After reading the complete email, Yu Tang fell into a brief silence.
Yu Tang: "Is there a witch setting in this world?"
system:"?"
"The kind that sells medicine." Yu Tang said, "The kind little mermaid found the witch at the bottom of the sea, exchanged her voice for a magical potion, used her two legs to replace her fish tail, and walked ashore on the tip of a knife."
System: "…No, host."
After all, this is still an interstellar world based on science, where species mutation does not exist for the time being.
"This is the result of logical deduction. With Shi Ji's setting, it is hard not to like dolphins in these six months."
The system starts the projection: "Dolphins catch small fish to feed him, take him surfing, and accompany him diving, picking up shells and starfish."
"..." Yu Tang listened to the background music slides, feeling a little complicated: "Are the plots that the Transmigration Book Bureau generates temporarily always so colorful?"
The system is very proud: "We are professionally trained, focusing on every detail, giving priority to truth, and trying our best to ensure and maintain the integrity and smoothness of the plot logic..."
Yu Tang flipped through the enrollment brochure, rubbed his numbed ears, turned down the system volume, and turned off the recruitment advertisement for Chuanshuju that popped up on the screen.
…
The dolphin that Shi Ji likes is a kind and pure dolphin.
There is no setting for a little mermaid.
A member of the family Delphinidae in the order Cetacea of the class Mammalia, it is a good friend of humans. It likes to pick up humans from everywhere in the sea and raise the human friends it picks up on the islands with small fish.
The dolphin is so big that it is obviously too big for a wingman to fit in it.
“How much does it cost to buy an aquarium?”
Yu Tang had just received salary and dividends from W&P. He had no knowledge of this field, so he searched for relevant information online: "How much difference do we have? I will start earning now."
“… No need to buy an aquarium, host.”
The system said: "We can raise them at the Military Academy. All we need is—"
Yu Tang: "How much does the military academy cost? Is it expensive?"
system:"… "
After working with its host until now, the system has begun to imagine how the company of the protagonist in the book where Yu Tang did his internship was bought.
The system was a little nervous, flashing a small red light, and carefully considered its answer: "Host, Shi Ji does not want to buy a military academy... Shi Ji wants to change his major."
The military academy is directly connected to the military. In addition to popular majors such as mecha pilots and observers, there are also many unpopular majors that few people are willing to study, and they cannot recruit enough students every year.
For example, logistics and miscellaneous affairs major.
During battle, they are responsible for repairing mechas, providing medical rescue, and transporting and supplying weapons and ammunition.
At the Military Academy, he is responsible for the logistics and meals of the entire academy, and owns all the freezers and underwater bases for storing food.
"The underwater base houses a variety of fish, shrimp and shellfish. The waters here are vast and can be directly connected to the ocean."
The system continued: "There are also students majoring in logistics who are responsible for feeding them every day and accompanying them in exercise to ensure that they are healthy, lively, and have tender meat..."
Yu Tang: “?”
"..." The system quickly hid the introduction: "Dolphins do not need fresh and tender meat."
Shi Ji invited the little dolphin, with whom he depended on for survival, to come back in order to repay the little fish, shells and starfish that the dolphin had caught for him in the past six months.
The underwater base relies on special bait developed by the Science Department to attract fish, and there are no other barriers. When the dolphins have stayed here long enough, they can go back at any time.
…
Yu Tang had already started planning the plan to acquire the military academy. After listening to the system's arrangements, he closed his computer with some regret and looked at the information transmitted by the system on the light screen.
For Shi Ji, it doesn't matter which major he studies.
His legs could not be healed. Not only could he not fly a wingman, he even needed a cane to walk for a long time.
Those who came to surround him were Sheng Yi's friends.
Sheng Yi would not allow him to hurt his friends, so after knocking down this group of people several times, Shi Ji was finally exhausted and was pinned to the ground by several people who pounced on him.
The cast iron butt of the gun hit Shi Ji's left leg hard.
With the current medical level of the league, even comminuted fractures can be completely healed, so those people did not stop.
They held down the exhausted Shi Ji and forcibly tore his iliac ligament.
"For military personnel and athletes, a torn triceps ligament is considered the most serious injury."
The system said: "The rest period must be more than half a year. Even after recovery, it is difficult to restore the original knee joint function... This can be judged as the end of their career."
System: "It is difficult for an observer with a broken leg to achieve 100% coordination with the wingman."
Yu Tang asked, "Is it from this time that Shi Ji decided to follow Father Sheng's instructions and merge with the wingman?"
The system flipped through it carefully: "Yes... It was the day after he was discharged from the hospital."
"On the first day after being discharged from the hospital, Shi Ji returned to the training ground and practiced alone for an hour."
System: "In the first three hours, he raised his operation score from 57 to 89, but in the next seven hours, it never improved again."
Yu Tang nodded.
…
Those people are mecha operators.
They were not jealous of Shi Ji, but Sheng Yi.
There is a very clear competitive atmosphere in the military academy. The victory or defeat of the battle is directly linked to the academic performance. The academic performance directly determines whether they will drive mechas to fight against the Zerg swarms and become heroes of the alliance after graduation, or be eliminated and return home in disgrace.
Most of the time, this kind of competition is benign and can stimulate the students' desire to fight and their competitive spirit.
… But at some point, this competitive spirit slowly deteriorates under the erosion of selfish desires.
Sheng Yi ranked first in the freshman assessment. After entering the school, he has always been at the top of the scoreboard, attracting everyone's attention and making a lot of noise.
There are always some people who would rather choose some shady and faster-acting methods than improving their own abilities.
Before this accident, Shi Ji had received many invitations from mecha operators to join a team.
If it weren't for the fact that Shi Ji, the academy's top observer, was impossible to pry open and would stick with Sheng Yi regardless of how favorable the conditions were, those people might not have chosen such an extreme method.
They succeeded.
Shi Ji was injured and hospitalized. In half a year, Sheng Yi changed four or five observers.
Sheng Yi's problem lies with himself. At this time, he is still too naive and too aggressive. He has no sense of coordination and can only rely on the power of the mecha to fight alone.
With Shi Ji's strength, he is able to protect Sheng Yi flawlessly in this situation and cooperate beautifully with the mecha.
When other observers were replaced, this problem was seriously exposed.
"Sheng Yi actually does have some strength."
The system said: "In fact, at the beginning, even without a suitable observer, his ranking did not drop too much, and he was still able to maintain his position in the top 100 of the college standings."
System: "He never made it to the top again, and never beat Ye Hanfeng again."
Without the assistance of the academy's best observer, Sheng Yi was finally dragged down from the first position.
He was no longer given special treatment, no longer eligible for priority selection and use of training grounds, and in several exercises, he was even only assigned to cover and support tasks.
Replacing him as the first place were Ye Hanfeng and his operator partner.
Sheng Yi couldn't accept such a gap.
Sheng Yi had more and more conflicts with his classmates and instructors. He trained hard alone, but for some reason, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't improve his grades.
His training condition was getting worse and worse, his results were declining, and he finally fell out of the first echelon.
He could no longer join the starting team in the drills, and could no longer receive special instruction. He could only attend boring basic courses and memorize boring operation manuals like ordinary students. He would be pointed at and criticized whenever he walked around the academy.
The increasing frustrations made Sheng Yi feel breathless.
For the first time in his life, Sheng Yi began to hope that Shi Ji would return to the team as soon as possible.
Yu Tang already understood the general plot, so he exited the plot introduction and turned off the screen.
Yu Tang asked: "Do we need to fly over there by ourselves this time?"
“No need!” The system flashed a small red light and reported happily, “Because of the dolphins’ protection, Shi Ji’s data has not been cleared. It should be in the state of automatic hosting now.”
As for the remaining plots concerning the slave ship, the island and the kind dolphin, they have also been revised and successfully integrated into the entire story line.
The system guarantees: "Once the host confirms the access, the consciousness will automatically connect and lead to the most reliable plot entry point!"
Yu Tang nodded.
He hadn't read the first book for half a year. He tried to get a feel for it, pressed the confirmation button, and closed his eyes.
…
Yu Tang didn't have time to open his eyes again.
The violent, earth-shaking shock directly swept over him.
The alarm of the operating system, the sharp friction sound caused by the high-intensity metal collision, mixed with the roar of cannons, made his head buzz.
A kind of scorching temperature burned directly on his body.
He didn't feel any pain, but the extreme weakness and numbness in his left leg were too obvious to be ignored.
Yu Tang returned to his sea of consciousness and asked the system: "What is the most reliable point to start the plot?"
The system was also shocked: "Headquarters said this..."
Yu Tang asked: "Can I regret it now and fly over there myself as a wingman?"
"… It's too late, host." The system urgently contacted the headquarters and told him, "We have imported this book, and the automatic hosting has ended. If—"
Yu Tang's figure in the sea of consciousness flashed, and together with his body outside, he turned 360 degrees on the spot.
Yu Tang: “…”
system:"… "
"Got it." Yu Tang said, "Buy me a box of motion sickness medicine."
System: “…Host.”
Yu Tang concentrated his mind, quickly sorted out the known plot lines, and redirected his consciousness into Shi Ji's body.
…
He has found the current plot point.
It was not the night when Shi Ji was taken home from the hospital by Sheng Yi, the last time the two of them had the chance to have a good chat.
It wasn't that Shi Ji trained alone during those ten hours when his score was fixed at 89 points.
He was directly introduced to the climax after this plot.
Shi Ji became Sheng Yi's observer and participated in the final examination of the military academy together with Sheng Yi.
In the assessment, Shi Ji cooperated with Sheng Yi to rise again and rushed all the way back to the top.
Sheng Yi had been feeling aggrieved for too long, and he finally had the chance to take revenge. He taught these usually arrogant opponents a lesson and vented all the anger he had accumulated over the past six months.
After entering the top, you can choose to directly calculate the points, or participate in the challenge match against the previous first place.
Shi Ji persuaded Sheng Yi to stop here. After calculating the points according to the ranking, Sheng Yi would be eligible to participate in the next few exercises.
As long as he proceeded steadily and obtained enough points in the exercises, even if he could not reproduce his original glory, he would be able to re-enter the first echelon of the academy.
Sheng Yi refused without even thinking about it.
He came for Ye Hanfeng, who was already standing on the stage.
During the past six months, he dreamed of defeating Ye Hanfeng and his partner with his own hands and taking back the first place.
Sheng Yi only had Ye Hanfeng in his eyes. He didn't believe what Shi Ji said about "there is a certain gap in strength" and he didn't notice Shi Ji's overly pale face and slightly trembling left leg.
Shi Ji himself didn't notice it.
Shi Ji only knew that his body was not strong enough to sustain such continuous intense fighting. He could sense that he was not able to do it, but there was no pain to warn him. He could not judge his true physical condition, nor did he know how to explain it to Sheng Yi.
He didn't have time to explain to Sheng Yi.
When the plot was introduced, Shi Ji's wingman had been hit hard from the front by the opposing mecha and crashed into the protective shield of the arena.
The overly violent impact wave directly destroyed the program responsible for hosting Shi Ji's body.
"Host!"
The system was so frightened that the whole screen was covered with snowflakes. It searched back and forth for Yu Tang's figure in its shaking sea of consciousness, fearing that the host and the hosting program would be shattered together: "Host! Host—"
"Alive." Yu Tang said in his mind, "Motion sickness medicine."
The system finally found Yu Tang's consciousness and quickly flew over with the motion sickness medicine and water that he had just bought.
Yu Tang didn't ask for water, but swallowed two motion sickness pills. "Where's the skill card that Xiao Hongka left for me?"
The system pulled out the skill card Luo Ran left behind: "Do you want to use it now?"
"Use it now." Yu Tang said, "In this situation, I'm afraid I'll fly my wingman into the audience."
…
Yu Tang himself is not good at all these hands-on skills.
When I was in charge of this book before, whenever there was a fight, I used Shi Ji’s own basic settings.
Now, the hosting program collapsed under the strong external impact, and Shi Ji's part of the data also turned gray and could not be called temporarily.
"I just checked Shi Ji's body."
Amid the sound of gunfire and violent shaking, Yu Tang's voice was intermittent: "There are some new discoveries. Let's get off the roller coaster and study them again-"
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly groaned in a very low voice.
The system was terrified: "Host?!"
Yu Tang made no more sound in his sea of consciousness.
…
In reality, Shi Ji's wingman's power system was finally completely pierced, and it crashed on the edge of the ring with black smoke.
The referee's seat beside the ring blew a whistle to stop the fight.
The standings changed instantly.
The competition is a betting mode. All the points accumulated by the losing party in the entire final examination will be taken away without a single point left, and all will belong to the winner.
As Ye Hanfeng and his partner's points increased, Sheng Yi's name instantly fell off the list.
Sheng Yi controlled the mecha to land.
His expression was extremely ugly. He jumped off the mecha without buffering and took off his helmet. "Why?! I haven't lost yet!"
"If either the main mecha or the wingman crashes, the challenge is deemed a failure."
The student in charge of judging was in the same grade as them and had never seen such a brutal fight before. His face turned pale and he said, "Student Sheng, your observation hand may be injured..."
Sheng Yi's expression became completely gloomy.
He walked up to his wingman and used force to pull open the half-destroyed door of the wingman.
The cockpit of the wingman was filled with smoke and was a mess.
If it weren't for the fact that the wingman left by Sheng's father was made of the most advanced high-density carbon composite material, it might have been destroyed in the fierce attack it just suffered.
Shi Ji lay motionless, leaning over the cockpit.
Sheng Yi was almost going crazy.
On the day he took Shi Ji home, he had already told Shi Ji the importance of this battle. Why was Shi Ji still not taking it seriously
Why did Shi Ji want to drag him down at such a critical moment? !
Sheng Yi walked over, grabbed Shi Ji by the collar, and pulled him up: "Who made you lose?"
Shi Ji's closed eyelashes trembled, and then slowly opened.
He looked confused for a moment before his consciousness gradually returned and he looked towards Sheng Yi in front of him.
Sheng Yi asked sternly: "Who made you lose?"
Shi Ji opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak for the time being. The long-lost pain climbed up from his left knee, sweeping across half of his body, causing black mist to appear in front of his eyes one after another.
Sheng Yi was fed up with Shi Ji's confused and dazed look.
All the points he had worked so hard to earn in one match after another were lost in a match that he should have won, all because of Shi Ji - how could Shi Ji dare to show such an expression
Why doesn't Shi Ji feel guilty
He had endured it long enough. He had clearly learned how to cooperate with the observer and how to work with the wingman... He had made up for all these lessons.
Those people said that his problem was that he had no sense of partnership, so he followed the progress of the regular class and learned everything.
Before this final exam, he had even tried his best to get along well with Shi Ji for a week and never made things difficult for Shi Ji once.
Why can't I win?!
Sheng Yi's eyes were red, he clenched his teeth tightly, and had completely lost his mind due to the frustrated anger.
-If this final exam was the same as the previous six months, with repeated failures and setbacks, he would not be so angry.
The most unbearable thing for people is to have vague hopes, and even be close to the end of success, but then have these hopes slammed to the ground by reality.
What Shi Ji messed up wasn't just his plan to defeat Ye Hanfeng and regain the top spot in the standings.
After the final exam, there will be a half-month special mecha training, where students will have the opportunity to get close to the military's top elite special forces. This opportunity is almost fatally attractive to students of these military academies.
Only the top of the standings can get a spot in the military's special training.
Sheng Yi unsurprisingly missed this opportunity.
Sheng Yi ignored the people around him who tried to stop him, and threw Shi Ji back to his seat, holding his shoulders tightly: "Do you know how important this competition is... How dare you lose?!"