Enforcer Manual
Chapter 952 - 879: Listen to Your Mother_2

Chapter 952: Chapter 879: Listen to Your Mother_2

As soon as Valerian and others got off the vehicle, they saw Roger with his upper body bare.

His body was covered in numerous fine wounds, with blood trickling down his skin, yet Roger, who had defeated the mechanical creature, showed no strong emotional fluctuations. He just stood there indifferently, waiting for his companions to arrive.

"Old Rog, you actually did it!?"

While treating Roger’s wounds, Zhuang Chi said incredulously.

It was hard for them to imagine that the hero who had rushed towards the mechanical creature without hesitation was the same person who had been knocked down with a single punch in the underground boxing match in District 17.

If what they had just seen and heard were to be reported to the chief, he surely wouldn’t believe it, would he?

They seemed to think of the chief at the same time, and their expressions immediately turned ugly.

The appearance of the gigantic mechanical creature had caused unimaginable destruction to the city, and their chief, who was as fond of sleep as life itself, was very likely still asleep in his room at this point.

The chief...

Could it be that he was killed in his sleep?

Oh chief, ah, chief!

"Hurry back to the Eden Hotel to see, chief, you must hold on!"

The figures of several people and the van that had carved a path of blood through the obstacle race entered Song Lan’s sight.

The sound of the engine grew fainter and fainter, leaving only the slight breeze at his ears. After a fierce battle, the clouds in the sky notably receded, and the sunlight poured down again on District 4.

Apart from Roger and others, he also saw many more figures.

These figures were actively engaged in rescue operations among the ruins of the city.

No one took advantage of the chaos to loot, possibly because "Blue Eyes" had cleaned up the city’s criminal gangs before the appearance of the mechanical creatures.

And Mr. "Blue Eyes" continued to stare at the sky — he had been maintaining this posture since a quarter of an hour ago.

The light flickered in his artificial eye, looking as if the computing system had reached a dead end.

And indeed, it had.

According to military technology calculations, satellite weapons were to destroy the surface of District 4, obliterating everything including messengers.

Even if the sources whispering from the upper worlds couldn’t be destroyed, this was an opportunity to witness the latter’s true capabilities.

However, this experiment ended in a way that the company hadn’t anticipated.

Their prized satellite weapons never truly descended upon District 4 from beginning to end.

The unprecedented error reports had stopped the launch of the satellite weapons, leaving them clueless about the cause to this moment, thus they could only watch as Roger collided with the mechanical creature, and the resulting surge of energy momentarily reduced the entire world to shades of black and white.

In that deafening roar, the mechanical creature "went offline".

"What... what exactly did you do just now?"

A series of error reports flooded "Blue Eyes’" operating system, forcing him to throw out the question again, facing a future no one had predicted, yet it had truly occurred.

RT6 also questioned with her eyes.

Although she had tried to hack into the military technology’s network right before the satellite weapon was launched, she was blocked by an unprecedented firewall.

Her brothers were thoroughly familiar with her hacking skills, which were usually unbeatable.

Yet so much time had passed, and the satellite weapon had not descended, nor did it seem it would anymore.

"Don’t ask me."

Song Lan shook his head, "The Cricket Fighting Contest has strict rules, personal appearance of the contestants is prohibited to ensure the competition is conducted in a more friendly and harmonious manner, the one preventing you was Vadim."

"Vadim... that human?"

Just a human!

When they heard this name, all the intelligences connected to "Blue Eyes" had the same thought—they couldn’t imagine that a Little Mice abandoned by the company could stir up much trouble.

Besides, Valerian had just been lying flat on his back in a spread-eagle position on the ground, seemingly doing nothing.

"Valerian is a very smart contestant who cleverly used the rules,"

One of the rules of the 37th Cricket Fighting Competition stated that you cannot attack a contestant who is down and has lost the will to fight. "You too are beneficiaries of the rules. Previous competitions have restricted giant robots and satellite weapons, but it seems we must consider including this rule in the next competition."

The Cricket Fighting Competition has always adhered to the principles of being proactive, friendly, and harmonious. A contestant who uses the Destruction of the city’s surface as a tactic clearly violates the original intent of the competition.

If it were not for the Cricket Fighting Competition, Song Lan would never have been in such a place, reminiscing about the past with unrelated people.

He never needed to live in the glories of the past, nor would he reminisce about the most glorious era of Spiritual Energy civilization, but past experiences of slacking off made him understand that most troubles come from the past; if you can’t sever them, they will take root and sprout in unseen corners.

Just as there are still many people like Mr. "Blue Eyes" in the United Government.

Even though such a long time has passed since the dark ages, they still stubbornly pursue traces of the past, trying to find a hypothetical enemy and then achieving victory on the theoretical battlefield through countless calculations and verifications.

"Calculations are meaningless when you can’t grasp the whole picture,"

Song Lan had to once again earnestly persuade his friends.

Staying too long in the world of theory often leads to the vortex of reinventing the wheel; even he found it hard to explain all the events that had occurred in the upper world, let alone forgotten many of the details.

With the current military technology in hand, the United Government can ensure fast development for a long time in the future without the threat from "external" hostile forces.

"So I have a sincere suggestion."

Song Lan friendly patted Mr. "Blue Eyes" on the shoulder, "Listen to your mother, she definitely won’t harm you."

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"Congratulations, for winning second place in your first 37th Cricket Fighting Competition, honestly, I didn’t have high expectations for you at first."

"Nothingness" brought the final result of the competition to Valerian.

His tone was hard to disguise the belief that, for an "R" level card to achieve second place was already performing beyond expectations, and this edition’s combination of giant mechanical beings and satellite weapons would have been strong contenders for champion in any past competition.

Another reason "Nothingness" was happy was that his old friend was indeed still alive.

There Valerian lay on the ground, too lazy to move.

He had been watching the blue sky and white clouds for over ten minutes, and despite all the error messages from his prosthetics, his heart was incredibly calm at this moment.

Since arriving in the Fourth Sector, his daily life had been flourishing, and he had never enjoyed the sky of the Fourth Sector as he did now.

As for the second place Nothingness mentioned, he wasn’t much interested.

After a long while, he finally asked, "I heard that you can see the directions of human destiny. As a reward for second place, do a Fortune-telling for me."

Unlike those pretentious fortune-tellers, "Nothingness" almost immediately responded to him.

"There is good news and bad news."

"Let’s hear the good news first,"

Valerian opted for the former, following international convention.

"The good news is that you will survive."

"And the bad news?"

"The bad news is that you will be sent to the most heavily guarded prison of the United Government, and confined in the most dangerous area, where you will encounter some criminals who have gone down in the history of the United Government."

Saying this, "Nothingness" deliberately paused for a moment and then added, "But looking on the bright side, you are now world-famous, and your future experiences will certainly become much more exciting and thrilling—young man, your amazing adventures are far from over."