History:

(ch-554)

“Hello. Hey, wake up.” She felt someone slapping her face lightly.
Ling Lan opened her eyes and saw a young man with sharp ears, blue eyes,
 golden hair, and some wrinkles on his face. The man was looking at her
worriedly.

“Elf?” Ling Lan was stunned for a moment. Did she
transmigrate again? Before she could think any further, the explosion
beside her shocked her.

“Lan Si, you are finally awake. This is great,” The young man exclaimed happily upon seeing Ling Lan opening her eyes.

“Who
 are you?” Ling Lan regained her calmness. She knew that this was
probably an illusion that the learning space had created. She had been
through many missions in the learning space and seen many different
people. They were all human beings that took the form of people she saw
in real life. However, this world looked like that of Greek mythology.
The explosions and smoke in the air reminded her that she was not in a
world of myth; it was a modern battlefield.

“I am Ji Sheng. Did
you hurt your head when you flew away due to the explosion just now?”
shouted the young man called Ji Sheng. “Ah, Lan Si, this is bad.”

“Shut
 up. My head is hurting. It’ll get worse if you scream any more. Tell me
 what’s happening here.” Ling Lan shot a cold glance at Ji Sheng, who
became frightened.

Ji Sheng covered his mouth immediately and shook his head.

“What
 is this place? What year is this? What are we doing? Why did I faint?”
Ling Lan threw a series of questions at Ji Sheng and asked him to reply.

Ji
 Sheng replied honestly. He wanted to help his friend regain his memory
faster so he put down the hands covering his mouth and said quickly,
“This is the Mandora star system, planet No. 113. We are in the Mandora
star calendar, year 44443-7327. We are fighting against the T21
division. We collided with two enemy planes just now, but we managed to
parachute out. Just as we were planning to go back to our base, a
missile landed right beside us and you were thrown off by the force. You
 landed on your head and fainted afterward. I called out to you for a
long time before you woke up.”

“Mandora? King mecha learning
device?” Ling Lan was shocked. Wasn’t Mandora the place where Little
Four came from? Was this Little Four’s world?

“Ah, Lan Si, are you
 starting to remember everything? You are right. After birth, we would
be equipped with the king mecha learning device. We would then wait for
the learning device to be activated,” Ji Sheng replied to her happily.

“I have some impression now. However, there are still some gaps in my memory,” Ling Lan replied calmly with a frown.

Ji Sheng, on the other hand, was very happy. Lan Si was getting better. He didn’t recall much, but it was better than nothing.

“The
 activation of the learning system depends on our innate talent. The
stronger your innate talent, the earlier the system will activate. The
fastest time recorded was 15 months after childbirth. Of course, that
child is an anomaly and will definitely become one of the most powerful
king mecha operators in the future,” Ji Sheng continued. He was envious
of that child. His own innate talent was merely normal and so he had
activated the learning system when he was 8 years old. He had just
become an intermediate mecha warrior.

“I remember this. I want to
know who our enemies are and where they come from.” Ling Lan stopped Ji
Sheng from continuing this topic.

Ling Lan remembered Little Four
mentioning how powerful the Mandora star system was. The star systems
around them were not their match at all. However, without the
experiences on the battlefield, the military strength of a nation would
deteriorate. In order to maintain their strength and continue producing
outstanding warriors, the Mandora star system combined all their
technology and invented the learning system. It allowed the people of
the Mandora star system to experience battles in the learning system and
 henceforth become a mecha expert. Some might even become a king mecha
operator.

However, the Mandora star system was experiencing an attack now. There was something amiss going on.

Ji
 Sheng’s expression dimmed at Ling Lan’s question. “The king mecha
learning device is very cruel. The elimination rate is as high as 30%.
Some people even ended up harming their brain and becoming mentally
disabled because they couldn’t handle the vicious training. Because of
this, a portion of the people protested. They felt that this was a
scheme by the intelligence entities who wanted to control the humans and
 build their own nation.”

“Intelligence entity?” Was he referring to Little Four and her instructors in the learning space?

“Yes.
 The Mandora star system is made up of two kinds of people. One group is
 made up of Mandora citizens like us and the other contains the
intelligence entities. They were just an intelligent system at the
start, but they evolved and started to have their own consciousness. We
worked together and created this strong and powerful Mandora star
system. To show that the Mandora citizens accepted them wholeheartedly,
we used the current mainframe’s name to name the current era. The name
would only change when the next mainframe takes over.”

“If that’s
what happened, why did the people feel that the intelligence entities
wanted to control the humans? Survival of the fittest is an old law of
nature. They could not suspect the intelligence entities just because of
 this,” Ling Lan asked curiously.

“Someone suggested that the
implantation of the learning system was a scheme by the intelligence
entities to control the Mandora citizens. The intelligence entities
could kill anyone that resisted against them using the learning system’s
 chip. After some time, a huge bunch of important talents died suddenly
from an explosion in their brain. It almost destroyed an entire
generation. People started suspecting that the intelligence entities
were killing talents among the Mandora people to prepare for their
takeover. General Liya also found evidence to support this hypothesis,
so the Mandora citizens were enraged and killed all the intelligence
entities…” Ji Sheng didn’t believe that this was the truth. There was
doubt in his eyes. However, he was just a normal person and his opinion
would not affect the war at all. The only thing he could do was follow
the flow of the crowd.

“Hence, the war started. We are fighting
against the intelligence entities.” Ling Lan already knew what happened
in the Mandora star system, but she was not sure what the result was.
Who won the war?

If the intelligence entities won and Little Four
knew about this war, he must have been produced after it happened. If
that was the case, why did the intelligence entities continue implanting
 learning systems in humans? Was it just to cultivate mecha operators?
Were they not afraid that humans would go against them again? Were they
really aiming to control the Mandora citizens?

Cold sweat fell
down her forehead, but Ling Lan regained her senses and calmed down
instantly. She rejected this line of thought. She could feel Little
Four’s sincerity, which was not something that could be faked. Her
instructors were strict and vicious, but their motive was clear; to make
 her stronger, with the exception of Number Five.

Did the Mandora
citizens win, after which the rulers of the country used the learning
system again because they knew the benefits it could give? No, if the
Mandora citizens won, the rulers would not have gone back on their
words. The only possibility was that the learning system was implanted
in a small number of people. For instance, their secret military forces…

Ling
 Lan felt that she had correctly guessed the sequence of events. She
felt that the Mandora citizens were stupid, but she was one of them now.
 She had no choice but to fight with the Mandora citizens.