Chapter 17: Mecha to the Rescue
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“What?!”
Everyone’s heart skipped a beat. This warrior was here to kill Lin Yun?
Lin Yun slowly took an explosive bomb from his belt and looked cautiously at the man with the blue frame glasses. The man smiled strangely and narrowed his eyes. He looked like a poisonous snake with a wicked core.
Song Junming and Li Tian looked at each other. Then, they moved their heavily-injured bodies to shield Lin Yun. This moved Lin Yun.
“It’s no use. Even if you’re not injured, you can’t contend with my strength.”
Blue-rimmed glasses chuckled. He took off his glasses slowly. Without the glasses, his eyes emitted a strange blue light.
The next second, Lin Yun found himself unable to move. It was like being frozen in ice. He couldn’t even move one finger or blink his eyes.
Spiritual Restraint!
It was actually a skill that only Level 6 Spiritual Masters could master, Spiritual Restraint! This blue-framed glasses guy was actually a Level 6 Spiritual Master!
Lin Yun saw that both Song Junming and Li Tian were trapped as well. They remained in the same posture as when they tried to stand up, motionless. It was like someone had taken a picture when they were moving. What Lin Yun saw was that moment.
“Actually, these glasses are to limit my uncontrollable and powerful Spirit Strength.” The middle-aged man carefully folded the glasses he took off and slowly put them into a glass case. He slowly raised his head, stared at Lin Yun smiling, and said softly, “I don’t know. How do you want to die?”
The middle-aged man seemed to be talking about a trivial matter and said to himself, “Use my Spirit Strength to draw your blood from the broken arm and create the fountain of death? Or, use my Spirit Strength to detonate the explosive bombs on your belt and create the fireworks of life?”
Lin Yun was anxious and tried hard to think of a way out. However, even Song Junming, whose Spirit Strength was about to break through to Level 5, could not break away from this Spiritual Restraint. His Spirit Strength had just reached Level 1, how was he going to get out of this?
There was no choice. Lin Yun could not think of anything. He tried to stall time by talking, but he found that he couldn’t even open his mouth.
The middle-aged man smiled and walked toward Lin Yun slowly. His smile was very weird, like a clown behind a mask. Three meters away from Lin Yun, his eyes showed a playful expression. “Do you have any last words?”
The next second, Lin Yun realized he could move his mouth. He asked anxiously, “I want to know, who wants to kill me?”
The middle-aged man chuckled and seemed to be satisfied with Lin Yun’s question. He extended his right index finger and pointed at Lin Yun’s heart. “I’ll answer when you die.”
Following the middle-aged man’s finger, Lin Yun’s blood seemed to coagulate. Even his heartbeat was about to stop!
“Let us count down together. Three seconds later, your heart will rupture!” The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. It was as if he was enjoying a piece of beautiful music.
“3!”
“2!”
“Boom!”
A deafening noise was suddenly heard, and a circular beam of light with a one-meter-diameter descended from the sky. This beam of light covered the middle-aged man’s body exactly. The next second, the beam of light disappeared, and the middle-aged man disappeared. On the ground he stood, a bottomless circular pit appeared.
Lin Yun suddenly found himself freed. He slumped on the ground.
“Kachi Kachi!”
A sound of mechanical bite came from above. Lin Yun raised his head and saw a giant creature more than five-meters-tall slowly descending from the sky. A huge stream of air gushed from underneath it to the ground and stirred up countless gravel and fallen leaves. Under the reaction of the air current, the giant creature slowly landed, revealing its figure.
Tough outlines, a black shell, and a mighty shape. The muzzle on the right arm was still emitting smoke.
Mecha! It was actually a mecha!
This was the first time Lin Yun had seen a mecha in real life. He was extremely excited.
If there was anyone in Clearwater College who owned a mecha, it could only be Dongfang Ruoxue’s father—Dongfang Sheng!
A muscular figure jumped out of the mecha and quickly ran to Dongfang Ruoxue’s side. With a scar on his left face, an embroidered patch of a sword and a shield could be seen on his left chest. It was Dongfang Sheng, indeed.
Dongfang Sheng asked, concerned, “Ruoxue, are you okay?”
Dongfang Ruoxue’s expression was complex as she shook her head slowly.
Dongfang Sheng then turned around to see the other three people. When he saw Lin Yun, who had lost an arm, his eyes narrowed. He said aloud, “Hang in there, the first aid team will be here soon.”
Then, Dongfang Sheng asked them about the situation while treating everyone’s wounds.
Everyone understood then. When Dongfang Ruoxue was captured by the poachers, she sent a distress signal to Dongfang Sheng. As it was too far away, Dongfang Sheng quickly rushed over in his mecha and saved Lin Yun in time.
Lin Yun secretly looked at the “Black Warrior” mecha beside Dongfang Sheng and was caught off-guard by Dongfang Sheng’s low voice. “Lin Yun, you saved Ruoxue. I will visit you with my gratitude another day.”
Lin Yun humphed and said indifferently, “No need. You saved me once today. We’re even. No one owes anyone anything.”
Dongfang Sheng didn’t take offense. But Dongfang Ruoxue appeared unhappy and frowned.
Finally, Clearwater Hospital’s first aid team arrived. Everyone was carried onto the helicopter on stretchers. Lin Yun suddenly felt weak and could no longer bear it. He fell into a coma.
“Unknown component found, scanning…
Scanning completed. Ready to install.
Installing…”
Lin Yun heard a female mechanical voice in a daze. He vaguely felt in his heart the pleasantness of the mechanical voice. Then, he gradually fell out of consciousness again.
After an unknown period of time, Lin Yun woke up again. He opened his eyes to find himself lying in a familiar ward. It was in this ward that he passed the re-examination of Clearwater College.
He slowly sat up and found that his right arm had been regenerated. He moved his new arm, but it felt weak. He understood it would take a while for his right arm to recover its previous Physical Strength.
“It seems I’ve been laid here for quite a while.” Lin Yun knew in his heart that if he woke up after a few days, his father would definitely be waiting beside his bed. But it was obvious Lin Tianhao was nowhere to be seen. Lin Tianhao did not wait outside the door.
“What?”
Lin Yun was suddenly startled. With his Level 1 Spiritual Strength, how was it possible for him to detect the scene outside the door?
Without hesitation, he quickly connected to Skynet and looked at the words in the upper left corner of the interface:
“Lin Yun, Two-Star Skynet User.
Level 4 Physical Strength. Level 3 Spiritual Strength.”
It turned out he was Level 3 Spiritual Strength! Lin Yun quickly called up his personal attributes.
“Lin Yun:
Level 3
EXP: 18/40
HP: 215/215
Spirit Points: 111/111 (100+11)
Physical Attack: 25
Spiritual Attack: 3
Physical Defense: 20
Spiritual Defense: 3
Speed: 14
Sensory: 17 (13+4)
Luck: 10
Active Skill: Stacking Skill
Passive Skill: Sensory Elevation, Spiritual Elevation”
“What’s Spiritual Elevation? Why did my Spirit Points increase by so much?” Lin Yun looked at his personal attributes, perplexed. He did not understand why his Spiritual Strength would increase by so much. Moreover, he leaped from Level 1 to Level 3, skipping a level. Lin Yun felt that if he were to look at the whiteboard full of the word “mountain”, he would probably be able to see all of them except the last line.
Struggling to recall, he finally remembered the mechanical sound he heard in his sleep. He remembered hearing a mechanical sound the night before his vision improved.
“What did the mechanical sound say? If I remember, I will be able to understand the reason for the increase in my strength. Or, I’ll listen carefully when it increases again.”
Somehow, Lin Yun thought of Feng Ke’s cute canine teeth and felt warm. He couldn’t hold back anymore and immediately contacted Feng Ke. However, Feng Ke was not in Skynet and did not leave any comments.
Lin Yun was slightly disappointed. Then, a thought came to his mind. “So many days have passed, I should be able to participate in the Skynet Three-Star Qualification Assessment.”
“What? The Three-Star Qualification Assessment was this?!” Looking at the content of the Skynet Three-Star Qualification Assessment, Lin Yun was shocked.