Chapter 49 Reunion
After passing through the sand spider swarm, Zhou Jiu rolled over the undulating slope of the desert, carefully lay down in the sand, and stopped moving, staring at the place Chu Ming had indicated.
"I have arrived at your location and found five other participants: two melee fighters and three ranged fighters."
Looking at Chu Ming's location on the screen, Zhou Jiu checked the entire terrain again and slowly said in disbelief, "Those two melee mechs weren't sitting on you, were they?"
"Mmm," Chu Ming's voice was very soft.
Zhou Jiu turned off the overall electromagnetic field of the mecha before entering the area that other mechas could detect. However, they were so close, and Chu Ming couldn't have buried himself too deep, so the oxygen supply wouldn't last long. Zhou Jiu was curious about how Chu Ming had buried himself.
Zhou Jiu stayed in place and continued to observe, while the remote-controlled mech maintained the same posture.
“I think I was spotted when I was fighting the sand spider swarm. Their range and position should be coming from the direction of the sand spider swarm, and the long-range mech sniper position is exactly where I was going to find you,” Zhou Jiu said after observing.
[Did someone come from the other five people's live stream? Is it really true, as Zhou Jiu said, that they're guarding someone?]
I'll go ask.
[Is this for real? There's no sign of the other teammate in Zhou Jiu's livestream. The mech is so big, how could it be buried in the desert? How will it emerge later?]
[I was watching five live streams. As soon as the qualifiers started, I searched for Zhou Jiu's team members' live streams. I can confirm that Chu Ming initially hid in the sand in his mech, and after moving around in the sand for a while, he saw the mech approaching, and then everything went black. He probably turned off the electromagnetic device.]
The one in front is a simulation/raising game.
Reply: [I'm a fan of Zhou Jiu, and I'm particularly interested in whether her teammates can keep up with her pace.]
[I came over from next door. They didn't find the mech buried in the sand, but they did see some players fighting the sand spiders. They were planning to attack the players and sand spiders when the players escaped.]
[Come on, bloggers, anyone want to pick a player and start explaining the battle? I'm betting on Zhou Jiu.]
[The person in front is probably a fan of Zhou Jiu. One melee fighter and one defensive fighter trying to take on five opponents? That's a bit too much. /taunting/]
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"Hello everyone, I'm Zhou Jiu's assistant in his livestream. Please send him/her rockets, mechs, and flowers to show your support..."
At this point, Zhou Jiu had already shut down the voices her assistant posted to the outside world. She was unaware that her assistant had started a live stream explaining the live streams she could find online, and while she was waiting for the stream to lose viewers, the assistant was asking for gifts in a boastful manner.
Zhou Jiu remained motionless, lying in place for about ten minutes, when he noticed they were starting to slack off. He then input the mecha commands to begin action and said to Chu Ming, "Move."
Zhou Jiu sped up, jumped up, and rushed towards one of the long-range sniper mechs. At the same time, she threw a small cannonball at another long-range mech. The dust kicked up by the cannonball gradually obscured the mechs' screens. Zhou Jiu heard the sound of the enemy sniper's cannonballs and could feel that her original position had been hit three times.
Within the time it took to fire three shots, Zhou Jiu had already closed in on one of the long-range sniper mechs. His right arm energy lightsaber violently slashed at the long-range sniper mech, while his left arm tightly grabbed the extended cannon arm of the long-range sniper mech as it turned to escape.
Zhou Jiu's fingers moved rhythmically, changing direction from time to time without rushing. As he slammed the opponent's mech, he quickly used his energy lightsaber to pierce through the mech's cabin at the same attack point.
After quickly eliminating one, Chu Ming was struggling to hold off two melee mechs on the mech display screen. However, as a defensive mech of the Extreme Ghost type, it quickly retreated into its shell when attacked. Even after noticing Chu Ming's difficulty, Zhou Jiu didn't hesitate to follow their original plan, moving in a circular pattern to the center between the long-range sniper mech and the enemy melee mechs, dodging their small missiles and preventing them from firing their cannons indiscriminately.
Using the same method, Zhou Jiu approached the enemy's long-range sniper mech and quickly eliminated another mech before moving closer to Chu Ming's direction.
Chu Ming was still huddled inside his shell, half-buried in the sand. Zhou Jiu came over and patted Chu Ming's mecha shell, "Get up, the person has run away."
Chu Ming stood up, revealing his chubby mecha on the sand.
"Aren't you going to pursue them?" Chu Ming asked.
"Don't chase them. Let me take you to hunt down some alien beasts. I found a level four alien beast. Let's get that high score first. You get all fifty points first, and then we'll go play it safe." Zhou Jiu wasn't interested in the two mechs. The rules clearly stated that alien beasts made up the majority of the score, and whether in the virtual or real world, Zhou Jiu's enemies were always alien beasts.
Of course, Zhou Jiu also admitted that the main reason was that the two mechs got away. Firstly, the chase would have been too time-consuming, and secondly, the mech she was piloting didn't have enough sustained speed. Chu Ming could only accelerate for a few seconds and was slow the rest of the time, so there was no guarantee that they could catch up.
"A level four beast? Just the two of us?" Chu Ming was slightly surprised. In the past few days of training, they had only trained the teamwork of a few people. The five of them had fought level three and level four beasts together, and they won quite quickly in the later stages. However, the two of them had not trained alone yet.
"Yes, a wounded level four alien beast, shall we go?" Zhou Jiu asked, raising an eyebrow.
"go."
[Isn't this arrogance? A level four alien beast with only two newbies? They're dreaming.]
My goddess never makes empty promises; if she says she can do something, she really means it.
[Not necessarily. Insider information tells you that Zhou Jiu is on the mecha ranking list, and not a low one at that.]
[Insider information also tells you that Zhou Jiu once defeated a shapeshifting witch!]
[You guys are just taking advantage of the fact that this is Zhou Jiu's livestream and no one will argue with you, right? The Shapeshifting Witch is from the Star Glory team, and they were the runner-up in last year's mech competition. Every member of their team is strong enough to have a place on the mech leaderboard.] [Just a newbie, a newbie who has to participate in the qualifiers, you guys are really overestimating her.]
[Humanoid mecha, huh? I think Zhou Jiu is really awesome.]
[Her individual abilities are indeed outstanding, but mecha operation and personal combat skills are different.]
Zhou Jiu didn't notice the chat in the live stream starting to get noisy. She was leading Chu Ming into the sand spider swarm, occasionally having Chu Ming harvest the sand spiders.
Looking at Chu Ming's decisive and efficient operation, Zhou Jiu asked with some curiosity, "You are very suitable for melee mechs, and you don't think of defending and protecting your teammates first. Defensive mechs also have high damage output in combat, so why did you choose a defensive mech?"
Zhou Jiu was relatively close, but he didn't exert much effort. Except for a few that were about to attack, Chu Mingteng didn't fight the level two or three sand spiders, but kicked them away.
"…fear death."
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