novelraw Chapter 112 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Chapter 112 : Red Moon Snow Plain
Beneath the lightning pool cave existed a lot of sludge, frozen by extremely low temperatures. The bottom had become a layer of hard black ice, while above was sticky black mud, exuding a strong putrid smell.
As the mecha walked through, the black mud trailed a fibrous string, which was washed away by the swaying water of the lightning pool, quickly dispersing in the water.
"Now I know why the rescue team left water-resistant materials."
Chen Sui felt the oxygen supply in the mecha cabin dispersing the foul odor lingering in her nostrils, causing her to suddenly take a deep breath.
The rescue team had participated in resource provision at the main base station, supplementing the military academy students' resource situation.
Xie Chunshi hadn't yet answered her words when another signal flashed, and from the other side came a howling gale, followed by thunder and lightning.
Zhou Chen's voice lowered, "Little Sui, didn't you say White Jade Thunder Serpents weren't many?"
"You call this not many?"
Zhou Chen took a picture of the scene in front of him and transmitted it to the team channel.
He had left a lightning cluster in the black frost forest. The White Jade Thunder Serpents were entangled around the lightning cluster, their bodies stacked layer upon layer, forming a huge mass of snake bodies in the black frost forest.
Countless White Jade Thunder Serpent heads stretched out from the snake bodies that blended with the snow layer, giving the impression of a Medusa head buried in the ground. Their cold snake pupils swept the surroundings, making one's whole body go numb.
"The Red Moon Snow Plain indeed has an excess of White Jade Thunder Serpent energy bodies, all high-level. Other academies have also transmitted images," Gu Qinxue, who was stationed at the base, reminded Chen Sui after seeing Zhou Chen's image on the team channel.
Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi were following the snake den. At the bottom of the water was a huge cave with many forking paths. She could only discern the direction through the special wave fluctuations of the energy equipment.
Hearing Gu Qinxue's words, Chen Sui flipped through the images she had sent up.
Xie Chunshi said from the side: "Currently known, the energy field with the most snake-type energy bodies is SSS [Eight Extreme Snake Valley], which houses various snake species. This number of White Jade Thunder Serpents could only appear on Kaiyun Star."
Eight Extreme Snake Valley is located on Kaiyun Star, which was once a famous snake experimental base in the interstellar, formerly imprisoning many snake star beasts.
Chen Sui's mind was awakened by his words. She thought for a moment, then immediately reacted, "Let's find the energy equipment first."
She lowered her voice, approaching Xie Chunshi, sharing her guess: "The energy equipment's fluctuation is too strange. I suspect it's space energy."
Xie Chunshi's eyes moved, immediately feeling it was very possible.
The Competition Committee's temporary chip replacement might have inserted space wave energy signals from the God-Abandoned Domain, which attracted energy bodies.
Or rather, made these abnormal energy bodies aware.
Viewed this way, it was very likely that the abnormal energy bodies in the Red Moon Snow Plain, as well as the magma beast in the Sultry Red Forest, were possibly transmitted across energy fields by space energy.
Currently, the Star Alliance's recorded space attribute energy body was only one.
—The primary energy body of the God-Abandoned Domain.
Xie Chunshi's expression became grave.
Chen Sui had already walked ahead. The closer she got to the energy signal, the more she could feel another energy fluctuation.
"White Jade Thunder Serpents are quite clever, knowing to leave someone to guard the house," Chen Sui's eyes were cold as she emerged from a cave, using stones at the bottom of the water to shield herself as she looked toward the bottom of the lightning pool.
The water bottom was covered with scattered water plants and the trunks of black wood.
On the black mud, a crawling body moved slowly. In the center of its snake body, a red dot flashed constantly.
"There really is monitoring equipment. Lucky King, worthy of you."
Chen Sui's praise arrived a beat late.
On the other side, Zhou Chen was on the verge of tears: "Can you hurry up? This group of snakes is too hungry, I can't feed them enough lightning. They're starving. I'm afraid they'll chew me up and swallow me."
"Right away, right away," Chen Sui reassured him, while peering out to examine the black snake's form.
Its scales were thicker than the White Jade Thunder Serpent's, its body extremely thick. As it dragged along the bottom of the water, it left a very wide mark. The black mud was pulled, emitting puffs of smoke, making the already turbid lightning pool even more difficult to see through.
Chen Sui waited for the black snake to turn its head, seeing its huge triangular head, with a row of fine teeth in both the upper and lower jaw, followed by extremely long fangs.
As the snake's mouth closed, its forked tongue darted out, a lightning bolt flashed, causing the lightning attribute energy in the lightning pool to brighten briefly.
Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi both hid behind the rocks.
That black snake had a pair of deep black vertical pupils, its body covered with golden patterns, but Chen Sui was somewhat unfamiliar with its information.
She hadn't seen this type of energy body before.
"This seems to be—an unrecorded energy body."
[Why does this energy body's color scheme look so much like Zhu Jing Fu?]
[Well well, black and gold color scheme, quite handsome]
[What energy body is this? I can't recognize it. Is the water too murky?]
[Unrecorded??]
Xie Chunshi had been summoned to many energy fields but had no impression of this type of energy body.
"Can't tell what energy body it is. Energy perception shows SSS-level, lightning attribute. Fight it?"
The analyst looked at the Commander. Xie Chunshi saw she was already gripping the long spear, clearly in an attack stance.
He couldn't help but smile: "Fight."
As soon as the Commander's word fell, Chen Sui had already rushed out. "I'll lure it away, you take the equipment and run."
Chen Sui was quite curious about unrecorded energy bodies. Green light spread out, directly illuminating the black water of the lightning pool. The long spear flashed with cold light, rushing to above the black snake as it turned with a speed too fast to react to.
The long spear pointed directly at the black snake's triangular head.
As she thrust down, the black snake suddenly sensed something and sharply turned its head.
"Roar—"
It opened its huge mouth, letting out a roar that created a wave surge at the bottom of the water.
A purple electric net covered the front of the black snake.
"Thud!"
The long spear directly collided with the lightning net.
Electricity immediately crawled up, the savage lightning energy directly sweeping away the wood attribute energy on the red spear, with extremely strong destructive power.
Chen Sui's eyes flashed. She released the long spear, side-flipping away. The mecha kicked the spear shaft, directly tossing the long spear away.
Lightning exploded along the long spear. On the surface of the lightning pool, a huge thunderbolt struck out from beneath the water surface, instantly disturbing the black water, with waves surging to the sky.
As Chen Sui dodged the black snake's attack, the snake's energy had already spread along its extremely thick scales, covering its entire body. On the triangular snake head, a light spot lit up, spreading around, forming an extremely peculiar symbol.
This symbol was originally transparent, but when the lightning passed over it, it instantly burst with purple light.
Chen Sui's mecha kicked against a boulder at the side. The mecha stopped, summoning her spirit body. Wood-Born Flower's vines grabbed the fallen long spear from behind, and in a moment, it was back in her hand.
The black snake caught sight of her, its body twisting, stirring up the black mud at the bottom of the pool. The stench spread, and even the mecha's oxygen supply couldn't dispel it.
Chen Sui slightly frowned, feeling somewhat nauseated.
The red spear swayed in the water, cutting a wave.
The black snake's tail twisted, its body crawling toward the mecha.
Chen Sui made a gesture to Xie Chunshi behind the boulder, indicating he could act, then her mecha pushed forward, rushing out toward the rear. Green light energy burst out, trailing an extremely long mark behind her.
The black snake was attracted by the energy. Hissing with its forked tongue, it opened its mouth at her mecha, suddenly biting down, but was extremely nimbly dodged by Chen Sui.
The Commander watched her leading the black snake between the caves at the bottom of the water. The water waves rotated, twisting into a rope shape, coiling around the energy monitoring equipment that was entangled in the snake's body in the black mud, and suddenly pulled.
The snake's body was emptied. The black snake quickly discovered there was still a fish that had slipped through the net. Its figure suddenly paused. Chen Sui's mecha was still shuttling between the caves, and she glanced back seeing this.
The black snake turned and left. Xie Chunshi, carrying the energy equipment, was about to rush up to the water surface.
The black snake followed in pursuit, the arc of its body's twist elongating.
Chen Sui let out a "heh," her eyes somewhat cold. She turned and rushed back. The quad-edged spear blade's blades rotated violently. As she swung the spear forward, the blades, driven by wood attribute energy, spun out a huge water vortex.
"Bang!"
The water vortex collided with the black snake's body, knocking the black snake, which was pursuing Xie Chunshi, to the side.
The spear blade broke through the water vortex, directly hitting the black snake's scales. Metal collided, with the impact of the long spear completely blocked by the scales. Chen Sui's wrist exerted force but couldn't break through at all.
Compared to the White Jade Thunder Serpent's easily penetrated scales, the black snake's scales were clearly much more defensive.
Chen Sui's eyes showed delight. She quickly looked at Xie Chunshi: "Commander, leave the knife. You take the equipment and go first."
Xie Chunshi drew out the energy-reducing knife. Hearing Chen Sui's excited tone and seeing the mecha's grip on the spear displaying a fierce battle intent, he reminded her with some concern: "End it quickly, don't linger in battle."
Chen Sui turned around, her empty hand grasping the energy-reducing knife. As the black snake burst out lightning, she side-flipped, spinning a vortex in the water, dodging the lightning that burst from the black snake's body.
"Who do you want to chase?" Chen Sui tilted her head slightly, watching the black snake elongate its body, moving toward Xie Chunshi's mecha. Her eyes revealed a dangerous look. The long spear trembled in her palm, pushing away the surrounding water waves layer by layer: "I hate you snakes the most, especially black snakes. You look ugly!"
[Sister, this statement carries some personal emotion, huh?]
[The spirit body Ink Snake is sweating profusely, brother]
[You're better off. I suspect Chen Sui is targeting Xie You, and I have evidence]
[Hahaha, I saw it long ago. Chen Sui looks at Xie You like his nose isn't a nose and his eyes aren't eyes. Xie You seems to have provoked her and is somewhat guilty when facing Chen Sui]
[Xie You's spirit body is the Black Mamba hahaha, I don't believe there's no personal emotion in these words]
Whether Chen Sui's words targeted Xie You or not, the audience didn't know yet, but they saw Wood-Born Flower's vines extend behind her, directly entangling the black snake.
Xie Chunshi, carrying the monitoring equipment, directly burst out of the water surface. Black water dripped from his mecha. The mecha stood in midair, and through the pitch-black water surface, Xie Chunshi waved his hand. A blue energy appeared, and in midair, ice spikes instantly condensed.
Seeing the mecha getting farther and farther away, even leaving the lightning pool's range, the black snake became increasingly agitated. As it was entangled by Wood-Born Flower's vines, it began to twist frantically.
Its huge body slammed into the bottom of the pool, stirring up clumps of black mud. The stench spread, making Chen Sui dizzy.
The black snake didn't hold back. As its forked tongue darted out, lightning burst from its entire body, an electric spark exploding at the bottom of the water. Upon contact with Chen Sui's mecha, it directly charged at her in the form of lightning spikes.
The black gold mecha's eyes were cold, dodging the lightning spikes at the bottom of the water while approaching. The long spear swept toward the seven-inch position of the black snake.
Wood-Born Flower's energy covered the outside of the long spear, layer by layer breaking the lightning emitted by the black snake. Chen Sui's figure quickly approached. When within less than an arm's length from the black snake, she switched from the long spear to the energy-reducing knife. The blade flashed a silver-white light, quickly gliding across the black snake's scales.
"Slash—"
A grating friction sound.
The blade and the black snake's scales struck sparks, which were blown apart by lightning.
"Boom—"
The black snake roared angrily. Lightning burst from its triangular head, flowing to the point of contact with the energy-reducing knife, directly rippling outward, flipping Chen Sui over.
Chen Sui's mecha crashed toward the bottom of the pool. Halfway there, she twisted her body, turning over to land. Just as she landed, the black snake's pupils captured her position, emitting a light hiss.
In the black gold mecha, the swaying analyst's figure steadied. After stabilizing for a second, she then sprang up from her kneeling position on the black mud, directly flying forward with a long spear in one hand and the energy-reducing knife in the other.
As lightning struck, she directly charged into it.
The energy-reducing knife swung down, with the ring making a crisp clashing sound against the lightning.
Layer upon layer of energy halos spread. After energy reduction, the lightning that reached Chen Sui could only make her shake slightly.
"Suisui?"
Xie Chunshi's voice came through. Chen Sui's voice lowered, carrying several degrees of chilling air: "Coming right up, just skinning it first."
Such good snake scale armor—if she didn't take it, Chen Sui would feel she had completely lost on this trip.
Her eyes were determined. After breaking through the lightning in front of her, she swept the long spear in front of her. The black snake's tail moved, swinging to her front, about to knock her away, but Wood-Born Flower's vines were faster, immediately wrapping around the snake's entire body, and the tail was pulled away with a whoosh.
"Squelch!"
The long spear pierced the triangular snake head.
"Roar—!!"
The black snake howled in pain, violently thrashing its body, with its head swaying too.
The water in the lightning pool instantly surged. Xie Chunshi watched the water surface continuously churning, waves rising and falling, splashing extremely high water sprays, looking like a sea surface before a storm. He could imagine the intensity below.
Chen Sui gripped the long spear, being swung around by the black snake, feeling a bout of dizziness in her head.
This feeling inappropriately reminded her of the unrecorded wind-running lizard on Talo Star.
As Chen Sui's wrist thrust the long spear deeper into the snake's head, she expressed puzzled confusion: "Do you unrecorded energy bodies all especially like—"
"Making people dizzy?"
After speaking, Chen Sui released the long spear, her mecha retreating a distance, grabbing the end of the long spear. Her footsteps were right in the center of the black snake's pupils. The quad-edged spear blade rotated in the black snake's flesh, cutting open the scales on the snake's head, directly piercing beneath the skin, intensely painful.
Chen Sui's mecha pulled the long spear, her foot stepping on the black snake, directly stopping its attempt to sway.
Chen Sui's immense strength pulled back the snake's head as it was about to crash into the ground. Her hand quickly spun out the energy-reducing knife.
The long knife rotated nimbly in her hand, the blade light sweeping past like an arc of moonlight, parting the black water.
In these few seconds while the black snake paused its body, Chen Sui's foot forcefully kicked out, the long spear leveraging a pull.
The black snake's fresh blood spurted out, like a dolphin's blowhole, shooting out a column of blood.
The black gold mecha faced the blood column, the long knife following the mark made by the long spear, directly stabbing into it.
Before the black snake could react, the blade edge tilted, making a ripping sound as it moved toward the black snake's body, tearing open a nearly two-meter-long gap.
Chen Sui's hand pulled open the snake scales, Wood-Born Flower's vines instantly releasing the snake's body.
The black snake's scales moved, with a sense of crisis following closely. Lightning burst from its body. Chen Sui's hand felt a powerful energy impact, electric light whipping the mecha. Wood-Born Flower's green energy enveloped her mecha, flickering under the lightning.
The electric shock sensation instantly spread throughout her body from her palm. Chen Sui bit her back teeth, controlling Wood-Born Flower's vines to directly pierce into the black snake's flesh where the scales had been pried open, impaling the black snake. The vines pulled the black snake to the other side.
Chen Sui pulled the scales, quickly moving to the opposite side.
Lightning exploded, creating arcs of lightning at the bottom of the pool. The lightning pool's surface lit up with electricity. Xie Chunshi watched with tightly knitted brows.
Wood-Born Flower's vines were shocked by lightning, visibly turning black, but under energy control, they still resolutely pulled the black snake.
Chen Sui's hand movement loosened, feeling the scales loosen. She pushed her mecha to maximum, directly flying toward the water surface. Wood-Born Flower pulled the black snake, tearing off the scales with a ripping sound.
Large patches of black snake scales were torn off by her. The black gold mecha didn't even look back, directly charging toward the water surface.
Wood-Born Flower's vines, after continuous electric shocks from the black snake, finally turned into a pile of charred dust, washed away by the black water.
The upper section of the black snake's body had lost its scales, leaving only bloody flesh and bone, looking extremely horrifying. A blood hole on top of its snake head was healing. Its mouth opened wide, roaring in the direction Chen Sui had left.
Surrounding lightning attribute energy converged toward it, condensing into a huge lightning net on the water surface. Lightning walked within it, the energy visibly savage.
Then the black snake suddenly surged out, pursuing Chen Sui's mecha.
The black gold mecha burst out, with lightning covering its surface.
Lightning fiercely whipped through Chen Sui's mind.
An enormous convulsion sensation surged like a flood. The mecha, flying out, stumbled, almost falling. Xie Chunshi, seeing her unstable figure, was about to step forward when he saw a green light float around Chen Sui, green waves rippling out, shattering the thunder.
"Commander, block behind."
Chen Sui quickly darted out, speaking at an extremely fast pace. As she spoke, Xie Chunshi's hand had already pressed down. "Mist."
The Sea Maiden's figure condensed.
With Chen Sui's energy barrier, Xie Chunshi had enough energy to condense his spirit body.
The Sea Maiden's blue eyes flickered, its face like a human's, opening its lips to emit a sound wave.
Chen Sui didn't hear any sound in her ears, only feeling the energy fluctuation.
But on the water surface, the black snake about to burst out was affected by this sound wave, directly flipped over and pressed back into the water.
Xie Chunshi's hand pressed downward, ice spikes flying toward the lightning pool's surface.
Ice attribute energy exploded around.
—The lightning pool instantly froze.
Like a huge black diamond, reflecting a metallic luster under the red moon.
"Thud—"
The black snake struck toward the water surface, and the ice surface shook a couple of times.
Chen Sui was still holding the black snake scales in her hand, with blood dripping onto the ice surface. The black snake's striking movements and lightning strikes were getting stronger and stronger.
"Run quickly."
Chen Sui raised an eyebrow seeing this scene.
As her words fell, the Commander turned his head, looking at her with a complex expression, seeing Chen Sui throw the snake scales into her spatial button. The bloody smell was strong, and he unconsciously frowned.
The two mechas quickly drove away, simultaneously contacting their teammate still entangled with the White Jade Thunder Serpents on the team channel: "Zhou Chen, let's go."
"Eh? We're not fighting the White Jade Thunder Serpents? The snake scale armor—"
"Not fighting anymore," Chen Sui had the black snake scales in her hand and was somewhat looking down on the White Jade Thunder Serpent scales. "I got something better."
Zhou Chen's smile on the corner of his mouth vanished, instantly losing interest: "You should have said so earlier. I'm coming!"
He quickly threw out a lightning cluster, watching the White Jade Thunder Serpents once again coil around the lightning cluster, the black gold mecha withdrawing from the lightning-surrounded black frost forest.
Zhou Chen's howling cries from being lashed by lightning grew closer. Chen Sui and Xie Chunshi released the snow vehicle, waiting for him at the foot of the snow mountain.
"Shall we go?"
Chen Sui nodded her chin at the snow vehicle, taking large strides to the driver's seat.
Zhou Chen came a step too late. He had just remembered his plan from earlier, which was to quickly occupy the driver's seat, but now seeing Chen Sui seated firmly, he suddenly felt regretful.
Late again!
—Wait, that's not right?!
He looked at Xie Chunshi, who was standing behind, slowly walking toward the snow vehicle.
Zhou Chen raised an eyebrow, then saw Xie Chunshi, while Chen Sui's back was turned toward the drive, extend his hand in a gesture of invitation.
Zhou Chen couldn't help but lean back, his chest filled with emotion.
Xie Chunshi, he really was willing to fulfill his beautiful wish of racing across the snow.
Good brother!
Zhou Chen happily ran to the driver's seat, sat down, activated the drive, all in one smooth motion, then called to Xie Chunshi: "Come on, Commander."
Xie Chunshi glanced at him.
Chen Sui noticed Zhou Chen driving and raised the end of her eyebrow slightly. Then her back sank as the black gold mecha sat firmly behind.
Chen Sui turned her head: "Hmm?"
She looked at Xie Chunshi, then at Zhou Chen: "What's going on?"
"He wanted to drive," Xie Chunshi said innocently, as if Zhou Chen had stolen his position. "I think he's not steady enough."
Chen Sui watched Zhou Chen touching here and there, indeed not seeming very steady as Xie Chunshi had said.
She nodded understandingly: "Fine, sit tight. We need to hurry back before they have time to return."
After speaking, Chen Sui contacted Gu Qinxue: "Ah Xue, you and Puluo can get ready. We've got the monitoring equipment."
Outside the monitoring station, there were two-person teams from other academies standing guard. For Zhu Jing Fu to rush in and place the equipment, they needed to act quickly.
By the time all other academies returned, it would be too difficult, and a fierce battle would be unavoidable.
"Understood. Puluo and I will watch for the right moment and support you."
Gu Qinxue's face was completely calm. After replying to Chen Sui, she could still casually continue chatting with He Shuangmu beside her.
Puluo also nodded, the two of them attracting He Shuangmu's attention under the pretext of watching the drama.
Chen Sui drove the snow vehicle, bursting out with a bang, stirring up a sky full of snow dust. Zhou Chen was choked by the cold air and hurriedly followed her.
"Little Sui, slow down—"
"Why are you and the Commander both so savage when driving? Can't you be steady like me?"
Zhou Chen quickly caught up, at first somewhat unfamiliar with the snow vehicle's stance mode, but after getting the hang of it, he soon caught up with Chen Sui.
Xie Chunshi sat behind Chen Sui, only able to see the identical black gold mecha of Zhu Jing Fu in front, but in his heart, he felt it was different.
The feeling of constantly watching Chen Sui was completely different from when she wasn't by his side.
Zhou Chen's words remained unanswered for a long time. He looked over curiously and saw the Commander gazing ahead with a somewhat heavy posture.
This atmosphere made Zhou Chen afraid to chatter, fearing some accident might happen, and he instinctively closed his mouth.
As the snow vehicle raced across the Red Moon Snow Plain, dealing with energy bodies along the way, they drove toward the base station, landing directly and racing toward the monitoring station.
The monitoring station was one of the few structures in the base station that directly connected to the outside and to several large buildings in the base station. It occupied a huge area with excellent defensive capabilities, able to withstand mecha cannons and energy attacks.
Although it was designed by the Border Army to prevent energy body attacks, it protected the base station well during the competition, preventing it from being damaged in the military academy students' battles.
Outside the base station, on the outer layer of a circular building, was an extremely long skybridge. A large door separated the two sides, with guard mechas scattered on the outer layer, a semi-circular plaza.
Inside the large door, walking directly in, was the equipment placement point.
Chen Sui fixed the monitoring equipment in front of the cockpit.
Before walking out onto the skybridge and entering the plaza, Xie Chunshi asked: "Remember the point?"
"Don't worry, distract the others. One minute, I can set it up."
Chen Sui held the long spear in her hand.
"How's the situation outside the base station?"
Gu Qinxue was chatting with Na Luo River. When He Lanqi's question came, she nodded instinctively, responding on the team channel: "Na Luo River didn't find it and came back directly. According to He Shuangmu's account, Saint Laurent is on the way back."
"Na Luo River came back directly?" Zhou Chen raised an eyebrow.
Chen Sui let out a light laugh. "Trying to intercept us directly, I bet."
Na Luo River wasn't the only one thinking this way. Xie Chunshi said: "Except for Song Yuan, the other Commanders are probably thinking the same. Saint Laurent is on the way back, and Ink Hills is almost here too."
"We need to hurry. We can handle Na Luo River alone, but with the other two, it gets a bit difficult."
Chen Sui said seriously.
The three people and the two sitting in the plaza nodded together.
He Lanqi, seeing Gu Qinxue nod, was puzzled: "Why are you nodding? I asked what you'll do during the break."
Gu Qinxue came to her senses, looking up at her: "Zhou Chen's treating us to a meal. Would Na Luo River like to join?"
"He's treating?" He Lanqi was somewhat surprised, then understood, smiling: "He should treat. We've been watching his back the whole way. It makes sense for Young Master Zhou to pay back."
Just as they were talking, Zhou Chen and the other two walked into the plaza. Hearing this, Zhou Chen quickly stepped forward, one hand on Simos's shoulder: "What are you talking about?"
"Talking about you treating us," Simos dodged his hand, exclaiming: "Be careful! My mecha's decoration was just fixed."
Zhou Chen only then noticed a diamond ornament embedded on his shoulder, immediately feeling speechless: "Bro, do you really need that? Wouldn't an energy body just slice it off?"
Simos pointed back at Chen Sui: "Your analyst specially carved it for me. It won't fall off easily. This is a ring—pull it and my cannon comes out."
"Cool, right?" Simos looked at Zhou Chen proudly.
Chen Sui showed a slight smile. Simos typically used a concentrated energy cannon, with his other close-combat weapon varying—light sword, light blade, long knife, broad axe. Chen Sui had seen a lot of information about him, and his weapons were never fixed, but this time, he was carrying a dagger.
"Your Zhu Jing Fu also had no harvest?" Xie You's voice softly sounded.
Chen Sui twitched the corner of her mouth, diverting the topic, "This Red Moon Snow Plain really stirred up a snake nest."
Xie You narrowed his eyes, feeling she was implying something.
Zhou Chen nodded matter-of-factly: "Yeah, you don't know, forget White Jade Thunder Serpents, we only got this black snake. Where did the Red Moon Snow Plain get so many snakes? Your boy has skinned it."
After speaking, seeing Xie You's gloomy gaze fixed on him, he hurriedly explained: "Oh, I didn't mean you. I meant the energy body."
"What good stuff did you get this time?"
Jipuna, somewhat familiar with Zhu Jing Fu's characteristics, immediately asked.
Zhou Chen took out the black snake scales that Chen Sui had peeled off. The blood on them hadn't dried yet, and when he flung them open, blood splattered.
Simos nimbly dodged, afraid it would get on him.
As he dodged, the path beside Chen Sui was cleared, leading directly to the door behind.
Chen Sui glanced at the route from the corner of her eye, and when she looked back, she exchanged a glance with Xie Chunshi.
"Get ready," the Commander's voice sounded on the team channel.
Zhou Chen turned around smiling, blocking Xie You's gaze, putting his arm around his shoulder like a good brother: "How about it, Commander Xie? Good quality scales, right?"
The black snake scales were visibly hard. Before Xie You could speak, Simos was the first to express some discontent: "How does your Zhu Jing Fu always excel, always finding good things?"
He was somewhat puzzled.
Amid Zhou Chen's laughter, Xie You lowered his eyes to the black snake scales.
Chen Sui had cut near the snake's head. The hard black scales had a pattern drawn on them. Xie You narrowed his eyes: "This—"
However, in the moment he looked down, Chen Sui suddenly retreated, her figure flashing, directly charging toward the monitoring station door.
"Holy crap!"
Ink Hills' agile attacker Jipuna exclaimed in surprise, the navy blue mecha darting out first.
Simos looked over in surprise, his eyes flashing with shock: "What, your Zhu Jing Fu is playing tricks?"
Just as he finished speaking, the Na Luo River members followed closely behind Jipuna, chasing after the black gold mecha.
Xie You turned his head, looking at Xie Chunshi with some exasperation: "You tricked me?"
Xie Chunshi spread his hands innocently: "Little You, how did I trick you?"
Xie You gnashed his teeth angrily. Indeed, Xie Chunshi hadn't answered him.
This man was so vicious!
Chen Sui knew this idea wouldn't hold them for long. As Jipuna set up his cannon and fired at her, she quickly dodged to the side, her mecha sliding on the ground, stopping outside the monitoring station.
Jipuna reminded on the team channel: "Zhu Jing Fu found the monitoring equipment, return quickly."
"On the way," Zhang Yingjie said solemnly. "Almost at the base station."
"Hold her."
Jipuna nodded, his cannon firing continuously, directly exploding at Chen Sui's mecha position.
Chen Sui quickly dodged, but from the distance, a shell fired out, directly heading for her landing point. The mecha was currently hovering in midair, and landing would mean colliding with the cannon.
Chen Sui's eyes flashed. She twisted her body, about to dodge sideways, when Jipuna seized the opportunity, firing several shots around her.
The black gold mecha was surrounded by a layer of flowing light.
From the front, a gust of wind. A metal umbrella face rotated, sweeping past from the front. Chen Sui's eyes flickered as she grabbed the shield umbrella Puluo had spun out. The moment she landed, the shield umbrella stood in front of her.
"Boom—"
The cannon struck, exploding with a huge sound.
The metal at the detection point trembled a few times.
Chen Sui collected the shield umbrella and spun it back.
Zhu Jing Fu's black gold mecha rapidly approached from the distance. Zhou Chen drew out his Four-sided Mace, a silver light flashing past, a faint thunder striking forward.
Energy shielding existed in the base station, making it difficult for spirit body energy to be exerted. At this moment, to seize the initiative, it depended entirely on mecha close combat and cannons.
The lightning Zhou Chen wielded wasn't strong, but it still made the mechas surrounding Chen Sui dodge to the side.
"You're not playing fair, so many people surrounding our analyst? Don't you know our analyst is very fragile?"
His voice came through, with Gu Qinxue setting up her cannon behind him.
"Stop wasting words," Xie You said coldly. "Your Zhu Jing Fu sure knows how to act. Almost let you slip through."
"Tsk, do you understand what tactics are? As a Commander, you're not as good as our Commander Xie."
Zhou Chen's words were just short of saying Xie You wasn't as good as Xie Chunshi, directly hitting Xie You's sore spot. Simos looked at him in surprise: "You've got courage."
Even Xiao Er couldn't help but look up.
Xie You answered with action, showing whether he was better than Xie Chunshi or not.
The Na Luo River Commander charged out, directly kicking toward Zhou Chen.
The leg wind swept across, making a sound of cutting through the air.
Gu Qinxue's cannon fired around, forcing back the surrounding mechas, but in front of the monitoring station door, Xitisi's Chi Buyu, Saint Laurent's He Lanxiu, and three other academies all had people guarding outside.
"Ah Xue, distract them. I'll break through from the rear with the analyst."
The Commander's voice was calm and composed.
Gu Qinxue nodded. Chen Sui glanced back, and when she made eye contact with Xie Chunshi, both drew their weapons simultaneously.
The energy-reducing knife and long spear flashed by. The black gold mechas, like two streaks of light, directly rushed out toward the rear.
The long spear struck the air, producing a dull explosion. Chi Buyu's light sword was drawn out, directly flashing forward. The black gold mechas crossed in midair, one high and one low.
The upper black gold mecha's energy-reducing knife directly collided with the mecha.
Chi Buyu's eyes flashed, looking downward at the black gold mecha holding the long spear. The spear swept forward, the immense shock power directly forcing back the mecha guarding the door, crashing into the door with a thud, followed by the door shaking.
"May I pass?"
Chen Sui's long spear was intercepted by He Lanxiu. She asked politely.
He Lanxiu smiled somewhat gently: "Sorry, not this time."
"Is that so?"
As Chen Sui's words fell, her waist and back exerted force. The power carried by the long spear was suddenly as heavy as ten thousand pounds. He Lanxiu's crescent blade slipped, directly sliding to the end.
His eyes showed some surprise. Chen Sui's offensive didn't stop at all. The long spear retracted and extended, directly bypassing the crescent blade and striking toward his mecha. A massive side impact pushed He Lanxiu's footsteps to the side.
When He Lanxiu moved away, exposing the monitoring point door, the black gold mecha entered the code. The door opened, and the white light from the monitoring point shone out, illuminating a strip of bright light on the plaza outside.
"Sister Chen Sui, it's going to be hard to get in today," Simos's cannon fired out, directly aiming at Chen Sui's back.
The black gold mecha dodged sideways, and the monitoring point door stood wide open.
"First take down the monitoring equipment," Xie You's voice sounded.
Simos said softly: "That would mean blasting her out of the competition."
As he said this, his eyes couldn't help but show a bit of excitement.
This was his first time crossing moves with Chen Sui.
The Na Luo River agile attacker's cannon fired continuously, creating a straight line of explosions in front of the monitoring door.
Chen Sui performed several somersaults. When she landed, she immediately sprang up and leaped out, throwing the long spear, the spear head striking toward Simos's chest.
Simos's cannon charged energy and fired forward.
The black gold mecha faced the violent energy. Simos's eyes flashed with surprise because Chen Sui's movements showed no sign of dodging, as if she were going to face his cannon head-on.
A strong attack analyst in close combat? Is that all?
This ill-timed thought crossed Simos's mind.
In this less-than-a-second lapse, the cannon fired.
The black gold mecha in midair, its figure leaning back, the long spear spinning in an arc, the spear head in front tracing through the air, directly pointing backward.
Her figure still moved forward, but the backward-leaning motion avoided Simos's cannon, with only the scorching heat of the energy cannon fire passing over her mecha.
"Bang!!"
The black gold mecha's right leg kicked toward Simos's chest.
The crimson mecha fell from midair.
An extremely loud thud as it crashed to the ground.
The crimson mecha was kicked to the ground with one foot.
"Cough—"
When Chen Sui placed her foot on him, the immense pressure made Simos hold his breath. Only after crashing to the ground did he suddenly let out a gasp.
The black gold mecha hung upside down in midair, turning back, darting backward. The long spear was raised, with an even fiercer sweeping motion.
"Looks like I'm late?"
An energetic voice sounded, with a gold mecha brilliant under the white light.
"But not too late," Noya's raised cannon was even brighter than his mecha.
Chen Sui had just repelled He Lanxiu when she was targeted by the three people who had arrived from Saint Laurent.
Three cannons fired simultaneously. She dodged sideways, and the cannons directly blasted into the monitoring station.
A explosion sounded, and the monitoring station lit up with a honeycomb-like blue light barrier.
"Fortunately, Director Mo reinforced the monitoring station's protective barrier in advance," in the control room, Jian Run had somewhat of a spectator's attitude.
Chen Sui had already passed through the large door three times without entering.
He looked at the progress of other academies, suddenly smiling: "Ink Hills is already outside the base station. It seems Zhu Jing Fu will have a hard time entering this door today."