Chapter 102 Seeking Victory Amidst Danger

Although it's just a game, who plays games to lose? Qiao Mei could understand Fei Ge's thoughts.

Looking at this situation where she was caught between a rock and a hard place, she forced herself to remain calm and asked the flying pigeon how much mana she had left.

The release of mech skills relies heavily on the mana bar. Generally, once the mana bar is depleted, it will automatically begin to regenerate, but the regeneration speed is very slow. At least, given the situation they are currently facing, they cannot wait for the mana bar to fully regenerate.

Flying Pigeon: "There's still 71% of the blue bar left. Do you have an idea?"

Escort: "Okay, use [Inspiring Whirlwind] on me later. Remember, you can only use it three times in total. You need to save some mana for immunity cleanse."

【Inspiring Whirlwind】 is the first skill of the support-type mech Flying Pigeon. After use, it can increase the attack power of allies by 50%.

Given her current situation, her chances of winning against a mech warrior whose skill level is significantly higher than hers are very low.

Therefore... Qiao Mei, while concentrating, also issued an order to the flying pigeon. With the blessing of [Inspiring Whirlwind], the attack performance of the Escort Mech was directly doubled compared to before.

She piloted her bodyguard mech, slashing through the fanged bats, and with a ghostly figure, darted behind the enemy bodyguard mech at incredible speed.

The opposing team assumed that her target was the bodyguard mech, and they all swarmed towards its location, completely ignoring their slow-moving support mech, Clumsy Turtle.

Almost instantly, Qiao Mei used the third skill of the Escort Mech to teleport and rush straight to the Stupid Turtle while the opponents were taking them by surprise. Then she used her ultimate skill [Sword Unsheathed] to kill the Stupid Turtle with one sword.

When the mechanical voice announced that the enemy's Silly Turtle had logged off, the attack buff that the Flying Pigeon Mech had applied to her Escort Mech also completely disappeared.

She looked at the enemy team, whose health was rapidly decreasing without the protection of their defensive mechs, and said to the Flying Pigeon Mech, "We can use [Inspiring Whirlwind] a second time."

Flying Pigeon never expected such an operation. After a moment of stunned silence, she quickly followed suit. Then, as if in a dream, she watched as the镖师 (bodyguard/escort) continued to attack the enemy's second weakest control-type mech.

Without their support mechs, the remaining three enemy soldiers were losing health at an alarming rate due to the poison barrier, far outpacing Qiao Mei's relatively healthy health.

In no time at all, the enemy's control and defense mechs were taken down one after another by the bodyguard mechs controlled by Qiao Mei.

In the end, only the bodyguard mech with strong attack power remained, which Qiao Mei had never targeted.

She glanced at her health bar, which was down to half a bar, and had Flying Pigeon cast the third [Inspiring Whirlwind] spell on her.

The opponent's bodyguard mech has about the same health bar as hers, but is much stronger. She wasn't that arrogant, thinking she could definitely beat her.

So, without the surprise of the pilot of the opposing mech, he raised the mech's cold blade and slashed down one fanged bat after another, heading to meet up with the flying pigeon.

As for the enemy's bodyguard mech behind her, Qiao Mei glanced at the swarm of fanged bats that were swarming towards it like wasps. Taking advantage of the enemy bodyguard mech's ability to draw aggro and reduce the number of fanged bats, she managed to escape the forest area with her Flying Pigeon mech when her health bar was down to only 20%. She got rid of the poison barrier and the fanged bats.

At this moment, the official mechanical voice also officially announced that the enemy's镖师 (bodyguard/escort) mech had been eliminated.

"Damn it!!" The real-world pilot of the bodyguard mech removed the connector, becoming furious and cursing, "Which big shot went to smurf? My bodyguard mech, which I painstakingly built up with a 100% win rate, is now useless!!"

With a sinister look in his eyes, he opened his personal computer bracelet, checked the competition records, opened Qiao Mei's message box, took a screenshot, and sent it to someone.

[Help me find out who this person is!!]

Qiao Mei, who was still in the interstellar simulated monster battlefield, was unaware of all this.

Right now, she's found a safe, open space with her Flying Pigeon Mech to recover her strength in preparation for defeating the battlefield boss, the Bat King, later.

Given the difficulty of this map, her idea of ​​defeating the Bat King with its massive health bar using only the Escort Mech is nothing short of a pipe dream.

Fortunately, she still has a support mech alive. If she frequently increases her attack power and is more agile enough to avoid the Bat King's ultrasonic attacks, there is a possibility that she can defeat it.

Just then, Feige exclaimed admiringly, "You're amazing! Is this your first time playing ranked? Or are you some kind of hidden pro? Maybe, just maybe, I can get carried by you and play support for you sometime... *sobs*..."

Qiao Mei will participate in ranked matches quite a few more times. Thinking about how well the Flying Pigeon mech cooperated with her just now, and how well it followed commands, she told Flying Pigeon that this was her first time playing ranked matches and she wasn't a pro, but she would definitely continue to play ranked matches in the future.

"If you want, we can add each other as friends after we get out, and I'll call you when we play ranked matches again."

Playing ranked matches is different from playing against bots or in casual matches; it requires almost three times more mental energy.

By this point, Qiao Mei was already feeling a bit of a headache, and she figured that she would reach her limit after this round.

Feige said it was no problem and continued to treat Qiao Mei's bodyguard mecha, mentioning the dropped virtual materials.

"I wonder how lucky we are to get the materials this time. Otherwise, if we enter a map of this difficulty level next time, we may not be as lucky as we are this time and be able to get to this level."

Qiao Mei stood up in her body, feeling that she had recovered enough. She replied to Flying Pigeon: "Try to be optimistic. Even if we don't get the material drops, we can still get gold coins and stars. It's good to be able to get stars and money."

The higher your rank, the more money you'll receive after each ranked match, and the higher the level of the virtual materials you'll get.

Feige knew this too, and with Qiao Mei's comfort, she finally adjusted her mindset.

Later, under Qiao Mei's command, we successfully defeated the Bat King in the castle. The Bat King dropped a total of 500 gold coins and a wing of unknown origin.

Qiao Mei didn't look at the extra star on her bronze rank. After accepting the friend request from the previous game's Feige, she long-pressed the grayish wings to read the description.

[Fanged Bat King Wings] can be used to craft support and control mechs. Rarity is rated B (from lowest to highest: C, B, A, S, SS, SSS). Price: 2000 gold coins. You can choose to keep it or sell it.

Let's take a brief look at the plot.

Ao Cang: Let me out! I want to see my little believer!

One side: Almost there, almost there, don't rush me!!