Chapter 89 – Psionic Link
"Tama, what did you learn from these stupid runes?"
*Mrrr?* (Runes? Oh, the psionic codes?)
*Mew!* (They boasted about how great MWG and how righteous MWG is.)
*Meh?* (Why should I serve them because of their greatness?)
*Nom-Nom* (They didn't even mention about rewards and food!)
*NOM-NOM-HOM-NOM MEW!* (What's the point working for free without getting good food!? MWG is a bunch of slave-driving phonies! Why should I die for them!? Why should I follow after their commands till death!? Unless they promise a planet worth of red gels, then I'll reconsider it!)
Tama seemed to be offended by the sudden memory injection. Fortunately, her ego conscience and her gluttony dominated over the new memories.
"Are you going to follow after them?"
*MEH!* (MWG!? NOPE!)
*Nom-Nom Mew* (At least, I can eat good fishes and jellies if I'm with you.)
*Meh* (MWG employee welfare sucks!)
Listening to Tama, Mia burst into laughter,
"Tama, did it teach you how to control this?"
*Mew* (They did. Want me to teach you?)
"Yes, please."
*Nom-Nom?* (Wage, please.)
The corner of Mia's mouth twitched, "You already ate a red gel from my pocket. Can you sense another presence of an alpha egg or a hydra? Crystal warned me that if you eat more than one red gels from the same origin, you'll die from the psych attack from the blood owner."
*MYA!* (NANI!?)
*Mrrr!* (Let me check!)
Ten seconds later
*Mew!* (No problem! No owner detected!)
"Are you sure? Your life is at risk, you know?"
*Meh!* (Banana Mish! Eat one of them yourself and tell me if they still have an owner!)
"…"
Mia slapped his forehead and put one into his mouth as Tama had suggested.
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Mia ignored the game notification and focused on his sense. As Tama had said, he did not detect any hostile alpha egg or a presence. Furthermore, all remaining red gels seemed to be from the same origin since Mia could compare them to the gel that he ate.
"My bad, Tama. You can have it."
*NOM-NOM MEW* (That's more like it! I'll transfer my knowledge to you.)
*Mew* (Relax your muscles. I'll enter you slowly and gently.)
Before Mia could retort that it sounded dirty, Tama's blood-vessel-size tentacles dove into parietal lobe at the back of Misha's head. It transmitted mild electricity to the neuron cells on Mia's brain tissues, and a flood of images entered Mia's vision.
He saw himself undertake training and piloting this robot for decades, which it turned into his second nature.
However, among those images, something from the back of his brain also emerged. A vivid-like dream also came to Mia.
It was a dream about him in the second year in the child training program, which he had forgotten for years. During the training, he and his male friends were practicing a particular psychic skill.
It was an ability that could control the actions of their fellow friends! Mia remembered competing against his male friends by using this skill on all of the female students in the same generation.
Mia won that competition, but it seemed the instructors were not very happy about their little game. They were told not to use this skill on them ever again for some reason.
"What skill was that? Err, I can't remember the name …"
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"Yup! Psionic Possession was the name … wait, what!?"
Mia widened his eyes in shock. Just by recalling his lost memories, he obtained many skills in-game at once.
Moreover, a familiar feeling that he lost after his grandmother implanted her memories into him came back. Mia recalled how he could exercise his consciousness and link his thought with someone else.
It was similar to telepathy, but they were not the same.
Telepathy was for direct communication via thought. Psionic Link synchronized multiple consciousnesses of two or more persons into one.
Also, Psionic Possession was an upgraded version of the psionic link as it could take over the conscience of the user's target.
Those two psionic abilities were the skills that male students could use during those years.
"How nostalgia. I missed this skill. How did I forget my favorite toys?"
Mia was aware of himself. Currently, his facial expression distorted into a sinister smile.
*Mew* (Let's try playing with this thing. We have 1,100 diamonds to farm!)
Mia snapped back to his sense. The exhilarating feeling disappeared and was suppressed into the back of his head.
"Right! Banana me, I forgot!"
Because of the new memories injected by Tama, Mia grabbed the controller grips and stomped on foot pedals as if he mastered piloting this for a decade.
But the robot still did not move.
*Mrrr?*
"Hmm?"
Then, the OS informed them what they lacked with the weird language that Mia could not read before. However, Mia and Tama could read them now.
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"Pseudo engines?"
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"…"
Mia frowned and looked behind him. Located on the back of the chest cockpit, the main power supply emitted dim light as if it almost ran out of power.
"I'm supposed to charge this with my psychic power?"
Upon closer inspection, Mia found out that this was not the psionic glass tube in the engine that he knew. Instead of using a psionic core as the main power supply, it used something else entirely.
In reflex, Mia flickered his tongue like a snake to smell the round core inside the naked reactor. It had a similar scent as … a red gel!
*Mrrr?* (What's wrong?)
"I think the thing inside the engine might be a core of a dead alpha egg."
*MYA!* (HAH!?)
Curious, Mia activated his psionic link with the engine to inspect the core inside. Once his consciousness touched the white ball, there was no reaction.
Mia probed further and got inside the core.
"Hmm."
A few seconds after the inspection, Mia pulled back his psionic link.
*Mew?* (How is it?)
"It's a false core. I think there are more in other engines."
*Mew?* (Is this a material for mutating someone to a dragonewt? I thought it was a hydra core from its scent.)
"I don't think so. They don't have a trace of deadly presence like Amro or the same lingering power in red gels. My thought was the same as yours at first glance, but they are completely different. I think Joan or her crews synthesized this using a bionic 3D printer or a cloning module, so she can use this as a substitute of the refined titan arum as the materials."
As it was safe to link with these dead cores in many engines within the Prometheus Prototype, Mia established a link with the central power core and activated his [Electrokinesis: Zap], charging the engine.
The temperature in the cockpit increased as the electricity discharged from Mia's body. Tama could feel the sharp pricking sensation, but she did not complain about it.
Since electric currents were hot, she enjoyed it as if it was a healthy massage.
*VRRRR*
The engine light brightened.
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Meanwhile, Joan gazed at the awakening robot with a grin.
'By now, that sissy should have been brainwashed. Ha! Whatever happened inside the cockpit is not my fault. If Uriel Min finds out about this, I'll just blame it on that Luckyaf family and Gabriel Lobmak!'
'You morons can fight each other to the death! My father and I will watch this on the sideline!'
She laughed while she proceeded to her mech, which was half the size smaller than the Prometheus.
However,
Prometheus suddenly lifted its left feet and extended it toward her direction.
A dark shadow slowly descended upon her as she was lost in thought.
When Joan came to her sense, it was too late.
*SPLAT*
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*MYA-HEH-HEH MEW!* (Take that! Wet banana!)
Currently, five tentacles of Tama were controlling the two handgrips and three leg pedals instead of Mia.
As for Mia, his fingers were on the keyboard as he explored the command lists of the mech, using the help prompt.
His eyes glanced around as he skimmed through the long manual while his brain processed at full speed, memorizing all the details.
*Mew* (Let's go. For 1,100 diamonds!)
"Don't waste too many energies, Tama. I only charged one reactor, and I think it will only last one fight if we use its psychic power. Heck, it's actually tiring to shoot one."
Mia took out a red gel and put it in his mouth. The charging process drained him mentally, and he needed a replenishment.
Moreover, to use this mech's specialty, he had to activate it via his psionic link.
Under Tama's control, Prometheus Prototype walked out of the hangar.