CHAPTER 684: CHAPTER 684: PROGRESS

Among these three people, there’s one girl and two boys:

Liu Beibei.

Xu Jia.

Zhang Jiang.

All three of them are extremely stubborn, clenching their teeth and persisting, but every time they log into the mech, they are forced to exit in just a few seconds, repeating, repeating, endlessly repeating...

It seems like there’s no end in sight.

As for all this, the students all train in silence, not disturbing one another. Teacher Mu Jianling sees everything but doesn’t rush these three students to change their major. The choice is theirs to make.

Ji You’s progress isn’t very promising either; she can still only control the arms and one leg of Chasing Sun. What’s slightly reassuring is that her control is getting more and more agile, especially the pose when she’s running on one leg, which is particularly cool. The duration she can persist has also increased from a few seconds at the beginning to a few minutes now...

Every day when Ji You steps into the training room, many students start teasing her: "Classmate Ji You, are we seeing a one-legged standing pose or a lame run today?"

Ji You’s face darkens as she curses: "I want to perform a mighty sweep across the horizon and blast every one of you to smithereens."

The students burst out laughing, and someone covers their mouth and says: "Sure, go ahead, come at us. As long as you can stand on both legs, I’ll let you blast me. What’s the big deal?"

Ji You: "..."

Ji You is really frustrated.

She just can’t figure out why, out of the four limbs of the mech, she can only control three?

Why can’t she control the other leg at the same time?

It’s been several days, and the situation hasn’t improved at all. Ji You may appear calm on the outside, but inside, she’s cursed Chasing Sun, that tormenting little fairy, to high hell.

With a face full of gloom, Ji You prepares to log into the mech.

At this moment, Xuzhou suddenly comes over and softly says, "Classmate Ji You..."

Ji You’s eyes light up: "Little Zhouzhou! You..."

Xuzhou: "Cough cough..."

Can’t this embarrassing nickname be dropped already?

Hearing Xuzhou’s cough, Ji You grins and says, "Little Zhouzhou, what do you need from me? Just a heads-up: borrowing money is off the table!"

Xuzhou: "Cough cough..."

Xuzhou’s face, resolute and youthful, turns red from Ji You’s teasing. But he keeps a straight face and asks, "Classmate Ji You, why did you choose Chasing Sun?"

That hit the spot.

Ji You clutches her chest, glancing at Xuzhou with a bit of reproach: "Had no other choice, did I?"

Xuzhou: "..."

Xuzhou, a bit embarrassed, says: "I came to tell you some tips on driving Chasing Sun."

Ji You’s eyes suddenly sparkled brightly: "Little Zhouzhou, you really are a good kid."

Xuzhou: "..."

Ignoring her words, Xuzhou says, "To master Chasing Sun, it’s mainly about being meticulous. Because Chasing Sun is usually used for charge attacks and also for scouting ahead, you need to allocate each of your Spiritual Silks properly, and you must fully control every operation key of the mech..."

As Xuzhou speaks, the sparkle in Ji You’s eyes grows dimmer and dimmer...

What the heck?

Just six strands of Spiritual Silk, and you want me to master more than hundreds of thousands of operation keys for Chasing Sun?

Ji You tastes bitterness in her mouth.

After Xuzhou finishes speaking, he notices Ji You’s strange expression and feels puzzled.

Ji You complains with a hint of grievance: "Little Zhouzhou, I feel like you came here just to show off..."

Xuzhou seems a bit embarrassed: "I... I didn’t."

"Cough cough..." Ji You clears away her gloom and laughs heartily: "Just kidding with you, don’t be nervous. What you mentioned just now, it’s quite enlightening for me, thank you, Xuzhou classmate!"

Regardless of anything, Xuzhou had good intentions in explaining things to her.

Xuzhou thinks a bit and then says, "Actually... If you don’t want to go into such fine details, you can categorize the mech’s operations into several major types. This way, you don’t need to use many Spiritual Silks, you just need to manage these main categories properly."

Hmm?

A gleam appears in Ji You’s eyes; in fact, after continuous setbacks, she had planned to do the same.

Since she can only used six strands, starkly alone, she’ll just divide the mech’s functions into six major categories and let each strand take care of what it’s best at.

Xuzhou finished speaking, then said, "So... if you have any questions, you can ask me again."

Ji You pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, Little Zhouzhou, thank you, Little Zhouzhou..."

Xuzhou: "..."

As Xuzhou turned around, he couldn’t help but leave a remark: "Cough cough... Classmate Ji You, the way you stand on one leg like a golden rooster is kind of funny."

Ji You: "..."

That hit right in the feels!

Even the honest kid’s making fun of people now.

This is big news.

...

After a conversation with Xuzhou, Ji You gave it a try. After countless failures, just when she thought she really couldn’t do it, suddenly, Ji You completely gained control of Chasing Sun’s limbs.

Ji You was so overwhelmed with joy that she could cry.

She patted her chest and exclaimed, "AAAH!!! I can finally stand on my feet!"

Beside her.

Out of the blue, Mu Jianling let out a light huff, "Oh—So the gorilla learned how to stand upright, what is there to be happy about?"

Ji You: "..."

The people around: "Pfft—"

Standing next to Chasing Sun, Mu Jianling suddenly lifted his foot and gave a light kick forward—

Clang~

Ji You, along with her mech, tumbled down in a sprawl.

Ji You: "..."

Mu Jianling curved his lips into a smile and said, "Look! The wobbly gorilla."

Ji You: "..."

Ji You took a deep breath and told herself not to get angry, not to get angry. Some day when she had the sword in her hand, she’d definitely beat her into a pig-headed mess!

After teasing Ji You, Mu Jianling looked around and said indifferently, "What are you looking at? Don’t you have training to do?"

The students all shrank their necks back.

Then.

Walking with his hands behind his back, just like an old grandpa, Mu Jianling swaggered through each training booth, kicking anyone he found displeasing to the eye or giving them a butt nudge. In the end, he would drop a phrase that was exasperating to the point of death.

His loathsome behavior truly infuriated the students to the point of gritting their teeth.

...

Having successfully mastered control over her limbs, Ji You’s subsequent training went off without a hitch; it was like she had an epiphany. She managed to operate Chasing Sun to hop and skip about, even doing a lithe split and gathering her legs back effortlessly.

Ji You could not have been more proud.

Apart from Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, Shen Changqing, Sheng Qingyan, and Yue Qiyuan made great progress in their training, except for Yue Qiguang.

Shen Changqing and Yue Qiyuan had strong spiritual power and were not lacking in physical strength either, both reaching B-level and on the verge of breaking through to A-level. Thus, operating a real mech wasn’t much of a challenge for them.

What about Chu Jiaojiao?

She was simply a natural-born Mechanical Warrior with immense talent in this area. With S-level Physical Strength, B-level spiritual power, and a natural sharpness for combat, she could already charge and dominate in a training room with her mecha.

Sheng Qingyan?

The Double A talent, Sheng Qingyan, had been training half-heartedly until Teacher Mu Jianling could no longer stand watching. She sacrificed 10 minutes of her daily TV drama watching time to give Sheng Qingyan some special attention. As a result, Sheng Qingyan quickly mastered her mech and gained combat ability. When it came to fighting, Sheng Qingyan was capable of holding her own even against Chu Jiaojiao.

The only one lagging behind was Yue Qiguang, whose main issue was not physical strength but an inability to be meticulous with his spiritual power, closely related to his personality. He was naturally careless, discarding any strategy or method and finishing things with his fists!

But!

Reality served Yue Qiguang a loud slap across the face.

When Teacher Mu Jianling kicked Yue Qiguang along with his mech Po Jun down, Yue Qiguang didn’t get up for quite a while.

"Everyone come and see." Mu Jianling clapped his hands, pointed at Yue Qiguang, and smiled, "This example tells us that even a primitive gorilla needs to have some brains. Otherwise, when you step outside, you are just meat in someone else’s bowl."

Yue Qiguang: "..."

Hatred!