Chapter 331: Battle Royale (1/2)
Chapter 331: Battle Royale
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
No time to ponder!
By classical conditioning, Ye Chong's hands swept over the control panel once again.
Hundreds of beams came from the stampede of mutated lifeforms below.
E-Energy beam?!
Boom! Boom! Crash!
The beams passed by hovering mechs in the sky. They exploded, burnt and fell into a handful of meteorites.
The plot twist was shocking to everyone.
Apparently Blaze-III was the monstrosity's main target as quite a few pillars of light came towards Ye Chong. He reacted quickly with a rough swing and dodged them gracelessly. Nevertheless, the two arms of Blaze-III had been destroyed by the beams. The core of the main body remained intact, most fortunately, or Ye Chong could not imagine himself joining the falling stars.
The beams continued as Ye Chong frantically inputted new commands on the control panel. Blaze-III was carrying out one standard dodge after another while Ye Chong, having cold sweat over his forehead, was slowly being consumed by it. Blaze-III was facilitated with a standard pressure buffering system yet Ye Chong was getting wobbly by the constant drastic turns he made. The beam attack was so ferocious and dense that no matter what he did Blaze-III still got hit on its right leg. One could see the circuits as well as the gears dripping in black revealed at the wreckage. How would the machinery fight with only a single leg left?
The grand debut of Blaze-III was now a memory, as pathetically it hovered. Ye Chong almost saw himself becoming part of the memory too, if it was not for his quick action. The audience was still in the aftermath of the plot twist, unable to react.
The sudden raid had demolished most of the mechs in the sky. More allies had fallen in the next few minutes. Ye Chong could foresee a hundred of them had gone into debris. ”No! The mutated lifeforms can't be firing!”
”Humans? There were snipers?”
The pilots of the three teams realized the cold fact to their demise.
”This is unforgivable! We are fighting for men and we get hit by them?” The pilots were enraged as they removed themselves from the stampede of lifeforms and headed towards the source of firing. They fired up all their ranged weaponry and drastically looked for that very damned target to launch a barrage.
It was hard. The snipers were lurking within the lifeforms. Their disguise was great as well.
The stranger thing was, despite being within the bunches of mutated lifeforms, the snipers seemed to be unnoticed by them.
The pilots wondered, of what kind of relationship both the snipers shared with the mutated lifeforms, that they could avoid being attacked by them. The snipers had ascended into the newest enemy of humanity.
Little did they know, that there was Bi Bo's camera capturing everything the whole time. The happening had been broadcasted throughout the galaxy and these little assassins had become the public enemy.
Ye Chong was unnerved, as he realized strength would not be his safety charm, since luck would also be part of the account. At least he was not part of the major misfortune.
The beams showered again and Ye Chong zoomed towards one of the landing sites of the near building. Blaze-III did not decelerate even when approaching, not because it did not intend to, it was because the situation forbade it to. The beams were chasing it and Ye Chong carried on his insane APM to perform clumsy dodges to survive. He could guarantee that he would become ashes the moment he turned down his gear.
The strength of these snipers was stronger than he thought. It had been a while since he last met pilots that could push him to the corner like this. Moreover, the snipers after him were not one or two, but literally seven of them!
Right when he was 3 meters away from the parking site, he opened the cabin of Blaze-III and quickly ejected himself! Ye Chong made a peculiar twist with his body, dodging that very beam millimeters away from his waist. He could almost hear his heart pumping, his body shivering, as the twist was made out of his habitual caution, never would he expect they would fire at him even at brief second like this.
The tip of his toes touched the ground, the muscles of both his legs contracted dramatically. Boom! A crater was made below as he launched himself like a fired arrow, all the way deep into the connecting tube.
Another beam followed 5 centimeters from his back as he made a new twist to dodge it. The beam missed him but landed on a poor mech in the air instead. Boom! The mech swallowed its debris.