MORIC - Chapter 146
Chapter 146: Instinctual Frenzy
Wen Xinghuo found Xi Zhoumeng simply unreasonable, but there was nothing she could do at this moment.
In terms of mecha size, hers was indeed much larger than Xi Zhoumeng's.
How could this be??
Besides, Ling Xun was injured. How could someone be so petty?
Yet, she was so brazenly petty that no one dared to scold her.
Wen Xinghuo took a deep breath and asked Xi Zhoumeng on the other end of the comms: "Are you okay? You've been missing for five days."
Xi Zhoumeng was stunned for a moment. She was still trying to search for any trace of Xi Shuang. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a thud.
Chi Yueshan had rolled down.
She sat on the floor in a daze, squinting her eyes.
"Five days???"
Hearing Chi Yueshan's voice, Wen Xinghuo felt a little more at ease.
These past few days of continuously dealing with the Zerg had her nerves stretched taut. She was terrified that this practical training would end in total annihilation, terrified that all the feelings she had worked so hard to gain would be snatched away from her.
Sheng Yangkui went to check on Ling Xun's injuries.
She didn't seem entirely useless. At least, she had been frequently injured since childhood, though not openly.
Sometimes, she had to treat them herself.
Sheng Yangkui wiped the blood from Ling Xun's face. Ling Xun's entire body was burning hot, and she would occasionally convulse.
Sheng Yangkui pursed her lips as she treated Ling Xun's external wounds, listening to the conversation between Chi Yueshan and Wen Xinghuo.
Time, location, and specific coordinates on the map.
Chi Yueshan's voice sounded exceptionally hoarse, as if she had screamed her throat raw, and she would cough from time to time.
This wave of attacks had temporarily retreated, at least allowing them a moment to catch their breath.
While pulling up the specific location according to Chi Yueshan's instructions, Wen Xinghuo asked her, "Do you have a cold?"
Chi Yueshan was still a bit groggy. Anyone would be less than clear-headed after such an absurd three days and two nights, not to mention that the Xi Zhoumeng in her dream had undergone a Secondary Differentiation that was even more frenzied than in reality.
That Xi Zhoumeng, with whom she had no emotional foundation, was the epitome of a beast. The pain made Chi Yueshan feel as if her very soul was being tamed into a trance.
Yet, the pain was accompanied by an unknown satisfaction in her heart, as if their union wasn't proper but instead carried an undeniable sense of destiny. In the raging wind, mixed with blood, they overlapped and penetrated, and even their caresses seemed desolate.
Chi Yueshan let out a sound, then quickly nodded. "Yes... I have a bit of a cold."
Xi Zhoumeng huffed, "I told you to wear more layers, but you wouldn't listen."
In the dream, this person was cold and charming. The Xi Zhoumeng outside the dream was annoying and flamboyant, vividly illustrating how many faces a person could have.
Chi Yueshan immediately got angry. "Don't you have any idea why I didn't wear more? It's because you're a dog!"
Xi Zhoumeng made a sound of protest. "I'm not a dog."
She even seriously explained, "Although we both have..."
Chi Yueshan didn't want to hear her explanation at all, thinking, How come that Xi Zhoumeng didn't have a tail? Is there some kind of switch for it?
But the Xi Zhoumeng with a tail had teeth that were too sharp, biting her until she was covered in bruises, and she still felt sore and swollen now.
Chi Yueshan: "Stop talking!"
Xi Zhoumeng: "How can you be like this? When things are good, you urge me to call you 'baby' a few more times, and now you're telling me to shut up. I feel so wronged."
Actually, the Xi family members were all quite similar, molded by their environment. They were all as talkative as Xi Li, just divided into dominant and recessive traits.
Except for Xi Li and Xi Yang, the others probably only chattered on and on with their partners.
Xi Zhoumeng's chattering made Chi Yueshan even more furious. She sat in Xi Zhoumeng's lap; even though the mecha wasn't hers, she was practically more familiar with it than Xi Zhoumeng was.
While skillfully activating the wireless search, she pulled up the data she had stored in advance.
Over on the other side, even Wen Xinghuo couldn't bear to listen anymore.
Even though she didn't usually pay attention to such things, she could still more or less figure out what was going on.
It was true that Xi Zhoumeng had bonded with the mecha, but she hadn't been able to pilot it before.
Wen Xinghuo still asked, "How are you able to pilot the mecha now?"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Take a guess?"
Chi Yueshan pushed her face away. The mecha's cruise mode was scanning for the magnetic stones around the Zerg battlefield simulation base.
They were the switches for the training equipment, specially set up by the previous administrators.
Before they set out, Chi Yueshan had specifically asked a mecha instructor from the Beta division. Even if the network was down, there should still be a switch.
Wen Xinghuo fell silent. An answer was on the tip of her tongue, but she instinctively felt a sense of dissonance.
Instead, it was Sheng Yangkui, who had finished bandaging Ling Xun's wound, who spoke up. "Senior Xi is an Alpha, right? No wonder she could match 100% with Yueshan before."
Xi Zhoumeng laughed. "You're smarter than Wen Xinghuo."
Wen Xinghuo: ...
The next second, Xi Zhoumeng was pinched by Chi Yueshan. Chi Yueshan stared intently at the location on the screen. After some operations, she entered a few coordinates and sent them to Wen Xinghuo through Xi Zhoumeng's mecha comms.
"Let's go to the Zerg battlefield simulation base first. We'll activate the defense mechanisms there. That should stop a batch of Zerg from entering and buy us some time to find Xi Shuang."
The Zerg had arrived suddenly, and they were very strong. They were, after all, students who hadn't seen major battles. It was already a struggle to adapt to the situation and protect themselves.
A moment of carelessness could lead to danger.
Xi Zhoumeng stared at the screen. Even after spending three days in bed, she appeared perfectly presentable, as if she could never look disheveled.
But Chi Yueshan had seen her in the dream—seen her with disheveled hair, her eyes consumed by lust, losing control and yet wanting to plunder, an instinctual frenzy.
She was truly a person who was so good in every way, and yet so bad.
Now, Chi Yueshan was draped in a jacket. Her lips were still swollen, and a small cut had already scabbed over, looking like a stitched wound.
The lines of her lips meandered, carving themselves onto Xi Zhoumeng's heart. The scab hadn't even fallen off, yet it was already tickling an itch in Xi Zhoumeng.
Unfortunately, there was absolutely no time for tenderness. Xi Zhoumeng turned her head and said to Wen Xinghuo on the other side, "You take the magnetic stones in the east and west directions, I'll take north and south. Try each one. Once it's activated, we'll charge straight into the base."
Wen Xinghuo grunted in affirmation.
The arrival of the Zerg seemed to have swept away the daylight. Every minute and every second was night.
Chi Yueshan was wrapped in the jacket. Every inch of Xi Zhoumeng's mecha cockpit had been touched by her, just as Xi Zhoumeng had once kissed her body. At this moment, she was nestled in the other's arms, watching Xi Zhoumeng's control gestures.
You couldn't tell at all that this person was a novice.
The AI's voice was calm and orderly.
"New wave of attacks detected. Activate automatic attack?"
"Cruise control deactivated."
"Activating lateral track rotation..."
Violent impacts came one after another. The death of the mid-tier Zerg in this area had led to disordered attacks from the low-tier Zerg, which were actually less dense.
Wen Xinghuo's feedback was precise. There were sixteen magnetic stones in total, a design by the mechanic who had modified this ancient battlefield back in the day.
The fear was that all communications would fail, and they would have to rely on the most primitive mechanisms to activate this training equipment.
Only this time, the activation was to block real Zerg.
Chi Yueshan had never seen so many Zerg. Some of them, relying on their wings, looked clumsy, but it didn't affect their movement. The lower the tier, the uglier their appearance.
Arthropod limbs grew haphazardly, and some looked as if they were glued together, with the glistening texture of living tissue that made one feel nauseous at a single glance.
Even though Chi Yueshan had never been afraid of insects since she was a child, the sudden sight of a clear face smashing against the mecha's protective plating still made her stomach turn.
Not to mention Xi Zhoumeng, who was holding her. Her expression was serious. Her originally brown-dyed hair had reverted to its natural color due to the lack of dye supplements.
Long golden hair cascaded over her shoulders. Even in such a critical moment, she could hold Chi Yueshan and have a wild time, not to mention being able to produce high-end wet wipes to clean someone up afterward.
She had probably cleaned herself up from head to toe as well, never associated with dirtiness or messiness.
Combining this with the situation in the dream, Chi Yueshan reasonably suspected that Xi Zhoumeng knew many things she didn't.
For example, this person's exquisite piloting skills.
Even Wen Xinghuo, who also had S+ spiritual power and had been enrolled for two years, couldn't control it as freely as she could. It was as if her spiritual power was inexhaustible, a trivial matter for her.
Chi Yueshan was still very tired. She leaned quietly in Xi Zhoumeng's arms.
The next second, another wave of Zerg swarmed up. Xi Zhoumeng couldn't stay calm for more than a few minutes. Leaning against her, Chi Yueshan could feel her tense up instantly.
"I can't take it anymore."
Xi Zhoumeng took a deep breath. "If this thing doesn't go extinct, it's really hard for me to feel any love for the world."
She almost gagged again.
Chi Yueshan: You're making me want to puke too.
Xi Zhoumeng exhaled several times, puffed out her cheeks, bit her lip, and brutally blasted away.
Normally, mechas were bonded with spiritual power. Xi Zhoumeng's was soul + spiritual power, allowing her to do whatever she wanted. It completely lacked the large-scale holographic feel of an ordinary person piloting a mecha.
It was as if she herself was dishing out the damage.
This also had a downside: the tactile sensations from the outer shell could be deeply empathized.
Xi Zhoumeng activated the petal-shaped blade on the mecha's left hand. Perhaps the tactile feedback of the sharp edge piercing a living creature was too realistic. She earnestly asked Chi Yueshan, "Do you think I might be pregnant?"
If she weren't so drained of energy, Chi Yueshan really would have beaten her up.
What kind of situation was this?
The comms aren't off, are they?
It would be so bad if someone heard this.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Don't bite my neck. It's covered in your scratches. Good thing the clothes I brought are all high-collared."
Chi Yueshan: "Your mecha's comms are on."
Xi Zhoumeng even raised her voice. "Wen Xinghuo has never marked an Omega. What would she know?"
Wen Xinghuo, who was seriously checking the magnetic stones while also dealing with the Zerg: ...
Sheng Yangkui gave her a look that said, "Just let it go."
Inside Wen Xinghuo's cockpit, Ling Xun suddenly coughed violently, even vomiting blood. Sheng Yangkui anxiously called her name. Ling Xun's eyes were tightly shut as she grabbed Sheng Yangkui's hand. "Where's my cousin?"
Xi Zhoumeng and Chi Yueshan heard it too.
For a moment, no one spoke. All that could be heard was the flamboyant sound effect of Xi Zhoumeng activating the automatic combat mode.
It came with the sound of exploding fireworks and a kind of "buling" sound like a sparkler.
Chi Yueshan couldn't take it anymore and turned off her mecha's sound.
She kind of regretted listening to this person and installing the sound system.
So improper! What kind of Imperial soldier acts like this!!!
Xi Zhoumeng confirmed another inactive magnetic stone. She looked up at the still-dark sky. Xi Mingguang hadn't arrived yet.
Perhaps because the Zerg Tide had swept through the entire galaxy ahead of schedule, the Expeditionary Force couldn't arrive early either.
Before being her mother, Xi Mingguang was the Commander.
Xi Zhoumeng could understand, but she still felt a subtle disappointment.
It seemed she had been spoiled by the family in this world, starting to expect others to change for her.
For example, accommodation, favoritism, unconditional trust, and...
...being put first.
Ling Xun's lips were covered in blood. Her mecha was heavily damaged. After bonding with a mecha, if it's attacked and the protective barrier is breached, the pilot will also be injured. Sheng Yangkui was being squeezed painfully, but she didn't pull away.
Just as she was about to speak, Xi Zhoumeng said, "She's right nearby. She was even singing just now. You know how terrible Xi Shuang's singing is, so I told her to shut up for five minutes."
It was obviously a lie.
Although Xi Shuang's singing was truly awful, getting her to shut up was a bit difficult.
Ling Xun was truly delirious. She was in so much pain that she couldn't distinguish between dream and reality. She seemed to see Xi Shuang dying in battle after she herself had committed suicide in the dream.
Her mecha was reduced to fragments. The power of the high-tier Zerg was terrifying. In order to buy time for Wen Xinghuo, she had died on the front lines.
Could these be dreams?
Xi Shuang, dying in Wen Xinghuo's arms, had last words that were also about Ling Xun.
She said, "Xinghuo, remember to bury me next to my cousin."
"She's very clingy. I have to stay with her."
Sheng Yangkui wiped away Ling Xun's tears, unable to hold back her own.
This emotion was too painful, so painful that it was hard for her not to get drawn in.
So this is what it's like to have sisters who are so close.
It's really nice.
Wen Xinghuo confirmed the eight magnetic stones in the east and west directions and was the first to find the switch.
She said to Xi Zhoumeng, "Should I go?"
They didn't mention Xi Shuang. Xi Zhoumeng said, "I'll go. I was the one looking for her just now."
Xi Zhoumeng was talking about Ling Xun.
Chi Yueshan sent the data about the Zerg battlefield simulation base, which was stored in Xi Zhoumeng's mecha, to Wen Xinghuo.
This was originally data she had prepared for their practical training, but it had unexpectedly become a lifesaver.
The rain stopped, but it started to hail.
The sound of it hitting the mecha's outer shell was very loud, not to mention the goosebump-inducing sounds of the Zerg lurking about.
Xi Zhoumeng piloted the mecha, turning to leave this temporarily safe place.
Xi Zhoumeng asked Chi Yueshan, "Are you scared?"
"We might encounter high-tier Zerg."
It sounded terrifying, but her tone was quite lighthearted. Even with the sound system turned off by Chi Yueshan, she could still tap out a rhythm with her foot.
Chi Yueshan didn't like listening to music, but there were some songs she could hum without having to listen to them specifically.
It was a famous interstellar song that the academy would broadcast in the evening—
I'll Love You Tomorrow
Chi Yueshan understood Xi Zhoumeng's hint.
She drowsily squinted her eyes and nuzzled against Xi Zhoumeng's wool sweater.
The wool was soft, and the other's pheromones seemed to wrap around her, making her entire body clamor to cling to her.
She mumbled, "What's there to be afraid of? I have you, don't I?"
My Alpha makes me feel super secure.
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