Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1246 - 1213: Rival

The Chen's family member certainly didn't want to harm their own by taking opportunistic shortcuts.

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A dozen minutes flew by in the blink of an eye.

Just as the custom lunchboxes from the airport arrived, Chen Shan stretched and emerged from his rest, feeling as if he had just closed his eyes and opened them again, his vigor visibly restored to an energetic peak state.

"Mirror, mirror!"

Unexpectedly, just after brushing off the withered remnants covering him, Chen Shan shouted for someone to bring a mirror.

There were no ready-made mirrors in the hangar, but a lot of metal surfaces came close to having a mirror-like effect.

Holding a piece of mirror-finished aviation aluminum skin, Chen Shan questioned Chen Fei, "What the heck, why are the dark circles still there?"

"I told you it wouldn't help much!"

Chen Fei spread his hands, looking innocent.

"You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

Shen Fei, standing nearby, playfully lowered her voice.

The one who truly knows Fei, is Fei herself!

"Hmm!" Chen Fei admitted honestly to his girlfriend.

The effects of the SPA fruit were entirely under his control. If anyone tried to steal it, they were doomed to be disappointed, or rather, desperate, because the eventual effect might not necessarily be beneficial; a living person could turn into a puddle of unidentified foul water.

"This is infuriating!"

Chen Shan, exasperated, threw away the makeshift mirror aviation skin.

It would take at least two or three more days for his dark circles to vanish naturally.

"Chen Shan, your opponent this afternoon is me!"

The Sky Knight from the "Chicken Nest" Air Force Base, Wu Chen, officially announced the afternoon's confrontation project, stating that for Chen Shan to become a true Sky Knight, he must earn his recognition through direct confrontation.

"Go for it, Little Shan!"

A few elder sisters cheered on their younger brother enthusiastically.

"It's not entirely a bad thing!"

Sun Ru came over to Chen Fei and patted him on the shoulder.

Although he was at his peak state, his tactical style was well-known to Chen Fei, and who knew if he'd leaked it to Chen Shan, secretly offering advice. So, they, along with Ding Xiu, directly avoided this possibility.

The totally unfamiliar Lu Xia and Wu Chen happened to serve as fair and impartial confrontation evaluators.

"I didn't think that far!"

Chen Fei picked up on the implied meaning.

Although the SPA fruit had made Ding Xiu and Sun Ru a bit better state-wise, like the other two Sky Knights, there was no essential difference for Chen Shan regardless of who he faced.

"Chen Fei, take a look at this; the corrective value just calculated should make it in time."

Nangong Ruiyang came over with a tablet. The high-intensity flight exercises in the morning had given him new insights. There were many such marginal optimizations. If Chen Fei were present, the optimizations could achieve the long-desired changes with immediate effect—practically perfect efficiency.

Thanks to the computational support from the "planetary-level compute node," calculations that used to take a week with a supercomputer now only required a few seconds, with most of that time spent on data transmission.

"Is there a brief explanation? I totally can't understand this!"

Faced with a pile of blueprints and formulas, Chen Fei frankly admitted his ignorance; the Nangong team always challenged him with overly professional stuff. Couldn't they just list a simple one-two-three result? Instead, they made it so complicated and consistently ignored his feedback.

"I can't imagine how you came up with the prototype!"

Nangong Ruiyang mercilessly mocked in his professional domain.

"Stick you in a tactical jet and crash it a couple hundred times, and you'd understand."

Chen Fei retorted on the spot, argumentatively and matter-of-factly, without the slightest exaggeration.

Shen Fei: "..."

A scholar encountering soldiers is probably such a scene.