Chapter 27 (2/2)

Damn…! Was Mu Fan helping me? Did he see that I had put the land mines, so he used himself as a bait? Such a pro! So skilled and strategic.

Young Master Harry was praising Mu Fan in his mind as his admiration toward Mu Fan couldn’t even be measured.

[The green team won!

System calculating scores…

MVP of this battle: Lemon Balloon.

Scores are as follows:

…]

Then, as the battlefield faded away, Chubby Harry was also teleported back into the VIP room.

“I can’t believe I won! I even won so cleanly like a pro!” Chubby Harry was chirpy as he still won after all the ups-and-downs he had experienced today! The thrill was real.

He bragged for a while and then turned his head while asking Mu Fan, “Can you tell me how you got your generation-zero mech? I searched through the shop, and this one isn’t something that can be bought!”

Mu Fan shrugged and said, “I really don’t know; it was the only one that I could pick when I entered the battlefield.”

“That’s strange… Are there Easter eggs? Are there hidden mechs in this game? Someone should have said something if there are any,” Chubby Harry murmured in confusion, scratching his chin.

He couldn’t find a reasonable explanation after thinking for a while, and it seemed like Mu Fan didn’t want to say anything else, so he gave up. Then, his interest was suddenly piqued, and he asked, “How did you beat the two Raiders earlier? I saw your mech’s specs; it was originally for civil-use before it was modified and became military-use. How could this mech battle against those military-made mechs, especially since yours is one generation behind.”

Mu Fan thought for a while, but he found it hard to explain as he couldn’t mention Black’s existence. Therefore, he shrugged again and replied, “It felt like I was back in the wilderness, and I was face-to-face with death. I don’t know what happened, but all I wanted was to survive. So it was just like fighting beasts, but it was human this time. Then, I won.”

Chubby Harry couldn’t accept this answer as it sounded even more ridiculous than some of the things that broadcasters on the administration channels had said.

This isn’t the same as fist-to-fist combat. The mechs are dozens of times bigger, and they require an unbelievable amount of control from their operators to perform those human-like movements. Even if he was inside a first-general mech, how fast do his hands have to be to turn all the levers and press all the buttons?

When Harry looked at Mu Fan, the latter still had that same expression on his face. The look told everyone that Mu Fan wasn’t going to explain anything else.

Chubby Harry didn’t give up and said, “You should have told me first if you were going to be a bait. I almost surrendered.”

Mu Fan felt slightly embarrassed as he thought about the way that he died in the explosion, so he apologized to Chubby Harry sincerely. “My bad this time. I’m sorry that I almost dragged you down with me.”

Admiration! The presence of a master! So wise!

He isn’t even bragging to his teammate! This show-off receives the perfect score from me! Young Master Harry was now respectful toward Mu Fan for what he had done, and he gave Mu Fan the thumbs up in his mind.

“What a shame that I didn’t get to see how you fought. Did you have first person perspective video recording? Show me, show me.”

“How do I record?” Mu Fan was stunned.

Chubby Harry face palmed and gave up. I’m sure that this guy didn’t record anything. Players need to first confirm and activate the system to record any videos.

Are all pros this unique? It was Harry’s first time in contact with a pro player, and he was completely led onto the wrong path by Mu Fan. No one was here to tell him that his path was getting further and further away from the main path.

Mu Fan saw Chubby Harry’s disappointed expression and recalled that he stood there like a target in his first battle. It was bad on his part as a teammate, and it was only because of Harry’s land mines that won them the battle in the end.

He thought for a while, raised his hand, and was about to pat on Chubby Harry’s shoulder, but he paused in mid-air.

“What?” Chubby Harry saw his movement and asked. “What? Don’t comfort me. I admit that you were heroic in your first battle, but didn’t you see how I used those land mines like a pro? Hmm? Oh ya, maybe I should consider using more land mines and walk on the path of explosives. Then, the universe would know me as Lemon Balloon, the Bomb Maniac. Hahahahaha. What a dashing name!”

This time, Mu Fan was led onto the wrong path by Chubby Harry.

Chubby Harry laughed for a while before he stopped and said seriously, “Mu Fan, let’s go for a second battle. Then, we could rest after that.”

“Um… I’m really sorry, but I think I need to get more familiar with mech operation,” Mu Fan said carefully as Black had told him clearly that the body motion synchronization was just for him to get a sense of what it was, and he wouldn’t be able to use that for a while. He wasn’t going to enter the battlefield again and stand there doing nothing instead of looking at levers and buttons that he knew nothing about. He would be scolded to death by his teammates if that happened.

Therefore, Mu Fan decided to tell Harry his thoughts. “I think I need to get more familiar with the basic operations, so I want to head back to the training camp and go through the tutorials.”

It was silent for a while.

Respect! This was all that Chubby Harry could think of when he heard what Mu Fan had said.