Chapter 67 A Crow's Mouth
As dawn broke, Zhou Jiu, dragging his tattered mecha suit, swayed along the city wall not far from the city gate.
Zhou Jiu sank deeply into the mecha seat. She unscrewed the bottle of water and drank it. Then, looking at the increase in life points on the virtual panel, she took out a dose of nutritional capsule from the food box and ate it. She stopped eating when her life points rose to the safe zone.
"I've already run a lap, are you done yet? My mech needs repairs, and I can't get out to fix it. I've retreated to the vicinity of the city gate, but I can still feel the gazes watching me from all around," Zhou Jiu said to Sun You through the communicator. She knew that the nearby monsters were waiting for an opportunity to devour her.
Although runes can buy more time for him, mental energy is not inexhaustible. Zhou Jiu must preserve his chances of survival for the final battle against the big boss.
“I have already reported it, but there has been no response. We are meeting up outside the city.”
Don't stay outside the city. Once you go out, you won't be able to get back in. Some teams have already gone out but couldn't get back in and died at the hands of the monsters, being eliminated.
I woke up to find so many teams gone. This mech competition seems strange. Does the military not want to hold it anymore?
The organizers have issued a statement regarding the simulated battle information, and they will not be making any further arrangements.
Why not say so beforehand? Changing things at the last minute is really strange.
"How many minutes are left to kill the last invading AI?"
"Oh no, another module has been attacked."
"My side was also hacked, and all the competition programs were changed."
The organizers were constantly maintaining the mecha competition's program on the StarNet, and everyone was in a flurry of activity.
"Found it, it's an address from MicroVision Technology Company."
"It's a technology company that supports the expenses of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and the Volunteer Army may be behind it all."
"Quickly report to the military region. The main organizer of this event is the First Military Region. You need to pay attention to public opinion trends recently."
[Zhou Jiu, be careful. About five hundred teams have already been eliminated, and there are still many very strong teams among them. Play it safe and try to make it to the last three hundred.]
[Stop posting. Zhou Jiu won't see it. She's mindful of her surroundings right now and isn't even reading the comments.]
Zhou Jiu waited for the team members to rejoin her, her spirits showing signs of fatigue, and the continuous battle had made her brows furrow.
“We’re here. When we came out just now, we found that the number of people with abnormal mental abilities who had been killed was increasing,” Sun You said to Zhou Jiu.
Sun You and Chu Ming dismounted from their mechs and began making simple repairs to Zhou Jiu's mech. The other two mechs stood guard outwards, five meters away from the innermost mech.
Zhou Jiu activated the mecha authorization for the two of them and said, "I'm going to take a nap."
Zhou Jiu felt like she had just dozed off when she was woken up, but it still greatly relieved her fatigue. She looked at the basic display inside the mecha, operated on the mecha keyboard, stretched her mecha legs and arms, and swung the energy blade. Seeing the time, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "These two are indeed the best. Their repair speed is fast and their skills are excellent."
"Today, our team's assigned task is to eliminate the strange beasts around Suhu Lake north of the city and help the water-fetching troops obtain the resources needed by the people," Sun You woke Zhou Jiu and explained the day's mission.
"There are sub-tasks under the main task?" Zhou Jiu asked in surprise.
“I just received the assignment from my superiors, but I’m not sure if this is a temporary transfer during the overall mission or if it’s not part of our assessment and is just a task assignment for the Qila Border Guard.” Sun You said, mentioning two possibilities.
Zhou Jiu was too weak to speak, but if Sun You didn't think this task would affect the assessment, she wouldn't have raised such a question at all.
"What about the other guards and the unit responsible for fetching water?"
The mecha gradually moved north, and Zhou Jiu followed Sun You's pace. He was a little curious about why there were only a few of them here and no other guards. After all, according to the guard's plan yesterday, she was someone who would be guarded against if discovered.
“We arrived about fifteen minutes after you, and several of us signed a pledge promising to stop you if you acted strangely or made any moves, without affecting our operation,” Sun You said.
"It seems that the officer also suspected something was amiss internally, as more and more people have been getting into trouble lately. We also found the list of those killed and checked their records. We discovered that many of them were people in the Beast Squad who were good at detecting Beast attacks early, or rather, they were people with strong mental abilities. The Beasts are targeting these people," Lin Xiu added, recounting their findings from yesterday.
"Did you find anything?" Sun You asked Zhou Jiu.
"I found a large nest, but I felt that the strange beasts were gathering and guiding my direction. I had a bad feeling, so I came back. On the way back, I felt that the strange beasts initially blocked my way, but then they dispersed when they saw me. But I still felt that there was something strange there. It was as if they both wanted me to go there and wanted me not to go there." Zhou Jiu couldn't describe the feeling. It was a very mysterious spiritual touch.
"Let's start the battle, my friends." As the group gradually approached the area around Suhu Lake, a large number of strange beasts began to appear.
[Another group battle! This time we've encountered quite a few monsters!]
[That's alright. Just now, several mech teams from the Alliance University encountered a level 5 alien beast and were wiped out.]
Those three teams, unbelievable! They were focused on crushing each other from the start, then a level-five monster suddenly appeared and took advantage of the situation. And they were even from the same school! Couldn't they have cooperated?
[Why talk about cooperation when we're all competitors?]
The "half-baked" team was really lucky; they didn't encounter any other teams.
[Oops~ The person upstairs is jinxing me.]
[Haha, the mecha team from Zongda University, are they planning a sneak attack?]
[Ambush from among so many strange beasts? You guys are truly geniuses.]
"Zhou Jiu, let's discuss a collaboration."
"The mecha team from the second year of the university, the academic genius team. Zhou Jiu, do you know them?" Sun You didn't know much about this team. There wasn't a single outstanding person in it, nor did they have any particularly outstanding performances. She only had a basic understanding of a few of the attack methods that the team members used with their mechas.
As Zhou Jiu listened to the voice, he quickly filtered through his memories in his memory palace.
"Fake Wang Xue?" Zhou Jiu turned on the speakerphone, and her energy blade seemed to be slicing a watermelon. Thanks to Chu Ming's occasional defense, her movements were not hindered in the slightest as she advanced forward.
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