894 Hunt 2 (1/2)

On the other end, within the waste ruins.

Two pale yellow Mechs were surrounding Anda's standard Blackboard Mech, from the front and the back, in the middle of the main street.

”You never thought this would happen, right? It only took us three days since the Hunting Order was released to find you, but you sure run fast, little punk!” said one yellow Mech, laughing coldly.

”That woman sure is cold, to actually send the two of you to hunt me. I bet she really paid for it, huh?” Sitting inside the Mech, Anda's voice was calm, but nobody could see the sheen of sweat on his forehead now. The two extremely powerful and troublesome Willpowers were suppressing him tightly, making him unable to get away and escape. Because he knew that as soon as he moved, he would be immediately destroyed by their long-range attack!

”You offended the First Young Miss and still managed to get so far away, that makes you unprecedented. Now don't say we didn't give you a chance, since we're from the same family, you can make a move first.” A cold woman's voice came from the yellow Mech behind him,

”Windling, if you get involved in a family's power struggle for succession, you won't get off easy even if you are a Level Five Guest, don't you get that?!” Anda said loudly.

”Of course I understand,” replied the woman behind him. ”But it was your fault for killing the Young Miss's fiance, it can't be helped that the two of us were invited out for that.”

”Hehe, if I don't kill him, do I just wait for him to kill me? I have no interest in sitting around and waiting to do,” Anda laughed coldly.

”Are you still trying to buy time? Give it up, those teammates of yours can barely protect themselves, do you truly think they'll have the time to rush over and help you?” said Windling calmly. ”Even if you are all the prodigious elites from the Blackboard Academy's Inner Courtyard, before your potential becomes power, it is still merely potential.”

”Do you still dare to kill them? The elites of the Inner Courtyard are no joke, you know.”

”Kill them? Of course that's impossible, we just want them to retreat of their own accord.” Before Windling finished her sentence, she abruptly drew two long silver-white pistols, and aimed one of them at Anda. ”Alright, let's get this over with, quick.”

Pop-pop!

There were two dull noises from the barrel of the pistols, which flew into the air and turned into two huge yellow silk webs that headed straight for Anda, threatening to engulf him.

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Garen carefully used something to scratch the liquid off his barrier. The metal that was covered by the acid quickly began to emit wisps of white smoke as they corroded. It was even starting to soften, turning from solid and hard to something as soft as leather.

The opponent's aim was very clear, they just wanted him to leave these ruins. The attack just now clearly used super-effective acid missiles to those ends, they had no intention of actually taking his life.

Glancing at the energy the Mech had left, he saw that there was only 52% remaining. After the long journey here, he had still had 80%, but now there was only 52% left. Evidently, this was the result of the acid missile just now as well as the high radiation levels here.

”Since you want me to leave here, there must be an untold secret here in these ruins. Either that, or... they want us to split up from someone in the team, breaking up our formation so we act separately.” Using the answer from before, Garen instantly came up with two ideas. ”And the opponent has no killing intent, which must mean they know our team's identity. In that case, the second option would be highly likely.”

”Garen, you there?” Suddenly, Linda's voice came from above.

Garen turned around, and saw Linda slowly letting her Mech descend from the sky above him and to the side. ”I finally found you guys, Aves has already run here. He was also attacked by an acid missile, they don't want to kill us, it's more like they want to chase us away. After I contacted Aves, his Mech was running really low on energy, so I told him to go back first.”

”Do you know who attacked us?” asked Garen in a low voice.

”I don't know, but... I went to Captain Anda's location, but I couldn't find him. I just noticed that there were marks on the ground indicating he was attacked by missiles, evidently the people attacking us did not use acid missiles against the Captain,” said Linda, somewhat worriedly.

Garen narrowed his eyes, slightly surprised that Linda could find all three of them within such a short period of time. After all, the interference here was through the roof, the sensors on the Mech were practically disabled, so they could only rely on their own sense of direction.

But everyone had their own secrets, those who dared to accept this quest and come out here would all be above average characters. After all, the radiation belt was not somewhere regular pilots would simply agree to enter.

”What do you suggest?” Garen thought about it, and asked quietly.

”I suspect that they're trying to separate us from the Captain. Their true aim, should be Captain Anda!” said Linda softly. It went without saying that both of them knew that Anda was also an alias.

”What I mean is, since this is Captain Anda's own problem, we should just let him settle it himself. After all, this is his private matter.”

”Is that what you think?” Garen's voice was calm.

”Of course.”

”Then let's wait outside for now.” Garen had no intention of interfering with Anda's personal matters either. And he was not worried about those attackers, he was more concerned with that feeling of discomfort he got from these ruins.

The two Mechs slowly rose into the air, one after the other, and flew towards the outskirts of the ruins.

Barroom!!

Suddenly there was an intense explosion in the distance, and they could vaguely hear Anda's angry howl, like that of an injured beast.

”Looks like Captain's having a hard time...” Linda stopped her Mech slowly, staying suspended in mid-air.

”What do you want to do?” As soon as Garen spoke, he saw Linda dash towards the source of the sound.

He hesitated for a moment in mid-air, but in the end Garen quickly followed her.

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