Chapter 51: Mu’s Awakening (2/2)

Ye Chong’s hands manipulated the controls at lightning speed. His breakthrough with the ten steel spheres in his training had paid off in this situation. Ye Chong’s shadow-like hands were no longer just skin and bones, but they were as solid as rocks.

Ye Chong’s F-58 suddenly changed its direction and started to shake vigorously and laterally at small-angles. The F-48 was like a black fish desperately struggling to escape from a fishing net, struggling non-stop! Like a miracle, the F-58 began to pull away from the asteroid whirlpool!

Ye Chong gave a sigh of relieve.

“Now switch to eight degrees from the radius vector and repeat the motion!” Mu’s voice rang again.

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“Hu, hu, …” Ye Chong panted heavily. All the hustle and bustle to save the ship from being sucked into the asteroid whirlpool had drained most of his energy but it was all worth it.

“Looks like you have improved tremendously!” Mu commented lightly.

Ye Chong was still absorbed in the joy of escaping death and reuniting with Mu. “Yeah, I’ve been training at Black Cove and learnt quite a few things!”

“Black Cove?” Mu’s tone sounded off.

And so, Ye Chong began his story from when he first awakened. Mu listened intently while occasionally interjecting a few questions.

When Ye Chong finished, Mu went quiet.

“Is there a problem?” Ye Chong asked curiously.

Mu kept silent for a few moments before answering, “That Black Cove that you mentioned might be a problem!”

“A problem?” Ye Chong was baffled.

Mu did not answer him directly, but instead he asked, “Ye, did they give you this mech?”

Ye Chong nodded. “Yeah, this mech has an amazing performance and it can even withstand the deadly asteroid whirlpool. I’m impressed!”

“Remove the seventh photon circuit board from under the controls in the mech and check it carefully,” Mu’s voice was still calm as ever.

Ye Chong took out the seventh photon circuit board as instructed and began inspecting. He believed Mu had his reasons for him to do it. Hmm! As expected, something was not right. There seemed to be a return circuit that was capable of signalling. By logic, there should not be a return circuit in this part of the circuit board.

Ye Chong might not be well educated in worldly matters, but he was not dim. On the contrary, he was very bright and he could deal with situations like these with a breeze. Without hesitation, Ye Chong used some tools to remove that photon return circuit for he was not keen on being spied upon.

“Don’t worry. It’s just this one spot. I have checked the rest for you!” Mu spoke leisurely.

Ye Chong only acknowledged with an “Oh.” Ye Chong was not particularly angry about it since he had learned much from them and there was no free lunch in this world. “However, the food at their canteen was not that bad,” Ye Chong thought yearningly and licked his lips.

“Ye, you said you were soaked in some kind of silver liquid.”

“Mm, you’re not saying that’s a problem too right?” Ye Chong said with hesitation.

“The possibility is very high!” Mu did not care for Ye Chong’s feelings and spoke plainly.

“That damned Black Cove…” Ye Chong was about to give a furious glare in the direction of Black Cove to express his anger when he suddenly panicked. “Mu, I think we’re lost!”

“I realized earlier on,” Mu replied lazily.

“What do we do?”

“Based on my experience, anything that happens around you can be said to be incalculable events,” Mu declared decisively.