The spaceship was not big, and soon everyone gathered on the deck. Xiao Tianhan stood at the front with a stern expression.

"Three minutes ago, the spaceship was attacked by pirates. The enemy situation is currently unknown. The spaceship has opened the protective shield, but the shield can only last for ten minutes. Now we need to exit the cabin to meet the enemy." Xiao Tianhan glanced at every student standing in front of him, "Everyone, check the mechas for two minutes and exit the cabin one by one."

Soon, the students who gathered together were divided into two groups, one for those who could go out to fight the enemy, and the other for those who had problems with their mechas and could not go out to fight. There were less than 20 people in the two groups who could fight.

Xiao Tianhan's eyes turned cold, and he glared at those who were unable to fight: "What's wrong with you?"

"Teacher, my mecha is running out of energy. I only have one energy block left."

"Teacher, my mecha was severely damaged during the assessment and I haven't had time to repair it yet."

Everyone started to tell the reasons why they couldn't fight, but most of them were no more than the above two reasons.

With a loud bang, the spaceship shook violently again. Xiao Tianhan looked towards the door and tried to suppress his anger: "Everyone who can join the battle, follow me out."

Before leaving, Xiao Tianhan glanced at the students who could not participate in the battle, with undisguised disappointment in his eyes.

The battle situation was urgent, and the dozen or so people who could participate in the battle quickly disappeared into the first hatch along with Xiao Tianhan. There were two hatches on the deck of the spacecraft that connected to the starry sky. There was a preparation area between the first hatch and the second hatch. The second hatch would only open after the mecha warriors entered the mecha in the preparation area. This was done to prevent the mecha warriors from suffocating due to the lack of oxygen in the vacuum.

Inside the deck, students who did not participate in the battle could see the scenes in the preparation area through video. When they saw Teacher Xiao leading the students who could fight flying out of the deck one by one in mechas, everyone had an expression of unwillingness on their faces.

Each of them saw the disappointed look in Teacher Xiao's eyes before he left. As a mecha warrior with the mecha right at their fingertips, when they were attacked by the enemy, they could only sit in the spaceship and wait for others to protect them. This was a great shame for them.

Why not bring some energy blocks with you when you leave your base?

Why didn’t you repair the mecha before leaving the base?

Everyone is asking themselves this question over and over again.

"Let's go to the main control room." Suddenly, someone shouted, and then everyone ran towards the main control room, where there was an external screen where they could see the battle scene in the starry sky.

In the preparation area, before the second hatch opened, Xiao Tianhan asked: "Everyone, report the status of the mecha."

"Sun Chu, mecha's physical check is 80%, energy is 80%."

"Lin Shan. Mecha's physical examination is 79%, and energy is 81%."

…

"Sheng Heng, mecha physical examination 100%, energy 100%."

"Cheng Wenkang, mecha physical examination 100%, energy 100%."

After everyone had reported, Xiao Tianhan discovered that among all the people, only Sheng Heng and Cheng Wenkang's mechas were in the best condition, while the rest were mostly around 80%, and there were even several who only had a physical examination score of 60%, just on the edge of passing.

But there was no time to adjust now. Xiao Tianhan opened the cabin door and flew out first.

Outside the spaceship, Xiao Tianhan was driving a mecha, standing at the front of the team. Opposite them were five level six mechas.

"I will block two level six mechas at the same time, and you guys team up to fight the rest. As long as you can hold on for twenty minutes, I can deal with the two level six mechas and come back to help you." Xiao Tianhan is a level eight mecha warrior, but the mecha Qingye he is driving is only level seven, so he cannot deal with more than two level six mechas at the same time.

After saying that, without waiting for everyone to answer, Xiao Tianhan took the lead in attacking. He held a gun in both hands and attacked the two mechas alone. In a blink of an eye, the three mechas were fighting together. The two mechas on the opposite side seemed to want to deliberately lead Teacher Xiao's mecha away. The battle was getting farther and farther away, and soon it was divided into two battlefields.

The pirate mechas in the distance seemed to be only afraid of Xiao Tianhan's level seven mecha. When they saw Xiao Tianhan leaving, the remaining three mechas rushed over aggressively, and their particle cannons activated the indiscriminate shooting function at the same time. In just one encounter, several of our mechas were hit.

"Oh no, the right arm is damaged and I can't fight anymore."

"Parts of the left leg are damaged. I can't fight."

"Disperse!" Sheng Heng shouted decisively as the students kept reporting the damage in the channel. The three mechas on the opposite side were not shooting randomly. Their shooting skills were very accurate, and almost every shot was aimed at the joint parts of the mechas.

They are basically all level 4 mechas, which are not as sensitive as level 6 mechas. In addition, the weapons of level 6 mechas are much more powerful than those of level 4 mechas. If they use long-range weapons to fight at a distance, they will not last more than 20 minutes.

Sheng Heng glanced at Teacher Xiao. The battle there was very intense. Such an intense battle required high-intensity concentration to control the mecha. Teacher Xiao had not spoken until now, which showed that he no longer had the extra time to pay attention to them.

After assessing the situation, Sheng Heng stopped talking and said directly in the channel: "We must get closer. If we fight from a distance, we will just be targets."

"I can't even win in close combat." Someone said.

"We have more people, so we can fight in groups," Sheng Heng said.

"But with this firepower, we can't get close." Sun Chu shouted in the channel.

During this assessment, their team had to recuperate in the base for three days because they encountered an attack by level six mutant insects. Therefore, their mechas were in the best condition among all of them. This time, all five of their team members were present to meet the enemy.

"Squad leader, you lead your team to cover me with firepower. I will go up and stop one mecha first." Sheng Heng said, "As for the remaining two, you all go together."

"Boss, I'm with you." Cheng Wenkang's voice sounded immediately.

"You can't keep up with me, stay with them." After saying that, Sheng Heng controlled the Black Soul, and moved lightly in the void, shuttled through the sky full of particle cannons, and moved forward. At the same time, the Black Soul stretched out his arms and assembled the Xuanming Gun while moving, with electric light flashing and crackling in the void.

At this time, one of the three level six mechas in the distance, without waiting for Sheng Heng to approach, actually took the initiative to come forward.

You came just in time.

Sheng Heng was not polite either, he twisted his body, held the gun with one hand, and stabbed out with Xuanming. The opponent's mecha was extremely sensitive, and it seemed to have predicted Sheng Heng's actions long ago. The mecha turned sideways, and the Xuanming gun stabbed into the air against the waist of the opponent's mecha.

What a sensitive operation method.

The more delicate the action, the more complex the operation instructions. Therefore, when the mecha warriors are controlling the mecha to fight, if they encounter a complex evasion action, they will mostly choose to collide directly. Because if the delicate evasion action fails, it will disrupt the attack rhythm. But just now, this mecha not only maintained the attack action, but also made micro-operations such as waist retraction and body twisting. Such hand speed is definitely not just a level 6 mecha warrior.

While thinking, Sheng Heng did not stop fighting, but raised his hand and used Xuanming to block the opponent's long sword that was coming down. The weapons collided, and sparks flew everywhere.

At this moment, the mecha on the opposite side suddenly bent its right leg and kicked Dark Soul hard in the waist.

Sheng Heng realized something was wrong and tried to dodge, but the reaction speed of the mimicry system could only simulate the sensitivity of a level 5 mecha, and the sensitivity of a level 5 mecha was slower than that of a level 6 mecha. So although Sheng Heng reacted in time, he was still a step slower when the attack reached Black Soul. Black Soul was kicked right in the face and flew backwards.

As the Black Soul flew backwards, the mecha that had just been fighting with him suddenly raised its left arm, revealing a black hole in the muzzle. White light condensed at the muzzle, and it was accumulating energy.

not good.

Sheng Heng twisted his body and moved his fingers quickly on the operating table. With the recoil force of the particle gun on his shoulder, he managed to dodge before the opponent's attack arrived.

The opponent seemed a little surprised, and after a short silence, he rushed forward again. This time, Sheng Heng did not give him a chance to distance himself, and the two mechas fought closely together, with the Xuanming Spear and the long sword going back and forth, and the battle was very fierce.

At the same time, the Black Soul alarm continued to sound in the cockpit.

"Warning, the left arm shell is damaged."

"Warning, the axle is hit hard at the joint."

"Warning, the cockpit has been hit hard."

“…”

Sheng Heng ignored the Black Soul's alarm and stared at the time in the lower left corner. Fifteen minutes had already passed. If they could hold on for another five minutes, Teacher Xiao would be able to come back to help them.

Suddenly, a beam of white light shot out from behind. Sheng Heng was startled and dodged immediately, but Heihun's left arm was not able to dodge completely and was shot through.

"Warning, the left arm joint is severely damaged, performance has dropped by 15%, and is still dropping, 20%, 25%..."

Another level six mecha?

Sheng Heng secretly thought that it was not good. He looked back and saw that the battle between Sun Chu and Cheng Wenkang had ended. Our mechas had almost lost their combat effectiveness and were suspended in the void without any resistance. In front of them was an ion cannon that was charging energy, with the muzzle facing the cockpit of a mecha. At the same time, there was a level 6 mecha, with its muzzle facing him.

Lost?

The situation was hopeless, so Xiao Tianhan stopped fighting back. After a while, the other party sent a communication request. Xiao Tianhan clicked to agree, and a teasing voice sounded in the channel: "Teacher Xiao, fifteen minutes, we won."

Sheng Heng was stunned, and suddenly realized something, but before he could think about it, he heard Xiao Tianhan's voice in the channel: "Let's talk about it on the spaceship."

Immediately, all the guns pointing at the crowd were extinguished and put away, and the five pirate mechas actually flew straight towards the spaceship. As they approached, without anyone saying hello, the hatch of the spaceship opened automatically.

Twenty minutes later, everyone gathered in the spacecraft's main control room.

Except for a few people, the rest of them all lowered their heads, not daring to breathe under Xiao Tianhan's cold gaze.

"Fifty mech warriors, only eighteen were able to fight when they encountered danger, and only eight of them had sufficient energy and a physical check of more than 80%. Eighteen people couldn't even last twenty minutes under the hands of others." Xiao Tianhan scolded coldly, "If the pirates coming this time are real, will you still be able to go back alive? As mech warriors, wouldn't it be a shame if you died like this?"

Xiao Tianhan kept cursing, and no one in the field dared to refute him.

Behind Xiao Tianhan were five young men who were drinking tea and eating fruit. They looked at the reprimanded juniors with a smile on their faces, and even had some nostalgia. That's right, these five suddenly appearing interstellar pirates were a test specially arranged by Xiao Tianhan, and it was also the last item of this actual combat test.

"Before returning, I gave you a day to rest. Why didn't you recharge the mecha? The mecha failed the physical examination. Why didn't you ask the mecha manufacturer to repair it?!"

As soon as Xiao Tianhan said this, the mecha builders standing behind him all felt uncomfortable. On the surface, Xiao Tianhan was scolding the mecha warriors, but in fact, he was scolding the mecha builders. Because after coming down from the battlefield, the time for the warriors to rest was the time for the mecha builders to maintain the mechas. But when they were resting at the base, they all thought that the assessment was over, so they didn't want to use the points to repair the mechas, and just wanted to wait until they returned to the Federation.

"The spaceship has been sailing for two days and one night. What have you been doing during this time? How many of you have been to the practice room? How many mecha builders have remembered to inspect the mecha? With your combat awareness, you will only be cannon fodder on the battlefield."

"And you." Xiao Tianhan's eyes fell on the team of mecha builders. "I'm not your class teacher, so I won't speak from a teacher's perspective. But you should ask your partners and your team members now, with your current attitude, if they are still willing to hand over the mecha to you when you go to the battlefield in the future."

The mecha builders immediately lowered their heads even lower.

"On the day the assessment ended, Yan Hao was the only one in the entire maintenance room repairing the mecha. In this battle, only Sheng Heng and Cheng Wenkang's mechas had sufficient energy and 100% physical examination results."

Yan Hao was listening silently with his head down, and he didn't think this matter had anything to do with him. After all, he was just there to make up the numbers, and strictly speaking, he was not considered an examiner. But when he was suddenly called, everyone's eyes were focused on him, and he was so restless that he couldn't sit still.

Why are everyone looking at me? I'm just here to make up the numbers.

"On the first day of the assessment, Captain Xu Peng told you that there would be basically no mechas coming back for maintenance in the first two days. But you all went to visit the base, and only Yan Hao stayed in the maintenance room. Have you ever thought about whether you can provide help as soon as possible if your team members need it?"

This... why are you still talking about me? I'm really just here to make up the numbers.

"Yan Hao is just a freshman, brought in by Sheng Heng to make up the number of people. Even those who are just making up the number know to stick to their posts and keep their mechas in good condition. But what about you guys who are here to take the test? What did you do?"

Teacher Xiao, you already know that I'm just here to make up the numbers, why are you still mentioning me?

Yan Hao wanted to find a place to hide himself. He had been living a low-key life since his rebirth. He always tried his best to get second place in the class exams, fearing that he would be the center of attention and hatred again. But how come he stopped attracting hatred, and Teacher Xiao took the initiative to help him attract hatred?

Could it be that because of Sima Mingxuan, I have to return to the original plot?

Thinking of this, Yan Hao couldn't help but look up and glance at Sima Mingxuan who was sitting in front of him.

Sima Mingxuan noticed someone was looking at him, raised his eyes, and saw it was Yan Hao, and immediately gave a kind smile in return.

Yan Hao was so scared that he quickly lowered his head.

Sima Mingxuan was stunned. Why did this little guy look so scared of him? He was squinting his eyes to assess Yan Hao's expression when suddenly a figure suddenly appeared in his sight, blocking his view.

Sima Mingxuan frowned, raised his eyes, and saw Sheng Heng's cold face.

Sima Mingxuan narrowed his eyes, then smiled, turned his head and continued chatting in a low voice with his companions, as if nothing had happened.

"Everyone, no matter how many points they have scored before, those who cannot compete this time will get zero points on the exam, including the mecha manufacturers in the same group." Xiao Tianhan finally announced.

When most people heard the result, their faces were filled with despair. You know, this time the assessment on the desolate planet accounted for 30 points of the final grade. If you get zero points, how can you take the final exam?