After returning to the hotel, there was a knock on the door of Yun Xingze’s hotel room.
When he opened the door and saw the person, he lick his lips.
“It really is you, Coach Richard.”

Richard appeared tough, and was also a sturdy alpha in his youth.
At this moment, however, he was holding a pink paper bag in his hand and his expression was a little unnatural.
After coughing a few times, he said: “I made a mistake when judging you before, and was prejudiced against you.
I want to apologize to you.”

Since they met, Yun Xingze always felt that Richard was a stubborn old man who didn’t eat hard or soft.1Eat hard or soft, as in, can’t be persuaded, cajoled, and is very stubborn He never expected him to say such a thing.

The next second, Richard handed the bag in his hand to Yun Xingze.
“I saw that you like to eat durian mango, so I specially brought some.
The hotel told me that this kind of paper bag is the only one…”

Yun Xingze took the pink bag, happily thanked him, and then asked: “So, why didn’t you help me review the match?”

“Because…” Richard took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly containing some confusion.
“I don’t understand your game.”

Yun Xingze was slightly startled.

He looked at Richard unexpectedly and repeated his words: “You don’t understand?”

Richard asked: “Yun Xingze, is the outcome of the game important to you?”

Yun Xingze thought about it.
After thinking for a while, he nodded.
“I still prefer to win.”

“But you seem to care more about the mecha and game itself than winning or losing.” Richard’s eyes were sharp and his words were equally sharp.
“You obviously could have used more direct means to defeat Xi Bolai, but you had to let him ‘cocoon himself’.
In your eyes, this seems more interesting to you?”

Yun Xingze didn’t expect Richard’s eyes to actually pierce through his inner thoughs.

He never had a chance to use mecha in his last life, so of course he wanted to study mecha and enjoy the game whenever possible.

He knew Xi Bolai’s style of fighting like the back of his hand.
If it was just to win, he could have used a more direct way of fighting.

“You’re right.” Yun Xingze admitted frankly.
“I like mechas and enjoy the game.
However, this does not mean that I will lose.”

“You and Luo Wenchuan have completely different fighting philosophies.” Richard calmly analyzed.
“His every move and action is to win, while you are more invested in exploring possibilities of the mecha itself… This is the first time I have seen a player like you.”

Yun Xingze himself knew this was the biggest difference between him and Luo Wenchuan.

“So, you still don’t trust me?” Yun Xingze asked with raised eyebrows.

After being silent for a moment, Richard explained slowly: “Before when I asked you to go to the team competition, it’s not that I looked down on your strength.
But rather there are too many unknown variables about you.
In my eyes, when it comes to strength, competitiveness is also a part of strength, isn’t it?”

Yun Xingze was silent.

Not long after he came to this world, all he could think about was turning on mecha.
He didn’t have any sense of belonging to the empire or the military academy, and naturally he didn’t have the will to compete.

After a while, Yun Xingze looked at Richard, raised his lips, and said calmly, “Isn’t winning enough?”

Richard was stunned at the words.
He smiled and joked: “Indeed.
Although your exploration style is a bit risky, it can make people’s eyes shine every time.
You are much more reliable than Zhuo Feiyue.”

Yun Xingze asked, “Does Mr.
Zhuo know what you said?”

The two looked at each other, and couldn’t help laughing for a moment.

“In the match against St.
Klito, I will arrange for you to participate in the single match.” After laughing, Richard suppressed his smiles.
“The team match really does limit your performance.”

Yun Xingze nodded happily: “Thank you coach.”

“However, the players in St.
Klito are very competitive.” Richard looked at him and said in a serious tone, “They may be a little difficult for you to deal with, and…”

Yun Xingze asked seriously: “And what?”

Richard paused and continued: “One of the necessary conditions to enter the state of human-machine integration is to be competitive.
In the upcoming games, I still hope you can be more competitive.”

Yun Xingze was startled.

“In my opinion, besides Luo Wenchuan, you are the second player in the school team who I expect can enter the state of human-machine integration.” Richard said seriously.
“I look forward to watching that moment.”

After Richard left, Yun Xingze couldn’t help but closed his eyes, recalling what he had said repeatedly in his mind.

Victory.

Ambition.

Man and machine are one.

These few words made Yun Xingze wonder.

After coming to this world, there was only one competition, in which he competed with a strong competitive spirit.

That was the match with Su Zinan.

At that time, he only felt that he was responsible for avenging Lu Ranxu, and to breathe a sigh of relief for himself.

After that, he has continued enjoying driving mecha, and the strong desire to win seemed to have disappeared…

Thinking of this, Yun Xingze suddenly widened his eyes.

No, not right.

In addition to that match, there was another match that he also competed with the determination to win.

The match against “L” in Mecha Star.

Yun Xingze was stunned.

At that time, his mind was full of wanting to defeat Luo Wenchuan, and his desire to conquer.

The strong will to win and lose even made his fingers tremble for a long time after the game.

Yun Xingze swallowed.

Should he try finding “L” again to find that competitive feeling?

Yun Xingze took a deep breath.
He put the durian mango Richard sent in the fridge, and the flowers sent by Ming Xiao on top of the fridge.

After that, he walked hesitantly to find a game cabin in the hotel.
After entering, he directly logged into his Mecha Star account.

After going online, Yun Xingze immediately searched for “L”‘s name, only to find he was not online.

Yun Xingze couldn’t help but feel a little lost.
At the same time, he might have been a little stupid.
Why did he have an illusion that “L” has been waiting for him?

At the same time, various message notifications continued popping up in the game.

The most diligent message sender turned out to be Xi Bolai.

This guy has been sending messages for several days in a row.
Seeing “I’m so weak” finally online, he sent him another message.

[Please eat shaved ice]: “Don’t run.”

[Please eat shaved ice]: “I will not compete with you.”

[Please eat shaved ice]: “I want to ask you something very important.”

Yun Xingze and Xi Bolai just fought recently.
At the end of the game, the young silver-haired alpha’s eyes were all red, and he looked like he was about to cry.

So, he returned a “?”.

Xi Bolai didn’t expect to get a reply from “I’m so weak”, so he did not expect the other party to really reply!

He couldn’t help sitting up straight, and quickly sent a voice message, for fear that the other party would go offline.

After Yun Xingze opened it, Xi Bolai’s slightly hoarse and eager voice came through: “Do you know Yun Xingze?!”

“How would I know Yun Xingze?” Yun Xingze replied.

Seeing the other party’s reply, Xi Bolai was a little disappointed, but he quickly thought of another question and asked: “Which school are you from?!”

“I’m from Jicot.” The Xinghai school team member replied.

Xi Bolai always felt that this guy was lying to him, but he couldn’t find any evidence, so he simply sent a PK invitation to the other party, and sent a message: “One more!”

Yun Xingze rejected Xi Bolai’s request.

Since Luo Wenchuan was not online, Yun Xingze was considering going online another day.

At this moment.

Another PK request popped up.

Yun Xingze was about to refuse when he saw the sender.
His eyes froze.

It was from “L”.

His eyes widened.
Because he was so surprised that he forgot to agree for a while.

On the other hand, Xi Bolai was unconvinced and sent another message.

[Please eat shaved ice]: “You haven’t fought with me for so long.
My strength has improved, and I will definitely beat you, okay?”

[Please eat shaved ice]: “Don’t pretend, you must be afraid of me!”

Xi Bolai sent several messages provoking “I’m so weak”, and finally got a response.

[I’m so weak]: “My mecha was sent for maintenance, I’m sorry.
Another day.”

Xi Bolai gritted his teeth.

[Please eat shaved ice]: “Don’t lie!”

At this moment, the system suddenly popped up a public screen prompt:

[Player “I’m so weak” agreed to player “L”‘s PK invitation.]

Xi Bolai: “…”

Damn, is his brain also broken? Why didn’t he think there was something wrong with the “my mecha was sent for maintenance” nonsense just now?

Entering the room, Yun Xingze took a deep breath, trying to his previous competitive spirit.

And in another room of the hotel.

Two minutes ago.

After dinner, Luo Wenchuan set a special alert for “I’m so weak”.
As long as he goes online, Luo Wenchuan’s optical brain will be sent a reminder.

The moment he received the reminder, Luo Wenchuan immediately logged into the game.

After going online, when he was about to send a PK request to “I’m so weak”, he suddenly changed his idea.

Luo Wenchuan got out of the mecha cabin and knocked on Ke Lei’s door.

After the door opened, Luo Wenchuan said: “Do me a favor.
Use my account to PK with ‘I’m so weak’.”

Hearing the words, Ke Lei’s eyes slowly widened/ “Why do you want me to PK with him? Aren’t you fighting?”

“I have a more important matter.” Luo Wenchuan said slowly in a tone that could not be refused.
Ke Lei could only agree.

After the PK officially started, Yun Xingze discovered that “L” had replaced his lightsaber mecha with a meteor mecha.
He was a little confused at the switch, but remembered what Ke Lei told himself before, Luo Wenchuan could drive any mecha, so he didn’t care much.

Yun Xingze changed to a comet mecha and went into battle.

What he didn’t expect was that Luo Wenchuan’s meteor mecha’s style was completely different from his lightsaber mecha.

“Why does this move look so familiar…” Yun Xingze muttered in confusion.

Besides, there was one more thing that confused Yun Xingze.

After Luo Wenchuan changed to a meteor mecha, he still had a strong desire to win at first.
But after a while, this desire to win completely disappeared.

The eager feeling of every cell in his body to fight “L”, the contradiction between hostility and appreciation, no longer existed.

The feeling was only something the previous “L” could bring him?

Yun Xingze became more and more confused.
What’s going on?

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of Yun Xingze’s room.

Yun Xingze was stunned.

Who was coming to find him now?

The next second, the visitor’s voice carried through the housekeeping system: “It’s me, Luo Wenchuan.”

“Oh, wait…” Yun Xingze said casually to the housekeeping system.

The next second, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

In the game… “L” is still chasing after him.

Full of question marks, Yun Xingze immediately realized something.
He opened his eyes wide, and turned off the game.

Half a minute later, Yun Xingze smoothed out any surprise and opened the door.

He calmly looked at Luo Wenchuan outside the door: “Senior Dachuan, what’s the matter? Coming so late?”

Luo Wenchuan raised his eyebrows and looked at him: “Are you gaming?”

“Uh, no…” Yun Xingze pretended to be calm.
“I was just now…”

As he said, he turned on his optical brain and randomly opened a fitness channel.

“Watching videos.”

Luo Wenchuan’s eyes shifted to the virtual screen.
He calmly made an “oh”, and then said noncommittally, “Really.”

Yun Xingze picked up the glass of water beside to him, and said after drinking: “Well , I need to exercise my strength recently, and practice mecha combos along the way.”

“The way you practice mecha combos…” Luo Wenchuan’s eyes shifted from the screen to Yun Xingze’s face, and asked slowly, “By watching yoga videos?”

“Cough, cough…”

Yun Xingze almost choked.
He hurriedly turned off the yoga video, swallowed, and said calmly, “No one stipulates that mechas can’t do yoga.
Right?”

Luo Wenchuan almost believed Yun Xingze’s sincere expression.

The next second, Ke Lei ran out of the opposite room and shouted, “What’s the matter, just now, when you knocked on Yun Xingze’s door, the guy who called ‘I’m so weak’ just dropped offline!”

Yun Xingze and Luo Wenchuan fell silent at the same time.

 

That’s right, YXZ, “oh, really…?”

 

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