It's Not Easy To Be a Man 210+

321 & 322

321: Comradery?
Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr

Looking at the standard military-use advanced mecha they had obtained, the vague idea swirling in Ling Lan’s mind abruptly came into focus. She quickly contacted Leopard and communicated her idea to him.

The moment Li Lanfeng heard her idea, his gaze lit up. He felt that it was an excellent plan. Even as he signalled his agreement, he could not help but be secretly proud. See, this was his friend. What a bright and intelligent rabbit!

The two of them instantly changed their mecha into the standard advanced mecha they had obtained from the ship. Only then did they operate their mecha to move to the airlock’s doors and make preparations to sneak inside the mainship proper …

Just as Ling Lan was about to instruct Little Four to observe the surroundings near the doors of the airlock, to see whether there was anyone out and about, they suddenly sensed the travel speed of the military vessel slowing down. They could also hear the faint sounds of alarms blaring from the mainship proper.

“What’s going on, Little Four?” Ling Lan quickly turned to ask Little Four in the mindspace. Right now, Ling Lan was like a blind person — she was solely reliant on Little Four to obtain information on the outside world.

Little Four answered immediately, “Boss, the radar has picked up the appearance of an unidentified flying object about 10 kilometres ahead of the command mainship. The entire ship is now in emergency mode. It isn’t suitable for us to act at this time.”

Having heard what Little Four had to say, Ling Lan settled down to wait for a while. Meanwhile, Li Lanfeng too had figured out that something seemed to be happening inside the ship, so when Ling Lan suggested they wait, he was in full agreement, curious to see what exactly was happening …

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At the distant base of the Swift Dragons, right after the eruption of the magnetic tsunami, an urgent notification came, requesting the Swift Dragon fleet to send a search and rescue team immediately to the surrounding districts of planet X192 to help the surviving soldiers and adventurers.

In one of the rooms in the command centre at the Swift Dragon base, a man shrouded in shadows sat on a sofa. In a hoarse voice which sounded grating to the ears, he said to another man equally obscured by shadows, “D9, do you think this notification is fishy?”

“D1, on the surface, this notification is exceedingly normal. Whenever an incident with great casualties occur, the mecha mainframe will definitely inform the closest fleet to send assistance. As far as I know, the magnetic tsunami of X191 is a natural phenomenon …” Any natural disasters that happened in Mecha World was actually a realistic copy of natural disasters in the real world. In reality, on the fringes of the Chinese Federation in the real world, there had indeed been an eruption of a magnetic tsunami on one of the planets. It was just that it had not been as violent and destructive as the one in Mecha World.

At this point of the conversation, D9 paused, then continued in a dark tone, “That reclamation fleet should also be carrying out their mission right about now …”

“What you’re saying is, it won’t be a big problem?” Within the shadows where expressions could not be seen clearly, D1 asked in return with his usual emotionless voice.

“Not quite. It’s precisely because there’s no problem at all that it is problematic …” A mocking smirk appeared on D9’s lips. “We’re infiltrators. We cannot let down our guard. No one can tell whether the mecha mainframe has discovered something.”

“Then, pretend we did not receive the notification?” D1 followed up with this question.

“Of course that won’t work. At the very least we must act normal and send a search and rescue team over, otherwise the mecha mainframe will definitely become suspicious. We still need a little time before Project T can be completed,” refuted D9 directly, “The magnetic tsunami was so strong … according to the information we received, that reclamation fleet basically had no way of surviving … Even if there are any lucky survivors, having them be under our guard will be more reassuring for us.”