Chapter 642: Chapter 415: No Place for the Living
“Black Silver Wings, prepare for coordinated combat.”
As the combat command resounded within the cockpit, Ruan Xiongfei and Naden, looking through the combat screens, surprisingly found their opinions unified in harmony.
Even though the two often disagreed, when it came to battle, they acted like the closest of comrades!
Since its development, the Mecha Association’s twin-synchro system had never seen better coordination than that between these two.
However, at that moment, countless red glows suddenly pierced through the rolling black smoke from below, scattering instantly across the sky.
Huh!?
All four pilots let out a cry of surprise and suspicion, sweeping their gazes around.
These fast-moving red lights didn’t seem to aim at hitting them but flew off in all directions.
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
In the vast sky, these small sounds of metal colliding seemed insignificant…
However, to the ears of the audience, to the ears of the surveillance personnel,
these sounds were so clear!
The viewers, engrossed in the live broadcast as if watching a grand cinematic spectacle, only felt the sounds coming from their Light Computers vibrating painfully against their eardrums.
“Does the Mecha Association have an issue with their equipment?”
“Damn it!”
…
“What is that?”
In the Federation military surveillance room, a soldier pointed at the outer armor of a floating surveillance monitor on the screen and asked.
Li Shen, along with several Majors, all turned their attention to the screen. Using the focused optical viewports of the Sky Mother Ship, they could clearly see the abnormality with the floating monitor.
A blood-colored Light Dart, breathing like a living thing, gleamed with light that brightened and dimmed, had embedded itself deep into the monitor’s body.
The exposed half of the Light Dart, resembling a crystal made of congealed blood, shimmered with a strange and beautiful hue.
“Is this an energy Light Dart?”
A Major frowned, looking at it for a while before muttering to himself.
“It looks like… huh? Why has it started blinking so rapidly!”
In the video feed, the blood-red indicator suddenly started flashing rapidly, and its frequency increased more and more. This scenario began to resemble something all too familiar…
A time bomb?
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Right then, they witnessed an unforgettable scene. The surveillance monitors, which even the fierce battle between Thunderhawk and Strangling Demon Snake had not destroyed, were now completely obliterated.
Bursts of sparks rose in the sky, which from afar looked like… a sky full of Red Lotuses.
If one were to talk about shock, perhaps the most stunned were not the military personnel in the surveillance room but rather the billions of viewers watching online.
The surveillance monitor’s camera could only point in a fixed direction and couldn’t capture itself.
Thus, all they heard was the intense sound of metal clashing. So when the sky exploded with Shura Orders, all they experienced was a loud bang followed by complete darkness on their screens.
“Did the Federation’s Light Computer room explode?”
“What trash servers, are there still broadcasts that lag nowadays?”
“Switch back quickly!”
…
Those online viewers, who had been watching with great enjoyment, were suddenly voicing curses.
They only cared about their own entertainment and viewing experience. They had been watching the most crucial part of the battle, with the two S+ rank Mechas yet to determine a victor, when suddenly, the live feed was cut off?
Zzzt, zzzt~
The black screen seemed to be struggling to return to color, yet each time only a faint ripple of light would flicker before fading out again.
“Are you a bunch of pigs? Fix the signal quickly, or go plead your case with Skyhawk Martial God if it’s not done in 30 seconds!”
At that moment, aboard the Sky Mother Ship hovering over the Land of Bright Star, the person in charge of the broadcast transmission roared in anger.
Shortly after, someone answered, trembling with fear, “Reporting to Mr. Molip, our Mother Ship’s equipment is functioning properly.”
“Where’s the problem?!”
At last, a subordinate with a mournful expression reported, “Mr. Molip, our sensors have been completely destroyed, and now that area of the sky is entirely shielded by an electromagnetic field, our surveillance signals are suffering significant interference!”
What?
Molip was taken aback, but his years of experience allowed him to react quickly.
“Switch to the optical monitoring on the mother ship, and get it up and running fast!”
“Yes, yes, but Mr. Molip, can we really catch up with those mechas using optical scopes?”
“How will we know without trying? You’re all useless, do I really need to push you? Hurry up! Hurry up!”
Hearing Molip’s angry shouting, the subordinates panicked and scrambled away.
However, they had only just aligned the optical scopes to the area where the Thunderhawk and the Strangling Demon Snake were, not expecting both mechas to simultaneously leap into the air.
The scopes were suddenly left empty, and the operator didn’t even know where to turn.
“He XX…”
Molip swore angrily and slumped to the ground in resignation.
Indeed, trying to catch high-flying mechas engaged in intense chase using manually controlled scopes was like a fools’ errand.
The two mechas shot upwards simultaneously!
As the starry sky’s top Mechanical Masters, their instincts told them to stay away from the eerie area they had just encountered.
For the explosion of red light that had suddenly appeared was emerging from right beneath their feet.
Only after both mecha bodies had ascended a kilometer did the two pilots notice that their electromagnetic signals were being jammed!
“Area range sensors detect a communication barrier, switching communication modes.”
A layer of dense purple lightning surfaced on Thunderhawk, while the shell of the Strangling Demon Snake fluctuated with dark yellow ripples like water.
Only then did the two mechas return to their standoff with unique postures.
“What the hell was that thing just now?”
Andumari grumbled discontentedly, vexed that his killing spree had been interrupted not once but repeatedly, diminishing the thrill he so relished.
Ruan Xiongfei, on the other side, said nothing. The bald man amid the strong electromagnetic field had a piercing gaze, and his combat instincts told him that things were perhaps not so simple.
Who was this expert making an appearance?
The Shura Mecha, still beneath those dark clouds, had eyes flickering with fire as it watched the Red Lotus soar high into the sky.
“Shura Slaughter… Construction successful.”
Shura’s consciousness, with great effort, conveyed this message to the young man suspended in the cockpit.
The boy’s cold and lonely consciousness received it clearly and correctly.
“Despair Heavenly Flower… Shura Slaughter, the living… have nowhere.”
This was the rough message Shura wanted to express.
The words came out staggered and simple, yet they carried an undiluted and unreserved killing intent.
It seemed the words were meant only for the young man’s ears, nothing more than a mere statement.
But after the words were spoken, the small black Shura Mecha suddenly crouched down, then leaped high with a blast!
Boom!
Four brilliant blood-red torrents burst forth from its back.
Molip, who was instructing others to adjust the optical scopes, glanced unintentionally through the transparent bulletproof glass, only to stand there, dumbfounded, watching the radiant light emerge from within the fiery clouds.
“Colonel Li, that mecha… it has appeared again!” shouts erupted within the Federation monitoring room.
This time, there were no bystanders; the only audience was the still-evacuating Sky Mother Ship, a few mechas within that area, a handful of Mechanical Masters.
They all witnessed the lone, wingless, scarred black mecha tearing through the clouds, shooting toward the heavens.
It flew straight towards the two War Gods in the sky, its insignificance all the more apparent at that moment.
However, behind it, the ragged cloak was magnificent and unrestrained!
In its bloody eyes, only one figure was reflected at that moment—
The mottled and sinister dark yellow mecha!