Chapter 412
The live broadcast and filming of the base lasted only three days, and it almost exhausted the staff of Star Alliance Entertainment.
On the day when the follow-up footage of KID base was broadcast, KID coach Jiang Simiao argued with netizens under the broadcast channel for a whole night. On the one hand, he had to explain that it was normal for the mecha technician to stay in the maintenance room for two hours, and on the other hand, he explained that bringing nutrient solution to teammates was a symbol of friendship within the team... He has been fighting until now, and has been on the road of clarifying and blocking the relationship.
"Why are you so nervous about dating?" Huo Yan looked at the increasing amount of news online. "There's nothing wrong with dating. Netizens will know about it. You're already in your twenties. It's normal to date."
What's more, Ying Chenlin and You Su had no intention of covering it up.
"It's different. Knowing they're in love is different from knowing other people are in love." Jiang Simiao has been unable to sleep every night since the live broadcast of the base. "Don't you know that there was a team whose mecha masters were in love, and they got into a lot of trouble after it was exposed... With so many things, how can they play the game with peace of mind?"
Huo Yan was carefree and didn't think this would affect the two of them. He looked at Jiang Simiao who changed several small accounts in a row and had to remind him, "Why don't you change to a better name next time? This MSJ is familiar to everyone. Last time, someone asked you if you were a fan of Shen Lin and couldn't tolerate any CP fans."
"What do you mean by toxic fans?!" Jiang Simiao started to get scared when he heard about toxic fans. "You don't know, I discussed this with Xiao Zhang last time. He told me some gossip from Jifeng, saying that a toxic fan of Team Qi had sneaked into the base before. Fortunately, he was caught before entering the base, otherwise it would be a big deal."
Huo Yan was pushing his suitcase out. When he heard Xiao Zhang, he paused. Thinking carefully, he remembered that he seemed to be the gold medal customer service of their online store. Sister Tang had just used a "huge sum of money" to barely keep him a few days ago. "He knows so much?"
"That's right. He said he used to be a customer service representative at Jifeng. I can't tell you about this. I'm afraid Jifeng will come and poach him back."
Jiang Simiao was talking to Huo Yan while looking at the news on Starnet. "Ah, no one of them makes me worry. How did Ji Qingfeng become a hot topic in the region as soon as he left the house today?"
A few days ago, the base boss Shen Xingtang made an important decision. In order to further improve the quality of the base's mecha division's dormitories and expand the dormitory area, he planned to make a new plan for the base's mecha division's dormitory area. The rectification was completed very quickly, lasting for a week. It happened to be the off-season, so Shen Xingtang gave the mecha technicians a long vacation and allowed them to go out and play with pay. Their travel expenses could be reimbursed when they returned.
Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao were overjoyed to hear the news. They heard that the room could be expanded, so they made an appointment with the mecha pilots from other teams to go shopping as soon as they had a holiday. They were photographed as soon as they arrived at the airport, and their topic is still on the hot search list.
You Su and Ying Chenlin were the first to arrive. When Shen Xingtang told him the news, You Su had even booked his flight. He left early yesterday morning without saying where he was going, but it looked like the flight was heading for the third star region.
Jiang Simiao caught a glimpse of his suitcase from the corner of his eye. "Are you leaving soon?"
"Waiting for Xiaoxi." Huo Yan yawned. "It's boring to stay in the base. Let's go to the Dawn Border. She said she hasn't been back for a long time and wants to go back and take a look."
While they were talking, Lu Xi had already come out with a suitcase and quickly walked to Huo Yan's side.
She wore clothes that were convenient for traveling today and seemed to be in a good mood. She nodded at Jiang Simiao and said, "Sanshui, let's go."
"Okay, have fun." Jiang Simiao said.
The two walked out while talking and soon disappeared at the end of the corridor.
Gu Xiaotian, who was not far away, walked over and looked at the end of the corridor as he walked, "Brother Jiang, I saw Brother Huo and Sister Lu Xi go out. Are they going shopping too?"
Jiang Simiao was still struggling on the Star Network, and heard this and said, "That's not it, they are going to the border."
"Here we go to the border again..."
Gu Xiaotian has been at KID for several years and has rarely learned about these things. He scratched his head and asked in confusion: "I'm just a little curious. It seems that many of Brother Huo's friends are at the border. He is in good shape. Why did he retire from the border in the first place...?"
Jiang Simiao paused after hearing this. When he heard Gu Xiaotian ask this, "He has recovered now. How many years ago was it? It should be five or six years ago? When he just retired, his injuries were more serious than now. He used to be in the heavy armored army on the border."
"Is there a big difference?" Gu Xiaotian asked.
"The six major categories of mecha divisions we have now are actually all extended from the various sub-units of the border army. The initial addition of medical mechas is also a transfer from the mature medical system of the border army." Jiang Simiao explained as he walked: "Heavy armor troops, you can understand that they are similar to tank mecha troops. Generally, when the border is on a large-scale mission or a small team mission, they are the mecha divisions that rush to the front."
Therefore, this type of mecha technician is responsible for the frontline work and cannot afford to make any mistakes or errors.
Huo Yan seems to be in good condition now, but when he first came to KID, Huo Yan was still in the recovery period due to his back injury and there were certain problems with his operation. The management of KID was not optimistic about Huo Yan at that time. If Shen Xingtang had not tried hard to protect Huo Yan, Huo Yan might not still be in KID now.
Mecha divisions that are injured or have potential for disability are generally not accepted by mecha bases, even if they are border troops. On the one hand, the upper limit of such mecha divisions is limited, and on the other hand, mecha divisions may suffer from traumatic stress.
The mecha base is not like the Border Army, which has the support of the Star Alliance. The mecha base needs to be managed. If you want to train mecha pilots, you will consider talent and upper limits.
Mecha is a dangerous profession, and multiple risks will determine the upper limit of a mecha master, but Huo Yan is different. He is very calm and just recuperates his injuries. He changed his combat habits, from operating heavy armor to tank mechas. In order to protect his waist, he changed a lot of operating habits... This is how Huo Yan is today.
But Huo Yan is a very special person, responsible, enthusiastic and kind. It is difficult to find anything bad about him when getting along with him. He always gives people a very sufficient sense of security and enough confidence. When Jiang Simiao first met Huo Yan, it was hard for him to imagine that such a person would be so devastated that he would choose to retire. But later he realized that it was because of this heavy sense of responsibility that he retired from the border army.
Shen Xingtang said that Huo Yan received emergency treatment after the battle in which he was injured, but his reduced reaction ability put his teammates in danger in subsequent battles. He took a huge risk to save his teammates, but also suffered irreparable injuries to his waist. Later, he chose to implant auxiliary mechanical treatment.
His teammates felt very guilty during that battle, but Huo Yan knew that the problem actually lay with him.
If he had not forced himself to continue fighting after being injured, and if he had been replaced by another mecha technician, his teammates might not have been in danger at that time. However, if something like this happens once, it will happen again. A back injury is always a hidden danger.
Huo Yan knew that his body would hardly be able to clear a path or fight for a long time at the front line of the border. He did not want to be a burden to his teammates, nor did he want to become an uncertain point in the battle plan. He took the initiative to resign from the border and leave the heavy armored unit. At first, he went to recuperate, and later chose to change jobs to the Mecha Alliance, which had a lower risk factor. He came to KID through the introduction of others.
"His back injury has recovered very well. I've seen so many mecha masters... probably only two in our base can recover to this level, one is him, and the other is Shen Lin."
Jiang Simiao sighed slightly when he thought of this. Many people thought that a disabled mecha warrior would have a combat limit, but who knew that now there are these two people, one of whom relied on his steadiness and strength to become the first tank of the Star Alliance, and the other successfully switched to become a hexagonal medical mecha warrior. If you want to dig up their mecha bases, you can go around Sirius.
At this point, Jiang Simiao looked at the discussion on Starnet and said, "Luckily, Huo Yan doesn't have a romantic relationship outside the team."
Gu Xiaotian: “…”
There's nothing to worry about... With Brother Huo's strong ability to make friends, he might be able to poach other mecha pilots.
"Sister Luxi is also going to the border?" Gu Xiaotian asked again.
"She wasn't... I remember she was just passing by, so she went with Huo Yan."
Jiang Simiao was one of the first to come to KID, and he knew Huo Yan and Lu Xi very early. Since he met them, during the off-season, Huo Yan would always go to the Shuguang border to visit his comrades, and every time Lu Xi would go with him, as if the two had already known each other before coming to KID.
Shen Xingtang said that Huo Yan came to work at the Mecha Alliance after retiring from the frontier. When Jiang Simiao came to work at KID, Huo Yan had just arrived and was training with the team at that time. It was just that he was still recovering from a back injury after retiring at that time, so he was not taken seriously in the old KID team... Lu Xi had even less sense of existence. Before the KID management ran away, he stayed in KID's training camp with Ji Qingfeng, Lin Yao and others.
Later, KID management ran away, and Shen Xingtang, who took over the mess, could only find a few top players from the training camp to prepare for the competition.
The one who selected the people was Huo Yan. He discussed with Shen Xingtang and picked Lu Xi out of the training camp.
"Speaking of which, it has been a few years."
It has been so long that Jiang Simiao still remembers the reason why Huo Yan came to KID, but when it comes to Luxi, he can't seem to remember when he heard someone mention it.
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The number of flights to the border of the Dawn Galaxy decreased, so Lu Xi and Huo Yan did not go directly to the Dawn border. Instead, they stopped halfway on the way to the border and went to a small planet with spring all year round, called Green Grass Star.
The small planet is not large and has a very small population.
There was only one airport on the entire planet. When we arrived, there were only robots and a few scattered passengers in the airport.
"It's still the same here." Huo Yan said, "I heard from Chairman Li last time that it seems that the administrator is interested in developing tourism, and Green Grass Star is also in the planning line."
Lu Xi nodded: "That's good, Green Grass Star can be more lively."
This is Luxi’s hometown. Every time Huo Yan goes back to the border, he will come here one stop earlier.
Bi Cao Star is where he first joined the border army to carry out missions, and it is also where he first got to know Lu Xi.
As the Star Alliance has developed, there are very few inhabited planets around the border, and many citizens have moved to the interior of the Star Alliance for safety.
Green Grass Star is the planet with the least population in the Dawn Frontier, with a population of only a few million. Half of the planet is highly polluted, and the Dawn Frontier Army needs to patrol here regularly.
At that time, he was a member of a detachment of the border army, following his predecessors on daily duty. His daily task was to patrol the inhabited planets around the border to prevent sudden attacks by pollutants.
When Huo Yan met Lu Xi, Lu Xi was only thirteen years old.
At that time, he learned during his daily patrol that the defense system of the contaminated area inside the Green Grass Star was damaged, and the pollutants inside escaped out of control and attacked the safe area inhabited on the planet. He and his teammates from the Border Army rushed to the out-of-control location as soon as possible to evacuate citizens who had no combat capability. However, there were still citizens who were not evacuated in time and were trapped in the civilian defense system of a sanatorium in the area.
There are more than a dozen people in the sanatorium who have no fighting ability. They are patients and elderly people in the sanatorium.
The civil defense system is very fragile and can block Class B pollutants for three hours, but cannot withstand Class A pollutants for even one hour.
When they received the news, they all thought it was a serious disaster. However, when they rushed to the scene, they saw a damaged B-class mecha blocking the sanatorium's defense system. The surface of the mecha had been damaged, and the internal wiring was exposed.
That mecha belonged to the security personnel in the sanatorium. The border troops immediately dealt with the contaminants. When they opened the cockpit for rescue, they saw a little girl inside. She was covered in blood, but she never let go of the joystick.
This mecha was not hers, but the mecha of the sanatorium's security guard. The security guard died, so she found a way to pry open the cockpit, dragged the dead man out of the mecha, and climbed in herself. She had never driven a mecha before.
Huo Yan remembered that the captain asked her how she dared to drive.
"I've read the book and I know how to drive."
"I have to go... they can't fight."
The little girl's answer was very firm, as if she had made her choice without much thought or hesitation.
The out-of-control area needs to be protected and cleaned up. Huo Yan and several border soldiers stayed here to protect it. Gradually, he became familiar with the people in the sanatorium. There are not many people in the sanatorium, with only a dozen people living there permanently. The director is a middle-aged woman who inherited this sanatorium and has been doing charity work. Most of the people here are lonely elderly people, and the youngest is the girl who was driving the mecha at that time.
Huo Yan later found out that the girl's name was Luxi. She was an abandoned child who was adopted by the elderly people in the nursing home. The people in the nursing home were her family.
The airport on Bi Cao Star was quite empty. After they completed their formalities, they came out of the airport, rented a hovercraft, and drove to the outskirts of Area C.
There has been no change in the Green Grass Planet in the past few years. The riots caused by Kronos did not affect the planet. If there is any change, it is that the green grass on this planet, where most of the area is grassland, seems to have grown a few inches taller.
There weren't many houses in the suburbs, and the largest one at first glance was a sanatorium. When the car just arrived at the sanatorium, the security guard who was drinking tea and chatting with the robot at the gate looked up and saw the two people and said in surprise: "Isn't this Xiao Huo and Xiao Lu? They haven't been here for a long time!"
"Good afternoon, Uncle Zhou." Lu Xi smiled and said, "We are on vacation and will come back to visit."
"Xiao Huo, you can't stay for two days and then run to the border this time." Uncle Zhou poked his head out of the window and said, "Have a couple of drinks with me tonight. I watched your last match and it was really amazing. Is your waist okay?"
Huo Yan smiled cheerfully and said, "I'm fine now, don't worry."
"Where's Grandma Annie?" Lu Xi asked.
"She went to the back to sweep the graves." Uncle Zhou said.
Behind the sanatorium is a vast grassland. There are very few burials in the Star Alliance nowadays, but the custom of burial is preserved here.
A piece of land is fenced off and protected, with small stone tablets scattered among the dense green grass. The elderly or patients who died in the nursing home will be buried in this place. From one or two, more and more came in the future, sleeping peacefully in the wind and the fragrance of grass.
In addition to robots regularly clearing weeds, tombs are often cleaned manually, and there are several cleaning tools at the entrance of the cemetery.
Luxi patiently took the cleaning tools and came here with Huo Yan to sweep the grave, and saw the white-haired old man.
Grandma Annie is one of the elderly people who raised Luxi when she was a child. She has always lived in the nursing home and seldom goes out. The thing she wants to do most every day is to visit the graves of her old friends in the nursing home, and then watch the news and exercise with her sisters.
The old lady was in good health. When she saw the two, she waved warmly. "We watched the game a while ago. Our Luxi is awesome. Qingfang's grandson even said that he would ask you for an autograph next time he's on vacation. He also wants to be a mecha master like you in the future."
"Then I'll sign a few for you before I leave." Lu Xi took the tools from the old lady, "Let me do it."
The old woman likes to mutter, and when Luxi was cleaning, she was talking beside her.
He talked about how good she was at the competition, and also said that he knew she went to the front line some time ago and he didn't dare to contact her, so he prayed for her every day.
"It's best if you can go out and fight and come back safely." Grandma Annie said, "You can stay for a few days and leave later. I made a lot of amulets last time. You can take a few back with you and stay safe with your friends."
Huo Yan smiled and said, "Grandma, do you do so much?"
"Of course, I heard from Xiaojie last time that your job is dangerous."
Grandma Annie said, "All you mecha masters must be safe. Xiaojie hasn't been here for a while, so there are some things for him to bring."
"They have been busy lately, so they probably can't come."
Xiao Jie was a member of the Border Army and Huo Yan's comrade-in-arms. He said, "Give it to me when the time comes. We will also go to the border later and help you deliver it."
Luxi accompanied Grandma Annie to complete her daily cleaning work, and the two talked as they walked.
Most of the time, Luxi was talking and Grandma Annie was listening. But when they got to the nursing home, it became Grandma Annie who was talking and Luxi was listening.
The two of them have been busy in recent years and have had few vacations, so they haven't been back for a long time.
The director of the sanatorium cooked a big meal himself, and a group of people sat together to eat in the evening. Security guard Uncle Zhou dug up some good wine that had been buried for several years from under a tree in front of the door. He said it was brewed by the dean and was specially kept for Huo Yanluxi to drink when he came back from vacation.
During the meal, the conversation always revolves around Lu Xi. There are several photos hanging on the wall of the nursing home, which look like printouts of KID's victory photos. There are also many souvenirs sent back by Lu Xi from other places. The elderly people hang them up and keep them clean.
"How are your teammates now? Are you getting along well with them? You were talking about that before—"
Grandma Annie asked, "I saw on Star Online that they were talking about some crazy dog and they weren't very cooperative."
Huo Yan heard Mad Dog pause and asked, "Are you talking about You Su?"
"Grandma." Lu Xi whispered, "The news you read is outdated... He is very good, and we have learned a lot from him."
Uncle Zhou joined the conversation: "Grandma Annie, don't worry. They have a solo soldier there who is also very good at fighting. I heard that he is a maintenance technician, grandma, just like you."
"Maintenance technician..." Grandma Annie smiled, "It's a good career. I was also a maintenance technician when I was young."
Grandma Annie always likes to talk about her youth. When she was young, she was a maintenance technician and had no talent for combat. She often followed the combat mecha divisions around the Star Alliance. Because she had seen the vastness of the outside world, she hoped that Luxi could have his own freedom and his own vast world.
Children always have to grow up. The elderly like children, but they also hope that Luxi can go further instead of being confined to the small green grass star.
Grandma Annie knew what Luxi liked, and she also knew that this child liked mechas. When the elderly people in the nursing home heard her say that she wanted to become a mecha master, they were very supportive.
The damaged security mecha was repaired by Grandma Annie, and it later accompanied Luxi for a long time.
After the out-of-control area was resolved, they only came here for regular patrols. Huo Yan used to come to Bi Cao Star about once a month.
Over time, I became familiar with the people in the nursing home. The elderly here love liveliness and I like to invite them to dinner every time they come.
Maybe it was because the old man said a few more words, when Huo Yan and his teammates were cruising here, they would occasionally see Lu Xi reading a book, and he would teach her a little bit.
Because she is young and sensible, Huo Yan and his comrades have always treated her as a younger sister, teaching her this and that. When Luxi was young, she spoke very little, was serious and quiet. When they taught her, the little girl never asked many questions. She learned as much as she was taught. She heard some of it from them and some from other people. She learned a lot.
Huo Yan had no idea what happened afterwards. He was transferred to the heavy armored unit, and his mission changed from patrolling to going deep into the polluted border area. He no longer had any intersection with the patrols on Bi Cao Star. He fought in the heavy armored unit for three years, and only occasionally heard a little about Lu Xi from his comrades. He heard that she was self-taught and was already able to enter the polluted area to clean up pollutants.
Later, Huo Yan suffered a serious waist injury in an accident and needed long-term rest. He was unable to support high-intensity combat, so he retired and chose to join the Mecha Alliance.
The next time they met, Huo Yan met Lu Xi again at the old KID's training camp recruitment.
When he met Lu Xi, Huo Yan realized that the little girl who protected her family back then had grown up. She came out of that small sanatorium, carrying a Class B mecha, and went from being a small hired mecha technician to the training camp at the mecha base.
Due to her experiences as a teenager, she had a dream of becoming a mecha master and wanted to be a conscripted mecha master.
If you want to become a recruited mecha master, you can either join the army at the border or join the mecha alliance.
Luxi went to the Border Army but was not selected. After going around in circles, he went to many bases for interviews and finally came to Sirius KID's new rookie training camp... Later, Luxi passed the rookie test and joined the old KID's training camp, and until now, he has become KID's chief control mecha technician.
Uncle Zhou heard Grandma Annie talking about her youth again, "Grandma, that kid is awesome. I saw on the Internet that he can design weapons."
"Grandma Annie is amazing too. She even went to the border to repair warships before!"
The dean said, "At that time, your grandmother Annie also repaired the warships of the special forces, the Dawn Border Special Forces. It was 20 or 30 years ago, right, grandma?"
"Grandma is so awesome." Huo Yan said.
The dean said, "Of course. Our Dawn was also very powerful more than 20 years ago, okay? When your grandmother was in her 50s, she was still in the Border Army. At that time, our Dawn Galaxy won the first place in the Star Alliance many times in the joint military exercises. Grandma Annie went to the military exercises and repaired the mechas used in the military exercises."
"How long ago was that? Dawn is not weak now. Our Luxi and Huo Yan also won the championship, the Star Alliance champion." Grandma Annie also poured a glass of wine and drank it. When she thought of the past, there was a different light in her cloudy eyes. She was holding Luxi's light brain and looking at the group photo of KID. Her eyes fell on the two new teammates. "Are these your new teammates?"
She paused at Ying Chenlin's face and said, "This child looks familiar. I seem to have seen him somewhere before."
Uncle Zhou smiled and said, "Grandma, when you saw Xiaoji's photo last time, you also said that he looked kind."
"Yes, grandma, this is the medical mecha division Ying Chenlin, and the other is the gunner mecha division, named You Su, both of them are new members." Huo Yan pointed at two of them and said with a smile, "Our current teammates are really amazing, the gunner came from the border special forces, and the medical division came from a single soldier... They are also on vacation now, and have gone to the third star field. When we have time in a while, we will bring them over to play."
Uncle Zhou: "You said you would bring Xiao Ji and the others here last time, but you didn't. Let's come together next time."
"Qingfeng and the others said they would stop by to see us after they finish shopping."
Seeing this, Lu Xi said, "He should be here in a few days—"
Before she could finish her words, a news flash suddenly jumped to the Mecha Alliance channel being broadcast in the restaurant.
[Mecha Alliance Entertainment News has a breaking news report for you. It is reported that a regional speeding incident occurred in the First Star Region Tiannu Star. The suspected criminals escaped and many enthusiastic citizens participated in the pursuit... The scene was extremely chaotic. The Tiannu Star patrol police have taken the relevant personnel back to the Investigation Bureau. ]
Among the several mecha masters photographed in the picture, the bald heads of Ji Qingfeng, Lin Yao, Hu Luobu and Zhao Lejie are particularly eye-catching.
They are fearless and open in the face of the media spotlight.
The director of the sanatorium paused and said, "Luxi, these seem to be Xiaoji and Xiaolin from your base, right?"
Lu Xi paused for a moment while eating and Huo Yan quickly turned on the computer.
Jiang Simiao's crazy messages have popped up more than a dozen times in the group. Except for Ying Chenlin and You Su who went to the third star field and disappeared, there was no response. Now the KID work group is in an uproar. Not only that, but thousands of messages were posted within the joint group of their five major star domain mecha divisions.
Huo Yan quickly called Jiang Simiao
"Sanshui, I saw the news——"
The other end of the line was very noisy. I could vaguely hear several familiar voices. Jiang Simiao's voice was calm but filled with anger that was about to explode: "Huo Yan, I'll tell you later. I'm already at the Tiannv Star A District Investigation Bureau and I'm preparing to rescue him."
The call was intermittent. Lu Xi moved closer to Huo Yan's computer and heard many people arguing. He could vaguely hear the voices of Ji Feng and other base leaders.
"What kind of enthusiastic citizen is this?"
"Didn't you even see the patrol officer's warning lights when you were speeding after a criminal right under his nose?"
"Even enthusiastic citizens can be put in jail!"
"Are you from Tiannv Star? Be a caring citizen."
"Yaobao, yes!"
…
After listening for a long time, the two fell silent.
The director of the sanatorium next to him looked anxious: "Nothing serious happened, right?"
“They probably can’t come.”
Huo Yan said: "The enthusiastic citizen has taken the lead... He may be detained for a few days."
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