Training New Recruits Is the Same Everywhere / Cell Revival

"You can begin. The training for this project will last for one month, with daily penalties until you complete the training. If you can't complete it within a month..."

He didn't continue speaking, but instead picked up his coffee and took a sip, but Delta felt a deep chill.

However... she is Flame-Chaser, this is just an arcade game. The first place is still a person, how could she not surpass him, not to mention she is also a game master!

With this in mind, Delta's confidence soared, and he couldn't wait to start his first game.

But she didn't notice that even while drinking coffee, the visual window that Lin used to indicate the operation of the helmet system remained on.

The early stages of the game were relatively easy. After about five minutes, Delta watched his combo score rise higher and higher, approaching two hundred points, and a smile quietly crept onto his face.

"Sizzle..." Lin took a sip of coffee and calmly watched her rapidly manipulating the crosshair.

However, in the mid-game, the target's movement speed suddenly increased, and Delta was caught off guard and missed a shot, which directly caused her to lose one bar of health and reset her combo.

Delta gritted his teeth, suppressing the anger that had suddenly ignited within him, and focused intently on the game screen.

With the Flame-Chaser's reaction speed as a foundation, she quickly adapted to the accelerated pace, and the increasingly faster speed did not affect her.

But this better situation only lasted a few minutes, when one of the targets under her aim suddenly stopped, causing her bullets to miss.

"..."

It... dodged... it... by itself?!

At that moment, Delta genuinely wanted to punch the arcade screen and shatter it.

Next comes the final difficulty stage of the game. The target is so fast that it flashes across the screen, and it will suddenly stop, reverse, accelerate, and go in circles... The previous difficulties are not even a warm-up in the face of the final difficulty!

Let alone a combo, Delta is now finding it difficult to hit two targets in a row. She was sweating profusely as she watched her health bar melt away as quickly as a snowman placed by a stove, eventually revealing a large "vegetable".

Vegetable...

Delta sat blankly in front of the screen, staring at her score of only a few thousand and the bluntly mocking word "noob".

Her delicate fist gradually clenched.

"Again!"

Her anger fueled her motivation, and she immediately started the next game, while Lin also poured himself a second cup of coffee.

Chapter 173 The Training of New Recruits Is the Same Everywhere

"What a terrible game!"

Lin casually tossed a few goji berries into the water glass, then thought for a moment and added a red date.

Compared to Delta, who was so anxious he was about to break the joystick off, he was no different from a retired old man walking his bird, leisurely drinking tea and watching Delta's calm and proud exterior be smashed to pieces, revealing his exasperated appearance.

Delta, panting heavily, glared angrily, suppressing the trembling urge to lift the arcade machine and smash it against the wall.

A few hours.

She didn't even score 10,000 points once in several hours! Forget about surpassing the number one, her performance was getting worse and worse, and she couldn't even surpass her initial score!

She wondered if the game was really designed for humans, given its difficulty level. Even a robot might make mistakes.

"It's time for dinner. Today's training is over."

After Lin finished his last sip of tea, he announced the end of the training. He walked to the arcade machine's power supply and casually turned off the game screen.

"You--"

Delta, focused on her game, stared blankly at the black screen for a while before her anger flared. She glared at Lin, but Lin ignored her gaze and said calmly, "You didn't complete your training today, so there will be a punishment."

These words jolted Delta back to reality. She frowned slightly, looked at the now-black screen, and realized that even if she were to say that she could have surpassed the previous performance... she herself didn't believe it.

However, Delta was quite receptive; she felt that the punishment was nothing more than some physical training.

"You are not allowed to leave, eat, or rest until you finish watching this video."

Lin pressed the button on his helmet, and a projection appeared on the wall next to him, showing Delta, who had just started the game.

The video was so clear it felt like being there. Delta looked at herself in the video and was puzzled for a moment. This video was several hours long, was it meant to make her go hungry?

"I'll watch it with you, but you must watch the whole video."

At this moment, Delta had no idea what kind of torment awaited him.

Delta's eyelids were a little sore, not from using her eyes for too long, but because...

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"

In the projection, Delta was yelling and screaming wildly, like a madman, while when she saw this scene from another perspective, she felt that her brain and even her skin had been thoroughly cooked...

Would she really... do something like that?

Distorted facial expressions, exaggerated body language, emotional instability...

That's so embarrassing.

However, this was only the beginning. It was the first time she couldn't control her emotions, but it was this "first time" that unleashed all her subsequent behaviors, leading her to gesticulate wildly and swear profusely.

"Sizzle..."

Lin was still happily sipping her tea when she secretly glanced at him and discovered that he was staring at her intently, as if watching a movie.

To let others see your embarrassing state and then observe their reactions—this guy has such a twisted sense of humor!

Human emotional outbursts follow a pattern, generally exhibiting a wave-like pattern. In layman's terms, one moment they might be shouting and yelling wildly, the next they might be unusually calm, one moment they might be talking to themselves, and the next they might be completely silent.

Over the next hour, Delta witnessed this pattern being validated on herself. She wished she could bury her head in her chest, but she had no choice but to continue watching because Lin's order was that "the video must be watched in its entirety."

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. Everyone else had already finished dinner, but Delta was still watching her own shameful record. Her stomach was rumbling, and her lips were so dry that she had to lick them frequently with her tongue. She was exhausted and extremely uncomfortable.

"Click".

A crisp chewing sound made Delta's neck stiffen. She turned her head like a gear without lubrication and saw Lin eating a bag of potato chips while drinking fragrant black tea.

It tastes so good...

Her gaze fell on the bag of potato chips.

It's still her favorite cucumber flavor...

Before Delta knew it, saliva was already dripping from the corner of her mouth, but she didn't notice.

Lin saw the longing in Delta's eyes, or rather, that was his original plan. He shook the potato chips in his hand, which made the crisp, crackling sound typical of fried food, and then casually asked Delta, "Want some?"

"Think."

Delta's mouth moved faster than her brain. She didn't want to embarrass herself in front of Lin any longer, but she blurted it out involuntarily.

"Easy." Lin took out another potato chip, put it in his mouth, and bit down hard. "Beg me."

"...Huh?" Delta was stunned.

"If you beg me, I will give you food and drink. Otherwise, before you finish watching the video, you will not get any food or drink except when you go to the toilet and I will pause the video and wait for you to come back."

Lin gestured "please" to Delta, who was gritting his teeth and wishing he could tear Delta apart. "If you don't want to, you can continue watching."

"Are you deliberately messing with me?!" Delta couldn't help but growl. "Just because I underestimated you when we met, you're getting revenge! You actually designed that game, and that first place was just something you made up, just to see me make a fool of myself!"

"Sizzle..."

Lin said nothing to Delta's fury, picked up his teacup, took another sip, put it down, and placed his hands on the table with his arms crossed.

A cold and sharp gaze pierced through her helmet, like a bucket of cold water poured over her head.

His cold, deep voice, hoarse like a demon's, came from inside his helmet. "I don't think someone weaker than me has any need for revenge. And what I said about that game was the truth. The reason you're so angry is actually very simple: you're weak, and your weakness can't support your arrogance."

"You..."

"Some of my friends are just as proud, complacent, and arrogant as you, but their abilities are enough to support their confidence, or rather, their confidence comes from their extraordinary abilities; they are true geniuses."

Lin's words were like a sharp knife, piercing Delta's chest and making her so angry that her expression twisted. "I admire people who have the courage to undergo Hypervariable Surgery, but unfortunately you are just my subordinate now, so at best you are just a lucky recruit who became Flame-Chaser. Even if I wanted you to lick my fingers right now, you couldn't refuse. So... recruit CM-079, carry out your mission and watch the video."

"Huh? I heard someone praising me as soon as I got back. If she doesn't lick me, do you think I'll lick her?"

Delta saw the helmeted man, who had been so dignified and serious just moments before, now trembling upon hearing the voice coming from behind him.

Chapter 174 Cell Resuscitation

Why are you back?

Lin pushed the brewed coffee forward, towards the girl who was staring intently at him.

"I missed you." Vill-V smiled sweetly, as if she had eaten honey, and took a small sip of her coffee.

"..." Rationally speaking, this was the answer Lin least wanted to hear.

"However, a small part of the reason is that I've finished exploring the entire Mu Continent, and it's about time I came back." While Lin remained silent, she added a little sugar to her coffee, then placed the steaming coffee back on the table, turned around, and opened her briefcase. "Also, there's been some progress."

What progress has been made?

Before Lin could even ask, Vill-V took out a syringe and then injected it into her chest... chest?

Under Lin's eerie gaze, she pulled a vial of medicine from her cleavage and put the warm vial into the syringe.

"Don't look at me like that. This is my heartfelt gift, so I'll keep it in my heart~" Vill-V made a gesture of piercing her heart with the syringe gun and approached Lin with a grin.

This immediately alerted Lin, who took a half-step back. "What are you going to do?"

"What do we need to 'do'... there are plenty of options. Why don't you get this injection, and we can discuss what we need to do in the room? Don't worry, I'll just rub against you at most."

What's in here?

"Something that won't harm you."

After hearing this reply, Lin, though still somewhat doubtful, hesitated for a moment before sighing amidst Vill-V's smile, "Hurry up."

Vill-V narrowed her eyes with satisfaction, her smile charming, "Lin, do you know what I like most about you? It's that even though you're very worried, you still trust me unconditionally."

"... This isn't what you said you liked the most last time."

"Really? Then it's probably because I like everything about you."

Vill-V walked behind Lin, lifted his collar, wiped the injection site with disinfectant, then pointed the gun at his neck and pulled the trigger.

"Sizzle—"

The liquid was slowly injected from the medicine bottle into Lin's body, until not a single drop remained.

"Alright, it will take about half an hour. Before that, let's talk about my performance experience in the Mu Continent."

Delta felt tormented.

After enduring hours of watching her own humiliating experience, she also had to endure hunger and thirst while listening to the two adulterers making love beside her.

Her eyes were filled with resentment as she looked at Lin, who was listening silently to where Vill-V had been over the past year.

"Haha, when that man heard me say he could wait for us to go to the restaurant and watch us eat from the next table, his face looked like he'd swallowed a bunch of nails." Vill-V combed her side hair and happily recounted the amusing anecdotes from the journey. "But even if we really went, I wouldn't let him watch us."

At this moment, Vill-V noticed Delta's gaze. She tilted her head and gave a playful smile, "What's wrong? Is there something you want to say?"

"No, it's nothing." Delta glanced at Lin. "It's just that you kept talking, but he seemed not to care about what you were saying at all, and he didn't respond to you. Doesn't he get tired of talking to himself?"

Vill-V looked Delta up and down, her scrutinizing gaze making Delta feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Oh, I see. You're very dissatisfied with Lin."

"Ha?"

Vill-V rested her chin on her hand, smiling as she stared at the puzzled Delta: "You must not have many friends, so you don't know what kind of communication will elicit positive feedback."

"What does this have to do with him acting like a wooden doll the whole time? You're not trying to say you're happy talking to yourself, are you?"

"There are many kinds of communication. I was sharing my interesting experiences, not discussing things with Lin, so he just needed to listen to me and give me some nods, glances, or interjections to let me know he was listening," Vill-V said eloquently. "When people are sharing their own stories, whether they are happy or sad, they don't like others interrupting them."

Changing the subject, Vill-V said to Lin with an extremely dangerous smile and tone, "Of course, I wouldn't mind if Lin wanted to 'interrupt'."

"..."

Lin sometimes really can't stand her sudden dirty jokes.

Delta frowned slightly. "You've only convinced yourself, haven't you? I think he talks far too little."

"That's because you're not familiar with him. Actually, he's been talking more lately. Before, he could go a whole day without saying a word." Vill-V's eyes were filled with thought as she recalled her interactions with Lin Gang. "But it's a little regrettable that I'm not the one who changed him."

"... Wait a minute, aren't you his girlfriend?" Delta sensed something else in Vill-V's words.

"No," Vill-V replied matter-of-factly.

Delta gave a subtle look. She had seen and heard the intimate interaction between Vill-V and Lin the whole time. Although she was a little confused at first as to why it was always Vill-V took the initiative, she did not expect that the two of them were not a couple at all.