Chapter 108: Fall of a Brilliance (1/2)
Chapter 108: Fall of a Brilliance
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Mu initiated the exploration first. As he entered, he saw the mess inside the main control room - the light was dim and sometimes flashed while shards of something were everywhere on the ground; the apparatuses beeped weakly as they occasionally crackled with sparks. There was nobody inside the room and patches of dried blood coated the ground.
Old Pang might be old and had seen enough horror like this yet his heart skipped a beat, thinking of how destructive nano waves could be. While Ye Chong dodged the beams safely when the 3 mechs fired their ultimate weapon at their greatest fear, the beams eventually resulted in several consecutive explosions in the warship. The aftermath was the quake and the shockwave which inevitably murdered all these staff who were unprotected and unarmed. They all died; brutally.
Mu did not bother with the emotional moments as he proceeded connecting the processor of the warship and booted the self-inspection program on the ship.
Ye Chong, Old Pang and his partner decided to perform a search in the room for survivors.
While they were flipping through the remnants, Ye Chong’s eyes discerned something flailing in one of the piles. He zoomed in the visual on his screen and found out it was someone within the fragments. And the person looked familiar… Who was this again…
Gu Shaoze? Isn’t this Gu Shaoze? Ye Chong was shocked! What the heck he was doing here?
He was a genius, a young talented man, whom Ye Chong admired. Gu Shaoze held a certain standard of brilliance in mechs which utterly exceeded the expected expertise for a man of his age. And without a doubt, Ye Chong learned a lot from him. Most importantly, he was truly young, so young that his future could be bright, brighter than ever!
What happened to that blonde bodyguard he had?
Ye Chong raised the gate of his cabin and hopped off from Yu Di, which frightened Old Pang as he peeked at the side. He was not expecting a mere man like Ye Chong to jump directly from a mech this tall… And remained intact? He had lost count the number of times his eyes nearly popped out for the day.
It’s him! Old Pang finally understood what had been going on, as he had a clear look of the pilot in this strange mech! It was the one who left him a deep impression. He was as good as before! Then what about the pilot inside that crippled mech? Old Pang was intrigued, very intrigued.
Since the main control room was an independent cubicle from the outside, the oxygen supply system was not severely damaged. What a luck especially after such a wreck outside!
Ye Chong quickly ran to Gu Shaoze to have a closer look. There were tons of specks sitting right beneath his body and a large splash of oddly-odored liquid. A bit of inference ran in Ye Chong’s head. He speculated that Gu Shaoze injected some sort of sleep-inducing chemical and was confined in a preserving device, which was why the nano waves did not kill him immediately. It looked like the members of FMPA were still concerned about talents! The device might have protected Gu Shaoze from the immediate fatality yet the quake shattered it completely in the end.
Carefully Ye Chong lifted Gu Shaoze. He did not look alright. There was blood at corner of his lips. His face was drained and there were scratches on his body.
Somehow Gu Shaoze felt heaved by someone as his eyes quivered, attempting to open his eyes. ”Ow…” He mumbled, his eyes opened, ”Ye…Ch…?” He was surprised to see Ye Chong. He grew agitated and his face turned reddish as blood surged through his body rapidly. ”Ech! Ugh!” He coughed and spat out quite some blood. Ye Chong was startled as apparently his inner organs were injured!
Ye Chong who originated from the have-everything-but-nothing Trash Planet knew well by heart that such injury would be a hassle to cure. He was not sure how advanced the medical facilities the outside world would be but he could be sure that it was impossible to find an appropriate cure at a place like this! Sighed Ye Chong in his heart.
Gu Shaoze’s lips trembled, as if trying to utter something. Ye Chong hurriedly moved his ears by his lips.
”My…My left arm…” Gu Shaoze’s weak voice rang a clear order, ”Cut it open… Password… Number 2…”
?!
Ye Chong stared at Gu Shaoze in disturbance. His sight turned frail, his body was shuddering uncontrollably, yet his expression was calm, as if he had no more regret in this world. Forced a smile, he looked into his eyes, before Ye Chong could say something, his eyes zoomed out and coughed the last splash of blood on Ye Chong. He collapsed and stopped moving, like a puppet cut off the strings.
Ye Chong understood what had happened. Gu Shaoze was dead!
Biting his teeth, he drew the dagger from his waist. What an irony it was when the dagger was a gift from the person before him and he had to use it to fulfill the last wish of the dead. The sharp edge of the dagger sliced Gu Shaoze’s left arm open effortlessly. Blood overflowed on the floor beneath and Ye Chong dug through the fleshes without hesitation, looking for something as blood streamed through his fingers with the tender remaining.
Old Pang and Ka Sang could no longer compute the situation.
They witnessed the whole scene of Ye Chong committing murder on a murdered. Their faces were paler than a paper.
A moment later, Ye Chong felt something hard within the flesh. He pulled it out gently. It was dipped in blood and covered in bit of fleshes. It was quite difficult to identify what it was. Ye Chong wiped everything off the piece.
Old Pang and Ka Sang realized what Ye Chong was doing at last - he was retrieving something from the body, though that was still weird as hell, considering how the boy on the ground looked so gentle and sophisticated. They never expected that he would stuff something inside his arm. What a pain it would be and how many ounces of courage he would have needed! They stared at the dead body in fright.
They had enough of the day… especially seeing how Ye Chong just dug through the fleshes like picking vegetables from the stew. His face was indifferent - he had to be someone who had gotten use to these dead-or-alive scenarios.
Ye Chong did not have time to have a look on what he had obtained from Gu Shaoze’s body. He sank it into the pack on his waist as he knew everyone else was waiting for him.
”I had fully inspected the warship,” commented Mu after seeing Ye Chong having his own business settled. ”The warship was severely damaged. The energy system was unstable, which would lead to an explosion in 10 minutes. Not possible to attempt any method of prevention.”
Somehow based on Mu’s comment, it seemed like things were much easier to destroy from the inside than the outside.