The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 138: Chapter 138: The Art of Headbutting Walls

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Can you... can you really play it this way?

Ji You glared at Mu Jianling, hoping to use her grievance-filled eyes to make her change this absurd decision.

Mu Jianling raised her hand, flicked Ji You’s forehead, and scolded, ”What are you glaring for? Glare again and I’ll gouge out your eyeballs!”

Ji You: ”...”

Mu Jianling raised her hand again, knocked on Ji You’s forehead, and scolded, ”Go train! If you keep nagging at me, you’ll get an extra 2 hours of training after class!”

Instantly, Ji You didn’t dare to express any grievances and walked reluctantly toward the Small Mecha.

That’s right.

Small Mecha.

If others’ mechas are like giant behemoths, Ji You’s mech could only be depicted as a kitten cub. Among the other massive beings, it truly looked exceptionally small, pitiful, and helpless...

What a tragic mech.

Lonely sitting at a corner, its body even covered in dust.

The moment Ji You saw the Small Mecha, she was suddenly lost for words. After a while, she murmured, ”You’re so weak, probably no one else would choose you except for me. Forget it, forget it, this damned misfortune that has nowhere to settle.”

Ji You walked towards the Small Mecha, first put on the protective gear as the operation manual instructed, and then boarded the mech.

This Small Mecha was very similar to the antique mech that Ji You operated on the Star Network, but it had a few more buttons. It had only one cannon barrel, and its cold weapon was also a huge knife... Apart from the cockpit, there was also a rest room inside the mech, though the space was very narrow.

Ji You observed it briefly, then started to connect with the Spiritual Connector.

Once her spiritual power was connected, Ji You’s whole body shuddered. It was a very strange feeling, not just the change of vision, but also feeling extremely clumsy. Yes, clumsy. It was as if her hands were not hands, and her feet were not feet... All the senses seemed to be no longer her own, let alone operating smoothly.

Ji You knew that this was due to the discomfort that everyone first driving a mech feels. A normal human body, as long as we want to say something in our minds, we can speak it out immediately. Wanting to take a couple of steps, we can move right away.

In short, the human brain is like a complex and precise mainframe, controlling every organ of the body—

But—

What if the brain has problems, or cannot connect to limbs, torso... and other body parts?

The feeling that Ji You had now was like this situation. The brain seemed to be unable to control the limbs, the limbs couldn’t sense the brain, the two were disconnected...

Then, Ji You tried to lift her hand and found she couldn’t move it at all. She continued to try, but the hands of the Small Mecha still hung limply.

Ji You: ”Small Mecha, you like this... it’s really embarrassing, you know?”

The Small Mecha didn’t move an inch.

Ji You wouldn’t give up, suddenly lifted her foot, and at that moment, the stationary Small Mecha suddenly bent its leg and moved half a step...

Just as Ji You was about to feel joy, she suddenly lurched forward. ”Not good,” Ji You thought as she tried desperately to save herself...

But—

She still watched in horror as she crashed down, with both her and the mech sprawling in a ridiculous posture.

The scene was as embarrassing as can be.

Ji You: ”...”

Ji You stretched out her index finger, trying to lift it: ”I think I can still save myself a bit.”

The index finger of the Small Mecha remained motionless.

Ji You: ”...”

Ji You tried to turn over, but she couldn’t move at all.

This scene is super embarrassing.

Ji You felt somewhat ashamed, she was afraid that the idiot Yue Qiguang would suddenly jump out and mock her. She thought she must get up quickly before anyone noticed...

At this moment, from the corner of her eye, she inadvertently glanced to the side, Ji You’s pupils suddenly shrank:

Damn it!

What happened?

Can someone explain, what’s with all these mechs lying on the ground like corpses?

Moreover ——

They were either lying dead, crawling like dogs, contorting, or piling up on each other...

As awkward as you can imagine.

In contrast, my own fallen posture actually seemed rather graceful.

Ji You found her balance in an instant! She even felt a hint of schadenfreude, trying hard to lift her head to look in Yue Qiguang’s direction. She shouldn’t have looked — Ji You nearly died laughing!

She saw —— Yue Qiguang, that silly mech pilot, had his mecha’s head stuck in the alloy wall of the training room, unable to pull it free. Yue Qiguang’s mouth agape, yelling, ”Fuck!”

”Fuck!”

”Fuck!”

”Teacher, why can’t I pull my head out? Why does my head sink even further in when I exert force?”

Yue Qiguang struggled hard as his Heavy Armor Breaking Army mecha had its head and half of its body stuck in the wall, with only two legs still flailing outside...

This sight ——

Couldn’t possibly be described by just the word ’comical’!

Yue Qiguang: ”Ahhhh!!! Teacher!!! Teach me how to pull my head out quick!”

Mu Jianling glared and angrily kicked at the butt of Yue Qiguang’s mech, scolding, ”Idiot! You’ve really got a knack for drilling into walls! Everybody — take a good look! This will be the standard for burrowing into walls from now on!”

The room burst into laughter immediately ——

Mu Jianling lifted her gaze and gave a cold scan around the room, ”The pot calling the kettle black! Look at your own stupid selves! The one laughing at the one who ran a hundred steps when you’ve only run fifty! Got any shame?”

”At least others know how to drive a mech into a wall! Now look at you...”

”Some of you can’t even make a single move, can you?”

”Don’t your faces feel hot?”

Around the room: ”...”

Heartache!

Such heartache!

Ji You didn’t dare to laugh anymore, after all, that idiot Yue Qiguang at least had managed to drill into a wall with a mecha weighing several tons... what about herself? She couldn’t even move a finger while piloting a simplified toy-like mech.

Painful.

Extremely painful.

Yue Qiguang initially felt a burning face, but upon hearing Mu Jianling’s words, he immediately reinvigorated himself: ”Idiots! Even if dad makes a fool of himself, he’s still better than you! Not convinced? Come and drill into the wall together!”

”Dad will beat all of you!”

Mu Jianling glanced at him sideways and suddenly spoke in a loud voice: ”Number 2222 Yue Qiguang, you have seriously damaged the training room, you are sentenced to one month of mandatory cleaning duty for the training room!”

Yue Qiguang: ”...”

The students: ”...”

What is this?

Extreme happiness leads to sorrow?

Courting disaster by one’s own actions?

Everyone was holding back their laughter but dared not make a sound.

Mu Jianling knew full well that these cheeky monkeys were stifling their laughter, she looked around coldly and said, ”In all my years of teaching, this batch of students is the worst I’ve ever taught!”

”In the whole All Star, there’s nobody more foolish than you!” Mu Jianling’s tone was filled with the helpless frustration of hating that the iron could not become steel.

Around the room: ”...”

Silent as cicadas in winter.

Ji You: Feeling a bit weird, this speech, why does it sound so familiar? It seems like I’ve heard it countless times before.

Also, isn’t the range of criticism a bit broad?

Mu Jianling didn’t care about the students’ embarrassed look below; she asked loudly, ”Do you all understand how difficult it is to pilot a mech now?”