Fifteen minutes later, the safety officer retrieved the "Little Bee" drone from Wang Tianwei's mecha, inspecting and testing it over and over for a long time.
Something wasn't right. The camera clearly had absolutely no issues, so why did the live broadcast suddenly cut out just now?
Wang Tianwei naturally played dumb.
"Did you find out what's wrong, sir? Was it damaged by the seawater?"
"It shouldn't be... The camera is specially designed for underwater operations by the military and the Federal Resource Bureau. Logically speaking, it is absolutely impossible for it to be damaged by water."
"It's that advanced? Then can I..."
"No, you cannot!"
The safety officer hurriedly interrupted the second half of Wang Tianwei's sentence.
"The organizing committee has already issued a notice. Now, during the competition, it is strictly forbidden to privately dismantle any machinery set up by the organizers! Any machinery! Including the cameras!"
With that said, he sent the "Little Bee," which had just gone on strike but was now recalibrated, back into the air.
"Why do I feel like the organizing committee is targeting me?"
"Alright, student Wang Tianwei, your live broadcast has restarted... A situation like this shouldn't happen again next time, right?"
"Sir? You're asking me that?"
"...What do you think?"
The safety officer cast a sidelong, scrutinizing glance at the student in front of him.
To be honest, other than this cross-level super-grade mecha master standing before him, he really couldn't think of any reason why the "Little Bee" would suddenly lose its signal.
"...Probably not."
Wang Tianwei sheepishly withdrew her gaze.
Honestly, whether it was Zero Boundary or Qilin, and now adding the Military Academy League, there were more and more rules! It wasn't friendly to students at all!
Fortunately, she wasn't that interested in the "Little Bee" anymore. She understood the general principles; the rest probably just involved adding or removing a couple of accessories depending on the specific environment.
The safety officer gave a few more instructions before returning to his aircraft. Although he suspected that this incident definitely had something to do with Wang Tianwei... he unfortunately had absolutely no evidence.
They were exhausted too! Anything could happen at sea, and he just hoped these little terrors wouldn't stir up any more trouble...
The viewers in the live broadcast room were much more blunt.
"...The camera suddenly lost signal? If Sister Zebra didn't do it, I'll wash my hair doing a handstand for three days!"
"I bet ten packs of nutrient fluid that Sister Zebra definitely did something shady at the bottom of the sea!"
"She even set up the team communications in advance. Isn't that leaving a backup plan early on? Did you guys not notice at all?"
"Too young! The safety officer is still too young! After all this time, hasn't he figured out the behavioral style of 'QL's greatest threat'?"
"Did she go to the bottom of the sea to look for the Star Sharks' lair?"
"The Qilin Fourth Squad definitely has a conspiracy going on!"
Seeing this, Mu Ning, the Commander-in-Chief of the Third Military Region, instantly thought of the "specialty" of Planet Eshuinuo... Combined with Huang Yan's instructions and Wang Tianwei's expression before going into the water,
"Heh, she's addicted to being a little thief."
The scene of her dumping out that "mountain of training crystals" on Planet Kashile was still vivid in her mind. It seemed she had run over to the Tenth Military Region to restock this time?
But then again, she only realized today when watching the replay that Wang Tianwei had integrated the training crystals into the small boat they were currently riding on?
Only she could come up with something like that... She really couldn't wait to see what it would look like when the five military academies met at sea!
Huang Yan truly lived up to being the young master of Taihe. In just one day, he had thoroughly understood the resources of Planet Eshuinuo.
Meng Chongyun, the Chief of the Military Department, only had to think for a moment to understand what he had sent Wang Tianwei down to do.
Qilin had thermal insulation modules, but no protective shield, so anti-corrosion was also extremely important.
However, Wang Tianwei seemed more skilled this time; she even knew how to block the camera?
This attitude... She seemed a bit like a habitual offender, didn't she?
Wang Tianwei watched the safety officer leave, but in her heart, she was already blooming with joy.
Ever since Sir Huang secretly told her the news about the Cangli ore beneath the sea, she had been thinking about how to exploit the situation!
The training crystals in her spatial button last time almost caused her huge trouble, so she absolutely couldn't make the same mistake this time.
How could buying it be faster than taking what was readily available?
After thinking for only a moment, Wang Tianwei decided to directly melt the Cangli ore into the mechas of their four-person team.
Let's see how security would check that! They couldn't possibly directly analyze her mecha's materials, right?
Did they know what price roughly refined Cangli steel had already been hyped up to on the outside?
Although the price was considered reasonable given the difficulty of mining, hadn't she also not asked anyone else to help her mine it?
She even dove out of her mecha to collect the ore herself. What more did they want?
Waiting until the rescue aircraft rose again and went into stealth mode, Wang Tianwei finally returned to her fixed workstation on the boat from earlier in the day.
By melting several materials together, who could still distinguish which was which?
Did they think she still needed to take out all the materials and process them one by one?
Naive! She had grown! She could directly transfer things from her spatial button using her mental strength.
In the past, out of habit, she would still use her hands and eyes to assist, but recently, she had reached the point where she could melt things without anyone seeing what she was adding.
When teachers Jin Xi and Eugene saw their student's perfect part-making ability in the live broadcast room, they would always think of when she first enrolled...
With only B-grade mental strength, for the exact same part, others would need five minutes, but she would need half an hour to finish.
Although the quality of the parts she made was very solid, even she herself felt that the time it took was simply too long!
Such a little girl had basically never stopped making parts since then.
Others might only work hard during class, but she was busy during class, after class, and even in her spare time!
Even Eugene didn't know how she managed to balance her major courses, fighting in underground matches in Zero Boundary, improving her physical fitness, and frantically making mecha parts.
It was precisely by relying on this that Wang Tianwei's mental strength was elevated from B-grade to A-grade.
And then she gradually became able to make cross-level parts and cross-level mechas, and because of her unique design concepts and talent, she created a cross-level super-grade mecha!
If anyone else had this growth speed, the teachers would definitely suspect whether they had injected some banned potion.
But this child alone had relentlessly grinded away bit by bit right under their noses to reach her current level.
Now looking at her, an A-grade mental strength mecha master, melting super-grade S-level parts so handily, anyone who came could only sigh and say that she deserved it.
"Heaven rewards the diligent."
These words wouldn't be an exaggeration when applied to anyone in their squad!
Currently, their only worry was not knowing when that child's next mental strength advancement would be.
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be far off. They, as her teachers, had been making quite a few calls and video chats lately, all worrying about this issue...
It would be best if she didn't advance in the middle of a competition like Huang Yan and the others!
But if it was really that unfortunate, no matter what the competition results were, her safety was the most important thing!
