"As long as it's not during the most vulnerable period, that's good."

Lan Yao, with an air of "I'm doing this for your own good, because I'm worried about you," changed the subject after Wen Xihe said she wasn't in her vulnerable period, "So, do we need to be paired up in our dorm?"

Sang Huaizhou's expression immediately became somewhat complicated upon hearing this.

Unlike Wen Xihe, although he didn't receive many invitations, some people did extend offers to him. However, for some reason, he hesitated to accept or make a decision. At the time, his reason to himself was—

He couldn't bear to see Lan Yao being held back by Cen Yu.

But after Wen Xi joined, with two people supporting one, his own presence didn't seem so necessary.

That's what he was thinking, but he didn't say anything, which was tantamount to acquiescing to Lan Yao's suggestion.

"Has no one asked me what I think?" Cen Yu couldn't help but ask.

Sang Huaizhou was baffled. "What are you thinking?" He looked at Cen Yu incredulously. "You don't want to be bound?"

He seemed to finally understand Cen Yu's thoughts, "You want to go it alone?"

He almost blurted out, "Are you crazy?"

This competition is essentially an elimination tournament. As is the practice in previous years, everyone will be placed on a specific planet to compete for resources and fight each other. Medical pods will be provided on site – medical pods are also strategic resources.

The battle isn't over until someone forfeits and is taken away by the school.

Individual teams are ranked based on match points, and the winning faction must destroy the energy sources of the other faction.

The entire competition lasts for a week, and the command system needs to pay close attention to the depletion of energy sources at all times.

Mechs require a specific energy source to operate. The combat units must not only cooperate to eliminate the beasts that may appear on the planet at any time, but also eliminate the forces of other factions, and finally penetrate into other factions to destroy their energy sources.

As for the mecha-type, they must maintain the operation of the mecha and the base at all times.

Cen Yu didn't want to go against the plot in this matter.

Since he didn't align himself with any of the other roommates in the original story, he doesn't need to now.

"A true Alpha should fight alone." Cen Yu started spouting nonsense again.

“Only the weak like to go in groups.” He looked back and forth between the other three people in the dormitory. “So I don’t need to.”

"..." Sang Huaizhou gritted his teeth, "I think you really want to drop out of school!"

Wen Xihe couldn't understand Cen Yu's thought process either. He knew that his roommate was a bit too arrogant and self-important, but he shouldn't have acted so impulsively.

Lan Yao's smile remained unchanged as he looked at Cen Yu's confident demeanor. "It seems you really don't want to team up with us."

Ignoring them, Cen Yu asked Jiang Yan, "Where's your warehouse?" "Take me to see it."

...

In theory, if they weren't aligned with a faction, Jiang Yan shouldn't have brought his opponents along to visit his warehouse.

But perhaps he himself was also intimidated by Cen Yu's "overconfident" remarks, and for a moment he forgot that the remaining three people might be assigned to the opposing camp.

“This is my latest work.” He pressed a button on the side of the warehouse.

Lights suddenly appeared on the dark warehouse roof, and the cover that was covering the behemoth was torn off by a mechanical arm.

...Twilight Valkyrie.

Upon seeing the mecha, which was entirely bright silver with a lily of the valley pattern painted on one side of its arm, the name immediately came to Cen Yu's mind.

In the original work, this mecha appears in the middle to later stages.

Or rather, it was the mecha that the Fifth Legion equipped with Wen Xi after he joined the Fifth Legion and became its youngest major general.

The original work mentions the mecha's almost graceful shape, the iconic lily of the valley pattern on one side of its arm, and the cold, chilling aura when it descends from the sky and slays countless insects.

"How is it?" Jiang Yan put his hands on his hips and looked up at the still-emerging mecha.

"My works from this period of time."

"There are still some shortcomings, but it's sufficient for competitive matches."

Wen Xihe became a major general and obtained the Twilight Valkyrie 19 years later. Cen Yu did not expect that Jiang Yan had already created the prototype of this mecha when he was a sophomore.

It's just a prototype... it should be fine, right?

This idea inexplicably popped into his head.

"Senior," Jiang Yan handed the mecha buttons in his hand to Cen Yu, "you can go in and take a look."

The remaining three were also somewhat stunned in the warehouse. Everyone knew that Jiang Yan from the Mecha Department was the Empire's rising star and was very likely to become the next Mecha Master, but they were still a little dumbfounded when they saw this behemoth that suddenly appeared in the warehouse.

Wen Xihe watched as Cen Yu took the button that could activate the mecha, "...You can't go up now."

If such an untested mech malfunctions, it could lead to very serious consequences. Even if the mech's cabin is designed to protect the people inside, the enormous impact after it goes out of control could still shatter them to pieces.

"Did you pass the test?" Wen Xi asked Jiang Yan.

“Senior,” Jiang Yan said, displeased with Wen Xihe’s slander, “my mecha has passed the second phase of testing.”

This means that there is no risk in entering the interior and driving.

Lan Yao looked at the mecha and felt even more sorry that Jiang Yan hadn't accepted the goodwill offered by his family. As for Sang Huaizhou, he watched Cen Yu holding the mecha's buttons, about to get on.

"Is there any equipment to help you get into the cabin?" Sang Huaizhou asked.

These large mechs are usually equipped with separate devices to assist in entering the cabin.

During the process of leaving the base and returning to the base, the mech soldiers almost never leave the inside of the mech, so they need auxiliary tools to enter the cabin of such a large mech... In short, at least a simple device similar to a diving platform is needed to allow them to enter the cockpit located in the shoulder and neck area of ​​the mech.

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