Chapter 59 Just Partners 04
Ren Yi led the bald man down a side path, intending to find a suitable place to make his move. However, before they could find a spot, they noticed someone coming towards them from the opposite direction. If they continued along the original path, they might bump into that person.
Ren Yi hesitated for only a moment before continuing forward after determining that the man was not an accomplice of the bald man.
The probability of finding a "good person" on a fourth-magnitude star is comparable to a meteor shower, so Ren Yi wasn't worried at all about the other party meddling. Besides, even on a fourth-magnitude star, there are relatively safe and dangerous areas. The place Ren Yi was currently walking in was the latter, and it was easy to imagine that the people walking in this place wouldn't be kind. If the two of them really fought like dogs over the "goods," he could save himself some energy.
Ren Yi had this idea running through his mind, but when he saw the person coming towards him, he was stunned and stopped in his tracks.
In a very short time, he scanned the young man across from head to toe, his gaze lingering on the weapon pouches hidden at his waist and legs under his coat, before settling on the pockets of his coat.
Ren Yi: "..."
He instantly guessed the other party's identity and couldn't help but sigh, "The probability of encountering a meteor shower is really something else."
Ren Yi crumpled up his original plan and threw it aside in just one second.
He adjusted his expression, transforming from panic and disarray to terror, putting on a convincing performance as he took several steps back, making it look like he was about to scream.
Making such a commotion in the wild could attract wild animals, and if you're in a dangerous area, it could even lure out other species. But sometimes, people are far more dangerous than either of those. And luckily, this place is the "wilderness" of a fourth-magnitude star.
Sure enough, the young man opposite him only hesitated for a moment before he reacted and took a step forward, covering Ren Yi's mouth with one hand and attempting a grab with the other... but missed.
Zhou Kai?
Seeing that the boy was about to scream when he let go, Zhou Kai didn't dare to let go and pressed him against the wall.
“You…” Calm down.
Before he could finish his sentence, he was struck in the side with an elbow, which made him hiss in pain. He swallowed the rest of his sentence and his face turned pale.
Zhou Kai really went all out!
However, in this place, you can't survive unless you're ruthless.
The boy struggled so fiercely that Zhou Kai couldn't help but want to "physically calm him down," but he first noticed that there were other people watching, so he suddenly looked up.
The bald man, who had been hiding to the side, was so startled that he fell down and sat down.
He was covered in cold sweat, raised his hand to indicate that he meant no harm, stared at Zhou Kai, and backed away step by step.
Although this bald man looks tall, strong, and intimidating, his gene development level is only C. This might be considered good among ordinary people, but on this fourth-order star where ruthless people are everywhere, he can only be considered a low-level henchman.
Actually, the bald man had been preparing to leave as soon as he heard the noise.
The man who pinned the boy down looked much stronger than him, and he had no allies with him right now, so dealing with him would be a piece of cake for the other guy. Besides, even these small fry had their own territories. The bald guy had already run out of his own territory while chasing Ren Yi, and if he caused a commotion here, he wouldn't get away with it either.
But thinking about it, I really couldn't give up. It's not easy to come across such a high-quality item.
He wondered if he should stay by the side and keep watch. Maybe the big shot would still be alive after he finished his business?
Looking back, he was overthinking things; big shots don't like others watching them when they're doing things.
As the bald man backed away, he cursed inwardly at the man for being so ungrateful!
If he had taken me away, I could at least have made a living. But now, I don't even know if I'll survive after this is all over. Even if I'm still breathing, I'll be dead by midnight.
Thinking of this, the bald man's mind started to wander again.
Why don't we wait until later and have him come over quietly again? Maybe he'll find it then?
However, at this moment, the bald man dared not reveal his true intentions. Once he was out of the danger zone of confronting the man, he hurriedly turned and ran, much faster than when he was chasing him earlier.
Zhou Kai was taken aback by the bald man's reaction, but quickly realized that his current posture was somewhat misleading.
Furthermore, being on a fourth-magnitude star at this moment is not just misleading, but a real possibility of 999. As the remaining 01, he is clearly not trustworthy enough.
At this point, it wasn't a matter of whether or not to explain. Zhou Kai even suspected that if he let go, given the boy's fierce struggle, the other party could bite his throat with all his might.
It's unrealistic to actually knock someone unconscious; he couldn't possibly bring them back to the dark corner.
But judging from the other party's appearance, if he dared to just randomly find a place to put him down on a fourth-order star, he would be devoured alive before anyone even woke up.
Holding this hot potato, Zhou Kai felt completely overwhelmed. Why had he even made a move in the first place?!
He told the captain a long time ago that he was really not suited for this kind of infiltration mission!
This is completely beyond his capabilities. Why can't he just go head-to-head with his mech?!
Zhou Kai couldn't find a suitable solution for a long time. The boy who was struggling seemed to have lost his strength, and his struggles were much smaller than before. Zhou Kai also loosened his grip a bit, afraid that he might actually hurt the boy.
Before he could even gather his thoughts on what to say to calm the other person down, he heard a soft thud beside him, as if something had fallen to the ground.
Thanks to the temporary special training before the operation, Zhou Kai still had some manners. Hearing the sound, he quickly looked down and saw a small black object, about the size of a fingernail. Under his gaze, the object slowly turned into the same light gray as the ground, and even the texture of the material was exactly the same as the ground. If he hadn't seen where it fell with his own eyes, Zhou Kai wouldn't have been able to find it now.
Zhou Kai?!
And, it's black... the color of the coat he was wearing today. Did this thing fall off him?!
Listener? Locator?
With a suspicion forming in his mind, Zhou Kai's face immediately turned extremely ugly.
A clean, bright white shoe appeared where the gaze was directed. The boy stepped neatly and cleanly onto the spot where the black dot had landed, and even rubbed it twice.
Zhou Kai vaguely heard the sound of the mechanical structure breaking.
Looking up again, the other person no longer showed any signs of the panic and struggle they had just displayed.
Zhou Kai suddenly understood something.
Thinking about the elbow strike that had just interrupted him, Zhou Kai couldn't help but fall silent. He let go of the other's hand, his mind a little dazed.
The boy opposite him deftly distanced himself and calmly nodded to him, "You're welcome."
His face still bore the fingerprints from when he had covered it earlier.
Zhou Kai "..."
He swallowed the "thank you" that he had only just remembered, and gave a dry "oh" in response, while the other person was already preparing to leave.
Seeing that the person was about to leave, Zhou Kai quickly called out, "Wait!"
The boy did turn around when called, looking at him with a blank expression.
Zhou Kai remained silent for a moment.
He actually wanted to ask a lot of questions: How did you discover something was wrong? Why did you help me? Was that bald guy chasing me fishing? Was it okay that I was scared away by him?
With so much to say, Zhou Kai didn't know where to begin. Looking at the bruised finger marks on the other person's face, he thought he should add an apology.
Before he could even organize his thoughts, the other person had already spoken.
The boy pointed to his waist, then to his legs, and said calmly, "Next time, let's try somewhere else."
Zhou Kai was taken aback. These two places were the most common locations for placing weapons. What did the other party mean by "change the location"?
Before he could figure it out, the boy continued, "That's perfect."
Zhou Kai?!
The word "standard" itself isn't particularly special, but if you were to use it to associate with a place, the most likely thing that comes to mind would be—the Allied Military Headquarters.
—He figured it out?!
Before Zhou Kai could react, the boy opposite him nodded and left completely.
Ren Yi made a special trip to this fourth-rank star, naturally for the system fragments.
The fragments are attracted to the host. Ren Yi also wore two identities in this world, but the smaller identity has been destroyed, which means it died in the sense of the smaller world. Logically speaking, when the fragments fell into this world, they should have landed near the larger one.
But given his recent incredibly unlucky streak—he even encountered spacetime turbulence after leaving one world—the situation clearly couldn't be going so smoothly.
Sure enough, Ren Yi fell silent after learning the location of the fragment from the system.
Not to mention nearby, they're practically half the league away from him.
The signal was so weak that they wouldn't have been able to detect it at all if the fragment hadn't been part of the system.
Logically, this situation shouldn't have occurred, but Ren Yi remembered the peculiarity of this world. In this world, the time periods of any two aliases largely overlap, meaning that Ren Yi spends most of his time running two accounts simultaneously. Fortunately, with the system's assistance, this isn't too difficult.
However, the smaller version often has to pilot mechs in combat.
There shouldn't have been any problem, as both Ren Yi's experience and the system's database were sufficient to handle the situation.
The idea of the system assisting in controlling the smaller mecha, and then having the smaller mecha control the larger one, was, in Ren Yi's view, completely unnecessary and an extra step. Therefore, during most battles, Ren Yi had the system directly interface with the control system of the smaller mecha (both were data-driven, so the integration was relatively good). Thanks to the special connection between the system and the host, he could even remotely command from the larger mecha, which was very convenient.
While convenient at the time, this also brought another problem: in the system's judgment, the smaller mech was essentially another disguise. Furthermore, since the smaller mech spent most of its time in combat in this world, the system controlled the smaller mech for longer than it controlled the smaller one. Therefore, it's not surprising that fragments falling in this world ended up on the smaller mech.
Ren Yi: "..."
As expected, the laziness you indulged in back then will eventually come back to haunt you.
Is it fortunate that the smaller version of the mech was lost in the starry sea and wasn't salvaged?
If he were to be sealed off by the military following proper procedures, he would probably be wanted by the Alliance right now for "stealing a former Alliance Marshal's mecha".
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