"Hmm, I recognize you..."
One of the Black Star enemy mechs hovering high in the sky spoke through its public address system.
Gu Ya found the voice familiar and, after struggling to recall, finally remembered who was speaking.
Back during the Lou Hai Campaign, Gu Ya had used "Full Skill Activation" to kill Hong Lian·Zhi Wu's enemy. As he was returning to Xian Xia with the cockpit of the enemy killer, two black mechs had appeared and instantly stolen the cockpit. One of them had even commented that Gu Ya's piloting skills were poor.
"It seems your piloting has improved," the person said in a low voice, a hint of wariness in his tone.
More than half a year had passed since the Lou Hai Campaign, and Gu Ya's skills had indeed improved significantly!
The Black Star pilot continued, "But I don't think you can beat me. Let's make a bet. If you can defeat me, I'll let you all go."
Gu Ya glanced at the time, sighing inwardly. An hour had already passed, far exceeding the mission deadline, and no reinforcements had arrived.
He wasn't sure if Sun Qihua was deliberately causing trouble or if it was truly impossible to allocate reinforcements.
In any case, the soaring Eagle Third Team, or rather Gu Ya, had to face fifteen Black Star high-threat mechs alone.
Gu Ya said coldly, "One on one?"
The other party continued, "I am one of the Black Star vanguard generals, the captain of this special forces reinforced brigade, responsible for this surprise attack mission. Those you killed were just cannon fodder, temporarily promoted to high positions to ensure their peaceful demise. As for the remaining fifteen of us, each one is equivalent to a Xian Xia War God in strength."
Gu Ya scoffed. The enemy had killed one member of the Soaring Eagle Third Team and so many Xian Xia defenders, and they were high-threat enemy mechs. How could he possibly let them go?
However, after activating full skills, he could at most eliminate six to eight mechs. If it were more, Gu Ya couldn't guarantee a one-hit kill. This was the difference between quantity and quality.
If the opponent claimed to have the strength of a Xian Xia War God, regardless of whether they were lying or not, he couldn't act rashly.
He'd fight one of them first. If they were bluffing, he could simply eliminate the rest without further ado.
The Black Star mech that had spoken slowly descended, while You Yin ascended steadily.
When both reached an even position, separated by several hundred meters, they suddenly vanished into the storm!
Both sides knew that this kind of one-on-one combat with an enemy was completely without principles, and one had to use any means necessary to kill the opponent!
This Black Star pilot was indeed powerful. You Yin performed several consecutive burst dashes, but they were all easily dodged by the opponent.
After the last burst dash ended and You Yin stabilized, the opponent launched from the side, wielding two weapons made of unknown material. They were short, thick, black, and hard, resembling gun barrels, but with no muzzles at the tip. They looked like short clubs, yet were held in hand like gun stocks.
The twin clubs emitted dark brown light beam ripples, making them very difficult to discern in the rainy night.
The enemy mech swung the short clubs continuously, launching a series of killing moves with turns, elbow strikes, shoulder holds, knee strikes, low spins, and downward club slams, exuding an unstoppable momentum.
You Yin dodged continuously, quickly raising its sword to block the opponent's attacks, sparks erupting as the sword blade met the short clubs.
At this moment, Li Fang sent a communication, "Gu Ya, the opponent is also a traditional martial arts mech pilot, and stronger than me! Be careful, brother. Traditional martial arts mech pilots are very insidious, with many counter-moves and feints. Don't trust obvious openings!"
Gu Ya parried and defended while controlling his mech, asking, "Is there a good way to discern true weaknesses from fake ones in the enemy?"
Li Fang replied, "That's not hard for me, after all, I'm also a traditional martial arts mech pilot. If you want to know if it's a real weakness, you have to test it yourself! You'll know if you try!"
"Try it and you'll die, right?" Gu Ya retorted impatiently.
But Li Fang's words did make sense; it was simple and direct.
Gu Ya found an opening in the enemy mech's defense and quickly switched from defense to offense. You Yin suddenly dodged to the side and front, evading an enemy's heavy punch. It then raised its knee and elbow, placing its right beam sword in front of its chest, its left beam sword behind its back, and suddenly executed a foot-springing maneuver.
The enemy didn't know what kind of martial art this was. The heavy punch quickly retracted to lock You Yin's neck, while the short club in the other hand slammed down, intending to break You Yin's knee.
This was actually a martial art Gu Ya had just learned, with no regard for aesthetics.
Facing the suddenly attacking short club, Gu Ya felt a surge of impatience and didn't want to waste any more time with the enemy. You Yin's neck leaned back, deliberately presenting itself to the enemy's grasp. At the same time, it blocked downward with its beam sword and pointed forward with its left beam sword.
"Full Skill Activation! Level Three!"
Ten consecutive burst slashes!
Gu Ya really had no mood for this intimate "play fighting" with the enemy.
An instant later, You Yin reappeared in its original position, slightly behind, having dodged the enemy's hand and short club.
"Die, scum," Gu Ya shouted coldly.
You Yin rapidly ascended into the air and flew towards the other 14 enemy mechs.
The enemy mech that had just fought Gu Ya suddenly exploded, turning into black smoke and falling towards the sea.
"I just used Full Skill Activation, I need another 3.3 minutes for it to cool down. And besides..." Gu Ya muttered to himself, looking at the mech status monitoring table on the cockpit screen. You Yin's performance had dropped to 33%. If he used "Full Skill Activation" again, You Yin would surely be scrapped.
He had already lost one You Yin and really didn't want to wreck his current ride.
The remaining four mechs of the Soaring Eagle Third Team, excluding the immobilized Fengwu No. 1, followed You Yin in a burst of speed and voluntarily surrounded the fourteen enemy mechs.
"Each of you hold off one, the rest are mine!"
The remaining ten enemy mechs, with explosive exhaust plumes, rapidly retreated backward.
"As expected, they don't want to fight!"
You Yin was the first to draw its sword and pursued the ten enemy mechs, its speed astonishing.
The ten enemy mechs led Gu Ya away from his teammates to a sea area, slowing down, turning around, and encircling You Yin from above, below, and all sides.
Gu Ya was unafraid, "Pay for my teammates' lives!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, the ten Black Star enemy mechs raised their weapons and charged forward. It would take less than five seconds to reach You Yin.
Gu Ya grinned sinisterly. The timing was perfect! Come on, you murderous beasts!
"Full Skill Activation, Level Three!"
Ultimate Skill! [Extreme Death Blade Wind Spiral]!
In the eyes of ordinary people, as the enemy mechs charged to within five centimeters of You Yin, You Yin suddenly transformed into a dazzling blue-white light sphere, followed by an inexplicable strong whirlwind.
The violent whirlwind instantly ensnared all the enemy mechs, like a meat grinder, violently shredding each enemy mech's body, destroying most of them in an instant.
A few quick-thinking enemy mechs rapidly withdrew their weapons and fled in the opposite direction.
You Yin, having stopped its action, charged forward with its sword.
At this moment, You Yin's entire armor was covered in countless cracks. As it flew, armor fragments sprinkled into the storm, illuminated by searchlights, looking like dazzling white feathers falling from the sky.
After the armor shed, its precise and compact internal structure was revealed.
If it were an ordinary mech, each structural component would have maintenance gaps for mech repairers to enter for inspection, maintenance, and disassembly.
But You Yin didn't need human repair. Its internal structure was like a tightly wound mass, similar to human muscles revealed after shedding the skin!
If a master mech repairer were present now, they would be utterly stunned!
The three enemy mechs in front, terrified by You Yin, which had turned into a grim reaper behind them, fled in three directions.
Gu Ya took a deep breath and, controlling the armor-shedding You Yin, burst forward and slashed with his sword.
The enemy mech in front still wanted to resist but had its arms severed by the pure white beam sword. Then, You Yin charged with all its might, its beam sword piercing diagonally upward from the back of the enemy mech's neck. With a twist of its wrist, it decapitated half of the enemy mech's head. The other beam sword pierced the enemy mech's waist and then chopped downward diagonally, slicing the mech in two.
Just as You Yin was preparing to pursue the other two enemy mechs,
A giant red light suddenly flashed in the dark clouds!!! The surrounding temperature rose sharply, and the pouring rain was evaporated by the red light!!!
Suddenly, a colossal blue lightning bolt tore through the sky. As the lightning illuminated the sky,
Gu Ya saw an unbelievably large, bright red mech descending from the dark clouds. Its entire body was enveloped in a high-temperature red glow, pressing down on the two fleeing enemy mechs, like the Five Finger Mountain of Buddha, no matter how they tried to escape, they couldn't get out of its grasp!
"Unfettered Red!" Gu Ya exclaimed in admiration.
The bright red mech, burning red and enveloped in a high-temperature red glow, suddenly dived at high speed. Its enormous deceleration umbrella deployed behind it, and its hands quickly grabbed one enemy mech.
The seized enemy mech instantly melted into a gooey black mass!
After releasing the enemy mech, the bright red mech turned and charged towards the other enemy mech.
You Yin killed rapidly. With a slash of its twin swords, it chopped off the enemy mech's upper body. Gu Ya did this for the system mission; otherwise, he wouldn't have snatched the kill.
The last enemy mech also couldn't escape the devastation of the Unfettered Red. The intense heat made it unable to fly properly. It was directly embraced by the Unfettered Red, whose ultimate skill [Red Coffin] burned it red. Its once clearly visible limbs were now squeezed into a red sphere! It exploded to death in the Unfettered Red's embrace.
After dealing with the two fleeing enemy mechs,
The Unfettered Red slowly turned, facing the tiny You Yin.
Hong Yan asked coldly, "Gu Ya, is my disciple Rui Zi dead?"