"Is someone whitewashing Luka?" Some audience members noticed something was off.
Yan Huan, carrying a basket of eggs, quickly stepped forward and stuffed an egg into his mouth.
"What did you just say?"
The audience member who had raised the question blanked out for two breaths, then spat out the egg and said angrily:
"Hmph, I knew Shuo Jin was no good!"
"Do you have any more eggs? Give me a few more—I want to smash them to my heart's content!"
Onstage.
Shuo Jin put on the power armor and controlled its massive frame as he fought Luka.
At first, he still held the upper hand, but the longer they fought, the more troublesome he found Luka. Before long, the offense and defense had switched.
Under Luka's tidal-wave assault, the mech was crippled, and Shuo Jin had no choice but to admit defeat.
He crawled out of the power armor in a sorry state, his face filled with panic.
"...W-How is this possible?"
"The company's newest power armor had no reason to lose to the primitive technology of a country bumpkin like you..."
After catching his breath for a while, Shuo Jin suddenly looked up.
"No. This has to be rigged—yes, it's rigged! The company rigged it!"
"Friends in the audience, Luka must have colluded with the company and used some underhanded method to defeat me like this!"
At that moment, the audience, all of whom had been brainwashed by Yan Huan, was so angry that they laughed.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Weren't you the one colluding with the company?"
As they spoke, a rotten egg smashed into Shuo Jin's head.
Without the power armor's force-field protection, the shell shattered, and foul-smelling liquid streamed down Shuo Jin's head.
"Ughhh!"
Shuo Jin could not help dry-heaving from the