Chapter 98
The Adventure contributed a batch of energy crystals, which were ruthlessly seized by the Exploration and placed in the energy crystal reserve.
Tang Bai told the captain that he wanted to make a mecha pet, which would require some energy crystals.
At this time, the old captain had no idea how much Dandan ate, so he waved his hand and let him go generously.
Tang Bai and Xie Ruheng walked into the energy reserve depot together. The moment they entered, the mecha egg that had been lying quietly suddenly began to tremble slightly, and was so happy that it wanted to roll out in Tang Bai's hand.
"Look how hungry the kid is." Tang Bai placed the mecha egg on a pile of energy crystals. The moment the pitch-black metal egg touched the energy crystals, the energy crystals, which were as crystal clear and moist as jade, turned into powder.
A flash of light appeared on the eggshell, and the mecha egg automatically rolled towards another pile of energy crystals that were not damaged.
[Where did Tang Bai find this mecha egg? ! ]
[This egg is delicious]
[He ate too much and consumed one tenth of the energy crystals in the energy storage in one go.]
"...I feel like the friendship between the captain and I might capsize." Tang Bai said sadly.
Xie Ruheng comforted her, "Being able to eat is a blessing."
"No!" Tang Bai grabbed the heavy mecha egg and said, "If we eat any more, the Exploration will not have much energy left!"
At this time, the mecha egg has consumed all the energy contributed by the Adventure, plus one-third of the energy stored by the Exploration itself. The eggshell is full of luster and there is a slight sound. It seems to be showing signs of breaking.
Tang Bai had never seen the mechanical vines break the shell with his own eyes, so he held the egg in his palm. Xie Ruheng held Tang Bai's hand in his palm, and the family of three huddled together harmoniously.
"Tap, tap, tap." There were knocking sounds coming from inside the mecha egg.
Tang Bai's eyes showed a touch of kindness and emotion: "It was as if a little life had descended upon us, carefully knocked on our door, and timidly asked us if it could come in."
Xie Ruheng didn't quite understand Tang Bai's delicate and romantic idea. He said to Tang Bai: "When I hatched it before, it often made such a sound."
"Hmm... I guess what you mean is that you don't have enough energy crystals and you want to eat more."
The mecha egg shook slightly with excitement, as if agreeing with Xie Ruheng's words.
Tang Bai: “…”
Tang Bai placed the heavy egg in Xie Ruheng's hand. He stretched out his finger, flicked the mecha egg's head, and said coldly, "That's it. Shut up!"
The eggs continued to make the knocking sound unwillingly, like a little beggar knocking on an empty bowl.
Xie Ruheng frowned when he saw that the mecha egg dared to challenge Tang Bai's educational authority: "Don't contradict your little dad."
Dandan calmed down feeling aggrieved.
Tang Bai walked out of the energy storage depot with a guilty conscience under the old captain's grief-stricken gaze. He began to doubt whether he could pull the mechanical vines to grow.
"Attention all players! The virus has spread to the vicinity of the energy star! In order to contain the virus, we have decided to implement the Mechanical Vine Project! Please hand over 90% of the energy on the spaceship to the Exploration..."
Tang Bai heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the system's announcement. Crowdfunding to raise a cub relieved a lot of his stress.
Nearly half of the NPCs on the spaceship are preparing to return. Now these NPCs and players are arguing on the spaceship. Tang Bai decides to take the mechanical vines to these spaceships to eat and drink for free.
The mecha technicians of the Exploration followed Tang Bai onto another spaceship. With numbers, they could suppress the NPCs by force when necessary.
Gu Tunan and his team were very skilled at intimidating NPCs. A bunch of fully armed Alphas went to the energy storage depot, and when the players on their own spaceship "rebelled" and the robbers from foreign spaceships had strong forces, these NPCs watched in grief as most of the energy on their spaceship was swept away by the mecha eggs.
After the mechanical vines damaged the energy reserves of two more spaceships, cracks finally appeared in the eggshell, and a thin mechanical vine emerged, followed by the second, the third, and so on.
More and more vines pushed open the eggshell. Under the gaze of everyone, it stretched out a soft vine and rubbed Tang Bai's fingertips affectionately.
[It's pretty cute, but can such a small thing really catch the insects? ]
[I found that it looks a bit like Xie Shen's real-life mecha pet. Wait, it seems to be the data input of Xie Shen's mecha pet]
The vines now have the pure temperament of a newborn, which is completely different from the old and perverted temperament when I first saw them.
The more Tang Bai looked at it, the more puzzled he felt. It was a pretty good guy, but why was the mechanical vine so filthy when he met it?
No matter what, this kid still has to save everyone. Tang Bai put aside his grudges and gently stroked the small vine, making the small leaves on the vine tremble with joy.
"You have to work hard to grow up and defeat the insect tribe!" Tang Bai said softly to the vines.
The vines responded with even more intense clacking sounds.
"Look, Brother Xie, it's responding to me." Tang Bai said with relief.
Xie Ruheng was silent for a moment, but ultimately did not reveal the cruel truth that the sound was the vines wanting to eat more.
"Do you think they will succeed?" Teacher Zheng asked nervously.
The principal looked at Tang Bai and the mechanical vine in the live broadcast. The mechanical vine had grown to the size of a small building and was undergoing running-in training with Xie Ruheng.
Data import is to import the mechanical vines in reality. The mechanical vines that have already recognized their master in reality will still recognize Xie Ruheng as their master in the game. Only Xie Ruheng can unleash the full power of the mechanical vines.
The advantages of mechanical vines can only be fully brought into play when they are combined with mechas. The roots of the vines parasitize on the mechas, and countless vines weave a new body, making the mechas gigantic.
The mechanical vines themselves have strong defenses, comparable to the Zerg virus. Each vine can fight alone, but when combined together they are even more powerful.
When Xie Ruheng drives a mecha parasitized by mechanical vines to fight against the Zerg, he does not need to defeat the Zerg, but only needs to delay the Zerg to buy precious time for his teammates to drive the spaceship to the energy star.
The survival rate of this combat plan called Mechanical Vines is close to 100%, making it the one with the highest survival rate among countless plans.
In fact, in addition to the bait plan, they also came up with a plan with a higher survival rate, called the self-destruction plan.
All students who can fly a spaceship will control the spaceship to come to the Zerg and activate the self-destruct mode. The survival rate of this plan is also as high as 90%.
This plan was not adopted for three reasons. First, there were few students who could fly a spaceship. Second, there were even fewer students who could fly a spaceship and were willing to sacrifice themselves (death in a game infected by a bio-information virus has a certain chance of causing brain death in reality).
Third, Tang Bai is one of the few students who can fly a spaceship.
He is the only heir of the Tang family and the most influential mecha manufacturer of the new generation in the Federation. In the future, he is very likely to become a weapons manufacturing master who inherits Mr. Tang Rong's weapons research institute.
His Excellency Tang Rong made great contributions to the Federation, but his wife died in the Empire's early hunting plan against the Federation. If His Excellency Tang Rong's only grandson were to die in the hunting plan, the Federation would be unworthy of the hero.
Therefore, among the thirteen plans submitted to the military, the self-destruction plan was secretly crossed out by a senior member of the Federation.
The principal opened the document that was sent to him again. "Mr. Tang Rong also believes that there is no need to take special care of Tang Bai. There is no distinction between noble and cheap lives. Since he (Tang Bai) has chosen this path, he is ready to sacrifice. The Tang family understands and obeys all arrangements made by the military and the school."
The next part of the passage is: "Lord Tang Rong supports the self-destruction plan. Lord Tang Rong believes that if Tang Bai can choose on his own, Tang Bai will also choose the self-destruction plan. Lord Tang Rong said that we should not dominate anyone's life and should let the children make their own choices."
The principal raised his head and looked at Tang Bai, who was smiling brightly on the screen. After a while, he let out a very light sigh.
Mr. Tang Rong still guessed wrong.
The boy did not choose any of the thirteen plans; he came up with a completely new one.
A solution that could save everyone.
What do people call this child?
It seems to be... the omega light?
Tang Bai stood at the door of the mecha training room and watched Xie Ruheng and Teng Man doing the running-in training. At this time, the Teng Mecha was limited by the size of the mecha training room and did not grow to its largest size.
The focus of the current running-in training is to ensure that the mecha master's ideas are conveyed to the mechanical vines in a timely manner and without causing time lag.
Tang Bai established a neural link between the mechanical vines and the driving helmet. At this time, any ideas in Xie Ruheng's mind could be transmitted to the mechanical vines in time and executed.
Xie Ruheng looked through the display screen in the cockpit and saw Tang Bai smiling at him and saying, "How are you getting along?"
Xie Ruheng controlled the mecha and extended a mechanical arm surrounded by green vines to Tang Bai. He stopped the mechanical hand in front of Tang Bai and flexibly controlled it to hook his finger at Tang Bai, "Come up."
Tang Bai didn't come up immediately. He poked the green vine fingers curiously.
The mechanical vine had just broken out of the shell not long ago. The vine was so slender that it could gently wrap around his fingertips. But now its size was reversed. Tang Bai had to open his arms to hug this "finger" formed by the mechanical vines.
This is probably what adults often say to their juniors when they say, "You've grown up so fast."
Old father Tang Bai smiled with relief.
Xie Ruheng in the vine mecha was enjoying the perspective of a giant at the moment. Tang Bai on the display screen looked very small, like a delicate figurine.
After Tang Bai touched the huge "finger" with his small fingertips, he didn't know what he thought of. He curled his eyes and smiled sweetly. Then he climbed up the huge mechanical hand obediently, knelt on the hand woven with mechanical vines, and curiously stroked the leaves that greeted him.
This picture was so cute that Xie Ruheng's lips curled up wildly, and he felt the joy of holding Tang Bai in his palm.
He never thought that vines could have this function. All he knew before was...
Just as Xie Ruheng was lost in his memories, countless mechanical vines suddenly emerged from the mecha in his hands. They first instantly weaved into a semicircular cover, covering Tang Bai upside down like lightning, and then used thin and tough branches to tie and pull apart Tang Bai's limbs like flowing water.
Tang Bai: “......?”
It turns out that you are the one who brought the kid back astray!
I heard that if you feed the vine cub some nutrient solution, it will have more strength to beat the bad guys!