Chapter 198 Be the One Holding the Scales

The staff in the arena hurriedly rushed to the arena. At this time, Jia Xianglan and Shen Shouli's mechas had separated, and the blade driven by Shen Shouli fell to the ground with a bang.

They quickly opened the cockpit of the bladed vehicle to check Shen Shouli's condition. If he fell into a deep coma, it would be the end of him. Shen Shouli in the real world outside would directly become a vegetable.

Jia Xianglan, who was standing by, was completely immersed in the joy of having defeated Shen Shouli. He immediately started shouting excitedly: "Call out Xu Lingqu, she will be my next opponent!"

This person was completely unaware of how stupid he had been and was smug about it.

On the rostrum, Jia Xiangying left where the imperial students were and almost rushed to Jiatu.

"You helped Jia Xianglan do something, right?" Jia Xiangying got straight to the point and questioned her father directly, "You decided to do this from the beginning, allowing Jia Xianglan to "show off his skills" in the arena this way. You agreed from the beginning whether to attack Shen Shouli's cockpit this way or this way."

Gato was very calm, with a smile on his face: "Xiaoying, how can you speculate about your father like this? And what have I taught you since you were a child? You must have evidence for everything. You said that your father helped your brother cheat. Do you have any evidence? Or are you just jealous of your brother again?"

Jia Xiangying looked at her father in front of her. He had once been the person she admired the most. In order to get her father's approval, she competed with Jia Xianglan and always set strict standards for herself. Even though her father had always been partial to Jia Xianglan, she always had expectations of him in her heart.

Those expectations completely vanished after seeing the true face of Jatu today.

"You condoned Jia Xianglan's treatment of Shen Shouli. Have you forgotten that Admiral Shen is still watching from outside?" Jia Xiangying's heart was free of sadness. At this moment, she completely got rid of the control of her emotions and analyzed calmly, "No, you didn't forget. You think that you and Jia Xianglan are now in the Federation, which is very safe. And doing so can please the Federation Military and the Merlin Family. As for me, who was thrown into the Imperial Military Academy by you, I am a complete victim."

Jato was immediately angered by his daughter's direct criticism of his innermost thoughts. "You were the one who chose the Empire of Doranston. Sakura, how can you blame Dad for everything?"

"Whether it was my own choice or your constant hints, you know it in your heart." Jia Xiangying was now completely immune to his accusations. "But I now feel that the best thing I have done is to come to the Empire, to Dolanston. From this position, I can see everything clearly."

Jiatu vaguely felt the unusual change in Jia Xiangying. If it was the previous Jia Xiangying, she would have broken down emotionally when he accused her of being jealous of Jia Xianglan, instead of standing here and confronting him clearly.

He was about to say something nice to ease the situation, but Jia Xiangying interrupted him.

"Since you've gone this far, I will sever my father-daughter relationship with you from today on. I will stay in Dolanston and fight for the empire. Both you and Jia Xianglan will only be my enemies from now on." Jia Xiangying said coldly, "Also, I will explain in detail to my aunt what kind of person you are. I have no evidence, but the fact that I was once your daughter should be enough to support what I say."

The real voice on Skynet's board of directors was Jia Xiangying's aunt, Jia Lan. However, her health had been declining in recent years, and she was concentrating on recuperation, so she arranged for her brother to become Skynet's president. Jia Tu was merely a symbol of her power; she had no intention of actually letting him stir up trouble within Skynet.

It was just because Jiatu always pretended to be very good in front of her that she always supported him to be the president.

Jia Xiangying's actions were really intended to kill Jiatu. He immediately stood up in a rage and wanted to teach his daughter a lesson, but Jia Xiangying didn't even bother to pay attention to him and turned away.

For so many years, Jiatu was like a balance, with her and Jia Xianglan at the two ends of the balance. She had been begging that one day the balance would tilt towards her, and felt that one day Jiatu would really recognize her.

Seeing how Jiatu flew into a rage when he heard Jialan's name, Jia Xiangying completely understood that he should not pray for the scale to tilt, but be the one holding the scale.

On the arena, Shen Shouli was carried out of the cockpit. His body looked normal, but in fact, the painful aftermath of death still echoed within him.

Just when the Skynet staff member wanted to commit suicide to apologize, his hand moved.

Shen Shouli opened his eyes, enveloped in immense pain. An option box popped up in front of him, asking him to immediately exit the cocoon cabin and return to the real world for a quick checkup.

The staff around him were also reminding him to leave quickly, but he simply refused to leave. He reached out and pushed the people around him away, shouting, "Xu Lingqu..."

As Jia Xianglan's designated opponent, Xu Lingqu had already stepped forward. At that time, all the imperial students around her unanimously told her not to go and to just give up.

Jia Xianglan will definitely take revenge on her even more cruelly.

They said this out of concern for Xu Lingqu, but Xu Lingqu still did not accept their opinions.

She walked out, and when she passed Shen Shouli, she happened to hear Shen Shouli's voice, and she stopped.

Shen Shouli had a lot to say, such as there was something wrong with Jia Xianglan's mecha, such as any A-class mecha would have no chance of winning against Shen Dao, and such as Jia Xianglan would definitely attack her cockpit if he got the chance.

He didn't want her to suffer such pain. Shen Shouli would rather endure it countless times than let Xu Lingqu suffer such pain.

Such a paranoid idea made him come up with an absurd idea, and he told Xu Lingqu to give up fighting with Jia Xianglan.

But soon the double pain of body and mind made Shen Shouli calm down again, and he felt sorry for realizing what he had just thought.

How could he possibly persuade Xu Lingqu to give up just based on his so-called "desire to protect"?

The fact that she came out by herself meant that she was ready to fight with Jia Xianglan. His so-called protective desire just now made him regard her as an object that needed protection, but he ignored the fact that she was a strong and independent person.

Since Xu Lingqu herself hasn't decided to give up, don't force your idea on her.

Let her land safely and support her every long journey.

Realizing this, the words on the tip of his tongue were swallowed back by Shen Shouli, and turned into one sentence: “Be careful, protect yourself.”

After seeing that he had finished speaking, the staff began to persuade him to quickly exit the connection.

Xu Lingqu suddenly asked, "Are you going to exit the connection and check outside?"

Without waiting for his answer, Xu Lingqu said, "If you can still hold on, then stay and watch."

At this moment, Shen Shouli couldn't tell whether his violent heartbeat was due to pain or Xu Lingqu's casual words, or both.

Once again, he chose to refuse to quit.

"……good."