Chapter 123: Extra and regular updates

When staff arrived at the access road, they saw Chris, beaten to death, and Xie Ruhang, alive and well.

"Who assaulted the innocent player?" The staff member asked as he pulled up the CCTV footage, he hadn't had time to watch it before he rushed over.

It looks like Xie Ruhang took the initiative to beat him up, although Chris did behave badly by deliberately insulting Proa player Bantelu on the field, and since the Federation and Proa have always had a good international relationship, it's understandable that Xie Ruhang beat Chris up this time, but it's just not allowed by the rules, alas, young people are still too impulsive --

The crowd pointed to Chris in unison, "It's him."

The staff member was stuck for a moment, and for a moment he thought he was hallucinating.

At this point the surveillance video that the staff had pulled up was put on and Chris pointed irrepressibly at his face, "Anyone who fights without reason will be disqualified from the match, if you want to leave without a fight, come on, hit here."

Bai Li was concerned: "I suspect Chris is out of his mind, he wants to be beaten so badly that he's stirring up trouble, and when he attacked us, Xie Ruhang temporarily disabled him to protect his teammates."

Mo Zheng agrees: "Andrei has also admitted that Chris is not in a good shape and that an alpha that can hurt anyone at any time is a ticking time bomb, Xie Ruhang has done the right thing this time."

Xie Ruhang: "Unprovoked brawlers will be disqualified and I hope you will follow the rules and regulations, Chris."

The staff member glanced down at Chris, who was too weak to speak.

"......" Something doesn't seem right but it sounds flawless.

At the same time, the host on stage spoke out the randomly selected combat teams and the new map: "Empire vs. Federation, Desert Map!"

"The desert map, it suits you." Mo Zheng said to Bai Li, who subconsciously looked at Xie Ruhang to ask his opinion, but at that moment Xie Ruhang was still discussing with the staff how to handle the matter.

Andrei also came over and surprisingly, Andrei was on Xie Ruhang's side, approving of Chris' disqualification.

"He's not the captain, and you want to ask his advice before you act?" Bai Li looked around at the members of the Federation present, "I want to go into this desert map, do any of you want to go on it too?"

There was no contest and the spot fell to Bai Li, who twisted his wrist and walked up to Dives, who challenged him with his left hand outstretched, thumb bent at ninety degrees, index finger up and the other three fingers closed.

Bai Li really wanted to beat this alpha up. He wouldn't mind putting a sack on this alpha at the end of the game if his opponent declined his invitation.

Dives' mechs are suitable for many types of maps, desert maps among them, and he was undeterred by Bai Li's invitation to battle, his chin lifting slightly in a gesture of acceptance.

The map of the desert, with its winding lines of sand and mountains, its yellow winds sweeping out a thousand strange patterns, and its vast expanse of yellow sand.

The audience was randomly presented with either stone models or desert plants, with Tang Bai, with cat ears and a cat's tail, standing out in the crowd of grimy shapes.

Tang Bai looks down and studies the catlike features of his body, his long snow-white whiskers, his palms spread out in a q-tipped pattern of black flesh pads, his plush tail covered in black rings wagging freely.

Oh no, it's the black-footed cat look!

Tang Bai immediately recognised the shape of the black-footed cat because one of his previous mechs was based on it.

The black-footed cat, smaller than a domestic cat, can attack lambs four times its size and has a 60% success rate on the hunt, topping the feline list!

Such a cute and fierce cat is the prototype of Tang Bai's Meow Meow Mech!

A good number of live balls flew to Tang Bai, who raised his paws to the camera in greeting, wrinkling his nose at the camera to fit his black-footed cat persona, his snow-white cat whiskers twitching along.

[I'm Wai, I'm dead]

[Ahhhhh what kind of cat is this! It's so cute!

I am so thankful for the random system of the Mecha Cup, every game Tang Tang's look hits my cute spot (sugar fan is so excited that he is incoherent)]

[Pass the photographer a chicken leg! Can the photographer please focus on Tang Bai for the rest of the shoot? I don't want to see a lump of iron, I just want to see a soft Tang Bai!

The stage was a feast for the awe-inspiring, and Bai Li was discussing his entrance with the host with a cold face: "Do we have to give the name of the mech builder?"

The host had a difficult face, "Yes, if you are not satisfied with the name of the mech, you can discuss it with the mech builder, I am just a host and have no authority to change the name of the mech."

"I'm not unhappy with the mecha name." Bai Li said unhappily, "It's certain people who don't appreciate it who go around belittling his naming style, I just don't want the names he's picked up to be criticised on a large scale again after this competition."

Thinking of the piles of blackmail against Tang Bai's naming style, the presenter said with a start, "I see, I didn't realise you cared so much about Tang Bai in private."

Turquoise eyes suddenly widened, and a thin blush surfaced on that cold face as Bai Li explained, "I don't care about him, I just don't want the reputation of our Federation mechs to be harmed!"

Moderator: "...... Oh."

Bai Li looked at him with a blush.

Moderator: "...... The game is about to start, so you should hurry up and get on the field."

On the desert map, Dives has stomped out of the sand with his mech. Hermes is a humanoid mech with accelerating wings on his legs, a coiled serpent staff in his hand, an invisible helmet on one half of his head and a sun hat on the other, and a lamb on his shoulder, a mech whose image matches the mythology as a whole.

It is said that the most harmonious state of a mech and a mech master is one in which both man and mech share similarities, so that man and machine can become one.

Dives is confident in this match, as the most difficult players for Federation Team are Xie Ruhang and Gu Tunan, and with his strength, he can win, not to mention draw, if he doesn't run into them.

Bai Li, who I heard is a mech builder, is not a mech operations student and probably got his place at the Mecha Cup through his background, just like Andrei.

Dives stared in the direction of his opponent's exit, wondering why he was dilly-dallying for so long and not coming out.

"His mech builders modeled the mech world's independent, cold, dark assassin after the top hunting rate in the feline world!"

Gusts of wind from the blower whistle across the sand, swirling light dust and a bleak bgm plays, reminiscent for a moment of the great chase played out in the desert.

The MC cranked up the bgm and thought, "That's all I can do for you," as he impassionedly said, "Next up, we have Federation Team's Bai Li with his Meow!"

[Meow meow? Is the presenter being cute?

[The Dark Knight Killer? Is the prototype a black panther or something? But this Meow looks so cute, it doesn't look like a panther.

[That naming style is my boy god all right!!! Wait ...... Bai Li's mecha looks a bit similar to my god's audience costume?

The cat-shaped mechs are round-faced, dangling-eyed cats with four black paws, short legs and large heads that would be too big to bite off in one bite if Lone Froggy were to take a headshot.

The Meow not only has black paws, but also black spots on its body and a long tail with black rings.

Bai Li wears a cat-ear helmet and desperately tries to hypnotise herself that cat ears are much more miniature than rabbit ears and that the audience won't even care.

[woo woo woo cat ears are so cute!

[I'm a fierce a, this is the mech I should buy]

[Thinking of Kang, Bai Li, is there a cat's tail hidden behind his butt?

I'd buy this mecha if it was for sale! It's the same cat look as Tang Bai's!

Bai Li looked through the screen and saw the loving and adorable eyes of the audience, and someone even edited the font on the fluorescent light and typed "Mama Li Li loves you! Even Bai Li, who had been psychologically built up, was a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

Bai Li: "......" compliment me again, I'll kill you!

When it came time for the pre-match banter, Dives was about to utter a bunch of taunts at the sight of the cute mech, but after thinking about Chris' miserable ordeal, half of the mockery that surfaced twisted into a sociable, fake smile.

Maybe these budding mechs are unscientifically strong? It's better not to stir up your opponent's spirits just yet.

Dives paid a false compliment, "You're as cute as your mech."

Somehow, after the compliment, Bai Li's gaze at him suddenly became several times more fierce, "Oh? You're just as greasy as your mecha prototype, but there's one thing I hope you're not like Hermes, whose corpse turns into a mosquito and carries disease and plague with it when it dies."

"If the rubbish is dead, it's dead, no need for secondary contamination, don't you think?"

Dives: "......" Is this person eating a □□□□□.

At the end of the rhetorical session and after a ten-second countdown, Dives took the lead in activating the mech's invisibility feature, the Empire's latest invisibility device, and in the midst of the yellow sand, Hermes' silhouette blended into the environment like a hazy mist of sand.

"Invisible!" The host exclaimed, "The light in the gym simulates a dusk moment, can Bai Li figure out where Dives is in the dim light?!"

Bai Li frowned as the cat ears on his helmet suddenly twitched.

The black-footed cat has a large head and large ears, the ear chambers of the black-footed cat are a quarter of the length of the skull and when used on a mech, Meow is extremely sensitive to sound and can hear the slightest sound.

There is a difference between the sound of the wind moving through an empty clearing and blowing over an object.

The cat ears on his helmet kept turning while the traps of the huge cat ears on his mech were running at full speed. Bai Li held his breath as he suddenly looked up at a clearing with bushes.

The black-footed cat's night vision is unbeatable, and the meowing mech is equipped with an infrared positioning system and a cat's eye simulation system, which, although they cannot break through Hermes' invisibility system, can transmit even the slightest change in the sand to Bai Li's eyes.

The image on the light screen zoomed in and out, and as the turquoise eyes narrowed, Bai Li saw two depressions in the sand scattered with scrub.

The shape is that of a giant footprint.

Then the footprints there began to shift.

[What is this cat doing? Why is she pouting all of a sudden?

[I've realized that Meow's tactic is to kill Ah Wei]

Meow is seen crawling to the ground as if he were a spring building up strength, and the next second, Meow, having finished his read, swoops out!!!

It's flying too high!

The pop-ups and viewers couldn't help but exclaim -

Where the fuck is my meow?

"Boom!" A huge storm erupted in the place where Meow was originally located, and the continuous wind and sand was like a huge wave on the sea, and the scene was like flying sand.

Dives, who had created this storm, knew he'd pounced as a massive black shadow enveloped him, and with a startled heart, Dives tilted his head to see the Meow Meow Ooo falling from the sky smashing into him with a big, puffy pancake face as sharp swords of light energy emerged from the black mat of flesh!

" Bai Li shows us his kingly anticipation! Meow avoids Hermes' range with a superb bounce! And he's on his way to a counter-kill! The roles of prey and hunter are switched in a flash!"

It's hunting time!

Bai Li charges at Hermes with thunderous force, his black cat claws flashing a cross of cold light that rips through not Hermes, but the lamb's block that was juggled out of Hermes' shoulder!

" Hermes uses the lamb double to block the cat attack!" The host meows with excitement, " Meow is in hot pursuit! Meow and Hermes are both agile mechs, so who has the better speed?!"

It was a tense event, but after meowing and mewing so often, the commentary sounded like it was maliciously cute.

And looking at the live game, it's even more adorable!

Meow was seen running with a bounce in her step, her short legs swooping and leaving a series of plum prints in the sand.

When the host blew "Meow, the mechs are fast, they come and go without a trace", a group of people on the pop-up screen said with tears in their eyes, "Oh oh oh, this little butt wiggle is really cute".

The presenter exclaimed: "Bravo! Meow has caught up with Hermes! Hermes does the killer double snake dance! Meow goes for the double snake with a cute meow punch!"

Pop-up: "Don't hammer it Awe has died repeatedly."

"OW MEOW-!!!" A deafening meow suddenly resonated throughout the stadium, a sonic assault that jolted everyone's movements, not to mention Hermes who was on the receiving end of the vicious cat's roar at close range.

Bai Li seized the opportunity to knock down Hermes' coiled snake staff in an instant, striking with a crisp, sharp claw, and as Hermes' weapon fell, Meow struck Hermes' legs with impunity, ripping the flying wings from Hermes' legs with a vicious claw, directly destroying Hermes' acceleration system.

The next close quarters fight between Meow and Hermes is a great way to see the limits of mecha sensitivity, oh, I can't say that too much, we don't know if it's the limits of sensitivity, but the limits of cuteness are real.

Meow is definitely oversized compared to a real black-footed cat, but Meow is really the cutest size difference between a human and a domestic cat when compared to Hermes.

The pop-up group looked at the scene of the intense mecha duel and couldn't help but reminisce about their own heady days of frolicking with their cat master.

[My cat owner has a similar face to Meow's. She's mean as hell, but she's really cute too]

[Oooh, my cat saw the live stream and got excited and punched me in the cat fist]

[This terrifying mecha must have been cute to make their opponents let their guard down before attacking a piece of innocent Ah Wei!

Meow stepped on Hermes' chest, and once again he leapt upwards like a spring in the air, avoiding the light wave from Hermes' sun hat, and then Meow crashed into Hermes' chest like a falling meteor -

The black ringed tail suddenly explodes, the black ring is full of barbs and the terrible tail is flung at Hermes!

At the same time, four sharp claws claw at the slowing Hermes, and a "I'm super mean" kill move breaks Hermes' defenses!

Deafening cheers came from the crowd as Bai Li jumped out of the mech's cockpit and met the "aww this is so cute" stares of the crowd.

Bai Li: "......"

*

The original Mecha Cup was a national bash, and when the Federation won both times against the Empire, the news quickly exploded.

The official media coverage was still decent, like a little bit about what tournament and what map players used what mechs, and that the Imperial players were good, but our players and mech builders were also good, and could be considered masters of Tuan Shui.

And the entertainment gossip types or folk media started to talk all over the place, what with #MeowMeowMeow mechs beating the hell out of Empire players, #Munchkin mech school founder Tang Bai whether he's the little mermaid or the cat-eared boy, #Weak man swings at weaker man, strong man chooses to wear cat ears ......

There is a list of mech builders on Star Online that folk have tossed up, and at the moment Tang Bai's numbers are flying up on the list.

Mech builder: Tang Bai (formerly known as Jun Tongchen)

Mecha manufacturing style: cute, elegant, atmospheric (see Mechanical Vine Mecha for details) ugly and cute (see Orphan Froggy for details, Tang Bai is the shape and name guide for this mecha) (omitted)

Historical Achievements: Finalist in the Mecha Building Competition, No. 1 in the Mecha Building Circle Face Ranking, Chief of the Federation Mecha Building Department, International Mecha Cup Competition Federation Team Royal Mecha Builder

Talent grade: a+ (high frequency and completion of mech creation)

Potential Grade: a+ (Indie Meow beats Empire Hermes)

Overall Rating: A self-made mech builder who is able to master multiple different styles, but more importantly, Tang Bai is innovative and unafraid of authority. His childish and witty mech style has broken through the dull and archaic historical style of the Federation mech building circle, and has brought fresh blood to the Federation mech building circle.

Click on Tang Bai's famous scenes to see many of them, the latest being Tang Bai randomly going into a black-footed cat costume and wrinkling her nose at the camera.

The comment section of this motion picture is littered with Wai's dead body.

Not only was the Federation blowing Tang Bai, but the Empire was also faced with a difficult test at this time of how they should blow Tang Bai without their faces hurting particularly.

Blow it, it hurts to blow your face any way, after all, they just disparaged Tang Bai a while ago.

If you don't blow it, then you have no face. If a mech designed by a vase mech builder can win the heart and soul of a top Imperial mech builder, then wouldn't an Imperial mech builder be worse than a vase!

The Imperial Propaganda staff had a headache, "Unless we find a better looking mech builder in the Empire than Tang Bai, it's going to be hard to explain this."

Another staff member baldly said, "Why don't I switch with you and you handle Chris's job of deliberately insulting the cowardly behaviour of his opponents?"

"I suddenly have a thousand-word rainbow fart mini-essay on Tang Bai, so go for it, I'll go first."

*

Tang's fan, rainbow fart expert Xie Ruhang was reading these rainbow farts, " Tang Bai is a genius with names, the Federation mech building community has picked up a ghost." Xie Ruhang nodded, "Well, cute ghost."

Tang Bai laughed and laughed, not with cat effects, but with flowering tree effects, dropping red petals when he was happy, so much that Tang Bai felt the illusion of baldness, so he was afraid to put his face up.

This one was a forest map, filled with all sorts of trees, and the competitors were jumping around in them. Three more matches were to follow to end the first day of the Mecha Cup, and since the Federation was not involved in the next three matches, Xie Ruhang returned from backstage to the audience.

As Xie Ruhang continued to read the comments, he saw a series of lemon fruits on the tea tree after "this Bai Li and Tang Bai are both cat-like, like a couple's outfit, and both of them have the word white in their names, stand for a second Li sugar".

Tang Bai sitting under a lemon tree: "?"

Tang Bai giggled, "Hahahaha is your tea tree effect buggy-" his smile froze when he saw Xie Ruhang's sulking eyes.

The lemon fruit crackled down, and if they were real, Tang Bai would have had his head smashed in.

"Are you jealous?" Tang Bai hugged Xie Ruhang's trunk; yes, their limbs were now transfigured into tree trunks and their faces were in the centre of the tree, which looked extraordinarily magical, even though it felt like real skin to the touch.

Xie Ruhang dropped a lemon as she said, "Luckily, the thought of you doing the bunny dance for me alone makes me not sour." And with that, she dropped another lemon!

Tang Bai was so frightened that she gave Xie Ruhang a chirp, and because it was a public chirp, Tang Bai's flowering tree was so embarrassed that it dropped its pink petals like crazy, leaving the branches bare.

The advantage of this though is that people can't see what the two trees are doing at all.

Refreshed by the chirping, Xie Ruhang and Tang Bai continued to surf the Internet, where #Andrei liked several articles praising Tang Bai and #Andrei said he wanted to hire Tang Bai as his royal mech builder were prominent.

Tang Bai was clicking in to read the details when he suddenly found a virtual lemon falling from his eyes.

Tang Bai was so frightened that he quickly put down his light brain and threw his arms around Xie Ruhang's neck for another kiss.

So the two trees nestle against each other, their roots entwined, their crowns intertwined, and two lovebirds fly to the branches and sing a melodious chirping song.