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One to zero!

On the large LCD screen on the fifth floor of the venue, the crimson score was prominently displayed!

It was supposed to be a best-of-five match, but the first game turned out to be so one-sided, which made it really hard to get excited!

Everyone was whispering.

Wei Wei's face was pale, gripping the railing tightly, unable to say a word.

Christine showed a look of pity, but due to their previous conflict, she could only stand by and watch.

On the other hand, Su Xiao narrowed her eyes slightly.

Ronan's mech had just shown a strange tremor. She seemed to have seen this situation somewhere before...

Inside the 2nd Pod, Ronan stared blankly at the panel data flying past his eyes.

"What's going on?"

"Why can't I put up any resistance?"

He couldn't quite figure it out.

The new Light Mech Simulation Battle Pod was based on military mech standards.

According to the manual, this type of mech had two control methods: one was manual, and the other was neural network control.

Xiang Feihu's movements were broad and sweeping, but somewhat stiff, which proved that his White General was using manual control.

As for Ronan, after reading about the neural network control method, he developed a great interest in this mode of operation!

He connected his brain nerves to the receiver of the 2nd Pod, and then he had a feeling of being possessed by the mech.

That simulated White General felt like his real body.

He liked this feeling very much.

But when the battle started, everything changed!

To outsiders, Ronan didn't resist at all.

However, in fact, Ronan had resisted countless times!

As early as when Xiang Feihu took his first step, his extremely sharp insight had already seen through Xiang Feihu's move, and he wanted to use a simple horizontal slash to break it... But an accident happened, and the White General remained motionless.

Ronan was bewildered. He continuously used his super neural reflexes to react.

But every reaction was just a tremor!

In this awkward trembling, he was cut into a scrapped machine and lost the match!

"What is going on?"

"Could it be that my control method is wrong?"

Ronan, who was already deeply immersed in mech operation, had long forgotten the bet with Xiang Feihu. He just wanted to figure out what was happening.

So he restarted the machine and said decisively:

"Again!"

The second game restarted.

Xiang Feihu was relentless and attacked fiercely.

This time, Ronan still reacted extremely quickly!

But that mech was like it had a virus, it just kept trembling!

It remained rooted to the spot.

The audience burst into laughter!

This guy doesn't know how to control a mech at all, does he? Is he dancing with all that trembling?

In a flash of lightning, Xiang Feihu's Laser Sword pierced him full of holes.

[2nd Pod Mech Scrapped!]

[Score: Two to Zero!]

[Attention to both players: Match point reached!]

The mechanical voice sounded.

Wei Wei's face was ashen.

On the fourth floor, there was a chorus of boos.

Only then did Ronan realize that this battle was not only about his operation of the mech, but also about Su Xiao's fate!

He couldn't lose! He had promised to stand up for her, how could he lose to this man in front of him?

But he still couldn't figure out why his mech couldn't move.

"Could someone have tampered with it?"

Ronan was a very honest person. After a moment of silence, he spoke,

"This mech of mine, it can't move."

As soon as he said this, it immediately drew even more ridicule!

"Can't move? Whose fault is it if the mech can't move? Blaming the mech because you can't operate it?"

"This Young Master Ronan, what the hell, he can even come up with an excuse like this?"

"Yeah, isn't that shameless? He means someone tampered with his 2nd Pod? It would be one thing if it were somewhere else, but this is his home ground, Yi Lin Manor! He tampered with it himself? What a joke."

"Three to zero, I think that's how it'll be!"

Everyone was talking animatedly. After witnessing Ronan's clumsy performance, they seemed to be too lazy to hide anything and actively expressed their opinions, not afraid of offending the host, Yi Lin Manor, at all.

Wang Xiaoman held Wei Wei's hand with a bit of heartache, finding her palm full of cold sweat. She wanted to say something but didn't know what to do.

Su Jie, on the other hand, looked smug: "See! That Ronan is just a good-for-nothing. What's the big deal about knowing a bit of martial arts? A real man has to go to the battlefield. Can you fight someone's mech bare-handed?"

"In front of Big Brother Xiang, he's just trash!"

"After tonight, he won't be able to bother my sister anymore!"

A bunch of people who were quick to change sides naturally echoed his words.

In the arena, Xiang Feihu in the 1st Pod remained unfazed by honor or disgrace.

He still maintained his military combat habits. Before completely defeating his opponent, he would never easily relax. He just coldly asked, "Can the third round begin?"

Ronan in the 2nd Pod was silent.

He took off the helmet of the neural network sensor and quietly looked at the data flickering on the small screen.

The data was fine. His reactions were also fine, so what was going on?

He couldn't figure it out.

However, at this moment, from the railing on the fourth floor, a girl suddenly shouted loudly at him:

"Ronan, you idiot!"

"This is just the most basic Light Mech Simulation Battle Pod, not the latest practical product developed by the military. The neural network control method is completely unsuitable!"

It was Su Xiao!

Everyone was stunned.

No one expected that this girl, who was at the center of the storm, this girl who had been silently smiling, would suddenly shout loudly at this moment.

And what she said was so shocking!

Neural network control?

Isn't that a very mentally taxing control method? In normal mech battles, very few people directly use neural networks for operation.

Firstly, the technology is not mature. Except for the legendary few deadly weapons being developed by the Empire, most mechs, although they support this operation, haven't met the technical standards yet; secondly, it's very dangerous. Mech battles are very brutal. If human nerves are used instead of manual operation, it's easy to leave psychological trauma due to combat injuries!

These things are common sense in the Steel Empire, okay?

How could anyone still be using neural network control?

Everyone couldn't understand this point.

However, some thoughtful people began to wonder - how did Su Xiao figure it out!

With so many people on the fourth floor, only Su Xiao saw through Ronan's unique control method and shouted it out at this critical moment.

Could this girl's insight already surpass everyone present?

Some also expressed disbelief, thinking that Su Xiao was just giving her lover a way out.

After saying these words, Su Xiao's face showed a very relaxed expression, as if she had completed a major task.

She didn't care about the eyes of others at all, because her heart was very happy at this moment!

When Ronan lost the first round, she just felt it was a bit familiar; however, in the second round, when the mech Ronan controlled trembled even more violently, she suddenly remembered why.

Because she had seen this scene in a video before.

In that video, that genius young mech pilot was also experimenting with controlling a mech using neural network technology. The result was very funny, the mech was always in a trembling state and was easily knocked down by his opponent; after several times, even the young man who was called a mech genius had to crawl out of the mech dejectedly, believing that controlling a mech with neural network technology was not feasible.

The person who was smiling and talking to the video was named Li Nanbei.

He was the first man she had seen controlling a mech with a neural network.

Now, there was a second one.

So she was very happy.

In the 2nd Pod.

Ronan was silent for a long time, but felt absurd and funny in his heart.

He prided himself on being smart, yet he hadn't even thought of such a simple level.

If Su Xiao hadn't reminded him, he really wouldn't have found the problem!

Now he understood!

This simulation mech... couldn't keep up with Ronan's terrifyingly fast neural reaction speed!

The moment Xiang Feihu initiated his attack, Ronan had already issued thirty action commands!

This was his instinct. When he was in close combat, his body had this kind of reaction ability – but the mech didn't!

No wonder Noah always mocked him for lacking practical experience. He really was a rookie.

Ronan chuckled self-deprecatingly and said towards the fourth floor:

"Thank you."

Su Xiao smiled sweetly, glancing at Wei Wei intentionally or unintentionally:

"You're welcome."

A "thank you" and a "you're welcome," like lovers exchanging sweet words, made others envious.

If jealous gazes could kill, then the looks from the many noble youths from Bo Ning District on the fourth floor would have already torn Ronan to pieces.

Meanwhile, in the arena, Xiang Feihu was burning with rage. He couldn't stand these two openly flirting anymore!

But before he could even speak, Ronan had already drawn his sword!

The third round of the match officially began!

However, this time, Ronan had turned off the neural network and switched to manual control!

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