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Chapter 18
"System problem?" Song Xiao was stunned, "You can't do it either?"
"Yeah, I can't log in."
Lin Ye replied absent-mindedly, while sending Feng Huai a message.
Lin Ye: "Senior Feng, there seems to be something wrong with the school's registration system."
A few seconds later, received Feng Huai's reply.
Feng Huai: "What's the problem?"
Pretty concise.
Lin Ye scolded him in his heart, trying his best to make his words look calm.
Lin Ye: "I was about to register just now, and found that the system automatically matched me and you into a group."
Feng Huai replied indifferently: "Yes."
Lin Ye:???
Lin Ye suppressed the emotions in his heart, and wanted to ask Feng Huai what was going on, but before he finished typing, Feng Huai replied again.
Feng Huai: "I registered."
Lin Ye: "...?"
Feng Huai typed a sentence without haste: "It is stipulated that the instructor will also participate in the actual combat exercise. Since you said you did not have a partner last time, I will help you register."
After a while, another sentence: "Besides, you have been cooperating with me in the demonstration before."
It is justified, and it is impossible to refute it.
In my impression, this was the excuse he used to find Feng Huai during a certain exercise match in the military academy.
What did he say at the time?Anyway, we've fought so many times, aren't we afraid that we don't have a tacit understanding?Or - if we make a team, the winning rate can be as high as 100%?
Unexpectedly, one day, these reasons would be used on him by Feng Huai.
Lin Ye reminded him very tactfully: "Senior Feng, today is the first day the system is open for registration, right?"
When Feng Huai asked him if he had a partner, the system was not open for registration, so of course he had no choice.Today is the first day of registration. Doesn't he need to spend time thinking about it?
But Feng Huai directly filtered out that possibility.
Feng Huai: "Yeah. What?"
Lin Ye: ...
He almost forgot that Feng Huai couldn't understand euphemistic words at all.
"Brother Lin, what's the matter?" Song Xiao had just noticed that Lin Ye had been using the terminal to send messages to others. He reckoned that Lin Ye was reporting system problems to the student union, so he didn't bother him.
"Hey, the student union said..." Lin Ye thought about his words, "There may be other arrangements."
Song Xiao:???
How about forming a team with me?!
It was the school's arrangement, so Song Xiao naturally couldn't refuse. He just complained: "This kind of arrangement is really unreasonable. You can't choose your partner freely...By the way, who did the school arrange for you to be in a team with?"
"Feng Huai."
"Oh, Feng...huh?"
Song Xiao was taken aback for a moment.
"Senior Feng Huai?!"
"Ok."
Song Xiao swallowed, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Lin, I think...Senior Feng Huai won't have a crush on you, right?"
Lin Ye frowned: "What are you thinking?"
Feng Huai took a fancy to him?
He has worked hard for seven whole years but failed to make Feng Huai fall in love with him.
It doesn't take that long to like someone.
he thought to himself.
Liking is an innate impulse, an involuntary approach, and an instinct that is willing to restrain all harm.Also... his ridiculous expectations for the seven years of Feng Huai.
Song Xiao shook his head, disapproving: "Otherwise why would he choose you as a partner?"
"For the winning rate of the actual combat exercise, isn't this reason enough?"
Song Xiao hesitated and said: "I said...Senior Feng Huai will not worry about the winning rate if he forms a team with anyone?"
In his eyes, Feng Huai is just a cheat, and anyone who forms a team with Feng Huai is probably cheating.
Song Xiao recalled what happened last time: "Senior Feng even sent someone to our dormitory to deliver the student card."
"How do you know there are no other dormitories?" Lin Ye retorted lightly.
"Sit next to us when we eat."
"There were a lot of people that day, and the cafeteria was crowded."
"He blocked several accounts for you."
"Maintaining the forum environment is originally the responsibility of the student union."
"..." Song Xiao felt that he was almost convinced.
"Also," Lin Ye reminded meaningfully, "Don't forget, he is Alpha and I am Beta."
Song Xiao suddenly woke up like a dream.
Grass.
He almost forgot this biggest obstacle.
"Soβ" Lin Ye concluded, "Feng Huai and I are impossible."
The actual combat exercise was scheduled for a week later.
The venue is a special training base for the military academy, covering an area of nearly half a star area, and equipped with the most professional military simulation system to ensure the authenticity of combat.
Last year, a batch of freshmen's actual combat performance hit a record low in the history of the military academy, and they unexpectedly lost to the next-door Qinglan Military Academy in the four-school league. As a result, the military department set a hard target for the No. 1 Military Academy this year, and attached great importance to the performance of this batch of freshmen.Combat ability.
Near the entrance of the training base, Ling Han was leaning in front of the mecha and chatting with Feng Huai.
"Feng Huai, I remember last year's actual combat exercise, there were some students who would do anything to form a team with you."
What Ling Han was talking about was the actual combat exercise in the past two years. In order to be able to be with Feng Huai, some students sprayed their bodies with different scents of inducers every day, pretending to pass by the door of the student union office.
Unexpectedly, Feng Huai not only did not waver in the slightest about pheromones, but also gave a few people a scolding for disturbing the order of the military academy, and even took them to the school infirmary to check their pheromone control ability.
"However, although you have always hated people who want to take shortcuts, the ones who make you reluctantly accept it must not be this kind of people. Do you think so?"
These words just fell into the ears of several people in Lin Ye who had just arrived at the training base not far away.
"Damn, what do you mean!" Song Xiao always looked down on hints of yin and yang, and the disgust was almost written on his face.
Even though Ling Han was talking about the few Omegas last year, he was implying that they were trying to win the first place, not to attract Feng Huai's attention.This is obviously an insinuation that Lin Ye formed a team with Feng Huai for the first place.
At this moment, Ling Han noticed Lin Ye, and the smile on his lips faded a bit: "Feng Huai, your Beta partner has arrived."
The word Beta was deliberately heavy, as if implying something.
Feng Huai looked over, and his eyes collided with Lin Ye in mid-air.
Lin Ye smiled and said, "Senior Ling is right. I'm really sorry that I couldn't let Senior Ling take this shortcut due to my helplessness."
Ling Han was startled, faintly aware of the meaning of his words, and subconsciously looked at Feng Huai.
"It was indeed arranged by me." Feng Huai did not deny it.
Ling Han was slightly taken aback, his expression became complicated: "Feng Huai, could it be that you..."
Lin Ye raised his eyebrows lightly: "In this regard, I can only wait and see, and look forward to Senior Ling's performance of 'not taking shortcuts'."
Song Xiao couldn't help laughing.
"Brother Lin, that's too much."
Lin Ye hid the knife in his smile: "What are you talking about? This is the voice of Senior Ling, and it is good that Senior Ling can benefit from it."
"Tsk, that makes sense!"
Lin Ye didn't communicate with Feng Huai, he chatted with Song Xiao and walked away from the two of them, went to open the hatch of No. S1-13 mecha and sat in.
The uniform type of mecha equipped for the actual combat exercise is Fenrir, the standard equipment of the Imperial Army. It is a mecha with both attack power and speed.
He roughly checked the performance of the mech and the external equipment, adjusted the initial parameters to the value he was best at, and then turned on the communication function step by step.
Not long after, the door on the other side of the cockpit was opened, and Feng Huai sat beside him.
Lin Ye reported as usual: "Major Feng, the inspection is correct."
"Okay." Feng Huai sat upright, his voice light.
After preparing, Lin Ye turned on the terrain detection system and looked at the head-up display in front of him.
In this actual combat exercise, the four departments are divided into two camps, two people form a team, and the goal is to destroy the hidden defense network in the field. The more the number defeated, the higher the score.Partners wear smart bracelets, and they can communicate with each other even if they leave the mecha.
The training base has a total of thirteen entrances, and the perimeter is covered with defensive nets intertwined with mental power to prevent the firepower of the contestants from reaching areas outside the range of the venue.
Lin Ye drove the mech into the No. 7 entrance, and the head-up display gradually displayed the position of the initially detected camouflage net, and the terrain map slowly spread out in his sight.
Lin Ye roughly estimated the degree of danger.
"There are risks, but there are certainties."
"I'll accompany you if you want."
The two words were said at the same time, both of them were startled.
This was what he said the most when he and Feng Huai fought side by side in his previous life.
Countless moments like this made him feel that he and Feng Huai were a match made in heaven.
Sometimes Lin Ye would also think, maybe Feng Huai really liked him at some point, but most of it was just a flash in the pan, just like a flash in the pan, no matter how amazing the relationship is in the moment of full bloom, it cannot last in a three-year marriage.Continue to shine.
What's more, he is not even sure whether this moment has ever happened.
Lin Ye fell silent and stopped talking, but made a decisive choice. He swooped down near the watchtower and aimed the muzzle at the camouflage net not far away.
The moment the bullet was fired, another bullet from his side flew towards his mech rapidly, smashing the obstacle that suddenly appeared in midair to pieces.
The pace of the two people is almost exactly the same, with a difference of less than one tenth of a second, as if they have cooperated countless times in advance.
In terms of combat, he and Feng Huai have a natural tacit understanding. Many times, they can know what the other party is thinking with just a hint, without any words.
Lin Ye drove the mech towards the deeper part of the training base, avoiding all dangerous obstacles throughout the process, and his movements were smooth and coherent.
The sixth camouflage net.
Aim out the muzzle.
With a bangββ
Ok?
Lin Ye couldn't help being startled, and subconsciously looked at the data displayed on the other screen.
Position is off?!
The stability of Lin Ye's left hand is naturally extraordinary, and he has never made such a mistake in his many years of military career.He vaguely sensed something was wrong, calmed down, and looked at the changing values on the head-up display.
"There appears to be a psychic radiation gun nearby."
"Not necessarily," Feng Huai did not comment, "It may also be a hidden mental weakening device."
According to the direction that the bullet deviated just now, Lin Ye roughly estimated the distance and strength of the device in his heart.
This device is probably hidden even deeper.
Lin Ye weighed the risks, and already had an inclination, but he was the first to ask Feng Huai: "Rush directly or..."
At this moment, he heard a strange voice from Feng Huai, mixed with a trace of anxiety.
"Feng Huai, did you encounter any special circumstances there?" The person who spoke was Ling Han's partner this time, Song Qi, who was also in the third year of the command department.
"Abnormal mental fluctuations were detected, and there was signal interference near some camouflage nets. It is temporarily impossible to determine whether it is a test set up by the school, and further detection is needed." Feng Huai said.
"Sure enough..." Song Qi whispered, "Ling Han and I also feel that something is wrong. We found several strange detection devices nearby, which can not only interfere with the signal, but also detect the movement in the training base and send the signal toto the outside."
"What did you say?" Feng Huai's tone turned cold, "Song Qi, how is the situation there?"
"I'm fine, but Ling Han was injured a little bit."
Lin Ye's fingers tightened slightly.
"We are near the No. 4 entrance, so it should not be far from you." Although Song Qi didn't say it clearly, the meaning was obvious.
He hoped that the two parties would reconcile, and that Feng Huai could protect Ling Han.
Lin Ye didn't make a sound, he was waiting for Feng Huai to speak.
Time passed bit by bit.
Every second you wait, the loss in your previous life will deepen.
If someone installs a special detection device in the training base and continues to send signals to the outside, it is very likely to affect the safety of the empire, and the device must be broken as soon as possible.
In the end, it was Lin Ye who spoke first.
"You go, I'll go down and have a look."
He would not bet on Feng Huai's choice.
If it wasn't the answer he wanted, then he would rather never know.
I like such a person, let him smooth out the edges and corners and arrogance, let him learn to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, instinctively avoid what he doesn't want to hear and what he doesn't want to see, and protect himself like a photophobic beast hiding in the dark.
Because love too deeply, can't bear the moment when know the truth, heart will be stabbed.
"No need," Feng Huai said calmly, "I'll go there with you."
Lin Ye suddenly smiled: "Major Feng is so contrary to his heart, won't he feel distressed?"
He didn't give Feng Huai a choice. He switched the mecha into human form, landed on a high ground, and relied on the mechanical arm to cling to the cliff.
Immediately afterwards, he pushed open the door of the cockpit, jumped out with the gun on his back, and looked towards the place in the depths of the darkness where the fluctuation of mental power was the strongest. With the power of the sniper rifle hitting the ground, he jumped down alone.
Liking is instinct, but so is self-preservation.
Why does he need to give up another instinct when he likes someone?
He doesn't do it anymore.
He can complete this task alone.