"Heh heh…"
A strange, ferocious laugh echoed in the living room, like a broken bellows.
Hyena Harold didn't even bother with the casualties among his subordinates. After enduring another wave of attacks, his gaze fell on Bai Wei.
As if he had discovered a superb trophy, he walked forward without paying attention to anyone else, slowly approaching her.
Bai Wei pursed her lips, instinctively taking a half-step back, but she tightened her right fist, encased in its mechanical arm armor.
"Alright, you've done enough. Stand down and watch this general kill the enemy."
Suddenly, a strangely worded but familiar voice came from behind her.
Her spirits immediately lifted, she was overjoyed, then her expression changed slightly, and she said urgently, "Brother Lin, you're still…"
"So there's someone else."
Hyena Harold had also stopped at this point, shifting his gaze in the direction from which the voice came. His cruel laughter became even more pronounced: "Perfect, I wasn't having enough fun. Let me see how you'll kill…"
Boom!
A thunderous explosion.
The concrete wall behind them, already riddled with countless holes from the electromagnetic rifle fire, shattered. Countless rocks and dust exploded, sending up a cloud of smoke.
And within this cloud of smoke, a huge black shadow, gleaming with crimson eyes, burst forth with a piercing roar.
Bang!
A rapid dash, a sudden stop. A huge mechanical arm froze in mid-air, locked in a punching stance.
In front of it, another figure was already completely bent over, his chest and abdomen crushed by the fist, his entire body shot out like a ball.
Clang! Da da da da da da!
A metal eyeball fell to the floor, bouncing and rolling.
The crisp sound was clear in the silent room, like a drumbeat in their ears.
This was… Hyena Harold's mechanical eye.
All eyes converged on the metal eyeball. For a moment, everyone's stunned brains finally seemed to react.
The near-fully cybernetic madman, the infamous Hyena Harold, had been knocked flying by a single punch in this insignificant Wasteland settlement.
His eyeball had even popped out.
Literally popped out.
"Mech! How could there be a Mech in this dump!"
Only then did everyone's gaze stiffly shift to the 'person', their bodies becoming even more rigid, their pupils uncontrollably constricting, their mouths either speechless or letting out involuntary cries of fear.
Crazy!
They were scared crazy, and the scene before them made them think they were probably going crazy!
A Mech appeared in a Wasteland settlement!
It was like going to a poor mountain village to start a fight, only to have the villagers roll out a real tank!
Was that reasonable?!
It wasn't reasonable!
Not only them, even Bai Wei was stunned.
"Brother… Brother Lin?"
She called out tentatively from behind him, somewhat incredulous.
"War is dangerous, stand down."
The tone was still strange, with a hint of domineering and coldness, but undoubtedly, the voice was still that familiar voice.
It really was Brother Lin!
But!
But!
Why was there a Mech here?
How did he have a Mech?
This thing was an absolute high-end military weapon, even in the Federation!
Even those famous top corporations could hardly afford a few Mech teams, let alone in the poor and backward Wasteland settlement outside the city.
"Wait… this appearance…"
Carefully examining Dawn's appearance, looking at the armor shell with numerous rust marks and rough welds, Bai Wei opened her mouth, subconsciously looking down at the mechanical arm armor on her hand.
How similar.
The same dilapidated state.
The same…
A guess that made her feel like she was going crazy formed in her mind.
She instinctively denied the thought, but the thought, once formed, was inescapable.
Thinking carefully, for nearly a month, the mysterious room she was never allowed to approach, the various mechanical parts he often brought back, the mechanical-related books he constantly read…
Wasn't her Powered mechanical arm armor made using some of the parts he discarded?
Those were discarded parts, but what about the ones he didn't discard?
Eliminating all impossibilities, the most likely possibility was that they had been transformed into the behemoth before her.
This could also explain why he had the confidence to stay and face this group of human traffickers' armed forces.
But this seemingly plausible result was also too unbelievable.
A single person designing and manufacturing a Mech, using discarded parts, and that person being an unknown teenager in a Wasteland settlement.
Any one of these conditions seemed incompatible with the creation of this Mech.
Especially…
She recalled what she had witnessed during her nearly month-long life with him.
Lin Yu had always had an image of being studious, fond of learning, and full of scholarly spirit in her mind, because she often saw him reading various mechanical-related books.
Because of her psychology studies and her own major, she naturally paid attention to this.
Initially, he read the simplest ones, basically introductory-level mechanical design theories, even high school mathematics and physics.
In other words, less than a month ago, he was probably still a complete novice in these fields.
This was why she thought Lin Yu was studious and ambitious. She always thought he was self-teaching mechanical design knowledge from scratch, and simultaneously experimenting with scrap materials.
And now you tell me that a month later, this person used scrap parts to design and manufacture a Mech?
Oh, this month included not only learning but also design and manufacturing time.
Was she crazy, or was the world crazy?
As a top-performing student in Mech design, she honestly asked herself, could she do it?
Could her sister, who had been hired by Ryan Group at a high salary, do it?
No way!
If she could, she would have already had a Mech, or at least an Exoskeleton armor to blast these human traffickers to smithereens, instead of secretly making a mechanical arm armor.
Speaking of which, she secretly made that thing to protect herself from a certain someone.
Now… she could only be glad that the certain someone truly had no ill intentions.
Otherwise, she might be…
"Upgrade requirement completed!"
"Mimic Personality LV1→Mimic Personality LV2"
"Your mimicry level has improved. During your first mimicry, you will fabricate and deduce some related experiential memories and experience memories based on your own observations, knowledge, and brainpower."
"???"
Lin Yu, piloting Dawn, activating the Lu Bu personality, surveying the battlefield, and preparing to start a massacre, suddenly looked back in surprise.
Girl! At such a tense moment! What are you thinking about!
Wait, still blushing? You're blushing for nothing!
The strong urge to complain momentarily overcame the personality change brought on by the Lu Bu personality.
However, the next moment, waves of strange memory images instantly pulled his attention back.
Similar to the way he gained memories when his Mecha Engineering Skill leveled up.
But this time, what appeared were images of his battles and conquests in the Three Kingdoms, even including various combat techniques, insights, horsemanship, halberd techniques…
To say it was a complete memory of a person was certainly not the case. It was only a very rough scene, like a hi
storical drama with a literary style.
But among them, many key scene memories, and various combat and fighting experience memories were surprisingly clear.
(End of chapter)