Victory in the first match!
The three Qilin mechas hugged each other and spun in circles in the center of the arena!
They had earned the qualification to continue competing in Zero Boundary!
When the winner was announced, the opposing team and the audience all saw the three people wearing headgear appearing on the screen...
"Damn it! Who the hell are these three!?"
"Those masks are such a taunt!"
The opposing team was furious!
"That zebra must be mocking me! Having a weapon and not pulling it out earlier, what a show-off!"
On the way back, passing through the transparent corridor, Wang Tianwei and Jian Jingyu constantly waved to the scattered audience below.
"What on earth are you waving at? Let's go!"
"Bear Clan Roar" pressed down the "zebra's" hand and forcibly dragged the person away.
The audience downstairs was amused, waving and whistling at the three of them.
"Hahaha, this team is so funny!"
"QL's Mortal Enemy?"
"From Qilin? Looks like they really are a mortal enemy! Wonder what grade they're in! Hahaha."
"Could be graduates coming to smurf, current students shouldn't be this unhinged, right?"
"A chainsaw! I want to buy one too! Pulling it out at the critical moment to scare people to death!"
The three returned the way they came. Just as they exited the transparent corridor, Zhang Lyra received a payment notification.
"The five thousand prize money for the preliminaries has arrived."
The two beside her turned a deaf ear.
"Did you take a picture just now!?"
"I wouldn't miss taking a picture for anything! Lyra standing in front of me was so damn cool!"
"Your chainsaw was also truly amazing!"
"Did you think I was joking around with you? I spent half the night hand-crafting it!"
"Why 'hand-crafting'?"
"Hand-rubbed... sigh, never mind, you don't get it."
Zhang Lyra helplessly pulled back the two who were only focused on talking.
"Stop! We're not going to the lounge. There are no more matches, we can just head straight out."
"Ugh!"
Wang Tianwei was choked by her collar and finally stopped in her tracks.
"Got it! Got it!"
They were only quiet for a short while.
"Why hasn't any leader come out? They should at least say a few words like 'good job' or 'keep fighting hard' to us!?"
Jian Jingyu adjusted his headgear.
"Just now the screen showed 'Congratulations on winning the first match!', does that count?"
"The executives are still too realistic, they don't know how to bet on the right horse!"
Zhang Lyra had never felt that being a captain was such an exhausting job.
"Just walk..."
The three left Zero Boundary and first found a less crowded restroom to take off their headgear and comb their hair.
The half-orc looked at the "Bear Clan Roar" in her hands and reflected for a long time.
Wearing the headgear was originally meant to hide their faces, but wearing it actually attracted more attention than not wearing it?
Moreover, this thing seemed to have some kind of magic... She always felt like she became someone else once she put it on.
"Next time we need to find a more hidden place. That uncle in the restroom just now almost fell to his knees in fright when he saw me..."
Jian Jingyu said as he stuffed the headgear into his pocket. The main thing was that the uncle hadn't finished peeing yet... the scene was rather messy.
Wang Tianwei had already run outside to buy ice cream, and turned her head upon hearing this.
"Next time I'll drive the hovercar over, and we can leave directly from below!"
"Deal!"
I can't compete with you guys who own hovercars... Zhang Lyra operated the transfer on her optical computer with a blank expression.
"Alright, the prize money has been transferred. From now on, we'll split our prize money equally, no problem, right?"
Jian Jingyu immediately raised both hands.
"Agreed."
Wang Tianwei followed suit.
"Agreed!"
Zhang Lyra breathed a sigh of relief. It was fine, as long as they knew how to listen...
The moment the money arrived on the optical computer, Wang Tianwei immediately took a screenshot.
"The first sum of money I've ever earned! 1667 Star Coins!"
Jian Jingyu also stared at his account with starry eyes.
Zhang Lyra found it funny; she thought they would look down on this little bit of money.
The ice cream Wang Tianwei ordered was ready, and she handed the cones to the other two.
"Quick, let's take a victory group photo!"
"...Didn't we just take one?"
Zhang Lyra walked over somewhat sheepishly. This person really loved taking photos too much!
"We didn't show our faces just now! Goldfish, get over here quick!"
Holding his cone, Jian Jingyu immediately became expressionless, showing off what he considered his most perfect side profile. Wang Tianwei kicked him.
"Are you posing again!? Smile for me!"
"Hahahahahaha~"
**********
Huang Yan recently discovered that there seemed to be an unspeakable secret between Jian Jingyu, Wang Tianwei, and that half-orc from Class A.
Zhang Lyra, who hadn't been seen for a week, reappeared in the cafeteria at noon. And compared to her previous discomfort sitting with the group, she was noticeably much more relaxed now.
During evening practice, those three acted as if they didn't care about their lives.
It was one thing for two single-soldier combatants to be single-minded, but Wang Tianwei, a mecha mechanic, seemed to be developing herself in the direction of a single-soldier combatant?
Zhang Lyra even asked him for the mutated eagle software...
Most importantly, when Wang Tianwei engaged in simulated combat with him, she would always pull out some bizarre weapons, using the excuse of asking him to help test them out?
He didn't know if those creepy and terrifying weapons were meant to intimidate him or what...
However, he was also very busy recently and had no time to mind the undercurrents surging between them.
"I'm tired, I'm leaving first."
After greeting them, Huang Yan was the first to leave the simulation practice room.
Wang Tianwei looked at the back of the blond wolf-cut hair and shook her head in distress.
"Sir Huang can't go on like this! His practice time is getting less and less! What if his physical stamina can't keep up in the future!?"
Zhang Lyra had already been abused to the point of collapsing motionless on the ground, doubting her life...
"Have zombies really ever appeared in human history?"
"Of course!"
Wang Tianwei naturally picked up the conversation; she absolutely had the right to speak on this!
"The skin of a level-eight zombie is already comparable to a mecha, and they move so fast! How are we supposed to fight them?"
Jian Jingyu leaned against the cabin door, drinking water.
"Hit the weak points... use a sniper rifle, though a level-eight is quite tough."
Zhang Lyra's hands were shaking.
"Inside, my eye was bruised by the recoil of the sniper... Tomorrow I'm going to shoot birds with Huang Yan..."
Jian Jingyu shrugged.
"Up to you, if not, I'll go find Yama Chao and ask for a few more maps."
"The maps he gives now are all censored versions. After getting used to playing these two, it feels uncomfortable seeing mosaics..."
At first, Wang Tianwei even thought Yama Chao was a pervert because the software he made was too realistic!
But after getting used to practicing on these two maps, entering non-fully realistic scenes always made her feel like something was blocking her line of sight.
But after that, no matter what she said, Yama Chao refused to give her the original versions again... She wondered if he had been warned by the school.
He even helped her borrow a book from the library called "10 Truths Psychologists Won't Tell You"?
It was strange to say... Recently, the teachers at the school seemed to have agreed to give her books to read.
Teacher Eugene gave her "Aesthetic Awakening," and Teacher Jin from the Ancient Mecha Restoration Craft class stuffed a copy of "Meditations on Beauty" into her hands yesterday...
These three books were currently stacked on the headboard in her dorm, and she would take time to flip through them before going to bed.
That kid Wang Kaiyu, far away on Planet Tianshu, actually helped her subscribe to the digital edition of "Pioneer Mecha Weekly," saying it was a must-subscribe magazine for mecha mechanics at the First Military Academy.
Reading these books made her impatient to start modifying her own mecha!
The special materials I ordered online will arrive next week. As soon as the promotion match is over, I'll get to work!
