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At 6 A.M., Xu Yang woke up.
He lay back against the pillow, the necklace that Yan Duo had given him radiating a slight warmth around his neck, providing an extra burst of energy.
This ant he didn’t have to sleep as much and had more ti in the day to work.
The rented apartnt room was large enough; he turned his head to see A40 practicing with a blade in the living room.
It had moved all the furniture aside in advance, reserving for itself at least 30 square ters of space.
The area was narrow, posing a great challenge for soone practicing martial arts, as they could easily bump into things or scratch the furniture, but A40 managed well.
It had never woken Xu Yang up nor damaged any items.
The blade A40 was using was called “Fury,” a gift from Kanako, resembling an extended blazing fla.
The sky was overcast, and without the lights on, the red glow at the tip of 40’s blade seed even more dazzling as it cut through the air like a shooting star.
A40’s body flickered and flipped in midair as if gravity didn’t affect it.
“Like a hornet,” comnted Xu Yang.
That remark stung A40’s heart, and its movents beca distorted, causing it to collapse to the floor.
“I must beco stronger, until I find Huang Feng,” it declared, quickly getting back on its feet and resuming its training.
Xu Yang looked towards the eyeball tracker at the top of the curtains and blinked at it.
It understood imdiately, and the electric curtains began to roll up silently and quickly, unveiling the grey-white city blanketed by clouds.
Almost the mont the curtains hit the top, rain started to pour from the sky, intensifying within seconds into a downpour, producing a roaring sound as if nature was issuing a desperate warning to humans.
He turned on the smart screen, which automatically tuned to the news channel.
Kakuya TV Station broadcast news 24 hours a day.
A diligent robot with four screens on its head combined news segnts from every ti slot, eliminating morning, afternoon, or night distinctions.
Currently, it was providing explosive updates on the frontline conflicts.
Kyoto Infinity’s satellites had lost track of the space mothership “Martinez,” and it wasn’t just Kyoto Infinity; satellites from other giant corporations also failed to locate the space mothership, which they reported as using so advanced thod of evasion.
Where could the giant warship be headed?
Xu Yang wondered.
Such a vast space mothership couldn’t just vanish from the world; Black Fire Innovation must have taken so secretive asures.
If Black Fire Innovation could make it avoid detection and approach the Northern Archipelago silently, the tide of the conflict could swiftly turn.
It might directly strike core cities like Anjiu City and Shangjing, shattering Kyoto Infinity’s morale to continue the fight.
Could this be the ans Black Fire Innovation was using to pursue their ambitions?
Xu Yang couldn’t help but feel a hint of threat.
Looking at the current situation, Black Fire Innovation appeared to possess an exceptional anti-surveillance capability, surpassing contemporary science and technology, enabling the mothership to quickly maneuver and achieve flash warfare effects, or even directly penetrate into the heart of corporate territories.
Kyoto Infinity didn’t have sufficient defensive depth; once that ship sailed directly to Shangjing and made a beeline for the Xisheng Shrine, all ergency asures would be futile.
Now that it had disappeared from all radars and detection thods, Kyoto Infinity’s entire strategic plan had beco reactive, constantly guarding against the ship’s possible sudden reappearance.
“What an incredible downpour!” A40 didn’t stop swinging its blade, optimizing its battle module paraters, managing the relationship between power consumption and the cooling system, and refining its program settings.
“Fortunately, Anjiu City has a very large artificial river for flood discharge!”
“Code-nad ‘Osu,’ the drainage channel,” Xu Yang checked the data.
“Designed to discharge 500 million cubic ters annually, it turns out to work overti every year.”
“Without the shuttle machine, such heavy rain would have completely immobilized !” said A40.
“The probability of a short circuit if drenched is 95%!”
“In ani, practitioners sit under great waterfalls, letting the water pound on their heads to train,” Xu Yang said.
“But if it were you, I’m afraid you wouldn’t be able to replicate that.”
“That’s a human thod to fortify their will,” A40 dismissed.
“I have been fearlessly designed since the day I left the factory!”
Xu Yang observed A40; its body wasn’t the most advanced, nor did it have technology assuring 100% victory.
Solely on the basis of belief, it didn’t seem to have much competitive edge.
“How far do you think you’ll get in the festival?” Xu Yang looked at A40.
“The enemies in the competition are all formidable.”
“The stronger the enemy, the better,” A40 lifted its blade higher.
“I am designed to continuously break through in battle.
The stronger the enemy, the more invigorated I beco, and in the long run, it’s more beneficial to .”
“Not bad,” Xu Yang found this interesting.
“If you erge as a dark horse and break through the ranks, we could turn this festival upside down, and the entire Archipelago Continent, even the world, would be shocked.”
“Hmm!” A40 returned to its sword dance, faster than before.
“Reaching the peak ans acquiring martial skills and fa.”
“And Huang Feng.”
The blade slipped from A40’s hand, and hurriedly, it bent down to pick it up.
The front door opened, and A40 instantly changed the direction of its blade, leaning into a strike towards the newcor, only to see Du Qianqian.
This prompted it to imdiately cease its attack.
Du Qianqian, carrying a large wooden tray, had anticipated A40’s reaction and was not startled.
She smiled at Xu Yang behind A40 and then placed the wooden tray on the table.
“Co and have breakfast,” she said, at ease.
“No ti to eat, when do we fight?” A40 was eager.
“The first match is at 10 A.M.,” Xu Yang glanced at the ti.
“We’ve signed up, and with us, there are four corporations competing.
The other three are large or dium-sized enterprises; we’re the only newbie company.”
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“Watch how I wear one through three.” A40 stopped practicing with the knife and ran to charge.
“We have tamago yaki,” Du Qianqian arranged the food, “grilled fish, seaweed, stead rice, and natto, with a very cold vegetable salad.”
“Bought from downstairs?” Xu Yang pulled over a silver tallic-backed chair.
“Yes, from downstairs, but it was made by a cooking robot.” Du Qianqian said, and then pulled out two green rice dumplings, “Look, there’s even honey date zongzi!”
Du Qianqian gave Xu Yang the impression of a high school girl, her lively deanor and tone imdiately brought to mind the girls from Corporate People Middle School, her face still tender and not fully matured, round with bright eyes, carrying a kind of eager air, perfectly poised between curiosity and hostility.
Xu Yang had seen her imperious side, which always made him hallucinate to Farosa, but there were also significant differences.
If Farosa was a natural-born little troublemaker, then Du Qianqian embodied a passive, defensive evil; after all, there were too many risks in this world to not be guarded, to be open-hearted with others only to be stabbed in the back.
“Is the food here to your taste?” Xu Yang asked.
“I want to eat stead buns and soy milk,” Du Qianqian thought, “not the kind produced by machines, but from those street food stalls.”
“It’s pretty much the sa.” Xu Yang rembered the past, “There are such clear differences in food between regions.”
“Let’s eat together.” Du Qianqian unwrapped the zongzi and held it out to Xu Yang.
“Go back to your own room,” Xu Yang didn’t move, “I won’t say it a second ti.”
This level of coldness broke Du Qianqian’s heart, undoubtedly a first-ti experience for her.
Without a word, she put down the food and left the room quickly.
“Little brat.” A40 slamd the door, “A re nutrient paste, holding up my martial arts practice.”
Xu Yang took off his mask and ate his fill.
“Let’s go,” he took A40 and set off, “we still have a building to win back.”
As they walked down the hallway and heard noise, Du Qianqian stood in her room’s doorway, staring at them.
“I’m taking it to fight,” Xu Yang said, “Don’t wander around, be careful not to get caught by soone.”
“With such heavy rain, where can I go,” Du Qianqian said, her tone devoid of any emotion.
“It’s ti to cut your hair,” Xu Yang looked at Du Qianqian’s face, her ssy bangs covering her eyes, “Why is it so disheveled?”
“Oh.” Du Qianqian tilted her head, “You’ll see a new hairstyle when you co back.”
Riding the shuttle machine, Xu Yang and A40 flew through the torrential rain and landed on the large tarmac of the Colosseum Arena, with covered walkways leading to the core area.
The Colosseum Arena, as its na suggests, is a broad venue with an ellipsoidal shape at both ends, divided into a large main competition area and 30 dium and small competition areas.
To promote the grand event of the Colosseum, posters and related holographic projection advertisents filled the area, echoing with the sound and light effects of blades and swords everywhere.
“So exciting.” A40 triggered its relevant computation scripts and road around the venue, throwing its coat into the trash can and exposing its original alloy torso, looking particularly lean.
Xu Yang browsed through the widely-displayed match reports.
Such top-tier competitions had been held five tis before, all for celebrating or commorating important events of Kyoto Infinity.
The fifth tournant was held 15 years ago, marking the end of the heyday of corporatism.
The fifth Colosseum competition attracted all 18 giant enterprises of that year, becoming a place for testing combat robots and high-level combat implants, turning into a spectacular show boasting flowers and fierce flas.
The last champion was Black Fire Innovation’s specialized combat robot, code-nad “Heart of Darkness.” Other companies sent various gimmicky and comrcially valuable contestants like flagship robots, sword sports athletes, or successors of ancient martial arts.
Only Black Fire Innovation really ca to fight, thus gaining an overwhelming advantage.
It killed all its competitors, staining that year’s grand comrcial event with an indelible bloodiness.
“I can replace it,” A40 looked at the image of the last champion.
“Heart of Darkness” was a cold, pitch-black robot, all of its limbs deadly blades, agile and quick, with limb attacks so powerful that it could split an enemy in half instantly, and its defense was excellent enough to withstand most attacks, mainly because it was very small and not easy to hit, a very advanced design concept at that ti.
“First, win this small invitational.” Xu Yang took A40 to the designated pavilion No.
8, where in the pre-check area, staff ticulously inspected and scanned A40.
Having once done a favor for the president of Kakuya dia, Kitada Ryuuji, he had sent many VIP cards, including a VIP pass to the Colosseum Arena, sparing Xu Yang much trouble, avoiding pointless disturbances, and allowing him to go directly into the VIP rest box, sitting on a red leather soft chair and opening the ice bucket beside him to take out a bottle of red champagne.
“Boss!” A40 ssaged, “They said I’m 100% qualified, I’m ready!”
“Then…
let the battle begin,” Xu Yang picked up the competition arena map screen beside him and confird on it that he was ready.
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