Chapter 94 – He wanted to be the patron saint of the empire just like his two elder brothers.

Translator: Rin    Editor: Mars    Proofreader: Ume

Apart from Lu Heng and his dormmates, the people who signed up for the mecha competition in Area D also included Kate and Teck. As for Pasiya, he preferred studying the parts on the mecha to fighting in the mecha, so he didn’t sign up.

Area D had a dedicated mecha training room, which was spacious and complete with various training facilities. The military training for freshmen had not yet ended, and the formal class had not yet started, so the mecha room had been empty and was just used for training at that moment.

Under the condition of not affecting military training, Jiang Li arranged the time for mecha training to be two hours a day after the daily training in the evening.

Before he had a deep understanding of everyone’s ability to operate mechas, he drew up a preliminary training plan. After a day’s training, he asked those who signed up for the competition to gather in the training room.

Lu Heng and the others were not from ordinary families. Everyone had their own mechas. Even if they had no combat experience, they still had a preliminary understanding of mechas. So Jiang Li arranged for everyone to go through a simple warm-up before starting the battle training.

As a high-intelligence simulation scene training room, in addition to various system attack effects; such as lasers, particle projecting cannons, and wind blades, the mecha training room also included virtual mech battles in its virtual attacks.

There were also virtual mecha battle games on the Starnet, but there was a clear difference from the mecha training room. No matter whether the person operating the mecha themselves or the opponent on the Starnet, one was only operating a virtual mecha. Although the simulation effect was very realistic, it was still somewhat different from the actual battle. However, the mecha operation in the training room was a real one.

The first person to enter the training room was Lu Heng. He released Black Eagle, entered the cockpit, and nodded to Jiang Li in the control room.

Jiang Li activated the battle mode, and the lights and shadows on the opposite side of Black Eagle gathered, forming a blue mecha slightly shorter than it. The letter “B” was printed on the back of the mecha, indicating its level.

The mechas accompanying the training were divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Having fought against Lu Heng before, Jiang Li had a simple understanding of his combat ability and arranged for him a difficulty level of B.

At the beginning of the battle, the B-level mecha made a move first. The figure flashed towards Black Eagle, and the giant axe in his hand slashed down on Black Eagle overpoweringly.

Black Eagle dodged the attack by shifting to the side, and the long knife in its hand slammed toward the opponent’s waist. The movement was fast and ruthless, the opponent was directly swept away. At the same time, the particle projection cannon on its shoulder was opened, and two blue shells flew out. With a “bang”, it directly blasted the other party into pieces.

It took only half a minute for this battle to end.

After the B-level mecha was shattered, Jiang Li rearranged a new mech. The second time the battle took a little longer, but it was also Black Eagle who violently beat the opponent unilaterally.

After the end of three battles, Jiang Li turned off the virtual scene and motioned for Lu Heng to come out.

Lu Heng came out of the cockpit and looked at Jiang Li with an expression asking for praise on his face. Jiang Li turned a blind eye and arranged for others to train.

After everyone had their rounds, Jiang Li also had a certain understanding of their strength. He pointed out some shortcomings of everyone and ended the first day of training.

Kate and Teck were not on good terms. As soon as Jiang Li announced the dismissal, the two left one after the other. Lu Heng and Qiao Yu waited for Jiang Li to come out from the training room. Lu Heng said, “I’m staying at the instructor’s place tonight, you guys go back first.”

Lu Heng had been going to Jiang Li’s place for the past few days. Qiao Yu and the others had long felt that something was wrong, especially when he went back to the dormitory the previous day to get a change of clothes as if he was going to stay there often. Qiao Yu couldn’t help asking: “Heng ge, Instructor said he didn’t want to make breakfast, why are you still going?”

“It’s fine that he doesn’t make breakfast.” Lu Heng said indifferently, “I’m not there to eat breakfast.”

“Then why?” Luo Qi asked.

I’m there to eat the person.

Lu Heng said it in his heart, but he didn’t intend to tell Qiao Yu what he thought of Jiang Li for the time being. He planned to save it until he won the mecha competition and confirmed his relationship with Jiang Li, so he prevaricated: “Why? Because of training, of course. All right, go back and see you tomorrow.”

After Qiao Yu and the others left, Jiang Li also came out of the control room and went back to the dormitory while chatting with Lu Heng.

As soon as the two of them entered the room, Jiang Nuomi, who was squatting on the shoe cabinet, jumped down, brushed its tail across Lu Heng’s face, which made his mouth full of its fur, and then threw itself into Jiang Li’s arms. Jiang Li carried it and walked into the house.

Lu Heng pouted behind him, thinking that one day he would throw this thing back to Penglai Forest, so he would have no chance to show off in front of him every day.

Jiang Li carried Jiang Nuomi into the living room, put it on the sofa, and bent over to observe it for a while. He felt that Jiang Nuomi was a lot fatter than when he first arrived, but it was only less than a week since Lu Heng sent the little guy here.

“What are you looking at?” Lu Heng came over and asked.

“I think Jiang Nuomi grows a bit fast,” said Jiang Li as he raised his head. Jiang Nuomi was only two or three months old when it first arrived, but it now was the size of a five-month-old.

Lu Heng also noticed that and stretched out his hand to pinch Jiang Nuomi’s stomach: “He has delicious food to eat and is carried by a beauty, of course he grows fast.”

There was a strong smell of jealousy in his words. Jiang Li understood it as soon as he heard it and felt a little funny in his heart. No matter which world he was in, Lu Heng’s desire to compete with Jiang Nuomi for Jiang Li’s favour had not changed.

Jiang Nuomi couldn’t understand what the two were talking about, but it was very smart. It vaguely sensed Lu Heng’s dislike in his expression and tone, raised its paw and patted him, bared its teeth, and called at him: ” Meow!!”

“Yo, you’re even throwing a tantrum on me? I…”

Before Lu Heng finished speaking, the communication device in his hand rang, and the caller showed “Third Brother”.

Looking at the two words “Third Brother”, Lu Heng’s heart skipped a beat. He felt that a catastrophe was imminent. After clicking to switch to a voice call, Lu Qi’s voice came: “Fourth Brother, Mother is back.”

The five words made Lu Heng’s heart sink, as the return of the Queen meant that she knew about him taking Black Eagle away privately.

Not only was his heart detached, but Black Eagle’s heart was too! It had a premonition that it would be taken back and locked up for another eight to ten years.

“She knows about you taking Black Eagle away. She is very angry now. If Father and I hadn’t stopped her, she would have already arrived at the door of your dormitory,” Lu Qi said, with a little smile yet a little helplessness in his voice. “You come back tomorrow, or Father and I won’t be able to stop her anymore.”

Lu Heng: “…”

After hanging up the communication device, Black Eagle’s voice sounded: “My God, what should I do? I don’t want to go back to confinement. I haven’t won the mecha contest yet and confess to Little Silver Sparrow. I don’t want to go back!!”

Lu Heng: “…”

Jiang Li: “…”

Silver Sparrow: “…”

“Um.” Jiang Li reminded very intimately, “In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, the mechas for the competition are provided by the school. In fact, you, um, have no chance to play.”

Not only that, he also intended to ask Black Eagle to lower its level, otherwise, when it came to the competition, there would definitely be a drop when Lu Heng, who was used to manipulating the 4S level mecha, uses the school’s mecha to compete.

Black Eagle was stunned: “…Aha?”

“Can you tell me what happened?” Jiang Li asked Lu Heng.

For Lu Heng, there was nothing he couldn’t tell Jiang Li. He pulled Jiang Li to sit next to him, and briefly talked about the origin of Black Eagle.

Many people knew that Black Eagle was made by Old Master Ling, but they didn’t know that there were many rare materials on Black Eagle that his second brother and eldest brother spent a lot of time collecting from various planets. It took more than half a year to collect these things, and it took more than a year to make Black Eagle.

When Lu Heng was born, his physical fitness and mental strength were measured. As a pure-blood Alpha, his values in these two aspects were higher than 99% of the Alphas in the records stored in the system.

And when he was young, he also showed amazing talent and ability, he was more outstanding than his peers.

Among his three royal brothers, the first and second brothers were not interested in political rights. They fought in expeditions all year round, here and there, working with warships and mechas, while the third brother was raised as the heir to the imperial throne since childhood.

Like his two brothers, Lu Heng was not restrained by nature. He liked mechas and the boundless starry sky. Every time his first and second brothers came back, he always pestered them to take him to the battleship and to fly the mecha to soar the stars.

When he was very young, he thought about his future path. He wanted to be the patron saint of the empire just like his two elder brothers.

However, this dream was shattered when he was nine years old.

In Star Calendar Year 3031, Jiada planet, which was originally a planet affiliated with the Imperial, united with several other planets to launch the “War of White Dew” and initiated war against the Imperial.

At that time, His Majesty Lu Qing was away from home, and the eldest prince and the second prince led troops to fight against them. That battle caused heavy casualties to the Imperial. While defeating the enemy’s army, the two princes also lost their lives.

The queen, who had lost her two beloved sons, was so sad that she fell ill. She lay on the hospital bed for half a year. After half a year, the first thing she did when her body got better was to force Lu Heng to lock Black Eagle in the basement and asked him to guarantee that he would never restart it for the rest of his life.

She had already lost two sons, and she couldn’t lose another one, so she didn’t allow Lu Heng to have the idea of going to the battlefield and didn’t need him to make any military achievements. She only hoped that he would live his life safely under her protection.

“During the year when Black Eagle was confined, I sneaked to the basement several times wanting to see it, but I couldn’t get in.” Lu Heng laughed, his voice a little down. “The access control is with Mother, without her permission, I can’t even open the door.”

Jiang Li could somewhat understand the Queen’s intentions. Both of her sons were killed in battle, so how could she be willing to let her youngest son follow their old ways?

“Then how did you bring Black Eagle out?” Jiang Li asked.

“I went to ask Third Brother for help.” Lu Heng said he begged for a long time before Third Brother agreed to modify the authority privately and took him in to have a look.

After a lapse of nearly a year, when Lu Heng saw Black Eagle again in the basement, he felt very down.

Eldest Brother and Second Brother were gone, but he couldn’t even see the mecha they gave him openly.