Chapter 209
Chapter 209
Not the first target...? Wen Yi swept towards the depths of the ice cave. All the mechas of the powerful teams were led there by Ying Chenlin because of his actions and following the movements of the SLY and GBK mechas.
Ying Chenlin's plan was to completely remove himself from the competition for that special thing underground and direct all conflicts to the strong team.
The rumbling sound of explosions in the distance seemed to still be heard, and the movement of pollutants became more and more obvious. Ji Qingfeng put the large storage device placed next to him into the mecha, and without saying a word, he followed the few people who came later back to the ground through the path dug by Alice.
Deep underground, a sudden energy explosion directly destroyed a part of the underground ice cave structure, and also completely ignited the roots of underground plants, and a large amount of pollutants rushed towards Alice and other mechas.
Alice hid behind the tank and barely avoided the impact of the energy explosion, but the mechas of other powerful teams that had no shield protection behind them were not so lucky. Some of them were directly hit by the explosion, while others suffered severe damage and were attacked by the surrounding pollutants. The entire underground ice cave became completely enraged after this fire was started. The attack speed of the plant roots became faster, and they attacked the mechas of the strong team one after another in the aftermath of the explosion.
GBK's mecha master: "Fuck! We were ambushed by KID."
Alice blasted away the surrounding pollutants with a hammer, with a hint of excitement in her eyes.
First there was a sink, then a trace. The two mechas plotted against her twice in succession, once by blowing up the snow mountain and once by blowing up the ice cave, and finally both escaped.
No one expected that KID would go to so much trouble to lure so many mechas here, and in the end he used spatial displacement to escape from the underground in a dejected manner, as if he had given up the competition.
In the communication channel, news came down that KID had returned to the top of the ice, including the fact that they were carrying a large amount of pollutants.
The reconnaissance mecha above sent down the news that the mecha masters in the ice cave were not fools. They had just killed so many pollutants along the way, and they didn't pick up anything in order to chase KID. No wonder three Dawn mechas appeared behind them just now. It turned out that this group of people had this idea in mind, and they were even using them to do the work.
The mecha divisions of several powerful teams had never suffered such humiliation, but they couldn't be sure who killed the pollutants in the melee, and they couldn't bring themselves to ask the Dawn Mecha for the pollutants. They could only swallow this loss and not make it public.
SLY's mecha master noticed Alice's silence, "Captain, should we follow KID?"
"Why are we following them? Are we going to be fooled again?" Alice's eyes fell on the complex environment of the ice cave, the attacking roots, and the countless pollutants around. "Keep going down. We have to find the source of these pollutants."
The major teams did not stop their progress because of a KID, but the difficulty underground only increased, and more and more pollutants attacked the underground. The same information was also transmitted to the starships of each team outside the Slarede defense line. After receiving Alice's message, SLY's coaching staff locked onto the situation on the field. It was clear that the Dawn team had completely tricked them.
"Hasn't there been any trace of KID's two missing mechas?" asked the SLY head coach.
The others replied, "No, we used the system to scan the underground, but the energy reaction was too large and we found no trace of pollutants. In addition, there were too many damaged areas in the ice cave, and a large amount of pollutants were rioting, so it was difficult to mobilize mecha divisions to investigate."
Coach SLY frowned tightly.
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On the other side, as soon as several Dawn mechas returned to the ground, they attracted attention from spies from all powerful teams in all directions. They knew very clearly what had happened underground through communication with their teammates, and they looked at the Dawn people with different eyes. The Dawn mechas did not make any other movements. As long as the strong team did not attack them, they just stayed on the surface of the ice.
They didn't just sit there quietly. They found an inconspicuous corner, sorted out the polluted bodies they picked up from the ground, emptied the storage compartment, and stuffed them all into a large storage device.
Since Shuguang gave up the competition, the three mechas that were originally fighting with GBK Bai Xuyan also stopped. When Bai Xuyan came from the side, he saw KID hiding in the ice somewhere to deal with a large number of pollutants and corpses.
"KID, are you giving up the competition?"
"With so many strong teams following them, they were smart enough to run back."
"I wanted to take something, but when I saw there were too many people to snatch it away, it was normal to give up the competition."
When other mechas were paying less and less attention to KID, the Dawn mechas understood what Ying Chenlin meant by not being the first target. The strong teams were paying attention to KID only because of what KID did underground, and they assumed that they had clues about the special energy reactions underground. However, once they were sure that KID did not have any clues or withdrew from the competition, the strong teams' attention to KID would be reduced to a minimum.
A large amount of energy reactions are still going on underground, and strong teams are gathering under the ice. Instead of focusing on a small galaxy team that has withdrawn from the competition and is not ranked, it is better to put more resources into tracking the movements of the strong teams.
Such a strategy is not feasible in the Dawn Galaxy, but it is a quick and easy decision at the Star Alliance mission site where no one looks down on them.
Wen Yi looked at the large amount of pollutants around him, among which there were one or two S-level ones. From the perspective of resource acquisition, they did not lose out.
"Wait!? I've always wanted to ask a question." Ji Qingfeng counted the coordinates on the map, "Why aren't Lao Zhao and Yao Bao's coordinates displayed? Where are they?"
Originally, I thought it was Ying Chenlin's arrangement, but now they have all withdrawn from the competition and are watching others fight, but Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie have disappeared.
Qi Sicheng, who had been listening to everyone's conversation at the base station, suddenly said, "Did you kill the flower that controls the signal underground?"
Qi Sicheng has studied KID for a long time, and he knows KID's true nature very well. So when they saw KID staying underground, Kelin and Wen Yi immediately chose to help KID block the attack of some strong teams, because they were sure that KID wanted to steal things, but now Ying Chenlin led the strong team underground and escaped to the ground... In addition, the whereabouts of two teammates were unknown, which was really inconsistent with KID's previous behavior.
When Ying Chenlin heard Qi Sicheng say this, he marked a location on the radar.
——That was the first time that the location of Ying Chenlin’s coordinates was discovered.
"The flower was not killed. Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie are still walking underground." Ying Chenlin said.
Hu Luobu reacted immediately: "Shit! You deliberately led them in the opposite direction!"
"There are a lot of pollutants underground, and these pollutants are the bargaining chips of the unknown root pollutant." Ying Chenlin said simply: "If we did not move the parasitic flower in that environment at that time, hid the coordinates and continued to dive down from the original coordinates, we might be intercepted by a strong team before we reach the underground."
There are still a lot of pollutants. When the roots are in danger, those pollutants will definitely be driven by the lower levels to attack them, not to mention that the fighting power of plant roots is not weak in itself.
Under attack from both sides, even if they were 12
Even if all the mechas are deployed, in the end they may just serve as a wedding dress for a strong team that comes from behind.
There are dense energy reactions beneath the Slared ice layer, and there are countless pollutant information. They were originally in a passive state in the front position. All they had to do was let the strong team kill the pollutants and weaken the combat effectiveness of the roots, and finally wait for Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie to give the signal.
Others don't have parasitic flowers to hide the aura of the mecha, so it's not so easy for them to reach deeper under the ice.
Ke Lin and Wen Yi were very shocked to hear this. Ying Chenlin had taken all the people who were interested in underground energy into account. He had lit a fire, causing a battle between the pollutants and the strong teams to break out. He pretended to give up the competition and leave the battle, but in fact he was gathering his strength and waiting for the opportunity to enter the battle.
While others were dealing with the contaminated corpses, Ying Chenlin's attention was focused on the points ranking.
Their five mechas were delayed underground for a while, but when they came up they found that their points ranking was still very stable, ranking 42nd.
As soon as Ying Chenlin opened it, he saw the tasks around the snow mountain that had been completed not long ago. It was obvious that when they lost contact, the other teammates did not waste time and had been working to stabilize the team's ranking.
"We don't have displacement weapons and can't go underground, so doing the mission is the least time-consuming decision." Colin said, "But our ranking is not high, and other strong teams haven't fully poured their forces here."
Many strong teams are interested in pollutants. Except for the top ten teams in the Star Alliance that are determined to get them, the other teams are only interested in grabbing them if they can, and giving up if they can't. Even though they were taken advantage of by EM, most teams' plans did not mess up and they basically acted in teams. As a result, the points of the front row kept getting higher and higher.
"It seems that underground pollutants are not included in the task list." Huo Yan said: "It's a pity."
If it is included in the task list, their points will increase quickly.
As they were talking, before Zhao Lejie and Lin Yao sent out the signal, they could only carry out the remaining tasks above and wait for the opportunity to act. The others were planning to continue looking for tasks near the snow-capped mountains, but Ying Chenlin wanted to go to the base station.
Although the strong team did not pay more attention to KID, it does not mean that they did not pay any attention to him at all, especially when the signals of two of KID's mechas disappeared.
When the others saw KID staying here after cleaning up the pollutants and thought they were going to adopt another strategy, they saw KID's people split into two teams. One team actually started to do the task, and the other team went directly to the base station near the snow mountain, as if they had no interest in the underground at all.
The Slarede base station was not far away. After the two sides split up, several mechas that were severely damaged returned to the base station.
Huo Yan was responsible for monitoring the signals connected to the underground. Qi Sicheng was also doing a task near the snow mountain. Everyone was waiting for the signal from underground.
Ying Chenlin asked Huo Yan about the underground signal every half an hour, but received no response from Lin Yao and others.
"So, are they sleeping underground?" Ji Qingfeng had time to chat with others while doing his mission outside. Since Lin Yao was not around, he could only talk to Carrot. "Carrot, you are close to Lao Zhao. How does he sleep?"
Hu Luobu started to get annoyed when he heard this: "Zhao Lejie and I don't sleep in the same bed, so don't call me Luobo! My name is Hu Luobu!"
"But the battle here seems to be very fierce." Chi Liz and Qi Sicheng were near the ice cave, "Several strong teams have started fighting."
When there is a fight in other people's families, they gather together to watch the fun.
Go ahead and fight, the harder the better.
Qi Sicheng said: "The people who were watching us have also left."
Huo Yan used the optical computer to communicate with them in the control room. "Don't worry, I'm in touch with Sister Tang and the others. If there is a signal underground, they will notify us as soon as possible."
Although the base station here has been out of service for a long time, its basic functions are still operating normally. Ying Chenlin carried maintenance equipment with him and immediately started maintenance work after arriving at the base station apron. Several mechas fighting underground were severely damaged and suffered damage such as cold waves. The wear and tear of the mechas has reached about 50%.
Ying Chenlin first removed the two weapons from Huo Yan's mecha and repaired them, and then transferred them to the spare mecha to ensure that Huo Yan could move freely. After dealing with Huo Yan's mecha, he helped Hu Luobu and Colin, who were more seriously damaged. This time, Shuguang brought spare mechas and was prepared for a long-term combat.
Colin stood beside the apron and observed the maintenance technicians climbing up and down. The other party was more familiar with adjusting the mecha than many maintenance technicians he had seen, and their reactions were faster. When Qiu Jin was on the scene rescuing the mecha technician in the cockpit of a damaged mecha, Ying Chenlin, who was still a newcomer at KID at the time, took on the important task among a group of experienced maintenance technicians.
He had heard about this from the chief maintenance engineer of the YDS maintenance department. The maintenance engineers at their base were full of praise for Ying Chenlin. Even when Ying Chenlin exposed his identity as a sink, the old maintenance engineer had refuted him many times. In the eyes of maintenance engineers of their generation, both technology and practical skills need time to be mastered. No one is so talented that he can be proficient in both mecha maintenance and mecha driving at the same time.
All the doubts mentioned above fit Ying Chenlin very well.
He always gives people the feeling that he can do everything.
"The damage to your two mechas is not serious. They can be used after being replaced on the spare mechas."
After checking the problem, Ying Chenlin handed the mecha key to Ke Lin, "I have adjusted the accuracy of the weapon. Try it. If you are not used to it, tell me."
"Thank you." Colin said.
Ying Chenlin nodded and quickly joined in the other busy work.
Ke Lin stood nearby, his eyes lingering on Ying Chenlin for a long time, then turned around and saw Wen Yi standing near them. Once Qi Sicheng went to the scene, everyone on their side would have a chance to rest.
"I think such an opponent is scary, but it also easily arouses a competitive spirit." Wen Yi suddenly spoke.
There are many commanders who are good at strategies. There are many such commanders in the Star Alliance, and there are even more of them in wartime. However, commanders with strong on-the-spot reaction capabilities are rare. The Dawn teams have fought against KID and know his endless routines and unconventional ways of fighting. When they are opponents, they only see the feedback results. When they are teammates, they know how fast Ying Chenlin's thinking becomes.
When most people only took the first step, his plan had already been calculated in many layers. Even though Dawn itself was a galaxy with poor combat resources, he could use the existing resources to gain the greatest benefit.
The most important thing is that the conductor is young.
Ying Chenlin is only 20 years old. Two years ago, the individual group predicted that he would dominate the individual competition for 10 years. But now it seems that if he is given time to grow, he can go further than they imagined in the team battle field with a higher tolerance rate.
Colin knew who the other party was talking about. He put away the mecha key and said, "But this is a good thing. The higher the mountain ahead, the bigger the steps we need to take."
Wen Yi nodded in agreement, but when he looked away, he said, "I'm a little worried."
"Will our plan continue to go smoothly?" He hesitated and said, "I am worried about EM and PJT's movements."
Among the top five teams in the Star Alliance, EM is still in the volcano, and PJT has not taken any other actions after arriving at the snow mountain, and has not even gone deep into the ice.
The elite members of SLY and GBK are on the ice layer, exploring underground details with other Covenant teams. According to the latest intelligence, they have penetrated from a depth of 200 meters to a depth of 289 meters. More and more data and information are coming from underground. The counterattack of pollutants and plant roots is extraordinary. The movements of strong teams coming and going near the ice layer are very clear.
"Among the top five teams, WHG didn't move." Colin said.
WHG is the third in the Star Alliance. Since the leak of the snow mountain intelligence, WHG has remained in the forest position. Its current points ranking is second only to EM.
The top three teams of the Star Alliance have not taken effective action so far, which always makes Wen Yi and Ke Lin feel indescribable weirdness.
It seems that there is more than one team watching the fight.
Wen Yidao: "And there are three areas where the Star Alliance special missions are located. We are only in the snowy mountains now. EM and WHG are in the remaining two areas."
The temperature in the Slarede Base Station was generally low. You Su stood not far from the helipad, watching the boy like a spinning top, running here and there, just like he was busy in the KID base.
Theo asked: "You Su, why are you waiting here?"
You Su didn't say anything.
You Su's gun mecha has been damaged to a certain extent, and the weapons equipped on the mecha are also old weapons. All weapons have been transferred to Theo before departure. He can directly replace Theo without repairing other mechas. He stays here in order to obey the deployment at the first time.
Theo's attention was everywhere. Seeing Ying Chenlin repairing other people's mechas, he also wanted to go up to Ying Chenlin to let him repair it. "You go up, you walk over, I can talk to Yuan, I haven't talked to him much these days!" ↙This↙work↙by↙
You Su didn't say anything, and the noisy sound of the mecha continued around him, while his eyes stopped on Ying Chenlin.
The excellent eyesight of the S-level physique played a huge role at this time. Ying Chenlin was only wearing a coat, and the rolled-up sleeves showed the arm lines clearly outlined by the combat uniform, along with the mechanical arm, extending all the way under the coat.
The view from a distance was frank and straightforward. Ying Chenlin could see where You Su was standing just by turning his head, and he could not help but observe him.
One of the two people was on top of the mecha, and the other was standing beside it watching. There was not much communication, but each of them was in a uneasy mood.
Ying Chenlin checked other people's mechas and made sure there were no problems before he took out his own mecha. The medical mecha he often used was also worn out during the battles in the ice cave. The two weapons it carried were useful but not suitable for the combat environment in the ice cave. After replacing the mecha, Ying Chenlin locked onto the medical mecha's space-displacement weapon.
Ying Chenlin had just climbed onto the arm of the mecha when he suddenly realized that he had not brought the mechanical tools for disassembly.
He was distracted.
"Next." A voice came from below.
Ying Chenlin felt a gust of wind near his ears, and he subconsciously reached to the side and firmly grasped the mechanical clamp.
You Su threw the tools up to him.
Ying Chenlin paused: "How do you know I want this?"
You Su: "I have eyes."
"Oh." Ying Chenlin took the mechanical pliers and turned around. After a while, he said, "You've been looking at me."
You Su didn't say anything, but he didn't deny it either. He just said, "If you need any tools, tell me. I'm downstairs."
Ying Chenlin leaned half of his body on the mecha, his hands continuing to move as he dismantled the weapon. His sight passing over the surface of the parts saw a figure directly below him through the gap between the mechas. He removed a joint bayonet with a pair of pliers and slowly withdrew his gaze.
While the Dawn mechas were repairing at the base station, the underground battle at the Slared Snow Mountain became increasingly intense. The further they advanced underground, the more energy reports were transmitted to the logistics departments of each team, including the Covenant mission's highest command center.
The restoration of the abandoned system in the Slared contaminated area has put the entire Covenant on the highest level of alert. Various departments are conducting an effective analysis of the situation in the Slared area. In this analysis, they have obtained more detailed intelligence information from a large number of energy reactions.
"A large amount of specimen information has been obtained and is being analyzed."
"The pollutant coverage rate is 98%. There are still so many pollutants underground."
"A large amount of unrecorded contaminants has been detected—"
The news that there was something unusual in the contaminated area of the Slared star had been spreading in various star regions not long ago, because when the Slared contaminated area was listed as the contaminated area for the Star Alliance's mission this year, a detailed discussion had already been carried out within the Star Alliance.
More than three years ago, a strange energy anomaly broke out in Slarede. The source and cause of the anomaly are unknown. The energy samples detected are still kept in the Star Alliance database and have not been made public.
The well-informed mecha base had already received a confirmed piece of news.
That kind of energy specimen is an energy trace that has never been found in the current Star Alliance records.
The energy contained in this energy is extremely rich, exceeding the detection standards of the Covenant machines. The most important thing is that this energy contains a large amount of pollution reactions.
The energy anomaly lasted too short a time for the Covenant to locate it. This time, clearing out the pollutants was only the essence of the mission, and the goal was to gather a strong team to uncover the reason why Slared lost control.
In the busy command center, the commander stood in front of a bunch of information, looking at the information with a cold face, "Is it the Dawn Galaxy that discovered the abnormality underground this time?"
The staff member said: “Yes.”
Dawn Galaxy… The commander said in a serious voice: “Call up the mecha information.”
The information of multiple mechas in the Dawn Galaxy was retrieved, and the information of the mecha pilots appeared in the highest control room.
The commander quickly browsed through the simplified information and stopped when he saw a name, "...You Su?"
The staff retrieved Yousu’s information.
In the detailed information retrieved, a simple ID photo taken professionally was placed right above the information.
When the avatar appeared, the commander's serious face looked a little strange, "It's him."
The commander's adjutant suddenly asked, "Commander, is there something wrong with this person?"
"No." The commander said, "It's just that the last time I saw him three years ago, he was still a mercenary mecha master. When the energy anomaly occurred in Slarede three years ago, the mercenary mecha master from Dawn, the son of Lieutenant General Lin Yilin of the First Star Domain Border Army, have you forgotten?"
Three years ago, the reason why Slarede had energy changes was because a super S-level pollutant broke out in the border pollution area near Slarede, which is the third star field. No trace of that super S-level pollutant has been detected until now. The closest mecha to the super S-level pollutant at that time was a mecha commander who entered the border of the third star field alone and escaped from the ambush of the pollutant despite being seriously injured.
It was also because of the super S-level pollutant riot that they noticed the riot at Slared Energy.
The adjutant said: "He is not recorded in the database."
"It can't be recorded. Even the First Star Region can't control him. The Third Star Region has to give him the green light."
The commander's serious face relaxed a little, and he said nostalgically: "It's crazy to enter the contaminated area alone without paying attention to the border rules. It's exactly the same as You Yuying..."
Before he could finish his words, a staff member nearby suddenly shouted.
The commander walked quickly to the programming table and asked coldly, "What's going on?"
"Energy levels are seriously exceeding the limit." The staff member in charge of energy testing said, "Commander, based on the energy conditions we tested, the energy levels underground are increasing at an unreasonable rate."
The commander asked in confusion: "Abnormal growth?"
"Yes, and this growth doesn't look like energy at all, it's more like a pollutant." The staff member continued, "This pollutant occupies deep underground. Among the mixed pollutant information, we have summarized the information and data showing that this pollutant has almost covered the entire underground, and all energy reactions come from it."
Upon hearing this, the commander said sternly: "Immediately analyze the source of the pollution and find out the species—"
At this moment, a loud alarm suddenly sounded in the entire command room.
The commander looked up suddenly and saw two weak mecha signals suddenly appearing among the complex energy sources at the core of the ice cave. He was stunned, "...Mecha signals?"
Deep underground in Slared, in an ice cave covered with bright blue light, the strange fire originating from the ground is covered under a layer of bottomless blue ice. A large number of roots are densely covered, and at the core is a blue crystal ball of light, which flutters and vibrates, and a large amount of energy seems to be pouring into its core.
More than 300 meters above the core, the parasitic flower, which was afraid of death, dug its roots tightly and did not dare to go down at all.
At this time, two mechas had to emerge from the gaps between the parasitic flowers.
Zhao Lejie said, "Damn it, give me some space to breathe!"
"Why is this flower like this? There's a path underneath, why won't it fall off!" Lin Yao squeezed and took out a knife to desperately poke the flower, but it didn't move at all, "Chen Lin, this is over, this flower is dead."
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Here we come! There are more chapters to come, I’ll try to update them sooner!
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