What followed was silence. The forest was silent. Xu Le and Huai Caoshi were like two statues, sitting silently under their respective mulberry trees. Only when the willow trees began to turn white on the horizon did they suddenly open their eyes at the same time. It was not because they were startled awake by the light, but because they had smelled a dangerous scent coming from the mulberry forest at the same time.
Xu Le placed his palm on the ground and focused on feeling that faintly discernible vibration. Huai Caoshi, on the other hand, came under the Peach Miasma mecha. Looking at the external sound wave monitoring equipment on the side of the mecha, she slowly frowned.
"Let's go," Huai Caoshi said briskly.
Xu Le did not hesitate. He got up and walked towards the mecha.
Accompanied by the clear sound of electricity, the Peach Miasma mecha stood like a god, crossing the branches of the mulberry trees to face the rising sun.
The two of them climbed up the mecha, coughing loudly as they climbed. The coughs were hoarse and dry, like dried mulberry leaves being torn apart by angry silkworms, but they also carried a sense of unbridled joy. The injured and tired duo had held back their coughs for an entire night. Now that they had confirmed that the enemy had caught up, they naturally did not need to hold back anymore. Of course, they would cough to their heart's content.
The rebel army more than ten kilometres away should have heavy armoured vehicles or mecha. Otherwise, they would not have left such clear curves on the surveillance equipment.
The Peach Miasma mecha's hatch closed, and its engine roared once more. The crystal ores that made Xu Le's heart ache underwent primitive atomization, powering the heavy body of the mecha to become a giant bird in the morning. It swept up at an angle, cleverly bypassing the dense mulberry trees and advancing at high speed.
Ten minutes later.
A loud roar came from outside the mulberry forest that had regained its peace. The entire ground began to tremble. The forest birds that had just woken up and the insects in the grass fled in all directions in fear.
Almost twenty black and green Imperial night wolf mechas surrounded them. Their heavy alloy bodies crushed the grass in the forest into a mess, sending mud and stone tumbling.
After confirming that the target had once again left, this mecha troop did not blindly scatter in all directions. Instead, they stopped temporarily. The cockpit of one of the mecha opened up, and an Empire military officer with the rank of colonel walked out with a gloomy expression. He crouched down under a mulberry tree and carefully searched for any traces.
The imperial officer's fingertips gently slid across the tree trunk, touching a smear of blood that was about to solidify. His gloomy expression seemed to relax a little, but no one noticed that his fingertips were trembling violently.
In front of his subordinates, this officer had to maintain absolute calmness and confidence, but in the depths of his heart, to carry out such a terrifying mission, to hunt down that important figure, his heart had long been endlessly terrified.
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In the next ten days or so, in the sea of mulberry trees on Planet Liban, seven or eight teams like this mecha troop appeared. These Imperial troops of unknown power silently and patiently pursued that mecha.
No reinforcements came. The Peach Miasma mecha was alone in the sea of mulberry trees, dealing with these rebel troops. Even though the two people in the mecha's cockpit were the strongest mecha warriors in the universe, facing the pursuit of almost 200 mecha, they could not actively choose to fight head-on. Moreover, Xu Le's internal strength was completely destroyed, and Huai Caoshi was heavily injured …
The situation was very critical. Fortunately, the mulberry trees on this planet were shockingly large, giving the Peach Miasma mecha enough space to escape. In the process of escaping, the Peach Miasma mecha braved the danger of being monitored by the enemy and finally succeeded in contacting a certain intelligence source. However, Huai Caoshi still had no way of fully grasping the current situation on Planet Liban. Right now, he could only try to find a safe escape route as quickly as possible.
The imperial mecha squad conducting this pursuit clearly knew who their target was. Even those soldiers who had not dared to believe their ears at first were able to confirm this fact after more than ten mecha had fallen tragically at the hands of the Peach Miasma mecha.
All of the Imperial soldiers were incomparably fearful of that Peach Miasma mecha, or more accurately, the person inside the Peach Miasma mecha. However, since they had chosen this path of rebellion from the very beginning, there was no turning back. Instead, because of the trembling fear in the depths of their hearts, they became even crazier.
In the last few mecha encounters in the mulberry forest sea, the rebel army's mecha had become crazier each time, more reckless than the last. They knew that defeat was certain, but they continued to surround the Peach Miasma mecha like moths to a flame, attacking the Peach Miasma mecha at all costs. It was as if even if they had to pay the price of destroying their mecha and losing their lives in exchange for the malfunction of one of the Peach Miasma mecha's most important sensors, they felt that it was worth it …
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Watching silently from the sidelines, Xu Le gradually understood the intentions of those rebel mecha. His face grew paler and paler, but he continued to operate the Peach Miasma mecha like an emperor. The undefeatable Huai Caoshi also understood the rebel army's intentions, but he had no way of changing this situation.
The Peach Miasma mecha moved as fast as lightning, unparalleled in its evasion and retreat. Its close-combat spear was swift and fierce — not a single rebel mecha could last more than 10 seconds against it. On a normal battlefield, this mecha battle would have undoubtedly ended with the Peach Miasma mecha's victory. This was because it could move around like a shark, cruelly searching for opportunities to attack shoals of fish, and then retreating again. If this simple cycle continued, the rebel army's mecha horde would eventually be wiped out.
However, in this mulberry forest, the Peach Miasma mecha could not do this. This was because there was no supply base here, and there were no components and materials needed to repair the mecha.
The rebel army's mecha horde chased relentlessly and relentlessly, all because they wanted to force the person they respected the most to never have time to rest. Their injuries and exhaustion would continuously eat away at that person's strength. At the same time, they also wanted to continuously wear down the Peach Miasma mecha's body. In this primitive agricultural area, if the mecha could not be repaired, then it could only be nibbled to death by shoals of fish …
During the process of their escape, Xu Le had been diligently observing or studying the mecha controls of this Empire elite. Even if tomorrow morning or the next moment, this innocent fish in the pond would be burned to death, he still devoted a great deal of energy to this task. This was because the other's level of mecha control was truly very high. From the perspective of someone at his level, he was able to experience much more, even gaining a certain sense of fierce beauty.
What shocked him the most, or perhaps more accurately, terrified him, was that even though they had been on the run for more than ten days and nights, this Empire officer beside him had actually been able to maintain a valiant combat prowess, as well as a vigorous desire for battle that he could not comprehend. Although this person's cheeks were becoming thinner and thinner, the light in those small eyes had never once dimmed.
However, just as the several mecha units in pursuit had hoped, the heavily injured and bone-deep exhausted Huai Caoshi held on valiantly. Meanwhile, the Peach Miasma mecha could not withstand the increasing wear and tear of its components and metal fatigue, finally collapsing at some quiet dusk.
In the blood-red twilight, the heavy and massive Peach Miasma mecha crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dirt and dust. Fortunately, the dense mulberry trees around it blocked the dust from reaching into the air.
Not too far away was a row of simple and crude village houses. Judging from the row of hydraulic gears behind the houses, this should be a mechanical mill used to process mulberry trees. This row of mills was bathed in the golden light of the setting sun, glowing faintly with a bright red light.
The emergency hydraulic valves activated, and the Peach Miasma mecha's cockpit opened up a little. The new-model mecha lying diagonally on the ground now looked like a patient gasping for air, waiting for death.
Huai Caoshi and Xu Le crawled out from the open cockpit. The two of them were covered in small wounds, looking rather haggard. However, from the silent expressions on their faces, not a trace of it could be seen.
An hour ago, when Xu Le had been considering whether or not to remind this person that the mecha's components had already passed the critical threshold and that it could shut down at any moment, the central control computer of the Peach Miasma mecha had blared out a shrill alarm. Huai Caoshi had silently operated the mecha to begin the fastest ambush they had made since their escape, all the way to this stretch of red mills.
The rebel mecha should still be twenty kilometres away. Huai Caoshi stood under the overturned mecha, narrowing his eyes slightly as he looked up at the setting sun on the horizon, silently calculating the time. Then, he coughed twice and led Xu Le towards the row of red mills.
The two of them entered the Red Mill to get some water, but they found no trace of anyone. It seemed that the faction that had betrayed the imperial family had at least taken control of the Mulberry Province. They had cleaned up this vast farming region of mulberry forests very thoroughly.
After drinking, Huai Caoshi walked to the west wall of the red mills and narrowed his eyes to look out.
The Red Rose still had not been contacted. Right now, he only had sporadic feedback from the crows in the bureau. He had no idea how dangerous the current situation was, but there were more than two hundred imperial mecha chasing after him. It was easy to imagine that the situation on this planet was very bad.
Would there really be a problem this time? Huai Caoshi narrowed his eyes. He looked like an ordinary imperial military officer, but in reality, he was definitely not ordinary. He had never doubted himself in his life, but he had never experienced something like this.
As long as he was in the mecha, he was an undefeatable god. However, at this moment, the Peach Miasma mecha had become a pile of alloy garbage outside the mill. In the entire sea of mulberry trees, there was no way to find the parts needed to repair it. What was waiting for him?
Being killed by his own subjects in his own planetary sector?
A self-deprecating smile appeared on Huai Caoshi's face. He suddenly felt that the red setting sun on the horizon was fake. Otherwise, why would his body feel so cold?
Narrowing his eyes, he looked at the flowing water in the tunnel below the mill. After a long silence, he suddenly asked, "What do you think?"
At this time, there were only two people in the red mills, so the person he was asking this question was very clear. Xu Le frowned and looked over, looking at the pale face of the imperial royal in the twilight. He did not expect that this seemingly ordinary but actually extremely arrogant person would ask for his opinion.
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