Chapter 46: The Empire’s First Beta Crown Princess 15 “Get rid of it quickly…

046 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 15

The five bases were peaceful that night.

They couldn't accurately predict when the first wave of insect beasts would arrive, maybe in the middle of the night, or maybe a few days later, or a week later.

When Lu Jiu came back from the training ground, he could feel the tense atmosphere among the cadets.

"111, remember to activate the pregnancy protection function at all times."

"Listen!" the small system said, "It's open for you 24 hours a day, don't worry!"

When Lu Jiu first learned that 111 had this basic function, he also found it magical, but after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense.

——Isn’t it normal that the demand for “I’m pregnant but I hope it won’t affect my ability to do this or that” is stronger than some weird function like “check whether there is a uterus in the body”?

Most of the fast-travel players should be career-oriented.

After returning to the room and taking a hot shower, Lu Jiu lay down on the hard bed.

He let out a breath, his tense muscles relaxed, he put his hands behind his head, looked at the ceiling, and his thoughts began to drift.

He closed his eyes.

...can't make phone calls.

Breaking the precept once is fine, but if you break it twice, then what difference does it make whether the precept exists or not?

He rolled over, facing the wall.

Go to sleep, don’t think about that guy anymore, recharge your energy for tomorrow.

…

…

“Beep—beep—beep—beep—”

"Level 2 insect beast tide has arrived. Level 2 insect beast tide has arrived. All troops please set off immediately..."

Alarms rang throughout the base.

Lu Jiu suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and got out of bed, opened the door and saw that everyone in the corridor was in a hurry.

The teacher in charge passed by his door and shouted, "Hurry up and take the space box and go!"

It was four o'clock in the morning, still dark.

Lu Jiu and the others rushed to the departure gate, only to see that the military troops had already set out from the open gate of the base in front of them - the soldiers lined up and trotted out, and as soon as they stepped on the ground outside, they released the mechas and flew up in the mechas.

The instructor in charge of Canxing Academy quickly distributed combat uniforms to them and urged them, "Put them on quickly! Once you put them on, line up and get ready to go!"

"We belong to the third force and are only responsible for the ground area. Our target planet this time is the neighboring Blue Star!"

Lu Jiu heard the sound of the boy's teeth chattering next to him.

——Those who are qualified to participate in the actual combat training are all the best in the campus. However, when the location is changed from the school's actual combat forest to the real battlefield, tension and fear are still inevitable to grow from the bottom of their hearts.

Lu Jiu looked forward calmly.

At this moment, he still didn't know where Chen Yu was, nor did he know what would happen to him after this battle.

But he is willing to face the unknown future.

The team began to run forward.

He followed forward.

His feet stepped on the solid ground, the cold morning air blew on his face, the mecha was released from the space box, and he jumped into the mecha's hands.

He entered the cabin and quickly connected the various lines to the interfaces on his combat suit, then focused on establishing a mental connection with the mecha.

Yesterday, the instructors had connected their mecha systems to the military command system and installed recorders in their cabins.

All systems and programs started running at high speed at this moment.

[Target planet: Lanming Star]

【Coordinates: xxx, xxx, xxx】

【Set off】

After the mechanical female voice finished its announcement, the mecha took off into the wind.

Rushing into the sky, breaking through the atmosphere, rushing into space——

Lu Jiu's pupils constricted.

The space was silent, but dazzling lights were blooming everywhere, exploding in clusters.

In this gorgeous yet cruel scene, a giant starship traveled side by side with them, heading towards the direction of Lanming Star.

*

Blue Star.

Half an hour ago, a beast tide broke out, and a large number of insect beasts invaded the southern hemisphere of the planet.

At this moment, the sky was about to brighten. Insects and beasts of various sizes were running around in the vast forest, and mechas were falling to the ground like a meteor shower.

The communication platform was opened and the instructor’s voice was connected.

"All students of Canxing Academy, follow me. The area we are responsible for is the southern half of this forest. Don't run away somewhere else. Do you hear me?"

"I heard it!" The voices of all the students rang out simultaneously on the platform.

"After landing, it's time for you to show off your skills. But if you encounter an insect beast that is too difficult to deal with, don't fight it head-on. Remember to call me!"

"good!"

A student interrupted: "Instructor, where is the king beast usually?"

"The King Beast is the only high-level insect beast that is sure to appear in the beast tide. It is usually very large and will find a place to hide. We can't scan it with machines, so we can only determine its location through some battlefield phenomena. Don't think about such complicated things. This is not your mission!"

"yes!"

Lu Jiu's mecha was about to fall to the ground.

Suddenly, a small insect-like beast jumped out from below. It was shaped like a beetle, spread its wings and raised its head, looking as if to intimidate the enemy.

Lu Jiu fired a shot, and the insect beast exploded into flowers instantly!

The mecha team officially landed and everyone dispersed cautiously.

…

A giant starship hovers above the forest.

The images monitored by the recorder formed a grid of small squares, which were presented in front of all the generals who were watching.

"This student is quite quick," a major general pointed at a square in the lower left corner, "and he has already killed the three-headed insect beast in such a short time."

"This is Lin Miao," Canxing's team leader came here from the base ten minutes ago and said hurriedly, "He is the top student in the second-year mecha class."

"Wow, no wonder."

"This student is not bad," another person raised his chin to the upper right, "He has killed five of them. He is very good at using weapons."

"Oh... this is Lujiu!"

Shen Yu sat in the main seat behind the round table, watching these scenes quietly.

"This must be the second place in your mecha class?" the general joked.

"Uh, no, Lu Jiu is not from the mecha class, he is from the weapons class."

The generals were quite surprised to hear this.

The teacher in charge moved his lips, looking rather conflicted.

If Lu Jiu were put in the mecha class, it would be hard to say who would be first and who would be second...

…

In the forest below.

A sharp cry was heard, and a five-meter-tall insect beast rushed out from the front!

Six laser cannons were instantly fired from the barrels of different mechas, shooting out in straight trajectories, attacking it from top to bottom, left to right.

The insect beast dodged left and right nimbly, and in the end only one leg was injured by the explosion.

It just tilted its body a little, and then pounced towards them even more violently!

"It's so fast!" A boy on the communication platform became a little flustered.

Lu Jiu shook his left arm.

With a click, a crack appeared in the middle of the left arm of the mecha, and the metal panel retracted to the sides, revealing inside... a cannon barrel with a super complicated shape? ?

Immediately, upon hearing the boy's words, the instructor who had turned around and rushed back was stunned. Lin Miao, who was still trying hard to perform in the back, took a glance and was also stunned.

The other students were stunned, and the generals who were watching in the starship were also stunned.

…What the hell is this? ?

This cannon barrel has at least dozens of muzzles, some large and some small, all squeezed together, with a few thin spikes interspersed among them, the specifications obviously do not meet the standards, what is it used for? ?

Shen Yu narrowed his eyes.

Lu Jiu raised his arms, and spots of light of different colors appeared in front of the dozens of gun muzzles and spikes.

"Instructor," he said from the platform, "I want to try this new weapon. Would you mind passing by?"

The insect beast roared as it approached them, saliva spurting from its mouth and its sharp claws scraping up countless mud. Its ferocious momentum was enough to drive back all the recruits on the battlefield.

Lu Jiu stood there motionless, with the muzzle of his left arm pointed forward. Lights of different colors gradually expanded and merged together to become a huge... light bullet.

"..." The instructor shuddered and rolled over to get away from the insect beast!

boom!

There was a loud bang like thunder, and the moment the insect beast jumped up, the light bullet flew out!

It emitted a blinding light and quickly expanded into a vertical circular barrier with a diameter of nearly ten meters.

The insect beasts had nowhere to hide and were forced to stop, but they were unable to stop the barrier from approaching and covering them, and were wrapped up in it while screaming.

The barrier closed into a ball, remained still for one second, and then exploded on the spot!

A strong wind swept in, and the continuous crackling sounds of explosions startled the entire forest.

…

In the starship.

Snowflakes appeared on the small square surveillance screen. The generals were stunned for two or three seconds, then walked forward in shock.

"What is that?"

"Is it our military's weapon?"

"No way, there's nothing like that in the armory!"

After a few seconds, the real-time image reappeared.

Instantly, everyone fell silent, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

...The forest was flattened into a fan-shaped area.

Some of the trees were still standing there, charred black, while others had already been broken into several pieces and lay on the ground.

The insects and beasts that could have used the bushes for cover had nowhere to hide and were all swept away, with their bodies strewn all over the place.

The charred burn marks on all sides were obviously from the laser cannon, and the countless straight dents crisscrossing the ground seemed to be the work of the ray gun.

There is a group of trees in front of the fan-shaped area, and there are countless holes densely packed on the trunks.

...This scene is simply beyond human comprehension.

"...What kind of weapon is this?" A general was incredulous. "Laser cannons and ray guns... can't be used together?!"

Over the years, in order to increase the power of weapons that mechas can carry, countless weapon designers have thought about whether it is possible to stack weapons of different natures together?

For example, putting a laser cannon and a ray gun together can not only bombard but also cut with rays, and the destructive power is instantly increased by countless levels. Even if they do not develop new weapons, they can still create some new tricks with such permutations and combinations.

However, this seemingly simple and crude plan encountered obstacles at every turn.

There is no other reason. When these things are used together, the state is too unstable.

Either the ray is swallowed up by the laser cannon, or the two together explode directly on the spot.

—exploded in the barrel!

Even if two soldiers, one holding a laser cannon and the other holding a ray gun, were to fire at each other, this extremely tragic situation would occur.

Therefore, there cannot be a variety of weapons in a unit. Everyone must be unified to prevent such accidents from happening.

But they did not make such a request for this group of cadets.

…At most, there would be a dozen students from each academy, and they would not send these students to a battlefield with a high density of insects and beasts, so it would not happen that “two weapons were fired close together”, unless these two students were so sticky that they insisted on me being next to you and you being next to me…

"Is this the weapon that the student brought himself?!" A general immediately turned around and asked Canxing's team leader, "Is this something your school made?!"

The teacher in charge was also confused at the moment and shook his head repeatedly when he heard this.

"It can't be developed by their school, otherwise how could we not know about it?"

"That's right, didn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come with them? How could this be hidden?"

"What do you mean, this student did this on his own?"

"Didn't the teacher at their school just say that he is from the weapons department?"

"But he hasn't graduated yet, he's just a student!"

The teacher in charge hesitated: "...and he is only in the first grade..."

All the generals stopped abruptly, turned their heads and looked at him, staring.

The teacher in charge swallowed his saliva and said weakly: "...But, he has already created a weapon combination with great destructive power in the practical class..."

The generals' eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Bai Yunfei was standing behind Shen Yu with his mouth slightly open.

He whispered, "...was it installed when we arrived at the base yesterday?"

No one expected the appearance of this weapon, which means Lu Jiu did not try this weapon in the practice field yesterday...

...That's understandable. After all, no training ground can withstand such destructive power.

...The training ground at Canxing is not suitable either.

...But this also means that Lu Jiu is bringing a weapon to the battlefield that he himself is not sure will be successful...?

No, that's not right.

In the real-time footage, the mecha calmly lowered its left arm.

Bai Yunfei denied his own guess in his heart.

...Lu Jiu should be very sure that his weapon will succeed.

At this moment, he murmured: "...He is indeed very powerful."

Shen looked at the mecha in the picture with desire, remaining silent.

*

Lu Jiu let out a breath and stretched his shoulders and neck.

Not bad, not bad, the weapon was launched successfully and the mecha was not damaged much. He can get 98 points with this weapon!

111 poked his head out: "Where is the difference of two points? Are you afraid of being too proud?"

"No, it's just the appearance," Lu Jiu said disdainfully, "This thing is too ugly."

111 exclaimed: "...So you have aesthetic sense!"

"What are you questioning me about?" Lu Jiu raised his eyebrows.

His performance shocked everyone.

“Fuck…fuck, Lu Jiu, you’re awesome, what the hell is this? Did you make it yourself?!”

On the communication platform, the students became excited.

"How could you secretly come up with something so amazing without telling us?"

"Ah, I want it too. With this destructive power, it would only take a few minutes to flatten the entire forest!"

The instructor twitched his lips and said, "We can't wipe them all out. It will destroy the ecology."

Lu Jiu: “Indeed, indeed.”

The mecha raised its arm again, and its left arm closed and split open again, revealing a sword this time.

Everyone was confused again. Although the heavy sword was a conventional weapon equipped with the mecha, Lu Jiu's sword looked different from others.

“What the hell is this???” the instructor was furious.

"This is something I figured out before I set out. I'll try it again."

As Lu Jiu spoke, he rushed forward with a clang. A bug beast appeared in front of him, and he swung his sword when it was still more than ten meters away from him.

Immediately, hundreds of small shells shot out from the sword and swept towards the insect beast along the line of Lu Jiu's sword.

"What's the difference between this and a scattergun?!" everyone shouted.

"Even more handsome!" Lu Jiu waved the sword like a symphony baton, making crackling and clattering sounds.

…

Lin Miao followed at the end of the team.

Looking at everyone running after Lu Jiu, the originally tense atmosphere was swept away, and the platform was filled with the sound of their excited chattering. He silently bit his lower lip.

Actual combat training is a very important opportunity to demonstrate one's abilities, and its impact is so great that it can determine whether a trainee will be assigned to a key unit or a garrison force after graduation and joining the military.

...He wants to perform well and stand out.

He wanted to be seen by the generals who were watching them on the starship.

Lin Miao pursed his lips and impatiently killed the scattered insects and beasts around him. When another cheer broke out on the platform, he couldn't help but think - is there any way for him to stand out?

Is there any way... to overshadow Lu Jiu's brilliance?

His eyes darkened.

*

An hour has passed since the first wave of insect and beast tide broke out.

According to preliminary estimation, the number of this wave of insect beasts is over 10,000.

More than half of the source area, space area, and ground area have been cleared, but the location of the king beast, the commander of the insect beast side, has not yet been discovered.

Only by killing the king beast can they end this battle faster.

Lu Jiu and the others followed the instructor and continued to advance deeper into the forest.

"Suddenly I feel that the actual battlefield is just like this!"

"Yeah, it doesn't seem as scary as I imagined."

"You are in a relatively safe place now. It's certainly not that scary. Why don't you go to the space battlefield and take a look!" The instructor poured cold water on them.

"Hey, I know, I know!"

“Adapt step by step, adapt step by step.”

"What's going on in other battlefields now, instructor?"

"Take care of yourself and ask less questions of others!"

"Hmm..."

They walked forward laughing.

Suddenly, a loud sound of metal exploding came from the woods behind, echoing through the sky.

They were startled, stopped and looked back.

…A puff of smoke drifted out of the forest to the north.

"What's going on over there?" someone asked in a low voice.

"Is there something wrong with the mecha?"

"have no idea……"

"——Don't be distracted, look ahead!" the instructor suddenly shouted.

They all turned back immediately and became alert.

A shadow appeared in the woods ahead, and it staggered out... It was not an insect beast, but a... man?

Everyone was stunned.

It was early autumn in this place, and the man was wearing very thin clothes.

He wore a trendy black short-sleeved T-shirt on the upper body, a pair of ripped jeans on the lower body, a bunch of necklaces piled up around his neck, and many studs on his ears. He looked like a non-mainstream teenager.

"...Why are there ordinary people here?" A girl was surprised, "There are no residential areas nearby, right?"

"No," the instructor answered briefly, paused, turned on the speaker and asked, "Who are you and why are you here?"

The man didn't look up or answer.

He just dragged his feet and staggered towards them.

He staggered to the instructor's mecha, bent his knees, knelt down and hugged the mecha's legs, then raised his face, which looked like he was both crying and laughing.

"I'm asking you a question," the instructor said with a low tut, "We have to get him out of here."

Lu Jiu keenly noticed that a foul smell was drifting in through the ventilation holes of the mecha.

It is true that the insect beasts themselves stink, and this forest is now stinking, but the stench that wafted in at this moment... seems to be even stronger...

"Yue," the girl retched, "What's that smell? It's too stinky!"

"Yeah, why is it suddenly..."

"Are there any insect beasts around?"

“I didn’t see it…”

Amidst the puzzled discussions, everyone looked around, and only Lu Jiu stared at the man who was holding the instructor's mecha's legs.

The heart in my chest inexplicably began beating faster.

This stench is so familiar, I feel like I have encountered it somewhere before, in...

The instructor raised his legs: "You get up first!"

The man smiled foolishly.

"Stand up and talk, and don't lie on my feet, or you might accidentally kick them!"

The man still didn't let go.

Lu Jiu's breathing suddenly became rapid.

He turned his body, raised his arm, replaced his weapon with a laser cannon, and with a click, aimed it at the man.

This action stunned everyone.

The instructor asked in a deep voice: "Lu Jiu, what are you doing?"

"Instructor," Lu Jiu said hoarsely, "get rid of him quickly."

"……What?"

Boom—boom—boom—

Three consecutive metal explosions came from different directions, startling them.

The man under the instructor's feet suddenly began to twitch.

He was still laughing as he twitched violently.

Blood oozed from his eye sockets, nose, and ears, and his face began to become uneven, as if there was something alive underneath struggling, trying to get out -

"...Instructor, get rid of him!" Lu Jiu shouted sternly.

He fired, one shot hitting the instructor mech's feet.

The instructor immediately shook the man off, and the shot missed and hit the ground.

"Lu Jiu you——"

Before the instructor finished speaking, Lu Jiu immediately raised his arm and aimed at the man who was thrown out again. At this moment, everyone's pupils suddenly contracted——

The man's body was torn apart in the air.

Several black insect legs emerged from his body, and a hard, round, reflective shell rose from the middle of his chest, followed by two pairs of emerald green eyes and ferociously twitching mouthparts.

——There is a bug beast hidden in this man's body? !

Amidst everyone's furious gazes, Lu Jiu fired the second laser cannon without hesitation!

The insect beast was hit before it could completely get rid of the man's skin. It exploded in the air with a hissing sound, and liquid splashed everywhere!

The next second, a warning broke into everyone's communication platform -

"Everyone, pay attention. Everyone, pay attention. Bug beasts disguised as humans have appeared on the battlefield! I repeat, bug beasts disguised as humans have appeared on the battlefield!"

The ground began to rumble and shake.

The warning immediately changed to: "There are a lot of life signals from underground approaching the surface, please prepare the ground forces--"

The instructor yelled, "Everyone, form pairs and keep each other's backs!"

Lu Jiu immediately formed a team with a nearby student, and the rest of the students also acted in a panic.

"Where is Lin Miao?" Someone suddenly shouted, "Why is he gone? Lin Miao, Lin Miao, where are you?!"

There were originally sixteen of them, but Lin Miao was missing, so this student was left alone.

"Lin Miao Lin Miao, where are you?!" the instructor also called out from the platform.

He quickly flew to the student's side and formed a team with the latter: "No matter where you are, come back immediately, don't act alone!"

However, Lin Miao never responded.

The ground was shaking more and more violently.

At a certain moment, countless shadows broke out of the ground from all directions. Amidst the flying dust, screams broke through the eardrums. Insects and beasts soared into the air, so densely packed that it made people's hair stand on end.

Deep in the forest, shadowy "figures" came out one after another...

*

In the starship.

There was chaos here too.

Not panic, but shock.

The insect beast actually put on human skin.

They actually hid their huge bodies in such a tiny skin, and in this way took advantage of the soldiers' unpreparedness...

Shen Yu stood up, walked quickly to the control panel, pressed a button, and spoke into the microphone:

"Before the battle began, the scanners had already scanned the surface. There are no humans in this forest. The 'people' that appear now are most likely sneaking in from underground. Kill them all on sight. Is Major General Lin here?"

A small light came on on the control panel.

"I'm here, Your Highness!" the rough voice responded breathlessly.

"You are responsible for capturing them alive. Use the capture net to trap them and see if you can stop them before they break their bodies. Don't bring back those that have already broken their bodies."

"clear!"

"General Lee."

Another small light came on.

"Your Highness, I'm here!"

"Clear out three to five laboratories and prepare to receive experimental subjects."

"clear!"

"The fourth and fifth garrison troops of Base No. 3 will set off immediately to Lanming Star."

"receive!"

…

Amidst the chaos, Shen Yu remained calm and issued fourteen orders calmly without any pause in between.

When it stopped, the entire command room became quiet again.

The generals calmed down, thought for a moment, turned their heads away, and whispered words to their adjutants.

The adjutants received the order and left the command room one after another.

Everyone moved in silence.

A small light suddenly lit up in the upper right corner of the console.

"It's the communication light of the cadet team. It might be their instructor!" the combat assistant said hurriedly.

"Connect it." Shen Yu ordered.

The lights went out and a voice was heard.

But it was not the instructor's voice.

"Chen...Your Highness!" A clear young man's voice sounded, with a breath after intense exercise.

"I am here."

At the side, the assistant officer raised his head sensitively and glanced at the man standing in front of the control panel.

Is this an illusion? I feel like His Highness' response... has a different tone than before, and seems to be much softer.

"Can you locate the position of Lin Miao's mecha?"

The young man's voice was noisy. After a brief moment of respect, he immediately asked Chen Yu to do something, which shocked everyone in the command room.

Does this student know that he is talking to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

There was no change in expression on Shen Yu's face.

He paused only for a moment.

Without looking back, he said to the others, "All of you get out."

The generals were stunned and looked at each other in confusion.

But he still obeyed the order and left the command room.

Soon, Chen Yu was the only one left in the huge room, facing the holographic screen emitting a faint light and a control panel with various small lights on.

"Why are you looking for him?"

Shen Yu asked in a calm tone as he switched the call to a private channel and pressed a button.

On the holographic screen, the real-time battle footage of the cadets had been switched to battlefield data half an hour ago after the battle situation had stabilized. At this moment, the battlefield data was also closed, and a forest scan map appeared in front of him.

There are many moving red dots on it.

"I suspect he... is related to these fur-covered beasts!"

On the battlefield, Lu Jiu killed an insect beast and his voice became deeper.