Legend of the Supreme Soldier

The visuals on the projection were wavering. The momentum intensified, the projection was getting more and more noises over the time, till at one point people could no longer distinguish the happening on the projection. They only saw a silhouette flying out from the Coxcomb, ”Feels like a mech?” They believed.

Zzzzt!

”Ah!” One brief frame of the projection was very clear then nothing was there.

There were two voices exclaiming.

”Performing space-jump.” The passengers were truly relieved by then. As soon as they completed the procedure, they would be away from all these chaos and devastation. Of course, before every space-jump, one must have performed a very precise calculation or the crew might never make it to their designated location. If the coordination was never given in the beginning, no one would dare to perform a space-jump this suddenly. Even if they were piloting a warship, the law of physics itself remained enforced for them.

It felt like a dream for the passengers, so unreal and mystifying, feeling so long yet it only lasted for a brief second. That depicted the sensation one had during space-warping, which was mesmerizing to most people.

They felt their bodies lighter for one pull. Then the projection regained its clarity, as if they had exited from a lucid dream.

Rui Bing’s face was stupefied, while Wei Yuan remained in a disbelieved expression. Yes, the two exclamations were made by them.

”Wh-What happened… Yuan?” Asked Rui Su to Wei Yuan, she did hear her beloved sister making the similar squeak, which was peculiar for she knew her sister’s undisturbed nature. Well, she would not directly inquire her sister, since it was not easy to dig out anything from her thoughts. But Wei Yuan made the exclamation too, so he should know something.

Wei Yuan took a glance at Rui Bing, who was pondering with her head lowered, ”It seemed like…” Whispered Wei Yuan by Rui Su’s ears, ”That… the mech seemed to be … well, the brother-in-law of Sister Bing…I saw it before…” It was already a common sense for the Ruis to know the relationship between Rui Bing and Ye Chong. Whenever the great guy was mentioned, Wei Yuan loved to address him as the ”brother-in-law”, while Rui Su would call him ”my future brother-in-law”. The nicknames were rather gimmicky sometimes but Madam Rui was helpless on her daughter’s marital relationship, knowing her daughter’s personality, her daughter would execute whatever she had decided.

”Ah!” Rui Su screamed then she quickly covered her mouth. Her expressive eyes were telling skepticism. A moment of silence, and her sister remained stoned, ”Yuan, you sure?” she whispered into Wei Yuan’s ears, she was unconvinced.

”Hmph, no way I would get it wrong. My brother-in-law saved me with that mech, how could I have mistaken it?” angered Wei Yuan, as his wholehearted statement was being suspected by Rui Su.

Rui Bing’s head was all upon the floor. A hint of sadness rose in her heart for some reason. Was it… the greatest distance between us…? Or was it the silent most farewell? She was dumbfounded.

”Heh… my future brother-in-law is great in fact, for he knows how to protect us,” Rui Su’s voice rang by her ears.

”No way, how would brother-in-law know our whereabouts? Probably he just happened to be there and well, being a hero, he did so-”

”Shhhhhh!” Interrupted Rui Su, all disdainful, ”Well, being a hero? What do you think your brother-in-law was? He was the cruel and cold kind from the beginning. Hmph, if there was not anything here worthy of his protection, how would he have done it? Stop joking!” stated Rui Su, based on her past experience dealing with this indifferent beast named Ye Chong.

”Don’t insult my brother-in-law!” rampaged Wei Yuan. ”What do you say?” shouted Rui Su. And they began quarreling.

Rui Bing’s soulless eyes suddenly lighted up a warm glow. Was he there… for me? The Coxcomb had always been flying at the side wings like a royal knight in escort… It does feel like…

Rui Bing who lacked the experience of such situation was of course mesmerized by this feeling, like a young girl she was.

But then her worries upon Ye Chong’s safety overtook her strange infatuation.

But what could I do? Rui Bing was quiet. And there the couple was, passing by the shoulders, touched yet unspoken again, when in the century, the decade would they mean again?

”But…” She tried to speak, but the words choked her. Her eyes were filled with bewildered fear and then were replaced by faith and optimism.