Chapter 20 - Imperial General

 Mecha, a weapon that exists only for the sake of war.

 

 For a long time in the past, some scientists proposed the idea of humanoid mecha, but it was rejected by more scientists.

 

 The reason is easy: humanoid is not a trait that is conducive to warfare.

 

 It may look cool, but, to use a classic joke about mecha history - a humanoid is not as good as a ball.

 

 So, in the long history of mecha development, meshes have been developed into various shapes.

 

 Spherical, bullet-shaped, prismatic, all kinds of geometric shapes.

 

 Spiders, tigers, octopuses, all kinds of animal shapes.

 

 And countless other inexplicable shapes, only the human shape was the least.

 

 At that time, it took extremely horrible resources to train a mech master.

 

 Can you imagine, a mech master with a keyboard and gear lever to manipulate a spider-shaped mech with thirty-six legs?

 

 Just to make the spider walk mecha walk, it has already spent all the energy of the mecha master.

 

 Such a mecha, no combat power to speak of, even worse than a good performance of the spacecraft.

 

 It was after Professor Hero invented the first real humanoid mecha that this embarrassing state was changed.

 

 It can be stated that Professor Hero is the person who started the era of mecha.

 

 The change Professor Hero made was simple.

 

 She equipped the mech with a mental power sensing system and proposed using human mental power to manipulate the mech.

 

 When a mech master manipulates a mech, he or she is related to the mech through a psychic sensing device, as if the person is controlling his or her own body.

 

 People are most familiar with, the easiest to master, of course, happens to own body.

 

 That's why today's meals are made in human form to facilitate all kinds of movements by the mech master.

 

 Of course, it is not that there is no longer a non-human type of mecha.

 

 Only, non-human type mecha, are special mecha, must be customized through the manufacturer, and, mechanisms have to adapt to this non-human type of mecha for a long time.

 

 In short, Xia Chen this kind for the first time to be able to manipulate the military mecha, if not Professor Hero invented the spiritual power sensing device, no matter how high his spiritual power, it is impossible.

 

 "Maximum energy output! Full thrust!"

 

 Xia Chen shouted and opened the thrusters behind Black Lord's body.

 

 A bright pillar of light shot out from behind Black Lord's body, and the originally stagnant mecha once again flew in the direction of the space station.

 

 "It does!"

 

 Xia Chen shouted excitedly.

 

 "Great!"

 

 Erhei couldn't hide her heart's joy and rushed over to hug with XiaChen tightly.

 

 Hundreds of kilometers away, the pirates, including Black Fox, were all frozen.

 

 "Captain, Black Lord started up again and began to fly away." A pirate in charge of observation, full of shock on his face.

 

 "Why didn't the conceptual power interference bomb work? Could it be a fake?" Black Fox was located in a bad mood, if he let these two tiny miners escape, he would have no face left.

 

 None of the pirates dared to make a sound.

 

 They all know that when Black Fox is angry, the best way is to be silent, not to make death to touch his rotten luck.

 

 "Captain, a large number of armed space ships are detected ahead, which should be the army sent by the Manna Star military. We can no longer continue to move forward, or we will enter their range of attack and can not get out."

 

 A pirate reported.

 

 "Bastard!"

 

 Black Fox cursed, his face clouded over, "How much longer will it take for the energy sniper cannon to recharge."

 

 "Report Captain, it will take another seven minutes and three seconds." A pirate reported truthfully.

 

 "Let's chase for another seven minutes." Black Fox gritted his teeth and said. "Even if it means blasting Black Lord into a pile of scrap metal, I'll make space for the grave of these two little brats!"

 

 "Aye, Captain." All the pirates answered together.

 

 True to his name, Black Fox was a ferocious pirate, and he chose to destroy Black Lord to save his face without hardly any half hesitation.

 

 On the other side, XiaChen piloted Black Lord and flew forward desperately.

 

 He felt his mental power very depleted.

 

 Level 6 mental power is to pilot a military mech was indeed too much of a stretch.

 

 Fortunately, XiaChen felt that the crystal pyramid in his mind was constantly helping him replenish his psychic power.

 

 The crystal pyramid appears to have been a huge consciousness, constantly talking to Xia Chen. Xia Chen can hear, but he can't understand.

 

 But XiaChen felt that this huge consciousness did not want to be out either.

 

 "Bare your bones! We are the First Fleet of Mana Star here, the mists ahead, stop advancing. Otherwise, we will launch an attack!"

 

 The communication device in the cockpit rang out again.

 

 Hundreds of kilometers away, a space fleet was coming toward meet Xia Chen.

 

 First Fleet of Manna Star, was the strongest military force of the Empire stationed in Manna Star. The entire fleet, there were hundreds of spaceships.

 

 The largest of these ships had a diameter of thousands of meters, and the smaller frigates also had a diameter of a hundred meters.

 

 The fleet was no longer a local armed force like the Manna Star Police, but the battle-hardened Imperial soldiers.

 

 This fleet represented the dignity of the Empire.

 

 "What to do?" Xia Chen was slightly stunned and said loudly. "Do we stop or not? But, they just like the police, they won't listen to our explanation."

 

 "Connect, a video connection is already possible at this distance." Erhei wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and spoke with breathlessness.

 

 Xia Chen also does not know what the video link is useful, but, he no longer has anyway, he can even see, those spaceships on the ship cannon have begun to glow slightly, which is charging, ready to launch an attack.

 

 Xia Chen submitted a video request, and it took thirty seconds before the opposite side passed the demand.

 

 A three-dimensional screen appeared in front of the cockpit.

 

 On the screen, it was the control room of a spacecraft.

 

 This control room was so huge that there were fixed as many as a hundred staff members just as a background.

 

 Most of the staff were young women, wearing straight military uniforms, business in front of various instruments, analyzing the data.

 

 And in the center of the picture was a little man.

 

 He looked youthful, handsome, his hair was curly and fiery red, and he was wearing a light blue military uniform with a black cloak behind him.

 

 The outfit was handsome.

 

 It was the standard military uniform of the Imperial soldiers.

 

 On the man's shoulders, hung the rank of the military, he was a blinding star!

 

 The rank of brigadier general, this young man, was an imperial general.

 

 The territory of the empire was too big, and there were many armies, but to become an imperial general. It was a very difficult thing to do.

 

 From the aura on the man's face, you can say that he must have a powerful backstage, and behind him, probably a powerful family in the Imperial Capital Tian Yu Star.

 

 His name was Edward, and he was the heir of a medium-sized family in the Imperial Capital Heavenly Universe Star.

 

 Although Edward's family was not ranked in the whole Tian Yu Star, this humble place of Mana Star, he was a real nobleman!

 

 Now, Edward's face was wearing the aristocrat's unique arrogance, looking at XiaChen with contempt: "Humble pirate, I give you three seconds, you better satisfy me. Otherwise, you will be turned into a dirty cloud of space trash in the baptism of imperial cannon fire."