Chapter 242: Plan Correction, Strong Opponent Sparring, Picking Up Discarded Parts

Because of Broly's sudden arrival, Shuvi survived from Jibril's hands, but the battle situation changed too quickly; the Dwarf and Elf alliances arrived at the confrontation zone earlier than the estimated time.

Of the 32 Passage Control Devices, only 24 are currently able to operate normally; wanting to go to the battlefield center again to install new Passage Control Devices is already an impossible thing.

That region is now being watched by the Dwarves and Elves; neither side would possibly allow the Ex-Machina to set up something like a trap there.

【As a result, Rick's plan to trigger a three-party great war, deflecting the energy of the three parties' high-power attacks 【Void Zero Formula】, 【Marrow Explosion Bomb】, 【Heavenly Strike】 to the ground via the 【Passage Control】 devices, thereby piercing the Star to realize the plan of making the Star Cup appear, has now been invalidated.】

The Ex-Machina Linkage Command Body, after computation, drew this conclusion.

【uc207pr4f57t9, requesting the Command Body to make a correction to the plan.】

While Broly was drinking soup and eating meat with Xiao Ji Pu Li Er, Shuvi, in the Ex-Machina Linkage Network, made her own request to the Ex-Machina Linkage Command Body 【Einzhi】.

After Heart Intelligence was shared, in the current situation where the entire Ex-Machina species has fallen in love with this human Rick, this request was easily approved by 【Einzhi】.

【Plan correction: guiding energy to the ground to pierce the Star has become impossible to realize due to physical reasons, but it is still possible to guide energy toward the battlefield's southwest direction.

Only need to deploy a sufficient number of Analysis Units in the battlefield's southwest direction, letting the Analysis Units receive the deflected attacks, and a weapon equivalent to 77%-88% of the energy after the collision of the three attacks 【Void Zero Formula】, 【Marrow Explosion Bomb】, 【Heavenly Strike】 can be designed.

Simulation computation of 【Void Zero Formula】, 【Marrow Explosion Bomb】, 【Heavenly Strike】 power data, confirmed; integration of the three attacks' power, even if only able to simulate the lowest 77% effect, is still sufficient to pierce this Star.

【Canon Star Killer】 weapon design success rate as high as 79%, plan correction complete, information already returned; please uc207... no, Shuvi, return to Rick's side, inform the other party of the situation regarding the plan correction.】

After Shuvi received the data returned by the Linkage Command Body, she fell silent for a while; only then did she ask in the Linkage Network: 【Can the Analysis Units that analyze attacks withstand attacks of that magnitude?】

【99.9% will be exterminated, but no need to worry; we Ex-Machina are merely machines, tools, and will not violate the rule Rick himself established — that no sacrifices appear.】

【Thank you all, Einzhi.】

【Go, Shuvi; we Ex-Machina as a whole are the individual, the individual is the whole; the individual's happiness is the whole's happiness.】

The Linkage Network disconnected; Shuvi stood up, preparing to leave.

"Where are you going?"

Seeing the mechanical girl's movement, Broly couldn't help but ask a sentence.

"Return to the side of my important person."

"Is it returning to your marriage partner's side?"

"Mm."

Shuvi did not deny it.

"Pay attention to safety."

Broly had no thought of following; since Shuvi had already confirmed she would not become his wife, he would not pester the other party either.

The Saiyan chose to stay on the Ex-Machina headquarters side, but inquired of the eat-drink-full Jibril what things could make her feel happy.

"Things that make one feel happy? Fighting strong opponents, cutting off a strong opponent's head and bringing it back as a collection — does that count?"

In this cruel world, the Flügel under the War God are happy, because they, like their own Creator, are a bunch of warmongers.

"My head cannot be given to you, but fighting you is still possible."

Broly could not satisfy the latter request, but could satisfy the former request.

One fist, directly *hu* onto Jibril's right eye.

"So painful, what are you doing?"

Jibril covered her right eye which had turned into a panda eye, unable to understand why she, as a captive, was suddenly beaten.

"I want to fight you, let you feel happy; hmm, are you happy now?"

Broly asked, then another fist hit Jibril's left eye; the panda eyes directly became symmetrical.

Jibril sporting a pair of panda eyes: "???"

What kind of logic is this? "I'll fight you to the death!"

After her nose also took Broly's fist, Jibril got angry, raising her small fists and rushing over.

But perhaps because she rarely experiences this kind of battle without any Spirit Power, Jibril's fist was dodged in one go.

On the contrary, on her left and right cheeks, she then took three controlled jab punches from the Saiyan boy; the force wasn't great, but the insulting nature was extremely strong.

"Wu..."

The beaten-down Jibril wiped her nosebleed, unwilling to accept defeat, climbed up, and once again swung her fists rushing over.

Unlike other Flügel who are perfect individuals when produced, Jibril is an imperfect individual; yet precisely because she is imperfect, she possesses learning ability that other Flügel do not have.

After just fighting a bit, Jibril adapted to the way of fighting without Spirit Power, from wildly throwing punches to learning to assume a fighting stance like Broly in a passable manner, launching her own free fighting offense at Broly.

However, Jibril's small fists always maintained a subtle distance from Broly; no matter how she attacked, she could only reach Broly by a hair's breadth.

And each of Broly's fists could precisely hit her; from time to time a hook-leg trip, and Jibril would be tripped — *gou ken ni* faceplant into the dirt.

Before long, Jibril, who had washed clean just before going into the pot, became dirty all over.

"Not landing a single hit, you must be intentionally tormenting me; anyway I've already lost, now I'm your collection, do whatever you want!"

Finally, after being knocked down once more, Jibril gave up the battle.

"Wasn't it you who said you wanted to fight a strong opponent? My complete supremacy over battle rhythm control and battle technique — isn't that precisely the performance a strong opponent should have?"

Looking at Jibril's happiness value that not only didn't rise but fell, Broly only felt it made no sense; to make Jibril happy, he had even brought out his micro-management skill, letting Jibril experience, in the 'battle' just now, the situation of being dominated in battle by him, this strong opponent.

"But the fight with a strong opponent I anticipated shouldn't be this kind of look."

Jibril felt a bit wronged; those seemingly impossible-to-win battles she had experienced before, no matter how miserable, had never made her feel this helpless, unable to do anything.

Broly thought for a bit, felt Jibril and Darkness might be different, unable to enjoy this kind of bullying-the-weak battle; she should be the type similar to Esdeath, liking fist-to-flesh exchanges with each other, so he pulled her up from the ground.

"Let's fight once more; this time I guarantee I can make you feel happy."

Jibril: "???"

Facts prove that a battle with zero combat experience, aside from Darkness that kind of true masochist, no one can endure.

And this kind of accompanying someone to fight, it needs to let the battle participant have a sense of participation; as Broly performed the act of being hurt by Jibril's fists, this Flügel little girl's happiness value rose.

Can confirm now: Flügel like battle, but what they like is evenly matched battle, not battle crushed by absolute power or technique with no hope of victory visible.

Of course, the current evenly matched is just Broly intentionally performing; actually, Broly is merely accompanying Jibril playing the strong-opponent battle game.

Jibril understood this too, but happy was happy, because she could finally hit the boy, even if the cost was taking a few more punches from him.

"May I ask, what is the meaning of this behavior of yours?"

The Ex-Machina that had been observing from the side for a long time finally came over to ask Broly this question after both of them lay down.

"Meaning? Making her happy is the meaning."

Broly replied.

"So, this is actually a game that makes the Flügel happy?" the Ex-Machina asked.

"I'm not happy at all, what's the point of this kind of house-playing battle?"

Jibril immediately retorted.

"No, you are happy, you can't deceive me about this."

Just as Broly and Jibril were arguing, Shuvi also returned to a hidden cave.

Rick lying on the stone bed had not yet woken up, his left sleeve was empty, and his left eye was wrapped in bandages.

To realize the Ghost Plan, this person's body had been severely corroded by Elf Corpses, his left hand was severed, his left eye was gouged out, and he had not many days left to live.

After Shuvi entered, she saw him closing his right eye with his brow tightly furrowed, as if enduring some pain, she reached out to touch the youth on the stone bed, and the next moment the youth was startled awake, with fine beads of sweat on his pale face.

"Rick, are you alright?"

Shuvi asked, and after the youth saw her by his side, he revealed a somewhat forced smile.

"I'm fine, I just seemed to have dreamed just now of a nightmare where you left my side."

Shuvi: "……"

She indeed almost got destroyed, and from then on left Rick's side.

"I linked with the Link Body, according to the Link Body's computation, our plan will fail……"

Shuvi did not mention that she went alone to install the Passage Control device, but briefly explained the current situation of Rick's plan.

"However, don't worry, at my request, the Linkage Command Body has already corrected our plan, now I will tell you the corrected plan."

"Shuvi……"

"Hmm?"

"Are you really still Shuvi?"

"Of course I am Shuvi, look, this is the wedding ring you gave me, and my number is still uc207……"

Shuvi's words were not finished yet when she was hugged by Rick: "You're alright, that's great."

Rick was very smart, his observation was not weak either, realizing that during the time Shuvi was unconscious, she might have gone out alone.

"I'm sorry, I've dragged you down."

As a human, he was very weak, now he only felt himself useless, unable to endure the body's fatigue and fainted, which led to Shuvi acting alone and doing some adventurous things.

"Rick, you haven't dragged me down, it's me who shouldn't have acted on my own."

The two embraced for a while, and after their emotions calmed down, Shuvi then told Rick what happened to her after he fell unconscious.

After hearing that Shuvi encountered a Flügel and almost got killed, the worry and nervousness on the youth's face were very obvious.

And after hearing that the girl was saved by someone, he breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard that the person who saved Shuvi looked at Shuvi and wanted Shuvi to be his wife, Rick became nervous again.

"So, Shuvi, did you agree or not?"

"Is Rick eating vinegar?"

"I just don't want to be abandoned, but if you think that would be better, I would also choose to accept and divorce you."

"How could that be better, Shuvi has already refused the other party."

Hearing this, Rick hugged the mechanical girl and was moved to tears for a while.

Crying and crying, this person fainted again.

When he woke up, it was twelve hours later.

After listening to the corrected plan, Rick was silent for a while, then said to Shuvi: "Shuvi, can you bring the person who saved you and the Flügel he captured over to this side?"

"I can, but why?"

"First, I want to express my gratitude to the benefactor who saved you, second, I want to test whether the Flügel knows about our plot."

Rick answered Shuvi's question.

And Shuvi quickly contacted the Link Command Body, but through the Link Command Body she saw that in the Ex-Machina Self-Replication Factory, in the Scrap Parts Room, a Saiyan boy seemed to be looking for something.

"May I ask, what are you doing?"

The Loli Voice came from the mechanical equipment above his head, Broly recognized it was Shuvi's voice, and answered her question: "Jibril wants to collect your head, other Ex-Machina say your head is severely damaged and was removed, so I am looking for that unwanted head of yours here with her."

Shuvi: "……"

"Found it~"

Then a voice was heard, and then Jibril climbed out from the pile of scrap parts prepared to be recycled and remade, holding the mechanical head she removed yesterday.

"So, back then I only needed to give you my head, and you would let me go, right?"

She asked from a distance to Jibril, whose face showed joy.

"Is that rusty iron still watching this side?"

"My name is Shuvi, I've already told you."

"Call me whatever you want, if you were willing to not resist and offer your head back then, I indeed was not interested in destroying your body."

Jibril was just a Head Collector, she just liked collecting various heads, as for massacring the weak, she herself was not interested.

Shuvi: "……"

The Ex-Machina's core including the device storing information was in the chest area, the head was instead an insignificant limb.

If I had known it was so simple to send Jibril away, I should have just cut off her head directly... oh no, that's not right either, back then she had already lost contact with the Link Body.

And there were visual devices on the head, if there was no head, she would also not be able to distinguish directions, if not repaired in time, she might just get lost in the wild.

"Broli-sama, my husband would like to invite you over for a meeting; I don't know if you're free now?"

Shuvi got down to proper business.

Broly: "???"

He didn't know what there was to see about himself and the other party's husband.

"We'll prepare something to eat for you on This Side."

Benefiting from intelligence gathered by the Ex-Machina following the boy, Shuvi obtained information on the Saiyan boy's preferences, and said it catering to his tastes.

"I'm free. Where are you and your husband?"

Hearing about food, Broly's spirit lifted and he asked.

"Wait a moment; another Ex-Machina will bring you over to our side, but please also bring your captive, that Flügel named Jibril."

Chapter End