Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr Hearing [Lingtian First-String] agree, Li Lanfeng was extremely excited. He sucked in a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. This time, he would definitely perform well and not embarrass his rabbit. Li Lanfeng knew very well that if he wanted to gain a foothold in the rabbit's team, relying on his friendship with the rabbit was not enough.
Li Lanfeng operated his mecha to dash out, landing in the endless desert that had already swallowed up many mecha. Then, he saw the quicksand beneath his feet swiftly swallow up the legs of his mecha. Very soon, the mecha was sinking at an extremely fast speed. At this rate, the entire mecha would probably not be able to hold its head up in a minute.
"The mecha's desert mode settings do not match the actual conditions. The difference in buoyancy is too great. Settings need to be changed. Changed to 20, not enough. 30, still not enough. 40, a little too much... correction, should be 37 or 38. Confirmed as 38. Original mecha's grip is lacking. Filler factor selected as 10. Sluggishness, changed to factor 9. Success. Original negative number for particle size is wrong. Increase negative value by 20. Error. Increase to 25? Adjust to 24. Confirmed... "Within the team comms, [Self-Defined Destiny]'s rapid voice rang out, along with the indistinct sound of fingers tapping at extremely high speeds.
This sent a jolt through the hearts of the other members of Ling Lan's team. They knew what this meant. Putting aside Zilong, whose control was crude and crude, who relied solely on his instincts, even Han Jijun, who had superb computing power, would not have been able to gather actual data on the ground in such a short amount of time to make such precise corrections. That rapid tapping sound also meant that the other's finger speed had definitely reached a frightening level.
This made Zilong and the others take this [Self-Defined Destiny] who had joined them halfway through seriously. Although they would not doubt Boss Lan's foresight, they had never experienced it firsthand, so they had no idea that this seemingly amiable and modest [Self-Defined Destiny] was also a control prodigy. As expected, the people Boss Lan took a fancy to were not simple.
However, after the initial shock, Zilong and the others calmed down. Without waiting for Ling Lan's instructions, they followed [Self-Defined Destiny]'s instructions and made adjustments to their mecha. After this round of settings, Li Lanfeng's mecha had already pulled its legs out of the quicksand easily. It stood up as if it was standing on solid ground, waiting for their arrival. This also proved that his settings were absolutely accurate.
This scene also stunned the other mecha still struggling in the sand, but they quickly understood something and hurriedly manually changed the settings. However, all of this was not as simple as it seemed. To manually change the settings, one needed to know all the settings of the mecha like the back of one's hand. If one only had a smattering of knowledge, there was no way they would be able to do what Li Lanfeng had done.
"Alright, let's move out." Seeing the situation, Ling Lan no longer hesitated and immediately gave the order.
Following this order, the eight mecha left on the platform shot out like cannonballs to land easily in the desert. They met up with [Self-Defined Destiny] and flew swiftly towards the depths of the desert.
This scene was captured by the starship's surveillance system and was quickly transmitted to the command room. When the adjutant in the command room saw the performance of this team, a trace of a smile appeared on his face as he said, "Looks like they're not all trash. This team, there's some form to it, especially this mecha..." He was referring to [Self-Defined Destiny], who had been the first to come out to adapt to the desert conditions.
"That's why I say that civilian mecha operators might not be completely useless," said the commander solemnly. "However, I keep having the feeling that this reclamation won't be so simple..."
"You mean..." The adjutant was taken aback.
"We've just received a notification from the mainframe saying that there's something strange about planet X193 not far from us. Right now, we're still investigating what exactly is going on. Once there's definite news, we'll be informed again." The commander's brow was furrowed. He had been studying all this time, trying to figure out what method they could use to get them close to the Swift Dragon base, but no matter how hard he racked his brains, he still could not come up with anything. He could only passively wait for the mainframe's notification. This made the commander, who liked to have everything in his hands, feel somewhat uncomfortable — he did not like this feeling of being tied down by someone else.
"Looks like the mainframe is very afraid of another problem this time..." The adjutant's gaze focused, as if he was thinking about something.
"So, right now, we can only passively wait for the mainframe's notification..." sighed the commander. He was becoming more and more uncertain about his mission.
Seven days passed very quickly. In these seven days, nothing much had happened to Ling Lan's team. This was because Ling Lan was not here to reclaim the planet in search of riches, so she did not split the team into several groups and spread out like other adventure teams. The nine members of the team were split into three groups in a triangular formation, constantly moving within the same area and coordinating with each other. Even if there were some ill-intentioned adventure teams, when they saw that Ling Lan's team was full of members and that they were in a triangular formation that could both attack and defend, they did not dare to act rashly.
The triangular formation was actually one of the basic formations of the Federation's mecha formations. It consisted of three mecha groups forming a triangle and moving as one. In this kind of formation, any mecha group could become the arrowhead of the team — it was one of the formations commonly used by the mecha clans of the Federation military.
Still, even so, Ling Lan's team was still quite lucky. Although they did not conduct a large-scale search, they still managed to find some rare metals, as well as some unknown minerals. They secretly recorded all of this down. As long as they handed it over to the registration staff on the starship, even if they did not earn a large sum of money, several months of mecha power supply would definitely not be a problem.
Speaking up to this point, it was time to talk about the usage of power in Mecha World and the methods to obtain it. A commonly used mecha, even if one was not logged in to operate it, would still have a basic level of power consumption. Thus, every mecha operator would feel the pressure of collecting power every day. Power could be obtained through missions, or through exploring the wilderness, or it could also be purchased through honour points from the power stores in Mecha World.
Thus, for mecha operators who did not log in for a long period of time, if they did not store enough power, it was very likely that the next time they logged in, their mecha would not be able to be activated and used. Replenishing power from scratch was much more expensive than storing it. Thus, in Mecha World, the average mecha operator would usually only have one regular mecha. Those who were slightly stronger would at most only have one spare mecha, because the average mecha operator would not be able to afford to keep another mecha, unless it was those who were capable or those who had a lot of honour points.
This also caused many mecha operators to dispose of their obsolete mecha in exchange for some power reserves. This was also why Li Lanfeng had gone to redeem another mecha when he wanted an intermediate mecha. Normal mecha operators could not possibly keep all of the mecha they had redeemed with them.
The reason why the system was so strict was also because it was afraid that mecha operators would not be able to focus on practicing their mecha. It should be known that the further one progressed, the more detailed the classification of mecha became. For example, for intermediate mecha, there were 5 types of humanoid mecha alone, and 8 types of advanced mecha. If one could not focus on one type of mecha operation, even the most talented mecha operator would become mediocre because of this. Thus, Mecha World had no choice but to use the pressure of reality to force mecha operators out of their impulsiveness, to calm their hearts and train hard on the control techniques of one mecha...
Thus, in Mecha World, every mecha operator would have a headache over the lack of power for their mecha. Ling Lan and the others were also troubled by this. The reason they were able to come out and do missions for such a long time was all thanks to Lin Zhong-qing, the logistician, who had been constantly storing up power. However, this could only last for half a month at most. Thus, it was always a good thing to be able to reap some rewards here.
Just as they were preparing to move on to the next district, they received an urgent notice from the command centre of the military vessel, hoping that all mecha operators would rush back to the transport ship within 3 days. This was because the transport ship would be leaving X192 punctually at 12 pm on the 3rd day. As for the reason, the military vessel simply said that a strong elemental energy riot would occur on planet X192 three days later. This riot was very likely to directly destroy all the mecha left on the planet.
Ling Lan and the others discussed for a while, and decided to gather for one more day before rushing back. Although they were only one day's journey away from the transport ship, Ling Lan did not like to push things too far. She liked to leave some leeway in everything she did.
One day passed very quickly. They tidied up the useful resources they had gathered and recharged the power reserves of their mecha. Then, they operated their mecha at full speed to rush back in the direction of the transport ship. When they were halfway there, something unexpected happened in front of them.
A loud 'boom' rang out. In the direction Ling Lan's team was rushing back, a violent explosion had actually come from ahead. This sound was clearly the sound of a mecha using a thermal weapon.
"Razor, bring your team over to take a look." Ling Lan frowned. Using thermal weapons on this planet was undoubtedly extremely dangerous. The air was already filled with hydrogen and chlorine, and with the high temperature, it was very easy for the mecha to self-destruct. If they were affected by a thermal weapon, it was very likely that a chain reaction would occur, and if they were unlucky, the safety of their team would be affected. In order to find out what was going on, Ling Lan ordered Luo Lang's team, who was currently acting as the arrowhead, to go ahead and investigate.
Luo Lang's team was made up of Luo Lang, Xie Yi, and Li Shiyu. Luo Lang was temporarily the team leader. After receiving his orders, Luo Lang led Xie Yi and Li Shiyu over quickly.
Not long after, Ling Lan's team received a shared video from Luo Lang's team. It turned out that one kilometre in front of them, there was a mecha team of 15 people launching a fierce attack on a mecha team of only 5 people.
If their guess was right, this should be a robbery. This was a scene that often happened when exploring new planets. Some large adventure teams with bad reputations loved to do this kind of thing, because robbing them at this time would bring them more benefits than searching for them on their own.
It seemed that the team of 5 people was also quite fierce, otherwise they would not have started fighting. Many mecha teams who saw that they could not fight back would choose to give up most of their resources and return safely. However, this team did not choose to give up. Seeing that they could not escape, they actually took the initiative to fire their thermal weapons. They obviously wanted to take the other team down with them, but their luck was not very good. The thermal weapons did not ignite the elements in the air, so they were currently being suppressed by the other team. Soon, they would all be wiped out.
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