Chapter 30
Chapter 30
Encountered an unexpected event... The mecha masters present did not dare to think further.
"No!"
"Don't think too much!"
It was hard to convince themselves not to think too much. They thought of the brief image they had seen in the secondary defense zone before. The scene of Zhao Lejie being beaten under the protective shield seemed to be vivid in their minds, especially the high-frequency energy output, which showed how difficult the scene was at that time.
Their deputy captain Zhao worked so hard to hold up the energy shield, which was at least 50% of the output. If they encountered another S-level pollutant...
"He has other mecha masters following him." Qi Sicheng looked at the group of polluted corpses and said simply, "Until his mecha is found, everything is still unknown. Divide into two groups and search around, paying special attention to the energy traces!"
Others rushed into action.
Looking at these, Hu Luobu asked, "If something goes wrong, how will you contact the Administration?"
"It can only be the base tower." Qi Sicheng looked a little strange. "I always feel it's a bit strange. The edges of these pollutants are too clean. It seems to be caused by the weapons of the mecha."
Hu Luobu said: "How is it possible!? There is no need to deal with so many pollutants!"
You can just get rid of it, why kill it? It takes energy to kill it.
In such an environment, energy is life. He continued, "What kind of idiot would do this? And the cutting marks. Digging out the material so finely requires precise adjustment of energy."
Wasting energy to kill pollutants may be a special case, but who would be stupid enough to use energy to pick materials? ?
Qi Sicheng: "Maybe I'm worrying too much."
The first star domain, the Dawn Galaxy Star Network, netizens gathered on the official website of the Tianyu Star Administration Bureau began to keenly discover that something was wrong.
From the time the emergency notice was issued until now, there has been no further news from Tianyu Star, and there were only three base teams that initially entered, with no plans to increase support.
When the team is on an emergency mission, the Administration will keep the information updated in real time.
This kind of emergency blockade is much more serious than the usual polluted area missions. During ordinary missions, the management bureaus of each polluted area will report the situation at any time, but there has been no news for this relatively serious blockade.
[Disconnected. No news after so many hours. The situation doesn’t seem that simple! 】
[Is this going to cause any trouble?] Are there any corresponding rescue measures? 】
[The Administration generally has emergency measures. If a major problem occurs, it will ask the military for help. 】
The internal detection system of the competition-level pollution area is completely dark, and the official website cannot see the real-time situation inside at all.
The less news there was, the more netizens paid attention to the situation in the contaminated area of Tianyu Star. An unknown source of news leaked out, but one netizen suddenly revealed in the public community of the virtual star network: [It seems that something went wrong. I heard that the jump system did not start up again after the route was closed. It may be that the jump system is broken. ]
The warp system is broken! ?
That is the jump system for the contaminated zone of the competition area. With the advanced jump equipment currently available in the Star Alliance, what kind of emergency situation would cause problems with the internal jump?
[Hasn’t the Covenant’s jump system always been very stable?! (Fear)】
[It's impossible that it's broken. The most likely thing is that the equipment inside the Tianyu Star was damaged, causing problems with the two-point jump. 】
【What's the meaning? 】
[That is to say, even if we send support now, we can't enter the contaminated area. We can only rely on the mecha technicians in the contaminated area to solve the problem. 】
Netizens originally thought that the problem could be solved quickly, but they did not expect such unusual changes to occur. The media heard the news and began to follow and report on the situation in the polluted area of Tianyu Star. All kinds of groundless news soon spread.
The staff member entered the tense meeting room and asked anxiously, "Director, the news on the Internet can no longer be suppressed. The Star Alliance asked if we need military help?"
This was difficult to suppress. As a competition-level contaminated area, Tianyu Star was not open to the public at ordinary times. However, the official website on the Star Network had a real-time system that reported the situation in the contaminated area. With this incident, problems arose in the reporting system. If there was no feedback in a short period of time, it would inevitably arouse suspicion from others.
"Let other departments issue a notice regarding the current situation." The person in charge walked back and forth. The current situation was neither good nor bad. "The Star Alliance took over the communication. Hasn't the system been restored yet?!" ⑨
The staff member said: "Not long ago, Mr. Shen from KID helped repair the detector. We tried to connect to the two base stations A and B and restored a small part of the pollution detection function."
The director frowned: "Can't fully recover?"
"It can't be restored. The AB base station can only be connected because the previous mecha master updated the system with a patch. Now the system of Tianyu Star is still in a semi-collapsed state and is completely closed to the outside world. We took a shortcut." Shen Xingtang walked over with a tired look on his face: "Again, if you want to know all the situations, you have to destroy the defense system of the entire contaminated area."
The staff retrieved the data and said, "There is a very strange phenomenon. The pollution value in the area on Tianyu Star has dropped sharply."
A sudden drop? ! The director was surprised and asked, "Could it be that the Centennial Orchid has been dealt with?!"
The pollution value of the Tianyu Star Pollution Zone is a comprehensive assessment based on the pollution sources and pollutants in the area. A sudden increase in the pollution value must be accompanied by a mutation or birth of the pollution source, while a decrease in the pollution value can only be due to a decrease in threatening pollutants within the area.
"No... We saw from the side detection data that the pollution value near base station C did change significantly four hours ago, but it quickly stabilized and is still above 6,000, indicating that there may still be S-level pollution sources in the area." The staff looked at the detection map and saw that the originally densely packed red dots had become fewer. "There is an area near base station C where the pollutants have been greatly reduced."
Other people in the conference room could not know the specific situation and could only analyze it based on these indirect data.
Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the heads of the two bases, Jifeng and YDS, relaxed a little. The head of YDS said, "It seems that the mecha divisions have begun to take action. YDS also has experience in dealing with S-level pollutants. We don't need to worry too much."
The person in charge of the nearby Gale Base frowned and said, "Something is wrong."
The director stared at the test data, his brows knitted tightly together, "No, the number of fatal pollutants exceeds 300."
The YDS leader was shocked and asked, “300???”
If some of the pollutants died, it might be because the mecha division cleared them out, but the death of so many at once was definitely not the work of the mecha division.
"In the past four hours, more than 300 people have died from pollutants." The staff member said nervously, "Director! We have never encountered such a large number of deaths from pollutants!"
Other staff members looked confused: "What is going on? The passage of locust pollutants is not that exaggerated."
The head of the Gale Base: "It may be hunting by high-level pollutants."
Shen Xingtang looked at this situation and she always had a very strange feeling.
She didn't think it was hunting. If it was hunting, the pollutant had a big appetite and could eat continuously for 4 hours. But she couldn't find any other reason. The only person who could make such a big noise in the contaminated area could be a mecha master if it wasn't a pollutant. Could it be possible?
The director finally made up his mind, "This situation is obviously not right, request support from the Star Alliance immediately! I will take all the responsibility and must protect the safety of all our mecha divisions!"
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In the contaminated area of Tianyu Star, in the secondary defense zone 3 kilometers outside the base station point C. The mecha technicians who stayed here all had serious expressions. The mecha technicians who were good at technical work gathered in the control room of the secondary defense zone, staring at the main control system that never changed, with worried looks on their faces.
"The mecha we just sent out to investigate has returned. He said that the nearby quicksand has disappeared. He also found some bodies that were suspected to have been cut up and contaminated. This is probably good news."
The mecha master was puzzled: "Has it been cut...!?"
The mecha master who reported the news said, "Yes, and the death toll is huge. He said he saw no less than 50 bodies on his way back."
"Not necessarily good news." The mecha operator sitting in front of the control room operated the system with little experience. "An hour ago, we found that there was a problem with the pollutant report sent from 3 kilometers to the southeast. The pollutant reaction has weakened. Although the foundation is damaged, the test report is still of certain reference value."
The most direct reason for the weakening of the pollutant reaction is the reduction in the number of pollutants in the area. If it were normal, they would think this was good news, but now it is a special situation, such a strange sandy ruins environment -
Abnormal accumulation of pollutants and harsh environment, every change is fatal.
"This area is less than a few kilometers away from us." The mecha master felt a little heavy: "It is very likely that the S-level pollutant is outside the defense zone."
They have been trapped here for some time, with energy shortages,
The information was incomplete, so it was difficult for them to carry out the next plan. They could only wait for the mecha masters who went out to bring new news to resolve the predicament here.
The three mecha masters realized that the problem was becoming more and more serious.
"Brother Liu, do we have no other solution?" asked a mecha master.
Brother Liu was in a heavy mood: "Now we can only wait for other news. Is there still no news about Huo Yan and Lu Xi from KID——"
Before he could finish his words, a mecha master in combat uniform rushed in from outside the control room. "Huo Yan and Lu Xi are back. They brought back a few mechas! They seem to be new mecha masters!"
Brother Liu was overjoyed: "New mecha master!?"
"What!"
"Did the Administration send anyone to support us?!"
"Hurry up, let's go and take a look together."
There was a parking point outside the secondary defense zone. Not far away, several mechas passed through the encirclement of pollutants and directly scraped into the defense wall of the defense zone. When they braked at the parking point, they left a black mark on the ground. There was also a strong smell of blood on the mechas. Several mecha masters who came over smelled the foul odor of the pollutants as they approached. Looking at these marks on the mechas, Brother Liu felt even more depressed. They must have experienced a brutal battle with the pollutants.
"It's KID's mecha master! There's also a blue mecha, it looks like Gale!"
Brother Liu hurriedly shouted behind him, "Is anyone injured? Go get the treatment injection!"
There are not many mecha technicians in the pollutants, and the rescue mecha technicians cannot get into trouble again!
Several mecha masters outside were extremely anxious. Just when they shouted many times but received no response and were about to pry open the cockpit, the cockpits of several mechas opened and mecha masters in combat uniforms came down from the cockpits.
Before the mecha masters got close, they could hear their discussion.
"It's a pity that we don't have enough energy, otherwise we could have cleaned up the pollution in the east. That's a rattlesnake!!"
"It's okay. We can go out after we finish showering. It won't take too long."
The group of people who had just harvested the golden scorpion materials returned with a full load, and everyone was radiant, except Zhao Lejie.
Zhao Lejie's mecha had only 2% of its energy left, and the storage compartment in his mecha was filled with a pile of golden scorpion's limb remains and poison sacs. If there were a few more circles of pollutants outside this defense zone, he would have to wait for others to go out and drag him back. Fortunately, God still favored him and did not let him fall into such a sad situation.
"Are you guys having problems? What if we run into that S-rank guy on the way back?" Zhao Lejie couldn't help but say, "It's not enough to clean up those scorpions, you're going to go around and fight those snakes!"
This is really infuriating. Zhao Lejie originally thought that it would be over after they cleaned up the group of golden scorpions. However, after the fight, Lin Yao saw a few Class A rattlesnakes in the distance, and without saying a word, he drove his mecha over. It would have been fine if he just rushed over, but KID and a group of people followed him.
After charging, they continued to chase and fight them, and they almost chased them for several kilometers. If they hadn't encountered strong winds, he really believed that KID and his group could kill all the pollutants on Tianyu Star.
Ji Qingfeng said: "A-level rattlesnakes are not easy to catch!"
Lu Xi continued to explain: "Rattlesnakes rarely gather together here... Crystals are also very expensive in the market."
Zhao Lejie: “…”
Forget it, just pretend he didn’t say anything. It’s impossible to explain to KID and his group.
All the mecha masters came down. Zhao Lejie had just come down for a while, and when he looked back, he noticed a person.
Besides him, the people around him were also looking in the same direction.
He was quite familiar with the faces of KID and the others. Even if he had never met them, he had seen their photos. However, there were two unfamiliar faces among KID's group. One was a tall man who stood next to the gun mecha. He had a cold aura and an indescribable feeling. He gave people a feeling that he was easy to get along with, but also seemed like he was a thousand miles away from them.
Besides him, there is another person who stands out more.
Among a group of mecha technicians in combat uniforms, there was a young man in work clothes. The mecha pilots wore combat uniforms to facilitate mental empathy and make the connection with the neural tentacles in the cockpit smoother. The young man who was not wearing combat uniforms became the focus of everyone at a glance.
You Su looked at Ying Chenlin. His long-sleeved maintenance uniform covered his mechanical prosthesis. The belt tightly outlined his waist and abdomen, making his thin figure look even smaller among the tall and strong mecha masters.
Perhaps because his hand was uncomfortable, Ying Chenlin put his right hand in the pocket of his work jacket and didn't move much.
Ying Chenlin had just come down from the cockpit and turned around to see something being thrown at him.
He reached out and took it, and found it was an anti-pollution isolator.
You Su glanced at him and said, "Put it on."
The combat uniform has an isolation effect, and without it he can only rely on the isolator.
"Thank you." Ying Chenlin raised his eyes and noticed the unfamiliar mecha masters around him.
Individual combat and team combat are two different fields, and the competitions are basically staggered. When he participated in the competition in his early years, because he was under the protection of minors, in order to avoid the media, he often walked through the special passage of the stadium, and there were very few mecha masters he met. Ying Chenlin still had some impression of individual mecha divisions, but was very unfamiliar with regimental mecha divisions. He was okay at recognizing mechas, but he had no impression of any mecha divisions.
The first people he noticed were the few people who came down from the mecha with him. Zhao Lejie was about the same height as Ji Qingfeng, with muscles on his arms under his combat uniform and a fashionable bald head. Huo Yan looked just like his powerful voice, tall and strong with a handsome appearance. Standing next to him, Lu Xi was only as tall as his shoulders, with her long hair tied up high. Unlike Shen Xingtang's bright appearance, she had a delicate face and gave people a gentle and peaceful feeling, and seemed to have a good personality.
Brother Liu, who was waiting nearby, was about to go up and say hello to KID's people and ask about Huo Yan's situation. As soon as I got closer, I saw KID and several mecha technicians running towards the cockpit, as if they were going to get something.
"Huo Yan, you guys are finally back." Brother Liu said solemnly, "Not long ago we detected that the environment outside had changed, and you just happened to come here and discovered it. Did you find a large number of deaths on the way..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard a voice coming from the mecha.
"Hey brother in front, make room for us to put our things."
"Yes, yes, yes, step back a few steps."
Seeing this, Huo Yan said, "Old Liu, let's talk later. Let's deal with the things first?"
"Dealing with things?" Brother Liu just took a few steps back and saw that the storage space of several mechas was opened. All kinds of residual crystals fell from the sky, and a strong smell of blood came towards him.
The limbs and venom sac of the golden scorpion, the fur of the gerbil, the crystal of the rattlesnake... Not only Brother Liu was stunned, but the mecha master next to him was also stunned.
After Ji Qingfeng finished dumping the things, he walked over quickly, holding a decomposer that he had found from somewhere in his hand. "Come on, let's divide the loot. There are six of us in total. Let's divide the things into six equal parts. Lao Zhao, is there anything you need in particular?"
Zhao Lejie looked at some of the materials he had disassembled himself and couldn't bear to look any further: "There is no demand."
Lin Yao: "Ah? This thing is too expensive to strengthen!"
"Our base's reinforcement materials are all prepared by specialized maintenance technicians. We generally don't use golden scorpions and gerbils." Zhao Lejie said halfway when he noticed the strange looks around him.
Ji Qingfeng nodded: "I know, it is worthy of being the first base of Dawn."
Lin Yao followed up and said, "Weapon enhancement costs 4.5 million."
Zhao Lejie: “…”
Huo Yan then remembered that there were other people standing next to him. He turned his head to look at Brother Liu who had a strange expression on his face and asked, "Old Liu, did you just mention the pollutants in the southeast? We didn't encounter any S-level guys on the way here, but we ran into the group of golden scorpions that blocked us before."
Brother Liu: “…”
The bodies are all here, he is not blind!
The mecha masters next to them were even more speechless. Looking at the pile of pollutant materials and the KIDs who were busy dividing the spoils, the group of golden scorpions that had troubled them before had now changed beyond all recognition. They could even recall the ferocious appearance of these pollutants when they attacked the base station tower more than ten hours ago.
Now it's gone, only a pile of materials are left.
Ying Chenlin habitually observed people, then noticed that everyone's eyes were on him. Seeing that others were dividing the materials, he remembered the business he had to do, and said to Huo Yan, "I'll go get the tools."
Huo Yan walked over to KID and the others and asked Ji Qingfeng: "The new mecha master looks even smaller than Lin Yao!"
"He's not a mecha master." Lin Yao explained in a low voice: "Sister Tang doesn't let us talk about him outside. Shen Lin is the maintenance engineer of our base." ~
Lu Xi was stunned. "Maintenance engineer? But why would a maintenance engineer come to such a dangerous place as the contaminated area?"
"It's because none of us know how to do the repair program."
Ji Qingfeng said smoothly: “Shen Lin knows how to do it, so we will bring him here.”
Lu Xi hesitated and asked doubtfully: "Isn't the program automatic?"
Ji Qingfeng: “?”
Huo Yan continued, "There is an attachment in the mission data. The automatic program is very simple. Just plug in the line port."
“But You Su, tell me—” Ji Qingfeng turned his head to look at You Su, only to see that the other party was looking at him very calmly.
"Oh, is that so?" You Su looked indifferent and said lightly, "Then you can just handle it when the time comes."
Ji Qingfeng: “…”
He and Lin Yao were fooled by You Su. This guy must have known it, but he didn't tell them!
Zhao Lejie didn't hear KID's whispering. His eyes were always following Ying Chenlin until the other party went behind the mecha, then he withdrew his gaze.
He had some knowledge of KID's strength before, but after nearly ten hours of cooperation, he really couldn't see through KID. He was well aware of the strength of Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao, and he had also dealt with Huo Yan and Lu Xi in the last season. However, he really couldn't figure out the outcome of the other two A-class mechas.
The coordination was as messy as ever, but this messy coordination could solve the S-level pollutants and so many B-level golden scorpions.
A very important reason for this is the guard mecha and the gun mecha. He is now certain that these two are the two foreign players of Banute KID in the original video. Their ability to precisely control the guns is too terrifying. Their reaction ability and sniping accuracy are among the top guns in the Dawn Galaxy, but he has never seen this guy in the league.
The strength of the guard fluctuated. He had some brilliant performances when fighting against S-level pollutants, but he became weak again when dealing with golden scorpions, and even missed one or two golden scorpions. There was one thing that he found scary.
That person's overall view is scary, it's like he can notice every detail, including those of the enemy and teammates.
Moreover, this guy is really brave. Under normal circumstances, who would choose to clear pollutants when energy is scarce? But this man not only did it, he also brought KID and the others along. He dared to say it, and KID dared to follow him.
He can react quickly in dangerous environments, accurately position each mecha, adapt to circumstances, and find enemy loopholes calmly... It's like looking at the battlefield from a God's perspective. Courage, boldness, calmness and composure, these qualities, if cultivated slightly, will make one a rare Mecha League commander.
"Old Zhao, what are you doing standing there?" Ji Qingfeng shouted, "Come and help me."
Zhao Lejie turned around and saw KID's people trying to divide the spoils: "..."
He couldn't tell whether KID and his group were geniuses or fools.
"Brother Huo, how come your mecha has only this much energy left?" A mecha master came over. In such an environment, it would be a big deal if the mecha's energy was exhausted, which meant that the combat effectiveness of their team had decreased again.
Huo Yan smiled and said, "Oh, so that's it. We just used all our energy to kill these."
After saying this, he pointed to the materials next to him.
Brother Liu: "...Brother, have you ever considered the situation of insufficient energy?"
Most of the mechas left in the secondary defense zone had consumed a lot of energy, and most of the spare energy was consumed in the process of trial and error in rushing to the high tower. I thought that the support from the management area could solve this problem.
However, the remaining energy of these mechas does not seem to be enough to break into base site C.
Huo Yan continued to process the materials and said in a relaxed tone: "It's okay, it's not a big problem. Where is our energy warehouse?"
Brother Liu looked at him puzzled, but still said: "The energy warehouse is at the energy point inside the defense zone, next to the energy conversion room. Why are you asking this?"
"Well." Huo Yan scratched his head and looked behind the mecha, "This needs to be explained by someone in our base."
The mecha master followed his gaze and saw that the young mecha master who was dressed differently had a maintenance bag on his back and was coming towards them.
"Hello, where is the energy warehouse?"
Ying Chenlin walked in front of the crowd carrying a maintenance bag.
Others: “?”
The secondary defense zone is a small base station, generally used to assist the operation of the main base station tower. In order to ensure the operation of the system, each defense zone has sufficient energy. The energy warehouse is located underground in the secondary defense zone and is used to support the operation of all facilities in the entire area. They have authority granted by the administration and can freely enter and exit any place in the defense zone.
When they heard that a group of people were going to the energy warehouse, most of the mecha technicians gathered together.
"What is this for?"
"I don't know. I suddenly asked for the address of the energy warehouse."
Zhao Lejie landed in the middle of the crowd and said, "What else can we do? Emergency requisition some energy."
Mecha Master: "Requisition energy???"
But the energy here is different from the energy used by their mechas! The Tianyu Star Pollution Zone is a competition-level pollution zone. In order to maintain a fair competition environment, no extra energy points will be set up inside. When their mechas were short of energy, they also thought about looking for energy supplies in the defense zone, but they searched through all the boxes and drawers but could not find a single tube of mecha energy.
There is indeed some energy in the defense zone that can be supplied to the mecha, but the prerequisite is that the management bureau must clear the output pipelines of these energies. Otherwise, the mixed energy cannot be supplied to the mecha at all, and the mismatched energy will only burn the mecha's components.
But it all happened so suddenly that they couldn't react in time, not to mention the Administration which had completely cut off contact with them.
The mecha technicians were confused, but the young man with the repair kit had already entered the energy warehouse.
In the spacious space, a large energy device stands in the middle, through which various transport pipes transport operating energy to various locations in the defense zone.
Ying Chenlin put down the maintenance kit, rolled up his sleeves, and put on maintenance gloves.
His hands had just been covered by his sleeves and the maintenance kit, and now that they were exposed, the looks of the people around him changed instantly.
Huo Yan's expression suddenly froze. He saw Ying Chenlin's right hand, "That child's hand."
"Mechanical arm." You Su leaned against the wall pillar next to him, looking at Ying Chenlin calmly: "Not only the wrist, his arm is also mechanical."
The author has something to say:
Caro: No one is stupid enough to use energy to do delicate operations to pick up materials!
KID: Lao Zhao, pick it up carefully!
Zhao Lejie (trying hard to convince himself, it’s all for energy): …
In the secondary defense zone,
Brother Liu: Lao Huo and his team must have experienced some tough battles before.
Zhao Lejie: ...I thank them.
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