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Translator: H2dH2mr Editor: H2dH2mr Qiao Ting was startled. His first reaction was to check the number of people in the opponent's Lingtian Mecha Clan, and found that it was still 12 people. This made him frown involuntarily, wondering if his team members were just unlucky to have encountered one of Lingtian's three special-class operators.
Qiao Ting would not feel pity or annoyed that his team members had been defeated and left the field, because on the battlefield, anything could happen — luck played a large part in it. However, for the opponent to finish off his team in one minute, Qiao Ting felt rather dissatisfied. He believed that even if his team members were only advanced mecha warriors, against a special-class operator from Lingtian, they should have at least lasted for 2 to 3 minutes or more. This one minute was a bit of a slap to his face.
At this time, Qiao Ting still did not know that his team members had only encountered one of Lingtian's advanced mecha warriors, but because they had underestimated their opponent, they had accidentally fallen into a trap and were almost instantly killed by the opponent. Fortunately, he did not know, otherwise he would definitely explode in anger.
Qiao Ting knew the importance of morale; he could not let the Lingtian Battle Clan's morale rise because of this. Thus, he decided to take action, searching along the way and taking out a few Lingtian members along the way to suppress the opponent's numbers.
However, this map was too big. Qiao Ting could only choose a direction at random, flying swiftly as he used his ace mecha's radar to search.
The radar on an ace mecha was two levels higher than that of an advanced mecha. It could search within a range of up to 5000 metres. Qiao Ting believed that once they were discovered by his mecha's radar, the Lingtian members would definitely not be able to escape his grasp. In terms of speed, an advanced mecha was just trash in front of an ace mecha.
Just as Qiao Ting was searching for Lingtian mecha along the way, the situation suddenly changed. The data of the two teams began to fluctuate violently. Almost every two to three minutes, Qiao Ting would be notified by the mainframe that a Leiting member had been defeated and left the field. 10 minutes later, Leiting was actually down by 5 members. The number of team members had instantly dropped to 7, almost losing half of their team.
Fortunately, Lingtian had also suffered some losses in these 10 minutes, losing 3 members. However, Qiao Ting's mood was already very bad. It was clear that in this direct confrontation between the two teams, Leiting was already at a disadvantage.
"Damned Lingtian." Right then, Qiao Ting could no longer maintain his initial calm, and could not help but curse.
Right then, Qiao Ting's A.I. suddenly beeped a warning. [Beep, attention please. Three unidentified flying objects have been detected!]
This warning caused Qiao Ting's spirits to rise. Perhaps because the map was too large, Qiao Ting's luck did not seem to be very good. In these 10 minutes, Qiao Ting had not encountered a single mecha from Lingtian. He had not even encountered a mecha from his own battle clan. This made Qiao Ting very depressed. Even though he really wanted to kill his opponent and suppress his opponent's arrogance, he felt helpless in the face of this empty map.
Qiao Ting's first choice was to close the distance between them. The mecha's screen clearly showed that about 5000 metres away, three mecha were currently in a triangular formation, closing in on him. The bodies of the three mecha were emitting a red light that represented the opposing faction. Qiao Ting was very familiar with the exterior of one of the mecha — it was the special-class mecha of his old rival, Zhao Jun. There were also two advanced mechas behind him. It looked like the three of them had formed a battle column.
Seeing this, Qiao Ting vaguely understood why his team members had been killed off in such a short period of time. It was very likely that he had been surrounded alone and killed by the enemy. Anger surged in Qiao Ting's heart. For this situation to occur, it was obvious that the mainframe was biased towards the Lingtian Mecha Clan. It was very likely that several of Lingtian's mecha had been together at the landing point.
"Hmph, how despicable! Trying to use such methods to stop me, Qiao Ting, from becoming the king of the military academy? No way! " Fury flashed in Qiao Ting's eyes. He believed that this was an obstacle the military academy had purposely set up for him. He had no idea that the one who had actually gained the advantage was actually his Leiting. However, no one could have expected that Ling Lan would have the heaven-defying cheat of Little Four, which was how she had turned her disadvantage into an advantage, tilting the situation towards Lingtian.
A trace of coldness appeared in the furious Qiao Ting's eyes. Since everyone wanted to go against him, then he would perform even more brilliantly. He would use his strength to tell everyone that no one could stop him, Qiao Ting, from becoming the king of the military academy.
Qiao Ting's murderous gaze landed on the black special-class mecha leading the group on the screen. As long as he could get rid of Zhao Jun, the only one who could withstand 10 to 20 moves from him, it would basically mean that the final outcome of this battle was already set.
Qiao Ting's aberrant control talent was indeed the main reason he could become the first student to advance to ace operator, but it also had a lot to do with his ability to control his emotions. Despite the rage in Qiao Ting's heart, when he made up his mind to get rid of Zhao Jun, his entire being became unbelievably calm. This was also a trait that Tang Yu admired greatly. Mind you, in order to grow into a strong individual, talent was indeed very important, but calm thinking and accurate combat judgment were even more important than talent. Without the latter two, even the most aberrant prodigy could lose his wings on the battlefield due to impulsiveness and blindness.
Qiao Ting did not choose to charge forward directly. Instead, he quietly followed Zhao Jun, maintaining a distance of 4000 metres, moving parallel to the other. The detection range of a special-class operator's radar was 4000 metres. As long as he maintained a distance of 4000 metres from Zhao Jun, the other would definitely not be able to discover him.
The reason Qiao Ting was so careful was because he wanted to make sure that there were no other members of the Lingtian Battle Clan around him. Qiao Ting still remembered a battle example that Instructor Tang Yu had once told him. He did not want to fall into a trap set up by Lingtian just because he was impulsive. It had to be said that Qiao Ting was extremely careful.
It turned out that in the history of mecha combat, there had been such a battle example. An ace mecha of a certain country had encountered an enemy country's mecha battle clan full of advanced mecha operators in a battle. Logically speaking, although there were many advanced mecha operators, due to the suppression of their mecha levels, as long as the ace operator dealt with them properly, he should be able to scatter the opponent's battle clan and obtain victory in the end.
However, reality was the complete opposite. Perhaps that ace mecha had also thought that victory was within his grasp at that time, and had underestimated the bravery of these advanced mecha operators, accidentally falling into a tight encirclement of the advanced mecha operators. Initially, he had thought that even if he could not kill all of these advanced mecha operators, it would still be extremely easy for him to operate his mecha and escape. However, he had not expected that these advanced mecha operators would choose a terrifying method of attack to stop him from escaping — self-destruct!
Yes, those advanced mecha operators did not care about their own lives at all. Each and every one of them had pounced forward without regard for their own lives. They did not even choose to attack, nor did they try to escape. They did not use beam guns or beam swords at all, simply using their mecha's arms to desperately hold onto the ace mecha and then self-destruct. Even if they were successfully killed by the ace mecha while they were holding onto the ace mecha, they would still press the self-destruct button in time. Whether it was useful or not, they would still leave some damage to the opponent.
This group of advanced mecha operators had used the massive energy generated by self-destructing to deplete the power of the ace mecha's powerful beam shield. In the end, this ace mecha had been left alive on the battlefield by these advanced mecha operators using the self-destruct method. Just like the other advanced mecha operators who had self-destructed, they had become a speck of dust in the starry sky.
The appearance of this battle made all the ace operators tremble in fear. Fortunately, not all advanced mecha operators had such a mindset of facing death with equanimity. Thus, this sort of situation of exchanging a life for a life was not very common. Unless they were certain that they would die without a doubt, they would only choose to do so. However, it was also because of the appearance of this battle that all the ace operators became extremely cautious. When fighting against advanced mecha operators, they would not allow themselves to fall into a tight encirclement again, afraid that they would once again become the victim of self-destruction.
Meanwhile, Qiao Ting had only come to know of this battle after he had advanced to ace operator status. In order to make him understand that on the battlefield, the opponents of ace operators were not just ace operators, Tang Yu had made him carefully observe the recording of this battle.
Only the Huaxia Federation had the recording of this battle, because that fearless advanced mecha battle clan was one of the battle clans of the Huaxia Federation. Meanwhile, that unlucky ace operator was from the Caesar Empire. Of the battle clan of 30 advanced mecha, only 7 had survived in the end. In order to retain that ace mecha, the Federation had sacrificed the lives of 23 advanced mecha operators to obtain victory in this battle. This recording had been recorded by those 7 survivors at the time.
This battle was the pride of the Huaxia Federation, but at the same time, it was also the sorrow of the Huaxia Federation. This was because the number of ace operators the Huaxia Federation had at that time was clearly lower than the Caesar Empire. There was no other way. In order to obtain the final victory, the Huaxia Federation could only use this method to fill in the gap. However, this had also caused the Federation to sacrifice countless advanced mecha operators, creating a gap in their mid-tier mecha forces for a period of time. It had taken them a full 20 years to fill in the gap.
This was also the reason why the Federation would place unparalleled importance on any outstanding seedlings that could advance to ace operator status. After that battle, the Federation no longer wanted to experience the tragedy of using numbers to fill in the gaps in strength again.
Qiao Ting was also afraid that the Lingtian mecha clan would choose this method to deal with him. After all, in Mecha World, death was not real death. If the Lingtian mecha battle clan wanted to obtain the final victory, Qiao Ting believed that this was the only way.
Thus, although Qiao Ting really wanted to finish off Zhao Jun, he had to be on guard against the other using this method against him. If he really did accidentally fall into the enemy's encirclement and be finished off by the other using such a despicable method, he, Qiao Ting, would not be able to lose face like that.
Qiao Ting followed Zhao Jun's trio for about a minute, but did not discover any other Lingtian members in the vicinity. His heart settled, basically confirming that the other had not set up an ambush. Just as he was about to make a move, Zhao Jun's three mecha suddenly changed directions, making a 90 degree turn to rapidly pull away from him. The other's unexpected move startled Qiao Ting — had he been exposed?
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