Chapter 38 (2/2)

Both of them logged on!

Lemon Balloon – location: No. 171 battle lobby VIP room no. CC1029.

Lord Egg – location: Rookie Training Camp 341.

Lemon Balloon asked, “Mu Fan, how come you’re back at the rookie training camp?”

Lord Egg replied, “Yeah, I need to practice piloting the mech. You go first.”

Lemon Balloon said, “That’s not going to work. How are we going to form a team if you’re in the rookie training camp all the time?”

Lord Egg answered, “Give me five days.”

Mu Fan clenched his teeth together after sending the voice message. He had to learn, starting from the basic mech knowledge. He didn’t even know the theories yet. Black had stopped the body motion synchronization, so he didn’t know how to control a mech at all!

He must find Black.

Lemon Balloon replied, “I’m going to be so bored. Alright, I don’t expect you to be amazing at piloting mechs. I think you’re better at the hand-to-hand combat zone.”

Chubby Harry accepted the current schedule in the end.

Mu Fan stood in front of that familiar metal rotating door, and the system notification sound came again.

“Welcome, Rookie ‘Lord Egg’, this is your Base Training Camp 341.”

“Please choose your training program: 1. Individual Combat Training; 2. Mech Operation Training.”

“Mech operation training.”

The night-time quickly approached Mu Fan, and stars lit up the entire sky. This time, Mu Fan wasn’t standing on synthesized material. Instead, he was standing on a flat soil ground that was common on Planet Loga. With simulation level at 85%, Mu Fan could feel the breeze that was blowing at him.

Deng, deng, deng.

Suddenly, the sound of strong lights turning on came from his sides and continued in front of him. The sound of electricity passing through wires seemed like it was endless.

Mu Fan’s eyes were stimulated by the intense light, so he squinted his eyes before opening them again. He was at an empty base surrounded by walls in all directions, and that white skeleton which Mu Fan once rode on, the generation-zero human form general purpose mech, Model EH01, was at the end of his vision.

Mu Fan couldn’t forget the experience when he turned into the mech itself and fought against the two Raiders, nor could he forget the moment when he was blown up in the end.

Although this white skeleton-like mech was heavy, crude, and out of date, none of this was in the way of how excited Mu Fan felt towards his first ever mech!

Mu Fan was unable to use language to express how excited he was when he touched his first mech again. The cold sensation from the metal was transmitted through his warm hands into his brain.

Cluck! The sound of a camera shutter appeared.

Mu Fan jumped away in alert.

“Hahaha! Mu Fan, I’ve left a backdoor program in the mech operation training. Your entrance will automatically initiate my program. I was lucky enough to capture the scene when you were feeling up the mech with that dirty smile.” A silver ball bounced out and flew around Mu Fan cheerfully.

Black!

Mu Fan didn’t even have a temper anymore! Black was like a spirit, disappearing when he needed it the most and reappearing at random times. This mischievous A.I. was even more out of control after having a physical body within the PO Battle Network.

“You’ve finally picked mech operation, and I’ll be teaching you this time. Mech operation is your weakness right now, and you can go for your individual combat training when you have time.” Mu Fan could imagine Black’s playful expression when it said that. But when he looked over, it was still a levitating ball with a simple smiley face.

“Now, let’s enter the cockpit!”

Mu Fan stood still for a while without a reaction, and he scratched his head, looking at Black. “How?”

“Oh right, I forgot to introduce this. This mech is a very old model, so it requires the traditional entry… Go to the back of the leg and climb up; that shouldn’t be a problem for you.” Black’s cyber voice didn’t sound like he was sorry at all.

Mu Fan was at a loss for words.

With the bright lights illuminating the night sky, a young boy looked like a snail as he climbed up the six-meter-tall metal skeleton.

“At least tell me how to open the door!” The young boy’s roar echoed in the base training camp.