Night slowly fell on the western hemisphere of planet Duguang. A young man in a black suit knocked on the door and walked into Duan Hengye's lounge. From the end of class in the morning until now, Duan Hangye had stayed in the lounge and did not go out. Other than Lan Jing's late arrival, he had been resting or reading.
"Professor Duan, the starship is docked at A17, can we leave now?" The person speaking was Duan Hengye's personal assistant.
Duan Hengye finally turned off the screen and slowly stood up. "No, I'm not feeling well today. I'll go back tomorrow morning." Then he turned around and walked towards the hovercraft outside the lounge. It looked like he was going to head back to Amro's mansion. Duan Hengye saw from the corner of his eye that his assistant seemed to be dissatisfied with his words. However, he still nodded and took note of his arrangements.
He couldn't see anything special about this assistant from the original owner's memory. He didn't even exist in the main storyline of "Toppling Stars". However, Duan Hengye's intuition told him that his assistant wasn't as simple as he looked. After seeing his assistant finally nod and prepare to return to the starship, Duan Hengye finally let out a sigh of relief.
In reality, Duan Hengye didn't feel any discomfort today. He was just using this as an excuse to stay on planet Duguang.
After a period of observation, Duan Hengye realized that compared to the dangerous Nan Zhuxing where the House of the Marshal was located and the densely populated residential area of the research institute, this remote mansion on Amro's campus was a safer place.
There was something Duan Hengye had wanted to do for a long time. Tonight was the perfect opportunity.
After returning to his residence, Duan Hengye didn't choose to rest. Instead, he went upstairs and changed into a special black uniform. He had brought this uniform with him from Zhen Cui Planet. Even though it looked very ordinary on the outside, a little like the special police uniform from the Earth era, it had the most advanced human body data monitoring system in the entire galaxy.
Duan Hengye didn't hesitate to change into the black uniform. At the same time, a dark green screen appeared diagonally in front of him. There were no words on the screen, but Duan Hengye became nervous just by looking at it.
The technology of the galaxy was very advanced. Compared to Earth where Duan Hengye lived before, there were many more strange things. However, in Duan Hengye's eyes, the most mysterious and difficult to grasp was "mental power". Under normal circumstances, this was an innate talent. Including the time when Meng Jinhuai accidentally awakened his SSS level mental power, there were no more than a hundred recorded cases of mental power breakthroughs in the galaxy.
It was no wonder that many readers firmly believed that Meng Jinhuai was the male lead of "Toppling Stars". After all, his SSS level mental power was already unique in the galaxy. Directly breaking through to SSS level was even more unheard of. In the hundred recorded cases before Meng Jinhuai, the change in mental power was only between 10 and 20.
It was also possible to find out that in the galaxy, an ordinary person's mental power should be between 10 and 60. If one exceeded 60, they would be able to join the mecha army. The highest level of mental power was above 90. As for 100 … it was what people called "S level mental power". SSS level mental power doubled.
Because of the accident when he was young, the original owner's mental power was directly reduced to zero. Although having zero mental power didn't affect his daily life much, for a mecha designer, it was an unspeakable regret. It was like a musician not being able to hear his own music score.
Thinking of this, Duan Hengye took out a black snake-shaped seal from his pocket. The seal was made of metal. After it was taken out, it emitted a mysterious dark glow under the light. This was the key to the "L-039" small mecha designed by the original owner. As the director of the Mecha Research Institute, it was very easy for him to secretly take it out of Zhen Cui Planet.
Duan Hengye reached out his hand and gently stroked the seal. Unknowingly, he became nervous.
In fact, ever since he was reborn, Duan Hengye had always been curious about one thing. Where did the mental power that allowed one to operate a mecha come from? In the galaxy, scientists were also searching for the answer to this question. Unfortunately, there was no reasonable explanation.
For Duan Hengye, there was another question related to "where did the mental power come from?" Now that "Duan Hengye"'s body had been replaced with his own soul, then would this body's mental power still be zero like before?
This was probably the most nervous moment Duan Hengye had ever been since he was reborn. He forcefully pressed the seal into his palm and then took a deep breath before walking out of the villa.
After leaving Lan Jingchi, Duan Hengye began to bury himself in modifying the surveillance system around his residence. Right now, all the surveillance around the villa had been completely blocked.
Duan Hengye walked to the back of the villa and lightly threw the seal into the air. This metal seal didn't fall to the ground. In less than 5 seconds, a completely black mecha about 10 meters tall silently stood in front of Duan Hengye.
In the setting of the novel "Toppling the Stars", special equipment related to mental power like the mecha could be shrunk and placed into a special seal. The principle behind this was something that even Duan Hengye didn't understand.
At the same time that the seal was thrown, the light screen diagonally in front of Duan Hengye lit up. The monitoring system on his body had finally started to work. Duan Hangye was tall and had long legs to begin with. Now that he was wearing this slightly tight-fitting black uniform, coupled with the dark red lines that faintly lit up on his chest, it made him look as elegant and dangerous as the legendary Blood Clan nobles.
Just like how the blood type of the people on Earth were written on their birth certificates, the moment a person was born in the galaxy, they would be carried through a series of tests and recorded down. Mental power was one of the tests.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that everyone in the galaxy knew their mental power from the moment they were born. Due to the fact that the mental power testing equipment wasn't portable and was expensive, only specialized institutions would buy it. Other than the need for a check-up when joining the mecha army, most people didn't need to pay attention to it after they were born, let alone go to a specialized institution or hospital for a retest.
For Duan Hengye, who was already in a dangerous situation, testing his mental power was obviously an act that would arouse suspicion. Fortunately, he had found the data monitoring equipment worn by the pilot of this new mecha from the original owner's memory.
Since he hadn't entered the mecha yet, the mental power reading on the light screen still hadn't been activated. Duan Hengye took another deep look at the light screen before finally stepping into the mecha.
At the same time, in the largest black starship in the middle of the docking bay on planet Duguang A17, a man was nervously operating a photon computer. A light screen could be seen in front of him, and on the screen was the scene behind Amro's mansion.
After a few seconds, a communication alert suddenly sounded in the silent office. The man connected the call, and then Meng Jinhuai's familiar voice came through the light screen.
"Zoom in on the camera and see what he wants to do." Meng Jinhuai coldly ordered.
"Yes." The man nervously replied as he quickly entered a command into the photon computer.
Duan Hengye had indeed successfully adjusted Amro's surveillance system, but only three to five people in the galaxy knew about it. In the Yetian Empire, which had a similar feudal system to ancient China, Meng Jinhuai had the highest authority on the planet Duguang where Amro was located. In other words … Meng Jinhuai's military miniature camera could bypass Amro and even all of the security systems on Nan zhuxing.
Although Duan Hengye had never piloted a mech before, as a designer, he was already familiar with the internal structure of the L-039. He walked straight to the pilot's seat on the second floor of the mech and entered the initial password. His eyes were fixed on the light screen that was still hanging diagonally in front of him.
After a few seconds of data buffering, the mech's control panel lit up. Duan Hengye, who was already used to the darkness, couldn't help but squint his eyes to avoid the slightly dazzling light at night. When Duan Hengye opened his eyes again, the originally blank mental power value finally lit up.
After looking at the light screen again, Duan Hengye finally pressed his finger on the "Start" button with great seriousness. Instantly, all the lights in the mech lit up.
At this moment, Duan Hangye felt his consciousness, which should have been nothingness, expand in an instant, and a few seconds later, it enveloped the mecha space that was more than a hundred square meters in size.
Although Duan Hengye already had a good understanding of the mech's structure, that was only on the level of knowledge. At this moment, he felt a strange feeling. His consciousness seemed to have turned into invisible threads that slowly led to every corner of the mech. This cold and ruthless steel behemoth's body actually produced capillaries that were full of vitality.
… Duan Hengye successfully activated the L-039. This proved that his mental power was not zero!
Suppressing the indescribable excitement in his heart, Duan Hengye took a deep breath and looked at the light screen not far away.
13 … 20 …
The number continued to jump, and in a short while, it reached 41. Duan Hengye did not relax. He was still staring at the light screen. After reaching 50, the rate of increase of his mental power value slowed down significantly, but it still continued to increase.
Time passed by minute by minute, and finally, the number stopped at 79. Just as Duan Hengye was about to relax, the number jumped again.
In just a moment, his mental power value rose to 100!
Seeing this number, even Duan Hengye couldn't help but widen his eyes. After a few seconds, the number "100" disappeared, and a large letter "S" appeared in the previous position.
It was actually a grade S mental power!
The high-definition camera outside the window also recorded everything here. When the number began to jump, Meng Jinhuai's originally calm and steady breathing suddenly became rapid.
"Zoom in!" On the other side of the galaxy, Meng Jinhuai ordered sternly.
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