Chapter 796: Rank!

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"Lin Zhong-qing!" A cold voice sounded beside Lin Zhong-qing's ears. Lin Zhong-qing shivered. His face was already pale due to exhaustion but his face turned even paler. It was full of fear. He didn't dare to make any delays so he shouted immediately, "Here!"

"Li Shiyu!" Li Shiyu's face turned pale too as his name was called. "Here!"

A few more people were called out too. All the logisticians were called. Lin Zhong-qing's deputies, Li Jinghong, He Chaoyang, Yuan Youyun, and Luo Shaoyun were all called. Gao Jinyun's small team was also called too. The five people who laid on the ground exhausted were part of Gao Jinyun's team. Gao Jinyun and his team members' physical skills were all not high. Hence, they became logisticians.

When they were ordered to join the long-distance marathon, Gao Jinyun knew that their weak performance during this marathon had angered their regiment commander. He knew that they were dead. The results were just like what he expected.

"Li Lanfeng!" Li Lanfeng's lips twitched. As expected, Ling Lan was not satisfied with his performance.

"Xie Yi!" Xie Yi's expression collapsed. He was the last to arrive. He knew that he wouldn't have a good ending.

"Double your training at night!" Ling Lan finally told everyone their punishment for those people with unsatisfying results.

"Yes!"

Before Chang Xinyuan could give them a smile of pity, he heard his Boss calling his name. "Chang Xinyuan!"

"Here!" Chang Xinyuan quickly replied. He wondered if his smile was too glaring. 'Did I anger my Boss?"

"Luo Chao and Han Xuya." Ling Lan looked at the only two ladies at the scene. This long marathon was extremely tiring. Ling Lan was afraid that they would faint so she didn't ask them to run. They were in charge of being the burdens this time. However, this didn't mean that she would let them off just because they were females. Ling Lan knew that this was the battlefield. Without absolute strength, they could die at any moment. She would never allow this to happen.

"You three will train with them at night."

"Ah!"Chang Xinyuan groaned. On the other side, Han Xuya and Luo Chao's face turned red with excitement. They shouted, "Yes, regiment commander." They had been waiting for this day for a long time, especially Luo Chao. She clenched her fist tightly and told herself that she must catch up with her Boss.

The person-in-charge of inspecting the convoy was stunned by their behaviors. When he heard Ling Lan's cold voice, he suddenly regained his senses. He looked over and saw a person with a cold aura standing in front of the door of the bullet-shaped hover car. He only glanced at this person but the person instantly noticed his glance. Her cold eyes turned to him. The person-in-charge felt as though his blood was frozen. His entire body turned cold. He was so frightened he didn't dare to look at Ling Lan again.

"Second lieutenant?" A cold voice sounded beside him. The voice melted the ice around him and woke him up from his thoughts.

"Yes, regiment commander!" The second lieutenant instinctively greeted Ling Lan as though she was his regiment commander too.

Ling Lan was speechless. 'What's wrong with this second lieutenant? Shouldn't he call me senior officer or lieutenant colonel?' She was not his regiment commander. However, she didn't have the time to correct him. She saluted and asked, "Can we go in now?"

"Yes, regiment commander!" The second lieutenant shouted after saluting back at her. Then, he signaled the people behind him to let them in.

Soon, the convoy entered the base. All their mechas were placed inside 250 Ace Mecha Clan's personal mecha hold. The second lieutenant watched as they went in. After a while, he suddenly remembered that he didn't ask them where their logisticians were. Also, for some reason, he called the lieutenant colonel 'regiment commander' instead.

In the base of Evil Wind Mecha Team, around 30 people were sitting in a meeting room, talking about the 250 Ace Mecha Clan which entered Base 013 recently.

"Leader, I heard that we have a new neighbor. It's an ace mecha clan." One of the team members told his leader about the news that had been spreading through their base recently.

"The information I got from Help states that there are only 200 people in that ace mecha clan. They only have enough mecha operators to form a major team like us but they are a mecha clan. Leader, do you think that 250 Ace Mecha Clan has some special background?" A feminine-looking soldier who looked around 30 years old said.

"The Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan that were stationed here in the past was nothing special. Their regiment commander was not even our leader's match. Yet, they are a titled ace mecha clan." A team member gave a look of contempt.

"Yes. In the past, I heard that titled ace mecha clans are very powerful. Now, I feel that they are nothing." This person's words gained the approval of everyone in the meeting room.

The team leader, who was sitting on the main command's seat, shook his head instantly. "That is not true. Changfeng Mecha Clan is not a real titled ace mecha clan." He remembered the words the Regiment Commander of Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan said to him before he left. Those words let him understand how deep the water was in the mecha world.

His mind went back to the day when he had a fight with the Regiment Commander of Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan using their mechas. They were both exhausted but no one was able to win against the other.

"Yan Three, I didn't expect a mecha operator who came from the grass-roots to be so powerful," the Regiment Commander of Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan exclaimed.

"Cheng Shu, you are not bad too. As expected of the regiment commander of a titled ace mecha clan." Yan Three respected Cheng Shu too. He used to be angry at Cheng Shu because he always evaded his invitation to have a fight.

"My mecha clan is not a titled ace mecha clan," Cheng Shu jeered at himself.

Yan Three was stunned. He knew that only titled mecha clans had a title. Other mecha clans were called by numbers. He asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

Cheng Shu looked at Yan Three. "I'm going to leave Base 013 soon. Before I leave, let me give you a present. I'll tell you some secrets of the military so that you won't provoke someone you shouldn't."

Yan Three felt his heart being lifted up and he listened attentively.

Cheng Shu sighed. "A real titled ace mecha clan is indeed very powerful. They are not like my mecha clan which is unable to maintain its title. You must learn to look at their rank.

"Ah!" Yan Three exclaimed in surprise. He thought that all titled ace mecha clans were the same. He didn't know that there were different ranks.

Chapter 797: Good Fortune!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

"There are five ranks available for a titled ace mecha clan, and each rank is further split into five sub-ranks, differentiated by the number of stars it has. So, the most powerful titled ace mecha clans are first-rank five-star ace mecha clans. Everyone in those mecha clans is powerful and frightening. Yan Three, if you meet a first-rank titled ace mecha clan, don't ever offend them. You can't afford to provoke anyone in those mecha clans. Even a normal member of those ace mecha clan is much stronger than us."

Yan Three nodded seriously. If a normal member of those ace mecha clan was stronger than Cheng Shu, then the people in those mecha clans were definitely not people he could provoke.

Cheng Shu suddenly smiled. "If you stay at Base 013 forever, you might not be able to meet them at all. Even I have only heard of them but never saw any of them personally."

Yan Three scoffed. 'Why could I be stuck here forever? I would eventually leave this base one day.' He got angry so he asked in a mocking tone, "What rank is Changfeng then?"

Cheng Shu's smile was turned upside down and his face turned green with anger. After some time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Changfeng? We are just a fifth-tank one-star ace mecha clan, the worst among the worst of all titled ace mecha clans. If we drop another rank lower, our title will be taken away and we will become a normal ace mecha clan"

"Your ace mecha clan is that bad?" Yan Three looked at him with disdain. "If it is that bad, why can't you all just work harder to climb higher? Why can't you gain another star?"

Cheng Shu sighed. He replied, "This is a problem of succession. Every titled ace mecha clan, even a first-rank five-star ace mecha clan, will have this problem. If the succession is successful, the ace mecha clan will be able to maintain its rank and might even be able to climb higher in rank. That ace mecha clan might even become an important ace mecha clan to the division or it might even become the core of the military, attaching long-lasting glory to its name."

"However, the possibility of this happening is very low. Many titled ace mecha clans were not able to pass the torch successfully. Each generation got worse than the one before them, resulting in their ranks getting lower and some even got their title removed, becoming a normal mecha clan in the end. In addition to that, some titled ace mecha clans would get sent on the battlefield and their men would get killed in the process of an ongoing war, making their mecha clan severely weaker by the time they leave the battlefield. Changfeng ace mecha clan is just getting worse by the generation, and there's no way to stop that." Cheng Shu wanted to make Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan better but he couldn't defy the rules of the military.

"If you don't have enough mecha operators, why can't you just train more?" Yan Three didn't understand Cheng Shu's thinking process.

"You have never entered an ace mecha clan so you don't know the unspoken rule in the military: removing blood and grooming blood." Cheng Shu gave a forced smile.

"Removing blood and grooming blood?" Yan Three came from the grass-roots units. When he heard what Cheng Shu said, he felt that he had wasted half of his life in the military as he had never heard of such a thing.

"The ranks between all the titled ace mecha clans are not present to differentiate the capabilities of all ace mecha clans. They are present because of this unspoken rule. This unspoken rule allows titled ace mecha clans that have a higher rank than us within our division to pick outstanding mecha operators from our ace mecha clan and transfer them to their own ace mecha clan. In a sense, our mission as a low-rank ace mecha clan is to groom mecha operators. With this unspoken rule, a pyramid is formed within the ace mecha clans. The tip of the pyramid consists of the most powerful ace mecha clans which had the best mecha operators, making them the core of the military."

"There is nothing wrong with that." Yan Three felt that this rule suited the military. The core ace mecha clans should have the right to have the best mecha operators.

"However, this rule causes the lower rank ace mecha clans to be stuck at the bottom of the pyramid forever. Some ace mecha clans fell down the ranks because too much blood was removed from them. Changfeng ace mecha clan is an instance of this." When Cheng Shu took over the Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan, he was motivated and driven to bring his mecha clan to the top. However, when the ace mecha clans above them kept taking away their mecha operators whom they took much time and effort to groom, his heart started to turn cold. He didn't want to waste his efforts anymore on someone who would eventually be taken away. After years and years of removing blood, Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan started to drop in rank. That was why they were sent to Planet Haijiao. They were forsaken by the military.

"Removing too much blood?" Yan Three sensed something amiss.

"Yes. At first, only three mecha operators can be taken out every five years. Now, it changed to two mecha operators every year. We are unable to keep our good mecha operators in our clan so we can't increase the ability of our ace mecha clan." Cheng Shu sighed loudly. "Not only that, the ace mecha clans above us might give us some mecha operators with special backgrounds too. These people are not ace mecha masters but they still forced them into our ace mecha clans so that they can get a good resume."

These people would usually leave half a year later, and they would be placed in higher positions but in actual fact, they didn't have any capabilities to obtain that position in the first place. What a joke. Ever since he came to Planet Haijiao, the higher authorities never sent anyone like that in his clan anymore so he managed to get some peace here. Cheng Shu felt that this was something good he got from the adversity.

"I see." Yan Three finally understood what Cheng Shu meant. The mecha world was so complicated.

"Yan Three, we are leaving soon. I don't know which ace mecha clan will be sent here. However, the commanding officer of your base had offended someone within the military headquarters. I think that they won't send you a powerful ace mecha clan..." Cheng Shu thought for a moment and decided to give him a suggestion. "Yan Three, if you can, join an ace mecha clan. You have the ability to. You shouldn't be wasting your time here."

Yan Three shrugged. "How about I join your ace mecha clan?"

Cheng Shu smiled bitterly. "I don't want to harm your future. Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan has been forsaken. The military had not sent anyone to examine our ace mecha clan for the past few years. If you join us, you will never have the chance to climb higher. If another ace mecha clan comes to this base after we leave, find a chance to join them. I hate the removing blood system but it can help you."

This was Cheng Shu's last piece of advice to Yan Three.

Back in the meeting room, Yan Three smiled coldly "Help me?" He had ambitions to climb higher up the ranks, but if he was to join an ace mecha clan, that clan's regiment commander must have the ability to make him bow down to him first. If not, he would rather stay at Base 013 his entire life as he would not tolerate being under a weak regiment commander.

"Ah!" A team member shouted, "250 Ace Mecha Clan is here. One of our members saw a huge group of people coming in."

"Leader, shall we take a look?" Everyone looked at Yan Three excitedly. They remembered how their leader brought them over when Changfeng Ace Mecha Clan came and gave them an opening gambit.

Yan Three knocked his fingers on the table and thought for a moment. Then, he smiled. "Let's go."

"Do your best, everyone!" Han Xuya placed her hands on her hips as she shouted at the logisticians who were moving their equipment.

On the other side, Luo Chao was busy recording all the pieces of equipment that were placed inside their warehouse. These were weapons that were brought over from the 23rd division. It was precious to them. Although Planet Haijiao would provide them with some weapons, their Boss didn't want to rely on other people. Hence, their Boss prepared all these as their backup. If they met any urgent situations, they would not have to wait for other people to help them.

"Hey, there are two beautiful younger sisters in the ace mecha clan that came this time. What good fortune!" A frivolous voice sounded above them.

Chapter 798: Add Oil To The Flame!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Han Xuya and Luo Chao looked up and saw a person squatting on the wall, smiling at them. On the roofs of the buildings around them, there were also many people standing there and pointing at them.

"Who are you?" Han Xuya's expression turned dark as she shouted angrily.

"Your neighbor, Evil Wind Mecha Team," The person squatting on the wall continued to smile and replied. After that, he sent out an invitation. "Beautiful lady, shall we have a meal and spend the night together?"

Han Xuya was furious. Although she and Luo Chao grew up with men around them, all their companions treated them like little sisters. They would never tease them like this. In the military academy, they were protected by their companions and seniors so no one dared to harass them. She didn't expect someone to harass her the moment they came to Base 013.

"How dare you!" Han Xuya shouted furiously.

"How dare I? I dare to do even worse things. Do you want to try me?" Everyone on the roof laughed when they heard what he said.

Han Xuya was burning with anger. She jumped up and punched the person on the wall.

Boom! The wall collapsed. The person jumped down and landed lightly on the ground within the base of 250 Ace Mecha Clan. He patted his chest and appeared as though he got a shock. "I'm so scared. I met a female dinosaur."

"Hmph!" Han Xuya snorted. She clenched her fist and started fighting with the person.

The other logisticians saw this and put aside their work. They wanted to help Han Xuya and teach this person a lesson. Luo Chao saw through their intentions and stopped them. She signaled them to let Han Xuya fight first. If Han Xuya didn't vent her anger, she would turn crazy.

The logisticians understood First Lieutenant Luo's decision so they stood at the side and watched the fight. However, they all agreed that if First Lieutenant Han was not able to defeat the person, they would attack him together. In their 250 notebooks, it was written that if they could win by numbers, do it. There was no such thing as heroism. If anyone disobeyed this rule, they would be punished. This mindset was instilled in them the moment they entered the mecha clan. After practicing together for a year, it had become a habit for them.

"Leader, what do you think?" The people standing on the roof appeared to be watching the show happily but instead, they were here to understand the capabilities of 250 Ace Mecha Clan.

"The two female officers are at the peak of refinement. They can be considered at the tip of the pyramid among all the female soldiers. As for those people around them, they should be logisticians..." The person behind Yan Three was good at analyzing people. However, he seemed a little uncertain when he was talking about the logisticians. "These logisticians are not bad too. Most of them are at refinement, even the weaker ones are at the tenth stage of manifestation. They are only one step away from refinement. I've never seen a bunch of logisticians that powerful."

Logisticians were the lowest-rank soldiers. Only those soldiers who couldn't meet any of the requirements for the other positions become logisticians. This position had no future. Yet, the physical constitutions of these people were enough for them to become land mecha operators.

Yan Three touched his chin. He was deep in thought. He only saw the tip of the iceberg of 250 Ace Mecha Clan but they already seemed hard to deal with. 'Is 250 Ace Mecha Clan a titled mecha clan that just got its title removed? Or is this display of strength just for show?'

"Add some oil to the flame." Yan Three whispered to the person beside him.

The person nodded before disappearing on the spot.

Luo Chao was focused on Han Xuya. After observing the battle for some time, Luo Chao noticed that the person who verbally harassed