Chapter 45 Test Driving the Flying Ape Mech

Qiao Mei didn't quite understand; she wasn't in the interstellar entertainment industry, so how could she help him advertise?

Just as I was about to ask her again, I saw that ["If your liver isn't healthy, your mecha won't change its name"] sent her a link.

[In three days, the interstellar community will be holding a mech PK competition. If you can lead your Flying Ape mech to the third stage of the competition, that is, to the top 100, it will be a great advertisement for the Flying Ape mech, and you'll also receive a prize of 50,000 interstellar coins. Rose, what do you think? Would you like to consider it?]

Qiao Mei clicked on the link and found that it was a competition announcement that had just been released this morning.

The entire competition is conducted online. During the competition, contestants only need to remotely connect their consciousness to the mechs deployed to the competition venue to start operating the competition. They do not need to show their faces; they only need to provide a competition number.

This was undoubtedly a perfect fit for Qiao Mei, who didn't want to reveal too much of her strength in the short term.

More importantly, there's also a bonus of 50,000 Star Coins!!

So she only thought about it for a moment before agreeing to the request that "the mecha won't be renamed if the liver isn't healthy".

Plant a Rose: [Okay, I can agree. Since that's the case, we're practically friends now. How about you call me Rose? What should I call you?]

It's not feasible to just call him by his full nickname; it would be both troublesome and strange.

"My liver isn't good, so I won't change my mecha name": [Hahaha, just call me "LiverGan," that's what my friends call me, because I really enjoy grinding in mecha.]

Plant a Rose: [Okay, Gan Gan, I'll be there on time when the competition starts and use the Flying Ape Mech you gave me to fight. But I can't guarantee whether I'll make it into the top 100. I can only say I'll try my best. If I don't get it, I'll return the mech to you. I can't accept something for nothing.]

Gan Gan said there was no problem and that she trusted Qiao Mei and was waiting to see how she would perform.

After the matter was settled, Qiao Mei noticed that Ao Cang's gaze was fixed on her. She assumed he was curious about why someone who had only recently become an Awakened dared to participate in the mecha competition, so she tried to brush him off.

"As you know, my mother is a mecha designer herself. I learned a lot about piloting mechas from her. But because of some things, my relationship with my mother wasn't very good, so I didn't tell her that I could pilot mechas."

"Furthermore, piloting mechs is very taxing on mental energy, and it's generally not recommended for Awakened individuals who haven't undergone systematic training to do it. I didn't tell her that, afraid she'd worry, so Cangcang..."

As Qiao Mei spoke, she leaned closer to Ao Cang, her beautiful blood-red eyes filled with pleading. She blinked her long, thick eyelashes and asked him, "Could you please keep this a secret for me? Please, please."

This expression and tone, which were almost indistinguishable from coquetry, were extremely impactful for Ao Cang, who was seeing Qiao Mei like this for the first time.

He blinked rapidly, then mumbled an "Mmm," before quickly averting his gaze from Qiao Mei and replying:

“I am your familiar beast, so of course I will listen to you. You don’t actually need to do this.”

"Of course I know. I was just worried that you might accidentally tell others about this, so I'm telling you again. Since you're all right here, I'm relieved."

Qiao Mei breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed her forehead against Ao Cang's dragon head. Then she used the voucher to buy a Flying Ape Mech worth 200,000 interstellar coins.

Interstellar Express is very fast; from placing the order to receiving the package, Qiao Mei received it in less than half an hour.

The mecha was folded up and placed in a portable mecha case. After being scanned and activated by the optical computer, Qiao Mei's optical computer gained a new function called "Mecha Space".

Upon opening the window, a silver-white mecha with a head resembling that of an ape stood quietly inside the mecha space.

After putting on the gloves that came with the mecha, Qiao Mei flipped the mecha over to check its overall condition before opening its attribute description—

Name: Flying Ape Mech

Mech Level ①: B

Mech type: Offensive mech

Mech condition: 100%

"If the main focus is on aggression..."

Qiao Mei stroked her chin and looked at the weapons that could be used on the Flying Ape mecha. She recalled some offensive mechas that she had used in modern VR simulated mecha spaces. She was a little unsure how much power she could unleash in a real mecha.

So she put Ao Cang back in the Gem Nest first, and then picked up the connector that allowed her to link her consciousness to the mecha and put it on.

The connector is somewhat similar to the VR glasses she used in modern times, except that compared to VR glasses, the connector brings a much stronger sense of realism; she can even see her own hands and body.

It's like entering a completely different space.

She herself appeared to be inside the mecha, with a light blue mecha control screen and numerous control buttons in front of her.

[Consciousness connection complete. Please select whether to proceed with the beginner's guide now? (You can choose to skip this step.)]

Qiao Mei didn't know much about the control mechs in the book's world, so she closed the next option and clicked "Yes".

[Instruction received. Immediately accessing the Flying Ape Mech's data source. Pilots may experience some initial discomfort upon first access; this is normal and there's no need to panic. Access completion progress: 67%...79%...]

When the progress bar reached 100%, a violent dizziness struck Qiao Mei's brain, and her mental energy was several times more exhausted than before. It felt as if someone was pressing down on her body with a stone, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.

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