"The loser must die!" Zhang Yiqi pointed at a phrase on the virtual screen and said calmly, "This person’s tone is indeed grandiose, but what they said is true. I like it very much. If she can beat , it only proves that my strength is insufficient, nothing more."
Qin Chou was speechless. His friend’s state of mind was really quite good, "But then you’ll have your strength questioned..."
He was the youngest in history to receive the Expedition Army’s Honor dal. If he were to easily lose to an unknown, there would be all sorts of derogatory remarks. He doubted his friend, who had grown up surrounded by praise, could adapt.
Zhang Yiqi crossed his arms under his chin, sneering, "If they question my strength, let them challenge the person who defeated . If they win, then they can doubt all they want. If they can’t win... then I’d kindly ask them to shut up."
Standing up, he took the beige coat from beside him, put it on, and adjusted his tie, "I almost forgot to remind you, didn’t you have an elective class in the afternoon with that abnormal teacher? It’s about ti; if you don’t go, are you planning to fail?"
Qin Chou glanced at the ti on his smart terminal, and his expression changed. Hastily saying a few words to Zhang Yiqi, he flipped out of the dormitory window and left on his flying device. Zhang Yiqi rolled his eyes, throwing Qin’s class schedule onto the table and said with a hint of glee, "Still not finished talking, class has changed... why the rush..."
After several hours of flight, the rescue warship finally entered the cosmic spaceship stationed in outer space.
Listening to the robot’s command, Su Jiang stood at the designated position, waiting for the rescue warship to open. The rescue warship was already sizable, but compared to this small cosmic spaceship, it was still dwarfed. The crowd followed the command and disembarked from the rescue warship, only to find iron-grey tal all around, with arched dos whose height could not be asured. A casual glance seed to reveal nothing but iron-grey tal. Just as Su Jiang was puzzled, the familiar sound of engines ca by her ear...
"There’s a cha approaching, and the number exceeds one hundred, not more than one hundred and one..." Su Jiang murmured, as Li You, who appeared by her side at so point, pulled a forced smile.
"Miss Su is quite knowledgeable about this." Li You twitched his mouth, not knowing how Su Jiang made the judgnt. The sound? The cha squadron was still quite so distance away, let alone being able to determine the number with such precision, "To know even this..."
"The architecture here is quite special, with a completely sealed environnt. The engine’s sound can cause very slight resonance on the ground... Were it in an open field, it wouldn’t be this simple." Much of her ability was taught by rcenaries she mingled with, or conclusions drawn from life-and-death battles. If she didn’t have this level of judgnt, she would have died long ago in her past life.
"Is that so?" Li You spoke softly to her, but given their proximity, it drew quite a few officers’ glances. After waiting four or five minutes, the cha squad arrived. From the leading cha ca out a man dressed in combat attire, with a crew cut, shining tiger eyes, a steady face, well-built limbs, and a silent walk... impressive quality.
Su Jiang made a fair assessnt, lowering her eyes to wait for Li You and the leader to finish the handover work. She gazed at her nose, her nose gazed at her heart, until Li You said that their mission was successfully completed, and they could officially set sail, did she realize the main event was about to begin.
Sure enough, the crew-cut man approached Su Jiang, the height difference imnse. The man had it easier, simply lowering his head slightly to see her, while Su Jiang had to tilt her head back to see him... her neck was about to strain, this height gap was truly troubleso.
"Miss Su, my apologies." No sooner had he spoken than he extended his hand toward Su Jiang. But her reflexes were quick, and although her body couldn’t match the speed of her nerves, it was still relatively quick. She avoided him, and using his force, caused him to take a small step back.
"Miss Su, what are you doing?" Li You was about to retrieve his cha from the cha Space Hub and just saw Su Jiang’s action, "If you can’t provide an explanation, it will be considered a malicious attack."
Su Jiang, seeing those officers enter the cockpits of the cha squadron, instantly realized what the crew-cut man ant by extending his hand toward her, and awkwardly said, "Sorry, I overthought... but I think I can enter the cockpit without his help..." This body may lack the accumulated sharp reflexes of her past life, but when soone suddenly reached out to her, her brain reacted faster than her body... resulting in this blunder.
With an apologetic smile to the crew-cut man, Su Jiang, carrying her baggage and a precious egg, leveraged herself into the cockpit, knocking on the cha’s shell. Without the owner’s presence, she couldn’t have the cha open the cockpit of its own accord, let alone sit in the co-pilot seat.
The crew-cut man showed no expression. If not confird to be alive, just by appearance, one might think he was a cold android. Su Jiang sat obediently in the co-pilot seat, feeling a wave of nostalgia looking at the familiar instrunts and equipnt inside. No matter how real the virtual felt, it had a sense of falsity, whereas these were tangibly real.
"In a mont, we will pass through the Vacuum Road. If you feel uncomfortable, just let know." The crew-cut man, prepared and practiced, activated various instrunts inside the cockpit, his eyes focused and serious. Su Jiang was taken aback, instinctively clutching the two eggs tightly in her arms.
The Vacuum Road, she was no stranger to it. In her past life, during an assassination mission, she was cornered in the Vacuum Road, nearly losing her life. It’s an area much like outer space, separating the main cabin of the cosmic spaceship from the auxiliary cabin holding the rescue warships. The universe teems with creatures, so seemingly weak yet capable of causing catastrophic damage.
And the function of the Vacuum Road, to put it simply, is sterilization and disinfection. Passing through the Vacuum Road is not a pleasing affair. Even with the protection of a cha cockpit, the body will experience **reaction in a short ti, feeling uncomfortable or nauseous (╯﹏╰) is the least of it.
"Alright, thank you, I’ll be mindful of that." Su Jiang had so fear of the Vacuum Road, considering she had almost been trapped and killed there in her past life. Yet, she knew that unless she took the opportunity to overco these fears, they would remain a nightmare, an insurmountable barrier. The length of the Vacuum Road was extensive, and as they entered, even with the protection of the cha cockpit, her chest felt stifled and nauseous. Biting her lip to endure, she didn’t need a mirror to know how bad her complexion was.
The Vacuum Road is built from many special greenish tals, generally loathed by parasitic bacteria worms. Along the two roadsides, there are many concealed hotline sensors, all exclusively military-grade with top-notch quality.
These custom hotline sensors were difficult to deal with. Even in the harshest environnts, unless they suffered devastating damage or ran out of energy, they could maintain normal operation. During her past escape, Su Jiang dealt with them frequently, also knowing how to dismantle them in the shortest ti, but achieving that required strong physical conditioning.
She tilted her head, closed her eyes, and silently adjusted her breathing rate to minimize the nauseous sensation. After about ten minutes, the soothing voice of the crew-cut man reached her ears, "Miss Su, we’ve arrived..."
Opening her eyes, she saw a large, sturdy hand extended before her, looking curiously at him. He kept a blank face, his gaze on her tightly clenched hands, "If you’re feeling unwell, don’t force yourself..."
Su Jiang attempted to stand but felt embarrassedly weak in the legs, her muscles slightly aching from prolonged tension. Looking up at him, she said, "Then sorry for the trouble..." Having embarrassed him earlier, now she needed his assistance.
With a swift motion, he lifted Su Jiang directly from the co-pilot seat, leaped swiftly out of the cockpit, landing gracefully without any leveraging, and gently set her down.
At this ti, Li You approached, scrutinized Su Jiang, and said, "It seems Miss Su is indeed extraordinary, as the Vacuum Road is quite loathed even by experienced cha Masters. Upon first contact with the Vacuum Road, most react with vomiting, but it seems Miss Su experienced no **reaction."
Su Jiang turned her gaze slightly, realizing who "they" referred to in Li You’s words, all those rookie officers.
She darkened her face, recalling her first ti through the Vacuum Road, vomiting to the point of exhaustion and without any image, at least these officers maintained basic decorum, "No... my performance wasn’t that much better than theirs..."
The crew-cut man saluted, taking his cha team to the training grounds. To him, Su Jiang was just an ordinary yet well-performing woman. However, Li You couldn’t overlook her previous remarks.
Su Jiang claid she had perford worse than those officers, but he wasn’t blind. She only seed slightly dizzy, much better than the newcors who kept vomiting.
If Su Jiang wasn’t making a modest statent, could he then believe she had traversed the Vacuum Road once before, or perhaps even more than once? Even stranger, he had watched videos of Su Jiang both on the virtual network and during rescue warship training, and it was as if they were two completely different people!
Generally, real-world and virtual network abilities are about the sa, but with Su Jiang... the difference was more than noticeable... it made him wonder if he had picked up the wrong person.
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