Chapter 371: Magic Restoration Procedure

The curved mecha provided Xia Xinyan with a safe space below.

Looking at the falling rocks around, her mood was a bit heavy.

She had been played.

Ling Mo had been stalling for time while chatting with that suited bald guy, and she could see that, but she didn’t expect the bald guy was also just stalling.

Perhaps the natural terrain of the valley made them relax their vigilance, thinking that the guy had nowhere to escape, and they nearly had a mishap.

They really had been careless.

At that moment, a sudden voice from above caught her attention. Looking up, the cockpit in the mecha’s abdomen automatically opened, lights illuminating inside, while an AI voice chimed in: “Master, this chicken will take you out.”

Xia Xinyan was silent for two seconds before jumping into the cockpit.

I have to say, this Tianji guy was quite a scam in many ways, but when it mattered, he was still reliable. Coupled with Ling Mo’s manifestation ability, in Xia Xinyan’s view, this guy could be considered a waste resource put to good use.

The mecha’s control mode was a neural connection, which is why Ling Mo could control the mecha while holding Xia Xinyan. However, Xia Xinyan had never used this thing before, so suddenly connecting to the mecha system felt rather strange.

Her connection with Tianji was always there; it didn’t disappear because Tianji had manifested. To be precise, after Tianji manifested, it was like extending his spiritual power through a physical form, akin to remote control, while his true essence remained in Xia Xinyan’s spiritual domain.

After all, it was a system. There couldn’t be a situation where it lost connection.

Thus, Xia Xinyan found it even quicker to operate the mecha with Tianji as the AI than Ling Mo could. It was as if the whole mecha became an extension of her body. Once she got a little accustomed to it, she promptly pushed the falling rocks off the mecha, finally straightening up and surveying her surroundings.

The cliffs on both sides of the valley had been blasted, creating huge gaps, and stones were still occasionally sliding down. The bottom of the valley had become a disaster area, especially the section with activity traces, which was nearly completely covered.

Fortunately, this mecha was quite functional, including a scanning feature. With Tianji’s assistance, they soon detected all life forms buried beneath.

The villagers stuck in cages on both sides were unfortunate kids who had been captured, along with… a solitary figure not far from here.

Additionally, there was a livestream camera that had narrowly escaped disaster.

Xia Xinyan turned to glance at the hardworking camera floating nearby, live-streaming the situation, and then controlled the mecha to start clearing the fallen rocks.

The clearing method was quite simple; she used the thrust function to lift and toss the stones away.

Most of the major debris from the cliffs was heavy, and its potential energy when falling had become a real weapon. Thankfully, though… Ling Mo’s last moment of eruption saved everyone’s life.

Xia Xinyan had witnessed the last instant before the valley was buried, and it was her first time seeing Ling Mo’s true explosive power.

It even made her feel somewhat… scared.

Legitimately scared.

You have to understand, while Ling Mo’s manifestation ability sounded impressive—okay, it actually was—it still had quite a few limitations. Besides the limitations of the manifested objects themselves, the distance of manifestation, quantity, and speed all related to how much energy was consumed, and this consumption wasn’t a linear growth. For instance, for manifestation distance, once reaching a certain optimum limit, extending it by just one more meter could double the energy cost.

She remembered mentioning before that because of these limitations, manifesting bombs or such directly behind an enemy was simply unrealistic—first, who would know if such a maneuver would work? Unless one could guarantee a quick win, the result wouldn’t be worth the energy spent.

So in her past life, she seldom exceeded a manifestation distance of about ten meters, mostly staying within two meters to minimize the energy consumption from distance.

Similarly, the speed of manifestation mattered; the more complex the object, the longer it took. You could speed up the process but it required extra consumption. Although not much, sudden bursts of power could also leave one somewhat fatigued.

And Ling Mo just now had instantaneously manifested a steel fortress sprawling across the entire valley, even including a mecha.

Distance, quantity, speed—he had pushed all three to their limits.

Xia Xinyan had the same ability in her past life, which made her feel fear at that moment when she saw Ling Mo’s explosive power.

So, unknown to her, had Ling Mo grown this strong without her realizing it?

That left her with complex feelings.

With these thoughts, she controlled the mecha to flip over a gigantic boulder in front of her.

Underneath the boulder was a hard fortress, about the size of a person.

And it even had a door.

However, Xia Xinyan waited for a moment, but there was no movement from inside the fortress.

Thinking for a moment, she simply opened the cockpit and left the mecha, switching Tianji to automatic alert mode. She then approached the fortress.

The door of the fortress had no keyhole, but there was a handle. She tried to push the door but it didn’t budge.

Then she pressed her ear to the door and softly asked, “Mo Mo?”

No response.

Xia Xinyan frowned slightly, instinctively wagging her tail as she contemplated cutting the door open.

Then she hesitated and instead reached for the handle, giving it a pull.

The door opened.

Ling Mo was lying inside, seemingly unconscious.

Xia Xinyan hurried in, crouching beside him: “Mo Mo?! Are you okay?!”

Hearing her voice, Ling Mo slowly opened his eyes, tilting his head to look at her, then forcing out a smile: “I’m alright…”

It was just as if his body had been hollowed out.

To be honest, this was his first time experiencing his own explosive power. In the past, he would never have done such a reckless act, knowing it would deplete his strength and leave him as easy prey afterward, plus he might not even have been able to pull it off—because he had never tried it before.

But if he hadn’t acted, there would have undoubtedly been huge casualties here.

Others may not blame him, but he couldn’t live with himself.

“Are the others… okay?” This was his second concern.

As for his first concern… he already had the answer.

Xia Xinyan was silent for two seconds and didn’t answer, instead directly picking him up and bowing her head to start the magic restoration process.

Ling Mo paused.

But soon, he relaxed, even enjoying it a bit.

Rare opportunity where Xinyan took the initiative…

It was only at times like this that she would be proactive.

And the results were remarkable. After this, Ling Mo felt his empty body being filled up again.

They say such wonderful things are girls squeezing men, but Ling Mo felt like right now… including in the future, it felt like he was the one squeezing Xinyan…

A bit strange.