptly issued new orders.

"Proceed to coordinates (112.06.31) and rendezvous with B11."

"Roger that," Bai Xingshu responded. "Yi Lan en route."

He then piloted the mech toward the assigned coordinates—though the route deviated slightly from the expected path.

A minor detour along the way—perfectly reasonable, right?

Monitoring the radar data and sensing anomalies through his abilities, Bai Xingshu silently adjusted course toward the enemy engineering base.

Heh.

What's one more United mech squad when destroying an enemy engineering base brings far greater strategic value?

Initiate demolition protocol!