Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr With Gao Jinyun as the point, the team members took up their positions in unison, forming a rhombus-shaped battle formation. In Mecha World, they had always cooperated like this in every battle — habit had become second nature. In the real world, for the first battle, everyone had chosen this battle formation they were most familiar with.
"Fire!" shouted Gao Jinyun, taking the lead to press the fire button of his beam gun.
Six beams shot towards the enemy mecha. If this had been in Mecha World, against the mecha in the system, they would have been able to hit one or two shots. But now, they were up against an advanced mecha warrior with rich combat experience. Against this sort of almost constant beam shooting, the battle-hardened enemy mecha could easily dodge it.
The opponent moved gracefully in a zigzag pattern, dodging four or five of Gao Jinyun's team's beams in an instant. The only one he had not dodged was Gao Jinyun's beam. Because Gao Jinyun had used predictive trajectory shooting, it could be considered a more advanced type of control for intermediate mecha warriors. He had calculated the enemy mecha's possible reactions and shot at the position where the opponent might dodge in advance, so the enemy mecha had not been able to dodge his beam.
After dodging the four or five beams, the enemy mecha found that one of the beams had just happened to hit the position he had dodged to. Because dodging required adjustment, it was impossible for him to dodge again. Thus, the enemy mecha instantly activated his mecha's beam shield, and after taking Gao Jinyun's beam attack head-on, he pounced viciously at them, prepared to finish off these small fries at close range.
Their first attack had been so easily dodged by the opponent — several of the team members could not help but panic. Gao Jinyun shouted, "Continue shooting!"
This shout calmed these team members down instantly. They obeyed their team leader's orders, pressing down on the fire button in their hands with all their might. Beams poured out wildly from the muzzles of their guns, shooting towards the pouncing enemy mecha...
This round of frenzied attacks was effective, making the enemy mecha hesitate and choose to dodge, stopping his frontal attack. When he saw that although this group of intermediate mecha were acting rather immature, their teamwork was abnormally good, he was somewhat dismayed. In the end, he could only choose to dodge.
Gao Jinyun and the others only saw that as the enemy mecha dodged, he abruptly leapt backwards a few times, quickly pulling away from them. In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared into the night, disappearing without a trace.
Seeing this, Gao Jinyun put down the beam gun in confusion. It should be known that with the other's capabilities, no matter how ferocious their attacks were, they would only be able to stall for time. If the other was willing to take the brunt of their attacks, it was still possible, although this would cause damage to the other's mecha...
Could it be that the other party was afraid that the mecha would be damaged and there would be no place to repair it, which would affect the battle below, so they chose to retreat temporarily? Gao Jinyun felt that this was very likely. After all, this was their territory.
"Third Brother, I didn't think that we would actually be able to push him back. Even an advanced mecha is only so-so..." said one of the team members who did not know the truth excitedly.
"How is that possible? If he wanted to kill us, he could have done so by paying a small price. The other party chose to avoid us. Perhaps he doesn't want to pay any price …" Gao Jinyun retorted. When he said that he didn't want to pay the price, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind. His original confusion suddenly had an answer. He anxiously shouted, "Everyone, turn on the radar. The enemy might still be here …"
He had just finished speaking when Gao Jinyun suddenly felt a strong burst of energy coming at them from his right. His mecha's alarm immediately sounded. Even as Gao Jinyun shouted for them to run, he operated his mecha furiously, using one hand and one leg to kick the two team members in front of him out of the way.
With a loud 'bang', the sudden beam attack struck Gao Jinyun's mecha, who had already activated his beam shield. Gao Jinyun saw that half of his mecha's energy block had been depleted in an instant due to this attack, and his heart ached for the loss, but at the same time, he was shocked.
It looked like the power of an advanced mecha's beam gun was much stronger than that of their intermediate mecha. If an intermediate mecha's beam gun had struck the beam shield of an intermediate mecha, it would have only depleted 20% of the energy block's energy at most, definitely not as much as it was now. Gao Jinyun knew that if he was hit again, his mecha's energy would be depleted. At that time, he would only be able to wait helplessly for death.
Just as Gao Jinyun was panicking, the enemy's attack came again. However, this time, because his companions beside him had already dodged to one side, Gao Jinyun did not need to take the opponent's attack head-on like he had the first time in order to protect his companions. Although Gao Jinyun was only an intermediate mecha warrior, his control skills were still very solid — he was the one with the best control skills in the team. He operated his mecha to perform a figure-eight sidestep, and just like that, he managed to dodge this beam …
However, this was just an attack the opponent had used to confuse Gao Jinyun. Just as Gao Jinyun was dodging the beam, he heard his team members shout in terror in the team comms channel, "Leader, dodge!"
Some of the sharper team members were even pointing their beam guns at the air above him, frantically pulling on the triggers of their beam guns, trying to stop something …
Gao Jinyun was startled. Right then, he could already feel the threat coming from above him. He quickly adjusted his mecha's line of sight upwards, and saw that the enemy who had dodged and disappeared earlier had now appeared above him, a gleaming cold weapon slashing down mercilessly at his head.
If he had stood still, it would not have been impossible for him to dodge this attack. However, in order to dodge the second beam attack, he had already operated his mecha to perform evasive maneuvers. Due to the inertia of his movements, Gao Jinyun was unable to instantly stop his mecha's movement and make emergency changes to perform a new evasive maneuver. In other words, right now, Gao Jinyun could only watch helplessly as his mecha was slashed by the opponent, unable to do anything about it.
At this critical moment, Gao Jinyun gritted her teeth and decisively increased the defensive value of her beam shield to the maximum. Although the beam shield's defensive value against cold weapons was the weakest, at this moment, Gao Jinyun could only take this gamble.
The cold weapon was just about to hit Gao Jinyun's mecha when a loud 'bang!' Rang out. Gao Jinyun reflexively closed his eyes, waiting for the intense pain of serious injury to come from his body. However, he immediately found that he felt nothing at all.
Gao Jinyun's reflexes were lightning fast. He abruptly opened his eyes to see that the advanced mecha who had been attacking him was now about 10 metres away from him. Right then, the opponent's head was lifted slightly to look at the sky to his right. Meanwhile, the cold weapon in his hand that had almost hit Gao Jinyun had already been broken into two. The cut was smooth, as if it had been sliced clean by some domineering and sharp weapon.
In the next second, Gao Jinyun knew the answer. More than twenty meters to his left, there was a giant steel sword about ten meters tall and one meter wide. It was stuck in the ground at an angle. It seemed that the other party's cold weapon had been cut off by this big fellow that suddenly flew over. Seeing this situation, how could Gao Jinyun not know? He must have been saved by the owner of that giant steel sword …
Not too far away from the giant steel sword, Gao Jinyun even saw his three team members staring blankly at the sky to his right, just like the enemy mecha …
Gao Jinyun's heart skipped a beat. He quickly pulled the image to the sky to his right, and saw a mecha hanging in the air. Gao Jinyun recognised at a glance that this was definitely an ace mecha of the Federation. As a mecha operator who wanted to become an ace operator, Gao Jinyun naturally knew the various types of ace mecha of the Federation like the back of his hand. How could he not recognise this king of close combat that he had been longing for?
Gao Jinyun was pleasantly surprised, but he could not help but feel a trace of confusion. As the strongest ace mecha battle team on planet Newline, why were they not at the most dangerous dormitory area to protect the students? Why had they come to this place that was not the centre of the battle?
"Ace operator! From the military? No, your mecha doesn't have any military insignia on it, only the insignia of Huaxia's Top Military Academy. If I'm not wrong, you should be a military academy student … "The advanced mecha operator suddenly turned on his mecha's voice loudspeaker and began speaking to the ace mecha in the air. His Chinese sounded very awkward, his tone strange and stiff — it was clear that he was not from Huaxia.
The ace mecha hovering in the air did not open his mouth to answer the enemy mecha's question. He only stared coldly at the other.
The enemy mecha did not care whether the ace operator answered or not. He was just excited — he had not expected to be so lucky to have found the target of his mission. If he could finish off the other, when he returned, he would be the hero of his country.
Perhaps motivated by the impending glory, the chatterbox of the enemy mecha opened up and he continued, "As far as we know, the only person from your Huaxia's Top Men's Military Academy to advance to ace mecha recently is a person called Qiao Ting, nicknamed the Thunder King. He's another aberrant prodigy after Ling Xiao, and can be said to be the centre of attention … this person should be you, right?" At this point, the enemy mecha actually clicked his tongue regretfully. "Unfortunately, Huaxia will never be able to produce another Ling Xiao."
Gao Jinyun's eyes flickered — was the ace operator who had saved him really the Thunder King? If so, then that would put him in a difficult spot. Gao Jinyun knew very well that the Boss Lan he was prepared to follow would one day clash with the Thunder King.
"Are you done talking?" The ace mecha hovering high in the air finally spoke. His icy voice seemed to be able to freeze everything around him.
Hearing this voice, Gao Jinyun's pupils contracted, his face filled with disbelief … but very quickly, his face lit up with ecstasy, and his mouth split open so wide that he could not close it. When Gao Jinyun suppressed his excitement and once again turned to look at that ace mecha in the air, his eyes were filled with adoration, respect, and unconcealable joy and happiness.
"If I say that I'm done talking, what do you want to do?" The enemy mecha's tone carried a hint of mockery. An ace operator who had advanced through the ranks in a military academy without any actual combat experience or bloodshed was, in his eyes, just like a newbie who had just been born, not a threat at all. He believed that with his more than 10 years of combat experience, it would be a piece of cake for him to finish off this kind of newbie.
Moreover, in the time they had been talking, he had already informed his team of the Thunder King Qiao Ting's appearance here. He believed that his team members would rush over very soon. It turned out that despite his seemingly talkative appearance, he had actually been looking for an opportunity to send a message to his team members, delaying them for a while so that his team members could arrive in time.
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