Chapter 508: Spectre III (1/2)

Chapter 508: Spectre III

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

There was a rather giant hole at the cabin of the mech, which should be the ”creative” work of the red-tailed beast. Ye Chong shook his headN no one would have survived from that tail attack under such circumstance. Ye Chong had seen this model before, twice - the first being back in Crysound where he saw 10 golden units zooming by in the sky at the ruin; the second being at Centuria University, during which 12 mechs were fighting against 5 red-tailed beasts, the golden mechs joined as a trio and stole the kill immediately. That was the only time Ye Chong ever saw the golden mech performed.

Well, the pilots of the trio were not particularly good, not as competent compared to himself, but they certainly had no problem handling the red-tailed beasts even in a 2 on 1 fight. Practically speaking, only an elite could fight off a red-tailed beast alone.

Judging by the debris of this mech, it should belong to the series of those golden mechs, though the weapon setup was a little different - the mech was wielding a golden ancient lance. Ye Chong believed in the capabilities of this ex-pilot, he or she should be about the level of the trio he encountered.

But that would be odd. Assuming they were at similar levels, it should not be a problem for this pilot to knock out one red-tailed beast. The pilot should have won. And that was when Ye Chong noticed the few tiny scratches around the debris. The layout of the scratches were messy, which some looked pretty new on top of the older ones. However, these scratches weren't old. That would mean the mech had suffered a considerable amount of damage before encountering a red-tailed beast. It was in another fight, an intense fight too.

Han Jia proceeded with his team, only to discover more debris of mechs along with carcasses of the red-tailed beasts. Some of the carcasses still looked fresh, while some had darkened with dried body fluid all over the body. And again, the debris resembled the same mech series Ye Chong had first spotted. The shocking discovery however was the burn marks across the carcasses which was clearly caused by heat ray firearms. They also found out a golden mech armed with ranged weaponry. It was a golden laser shooter, of a real, non-streamlined mechanical design with the code ”G-Z” printed.

It was the first time Ye Chong saw a ranged weapon that could hurt the red-tailed beast.

”Such gun!” Shang hurriedly discarded his Farqua and picked the G-Z up, ”I knew it, it's a good gun,” he muttered. Well, it was a good gun indeed, but... it looked kind of odd being held in the hands of a blue-white mech. Gold with blue and white?

Shang turned on the gun and shot once. A golden beam with breadth of an arm escaped the muzzle and created a crater on the rock nearby. Clear burn marks could be seen around the edge of the crater. The golden beam had a strong color, the energy seemed highly condensed, probably the most condensed ray Ye Chong had ever seen, not even the laser cannon of a spaceship could be this condensed. A laser fired by spaceship weaponry might be far brighter and broader but could never be as condensed as this, which explained why the golden beam could cause actual damage on red-tailed beasts.

The next discovery after G-Z was the number of debris around.

They had at least discovered over 200 scraps of such golden mech model around, while the carcasses of red-tailed beasts should go up to 400. That would mean... at least 200 supreme pilots had been here, while... there were more ahead of them.

Ye Chong was pretty much astonished.

No word could be used to describe the earth-shattering experience he had.

If there was only one pilot or a pair of these pilots, Ye Chong would not be surprised as it would clearly be just another tragedy of exploring pilots being engulfed by the beasts. But there were at least 20 of them, all elites and whoever owning them must only be from either of the aristocrats, or an organization with a similar authority - an authority as strong as the Sangs perhaps.

But they were in Gray Valley, so obviously, only Research Consortium could have owned these!

Research Consortium was the sole force that could possibly fight against the aristocrats...

However... would that mean...

Ye Chong pulled the lever and proceeded, his speculation grew stronger in his head, as he sighted more debris and carcasses, the craters and the burns.

It must be a brutal fight.

Both Ye Chong and Shang remained silent. Caution would be the topmost priority now. The place was blatantly a hazardous zone. They had heard stories about Spectre and there was simply no way the folks could cook up these stories out of nowhere. There must be something going on, although Ye Chong had yet encountered anything that spelled ”hazard”. There were only surprises so far. He never expected the consortium would send men to check out here, a large troop it was too. It was a relief however, the sight of these debris had proven that the consortium frequented this area, they must be watching out from somewhere too.

Han Jia dashed forward with Shang wielding G-Z as followed carefully behind. Shang would cover Ye Chong if anything went wrong. They accelerated, disregarding the messes around them.

Ye Chong had fully recovered from the shock.

They could not find anything alive.