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Dwarf In The Future - Chapter 40.3

Published at 12th of July 2023 11:30:49 AM


Chapter 40.3

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Chu Rong actually smirked in satisfaction, “It is about to be put on the agenda and start to be organized. This year, in order to call on all walks of life to pay attention to the living conditions of the Exoplanet Natives, Dage went against the odds and added a content in the solicitation of opinions — he directly propose the theme of ‘experiencing the life of Exoplanet Natives’ for this year’s celebration.”

The Federal Year-End Celebration, the largest traditional festival in the Federation, lasts for 15 days, and the theme is different every year.

In order to let the people have a lively and good year, and have a basic understanding of the main policy direction of the Federation in the next year, the government will list several theme options related to the policy of the coming year for the annual celebration theme. Then, all the options will be put on the Starnet to be chosen by the public. 

In this most important festival of the year, the Presidential Palace and the Four Great Families’ representatives will also take the lead in experiencing the theme of the year. For example, last year’s “Mecha Modeler” theme, all the representatives tried to do the work of a mecha master, and their creation was competed against each other. In addition, there’s also a mecha piloting contest, which allowed them to show off their skills. 

In short, this year-end celebration is a national festival in which all of them participate, and the big family must cooperate with the people’s wishes.

“Experience the life of Exoplanet Natives?” Chu Yan was taken aback for a moment, and glanced at Qiao Zhiya, who was obediently eating soup, with a glint in his eyes. He asked for the details, “How did you and Dage propose this topic to be done?” 

Chu Rong pulled out a napkin to wipe the oil stain on his hand, then leaned back. He had this inscrutable expression on his face, “Since the theme is that, of course the representative must actually experience an Exoplanet Native’s day-to-day life. They must go to live on a primitive planet where they live. Living there without our technology, integrating with nature, and all of that.” 

Integrating with nature? 

Chu Yan almost couldn’t help laughing out loud. Let the pampered young masters and ladies of the Federation go to eat dirt on a primitive planet? Such an amazing idea indeed. 

“That’s a good idea! Let’s do it like this! I will mobilize my classmates to vote hard!” He slapped the table excitedly, sweeping away his previous depression.

Qiao Zhiya, who seemed to be eating soup seriously, was actually eavesdropping on their conversation. He glanced back and forth at them, and moved his ears—a day in contact with nature? Isn’t that the greatest enjoyment?

It really is a holiday! He wants to participate!

Maintaining this good mood, Chu Yan continued to kick his opponent cleanly in the afternoon game, and finally qualified with a complete victory, leaving the field early, and left with his second brother proudly. He didn’t forget to cast a disdainful glance at Xiang Kun who was sitting with Xiang Hui, and gave him a malicious smile.

Xiang Kun was so angry that he wanted to rush over to beat him, but was stopped by Xiang Hui. 

“Calm down, everyone is watching.” Xiang Hui patted him and asked, “Are you sure the student you picked will face Chu Yan in the first round?

Xiang Kun replied in a whisper, “Everything has been arranged, this time I will not only prevent Chu Yan from getting the first place, but also kick him out of the top ten in the grade!” As long as the mecha was damaged in the first competition, he wouldn’t be able to participate in the subsequent competitions. Then Chu Yan’s score would be zero, and he would be directly ranked 20th!

Xiang Hui nodded, feeling more relaxed. 

That night Qiao Zhiya was directly carried home by Chu Rong, and was not allowed to live in Chu Yan’s dormitory.

Early the next morning, Qiao Zhiya, who had failed to do treatment again, woke up in Chu Rong’s arms. He couldn’t help but hit him on the chest angrily, and then stared at the few small green fruits lying by the pillow, almost crying out of anger.

Green jade and green fruit, and he was not allowed to drink more water before going to bed. He was addicted to the double temptation of the magical stones and green fruit in the middle of the night, and he couldn’t wake up at all. The White-Haired Monster was too bad!

Chu Rong was woken up by him, frowned and looked down at the fussy Bald Chicken. He patted the sleep-mused blond hair, picked him up, and took him to the bathroom.

The two stepped into the training hall on time, and then found that the atmosphere in the field was a little weirder than yesterday. A middle-aged man who also brought a lot of people sat on the other side of the viewing area and started a fight with Xiang Hui on this side of the hall.

“Marshal Chu.” Seeing Chu Rong come in, the middle-aged man on the opposite side immediately stood up, gave a military salute to this side, and said in a loud voice, “It’s a great honor to watch the competition with you. The game is about to start.”

“That is Yuan Xiu’s father, Lieutenant General Yuan.” Chu Rong gave an introduction to Qiao Zhiya, then nodded to Yuan Lie as a greeting. He ignored Xiang Hui and others again, and took Qiao Zhiya to the special spectator seat.

“Marshal Chu still doesn’t care about us.” Lieutenant General Wei sat next to Xiang Hui, using his spiritual strength to spread his voice far away, so that the people in the field could hear what he said clearly.

Chu Rong, who had already entered the lifting platform and was about to sit down, paused when he heard the words. He reached out and turned on the loudspeaker in this area, and said, “Lieutenant General Wei, the release of spiritual power at will is not allowed by the federal law. Let’s not do this, it’s a bad example for a military man like you to make.” After speaking, he turned off the loudspeaker and sat down with Qiao Zhiya in his arms.

Hearing this, Wei Xiongchang’s expression was rigid, and he wanted to explode. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at his old enemy Yuan Lie, who was looking at him with piercing eyes, and forced himself to hold back his anger. He snorted unhappily, and said in a low voice, “I don’t know what to say! “

“Why are you getting angry with a junior?” Xiang Hui, who was sitting next to him, turned his head to comfort him. Then glanced at Yuan Lie who sat at the opposite area, and said with a smile, “It’s hard for you to find time to come and watch my Xiao Kun’s game. Before I came here, my father told me that the batch of mechas you asked for last time should be out of the warehouse soon.”

Wei Xiongchang finally got better when he heard that. He nodded, and replied with a smile: “I watched Xiao Kun growing up, and he can be considered similar to my own child. Of course I should come to watch his games.”

The little shrimps who couldn’t participate in the rivalry between the bosses could only huddle together and watch quietly: “… “

‘As expected of a boss, he is very good at talking to himself! Why don’t they know that Xiang Kun, who is in the mecha manufacturing department, has a competition today?’

The director of Campus A stepped into the training hall, glanced at the multi-corner confrontation in the spectator seats making his cheeks twitched. He could only pretend not to know the turbulence among the big guys. He walked to the middle of the field and said some words of encouragement to the students, and then announced the start of the game.

The 20 qualified students went forward to draw lots under the teacher’s signal. After confirming their respective numbers, the system randomly matched opponents for a battle.

The top 20 competition has resumed the points system again. Everyone will play against the other 19 players in a round-robin format. One point will be awarded for each game won, and one point will be deducted for each game lost. The time for the game is limited to ten minutes. 

If the points are the same, the two students with the same score will compete again, and the rankings will be determined by winning or losing. After the determination, the rankings of all the players behind them will be moved down one.

The first round of system matching ended, Chu Yan and Liu Hongzi’s names were matched together, and they were divided into the first competition area for the battle.

As soon as this result came out, the atmosphere in the viewing area immediately changed.

Through the turbulent undercurrent all day yesterday, the little shrimps already knew that Liu Hongzi, who destroyed his opponent’s mecha armor yesterday, was supported by the Xiang family. The Xiang family was at odds with the Chu family. And the first match was a direct competition between them? Very interesting. 

And the weapon used by Liu Hongzi was problematic at first glance, and Chu Yan… wait, it seems that Chu Yan has never used a weapon since yesterday?

The shrimps froze for a moment, frowned and thought about it, and then became another commotion.

He really never used any weapons! The third young master of the Chu family has always fought with bare hands during the competition, arrogantly kicking his opponent out of the field with his legs! 

“Hmph, if you have the ability, you continue to use no weapons in this match.” Xiang Kun snorted contentedly from the sidelines, as if he had seen Chu Yan kicked off the first place and lowered his proud head.

Qiao Zhiya also became nervous, and couldn’t help lying on the protective cover to look at Chu Yan who was already in the mecha on the field.

Chu Rong looked at his inappropriate posture, frowned, but still didn’t reach out to grab him back. This time, he let Qiao Zhiya watch as he liked. 

The gray mecha and the golden mecha stood opposite each other in the field. The golden mecha arrogantly made a hammering movement, took out the weird mace and waved it. The gray mecha was indifferent, and only looked at the field control teacher, urging him to start the game as soon as possible.

The teacher still remembered how the female classmate’s mecha was destroyed yesterday. He frowned, and reminded through the internal competition communication, “Student Chu, please take the competition seriously.”

Chu Yan, who still did not take out his weapon, replied seriously, “Teacher, I’m serious.”

‘–And I can’t wait to see that mace snapped in two.’ He thought gleefully. 

The teacher was helpless, and pressed the countdown to the start of the game.  The countdown ended, and the light screen separating the two mechas disappeared. The golden mecha moved immediately, raised its mace and rushed towards the gray mecha. At the same time, all the spikes on the mace unexpectedly waved. The two spiky balls were now separated by a thin chain, and both of them surrounded by the gray mecha.

Everyone who was watching the game gasped, and Chu Rong frowned.

The color of that chain, that weird luster… that definitely was a corroding chain! The Xiang family was really generous. They actually equipped this mace with a corrosion chain, a rare disposable item that was extremely difficult to make. The “corroding” part referred to its unique property – it could violently react with the protective shell of the mecha, eating it away until it was gone.

Liu Hongzi definitely wants to make Chu Yang’s mecha into a scrapped one! 

Just when everyone was worried, the gray mecha finally moved. It waved its arms and threw a silver net towards the corroded chain to block the spikes, directly soared into the air, drew out an energy blade, and slashed at the mace cleanly!

‘So fast! But probably not effective…’ An audience member commented.

Everyone was stunned, the mace could even smash the protective shell of the mecha, how could an energy blade be able to cut it! Everyone knew it’s unrealistic just by looking at its body shape!

There was a sneer at the corner of Liu Hongzi’s mouth, and he recognized that the energy blade in Chu Yan’s hand was the one that had been broken before. He felt very disdainful, and raised his mace to face his attack without dodging or evading.

An energy blade that was repaired after it was broken, even if it was customized, would not be a match for the weapon in his hand.

“Boom–!”

The ear-piercing sound of weapons colliding came, and the friction between the two brought out a series of sparks, and then a clear cracking sound came out through the speakers in the opposing theater.

Xiang Kun smiled smugly. Xiang Hui and General Wei exchanged satisfied glances, thinking that this time at least the Chu family would be ridiculed. They all felt relieved.

Chu Rong on the lifting platform turned dark instantly, looked at the energy blade in Chu Yan’s hand, which should still be in two pieces, and looked at Qiao Zhiya, whose ears were trembling with excitement, lying on the protective cover.

‘This Bald Chicken…’

“Patter.”  

The sparks disappeared, and the two mechas separated. Chu Yan landed smoothly and put away the energy blade, while the golden mecha froze for a while, then fell down on his knees. The mace in his hand broke into two irregular pieces. It fell to the ground, surrounded by the black ash left by the reaction between the corrosion chain and the silver net.

The field control teacher came back to his senses and directed the robot to clean up the remaining corrosion chains. At the same time, the system announced that Chu Yan had won and scored a point.

The viewing area was quiet, and then Yuan Lie took the lead in giving Chu Yan an applause.

The smile on Xiang Kun’s face froze. He stood up and lay down on the railing in disbelief, watching the weapon he carefully developed was broken into two pieces and lying on the ground. His voice was beyond frustrated, “How could this be? No! I don’t Believe it! Chu Yan must have cheated!”

Xiang Hui and Lieutenant General Wei frowned and looked at the ordinary-looking energy blade in Chu Yan’s hand.

On the lifting platform, Chu Rong got up and walked behind Qiao Zhiya, reached out and grabbed him by the back collar to lift him up, and said quietly, “Qiao Zhiya, did you forget to tell me something about that energy blade?

Qiao Zhiya froze, looked back at him, and turned her ears back guiltily—

‘It’s over, it’s over! I was so excited that I forgot to tell the White-Haired Monster that I repaired the energy blade!!’

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