NOVPUBChapter 296: Chapter 294: Please Take Your Seat, My Commander
Chapter 296: Chapter 294: Please Take Your Seat, My Commander
The creature had a meter-long, slime-coated bluish-green body, eight razor-sharp legs like steel knives, a mouthful of fangs, and was still chewing on a human arm…
Sally raised her hand to condense the Fire Elemental Power, fireballs fell onto the Insect Beast’s body one after another, and soon the creature let out a strange cry as it turned into black ash.
The little girl clapped her hands and laughed with glee, “Mommy is so awesome, mommy is so awesome.”
“You should call me auntie, your mommy is waiting for you at the port.” Sally held her in one arm and carried a large backpack with the other, then teleported back to the Mecha’s cockpit.
Seeing Xiaoba quietly lying in the pilot seat, Sally patted him, “It’s a bit chaotic outside, my precious son, would you like to go back to System Space for now?”
The little golden dragon understood and immediately curled up, ready to rest.
“You’re such a good boy~” Sally kissed him before tucking him away.
She settled the little girl into the copilot seat, fastened her seatbelt, and then took control of the White Angel to take off.
Just as they ascended, and were about to head towards the second port, she saw a smoking Mecha flying towards her.
The Mecha’s system alerted her to a distress signal.
Sally connected the call, “Hello.”
The person on the other end shouted, “I am Luky, a second-year student from the Remist Military Academy, requesting rescue.”
Luky?
Sally immediately went to meet him.
Luky ejected from his Mecha.
Instantly, Sally opened the Mecha’s platform to catch Luky.
Meanwhile, the smoking Mecha crashed into the ground swarm of insects and exploded, taking out a swath of the Insect Beasts.
Sally let Luky into the cockpit and saw that his abdomen was bleeding. She threw a medical kit to him, “Can you handle it yourself?”
“I can.” Luky saw a little girl in the cabin, “Did you rescue her?”
“Yes, I’m taking her to the second port, Laxia is there,” Sally replied.
Luky dressed his wound proficiently, his forehead beaded with sweat betraying the pain he was in, though his expression didn’t look like someone who was hurt.
Upon hearing Sally’s words, his eyes sharpened, “That’s not Laxia.”
“What?” Sally looked at him in surprise.
An image of a bloody, pierced abdomen flashed before her eyes, revealing the slim waist and shoulders of his youthful figure, which looked pale from blood loss. His deep brown hair at the back of his head was matted into clumps by the blood.
“I know Laxia’s father. Just last month, we were working at a construction site on Capital Star.
Last night, I mentioned his father to Laxia, and he said his dad was doing fine.
In reality, Laxia’s father lost his leg in an accident at the site.
I got in touch with the site foreman this morning. He said Laxia’s father was still in the hospital and would need some time before he can have a prosthetic leg fitted.
As for Laxia, the foreman said he knew him but… Laxia got into a fight and died.”
“Then… who is this Laxia?” Sally saw the little girl starting to take off her pants, probably needing to use the bathroom, so she immediately helped her undress and brought out a child’s potty from System Space.
The little girl obediently sat down…
“I don’t know.” Luky heard the sound of undressing and averted his gaze, “Where are you headed?”
“I want to take this child to her mother at the second port first. And about Laxia, I want to find out who he really is.”
The two arrived at the second port.
Laxia was nowhere to be found.
The little girl’s mother was waiting all the while.
When she saw Sally holding her daughter, emerging from the Mecha’s cockpit, the woman cried tears of joy and relief.
Sally handed over the backpack to her. The child’s mother looked through the retrieved items, especially the irreplaceable documents and the family photo… Grateful tears fell as she kept thanking Sally profusely.
Her family caught the last starship leaving the port.
“It’s possible that Laxia has already left on a starship,” Sally said to Luky.
The port, with only a few workers left, was deserted. Luky leaned against the White Angel, his gaze somewhat weary as he looked at her, “Why didn’t you board the starship?”
“Aren’t you also staying behind?” Sally replied lightly with a leap, landing on the Mecha’s cockpit platform. “I’m off to kill Insect Beasts, what about you?”
“I think the White Angel might need a commander,” Luky said, following her.
Sally smiled at his face, “Please take your seat, my commander.”
Luky, seeing Sally piloting the White Angel and still somewhat unskilled, asked, “Can I try piloting the White Angel?”
“Of course.” Sally handed him the helmet and then authorized him to operate the Mecha.
She had only been piloting a real Mecha for two days; on the first day, she dueled with Kayne, and on the second, it was all about escaping and saving others.
“You’re not a pilot, so how can you pilot a Mecha?”
“It’s because I am a commander that I need to understand more. Actually, the best Mecha Soldiers are commanders.”
“Oh, so the Ninth Prince can also pilot a Mecha?”
“Of course, he can,” Luky replied.
“By the way, what’s your spiritual power score?”
“S,” Luky replied.
Sally was a bit surprised, “Really? Your physical condition doesn’t seem to match that.”
“You also don’t look like a soldier.”
“Hehe,” Sally laughed.
“By the way, where’s your golden egg?”
“Uh… How do you know about that?”
“Yesterday, after you and the fake Laxia went to the Imperial Military District, a golden light suddenly burst out in the room, so I went to have a look. There was a golden egg lying on your bed, even covered with a blanket…” Luky suddenly laughed, “It felt just like a child.”
“He’s my biological son.” Sally responded seriously. “Didn’t I tell you I have a child?”
“…It’s a bit different from the human conception of viviparous reproduction.” Humans are viviparous, Luky had never heard of someone being oviparous.
Sally replied, “It has to do with his father.”
“Where is he?”
“He’s in a very distant time and space.”
Luky, thinking she meant ‘he’s dead’, said with an apologetic look, “I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine.” Sally didn’t want to explain further.
Remembering the red envelope he’d sent her that had been returned, Luky figured she wasn’t in urgent need of Star Coins and continued, “If you need my help with anything, just let me know.”
“Alright,” Sally smiled.
The White Angel came to a halt in Puxi Mountain City, where the usually bustling streets were now swarming with Insect Beasts, densely packed.
Sally no longer held back, leaving the Mecha for Luky to operate while she flew out and unleashed her Innate Secret Technique.
Wherever she passed, flames erupted, and any Insect Beast touched by even a spark would instantly combust…
Luky, controlling the White Angel, watched this scene in shock, “Who exactly is she?”
Sally spread fire seeds all over, and before long, the entire mountain city was ablaze, the insects turning to ash in the flames.
Sally returned to the White Angel, unaffected by Luky’s gaze full of questions and astonishment, and joked, “You won’t think I’m a witch or a monster and attack me, right?”
“I wish I could be like you, having strength to protect the people I care about.” Luky’s gaze drifted as if he remembered something.
“Who is it, your girlfriend?” Sally casually asked.
“I was raised in an orphanage…” Luky’s smile was bitter, and there was a touch of self-deprecating humility.
Understanding his meaning, especially for an attractive orphan like him, Sally instinctively reached out, taking his hand. Seeing him tremble slightly without resistance, she leaned forward… and kissed his lips!
Their warm yet cool lips touched softly, not deepening their embrace, but both could hear their own heartbeats growing chaotic.
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