"Wait... why are Jian Jingyu and Sir Huang so skilled at this?"
"Commanders know how to lubricate their own mechas now!? Aren't commanders only supposed to lie back, issue orders, and stab people with their mental power!?"
"The person above is being a bit one-sided..."
"Soldiers dismantling parts to clear out sand themselves? The soldiers at our school only know how to fight! After they're done, they just toss their battered mechas to me!"
"+1! Sometimes I don't even know where the parts went! If I wasn't afraid of losing in a fight... I'd really want to slap them all the way to the neighboring Planet Karen!"
"I thought the Qilin Squad were just all soldiers... turns out they're all mecha engineers too!?"
"Does knowing how to clear sand and apply lubricant make you a mecha engineer!?"
"Even at the First Military Academy, no one does this!!"
"Soldiers and commanders should just do their own jobs! Protecting their teammates is their duty!"
"Exactly! Isn't it just because Wang Tianwei's mental power is too weak, dragging the whole team down!?"
"If Wang Tianwei were also Super S-Class, the other three wouldn't have to do these things themselves, right?"
"The person above sounds awful. So if you level up, you just abandon your teammates? How could someone like you ever earn your teammates' trust!?"
In the live chat, soldiers, commanders, and mecha engineers were arguing fiercely.
However, several military bigwigs who took the time to watch the live stream were deep in thought.
The mecha levels of the Fourth Qilin Squad were all very high, yet their coordinated completion speed was faster than any other military academy!
Each of them was extremely familiar with their own mecha. This was evident yesterday when Zhang Lyra smashed the power system of the Santorini contestant.
Whether it was the angle, the force, or the form of her mecha... it was clearly aimed at destroying it!
Nowadays, many soldiers and commanders only treat mechas as tools, mindlessly pursuing higher levels and designs!
But they don't cherish them when using them, or rather, they don't fully understand them...
It was time to add more training on mecha knowledge.
All the noise and various thoughts came to a dead halt the moment Wang Tianwei effortlessly dismantled the power core on Huang Yan's mecha.
The mecha engineers watching the live stream in the camp immediately stood up!
"What is she doing!?"
"Why did she dismantle someone else's mecha!? The power system is very complicated, can a commander like Huang Yan put it back together!?"
"Wait!... Why can she effortlessly dismantle a Super S-Class mecha!?"
Lin Youfu of Valk immediately thought of something and stared wide-eyed at the two Qilin teachers opposite him.
"Wang Tianwei is a cross-level mecha engineer!?"
"..."
Selena pondered for a moment,
"Perhaps... a cross-level supreme mecha engineer?"
The room fell dead silent.
Seeing that Chao Hao hadn't answered for a long time, and the others showed no intention of changing the subject... Fu Manli had to politely nod and smile at everyone.
"Please excuse us."
"..."
The arena was silent for a moment before it boomed and completely exploded!
"Shameless! You Qilin people are simply shameless!!! Ugh..."
"...Don't get too excited."
"Wang Tianwei is a cross-level supreme mecha engineer!? An 18-year-old cross-level supreme mecha engineer?"
"So those four mechas were actually all made by her!?"
"..."
Fu Manli was questioned to the point of speechlessness. Chao Hao's conscience finally got the better of him, and he turned around to say slowly,
"...Please excuse us."
Peng Shuang, the leading teacher of Yuying Military Academy, gritted her teeth,
"Qilin is playing this dirty this year!?"
Hiding their strength to level up halfway, having a full team of soldiers/mecha engineers, and now a cross-level supreme mecha engineer!?
She wouldn't believe it was a coincidence if her life depended on it!
Everyone started sending messages and making video calls to people outside the arena!
"Chief, the mecha engineer of the Fourth Qilin Squad is a cross-level mecha engineer! And a supreme one at that!"
"Yes!! She's a freshman, only eighteen! Mental power Grade A!! When will she level up? How would I know!!? The point is she can already build cross-level mechas!"
"Right now our students are all on Planet Kashgar! How can we warn them? It's already too late!!"
"You're right... she's only a freshman, it's the perfect time to transfer schools!
Hurry up and find the principal, tell her not to sit idle, and quickly draft a special invitation scholarship!"
Hearing this, Chao Hao could no longer pretend to be deep and composed! His gaze immediately locked onto the teacher who was trying to poach their student!
They were still right here!
They had kept it under wraps precisely because they were afraid of running into people like this, and you dare to say such things right in front of me!? Do you think I spent all those years in the First Military District for nothing!?
"Ah! Hiss!? Chao Hao! Was it you who stabbed me with mental power!?"
"Where is the evidence?"
"What evidence do I need? It was definitely you!"
A medic navigated through the noisy environment to Fu Manli's side,
"Um, Teacher Manli, if I may be so bold to ask, when does Wang Tianwei from your military academy plan to level up? So we can prepare in advance."
"...We really don't have any plans."
"I understand! I understand! Qilin has tactics! It's fine, completely understandable.
Just that if she's going to level up, please let us know in advance. You know, a cross-level supreme mecha engineer... is no small matter."
"..."
Wang Tianwei pulled out Huang Yan's power system, adjusted it a bit, put it back in, and then heavily reinforced it!
Using the sandworm teeth extracted yesterday, she made a staggered tooth opening on the outside of the power system core. Their own people could control it to open from the cockpit, while it would remain tightly closed the rest of the time.
Even if it was forcibly pried open, it could be closed via the controller, and even the hardest objects could be bitten to death in an instant!
"I got a sudden burst of inspiration yesterday when the Santorini contestant was crushed. This way, if you run into someone who tries to ram into you like Little Bear, you won't have to be afraid!"
Huang Yan really wanted to say that wherever their squad went, they should be a unique existence, but there was no guarantee that other military academies wouldn't copy them after this competition ended.
"...Got it."
After finishing the modifications, Wang Tianwei also wanted to use the remaining teeth to make an impact drill for herself! That way, it would be easier to break through hard materials if she encountered them...
While she was busy, a sudden shiver ran through her body.
"What's wrong?"
Goldfish asked from the side. How could she shiver on such a hot day?
Wang Tianwei rubbed her arms,
"I don't know... maybe someone is cursing me behind my back?"
Huang Yan, on the other hand, understood everything. There were still four days left until the end of the competition, which meant she could enjoy at most four more days of peace...
"Get ready, people will definitely be looking for you once we get out."
Wang Tianwei looked at the four newly maintained mechas, and then thought about her ability to make polite small talk...
"Hehe, Sir Huang will definitely stay with me, right? And Goldfish! Little Bear? We're all on the same team!"
"We're not familiar with mecha matters..."
"You must stay with me!"
"...Oh."
The live chat exploded for the umpteenth time,
"Wang Tianwei is that mysterious mecha engineer!?"
"A cross-level supreme mecha engineer!? You're actually the biggest genius of the Fourth Qilin Squad!?"
"Holy crap! Sister Zebra, you deceived me so badly! Do you know how many weird mecha blueprints I've looked at on the forums over the past two days!?"
"...It has to be fake, right?"
"Just because she can dismantle and assemble a Super S-Class mecha doesn't mean she's the engineer herself..."
"Huang Yan has already spoken! How could it be fake?"
"No wonder she said last night that her gift to Little Bear was a mecha modification... Junior! My birthday is coming up too! Notice me!!"
"Qilin really unleashed a lethal weapon this time..."
"Two A-ranks upgraded to S-rank... and a cross-tier supreme mecha mechanic? What else are you guys trying to do!? Give us ordinary folks a break, will you!"
"Now that you mention it, seeing how hard they tried in the last match actually makes my heart ache a little..."
