Chapter 322
Chapter 322: Anxiety!
Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr
For these reasons, Qi Long and the other six managed to survive . Even if they had been afraid, they had been thrown by the explosion right into the middle-back part of the mainship . Of course, they had been severely injured in the process . Here, the benefits of having Li Shiyu had to be mentioned — he had instantly brought out the special medical agents he had developed . Their wounds which would normally have needed one or two days to recover were all mostly healed after several minutes .
Initially, Qi Long and the others had considered going to the tail-most end to look for Boss Ling Lan and [Self-Defined Destiny], but the remnant force of the magnetic storm and the low power of their mecha made it impossible for them to get close to the tail . Just as they were feeling helpless, [No Mecha Unrepaired] discovered a secret . The pilotless mecha around them could be claimed by players as long as the damage levels of the mecha did not exceed 40% .
After discovering this secret, Qi Long's group of seven was both surprised and pleased . This discovery meant that they would be able to find a way to go to the tail end of the mainship to find Boss Lan . They looked around and found that there were ten or so mecha they could collect . Those mecha had not been damaged too badly by the magnetic turbulence . The seven of them picked the best seven mecha and changed into them . Then just as they were about to go to the tail, they heard a mecha operator who had come to check on the situation appear in the middle-back area of the starship .
The magnetic tsunami had caused significant damage to the entire mainship . Not only were all of the staff members in the tail end dead, even some of the defenceless staff members and mecha operators outside of their mecha in the central areas of the ship had been killed by the explosive force of the large explosion . It could be said that the casualties were high .
Although the control centre of the mainship believed that there were basically no survivors in the tail end, they still sent a small mecha squad to go investigate . When Qi Long's group had first sensed the appearance of the mecha squad, their first reflex was to hide . However, Han Jijyun had an idea — he instructed the team to go up and greet the mecha squad .
Sure enough, when the mecha squad saw them, the other side was not at all suspicious . Instead, they almost cried out in relief and excitement . They had initially thought that the all their comrades in the tail end had died . They really did not expect to find any survivors . . . this made them so ecstatic that they had no mind at all to bother asking for the survivors' team numbers or any other personal information .
Just like that, Qi Long and the others were taken into the safe area of the mainship . When the staff there discovered that they were heavily bruised and injured, they were settled into healing pods for the night .
Frankly, there was a fatal flaw in Qi Long's team's cover story . Their mecha control suits were not the formal military-use control suits . Instead, they were using civilian control suits that Mecha World had produced in the fashion of those military suits, so their suits were still somewhat different from the official mecha suits used by soldiers . However, they were very clever — they tore up the most questionable spots on their control suits . Qi Long in particular had almost overdone it to the extent that he was almost naked . At the same time, they were also ruthless enough to hurt themselves on purpose, staining whatever remained of their own control suits red . Their bleeding wounds caused the rescuers to pay no attention to their control suits, placing all their attention on the group's injuries . This allowed the group to safely overcome this most difficult hurdle .
After a night of rest, they put on the military uniforms that had been specially brought over for them . As the living quarters of the soldiers had been at the tail end and so had also been blown up, all of their clothes and daily necessities were sure to be gone as well . The support staff of the mainship naturally had to think for their sakes . Not only did the staff provide them with military uniforms, they were also each given a standard official military-use mecha control suit . This made Qi Long and the others laugh silently to themselves, glad that they were finally safe .
Of course, there was one other reason why the mainship rescue logistics team was so quick to believe that they were mecha operators of the ship itself . The ship's JMC and the other staff members of the ship who were familiar with the operations of the tail end had all been killed in the explosion, every single one of them . This had contributed to the ease with which Qi Long's group of seven had infiltrated the mainship . The staff members instinctively believed that any mecha operators who were piloting mecha of their mainship must of course be one of their own .
They truly did not believe that someone could sneak in without a trace . Therefore, no one doubted the origins of Qi Long's group . They were all just sincerely glad that their comrades in the tail end had not been completely wiped out . The fact that there were survivors was a comfort to them as well .
There was one more reason they had processed Qi Long and the others so hastily . The staff did not dare to meet the pleading and questioning eyes of Qi Long's team . After the rescue team had found Qi Long's group of seven, they had discovered that the air of the mainship was surging out at a dangerous rate . The mainship did not have enough power left to maintain the atmospheric balance of the air within the ship . In order to ensure the safety of the people in the middle and front sections of the ship, the commander had no choice but to stop the search and rescue efforts and close the airlock gate in the back half of the ship to prevent the air from continuing to leak out .
Although Qi Long's group of seven had pleaded repeatedly for the search and rescue efforts to continue, insisting that there must still be other mecha operators alive in the tail end, the staff still did not manage to enter the tail end again in the end . Time waits for no man — they needed to do their duty by the remaining people . Thus, the airlock gates had to be sealed once more and the search and rescue efforts concluded prematurely .
The hopeful expressions on the faces of Qi Long's team had made the search and rescue soldiers feel extremely guilty; they felt as if they had done wrong by their comrades in the tail end . So after putting them into recovery pods, the staff subconsciously began avoiding them . No one was willing to go verify their identity, because they were afraid that the other party would ask about the final outcome of the search and rescue effort . . . just like that, Qi Long's group once again evaded another possibility of being exposed .
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