LWGP - Chapter 227
Chapter 227: Mecha
Feng Liao didn't need to confirm Wang Jiu's identity. With a great enemy before him, killing or capturing her was the most urgent matter. So, he merely glanced at the red dot in his field of vision under the targeting spell. His eyes moved slightly, and starting from his pupils, the mecha deployed. Piece by piece, special metal covered his entire body, and a thin instrument display screen appeared before his eyes. Based on the residual energy in the air, the instrument directly determined Wang Jiu's average attributes and approximate damage level.
To be honest, the average attributes and the damage level didn't match.
Feng Liao was rich in combat experience and saw the key to the problem at a glance.
Although the Fourth Spacetime was also a world invaded by the game, due to its advanced civilization and the long duration of the game's presence, it had its own hierarchy of power. It was just like the Second Spacetime where Qing He and Wei Yuan were from; they had King titles, and the Fourth Spacetime had them too.
Due to the nature of their social circles, these class divisions were likely equivalent. For example, one needed an average attribute of just over one hundred thousand to reach the King level. Below 200,000 was a Lesser King, between 200,000 and 300,000 was a Middle King, and above 300,000 was a Greater King.
However, there were also differences in strength within each King level. The four were Lesser Kings, and this unknown person was also a Lesser King, but it was clear the four had been easily KO'd by the latter. That meant this person's strength was comparable to an average Middle King.
Thus, Feng Liao directly activated his extremely energy-consuming mecha. Once the mecha was deployed, his personal average attributes wouldn't increase, but it would enhance his damage output, allowing his 220,000 average attributes to unleash damage almost equivalent to 350,000. And if various buffs and skills were added…
Swish. A domineering and sharp waist blade was drawn from a gem-encrusted slot on the mecha's hip. The simplest and most powerful blade technique from the sky was none other than—a jump slash!
The entire lower level of the mother nest, the empress's dwelling, was split in two. But the sharpest point of the blade's light was caught by a barrier for a moment. A moment later, the barrier shattered, and another blade beneath it parried for an instant.
At this moment, Wang Jiu, with all her buffs active, had her average attributes soaring to nearly 300,000. Her strength in all aspects had reached its peak. She parried the blow, her strength almost equal to his. She wasn't injured, just took a step back, and then flashed away, turning invisible to leave.
She was unwilling to fight this person. Even though her average attributes wouldn't be much lower than his after activating skills like Nightmare Descent, and her burst damage and the Order Book were enough to support a fight, what she feared most was the main ship above!
Sure enough, after Wang Jiu blocked Feng Liao's strike, Feng Liao was surprised but also connected to the main ship's attack system, broadcasting Wang Jiu's position. His mecha's positioning was linked to the main ship's. As he issued the command, in the main control cabin where Saling and others were, the first flight officer received approval from the Young Prince and Saling and directly activated the primary core cannon.
Voom!
A terrifying beam of light instantly traversed the two-thousand-meter altitude, piercing through the ground and the depths below, directly reaching the area where Wang Jiu was fleeing.
Perfect pinpointing wasn't necessary, as its destructive range covered a certain area.
When Wang Jiu perceived the almost overwhelming halo of light from above, and the ground above her was instantly carbonized by this terrifying energy, she knew she couldn't withstand it.
Damn it, interstellar mecha and fleets were truly terrifying!
In that brief moment, Wang Jiu chose to flee downwards.
Faster, faster, faster!
Wang Jiu continuously used skills and several earth-escape items, practically burning through money to penetrate downwards. But the attack from above still…
BOOM!!
Wang Jiu's back took a heavy hit. It was the destructive burn from the halo of light, as well as the carbonized geological matter, all pressing down on her comprehensively.
Feng Liao saw that Wang Jiu had been hit and knew she must be severely injured, but perhaps not dead. This person, with an average attribute of 150,000, could instantly boost it to nearly 300,000 and possessed such strong Order Book power. Her own aptitude was extraordinary; she definitely wouldn't die so easily.
He was about to continue the pursuit downwards when he suddenly heard his mecha issue a red, highest-level alert. At the same time, Saling sent a message, "Return immediately. We must make a space jump back to the country now!"
"They are coming."
Feng Liao didn't respond. Instead, he directly formed a hand seal on the spot. The mecha had its own teleportation array; he was returning to the main ship, which was already preparing to initiate a space jump to leave this most dangerous area.
At this moment, thud, Wang Jiu landed on hard reef limestone three thousand meters underground. The rock beneath her feet shattered. Above, apart from the sound of collapsing and falling geological matter, there was nothing else.
Her first instinct was to scan above, trying to lock onto the expert's position. By locking onto him, she could predict the main ship's attack direction. She was certain the main ship was using him to target her.
But to her surprise, she did find his position, but she could sense he wasn't following. Instead, he was… there was a teleportation aura where he was.
Teleportation? Where to?
Could he be teleporting to her side?
As Wang Jiu was feeling suspicious, she suddenly sensed something. This feeling wasn't something she detected herself; she was three thousand meters underground, and whatever was happening on the surface had nothing to do with her.
But she had left something up there.
In the sky above, the air was dry, wind masses were churning, and space was unstable. This feeling was an experience etched deep into the soul of every player, one that was hard to forget after experiencing it once.
The Eternal Night Race, descending!!
Voom!!
As the main ship above entered its space jump, the atmosphere outside the Fourth Spacetime was also torn open.
A massive barrage of light beams rained down. The scale, the attack intensity, was more than a hundred times that of the Third Spacetime where Wang Jiu and the others were from.
And within the few seconds of its descent, just as the beams were about to bombard the main ship.
Swish! The main ship vanished completely.
Space jump successful!
Underground, Wang Jiu's heart pounded with fear. She was terrified by the scale of the Eternal Night Race's descent in this Fourth Spacetime, and also by the power of the native players of the Fourth Spacetime, especially their technological capabilities, which were almost catching up to the Eternal Night Race…
But before she could process this feeling, another hair-raising sensation came over her.
She had been targeted. She saw the negative status effect of being locked on, unable to teleport or return to the city.
Swish! Wang Jiu immediately fled deeper into the earth.
At the same time, the descending Eternal Night fleet dispatched a dozen or so flying units. Their curves were smooth, like a dozen small black hawks. A special halo covered their surfaces as they directly passed through the earth's layers, entering the subterranean space in pursuit of Wang Jiu.
Wang Jiu knew that for the Eternal Night Race, the deeper they went, the greater the restrictions on them. So she kept fleeing downwards.
But behind her… bang bang bang! Beams of light continuously shot towards her. Wang Jiu had to pilot her flying device to evade, but it was obvious this second-rate flying device left behind by the Eternal Night Race was struggling. Now that Wang Jiu's attributes had caught up, it couldn't fully utilize her agility, and its flight speed was far inferior to these small hawk-like units. So… the flying device couldn't dodge. Wang Jiu leaped off it, slashes her blade through the air to cut the incoming beams, and fell into a patch of black mist floating in the cavern below. Using the cover, she had the flying device follow, threw a puppet mimicking herself onto it as a decoy, and turned invisible herself, using her azure silk to suspend herself in the air as she followed the fall on the other side.
The foremost unit had already targeted the fake puppet. As it shot through, the fake puppet resisted for a moment but was quickly damaged, and its flight speed slowed. One of the units then approached, intending to finish it off.
Swish! From the side rock wall, the invisible Wang Jiu controlled tens of thousands of azure silk strands to cross the space and forcibly grab the unit's tail wing. Pulled along the silk, the invisible Wang Jiu swung over. After landing on the tail, the mecha warrior inside immediately tried to make the unit perform a high-intensity spin, and two gun barrels appeared on the wings, firing backward. But Wang Jiu was too fast. She had already used the azure silk to fling herself onto the cockpit, and she stabbed her blade down.
This was the most powerful strike Wang Jiu had ever delivered. The explosive damage from her 300,000+ average attributes allowed it to directly pierce the unit's cockpit armor and stab the mecha warrior.
Once the mecha warrior was dead, the unit lost control. Beams of light from other units shot over from behind, but Wang Jiu had already used her blade to cut open the canopy, tossed the mecha warrior into the back seat, and taken its place.
How do you pilot this thing? It seems a bit similar to the fleet ships of that… empire.
Are their technological civilizations somewhat similar?
A thought flashed through her mind. Wang Jiu relied on her previous half-baked, rookie pilot skills to control it…
A perfectly good fighter jet was turned into a crazed chicken in space by her. However, with its frantic spinning and several near-collisions with the cavern walls, its unpredictable trajectory did manage to evade the pursuit fire from the other Eternal Night units behind.
Whatever, I'll just fly it randomly. As long as I don't crash or get hit, it's fine.
Wang Jiu was a clear-headed person, absolutely calm when making choices. She didn't engage these units head-on like before. Instead, after getting slightly used to this unit, she continuously descended.
She had always understood that no matter how intense the fight got, if the main forces behind them caught up, she'd be finished. Only the depths of the earth could ultimately allow her to shake off her pursuers!
Perhaps seeing Wang Jiu's objective, the mecha warriors in those units indeed felt unwell due to the increasing depth. The precision of their control over the units was not as good as before; at least their firing accuracy had dropped.
Wang Jiu saw that her strategy was working and flew even deeper. But just then, she suddenly sensed an aura…
BOOM!
A unit behind her was instantly sliced in half by a star-armored mecha warrior that dropped down in a straight line. Wang Jiu, having jumped out, raised her hand and pointed her staff at the mecha warrior still standing on the wreckage.
And that mecha warrior also turned sideways, pointing its blade at Wang Jiu…
In that dark world, the damp underground, where even the air carried a hint of ancient and decaying scent, a powerful impact suddenly erupted. The cavern walls fractured, the gases in the space were vaporized. Evil, undeath, coldness—they confronted the mecha warrior from beyond the stars together. And in that instantaneous collision, Wang Jiu, with a blade plunged into her chest, channeled the art of wind and thunder throughout her body. Lightning spread, covering the armor, and also invaded a crack that was created by the earlier attack from her staff.
As the wind and thunder penetrated, amidst the frantic paralysis of the electric current, the mecha warrior experienced a brief two-second intelligent blind spot, which also caused its action—a strike that would have almost ended Wang Jiu's life—to pause.
Wang Jiu forcibly broke free from the blade, reversed her grip, and turned her staff into a blade, stabbing with all her might into the original crack.
If Feng Liao's mecha was an awe-inspiring piece of equipment for Wang Jiu, then the Eternal Night mecha warrior's mecha was more than a level higher. Wang Jiu's full-strength attack only created an insignificant crack, but with another heavy blow, this crack, following the damage from the wind and thunder, would cause its underlying energy core… thump!
After Wang Jiu heavily struck the mecha warrior's energy core, its body stiffened, and Wang Jiu took the opportunity to jump down.
The mecha warrior was about to give chase downwards but suddenly stopped, because below was a viscous black mist. The black mist howled and enveloped Wang Jiu… as if to devour her.
Wang Jiu's gaze also rested on the hesitating mecha warrior above, as well as the other units that had long since dared not descend.
They couldn't go any deeper. Below ten thousand meters underground was a forbidden zone for the Eternal Night Race.
Just as the mecha warrior was about to fly up, suddenly, from the spot where Wang Jiu was devoured by the mist below, countless azure silk strands shot out, entangling its ankles.
"No!"
In its horror, the mecha warrior was dragged down alive.
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