Chapter 656 – Blank Slate
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
“Screw.”
“Huh.” Screw subconsciously replied, he raised his head, an unfamiliar face entered his vision, but for some reason, he felt an extreme familiarity with it.
He looked at the other party, while the other party looked at him.
He looked into the eyes of the other party, and saw his own skinny reflection: “Who are you?”
“I’m the small brat.” Bing controlled his own emotions, he puckered his lips, making him look extremely ugly.
Screw shook his head: “You don’t look small.”
Bing felt his nose turning sour, his voice cracked: “Screw, you don’t remember that small brat anymore? You don’t remember Commander? You don’t remember Ah Xin? You don’t remember us anymore?”
~Why……why did it turn out this way……~
“You’ve mistaken me for someone else.” Screw shook his head and stood up: “Please let me leave, they say only you can let me leave.”
“Where will you go to?” Bing looked at the familiar face, all the grey memories becoming alive again, the unspeakable pain and grief flowing through his entire body.
“To the battlefield.” Screw’s scrawny face revealed a bizarre determination.
“The battlefield…..” Bing muttered.
“I want to save my comrades, they are in danger.” Screw walked out without turning back: “I will not let them die.”
Bing could feel his heart being ripped apart. Tears flowed down his face like water, dropping down to the ground. In Bing’s teary eyes, he could only see the silhouette of Screw, the scrawny yet unbending back.
“Wrench, wrench, give me the wrench, quickly quickly, you better quicken the hell up….”
A hoarse voice mixed with sobbing sounded out behind Screw, making him puzzled.
“The joints are severely damaged, give me component three for the joints, everyone move quickly, brace yourselves, don’t fall….”
Screw’s footsteps continued to slow down, the words that entered his ears were familiar.
“I won’t go! I won’t go! If I go, who will fix all these up for you….”
Screw’s footsteps became even slower.
“Commander, don’t die….. Ah Xin, don’t die…… Little Brat, you better not die…..”
When those words came out from his own mouth, Bing’s voice had already become sobs. It was as though Bing was still standing in the battlefield, surrounded with flames. Screw who was surrounded by piles and piles of broken mechanical weapons, he was too tired, his hands were trembling, his voice was trembling, he was afraid, he was in despair, he was worried for everyone….
He was just a mechanical engineer..
He was in truth a coward, afraid to die…..
Bing hated his cowardice, his tears would not stop, he did not want to cry anymore! ~Why can’t these tears stop?~ Bing had to muster up all of his strength just to say each sentence. To witness Screw trapped inside the Ice Coffin first hand, hearing his screams, all those words were deeply embedded into Bing’s mind.
~How can you have forgotten?~
Screw who was walking out stopped, the puzzlement and confusion continued to thicken, all of those random words, were extremely familiar to him, as though they were from him, it was a strange feeling…..
In Bing’s blurred vision, the faint scrawny figure had stopped.
~Is it familiar, it must be familiar, right, Screw, you must definitely find it familiar….~
~Because, Because these are the words you have been screaming out for ten thousand years!
~Ten thousand years!~
~Even if your memories are wiped clean, even if you have come into this world with a blank slate, even if you cannot recognize us anymore, that must be fate. But no matter, it doesn’t matter, to be unable to let go of your concerns for ten thousands after death, it must have left something deep in your spirit! Deep in your soul!~
~It definitely will!~
Bing looked upwards, the tears flowing all around his face, he raised his hands up high, and like ten thousand years ago, he roared.
“Southern Cross Army, advance!”
It was like lightning striking down on Screw.
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Tang Tian had not been to Three Spirits City for a long time, countless matters surged in immediately, but no one was able to take Tang Tian away from Big Sister Sai Lei.
Sai Lei had an unspeakable excitement, upon seeing Tang Tian, it was as though she had gone into a state of fits.
“What did you bring back this time? What? Huh? Nothing? Then what are you good for? Next time, you have better bring more things back from the Sacred Saint Galaxy, oh, you have already formed an alliance with the weapons business in the Sacred Saint Galaxy? That’s great, you must ask them for a list of materials, and send everything they have, one of each, to me. Oh, you, whether or not you’re here doesn’t matter….”
“Recently, there has been great progress with the research on the Sacred Saint Galaxy materials. Their materials have a distinguishable quality from Heaven’s Road. Do you know what is the most important feature of our materials? Spirits, that’s right, spirits! What about the Sacred Saint Galaxy? No spirits, but they naturally contain some laws. You must be thinking, why? Because they exist in an environment with extremely dense energy. That’s right, laws and energy in truth have no link whatsoever, but in a place where there is an abundance of energy, laws can be obtained much easily. Energy is like water, whereby laws are the fishes swimming in them….”
“You’re too stupid, you still don’t understand when I have explained it to you? Mechanical spirit weapons, think about it, as long as you put these two materials together, martial spirits that can control laws, how spectacular is that! I, Sai Lei, want to create the strongest mechanical weapons in history, Saint Armor, doesn’t that sound powerful…..”
Tang Tian looked at Sai Lei’s unusual flushed red face with her shrivelled hair, and frowned. He turned and asked Pi Pa: “How long since she last slept?”
Pi Pa looked at Sai Lei, and whispered: “Fifteen days.”
“You haven’t slept in fifteen days?” Tang Tian frowned even deeper.
“Sleep? Why do I need sleep?” Sai Lei waved her hands excitedly: “This is such a huge discovery, this is the grand moment, the strongest and grandest Saint Armor in the history of mechanical weapons, is right in front of me! At such a time, if I were to sleep, it would be squandering! Such a waste…..”
Bang!
A chop struck Sai Lei’s neck, causing her to stop talking abruptly. Tang Tian used a hand to grab the fainted Sai Lei and gently placed her on the sofa inside the laboratory.
Tang Tian walked out of the room and carefully closed the door, and asked Pi Pa: “Is she always like that?”
“Yes, Big Sister works too hard, we tried to advise her but she doesn’t listen, and no one dares to do anything.” Pi Pa said softly.
Tang Tian also had a headache with her, BIg Sister Sai Lei was not a name that was randomly called, she would even quarrel with him, thus no one dared to stop her.
Suddenly, Tang Tian asked: “Who is in charge of the budget now? Hand Towel?”
“Yes.” Pi Pa said awkwardly. Master Jing Shou’s “Hand Towel” nickname had been passed around, but to hear it from Tang Tian, Pi Pa felt pity for Master Jing Shou.
“Haha, that’s great!” Tang Tian said happily: “From today on, the Mechanical Laboratory’s budget, will be directly linked to Sai Lei’s sleep time. Every hour lesser that she sleeps, we will ttake off 5% off their budget.”
Long Shou Jing is a simple man, he looked to be very stern, but he was in truth a very gentle person. That year, for the sake of convincing Tang Tian, he had to portray out the manner of a “fierce” person, showing his firmness.
After Tang Tian set this rule, Long Shou Jing would do it without giving any chances. Truly, the two were born to be nemesis!
Pi Pa admired Tang Tian’s idea: “Master’s idea is truly perfect!
She could imagine, for the sake of the budget, Big Sister could only go to sleep in anger. She covered her mouth and chuckled.
Suddenly, she thought about something, she hesitated, but gathered her courage: “Master, there was an issue once when the people of Taurus Constellation came to find Big Sister.”
“Oh.” Tang Tian remembered that Sai Lei came from Taurus Constellation.
“They came to pester her, wanting Big Sister to return back to look around, she became angry, and they said a few bad words, causing Big Sister to cry.” Pi Pa said with slight anger: “They went too far, initially they apologized to her, then now they are playing such a method. If not for Big Sister, I think everyone would have beaten them up.”
Tang TiIan’s face became cold: “They want Sai Lei to return to Taurus Constellation to look around?”
Pi Pa nodded her head: “Yea! They definitely wanted to detain her given the chance!”
“Alright, Sai Lei has truly left Taurus Constellation for too long, she should go back to take a look!” Tang Tian’s tone was extremely cold.
“Master!” Pi Pa was shocked, she never thought that Master would actually agree for Big Sister to return to Taurus Constellation, she immediately regretted her words.
Tang Tian waved his hands, and stopped Pi Pa from talking, he laughed sinisterly: “Where are all the armies that have no tasks now? Ask Tang Chou to pick a few units and accompany Sai Lei to tour around Taurus Constellation. No rush, she hasn’t been there for so long, she needs to take a good look there!”
Tang Tian was furious, a little girl that was forced out of her home, and the life she had to live, was definitely not one one could think about.
~This debt, must be paid.~
Pi Pa was startled, she immediately became happy, and anxiously ran off: “I am going to find Master Tang Chou now!”
~That’s right, how can Master bear to watch Big Sister get bullied? But when he was angry just now, it was so scary…..~
Tang Chou who had returned to Three Spirits City immediately went into work. His job scope was mainly in Heaven’s Road, Ursa Major Constellation had too many units, and there was no one to oversee everything. With Bing at the Sacred Saint Galaxy, he was not worried at all.
The first thing Tang Chou did was to check up on the training situation of the army.
The current Three Spirits City had already been developed into one of the biggest city in the Spirit Region. For safety and security, at any time, there were always two armies on guard. The barracks in Three Spirits City had an enormous scale.
The armies guarding Three Spirits City were always different, always in rotation from a duty roster, that was convenient for Tang Chou to observe. Ursa Major Constellation’s armies were still young, they held enormous and enviable potential, but they still required a lot of harsh training to raise their fighting strength.
Receiving Tang Tian’s commands, Tang Chou then flipped through the recent reports of the armies.
Ursa Major Constellation was thriving tremendously, especially for the young people, countless of talents had started to reveal their outstanding talents. But the one who was the most hardworking, was still Adrian, the academic advisor with the name “Hunter”.
Xiao Wu who was greatly adored by Tang Chou, after going through Adrian’s teachings, was displaying the aura and manner of a great general. With regards to teaching students, Tang Chou had to admit that he was still lacking as compared to Adrian.
For example, Chen Zi Lin, under Adrian’s suggestion, had become the adjutant of Ah Lun. The Brave Ah Lun and calm and the collected Chen Zi Lin, the two of them had become a gold grade group.
Every name on the list made Tang Chou feel proud, but he also felt awkward, ~Who do I pick?~