Chapter 53 Preliminary Round 3 (6)

"Colorful suddenly accelerated!!"

Inside the livestream, commentator Rabbit's eyes widened as he stared at the scene on the screen, his speech uncontrollably speeding up. "They seem to have changed their strategy! Mu Baixing didn't dodge... The cannon is charging... Is Wucai Bianlan about to open fire and... collide with Lieyang?!"

"I don't know why the colorful ones suddenly stopped avoiding me!" Plush Rabbit was puzzled yet excited. His years of commentary experience and professionalism gave him a hunch that something big was about to happen.

"From their previous actions, we can be sure that Wucai Lanlan is aware of the nature of Feren's mental power, namely that the energy intensity increases exponentially after continuous fire, making it difficult to withstand! But under such circumstances, Wucai Lanlan suddenly chose to engage in a barrage of fire! You know, based on my observations, Mu Boxing's mental power level is around A-, which is not good enough to collide with Lieyang..."

His voice suddenly paused.

The plush rabbit's three-lobed mouth opened and closed, but no more sound came out.

Because of the light leaking out from the colorful gun muzzle.

Mingyu also saw the light overflowing from the muzzle through the porthole of the cockpit.

The silver starship's engine roared, accelerating forward.

Instead of distancing himself from the scorching sun, he rushed forward, pulled by the rotating energy field.

Golden spiritual power flowed out of the barrel and overflowed into the universe, as if covering the starship with a veil, and was left behind at high speed, leaving a trail of light.

The light was so bright and scorching that it fell on Mingyu's retina. After layers of superposition, it almost burned into a bright white that was impossible to look directly at.

This is not the situation when the artillery is fired, but merely the residual mental force that overflows when the barrel is still storing energy because the circuit cannot bear the heavy load.

Mingyu's pupils dilated slightly, and he said in disbelief: "...Brother Mu?"

This cannot be the effect that A-level mental power can achieve.

It is also far higher than the level of mental strength that Mu Baixing displayed in the first game when he collided with Mu Lian's artillery fire.

At this moment, he suddenly understood Mu Baixing's intention.

Don't be afraid of Feren's mental strength.

Because Feren's mental power... will be dispersed and disappear in the energy field of the artillery collision.

The silver starship let out a low hum, the sound of the accumulator in the gun barrel about to be burned by mental power.

Although Mingyu has used medium and high-level starship design materials and expanded the energy threshold within the main gun tube circuit based on the Lambda gun.

But at this moment, with only two seconds of charging time, it can no longer bear the spiritual power that burns from dark gold to bright white.

Mu Baixing frowned slightly, and at the last second before the starship accessories group was about to be destroyed, he gently pointed his finger downwards.

Then the starship trembled and roared.

On the screen in front of the rabbit commentator, a bright white light instantly filled the entire screen. The light was so bright that the rabbit commentator subconsciously covered his eyes with his paws.

There were actually several light screens placed side by side in front of him.

On another screen, the top-ranked Slayer team faced off against the second-ranked Eggplant team. Amidst the same black, swirling energy field, the two sides engaged in a dazzling display of intertwined light and color, yet the commentator Rabbit didn't even glance over.

He was only focused on the colorful light screen that was battling against the scorching sun.

"What color is this..."

The white light flashed through the dark universe and collided with the light cannon of the Fiery Sun Starship, submerging and shattering the black light column belonging to Feren. However, it did not disappear, but continued to rush forward.

Lieyang dodged in a hurry, and the ship's hull brushed past the aftermath of the white light cannon. The red flame that originally belonged to Mingyan also dissolved and disappeared in an instant.

"It's well-known..." the plush rabbit slurred his words, speaking incoherently. "Mu Boxing's mental power should have been dark gold, but now it's this, this brightness... Feilun's mental cannon is as fragile as a toy gun in front of him..."

"This colorful shot clearly surpasses... surpasses 2S level..."

"I've only seen such a strong spiritual light in video recordings..."

That was during the Battle of Dawn.

It comes from humanity's top 3S awakening ship.

At that time they had not yet been annihilated by the black tide.

Inside the Third Legion's evening hall, the live holographic projection broadcast from a large light screen was even more vivid and realistic than what the rabbit commentator had seen.

In Lieyang's live broadcast screen, the camera is fixed at Lieyang's perspective.

So when the white light suddenly came from the front, Zhao Ying even subconsciously held her breath.

For a moment, she almost thought that the mental beam cannon was right in front of her.

There was a dull thud as a chair fell to the ground beside him. The Minister of Resources had never seen such a scene before, and he even stood up in panic, knocking the chair over in his haste.

After one shot, there is a second shot.

"The colorful creatures resemble a wild beast freed from its chains..." the rabbit commentator muttered, "No... or perhaps a god unsealed... What can Lieyang do?"

"Most of Mingyan's spiritual power was dissolved, so he had to retract it..."

"But... in a battle like this... even if Akihiko only releases one or two strands of mental power, it would be enough..."

"Because the multicolored muzzle flash was so bright," he had to repeat. "So bright, it was almost like a blatant provocation... or perhaps an oath..."

"Even if you could see my every move, even if you could tell when my next shot was about to fire..."

“…It’s impossible to stop it!”

In the star map, Feren clenched his teeth. He bit too hard and broke his lip, his mouth full of blood.

This ship, who had stood at the pinnacle of awakened humanity with the strength of his mental power since the moment of awakening, felt for the first time the feeling of being completely suppressed and unable to break through.

It seemed like a taunt from an opponent.

His expression was ferocious, and he was covered in sweat. His palms were tightly gripping the starship control lever. The nerves in his body were numb with pain, and he didn't even call his observer.

Because he could see without Mingyan's assistance.

Through the porthole of the cockpit, one could see the starship moving forward at high speed, and its outer edge had its gun muzzles burnt black.

One shot, two shots, three shots...

The enemy's firing speed was getting faster and faster, and the intensity of the fire was increasing with each shot.

Feren was even forced to find it difficult to dodge and was forced to fire again and again, colliding with the opponent's gun barrel.

The artillery fire that burned from gold to bright white destroyed his mental strength time and time again, causing Feren almost unbearable pain.

So much so that even across the starry sky, in the interval between the two sides' exchanges of fire, before he even connected with the opponent's mental power, he began to tremble subconsciously just by seeing that golden color.

But Mu Boxing will not stop until Lieyang's starship crashes.

Or maybe he could have destroyed Lieyang's starship, but he still fired again and again.

Just like the pain and criticism Mingyu had once endured.

Mu Baixing thought about the hardships he had been forced to endure time and time again during the more than ten years of his youth.

Then the platinum light shines.

The afterglow of the artillery fire repeatedly fell on the starship's hull and Ming Yan's fiery red mental force field, igniting that red...

It ignited Mingyan's spiritual energy and dyed it golden.

Mingyan couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.

"...What is this? Is this Mu Boxing's spiritual power?" Rabbit said, sleepwalking. "He ignited Ming Yan's spiritual power?! This is a spiritual power I've never seen before..."

"He can ignite...can he ignite other people's mental force fields?!!! He can also..."

"He even ignited Feren's spiritual stance?! How could it be..."

How could it be...!

Feren's thoughts were confused and almost incomprehensible.

He gasped for breath, feeling his breath carry a sweet, fishy smell. Outside the starship's porthole, a blinding light briefly blinded Feren, leaving him with only a vast expanse of white.

Even though his mental force threads were magnified and expanded by the starship, and accelerated through the functional valve at the muzzle to gather and shoot out...

But at the moment when the other party's mind was disturbed, a big fire was ignited in an instant.

Engulfed by the platinum flames.

Even... it's not just him and Mingyan's spiritual energy beam...

There are also energy tides floating in the universe.

"Oh my god..." The rabbit host sighed meaninglessly, "Oh my god..."

In that star map, everything began to burn unstoppably.

The inward-spinning energy lines were like spiral fuses, swept from top to bottom by the platinum artillery fire, raging outward silently yet explosively in the dark universe.

Lieyang’s warships were swallowed up, the stars scattered in the universe were swallowed up, and the energy core in the center of the rotating energy field... was also swallowed up.

There are only colorful starships.

His entire body was already ablaze with the same color of flame that consumed everything, and he was soaring peacefully within it.

As if he were the king who dominated this star field.

"This... is similar to Mingyan's... and far more terrifying than Mingyan's mental power... it's an ignition and burning..."

The rabbit explained in a hoarse voice, "As long as Mu Baixing wants, no one can escape the fate of being burned to ashes..."

In front of the plush rabbit, bright white light and fire burned and gathered together, becoming a terrifying and violent explosion that seemed like the birth of the universe.

Then the white light screen suddenly turned into another one.

The virtual star map environment of the Star Navigation Competition collapsed.

But the level of the Star Navigation Competition technical team was perfectly demonstrated at this moment.

In the center of the black, the iconic gray starport of the competition appeared a second later.

Rabbit explained: "..."

He was stunned for a second, then suddenly said, "Oh, yes, we are now in the third qualifying round of the Star Navigation Competition..."

He took a deep breath and shouted, "The Colorful Team wins this match!!"

"Colorful points plus one!"

"Only plus one..." the plush rabbit exclaimed, "If it could be manipulated manually!! I'd give Colorful 10,000 points to let them advance directly to the finals!——"

The light around the colorful starship is gradually extinguishing.

The muzzles on both sides of it had been completely burned, and the outer shell of the muzzle had peeled off, revealing the twisted and deformed metal pipes inside and the collapsed wiring at the rear.

After the starship entered the starport, it sank and was secured with buckles. A victory prompt popped up on the light screen, but there was still silence in the cockpit.

Until Mu Baixing let go of the operating lever and said in a hoarse voice, "Go for inspection... cough..."

He pulled the fastener open with one hand, bent down slightly, and put his fingers to his lips.

Mingyu suddenly woke up, unfastened the fastener and stood up: "Go in for maintenance!"