by <unknown>
The other officers of the Fifth Fleet were beaming with joy. Without the restriction of military rules, they would've burst out into laughter a long time ago.
Shangguan Ce's face was as solemn as usual. He remained still as if a statue.
Suddenly, a cold brightness shined in his eyes, as he sensed something and turned his head to the few pictures on the left bottom corner of the light beam.
The pictures there had been captured by the ten Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles that had been searching in the southeast area.
Abrupt changes were happening in the pictures!
In the depth of the forest, a gigantic fireball rose up slowly with earsplitting noises.
All the pictures shivered with the explosion. Twisted streaks appeared on them.
"Jamming magical equipment!"
Everyone in the commanding center exclaimed. They immediately shifted their attention to this previously unremarkable area.
At first, they did not understand why Ning Feng had deployed ten Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles to search the place.
Now, they realized that Ning Feng's instincts were truly astonishing!
Jamming magical equipment mostly released special metal powder after it exploded, which would corrupt the control chip of other magical equipment and impair it briefly.
All the pictures were full of streaks and flakes.
Actions of the Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle and the beast puppets were immediately dragged down.
"Huala!"
One of the pictures captured the scene of a black, hideous crystal suit rising up from a muddy pond.
The magical equipment that the crystal suit was holding in hand startled everyone.
"What is that?"
Taking a deep breath, Li Yao locked onto a Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle that was charging at him with his burning soul.
Its speed, angle and trace had all been taken into consideration, before he calculated the best direction of shooting.
Two crystal cannons had flipped up on his shoulder, ready to fire at any moment.
The steel animal in his arms were roaring in a low voice out of bloodthirst.
Triple-headed Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun!
It was Li Yao's self-made magical equipment for remote attacks!
Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun was a common long-range attack magical equipment for crystal suits, armed shuttles, and crystal tanks.
Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun was a deadly weapon refined based on the common Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Guns, but with a wider caliber, a longer barrel and a more advanced and fully upgraded attack rune array.
Generally speaking, only heavy crystal suits, siege artilleries, or crystal warships would have the Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun installed.
But Li Yao felt that it was not good enough. He refined three Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Guns into one, and then nurtured it repetitively for several months by Blood Baptism. In the end, he finally crafted this Triple-headed Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun which was directly linked with his blood and soul.
Remote shooting had always been Li Yao's weakness.
Now, with the furious firepower of the super Vulcan Machine Gun, he could make up for his deficiency as much as possible.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
After months of Blood Baptism, the super Vulcan Machine Gun was almost part of his body now.
With a telepathic thought, three lines of bullets darted out from the machine gun and formed a net of destruction together with the ferocious spiritual energy fired from the crystal cannons.
The Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle never expected that Li Yao would dare to attack aggressively.
Besides, the flight system of the shuttle had been under inference, which limited its dodging ability.
Li Yao had been waiting for the perfect moment to shoot for too long to let it run away so easily.
"Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!"
Bullets and spiritual energy rained upon the spiritual shield of the Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle.
Under the savage attack of the super Vulcan Machine Gun, the spiritual shield of the shuttle broke up half a second later like an eggshell being hit by a giant hammer.
The humming sound from the Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle was louder than ever. It turned around and tried to run away, only to be bitten by the haunting fiery snake behind.
Several anti-gravity rune arrays and power rune arrays were blown to pieces immediately. The shuttle fell into the forest with a long exhaust flame.
Many trees inside the forest crumpled. Black smoke billowed everywhere.
This was the first Vicious Bee Armed Shuttle to be shot down since the beginning of the battle.
As a result, Li Yao was completely exposed and had been locked onto by the enemies.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"
The remaining nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles sent out flying swords which turned into dozens of colorful lasers in the pouring storm and charged at him with deafening noises.
Li Yao bit his lips hard. The brilliance inside his eyes was even brighter than the lightning in the sky.
The super Vulcan Machine Gun roared nonstop. Almost twenty flying swords were blown to pieces before they were able to reach their target. The rest of the flying swords were interfered with by the bullets from the gun and missed their target, booming violently around him and splashing pebbles and mud to dozens of meters high.
Li Yao didn't even bother to look back. He continued on firing like a crazy devil.
Nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles dispersed smartly and drove the beast puppets to surround Li Yao from the flanks.
Two Mystic Wolves appeared above the waterfall over Li Yao's head.
Three Electric Whip Teethed Vipers sneaked close under the soil quietly like earthworms.
Two Shrieking Bats were fluttering frantically in the sky, unleashing harsh acoustic waves that were meant to distract Li Yao's attention from his target.
"Chi—"
As the Mystic Wolves and the Electric Whip Teethed Snake lunged at Li Yao at the same time, they were all caught by weird electric arcs that appeared in the air out of nowhere and shocked into dizziness.
Li Yao had set up a circle of Silk Landmines.
Such magical equipment was a metal thread that was even thinner than hair, which was barely distinguishable when floating in the air under the cover of dark night and raging storm.
But with a telepathic thought, it could unleash high-voltage electric current momentarily. Even if it could not wreck the beast puppets instantly, they would still be paralyzed for a very short time.
That was enough.
Triple-headed Heavy Six-Barrel Vulcan Machine Gun firing at fixed targets at a close distance was a complete one-sided slaughter.
One second later, all of the beast puppets were blown into metal scraps that were smaller than fingernails.
Li Yao put the Vulcan Machine Gun on his back hurriedly, jumped out and ran away.
"Hum! Hum!"
The other nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles were too awed by his brutal behavior just now to come close. They hovered above his head and released more flying swords.
Dozens of beast puppets flooded in from all directions.
Controlling the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, Li Yao performed small-scale dodging movements.
After a series of dazzling actions, all the flying swords passed by him without hitting their target. The naturalness made it impossible to tell that it was the cheapest MP crystal suit in the federation.
In complete silence, everyone in the command center held their breath and watched Li Yao's show.
Ren Xingbei's relieved face was tightened once again.
A Mystic Wolf flashed out from the bushes and charged at Li Yao while the crystal cannons on its body were firing nonstop.
Li Yao kept the same speed without dodging. His spiritual shield took all the cannon fire, while his battle saber was unsheathed and cut the Mystic Wolf
in half from head to tail.
"Hiss! Hiss!"
Two Electric Whip Teethed Vipers dashed out from darkness and tied his ankles insidiously.
Although they were stomped into pieces the moment they were discovered, the high-voltage electric current that they unleashed before their death still decimated the power rune arrays on the legs of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Li Yao's speed plummeted immediately.
The encirclement made up by Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles and beast puppets drew closer and closer.
Li Yao's body suddenly blinked, before it vanished into thin air.
Three Mystic Wolves rushed to the place where he disappeared, only to discover a hole behind a rock where dense moss had grown.
Dozens of beast puppets immediately crammed into the cave and followed the traces of Li Yao closely.
The nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles hovered in the high above, monitoring the changes in the thousands of square meters nearby.
In the meantime, the information of the previous combat had been sent to Tide Berserker.
"The third rabbit's teeth are rather sharp!"
Ning Feng smiled and triggered his telepathic thought.
Two Taiyi Lightning Railguns turned their directions and aimed at southeast.
Four fully-charged Earthshaking Ordnance Penetrators were about to be launched, too!
Chapter 327: Unexpected Return |
"BOOM!"
A big explosion erupted inside the cave that Li Yao had just entered.
Furious flames surged out of the cave and rose up to the sky.
Then, the ground collapsed. The entrance part of the cave sank.
The dozens of beast puppets were not prepared for this. Most of them had been blown to pieces on the spot. The rest of them were paralyzed and deeply buried under the ground.
In the command center, one picture after another turned to black.
The crystal bombs that Li Yao had installed in the entrance of the cave had finished a large batch of beast puppets very easily.
As for himself, he had gone down a branch inside the cave and reached the other side of the mountain.
This underground cave extended to all directions and had seven exits in total, which was also why Li Yao had decided to set up traps here.
On Tide Berserker, Ning Feng squinted. Dangerous brightness was shining in his eyes.
Four Earthshaking Ordnance Penetrators roared and rushed southeast almost at the speed of sound.
Although it was at a subsonic speed, the dozens of kilometers of distance in between were still covered swiftly.
"Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha!"
The Earthshaking Ordnance Penetrators revolved rapidly and drilled to the depth of the mountain.
The sound of rocks crumbling and drill getting deep reached Li Yao's ears clearly, which made his head dizzy and his heart beating fast.
He didn't expect for Ning Feng's counterattack to be as fast and precise. The routes and angles of the four Earthshaking Ordnance Penetrators had been carefully adjusted, so that they were caging him from all directions.
Li Yao roared and accelerated. He sprinted down the narrow and rugged cave to the closest exit.
His crystal suit hit rocks heavily, with sparks dancing nonstop. But Li Yao had no time to bother with that.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Four dull explosions seemed to have taken place in the back of his head. Hot waves flooded in like a tsunami.
The caves behind him collapsed one section after another.
The blast finally reached and swallowed him.
Li Yao felt as if a top expert in martial arts had kicked him in the back brutally.
Despite the double protection from the crystal suit and the mustard suit, he still vomited blood. His spine was in such pain that he felt it had fractured.
"Ahhhhh!"
Li Yao's eyes bulged. He opened his mouth to clear his lung in case the blast would damage his inner organs. Finally, before the caves were completely ash, he rushed out of the exit.
"Pooof!"
A large cluster of dust flowed out together with him.
It looked as if the mountain had farted him out.
The Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles hovering in the sky immediately discovered him.
Nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles harassed him at a distance neither too far away nor too close. They sent out their flying swords while they transmitted the image to Tide Berserker.
This time, Ning Feng added another two Taiyi Lightning Railguns.
Together with the previous two, four Taiyi Lighting Railguns in total were aimed at Li Yao simultaneously.
Although they were dozens of kilometers away from each other, Li Yao felt that he was tangled by static electricity. His body was numb, his hair was standing up, and his fingernails were emitting cracking noises.
"Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!"
Four lightning balls flashed through the sky after dozens of kilometers and exploded near him one after another, like four purple, upside-down bowls that covered the forest, establishing four terrible forbidden zones of destruction.
Ning Feng truly deserved his title as a formidable Warship Connoisseur. Although he was dozens of kilometers away, the first salvo he commanded had hit within a hundred meters of the target.
Li Yao didn't look at any of it. He brought his speed to maximum and zigzagged in the forest like a black laser.
Flying swords, crystal cannons, Taiyi Lightning Railguns… All kinds of powerful magical equipment blasted colorful fireballs around him.
The mountain was shaking. The forest was burning.
Many a time, the cracking lightning balls nearly brushed past him.
The scorching fireballs even covered him several times.
But still, Li Yao waved his battle saber and slashed the fireballs into halves, treading a path of blood and fire!
The gripping hunting and escaping silenced the entire command center.
Cold sweat was appearing on everyone's forehead. Their eyes were stinging, but they were too focused to blink.
At this moment, many people finally realized that Li Yao's victory in the Flying Crystal race half a month ago was not entirely based on luck, and that the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was indeed a strong crystal suit that was reliable, trustworthy, and field-tested.
"Shangguan, is the Exo of this crystal suit really a Refinement Stage Cultivator?
"You didn't ask an ace Exo in the Building Foundation Stage to wear it, did you?"
Ren Xingbei frowned and glared at Shangguan Ce.
Shangguan Ce's face remained unchanged. He picked up the teacup and drank the tea nice and easily.
But Li Yao was not as comfortable as he seemed to be.
If there were only the nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles chasing him, he would be confident enough to fly into the sky and blow them up one by one.
However, the haunting Taiyi Lightning Railguns were his biggest threat. If they shot him precisely, the spiritual shield of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit would be shattered immediately. His overall combat ability would be undermined by at least thirty percent.
Moreover, inching ever closer, the Heaven Splitters would be fully charged after ten minutes or so and ready to be launched once again.
Li Yao knew that the Heaven Splitters had two attack modes.
One of the two modes was to focus the spiritual energy on one point and pierce it.
The other mode was suppressive fire. The spiritual energy would cover an area of around one square kilometers and demolish everything inside.
If he could not get rid of his pursuers before the Heaven Splitters were fully charged, he would be screwed!
Li Yao roared and accelerated to the peak of a mountain.
Nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles followed him closely. Lightning balls drilled into the ground behind him and exploded where his feet had been just a moment ago, making him feel that he was driving a boat on a savaging sea.
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bsp; Finally, Li Yao arrived at the peak of the mountain.
In the front was a giant waterfall that was thousands of meters high. The dragon-like waterfall was brushing the rocks below with earsplitting noises that were even louder than the thunders in the sky.
"Crack!"
A soul-stirring lighting dashed down from the sky.
Over the cliff, dozens of black balls floating on the water suddenly exploded, releasing black fog as thick as glue which covered the hundreds of meters of area nearby.
"It's the Black Venom Smoke!"
The Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles pulled themselves up hurriedly.
Black Venom Smoke Grenade was a kind of magical equipment similar to ordinary smoke grenades, only much more dangerous and unpredictable. Not only would its smoke last much longer, it would corrupt other magical equipment to some extent too.
Li Yao had selected this waterfall as part of his escape route long time ago. He had buried a lot of Black Venom Smoke Grenades here.
"Shua!"
While the vision of the Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles was blocked by the Black Venom Smoke, Li Yao jumped off the cliff down to the turbulent river hundreds of meters below him.
When the nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles finally broke out of the interferences of the Black Venom Smoke, they no longer had visual on Li Yao.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
The nine Vicious Bee Armed Shuttles immediately activated all the probe magical equipment on board.
Soon, they discovered that deep down in the river almost a thousand meters away, a metal object whose temperature was slightly higher than the river's temperature was sneaking forward at a high speed.
The river was the trunk stream of the water system in the southeast corner of the battle zone. A few hundred meters ahead, there would be countless tributaries leading to various directions.
On Tide Berserker, Ning Feng's face couldn't look more awful. Two hooks seemed to be flying out of his eyes to dozens of kilometers away and snatching up Li Yao from the depth of the river.
Although he was a Warship Connoisseur, his computational ability was still limited.
Just now, he focused much of his attention on controlling Taiyi Lightning Railguns and Earthshaking Ordnance Penetrators to attack Li Yao. Therefore, the pressure that he imposed on the Mournful Mist Battlesuit and the Sword Torrent Battlesuit was somewhat undermined.
