Translator: H2dH2mr Editor: H2dH2mr It turned out that Shikamaru, who had been waiting for an opportunity in the distance, had finally thought of a way to get the best of both worlds. He immediately abandoned the powerful beam cannon and hung it back on his back, instead choosing a miniature beam handgun hanging from the back of his waist.
The beam handgun's power was obviously inferior to the beam cannon, and its range was extremely short. However, the advantage was that he was not afraid of heavily injuring his teammates. Even if he accidentally injured them, with the defensive capabilities of his mecha alone, as long as he did not hit the same spot twice, the damage to his mecha would not be too great.
The main reason he had chosen this beam handgun to snipe was to disrupt the Federation mecha operator, making him hesitate and not dare to attack wildly. This way, their team leader would have a chance to counterattack. However, if the opponent ignored his attacks due to the weak power of the beam handgun, he believed that as long as he was given the chance, he would definitely be able to hit the same spot multiple times, dealing heavy damage to the opponent.
Without question, his choice had broken Ling Lan's wishful thinking, allowing him to join the battle with peace of mind.
"Looks like I need to think of a way to finish off this mecha in front of me." Ling Lan knew that the scales of victory were gradually tilting towards the opponent — she could no longer wait. Countless plans flashed through her mind...
Shikamaru pulled the trigger once more, and another beam shot out from the muzzle of the beam handgun.
The beam struck the right side of the Federation mecha's waist, and a sudden explosion rang out. A thick plume of smoke seeped out from the back of the mecha's waist.
“YES！” Shikamaru could not help but give himself a mental pat on the back. This snipe, he had actually been lucky enough to destroy one of the opponent's engines, causing the opponent's power system to malfunction.
Sure enough, the Federation mecha's engines suddenly malfunctioned due to this accident, and the entire mecha plummeted downwards.
The team leader, who had been fighting in frustration, was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. "Here's my chance!"
He had not expected his subordinate Shikamaru-kun to be so awesome, directly destroying the opponent's engines. This was his chance to counterattack.
His excitement made him forget his physical discomfort, and he operated his mecha to pounce towards the Federation mecha like a tiger descending a mountain. Just now, he had been suppressed by the other party. Now, it was finally his turn to hit the other party. Of course, he would not miss such a good opportunity for revenge.
In the distance, the mecha operator Shikamaru was just about to continue sniping when he saw the team leader pouncing over excitedly. His hand that was about to press the launch button instantly slowed... Hmm, let the team leader vent his anger first!
He thought that a Federation mecha that had lost one of its main engines would definitely not be a match for his team leader. Moreover, she believed that the squad leader, who was being suppressed by the other party, would definitely want to vent his anger and ruthlessly torture the other party. As a subordinate, he could not stop his captain from humiliating the other party.
"The other party has fallen into a trap!" Seeing that the opponent was indeed attacking as she had expected, Ling Lan was wild with joy. She had been betting on the opponent's eagerness to take revenge, betting on the other mecha's freedom, and she had won.
Although Ling Lan was extremely excited, her hands were very steady. She perfectly controlled the head of her mecha, causing it to look up at an extremely precise angle.
"Calculated attack path, correct!" Little Four had just finished speaking when the anti-air missiles on the head of her mecha were decisively fired by Ling Lan.
These two missiles had come out of the blue. Furthermore, the opponent had not expected the Federation mecha operator, who should have been panicking, to actually fire anti-air missiles.
The team leader knew that he would definitely not be able to dodge, but he was not too worried. This type of anti-air missiles would not have much effect on mecha, because the outer shell of a mecha was enough to withstand the explosive force of the missiles.
The team leader thought that this was a desperate attack by the Federation mecha operator, so even if it had no effect, the other had still fired.
Before the missile hit the squad leader's mecha, it suddenly turned upwards. He suddenly found his main screen shaking violently, and then a thick cloud of smoke covered the screen. Other than the black smoke, the enemy's mecha could no longer be seen on the main screen.
He reacted quickly, instantly switching the images from the other positions to the main screen.
"Team leader, be careful!" His subordinate Shikamaru-kun's cry of alarm came through the comms channel. He reflexively operated his mecha to cross its arms in defence.
He had just completed this step when he felt his mecha being struck by a powerful force, and then his entire mecha was pushed into the air by this force.
What was going on? The team leader panicked, finding that things had gone out of his control.
In the distance, the mecha operator Shikamaru-kun had the clearest view of the situation. The two anti-air missiles fired by the head of the Federation mecha had originally been aimed at the shoulder and neck of the team leader's mecha, but just before they hit, they had suddenly changed directions and shot directly at the head. In other words, the opponent had been aiming for the main camera of the mecha. The two anti-air missiles were not normal missiles, but had been equipped with a guidance system.
This proved that the opponent's attack was not a desperate struggle in panic, but had been premeditated.
The opponent had used non-lethal anti-air missiles to affect the team leader's main screen — even the smoke from the anti-air missiles' explosions had probably been part of the opponent's plan. Not only that, when the team leader's vision had been obstructed, the opponent had once again fired a long-prepared and extremely powerful rocket launcher, blasting the team leader's mecha into the air.
Shikamaru-Kun raised the beam handgun in his hands angrily, prepared to destroy the opponent's mecha …
But something happened that shocked him. The engine that he should have destroyed actually began to roar loudly once more, and the powerful thrust sent the Federation mecha flying into the air alongside the team leader's mecha.
Not only that, the Federation mecha's subsequent actions caused him to cry out in shock. He saw the opponent quickly sheathe the high-frequency sword in his right hand back into the outer side of his thigh, and then he gripped that beam saber tightly with both hands to stab viciously at the team leader's cockpit.
"Quick, activate Beam Shield Protection!" screamed Shikamaru-kun in panic.
The team leader was indeed a team leader — he instantly activated Beam Shield Protection.
The beam saber and Beam Shield Protection clashed fiercely, and Ling Lan only felt a strong rebounding force in her hands.
"Little Four, hold on! Don't get bounced off!" Ling Lan pushed her mecha to its maximum power output, while Little Four desperately tried to maintain such a high power output so that the mecha's systems would not collapse under the immense pressure of these two forces.
In the air above, a blue and white mecha was holding a beam saber with both hands, pushing it against the cockpit of a black mecha as it flew forward rapidly, drawing a straight line in the air.
"Baka! Baka! " At this moment, the team leader, who had recovered his main screen, used the high-frequency sword in his left hand to slash desperately at the Federation mecha. One slash, two slashes, three slashes, leaving streaks of wounds on the opponent's mecha.
In the cockpit, Ling Lan could not hold it in any longer and spat out a mouthful of blood. The opponent's slashes had caused a certain amount of vibration waves to be generated in the mecha. The continuous vibrations had worsened the injuries on Ling Lan's already injured body, and she had actually spat out blood due to the turbulence in her blood flow.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Little Four was panicking.
"I'm fine, I can hold on. How many more seconds can the beam saber last?" The beam saber and the beam shield were against each other, so they would both expend energy. Whoever ran out of energy first would disappear. Ling Lan was currently betting that the opponent's Beam Shield Protection's energy would be depleted faster than her beam saber.
"Less than 10 seconds left!" Little Four was extremely nervous.
"I'll take the risk!" Ruthlessness flashed through Ling Lan's eyes. At this critical moment, she could be ruthless to herself.
"Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two … oh no! There's no more energy … "Before Little Four could finish his sentence, Ling Lan felt that the beam saber in her hand seemed to have lost its resistance, piercing through something.
Then, only the hilt of the beam saber was left. Was this considered a success or a failure? Ling Lan's confusion flashed through her mind, but her fingers did not stop moving. They continued to dance rapidly, leaving behind layers of afterimages.
The Federation mecha instantly let go of his powerless beam saber. His right hand grabbed hold of the Twilight mecha, and with it as the centre, he spun around to hide behind the Twilight mecha, dodging yet another extremely treacherous sneak attack from Shikamaru mecha operator in the distance.
"Shikamaru-kun, the Empire's mission will be left to you." The squad leader looked at the blood flowing rapidly from the hole in his chest, and said to his subordinate in the distance.
"Squad leader, what did you say?" In the distance, Shikamaru had not been able to see clearly what had happened in the end, because in about the same amount of time, the beam saber and beam shield had both run out of energy.
"Use the energy cannons! This is an order! " The squad leader felt his life slipping away. With his last breath, he gave the order, and then pressed down on the mecha's self-destruct mechanism.
"Even if I die, I will drag you down to hell with me!" In his final moments, the squad leader let out this furious roar.
"Squad leader!" Shikamaru already understood what had happened. At the last moment, the beam saber's energy had probably disappeared one second later than the beam shield, and in that one second, it had pierced the squad leader's vitals. This was also why the squad leader had asked him to switch out the energy cannons — he would not be able to survive.
"Squad leader, the Empire will not forget your sacrifice!" Mecha operator Shikamaru's gaze was cold. He threw down the beam handgun in his hands and picked up the beam cannon on his back once more. Setting it up, he aimed it at his own squad leader's mecha … as well as that Federation mecha hiding behind it!
"Not good, the other mecha has switched out its energy cannons." Little Four had been keeping an eye on the Twilight mecha that had been sniping at them all this time.
"Could it be that he doesn't care about the sacrifice of his comrades?" Ling Lan's first reaction was that the other had gone mad.
"That's not right …" Ling Lan suddenly felt a strong sense of trepidation in her heart, alarm bells ringing madly in her mind.
She didn't even think about it. Her fingers danced quickly. At this critical moment of life and death, she didn't think about the so-called limit of finger speed. There was only one thought in her mind, and that was to be fast, faster, faster than faster. Because she was fighting with the Grim Reaper for time to survive.
This time, there were no layers of overlapping images on the control panel. However, Ling Lan's fingers actually disappeared into thin air …
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