“No!” The audience’s hearts leaped into their throats.
Lin Xiaohe was just one step away from victory, but now she faced a huge crisis.
The mechs of the 73rd Division, which had been surrounding her, quickly pulled back.
The ship cannon’s laser power can reach up to 5 megawatts, enough to destroy satellites and even scorch the surface of the moon.
Its firing range covers a three-kilometer radius around the target!
At such close range, an attack like this could easily blast a crater dozens of meters deep into the ground!
Inside the manor, the man in the Imperial military uniform stared at the monitor. His deep eyes swirled with rising murderous intent.
There were just so many little mice from the Federation.
He took a puff from his cigar, slowly exhaled the smoke, and looked at Lin Xiaohe on the screen with the same expression he’d give a dead man.
It would all be over soon. Those annoying little mice would turn into puffs of steam, leaving no trace behind.
Inside her mech, Lin Xiaohe hesitated for just a second before deciding to keep Tiantian’s ultimate move safe.
Everyone on Blue Star knew that the best defense was a good offense!
“DouDou, charge up the Rampage! Fuse with FanFan’s ‘Bursting Cherry Tomato’!”
This was Lin Xiaohe’s first time using the fusion feature of [Charged Rampage].
She had no idea what kind of effect it would have.
“Holy crap!” FanFan cursed angrily as a beam of green light stabbed into its branches.
Suddenly, FanFan felt like it was being drained dry, but the suction kept pulling harder.
“Little DouDou, are you trying to kill me?” FanFan thought about the tens of thousands of beans it had and the whole tomato plant started to feel unwell.
“DouDou, go easy! I don’t have that many tomatoes!” FanFan panicked, but then suddenly remembered the thumb-sized tomatoes it had hidden in the mech’s nutrient fluid, and quickly offered those little tomatoes to DouDou.
The whole process took less than a minute.
The blue glow from the ship’s cannon grew denser and deeper.
Lin Xiaohe pressed her lips together, raised her arms, and said calmly, “[Charged Rampage]!”
In that second, the wind stopped. The entire planet fell utterly silent.
The ship hovering in the air pressed down heavily, like a dark cloud blotting out the whole sky.
The eerie blue sparks were like the gates of the underworld cracking open. A shadow of death loomed over the entire capital city.
The Federation citizens looked up, terrified at the ship, their faces full of fear.
The Empire’s 73rd Division scrambled to retreat. They wouldn’t dare gamble on whether that certain someone would attack indiscriminately.
Amidst the crowd frantically fleeing, the motionless, gaudy green mech stood out starkly.
It was like a reef in the middle of a raging sea – standing firm, unwavering.
Not only did it not move, but it actually dared to fire back at the ship!
“This is insane.” Cassian had to admit, the scene was cool, filled with the tragic heroism of someone ready to take the enemy down with them in a desperate situation.
Cassius kept a straight face and didn’t say a word. Compared to the massive ship, the mech was so tiny.
His opinion of Lin Xiaohe changed slightly – just slightly.
After all, knowingly charging into something impossible isn’t bravery; it’s recklessness. That doesn’t make a qualified officer; it makes a brute.
In front of the StarNet, everyone watched the scene with serious expressions. No one left. It was a silent tribute to a lone hero.
Godspeed, Lin Xiaohe.
You may be about to leave the exam, but your performance will be forever recorded in the [Nuwa] database.
Silence was the evening’s farewell.
A fan-shaped rain of green bullets shot toward the ship like a flying dagger.
The Imperial soldiers on the ship barely even noticed this pathetic attack.
In the face of overwhelming firepower, courage means nothing.
No one noticed the faint red glow swirling around the green bullets.
Lin Xiaohe stared unblinkingly at the fan-shaped barrage.
But the green bullets didn’t pierce the ship’s hull like usual. Instead, they splattered against it like slugs, sticking to the surface and oozing thick green goo.
“Aww.” A collective sigh echoed across the StarNet, both from those watching online and those in the real world.
Gabriel, Yuan, and the others who had finally rushed over stood far away, not daring to step closer.
Even though they knew Johnson would die with Lin Xiaohe, and the exam would be a complete failure, they still couldn’t take another step forward.
They simply didn’t have the courage to experience the feeling of being instantly vaporized.
99.9% realism was no joke.
The Imperial soldiers on the ship snickered. “Are you sure that’s an attack, and not just tickling us?”
“All flashy and no substance, just like that mech. Tsk, this mech pilot really loves the spotlight.”
Creak… creak…
“Did you guys hear something?” one soldier asked warily.
“No, maybe it’s just you—” The blood vessels in the brains of the soldiers on the ship felt like they were about to burst. The bulging veins under their skin twitched violently.
“I… I think I’m about to explode…”
It wasn’t just “about to” – they did explode!
Every single water molecule within the green liquid simultaneously exploded with 2,000 attack power!
From the outside, all the onlookers saw was the ship let out a loud creak, and then it simply turned into a cloud of green mist.
The wind gently blew, and the green mist slowly dissipated.
Dissipated…?
How could it just dissipate?!
Where was that huge ship?!
And all those Imperial soldiers inside?!
Was this dissipation, or had the StarNet glitched?!
The Federation citizens blinked in confusion. Had the ship just been an illusion?
The commander of the Empire’s 73rd Division furrowed his brow. Could this be a new Imperial stealth ship? He’d never heard of such advanced technology.
Inside the manor, the man in the Imperial military uniform stood up and smacked the monitor hard. Was the monitor broken?
How ridiculous. He’d just seen a single mech instantly vaporize an entire warship. Even movies wouldn’t dare to film something so absurd!
Outside the StarNet, the audience was silent for a long time before finally reaching a conclusion. [Nuwa] had glitched and given Lin Xiaohe a cheat code.
[Nuwa], hiding deep in the data stream, grumbled to itself. What do you clowns know? This is Lin Xiaohe’s true power! She, [Nuwa], was the Federation’s most advanced AI. How could she possibly make a mistake?!
While everyone stood around dumbfounded, Lin Xiaohe was controlling her mech, sprinting at full speed.
It was only three kilometers – no big deal, she’d be there in no time!
“Yay! Successfully out of the city!” Lin Xiaohe felt like laughing at the sky.
On this exam field, she was definitely the baddest of them all!
Who else could do what she did?
Who else could single-handedly rescue Johnson from an entire army and get away clean?
Only her, Lin Xiaohe, Captain Lin!
For this rescue mission, Lin Xiaohe gave herself a 101 out of 100! That extra point? She wasn’t afraid of getting cocky. She deserved it!
Watching Lin Xiaohe run out of the capital, the other examinees panicked and started racing frantically toward the city limits.
The 73rd Division didn’t dare stop Lin Xiaohe, but did they dare let these rookies slip by?
The examinees ran into fierce resistance from the 73rd Division and couldn’t make any progress.
Lin Ye roared, “Lin Xiaohe! Boss! Please come back and save us! I just want to pass the exam and get into college! Have pity on a poor kid!”
Yuan struggled for a moment, then quickly chose to swallow his pride over failing the exam.
“Boss, I was wrong! Please save me! When we get back, I’ll write you a 10,000-word letter of apology and a letter of thanks!”
Victor burst into tears. “Boss, save me! I don’t want to repeat another year and suffer through studying again!”
The examinees wailed and howled. There was no ‘certain someone’ or ‘coordinated attack on Lin Xiaohe’ – none of that was true!
Their hearts were loyal to Lin Xiaohe, forever and ever!
Lin Xiaohe put her hands on her hips and laughed out loud. “Answer me! Who’s the baddest of them all?”
The examinees shouted as one, “It’s you! It’s you! It’s you! The boss who stomps on the Federation and punches the Empire, who knows everything and can do anything – Lin Xiaohe, Captain Lin, famous across the universe!”
