Chapter 80: It’s Showtime II (2/2)
”What he’s doing?”
”I don’t know. I have enough shock for today…”
”I had lost track of what’s happening…”
”I don’t want to live on this planet anymore…”
Everyone was stupefied, including the commentator who shut his mouth and watched carefully what Ye Chong was doing. He would not want to miss a detail of an anticipated miracle from this boy.
Beep.
Gliding Joy activated.
”What?” The people were terrified.
”Did he just turn on the mech he just built?”
”Has he even tested his mech?”
”Of course not! That aside, is he committing suicide?”
”Oh my gosh… Does he know where he is? That is the mod room! The indoors! With only 150 meter away from the walls, even a normal speed of mech about Mach 2 would take 1 second to hit the wall.”
”Somebody stop him!”
”That means, he’s going to suicide?”
The crowd panicked.
The girls at the seats began shrieking in fear. People covered their eyes as they refused to witness a brutal crash from a genius. They would never be able to face such ending for a boy, of becoming a splat of flesh on the wall with scraps of metal on the ground!
”Stop! Stop! Stop!” Even the commentator could hold it no longer, ”Ah!”
No one could imagine of piloting a mech at high speed in a narrow room like this! It skips one’s heartbeat even from thinking about it. The intensity started building in everyone’s mind, like a dynamite blowing up soon.
”Is he mad?”
”Does he really think it’s his showtime? That’s why he wanted to put off a show?”
”I don’t know. He could be the stupidest genius I ever came across. Hahahaha.” The envious participants sneered as they whispered.
”He’s gonn-” The noise stopped abruptly as Ye Chong on his Gliding Joy disappeared like a strike of blue lightning, right in front of everybody.
The expecting collision did not occur.
The light blue Gliding Joy reappeared as it braked 2 meters right before the wall. Such a visual impact to everyone at the tournament, a prime definition of extreme-motion to extreme-motionless, a heart-shocker!
”Di-Did… Did he just accelerate at a 150 meter distance? I-Is that even possible?”
”No way! No way I’m digesting this! This has to be due to pure coincidence! Yeah! Luck! He was just lucky!”
The whispers went on.
”Well, that is it! Ladies and gentleman!” The commentator sighed in relief, ”The Lady Luck seemed to have smiled at Ye Chong today! He actually stopped right before the wall in such a brief distance! This is extraordinary! This is unbelievable! I guess the God would fear losing such a genius this quickly too! But oh my, Ye Chong, you should really learn from your fatal mistake! The pressure-buffering system in a racing mech is obsolete by nature and might be insufficient to protect the impact from your behavior just now! Please value your life more than anything else! This is for everybody at the seats as well!”
And the crowd nodded heavily in agreement.
His action was heart-wrecking indeed. There were quite a few people whose hearts literally skipped a beat when they saw what Ye Chong did. Their faces turned pale and seemed to be collapsing.
On the other hand, Ye Chong jumped out of Gliding Joy normally. Yes, normally. His expression was bland, as usual. There was hardly any expression, as if the thrill he did was nothing. The grim on his face returned as indifferentlyas he stared at his masterpiece. The kitties on their seats screamed on top of their lungs again, ”Ye Chong! Oh my!” ”He’s so cool!” ”I can’t take it anymore!” ”Such dangerous man, if that’s dangerous, I’ll be dangerous too!”
The YC fans club seemed to be sprouting anytime soon.
Ye Chong did not seem to be interested though. He walked to the processor at the center of the room, pushed a few buttons to officially declare his completion.