There were many routes from Ye Chong's current location to Gray Valley, but all of them would require them to travel through half of He Yue galaxy. This was a very dangerous task for Ye Chong and the rest. Full-skeleton mechs may have excellent anti-detection capabilities, but if they were to travel through the entire He Yue galaxy, the chances of them being discovered would be more than 80%. Besides, without Mu and Shang, it would be an impossible task for Ye Chong to get through all the joints without leaving any trace.
Hence, Ye Chong chose another route. It was to fly horizontally along the Calamitous Asteroid Belt. The entire flight path would be inside the Calamitous Asteroid Belt, which meant that they would have to take a big detour. While the journey was long, since they would be inside the Calamitous Asteroid Belt, the chances of encountering the Three Aristocratic Families were slim.
According to Hai Lian, the Calamitous Asteroid Belt did not have any large armies. Most of them were freelance mech pilots. Occasionally, there would be one or two small mech squads in search of wild animals. Besides, the route Ye Chong and the rest took was deep into the Calamitous Asteroid Belt. Few people dared to come here. Even Hai Lian, who had been in the Calamitous Asteroid Belt for so long, would not venture so deep into the Calamitous Asteroid Belt without Ye Chong and the rest.
No one questioned Ye Chong's plan. Before the whole team set off, Ye Chong ordered all the mechs to be painted with various kinds of paint. The texture of skeletons was too unique, and anyone with eyes could tell. If they were seen flying a full-skeleton mech without any disguise, it would attract unnecessary trouble.
He Yue galaxy's paint was of a much higher quality than the paint Ye Chong used in the Five Galaxies. It had strong adhesion, was not easy to peel off, and had a bright color. Ye Chong did not care what color they painted on their mechs. The Sang Tribe's artistic cells were all stimulated overnight. Everyone happily used the paint to give their mechs a comprehensive, three-dimensional, and artistic packaging. Sang Ling's mech was beautiful, with the sun hanging basket and many unique beasts of Archipelago painted on it. It was vivid and exotic. However, compared to Sang Ling's success, most of the others were undoubtedly failures. The result of this messy scribbling was that their Collision mechs looked like they were covered in patches of many different colors. Five thousand of these mechs were a pitiful sight. They looked like a ragtag team, the worst of the worst. Hai Lian's face was just short of saying that he did not know these people.
Ye Chong's mech was painted in an earthy grey color. The advantage was that from afar, the mech would look like a meteorite instead of a mech. Ambushing was a good habit that he never gave up.
Ye Chong also sent a few men back to the Sang Family Village to inform them of the current situation, and instructed them not to send anyone out for the time being. For the Sang Tribe, the most important thing now was to recuperate, and not to come out. The person who was sent out had a copy of Ye Chong's blueprint. It was Ye Chong's redesigned transport aircraft, based on the Collision mech. It was large and slow, but it was a good transporter. It was the perfect solution to the Sang Tribe's lack of transporters.
More importantly, the mech was also made of skeletons, and could fly across the entire Red Sea.
Everything was arranged, and the group began their journey to Gray Valley. It was a pity that they did not have a starship, or they would not have to travel such a long distance with a warp jump.
Ye Chong was having a headache. Right now, these people were completely poor. They were so poor that they were on the verge of becoming dregs. Ye Chong realized that money, which he had never paid attention to before, was now the core of his problem.
The starship needed money, the dimension keystone needed money, the comms equipment needed money …
Ye Chong was going crazy with poverty. If it were not for this large group of people, Ye Chong might have just robbed a rich family. However, the situation was tense at the moment, and the three great clans had probably already mobilized all their forces to search for traces of them like mad dogs. Robbing them at this time was undoubtedly courting death.
In fact, Ye Chong was not the only one. The Sang Tribe members in his group were also going crazy with poverty. When they saw that the eight people who followed Ye Chong all had dimension keystones, and could hide their mechs like magic, they were all envious. After knowing that this magical thing could be obtained as long as one had money, everyone became extremely passionate about this thing called money.
They had even proposed to rob the mech parts shop, and the proposal was even formulated into a detailed plan. However, to their disappointment, the plan was rejected by Sir without hesitation. Hai Lian almost went crazy, when the plan was submitted to Ye Chong, it was supported by everyone.
Were these people pirates? Hai Lian felt that he was no longer a kind person, but a pure winged birdman.
However, when he saw Ye Chong resolutely rejecting the suggestion, he felt a little relieved. It seemed that their leader was still human after all. However, Ye Chong's next words were like a blow to his head, "The timing is not right, the operation plan is too crude, rejected."
Hai Lian stared blankly at Sang Pu and the rest as they excitedly discussed how to improve the plan.
What was more frustrating was that Ye Chong had removed the holographic scanning system and comms equipment from his Moonlight mech, and installed them on Sang Pu's Collision mech. The photon processor from Moonlight was installed on Sang Fan's mech. Hai Lian's heart bled at the sight of the almost bare Moonlight mech. Besides, he could not pilot his own Moonlight mech, and had to share a mech with Sang Tie. The odor on Sang Tie's body was incomparably strong, to the point that his nose was about to be inflamed. How many days had it been since he last bathed? Hai Lian was close to tears.
"These barbarians!" He had cursed them countless times in his mind.
However, Ye Chong soon decided to depart. All five thousand Collision mechs began to move along the designated route.
What surprised Hai Lian was that this group of barbarians seemed to be very familiar with the Calamitous Asteroid Belt. Every time they came across the dangerous areas, they would easily avoid them. What he thought would be a dangerous journey turned out to be surprisingly easy.
He did not know that it was not the Sang Tribe's familiarity with the Calamitous Asteroid Belt, but that they were used to environments that were ten times more dangerous.
The only thing that made the Sang Tribe uncomfortable was that the number of wild animals in the asteroid belt was much higher than in Archipelago. While the wild animals were much weaker than their own kind in Archipelago, they still had to expend a lot of effort. This route of advance was completely trampled over the corpses of these wild beasts.
Hai Lian was speechless at the strength of the entire group. If the carcasses of these wild animals were sold to the buyers, the price of animal materials would drop to the lowest level in history.
This was all money! Hai Lian felt the pinch. However, seeing the nonchalant expressions of the barbarians, he could not help but hesitate. How would they react if they knew that this was all money? However, he kept his mouth shut. Reaching Gray Valley was more important now. If the wild animals went out of control now, it would be a terrible thing.
To him, other than the man who was half civilized, the rest of the barbarians were all uncivilized barbarians. Fortunately, these barbarians were very disciplined, and completely obeyed their leader.
However, after so many days of flying, he was surprised to find that this mysterious group, the people he secretly called barbarians, had many surprising aspects about them.
The Calamitous Asteroid Belt was a complicated terrain, but the entire group was able to maintain a high flying speed. He had been sitting beside Sang Tie the whole time, and had seen every single movement of Sang Tie's mech. In fact, it was the first time he had seen such a primitive control stick. However, these primitive control sticks, in the hands of these people, were able to perform very precise and ingenious maneuvers.
At first glance, this flying machine could not be any simpler, and could not be any more primitive. However, after so many days of flying, if anyone were to say such things about Hai Lian, he might just throw a brick at that person's face.
You call this primitive? It could almost reach Mach 20. What mech could achieve that? Flying for dozens of days without needing to change or recharge energy, what mech on the market could do that? With a holographic scanning system, communication equipment, and long range weapons, this flying machine would become extremely powerful. There were countless models of these things available in the market, and as long as one had the money, one could easily install them.
As for these people, Hai Lian was embarrassed to call them barbarians.
Their flying machine did not have any communicators, and they could not communicate with each other. Even so, after flying for so many days, their flying formation did not get messed up. Flying for long periods of time was tedious, and it was a test of one's willpower. Not to mention that they couldn't communicate with each other at all. If it was Hai Lian, he would have gone crazy. However, not a single one of them had a single word of complaint.
They were meticulous in all their orders, determined, well-trained in combat, and well coordinated in their teamwork. These were undoubtedly the best of the best.
Compared to them, Hai Lian himself would sometimes feel ashamed and unable to show his face.
The flying skills of these people were amazing. Floating rocks were everywhere in the sky, and Hai Lian was shocked to find that so far, they had never slowed down, but there was not a single accident. Besides, they flew for a long time every day, but they did not show any signs of fatigue, and looked normal.
Hai Lian seemed to make new discoveries every day, and these new discoveries caused his attitude towards this group of people to change bit by bit.
Since Sang Pu's mech was now equipped with a holographic scanning system, he was in charge of scouting ahead.
Nothing happened along the way. The place was deserted, and they had not encountered a single mech so far.
"Oh, they found mechs?" Ye Chong asked, surprised. With the communicator, it was easy for him to communicate with Sang Pu.
Sang Pu replied calmly, "Yes, 62 of them. However, they were attacked by wild animals, and the situation doesn't look good. "
"62 of them …" Ye Chong could not help but muse, but he quickly gathered himself and asked, "Did they notice you?"
"No, we moved very carefully, and did not attract their attention," Sang Pu said.
Sang Pu thought for a moment, and asked, "How much longer can they last?"
"About 10 minutes," Sang Pu replied succinctly.
"Alright, surround them first, and wait for orders." Ye Chong finally gave the order, but he needed to see it for himself.
"Yes, sir," Sang Pu acknowledged. Next, the signal lights on both sides of Sang Pu's mech flashed rhythmically, and Ye Chong gave the order.
Without a sound, the entire team immediately split into hundreds of smaller teams. It was as if a large river had turned into countless tiny streams in the blink of an eye, swimming between the floating rocks. Everyone was excited. They had been flying non-stop for the past few days. The group in front of them was fine, but they were too clean. The rest of the group had not even seen a single hair of the animals, let alone humans. How could they not be excited when the higher-ups suddenly gave the order to move? They moved faster and faster.
"Hah, there's a move." Sang Tie's loud voice almost startled Hai Lian, who was dozing off.
"There's a move?" Hai Lian asked blankly, still sleepy.
"Hehe, I've been holding back for so long, finally there's a move." Sang Tie rubbed his hands, his old face beaming with excitement. However, Hai Lian's eyes were ferocious. He could not help but shudder, and all his drowsiness was gone.
The signal lights flashed continuously, and the mech squads moved in an orderly manner, moving nimbly. In a short while, they had surrounded the group. The wild animals were also surrounded.
Seeing that the situation was under control, Ye Chong began to observe the mechs and the wild animals.
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