Imperfections Volume 1 Chapter 16

In order not to alarm the enemy, Zhanlu did not use technical means to invade. Monoeye Hawk watched him sweep the surrounding monitors skillfully and quickly map out a perfect way to avoid them. Wanting to know "what the f.u.c.k is Lin gonna do", Monoeye Hawk followed him.

"Haven't you already 'died'? Even if the IU and interstellar pirates were fighting like s.h.i.+t, what's it to you? Did the IU offer you a salary?"

Zhanlu turned into a mechanical hand, attaching to Lin's arm.

Lin put on his gloves, rummaged through the room, then climbed up along a wall-lined pipe on the outside wall of the VIP area. As Monoeye Hawk looked down, he almost suffered from acrophobia - the pipe clinging to the wall is round and no more than ten centimeters in diameter in estimation, and it was a little slippery. Staggered monitors and muzzle scopes swept around like a big net that could sift even a falling hair.

Monoeye Hawk hesitated for a while, and then found that Lin was already ten meters away.

He then climbed up hurriedly with hands and feet. He was stuck to the wall by a layer of bionic little suction cups that appeared on the palm and the back of his clothes. Even so, Monoeye Hawk still moved one step at a time with deep fright. He felt that the flimsy pipe could not bear the weight of two men and was trembling below his feet.

"Are you a f.u.c.king gecko?" said Monoeye Hawk.

"Everyone likes to get rid of trouble. Who doesn't know that such unworldly life is much more comfortable?" Since Lin knew that this munitions merchant had many tricks, he did not wait for him on purpose. He said without looking back, "But since you live a more comfortable life than others, isn't it fair that you die earlier and end more miserably? Bro Lu, let me say something that you may not like to listen to, even the directors of the GC are straining their heart to live, afraid of death if they do one thing wrong. Who are you to enjoy such peaceful life?"

Zhanlu cited the cla.s.sics, "Bad things happen -Murphy's law. Storms will always come, it is better to stand on the head of waves instead of being the sand castle which waits for its unchangeable fate."  

"Shut the f.u.c.k up!" Monoeye Hawk was furious, "Why you are still talking so much when you're a hand now? And why you even following a person like him, did he format you?"

They came to the end of the pipe. Lin looked to check the way to go. Turning around the corner, there was a plank walkway about two meters away. As long as there were no mental obstacles, it was not a big problem to jump over such a distance. But there were three laser guns with automatic monitoring at the corner, positioned in a triangle leaving no blind spots. Once scanned someone who has no relevant clearance, the guns will cut a person into several pieces instantly.

"Zhanlu said nothing wrong. It seems that it is you that had been a local tyrant in this remote and desolate place for too long that had an exaggerated opinion of what you can do." Lin said calmly, and untied his coat at the same time, "Everybody's business belongs to their own - Is that how you taught your son? No wonder that you raised a withdrawn educator. He is so naïve and civilized, you know, which makes him rather lovely."

Monoeye Hawk looked as if he had been scalped on the spot, suddenly becoming furious, "Yeah, you are not naive, you know what's best for you! You were picked up by Xin Lu before you were ten. He raised you as his own son. Even his wife didn't have Zhanlu's access, but you have a special copy of it. And how did you repay him? Jingheng Lin, your teacher was set up, his reputation was ruined and his family all died. They drove mechs all around the world to hunt a woman who's only ever held a pen in her life. And you study in Black Orchid like nothing happened, chasing your bright future and working as a watchdog of the IU! How mighty you are, Commodore Lin! You ruled the Silver Fortress at such a young age, you ruled Xin Lu's old unit, making them not even dare to breathe ! I am saying that you are ungrateful and heartless and you are not wronged, right?"

Lin said nothing. The next moment, he suddenly moved and let go of his coat which he had just untied. Zhanlu, who was b.u.t.toned to Lin's arm, made an energy circle on his s.h.i.+rt. The coat that flew out radiated the infrared radiation of a simulated human body, which as if a human figure flew out. Three laser guns turned their muzzles at the same time and hit the coat. At that moment, a man who looked like a researcher on the s.p.a.ce station happened to pa.s.s by on the plank walkway. His eyes caught the unusual movement of the laser guns. Before he could see anything, his neck was suddenly clasped by a pair of hands, and a click sounded.

Lin created a blind corner artificially. He utilized the short time difference, jumping onto the plank walkway and landing on the ground to catch the person, which was all done almost at the same time. The three laser guns responded immediately, catching up with him. Mechanical hand-like Zhanlu immediately reached out a probe into the researcher's body and took a chip out of his heart forcibly and linked it on his own palm. At the last second, the laser guns, which were ready to fire, identified the chip and were fooled by him. They hung for a moment, then slowly drooped again.

Jingheng dropped the body, meeting Monoeye Hawk's eyes few meters away.

"Ungrateful and heartless? I've heard that thousands of times. Bro Lu, you're a little uncreative." With a playful nod of his head, he pulled off the dead man's clothes quickly and wrapped them around himself, "You can think of some new words. I'm gonna go though. Please yourself."

He then dragged the corpse aside, put it into a little gap at the corner of the plank walkway, pulling up the mask, and walked away with a swagger.

Monoeye Hawk: "…"

Bixing Lu still didn't know that his real father and his "G.o.dfather" had already fought two rounds. At this time, he was tracking the students' route to the s.p.a.ce station where the Toxic Nest was located. Instead of making a bold approach, he circled this illegal station a few times beyond the station's safe perimeter.

Lu was not idle on the way. At this time, he had started to reframe the mech's core system and repair it. The operation of the mech was very handy then.

As the son of a munitions merchant, the number of mechs that Lu had dismantled since he was a child was might more than a mid-level IU's soldier has ever seen. His knowledge of mech is far beyond the usual level of a mech designer.

The mech which Lin gave him, which was only shown to the students once, he was fairly familiar with it now. As he circled around the s.p.a.ce station for the seventh time, a camouflage docking valve was formed, duplicating the lost mech's verified recognition system completely.

"Perfect," said Lu, nodding toward the mirror beside him, and Lin's face in the mirror smiled, too. Lu talks more when he sees Lin. So he talked to the reflection in the mirror. "You always make yourself look like a performance artist, I don't get it. Who are you - a superstar in eight galaxies? Afraid of being recognized? Clean your face, smile more - looking d.a.m.n good. You'll even contribute to the beautiful environmental engineering of the Eighth Galaxy … Okay, we've become a Trojan horse, and now we'll test if we can blend in with this disguise. It's no good to be shot into a sieve. No need to worry about me, but I can't afford to pay for the mech if it gets broken. Is it okay to sell myself for it?"

The camouflaged mech was approaching the s.p.a.ce station in circles, and Lu's hands pillowed the back of his head, looking up at Lin in the mirror. One can't help but admit that maybe everyone really has a unique aura. Lin's face usually looked very impersonal, but when it was Lu's now, his eyes were full of eager smiles, even making his cold eyes lively.

Lu thought for a moment, "When you go back to Penny, I'm sure I'll blow my cover. Well, handsome, let's discuss it,since it's rare you to go out for a long trip, why don't you just go sightseeing outside for a longer time and give me a little more time to abscond from punishment?"

The mech got into the docking orbit. The entire fuselage shuddered, and then slid towards the station's verification gate at a crazy speed. Once the camouflaged docking valve failed to pa.s.s, the station will instantly treat him as an intruder and blow him up into a pile of debris. However, in terms of doing experiments, Lu seemed to be a born adventurer and never knew what fear is. Staring at the black hole-like verification gate, his eyes were full of excitement.

"Preparing to enter the station. Ten, nine, eight ... "

"My last words are to hope for world peace," Lu said to himself as he turned the defense system up to maximum. "Come on."

"... Two, one, zero!"

The mech screeched and plowed through the verification door. As he pa.s.sed by, the red light of the verification gate flashed. It was ready to issue a warning at first, then it stumbled, then finally let the mech pa.s.s through, accepting the camouflaged docking valve.The security system let it all in. Lu whistled into the mirror and flipped a middle finger to the verification gate he had fooled.

But then, the pictures that are transmitted from outside the fuselage made him a little bit unable to laugh, Bixing sat up straight. 

"Scanning, " he whispered, "Ranges, 10 kilometers around. "

The mech responded quickly, "Within 10 kilometers, there are three 300 light-armed mechs all equipped with armaments over six times the standard. "

"An a.r.s.enal? " Bixing Lu sighed, "My students, how talented you really are."

The"talented" ones have followed a long track and reached a dead end.

"There's no road ahead," Mint said, "There is only a gate, encrypted."

White's knees went limp,  straightly to the ground. He collapsed side by side with the Rickhead, looking back at the road behind them. White took a few deep breaths, "Get out of the way, I can break it open even if it is the gate of heaven. Just don't make me go back. I, I, I can't walk anymore."

Mint hesitated, "But I think this door is sinister."

"Maybe it's because we are underground. And have you noticed that the further we go, the lower the building is." Jingshu Huang squatted on the ground, sketching a simple map on the ground with her hands, "When we came here just now, there were mechs lined up on both sides, and we walked all the way up. The height of the roof is dropping, which means we are leaving the mech stop station soon. The direction is correct"

White jumped up and rubbed his hands, "Just watch me."

He quickly found the lock and watched it for a moment. A row of rays was emitted from his personal terminal on his wrist .A small, hand-size keyboard floated in midair. White began to pick the lock expertly.

Mint s.h.i.+vered gently. For some reason. the hair on the back of her neck stood up. She frowned and was a little restless.

Comatose Rickhead snorted at that time, slowly opening his eyes in the descent. The unfocused gaze fell right on the dimly lit roof - there was a small skull and crossbones sign on the top of the locked door looking down on these ignorant teenagers.

Rickhead opened his eyes wide and let out a faint moan. Mint and Jingshu Huang heard the movement, hurriedly come over.

"Rickhead ... Rickhead ... Vitas! Why don't you change your name to chicken! "

"Hey, are you okay? Say something …"

The girls' voices was far and near, fluttering leisurely. Rickhead had a severe concussion. He tried to see the position of the skull and crossbones, warning his companions, "Be careful ... Be careful ..."

But he struggled so hard that his fingers slipped on the ground in vain, and he could not let out even a single word. Jingshu Huang listened attentively for a long time, "What is he trying to say?"

"Don't worry." White looked back with a smile, "This lock is simpler than the one in the princ.i.p.al's mech room. Come on ladies, give me a countdown - "

On the other side of the closed gate, as the lock was forced through, a row of cameras moved slowly, aiming at the door. The red light began to flash silently, armed security droids glided over. The metal roller gave off a sharp friction with the ground. 

Twelve laser guns aimed at the gate, scanning the images of the four teenagers outside the door. The images are already listed under the weapons'

Scope. Once the door opened, they'll be shot to a pulp.

With two soft clicks, the lock on the door was broken. White said, "Ha! " And reached out to push. Rickhead's eyes were wide open.

But before White's hand could reach the gate, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded!

It turned out that it was Bixing that successfully sneaked into the mech stop station right before the door slid open. Another mech rushed in from the orbit and stopped right on the opposite side at the moment.. 

Princ.i.p.al Lu found that his bad luck these days cannot even be explained by science! 

The camouflage docking valve fooled the security system, but it can't fool  human eyes. The mech from Beijing-β planet stood out from the others in appearance.

Three men from the Toxic Nest came down from the mech on the opposite side, "Where did this mech come from?"

"People inside, come down!"

Bixing Lu sighed because he knew that they must have the mysterious biochip as well. He did not dare to use it for now, so all his weapon is his silver tongue.

"It was just a misunderstanding …" Lu walked slowly out of the Hatch, "I …"

He forgot that he was using the image of Jingheng Lin, so as soon as he came out, several of the men from the Toxic Nest were startled without waiting for him to speak.

One of them immediately sounded the alarm. At the same time, 001, who had received the message, rushed into the VIP area with a group of armed guards, broke down the door of B4's room and shouted a curse at the empty room.

Then someone noticed the opened back window, flipped it over, and caught sight of the Monoeye Hawk who was stuck on the wall!

It was awkward and chaotic for a while.

Monoeye Hawk gnashed his teeth, "Jingheng Lin!"

He took out his waist laser gun, killing two guards who wanted to catch up with him while he threw out a small silver ball out of nowhere from mid-air.

Ma.s.sive electromagnetic interference exploded throughout the s.p.a.ce station. Countless electronic devices have simultaneously blasted tiny sparks. The brightly-lit s.p.a.ce station flickered several times, ushering in a wave of ma.s.sive power outages!

TBC