"Is this Super God Academy? Why does it look like some vocational school?"
At the entrance to Super God Academy, a military off-road vehicle came to a stop, and Lin Xiao was the first to get out.
Qi Lin got out after him, also looking at the academy before them.
Lin Xiao had influenced Qi Lin somewhat, and she had also taken to wearing a white lab coat over her clothes.
A handsome man and a beautiful woman dressed in white standing at the academy gates were quite eye-catching.
"This is only a concealed facade. What vocational school has armed guards standing watch at its entrance?"
Qiang Wei opened the car door and stepped out. She retorted to Lin Xiao's teasing, since this was, after all, where she studied.
Screech! Screech!
Five more military off-road vehicles pulled up, and twenty fully armed soldiers in black combat uniforms jumped out.
"Boss, Sister Qiang Wei drives like a maniac. We couldn't catch up."
These people were Lin Xiao's guard unit. Their leader was their captain, Lu Guang, now nicknamed Crow.
"Crow, has the transport helicopter arrived yet? Why is it slower than the cars?"
"Boss, it's here. Look over there."
Lin Xiao looked up. Several helicopters were indeed approaching from the horizon, with two large crates suspended beneath them.
Lian Feng had not come this time. She had remained on Giant Xia to look after several of Lin Xiao's ongoing experimental projects. Though reluctant to part with him, she was an experimental assistant, and that was her duty.
Qi Lin, on the other hand, was his adjutant—in truth, more of a personal assistant—so she had to follow him wherever he went.
The helicopters were fast. In the blink of an eye, they were already overhead, lowering the two large crates.
The contents of the crates were fairly simple: several essential pieces of laboratory equipment, while the rest were robots.
"Lin Xiao, it's done. We can go in now!"
The commotion here had long put the academy guards on alert, and they were secretly on guard.
Super God Academy's security was extremely strict. If they had not arrived in military vehicles, they would have been driven away already.
Qiang Wei had gone to negotiate. Since she was calling out now, the negotiations had presumably been completed.
"Let's go!"
Lin Xiao followed Qiang Wei through the checkpoint at the entrance and headed deeper into the academy.
"Brothers, come help carry these two big crates inside."
"Got it! Everyone, put your backs into it!"
Crow led the members of the personal guard over to the crates. Their combat uniforms began to change, flowing like liquid as they covered their entire bodies.
What they wore were not mechas, but special battle armor made from liquid black gold.
They could be considered a weakened, lightweight version of a mecha. Their performance was powerful, and their energy source was the smallest possible nuclear reactor.
Once all twenty were armed, they split into two groups of ten and hoisted up the two large crates.
Under the terrified gazes of the guards at the entrance, Crow swaggered into Super God Academy with his subordinates, following Lin Xiao.
Super God Academy covered a vast area, but it seemed deserted. Lin Xiao only saw a few scattered figures wandering around campus.
Only after the De Nuo Civilization arrived did Super God Academy establish a branch on Earth. Only a very small number of De Nuo descendants like Qiang Wei were qualified to study here. Super God Academy had always adhered to the principle of not interfering with the development of civilizations.
After walking for quite a while, Qiang Wei finally led them to a row of dormitory buildings. The architecture here was unusual; the dorms were actually connected into a stretch of single-story houses.
"Crow, set up the laboratory here. You all will be stationed here too."
The crates carried by the personal guard were no ordinary items. With a little assembly, they could become a small laboratory.
Lin Xiao had Crow set up the laboratory in the open space in front of the dorms.
"You people..."
Qiang Wei looked displeased. This was where she usually trained, and now it had been taken over. She was quite annoyed, and she also felt that Lin Xiao's entourage was far too extravagant.
Even if he was a scientist coming here to study, there was no need to bring his own laboratory. It was truly absurd.
Still, she said nothing more. She could not fathom the thoughts of a scientific freak like him; their way of thinking was often different from everyone else's.
Too lazy to bother with it, Qiang Wei continued leading the way. When they reached the door of Dorm 105, she turned to Qi Lin.
"Major Qi Lin, you'll be staying here."
"Okay."
Qi Lin nodded, secretly glancing at the unmoving Lin Xiao before following Qiang Wei into Dorm 105.
The dorm room housed four people. Judging from the furnishings, only one person lived there so far, but it was somewhat messy.
"Major Qi Lin, don't mind the mess. I'll tidy it up later."
"It's fine. My room at home is like this too."
Qi Lin waved her hand, saying she did not mind. Most girls' rooms were not as neat and tidy as people imagined.
"Wow, this brassiere is way too sexy. Qiang Wei, you're pretty wild on the inside!"
Lin Xiao looked at the sexy little bra in his hand and let out an oddly suggestive sigh of admiration.
"Lin Xiao, put that down already. That's very rude."
The moment Qi Lin heard Lin Xiao's words, she snatched the little bra away, then apologized to the stunned Qiang Wei.
"Qiang Wei, don't be angry. He's just like that, always fooling around. He doesn't mean any harm."
Qiang Wei looked at the little bra Qi Lin handed back to her, finally coming to her senses. Her face instantly flushed red as she roared.
"Major General Lin, how can you just enter a women's dormitory? Get out!"
"Hey, why can't I enter? This is where I'll be living from now on."
"What? Who said you were going to live here?"
Qiang Wei looked utterly incredulous. What was wrong with this man? Why did he act like an idiot?
"Qi Lin is my personal assistant. Wherever she lives, I live too!"
Lin Xiao spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"What kind of nonsense logic is that? Assistants have to live together? Did you live in the women's dorms on Giant Xia too? This is my dormitory. You can't live here!"
"Yeah, I did live in the women's dorms. I usually stayed in Lian Feng and Qi Lin's dorm rooms. A few times when my experiments ran too late, I stayed over at Yu Qin's place, but she didn't seem to welcome me much. Sigh, she's so stingy."
"What?"
Qiang Wei felt as if she had been struck by lightning. Qi Lin was one thing, but Auntie Lian Feng and Yu Qin too? Her worldview had suffered a devastating blow.
She felt that she must have opened the dormitory door wrong today, and was considering whether she should go back out and open it again.
"Lin Xiao... Those days you didn't come back, you actually went to Yu Qin's place? Tell me, what exactly did you do?"
Qi Lin looked as though she had just heard earth-shattering news. Her brows rose sharply as she glared fiercely at Lin Xiao.
"Whoa, Qi Lin, you're terrifying. What could I have done? I just went there to sleep."
Lin Xiao was startled by Qi Lin's stare and unconsciously backed up several steps. He stopped only when her expression softened.
Qi Lin had indeed been a tiny bit angry just now, but then she thought about it. If Lin Xiao said he went there to sleep, he really might have only gone there to sleep, so she calmed down.
"Little Sister Qiang Wei, if you don't believe me, ask Qi Lin!"
Lin Xiao's words pulled Qiang Wei back to her senses. She looked at him with a complicated expression and said,
"Fine! If you can beat me, live wherever you want."
Qiang Wei felt somewhat helpless now, much like Qi Lin and Lian Feng had felt back then.
But Qiang Wei was not as gentle as Qi Lin. She had a good way of dealing with idiots like this: beat these shameless men into submission, and everything would be settled.
"Sure. Xia Lan, arm!"
Lin Xiao gave a low shout and tapped the pendant on his chest. The nuclear reactor, which had only emitted a faint glow before, suddenly flared with brilliant light.
A dark, night-like substance surged out from the nuclear reactor and swiftly enveloped Lin Xiao's body.
The dark liquid rapidly separated and transformed. First it formed a shock-absorbing isolation layer, then networks of conduits, followed by electronic muscles that supplied power, and finally an outer layer of steel skin and defensive armor.
It sounded like a lengthy process, but it was actually completed in the blink of an eye. A pitch-black steel mecha appeared in the dormitory.
At last, the mecha's eyes lit up, and red-and-blue reflective beam coatings appeared across its body. The Xia Lan Mecha had officially activated.
"W-what is this... ability?"
Qiang Wei was badly startled by Lin Xiao's transformation, even stammering. This trick of turning into a mecha had terrified plenty of people before.
Even the well-informed Du Kao had stared in a daze and lavishly praised Lin Xiao as a genius.
"Beautiful Qiang Wei, this place is too small. Want to try it outside?"
Lin Xiao crooked a finger at Qiang Wei, full of provocation. Though Qiang Wei had yet to fully develop, she was still a super soldier. She was just the right person to test the mecha's power on.
Ah! An author with no holidays! I'm so jealous of all the people outside having fun!
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