Chapter 67: Chapter 67

Xie Ruhang was lying in the deserted wilderness, holding a piece of his mech in his palm as he gazed up at the star-studded night sky.

Everyone is afraid of death, perhaps it is because of years of injecting camouflage potion let him know his own death date early, so really to this day when the time comes, his heart instead of much fear, more is regret.

I'm sorry I didn't see the light at the end of the long night, that the military ministry lifted restrictions on omega enlistment, that many schools opened their doors to omegas, and that research institutes announced the start of research on artificial wombs. ......

Most regrettably, he did not see Tang Bai shine in this new era.

Thinking of Tang Bai , the dark phoenix eyes suddenly surfaced a little light.

Life passes rapidly in this overdrawn body, past memories flash like a walking lantern, and Tang Bai is the only color in the black and white memories.

He saw their first encounter.

It was the noisy, bustling cafeteria of the Federal Military Academy, and he sat diagonally behind Tang Bai, his eyes drawn to him.

The little noble omega was like a proud and reserved kitten, with a sly look in her eyes as she held her jewel with an unforgiving mouth.

Daylight embraced him through the clear glass and gilded the tresses of his upturned hair.

From the first moment he met Tang Bai, he felt that he was a well-protected omega, with a bright and innocent indulgence, like a rose in a garden watered with love.

He sees that Gu Tunan refuses Tang Bai's bento, and Tang Bai shrugs and walks right off with his backpack.

Everyone in the cafeteria was not moving to note the omega's departure, as if the world was making way for him.

Gu Tunan returns to find Tang Bai leaving, he frowns and casually eats a few bites of the cafeteria's food before getting up to leave as well.

Only the bunny lunchbox falls alone on the table, casting a shadow.

Xie Ruhang, a slum dweller with an unimaginable obsession with food, can't afford to waste anything.

Ghostly, he took the bento.

He opened the bento and saw braised pork, broccoli and shrimp, and rice with a love heart shaped poached egg on top.

It's cute.

Xie Ruhang picked up the bento and took a whiff, it smelled good.

He sat on the gazebo and watched the swimming fish bobbing in the water as he carefully finished his bento one bite at a time.

A beautiful, dainty, articulate, and very good cook, an aristocratic omega, that was his first impression of Tang Bai.

That night he had a dream in which his mother had not died and cooked for him every day, and the food was delicious and smelled good.

He grew up according to his parents' expectations, and when he grew up, he went to work as a servant in a nobleman's house, and on his first day, he cooked for his master, in which he made a poached egg, only to hear his master's softly nitpicking voice when he brought it to the dinner table, "Geez, I like poached eggs shaped like love hearts eh."

He looked up to see a silver fork resting on his lips, and the young noble lord biting into it with a slightly distressed look.

It was a nonsensical dream in which Tang Bai's demands were always so many, but he wasn't angry at all, and even the pleasure of dressing up a doll bubbled up inside him as he dressed Tang Bai.

The second time I saw Tang Bai was during the cheerleading performance at the entrance ceremony.

There were rising and falling exclamations of surprise coming from the various departmental formations, and as he sniffed, he looked over to see Tang Bai carrying a flower basket full of rose petals, walking at the front of the procession in the pure white uniform of the Ceremonial College, head held high and elegant.

The sunlight poured through the clouds onto the teenager's body, making him dazzle to the point where he looked like a luminary.

What's with the teenager who smiles and arches his eyebrows like a cat?

He saw the beautiful hand grab a handful of rose petals and shower the rich, thick red in a flurry in mid-air!

Xie Ruhang reached out and caught a petal.

When he returned to his dormitory at night, he stuck the petal in the pages of his book and listened in silence to his roommate discuss Tang Bai.

"I've heard that Tang Bai's rose petals were picked up one by one from his garden yard, and that he collected the dewdrops from the petals in the early morning to make some kind of rose cake ......"

"I'm so envious of Gu Tunan, having such a good looking fiancée."

"Gu Tunan doesn't like Tang Bai though, I know a friend who works the janitor's office shift and he often sees Gu Tunan and Tang Bai late for a date and keeps Tang Bai waiting for half a day."

"No way, if this was my fiancée, I'd be spoiling him ......"

Xie Ruhang rolled over and lay on his back to look at the rose petal wedged in the pages of the book, the page that happened to have this passage written on it:

"I can see her, she is not an ordinary rose, she is the only rose in the universe."

The third time he saw Tang Bai, was in the library of the Federal Military Academy, he saw Tang Bai holding a book standing in front of the bookshelf, reading a book "Mechanical Principles and Constructive Science" very seriously, rows of bookshelves divided the sunlight that shines in, so that this corner of the light and shadow ambiguous and quiet.

He subconsciously held his breath, the only sound in all directions was the sound of pages turning, Tang Bai closed the book, raised his eyes and bumped into his line of sight.

Those amber eyes were smiling like they held a clear water, "Class, could you get me Energy Vibrations at the top of the shelf?"

Those were Tang Bai's first words to him.

He helped Tang Bai to get the book, Tang Bai smiled and said thank you to him, Tang Bai had two dimples when he smiled, very cute.

He stood in front of the window and watched Tang Bai carrying a stack of books, bouncing all the way to the door, with no trace of the dignified manner of the entrance ceremony.

That night, he dreamed again.

He dreamt that Tang Bai asked for his help in getting books and when Tang Bai said thank you, instead of remaining silent, he asked Tang Bai, why do you want to get books on mechanics.

Then they opened up the conversation and he walked out of the library with Tang Bai, who talked and laughed at him the whole way ......

The dream woke up and it was a new day.

He said to himself that if he saw Tang Bai next time, he would have to talk to him more.

Why are you so obsessed with talking to Tang Bai?

It was not clear to him at this time.

All he knows is that he didn't meet Tang Bai again for some time afterward.

The Ceremonial Academy and the Federal Military Academy were very close to each other, one street away, and every day he walked through that street, he wondered if he might run into Tang Bai by chance.

But never.

He put away the inexplicable anticipation and gave his full attention to the chief's campaign; the etiquette test was the part he was least sure of; he had spent the whole day reading books and instructional videos on etiquette, and he had seen a lot of them, but the parts he hadn't seen were even more numerous.

Sometimes he forgets to eat because he's preparing for an exam, and when he's so hungry that his stomach starts to feel a little queasy, he unconsciously remembers the bento Tang Bai made that day.

I heard Tang Bai is in the culinary department.

He turned a page in the book and suddenly went off on a tangent for a moment.

If he hadn't hidden his identity, if he had also attended the Academy of Ceremonies, would he have seen Tang Bai every day?

The mind is full of unrealistic thoughts.

The Chief Exam has a large percentage of points for specialty exams, and one of the tests requires students to prepare their own mechs.

Of course, the stronger the mech, the better, for example, Gu Tunan asked a master mech builder to customize a high-level mech, and even his roommate, who was a commoner, asked a second-level mech builder to specially design the mech drawings.

It made him a little anxious.

In fact, he also has a high-level mech called "Long Night", but that is the special mech of the underground arena "Rats", if he uses that mech, it will reveal his identity.

The status of Underground Arena Racer doesn't make it to the top and doesn't favor the chief's ballot session.

By chance, he learned of the existence of the "Mechanical Coffin", and he went to the black market to buy an account, wanting to try to see if he could find the right mech drawings on the Mechanical Coffin.

After shopping around, he couldn't find any better mech drawings than the "Long Night", and with the idea of giving it a try, he chose to post in the internal communication forum of the Coffin of Machinery, looking for mechs with a high degree of freedom in the free operation mode.

He was contacted by a mech builder.

That mech builder had used neural link technology in the free operation mode, which impressed him, but at the same time that mech design drawing was a hefty price tag he couldn't afford.

He tried to haggle with that mecha maker, and the other party was very stinky, "If it weren't for the fact that I'm worried that such an excellent piece of work will never be able to come out in my lifetime, I wouldn't want to sell it to you for that price."

For a moment, he actually heard petulance in the passage? He must have hallucinated the rabbit shape ......

Xie Ruhang replied, "The price is really beyond my affordability, plus if you make the real thing according to this drawing, the production cost is far more than the same level of mechs, can you cut down some parts, such as the mech auxiliary mode can be completely discarded, and there are some places where it's not necessary to use high-grade materials, such as the rabbit shape that you designed, and the rabbit tail is useless except for its aesthetics. In addition to aesthetics, it is useless ......"

Opponent: "Mecha Assist Mode can't be discarded, yo, and the rabbit tail can't be removed either, da, it's not so cute if you remove it."

Xie Ruhang fell silent.

He just wanted to buy a mech, why should he care if it was cute or not, and whether it was cute or not would affect his ability to pilot it to beat up people?

He tried to twist the mech builder's mind, he told the other that the most important thing about a mech was not the form but the performance, like most of the mechs in the underground arena were plain and simple, just able to fight.

The seller, like a Curious Baby, inquired about the existence of an underground arena and a black market for him, but in the end, he still insisted, "The original intent of my design was to build a cute mecha that could be used by omega, the mecha assist mode can't be discarded, and neither can the cute rabbit shape, sorry."

A mecha that can be used by omega?

He froze.

The original mech assist mode was designed to allow most omega's to pilot mechs as well, so is the rabbit shape a challenge to the mech stereotype as well?

"Is this your idea of a weapon? Of all the weapons born for combat, you are the only one who has designed them from the perspective of all humanity, regardless of gender or sexuality. You are the first designer in interstellar history to link the omega to the mech, and you deserve respect. Perhaps I was fortunate enough to witness the birth of a mech design worthy of the history books, and your concepts will surely bring about a drastic change, a landmark drastic change, in interstellar mech manufacturing."

The opposite side was silent for a while and suddenly said, "I won't budge even if you blow rainbow farts! At most, I'll give you a 10% discount!"

Rainbow farts?

Xie Ruhang said seriously, "I'm not touting you, it's you who deserves such an evaluation. I believe that only the most fraternal people can design such a mecha, you are setting a new example for the world of interstellar civilization."

"Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll give you 20% off, okay?"

"Don't blow it off, don't blow it off, I'm really going to lose a lot of money on any more discounts."

"Huh, no, after all the discounts I've given you, you should compliment me a little more or I'll lose blood."

......

That's how he befriended the maverick mech builder, they shared a lot of common language, they could talk all night long, and he got to see other works of the mech builder, such as an energy gun in the shape of a sunflower.

Although the other party did not disclose personal information, he guessed that the other party should be a noble omega.

This guess might not be believed by anyone else if they said it, how could an omega be a mech builder?

But he believes.

Because he is an omega, he is an omega mech, and he believes in omega abilities.

The other party didn't take the initiative to mention his gender, and he wouldn't deliberately ask about it, as he regarded the mech builder as a close friend.

When he met Tang Bai for the fourth time, he did not actually recognize Tang Bai at first sight.

He had just gotten out of the ring that day, and the human skin mask on his face hadn't been removed, and he was walking down an alleyway by himself when he saw someone sneakily following a man in a dark blue cloak.

The man looked fat, his clothes were of good material, his shoes were clean, and he was so unfamiliar with the slums that he had to look around after a few steps.

Xie Ruhang, not one to mind his own business, gave a bland look and was about to withdraw his eyes when he suddenly saw the man take a few steps and hop across in front of a puddle.

There was no reason for the familiarity.

When the attacker raised his energy gun, a light flashed in Xie Ruhang's mind, the figure in front of him and the back of the person he had been looking at in the library that day completely overlapped, and Xie Ruhang's heart felt like it had missed a beat at that moment, and he didn't even realize what had happened, but when he reacted, he had already rushed out of the room.

He saved Tang Bai.