The White01 model ended the battle before the countdown ended, shutting up those who had ridiculed Bai Li for "winning by being clever" before the game.
The mecha forum quickly uploaded the video of this game, analyzing the reasons for White01's victory and the method of this model to quickly resolve the battle in a harsh environment.
The mainstream models of the Empire are basically heavy mechas. Having a new mecha for people to study has made countless mecha enthusiasts quite obsessed, and they have posted their opinions one after another.
The previous saying that Bai Li went in and out of the military hospital to cover up White01's shortcomings with drugs has been completely turned over. The people who used this as an excuse to stir up trouble have now become the ones being ridiculed.
"People who use old injuries to stir up trouble are really orphans. Anyone with a conscience would first check the problem of Major General Bai's leg injury. I didn't believe it before, but now I really think someone is targeting him. I hope the orphans who are targeting him can check their conscience. It's not easy for Bai Li to stand up again. Everyone knows why he was injured. I hope he can be respected. Thank you."
"No, no, no, no, no one really doesn't know that the mechas in the competition are all semi-finished products? White01's is not completely finished yet, no one knows that, right? Even the healthiest people will get tired after driving a mecha for a long time. The Bai Institute said that this is a mecha that 'reduces pressure on the body', not a 'mecha that makes you feel nothing'. Isn't it enough to slap you in the face that Bai Li can enter the finals?"
The discussion on the Star Network was heated. While those who were optimistic about White01 and those who still believed that this model had major defects were still arguing, Bai Li's personal terminal received a text message from Situ.
He sat on the sofa, wiping the water droplets on his legs with a towel while opening the virtual screen. The robot butler was rolling around at his feet, cleaning up the water stains on the floor.
After Lu Zhao finished his shower, he heard the robot housekeeper cursing. Bai Li became even more aggressive, shaking the water drops on his legs onto the fat man's head.
"Don't shake it." Lu Zhao reached over from behind the sofa backrest and patted Bai Li's back, "Just finished bathing."
For convenience, Lao Zheng asked Bai Li to bring back the immersion repair liquid. Although the effect was slightly discounted without the hospital's stabilization tank, Bai Li thought it was okay.
The left leg that had just been soaked in the repair liquid was not suitable for big movements. Bai Li was patted by Lu Zhao and became more honest, and blasted the cursing fat man away.
"Does it still hurt?" Lu Zhao asked.
"It doesn't hurt at first," Bai Li threw the towel aside, "It's a little sore, just take a rest."
In order to match the timed competition system of the finals, white01's data was slightly modified to facilitate Bai Li's use of mental power to speed up, which also put a little extra pressure on his body.
Bai Li clicked on Situ's text message, took a look, and sneered: "You're rushing to throw your face into my hand."
He enlarged the virtual screen, and Lu Zhao understood, put his hands on the sofa back, and leaned forward to read the text message.
"Is it so serious?" Lu Zhao was more and more surprised.
"It's not uncommon for A's pheromones to leak occasionally, but an adult A is definitely sick for doing this." Bai Li was disgusted, "It's because the backstage lounge in Area 1 is separated, and there aren't many people in his institute, otherwise more people would be affected."
Lu Zhao finished reading the text message and frowned, "Two omegas, that's a lot."
"Yeah," Bai Li sighed, "One hasn't woken up yet and is lying in the hospital. A, who was present at the time, was still sober, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."
Lu Zhao didn't want to watch it anymore, feeling disgusted, and looked away and asked, "No one knows about this."
"Lin Sheng is involved in many lawsuits, and the first heir is also in a critical period. They probably don't want this to be spread out." Bai Li turned off the personal terminal and leaned on the sofa back to get closer to Lu Zhao. "Old bastard Tang has only this one son. If this scandal gets out, he won't be able to join the First Legion in a few years."
"In this case," Lu Zhao said indifferently, "joining the legion is just a place to occupy."
The First Legion is the elite among the elite, and those who can enter are definitely strong characters.
A person who can't even stabilize his mental power and control his pheromones will be useless even if he enters. He will just occupy an extra quota for this year's recruitment.
"Before, Bai Ying said that he was mentally ill, but I didn't expect it to be this bad," Bai Li smacked his lips, "I knew it after watching his game. If he gets on that machine a few more times, he'll be useless."
After saying that, he felt calmer than he thought. What happened to Tang Kaiyuan didn't prove anything to him. He
just felt a little confused. If the hero in the original novel who could call the shots lost his halo, he would be worse than the minor characters who were trying to survive.
Lu Zhao lowered his body and leaned his elbows on the sofa back, getting very close to Bai Li: "Don't think about it."
Bai Li came to his senses and smelled the moisture-stained scent of grass on Lu Zhao's body: "There's no need for me to think about it. Your face is right next to my hand. If I don't respond, I'd be stupid."
Lu Zhao smiled, paused for a few seconds, and then said, "I have something to say."
Because they were so close, their voices were not loud, as if they were whispering. Bai Li liked this feeling very much. He rested his head on his arm and smelled the familiar pheromone. He closed his eyes and said lazily, "Ah?"
"There is a new situation about the Zerg mentioned before." Lu Zhao's voice was a little slow due to hesitation. "There is no specific arrangement yet, but the people of the First Legion may be transferred to the front in the near future."
Bai Li opened his eyes and took a few seconds to react to the meaning of Lu Zhao's words.
"If I am transferred," Lu Zhao looked at him, "I will leave the main star immediately."
"Oh." Bai Li took a long time to make a sound, "Leave in the next two days?"
Lu Zhao: "Not necessarily, I personally think that the local legion that is closer should go first."
Bai Li nodded.
"If I can't watch the game..." Before Lu Zhao finished speaking, his hand was held by Bai Li.
The grip was tight and steady, without any trembling, and it conveyed a peaceful power.
Lu Zhao's heart was completely at peace with this grip. He placed his other hand on the back of Bai Li's hand, rubbing his thumb while saying the rest of the words: "You will win, too."
"Yes," Bai Li said, "Li Li is stronger."
Lu Zhao chuckled, "Yeah. So can I."
"Major General brother is the strongest," Bai Li said, "I came back with the fourth golden Kali. Lend it to me for two days."
"The previous ones are on top of my closet," Lu Zhao said honestly, "You can take them if you want to play with them."
Bai Li endured it again and again, and did not tell Lu Zhao that he was ruining the atmosphere.
And it was the first time he knew that Lu Zhao's first three golden Kali were placed directly on the wardrobe. Even Mr. Bai knew to find a shelf to put the medals.
Perhaps for Major General Lu, the merits were yesterday's things, and people should never stop at yesterday.
"I thought," Lu Zhao rubbed the back of Bai Li's hand with his thumb. He had learned how to correctly read the red marks on Bai Li's hands, and was no longer clumsy as when he pinched hard to make a red mark, "you would be disappointed."
"It's a bit regrettable," Bai Li sighed, "you will miss my most pretentious moment this year."
Lu Zhao couldn't help laughing.
"Wuwu, you have to..." Bai Li was about to hum a few times to gain sympathy, but Lu Zhao's hand reached out and tucked his head to his neck.
"Honghong Lili." Lu Zhao grabbed two handfuls of Bai Li's soft and messy hair, "right."
The process was familiar to Major General Lu.
"I found that there was something wrong with you," Bai Li said with a sigh, "I now seriously suspect that you took advantage of my sympathy to achieve your own ulterior motives."
After Lu Zhao understood what he meant, he did not answer, but just laughed.
The hand on the back of Bai Li's neck rubbed unconsciously, rolling a few strands of hair and rubbing the skin.
Bai Li opened his mouth and bit Lu Zhao's shoulder through his clothes, then bit his side neck, pulled his collar to force Lu Zhao to lower his head, and then bit the gland again.
The feeling of being bitten directly at such a close distance was different from that of being bitten directly, and it brought about a secret throbbing and thirst. Lu Zhao was forced to lower his body and lie on the back of the sofa. The smell of Bai Li's pheromones was too familiar to him, and he would respond subconsciously without marking.
"It's faded." Bai Li's tongue brushed the almost invisible tooth marks on Lu Zhao's gland, and he felt the slight trembling of Lu Zhao's body and the disorder of his breathing. He even scraped the place that smelled of grass with his teeth, "Can I get another one?"
This cunning question is the bad part of Bai Li's character. Lu Zhao knew it and always satisfied Bai Li's gentle cunning. He felt that he was hanging in the air, and his gland was boiling the moment Bai Li touched it. He made a hoarse sound from his dry throat: "Bite it." The
orange color of the evening came in through the French window, and the night was coming.
It would be a gentle and long night.
If there is any news that can overshadow all the gossip today, it should be the scandal behind the scenes of Division 1 that was exposed just before dinner.
Since the end of last year, the citizens of the Empire seem to have not had much time to waste on entertainment news. Compared with those gossips about falling in love today and getting married tomorrow or getting married yesterday and cheating tomorrow, the more infuriating news in front of them often makes them realize that the Empire is not all blue skies at the moment.
It seems that they have finally opened their eyes recently, and found that they seem to have been living in a quagmire of nightmare before, and this cognition makes people feel cold all over.
According to relevant sources, a driver in the recently ongoing mecha contest zone 1 had pheromones running wild after the game, and was suspected of mental disorder, causing two Os in the backstage compartment to be forced into estrus. Because the driver was unwilling to make it public, he was not sent to the doctor in time, missed the best time to inject inhibitors, and suffered considerable damage to his body.
This news swept through the Empire Star Network like the wind, almost knocking everyone over.
It is normal for alphas to release pheromones appropriately, but being slightly presumptuous in public will be considered uncivilized behavior, and directly causing non-partner Os to enter estrus involuntarily will directly send them to the Empire prison.
People were shocked and extremely angry when such a thing happened in the recruitment competition. Allowing such a person to participate in the competition was already considered a careless screening, and after the incident, they did not disclose it to the public and tried to cover it up. This was simply challenging the bottom line of morality.
Whether it was people in the mecha circle or passers-by who didn't care about the competition itself, they were all furious about this revelation. The crowd was excited and cursed.
The curses were real, but it was a pity that the content of the revelation did not directly make it clear who the idiot who couldn't control his temper was. If there was a clear direction, the roof of the Tang family's old house would probably have been flattened by now.
Tang Xiao was like a balloon that was inflated, his face was red, and he had to keep loosening his collar to breathe.
At his feet was a broken goblet, and red wine spilled on the carpet, staining it with blood. His roar was the only sound in the entire study.
"--Now it's all my fault! I gave them a heads up when the incident first happened, but they didn't want to get involved because it was troublesome. Now that things have gotten out of hand, they're afraid of being implicated!"
The personal terminal on the side was not turned off yet. On the virtual screen was a text message from someone under the first heir, saying that the eldest master was trying to cover up the incident, and had already contacted the two victims who were still being treated in the hospital to see if they could solve the problem with money, and asked Tang Xiao to cooperate with them.
Although he wanted to help cover it up, he was more afraid of being implicated in the Tang family's affairs.
Lin Sheng, Tang and the eldest master have been in the same boat for a long time. Each of them is plugging a hole in the boat. If one person leaves, the boat may take on water and sink.
Therefore, the first heir was quite dissatisfied with Tang Xiao and Tang Kaiyuan, and his reply text message was full of blame.
Mrs. Tang sat quietly on the small sofa, holding a cup of hot tea. Her palms were painful from the burn, but she still didn't let go.
Tang Xiao was walking around like a red marble in a rage. She had to use this heat to remind herself not to laugh out loud.
"Otherwise," Tang Kaiyuan whispered beside him, "I'll go apologize to those two omegas and tell them not to make it public."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was hit on the forehead by a thick book as heavy as a brick.
"Don't you think you've caused enough trouble?!" Tang Xiao smashed another book and yelled, "You go? Do you want everyone to know that it was you who put them in estrus?"
The alpha's body was relatively strong, and there was no bleeding from this smash, but there was only a small swelling from being rubbed by the foot of the book.
Despite this, it was the first time that Tang Kaiyuan faced his father's violent side. He felt a little fear and panic for no reason, and subconsciously looked at his mother.
Mrs. Tang was still sitting there, drinking a sip of tea slowly, half-lowering her eyes, calm and with a gentle smile on her face.
She was wearing the skin of Tang Xiao's ideal partner, and she was already quite used to it.
"I thought that the two Omegas had a good impression of me before, and if I go and talk to them, they might not mind." Tang Kaiyuan explained.
Mrs. Tang glanced at him.
Even Tang Xiao was stunned for half a second, and laughed angrily: "Are you living in a dream?"
Although this was unintentional, it was like a fatal attack to Tang Kaiyuan. His face turned pale. In a dream, he wanted to live in a dream.
"Need I say more about what happened to those two unmarried Os? They probably won't want to see you for a few years," Tang Xiao sneered mercilessly, "Besides, as a noble A, you should also have some dignity."
Tang Kaiyuan responded softly.
It was not until the early morning that the old Tang family house quieted down in the middle of the night.
Tang Kaiyuan walked slowly along the corridor in a daze. Today's mecha competition caused him a lot of pressure.
None of the drivers who can advance to the finals are easy to mess with. In addition, he was disturbed by auditory hallucinations several times during the competition and almost made mistakes. Fortunately, his mental strength was greatly increased in the end to stabilize the situation.
The heavy mecha puts a lot of strain on the body, and Tang Kaiyuan feels very tired.
He recalled watching Bai Li's matches live in the backstage after the game.
The gorgeous sword drawing and exquisite close-range combat skills have become two aspects often mentioned in the analysis of Bai Li on the mecha forum, but when you actually see the game, the shock brought by Bai Li is far more shocking than the words in the forum posts and mecha weekly reports.
Tang Kaiyuan almost felt that Bai Li was still the proud son of heaven who was the focus of attention in his youth. He kept reminding himself that Bai Li was a waste and had been knocked down.
They both have the blood of the Bai family, so why can Bai Li have such a strong mental power?
——"Good genes after all, Master Tang's new mental power appraisal results are out... Very high, probably higher than that Mr. Bai..."
The disabled should just hide in the corner and collect dust, and don't compete with healthy people for positions.
——"I will open up a new path for the Bai and Tang families in the First Legion for you, Mr. Bai Li."
So what if you win, it must be the opponent's mistake, or the opponent's lack of experience.
——"Are you satisfied with these means to force obedience? Bai Li, your partner doesn't love you at all! You are committing a crime..."
Do you think the people applauding in the audience admire you? They are sympathizing! They are pitying! They just pity you because you are a waste!
——"Your life is so pitiful. You live in resentment. Bai Li, I forgive what you did. I even feel a little sympathy for you..."
The screams in his heart in reality and the flashing fragments in his dream intertwined. Tang Kaiyuan felt that countless voices were pressing on him, almost crushing him.
On the virtual screen, Bai Li walked down the simulation warehouse, took off his helmet, showed a smile without any haze, and shook hands with his opponent.
Tang Kaiyuan knew that at this moment, Bai Li could only hear applause.
But he had to be tortured by all kinds of noise.
People are different.
Why is it that you are always the one who is a head taller than others? !
"Kaiyuan." Someone called softly.
Tang Kaiyuan shuddered, looked around nervously, and finally turned around to see Mrs. Tang standing behind him. Only then did he realize that he was not hallucinating and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mother," Tang Kaiyuan cleared his throat, "It's so late, why don't you rest? Father will be unhappy."
Mrs. Tang smiled calmly: "It's okay, he has taken the medicine and is asleep. I have something else to tell you."
"You go ahead." Tang Kaiyuan said.
"That machine," Mrs. Tang paused, and finally said her thoughts without disguising, "You should stop using it."
Tang Kaiyuan was stunned, his face a little gloomy: "I can hold on."
"Your mental condition is very bad, I'm very worried, the doctor has said many times that you need to receive treatment to stabilize your mental strength, you have reached the point where other innocent children are implicated." Mrs. Tang did not look at his expression, and continued, "Even if we don't talk about the issue of whether you can hold on or not, I don't think this machine has made you better."
Tang Kaiyuan frowned: "What do you mean?" He said loudly with some excitement, "My mental strength is improving, I won the competition! I am qualified to join the First Legion, and I will go to the front line to drive a mecha in the future! I'm getting better!"
"This is not getting better." Mrs. Tang said calmly, "It's addiction. The sense of accomplishment that is higher than your original strength makes you addicted. You can't afford it, but you are unwilling to give it up. This is the greed after addiction."
Tang Kaiyuan felt like he fell into an ice cave.
He seemed to have his fig leaf torn off by his own mother, and only then did he realize that other people had already seen the filth deep in his heart.
"Why do you say that!" He felt a surge of anger from the bottom of his heart, "Only I can get on that machine, so this is my own ability! I won the game, the winner is the strong, and the loser is trash--"
Mrs. Tang finally had an expression, and she turned her eyes away as if she didn't want to watch any more. But
her heart was very calm, with a little bitterness in her calmness.
"Don't say that," Mrs. Tang said softly, "People who work hard and down to earth should not be defined by winning or losing."
Tang Kaiyuan's voice was stuck in his throat, and after a long time he said: "You mean, I'm not down to earth?"
"I don't mean anything," Mrs. Tang explained, "I just hope you can stop the machine..."
"If you stop it, you can't win," Tang Kaiyuan looked at her, "and then lose to Bai Li?"
Mrs. Tang was stunned and speechless.
"Mother," Tang Kaiyuan whispered, "Do you only have the Bai family and Bai Li in your heart?"
"How can you..." Mrs. Tang didn't know what to say, and laughed at herself.
"You look down on me," Tang Kaiyuan said in a trance, "because I am always suppressed by Bai Li."
Mrs. Tang stood in the corridor, and it seemed that for the first time in so many years, she looked at her son seriously.
After a long silence, she spoke: "In my heart, you and Bai Li are indeed different."
Tang Kaiyuan looked at her resentfully.
"If there is any difference, it's probably that I can call myself a mother in front of you," Mrs. Tang said, "but I don't have the face to say that in front of Bai Li."
This answer made Tang Kaiyuan unable to react for a moment.
"I am a failed mother, a failed person," Mrs. Tang patted Tang Kaiyuan's arm and said gently, "Have a good rest, and do your best in tomorrow's game."
She no longer feels disappointed in others.
Disappointment in oneself is always more destructive than disappointment in others.
Yesterday's explosive news fermented overnight, and when Bai Li got up the next day, it had developed into a scandal known to the whole empire.
He was only responsible for opening the way for the news, and naturally someone was willing to dig deeper.
Bai Li lay in bed and browsed the web for a while. Just looking at the overwhelming news and various speculations, the real and fake reports and the continuous revelations, he felt that the Tang family and the Lin family should be very busy now.
An arm came across and rested on Bai Li's stomach, and the voice was hoarse as if he had just woken up: "Go to the research institute first?"
"No time, the first game is my game," Bai Li put down his personal terminal and looked sideways, "Go directly from home to the main stadium, will you take me there?"
This time was slightly earlier than the time Lu Zhaoping usually got up. Major General Lu's face was still a little confused. He said "hmm" and sat up, and was stunned for a few seconds.
Lu Zhao is usually like this when he is not awake. Bai Li has seen this several times, and every time he thinks that Major General Lu who is fighting against sleepiness is quite cute.
Reaching out and touching Lu Zhao's back, he saw the bite marks on the gland hidden between the ends of his hair.
"Huh?" Thinking that he was called, Lu Zhao turned around.
Revealing the collarbone and neck covered with marks, the AO would be more relaxed after the mark. Lu Zhao was a little lazy in his sleepy eyes, and reached out to rub Bai Li's left leg: "Get up."
Major General Lu was obviously more active than Master Bai, and he got up as soon as he said he would.
Bai Li touched his waist and then grabbed Lu Zhao's lower abdomen.
Lu Zhao's sleepiness was gone in an instant, and he looked at him with half-closed eyes.
"I'm so sleepy," Bai Li pretended not to see the look, "I'm sleepwalking."
Lu Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and rubbed Bai Li's dog head fiercely.
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" Bai Li laughed and shouted, "I'll get up right away!"
The apartment is a little far from the main stadium, but fortunately they are on an elevated road all the way. With Major General Lu driving at a high speed, the two of them still have plenty of time to reach the main stadium.
"I'll go in first, Situ and the others are already preparing," Bai Li, wearing a competition suit, did not park the car at the conspicuous front door, but at the back door where there were relatively few people and close to the participants' lounge, "Jiang Hao and the others seem to have arrived too, so let's park the car here, it will be convenient when you pick me up." Lu Zhao
picked him up every day, and Bai Li was used to it.
"Yes." Lu Zhao also got out of the car and closed the door. "You go in, I..."
Someone finally made a sound.
Bai Li could already tell that the sound was a message from the army.
At this time, any message from the army could be a notice to transfer Lu Zhao.
Neither of them spoke. Lu Zhao opened it and took a look. His expression relaxed. "Notification of a meeting in the afternoon. It is estimated that it is still under negotiation."
"Okay." Bai Li smiled and took two steps towards the main stadium.
He suddenly turned back and hugged Lu Zhao tightly.
"You know what I'm thinking," Bai Li patted his back, "Even if I really transfer you to another position, you don't have to worry about this, understand?"
Lu Zhao smelled the familiar pheromone and put his lips on Bai Li's earlobe: "Yeah."
After Bai Li walked into the back door of the main stadium, Lu Zhao moved the suspension car into the parking lot and walked towards the main entrance where Jiang Hao and the others were waiting while replying to text messages.
The text message did not reveal much information, but Lu Zhao discussed with Jiang Hao and felt that the local army should first conduct a large-scale investigation on the peripheral satellite planets, and the First Army would be responsible for the exploration of the more distant barren planets that have not yet been included in the satellite planets.
He hadn't walked a few steps when he could sense someone walking towards the back door out of the corner of his eye. Then he smelled a hint of alcohol and looked up.
The Shengshi Research Institute's suspended vehicle was parked nearby. The team members had already gotten off and were walking over here with their equipment.
The alpha in the lead was wearing a racing suit and smiling as he looked at him.
Lu Zhao's gaze didn't pause for a moment. He glanced over and then returned to the virtual screen.
"Lu Zhao." Tang Kaiyuan called him as he was about to pass by.
Lu Zhao didn't even bother to raise his head. He walked forward while poking at the virtual screen, ignoring Tang Kaiyuan's voice.
Tang Kaiyuan was stung by the smell of Bai Li wrapped around Lu Zhao. This rude and possessive meaning was not concealed at all, just as arrogant and domineering as Bai Li.
"Lu Zhao," Tang Kaiyuan called again, whispering, "Let's talk."
The second half of the sentence was very low, but the voice of calling the name was very loud.
Passers-by in groups of three or two looked over, the name Lu Zhao was so loud that they couldn't help but take a second look.
Lu Zhao stopped and looked back at Tang Kaiyuan.
Tang Kaiyuan's eyes fell on Lu Zhao's face. This calm face without any unnecessary expression was exactly the same as the one in his dream, which made him unable to help but say in a trance: "Actually, I don't want to cancel the engagement. I always remember that when we were young, we..."
"Why do you always seem to be," Lu Zhao said. It was the first time he spoke to Tang Kaiyuan face to face, which made the latter feel very good. But Lu Zhao paused, found the right words and continued, "Living in a dream?"
Compared with the original meaning of this sentence, the sincerity in Lu Zhao's tone was more like a slap, directly hitting Tang Kaiyuan on the head.
Lu Zhao finished speaking lightly, without even lingering his eyes, and walked away without waiting for Tang Kaiyuan to speak again.
——"Are you living in a dream?"
Tang Xiao's words and Lu Zhao's voice overlapped last night and echoed in his mind repeatedly.
Tang Kaiyuan clenched his hands hanging on both sides of his body into fists.
They looked down on him, everyone looked down on him.
"Master Tang, let's go in--" The assistant came over and called him, but was punched in the chest and took two steps back. Fortunately, it was a beta and only cried out in pain.
Tang Kaiyuan came to his senses, and when he turned around, he still had the decent smile of a young master from a noble family on his face: "Sorry, I didn't pay attention."
The assistant dared not to be angry, and the researchers around him were silent and exchanged glances.
They all knew that Tang Kaiyuan didn't sleep well all night because of yesterday's news.
This would only make him more manic.
Amidst the public outcry and various revelations, the second day of the finals is about to begin, and four of the eight models will be eliminated.
While StarNet was still digging deep into the backstage events of Division 1, Tang Xiao's call to Lin Sheng was not answered.
Lin Sheng no longer had time to answer any calls.