Can Ci Pin/Imperfections(残次品)BL by Priest

Chapter 21

"Sir." Zhanlu's voice rushed into the mental network of the mech, like a small stone that was thrown into Hi still water and causing a series of ripples.

Jingheng Lin briefly regained his consciousness which was scattered in the darkness: "How much has it been restored?"

"5%."

"Can you contact with the Ninth Squadron?"

Zhanlu paused: "Sorry Sir, there is not enough power to search for and locate them in the interstellar range. Do you want to experience my 'ultimate mode'?"

The ultimate mode referred to the situation in which the power was lower than a certain value and most of the functions of the mech were forced to be disabled – now Zhanlu was in a special situation. If his main body was also here, it would not be that easy for him to fall to this situation. Once the energy of a super-space heavy mech was insufficient, it usually meant neither the mech nor the masters could survive from the interstellar battlefield.

The ultimate function of a mech was normally the only function that could be used when the master and the mech were dying. The core of an advanced mech has a lot of personalized design. The setting of the ultimate function of a mech generally represented its owners' values of death.

Jingheng Lin had not examined Zhanlu's ultimate function, so he asked: "Switch on. What's your ultimate function?"

Zhanlu replied: "Chatting with you."

Jingheng Lin: "..."

What an idiot function! Here was the shortcoming of using a second-handed mech.

The previous owner of Zhanlu was born a romantic man. Maybe he still wanted to chat with someone for a while before he died, so the ultimate function that he set for a legendary mech such as Zhanlu was chatting.

"If one day I change my occupation to an inventor, I must produce mechs whose core artificial intelligence are dumb." Jingheng Lin asked, "Is the customized ultimate function able to be changed?"

"Yes," Zhanlu' s voice gently reverberated in the expansive mental network, "You have the highest authority of me."

"Then change it into ..." Jingheng Lin paused, suddenly didn't know what to say.

What did he want, if he was dying?

This question was too simple. Jingheng Lin, at his age, at least dared to say that he understood himself very well. He could answer without doubt that of course he would want to kill as many enemies as he could at that point. If possible, he hoped that the ultimate function of his mech could be a suicide bombing.

However ... this secondhand mech was left to him by that person.

He remembered that it was rainy in the Black Orchid College at that night, so it should be a Tuesday.

The BOC covered an area of 6,500 square kilometres, which was almost as large as a medium-sized city. Half of it was school buildings, and the other half was a forest that was arranged when the school was built. More than two hundred years had passed, the forest had already been towering when the first generation who established the college even had not become history yet. In order to maintain the humidity and water circulation, the school would arrange rain from noon to midnight every Tuesday, which was the self-learning time of the BOC.

At that time, Xin Lu was under house arrest for investigation and Zhanlu was blocked in the BOC.

In that evening thirty-three years ago, Jingheng Lin got the information that the IU issued a secret arrest warrant for Xin Lu.

To reach Xin Lu's place, he stole the mech core of Zhanlu and used the space field in the laboratory to break through the access control.

However, the civilian space field was only designed for emergencies so that it would bring huge burden to human bodies, not to mention the mech that Lin used was just semi-finished and had not been equipped with defensive mechanism yet. Due to the inaccuracy of its GPS, he transferred four times before he finally arrived in the right place. When he fell to the ground near Lu's house, his spine was seriously damaged and he did not have any consciousness below his waist. He climbed towards Xin Lu, with the rain drenching him.

At that time, he was as young as those kids near him who hired others to write repentance for them. He was young and frivolous, having nothing in mind apart from lots of crazy thoughts.

Xin Lu was frightened by him – this sudden accident. He hurriedly transferred the first-aid cabin here and said with exasperation, "How can the watering water in BOC stream into your mind?"

Jingheng Lin struggled to hand over the mech core of Zhanlu to him: "Time is running out, here is Zhanlu, just pick up a mech and leave here!"

Xin Lu replied indignantly: "You, get out."