“Uh… Professor X?” Feng Bujue asked.

“Yes,” Professor X replied in his infectious, cordial tone. “Hello.”

“Wait…” Xiao Tan reacted quickly. He leaned in close to Brother Jue and whispered, “That's not right. This guy can read minds, right? What if he reads the Seer's…”

“Professor, I want to ask, what is your superpower?” Feng Bujue ignored Xiao Tan and knowingly asked the professor.

Unexpectedly, the Lego Professor X replied, “I don't have any superpowers.”

“Huh?” Xiao Tan was taken aback. “No way?”

“It's obvious,” Feng Bujue turned his head and said softly to his teammate. “Toys can't have mental abilities like 'memory reading' or 'mind control'.” He shrugged. “If they did… then there'd be no point in you lowering your voice just now, because he'd already know what you were going to say before you even said it.”

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

“Heh heh… knowledge is power. Even without superpowers, I can do many things,” Professor X said with a smile. “Of course, you can also think of me as an ordinary, bald man in a wheelchair.”

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

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

“Hey… he’s completely turned dark… He obviously cares way too much about not having any superpowers… And he already said those two words twice each, right?” Xiao Tan muttered.

Feng Bujue stepped forward and changed the subject. “Um… Professor, since you can't use telepathy, how do you know 'they're here'?”

“I'm just running an errand for the Seer, delivering a message,” Professor X replied. The next second, he suddenly added, “What! Are you saying I don't have legs to run with?” Then he took out a handgun from his coat pocket. “Prepare to die, you impolite little brats!”

With that, he actually jumped up from the wheelchair and started shooting wildly.

Brother Jue and Xiao Tan were stunned and rolled to either side, 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 arrived instantly, snatched the gun from "Professor X's" hand, and said, "Hey! Stop it! Lex Luthor, time for your meds!"

As he spoke, the Lego Flash forced Luthor back into the wheelchair and pressed a button on the back of the wheelchair. Several Lego strips popped out from both sides of the wheelchair, tying up 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 his hands, as the Flash pushed him away.

"Sorry," another blue figure instantly appeared beside Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi at a speed no less than that of the Flash. It was the Lego Quicksilver (Magneto's son, basically Marvel's Flash). "He gets some symptoms when he stops taking his medicine. Last week, he was running around shirtless with paint all over his body, trying to impersonate Kratos. He got squashed into a pancake by the Hulk later."

"Why would you get someone like this to deliver a message…" Xiao Tan replied.

"Anyway… according to the Seer's information, two members of the Novel faction have ignored the security patrols and are approaching the Lego House, and will be arriving soon," Quicksilver continued. "The Seer's message is for you to deal with them outside."

"Oh? They're coming to us," Feng Bujue sneered. "Hmph… pretty gutsy, those Survey Corps guys…"

"How many times are you going to use that clothing gag…" Xiao Tan said weakly. Clearly, 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 attire.

"Okay, let's go now." As Feng Bujue spoke, he jumped onto the "Lego Pufferfish Gladiator" and opened the hatch of the cockpit.

The appearance of this mech resembled a long-legged pufferfish. The entire mech had only two parts: the body (since fish don't really have a torso or head) and two legs (tapered legs, unable to straighten, and strangely shaped).

Moreover, this Lego Pufferfish Gladiator (hereinafter referred to as Pufferfish Gladiator) only had legs, no hands. From Musashi Koganei's words "It's finished," it could be seen that he didn't fail to build hands because he ran out of time; he simply didn't build them to make the mech look weird…

The cockpit of this thing was similar to that of a biplane, with one seat in front and one in back, accommodating a total of two people. What was puzzling was, how exactly was this thing supposed to fight? And… why did a robot without hands need two pilots? Were they each supposed to control one leg?

"Oh, the controls are simple and clear." After Feng Bujue jumped into the front main cockpit, he found that there were only two joysticks and a knob-type switch in front of him. To the left of the knob was "off," and to the right was "on." It didn't take a genius to know that the two joysticks controlled the movement of the left and right legs. As if to gild the lily, the front of the control panel was emblazoned with six characters—Movement Control System.

Xiao Tan also jumped onto the mech and entered the rear co-pilot's seat. But as soon as he sat down, he was shocked. "Hey! Why are there so many buttons!"

"Huh?" Feng Bujue found it unbelievable. In the front main cockpit, there were only three controllable components in total, and it really didn't feel like a fourth thing was needed. So what could there be in the back?

"Let me see." Feng Bujue climbed out of his seat, took two steps on top of the mech, and peered into the co-pilot's seat from above the "tail."

He didn't know until he looked, but he was shocked into a cold sweat… In Xiao Tan's cockpit, there were at least a hundred buttons in front of him and on both sides, as well as push rods, knobs, toggle switches, various meters, 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 symbol next to it…

Finally, above the control panel in front of the co-pilot's seat were four characters—Weapon System.

"This is totally twisted!" Even Feng Bujue couldn't help but shout loudly. "The movement system is simpler than a bumper car, but the weapon system is made like a General Unilateral Neuro-Link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver!"

"For some reason… I feel like I could destroy the world just by rolling my face on the keyboard in here…" Xiao Tan said with a dazed look.

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

"Heh heh… you can try it out slowly…" Xiao Tan said, pushing open the hatch of the co-pilot's seat, standing up, propping himself up with his arms, and flipping over to the front main cockpit. "I'll control the movement."

Feng Bujue didn't care. He jumped down from above the "tail" and entered the co-pilot's seat, which was full of adjustable components. "Whatever… let's go."

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

"Hey… pushing and pulling only makes it take one step…" Xiao Tan realized this serious problem after controlling the robot to walk less than ten steps. "And the speed and frequency of the leg movement are exactly the same as my hand speed when pulling the joystick."

"So what?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Using this method of repeatedly pushing and pulling the joystick to drive it, the physical exertion is about the same as walking 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 focused on the only exit of the Lego House through the scope of a sniper rifle.

This was a nearly perfect sniping point, high up, without any wind from any direction, and at a moderate distance. And the exit of the Lego House had no cover at all, it was completely open.

With the help of night vision goggles, Bei Ling could clearly observe the situation there. Not even a fly (of course, now flies were probably about the size of rats to them) could fly across.

"Now all we have to do is wait…" Si Yu said, holding night vision binoculars and crouching beside Bei Ling. The two of them, as a sniper and spotter team, were already very well-coordinated. Any disturbances outside of Bei Ling's line of sight were taken care of by Si Yu, ensuring that nothing was missed.

"Actually, they might have already left the Lego House and gone back to the Classic faction's occupied area," Bei Ling said, maintaining her aiming posture without moving.

Si Yu continued, "We received the report from the Guard at 1:53 AM, and Brother Jue and Xiao Tan entered the Lego House at around 1:40 AM. If they went in to complete a mission or drive the plot, they shouldn't be coming out so soon."

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

"Hmm… that assumption has two premises… First, they completed whatever they needed to do in the Lego House very quickly; second, they don't want to fight us," Si Yu said thoughtfully. "With Brother Jue's style…"

"For 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 considered a strategic detour."

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

Bei Ling sighed. "I've already thought about it. The security patrol ends at 2:15 AM. From then on, we'll wait another fifteen minutes. If we don't see anyone by 2:30 AM, or if we're discovered by those toys who are hostile to us during this time, we'll retreat first. Then we'll use military force to make further plans."

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

Tap tap tap tap tap… the Pufferfish Gladiator ran forward with big steps.

Xiao Tan, sitting in the main cockpit, was as tired as a dog… Brother Jue, on the other hand, was bored and propped his chin up with one hand, yawning in the co-pilot's seat.

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

"If you put it that way… then wouldn't it be even more convenient for us to approach the enemy camp directly from the top of the shelves, or for me to use Moonwalk to take you to an even higher place to get closer to the target?" Feng Bujue said.

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

"Yeah, of course I thought of all those plans too," Feng Bujue continued. "But if we did that, wouldn't I be the one who's exhausted and sticking his tongue out?"

"Huh?" Xiao Tan said angrily. "You're just screwing over your teammate!"

"That's not it," Feng Bujue said, resting his hands behind his head and leaning back in his chair. "Don't forget… you were the one who climbed into the main cockpit…"

A second later, there was a "smack" from the front, presumably Xiao Tan giving himself a slap.

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

Seeing that she hadn't fired, Si Yu knew that something was wrong, so she also aimed her binoculars at the area in front of the Lego House. When she saw the object that appeared in her field of vision, she lowered her binoculars… rubbed her eyes, and then raised them again.

"I bet five mao, Brother Jue's inside," Si Yu said in a cold, flat tone.

"Those two idiots must have built this Lego monster themselves…" Bei Ling responded in a painful tone that suggested, "These two can't be saved."

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

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

Bang—

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