Chapter 81 Star Region Tournament First Game (Part 7)

Mingyu blinked, finding this sentence very pleasing to the ear.

"Alright, rely on me!" He laughed, full of vigor. The muzzle of the starship's main gun rotated, and a beautiful blue light lit up from the narrow barrel. "Fire!"

Dreamy and deadly.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Observer One, from the catching-up starship, was the first to realize something was amiss and raised his voice, "The colorful main gun barrel seems to be charging!"

"Oh my god!" Observer Number Two exclaimed in shock. "It's good enough that we didn't attack them! They're going to attack me?! And this mental wave must be from LUCE..."

While the two were talking, a blue beam of light shot out from the colorful main gun muzzle.

"So fast!" the observer couldn't help but exclaim, "I can't even see clearly with my mental power!"

The driver had no time to react.

With a "puff" sound, the blue mental force cannon took the lead in lightly hitting the mental force light film covering the outside of the starship with the mental force threads extended outward from the two outer observers, absorbing all the mental force energy around the starship.

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"What are they doing?" Observer One and Two exchanged bewildered glances. "Are they trying to devour our mental threads so we can't see them? But we can still release more..."

"The energy value of this shot is really too small!"

"Oh, another one who's been fooled." In the live broadcast room, the plush rabbit covered his eyes, showing an expression that couldn't bear to watch.

"Cunning Colorful! Cunning Luce!" He complained on behalf of the two observers, "Tricking them into continuously releasing their mental energy!"

"But it's not the contestants' fault! Before LUCE, who could have imagined that devouring spiritual energy could be used this way?! Who could have imagined that LUCE could control the absorption and release of his spiritual energy so precisely?!"

"In just four games! LUCE has given us different surprises every time! Of course... he's also given the opponents different scares!"

In the star map, Mingyu quickly absorbed the energy of the other party's observation hand until he thought he had absorbed enough.

So, in less than a second, a large amount of energy is absorbed, compressed, and then quickly released.

"Bang!"

The exploding ball of light lit up in the sky, like a star that shone brightly for a moment, and then fell with a long tail.

Mu Boxing changed direction in an instant and glided through the air in a clean U-shape.

The starship tilted at a large angle during a high-speed turn, and while diving downward, it lowered its robotic arm to pick up several silver treasure chests dropped by the opponent.

"Colorful Defeat the Starship, Points +5000."

"Colorful Pickup Silver Treasure Chest x10, Points +3000."

The system announcement sounded immediately afterwards, and the starship was pulled back into the sky, heading west at high speed.

"Well done, Brother Lu!" Red Hair shouted excitedly, "But there are two more coming behind us!"

"There's one ahead too." Mingyu saw a little further than him. He glanced at Mu Baixing and said with a smile, "I'll take care of it! But don't let the starship get shot down, Brother Mu!"

Mu Baixing chuckled: "Of course."

The secondary gun barrels below the starship lit up and the accumulators hummed.

The silver starship faced the pale sunlight of the desolate planet, gliding across the sky in a dazzling arc.

Several starships were chasing from all directions. The colorful mental artillery fire they fired was thrown away by the silver starship, which gradually fell behind in the colorful and high-speed angle changes, and stayed behind like a small tail.

This little tail didn't last long.

Their artillery fire only scraped a few charred streaks on the colorful silver starship, but the colorful attack was extremely deadly to them.

Golden-blue light enveloped the silver starship.

Dark golden psychic beams darted through the sky like gleaming blades. The starship spun, its golden beams weaving like silk threads captivating the pursuers. Yet, when the dazzling, yet seemingly gentle, attack from the multicolored main guns struck, the pursuing teams barely registered the imminent danger...

It was engulfed by an explosion.

"Boom! Boom boom boom!" A series of small explosions went off. The plush rabbit shook his head and shouted excitedly, "The colorful ones really accept everyone...ah...no!" The plush rabbit was excited, "It's chopping melons and vegetables! Come one by one!"

"But more and more teams are arriving!" The rabbit commentator reduced the size of the light screen and pointed at the light spots above that represented each team.

Around the colorful fleet of starships, large points of light were approaching and shrinking.

As the clues of treasure chests appeared one after another, all teams knew that this was a growing fat sheep! As long as they worked together to shoot down the colorful ones, they could loot their treasure chests and share a piece of the spoils!

Compared to the star beasts that are hiding somewhere unknown, the colorful temptation is obviously greater.

Mingyu could see clearly that the encirclement troops that came after hearing the news were growing rapidly.

"It's too late to get the treasure chest this time, Brother Mu! Don't turn around—don't turn around!" He had just shot down a starship and shouted, "There are people coming from above! Go! What a pity...——"

"It's not a pity." Mu Baixing said with a smile, "We'll earn enough points by destroying the enemy starship."

They took the lead in the competition points and maintained a firm lead in first place.

"But there are so many people!" Red Hair stared at the screen nervously and shouted worriedly, "No... Boss! Brother LU... Can we handle this?!!"

"There's a canyon ahead!" Mingyu shouted, "Leave them behind! We'll go in first!"

A series of explosions once again lit up around the starship. The starship that had just descended from above and was traveling parallel to the silver starship with the intention of launching a short-range attack was blown into pieces by Mingyu.

The porthole on the young man's side was crackling with the impact of starship debris. At the moment when the surrounding airspace was briefly cleared, the starship driven by Mu Baixing turned sharply to the side, and the engine at the rear of the starship pushed forward again, making a loud bang.

The colorful gray starship followed closely behind. The starship pilot didn't want to be thrown off by Mu Baixing. After a moment of hesitation, he gritted his teeth and forced the accelerator to the maximum gear, keeping up with the rapid turn of Mu Baixing's planetary ship...

"Stop!!" the observer said in panic, "Brother! Your wing turning angle... If you do this, we will lose control--"

Driver: "Don't be such a pessimist... Damn it!"

The gray starship lost its balance at the corner and suddenly spun downward.

"Pull it up!" the observer shouted, "Pull it up quickly--!"

"Bang!" The gray starship that lost control was beyond saving and fell to the surface of the barren planet at high speed, igniting a large area of ​​fire.

And the colorfulness is still accelerating.

"They are already very fast... their starship can even accelerate! Oh! Do the audience think that my tone is actually very calm?" The plush rabbit looked at the camera.

"Because I'm numb!" he repeated. "Numb. Ever since Luce's Devouring Explosion appeared... I won't do anything Colorful can do..."

Plush rabbit: "..."

"They're still speeding up?!!!!" The rabbit commentator, who was about to say he wasn't surprised a second ago, couldn't help but shout.

"LUCE's modified engine has surpassed my understanding of small starship engines! Muber's driving skills have also surpassed my imagination of the technical limit of starship pilots..."

"My eyes can no longer capture the colorful starship tracks! This is actually normal... but everyone, please look! On my star map, the colorful route maps provided by the Star Navigation Competition's monitoring equipment are all intermittent!"

"Their trajectory is no longer fully identifiable, but... the starship, despite such high-speed transformation... has surprisingly not lost control!!"

"Although the enemy was numerous and powerful, Mu Boxing successfully piloted the starship and left them all behind! He was like a magician in the sky..."

"And they chose... to take this opportunity... to rush towards the narrow mountain passage in the canyon below?!"

"They have entered a mountainous area! This is not a suitable terrain for small starships to enter!"

"Everyone in front of the screen! If you are just ordinary starship pilots... please do not imitate Mu Boxing's current behavior! Please strictly remember the rules of the starship safety class! Do not drive a starship... even the smallest starship near the mountain range..."

"Especially don't rush in at such a high speed!!!——"

"Unless you are Mu Boxing!! And there is an observer named LUCE!——"

"The starship's agility, the pilot's responsiveness, and the observer's timely assessment of the surroundings... these elements are essential for navigating this complex terrain!"

"Look, several more of the pursuers behind us have crashed! Even if they only targeted Mu Boxing's tail, they couldn't avoid the navigation obstacles that appeared in the complex airspace... Oh...! They also have to avoid Luce's artillery fire!"

"Oh!! Someone took advantage of Luce's gap in firing and fought back!!!"

The bright white flash of artillery fire slammed into the silver starship ahead.

A dazzling display of colors swooped down into the mountain passage at high speed. The high-speed laser cannon scraped past the mountain wall, roaring and stirring up a column of smoke that engulfed the silver starship.

The high-pitched voice of Rabbit's commentary stopped, and the light screen was filled with intermittent vibrations. For a moment, he almost thought that the colorful starship had crashed.

He opened his mouth, trying to decipher the image on the screen, and hesitated, "Ah... this chaotic battle... the enemy is outnumbered... and most importantly, the narrow mountain path is not suitable for dodging. I can understand Wucailan's desire to use the narrow terrain to avoid the dangerous situation of being surrounded on all sides, but such a terrain naturally has its huge disadvantages! Did Wucailan crash?!!"

"But the system didn't refresh the notification that the colorful star was destroyed! There was no treasure chest dropped!!!" The pilot of the chasing starship was shouting frantically, "This one didn't hit?! This one didn't hit?! Their dodges are too fast! How did they do that?! Who designed the starship engine?! How fast must the pilot's reaction speed be!——"

"Fire again!" the observer shouted from another starship, "Deviate upwards by thirty degrees—Ah ...

"No!——" A hint of blue appeared in his mental vision. The observer felt something was wrong and quickly changed his words, "Don't, don't, don't, brother——"

"It's too late!" the driver said frantically, "When you change the instructions, you should consider my reaction delay! Why can't you..."

Bright blue mental power burst out from the dust in front of him.

The silver starship almost rubbed the ground to avoid the bombardment from behind. The bottom plate of the starship rubbed against the rocks on the ground, and a series of sparks flashed.

However, when it pulled itself up again, it had become leisurely yet aggressive again...

“Ahhhhhhh——!” The driver wailed, watching helplessly as the extremely fast blue swallowed up his own fire, and then suddenly expanded——

Then, there was a flash of white light before their eyes, and they had returned to the nearest maintenance point.

"...That devouring mental power is too terrifying!" Several people stood in the middle of the corridor, looking at each other in bewilderment. As they spoke, another group of figures appeared from the side. The two groups stared at each other from a distance, revealing a pitiful expression of shared sympathy.

"How dare they open fire!" someone on the other side couldn't help but exclaim, "Anyone whose mental power isn't as high as that Luce will be counterattacked if they open fire... This is simply insane!"

"Just wait and see a fight between gods." Someone shook his head. "Honestly, they've even shot down Lieyang! Should we... stop chasing Wucai Hualan?"

Everyone was silent for a moment.

"Maybe it was just an accident?" A pilot couldn't help but say, "With Mingyan Feilun's ability level, he shouldn't be..."

"Honestly, I think the colorful one is still better..."

"Who cares if Lieyang chases the colorful ones! We can't do it anyway!" said the maintenance engineer in the team. "Hurry up! Let's go to the maintenance room. The starship needs to be repaired!"

The group of people dispersed and each ran towards the maintenance room assigned to their team.

Lieyang's starship is also under repair.

Ming Yan looked extremely unhappy. He looked at the colorful coordinate points distributed by the Star Navigation Competition and asked impatiently, "How long will it take to repair it?"

"At least half an hour." Several teammates who were repairing the starship did not dare to look up at him and answered while concentrating on their work.

Akihiko: "..."

He was deeply conflicted.

On the one hand, he wanted to quickly start over and regain his advantage over the colorful one...

On the other hand, I feel afraid.

What if we get shot down again next time?

Mingyan could hardly imagine it!

He knew that even if it was just a crash, people on Starnet must have started chasing him and scolding him!

However, the fact is that most of the audience's minds have temporarily shifted away from the shock of the destruction of Lieyang, and instead they are nervously watching the grand spectacle of several colorful teams being chased.

The rabbit explained: "The colorful ones have completely entered the mountain passage—!"

The silver starship descended in altitude, passed over the treetops, and rushed into the hollow mountain.

The large number of starships following behind it changed their formation immediately. Some starships hesitated and raised their angles to give up the chase, while the rest followed one after another and lined up in a line to rush into the mountain.

"Forced by the narrow terrain, the starships behind can only line up to chase! This is undoubtedly a good thing for the colorful starship!" Rabbit's commentary shouted, "Because the starships behind dare not open fire rashly! Otherwise, it wouldn't be the colorful starship that would be shot down, but the pursuers in front... Oh..."

His eyes widened. "But it's not impossible to shoot down the pursuer in front! I still get the points anyway..."

A blue starship shot down the white starship in front of it, picked up the opponent's treasure chest and jumped forward.

"The team behind them tried to do the same thing... - Oh! But they failed! The main gun barrel of this blue starship turned first... The team behind them was in chaos!"

The light behind him flickered, illuminating the entire corridor. Mingyu took a moment to glance back and smiled in surprise.

Mingyu: "This bargain is not free-"

The rabbit explained: "What?! Colorful doesn't use this time to speed up and shake off the pursuers... but instead wants to take advantage of the situation and rob them???!"

"The team chasing behind was forced to feel the horror of LUCE——"

"I guess from today onwards, the entire human star region will have to reassess the role of observers in star navigation..."

The bright blue artillery fire penetrated the chaotic light ball at the rear, blowing it all up at once!

A series of flames spread from the starship where Mingyu was located backwards, stringing together a series of pursuers and then blowing them into pieces.

The colorful-haired guys cheered enthusiastically, shouting, "Brother LU is awesome!"

"But there's someone coming up ahead!" shouted the stuffed rabbit.

"The mountain isn't high enough for two starships to pass through! The starship ahead has also fired its guns... What should we do?"

"Of course we'll crash into it!" the colorful-haired guys said in unison.

Mu Baixing opened fire first.

Suddenly, a golden beam of light shot out from the lower gun barrel of the starship. The fire from the left and right secondary gun barrels merged into one, filling the narrow passage and making a rough sound as it scraped against the rock wall.

The rocks on the walls on both sides of the corridor fell off in pieces and were shattered into smoke by the golden artillery fire.

Rush forward quickly under the artillery fire and hit the opponent.

And at this moment, Mingyu looked ahead and suddenly curled up the corners of his lips.

He also pulled the fire button.

Then an extremely thin blue thread passed through the golden light column.

A bright blue spot that seemed to be almost completely submerged in gold suddenly absorbed the surrounding mental energy belonging to Mu Baixing when it was about to collide with the opponent's light cannon.

Then the golden color in the sky suddenly dissipated, revealing the dazzling blue light in the middle.

Mu Baixing: “…”

Rabbit explained: "..."

The other starship pilot: "..."

Absorbing Mu Baixing's spiritual power was extremely easy and enjoyable for Mingyu, just like eating a piece of sweet cake on a sunny afternoon.

The young man looked satisfied and even licked the corner of his lips subconsciously.

His mental power level briefly increased, and his ability to absorb, absorb, and compress energy also skyrocketed. But a moment later, he exhaled all the mental power that had been compressed to the extreme.

“Bang!!!!!!!”

It was an earth-shattering sound, and even though it came from the light screen, it drowned out the exclamation of the rabbit commentator.

"It's not just shattered to pieces! It's exploded into smoke!" the rabbit commentator howled. "After Luce absorbed Mu Boxing's mental power... - What kind of terrifying... terrifying power is this!!!! - Oh - is Mu Boxing's mental power a special stimulant for Luce? "

Inside the starship's cockpit, the people with colorful hair burst into cheers again.

Mingyu just had a sudden idea to experiment with the swallowing explosion effect under the blessing of Mu Baixing's mental power.

He himself was shocked by the effect, his eyes shining as he looked at Mu Baixing.

"Brother Mu!" Mingyu shouted, "How about you just suck for me during this match..."

Mu Baixing: “…”

"You wish." He chuckled and tapped the control panel with his finger. "Be careful of mental overload."

The man paused for a moment and shook his head: "Tell me next time."

His voice rarely revealed a hint of helplessness. "We fired, but missed the target."

“It’s very empty.”

The hollow pilot steered the silver starship swiftly through the shattered metal dust of the enemy. However, the loud bang was followed by a series of not infrequent clatters of falling stones.

Mingyu glanced out the porthole.

"Oh no! Hurry up, Brother Mu!" He shouted, "The tunnel seems to be collapsing!"

The silver starship then accelerated again, passing over rocks of varying sizes falling from above.

The chasing starships in the rear, which had just decided the outcome of the battle, were caught off guard by the impact.

It couldn't turn around in the tunnel, so it could only evade with difficulty. Meanwhile, the colorful car sped away, its engine roaring and echoing through the tunnel, nearly drowning out the clatter of collapsing rocks.

"Damn it!" the starship pilot behind shouted angrily, "Give me a LUCE and I can catch up with them!——"

"Hurry out, Brother Mu! Turn ahead——" LUCE, who was worried about him, was shouting, "The passage is going up!——"

The starship's head pulled up and quickly rose, and the intense feeling of overweight pressed everyone tightly into their seats.

"Brother Mu! Do you see the swamp? There is a valley ahead!..." Mingyu's voice suddenly paused.

"What's that in the distance..." He squinted his eyes and looked at the distant skyline, "That dense crowd... is..."

"It's the Ranger!!!—" In the commentary room, the plush rabbit jumped up and down and shouted, "It's the Ranger who's coming with their pursuers!!—"