Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Ling Lan replied calmly, "Isn't that simple?"
Ji Sheng turned his head and tears welled up in his eyes. Was his mecha piloting talent so bad that he couldn't even be compared to the silent Lance?
Lance was a quiet person in school. His results were always behind Ji Sheng's. Ji Sheng always thought that his mecha piloting skills were better than Lance's. Now, it seemed like he was thinking too highly of himself.
After a short preparation, Ling Lan's team went onto the battlefield. Luckily, the Mandora Alliance didn't treat these low-level mecha operators as cannon fodder. The intelligent entities they were facing weren't strong either.
After asking Ji Sheng, Ling Lan found out that intelligent entities needed time to develop their own consciousness. They weren't high-level intelligent entities right from the start. Intelligent entities that just developed their own consciousness couldn't become ace mecha masters immediately. They needed to evolve from low-level mecha operators step by step.
The opportunity for them to evolve was also on the battlefield. After countless battles, their intelligence entities evolved and became intermediate mecha operators, advanced mecha operators, special-class mecha operators, ace mecha operators, imperial mecha operators … until they became god-class mecha kings.
Of course, the mecha operators in the Mandora Star System didn't evolve like this. However, Ling Lan compared it to the Alliance's mecha levels to make it easier for her to understand.
They were both intermediate mecha operators but the intermediate mecha of intelligent entities were naturally stronger than the intermediate mecha operators of Mandora. Hence, the death rate of the Mandora Alliance's humans was much higher. For example, Ling Lan's team of six lost more than half of their members. In the end, only Ji Sheng and Ling Lan were left. In reality, if Ling Lan didn't protect Ji Sheng in the dark, Ling Lan would probably be the only one who could leave the battlefield alive.
After resting at the back, Ling Lan and Ling Lan had new members. This time, Ling Lan became the team leader.
Year after year, day after day, Ling Lan survived in the midst of battle. In the beginning, she still had time to think about what Instructor Number Three wanted her to understand by throwing her into this world. However, after a while, Ling Lan didn't have time to think anymore. She might have to fight for hours every day. There was once a battle that lasted for a few days and nights. If it wasn't for the fact that Ling Lan was used to having a full set of energy storage units, she might have been killed like all the mecha operators in that battle.
Several years had passed in a blink of an eye. For a time, Ling Lan had the illusion that she was one of the humans here, that the so-called Federation and so-called military academy life were all just a dream. Luckily, Ling Lan had endured several mental scourges in the learning space, so she was still able to maintain her original self and not be shaken.
As time passed, the battle went on. The situation became more and more advantageous for the Mandora people. However, in Ling Lan's team, as their comrades kept sacrificing themselves, the lively Ji Sheng gradually became quiet. The confusion in his eyes became more and more obvious.
Once, after a battle, Ji Sheng couldn't help but ask Ling Lan, "Why is there a war? Why can't we have a good talk? In the past, our ancestors were able to tolerate the different races and coexist peacefully with the intelligent entities. They created this powerful Mandora Alliance together. Why can't we do it in our generation? Is it our fault? Or did the intelligent entities change?
Ling Lan didn't know how to answer Ji Sheng's question. In the end, it was all because of power. Ling Lan guessed that some of the more powerful people in Mandora felt that their power had been taken away by the intelligent entities. Thus, they wanted to take back their power. However, the intelligent entities didn't want to do that. They had equal status so they didn't want to become slaves. They wanted to keep their freedom. Since the two sides couldn't unify, they wouldn't care about what the Mandora people thought. This war would erupt sooner or later.
Of course, Ling Lan knew that because of Little Four and the instructors in the learning space, she was still biased towards the intelligent entities. She didn't believe that the intelligent entities really wanted to control the Mandora people and make them their slaves.
Just like that, they spent five years on the battlefield. After going through many trials and tribulations, they advanced from intermediate mecha warriors to ace mecha masters.
However, their opponents also became stronger. They were the ace mechas of the intelligent entities so their battles became more difficult and dangerous. On the sixth year, another high-level mecha battle erupted. This time, the Mandora higher-ups made a wrong decision. Ling Lan's mecha clan was unfortunately surrounded by three mecha clans.
In that battle, all the mecha operators in Ling Lan's mecha clan were in despair. They fought with three times their number for three days and three nights. However, they still didn't receive any reinforcements. In the end, they were all annihilated. During this battle, Ling Lan was also surrounded by three ace mechas. She couldn't split herself up and could only watch as Ji Sheng sacrificed himself in front of her.
In the end, Ling Lan was lucky enough to escape from the encirclement of the three ace mechas. When Ling Lan found the headquarters of the Mandora people, she found out that not only was her battle team annihilated, but the mecha operators in her entire division were also annihilated. Out of a million elite mecha operators, only less than 5,000 mecha operators managed to escape alive. However, their sacrifice wasn't in vain. With the mecha operators of a division, they were able to destroy two out of the three divisions of the intelligent entity. The only division that was still intact had sacrificed one-third of their ace mechas.
This battle dealt a heavy blow to Ling Lan. In the past, Ling Lan didn't care about the other members of her team. Although Ling Lan felt regretful about their sacrifice, she wasn't sad. It was just like when you were playing a game and saw the NPCs in your team die. You might feel regretful and frustrated but you wouldn't feel sad.
However, Ji Sheng was different. Ji Sheng had been by her side ever since she entered this world. As time passed, Ling Lan started to treat Ji Sheng as her comrade. Ling Lan thought that after she found what she wanted and left this world, she would be able to protect Ji Sheng. However, reality slapped her in the face. There were times when she couldn't do it.
"I'm not strong enough. If I was already an imperial operator, I wouldn't have been trapped by those three ace mechas. I would have been able to save Ji Sheng …" Ling Lan's heart was in pain. She clenched her fists and looked up into the sky. "Instructor Number Three, what do you want me to understand? If you want me to understand how weak I am, I already know it. Why should I stay here?
Yes, Ling Lan didn't like this world where there were only battles. She didn't know why she was fighting in this world. This made her feel that she was just a mindless killing machine. She was so cheap that she hated it.
Unfortunately, what Ling Lan thought of wasn't the real answer. She was still in this world and was still an ace mecha operator fighting on various battlefields.
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