From BOSS to Canon Fodder: She is Currently Out of Service!-Chapter 86 - 44: A Genius’s Battle

"Hmm, Xiao Meng won’t easily lose the match." Lucy nervously craned her neck and whispered, "After all, she’s most reluctant to part with her Credit Points. With most of her assets bet on the line, she won’t be defeated easily." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Lucy’s words eased the tension, and images of Su Jiameng’s brazen and cocky antics for Credit Points appeared in their minds, prompting a slight smile. Indeed, their comrade wouldn’t be defeated easily.

At this moment, K3 and the others overlooked Su Jiameng’s age and her questionable aspects, focusing solely on the competition.

She skillfully played around with short-range space jumps. Initially, Zhang Yiqi was somewhat overwhelmed, almost fumbling. However, drawing on considerable combat experience, he focused intensely, and the entire mecha seemed like an extension of his body, moving at will. Soon, he broke free from Su Jiameng’s fighting rhythm...

Only now did the spectators realize that the earlier battles were mere warm-ups—the real show was here! Those 200 Credit Points spent today were totally worth it! Speaking of advanced maneuvers, Zhang Yiqi was quite adept too!

Upon witnessing that beautiful Helical Interception, Su Jiameng felt the icy-cool blood in her veins starting to boil. This school student actually stirred her latent desire for combat and aroused her fighting spirit!

"This kid from Xilena is quite surprising." At the last row of the audience section, a neatly dressed woman in white pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose. "And that Su Jiameng’s performance is equally amazing..."

"Just kids fighting, nothing impressive." Beside her, another woman rested her hands behind her head, though her wary and serious eyes contrasted sharply with her indifferent tone. "That Su Jiameng is quite problematic. Her real-world combat skills aren’t strong, whether in Physical Ability or spiritual power, which should not be sufficient for executing ’Space Punctuation Jump,’ ’Helical Interception,’ or ’short-range space jump’—even ’Instant Disappearance’ is rather tricky... Yet in virtual space..."

"Yanluo, I actually investigated her before and found some very interesting things." The woman in the lab coat crossed her arms, a slight intrigue flashing across her calm face. "Her registration records have been tampered with at least three times. The most recent was by the Yives family, moving her from the poor planet to Qiming Star, and they altered a lot of her information... As for the previous two times..."

"Who tampered with them?" Hua Yanluo felt a wave of helplessness as she watched her remain silent—this person truly enjoyed keeping others in suspense.

Zhu Mengtong pushed her glasses again and turned to her, "Not sure, though it’s definitely two different forces. Interestingly, whenever someone alters her registration, some data gets distorted beyond recognition. Following the clues isn’t easy."

Hua Yanluo raised an eyebrow and whispered, "If even you can’t uncover it... It shows the manipulator isn’t simple. This also means Su Jiameng’s origin is very mysterious, potentially a significant problem."

"Hmm, whether it’s a problem, I’m not sure. However, Shiyi mentioned a detail that caught my attention." Zhu Mengtong’s gaze fixated on that pure black mecha. "He said after every training, when Su Jiameng’s spiritual state is most exhausted, she exudes a very oppressive feeling... there’s an anomaly in her spiritual power."

Hua Yanluo nodded, "When I previously settled scores with that blockhead, he did mention this detail. I attempted to probe her a few times; initially, there was indeed an inexplicable oppressive feeling, but it disappeared in later attempts... Not sure if it’s because her training wasn’t vigorous enough or her body wasn’t fatigued. Anyway, is there something wrong with this?"

Zhu Mengtong explained, "I had Shiyi install a spiritual fluctuation detector in the training room..."

Hua Yanluo twitched her mouth—Liu Shiyi truly adhered to Madam’s orders, sneakily installing a spiritual fluctuation detector... Isn’t this akin to installing surveillance in someone’s home? But it’s not the time to criticize Liu Shiyi’s integrity, she’s more concerned about other matters, "So, what were the detection results?"

"Only one detection result..." Zhu Mengtong retrieved a classified file from her smart brain, containing a spiritual power fluctuation chart that even a non-expert couldn’t easily understand.

"Why only one?" Hua Yanluo glanced at the spiritual fluctuation chart, noticing a particularly odd section but couldn’t discern its cause—it seemed to be the culprit behind her oppressive feeling?

"It was dismantled!" Zhu Mengtong rolled her eyes slightly, "Taken apart by that Su Jiameng."

Hua Yanluo was a little awestruck: "..."

A spiritual fluctuation detector, a device mostly measured in millimeters, was detected and removed by her?

"What do you plan to do with this fluctuation chart?" Hua Yanluo asked her, "Doesn’t seem very useful, right?"

"I’m quite interested, and during the next treatment, I plan to ask that guy about it—perhaps it’ll yield some different insights." As Zhu Mengtong mentioned "treatment," her originally clear eyes darkened two shades, prompting Hua Yanluo to choose silence.

Since Zhu Mengtong became infected by unknown cosmic radiation, she could no longer interact with mechas. Even to slow spiritual decline, she seldom logged onto the virtual net, adding an air of gloom and negativity to her demeanor. Today’s rare login onto the virtual net was to see who this Su Jiameng truly was. The results satisfied her—this Su Jiameng... certainly harbors many secrets. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to head over to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)