Marshal, Please Calm Down Chapter 18

Translator: Callis

There weren't any accidents that evening. The group of nine remained safe all night long, and after breakfast the next morning, they got into the mechas and set off again.

"Yesterday, we all have already two experiences with combat, so our goal today is here."

There was only one week for the a.s.sessment. On the first day, their team had only managed to kill eight spider Zergs; that wasn't even one spider Zerg per person. Today, they had to work harder.

The other eight looked at the coordinates the Wu Zimo pointed out, then compared it to the distribution of the spider Zergs on the map of Planet XT781. The eyes of all six sentinels were s.h.i.+ning.

"We tried a two vs. one yesterday, so we should try one vs. one today. Six sider Zergs, any questions?"

"No problem at all!"

"It's just one vs. one."

"Can do."

Salah also nodded. Today, they were no longer the ignorant rookies that had just landed on Planet XT781. After two battles yesterday, they had a better understanding of their own strengths.

"Since n.o.body has any questions, then we can set out now. During this battle, if there's anyone who can't keep up, Salah, remember to open the master-sub system."

"I understand."

Salah understood Wu Zimo's worries and nodded at him.

"Wu Zimo, relax. We will definitely be careful."

The master-sub system was powerful, and they already had a clear understanding of it while they were training. With the fighting power of the six mechas, they were confident even if they were to fight against double the amount of spider Zergs!

"Good, when the time comes, you'll all listen to Salah. I won't run my mouth during the battle."

After their discussion, the six mechas rushed about on Planet XT781. Wu Zimo opened his light brain, his eyes focusing on the line of the codes flying across its screen.

It was the mysterious signal that Wu Zimo had intercepted and converted into a set of data that was more straightforward and easy to understand. Looking at the data of the rapidly scrolling code, Wu Zimo felt that there was something about it, but could remember where he had seen it before.

"How could this data be familiar? But I shouldn't have seen anything like this before. If I had seen it before, then wouldn't I have been those Dimensional Zerg's comrade?"

Wu Zimo sat in the copilot's seat in the mecha's control cabin. He tapped his chin, wondering and mumbling to himself.

His voice was quiet, but with a sentinel's heightened senses, Bit couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.

He glanced at Wu Zimo, who was immersed in his own world. When he thought of his behavior yesterday, Bit's simple and honest face couldn't help but show a trace of pity. Silently in his heart, he thought that not being able to awaken as a guide was a big blow to Wu Zimo.

Wu Zimo should have been glad that he hadn't gained mind-reading abilities when he awakened and became a guide, otherwise his little friend's thoughts would have utterly crushed him to death!

He really didn't cherish being a guide, this magical evolutionary form! He had to worry about his chrysanthemum being a sunflower all day long, who could still remain calm and unperturbed?!

Wu Zimo looked at the data he had intercepted several times over, but still couldn't uncover the reason it seemed familiar. Before, when Wu Zimo didn't understand something, he wouldn't have remained tangled up in it. Using his words, he was just waiting for a flash of genius.

Yes, it was a flash of genius from the heavens! Known as an epiphany!

Putting aside the spider Zerg's data, Wu Zimo opened up another file. Wu Zimo could understand all of the data in this file.

It was the monitoring system that the First Military Academy had prepared for the yearly a.s.sessment, used for monitoring the Dimensional Zergs. The quality of this system wasn't too bad, but Wu Zimo was afraid that its monitoring range was still too small.

Thinking about when they had almost been pushed back by the spider Zergs yesterday, if he hadn't been alert and detected the change in the spider Zergs, the potential delay of noticing that the spider Zergs knew how to summon its friends would have left them only able to shout for help.

In fact, the First Military Academy's monitoring system for Dimensional Zergs was still very powerful, with a monitoring radius of 20 kilometers and a diameter of 40 kilometers.

But the programmer who had written this program either forgot or didn't know that those Dimensional Zergs could call up their little friends! The actual boundaries weren't clear but from Wu Zimo's team's experience, it was definitely more than 20 kilometers!

As such, if Wu Zimo, who had almost been hoodwinked by the system, didn't want to die, then he needed to make a spirited start and prepare to revise the monitoring program.

It would be impossible for Wu Zimo to write a perfect monitoring system in such a short amount of time, even if he was once called the Hacker G.o.d Mo by the hacking community. However, he could use the First Military Academy's program as a foundation.

If he hadn't only gotten the monitoring system the other day, then Wu Zimo would have already started monitoring it.

There was time now; the work would be done quicker if they were well prepared. While they were on their journey, he didn't need to remain idle.

As for Wu Zimo, he stood by what he had said before. The battle should be left to the professionals, he just needed to do a good job in logistics.

While Wu Zimo was selflessly revising the program, Salah and the others were approaching the target.

This time, the geographical location of the target was even more unfavorable to Wu Zimo and the others. On the open gra.s.slands, there were six spiders Zergs wandering about. As the commander of the battle, Salah saw the target and war burst in his eyes. The other sentinels were the same; their gazes were fixed on the spider Zergs in front of them.

"Hey guys, I'm choosing the fattest one. Don't steal it from me." Needless to say, the first one to open their mouth was Haney.

Haney was like a picky person going to the supermarket, but the rest of them also a mentality similar to Haney's. Soon, the six spider Zergs on the gra.s.slands were divided up amongst them.

There wasn't much need for words. Only battle would let the sentinels' blood boil, even Salah and the others, who were rookie sentinels who had just stepped foot on the ruthless battlefield.

Their pa.s.sion was burning, the immature youths matured on the battlefield. Under a baptism of blood and flowers, they would take step after step towards a throne of glory and honor.

However, just as Salah and the others were fighting pa.s.sionately, Wu Zimo, who had just revised the monitoring program and started the first test, saw red signals from Dimensional Zergs in the northeast.

"Huh?" It was just the first test. Was there something wrong with the program he modified? Wu Zimo quickly checked the program to ensure that he had revised was correct, then immediately opened the map on the light brain.

"In closest place towards the northeast, there really are a group of 30 spider Zergs wandering about."

"What?!"

Wu Zimo carefully observed the monitoring system. Sure enough, there were several blue dots on the system. Within half a minute, two blue dots disappeared; he didn't know if they had been killed or if something else had happened to them.

"f.u.c.k!" Seeing the group of blue dots rus.h.i.+ng in their direction, followed by a group of red dots, Wu Zimo couldn't help but curse.

"Salah, open the master-sub system so we can combine and finish the battle quickly. I don't know which brain-damaged team went and provoked 30 spider Zergs in the northeast."

Wu Zimo's words surprised everyone. Yesterday, they had been chased by a large group of spider Zergs, it was the same again today?!

Salah didn't waste any words and immediately started the system. The others' expressions became more cautious, concentrating on coordinating with Salah's control.

The master-sub system was even more formidable in combat, and the originally stalemated battle was quickly resolved in ten minutes.

Seeing that the battle was over, Wu Zimo immediately said, "Those spider Zergs are over 40 kilometers away from us. We were lucky this time and didn't catch the attention of any more Zergs. There are only 30, if we hurry, we can throw them off our trails!"

Wu Zimo hurriedly found an escape route, and all of the others followed behind his and Bit's mecha, quickly departing.

While they ran, he cursed the team that had provoked the group of spider Zergs. If they courted death on their own, that would be fine. However, they hadn't even chosen a direction to run in, but had coincidentally ran in their direction.

They had been chased by spider Zergs on the first day, and now the second day! Could their 'luck' not be so good?

"Huh?" While they were fleeing, there were 25 blue dots on Wu Zimo's monitoring system. From the direction in which the blue dots were moving, it seemed that they were on their side.

"Salah, I found 25 little blue dots on the monitoring system. They're coming from our side at about 45 kilometers away."

The monitoring system that Wu Zimo had revised had an expanded radius of 50 kilometers and a diameter of 100 kilometers, so he discovered the students as soon as they came within range.

When Salah heard that they might unexpectedly run into other examinees, he lowered his head and pondered before speaking: "The furthest our mecha's communications can go is 30 kilometers."

"Correct." He didn't know why Salah had suddenly asked about this, but Wu Zimo nodded. Then he suddenly realized.

"Salah, you're thinking…?"

Seeing Salah nod and really mean what he was implying, Wu Zimo was also very moved. But if the students they'd run into were anything like the idiotic students behind them, then it would just be a pit, a heavenly pit!

Wu Zimo hadn't refused. Because it was Salah's idea, he wouldn't object. As they had said before, he would leave the battle to the professionals.

Because both sides were moving, they soon entered the communication range. Not waiting for the other side to speak, Salah directly connected to them and requested to speak directly to them.

"h.e.l.lo, I am a second-year student, Salah."

After the other received Salah's connection, they weren't intolerant of Salah's cold introduction. After they connected, the person on Salah's light brain was unexpectedly a friend.

"Mocca?"

"Eh? Salah, how can it be you?"

Mocca was Salah's cousin and they had grown up together. Even though Mocca was several years older than Salah, Salah wasn't like a young child at all, icy cold all day long. Mocca had never been able to feel like an older brother; he was very distressed.

"A friend?" The team's communications were all linked together, so the others saw Salah's att.i.tude and knew that the other was someone he knew.

"Fine, don't speak any more nonsense. We'll run, then speak."

Meeting a friend was a stroke of good luck, and since the other's and Salah's relations.h.i.+p was good, it would be easy for them to talk.

However, they couldn't forget that there were still 30 spider Zergs behind them. Even if they were to talk, they would need to move a little further.

When will the battle end and the dog food moments come back orz