Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr After an indeterminate amount of time, Ling Lan slowly woke up. Finding that everything before her was dark, Ling Lan could not help but be taken aback. If she had not felt the seatbelt on her body, Ling Lan would have thought that she was not lying in the cockpit of her mecha.
Mind you, as long as there was someone inside, the cockpit of a mecha would always maintain a certain level of brightness. Unless something happened to the mecha, only then would the situation become like this.
Ling Lan was just about to move when she felt intense pain shoot through her body. She knew then that in Mecha World, she had already been judged by the mainframe to be in a heavily injured state. Come to think of it, it made sense. Facing the all-devouring magnetic tsunami, she was already extremely lucky to have survived. Of course, this was also because of the imperial mecha's protective mechanisms.
Ling Lan endured the intense pain in her body and pressed down on the activation button of her mecha according to her memory.
A "beep" sound rang out, and Ling Lan's heart instantly relaxed. This sound was like the sound of nature, indicating that the mecha could still be used normally. Very quickly, the screen lit up, and she entered the mecha's control system. At the same time, the cockpit lit up, and everything was fine. It turned out that the mecha had automatically entered standby mode because no one was piloting it to conserve energy. Once the activation button was pressed, the mecha would be instantly activated.
Ling Lan did not pay attention to the situation outside. Her first step was to take out a bottle of healing agent from her bag and slap it on her body. Only then did she feel her condition improve. This was only because she was in the virtual world that she recovered so quickly. If this had been the real world, with the severity of Ling Lan's injuries, it would not have been so easy for her to recover.
After taking care of her body, Ling Lan finally had the mind to check her surroundings. She found that the surroundings of her mecha were similarly dark. Decisively, she turned on the external lights of her mecha to scan the area. Only then did she find that her mecha was currently floating in the air, with countless metal debris floating around it.
Seeing this, Ling Lan was rather taken aback. Where was she? At the end of her memory, she had used her imperial mecha to intercept the magnetic tsunami, and then fainted after crashing into the starship. Could it be that the starship had still not escaped the robbery and had become space debris? But even if they were in the starry sky, it wouldn't be this dark.
In the endless starry sky, there was actually a certain amount of light, and such a pitch-black situation would not appear. Ling Lan decisively ruled out this possibility.
Just as Ling Lan was puzzled, a crying voice suddenly sounded in her mind. "Boss, you're finally awake. Sob sob sob, that's great."
"Little Four …" Ling Lan's forehead couldn't help but twitch. She was only unconscious, not dying. Why was Little Four acting like this?
As if sensing his boss's dissatisfaction, Little Four sobbed, "Boss, you've been unconscious for an entire night. No one paid any attention to me. I was so scared." This night, Little Four felt as if he had been locked up in a small black room. The silent world almost drove him crazy. This reminded him of Ling Lan's previous life. He had been alone all this time, waiting for Ling Lan to notice him. Unfortunately, at the very last moment, Ling Lan had only heard his voice, making him wait for a whole 21 years.
Little Four was afraid that he would return to the past. Little Four, who was used to flirting with Ling Lan, could no longer bear the loneliness of the past. He believed that if something really happened to Ling Lan, his chip would definitely choose to self-destruct.
"Don't be afraid. Didn't I wake up? You need to have full confidence in your boss. " Seeing this, Ling Lan's heart softened. In her mindspace, she gently stroked the traumatized Little Four, comforting him not to be afraid.
"Yes, yes, yes. Boss is the best." Little Four's tears hadn't even dried when he smiled, looking both adorable and pitiful.
Seeing this, Ling Lan could not help but fall silent. She suddenly found that Little Four was not an omnipotent intelligent entity. He was just like a living person, with his own feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, as well as sadness and fear …
Ling Lan stroked Little Four silently for a while, finally calming Little Four down. Then, she operated her mecha to check her surroundings, only to find that her mecha was bound by something. Ling Lan pulled in the image of the bound mecha, and only then did she find that she was being held tightly by the two arms of the leopard mecha. It could be seen that the leopard mecha had not let go of his hands from the start.
Seeing that the leopard mecha was not moving at all, Ling Lan's heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly shouted anxiously, "Leopard, leopard …"
"He's fine. He's just fainted." Having calmed down, Little Four saw Ling Lan's anxious demeanor, and told Ling Lan about the other's condition.
Ling Lan thought back to the final moment when the magnetic tsunami had sent the two of them crashing into the warship. The force of the impact had been completely borne by the leopard mecha, and she could not help but feel guilty. She said, "He suffered such heavy injuries because he was trying to protect me …"
"If you hadn't blocked the magnetic tsunami at the front, his ending wouldn't have been heavy injuries, but complete destruction. He should be grateful to you," replied Little Four in puzzlement. In Little Four's eyes, [Self-Defined Destiny] being a scapegoat was the price one had to pay to survive. Why was Boss feeling guilty and even grateful to the other?
Little Four's words rendered Ling Lan speechless. She did not know how to explain to Little Four that things should not be seen this way … but then she remembered that Little Four was a stubborn person, so Ling Lan cleverly did not continue on this topic. Instead, she connected to [Self-Defined Destiny]'s comms channel, calling out to the leopard over and over again.
Ling Lan knew that the leopard needed to be woken up as soon as possible. Otherwise, if he did not receive timely treatment, he might very well die from his injuries.
Perhaps the calling had some effect, for after a while, Ling Lan heard a barely discernible moan. Overjoyed, Ling Lan quickly shouted, "Leopard, leopard, are you alright?"
"Cough cough, I'm fine. Rabbit, it's good that you're fine." The leopard finally replied. His voice sounded very weak, and it looked like his injuries were very serious, even more serious than Ling Lan's. Thinking about it, it made sense. Although Ling Lan had been heavily injured while blocking the magnetic tsunami, she had still been using an imperial mecha. The protection an imperial mecha provided to a mecha operator was something that an advanced mecha could not compare with.
Not long after, the leopard's voice began to grow stronger. As if sensing the situation around them, he asked Ling Lan, "Where are we right now?"
"I'm not sure either." Ling Lan could not help but smile wryly as she looked at the pitch-black floating space.
"I only know that we were knocked into the interior of the starship in the end. I don't know if we're still inside right now …" replied Li Lanfeng, rallying his spirits.
His words had barely faded when they saw a dead body floating past their mecha. It was wearing the uniform of the starship's mecha logistics staff, and their military ranks could be clearly seen on their shoulders. It looked like they were indeed still inside the starship. However, this also proved that this starship had already been thoroughly destroyed.
Seeing this, Ling Lan's heart could not help but sink. If the starship had really been completely destroyed, there was no way they could fly to the Swift Dragon base with just their mecha. Could it be that after working so hard for so long, the final outcome was still the failure of the mission and the death of her companions?
"It's fine. Although the command mainship's condition is very bad, its basic propulsion is not damaged. It's still moving, "said Little Four immediately, sensing the worry in Ling Lan's heart." It's just that, Boss, you're currently at the tail end of the starship. They've already closed the rear half of the airlock, which is why this place is in a floating state. "
"Then do you know the situation of Zilong and the others?" Ling Lan was worried about her companions who had entered at the beginning.
"I'm not sure. Because everything at the tail end has been destroyed, I have no way of using the mainship's surveillance system to find them," replied Little Four regretfully.
"Since we're fine, I believe they'll be fine too." Ling Lan still had a lot of confidence in her companions. In truth, the explosion at the tail end of the starship at the last moment had been a devastating blow to those logistical staff members who did not have the protection of their mecha. They had basically all perished in that explosion — the only ones who had survived were the mecha operators who had relied on the protection of their mecha.
"Rabbit, I seem to sense that our position is changing. Perhaps that magnetic tsunami did not deal a devastating blow to the starship." Li Lanfeng seemed to have sensed something and hurriedly communicated with Ling Lan.
"Yes, let's get a feel of the situation first. We'll look for Combat and the others, and then we'll plan our next move." Ling Lan instantly made a decision. In these ruins, they would first find their team members.
The two of them operated their mecha to weave through the ruins. Countless corpses floated past them — it looked like these staff members who had no protective equipment had all died in that magnetic tsunami. Even though Ling Lan knew that these staff members were all NPCs, she still could not help but feel heavy-hearted. However, Ling Lan quickly pulled herself together. She began to think that perhaps this was even more beneficial for them, because the people who knew that they had smuggled in had all died. Perhaps they could change their identities and successfully infiltrate the starship, becoming official mecha soldiers of the starship.
After looking around, they did not find Zilong and the others. Ling Lan was more than happy to guess that they had already entered the safe zone of the starship. What surprised them even more was that when they came into contact with the Federation's standard military advanced mecha floating in the air in perfect condition, the system actually popped up a notification asking if they wanted to collect them. This meant that these intact mecha could be freely collected by the players.
Ling Lan and Li Lanfeng naturally would not give up on this benefit. It should be known that to obtain these mecha, one would need to spend an extremely high amount of points to redeem them at the redemption centre. In addition, Li Lanfeng's mecha was already in a state of depletion. To be able to obtain an advanced mecha with sufficient energy was undoubtedly a timely rain for Li Lanfeng. It should be known that once the mecha's energy was depleted, not only would it be unable to move the mecha, it would also be unable to maintain the oxygen supply in the mecha's cockpit for long periods of time.
The two of them chose the two mecha with the best performance in all aspects and collected them into their bags. It was not that they did not want to collect more, but even if they collected more, they would not be able to afford to keep them.
Every mecha, in the player's inventory, would expend a set amount of energy every hour. If they were not used, they would still become an empty mecha with no energy in the end. Storing them in the inventory would only increase the load, which would increase the player's fatigue. This was also one of the methods Mecha World used to prevent players from collecting too many mecha, which would cause them to be unable to focus on controlling and practicing a single mecha.
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