Edited by: Umamin
The Blue Star military base was huge. Most of the mechas were stored in the underground arsenal and were only taken out during wars or for training. In this way, the mechas wouldn’t become primary targets in the case of a surprise raid.
Yue Zhan took Yi Nuo directly to the underground warehouse. But when he walked to the entrance, he suddenly stopped, turned around, looked at the group of people behind Yi Nuo, and said, “Sorry, the weapon warehouse is an important place. Only His Royal Highness can enter.”
Major General Lin looked up at the sky and thought: it’s really a double standard.
Since when did Major General Yue let outsiders visit such an important place before? At best, the mecha soldiers would drive the mechas out to let them have a look, but they weren’t allowed to touch them.
After hearing Yue Zhan’s words, the people behind Yi Nuo had a subtle expression on their faces. Some of them were made up of members of the delegation, some were guards arranged by the emperor, and some were Yi Nuo’s own guards.
The members of the delegation had a mentality of watching the show. Since Mr. Huo was cleaned up, they knew that the little prince wasn’t easy to provoke. But Yue Zhan wasn’t easy to mess with either. Since it was a fight between the two gods, how could small people like them get involved?
Luo Yuanjie and Lu Ya both felt that they should go with them to protect His Royal Highness. Especially Lu Ya, as the captain of Yi Nuo’s guards, his duty was to follow Yi Nuo.
Yi Nuo was worried that an accident might happen when testing the mechas, so he couldn’t help raising his head to look at Yue Zhan eagerly.
Yue Zhan: “…” It was a foul to sell meng, okay?
He silently looked away, stepped back, and said, “You can bring two guards at most.”
Yi Nuo was instantly happy. After saying thank you, he turned around and said, “Lu Ya, Luo Yuanjie, you follow.”
Yue Zhan didn’t understand what to be happy about and even felt that the guards were unnecessary. How could the little majesty get hurt with him?
But he didn’t say much, bypassed Yi Nuo, and unlocked the safety door with iris recognition1.
The accompanying Major General Lin continued to look at the sky, thinking helplessly: The cold-faced and selfless Major General Yue actually gave in again after the little highness blinked twice? What about his principles? What about the bottom line?
*
After arriving at the underground warehouse, Yi Nuo found that it was also surprisingly large. It was like a medium-sized underground city, and the buildings and facilities were no worse than the surface base.
Lu Ya and Luo Yuanjie also saw such a large underground military facility for the first time. They couldn’t help but secretly marvel in their hearts as they walked.
Before arriving at Armory No.1, they saw Major Gavin, the commander of the mecha unit, waiting for them. It was evident that he came after receiving the orders earlier.
After a military salute, he directly reported to Yue Zhan: “The elite team of the mecha unit and the personnel of the technical department are ready to conduct confrontation tests at any time.”
“Mhm.” Yue Zhan nodded slightly, then turned around and asked Yi Nuo, “Your Highness, do you want to look at the mechas first or test the performance directly?”
Yi Nuo had been staring at the mechas for a long time. Hearing Yue Zhan’s question, he said modestly, “Let’s look at the mechas first.”
[I mainly want to touch them. I heard that all the mechas here are the latest models]
Yue Zhan: “…”
He intended to discover whether the little prince knew what was wrong with the mechas. Maybe the performance test was just a cover-up? But he didn’t expect…
He couldn’t help glancing at the little prince’s clean and beautiful hands and subconsciously thought: Forget it, just let him touch. It’s not as if he could break the mechas.
“Open the mecha warehouse.” Yue Zhan ordered Gavin directly.
Gavin was waiting to hear Yue Zhan’s refusal. Unexpectedly, he received the order to open the warehouse. He was surprised and stood still for two seconds.
He couldn’t help taking another look at Yi Nuo, then secretly looked at Major General Lin, as if asking: “What’s wrong with Major General Yue? Did he become a different person?”
Major General Lin didn’t look surprised. He ignored Gavin’s gaze and just stood aside in silence.
After the door opened, Yi Nuo’s sight was instantly attracted by the two rows of tall mechas. Before Yue Zhan said ‘if you please,’ the little prince couldn’t help but walk in first.
Gavin took the opportunity to move behind Yue Zhan, and asked in a low voice, “Commander, what’s going on? Why do you suddenly want to test the performance of the mechas, and…” bring a little beauty to see the mechas.
Although the little beauty had a noble status, they had received more distinguished people before, such as Prince Alec, the emperor’s own uncle. However, Commander Yue wasn’t aspolite back then .
Yue Zhan glanced at him and said, “Just do your job well, don’t think about it too much.”
As the two were graduates of the Royal Military Academy, they had met before entering the army. Aside from being superiors and subordinates, they were also friends, so they didn’t talk so formally in private.
Gavin had the urge to scratch his head. He looked at the little prince, who was curious about everything and occasionally reached out to touch the mechas. He also looked at Yue Zhan, who was observing the little prince’s movements, there was no displeasure in his eyes and there was even some… indulgence and pampering. Gavin felt that this scene was extremely unreal.
There was no problem in taking the members of the royal family to the mecha warehouse and letting them touch as it didn’t violate any regulations of the base, but this time Yue Zhan was the one leading them… it was simply incredible.
Gavin couldn’t help looking at Yue Zhan again, thinking to himself: Isthis really the boss? Was he replaced?
After visiting seven or eight armories, Yi Nuo randomly selected a dozen mechas of different styles and said to Yue Zhan, “Test these first.”
Yue Zhan nodded, turned around, and said to Gavin, “Arrange it.”
The underground base was very big, and there was even a battle site for mechas. To test the mechas’ performance in actual combat, they had to go there.
Gavin arranged a suspension car to carry the group of people there.
On the way, Yi Nuo had been silent, and Yue Zhan didn’t know what he was thinking.
Yue Zhan’s gaze kept falling on him, thinking to himself: What is the little prince thinking? Is it related to the possibility of the mechas having a problem? Where did he get the news? Why can I hear his thoughts from time to time and sometimes not…
Gavin looked at Yi Nuo, then looked at Yue Zhan, and suddenly moved closed and whispered, “Boss, I found you’ve been looking at the little prince.”
Yue Zhan took back his gaze and said faintly without looking at him, “Shut up.”
But Gavin spoke again, “Boss, I also found that you seem to be bent2 after you came back.”
Yue Zhan: “?!”
“Your hair is bent.” Seeing Yue Zhan’s cold gaze, Gavin hurriedly pointed to his head.
After speaking, he sighed in his heart: the boss is fashionable and handsome. Seeing his special treatment to the little prince, could it be… that he dressed up because of the little prince?
Yue Zhan: “…”
“Get lost!” Yue Zhan kicked him directly, “Stop talking, learn more from others.”
Although they lowered their voices, Yi Nuo accidentally heard some of their words and couldn’t help shrinking into the seat with a guilty conscience.
Yue Zhan’s hair was bent3…wasn’t it because of his little dark cloud?
*
The suspension car drove fast and arrived at the training venue within ten minutes.
The person in charge of the technical department was Zong Ming. He was from the Zong family, a great noble family of the imperial capital star. Initially, he was in charge of the repair and maintenance of the mechas.
But six months ago, the former head of the technical department died unexpectedly while on vacation. Zong Ming took over temporarily and began to manage the performance of the mechas. Because there was no new person to take over, he had been in charge until now.
On the way, Gavin complained to Yue Zhan, saying that although Zong Ming was talented, he was a bit arrogant, and it was difficult to get along with him. He hoped that a chief technical engineer would be sent over and let Zong Ming be the second in command.
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Yi Nuo overheard some of the conversation, but he didn’t take it to heart. It was a matter of the base, so it had nothing to do with him. He just came to verify whether there was a problem with the mechas.
The mechas and mecha drivers arrived one step earlier than them. After everyone took their seats in the safety zone, the confrontation began.
The mecha drivers selected by Gavin were all the elites of the elite team. As a leader, he wanted to show his strength to Yue Zhan and the little prince.
Therefore, even if it was a friendly match, the mecha soldiers fought heartily, with beautiful and wonderful moves.
However, Yi Nuo and Yue Zhan ignored the battle situation. Both of them were paying close attention to the performance of the mechas, the three-dimensional perspective analysis, and the test data on the display screen.
When the match was over, Yue Zhan looked at Yi Nuo.
Yi Nuo shook his head, indicating that no abnormalities were found.
Yue Zhan turned over and motioned to Gavin to start the next match.
However, after the next match was over, Yi Nuo still shook his head.
Yue Zhan’s expression remained unchanged and signaled the start of the next match.
After another match, Yi Nuo shook his head.
A match later, Yi Nuo shook his head again…
…
After more than a dozen matches, the night was almost over, and Yi Nuo was still shaking his head.
The mecha soldiers were tired and confused. They didn’t understand what the little prince wanted to see. The testers were also very tired, and Zong Ming was the most dissatisfied.
When he learned that Yue Zhan was going to test the mechas’ performance, Zong Ming was somewhat unhappy. He thought it was a distrust of his abilities. These mechas were tested and debugged by him two days ago; how could there be any problem with them?
When he arrived at the training venue and found that Yi Nuo was the one who wanted to test the mechas, he became even more unhappy.
Who was Yi Nuo? He was just an unfavored prince. It was said that he didn’t go to college. Did he understand mechas? When Zong Ming studied mecha manufacturing at the Imperial College, the little prince was still being accompanied by a nanny in the palace, right?
As a direct line of one of the imperial star noble families, Zong Ming didn’t put a prince who had no real power and was not favored in his eyes. He only maintained superficial respect. After all, there were times where even the emperor had to rely on the noble families.
After seeing that the little prince didn’t understand mechas and was still tossing them around, his dissatisfaction and disdain soon reached a point where it was difficult to hide.
It’s just that he didn’t understand why Commander Yue let the little prince fool around.
Yue Zhan didn’t mean to fool around with Yi Nuo. After watching over a dozen battles, he vaguely felt something was wrong.
In his opinion, several mistakes could have been avoided during the battle. No, they weren’t mistakes, it was just that… the performance of the mecha soldiers didn’t meet his expectations.
The main reason was that these mecha soldiers were the elite of the elite, so his expectations were higher.
But there was no problem with the test data as it was all within the acceptable error range. Those small mistakes were probably because of the drivers’ condition. After all, everyone was a little tired.
But… he still felt something was wrong.
After the last two matches, Zong Ming glanced at the results, sneered in his heart, but said, “The performance is okay. There’s no problem.”
Yi Nuo didn’t look at him, but he seemed to have eyes on the back of his head and said, “Normal? Did you read the data?”
Zong Ming had been holding his breath all night, and he almost exploded in anger after hearing Yi Nuo’s ambiguous words. However, he still remembered that Yue Zhan was standing beside him and had to endure his anger. A moment later, he gritted his teeth and asked calmly, “Your Royal Highness, do you have any insights?”
Yi Nuo pointed to two lines of data on the screen not far away and said, “Here, the deviation is too big.”
Yue Zhan couldn’t help raising his eyebrows when he heard his words. Unexpectedly, the little prince could understand the information, and his thoughts were the same as his. It seemed that the little prince had learned a wide range of things.
Gavin was silent, thinking to himself that this beautiful and well-behaved little prince had such a strong temper.
In fact, he was still happy for someone to teach Zong Ming a lesson. But after looking at the two lines of data that Yi Nuo pointed to, he was a little disappointed.
Although the numbers fluctuated a bit, it was still within the acceptable error range. At most, it was the difference between good and excellent, which wasn’t abnormal.
No, how could he feel disappointed? There were no problems with the mechas; he should be happy.
Zong Ming had obviously noticed it early and said displeased, “Your Royal Highness, if you don’t understand, you can study more. This is a normal error range.”
Yi Nuo turned to look at him and asked puzzledly, “You seem to be very hostile to me?”
Zong Ming: “…” Did he notice it?
Yi Nuo looked at him. A trace of doubt flashed through his beautiful pupils.
A moment later, he suddenly said, “I see. The two mechas were developed and produced by a company under the Zong family. Do you suspect that I’m targeting your family?”
Zong Ming almost exploded in anger, thinking: you tossed around the technical department, and now you are questioning me?
But the little prince looked like ‘I’m really confused and innocent’. If he showed that he cared, he would look stingy.
Zong Ming took a deep breath and decided to ignore him. He directly said to Yue Zhan, “Commander Yue, if there’s nothing else, I’ll let the people from the technical department go back first. After all, everyone has been busy all night.”
They had worked in vain all this time!
Zong Ming gritted his teeth and thought.
But before Yue Zhan answered, Yi Nuo said, “Sorry, not yet. Maybe the people in the technical department will have to work hard a bit longer.”
With that said, he turned to look at Yue Zhan and suggested, “Let the two mechas underneath fight twice?”
Zong Ming sneered as he thought: Major General Yue won’t agree. Even if he doesn’t care about the people from the technical department, how could he not care about the mecha soldiers?
However, the next second, he saw Yue Zhan nod solemnly, as if there was really something wrong with the two mechas.
Zong Ming: “…” What’s the matter with this sense of dizziness?
But at this time, a young technician behind him also raised his hand tremblingly and said in a low voice, “Chief engineer, I also think there’s a problem with this part of the data, and not only the data of these two mechas.”
Zong Ming’s anger had yet to disappear. Hearing the technician’s words, he turned around and asked, “What’s your name? Which group?” When was it your place to speak?
The young technician pushed his glasses and whispered, “Hu Yichen, test group 2.”
“Hu Yichen?” Yi Nuo didn’t take Zong Ming’s conversation with the young technician to heart, but he didn’t expect that he would hear that name here and turned his head in surprise.
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[Hu Yichen, isn’t he the most powerful mecha maker of the empire in the future? After Yue Zhan, isn’t he another person that will be seduced by ‘me’?]
Yue Zhan: ???
Eye recognition
He means Yue Zhan became gay and seems to like the little prince.
Remember Yue Zhan’s hair became a bit curly when he was electrocuted.