Chapter 55: Chapter 55

Tang Bai finished sending a message to Xiao Cheng, and when he looked up and saw Xie Ruhang's furtive gaze, he pursed his lips and smiled in embarrassment.

This kind of leaving her good sister out to chat with Xiao Cheng was really too unkind!

Tong Meng had done it before, but Tang Bai caught him and tickled him.

How am I so blind to my friends now?

Tang Bai self-condemnation.

"Brother Xie, come, you sit too! This chair is big enough for two people," Tang Bai said as he enthusiastically made way for Xie Ruhang to sit down, patting his little hand.

He's weak.

Xie Ruhang thought calmly that he was like a husband standing at the scene of an adulterous affair, only it was his own hand that cuckolded him.

Tang Bai waited for Xie Ruhang to sit down, and then softly opened the secret chat between girlfriends, "Brother Xie, do you know Xiao Cheng from your school?"

Xie Ruhang : "......!"

The cuckold's hand trembled slightly.

Is Tang Bai doubting his identity?

How should he answer Tang Bai?

Xiao Cheng, the Ma Jia, was originally a day-old Ma Jia, and Xie Ruhang hadn't even done a meticulous persona for him, so Tang Bai's question caught Xie Ruhang off-guard, and alarms went off wildly in his head.

Don't hesitate too long, it'll look suspicious!

"Not recognizable." Xie Ruhang pronto said.

Tang Bai's interest was undiminished: "He's also from the slums, he's also fought in the underground arena, and he's also pro-affirmative action, coincidentally, don't you think?"

Xie Ruhang's smile was a bit hard to hang on to, and the word "danger" in red in his head trembled wildly. He changed his sitting position, thinking whether he should give a frank explanation now, or bow and apologize decently in an uninhabited place later on.

Tang Bai laughed mischievously, "Even more coincidentally, he's also a little fan of yours, yo~ He told me that himself when we first chatted!"

Xie Ruhang : "......"

Tang Bai, who has been laying the groundwork for so long, finally rubbed his hands together and voiced his wish: "He saved me in the slums before, I haven't prepared a thank you gift for him yet, and I don't know what he would want, if I get his idol's autograph for him, he would be very happy, right~"

Xie Ruhang : "......" Thank you, I'm so happy.

Tang Bai wanted to continue whining with Xie Ruhang, and at this time the hall resounded with the judges' voices commenting on each contestant's exam paper, "No. 19 Bi Shallow's score is 89, and he's on ......"

When it came to Tang Bai's paper, the atmosphere of the judges suddenly warmed up. Prof. Li stroked his beard and spat on the floor, explaining Tang Bai's wonderful designs with his hands in the air, in which his unique insights into Tang Bai's space combat mechs drew frequent nods from the other judges.

The pop-ups were half-explained by the judges' expert analyses, but it's enough to praise Jun Tongchen for being awesome.

The winner of every Mecha Manufacturing Competition was a hot newcomer in the mecha circle, and it was as if the pop-ups had already seen a rising star in the mecha manufacturing circle.

[Jun Tongchen's high quality answers in such a short period of time are superb.]

"The expert's rainbow farting is a class act.

Jun Tongchen has taken two papers! He can take first place in both A and C papers. He deserves to be the champion!

[The judges made the C paper sound so hard, I thought Jun Tongchen was going to flop]

[Ahhhhhhh first first first!!!!! Definitely number one!!!]

"Ladies and gentlemen, the results are in, please look at the big screen."

Nineteen players on the screen were ranked in descending order, and "Jun Tongchen" was ranked first, crushing the second place by an absolute advantage in all scores, and scoring close to full marks on the paper.

"Congratulations." Xie Ruhang said softly, in his phoenix eyes was a hidden emotion, at the very beginning when Tang Bai was going to sign up for the competition, he did not think that Tang Bai could go this far.

At first, Xie Ruhang thought it was a great achievement for Tang Bai to make it through the preliminary rounds and into the final.

But Tang Bai's performance in the preliminary round was so good that he was able to advance directly to the final round.

When Xie Ruhang stayed in the live broadcast room, queuing up to buy rabbit meat while watching Tang Bai struggle to answer the difficult C paper, he thought that the A paper was the peak of Tang Bai's performance, but Tang Bai's performance has time and again refreshed his knowledge.

He watched Tang Bai get better and better.

This feeling ...... It's good.

Amber colored eyes looked at Grandpa Tang who came out from behind the curtain and he saw that he was holding the trophy belonging to the champion.

It was an honor he had longed for for years, how he had once been unable to touch it from across the screen, and yet at this moment, the laurel was waiting for him to take it.

My idol Tang Lao is here to hand out the trophies!

Jun Tongchen is a winner in life!

"Go on." Xie Ruhang said to Tang Bai.

The judges also cast encouraging glances at Tang Bai, the contestants and the rest of the hall looked enviously at Tang Bai, and in the midst of all the anticipation and admiration, Tang Bai's heart was beating faster and faster. He took a deep breath and was ready to stand up with a smile on his face and welcome his own honor.

Just then, an unexpected visitor burst into the hall.

"I want to expose Jun Tongchen for cheating!" Cheng Yangbin shouted, "Jun Tongchen used a false identity to enter the exam room! He knew the exam papers in advance! He's the one who really broke the rules!"

There was a commotion in the hall.

"He's actually an omega! He's Tang Rong's omega grandson, Tang Bai!"

The whole room was in an uproar.

Even the always calm Bai Zhi can not organize language at this moment, Jun Tongchen, Tang Bai, they are the same person?

He subconsciously looked at Tang Bai, and suddenly realized that both of them had the same amber eyes, which looked like sticky honey syrup in the daylight, and appeared unusually calm and transparent in the lightless corners of the room.

Tang Bai sat demurely in his seat and quietly watched Cheng Yangbin cry out in spite, ''Tang Rong leaked the exam questions to his own grandson a long time ago! This old man and young man have teamed up to target our Cheng family! They are the real cheaters!"

Are you kidding me? Cheng Yangbin is crazy? How can Jun Tongchen be Tang Bai?

What do you mean, Jun Tongchen knows the title in advance?

I trust Tang Lao's character!

[The reversal is coming! You can't get on the wrong side of the fence too early.

[I told you! How could Jun Tongchen make a C-roll so perfect in such a short time!]

Isn't Tang Bai that green tea omega with the green tea makeup? How could he make a mecha?

The judges looked at each other, and one of them laughed dryly, "You're kidding, Jun Tongchen is an omega... and one omega can outshine a bunch of alpha's?"

Professor Li sat blankly on the judges' table, he suddenly remembered that after Xie Ruhang piloted a brand new mech to make a killing move, there was a pretty little omega desperately running towards that mech and opened the cockpit in three tries.

Each mech had a different way of opening the cabin, and the average person facing a brand new mech would have to fumble with it for a while, and he was a little surprised at the time that the little omega was able to open the door so skillfully.

That omega...... I think it's called Tang Bai?

"No?"

"No way!"

"How could omega make a mech?"

Countless whispers resounded from every corner of the hall.

It seems like I've seen a scene like this somewhere before.

By the way, it was in that novel in my head, and the first reaction of the people in the book when confronted with the gender-explicit Xie Ruhang was the same incredulity.

They have become accustomed to the meek and weak posture of the omega, and in their eyes, the omega is a beautiful waste, a birthing machine, vetoing the omega, belittling the omega, and society puts shackles on the omega, limiting their possibilities for greatness.

And when there was the first omega to dance in shackles, he was destined for a blood-soaked path.

"Are you alright?" Xie Ruhang held Tang Bai's hand worriedly, and a motionless Tang Bai blinked and looked back at him quietly.

There were too many emotions in those eyes that Xie Ruhang couldn't understand, sadness yet tenderness, firmness yet determination.

Tang Bai gripped his hand back with all his might, as if to draw an ounce of strength from him.

Then Tang Bai stood up.

Along with his rise, countless gazes fell on him, and Tang Bai saw that the faces that were either familiar or unfamiliar surfaced with similar consternation and skepticism.

"Don't you dare admit it! You cheater!!!" Cheng Yangbin yelled, pointing at Tang Bai.

Tang Bai did not avoid meeting Cheng Yangbin's frenzied line of sight, he held his head high and hooked his lips in mockery at Cheng Yangbin, who no longer had any demeanor to speak of, and then he tore off the human skin mask in front of everyone and smashed it on the ground viciously.

The looks of that human skin mask were excessively bland, so when the crowd was caught off guard and saw the real face under the mask that was too beautiful to be real, it was like a person who had lived in a dark room for a long time was looking directly into the blazing sun without any defense, and they couldn't help but let out a gasp of surprise.

"Look guys! He's an omega, omega get out of the mecha manufacturing circle!" Cheng Yangbin shouted in excitement, his heart was filled with the joy of having his revenge avenged, Tang Bai had ruined his future, he couldn't let Tang Bai have a good time either!

"Unfair! how can omega win the championship?!" Someone came back with anger, "The finals are unfair! omega get out of the mech building scene!"

"Shit an omega bitch took the title? The match is shady!!!"

"Tang Rong leaks questions!"

"omega get out of the mecha manufacturing circle!!!"

More and more angry voices rang out, including the pop-up screen is also crazy screen "omega out of the mecha manufacturing circle", and even an alpha picked up a cup of water and smashed it on Tang Bai.

Xie Ruhang is quick to block the throw for Tang Bai, who nervously looks back to see him standing at attention, his manners impeccable, but his pursed lips trembling slightly.

"Please be quiet!" Mo Zhong will shout, "Tang Bai did not hide his identity! The head of the auditing team and I knew that Tang Bai was the grandson of Tang Lao when he reported Cheng Yangbin, and Tang Lao avoided writing the questions from the preliminary to the final rounds, and did not participate in any of the scoring!"

Cheng Yangbin said, "Although he was not directly involved in the scoring, his presence influenced the other judges who scored the competition. Wasn't it because of his influence that Prof. Li and Bai Zhi gave Tang Bai high scores time and time again? And the other judges, who knows which one was favored by Tang Rong to give his grandson an upward path?!"

Several judges looked at Bai Zhi and Professor Li.

Bai Zhi, who had already calmed down, stood up and said in a cold voice, "In order to safeguard the personal safety of mech builders, anonymous entries are federally licensed, and every year there are some contestants who enter anonymously, and the identities of these contestants only exist in a classified repository, and many of the judges, including me, are not allowed to know about them."

Prof. Lee nodded along.

"As for your earlier comment about Tang Bai using a fake identity, Tang Bai never said he was a beta, and Jun Tongchen was just a code name he used during the tournament." Bai Zhi said.

"But how can an omega win the championship?!" An alpha in the crowd, bought and paid for by Cheng Yangbin, shouted, "If you guys say there's no leaks, then there's no leaks?!"

"What if Tang Bai was wearing two layers of human skin masks on his face? How could an omega do so well on the test!"

"Yeah, that rabbit mech from the preliminary round might have gotten the drawings from an exotic mech builder!"

......

Grandpa Tang looked at the single figure bracing himself in the hall, and it was as if he saw the stubborn back of the man who didn't look back after walking out of the weapons research lab that day.

He thought it was a seedling that needed to be cared for in a greenhouse, but in a flash, the sapling had grown into an aspen tree that could stand up in the sand.

A pleased smile and uncontainable heartache surfaced in his old eyes, Grandpa Tang coughed and slowly said, "Everyone, can you listen to me for a few words?"

Grandpa Tang's presence in the Federation was like a sea pin, and when he opened his mouth, the hall gradually quieted down.

"A young friend questioned the fairness of the finals, here I would like to clarify that no matter how many layers of human skin masks are worn there will not be any substitutions, as fingerprints and irises are checked during the competition." After Grandpa Tang finished speaking, that questioner bashfully blushed.

The suggestion of anonymity was made by our Tang Lao, and some people are actually questioning the loopholes of this rule in front of Tang Lao.

[Times have changed, really times have changed, in fact in earlier years many contestants competed anonymously, at that time the empire had special hunts for the federation's outstanding mech builders, now that the federation is strong, only then more and more young mech builders dare to brightly reveal their identities]

[Yeah, the families of the old mech builders didn't even know they went into mech research before]

[Tang Lao's wife seems to have died in an imperial hunt ......]

"There's also the concern that Tang Bai's rabbit mech from the preliminary round was written by someone else." Grandpa Tang carefully pulled out a somewhat old drawing from his pocket, the first draft of the rabbit mech, with a line of childish script on it:

I want to build a mech that omega can operate too, so people can fight the bad guys themselves!

"This is the first draft that my grandson drew when he was a child." Grandpa Tang showed this imperfect first draft to the camera, and the skeptical pop-ups tried to find the holes, only to have the draft a clear record of the design from the beginning to the end.

What the hell? This is Tang Bai's first draft when he was a kid? I think I was still playing with clay.

I can't do it in my next life! I can't do it in my next life.

[Non kong, can omega really make this kind of mecha?]

Do those who said Tang Bai was a plagiarist and got someone else to write for him have a sore face?

Just because you alphas can't do it yourselves doesn't mean others can't! Protect our little genius Tang Bai! Support Tang Lao! I believe in Tang Lao's character!

[Is this a gift? ......]

Grandpa Tang, with a tone of pride he didn't even realize he had, bragged to everyone, "My grandson, the genius of mecha manufacturing, follows me."

Tang Bai's tears that had been held back for a long time almost came out because of Grandpa Tang's words, he clenched his teeth, his eyes red, and trembled, "I'm an omega, but I've never cheated, so if you guys doubt my strength, then this is good-- "

"Now, the whole internet can give me questions, you guys can give me one and I'll answer it."

"You guys see if I'm worthy of staying in the mech building circle."

The pop-up screen was silent for a moment, no one had expected this seemingly soft omega to make such a crazy risky move.

Prof. Li heard the urgency, he said in a loud voice: ''What are you talking about in anger! Tang Bai, you mustn't get carried away! We all believe in your strength!"

Cheng Yangbin was overjoyed at his words, and he quickly said, "Yes! If you can't answer one question! What are you going to do?!"

Tang Bai stared steadily at Cheng Yangbin and whispered in the softest of tones, "Then I'll get the hell out of the mecha manufacturing circle."

"However, I would like to ask Mr. Cheng Yangbin to accompany me in answering the questions, the netizens will ask the questions, and we will choose the questions for each other, if you can answer one question correctly, I will come and answer ten questions, do you dare to answer the questions with me?"

Tang Bai's voice couldn't have been gentler, and it was like a spring breeze, but Cheng Yangbin had goosebumps when he heard it, and he took a step back, as if he was back in the shadows of the cold voice that Tang Bai had shouted back at him.

No way.

Tang Bai couldn't possibly have real strength, the previous mechs must have all been designed by Tang Rong to help him, just as his second uncle had helped him pave the way before, and the questions Tang Bai had told him last time had been specially taught well by Tang Rong!

How can an omega learn mech building? He must be bluffing now!

But when he met those calm eyes, Cheng Yangbin suddenly lost his confidence.

Prof. Li, who was sweating furiously, was worried that Tang Bai's bright future would be ruined because of the dispute, and he was also angry with Cheng Yangbin and those who denied Tang Bai without knowing the truth.

Tang Bai smiled slightly at Prof. Li, a powerful confidence in his eyes.

He believed in his own strength.

Not to mention the strong urge he had to go and do that.

Bai Zhi saw Tang Bai's determined eyes, and the extraordinarily powerful aura of that thin little body as it confronted Cheng Yangbin, he put away his suspicion of Tang Bai and narrowed his eyes at the startled Cheng Yangbin.

Afterwards, Bai Zhi stood out to "round up", "Tang Bai, look at you, the more you talk, the more nonsense, the strength of the master mecha maker is reflected by the formal test, you did two sets of papers in a row today, your strength is in our eyes, you don't need to prove yourself in this way! prove yourself ......"

Originally, Cheng Yangbin was still hesitant, but when he heard Bai Zhi's rounding up, he was afraid that Tang Bai would take this step and go down, Cheng Yangbin suddenly interrupted Tang Bai, "Fine! I'll answer the question with you! If you lose, you'll quit the mecha manufacturing circle!"

His future is ruined anyway! What's the point of gambling with Tang Bai?

"Then what if Mr. Cheng Yangbin loses?" As if his amber eyes had read Cheng Yangbin's thoughts, Tang Bai curled his lips and sneered, "You want to quit the mecha manufacturing circle as well? But you no longer have a place in this circle."

Cheng Yangbin's face was green and white for a while, and he didn't know what to say.

"If you lose, would you please sponsor the 'Warm Spring Program' for another one billion dollars? What do you think?"

Cheng Yangbin stared wide-eyed, "A billion dollars? That's too much!" Where did he get so much money! The money Tang Bai had asked from him last time had already emptied his savings, and if he really had to pay out that much, he would have to sell the small energy mines that the family had allotted to him!

With amber eyes that looked like some kind of expensive, cold jewelry, Tang Bai said softly, "You haggle, you're not sincere."

"Pfft, this time I believe Tang Bai is the master.

Say yes! Say yes! Cheng Yangbin wouldn't be an alpha if he didn't say yes!

[Fight up fight up! I've flipped out the question bank and am ready to go!!!]

I was so excited that I called my senior brother to come over and write the questions. I would really despise Cheng Yangbin if he went nuts!

The past experiences of being insulted all came flooding back to his mind because of these words, Cheng Yangbin's eyes flashed with a desperate ferocity as he gritted his teeth and said, "Come!"

Tang Bai did not squirm, he opened the star network, and saw the live broadcast of the rapid influx of questions begging to be flipped, the questions are difficult and easy, and there are also sand sculpture netizens to raise the mecha manufacturing world of the difficult questions that can be called an unsolved mystery.

After a few minutes of selection, Tang Bai picked out a question for Cheng Yangbin, and when he looked at him afterward, he realized that the "mecha manufacturing genius" was still at 3/10ths of the way through the selection process.

Although he didn't know what exactly the other party had picked as a problem, he thought he knew it wouldn't be simple.

Ten questions, maybe one in his knowledge blind spot.

But so what?

Tang Bai sat upright in his seat, his eyes calm but frantic, a fire burning in his heart that was going to burn the soul in his shell if it didn't burn the unbearable.

Cheng Yangbin had chosen ten questions, but when he saw Tang Bai's calm demeanor, he felt a twinge of fear in his heart.

"Do you want to change the question again?" Bai Zhi walked over to Cheng Yangbin and asked, "The allotted ten minutes are almost up and you have twenty seconds to think about it."

Cheng Yangbin was panicked and changed his question in a hurry. When the ten minutes had passed, his question was taken away by Bai Zhi, and in front of him appeared the question Tang Bai had chosen for him.

With just one look, Cheng Yangbin knew something was wrong.

"For the first question, my answer is that the method of that build is incorrect because star-coalescing engines cause overheating overloads, and regular mechs can't use solid energy for their leg engines, they have to use liquids, and hydraulics absorb heat."

The judges nodded, "Correct answer!"

Cheng Yangbin's mind went blank.

"The second question, dealing with three-dimensional mobility and offensive synergy of naval mechs can be found at ......"

Tang Bai is so fast that he doesn't seem to have to think about the process of solving the question, he just looks at the question and speaks the answer fluently.

Cheng Yangbin's cold sweat ran cold, and he sat stiffly in his chair, suspecting that he was hallucinating.

Isn't Tang Bai an omega? Didn't no one tell him the answer this time? How could he just blurt out a long list of answers without even pausing to think?

That's not possible!

Cheng Yangbin was so disoriented that he couldn't even read the questions in front of him, and each one that entered his brain looked like it had turned into an alien font. When he heard Tang Bai's silence for more than ten seconds on the fourth question, Cheng Yangbin breathed a sigh of relief before realizing that beads of sweat were sliding down his cheeks.

Yeah, that's right. Tang Bai just got lucky and happened to do the first three courses!

While Cheng Yangbin was desperately trying to console himself, he only heard Tang Bai clearly report out a string of numbers, and there were exclamations from the crowd around him, "He's actually doing mental arithmetic?!" "No way! This can also be calculated by heart? My computer just calculated it!"

Cheng Yangbin was in a trance, hardly believing what he was hearing and seeing.

How is this possible? How is this possible? How could an omega do all this?

"Question 10, this question is wrong, it should be asking about the probability flow conservation equation in phallic somatics, the formula here is mistyped, the correct symbol is "betma", this formula appeared in Chapter 10, Subchapter 2 of Higher Phallic Somatics, as I recall." Tang Bai calmly said, "You can do it even after correcting this error, the answer should be ......"

Pop-up: "????"

"My mom asked me why I was kneeling down to read a book.

I'm a Tang Bai fan from now on!

[Could it be that some of the netizens who wrote the questions are Tang Bai's trustees?]

Wow, this is the first time I know I'm Tang Bai's paid shill... Looks like Cheng Yangbin isn't rich enough to buy us off!

[Cheng Yangbin hasn't answered a single question yet, and it's heartbreaking.]

Cheng Yangbin panicked and looked around, just in time to collide with Tang Bai's line of sight.

Those amber eyes reflected the cold light of the hall, cold and clear, the owner of those eyes opened his petal-like soft lips and softly said, "Mr. Cheng Yangbin, you, have you answered?"

These words were like a slap, hitting Cheng Yangbin's face, his lips turned white, his thoughts were confused, "This does not count, I, you, I have to answer another question, this time it does not count."

Tang Bai raised his eyebrows, he raised his voice, "Oh? Then I'll give you another chance?"

Cheng Yangbin's heart immediately sprang up with hope, not caring about any face to nod desperately, only to hear Tang Bai ask slowly and methodically, "May I ask what solution can be used to deal with the problem of three-dimensional mobility and offensive synergy of the sea battle-type mechs?"

Cheng Yangbin's brain went blank, he seemed to have heard of this topic, where and when?

"With, with the Star Coalescence Theory?" Cheng Yangbin didn't even feel confident when he said it.

Amber eyes compassionate and gentle, while the hooked corners of the lips are full of sarcasm, Tang Bai softly said, "What a pity, the answer is wrong, this question's exactly the second question that you, Mr. Cheng Yangbin, drew for me, and I even said the correct answer a while ago."

Yes, it did, but Cheng Yangbin was in such a state of confusion that he didn't even notice what Tang Bai said.

Cheng Yangbin sat in his seat with a pale face, as if he had been drained of all his strength and lost the last vestiges of his fighting spirit.

Tang Bai did not look at Cheng Yangbin, who was like a lost dog, he turned to the other people in the room, his gaze falling on those who had questioned him before, his amber eyes were so bright and shocking that those who looked at him did not even dare to look directly at the light in his eyes.

They inexplicably looked away and heard the pretty omega speak, "I'm an omega, and I like Palulu, but I also like mechs."

"I'm a great cook, I'm a great mech builder, and my childhood dream was to build cute mechs."

Mama Tang, who was making a midnight snack, was called by Papa Tang, and she dazedly lowered her head and looked at the light screen with Papa Tang.

"But once I diverged into an omega, my family thought I should be good at being a trophy omega, and I used to think so too, because that's the way a normal omega should go, so I had to secretly learn mecha building."

Gu Tunan sat on the couch with Mrs. Gu and watched the little omega in the live stream of the mecha building competition look straight into the camera.

"And then I met a man who was so determined to walk a path that everyone thought was impossible, with his feet on the blades, his steps heavy, his chains playing music, and his blood dripping, but he was so determined to go on."

Mr. Ling, who was watching the live stream, laughed a little and looked up at the unoccupied room upstairs.

"He inspired me, and I finally had the courage to tell my family about my dream, and luckily my family is supporting me, but I know that not everyone can have the support of their family, and I really hope that every omega can go and do what they want to do."

Mother Bai reddened her eyes and whispered something to Father Bai.

"I wanted to write stories to show people what I wanted to convey, so I wrote a novel in which the main character is an omega who won a mecha building contest, but the comment section was all about how could an omega win a mecha building contest?"

The countless alphas in the hall who had said how an omega could possibly win a mech building competition looked at each other in disbelief.

Xie Ruhang stared in awe at Tang Bai, who seemed to be glowing in the hall, and heard him toss out, "That's why I've signed up for this contest, I want to prove that it's possible."

"By the way, the main character of the novel is the codename of my entry, do you know why I got that name?"

Tang Bai lifted his eyes, his gaze falling on Xie Ruhang, "Walk with you, and be with the light."

"This time, I'm going to chase the light."