San Tian Liang Jue

Chapter 369 Toy War (16)

“Uh… Professor X?” Feng Bujue asked.

“Yes.” Professor X replied in his infectious, amiable tone, “Hello to you.”

“Wait…” Xiao Tan reacted quickly, leaning close to Jue-ge's ear and whispering, “That's not right, this guy can read minds, right… what if he reads the Prophet's…”

“Professor, may I ask, what are your superpowers?” Feng Bujue ignored Xiao Tan and knowingly asked the professor.

Unexpectedly, the Lego Professor X replied, “I have no superpowers.”

“Ah?” Xiao Tan was taken aback, “Really?”

“It's obvious.” Feng Bujue turned his head and whispered to his teammate, “Toys can't have mental abilities like 'memory reading' or 'mind control'.” He shrugged. “If they did… then your whispering just now would have been pointless, because he would have known what you were going to say before you even said it.”

“Oh…” Xiao Tan nodded, then suspiciously asked a few seconds later, “Eh? Then Professor, you don't have any combat abilities?”

“Hehe… knowledge is power. Even without superpowers, I can do many things.” Professor X smiled and said, “Of course, you can also see me as an ordinary, wheelchair-bound bald guy.”

“No, no, no, I didn't mean that.” The kind-hearted Xiao Tan quickly waved his hands in denial.

“Well, good.” Professor X maintained a peaceful smile, “Because if you dare mention the words 'wheelchair' or 'bald guy,' I'll have my students hold you down and crush your skull with my wheelchair.”

“Hey… he's completely turned dark… he clearly cares way too much about not having superpowers… and he's already said those two words twice each.” Xiao Tan muttered softly.

Feng Bujue stepped forward and changed the subject, “Um… Professor, since you can't use telepathy, how did you know 'they were coming'?”

“I'm just running an errand for the Prophet, passing on a message.” Professor X replied, then suddenly added in the next second, “What! You say I don't have legs to run with?” He then took out a handgun from his pocket, “Die, you impolite little brats!”

With that, he actually jumped out of the wheelchair and started shooting wildly.

Jue-ge and Xiao Tan were shocked at the time and rolled to the sides, covering their heads and scurrying away.

Fortunately, this "Professor X" had terrible marksmanship and didn't hit anything. Moreover, the gun he used, and the bullets he fired, were all extremely small Lego pieces, which didn't cause much damage to the surroundings.

At this moment, there was a whoosh—a red blur instantly arrived, snatched the gun from "Professor X's" hand, and said, "Hey! Stop it! Lex Luthor, time for your medicine!"

While speaking, Lego Flash forced Luthor back into the wheelchair and pressed a button on the back of the wheelchair. Several Lego strips popped out from the sides of the wheelchair, binding the crazy bald man and immobilizing him.

"Ah—let me go! I'm Professor X! They discriminate against the disabled! Ah—" Luthor kicked his legs wildly and struggled with all his might, and was pushed away by the Flash.

"Sorry." Another blue figure instantly appeared beside Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi at a speed no less than Flash's, it was Lego Quicksilver, "He gets some split personality symptoms when he stops taking his medicine. Last week, he was shirtless and painted himself to look like Kratos, and then Hulk turned him into a pancake."

"What's with sending this kind of guy to deliver messages…" Xiao Tan replied.

"Anyway… according to the Prophet's information, two members of Novel actually ignored the security guards' patrols and are approaching the Lego House, and will arrive soon." Quicksilver continued, "The Prophet means, please deal with them outside."

"Oh? They're delivering themselves to our door." Feng Bujue sneered, "Hmph… they have some backbone, those Survey Corps guys…"

"How many times are you going to use this clothing gag…" Xiao Tan said weakly. Obviously, in the two weeks between the end of "Cang Ling Sword Debate" and "I Am a Writer," Feng Bujue had made no shortage of jokes about Si Yu's clothes.

"Alright, let's leave now." Feng Bujue said, jumping onto the "Lego Pufferfish Gladiator" and opening the cockpit hatch.

The appearance of this mecha was like a pufferfish with long legs. The whole machine has two parts: the body (fish don't have torsos or heads anyway), and two legs (conical legs, can't straighten, and have strangely shaped bones).

Moreover, this Lego Pufferfish Gladiator (hereinafter referred to as Pufferfish Gladiator) only has legs and no hands. From Musashi Koganei's saying "completed," it can be seen that he didn't make hands because he didn't have enough time, but simply to make the mecha look strange…

The cockpit of this thing is similar to a biplane, one in front and one in back, with room for two people in total. What's more puzzling is, how exactly does this thing fight? And… what do you need two pilots for in a robot without hands? Does each person control one leg?

"Oh, this control is simple and clear." Feng Bujue jumped into the main cockpit in front and found that there were only two joysticks and a knob-type switch in front of him. The left side of the knob was "off" and the right side was "on," and the two joysticks, needless to say, controlled the swing of the left and right legs. The front of the console also had six words written on it, as if to add insult to injury: Movement Control System.

Xiao Tan also jumped onto the mecha closely behind and entered the rear cockpit. Who knew, as soon as he sat in, he was shocked: "Hey! Why are there so many buttons!"

"Huh?" Feng Bujue felt it was simply unbelievable when he heard that. In the front main cockpit, the adjustable parts added up to only three, and it felt like there really wasn't a need for a fourth thing. What else could there be in the back?

"Let me see." Feng Bujue climbed out of his seat, took two steps on top of the mecha, and peered into the cockpit from behind the "fish tail."

If you don't look, you don't know, but one look made him wet himself… In Xiao Tan's cockpit, there were at least hundreds of buttons in front of him and on both sides, as well as levers, knobs, touch switches, various instruments, indicator lights, and so on. The most outrageous thing was… in a very conspicuous position, there was a button covered by a small glass cover, with a yellow and black nuclear weapon warning sign next to it…

Finally, four words were written above the console on the front of the rear cockpit: Weapon System.

"This is really perverted!" Even Feng Bujue couldn't help but yell loudly, "The movement system is simpler than bumper cars, but the weapon system is made like a general_unilateral_neuro-Link_dispersive_Autonomic_maneuver!"

"For some reason… I feel like I can destroy the world by rolling my face on the keyboard in this thing…" Xiao Tan replied with a squint.

"Hmm… no, calm down and think about it… A weapon made in only twenty minutes and with less than a box of Lego bricks can't be ridiculously powerful." Feng Bujue pondered, "Perhaps… it seems like there are many buttons, but most of them are useless junk. For example… a whole bunch of buttons are all for adjusting the humidity and temperature in the cockpit, and only one or two are real weapons."

"Hehe… you can try it slowly…" Xiao Tan said, pushing open the hatch of the rear cockpit, standing up, and flipping over with his arms to the main cockpit in front, "I'll control the movement."

Feng Bujue didn't care. He jumped down from above the "fish tail" and entered the rear cockpit full of adjustable parts, "Whatever… let's go."

Xiao Tan heard this, turned the knob in front of him to the "on" side, and then pulled the joystick to control the Pufferfish Gladiator to move forward.

"Hey… pushing and pulling only takes one step at a time…" Xiao Tan realized this very serious problem after controlling the robot to walk less than ten steps, "And the speed and frequency of stepping are exactly the same as the speed of my hand pulling the joystick."

"So what?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Using this method of driving by repeatedly pushing and pulling the joystick, the physical exertion is almost the same as me walking upside down on my hands…" Xiao Tan replied.

"Hmph…" Feng Bujue snorted disdainfully and raised his right hand, "That's just because you're not strong enough. If it were me, I could do it with one hand…"

"Hey!" Xiao Tan shouted, interrupting him, "What's so great about showing off that perverted confidence!"

…………

At the same time, outside the Lego House, on top of a certain shelf.

In the shadows, a sharp gaze was aimed at the only exit of the Lego House through the scope of a sniper rifle.

This was a perfect sniping point, high above, with no wind from any direction, and a moderate distance. And the exit of the Lego House didn't have any cover, it was an open space.

With the help of night vision goggles, Bei Ling could clearly observe the situation there. Not even a fly (of course, now flies may be about the same size as rats to them) could fly past.

"Now all we have to do is wait…" Si Yu said, holding night vision binoculars and crouching beside Bei Ling. The combination of them as sniper and spotter was very well coordinated. Any movement outside Bei Ling's line of sight was Si Yu's responsibility, without any mishaps.

"Actually, they may have already left the Lego House and returned to Classic's occupied area." Bei Ling said while maintaining her aiming posture, without moving an inch.

Si Yu continued, "We received the report from the Guards at 1:53, and Jue and Xiao Tan entered the Lego House at about 1:40. If they went in to complete a mission or drive the plot, they shouldn't come out so quickly."

"What if they, like us, ignored the night shift security guards and still dared to be outside after 1:55?" Bei Ling said, "Then they would have about ten minutes to escape before we arrived."

"Hmm… there are two prerequisites for this assumption… First, they completed what they had to do in the Lego House at an extremely fast speed; second, they don't want to fight us yet." Si Yu said thoughtfully, "With Jue's style…"

"For the sake of side quests or hidden missions, the team leader may temporarily avoid us." Bei Ling said, "And this kind of avoidance won't be counted as 'passive play' by the system, it can only be regarded as a strategic detour."

"If they have really returned to Classic's territory, our situation here will be very dangerous." Si Yu said.

Bei Ling sighed, "I've already thought about it. The security guard patrol ends at 2:15 AM. From that time on, we'll wait another fifteen minutes. If we haven't waited for anyone by 2:30, or if we are discovered by those toys who are hostile to us during this period, we will retreat first. Then we'll use our military strength to deal with them later."

At this moment, while the two girls were analyzing and discussing various reasonable strategies, the two gentlemen driving the perverted mecha had approached the exit of the Lego House.

Tada, tada, tada… The Pufferfish Gladiator ran forward in big strides.

Xiao Tan, sitting in the main cockpit, was as tired as a dog… Jue-ge was bored and propped his cheek with one hand, yawning in the rear cockpit.

"Speaking of which, we should have Musashi Koganei directly make a flying vehicle, right? Approaching the enemy from the air is the fastest and safest." Xiao Tan complained, panting.

"If you say that… then wouldn't it be more convenient for us to approach the enemy formation directly from the top of the shelf, or for me to use moonwalk to take you to a higher place to approach the target?" Feng Bujue said.

"Eh? That's right!" Xiao Tan replied.

"Yes, of course I've thought of all these plans." Feng Bujue continued, "But if that's the case, wouldn't I be the one who's exhausted and sticking my tongue out?"

"Huh?" Xiao Tan said angrily, "You're purely screwing over your teammate!"

"That's not it." Feng Bujue put his hands behind his head and leaned back on the chair, "Don't forget… you're the one who climbed into the main cockpit…"

A second later, there was a "smack" in front, presumably Xiao Tan had slapped himself.

"There's one… thing, coming out…" Bei Ling suddenly said.

Si Yu saw that she didn't fire, so she knew that something was wrong, and immediately pointed the binoculars at the area in front of the Lego House. When she saw the object that appeared in her sight, she put down the binoculars… rubbed her eyes, and then raised them again.

"I bet five mao, Jue is inside." Si Yu recited in a cold, flat tone.

"These two idiots built this Lego monster themselves, right…" Bei Ling responded in a painful tone of "these two are beyond saving."

"If this is a toy that originally existed in the script…" Si Yu continued, "then it will never sell."

"Besides, toys can't run around during security guard patrols." Bei Ling said, filling a special bullet into the sniper rifle, "This is interesting… if the vehicle they are riding in suddenly explodes, will they be able to survive…" A dark smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and the muzzle of the gun was already aimed at the body of the Pufferfish Gladiator.

Bang—

The moment Bei Ling pulled the trigger, a thunderous roar tore through the sky, and a bullet shining with cyan light shot straight out.