novelraw Chapter 109 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Chapter 109 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Chen Sui was well aware of this point. The moment the energy shielding device activated, Zhou Chen's lightning still struck her, with the mecha forcibly enduring this attack.
In exchange for bearing this attack, her mental perception followed this lightning energy, directly rushing into Zhou Chen's mental domain.
Lightning attribute energy ran wild in the mental domain, with the core crystal's light extremely dim. A crack spanned across the center of the core crystal, with energy overflowing from it.
Chen Sui's gaze fixed intently. Her hand, which had put away her weapon, unconsciously gripped the cross pendant at her neck. This action seemed to give her some strength, making Chen Sui's expression immediately firm.
Her energy concentrated, surging into Zhou Chen's mental domain.
Regardless of whether there was a chance, the most important thing now was to stabilize Zhou Chen's condition first.
The livestream signal hadn't completely cut off. The lightning storm made the signal intermittent, only faintly showing the Zhu Jing Fu analyst taking Zhou Chen into the energy shielding device.
Several evaluation members from the Analyst Association came to the control room, and seeing this, they all sighed.
"Timely establishment of mental domain shielding might save the core crystal, but as for the energy level—"
Master Ji Qing sighed, looking somewhat thorny at Mo Qiu'an.
"The two phases of the Red Moon Snow Plain energy field are abnormal," Mo Qiu'an said softly. "Past lightning storms have never been this intense."
The energy strength of the Red Moon Snow Plain had already far exceeded the current level, but the base station's measurements still showed no anomalies.
This was something Mo Qiu'an and everyone at the Star Alliance Energy Field Management Department were dealing with.
It was also something the Star Alliance upper levels urgently needed to address.
"Now we'll see how severe Zhou Chen's energy dispersion is."
If the energy overflow wasn't too much, there might still be a chance to save the core crystal.
The elders in the control room looked at this with some distress.
At this moment, Zhao Loulan, dressed in formal attire, pushed open the door: "The rescue team has already arrived at the main base station. What's the situation?"
The Border Army member on duty in the control room answered: "Energy bodies are still rioting. The Zhu Jing Fu analyst is dealing with Zhou Chen's energy riot situation."
"Zhu Jing Fu analyst, Chen Sui?" Zhao Loulan locked onto the video screen. "Is that the student with the distinctive spiritual healing?"
Master Ji Qing nodded, seeing that her expression seemed to have further questions, and quickly explained: "Spiritual healing might be able to alleviate his riot, but Zhou Chen's core crystal dispersion is too severe. It might not be effective."
Zhao Loulan lowered her eyes: "Can this student's core crystal be saved?"
"Difficult," Song Xingzhang spoke up, looking at the two mechas enveloped in the barrier. The other three Zhu Jing Fu members were fighting outside, while awakened individuals from other academies were trying to enrich lightning attribute energy, but in the chaotic energy field, it was still of no use. "Energy shielding devices cannot block all energy. Simple spiritual healing is possible, but for damage like his, relying solely on shielding devices is very difficult. Furthermore, the dispersed energy has already compromised his core crystal level. The crack remains and cannot be reversed."
As Song Xingzhang's words fell, the control room plunged into silence.
During this time, only the rapidly flashing comments could be seen.
The Competition Committee would not hide anything from the StarNet audience. All discussions and exchanges were being watched, and because of this, everyone knew Zhu Jing Fu's current predicament.
Just as the control room was at an impasse, an access authorization unlocked the main door.
He Lanrui, wearing an analyst's robe, entered. Song Xingzhang looked up at him, nodded in acknowledgment, then quickly returned his gaze to the screen.
He Lanrui looked at Mo Qiu'an: "Director Mo, can you activate the energy field notification authority?"
Several people looked at him, only then noticing that He Lanrui's light brain was on the communication interface.
"What is this?" Zhao Loulan inquired.
"It's Master Lalnuo, he's watching the livestream."
"Teacher?" Master Ji Qing said in surprise, quickly looking over.
Lalnuo's voice came from the light brain's speakers. This highly respected elder, currently undergoing treatment, spoke gently: "I've handled the treatment for the White Soto Tower City energy crystal damage incident and can resolve Zhou Chen's energy riot situation. Please have the Border Army accept my call."
Zhao Loulan's expression became solemn, and she saluted the light brain: "Received, thank you for your help."
Lalnuo responded with a faint smile: "I apologize, please forgive me for not being able to return your salute."
Mo Qiu'an reacted: "I'll activate it right away."
The energy field notification authority was the announcement voice for the competition's opening and closing.
Participants were familiar with this system's mechanical voice.
But when the activation prompt sounded, it was a different voice.
[Red Moon Snow Plain Management Department Broadcast Activated]
A signal lit up on Chen Sui's mecha channel.
[Management Department Base Station requests to connect with you]
Chen Sui was in the midst of separating the chaotic energy in Zhou Chen's mental domain. Seeing this, she somewhat painfully spared some mental effort to click confirm.
A crackling electrical current sounded, followed by a somewhat aged voice.
"Chen Sui, the situation is urgent. Let me introduce myself briefly. I am Lalnuo from the Analyst Association, assisting you in dealing with this energy riot incident."
When she heard Lalnuo's name, Chen Sui was not unfamiliar with it. Her eyes widened slightly, and her voice emerged with difficulty: "Hello."
Lalnuo seized the time, his tone still carrying labored breathing, as if these simple words were extremely difficult for him: "This is a good opportunity, perhaps it can restore Zhou Chen's core crystal in one go."
The Red Moon Snow Plain's lightning storm energy far exceeded any energy fluctuation level recorded in the past. This highly concentrated lightning attribute energy, if it could flood Zhou Chen's core crystal, might be able to work with the analyst's energy shielding to seal Zhou Chen's core crystal, achieving the effect of healing the crack.
Chen Sui's eyes flashed, and she just heard him say: "Only you can do it."
"I will help you."
Chen Sui's heart skipped a beat, but she had no time to consider the deeper meaning in Lalnuo's words. At this moment, looking at her teammate whose energy riot was becoming increasingly severe, she had only one thought.
—Save him.
On the Red Moon Snow Plain, under the swaying aurora, beams of light struck the snow surface. Energy bodies from the distance swarmed toward this location, with analysts already detecting the anomaly.
He Lanqi looked at the increasing number of energy body groups, her brows furrowed: "Why are all the Red Moon Snow Plain energy bodies gathering here?"
The five Ink Hills members and Gu Qinxue killed the White Jade Thunder Serpent and charged into the central group, beginning to share the pressure from the surrounding energy bodies. Hearing this question, Jiang Zhongyu's energy spread out, discovering that not only were energy bodies gathering here, but signals of fluctuations from the distance were approaching, making the anomaly even more apparent.
It completely contradicted the initial hypothesis about the aurora state lightning storm's aggregation.
There were few situations that could drive different energy bodies to approach: either an energy with extremely strong attraction for energy bodies, or—
Several analysts looked toward the front, almost simultaneously blurting out.
"Hierarchical command!"
The military academy students who realized this immediately exclaimed in surprise.
"What does that mean? Are there higher-level energy bodies?"
"There are plenty of SSS-class ones around. The level of energy body that can command from a higher position—"
How high would that level be?
Jipuna halted halfway through his sentence, but others clearly understood his meaning.
The energy from the spirit bodies erupted even stronger.
The SSS-class of energy bodies, like spirit bodies, had differences in numerical attributes. SSS-class with strong attack attributes were definitely more difficult to deal with than those with high values in other attributes.
"It can't be an energy body from one of the ten major energy fields, haha," He Shuangmu sensed the heavy atmosphere around and spoke up, trying to lighten the mood.
But the surrounding gazes turned to him, and the Zhu Jing Fu Commander rubbed his temples, warning: "Say a bit less, what if you actually speak it into existence?"
Xie Chunshi was truly afraid of this kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
The analysts' energy perception spread out, layer upon layer.
Zhang Yingjie looked back, seeing that the energy shielding device's barrier was still glowing brightly. Lightning attribute awakened individuals from several academies were enriching the surrounding energy, trying to create a better environment.
He turned back, his expression cold and solemn, nodding to Xie Chunshi: "Whatever happens, let's control the energy bodies first, don't let them approach the barrier."
Several academies spread around the energy barrier, outputs charging into the energy body groups, foot soldiers' cover ready at any time, analysts' control and pulling close behind. At a distance of several meters outside the barrier, the military academy students formed an encirclement, with a seemingly endless group of energy bodies beyond the circle.
Inside the circle were the enriched lightning attribute energy and the analyst within the barrier.
Just as various lights exploded outside the encirclement, almost illuminating the snow plain's ground, a green light burst from within the barrier.
A pillar of light shot straight to the sky.
"Wood-Born Flower—"
The hoarse voice didn't come from behind, but fell as if from the horizon, carrying an ethereal echo, as if it were a whisper from another space, directly spreading across the snow plain.
Within the light pillar, an extremely thick branch extended out.
Something seemed to be extending and rolling beneath the snow layer.
A giant tree burst from the light pillar, this energy body's form fully erupting, with treetops seemingly about to pierce the sky, shooting straight toward the aurora curtain.
Branches grew toward the outside of the encirclement. The mechas fighting the energy bodies hadn't yet reacted when the energy bodies in front of them were directly impaled by the tree trunks, with branches exploding, directly extracting the energy crystals from the energy bodies' forms.
Then they extended toward the distance.
The tree trunks instantly covered a large area of the snow plain, surrounding outward in a semi-transparent state, enclosing all the surrounding mechas within.
The lightning storm in midair roared fiercely, crawling out a large lightning web in the sky, accompanied by booming explosions.
The aurora lightning storm was angered by the intense energy fluctuations triggered by Wood-Born Flower, and the sky began to churn out massive amounts of lightning again.
The electrical patterns didn't immediately disperse, but converged toward the center.
Forming an extremely thick thunderbolt, at the moment the lightning attribute energy was concentrated, it struck directly at the massive tree on the snow plain that was blocking the sky.
"Bang—"
A tremendous sound!
The rustling sound of swaying branches and leaves could still be heard.
The military academy students looked up.
Xitisi's agile attacker Lu Hang Jiu had just dealt with the energy body in front of him when Wood-Born Flower's branches passed by his face, directly impaling the energy body behind him.
Then the branches carried the body of the energy body, pushing it forward, pushing the energy body group outward.
This mechanical sweeping stance made Lu Hang Jiu look over in shock, and then he noticed Wood-Born Flower's giant tree.
"Has your analyst always been this fierce?"
He looked at the person beside him in shock. Puluo's shield umbrella circled around the outputs nearby, blocking the lightning storm in the air, before returning to his hand.
Hearing his words, Puluo gripped his cannon, not knowing how to respond. After thinking for a few seconds, he cautiously said: "Our analyst is actually quite fragile."
Really, enemies facing her generally become very fragile, especially energy shields.
Lu Hang Jiu's mouth twitched into a smile. "Heh, you're quite the talker."
He wasn't a three-year-old child; this foot soldier thought he could fool him with the same line used to fool He Shuangmu.
Lu Hang Jiu looked up and immediately drew in a cold breath.
The massive thunderbolt struck directly at Wood-Born Flower's treetops. The lightning traveled along the branches toward Wood-Born Flower's trunk. The tree's bark was struck with a deep black scorch mark, black smoke rising, with lightning flickering over the black mark.
But Wood-Born Flower only shook a few times, a green wave rippled out, and the lightning was directly swatted away, exploding into flashes of intense light in the distance.
He wasn't the only one experiencing such surprise.
When the strong light burst in Xie You's black pupils, Black Mamba's long tail was outside Wood-Born Flower's giant tree, sweeping away thunder birds diving from midair, with lightning gliding along Black Mamba's edges.
A vine quickly extended, encircling Black Mamba's slender tail.
The cyan vine was like a ring, with a cold sensation accompanied by the tingling of lightning.
Following Black Mamba's perception into Xie You's mind, it made the gloomy young man involuntarily look back, but his gaze halted midway.
Zhu Jing Fu's black gold mecha blocked his view. Xie Chunshi was looking up at the center, the source of the green light.
The black gold mecha within raised its head from a green mist, and over the team frequency, all five could hear the voice from outside.
Master Lalnuo tried his best to avoid terms related to space, but for Chen Sui, when he stated the solution, she understood that this highly respected elder might have already seen through her situation.
When Xie Chunshi's gaze fell on her, Chen Sui's energy was proceeding to the final step. She looked up, making eye contact with the black gold mecha at the other end.
"I'll leave the rest to you."
Chen Sui's hoarse voice came through.
Xie Chunshi responded softly: "Mmm, be careful yourself."
Gu Qinxue and Puluo looked at Chen Sui.
The moment the green light rippled outward, on Wood-Born Flower's giant tree—
Thousands of flower buds bloomed!
Simultaneously, the aurora began to shake violently. The lightning storm gathered layer upon layer in the sky, frantically surging forward. Thunder struck incessantly, with lightning and thunder immediately covering the sky.
"Damn, what's happening?" Noya's bioluminescence circled the barrier again and again, but at the moment Wood-Born Flower burst into flowers, the bioluminescence immediately dimmed.
Xie Chunshi and several others from other academies pushed his mecha: "Get into the barrier first!"
"Such strong devouring attribute?" Xitisi's analyst He Chigui said softly.
Xie Chunshi quickly raised a joint frequency: "Lightning attribute awakened individuals, enter the energy barrier. The energy bodies are about to riot. Everyone, I'll be counting on you from now on."
Song Yuan glanced at the sky. The lightning attribute energy had gathered into a massive vortex, with lightning flashing on Wood-Born Flower's flowers, the entire tree seeming to bathe in lightning.
She immediately understood what was happening.
Chen Sui was using her spirit body and mental domain to contain the energy field's powerful lightning storm, creating a high-concentration lightning attribute environment for Zhou Chen.
"No need for politeness," Zhang Yingjie spoke up. Behind him, a floating, formless black object appeared, swaying with the wind. That spirit body moved with it. "Let's just fight."
This Ink Hills Commander, known for his calm and composure, couldn't help but show some youthful spirit as he drew his weapon and charged toward the roaring, howling energy body group.
Xin Ming's Ghost Flower vines extended, following closely behind.
Gu Qinxue's Thorny Fire Whip lashed forward, fire waves rising. Na Luo River's strong attacker Simos was surrounded by a colorful aura, splendidly brilliant. A giant, fluffy squirrel tail swept out from the palm-sized spirit body on his shoulder.
Wild winds rose from the ground, directly spreading Gu Qinxue's fire dragon outward.
Fierce fire danced across the snow surface!
Golden spikes spread everywhere, the ground reinforced with a layer of thick earth, solid and unyielding. Ice layers shattered, but no one fell.
"Little Xue, you need to assist me too later!"
Simos watched Gu Qinxue's dashing figure as she swung her long whip and couldn't help but feel envious.
So cool. He wanted to be cool too.
Zhou Chen better hang in there, or else he'd have one less person to be cool with in the future.
Thinking of this, the long rainbow mouse's tail swept out. A hurricane swept through, directly gathering all the energy bodies, while Gu Qinxue set up her energy cannon and replied as she fired: "Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities."
She sounded utterly certain, glancing toward the barrier.
The energy cannon blasted a huge crater, the snow surface collapsing.
He Shuangmu, seeing the earth in front being blasted through, as the earth wall condensed in front of him blocking the energy bodies' attacks, called out: "Could you two go easier? It's hard for me to repair the ground!"
As he spoke, energy extended toward the distance, compacting the ground on the snow layer.
The lightning storm around was visibly decreasing, the electric sparks exploding in the air disappearing.
The energy glow of lightning attribute energy bodies weakened.
This loss of energy made the energy bodies restless and agitated. Group agitation soon had them charging toward the mechas.
It seemed that tearing apart these intruders would restore their lost power.
Throughout the entire snow plain, lightning attribute energy was all flowing toward the Wood-Born Flower giant tree.
Outside Chen Sui's mecha, lightning wrapped around her layer by layer.
The lightning lifted her mecha off the ground, constantly exploding with electrical light in midair.
Inside the cockpit, the thin figure's skin flickered with streaks of electricity. Her hair floated, the mechanical eye in her socket disappearing under the high-intensity electrical interference, leaving the eye socket completely empty.
Her other pupil glowed green, with vines growing from the ends of her hair strands, and plant tendrils sprouting from the top of her head.
Her fingertips were covered with green patterns, with lightning flowing past, surrounding her layer upon layer.
"Control the lightning attribute energy within a range—"
Lalnuo's voice came slightly delayed, accompanied by the elder's labored breathing.
In Chen Sui's mind, she automatically replaced the word "range" with "space."
When separating the external lightning attribute energy, no one noticed that at the position of the two black gold mechas, they seemed to be separated, with all the energy flowing into Chen Sui's body without touching Zhou Chen's mecha at all.
He was completely in an independent space at this moment.
Chen Sui's head felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead. In her ears, she only heard Lalnuo's voice, mechanically following his instructions. In her vision, what appeared wasn't the snow plain, but a crimson scene.
Following that, the grasslands and forests of Flower Cloud Dream appeared in fragments before her.
As she drew on large amounts of space energy.
In a place no one noticed, where even energy monitoring couldn't detect.
In one of the ten major energy fields, the God-Abandoned Domain, at the center of the energy field, the Rust-Red Sea, waves surged!
Red waves rippled out layer upon layer.
Deep at the bottom of the sea, a deep red spear, a quad-edged spear blade embedded in a giant rock at the sea bottom, flashed with layers of light.
The spear was broken, with the other broken end swaying on the ground.
A crystal core in one of the quad-edged spear blades burst with strong light.
That light was extremely similar to the energy in Zhou Chen's mental domain.
Space energy carved out an independent area in Zhou Chen's mental domain. The lightning attribute energy, separated and purified by Chen Sui, flowed like a gentle stream into his mental domain.
The energy overflowing from the core crystal gradually refilled.
"Continuously purify and compress, fill the void in his core crystal, and finally, use your energy to set an energy shielding mark."
By the end, Lalnuo's voice had become hoarse.
Chen Sui couldn't respond to him. Her thoughts were drawn into an unfamiliar realm.
Energy bodies from Flower Cloud Dream flashed before her eyes, her consciousness trapped within a towering giant tree.
She saw the powerful SSS spirit body, the Scarlet Fire Bird, nesting on her branches, and the Blood-colored Ghost Orchid from the Deep Mountain Valley, which had swept through the SSS energy field, growing relying on her branches—
Countless energy bodies nestled within her body. As her branches grew, through wood attribute energy, her eyes spread throughout any energy field.
At the moment the Red Moon Snow Plain's lightning storm made its final struggle and struck down, terrifying thunder at the horizon emitted a series of roars, striking toward the silhouette of Wood-Born Flower giant tree.
The powerful energy storm and high electromagnetic pressure brought Chen Sui back to her senses. Wood-Born Flower split into two shadows, one a giant tree sheltering Chen Sui and several military academy students, the other the pet form of Little Flower, with its wooden stump falling on her shoulder.
In just this brief moment, in her mental domain, the cyan energy crystal rotated rapidly, with energy surging into her body.
This absorption was stronger than the lightning storm's absorption.
"Chen Sui is—" He Lanqi looked in her direction. This energy concentration situation was extremely abnormal, making her worry whether Chen Sui was experiencing backlash from absorbing the lightning attribute energy.
However, Chen Sui didn't let others worry for too long. As wood attribute energy surged into her body, in the black gold mecha, the thin analyst suddenly opened her eyes, a determined gleam flashing in her cyan pupils.
"Even a brain-eating worm couldn't control me, you think you can?"
Chen Sui's soft murmur was too quiet for anyone to hear clearly, but as countless thunderbolts struck down—
A sky-shattering, earth-splitting boom sounded. The sky seemed to split into countless cracks, with lightning falling straight toward the giant tree's shadow.
Branches flew, wood chips scattered everywhere!
A green light swept outward.
The root system deep beneath the snow layer rose up. The Red Moon Snow Plain's giant tree roots, extending for nearly a thousand miles, broke free from the surface snow layer.
Thick snow fell from distant mountains. An avalanche roared like a fierce beast, howling toward the foot of the mountain.
Clusters of white mist clouds surged toward the energy bodies and people below, but at this moment, no military academy student dodged.
After the Red Moon Snow Plain's lightning storm, the lightning attribute energy bodies' fluctuations instantly dropped. The lightning extinguished, leaving only bodies moving. The ground ice layer shattered, the snow layer collapsed, forming a crater of extremely large diameter.
The mechas standing on the earth layer solidified by He Shuangmu hadn't yet fallen, but the energy bodies fell in succession, struck down by Wood-Born Flower's giant tree roots that emerged from beneath the ice and snow.
Wood-Born Flower's entire body, from the treetops facing the thunderbolts, at the moment of the lightning strike, had electricity sweeping over the entire plant, with layers of electric light crisscrossing on the root system as well.
As the electric light exploded—
Wood-Born Flower's silhouette dispersed, leaving only a layer of misty green fog scattered around the black gold mecha.
Energy was input into Zhou Chen's mental domain. Chen Sui controlled the energy, approaching the outside of his core crystal, setting a firm energy shielding mark.
"Let me—"
"Seal!!"
In the mental domain, green energy and another invisible fluctuation fought formlessly. The invisible force quickly overcame the green energy, suppressing the trembling energy crystal.
With Chen Sui's low shout, a transparent mark lit up on Zhou Chen's core crystal.
At the same time, in her mental domain, her own energy crystal flashed with green light. The green energy instantly stopped resisting, completely following her mental commands.
The last trace of consciousness belonging to the energy body was severed.
From this moment on, there was no more Flower Cloud Dream-Wood-Born Flower energy body.
Only her spirit body.
Lightning attribute energy surged into Zhou Chen's body. The lightning outside the black gold mecha extinguished, and the mecha appeared as if it had been tempered, with its surface radiating an extremely bright luster.
The Black Arrow Hawk, entangled and restrained by green light, gradually ceased its struggling movements. The beat of its wings became smaller and smaller, until it finally fell into Zhou Chen's mecha, its silhouette disappearing.
The Red Moon Snow Plain lightning storm ceased. Energy bodies sank into the snow layer, and military academy students' cannons and energies all fired out, quickly resolving the surrounding energy body groups.
Chen Sui regained perception of her surroundings. The sounds of cannon fire and explosions surged back into her ears, the swaying aurora and black sky curtain entered her sight.
Master Lalnuo's final words carried a tone of gratification: "Congratulations, young student, you've succeeded."
Chen Sui's fingers moved slightly. Her muscles sent out waves of soreness, with the contraction sensation after being struck by lightning coming very late, suddenly surging like a tide.
Her brain throbbed with pain. Chen Sui struggled to sit down, with wood attribute energy being mobilized again. At this moment, the energy could completely move according to her will, extremely obedient.
Wood attribute energy began to organize within Zhou Chen's mental domain, assisting the core crystal in absorbing the purified lightning attribute energy, restoring the crystal's condition.
The lightning attribute energy, wrapped and delivered by space energy, was slowly assimilated by the core crystal's energy, gradually restoring the core crystal's level.
The mark at the crack site flickered, disappearing as the core crystal's energy became replenished.
The entire core crystal returned to a completely intact state.
The tearing pain in his brain disappeared, and his hazy consciousness gradually returned to its place. Zhou Chen's face contorted, his hands unconsciously grabbing his hair.
In his ears, he heard a hoarse voice.
"Stop grabbing. You don't have much hair to begin with."
Chen Sui's mecha sat on the ground, her head lowered, with Wood-Born Flower squatting on her shoulder, blinking its moist eyes at him.
Zhou Chen paused, just about to crack a smile, but when he opened his mouth, he unexpectedly coughed out black smoke: "I—holy shit?!"
"I'm smoking?" Even his voice carried an electronic tone. Zhou Chen realized this and touched his hair.
All his hair was standing on end.
No wonder it felt longer; it had all frizzed out.
Chen Sui's mental threshold was somewhat depleted, with the massive pain belatedly surging in. Now she could understand what she should have felt after "rolling to death."
So this was the feeling after depleting the mental threshold.
Her eyelids became extremely heavy, with red blood vessels crawling all over her eye sockets. As the energy barrier dispersed, Chen Sui saw Zhou Chen's approaching mecha in her vision.
"Little Sui?"
"Little Sui?"
"Little Sui—don't scare me!"
Zhou Chen had just woken up when he heard her voice, and after just pulling his hair for a moment, he saw Chen Sui visibly tilting backward.
As the energy shielding device's signal dispersed, Zhou Chen's voice carried outward.
Military academy students who were attacking energy bodies at a distance quickly blasted apart the entangling energy bodies and rushed back to the central encirclement.
Those closer, like Noya and Chi Buyu, hurriedly took a few steps forward, but in the end, it was the black gold mecha that swept past like the wind.
Zhou Chen watched in surprise as Xie Chunshi swiftly turned back, the Commander directly catching the falling analyst and steadily placing her on the ground.
The mecha detection instrument sounded an alert.
[Detected driver's vital signs abnormal. Please place in medical pod promptly. Do you need to eject the cockpit?]
Xie Chunshi input Forest Envelopment's startup sequence. The cockpit ejected, revealing the analyst's bloodless face, pale lips, with her hair in the dark night giving off a conspicuous green color, and plant tendrils still curled at the ends of her hair.
Xie Chunshi hurriedly covered Chen Sui with his mecha fingers, looking up at Zhou Chen.
The agile attacker immediately reacted, picking up Chen Sui's mecha and wrapping Xie Chunshi's thrown combat suit around her head.
"Let's finish dealing with the energy bodies first. Guard Suisui well."
The Commander's voice carried a slightly cold tone.
Zhou Chen had just drawn out his Four-sided Mace, ready to go out with him to kill energy bodies, when he was stopped by Gu Qinxue's whip thrown over.
"Stay put obediently."
The cool female voice still carried unretreated concern, somewhat like deliberately putting on a fierce face, but with eyes full of warmth.
Thinking of that scene, Zhou Chen couldn't help but soften his heart, trying hard to restore his voice: "Let me help you all. It will be quicker."
"Stop talking nonsense. You'd be doing us a big favor by not getting in the way."
Those who had gathered to concentrate lightning attribute energy in the encirclement clearly felt the energy signals in the energy field weakening. Noya was the first to notice the anomaly, looking up at the sky: "The aurora state is transforming!"
His voice directly sounded over the joint frequency.
Several Commanders looked up, all seeing a white, transparent crescent moon shape emerging from the swaying aurora layer in the black sky curtain.
A crescent moon hung among the clouds, with frost essence slowly spreading.
In the distance, an avalanche crashed to the ground, surging toward the snow plain, its impact pushing the surrounding snow toward the collapsed ground.
The energy bodies sensed the energy change faster than the military academy students. Having lost the powerful energy enrichment of lightning attribute energy, they began to move away from the mechas, getting further and further from the military academy students.
"Something's wrong. The energy fluctuations around here are too chaotic. It doesn't look like it's entering the red moon state," He Lanqi's energy perception detected the anomaly.
Xie Chunshi immediately realized and warned: "It's the transition state. The Red Moon Snow Plain's energy ecosystem is changing. The transition state is a complex period between the two phases, with chaotic energy signals, and accompanied by—"
"Lightning snow!"
Several Commanders, reminded by him, immediately exchanged glances with their teammates, simultaneously making the decision: "Let's break through, to the main base station."
"We've come all this way. If a snowfall blows us back, I'll blow up this energy field," Noya's fingertips flickered with bioluminescence, the energetic shota-faced boy couldn't even smile.
The mechas gathered, heading toward the main base station.
Outputs' attacks drove back the energy bodies. Zhu Jing Fu's snow vehicle activated at the moment they broke through the energy body group, driving through the gap in the energy bodies.
Foot soldiers' energy shields protected the analysts in the center, with people gathering to race out of the snow.
"Damn, they still dare to chase? Didn't we beat them into submission?" Chi Buyu looked back, seeing the energy bodies densely packed like a tide chasing the mecha group, and couldn't help but raise his lips.
The Three-Tailed Cat's long tail encircled his mecha's neck, with lightning flashing. Chi Buyu looked toward his teammate being pulled on the other side: "Lu Hang Jiu, go, bite them!"
"What's wrong with you? I'm not a dog," Lu Hang Jiu laughed and cursed.
The snow vehicle's rapid flight brought out gusts of wild wind, facing the impact wave of the avalanche, directly accelerating to maximum speed, with knife-like cold wind sweeping by.
The group of military academy students had shed a burden of pressure when Zhou Chen woke up. At this moment, even being chased by countless energy bodies, there was only a sense of relief.
Having friends to fight alongside made even battling through blood and fire just an excitement.
On the other side, hearing Lu Hang Jiu's response, He Shuangmu felt immediately offended: "Wait, what did dogs ever do to you guys?"
Behind him, a giant husky ran wildly, though its silhouette left no traces on the snow.
Seeing his questioning, the Saint Laurent members couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Still daring to chase, let this young lady give them a taste," Lu Ting's snow-white mascara-covered lashes fluttered. As she waved her hand, the Black Peacock's noble and beautiful figure appeared, with peacock feathers shooting toward the distance, trailing lightning.
She held the binding strap with one hand, half her body leaning back. Beside her, Simos saw this and hurriedly reached out to steady her: "Be careful, my lady. If you fall off, who's going to fish you out?"
"Oh, I don't believe you wouldn't fish me out," Lu Ting giggled, turning her head. The peacock feathers exploded among the energy body group, splashing up a high wave of snow, which she watched with a proud face.
Na Luo River's analyst He Lanqi and the other three analysts were surrounded by foot soldiers in the center. Puluo's shield umbrella danced as they raced forward. Xue Yaoyao looked over curiously: "Chen Sui is really amazing."
She sighed, her gaze ignited with the desire to chase. Such powerful energy concentration and healing were seen by all the analysts.
Even someone as proud as He Lanqi had to admit that Zhu Jing Fu's analyst had made truly shocking progress in this short competition period.
The analysts were all in agreement with Xue Yaoyao's words.
Just as people occasionally turned back to attack the energy body group, after crossing over the snow layer collapse caused by Wood-Born Flower's root system lifting up, the snow plain was directly met with a giant snow wave rising up.
"What's going on!"
Noya looked toward the distance.
The analysts' voices followed immediately: "There's energy fluctuation. It's an energy body group!"
Jiang Zhongyu added: "SSS-level energy body group, White Jade Thunder Serpents!"
"Didn't we just kill this thing?" Jipuna's face flashed with panic as he looked at Zhang Yingjie.
He only looked toward the driver Xie You and said: "Just drive through!"
"Did I need you to tell me that?" Xie You raised an eyebrow and pushed the drive to maximum.
Zhao Jingzhi's body burst into flames. "I told you we should have had a fire attribute driver. Ahh, I'm burning up!"
The White Jade Thunder Serpent had extremely strong attack capability. If they confronted it, the five schools might not all escape unscathed. With energy body groups chasing from behind, it was better to charge straight through, using speed to shake off the energy bodies.
Several snow vehicles all accelerated to high speed.
The White Jade Thunder Serpent's body stretched across the snow. He Shuangmu's earth wall laid on the ground, directly crossing over its body, building an inclined runway upward.
The snow vehicle drove across, directly flying into midair.
Zhao Jingzhi let out a scream: "He Shuangmu, you better promise me you'll never go into city planning."
Your route design skills are too terrible!
However, before He Shuangmu could respond, they cleared the White Jade Thunder Serpent group, landing on the snow surface and racing forward.
Ahead was not just the surrounding snow mountains, but also approaching snow tornadoes.
The aurora that hadn't yet dispersed was swaying, with the remaining lightning attribute energy forming lightning that struck directly on the snow tornado.
So the snow vortex began to roar, opening its arms from the mountainside, embracing toward the military academy students.
"Energy barrier, hold onto teammates!"
Zhang Yingjie's voice rang out.
As several beams of light dispersed, snow waves struck from the sky!
The crowd was instantly knocked apart by the massive snow wave and impact!
The snow vehicles were thrown away, the mechas rolled up, wrapped in energy, like scattered beads, carried with violent racing across the snow.