The tips of towering skyscrapers smashed into the aerial vehicle streams, as if creating a terrifyingly large pit on the Rainbow Bridge, with aerial vehicles around the pit also being blown away by the massive air currents.
Countless giant fireballs erupted across the city, and thick smoke billowed from the ground.
Gua looked at the doomsday-like scene, his heart pounding, feeling as if millions of ants were crawling on his face, making his scalp tingle. He suppressed the rage and chaos in his heart, operating with calmness and speed.
"The scene seen in the perception test machine has come true," Gua squinted, his heart filled with immense anger, he said to himself.
In his heart, everything about Xianxia, whether it was the people or some customs, was the same as the original world. Since meeting his father and regaining the original owner's memories, Gua had already considered Xianxia his hometown. He had also stated on more than one occasion that his heart belonged to Xianxia!
Xianxia was home, and now home was being attacked by enemies, like a sharp knife directly piercing the heart. That sharp knife felt like it had plunged into Gua's chest.
Looking at the destroyed buildings and the casualties among the Xianxia people, Gua's heart ached as if being sliced.
"Gua, devise a tactic," Qiao Weiwei said calmly yet with grief.
Massive offensive mechs like Khorn and Unfettered Red absolutely could not engage in chaotic battles within the city.
After Unfettered Red unleashed its ultimate move, an area of several hundred meters would turn into a high-temperature red zone. Regardless of whether it could kill enemies, civilians nearby would definitely die!
Khorn's abilities had not yet been tested, but they were definitely no less than Unfettered Red's.
Even using Wraith and the smaller Unfettered Red would inevitably harm civilians. These were armed mechs used for war.
Gua pondered calmly for a moment and said, "Qiao Weiwei, go outside the city to support the defending forces and block the enemy from entering the city. I will go and eliminate the enemies who have already entered the city."
"Can you handle it alone? The defending forces in the city are probably not many," Qiao Weiwei said with slight worry.
Gua responded with a cold "Mm" and instructed, "Go, be careful, and preferably find other teammates."
Unfettered Red quickly ascended into the sky, soaring over the city from an altitude of nearly ten thousand meters, flying towards the northwest of Xianxia City, which was the direction of the enemy's surprise entry.
To the southeast of the city, large numbers of civilians who had escaped, in groups of three to five hundred, spread out across the Gobi desert outside the city. The colorful clothes of the people made the originally reddish-yellow land appear exceptionally vibrant. It was like a healed wound on yellow skin, bruised and discolored.
Not long ago, they were peaceful and prosperous residents of Xianxia, but now they had become refugees fleeing in panic.
Some refugees were already fleeing further away, while others stopped and looked back at the magnificent Xianxia City.
Countless aerial vehicles also flew out of the city from all directions, escaping in all directions.
Once the aerial vehicles left the city, they would be unable to start due to insufficient energy after flying only a few hundred kilometers.
To the southeast of Xianxia City, within a range of several hundred kilometers, it would become the first home for the refugees after escaping the city.
The giant Khorn, as it flew over the aerial vehicle streams, suddenly disappeared in mid-air. Immediately afterward, several hundred meters ahead of its original position, another fully armed mech suddenly appeared, charging rapidly into the city.
On the ground and in the aerial vehicles, people were astonished by what technology this was.
But they all knew that this was Xianxia's army mech.
At this moment, any defending mech entering the city to fight would make people feel safe and happy.
The people cheered, vowing to defeat the invaders and defend Xianxia City!
Up to now, Gua had never tried to pilot Wraith into the city. The appearance of such a massive offensive weapon in a bustling city would surely cause panic.
Now, piloting Wraith, Gua felt that those skyscrapers and countless low-rise buildings seemed so fragile.
Entering the city from the southeast, Wraith initially encountered no enemy aircraft, only seeing crowds of fleeing people.
Whether in the air or on the ground, people were running wildly, darting between buildings, trying to evade the enemies behind them.
Xianxia City was several hundred kilometers wide. It would take Wraith half an hour to fly from east to west at full speed.
The enormous reflection of Wraith rapidly passed across the glass windows of the skyscrapers. Gua could still see people who had not escaped inside the buildings, peeking out from behind the glass, wondering what they were thinking. Perhaps some people preferred to die in their hometown.
A child, about five or six years old, was held by his father on their balcony, cheering towards Wraith.
People on the streets stopped their frantic escape when they saw Wraith flying past, hoping that this mech, not particularly aesthetically pleasing, would become the city's savior.
Faced with so many people's hopes, Gua naturally felt a surge of emotion, but war was relentless. He still hoped that people would leave this city, which was about to become a doomsday, as soon as possible.
After all, with his own strength alone, he could not defeat enemies numbering in the tens of thousands.
Unless... Gua suddenly thought of having replicated Liang Yuwei's giant cannon. That kind of weapon could only be unleashed in the open.
If there was a chance to unleash the power of the giant cannon again, it would surely decide the outcome with a single shot.
But currently, it seemed rather wishful thinking.
Wraith flew non-stop towards the northwest of the city. The radar suddenly displayed two white dots. Gua's heart turned cold as he quickly operated the mech.
Just as he rounded a skyscraper, two black enemy mechs suddenly appeared before him.
They were moving at high speed. The moment they faced each other, Wraith swung its beam sword, quickly dispatching the two enemy mechs.
The wreckage of the two mechs, broken into several pieces, trailed flames and smoke as they crashed into the building and then plummeted down along the glass facade.
People on the ground scrambled into buildings to avoid the falling steel debris.
Gua sighed. This was the danger of urban warfare; it not only destroyed the city but could also accidentally injure civilians.
But when facing the enemy, Gua could do nothing about it.
As Wraith, at an astonishing speed, dealt with the two enemy mechs, all the civilian spectators cheered with excitement!
Gua dared not delay. These two were likely vanguard scout mechs, responsible for reconnaissance and alarm.
Wraith burst forth with exhaust flames and rapidly ascended, soaring over the tops of the skyscrapers and flying towards the northwest.
From the sky, the entire city could be seen, making it easier to be spotted by enemy aircraft. This was precisely Gua's intention: to draw the enemy aircraft to attack him, which was easier than him finding them.
Ascending higher, with no towering skyscrapers obstructing his view, Gua could see the true state of the battle to the northwest of the city.
No wonder they said urban warfare was hellish.
The once towering skyscrapers were basically blown in half, their jagged, broken walls exposing bent steel reinforcement bars, looking terrifying and emitting billowing smoke.
The numerous dense low-rise buildings on the ground were virtually wiped out, with countless scorching flames raging wildly and smoke filling the air.
The entire northwestern district of Xianxia City seemed to have turned into scorched earth. The dark land was not filled with enemy troops, but with burnt-out ruins.
The defending ground forces were dispersed and gathered into small units, weaving and hiding between the ruins and buildings.
They used individual anti-mech surface-to-air missiles, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, self-propelled anti-mech beam cannons, and countless other types of counter-attack weapons of various sizes to attack the enemy in the sky.
Within those dilapidated skyscrapers, there were also considerable defensive forces, tenaciously resisting the Black Star enemy forces.
Dozens of unmanned ultra-high-speed aircraft swooped low towards the enemy lines, their trajectories erratic, exploding in mid-air into blue-white energy explosions.
These unmanned aircraft were effective weapons against mechs, faster than missiles, more powerful, and more expensive.
On the ground, spider-like anti-mech tanks leaped quickly between the low-rise buildings, crawling up building walls, or hiding beneath broken floor slabs, firing shells.
There were also some organized guerrilla warfare teams using their advantage of being easily concealed to constantly harass enemy aircraft.
And in the sky, it was basically a domain of smoke and black mechs.
The few Xianxia defending mechs were locked in fierce combat with enemy aircraft, but each one was surrounded by three to five Black Star enemy mechs.
Some defending forces were ganged up on and destroyed by Black Star enemy mechs, exploding into fireballs and falling towards the city.
Some dodged and evaded the enemy's pursuit at high speed.
Others, without hesitation, charged towards the enemy aircraft, seeking to take them down with them.
Gua remembered that the Xianxia National Defense Academy was located directly west of Xianxia City. He looked in that direction and indeed saw scattered mechs ascending from the academy's location to join the battle.
These were likely the students of the Xianxia National Defense Academy. With the city destroyed, as military mech pilots, they could not possibly stand idly by.
Even if their mechs were destroyed, as long as the mech pilots were alive, they would desperately crawl out of the cockpits and run back to the academy to pilot trainer aircraft and continue fighting.
Four Black Star enemy mechs, circling in the sky above, spotted the approaching Wraith and dived from high altitude, forming a two-two echelon attack formation.
Wraith executed a "falling leaf" maneuver in the air, its body extending to utilize air resistance to slow down, rapidly evading the enemy's first wave of attack, and then charging forward bravely with a burst of exhaust flames.
A move called [Blue Electric Wind] flashed by, instantly causing three of the four enemy mechs to explode.
The remaining enemy mech did not linger to fight but quickly flew towards the center of the Black Star army.
"I still can't use Khorn," Gua muttered to himself calmly. He saw on the ground, amidst the ruins and debris, fellow civilians still fleeing from the flames and wreckage.
Using a mass destruction mech at this time would undoubtedly be slaughtering compatriots.
It was imaginable, as an ordinary civilian, in this chaotic world, how terrified they must feel looking at the colossal war machines fighting in the sky.
If it were the Gua who had just transmigrated, he would have certainly protected Youyou with all his might and run out of this doomsday with her.
"Approximately three thousand enemy mechs are wreaking havoc in the northwestern district of Xianxia," Gua said grimly.
And at this moment, those few defending mechs seemed exceptionally precious.
He wondered how Fang Fei and the other classmates were doing.
Gua pushed aside distracting thoughts, his focus gradually sharpening.
With his full concentration activated, his mind held only one belief: kill the enemy!
Wraith unleashed even brighter exhaust flames from its back and fearlessly charged into the Black Star enemy formation.