Chapter 79 Star Region Tournament First Game (Part 5)
Mingyan was not completely unaware.
Although most of his mental power was focused on the ancient pterosaur in front of him, his S-level mental acuity still allowed him to perceive the changes in the surrounding energy field.
He wanted to inform Feren, but the other party's attack came too fast.
It was so fast that it overturned his fastest expectations, exceeded his boldest assumptions, and even exceeded his tentative understanding of the mental cannon.
Just as he realized the direction of the opponent's attack and shouted the first syllable of dodge...
That thread of mental power has arrived in front of him!
What kind of structure does such a fast spiritual energy cannon have? How much energy threshold does it sacrifice as a price?
A vague thought flashed through Mingyan's mind.
There was simply no time to draw a conclusion, as the mental powers of both sides collided in an instant.
Feren's energy cannon was still aimed at the star beast in front. Mingyan could only grit his teeth and use his mental power to meet the attack from below.
It was a bright blue thread of mental power that quickly spread outward the moment it touched the red flame, as if it wanted to encircle and devour Mingyan's mental power.
As soon as the two mental powers touched, Ming Yan actually breathed a sigh of relief.
The opponent's mental strength is too low, even lower than his own.
This was not from the high-intensity offensive mental power of the ship-type awakened humans, but from observers like him.
Since humanity awakened and began space travel, pilots and observers have always performed their respective duties.
Even if he possessed a burning spiritual power with certain offensive properties, he would not overestimate his own capabilities and attack other starships...
Because the strength of the observer's mental power is naturally much smaller than that of the driver.
Therefore, even if their mental cannon passed through the energy-enhancing valve at the muzzle and landed on the starship's hull, it would only scratch the surface, probably leaving only a shallow scorch mark...
Moreover, the other party obviously gave up the forced function valve in order to achieve high speed! They used a layered acceleration valve!
The blue mental power fire was not only heavy, but also light as a fallen leaf, landing on Ming Yan's mental power flame.
The devouring feeling coming from it made Mingyan judge that the one attacking from below was... colorful!
The scene from the Labyrinth Star Storm flashed through Mingyan's mind for a moment. His body tensed for a moment, then relaxed again.
Ming Yan's mental power was mostly in a contracted state at the time, and his only impression of that battle was Mu Boxing's terrifying dark gold.
He attributed the last attack on the starship to the gravity artillery fire from the exoskeleton carried by LUCE or Mu Baixing, or perhaps it was the mental cannon fired by Mu Lian...
After the starship crashed that day, both he and Feren were on the verge of exploding, and no one thought carefully about the true source of the attack.
Or perhaps the inertial thinking they had been trained in since childhood made it impossible for them to distinguish that it was an attack from the "soft" mental power of an observer.
What's more, at the moment when their mental powers connected, he felt that the attraction coming from LUCE's mental power was not much different from when they met in the preliminaries.
Akihiko: "?"
"What do you mean?" He didn't see Mu Boxing's golden mental cannon, so he relaxed and ignited the fireworks more violently. He took a moment to glance down and sneered, "LUCE came alone? You want to use your mental power to remove my mental flames first?"
"Could it be that Mu Baixing is seriously injured in the Labyrinth Star Spirit Realm and can't fire at all?" He sneered to himself with a hint of gloating, "I told you the gap between A-class and S-class isn't that easy to bridge... This guy was sent to me on purpose..."
Ming Yan: "I have to show you how powerful I am!"
The red flames grew more intense, trying to drown out the bright blue.
However, at this second, a huge suction force suddenly came from the bright blue mental power.
It was as if Mingyan's sudden increase in mental power had triggered some untouchable switch. The previously untroubled suction force suddenly increased by hundreds, even thousands, of levels. It was as if the colorful LUCE had transformed from a handheld vacuum cleaner into a giant energy adsorption device in a high-end laboratory...
This ridiculous metaphor flashed through Mingyan's mind for a moment, and he was caught off guard by the change in Mingyu's mental power!
He didn't have time to think carefully about how to deal with it, so he could only increase his mental strength again!
In the silver starship cockpit, Mingyu raised the corners of his lips.
"That's about right." The young man said with a smile.
This level of mental energy is just enough!
Mingyu's mental power was suddenly released!
Right at this moment.
The red flames were quickly absorbed by the bright blue in an instant. The sky, which was originally reflecting the red and blue light, instantly returned to a white expanse under the dim sunlight. The ancient pterosaur let out a high-pitched cry and soared upwards. Without Ming Yan's spiritual guidance, Feren was unable to react and looked to his side in surprise.
"What happened..."
His words were cut off by a sudden burst of powerful energy.
Huge amounts of energy are sucked in and compressed in an instant, and then released in an instant.
Then a bright white explosion occurred here.
A loud earth-shaking sound came from the place where the Lieyang starship was originally suspended, and the light of the explosion obscured the brilliance of the sun hanging high in the sky.
The ancient pterosaur let out a series of terrified cries and quickly turned and fled in panic into the distance.
The shockwave swept outward, shattering the mountain. Large chunks of rubble, mixed with vegetation and soil, rolled down. A network of cracks spread across the surface, rapidly spreading in all directions, like a small earthquake.
The underground cave was also filled with rumbling sounds, soil clods fell, and the mountain walls on both sides of the cave were almost collapsed due to the shaking.
The thrusters under the silver starship suddenly sounded, and in the chaos, the starship was pushed out of the high cave entrance.
A heavy metal shell fell from above the cave entrance.
The vertical passage was so narrow that Mu Baixing barely managed to avoid it. Mingyu turned his head and saw the black metal scraping against the back of his own starship, leaving a long scratch and making a teeth-grinding metal-on-metal sound.
That was the starship that Mingyan and Feren were on. After it was blown to pieces, the fragments were falling from above.
The black starship had been completely disintegrated, breaking into pieces of varying sizes that smashed onto the ground and into the cave, leaving it impossible to even see its original appearance.
“Oh my god…Brother LU…” Inside the colorful cab, Red Hair said in astonishment, “This…this destructive power…Brother LU, how did you…how did you blow them all…blow them away???!!!”
"You...you are...Brother LU, you are just an observer!!"
"Brother LU, when did you become so powerful?!!! Are you trying to defy the heavens?!"
The same question arises in the minds of countless people.
In the live broadcast room of the Star Navigation Competition, in the lounges of the Killer Team and other teams, in the office of the deputy commander of the Third Legion, and in the office of the director of the Star Navigation Department... countless people who were paying attention to the Star Navigation Competition were speechless at this moment.
Because they were too shocked, they sat in front of the screen with their mouths slightly open, but unable to speak for a while.
"Let's...let's watch the replay again." On the livestream, the plush bunny managed to speak with years of professionalism. With a trembling hand, he rewound the progress bar, unable even to focus on observing the other teams' matches. He stared with his large black eyes as he turned on slow motion.
But in fact, he didn't need to play it in slow motion to see clearly what had just happened.
"I... I can't have suddenly become color blind," the rabbit commentator muttered. "I can see very clearly that this is a blue mental force. It belongs to... to the colorful observer LUCE... not their pilot Mu Baixing."
"The observers' mental powers are known for their sharpness, flexibility, and low intensity... yet they can... yet they can produce such a terrifying effect..."
"One shot!" He gradually raised his voice. "Just one shot!!! And it shattered Lieyang's warship!!! That metal is so hard! Not even the mental cannons of many pilots can achieve such an effect...!"
"What did LUCE use!" The plush rabbit looked at the silver starship rushing out from the chaotic dust on the light screen, and looked at the main gun barrel in front of the starship, which was still lingering with tiny energy aftershocks. He shouted, "Such a slender gun barrel! The energy carrying capacity is even lower than the general gun barrel manufacturing standards! LUCE can only use his devouring ability..."
"His mastery of the devouring ability is terrifying!! And awe-inspiring!! I'm hoping I can livestream my physics teacher now... I mean, absorbing another person's energy, compressing it, and then releasing it instantly requires incredible control! And what's more, Mingyan's mental energy has a burning property! Lucé himself wouldn't be feeling well... And what kind of endurance would one need to be able to swallow all of Mingyan's mental energy in a single instant!"
"It's like swallowing fire with empty words! Ladies and gentlemen! Imagine the pain..."
In the starship cockpit, Mingyu couldn't stop breathing rapidly.
He was sweating all over and his body was shaking a little, but the corners of his lips couldn't stop curling up.
Mu Baixing turned to look at him, pursed his thin lips, and said, "Beautiful."
His voice was deep.
"Uncomfortable?" Mu Baixing said, "Rest first..."
"Brother Mu." Mingyu interrupted him.
"You'll have to get used to it." Ming Yu said casually, "This is the price I have to pay for unleashing my devouring mental power! Otherwise, if I could use it casually, wouldn't such an ability be too outrageous!"
Mu Baixing was speechless for a moment.
He didn't want Mingyu to feel any pain, but he also didn't want to hinder him from making his own choice.
So Mu Baixing just frowned, but the young man looked up at him with a bright smile on his lips.
Although most of his face was covered by the helmet, Mu Baixing could immediately imagine the designer's expression at the moment.
The eyes are curved, with obvious bags under the eyes, and there is a gleam in the black eyes.
"What's more, Brother Mu!" the young man said in a voice full of immense excitement and satisfaction, "I have avenged you!"
He drew out the last syllable of his voice, which clearly meant he was seeking credit.
Mu Baixing: “…”
Mu Baixing paused, his thoughts seemed to be frozen for a moment, and he just looked at Mingyu.
An inexplicable feeling instantly washed over him, freezing him in place.
"Hey! I wonder if they'll be scared in the future!" Ming Yu said confidently, "I'll beat them up every time I see them! I have to make Ming Yan and Fei Lun stay away from us! I'll teach them a lesson for the last time they bullied us because we were only wearing a powered exoskeleton...!"
The young man's lips lost some color due to the pain he had just felt, and they opened and closed as he spoke.
Mu Baixing looked at him for a moment, let out a sigh, leaned to the side, and reached out to touch Mingyu's lips.
Mingyu: “?”
Mingyu was slightly stunned and stopped talking when Mu Baixing interrupted him. He sat in his seat and let him caress his lips. The arrogance in his body froze, and he looked well-behaved and confused.
Mu Baixing laughed.
"Thank you." He withdrew his hand and touched his lips lightly again.
Then he turned around and pulled down the starship's operating console again.
Mingyu: “???”
"...What do you mean?" Mingyu blushed inexplicably and reached out to touch his lips, saying, "There's something on my mouth?"
Red Hair: “…”
"No, LU." Red Hair whispered, "I think the boss might want to kiss you."
"No way." Orange Hair didn't want to guess what Mu Baixing was thinking in front of him, but he couldn't help but retort, "This order is wrong. The boss probably wants Brother LU to kiss him."
Mingyu: “…”
The blush on Mingyu's face suddenly deepened.
"Don't...don't be so rude!" He said to Mu Bo violently, "Several of Lieyang's treasure chests have fallen!"
The starship passed over the surface, and the robotic arm picked up three large silver treasure chests that appeared out of thin air on the cracked ground.
Mingyu saw Mu Baixing turn his head again, as if he was about to speak again, so he quickly put on a stern face and continued, "Look ahead! Brother Mu! Chase that ancient pterosaur!——"
Mu Baixing: “…”
Mu Baixing couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips and chuckled.
He turned his gaze away from Mingyu's face and said calmly, "As you command."
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu's face turned even redder.
The accumulator made a dull, low sound, and the golden light cannons were fired one after another, guided by the bright blue threads extending outward.
The large ancient pterosaur was almost as big as a small starship. Dark grey energy rays extended from the tips of its wings and attacked the starship. When it failed to hit the starship, grey flames spewed out from the scapula where the broad wings met the body. Its flying speed suddenly increased, leaving the starship behind.
Mu Boxing did not speed up.
The starship flipped over and changed direction at high speed to avoid the opponent's attack.
The golden mental power mixed with the energy wave from the muzzle chased forward, drawing dazzling arc-shaped flashes in the air, and pierced through the wing membrane of the ancient pterosaur.
The large ancient pterosaur let out a cry of pain, plummeting downward, crashing into the trees below, and struggling to get up. The starship passed over it, its robotic arms reaching into the branches, accurately grabbing the silver treasure chest on its back and pulling it down.
"Ding—All-channel broadcast. Congratulations to Colorful, you received 5 small silver treasure chests, and your score increased by 1000."
"Congratulations, Colorful! You received 1 large silver treasure chest, and your score increased by 5000."
"Colorful Team, destroy the Fiery Sun Starship, score +5000."
"The Colorful Team has gained the original points of the Lieyang Starship, a score of +21,000."
At this moment, the cockpits of most starships in the game map were temporarily stagnant.
"Lieyang?!" Whispers rang out from the cockpits of many starships. "That Lieyang from Ming Yan of the Ming family?! Did Wucaibianlan destroy Lieyang's warship again?! Was it because of that pilot's explosive mental power? Or was it something else?!"
At this moment, even their interest in the game was instantly suppressed.
Inside the Duck Duck Go Go Team's cab, Captain Big Duck quacked twice and couldn't help but say, "Once is a coincidence, but twice is outrageous..."
Inside the Ranger's cockpit, everyone was much calmer.
Vincent and Yang Haoyuan looked at each other and thought that since Ming Yu and Mu Baixing were only wearing powered exoskeletons and were not killed by Ming Yan Feilun... it was only natural that they could drive a starship to destroy the other party.
"So many points?!" Squirrel Cui Xiaoduo was not concerned about the fact that Wucaibianlan defeated Lieyang.
He sat on a specially designed small chair and couldn't help but lean forward to look at the light screen, smacking his lips and saying, "I really want to rob them. What the competition system said about 'don't miss the opportunity' is a hint for us to rob, right? If we shoot down their starship, will their treasure chest belong to us?! I just don't know where Brother Yu and the others are..."
"bite--"
As if to meet Cui Xiaoduo's request, the second game broadcast sounded.
"Congratulations to Colorful for surpassing 50,000 points—new competition rules triggered!"
"The locations of the top three starships in the competition will be displayed on each team's screen, with the latest coordinates updated every fifteen minutes."
"As of now, the first place in the points of this competition is: Colorful."
“Second place: Strive to be the best.”
"Third place: Ranger."
"Location coordinates have been issued."
"Please don't miss this opportunity!——"
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