Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Day after day, Ling Lan's disgust turned into numbness. She didn't think about anything and became the most isolated member of the team. Her team members didn't talk to her either. Every time they fought, she fought alone. She didn't help each other like the others …
Just like that, members of the team were sacrificed, and new members were added to the team. Five years had passed, but they were shocked to find that in the team, other than Ling Lan who had survived, the original members had all died on the battlefield. No matter how much they worked together and helped each other, they still died.
Ling Lan came to Ji Sheng's grave again and gave him his favorite Mandora flower. This was the national flower of the Mandora Star System. It represented the person Ji Sheng wanted to be loyal to.
"Five years have passed and I'm still alive," Ling Lan said to the tombstone. "Everyone else is dead."
"Why am I alive but everyone else is dead?" Ling Lan smiled mockingly. "That's because they weren't strong enough. I finally understood what I did wrong. I should have trained you like how I trained Zilong and the others after I met you. I should have made you stronger than everyone else. That way, you would have been able to live like me and not die on the battlefield. "
"I spent five years watching from the sidelines before I finally understood this point." Ling Lan looked at the tombstone. "Luckily, I didn't realize it too late. If I returned to my world, I wouldn't be able to change my old motherly mentality. I would have unconsciously protected Zilong and the others. If I didn't let them grow, things like what happened to you would have happened."
"Everyone has to walk their own path. I have to learn to let go and let them walk their own path." Ling Lan's eyes were clear. At this moment, Zilong and the others were no longer her little friends in her heart. They were comrades who wanted to walk with her.
The moment Ling Lan thought of this, Ji Sheng's tombstone started twisting. Ling Lan knew that she had found what Instructor Number Three wanted her to understand. In the next second, she was in Instructor Number Three's dimension.
"You finally understood." Instructor Number Three smiled at Ling Lan.
Ling Lan smiled bitterly. "I was too stubborn."
"That's right. Your motivation to become stronger is too complicated. This has also limited your heart." Number Three sighed. It wasn't a bad thing. It was just that it was beyond Ling Lan's limit. If she didn't have a free heart, how could she break through that barrier?
Ling Lan pouted. "Instructor Number Three, you don't have to save my face. I was just too greedy. I'm so greedy that I want to be strong enough to protect my family and friends who love and trust me … "Going too far was as bad as not going far enough. She thought too much and added too much pressure on herself, which made her unable to break through that barrier.
Number Three finally laughed out loud. He didn't expect Ling Lan, who was always cold and aloof, to be so straightforward. His words had a double meaning. "It's good that you know. Remember, your family and friends are your helpers, not your obstacles."
Ling Lan nodded, indicating that she understood. Instructor Number Three waved his hand and chased Ling Lan out of the learning space.
Ling Lan returned to the real world and sighed. Ever since she finished her apprenticeship, the instructors didn't want her to disturb them in the learning space. Did this count as being disliked?
Ling Lan only sighed. She quickly gathered her thoughts and continued to break through her hand speed …
Ling Lan began to move her fingers smoothly. Very soon, Ling Lan's fingers reached the part of control that Ling Lan hadn't been able to do.
Ling Lan naturally entered that part. Ling Lan, who was going all out, was stunned. Her fingers instantly slowed down …
"Beep beep beep. Breakthrough failed. Continue or quit?" The device that measured hand speed immediately responded. Ling Lan's pause had caused her to fail.
Ling Lan's lips quirked. "Looks like my heart isn't calm enough. That's why I lost focus at the crucial moment." Ling Lan took a deep breath and cleared her mind of all distracting thoughts. Only then did she choose to continue.
Her fingers continued to move. Ling Lan's hand quickly disappeared, but then appeared clearly again. But strangely, her hand simply covered that area, as if it hadn't moved at all.
Others might not be able to see it clearly, but Ling Lan knew that this time, her hand speed was faster than before. No, it was faster than before. She very naturally entered that part of control that had caused her fingers to stiffen. She didn't feel anything strange at all.
With a "clap", Ling Lan entered the last control command.
"Beep beep beep. All commands completed. 59.93. Breakthrough within one minute. Congratulations, you pass." The hand speed device finally displayed the data that Ling Lan had been waiting for. Her control had really broken through within one minute. This also meant that her hand speed had reached the minimum requirement to advance to imperial operator.
Ling Lan was overjoyed. Her hand speed that had been stuck for more than a year had finally improved. This made her happier than anything else. After her excitement subsided, Ling Lan suddenly felt her fingers throbbing in pain. It turned out that her fingers had suffered a backlash because it was the first time they had been subjected to this kind of speed. Ling Lan immediately used the Qi exercises to nourish her fingers. After a few breaths, she finally felt that the throbbing pain had subsided.
Of course, reaching the hand speed requirement didn't mean that Ling Lan could really advance to imperial operator. There were three requirements to advance to imperial operator. First, finger speed had to meet the requirements. Second, one had to master at least three imperial [S] rank techniques. Third, one had to upgrade an [A] rank mecha technique to [S] rank, or upgrade three special-class [B] rank techniques to [A] rank ace techniques.
Of course, finger speed was the most difficult to achieve. Many ace operators would be stuck at this finger speed for their entire lives. Meanwhile, [S] rank techniques weren't that difficult. Some elite ace operators could practice beyond their level. The trump cards of these ace operators were usually either [S] rank techniques, or [S] rank techniques developed from [A] rank techniques. However, for an ace operator who couldn't reach the finger speed requirement, executing an [S] rank technique was already the limit …
The other thing that stopped an ace operator from advancing to imperial operator was the upgrade of techniques mentioned just now.
Upgrading techniques was actually just supplementing an existing technique. For example, the [B] rank special-class [Total Annihilation] could be modified according to the mecha operator's habits. As long as the [B] rank special-class [Total Annihilation] was recognized as [A] rank by the military's Mecha Skills Development Department, it was considered a success. Of course, a technique could be modified many times, so it could be modified 1, 2, or even N times. It all depended on whether someone had modified the technique before and whether the modification was successful.
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