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Chapter 994: Chapter 924: Just 10 lives, no big problem!

-1 Chapter 994: Chapter 924: Just 10 lives, no big problem!

-1 Forget about the main storyline, the game ended even before the prologue had officially begun.

Yi, who had never seen this kind of gameplay, stared blankly at the rolling credits, much like a stunned goose.

It wasn’t just him; the audience was also bewildered.

The comment section of the live broadcast room was flooded with question marks as no one anticipated this twist.

After the rolling credits ended, the previously completely darkened world lit up again, as a beam of light from the sky illuminated the ruins.

Yi stood amidst the ruins of the base, watching the achievement trophy slowly descending from the beam of light, with no desire to reach out and accept it.

However, under the urging of the comments, he reluctantly accepted it.

It was an ordinary silver achievement trophy, named —

[Destroyer Pioneer]

Note: Whose side are you on?

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“Whose side am I on?” Yi blinked, “What does that mean?

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Is this mocking me for being on the same team as the monsters?”

“Monsters count as a faction?”

The audiences were back to their senses, and they all laughed along with him.

After Yi collected the trophy, two options appeared in front of him —

[Start Again]/[Quit the Game]

Of course, he chose [Start Again].

Soon, the familiar sounds of footprints and calls echoed in his ears again.

Yi opened his eyes and saw the familiar ceiling.

The process he had already gone through once became much easier the second time around, and Yi quickly re-entered the [Neural Connection] section.

The second time around, he was much more cautious and figured out the trick:

The key to this section was “don’t be click-happy”!

Those memory fragments sliding in front of his eyes, you just have to look at them briefly, never invest too much attention, or else you’ll get sucked in.

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If you do get carried away into a memory fragment, then stay calm and still, disconnect from this fragment, and return to the stream of consciousness and memories.

His job was to find the [Dangerous Wanderer] among the images scrolling in front of him.

It couldn’t simply be a [Memory] related to the Dangerous Wanderer meant to mislead the player, but it had to be the [Operation Port] itself.

This part was like quickly finding the correct image in a pile of moving pictures, testing “limited focus” and “sharp eyes”.

Initially, it might seem a little challenging, as all the “pictures” are new, and the player is too unfamiliar with their “target picture”.

However, as long as you go through it multiple times, get to know these “pictures”, it will become simpler.

Which aligns perfectly with the in-game description that “the more in sync a driver is, the quicker and more stable their connection”.

Of course, since it’s the game’s tutorial or “prologue”, the difficulty would not be set too high, so as “brothers”, their river of consciousness and memory is very stable, giving Yi plenty of time to find the correct “picture” — the entry point to the mech’s operating system.

Even if he made the wrong choice, his brother would be able to stabilize the situation while reminding and awakening him.

As long as time hadn’t run its course, they could continue trying.

If he got it wrong three times, the connection would fail, and they’d have to start over again.

Under his brother’s care, Yi made a couple of mistakes but finally entered the operating system of the Dangerous Wanderer successfully.

At that moment, his consciousness was transmitted at an astonishing speed along the circuits, incorporating every corner of the massive mech into his senses.

Or rather, into the combined senses of him and his brother.

It was an indescribable feeling: his senses, his brother’s senses, the mech’s senses; they all seemed separate yet closely linked.

Yi couldn’t fathom how Cloud Dream managed to do it.

Creating a grand and massive world, he could still imagine — that’s just a technologically superior, more detailed, and more imaginative version of “My World”!

But blending different senses together, closely linked yet with clear boundaries…

this completely contradictory feat was simply beyond his imagination.

However, Yi had developed a thick skin and didn’t let it bother him.

Besides, there was something much more exciting that had grabbed almost all his attention —

As the connection was completed, the nuclear turbine in the mech’s chest started up.

The surging energy coursed through the entire mech.

Yi, who shared the mech’s senses, instantly felt an infinite amount of power coursing through him!

This power was so immense; it even gave him the illusion that he could smash a mountain peak with one punch.

But aside from the immeasurable power that poured into him, a heavy pressure also came!

The 1980 ton weight of the Dangerous Wanderer made Yi feel an unprecedented heaviness in his body.

Far from the light and agile sensation in “Chang’an”, even the flexibility in reality was completely lost.

Every move he made required contending against this heavy pressure.

It was like walking and punching underwater, having to fight against the water’s resistance.

Yi even felt that without someone sharing the load with him, he might not even be able to take a step!

Yet, no sooner had this thought formed than he felt a slight lift in his arm and an urge to perform a “clash of fists and palms”.

He succumbed to this impulse.

— Because he had realized that this was his brother’s intention.

Amidst the mechanical roar, the Dangerous Wanderer lifted its arms in sync with their movements.

At first, it was indeed as Yi had imagined: it required a great deal of effort to lift the arm.

But as they moved, the engines on the mech’s arms started one by one, and the action quickly became easier, until when the fists and palms collided, they were relaxed and effortless, with no burden at all.

Feeling this change, Yi seemingly got enlightened.

Then, a deep voice sounded in their ears: “Gentlemen, your mission is to hold the last coastal defense line.

Understand?”

“Understood.” Brother responded from Yi’s side.

The gate of the base slowly opened, and the furious storm and surging waves entered their view at the same time.

But for Yi, who was controlling a mech, the massive Hunter Base suddenly seemed a bit cramped, let alone a storm.

As long as he was controlling the Dangerous Wanderer, the pouring rain was nothing but tiny water droplets, and the over ten meters high waves could only splash his legs at most.

The depth of the water on the coastline turned the entire bay into a mech rest area.

He feared nothing!

Controlling the mech, the two leaped into the sea and advanced against the waves, reaching their standby point in a few steps.

— The commander merely demanded that they hold the “last line of defense” and did not ask them to go far.

Yi’s consciousness returned to the cockpit and he watched the holographic screen in front of him, eyeing the giant red dot and waiting for the battle to begin.

But at this moment, his brother suddenly said, “Officer, a civilian ship has been spotted ahead, it’s on the monster’s path.”

Only then did Yi notice the little bright spot on the map and saw the boat bobbing in the waves through the mech’s perspective.

The response from the commander was very strict, “Gentlemen, your duty is to protect the two million people behind you, you can’t risk saving a civilian ship with only ten people on it!”

“Do you understand?!”

“Yes, officer,” brother replied.

But after disconnecting the communication, he complained discontentedly, “That was too cold-blooded.”

“Right.” Yi nodded in agreement.

Hearing his response, brother turned to look at him immediately.

“What’s wrong?” Yi asked in return.

Brother seriously glanced at him a few times, then suddenly said, “You know what I’m thinking, don’t you?”

“?” Yi was taken aback for a moment, but immediately understood, “You want to save them?”

Looking at the light on the holographic map that was rapidly approaching, Yi decisively shook his head, “No way, absolutely no way!”

“Huh?” brother was clearly surprised that Yi would refuse him and froze, “Why?

We can do it!”

“Why?

Didn’t I already tell you?

You have a dark forehead, indicating imminent danger!”

Yi was very sober-minded.

This was his protagonist’s brother, the comrade-in-arms who had long shared a neural connection with him, fought alongside him, and had an intimately close relationship.

Undoubtedly, they were at extremely high risk!

The kind that could be killed in an accident without caution!

So they absolutely couldn’t take risks and mess things up!

“Anyway, we can’t go!

Something big will happen if we go!”

“But if we don’t go, they’re doomed!

That’s ten lives we’re talking about!” Since mech control required two people to cooperate, brother tried to convince Yi.

But Yi was not swayed at all: “It’s just ten people, not a big problem.”

In the eyes of a game player, indeed, ten lives aren’t considered much, not to mention he just wiped out all of humanity…

But his nonchalant attitude greatly shocked brother and even made him doubt life: “What…

What did you say?”

“How could you think like that?!”