Chapter 14 S-Class Boss's Snowflakes
With this in mind, he finally made up his mind and, from the images transmitted back by the mech detector, locked onto the two high-ranking slaves who were moving rapidly.
Image analysis revealed that one of them is an ice-type, while the other relies on a certain contracted plant that can instantly extend countless tiny vines to pierce the enemy's body, draining their flesh and blood, leaving only bones.
In fact, Bo Yiyan did not dare to use his Devouring skill. This was his trump card, which he naturally could not reveal to others.
Although he does not have the ability to teleport, he possesses the ninth-tier Ghost Entangling Vine Thousand Threads, which can extend its vines at an extremely fast speed and send its master to the place it wants to go.
The speed of Qian Si's transport was only slightly slower than teleportation, and it could also save the master's stamina and superpowers, which Bo Yiyan was very satisfied with.
Determined to capture Xiaobai and Bo Yiyan alive, Hua Jingsaburo was currently directing his guards, dividing them into two squads to attack the two men separately.
Because they wanted to capture the enemy alive and didn't want to cause further damage to the mine tunnels in other areas, they dared not use the large weapons equipped in their mechs and instead opted for precision-guided point-fire particle cannons.
This type of shell has a firing accuracy down to the millimeter, but a range of up to five kilometers. It is said to have been developed by incorporating new technological elements while referencing an old type of firearm, the sniper rifle.
Each shell is worth 10,000 contribution points. Although it is the standard equipment for B-level and above mechs, no one is willing to use it normally.
This time, Hanakage Saburo gave orders to the captains of both squads: during the capture, each squad was allowed to use a maximum of eight point-fired particle cannons to strike the enemy's spine, pelvis, and limbs respectively.
The squad leader received the order and immediately arranged the firing positions for the different team members.
As early as when the mech team set off for the mining area, Matt had already passed on the message to Xiaobai and Boyiyan.
However, they did not choose to escape directly. The space provided by the Maw Chestnut mechanical race was not very large, and the Space Pioneer could not hold them all, so it only held a small spacecraft.
The same applies to pandas.
There were two small aircraft in total. Although they could fit all of them, their flight speed was far slower than that of the mechs, and it was only a matter of time before they were caught up.
Rather than being chased and beaten, it would be better to liberate all the slaves in the mining area first. Perhaps they would be able to spare some manpower to hunt down those slaves, thus reducing the pressure on them.
But to everyone's surprise, the mech team arrived so quickly, and they clearly didn't care about the lives of the slaves, directly bombing and destroying a mining area.
With things having come to this point, Xiaobai and Boyiyan could only continue killing the overseers and freeing the slaves, hoping to at least draw the attention of the mech team to themselves.
Matt and his group might be able to escape in the chaos.
As for the two of them, if they fight to the death, they might be able to severely damage the mech.
Having already prepared for a direct confrontation with the mechs, both of them set up defensive barriers around themselves.
The squad simultaneously used the mech's stealth capabilities to quietly approach the two slaves, who were supposedly possibly A-level, and then reached a point within five kilometers of their firing range, forming an encirclement.
At the squad leader's command, eight point-firing particle cannons were fired simultaneously.
Xiao Bai sensed that the first and second layers of the three barriers he had set up had shattered with a crash, and the third layer was also on the verge of collapse, which made him somewhat alarmed.
Mao Li had repeatedly emphasized to them that the firearms installed inside the mechs were extremely powerful, and each level of mech could kill or injure superhumans who were one or two levels higher than the mech's level.
If he hadn't already broken through to the tenth rank, this shot would have likely destroyed all of his defenses.
The squad leader and his men who were besieging him were terrified!
"Team, team, captain! That ice-type slave isn't A-rank!" The squad leader was the first to come to his senses and stammered a report to Hanajizaburo.
"Could it be an S-rank?" Hana Keizaburo's face turned ashen.
His previous capture plan was aimed at A-level targets, but if the target is S-level, let alone capturing them alive, even using the only life-saving weapon equipped in his mech—the energy disintegration bomb—would not guarantee a 100% kill rate.
Moreover, this person seems to have the ability to teleport. It is said that S-class and above ability users can open up their own domains. Once he opens his domain, all weapons that are trapped in his domain will move very slowly, like mud oxen sinking into the sea.
He could then take this opportunity to calmly avoid danger, or even directly kill the enemy.
"Retreat! Retreat now!" Hanajizaburo shouted hoarsely.
At the same time, Xiaobai had already unleashed his skill – Snowflakes Falling Everywhere.
This is his most powerful area-of-effect attack skill, because when the two defensive barriers shattered just now, he had already sensed and locked onto eight locations that were attacking him.
Xiao Bai has never fought a mecha head-on, but according to Mao Li, superhumans cannot control mechas of a higher level than themselves.
Matt said that all these people were B-level, so the mechs they piloted should also be B-level. He didn't believe that B-level mechs could have S-level defensive capabilities.
Even if it reaches S-rank, its snowflakes are numerous. Even if a single snowflake can only leave a shallow mark on the mecha, a lot of them should be able to make several holes in it, right?
"Squad leader, it's snowing, it's snowing!"
One of the team members who was ordered to escape accidentally saw snowflakes falling from the sky in the images transmitted back by the mech's detector.
Under the bright sunshine, the snowflakes twirled and shimmered with silver light, a sight of exquisite beauty.
But this was clearly not normal, and the team member instinctively shouted out in fear over the public channel.
"Bullshit! What snowflakes? I think you're just scared out of your wits and seeing things!" the squad leader scolded, though he himself was terrified.
The opponent is an S-class powerhouse! Even if he were piloting a B-class mecha, he, a mere B-class, couldn't defeat him!
If mechs are really that powerful, then high-level superhumans will become worthless.
As soon as the squad leader finished speaking, countless snowflakes began to fall from the mech of the team member who had just been shouting.
These snowflakes were strange. They seemed soft and light, drifting down slowly, but they melted instantly when they landed on the mecha, leaving a thin scratch on the surface of the mecha.
The squad leader's eyes widened immediately, staring intently at the mecha. A few seconds later, the surface of the mecha was covered with fine lines like a spider web.
The lines were incredibly fine, almost invisible unless you looked closely. He could only barely see them by the help of sunlight reflecting off them.
"Damn it! Could there be some kind of super corrosive liquid in these snowflakes?" Just as the squad leader thought this, he saw the mech's outer shell shatter instantly, turning into countless tiny fragments that fell down.
All that remained was an empty metal skeleton, which looked both comical and pathetic.
It's important to know that mech shells are always made of the most durable materials, so that even ordinary metal cutting machines cannot leave scratches on them, let alone cut them open.
But the slave used some inconspicuous snowflakes to cut the mecha's outer shell into pieces.
This realization terrified the squad leader, who roared, "Scatter and escape! Try to get out of the area covered by snow!"
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