You Smelled Wrong Chapter 23: Heinrich seemed to treat him like a fragile piece of porcelain

Chapter 23: Heinrich seemed to treat him like a fragile piece of porcelain

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

 

Retracing his steps to the silver and white mecha, this time, the younger Pullman did not directly extend his hand to him, but after retaining a certain social safety distance, first sent a dialogue request to the player unnamed through the game system.

His father is very red when he meets the enemy, but he and his children have no hatred and no grudges, how can they bully others?

Lin Xu watched the Silver Moon sword driving the mecha stop in front of him, as if it was paused, and he asked Heinrich in confusion, “Is this game turn-based?”

“No, after entering the map both sides can move according to their strategic layout, what’s wrong?”

“My opponent is a bit strange.” Lin Xu replied, “It’s okay, don’t mind me.”

The Younger Pullman kept refreshing the interface, the other side was slow to reply, he sent another friend request, raised his eyes to look at the initial setup mecha standing on the tumbling yellow gobi sands. Under the high temperature, the external condensation system of LH798 began to work, the air valve at the back waist opened, releasing water vapor.

Somehow, the opposite rustic cold starter mecha moved his left arm, retreating a tiny angle, and a sense of crisis suddenly emerged in the heart of the younger Pullman for no apparent reason, and the combat awareness honed in several combat drills made the younger Pullman subconsciously take a step back.

The next moment, the silver-white mecha mechanical right fist swung out, as fast as lightning. If the younger Pullman did not just dodge that, this punch will be precise and swiftly smashed into the cockpit!

He even turned on the power booster!

Pullman Jr. would not doubt that the power of this punch could turn the cockpit into a mass of debris.

But the blow to his right shoulder was still not pleasant, the younger Pullman coughed and got up to lower the pain level. At that moment, the silver and white mecha rushed straight at him, supported by his right foot, bent his left knee on deep blue mecha’s abdomen, grabbed his opponent’s arm at the moment he lost control of his movement, and gave a vicious over-the-shoulder slam.

Pullman Jr. was thrown to the ground, watching the silver and white mecha across behind him, holding a lightsaber, about to pierce the cockpit. He scrambled to turn on the maximum power high-energy ray cannon, enough to burn the mecha in front of him to ashes.

Pullman Jr. vaguely saw the figure in the cockpit, but before he could open his eyes wider to see more clearly, a burst of darkness hit his eyes.

“You are dead, the game is over, and the results are being calculated.”

He stumbled back into his equipment room covered in sweat, breathing heavily, and Pullman Sr., with a sullen face, seemed to have been sitting there for a while. It looked like he had lost too, Pullman Jr. thought with a sigh of relief.

“The result of the battle: Silver Moon Sword and Snow Wolf are dead and out, Dragon of Destruction and Unnamed survived, we lost.”

“He’s still alive?” Pullman Jr. expected his own death out, but how could unnamed still be alive after that close range high energy ray cannon blast up to harvest a mecha?

“See for yourself.”

Pullman Sr. pulled up the battle video and dragged the progress bar to the end.

In the eternal daylight under the four suns, the black and white mecha, baptized by cannon fire, descends from the air, with the roaring fire of the Snow Wolf mecha crashing behind it, and it walks with a cloud of smoke towards the direction where the silver and white mecha was.

The silver-white mecha was holding his lightsaber aloft, about to pierce his opponent’s cockpit. The opponent’s high-energy ray cannon was aimed at the silver-white mecha and would fire in half a second, and in that half a second, the silver-white mecha’s body turned to the side and made an unsuspecting and incomprehensible move – he swung his sword and cut off his right arm!

As the thick mechanical right arm began to fall, the high-energy ray cannon shot out, only to see the high-energy rays penetrate directly into the melted mechanical arm, generating a shockwave that threw the thick mechanical arm skyward, and it was at this moment that the light-energy sword held by the silver-white mecha’s left hand clanged down, shattering the protective layer of the deep blue mecha and penetrating deep into the cockpit and mecha core.

Core function interrupted, the deep blue mecha’s movements were disordered for a few seconds, the eye indicator went out, and the player was out.

The trailing light of the vicious, overbearing light blue ray cannon cuts across the side of the silver and white mecha, causing only minor cosmetic damage to the main body of the mecha.

The black and white mecha walked unhurriedly over to the silver and white mecha and helped the somewhat shaky mecha to his feet, as if he was aware of the silver and white mecha’s breathtaking reflexes and wasn’t worried about the critical moment just now.

The video ended.

“Son, it’s not like you don’t have a chance to bounce back.” Pullman said slowly, his voice becoming majestic and calm, at the moment, he was speaking as a battle-hardened general, “After the unnamed’s first punch, why was your reaction two seconds slower?”

“I didn’t expect him to attack suddenly and was toning down the pain value.”

“Hmm. What about when he raised his sword at you?”

“The high powered ray gun was charging.”

Pullman thought for a moment, “You were using maximum power?”

“Yes, Father.”

“You missed too many chances, that’s why you failed.”

Pullman Jr. frowned, “I don’t understand.”

“You shouldn’t have taken the time to turn down the pain level, the real mecha doesn’t have that feature, it’s what it’s supposed to feel like, it’s what it’s supposed to feel like, you want to be comfortable, don’t drive the mecha.”

“But, but…” Pullman Jr. was about to argue when his father added, “You think the unnamed lowered the pain value? Everything about his data is brand new, he hasn’t even had time to change his screen name, and I’m afraid he hasn’t adjusted the fifty percent pain value set by the system.”

Pullman Jr. opened his mouth, but found himself unable to make a sound, he remembered the unnamed chopped off his arm with a crisp, sharp sword, after that sword, he continued to attack without pause, ruthless, decisive, without a single tremor. Wasn’t he afraid of pain?

“And your full-powered high-energy ray cannon…”

“I understand, I shouldn’t have turned on full power, I should have thought that my opponent didn’t turn off the pain value.”

Pullman froze for a moment before reacting that his son was feeling the need to take care of his opponent’s feelings, he laughed, “You were not supposed to be overwhelmed by anger and fear, you should not have fired full power. At this distance, a third of the power would have been enough to kill the enemy mecha, the recharge time would have been cut by a large margin, and the battle would not have been what it was.”

Pullman Jr. looked up at his father in surprise. Pullman Sr. said, “Winning or losing in battle is simply a matter of who seizes the moment. You have not learned enough, but he is proficient in it, and the rustiness of the game is just a worthless sham.

“I should now take back what I said before, how can unnamed be the son of Dragon of Destruction? They are evenly matched, at least should be friends, or even say, comrades. Not many people among the Empire have such a good sense of combat, I am a little curious about who these two are.”

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Lin Xu disengaged from the map and returned to the equipment room, stepping off the mecha and moving his right arm up and down in circles. Both mental manipulation and telekinetic manipulation cause the mecha damage to act on the pilot to some degree so that the pilot can make quicker and more accurate combat judgments, but at the cost of pain.

Heinrich walked up to him and dropped his palm on Lin Xu’s right shoulder, rubbing it in gentle circles, from where the lightsaber had cut off his entire right arm during the battle.

Lin Xu stiffened for a moment and opened his mouth to say, “I’m fine.”

But as soon as the word “I” came out, Heinrich said, “I know.”

I know there’s nothing you can care about, even the most tangible pain.

“Mecha injuries are most real in the mental phase, and the pain subsides when you leave the mecha, but some mecha practitioners cannot tune into their consciousness and experience phantom pain. Therefore, it is best to make the pain dissipate as soon as possible after the first time it is felt, so that it is not easily repeated later.”

Lin Xu did not speak anymore, and Heinrich was also silent, quietly helping him rub his right shoulder. His right shoulder only had some residual soreness and pain at the moment, and through a thick layer of combat clothing, Lin Xu could still feel the warmth from Heinrich’s hand, a warm embrace. But if asked whether it was useful – Lin Xu could not say.

Heinrich seemed to treat him as a fragile piece of porcelain, not daring to lay a heavy hand, making it feel like a cat’s tail scratching a person, as if there was nothing.

After a while, Lin Xu chose between letting Heinrich’s hand focus and letting him stop, asking politely, “Where are we going next?”

As he said this, he looked over at Heinrich, who was keeping his head down.

The heat of his breath swept over Heinrich’s drooping eyelids, seemingly lifting his eyelashes. The virtual image in the game could talk and breathe, but would not show the original pheromone scent, without the tug of the sweet aroma. Heinrich soberly felt the electric numbness running through his jawbone on both sides.

Heinrich lifted his eyelids slightly, and his vision crashed into Lin Xu’s beautifully shaped lips.

Lin Xu’s setup image appeared much healthier than the real him, with a slightly darker skin tone, no longer a sickly pallor, and lips that were red, dry and soft.

 

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