Chapter 158 Today is Different from the Past
After Sheng Heng ended his vacation and left the capital star, Yan Hao plunged into his research again. However, at 11 o'clock every night, Mr. Pang would force Yan Hao to go back and rest.
Yan Hao's main task now is to make a level 7 mimic mecha. Unlike traditional mecha, mimic mecha requires a huge amount of mental power to make, about ten times that of traditional mecha. And while making mimic mecha, Yan Hao is still studying the phantom stone. He is trying to find other ways to open the phantom stone so that the effect of the phantom stone can be maximized. Because he always feels that the breakthrough point of the level 10 mimic mecha lies in the phantom stone. In this way, he needs to consume more mental power.
Although Yan Hao already possessed S-level mental power, the stronger the mental power, the less it should be consumed, because the backlash of mental power is proportional to the level of mental power. The higher the level of mental power, the more careful one should be about how to use it. Old Pang always watched Yan Hao rest, fearing that he would be too focused and overuse his mental power.
"It's eleven o'clock, go back and have a rest." Mr. Pang appeared in front of Yan Hao's workbench on time.
"I understand. Wait until I finish this." Yan Hao said as he sped up his movements.
Old Pang glanced at the part in Yan Hao's hand. It was a joint part of a mecha, and it looked like it was just the beginning.
Want to work overtime again?
Elder Pang mercilessly took away the prototype of the parts from Yan Hao's hand: "Rest is for better work. Excessive consumption of mental energy is very dangerous."
"Teacher." Yan Hao smiled bitterly, "With my mental strength, staying up late for three or four days is not a problem."
"Staying up late will accelerate brain damage and thus affect intelligence. Do you still want to develop a level 10 mimicry mecha?" Mr. Pang asked.
"Don't you often stay up late too?" Yan Hao retorted in a low voice. Those of them who are engaged in scientific research all stay up late. Staying up late is their norm.
"You're right. I did stay up late. Not only me, but Old Man Zhong also often stays up late. That's why I haven't been able to research super-class weapons. Old Man Zhong has been working for more than ten years and still hasn't been able to develop a level 7 mimicking mecha."
Is this caused by staying up late? Yan Hao expressed his doubts, but he was powerless to refute, so he could only obediently leave the laboratory.
"Yan Hao."
Yan Hao just came out of the laboratory building when he heard someone calling him. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young man in a dark military uniform standing under a street light not far away. The street light fell from behind him, making it difficult to see his appearance. But Yan Hao recognized him at a glance because the uniform belonged to the Sima Army.
"Sima Mingxuan?" Yan Hao frowned.
The figure under the street light walked a few steps out, revealing Sima Mingxuan's cold and hard features. Sima Mingxuan did not get too close to Yan Hao, but stopped consciously when he was three meters away from Yan Hao. Yan Hao, who was originally preparing to retreat and distance himself from the other party, stopped when he saw Sima Mingxuan did not continue to move forward.
"Can I take up a few minutes of your time?" Sima Mingxuan asked politely.
"If I say no, will you leave?" Yan Hao asked.
"No." Sima Mingxuan said.
Yan Hao couldn't help but roll his eyes. He knew it. This person was obviously waiting for him here on purpose, and he appeared not long after the senior left. It was obvious that he had planned this for a long time. How could he leave so easily?
Facing Sima Mingxuan alone again, Yan Hao did not feel scared. Now he also had S-level mental power, and it was impossible for Sima Mingxuan to intimidate him with mental power. After the initial shock, Yan Hao quickly calmed down and analyzed the reason why Sima Mingxuan came to him.
"You came to me to exchange the prescription for curing your mental power, right?" Sheng Heng had told him this once before, but he didn't care much at the time and didn't really want to save Sima Mingxuan, so he forgot about it later.
"Sheng Heng told you?" Sima Mingxuan asked in surprise.
"Didn't you ask the God of War Legion for an exchange?" Yan Hao asked.
Sima Mingxuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I thought Sheng Heng deliberately didn't want to save me, so he said that, but it turns out it was really you..."
Sima Mingxuan was trained as the successor of the legion since he was a child, and he has a very high sensitivity in judging major events. When Yan Hao suddenly started a live broadcast and the All Star Network announced the use of the Phantom Stone, he immediately guessed that it was a special arrangement by Elder Pang and Elder Zhong. These two mecha masters wanted to use this method to officially announce to the public that the future leader of mecha manufacturing is Yan Hao. He knew from that moment that Yan Hao was no longer a person he could mess with at will.
And his guess was correct, and the Federation's subsequent series of operations all verified this. But he had to come to Yan Hao, because his sea of consciousness was in danger, and he had to get the medicine to treat his mental power.
After the mission of raiding the Zerg, Sima Mingxuan locked himself in the house to think for a whole day, and then went to find his uncle, General Sima. Finally, General Sima was persuaded by Sima Mingxuan, and contacted General Sheng Tianxing in the name of the legion. He confessed Sima Mingxuan's true situation to the other party, and sincerely proposed to exchange potions.
No matter what kind of friction there was between the two families, it was all done secretly. This kind of open request was hard to refuse. But General Sheng did not agree immediately. Instead, he said that he would convey their wishes to the pharmacist himself and see what the pharmacist's wishes were. They would not force him.
Sima Mingxuan knew that the pharmacist was Yan Hao, so he followed him back to the capital planet during the award ceremony and waited for General Sheng to meet Yan Hao. In order not to cause a counter-effect, he did not even approach Yan Hao on the day of the dinner. But the next day, General Sheng conveyed the news that the pharmacist was unwilling to exchange the prescription.
Yan Hao didn't want to save him? He wanted him to die?
Although Sima Mingxuan didn't know why Yan Hao always had an inexplicable hostility towards him, he was sure that Yan Hao was not the kind of person who hated someone and wished that person dead. On the contrary, he was a very soft-hearted person. A soft-hearted person would not stand by and watch someone die, especially when that person abandoned all routines and asked for help frankly.
Therefore, after hearing the news of Yan Hao's refusal, Sima Mingxuan's first reaction was that Sheng Heng had never mentioned his request for help to Yan Hao, and wanted to take this opportunity to kill him directly.
"Why?" Sima Mingxuan's eyes were complicated and his heart was filled with mixed feelings. If Yan Hao really refused to save him, then his future would be death.
Of course, he could also destroy his sea of consciousness before his mental power completely erupted, so that he could save his life, but for someone like him, it would be better for him to die than to live like that.
"I have no obligation to save you, and... I hate you."
"I know you hate me, but why?" Sima Mingxuan was puzzled. "Is it because of Yan Fei? But when I met you, I didn't know Yan Fei yet, and you already hated me at that time."
That’s because I hated you in my last life.
Yan Hao did not answer, but just stared at the other person in silence.
Sima Mingxuan laughed at himself, didn't ask any more questions, took a step back, turned around and walked into the shadows.
Just leave like that?
Yan Hao was stunned for a moment. In his impression, Sima Mingxuan was not the kind of person who would give up easily?
Yan Hao couldn't figure it out, so he went back to the dormitory and told He Shao about Sima Mingxuan's visit. After listening, He Shao sighed helplessly, "Because things are different now. Although you were a genius before, you were just a student with no background. Even if you have Sheng Heng and the God of War Legion to back you up, Sima Mingxuan also has the Sima Legion behind him. And as long as he does it covertly enough, the God of War Legion may not even have an excuse to attack, so he will naturally dare to force you."
"But now, who are you? You are the future of the Federation's mechas, the winner of the Purple Medal. Anyone who dares to touch your hair is against the entire Federation." When he got excited, He Shao couldn't help but reach out and poke Yan Hao's head, "You, you, do you have any self-awareness?"
"Does poking my head like this count as going against the entire federation?" Yan Hao covered his head and dodged.
"..." He Shao's hand froze, and after a moment of silence, he stabbed again fiercely, "Go report me if you have the guts."
"I was wrong, I was wrong..." Yan Hao wailed and kept dodging.
Among the eight planets recovered, one was the former habitat of the Phantom Beast. According to the Federation's records, this planet should be the earliest habitat of the Phantom Beast. After cleaning up the Zerg corpses on it, the Federation explored the planet and indeed found a large number of Phantom Stone veins on it. The increase in Phantom Stones also means that the Federation will have more and more advanced mechas.
As time went by, under close attention, the military discovered that the Zerg outside the Federation did not have any abnormal reactions, so they gradually felt relieved. Some people even thought that the previous speculation might be wrong, and the Zerg King would not be angered by the death of the Zerg.
"We are clearly in the upper hand now, and the Zerg are no match for us. Why should we insist on defending?" In the video conference regularly chaired by the Federal Marshal, senior military officials actively expressed their opinions, and most of them were in favor of war.
"If we only know how to defend, when will we be able to completely drive away those disgusting Zergs?"
"When the Zerg run out of food, they will attack the human planet. We will have a battle with them sooner or later. Why don't we take the initiative? Are we going to wait for the next wormhole to appear?"
"With our current combat power, we have no guarantee of victory if we face the Insect King." General Sheng expressed his concerns calmly.
"Admiral Sheng, are you worrying too much? The Zerg are a group of creatures that only know how to reproduce. They have low intelligence and don't care about the life and death of their companions at all. For them, supplies are everything. No matter how many companions die, they can regenerate." Admiral Sima said bluntly.
The Sima Legion and the God of War Legion had never gotten along well, and General Sheng had rejected his request to exchange potions not long ago. General Sima was furious but unable to vent his anger. Now that he had the chance, he naturally wanted to go against the other side on everything.
"What if the Insect King is enraged? Yes, we now have the Phantom Stone, the military has grown in strength, and we have more Level 9 mechas than before, and there will be more in the future, but we don't have enough Level 10 mecha warriors." Admiral Sheng said seriously, "Back then, we sent out five Level 10 mecha warriors to barely repel the Insect King. Now where can we find three more Level 10 mecha warriors? Not to mention Level 10 mecha warriors, even those with the potential to become Level 10 mecha warriors, can the entire federation find three more?"
"Originally, we have such a talent in the Sima Corps, but General Sheng seems to be afraid of us and is unwilling to help." As soon as General Sima said this, the faces of the other people in the video became strange.
The news of Sima Mingxuan's mental problems had spread when the Sima Corps asked for help from the God of War Corps. For this reason, General Sheng even reported it to Marshal Yu Xiuyuan. After Yu Xiuyuan knew that the pharmacist who prepared the potion was Yan Hao, he didn't want to force him. After all, Yan Hao was more valuable than Sima Mingxuan.
"Sima, don't talk about things that are not related to the meeting." Yu Xiuyuan reminded Admiral Sima.
General Sima's face froze. "General Yu, I just think that General Sheng's idea is a fluke. How can he be sure that defense is the best method? What if the Insect King is seriously injured and can't exert his full strength? We are passively defending like this, which may just give it time to recuperate."
"What General Sima said does make some sense." General Feng, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
"That's right. Moreover, the Zerg has been evolving over the past few hundred years. If the Zerg King really recovers from his injuries and evolves new abilities, wouldn't that be even more troublesome?" Others raised new concerns.
Seeing someone agreeing, General Sima suddenly felt a sense of pride.
Until the end of the meeting, the two sides failed to reach a consensus. Admiral Sheng hung up the phone, frowning and looking worried.
At this time, General Sheng's communication suddenly rang again. He quickly clicked it, and a middle-aged man with a dignified face and fifty-year-old hair appeared in the video.
"Marshal Yu!" Admiral Sheng called out respectfully. This man was none other than the federal marshal Yu Xiuyuan who had just presided over the recollection.
"Tian Xing, although both of you held different opinions in the meeting just now, you both reflected the same problem at the same time, that is, the Federation lacks level 10 combat power."
General Sheng's eyes flickered, and he immediately realized the reason why Yu Xiuyuan made this call.
"I have met Sima Mingxuan. This kid is indeed a good talent, no worse than Sheng Zhuo. The most rare thing is that he has S-level mental power, and he does have the potential to become a level 10 mecha warrior. He has also been active on the front lines recently and has made many military achievements. It would be a pity if he could not advance."
"General Yu, I understand what you mean. I will try to persuade you again." Admiral Sheng said.
"At the critical moment, let Sheng Heng use his beauty trap." Yu Xiuyuan suggested.
“…”Admiral Sheng.
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