Longsword
Ying Chenlin took the mecha out from his collar. The black and red mecha key remained silent, and he looked down slightly, his brain unexpectedly calm.
Driving an S-class mecha was not impossible, just like in the previous battles, he could hear Yuan's voice. As long as he could endure the mental strain.
Ying Chenlin examined his physical condition. Fortunately, in the previous battles, he had reserved himself not to get injured in the explosion. He hadn't excessively used his right hand, and his current body was more ideal than expected. If he input mental strength into the mecha key, it could only be an attempt to reach the fluctuation shown in the mental strength spectrum. He thought of what the doctor had said after he inquired not long ago.
A bold idea appeared in his mind.
His gaze stopped on the black and red mecha key. Should he gamble...?
The booming sounds of attacks were right above him. Ying Chenlin looked up at his teammates, gripping the key tightly.
Outside the base, the speed of the orangutan's attacks had increased. When fighting such a pollutant up close, every detail of the pollutant would be magnified, making it clear to the mecha pilots fighting against it—
In dealing with so many pollutants on the front lines, Lu Xi encountered a pollutant with such strange movements for the first time.
It felt as if it wasn't a pollutant in front of her, but a flexible combination of a guardian and stealth mecha.
She had heard of the intelligence of primate pollutants, but experiencing it firsthand felt abnormal. If it were a mecha, it would be fine, but the critical point was that it wasn't a mecha, it was stronger, faster, and more threatening than a mecha.
In a short time, Ji Qingfeng had quickly approached. His Binding Lock Sickle immediately bound the orangutan, and the powerful pulling force dragged it forward. The control effect achievable on a mecha had only half the effect on the orangutan. "Lu Xi, go!"
"Be careful." Lu Xi gritted her teeth, activating the thrusters to increase the distance.
"Don't worry." Ji Qingfeng said, "Brother can control even people. Just a measly orangutan—"
Before he finished speaking, the orangutan's eyes suddenly looked at him, a pair of clear eyes, as if they were human eyes.
Ji Qingfeng: "...Isn't it, brother? Can't I tease a bit?"
Once the paralysis effect of the Binding Lock Sickle on the orangutan passed, it quickly switched targets. With one hand, it grabbed Ji Qingfeng's chain, and with the other hand, it struck towards him with inertia.
Fierce impacts sent Ji Qingfeng flying. The orangutan landed on the ground, its feet steady.
The muscles of its sinking legs seemed to burst in an instant. Ji Qingfeng fell to the ground and shouted, "Lu Xi, run!"
Lu Xi bit her teeth, fully activating the thrusters. In the moment she escaped, the orangutan, which had jumped from the ground, struck towards her original position, producing a formidable sound. One couldn't imagine the consequences if it had been caught just now.
Inside the bureau, everyone focused the only real-time camera on the top, clearly seeing the scene of the battle. The pollution experts on-site spoke one after another:
"Its intelligence has obviously surpassed ordinary primates. This pollutant is good at using its advantages. I suspect its ability is brain domain enhancement."
"Brain domain enhancement ability indicates that this pollutant's intelligence might be higher than that of ordinary humans!"
Colonel Guo frowned, "This is troublesome. Brain domain enhancement is still S-class... even if it doesn't have other strange abilities, its physical condition already surpasses the level of mechas."
At this moment, a staff member rushed in from the door, "Chairman! The research team has prepared heavy weapons!"
This statement relieved everyone in the control room. The completion of heavy weapons two hours ahead of time was good news for all the mecha pilots fighting inside. The person in charge quickly said, "Then load it quickly—"
Colonel Guo said, "It can't be delivered now."
Li Jingyan focused on the situation in the jump area. The follow-up support mechas had entered the jump, but due to the instability of the magnetic field, the mechas' jump coordinates had deviated. Even if they reached the pollution area, it would still take time to get to the base. Even S-class mechas found it difficult to jump accurately into the base station, let alone military multi-person mechas carrying heavy weapons.
"In this situation, to accurately transport heavy weapons, at least those three S-class pollutants near the base station need to be cleared."
"They are causing the biggest fluctuations in the magnetic field around the base station!"
In the communication channel, overlapping voices of others showed that they were all caught in a fierce battle.
They had been fighting continuously for a long time. Some senses had become sluggish. Lu Xi knew that she couldn't ask for help from others now. Even if she and Ji Qingfeng couldn't solve this pollutant, they had to do their best to persevere—
At least their persistence could relieve the pressure on later mecha pilots.
The orangutan looked at Lu Xi again, and Lu Xi switched her weapon to an energy-enhanced cannon. She aimed at its position before the orangutan could act.
When the projectile was about to hit the orangutan, it quickly jumped away. However, Lu Xi's goal wasn't to hit it. She knew it wouldn't fly, and as soon as it landed, it would inevitably be affected by the ground environment. Seeing the orangutan land again, Lu Xi's aiming scope showed its figure once more. She completed the condensation of the energy cannon and fired it as soon as it landed! Ji Qingfeng, not far away, quickly followed. As long as he could control the orangutan for a combo, they could kill it.
"Something's wrong! The pollutant value of the orangutan is still rising!" A staff member urgently said.
Colonel Guo was stunned, "What's going on!?"
Li Jingyan made a quick decision, "That orangutan is not normal! Quickly inform the mecha pilots to avoid it! Stay away from it!"
The staff member grabbed the loudspeaker, and everyone focused on the intense battle outside the defense system. They watched as the fight between the two mechas and the orangutan was about to begin. Shen Xingtang remained calm, but her hands were still nervously placed on the console. Around the base station were the mecha pilots of the KIDs. As the person in charge of the KIDs, she didn't want to see anyone get hurt.
Suddenly, she seemed to catch a faint light outside the real-time camera, before she could see clearly—
An unexpected event occurred in the arena!
Abruptly, something moved in Lu Xi's scope.
She looked puzzled and urgently exclaimed, "Da Feng, retreat!!!"
Ji Qingfeng's blade had already touched the orangutan, and he was wondering why when he saw something moving under the orangutan's fur, seemingly following its arm. "When did this happen!?"
Following that, a black pollutant, the size of an ordinary orangutan, emerged, leaping onto the orangutan's arm, and roared when it reached there!
Like a silent vibration, Ji Qingfeng hadn't even touched the orangutan, but he was suddenly blasted away by the shockwave—
Lu Xi looked at it in astonishment. "It's not just one pollutant, it's two."
Ji Qingfeng crashed to the ground, and this time, the orangutan didn't attack Lu Xi. Instead, it seized the opportunity of Ji Qingfeng falling and rushed toward Ji Qingfeng's position. Lu Xi urgently used the Sand Flow Cannon to drive the orangutan away. "Da Feng, run!"
In a critical situation, Ji Qingfeng, supporting himself with his hand, flipped from the ground and avoided the orangutan's smashing attack.
The orangutan landed and immediately leaped again, quickly changing its target to Lu Xi, who was coming to assist from behind.
Ji Qingfeng shouted, "There's a small one on it, using shockwave attacks!"
Lu Xi, caught off guard while locking onto the orangutan, saw the black small orangutan opening its big mouth with bared fangs toward her.
She was stunned. Oh no! Can't dodge it!
At this moment, Ji Qingfeng swiftly accelerated, grabbing the orangutan's leg and pulling it down. The small orangutan's bared fangs were aimed at the sky, and a silent sound wave seemed to generate intense vibrations.
Lu Xi stabilized herself. "Da Feng!"
By the time Ji Qingfeng released his grip, it was too late. The next second, the shockwave attack, along with the orangutan's long arm, swept down. He tried hard to evade the attack, but the long arm and shockwave hit his right leg. Intense pain struck in an instant, and the entire mecha was violently thrown, crashing into the defense system of the base.
"Da Feng!" Lu Xi shouted.
Ji Qingfeng's right leg hurt so much that he saw stars. "Damn it, this thing holds grudges!"
The two S-class pollutants wouldn't leave them any breathing space. After the orangutan landed, it immediately rushed towards Ji Qingfeng's position. Lu Xi's quicksand held it for two seconds, but two seconds were far from enough for her to rush to Ji Qingfeng's side for protection.
In the communication channel, other teammates seemed to have noticed the urgent situation on their side. You Su turned around and set up a sniper rifle, quickly saying, "Create some distance, I'll provide long-range support."
Lu Xi accelerated towards them, urgently saying, "Da Feng, get up and run!"
Just as Ji Qingfeng was about to move, he noticed a report inside the mecha, warning of severe damage to the right leg: "Geez, can my luck be this bad?"
When You Su's sniper rifle was raised, it swept past the orangutan's figure. When he relocked, the orangutan was less than twenty meters away from Ji Qingfeng.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a thruster flashing across the night sky, cutting through the horizon faster than the orangutan.
Everyone inside and outside the arena watched the orangutan rushing at a rapid speed. It was too fast, too late!
Just when Ji Qingfeng thought the orangutan's long arm was about to strike his head, an unfamiliar mecha swiftly cut into his front from the left, and the black and red mecha, at the intersection of night and firelight, blocked in front of Ji Qingfeng just in time.
The longsword clashed with the orangutan's long arm, the mecha's sword pressed against its chest, resisting the fierce impact of the arm.
Everyone's hearts almost stopped. When they saw someone providing support, the excited staff shouted, "Great! Reinforcements are here—"
The real-time camera focused outside the defense system. Even though it was blurry, everyone still recognized the style of that mecha and its distinctive black and red mecha patterns, as well as the silver sword blocking the attack.
Li Jingyan looked at that mecha in astonishment and whispered, "Yuan."
A staff member shouted, "The supporting mecha is a single-unit mecha, with the code..."
The voice had just been shouted out, and not many people inside the room looked stunned. "Can't be, right?"
The system displayed the corresponding identification, presenting the unique patterns and mecha code of the mecha in front of everyone in the control room—Mecha Yuan [s].
"S-class mecha [Yuan], and the owner of the mecha is the retired single-unit mecha pilot—"
The staff member's Adam's apple slid, and he read out the next sentence, "Sink."