He was tired, his head was full of questions, and he was thirsty for sleep but unable to sleep because of the excitement. This was the most unbearable feeling. Xu Le rubbed his somewhat dry eyes and looked at the alloy mech at the end of the spacious room that was connected by countless cables. Suddenly, he no longer felt the mental torment from before. His eyes lit up as well. It was really beautiful. The surface of the pure black mech reflected a faint matte light, and the cables behind it that were connected to the various ports in the wall were painted in various colours according to the data or energy transmission. Some were white, some were red, some were blue …
It was like a black ancient warrior with countless ribbons tied behind it, fluttering in the wind of the wasteland.
Xu Le looked at this scene in admiration. He suddenly felt that there was no place in the world that was not beautiful. Even such cold metal and technology could still be pleasing to the eyes. After being stunned by the beauty of the mech, Xu Le gradually regained his senses and fell into a pleasant surprise. After all, this was the second time in his life that he had seen a real mech. Previously, the worn-out M02 on the Ancient Bell looked like trash. However, the mech hanging on the platform not far from him was so lively, as if it would come alive in the next moment.
He carefully moved closer to the wall. Although he had already obtained permission to enter, he still could not suppress the nervousness and excitement in his heart when he suddenly saw a rarely seen mech appear in front of him.
This was the prototype of the M-series mech. All weapons systems and cockpit doors were removed. Xu Le walked to the bottom of the mech and looked up at the mech that was glowing with a metallic light in mid-air. It was very easy for him to identify its model. In this spacious room, he found a terminal screen. He looked at it carefully and finally understood what this room was for. It turned out to be a mech control simulation room. Virtual training technology had been developed hundreds of years ago, but the problem was that it had not been fully developed. Today, it had not been promoted in the Federation. Xu Le looked curiously at the instructions on the screen and found that this set of technology was the set of military technology that Xu Le had been speculated on in the electronic magazine.
Xu Le's interest in operating mecha in battle was far less than his interest in repairing and designing mecha. However, he was even more aware that an excellent mecha repair engineer would need to have an absolute understanding of the object they were researching. Furthermore, they would need to go through a long period of hands-on work to be able to make the fastest and most accurate judgements on those minute details. Li Hua University provided such excellent training conditions for its students. It just so happened that he had a lot of doubts about the mysterious power in his body and the relationship between mecha operation. Naturally, he would not let go of such a good opportunity.
Rubbing his somewhat cold hands and rubbing his somewhat red eyes, Xu Le calmed the excitement in his heart. Following the M-series prototype mech's mechanical legs that were slightly thicker than two people, the designer had cleverly constructed a ladder like armour around the legs to make this sort of climb not too difficult. Xu Le sat in the control cabin and looked at the spacious space before him. A strange feeling grew in his heart. His hands trembled slightly as he placed them on the ergonomic touch screen on either side of his body. This type of touch screen was definitely different from the real mecha systems of the military. However, it should be more than enough to test and familiarize himself with the mech.
The black M-series prototype mech let out a sizzling sound the moment his hands were placed on it. An extremely thin screen slowly descended from the originally empty cockpit door, taking up all of Xu Le's line of sight. It looked just like the kind one would see when wearing the helmet of reality.
"Please select your overall operation ability test level."
Without hesitation, Xu Le chose... the lowest level test environment, level 6. Although Uncle Feng Yu and Li Wei had both praised him as a genius, and he sometimes also felt that he was a genius himself, that kind of talent seemed to be reflected in the level of mecha operation. He would not be so arrogant as to think that he would be able to emit the power of the stars and become the strongest mecha warrior in the Human Federation the first time he actually operated a mecha. There had never been anyone in this world who was born with knowledge, and Xu Le admitted that he was not one of them.
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The level 6 mecha operation training test was indeed very simple. On the screen that took up all of his line of sight, all sorts of colour patches and light rays constantly appeared. According to the instructions in the terminal, as long as it was a green colour patch, he would need to perform a jump, while the black colour patches would need to be destroyed. As for those light rays, they represented the energy emitted by the opponent's weapon. The only thing that was slightly more complicated was the control of the weapon system. This was because some colour patches had a halo added to them, which meant that two to five consecutive hits would be required to destroy the target.
The speed of the system test was very slow at the start, but as the number of targets the mecha could dodge or destroy increased, those colour patches and light rays moving straight from the screen would gradually increase in speed. What made Xu Le's head hurt even more was that there was no pattern to the appearance of those colour patches and light rays. He could only rely on his own concentration and that pair of exceptionally calm eyes that had been immersed in the microscopic world for many years to judge.
Xu Le had never actually operated a mecha before. The instructions on the touch screen required him to experiment several times before he could remember the instructions for each operation. For such a novice, he only thought that being able to make the mecha move and move was already a very impressive feat. However, when he was struck by the light rays for the 34th time and heard the synthetic mechanical voice report that the mecha had been destroyed, he still could not help but feel endlessly gloomy.
He held on for the first time... one second. The mecha's left mechanical leg tripped over the right mechanical leg, and the mecha successfully fell to the ground and self-destructed. He held on for the second time... two seconds. The mecha on the virtual screen struggled to lift its left leg, and was then pierced by a light ray. The transmission device on its left leg malfunctioned, and it was judged to have failed. He held on for the third time... three seconds. If this continued and he could hold on for one more second each time, perhaps Xu Le, who was as tough as a rock, would not feel any sense of defeat. This was because he was like a blank piece of paper in this aspect to begin with. The problem was, when he finally managed to familiarize himself with all the commands and inputs, and was able to make this mecha hovering in mid-air move and move nimbly, he found that he was completely unable to avoid those obstacles and lights coming at him from the holographic screen. Those programmed obstacles and weapons came at him too quickly. He tried a total of 34 times, but the longest he could last was just... a mere 5 seconds.
"Too crazy!"
Xu Le's personality made it so that he would not find this sort of colour-filled and light-filled test to be too boring. The Federation's virtual technology was already extremely rudimentary to begin with, so it was impossible for it to show him lifelike 3D images of city streets, alleys, buildings, or forests on the screen. However, he really could not stand this kind of continuous failure and the feeling of being unable to see any hope of improvement. This was only the lowest level test, and it was already so difficult. Xu Le wiped away the sweat on his forehead, and in his heart, he could not help but feel endless admiration for those mecha warriors of the Federation military. As for that uncle who had successfully seized the mecha and walked around the mountainside like a demon, he felt that the other was like a tall mountain that he could not approach no matter how hard he tried.
"Motherf * cker, motherf * cker."
Xu Le would basically only swear in front of those closest to him. Most of the time, it was only when he felt defeated by being alone that he would say the words' motherf * cker '. Moreover, every time he said the words' motherf * cker ', it just so happened to be so proper and solemn. His words were articulate and powerful, as if he was saying' I love you, the Federation '. The sweat on his forehead flowed out again after he wiped it away. He stared at the incomparably large 'failure' on the screen, panting heavily, and let out a long, stuffy sigh.
How could he increase his reaction speed and operation speed? There seemed to be a jargon in mecha operation called hand speed? Xu Le stared blankly at his own two hands, having no intention of giving up. This was because the reason he had come to Area H today was to find out the relationship between the strength in his body and his mecha operation. Although he had experimented many times before, he had only lasted 8 seconds each time. However, he had still not actually tried out what he really needed to test.
Closing his eyes, he thought back to those 10 postures. A faint warmth began to accumulate at the back of Xu Le's waist. He carefully felt that warmth turn into a scorching heat, which then turned into a series of shivers on his skin. However, it was hidden under his clothes, so it did not show.
"Level 6 test begins."
Those already incomparably familiar coloured blocks and rays of light surged in from all directions on the screen, leaving very little reaction time and space for the mecha which appeared in the virtual world from a first-person perspective. Xu Le's hands moved rapidly across the screen, entering command after command. Only he knew that the current situation had already undergone some very subtle changes compared to before. When those coloured blocks and rays of light entered his eyes, his brain reacted in the shortest amount of time. However, the commands his brain sent to his fingertips no longer seemed to be transmitted through the nerve bundles in his body. Instead, the right to bear the weight of the commands was subconsciously snatched away by that warm current and trembling in his body...
Improvement, 11.7 seconds. Xu Le leaned limply against his seat in the cockpit, his entire body drenched in sweat. In his full concentration, he had not even noticed the abnormality in his body earlier. To be honest, those microscopic changes were indeed not something that could be observed by humans themselves. They could only be seen in the results. His stomach growled, and an irrepressible feeling of hunger appeared. Xu Le licked his dry lips. He was already used to this phenomenon. Every time that familiar trembling appeared, he would feel incomparably tired and hungry.
He did not leave, continuing to attempt what only one person in the history of the Federation had ever done. However, he did not improve after that. His best result was still stuck at the extremely pitiful figure of 11.7 seconds.
Finally, one time, in his intense depression, Xu Le could not control that trace of trembling from his fingertips. With a cracking sound, the two intricate and expensive touch control screens... shattered into countless components and screen fragments!
He stared blankly at these fragments under his hands. Suddenly, he came to his senses. Who knew how many credits would be deducted for destroying such intricate equipment in the school? Suppressing his fatigue and hunger, he climbed down from the M prototype and cleaned up the fragments inside. Then, like a thief, he quietly slipped out of the room.
Leaving the room, Xu Le was somewhat surprised to find a cup of steaming hot coffee and a few plates of snacks on the coffee table in Area H1's lounge. He swallowed. It was already late at night, and there was no place to eat. He really could not suppress the hunger in his stomach. He carefully looked around to confirm that there was no one around, and then walked over.
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