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450 Lin Xiao vs Jiang Shaoyu

After saying goodbye to Qiao Ting, Zhao Jun hurriedly made his way to the backstage conveyor belt, which would bring him directly to the exit. As soon as Zhao Jun arrived outside, he found Li Lanfeng waiting for him, seemingly completely at ease.

"Lanfeng, why is the team leader looking for me? Why did he ask me to come out from backstage? I was thinking to finish watching Lin Xiao and Jiang Shaoyu's fight." Before Li Lanfeng could speak, Zhao Jun had already blurted all the questions that had been running through his head ever since he had seen the message.

A slight smile appeared on Li Lanfeng's lips and he said, "The team leader wants you to sit beside him to watch the fight together. He might have something to say to you." Regarding why Ling Lan was calling Zhao Jun over, Li Lanfeng had some idea. It would be a good chance for Zhao Jun to improve his strength.

Li Lanfeng was well aware of Ling Lan's control skills — an ace would have much to impart. On top of that, Ling Lan also had an imperial instructor (Li Lanfeng still did not know Ling Lan's real identity) — Zhao Jun would definitely be able to save himself from many detours if he received some guidance from Ling Lan.

Li Lanfeng's words made Zhao Jun's eyes light up. As familiar with Li Lanfeng as he was, he could glean something from his friend's demeanour — something good would definitely come out from this trip.

Thus, he happily followed Li Lanfeng to the exclusive viewing area of the First Men's Military Academy. When she saw Zhao Jun arrive, Ling Lan motioned for Zhao Jun to come sit beside her.

As soon as Zhao Jun sat down, he saw many team members looking at him in envy. He was completely nonplussed by this, wondering what in the world was going on. Right at this moment, his team leader beside him prompted, "Senior Zhao, please watch the fight closely!"

This cry made Zhao Jun's heart jolt, and he faintly felt cold sweat breaking out on his back. Of course, Zhao Jun was feeling somewhat guilty because he had indeed been distracted and had not seen what was happening on the field. He had not expected that brief loss of attention to have been caught by his keen-eyed team leader.

Zhao Jun quickly turned his eyes back onto the field, showing that he was already fully focused on the mecha fight between Lin Xiao and Jiang Shaoyu now. Only after sensing his team leader's cold gaze turn away from him did he surreptitiously wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, sighing internally. No wonder Qi Long and the others said that Boss Lan's force of presence was very powerful — one cold stare was enough to give them shivers. So it was really true. What's funny was that he had actually not taken it seriously when he had first heard about this. He had thought that Qi Long and the others were exaggerating, but now it looked like they were completely right. Their team leader's force of presence and the blade of his gaze was truly formidable. He reckoned that his team leader must have been showing him some face previously by not presenting his force of presence so aggressively ... at this thought, Zhao Jun was instantly crying inside — was it too late for him to withdraw now?

Ling Lan did not know that her special effort to convert her force of presence into sound to make sure Zhao Jun watched the fight properly would make him come to such a realisation. This was also a result of Ling Lan's increasing comfort with using her force of presence. Compared to how her force of presence had been constantly leaking before, her force of presence now was extremely reserved. But as soon as it was presented, the pressure it exerted would be several times greater than how it was originally. Even Zhao Jun who did not feel that pressured before could now feel the powerful pressure of Ling Lan's force of presence.

The moment he focused, Zhao Jun was pulled fully into Lin Xiao and Jiang Shaoyu's mecha fight.

Lin Xiao's ace mecha was a winged transformer mecha, an improved mecha based off a balanced fixed-type mecha. However, it was not like a fixed-type mecha, which had absolute balance in both long-range and close-range attacks. Instead, it leaned towards long-range attacks, but unlike mecha exclusively specializing in long-range attacks, close combat was not a significant weakness. The close-combat ability of this type of mecha was undoubtedly much stronger than long-range mecha, but it was still weaker than a true balanced mecha.