Chapter 233: Zhu Ling (1/2)

Chapter 233: Zhu Ling

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

She had messy short hair, with her thin and apathetic look, but her eyes were alive. Ye Chong almost feel the sharpness of her stare. Her apathetic look could not mask the strong wariness in her eyes.

”Huh?” Ye Chong could not help gasp. ”Isn’t that, whatshername, Shang, what was she called again?”

”Zhu Ling, Lunatic Guan’s sister,” Shang tsk-tsked. ”What a beauty, cough, last time it was Mu outside, hehe, but now that I can take a good look at her with mine own eyes, my my, she’s a beauty. Hmm, a little young, but she’s well developed, I think I see her boobs coming on well …” Shang began commenting.

Ye Chong ignored Shang’s words automatically. He noticed that Zhu Ling was unarmed, and so he slipped out of Han Jia.

”You’re Little Ye?” The girl gasped as she saw Ye Chong’s face.

”You know me?” Ye Chong was surprised. The last time they met, he was in Guardian, and she should not have seen him before.

”My sister showed me a holographic image of you,” Zhu Ling explained plainly, but the light in her eyes dimmed.

Ye Chong asked, ”Where’s your sister?” No one else had exited the starship.

”Dead,” Zhu Ling’s indifferent voice was slightly tinged with sadness. The lonely droplet shaped Red Liquor hung on her neck.

Lunatic Guan was dead? Ye Chong was reminded of a beautiful and lonely figure, leaning against the door, looking outside in a daze, often with a glass of liquor in hand.

In the end, she had found her sister. Ye Chong found himself losing interest in the details of her story. He gathered himself and asked Zhu Ling, ”What do you plan to do now?”

”My sister told me that if I found you, I should stay by your side. Of course, if you think it’s a bother, I’ll leave,” Zhu Ling spoke as though she was talking about something unrelated to herself.

Ye Chong gave it a thought and replied, ”Alright, you can stay.” Lunatic Guan was his teacher after all, even though she never officially announced it. That was how Ye Chong had always thought of her. This was the main reason he decided to welcome Zhu Ling.

Zhu Ling still looked expressionless, her face devoid of any signs of joy.

”What are you good at?” Ye Chong asked.

”Combat,” was Zhu Ling’s concise reply.

”Where’s your mech?” Ye Chong asked.

”Didn’t you crush it already?” Zhu Ling spoke a little sarcastically. Ye Chong remembered then that he really did crush her mech back then.

”What kind of mech do you use?” Ye Chong may not have much to offer, but he still owned quite a variety of mech models at the moment.

”Anything’s fine,” Zhu Ling said, ”Best if it’s the Sanctuary’s.”

Ye Chong had only a few Dawn mechs and Mu Fei’s Overwing. Ye Chong took out the dimension keystones for the Dawn mech and Overwing, and said, ”These are all the Sanctuary’s mechs, pick one.”

”Overwing?” Zhu Ling stared widely with a look of disbelief.

”You know Overwing?” Ye Chong found out what the mech was called after noticing its name carved on the mech. Ye Chong had killed the mech’s previous owner in an ambush. Ye Chong had studied Overwing for a long time, but there were many things about it that he could not understand. Its structure was markedly different from what Ye Chong knew about regular mechs, with its very own system architecture. The fact that mentalists were different from regular people made Ye Chong realize that using the mech would probably require special techniques.

”No one in the Sanctuary would not recognize Overwing.” Zhu Ling did not intend to laugh at Ye Chong for his apparent idiocy, but she was still a little confused. ”Why would you have Overwing? Mu Fei is well known as the master of Overwing. Did you kill him?” Zhu Ling asked, clearly surprised and suspicious.

”Yes, I killed him,” Ye Chong replied plainly.

”You killed Mu Fei?” Zhu Ling studied Ye Chong’s seemingly vulnerable physique. Ye Chong was not familiar with the Sanctuary, and so did not know how powerful Mu Fei actually was. He had zero understanding of the idea of being a trump card, and what a person bestowed with this title was truly capable of.

”Ambush,” Ye Chong explained flatly, not embarrassed in the slightest.

Zhu Ling seemed to come to a realization. To her, that seemed to be the only way to kill a trump card of the Sanctuary.

”We should leave here,” Zhu Ling said, ”That Darklight mech pilot must have alerted the Sanctuary. As far as I know, Feng Su and her Wings of Nirvana are nearby, she is most likely sent here as backup.”

”Feng Su and her Wings of Nirvana?” Ye Chong asked, confused. Shang was already howling in excitement, ”Ah, Ye, is it Feng Su? Wah, such a gorgeous voice, and that beautiful face. Hehe, Ye, I have her exact measurements right here, would you care to …”

Zhu Ling could not hear Shang as she replied, ”Feng Su is also one of the Sanctuary’s trump cards, Wings of Nirvana is her mech. Darklight mech pilots may be strong, but they will not stand a chance against the Sanctuary’s trump cards.”

If a Darklight mech pilot was no match against the Sanctuary’s trump card, and he himself was barely even against a Darklight mech pilot, then wouldn’t he be dead for sure if he face the trump card himself?

”Feng Su is that strong?” Ye Chong remembered exchanging a few blows with Feng Su in the forest where Mr Yin lived. While her moves were difficult to anticipate, he did not feel that she was as strong as Zhu Ling described. Ye Chong believed that with his current ability, he should be able to kill her.

”Of course,” Zhu Ling gave Ye Chong an odd look, clearly not understanding his thoughts. She probed, ”You fought with her before?”

Ye Chong nodded.

Zhu Ling found herself unable to read this student of her sister. He had fought with Feng Su before, and even killed Mu Fei in an ambush, taking Overwing for himself. This man had survived all of that.

Of course, she did not know that when Ye Chong met Mu Fei, the latter did not even have the chance of deploying his mech, and could only fight in person. Feng Su was not skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and that was why Ye Chong could escape unscathed. If Feng Su had used Wings of Nirvana, Ye Chong would have died without a proper body to show for it.

However, Ye Chong knew that Zhu Ling would not exaggerate like this. She was from the Sanctuary, and would know more about them than he. Always place importance on an expert’s opinion - that was what Ye Chong had learned from his days at Aurora.