The room was dead silent. Suddenly, Chen Gu rembered sothing and knocked on the table. "A bunch of idiots! Do you really think I'd go to my death? I'm a bona fide Sixth Energy Level now! That Xiaoga Yexiong, rely at the Seventh Energy Level, can't even take one hit from !"
The team mbers rejoiced, "Captain, really? But… everyone says you failed in your breakthrough."
Chen Gu snorted, "I failed the first ti, but I succeeded on the second try."
"What?" This completely shattered everyone's common knowledge. When soone failed a breakthrough, they needed to lick their wounds and recover, rebuilding their strength over three to five years before attempting again. How could he have done it in just a few days?
They didn't know Chen Gu hadn't even left his generator before he made his second attempt.
However, while he didn't co out, sothing else did—the waste products were now carefully preserved in a safety box by Dr. ng Ji, escorted by an action team and transported back to his laboratory in the headquarters building.
Only then did Chen Jixian stand up and walk next door without a word.
Chen Gu quickly ca out, and the impish Selena sidled up to him to tattle, "Captain, when you weren't here, those won threatened again!"
Chen Gu couldn't help but glance at her. Where did all your bravado go when you deal with n?
"I'll make them pay for it!"
This ti, Chen Gu's approach was very "direct." He walked up to the neighboring door and threw a letter of challenge inside.
The letter had just four words on it: "Settle this once and for all."
A battle between us—winner takes all the cases, loser leaves the headquarters building forever. Both sides understood each other perfectly, and when Xiaoga Yexiong saw those four words, he knew exactly what Chen Gu ant.
"HEH HEH HEH…" Xiaoga Yexiong chuckled, lightly tapping the four-worded challenge letter. "Has this guy lost his mind due to being unable to handle failure?"
He waved his hand. "Red Princess, go ask Chen Jixian if Chen Gu, a re deputy team leader, can make the decision on such a serious matter."
"Yes." Red Princess slinked out and turned to face the special action team, adopting a frosty and haughty deanor. "My young master asks, does what Chen Gu says count? We're worried Chen Jixian might renege if you lose."
Chen Jixian did not so much as twitch an eyelid, standing behind all the team mbers with his arms crossed, his voice and emotions very steady. "It counts."
"Alright!" The voice of Xiaoga Yexiong ca from inside, followed by his confident, striding figure erging to look directly at Chen Gu with blazing eyes. "When do we start?"
Chen Gu stepped forward. "Now!"
"Captain Chen just got back and he's challenging Xiaoga Yexiong?!" The news spread through the headquarters building like a swift spring breeze, invigorating the bored and listless employees.
"But… he just failed his Sixth Energy Level breakthrough and must have suffered significant damage. He was never a match for Xiaoga Yexiong, so why would he challenge him at such a disadvantageous ti?"
"If Captain Chen always played by the rules, he wouldn't be our idol."
"That's true."
As everyone buzzed with discussion, the various departnts quickly reached a silent agreent: just like last ti, since everyone still had to work, each departnt would send one representative to watch the fight and live-stream it to everyone else.
"Why do you get to go again? Just because you're the boss's brother-in-law, that makes you so great? It should be my turn this ti!"
The departnts swiftly plunged into a "bloody and violent" competition to decide who would go.
Inside Hamring Chamber Number Nine, the victorious representatives quietly entered. In the arena below, Chen Gu and Xiaoga Yexiong faced each other, separated by a distance of about twenty ters.
Xiaoga Yexiong squinted at Chen Gu. "You don't look desperate enough to be making a last-ditch effort. What makes you so confident to challenge now?"
The energy generators around the Hamring Chamber powered up, and amidst the buzz of electric current, an energy shield began to close in from all sides, enclosing the two of them within.
Chen Gu looked around and spotted Rainbow lazily reclining in an inconspicuous corner, unusually changing her yogurt flavor from strawberry to… blueberry.
Qing Ruyan was with her, and Chen Gu saw her make an encouraging gesture towards him.
Then, looking back at Xiaoga Yexiong, he recalled what Dr. ng Ji had told him—it was Rainbow and Gong Shuxu who, working together, took less than two hours to figure out who had set him up. So, I'm not fighting Xiaoga Yexiong today just to show off, but for these people who helped and cared for . Chen Gu raised his eyebrows and made a 'please proceed' gesture towards Xiaoga Yexiong.
Xiaoga Yexiong snorted disdainfully, shook his head, and with a light stomp, everything in the arena suddenly underwent an indescribable change.
It was as if… all matter had tuned to the sa "frequency" as Xiaoga Yexiong, allowing him to "resonate" with anything at will, or rather, to manipulate such "resonance."
Seventh Energy Level Resonance Council Celebrity!
"If you'd successfully advanced to the Sixth Energy Level, I might have had so interest in you as an opponent. But as you are now… let's end this. This match is too dull, and I don't want to be accused of bullying a child."
With a re thought, Xiaoga Yexiong sent out a vibration. He had calculated that by the ti he said, "let's end this," Chen Gu should have been flung out. Then the match, utterly "unfair," would be easily concluded without him bearing the stigma of "bullying the weak."
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