Chapter 152 Finals (Part 6)

For the fleet following the Killer, the current situation is actually much safer than before.

In order to avoid the attention of the Rangers and the Killers, the red and blue teams that were originally fighting each other all lived in peace, for fear that when attacking each other they would accidentally break into the battle between the two teams in front and cause trouble.

"It's quite comfortable." In the Ya Ya Chong Chong team, the boy in school uniform was operating the starship, flying steadily, and even yawned.

"Don't let your guard down!" warned the observer sitting next to him. "The White Elephants are about to open fire again. They and the Rangers are clearly determined to fight to the death. If one side succeeds, chaos will break out here."

"More and more teams are coming from behind." Not far away, Red Rose, the pilot of the Red and White Rose team, prepared for the worst. "Once the battle ahead is over, crossing this energy river will be even more difficult and chaotic."

"I hope both the Ranger and the Slayer are defeated," White Rose sighed. "Otherwise, no matter which one gets through first, they'll be guarding the other side's exit and intercepting us, making it difficult for us to get through."

"How about we retreat and take a detour?" Red Rose discussed with him. "It's still possible to return now. Although it will waste some time, if we get shot down, it will take even longer to repair and rebuild the starship."

White Rose hesitated, looking back as he pondered. A moment later, he saw a new group appear at the end in the distance.

White Rose: "..."

"Colorful." White Rose whispered, "Or let's retreat."

They are a little allergic to colorful things.

In the star field competition, the colorful starship was blown to pieces and could not even maintain its balance, but it quickly analyzed the mental refraction interference that they were proud of, and blasted their starship down with a single shot.

Anyone who has this experience should avoid colorful places!

White Rose still can't figure out what's going on with LUCE's brain!

"Their gun barrels are flashing." Red Rose didn't hesitate. As she maneuvered the starship through the narrow passage, she said, "What does this mean? It's quite regular, and the code is the same. What's it saying?"

White Rose: "I told you to run!!"

The Red and White Rose's starship engine suddenly sounded.

The teams surrounding the Red and White Rose were naturally happy to have one less opponent competing with them, so they all gave way. Some of these teams had never fought against the Colorful, some didn't understand Mingyu's light language, and some were completely bewildered, not knowing what the Colorful was up to, so they simply stayed put.

The Red and White Rose, which was returning quickly, turned around and looked straight at the colorful and flashing gun barrels, and suddenly felt a great sense of uneasiness in her heart.

They didn't understand what Wucaibianlan was going to do for the time being, but an intuition arose in their minds.

Is it... too late?

"The colorful ones have entered the scene!——"

On the livestream, the young man with rabbit ears spoke with high spirits. He didn't need to worry about the results of the competition like the other teams, so his tone was filled with the excitement of waiting to see the excitement.

"I can see it! All those colorful gun barrels are charging at the same maximum energy level as when they attacked the eggplant flower just now!... Hmm... The energy level is even rising!"

"Mu Baixing and Luce are going to enter a state of mental resonance?!" Rabbit exclaimed, "What do the colorful ones want to do?!"

In the center of the towering bridge of the silver-white starship, a flame-red energy crystal was flashing a dazzling light, as if warning of the impending energy storm.

Bang bang, bang bang.

In the center of the starship, a regular, low sound was emitted from the complex mechanical heart, like the heartbeat of a living being.

Within the life box, nestled in the heart of the complex, Mu Boxing's dark golden spiritual energy shone brilliantly. With a soft, crisp sound of metal opening and closing, the partitions surrounding the life box lifted upward, and the bright blue spiritual energy from the outside flowed inward, merging with the golden energy at the center.

"The life box is working normally." Ming Yu looked at the data displayed on the cockpit light screen and quickly read the data. "All input lines are smooth, and the mechanical heart is working normally."

The youth team paused, then carefully looked at the next page and confirmed, "The mechanical heart confinement lock is functioning normally. The energy suppression ratio is 50 percent."

Mu Baixing nodded and said calmly, "Don't worry."

"It won't burn the entire sea of ​​stars."

"Of course not, with the restraint lock." Mingyu was still a little nervous. "I'm just worried about what might happen. This is the first time you've been connected to your own mechanical heart since your recovery. I'm afraid you might suddenly explode if you lose control."

Mu Baixing snorted and laughed: "You modified the outer layer of the heart and injected your own mental power into it."

"If there's trouble, it's all on us."

The golden and blue mental powers were tightly intertwined. Mingyu took a deep breath. In the vision of the mental power, he felt that he and Mu Baixing were hugging each other without any distance.

"Fire."

The same words as those spoken by Mu Boxing were heard in the cockpits of the surrounding starships, but the emotions were very different.

“Fire!!——”

In the front of the Killer Squad, observer Momonga was shouting, "Fire! Fire quickly! Shoot down the Ranger or Starbreaker in front and accelerate straight ahead! Charge straight ahead!"

"Something's going to go wrong back there, Brother Elephant! How could the concentration of the colorful energy be so high? I can't see anything now! -"

“Open fire!” Vincent and Yang Haoyuan shouted simultaneously from the Ranger battleship. “Great opportunity! Colorful energy waves surge! The killer will definitely not be able to see our hidden cannons! Fire while speeding up! It’s all yours, A-Lian! —”

"Open fire!" White Rose shouted from the Red and White Rose battleship, "Move aside the battleship blocking our way ahead and quickly slip out to the side! There's a colorful battleship ahead! Going to the side will help us avoid their frontal fire!"

"Fire, fire!" The boy in school uniform yelled desperately, "Blow up that broken star that's blocking the way. Let's quickly hide behind the asteroid in front! If we don't hide, it's no good—!"

The energy fluctuations around the colorful starships made these teams feel that the situation was very serious.

These starships were like small animals rushing forward recklessly, trying to find shelter before a storm.

Behind them, bright white resonance energy cannons shot out from the diamond-shaped muzzles on the colorful bridge.

It did not disappoint the massive evasive escape operation of the warships in front. It turned into a flaming bird of light and also into a sharp arrow piercing the clouds.

Burning with fire, it brushed past the flank of the Red, White and Rose battleship, brushed past the planetary ring where Ya Ya Chong Chong was hiding, caught up with the Killer who had made an emergency avoidance to the side and whose left energy tank was suddenly hit and sparks burst out, and passed the Ranger who had just succeeded in a strike and was running forward for his life without looking back.

Then, it went straight through the dark universe.

“……?”

All the fleets in the arena and all the spectators outside were stunned by the huge gap.

"Are there no starships damaged?" The same question appeared in the minds of all the contestants.

"What do you mean?" xkk asked first in the livestream discussion forum, sneering, "You think this is a fireworks display?"

On the commentary platform, the rabbit commentator also looked bewildered and puzzled, saying, "The colorful attack seems to have a deeper meaning, but I can't understand..."

He didn't finish his words.

As time entered the next millisecond, a straight line of flame lit up on the path that the shot had just passed.

In another millisecond, the flames suddenly expanded from this line to the left, right, up and down, and everything in the world was instantly burning violently.

The silent universe seemed to make a loud bang.

Bright white flames suddenly rose in the narrow energy band and spread outward rapidly, filling this gentle energy band in the blink of an eye.

Then, it rushed to both sides, into a river of even more explosive energy.

The restless river of energy was burned into an extremely intimidating and wide fire dragon.

The fire dragon was surrounded by dazzling light.

“…”

The whole place was silent.

In the central square of the Kash Space Station, all the audience looked up at the holographic light screen projected in front of them.

The camera on the screen was originally following a dazzling display of colors. It was too close to the burning river of energy, so in that brief moment the entire screen was burned into a brilliant, bright color, obscuring all other scenes.

Users watching the finals on StarNet all made almost the same movements as they looked at the bright white screen.

They exited the live broadcast and re-entered it to confirm that the white screen in front of them was not due to network lag, nor was it due to sudden damage to their own virtual helmets, nor was it an accident during the live broadcast of the game.

The competition field was truly burned white.

"Ignite." The plush rabbit murmured, "Yes, it was Mu Baixing...Mu Baixing and LUCE ignited in a state of mental resonance."

As he spoke, he mechanically turned his head to look at the light screen that displayed the colorful main gun energy values.

"The energy value measured exceeds the instrument's tolerance limit," the Rabbit commentator reported emotionlessly. "Very reasonable. The world the instrument 'sees' is likely the same as what we see: a white glow, with nothing else clearly discernible."

No one could see that the colorful silver starship was speeding forward in this bright color.

"Go! - Brother Mu! - Speed ​​up! -" Inside the cockpit, Mingyu held on tightly to the restraints and shouted, his voice filled with unrestrained wildness, as if this was not a cosmic arena, but a thrilling roller coaster in an amusement park.

At this moment, those burning flames were his perception, allowing him to take in everything around him.

Mingyu turned his head to look to the side and said with a smile: "I saw the lifeboats of Red, White Rose and Yaya Chongchong! - The rescue starship behind them also arrived in time!"

"Knew this would happen!" The emergency crew of the starship, standing by in the distance, immediately took action. They knew the destructive power of the colorful confetti better than any other participating team, and their nerves were on edge from the start of the match.

The rescue team, like the security team of the Star Navigation Competition, participated in the highest attack power test of each starship and obtained relevant values.

The night they received the colorful test data, the leader of the rescue team knew that something was wrong.

He looked at the outrageous figures on the paper and turned off the screen where he was playing an entertaining movie with a sad face.

In order to ensure the safety of the competition, they must add this class!

They and the security team are in the same boat.

In order to ensure that the rescue capsule equipped on the starship can withstand the colorful attack for five minutes, the security team worked day and night to improve the rescue capsule.

The rescue team began intensive training in rescue speed, and they had to practice to be able to pick up all the team's rescue capsules within five minutes.

Their premonition at that time was very correct, and most of the teams in the competition did not escape.

Even if they chose to turn around immediately and passed the colorful red and white roses, the starship's rear end would still be burned by the sudden flames.

"This is a massive attack! And you're still yelling, 'Run!'" White Rose screamed in despair. "You think that just because you issued a warning we can... Ugh!"

The flames melted the starship's hull, and the rescue capsule under the cockpit popped out and wrapped around him, blocking out his voice.

Colorful lights moving through the flames.

A light shield of the same color as the surrounding flames tightly covered the starship, and the mental power of the same attribute protected them from the attacks of the burning flames.

The rocket fired from the mental resonance was like their vanguard, leading them on an unstoppable voyage.

But for all the other teams, it was like the death whistle.

Not just for the teams crossing here.

The flames extending outward from that thin line filled the gentle energy zone and ignited the long rivers of energy on both sides.

The vibrant, vibrant energies ignited one after another, losing their original rippled colors and fading to the same bright white color as the spiritual power resonating with Mu Baixing and Ming Yu.

In the dark and boundless universe, the flames spreading from the center to both sides burned out an extremely gorgeous semi-circular halo, as if someone had adorned a chain of dazzling white diamonds on a vast black robe.

Incredibly beautiful, yet incredibly deadly.

Several teams that were detouring to find the next river crossing point in order to avoid the battle between Rangers and Killers inexplicably felt a flash of light outside the porthole on the side of the starship.

The red and blue team starships were also busy avoiding obstacles on the way across and sudden attacks from different camps. The observers inside the starships were slightly startled when they saw the light in the distance. When they were about to look carefully, the flames had already burned over.

"Rescue Team 2 has been dispatched!" The rescue starship following behind them responded immediately, "All starship rescue capsules have been successfully ejected!"

“Retreat, retreat, retreat!—” The team that hadn’t had time to cross the river retreated rapidly, confused as to what was happening. “What the hell is this! Why did the Star Sea Energy River suddenly catch fire? Is this a special feature of the Star Navigation Competition?!”

And the burning continued to spread outward, still going on.

Finally, the burning lights connected end to end, forming a long belt that stretched for thousands of star miles and could not be crossed by any starship.

The space station, the final destination of the first stage of the competition, is isolated behind this constant belt.

"...What a terrifying ignition effect." On the live broadcast platform, the rabbit commentator took a long time to find his voice.

This time the commentator used not a virtual image of a plush rabbit, but his real self, so all the audience saw the cold sweat on his head, face, and neck.

"To be honest, I was scared by the colorful scene." The commentator wiped the sweat from his neck and said bluntly, "I think we all need to thank Mu Boxing and LUCE... Thank them for their upright values ​​and for being decent people."

"Thank you for using your own abilities to protect the star field instead of 'finding another way'..."

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"...That's quite right," someone said weakly, "This killing power...isn't it...on par with a high-level Black Tide creature?"

"In the sea of ​​stars, the entire energy river is on fire." The rabbit-eared young man sighed briefly before returning to the topic. "It looks like the flames won't go out any time soon."

"I don't know what the other teams in the competition are feeling right now, nor do I know how they're going to continue crossing the river. But at least, apart from the colorful ones, everyone else is facing the same dilemma..."

"...Wait?" The rabbit ears on the commentator's head suddenly shook and stood up straight.

"Look at the positions of the players from each team on the star map! Besides the colorful ones, there's actually another team that has crossed the completely burned energy river!"

"It's the ranger! It's the ranger who was closest to the other side of the river!——"

"The pitch-black Ranger battleships... I can't tell if they've been burned any darker! It seems several of their engines were damaged due to the high-speed travel, but they still have spare engines working! They're now sailing forward!"

"Ranger and Colorful are both on the blue team. These two teams shouldn't attack each other. But if they're competing for arrival time, perhaps both sides will attack?"

"However, the Ranger doesn't seem to have any intention of approaching the colorful creature and is rapidly distancing himself from it."

"They obviously don't want to provoke this 'God of Death'. And the colorful..."

"...Huh?!" The rabbit commentator suddenly raised his voice. "Because so many warships were just destroyed, the colorful camps are switching back and forth between red and blue!"

"Faction change! The colorful team's current camp is... frozen in red!"