novelraw Chapter 107 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Chapter 107 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Jiang Zhongyu had performed spiritual healing for many people.
As He Lanqi's student, he began studying analyst courses very early. He had performed spiritual healing on countless awakened ones, and this wasn't his first time conducting spiritual healing.
When his spiritual domain was disordered, his teacher He Lanqi had often organized it for him. Those were possibly Jiang Zhongyu's most disrespectful moments as a student, when his energy sometimes could directly hit He Lanqi in the face.
Spiritual healing was a serious offense to any awakened one.
But in the Red Moon Snow Plain, amidst the ice and snow, with the sound of lightning storms mixed in the raging blizzard.
All his perceptions were covered by an extremely vital energy, with a scent of spring warmth and lush vegetation in his breath.
This warm energy wave meandered, outside his spiritual domain. The moment it touched the spiritual domain, Jiang Zhongyu almost couldn't control his nervousness.
Chen Sui kicked open the mech cockpit, her warm palm touching his forehead. As Jiang Zhongyu's hair strands swayed, they would tickle her palm. Chen Sui lowered her eyes, examining him up close for the first time.
Some on the StarNet said Jiang Zhongyu was a "beautiful sick person," which was undoubtedly true, but his bone structure was upright, without any soft beauty, adding a touch of formidable aggression to his delicacy. Even now, with a somewhat sickly paleness, one could still see the fighting spirit in his brow.
Chen Sui's focus, however, wasn't on his features, but on Jiang Zhongyu's spiritual domain. This analyst was most famous for his sensitive energy perception.
The moment she probed into his spiritual domain, Chen Sui mobilized the energy of her spiritual domain to cover it. The alien space directly isolated her energy, not producing any sense of invasion at all.
Jiang Zhongyu was still somewhat nervous, but during the long wait, he unconsciously relaxed. He didn't even have time to feel the comfort of his spiritual domain energy being organized before his eyes slowly closed together.
"Guard the surroundings, your analyst's situation is somewhat complex," Chen Sui's voice came from the barrier.
Several Ink Hills members anxiously stepped forward, then saw the thin Zhu Jing Fu analyst supporting the tall, long-haired young man twice her size with one hand. Her palm supported Jiang Zhongyu, leaning against the mech leg.
Chen Sui had anticipated this situation, purposely parking the mech close for him to lean against.
After probing into Jiang Zhongyu's spiritual domain, Chen Sui finally understood why his spiritual perception was so sensitive.
It was the precision and method of energy control. Jiang Zhongyu didn't check energy fluctuations by sending out energy signals.
Instead, he anchored same-attribute energy factors to abnormal signals.
This method was somewhat similar to Chen Sui's simulation of energy bodies in two-person teaming, simply put, turning all same-attribute energy into her eyes.
In the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain, Chen Sui had made energy markers surrounding the island.
Now, she thought, she could also try this kind of energy perception in the future, perhaps more precise for energy body positioning. Refined further, it could even locate energy crystals.
She pondered this while continuing to input energy into Jiang Zhongyu without pause.
Several Ink Hills members stood guard outside the barrier. As the energy fluctuations inside gradually receded and the signal weakened, the barrier seemed to flicker a few times before dispersing around.
Jiang Zhongyu slowly awakened from the immersive energy, his deep black eyelashes trembling twice as he opened his eyes.
The first thing he saw was the aurora lingering in midair, followed by the girl with two small buns on her shoulders.
"Oh, you're awake."
Her tone was utterly calm.
Jiang Zhongyu only managed to see her back before witnessing the thin girl in black gold combat suit leap along the mech's skeleton a few times, her bouncing force remarkably strong, directly slipping into the extended cockpit. Soon, the black gold mech in front of him began to move.
Jiang Zhongyu had just struggled to rise when he felt a shadow above his head.
The black gold mech's hand scooped him up from the snow, delivering him to the outside of the ink-blue mech cockpit.
"Go in?"
Chen Sui figured his physical condition wasn't strong, unlike her effortless entry, plus having just undergone spiritual healing, he was still somewhat weak.
Therefore, she took the first step, also to express her friendliness, very kindly sending Jiang Zhongyu to the outside of the mech cockpit.
This gesture was somewhat unexpected for Jiang Zhongyu.
He wasn't actually that weak, but given the analyst's goodwill, he still thanked her, then piloted the mech, walking out of the energy barrier range to report his safety to his teammates.
Jipuna happened to witness his analyst being scooped up by the Zhu Jing Fu analyst. He approached Zhao Jingzhi, but thought of something else: "I heard the Zhu Jing Fu analyst is incredibly strong, lifting their Zhu Jing Fu soldier like lifting a chick. Be a bit quick-witted when fighting."
Don't get lifted up, Jipuna scanned around, seemingly capturing the lens, but with the flying snow dust and dim sky, he couldn't detect the location of the live broadcast equipment.
But this didn't prevent Jipuna from maintaining his idol image.
Zhao Jingzhi's mouth twitched, shrugging with a snort.
He wasn't Puluo; he, Zhao Jingzhi, was determined to be the toughest man among the five schools. The analyst might not necessarily be able to lift him.
Jipuna didn't hear his light snort.
Chen Sui followed the Ink Hills school team all the way to the main base station. Due to energy replenishment and Jiang Zhongyu's improved condition, Zhang Yingjie directly changed course temporarily, not heading to the nearby secondary base station.
At this moment, several scattered Zhu Jing Fu members had also found teammates nearby.
Xie Chunshi's snow vehicle raced through the snow, the person sitting in the back seat could barely complete his sentences due to the wind.
"Wait, Commander, I haven't seen you drive aircraft so dashingly before. You're speeding, bro, how did you get your driver's license?!!"
Zhou Chen was startled by his snow drifting driving style, his mouth continuously muttering nonstop.
Xie Chunshi's brows were tightly knit, a flash of worry crossing his face.
With the barrier Chen Sui established for him, the negative effects caused by the surrounding ice-attributed storm invasion were already very weak, but Xie Chunshi still inevitably felt the invading energy signal, and this ice-attributed energy was growing stronger.
This was a very abnormal situation. It was already the Aurora state; according to the general situation of the Red Moon Snow Plain, the ice-attributed energy should be dissipating.
Xie Chunshi didn't think this was a precursor to the Aurora state's transformation. He thought of something more serious.
For instance, if it was now a contest between ice attributes and lightning storms, then the growth of ice attributes had only one reason: the lightning storm was also strengthening, with even stronger suppression of ice attributes, presenting the Red Moon Snow Plain as being in the Aurora state.
If that was really the case, Zhou Chen's situation might not be good.
"Say less, how do you feel?"
The Team Leader's voice was carried to Zhou Chen's ears by the howling cold wind rushing past from both sides of the snow vehicle.
He was silent for a second. The energy surge in his mind was very intense. If not for the analyst's preemptive spiritual healing, Zhou Chen's core crystal fissure might already be leaking energy now.
He couldn't help but clench his fists, nails digging into his palms, silently thinking that this seat wasn't as good as the one on Gu Qinxue's car, which at least had a felt cushion, so he didn't have to grab his own hand.
Damn, it really hurts.
But in front, he gritted his back teeth, smiling and saying: "Commander, everything's fine except my forehead's a bit cool. Can we drive slower? You're directly ramming into energy bodies!!"
While Zhou Chen was speaking, he saw Xie Chunshi's energy spreading outside the snow vehicle. Upon seeing an energy body group, he directly accelerated through them, ice-attributed energy covering the front of the snow vehicle as he sped through.
A layer of frost spread out.
The moment the snow vehicle hit the energy bodies, Xie Chunshi's eyes fixed, ice-attributed energy concentrated, directly freezing all the energy bodies in front, leaving a pillar of solid ice standing in place.
The snow vehicle accelerated, the engine roaring, lifting a series of snow waves from the passing snow ground.
Directly charging toward the solid ice, leaving Zhou Chen dumbfounded.
He discovered that his teammate was also skilled at showing off.
Previously, with Chen Sui in front, he hadn't noticed Xie Chunshi had this talent. Now seeing the young man's expressionless face, accelerating the snow vehicle into solid ice, that calm yet indifferent posture looked very much like a master.
Zhou Chen silently nodded, learned something!
But just as he was swaying his body along, his spiritual domain suddenly surged violently. The aurora in the sky swayed, and Zhou Chen bit down harder, his nails digging deeper, involuntarily drawing in a cold breath.
Fortunately, at this moment, the snow vehicle crashed into the solid ice, a huge "clang" explosion sound, accompanied by the crisp sound of the ice layer cracking, prevented anyone from hearing his cry of pain.
"Bang—"
The snow vehicle passed through the solid ice ahead, directly bringing out a layer of shattered ice chips, gleaming with azure light under the aurora.
The snow vehicle landed on the other side of the snow surface, propelled with acceleration, spurting out an extremely long energy stream, rapidly passing by.
Zhou Chen instinctively looked back, his peripheral vision catching the ice wall completely shattering along with web-like cracks.
The energy bodies shattered too, energy crystals falling onto the snow surface.
Zhou Chen ground his teeth, forcing a smile: "Commander, I never knew you were this fierce?"
Xie Chunshi glanced back at him. The awakened one's sensitivity to energy, though not comparable to an analyst, could still feel that something was wrong with Zhou Chen.
Just as they were traversing through energy body groups on the snow plain, they saw a gold mech in the distant snow, rapidly advancing forward by stepping on something.
—Saint Laurent ran into the two Zhu Jing Fu members.
On the other side of the Red Moon Snow Plain.
Gu Qinxue and Puluo drove the snow vehicles, their target the main base station, speeding along. Flames wrapped around the two people and two cars, the high temperature almost melting all the snow on the ground.
"Going straight to the main base station to meet up?"
Puluo drove closer to ask.
Gu Qinxue controlled the snow vehicle speeding along, her eyes looking toward the distant snow surface.
The restraint device had been broken loose in the blizzard, with five people struck by the storm, chaotically blown away. Gu Qinxue was originally pulled together with Zhou Chen, with Xie Chunshi and Puluo's mechs crashing into them, directly disrupting Zhu Jing Fu's formation. Looking at the situation now, the four of them should not be far apart.
Only Chen Sui—
"Go to the main base station first, how's the team channel signal?"
Puluo shook his head, his voice somewhat blurred by the fierce wind: "Still poor contact, the signal around is a mess. It should get better when the lightning storm stabilizes."
He kept the mech signal on.
"Alright, we and the Commander should not be far apart, directly go to the main base station. We might meet them on the way," Gu Qinxue raised her voice, while inwardly feeling somewhat worried.
The analyst's storm direction was clearly different; looking now, the distance wouldn't be too close. They could only meet at the main base station.
The speed of the two's snow vehicles became increasingly fast, snow layers being lifted layer by layer, the distance quickly widening. Under the swaying aurora, they soon drew out an energy line.
Compared to Zhu Jing Fu's speed, other academies were somewhat slower. Saint Laurent's gun sled finally extended to Na Luo River and Xitisi.
The two teams stepped on guns, sliding on the snow surface, with spirit body energy pushing the mechs. This was where wind-attributed awakened ones showed their advantage.
Meanwhile, Chen Sui, following Ink Hills, walked down from the ruins. Zhang Yingjie looked at the black gold mech climbing out from the snow depths: "How's it going?"
Chen Sui shook her head. After leaving White Soto Tower City, it was really difficult to find as many mechanical parts as in the abandoned factory. Along the way, she had only gathered a little, but couldn't find any flight device drive components at all.
Hearing this, Zhang Yingjie's expression dimmed somewhat, but he quickly adjusted: "It's alright, it's not too far now, we can get there in two days."
By the time Ink Hills found a factory, it was already deep night. According to normal time flow, it was now the sixth day of the Red Moon Snow Plain, the second day since Chen Sui and Ink Hills met.
The Aurora state's lightning storm had risen to a new height. Looking out, one could even see purple lightning flashing when the passing cold wind and snow layers rubbed together.
When the Aurora state energy accumulated again, the lightning storm outbreak wouldn't be far off.
"We might not have time. I'll try to make a simple transport, even a sled would be faster than us walking like this."
Seeing her walk into the factory interior, several Ink Hills members also quickly searched around for usable mechanical parts. In no time, the ground around Chen Sui was filled with a pile of scrap metal.
[After watching Zhu Jing Fu for so long without noticing, now looking back, Zhou Chen does have something]
[More than something, Lucky Player, you think we're joking?]
[Without the Lucky Player, not a single drive component can be found, not even enough to assemble a snow vehicle shell]
[I must say, Ink Hills has been quite smooth all the way through]
[Their analyst has fully recovered his spirit]
[How could he not? Energy bodies hadn't even approached before your Sui charged out, directly wrecking them]
[Your Sui's energy body reporting is so detailed, just short of pointing the gun tip at it. Jipuna directly got an energy crystal with only 10% loss, making the kid so happy]
[Chen Sui seems a bit irritable these days, I've already seen her tear apart several energy bodies]
[All the Zhu Jing Fu members are irritable, right? Gu Qinxue is even racing snow vehicles, and Xie Chunshi—well, no less fierce. Though I took a look, why has he tied up Zhou Chen?]
[Damn, what's going on with Zhu Jing Fu? Zhou Chen's lightning storm energy hit Xie Chunshi, internal strife?]
[No, his energy was triggered by the aurora, this guy's energy is leaking out!!]
[Didn't they meet Saint Laurent? Can't Xue Yaoyao give him a spiritual healing?]
[Now you know why he's tied up, right? Saint Laurent's four people plus Xie Chunshi, five people restraining him, can't hold him back. He almost blasted Xue Yaoyao two miles away. If not tied up, it would be worse]
[Good grief, Xue Yaoyao said, Chen Sui has spoiled you, and the orange one smiled while saying Chen Sui is indeed his good teammate]
[Zhou Chen, stop shouting, damn, even a big man like me can't bear it anymore]
[Chen Sui is anxious here too, my sis hasn't relaxed her eyebrows once this whole journey]
[Ah, Ink Hills is still far away. No wonder Chen Sui wants to make transport. Walking like this, even with mech propulsion, it would take too long, not to mention energy pipes can't sustain their propulsion]
In the abandoned factory, Chen Sui was quickly flashing through the assembly process of mechanical components, but because she couldn't find a suitable drive, she could only make the simplest sled boards.
While several Ink Hills members were searching around, Zhao Jingzhi quickly walked over. He looked at the abandoned parts around, striking up a conversation with Chen Sui: "By the way, when we passed through White Soto Tower City earlier, I picked up some things. See if you can use them?"
Ink Hills had also traversed White Soto Tower City. Coincidentally, Zhao Jingzhi, stimulated by Zhu Jing Fu's cutting of the Pure Blood Tree in the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea Domain, felt he should learn from them, thinking he should take more of anything that looked good.
Just right, he found an energy-driven device.
Just right, his fire-attributed energy was compatible, a driving device specifically for exploration robots used in energy fields.
He took it out from his spatial button. Chen Sui looked at the familiar drive, "B37-2953, tool-type energy-controlled robot core?"
Zhao Jingzhi was dizzy from the string of codes, but as a student with near-Star Ring elite education, he immediately reacted, instinctively matching this string of codes with a robot form.
"Wow, you've got something, you can tell from just looking at this?"
Zhao Jingzhi exclaimed, feeling that Chen Sui really had some skill.
"Is this useful? I saw that I have fire-attributed energy, thought I might learn a bit sometime, might come in handy at some point."
Zhao Jingzhi honestly admitted, feeling somewhat embarrassed.
Chen Sui looked at the auxiliary robot drive equipment, then at the parts on the ground: "How many did you take?"
"Just one, the others were severely eroded. This one looked not too bad, usable, so I took it."
Zhao Jingzhi figured this bad habit of picking up junk, also learned from Zhu Jing Fu, had actually come in handy now.
Chen Sui nodded, an idea flashing through her mind. She turned back, looking at Zhao Jingzhi: "You're fire-attributed? Does your Ink Hills have enough feeding agents?"
Zhao Jingzhi suddenly had a bad feeling, but the arrow was already nocked. He felt a chill down his back, with no retreat possible. Stiffly, he nodded: "Enough, there's enough, but, does this thing consume a lot of energy?"
Zhao Jingzhi couldn't help but worry. If his spirit body's energy drive became too intense, he would burn along with it!
Chen Sui, seeing his stammering, immediately understood his thinking. She reached out to pat the ink-blue mech, considerately saying: "I understand, don't worry, I'll have your analyst prepare water for you when the time comes."
If he catches fire, just splash water on himself.
Zhao Jingzhi wasn't comforted at all; his expression became even gloomier. He tugged a bit, somewhat regretfully wanting to withdraw the driving device.
Chen Sui raised an eyebrow, one mech hand gripping the other side. Seeing the ink-blue mech tugging, finding it hard to pull out, she immediately used both hands, using all her strength, still unable to extract the device from the black gold mech's hand.
Zhao Jingzhi stood up with a swoosh, partly marveling that he knew taking out this thing would lead to this situation, partly thinking, the Zhu Jing Fu analyst's strength is really great, no wonder she can lift their Zhu Jing Fu soldier with one hand.
"What are you doing?"
Zhang Yingjie returned with a pile of parts, seeing the soldier standing in front, the big guy like a frosted eggplant, his entire mech covered with a few large characters.
—My life is over.
The gaze behind the sensor glasses looked at the black gold mech sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Chen Sui saw them return from searching the factory, nodded, holding the driving device, gesturing to Zhang Yingjie: "Your soldier got a good thing, should help us get there faster."
She said, immediately getting to work, and also reminded Zhang Yingjie: "Oh, this drive is fire-attributed energy, your soldier seems to have trouble accepting it, maybe— can you comfort him?"
Chen Sui thought of the scene of Zhao Jingzhi's fire-attributed energy bursting, suppressing a laugh.
Zhang Yingjie immediately understood, nodding, looking at the mech shrinking by the factory's load-bearing pillar, walking up to pat him, his voice reaching Chen Sui's ears: "Little Zhi, it's alright, Little Yu will be beside you then, won't let you burn."
"That's right, even if you burn, it's fine," agile attacker Jipuna fanned the flames: "Life passes quickly, bear with it and it'll be over. You definitely won't be the first person whose energy burns their butt red."
Zhao Jingzhi looked back at Zhang Yingjie, his eyes darkening.
Then he looked at Jipuna, not feeling comforted at all, instead somewhat sadly covering his head: "Ah, I don't dare imagine. This is live broadcast, everyone will see me roasting a giant prawn, along with myself."
"Hahahahaha," Chen Sui really couldn't hold it in anymore, laughing hard, her legs propelling her to turn her back to Zhao Jingzhi. Feeling the soldier's somewhat resentful gaze on her back, Chen Sui was still laughing so hard she shook, her back trembling.
Several Ink Hills members were also suppressing their laughter. If observed carefully, all the ink-blue mechs were trembling.
Chen Sui knew the Ink Hills soldier's spirit body was special.
His spiritual force giant prawn was very typical in its path of gathering energy in the body and then exploding it outward.
This meant that with prolonged high energy gathering, the giant prawn's energy would first roast itself, then Zhao Jingzhi's spiritual domain.
This guy, after each prolonged battle, could carry a ten-mile fragrant roasted prawn smell, along with a bright red face. In more unfortunate cases, he could directly combust in the cockpit.
Thus, his combat suit was also made of Ink Hills' special fireproof and flame-resistant material.
"Sorry about that, Little Zhi," Xin Ming consoled weakly.
Jiang Zhongyu looked at Chen Sui, who was still shaking with laughter. She seemed to be imagining that scene, her hands still quickly cleaning parts. He also hooked the corner of his mouth, following Xin Ming's lead: "I should be able to extinguish your fire in time, preventing you from burning up in public."
Zhao Jingzhi's eyes were lifeless, with only one thought at this moment: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have picked up fire-attributed stuff. If it had been water-attributed, thunder-attributed, or wind-attributed, right?"
"Thunder-attributed, wind-attributed? We don't have awakened ones of those types here. Water-attributed? Little Yu would drive, but let's not. Little Yu like that, if you make him drive, what kind of person are you?"
Jipuna broke Zhao Jingzhi's self-rationalization.
By the time he truly came to terms with it, Chen Sui had already completed the transport tool overnight. The driving device had been made into a snow motorcycle-style transport tool, with several sled ties at the back.
Simply put, Zhao Jingzhi would ride the snow vehicle, pulling the remaining five people along.
When Chen Sui said this, Zhao Jingzhi's face strained into a smile. He looked at the black gold mech, "So, if I catch fire, can you keep up to extinguish it?"
Chen Sui explained, seemingly mercilessly: "Did you see? I specially made elastic ties, precisely to maintain distance from you, in case your fire burns us."
Zhao Jingzhi: ?
Several Ink Hills members heard Chen Sui was teasing him. Seeing Zhao Jingzhi squat down like a self-conscious mushroom, they found it quite amusing.
The elastic ties were specifically for handling his fire situation. If Zhao Jingzhi suddenly stopped, they could immediately be pulled over to extinguish the fire.
Ink Hills rode this hastily assembled crude transport tool created by Chen Sui, racing toward the base station.
When Zhao Jingzhi's energy drove, the giant prawn's phantom flickered with red light. When the fire energy around accumulated to a certain degree, the giant prawn began emitting the scorched food aroma.
Ink Hills was already accustomed to this smell, but this was Chen Sui's first time smelling it up close.
When she captured the delicious aroma spreading in the air, her nose twitched, looking along the wind direction, she saw the giant prawn red enough to illuminate the path ahead.
"Brother," Chen Sui's voice sounded in the temporary channel established with Ink Hills. While gripping the sled pole, she was also tearing open a nutrition liquid seal. Just as Zhang Yingjie thought she had detected something and was already on alert, he heard the sound of Chen Sui swallowing nutrition liquid on the other side, then saying: "You smell a bit too good."
Zhao Jingzhi gritted his teeth, fire-attributed energy sticking around him, the cockpit extremely hot, completely unafraid of the Red Moon Snow Plain's ice attributes: "You're heartless. I'm being your ox and horse pulling the cart, and that's all you can say?"
Chen Sui took another gulp of nutrition liquid, smelling the fire-roasted fresh prawn aroma, taking a deep breath, sighing softly: "So that's what prawn smells like."
She pondered, no wonder Chen Jia liked it.
It smelled really good.
Too bad she was born too late, only seeing prawn-like mutants, never seeing normal prawns.
Jiang Zhongyu, beside her, heard this sound and instinctively looked over at her.
Through the black gold mech, he couldn't see Chen Sui's expression, but information about her unconsciously flashed through his mind.
Ahead, Zhao Jingzhi had originally planned to joke around more, but hearing this, his eyes flickered, exhaling hot air while saying: "What's the big deal? After the competition ends, come with us from Ink Hills. Brother will take you to eat. It's just prawns."
"You should have joined us to play when we were in the Dawn Star Cluster before, Chen Sui. You don't know, the prawns in Dawn Star are this big."
He deliberately animated the atmosphere, gesturing. The snow vehicle in front was sliding down a slope, bouncing as he let go.
"Hey hey, can you drive properly? How did you get your driver's license!"
Jipuna jumped up, carrying the sled board over a huge rock on the snow surface, warning Zhao Jingzhi.
He reacted, hurriedly controlling the vehicle's heading, but the slope had an inclined arc, the speed accelerating, directly driving into the snow, pushing the ground's snow layer forward, seeming to sink into the snow.
"Zhao Jingzhi, reduce energy control," Chen Sui reminded.
Zhang Yingjie looked at her, but before hearing Chen Sui's voice, Jiang Zhongyu frowned first: "Something's not right, the energy fluctuation in this area is strange."
Chen Sui raised an eyebrow, her energy perception spreading out.
"Energy body group."
She drew her spear, the sled board being put away.
The five Ink Hills members became alert, all stowing their transport tools, drawing weapons, energy gathering, ready for battle.
Sliding down from the slope, the ground was pushed out into a trace by the snow vehicle, but the snow layer had some obvious differences.
"It's fluctuation from below."
Jiang Zhongyu looked at Chen Sui. The black gold mech's gaze fixed on the pushed-open snow surface, suddenly stomping, the ground feeling completely different.
"Mech propulsion, there's a lake below," Chen Sui slammed the spear tail into the snow surface, shaking away the thick snow layer around, seeing the lake surface below.
Just as she finished speaking, as the mech propelled toward midair, cracking sounds came from the ice surface.
The accumulated snow on the lake slid down through the cracks, the ice lake water seemed to instantly come alive, beginning to melt from solid ice, flowing onto the ice surface, dissolving the accumulated snow into it.
A white shadow leaped out from the deep blue lake water.
Chen Sui's eyes sharpened, the spear turning, her figure charging forward, one hand pulling back Jiang Zhongyu who was directly facing the white shadow, the red spear swinging.
"Squelch."
The sound of flesh being pierced.
"Xin Ming—" she looked back, Xin Ming immediately responded, black gas rising from behind, "Understood."
Ghost Flower's vines curved around Chen Sui from Xin Ming's position, the spear stabbing into the snow shark's lower jaw, the spear body blocking its sharp teeth. The snow shark bit onto the spear body, the cold metal touch making it growl continuously in its throat.
And just as its figure was held midair by the spear, Ghost Flower's black vines stabbed into its body from behind.
The spear pushed further into the snow shark's flesh, her energy flowing along the red spear, probing the energy crystal's position, immediately reporting to Xin Ming.
"Understood!"
Xin Ming's somewhat gentle voice sounded. Ghost Flower stabbed into the snow shark's body, black gas like a knife, directly tearing outward, ripping open the snow shark's body.
Only the part pinpointed by Chen Sui remained embedded in the spear.
Vines formed a tree net in the distance. As the snow shark's body was torn apart, Chen Sui's hand exerted force, directly pressing the snow shark toward the tree net.
Under this huge impact force, the spear directly penetrated the snow shark, contacting the tree net, directly forcing out a blue energy crystal.
"S-level energy crystal, tsk," Jipuna sighed.
Chen Sui grabbed the falling energy crystal with one hand, flicking her wrist, the snow shark's remains pierced by the spear were shaken by her vibration, tossed back into the ice lake.
The cracked range on the ice surface was expanding, already extending to the distant point where the mountain peak rose.
"This whole area is a lake, with quite a few energy bodies below. What level of energy crystal do you like?"
Chen Sui's gaze moved from the lake surface to Jipuna.
The headband-wearing young man tugged at the metal chain on his neck, somewhat arrogantly saying: "Not talking about SSS-level, at least SS-level, right?"
"Coincidentally," Chen Sui looked at the black shadows gathering in the ice lake, gesturing to Jipuna: "What you want, SS-level and SSS-level."
Jipuna's face changed, shocked as he looked down. From this angle, he could see black shadows moving beneath the floating ice surface.
He took a breath, stammering: "T-t-this, not all SS-level, right?"
"How could that be," Chen Sui's voice cooled, beginning to switch out her gun, her words making Jipuna's vision darken: "There are several SSS-level ones in there too."
Jiang Zhongyu, seeing the agile attacker shocked by Chen Sui, beautiful eyes rippling with amusement, explaining more clearly: "3 SSS-level, 9 SS-level, various low-level ones, but—"
Chen Sui added: "All ice-attributed energy bodies."
"Ice-attributed energy bodies rampaging?" Zhang Yingjie narrowed his eyes.
Along the way, it was clearly the thunder attribute taking the upper hand, with thunder birds, lightning foxes, thunder polar bears, and so on.
Only a few ice-attributed energy bodies, this ice lake area energy body group was the first large high-level ice-attributed energy body group Ink Hills encountered after the Aurora state.
"Does this mean ice attributes are strengthening?" Xin Ming asked with some concern upon hearing this, looking at Jiang Zhongyu, somewhat worried about his condition.
Jiang Zhongyu smiled: "But I feel very good now, like the surrounding influence is getting weaker."
"It shouldn't be. Ice-attributed energy is weakening, the Aurora state is expelling the ice-attributed storm. Energy bodies rampaging should be the final struggle."
Chen Sui stated this conclusion, yet her face showed no joy at the disappearance of the ice-attributed storm.
Because she understood that after the Aurora state expelled the ice-attributed storm, the lightning storm would sweep through the Red Moon Snow Plain with a dominating posture.
And what depressed her was that the barrier she gave Zhou Chen couldn't resist such lightning storm energy.
Zhang Yingjie obviously thought of this too. He looked at the ice lake and energy bodies below: "Let's settle this quickly then, try to reach there before the ice-attributed energy disappears."
Chen Sui nodded, the four words "settle this quickly" seeming to add a battle buff to her.
A snow shark had just leaped from the lake surface when a green light-infused shell appeared in midair, directly smashing the snow shark's body onto the floating ice surface, a fire manacle completely restraining the snow shark.
Jipuna's figure, about to charge out, was directly stopped by the passing gun, seeing this, he looked back somewhat warily.
Such a weird control cannon.
He pondered as his figure followed, joining his teammates in dealing with the energy bodies.
Low-level energy bodies didn't require much effort.
As for high-level energy bodies, except for a few SSS-class ones that were somewhat thorny to deal with, the remaining SS-class ones were either impaled straight through by Wood-Born Flower, or penetrated by the long spear of the black gold mecha, followed by the mecha's hand brutally tearing open the energy body's form.
Blood droplets fell like red rain, bringing the Ink Hills members below back to memories of watching the Sultry Red Forest recordings.
"What's this supposed to be? We didn't get assigned to the Sultry Red Forest, but we still get to experience the essence of red rain?"
The mechanical silhouette of Jipuna's spirit body, Magic Cube Man, was at his side. Metal energy-condensed spikes pierced through the energy body, extracting the energy crystal simultaneously as he spoke to Zhao Jingzhi beside him.
Above, the torn energy body was brutally thrown into the water, with blood dripping down.
Zhao Jingzhi's mecha made contact with the bloody water, quickly evaporating it. He glanced at it and agreed wholeheartedly: "Then what does that make me? Getting an immersive experience of the red rain in Sultry Red Forest?"
He was already burning hot, the fire attribute energy scorching him uncomfortably.
Jipuna was hit by the humor in those words and laughed, patting Zhao Jingzhi's shoulder: "You're having it rough, brother. Save some of that heat. You'll have plenty more burning to do when pulling the vehicle later."
Zhao Jingzhi: ...
The control room witnessed this scene, especially the sound of Chen Sui's long spear fixing the energy body in place, Wood-Born Flower controlling from behind with its tree network, both hands brutally beating it before directly tearing it apart. It was indeed a bloody sight.
But the peach blossom-eyed Star Alliance leader displayed a hard-to-describe expression before quickly smiling: "Hiss---that method is a bit too savage, but I have to say, it's quite stress-relieving."
Song Xingzhang glanced at him and defended: "Who cares what method it is, just tell me if the energy body is dead or not."
Yang Qinhe, who was watching the livestream, heard this sentence and suddenly found it familiar.
After carefully pondering, he realized it was what Chen Sui had once said in his class.
For a moment he marveled: could these two really be natural teacher and student?
Song Xingzhang watched Chen Sui's actions and, although he defended his student, he also felt some concern for her.
During her training, Song Xingzhang had discovered that Chen Sui had a very rejecting attitude toward energy bodies, or rather, toward alien species.
He was moved by Chen Sui's attitude of showing no mercy toward energy bodies, which was precisely the characteristic that a strong attack analyst must possess.
But as Song Xingzhang came to understand, he knew clearly that allowing Chen Sui's hatred to continue would cause her to lose control amid continuous killing and bloodshed.
Her lack of endurance, in a sense, was actually a gate that protected her from losing control.
Song Xingzhang sighed imperceptibly. Chen Sui was obviously getting anxious, otherwise she wouldn't have been so savage in her attacks.
His gaze turned to another camera feed, where Saint Laurent and Zhu Jing Fu's two people reached an agreement. Xie Chunshi's snow vehicle was pulling Saint Laurent's five members toward the main base station, with Saint Laurent's analyst helping to control Zhou Chen's energy fluctuations.
This control was effective initially, but as the lightning storm energy strengthened, Zhou Chen's condition worsened.
Seeing that Master Song's attention had turned to this, Jian Run couldn't help but lower his voice to ask: "Master Song, what do you think of Zhou Chen's condition?"
"This student has a permanent crack in his core crystal, making his energy normally very unstable."
Song Xingzhang nodded. He knew about this—after the Gu family's child returned from the White Soto Tower City, Xie Qiuhan had also come to find him, but at that time Little Chun had an incident, and Song Xingzhang had fallen into depression, unable to help her. However, he had heard about these two.
"If Little Sui arrives in time, there shouldn't be any major problems," Song Xingzhang said softly. "But this situation is too risky. The lightning storm energy is rising rapidly. The energy bodies in the Red Moon Snow Plain will sense the retreat of the ice attribute storm and enter an active state. Let's see if they can quickly reach the base station."
Surprise flashed in Jian Run's eyes.
Not because of Song Xingzhang's analysis of the energy field, but because of his acknowledgment of Chen Sui.
On the other side, Lu Cuining looked at these two people drawing close and frowned: "What secrets are you whispering to Master Song that you can't tell me, or can't tell the family?"
The live comments echoed his sentiment.
[That's right, why treat us like outsiders, Director Jian?]
[By the way, did Master Song notice something while watching Saint Laurent's perspective?]
[Can Zhou Chen really continue competing in this condition?]
[What else can be done? The league competition doesn't allow forfeiting. Maybe when his core crystal depletes to 50%, he'll have a chance to be eliminated]
[Wow, are you the King of Hell? Depleting his core crystal isn't just a 50% issue. Even the Competition Committee's protection wouldn't save him]
"None of your business," Jian Run reflexively retorted. "What, is there something you don't understand? I can explain it to you. It's normal not to understand after being away from duty for so long."
Lu Cuining rolled his eyes, somewhat speechless. Looking at the comments, he also asked: "Is Zhu Jing Fu's output in a bad situation?"
He glanced at Song Xingzhang from the corner of his eye and, sure enough, the other nodded and explained the energy field's influence.
Lu Cuining curiously asked: "So if their analyst hurries up and performs spiritual healing on him, would that work?"
Song Xingzhang nodded: "If Little Sui is fast enough, she can establish a barrier in advance, enter the base station, and avoid the storm's impact on him."
"I see," Lu Cuining nodded, seeming to half-understand. His scarred face looked toward Zhu Jing Fu's section, with a thoughtful gaze at Chen Sui.
Is that so? Is it really not because this analyst's spiritual healing is special?
After leaving the Border Army, Lu Cuining became a clearance hunter. The energy field he was most often called to was the God-Abandoned Domain. He keenly perceived that Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi knew information about the God-Abandoned Domain.
Perhaps, Lu Cuining thought, they knew even more than he did.
The man's lowered eyes revealed a flash of sharpness.