As Gu Ya shouted "One!",
Among the fifteen mechs in formation,
One mech suddenly began to twitch frantically!
"Ah? Ah? What's happening? What's wrong with my mech?" a pilot cried out in panic.
After twitching wildly for a moment, that mech's thrusters suddenly died, and it plunged uncontrollably towards the ground!
Wan Kai gasped in alarm and yelled, "Xi Can! What's wrong with you!"
Gu Ya suddenly extended his right middle finger, making a "two" gesture, and roared in anger:
"Two!!!"
The second mech also began to shake violently.
The female pilot Chou Ao Lei screamed in terror, "My mech is out of control!!!"
Immediately after, her mech's thrusters died, and it plunged towards the ground.
With two dull thuds, "Boom! Boom!", two mechs crashed heavily onto the Gobi desert.
"Three!!!" Gu Ya shouted again.
The third mech, without any warning, extinguished its propellant and plummeted to the ground.
Wan Kai panicked, quickly maneuvering his mech towards Gu Ya, shouting, "It's you!!!"
His mech was about to collide with Gu Ya.
Gu Ya's gaze was cold as he stared at the approaching enemy, calmly stating, "Four!"
Wan Kai's mech suddenly had its systems extinguished, its propellant vanishing. It arced through the air and crashed before Gu Ya!
The immense, powerful airflow buffeted Gu Ya's body.
Gu Ya merely swayed slightly before stabilizing his hover.
"What did you do!!!" Wan Kai yelled hopelessly.
His mech crashed onto the ground with a "boom," rebounded slightly, and rolled several hundred meters away!
Gu Ya stared at the remaining eleven mechs and shouted, "All of you, die!!!"
As soon as Gu Ya finished speaking, the eleven mechs all extinguished their propellant and
plummeted to the ground one by one,
falling like dumplings,
crashing onto the ground with "thump thump" sounds!
The mechs piled on top of each other, forming an incredibly massive mountain of wreckage!
The scene was deathly silent.
The wreckage of the fifteen mechs showed no external damage.
Not a single mech exploded into a fireball.
They were like already dead zombies, fallen on the land in the dead of night!
[Ding! System mission complete]
[Corresponding rewards obtained]
"Utilizing speed beyond limits, create turbulent air currents to touch every enemy unit."
"Although there was no external damage, the code tampering had utterly destroyed their mech systems."
"This is the secret technique, Realm of No Wind—Autumn Muster on the Battlefield."
"With a single command from me, enemy units will turn into scrap metal."
Gu Ya gazed at the wreckage of the enemy mechs scattered across the ground,
and then at the smoldering wreckage of the You Yin, also strewn about.
A sudden sadness welled up in his heart.
"You Yin, return," Gu Ya said faintly.
The smoldering wreckage of You Yin's countless units, the flames instantly turned static and gradually vanished, as if they had never appeared.
"Alright, mech, come out."
The surroundings of Gu Ya suddenly dimmed as his assembled mech gradually enveloped him.
Gu Ya settled steadily into the cockpit, quickly activating the mech. He glanced at the radar;
the radar showed nothing.
"Hu Po?" Gu Ya called out softly.
An immediate sense of foreboding washed over him. Fang Fei might have met with misfortune!
These two groups were likely allied! They were all soldiers who had betrayed Xian Xia!
Gu Ya had fought desperately to deal with this group.
With Hu Po's capabilities and Fang Fei's strength, they stood no chance against them.
Gu Ya panicked, quickly maneuvering his mech towards Hu Po's direction.
As he flew, Gu Ya frantically shouted, "Hu Po! Fang Fei!!!"
But there was no response.
"This is bad... this is so bad..."
As Gu Ya piloted his mech, he paid attention to the scenery on the ground.
After flying for tens of kilometers, he suddenly saw scattered sparks of fire on the dark earth ahead.
Gu Ya's heart lurched. The bad feeling intensified.
"No way..."
"Fang Fei!!! Please don't be hurt..."
As Gu Ya flew closer, the mech wreckage became more dense. This was not Hu Po's mech.
Gu Ya's heart eased slightly,
but then he saw an amber-colored severed arm.
Gu Ya's eyes widened.
Immediately after, more and more amber-colored wreckage appeared under the searchlights!
Gu Ya's forehead beaded with cold sweat. He quickly searched for the cockpit and soon found the round, dark, numerous broken pipes and wires of the cockpit.
"Fang Fei!"
No response.
Gu Ya maneuvered his mech to turn the cockpit around. Fortunately! It was undamaged. She should still be inside.
Using the mech's giant hand, he pried open the cockpit hatch.
Gu Ya quickly rushed out,
and after looking inside with urgency, his legs instantly went weak, and he knelt on the ground.
Fang Fei sat in the pilot's seat, her head tilted, her body restrained by the seatbelt, her limbs hanging limply, her eyes slightly open with a vacant gaze, completely still.
"Fang... Fang Fei!" Gu Ya called out tremblingly.
Suddenly, a streak of fire appeared in the sky. A mech was flying rapidly from a distance.
Gu Ya's nerves tensed. He gritted his teeth, anger rising, and stood up.
The system shop opened. Buy any mech and get out!
Suddenly, with a flash of white light, a standard machine mech appeared behind Gu Ya.
Without a word, Gu Ya scrambled into the cockpit, piloting the mech into the sky, flying head-on towards the approaching enemy.
The approaching unit also noticed Gu Ya, unleashing more rapid propellant, preparing to kill him before Gu Ya was ready for combat.
But Gu Ya's eyes were cold, the flames of revenge burning within them!
"All skills activated!"
No need for banter with the approaching unit. A single, killing blow. Even if this mech was scrapped, it didn't matter.
The mech instantly flashed, drawing a straight white line through the dark night sky!
It was as if the night sky had been split open!
The approaching unit suddenly exploded into a fireball!
Gu Ya maneuvered his mech in a wide arc in the air, returning to its original position.
Before landing, the mech's body began to erupt in flames.
Gu Ya quickly summoned his exoskeleton and kicked violently at the cockpit hatch, but he couldn't open it.
With a "boom!" the cockpit exploded.
Gu Ya was thrown against the cockpit wall by the shockwave.
The flames inside the cockpit grew hotter and hotter.
Several more violent explosions directly shattered Gu Ya's exoskeleton armor!
Gu Ya's outer clothing was ignited by the flames and then shattered by the explosions.
Fortunately, his feet could still function.
The cockpit finally blew open!
Gu Ya, using the last bit of propellant in his feet, crashed to the ground and stood up steadily.
Behind him, mech fragments rained down with "thump thump" sounds, kicking up hot air currents that blew away the shreds of Gu Ya's clothes.
The surroundings were bathed in orange-red flames.
The flames shifted like ever-changing mountains, sometimes launching a thousand blades, sometimes a single peak rising!
Thick black smoke accompanied the flames, dancing in the wind and drifting into the distance.
The foot exoskeleton armor also lost power the moment it touched the ground, shattering into pieces and detaching from Gu Ya's feet.
Gu Ya, naked and trembling, walked towards Hu Po's cockpit.
"Fang Fei..."
Gu Ya entered Hu Po's cockpit and knelt before Fang Fei's corpse, his trembling hand reaching out to free her from the pilot's seat.
Fang Fei's body slid down, falling into Gu Ya's arms.
"Fang Fei..."
"Fang Fei!!"
Gu Ya's eyes suddenly misted over. Two streams of hot tears welled up, rolling down his fire-blackened face, carving two white tear tracks.
It felt as if a giant stone had crushed a deep pit in Gu Ya's heart.
Regret and self-blame turned into seawater, pouring into the deep pit.
In the afternoon, although Fang Fei had annoyed Gu Ya, they were students in the same class, training, attending lectures, and carrying out missions together.
Though her words were sharp and she wasn't likable, she was bold and straightforward, without pretense.
Gu Ya had long considered her a comrade in his heart.
To meet a comrade in a strange place, Gu Ya cherished her from the bottom of his heart.
But now, Fang Fei's body was so heavy, like a massive stone pressing down on him.
Gu Ya hugged her cold corpse tightly, whispering helplessly, "I didn't protect you..."
"I..."
"I am too useless..."
Gu Ya closed his eyes, the last tear falling. When he opened them again, his gaze gradually turned cold.
"Fang Fei, I will avenge you!"
"There's no need," Fang Fei's weak voice suddenly entered Gu Ya's ears.
Gu Ya froze for a moment.
Immediately, he felt a chill between his legs!