Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr "Boss, your leopard doesn't seem to be in a good situation." Following the battle between Li Lanfeng and the two spectres, Little Four had quickly followed the other's spectre power to find their hiding place. However, after several consecutive confrontations, the lone Li Lanfeng was gradually falling into a disadvantageous position. The situation was not looking good.
"How much longer can he hold out?" Ling Lan frowned. She had not expected the opponent's spectres to be so strong. She had thought that Li Lanfeng, who had focused on defence, would not be defeated so quickly.
Little Four rolled his eyes viciously at Ling Lan. How could a confrontation between spectres be as simple as his boss thought it to be? Although Li Lanfeng's spectre power was strong, he still did not have any actual combat experience. His confrontational techniques were very immature, which was why he had fallen into a disadvantageous position so quickly. Otherwise, with Li Lanfeng's strength, which was a level higher than theirs, he would have been able to maintain an undefeatable situation if he focused on defence.
"The main problem is that he is not experienced enough, having never fought against a spectre before. Additionally, those two people work very well together, which is why your leopard is being held back at all times. However, your leopard is very smart, actually correcting his mistakes in battle and developing his own defensive techniques. Although the situation is not looking good, those two people will still need to put in some effort to truly defeat him. "Little Four told Ling Lan the actual situation.
Ling Lan frowned at these words. She was somewhat unsure whether she should let Little Four help the leopard deal with those two spectres, or wait here patiently and let the leopard gain as much experience as he could in fighting against spectres.
"Little Four, what's the situation at the base? Has the opponent sent a large ground force over? "Ling Lan asked Little Four. If they alerted the large ground force, she would need Little Four to help out. After all, they were too few in number — there was no way they could stand against the entire Swift Dragon fleet. Time was tight — they could not afford to waste any time.
"Ah, I was just about to tell you the news." Little Four came to a sudden realisation and replied, "The Swift Dragon base has not been alerted. Other than contacting the people at the base command, there has been no other movement. Furthermore, the person they contacted was not the highest commander of the Swift Dragon base."
"Looks like there is indeed a problem with the Swift Dragon base. I wonder which faction these people are from..." Ling Lan mused silently. Trying to kill them off right from the start... it was very likely that the spectres here were not from the Federation military. Perhaps they had been sent here by an enemy nation, or perhaps they were from those terrorist organisations that had rebelled against the Federation.
They must also be afraid of exposing themselves, so they did not dare to make too much of a ruckus. This was also why the Swift Dragon base had not been alerted — they were also afraid of being discovered by the mainframe (they probably did not know that the mainframe already knew there was a problem here).
And the purpose of Ling Lan and the others' trip this time was to find out exactly what had happened at the Swift Dragon base. To get to the bottom of this, they had to find out which faction these mysterious hackers had come from. Come to think of it, the true meaning behind the mission the mainframe had given them was probably to find out about this...
"Also, the military investigators the mainframe secretly sent here have been tricked into going to the other side of the trap. They have already started fighting. So, no new spectres will be added here for the time being. " Little Four suddenly spoke up, interrupting Ling Lan's train of thought. "However, there's bad news. Even though there's no movement outside, two of the three major mecha battle teams protecting this base are rushing over here. They'll probably be here in about a minute."
There was a 'bang'. Ling Lan could not take it anymore when she heard this news. She flicked a finger viciously at Little Four's forehead and said, "Bastard Little Four, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Little Four cradled his head in pain and said pitifully, "Isn't it still too late to tell me now?"
Although Little Four's words were reasonable, Ling Lan did not pay any attention to the aggrieved Little Four in the mindspace. This Little Four was just a little nicer to him, and he would become itchy and shameless. She needed to give him a good rub to make him more reliable. Ling Lan suspected that Little Four had masochistic tendencies in his bones.
Ling Lan decisively pushed Little Four to the back of her mind and ordered everyone in the team, "All members, get on your mecha and prepare for battle!"
Ling Lan's order came very abruptly, but Zilong and the others were already used to Ling Lan's abrupt orders. They instantly deployed their mecha. Li Shiyu and Chang Xinyuan had not been in the team for long after all, so in their momentary daze, they were a beat slower than Zilong and the others. However, their reactions were still very fast, following behind Zilong and the others to deploy their mecha.
Meanwhile, Li Lanfeng, who was fighting tenaciously against the two spectres, was the last to deploy his mecha. Fully focused on defence, he was only allowed to deploy his mecha before ensuring that there would not be any problems with the mission.
They had just gotten into their mecha when they heard the ground begin to shake violently. Only then did they realise why their boss had allowed them to get on their mecha. From this violent shaking, they could confirm that there were quite a number of mecha rapidly approaching them from not too far away. As the shaking grew stronger, everyone prepared for battle. Everyone drew out their cold weapons with their right hands and raised their beam guns with their left. They were just waiting for Ling Lan's order to open fire.
About 30 seconds later, about 20 mecha appeared in an arc formation in front of them. Ling Lan calmly looked at the distance between them, silently calculating the best time to attack.
When they were about 10 metres away from each other's shooting range, Ling Lan suddenly shouted, "Fire!"
Following this order, everyone raised their beam guns, aimed at their confirmed targets, and pulled the triggers. Eight beams of light shot out from eight gun barrels at almost the same time, shooting towards the enemy mecha in the distance.
"Turn on your beam shields!" Seeing the enemy mecha firing beams, the attacking base mecha all activated their beam shields to block. Their mecha numbers were clearly two to three times that of the opponent. Even if the opponent attacked them, it was very likely that they would not be able to get a single beam. Even if they were hit, there might only be one beam. If they were hit by two beams at the same time, then they would be considered very unlucky today.
The beam shield, on the other hand, could withstand three beam energy attacks without suffering any damage. Thus, these mecha did not choose to dodge. Instead, they charged forward arrogantly, prepared to use their numbers to bully the few and completely destroy these rioters who had invaded the heart of the base.
"Boom!" A loud sound rang out, and one of the mecha in the middle of the base mecha group suddenly exploded. The tremendous force of the explosion even damaged the mecha of his comrades beside him. Not far away, another mecha also exploded. However, it wasn't as shocking as the previous mecha's explosion.
"What's going on?" This question abruptly appeared in the minds of the other base mecha operators, but time did not allow them to think too deeply. On the battlefield, sacrifice was extremely common — they could only carry this question with them as they continued to charge forward.
Ling Lan looked at Chang Xinyuan with some surprise. Chang Xinyuan was not operating the advanced standard mecha of the Federation army right now; he had chosen to operate his own intermediate mecha. This mecha had been modified by Chang Xinyuan. Although it did not look like much had changed from the outside, the weapon system inside had undergone a major change. Ling Lan had already seen this when they had destroyed the transport ship.
Ling Lan knew that Chang Xinyuan's talent in modifying mecha was very strong, which was why he had attracted the Thunder King's attention, even going so far as to threaten and force Chang Xinyuan to become his subordinate. She had thought that she already had a good understanding of Chang Xinyuan, but now it looked like she had still underestimated the other's modification talent.
Ling Lan had not expected that Chang Xinyuan was not only adept at modifying mecha, his modification of weapons was just as aberrant. Back then, when he had modified the interference cannon at the head of the mecha, he had turned the weak and useless interference cannon into a powerful heavy fire laser cannon. Although Chang Xinyuan had deemed it an immature modification due to its short firing range, in Ling Lan's heart, this was definitely a terrifying trump card that could be used to kill.
Think about it — when a mecha was engaged in close-range combat, no one would think to defend themselves against the interference cannon at the head. This was because even if they were hit by the interference cannon at close range, it would only leave behind shallow, almost negligible bullet marks on the outer shell of the mecha. It would not be able to damage the mecha, much less the mecha operator inside.
Therefore, no one would defend against this. Just imagine, if at that time, the laser cannon at the head of the mecha was suddenly fired... the power of the laser cannon was tens or even close to a hundred times that of the interference cannon. Without question, even if the mecha that took a direct hit from this cannon would not be destroyed, just the shockwave from the explosion alone would be enough to make the mecha operator suffer. Even if the mecha did not die, the mecha operator would still be half dead. Thus, the problem of the short firing range that Chang Xinyuan had regretted was not a problem at all in Ling Lan's eyes.
It was just that the situation at that time had been urgent, so Ling Lan had not had the chance to communicate with Chang Xinyuan. Ling Lan had thought that that was already Chang Xinyuan's most outstanding design. Unexpectedly, Chang Xinyuan had given her another big surprise. The main contributor to the explosion of the first enemy mecha was this Chang Xinyuan who seemed to have the least combat ability.
It was also a beam gun, but Chang Xinyuan's beam gun did not shoot out a standard white beam. Instead, it shot out a beam tinged with a strange purple hue. This beam instantly destroyed the energy on the beam shield, causing the mecha to explode violently. In fact, during the explosion, Ling Lan had even seen that there seemed to be a hint of purple within the flames of the explosion...
Meanwhile, the other mecha that had exploded was the result of the tacit cooperation of Ling Lan, Zilong, and the other five. Zilong's group of five had not chosen to attack randomly, but had instead followed Ling Lan's chosen target and attacked together with their boss. The energy of the beam shield of the mecha that had been hit by six beams at the same time was unable to withstand the attack, so the result was naturally a mecha explosion and destruction.
The battlefield was constantly changing; there was no time for the combatants to be distracted. Other than Ling Lan who had discovered the power of Chang Xinyuan's beam gun, no one else had. Zilong and the others were only secretly rejoicing that they had been lucky enough to destroy two mecha in their first attack. This was extremely advantageous for them.
In just one exchange, they had lost two mecha. Whether it was their team leader or their team members, they all retaliated angrily. Both sides fired their beam guns at the same time. Compared to the opponent's brute force, Zilong and the others used extremely clever footwork to dodge the beams aimed at them.
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