Chapter 28: Continuous Explosions
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Karai
Members of the Friends list could enter the player’s personal rest area, and the Silver Moon Sword was the only name in the list, and the subsequent applications were just too many, all of which were ignored by Lin Xu.
“Hello, is something wrong?”
Lin Xu’s voice was low and cold, reminding Pullman Jr. of the rocks in the wild winds of the deserted star, he retracted his hand and stood upright, “Mr. Unnamed, I, I wanted to ask if we could play a few more matches afterwards, I admire your skills.”
“Sorry, I’ll be very busy afterwards, this is the last time I’ll be logging in for a while.”
“What about when you are done being busy? I’m in my fourth year at Deep Blue Military Academy, and I was wondering what unit you’re serving in?”
Lin Xu looked back at the cautious and energetic young man, who was looking at Lin Xu with wide eyes expectantly.
“I’m an ordinary Imperial citizen, civilian, studying languages, history, and artifacts. Never went to Military Academy, no military service.”
Pullman Jr.’s expression gradually cracked with Lin Xu’s words, he really found it hard to believe that the man in front of him, who had entered the top ten of the ranking in three days, this tall and majestic man, who looked like he had come out of blood and fire, was a civilian sitting in an office! In his cracked expression, Lin Xu coldly disconnected.
But he did not rush to disengage from the holographic pod, rather, he took out the storage device that Heinrich had given him earlier, recorded the information into the holographic pod, and began to watch the mecha actual battle and interstellar war information.
The level of in-game combat simulation in Star Ocean was no longer sufficient for Lin Xu’s needs, and the words of Silver Moon Sword reminded him of the Deep Blue Military Academy’s teaching materials.
Lin Xu started with the basic theory of mecha, and spent the evening sorting out the history of mecha design and tactical strategy, and then watched several exemplary cases of mecha single combat kills of Zerg.
Blizzard was featured in three of the games, and the mecha maneuvering was thrilling and smooth. But when you calm down and think about it, all the exciting operations are a living person crossing the gap between life and death, not a cold unmanned mecha or a piece of data, and you can’t help but feel cold in the heart.
He spent the whole night in the holographic chamber, and when he returned to room 003 the next day, Ruth told him that the custom-made clothes had been delivered, and the other regular clothes were still being rushed, and would probably be delivered within three days after the banquet.
The smart lights came on, and Lin Xu glanced at the cold gray tuxedo folded on the edge of the bed. Snowy was snoring on the pile of clothes, holding his long, droopy ears; after Blackie had been sent to Heinrich by Lin Xu, Snowy couldn’t find a floppy companion to cuddle with for warmth, so he had to curl up in the soft fabric.
He went to the corner and filled Snowy’s bowl with cat food. When he smelled the food, Snowy opened his pure blue eyes, jumped off the bed, wagged his short tail and ran to Lin Xu’s knee and rolled around. Lin Xu stroked his ears and let him bury his head in his food.
The interior of the room was very quiet, the outside of the window was silent, only Snowy’s chewing and some small mechanical running sounds could be heard. Lin Xu stood up and suddenly stopped with his head to his side. The sound of the starship running was like a long string going back and forth, but there was a subtle cold regular gear turning in the running sound. Was there a sound like this before?
His eyebrows jumped from the tense spirit, and his eyes looked at the latest foreign object in the room, a cold gray suit, shirt, blazer, pants, bow tie, one piece folded into a square on the side of the bed. The blazer still had traces of Snowy’s collapse and a few rabbit-cat long hairs on it, soft and warm.
Whenever Lin Xu concentrated, the mental energy and five senses honed in the apocalypse were like precise scalpels cutting through the skin and piercing the air, sending him back perverse signals of crisis.
Lin Xu slowly took a step toward the bed, a soft “tick” interrupted the mechanical gears, Lin Xu immediately turned back to pick Snowy away from the attire.
Fire and explosion filled the space in the same moment, and in an instant, Lin Xu fell to the ground to avoid the strongest wave of impact, and the shards of the bomb flew, shattering all the glassware in the room and embedding into the metal walls.
Several pieces of debris flew towards Lin Xu in the firelight sweep, and Lin Xu’s pupils dilated violently. The black pupils covered the gray iris, occupying almost the entire area of his eyes, and the image of the flying debris and firelight was slowed down infinitely on his retina.
Lin Xu raised his arm, pitch-black scales wrapped around his small arm, and the sharp fragments moving at high speed met the scales with a shower of sparks.
The explosion lasted less than ten seconds, and when the shock was over, the intelligent control system in the room went out of control. The lights flashed chaotically, the bed was reduced to rubble, the furniture around it was also severely damaged, the residual flames burned with the help of combustible fabrics, and the independently controlled fire extinguishing device received the smoke signal and started sprinkling water.
Snowy, who was being shielded in Lin Xu’s arms, was frightened and wailing manically. Lin Xu climbed up and opened the door to see the usual white light in the corridor disappearing and a red light marking the danger state enveloping the corridor, flashing continuously.
Ruth’s voice broadcasted throughout the ship, “All hands, area H under attack! All hands on deck, area H under attack!”
Lin Xu threw Snowy toward Heinrich’s door and ordered, “Stay here, don’t run around.”
Snowy tilted his head up and got on the ground like an ancient Earth canine, watching his master rush down the hallway without moving.
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“Attention all, area H is under attack!”
The red warning lights went on instantly.
Victoria’s Captain, Honda Agana, saw Marshal Chu, who had always been calm and collected, get up instantly, “Ruth, what’s happening in area H?”
Area H was Heinrich’s living quarters, but now he was in his office, and the only person left in area H was Lin Xu.
“Room 003 exploded fifteen seconds ago, the program is conducting a safety assessment.”
Heinrich raised his voice, “Where is Lin Xu?”
“The surveillance system in room 003 was damaged, and Mr. Lin Xu has left area H after the explosion.”
“Where did he go? Is he safe?”
“Subject in motion, trajectory being calculated.”
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Terminal communications were temporarily cut off by security measures, and Lin Xu called Ruth to try to get through to Ryan, but the alarms continued to sound, superimposing tunnel-like echoes in the long, narrow hallway. Ruth’s computing resources were called by the overall security assessment program and did not receive Lin Xu’s request.
The elevator had been deactivated, and Lin Xu gritted his teeth and rushed into the spiral stairway, pulling on the handrail to quickly spin and slide down, pushing the door into area G where Ryan was located. An alpha with the rank of vice-marshal was startled by the sudden appearance of an unfamiliar face in the senior general’s living quarters on the Victoria.
The corridors of area G were hastily filled with people, and the admirals were dashing towards the highest conference room with serious faces. Area H, where the fleet commander lived, had been attacked from the inside, something that had never happened in the decades Heinrich had been in power.
Lin Xu pulled the alpha, his gaze sharp, “Vice-Marshal, may I ask where Ryan Kalt lives?”
“Kalt? Young Kalt? He’s in room G576, you…”
“Thanks.” Lin Xu let go of him.
The alpha looked at his cold face with black hair and gray eyes and suddenly remembered, “Are you Dr. Lin Xu?”
Lin Xu didn’t answer him, but turned around and ran against the flow of people towards room G576.
Ryan’s room was very far back, and the crowds thinned to nothing along the way. The flashing red alert light stopped when Lin Xu reached G576, and Ruth began to broadcast on a loop, “The alert has been lifted, please reset all units.”
The door to room G576 was half covered, Lin Xu pushed the door in. Ryan took a few steps back in fear, the young man sitting on the side greeted Lin Xu calmly instead.
“Stand there and don’t move!”
“Huh?” Ryan, who had never heard Lin Xu speak in such a tone and at such a volume before, was shaken and his feet slipped and fell backwards.
The tux from Nature’s Evolution was sitting on the edge of the table, and Ryan was getting infinitely closer to it.
The subtle sound of gears turning rang in Lin Xu’s head like a death knell. He took a few steps forward, pulled Ryan up and threw him to the side, quickly grabbed a full set of tuxedos and turned to rush for the door.
“Beep…”
As if a sharp knife had stabbed Lin Xu’s tense spirit, the tuxedo was thrown into the open corridor, and he yanked the door shut. With a loud bang, the impact of the closed metal door and the explosion of the tuxedo in mid-air superimposed on each other.
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