Why are the Protagonist Gong and Shou Fighting Because of Me?

The sixth day of military training.

The news of Xi Ruhang and Gu Tunan’s competition had already spread throughout the entire school. Some people had even started a bet, betting who would be the winner tomorrow. 

Within the student bets, Xie Ruhang wasn’t favored. The overwhelming majority of people didn’t know that Xie Ruhang was “Mouse”. They only knew that Xie Ruhang was from the slums and didn’t systematically learn knowledge on the mecha system. 

What Mecha Assembling tested was the depth of their knowledge reserve, the comprehensiveness of their knowledge on the various concepts of mecha assembling, and their assembling ability.

The amount of mecha parts provided by the competition site totaled over 97,000, all parts for small and lightweight mechas. Participants had to pick suitable parts from the tremendous amount of parts for assembly.

If it was simply completing the military training assessment task, then the difficulty wasn’t high, because the basic mecha only needed over 300 parts. Additionally, basic mecha assembly was a topic covered in the high school entrance exam. 

However, Xie Ruhang and Gu Tunan’s competition wasn’t only mecha assembly; there was also the requirement of using the assembled mechas to engage in combat against each other. 

This meant that the two most likely wouldn’t only assemble basic mechas. 

The influence of mechas on mecha users was huge. Specially customized mechas and normal basic mechas, in particular, were worlds apart. This was also the reason why master mecha constructors and master weapon constructors were so sought after.

Master mecha constructors referred to people who had made major achievements in mecha construction, while master weapon constructors were even more revered than master mecha constructors because master weapon constructors weren’t experts only in mechas.

A noble like Gu Tunan could come into contact with many outstanding master mecha constructors. He could let master mecha constructors tailor a mecha to his own personal fighting habits and then assemble the mecha once he had the master’s blueprints. From just his starting point, he was already many steps ahead of Xie Ruhang. 

However, Xie Ruhang hadn’t even gone to a military middle school. His knowledge of mechas contained at most a thousand or so parts and a few basic mecha systems. It would be very hard to compete with Gu Tunan, who had superior resources.

Thus, the great majority of people believed that the chances of Xie Ruhang winning in this bet was very low. This majority included Qiu Yan.

Looking at his roommate Xie Ruhang, who hadn’t slept the entire night to practice basic mecha defense systems, Qiu Yan felt pained. 

Brother Xie’s foundation wasn’t good, only recently did he master five types of small basic mechas. The reason he chose defensive type basic mechas was also probably because basic type mechas required the least amount of parts and had the least steps, right…

How could such a basic mecha defeat Gu Tunan?

It would be great if it was purely a fighting competition. As Brother Xie’s unskilled roommate, he knew more clearly than anyone else how strong Brother Xie’s combat awareness was.

If Brother Xie lost the first time he clashed with Gu Tunan, in the future when they campaigned for votes for Brother Xie to compete for the valedictorian spot, this defeat would be a huge point deducting reason. Thinking of this, Qiu Yan couldn’t help but say, “Brother Xie, my family pleaded with a level 2 master mecha constructor to design a mecha blueprint for me.”

Every mecha operator’s mecha blueprint was an incomparably private and precious existence, especially to an average civilian student. One mecha blueprint could cost a large portion of their family’s savings. 

Qiu Yan gritted his teeth and shouted in one go, “How about you use my mecha blueprint, Brother Xie?!”

Xie Ruhang turned his head around and glanced at Qiu Yan with slight surprise, his black phoenix eyes reflecting warm light. For a moment, Qiu Yan felt that it was only now that brother Xie had truly looked straight at him, “No need. I appreciate your good intentions.”

“Th-then, Brother Xie, your competition…”

The black-haired and black-eyed alpha calmly said: “I won’t lose.”

    *

Tang Bai and his good sisters sat in the auditorium, looking at the mecha assembly assessment of the mecha department that was about to start. 

Cheerleaders only appeared on the first day and last day of military training, so today they were wearing military uniforms.

Many alphas in the audience were secretly looking at Tang Bai not only because of Tang Bai’s appearance, but also because of his attire today…

The words “Brother Xie” were pasted on his left cheek, and the words “Will Win” were pasted on his right cheek. The red font was exceptionally eye-catching. 

The pretty little omega was currently worriedly looking at the assessment site, even forgetting to wave the small flag in his hand.

“Baby, isn’t this a bit too much? If Xie Ruhang loses later, wouldn’t you be face-slapped?” Tong Meng had just finished talking when Tang Bai glared at him, “Brother Xie wouldn’t lose!”

Tong Meng quickly raised his hands, surrendering, “I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong…” After he finished begging for mercy, he looked at the assessment site and couldn’t help but once again say, “Gu Tunan’s mecha looks very impressive.”

Glancing over the entire area, Gu Tunan’s mecha was indeed the most eye-catching one. From the prototype, it could be seen that its appearance was exceptionally cool, a streamlined exterior and sophisticated equipment. Complicated parts stacked together layer by layer, dazzling people’s eyes.

The bullet screen started to gossip and discuss:

[A mecha assembled by a rich person. Daddy, does your mecha still lack a leg pendant?]

[Is this the hand speed of someone who has been single for 20 years?! Me likey!]

[Gu Tunan is really both fast and stable, especially when reconstructing the mecha system. Although the provided system already has a general framework, his speed is even faster than other students who are assembling basic mechas! It’s like when everyone is doing math problems and the school genius does advanced level mathematics faster than you do grade school mathematics!]

[Yeah, much faster than a certain someone who’s making a defensive basic mecha.]

There were forty light screens in the live broadcast. Gu Tunan and Xie Ruhang’s light screens happened to be next to each other. On the left was Gu Tunan’s advanced mecha with a high-end atmosphere. On the right was Xie Ruhang’s unpretentious basic mecha.

And their assessment locations in person were also close. They could see each other’s progress with only a turn of their heads. 

Gu Tunan looked towards Xie Ruhang, his grey-blue eyes slightly narrowing.

It was this alpha who approached Tang Bai shamelessly time and time again and deceived Tang Bai with who-knows-what methods.

However, no matter how much Xie Ruhang pretended, knowledge and resources couldn’t be faked. He didn’t systematically learn mecha construction, and he didn’t have blueprints made personally by top tier mecha constructors. What could Xie Ruhang use to win against him?

The black-haired and black-eyed alpha’s eyelid inexplicably twitched. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his thick eyelashes, exposing his scar covered hand in front of the camera.

For the sake of assembling a mecha, Xie Ruhang’s gloves had been taken off. The broadcasting ball circling around Xie Ruhang had only given close-ups of his unparalleled face and hadn’t caught his hands. So when the close-up of his hands appeared, the bullet screen was shocked.

[How did Xie Ruhang’s hands get hurt like this? He didn’t properly treat it when he got hurt?]

[Xie Ruhang was born in the slums.]

[He’s from the slums??? It’s over. My illusions have been shattered! I have been shattered!]

[Xie Ruhang gave up struggling, right? Even if he’s assembling a basic mecha, he should at least choose a basic mecha suitable for offense! Why did he choose a defensive type mecha? To be a cowardly turtle?!]

[I shouldn’t have bet on him because I’m obsessed with looks. I feel bad for my month’s worth of pocket money.]

Seeing the bullet chat that collectively declared they were no longer his fans after knowing Xie Ruhang was born in the slums, Tang Bai was so angry that the strand of hair sticking up on top of his head stood straight up and puffed up. How similar was the current scene to the sufferings of Xie Ruhang in the book? And the Xie Ruhang in the book had to bear more pressure. Other than his birth, there were also criticisms of his gender. 

They truly are capricious interstellar era people! At the beginning, they were still saying that they wanted to birth kids for the right team leader! Scram scram scram scram! If you guys aren’t going to give birth to any now, then I’ll give birth to some for Brother Xie! No, that’s not right. Brother Xie can give birth to them himself… Sigh, no, that’s not allowed. Why would Brother Xie need to give birth to children for an alpha?!

Tang Bai was about to become so angry that he couldn’t think straight. Right then, he heard a commotion arise from the assessment site——

Gu Tunan calmly finished assembling the last part. Once his mecha was completed, the assessment instrument placed in front of the construction table immediately gave out a high score.

Current recorded steps, total 846!

Stability, excellent! 

System flaws, none!

Function Attributes: 

Defence: 8

Strength: 9

Sensitivity: 9

Stamina: 7

Spirit: 8 

Footnotes:

Face slapping is a pretty commonly used term. It’s when a person expresses something super confidently and then gets proven wrong.. An example would be easier to understand. If person A said, “I know person B definitely will fail this test.” and then person B aces it, person A got face slapped because he was so confidently wrong beforehand but was then proven wrong. 

The bullet screen is the Chinese version of the chat section in live streams or videos. Instead of being a separate chat, the comments run across the video as you are watching in real time.

Leg pendant: It’s another way of saying, “I want to hug your thigh”, which also means currying favor with someone strong so that they will help you or so that you can use their reputation to get certain advantages. But in this case, it’s more of a joke that means “wow, you’re so amazing”. 

This is a joke based on the fact that many guys and also girls masturbate if they are single, so their hand movements are really fast.