novelraw Chapter 125 : Song of Sand and Mirage
Chapter 125 : Song of Sand and Mirage
"Are you sure?"
Chen Sui raised an eyebrow at him.
Her tone was full of uncertainty.
Zhou Chen immediately felt he was being underestimated, "You don't believe me? If you don't trust the Lucky King, who can you trust?"
"Enough from you," Gu Qinxue pulled him back.
"Getting closer, seems they're looking for us too," Chen Sui sensed the energy, detecting that the fluctuations were approaching. Even through a layer of chaotic energy, she could clearly feel the approaching presence and quickly looked at her teammates. "Let them find us? Should we prepare?"
Gu Qinxue and Xie Chunshi nodded, understanding her meaning.
Zhou Chen was still half a beat behind, looking at Puluo behind him: "Prepare what?"
Puluo was actually also somewhat confused, but didn't show it, following Gu Qinxue's actions and beginning to organize the energy pipes.
"When they come, just blast a shot," Chen Sui said, randomly grabbing an unlucky person to put on a show.
Xie Chunshi calculated, and the steady, reliable Commander pondered for a moment, suddenly saying: "We have enough energy pipes to blast out. Let's trick them into helping, and we can use the saved energy to blast for more points."
These words made Chen Sui immediately look at him. Xie Chunshi's fingers curled slightly as he looked at her somewhat expectantly.
The analyst immediately gave him a thumbs up: "Still have to hand it to the Commander. In terms of nerve, we can't compare."
She only wanted to threaten the other side not to act rashly, but Xie Chunshi was more outrageous, directly turning the tables and making others work for Zhu Jing Fu.
"Good idea."
Chen Sui nodded, agreeing with the feasibility of this plan.
Looking at the high walls in front, the Zhu Jing Fu team hid in the shadows, not continuing to fire their cannons, but more and more energy bodies appeared around them. Zhu Jing Fu's stay here still inevitably led to battles with energy bodies.
The sound of cannon fire colliding with energy bodies, as well as the surrounding energy fluctuations, brought the Saint Laurent team closer to Zhu Jing Fu's position.
When the golden mech appeared in view, Chen Sui, who had just repelled an energy body that had jumped out from under the sand, suddenly spoke: "They're here."
She looked up, "Saint Laurent."
With this name, Xie Chunshi nodded: "Then no problem, Noya overthinks, you just need to make a little show, and he'll take the bait."
Black Sesame Rice Ball was cunning; Zhu Jing Fu only needed to show a little, and Noya would fill in the rest himself.
If it were Na Luo River, Xie Chunshi thought, he would have to find a way to trick his brother, but Saint Laurent was simple, Xie Yi was much easier to deceive than Xie You.
Chen Sui thought the same, so the moment she saw Saint Laurent's mech appear, her cannon fired toward the mech.
Just as he saw the black-gold mech defeating energy bodies, Noya spoke: "Sure enough, it's Zhu Jing Fu. How do these people always make such a big commotion?"
"Holy shit!! Sister Chen Sui, what are you doing??"
"I'm your brother Noya—"
Noya, seeing Chen Sui's cannon turn, immediately had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the cannon muzzle flashed red, energy accumulating, bursting with a strong light.
Saint Laurent's soldier He Shuangmu immediately raised an energy shield, blocking in front of everyone.
"Boom—"
The cannon hit the energy shield, making a huge noise. He Shuangmu's hand trembled slightly.
Seeing the flames spread in front of him, the temperature licking past, even hotter than the desert temperature.
He Shuangmu's first internal feeling was, fortunately it was just a cannon, not the iron fist of Zhu Jing Fu's analyst.
"Still calling yourself brother Noya, she's shooting specifically at brother Noya."
He Shuangmu, seeing Noya duck down, mocked him as he closed the umbrella.
Noya stood up with a swoosh: "Impossible, she must have mistaken us for someone else."
Before entering the energy field, he was still good sisters with Chen Sui, even agreeing to share material lists. Chen Sui couldn't be so heartless.
Noya clung to this fantasy, but was perfectly clear in his heart that Zhu Jing Fu must have been triggered from fighting energy bodies, otherwise they were all attacking challengers and wouldn't rashly strike first.
Indeed, after Saint Laurent's energy shield was withdrawn, Chen Sui immediately put away her cannon, waving to Noya from a distance.
"Oh, it's you guys, you startled me. I thought you were energy bodies."
Her words weren't wrong, after all, in the maze, the energy was chaotic, making it difficult to distinguish between spirit bodies and energy bodies most of the time.
And behind her, the Zhu Jing Fu school team members were all holding back laughter.
Noya, seeing Chen Sui's cannon turn toward an energy body on the side, couldn't help but feel his teeth ache: "Where do they get so much energy, blasting walls and still having energy to blast energy bodies?"
Though saying this, Noya's hands weren't idle. Seeing that the surrounding energy bodies were all attracted by Zhu Jing Fu, Saint Laurent's cannons also fired toward the energy bodies.
"Hey," Zhou Chen caught a glimpse, "they're stealing our spoils, would you look at that."
"Forget it, you don't have enough energy to blast so many anyway. Besides, we'll need our good brothers from Saint Laurent to help later," Chen Sui's comforting voice sounded.
To put on a complete show to trick Saint Laurent into helping, Zhu Jing Fu was putting in a lot of effort in this battle for energy body points.
"How did you guys draw out so many energy bodies? My cannon charging can barely keep up."
After clearing the energy bodies, the Saint Laurent team came forward.
"Commander Xie, we meet again, what a fate," Noya high-fived Xie Chunshi. The two greeted each other amicably. The golden-haired shota looked up at the high walls ahead. The exact number of such high walls in the maze was yet unknown, but calculating the distance to the base station, they could roughly figure out how many walls needed to be collapsed.
"Are you just going out like this? Do you have enough energy?"
Noya's tone couldn't help but carry some sourness. They all entered with basic energy, yet how could Zhu Jing Fu be so carefree?
Thinking carefully, Saint Laurent might not be unable to do the same, but out of caution, bulldozing was not Noya's first choice.
"Are you short on energy?"
Chen Sui, hearing his sour words, handed him an energy pipe: "Here, need it?"
Noya was surprised by Zhu Jing Fu's generosity, his heart skipping a beat. Their soldier He Shuangmu exclaimed in the Saint Laurent team channel: "Wow, so generous, how much energy do they have?"
"He Shuangmu, you take it," Noya encouraged.
If he took it, it would seem like he was lowering his head to Zhu Jing Fu, but Noya also wanted to see exactly how much energy reserve Zhu Jing Fu had.
Just as the soldier reached out, Chen Sui immediately pulled back the energy pipe.
He Shuangmu: ?
"You're taking it for free?" Chen Sui leaned back slightly, her eyes staring at him, her gaze implicitly carrying some pressure.
"The usual rules, do you have any materials? We can trade."
"Ha," Noya was now certain, it was truly Zhu Jing Fu's consistent style. These guys really did have energy reserves. Had they found a secondary base station in advance?
Noya thought about Saint Laurent's direction and felt it wasn't impossible.
"No need, Sister Chen Sui, keep it for yourself. We Saint Laurent have enough."
Noya politely declined.
Chen Sui somewhat disappointedly withdrew the energy pipe.
In the Zhu Jing Fu team channel, Zhou Chen took the energy pipe from her hand, putting it into the cannon charging slot, sighing in relief: "Good thing he didn't take it, I only have two pipes left."
"Don't worry, later you use it sparingly, Saint Laurent can still supplement us."
Chen Sui's tone carried a smile.
"Hey Sister Chen Sui, has Zhu Jing Fu discovered any good things? I've been searching here for several days, all just basic materials, nothing particularly good. What about you?"
Saint Laurent naturally inserted themselves into the Zhu Jing Fu team, with Noya amicably probing Chen Sui for information.
"Ah, didn't I give you a list before we came? Haven't you looked at it?"
Chen Sui asked in return.
San Sheng had many conventional materials, none particularly precious.
Noya was somewhat disappointed: "I looked, but this energy field is too hard to search."
"Don't worry, everything in San Sheng is treasure. Whatever you find is profit."
Chen Sui comforted him. They were all sheep-shearers, why be picky about whether the wool was good or not?
These words didn't comfort Noya well, because her carefree figure leaping forward was telling Noya one message.
—We Zhu Jing Fu have found treasure.
Zhu Jing Fu pushed open the high wall in front. Xie Chunshi, seeing Saint Laurent join, looked at Noya: "Won't you help out?"
Noya's finger rubbed his nose, "Alright, how much energy control?"
Chen Sui reported ten points higher. Xie Chunshi's intention was that Noya, being cunning, would definitely halve it, and this portion of energy would be saved for them.
"Commander, we're 5% short," He Shuangmu asked dumbly in the team.
Noya irritably said: "Just listen to me, our energy isn't abundant either, we need to save it."
He Shuangmu nodded honestly, moving up to fire a shot.
With the support of two teams, the maze quickly began to bulldoze from the central position toward the base station. From an aerial view, one could clearly see a straight line drawn through the maze which occupied a huge area.
[Really straight, Zhu Jing Fu doesn't want to take a single extra step]
[Truly bulldozing hahaha, not taking a single detour, just charging straight to the base station]
[Don't mention it, if the maze wasn't so big earlier, I suspect Sui would've already wanted to flatten it, instead of waiting until they reached the middle to start]
The mechs gathered in the maze, energy signals spreading out, attracting more and more energy bodies.
Seeing the energy body group in front, after the companions were blasted dead by mech cannons, the surviving energy bodies seemed about to burrow into the sand.
"They're about to run again, He Shuangmu, block them!"
"Coming, coming," Saint Laurent's soldier spread his hands left and right, energy covering the ground below, directly turning the yellow sand into hardened soil. His spirit body was an extremely robust husky, its shadow running around Saint Laurent's golden mech, making He Shuangmu dizzy.
"Stop running, ancestors, it's not like I haven't taken you out for a walk."
Chen Sui, withdrawing from her cannon, heard his words and just started to smile: "Good thing there aren't husky-like energy bodies in San Sheng."
Otherwise, with He Shuangmu's dog-attracting constitution, the scene would certainly be interesting.
He Shuangmu had just shown a tearful expression when Chen Sui's ears moved, her expression suddenly changing.
"Commander!"
She called out to Xie Chunshi.
Both Noya and Xie Chunshi turned to look.
"There's a sound."
Chen Sui's voice cooled. As soon as she spoke, a sonic wave spread, the frequency obviously much stronger. The howls silently struck everyone's eardrums. The vestibule seemed to be disturbed by this sonic wave, making vision dizzy, the mech figures swaying back and forth.
The energy bodies on the ground, which had been blocked by the hardened soil from burrowing down, suddenly stopped their downward digging motion, popping out one after another, converging toward the mechs.
Among them, a long tail whipped out from under the sand, its sharp tail spike like a steel needle, thrusting toward the mechs.
Zhou Chen's cannon hadn't yet been withdrawn. Affected by the sonic wave, his hand was unsteady, and the cannon directly crashed into the ground. The white scorpion's long tail suddenly attacked with fierce wind.
"Snap!"
Gu Qinxue's long whip lashed forward, directly coiling around the black-gold mech, pulling it back forcefully.
Zhou Chen hadn't yet come to his senses, but his figure rushed backward. The mech driver holding the long whip was also somewhat affected in balance, her hand movement shaky. The whip around Zhou Chen's waist loosened, and his mech directly fell face-first into the sand. Just as Gu Qinxue hadn't released her force, Zhou Chen's face was dragged along the yellow sand, pulled several meters away.
The white scorpion's long tail missed, but a flash of silver light it stirred up caught Chen Sui's attention. She stepped forward but swayed a bit, her footsteps floating. It was the confusing energy's influence, with a consciousness trying to control her, attempting to keep the mech in place.
Chen Sui's eyes flashed with displeasure; she hated being controlled.
A long spear had somehow appeared in her hand. After a brief swaying, the black-gold mech forcibly stabilized, then propelled forward, the entire figure darting out like a stream of light.
Xie Chunshi's movement was a step late, but he quickly seized an opportunity from the sonic wave attack. Blue energy waves rippled outward, with the sea sprite leaping up, emitting a series of melodious tones in mid-air.
The two sonic waves collided, energy invisibly confronting each other.
This song temporarily gave the Saint Laurent team some clarity. Xue Yaoyao immediately reacted, bringing her hands together in front of her chest, then separating them to reveal a butterfly wing.
"Twin Butterfly."
The analyst said in a low voice.
Two almost identical butterflies flew out to either side. The gorgeous butterfly wings were adorned with luminous spots. As the wings flapped, luminescent powder fell around like golden rain.
The luminescent powder flickered with light, a slight energy vibration swept out, awakening those who had been confused by the song.
Zhou Chen had just regained his senses when he felt a fiery pain on his face. Face down, he looked up, seeing right in front of him the extremely long scorpion tail of the white scorpion, which had emerged from the sand.
Familiar teammate mechs rushed forward, a long spear sweeping in front, a fierce wind swept out, the black-gold mech's four-ridged spear blade directly striking the scorpion tail swinging in mid-air.
Just as the white scorpion's tail contacted the long spear, it coiled along the spear body. The tail spike moved upward, and when approaching the mech, directly stabbed toward Chen Sui's chest.
"Very good, bold."
Chen Sui praised. This energy body didn't run away but stayed here, much better than those that directly burrowed into the ground halfway through a fight. Just a bit too noisy, Chen Sui thought.
If only the confusing energy bodies here were all mute, like the Pure Blood Tree, that would be great. Even in death, they had value.
As for the white scorpion, it was a nuisance alive, better dead.
Thinking this, Chen Sui dodged the white scorpion's tail spike, releasing her hand. The long spear, dragged by the scorpion tail, fell downward. Chen Sui, quick as lightning, grabbed the very end of the spear, then pulled the spear upward.
At the same time, while dodging the scorpion tail spike, the mech made a turn, directly grabbing the scorpion tail that had swung toward her.
The mech's hand was like an iron clamp, firmly gripping the scorpion tail.
The white scorpion under the sand emitted a series of screams, the sonic waves rippling out, like spikes rushing at Chen Sui.
The others around, who were dealing with other energy bodies, involuntarily covered their ears.
"Now I know why Little Sui likes quiet," Zhou Chen said loudly.
Actually, the white scorpion's calls couldn't be heard by human ears, but his voice was quite loud. No one reprimanded Zhou Chen, instead communicating at the same volume.
He Shuangmu: "So noisy! Ah! I can't stand it!"
"Hang on a little longer, Little Sui will finish it soon."
Zhou Chen comforted, while picking up his cannon from the ground, his hand still somewhat shaking as he aimed forward: "Can someone give me a position? My hand is shaking."
Xie Chunshi's energy tide spread out, his gaze toward the analyst battling the white scorpion on one side, his peripheral vision glancing at other energy bodies, reporting positions on the team channel.
Zhou Chen, hearing the position, reacted conditionally, his cannon exceptionally stable as he fired.
The white scorpion's long tail was pulled out by Chen Sui, its entire scorpion body directly dragged from the yellow sand. As its body left the ground, a sand spiral followed the white scorpion's body, extending upward, instantly forming a sand tornado.
Chen Sui withdrew her long spear, her hand gripping the white scorpion's body. The sand tornado swept toward the black-gold mech.
"Wood-Born Flower."
Chen Sui called in a low voice.
A vine extended from her mech, piercing into the ground, firmly anchoring the mech in mid-air.
The sand tornado swept past violently, the sand like sharp knives, making the mech's outer shell clang with friction.
Inside was a huge energy high pressure, but Chen Sui didn't directly crash in. The sand tornado's energy high pressure could tear a mech apart.
At the instant the sand tornado approached, the vines pulled the mech toward the other side.
At the same time, she pulled the white scorpion toward the high wall over there—
"Whack!!"
The mech's hand pulling the scorpion tail slammed the white scorpion hard against the maze wall.
"Good sound means good meat," this crisp sound was something Zhu Jing Fu had become accustomed to. For energy bodies emitting confusing sounds, Chen Sui consistently adopted such violent methods.
"Damn, when did your analyst's temper become so violent?"
He Shuangmu instinctively shuddered, seeing the white scorpion become stiff-jointed after this whack, feeling somewhat rueful.
"Try to understand, it's too noisy," Zhou Chen said, and just as he finished, a very familiar figure suddenly surged from the yellow sand in front. "Damn, there's more!?"
"Why are these things everywhere in this maze!"
Zhou Chen had just been face-dragged by Gu Qinxue, now looking at white scorpions with annoyance.
Seeing a segment of scorpion tail emerge, the black-gold mech immediately rushed over.
His enthusiasm made the Saint Laurent team look for an extra second.
Noya reacted, immediately saying: "Let's fight too. Zhu Jing Fu is focusing on this energy body, could there be something good?"
Noya was quite familiar with Zhu Jing Fu's process of scavenging materials from energy bodies, immediately thinking of this, quickly following, increasing his cannon's energy control by five points, directly blasting at the white scorpion.
As the group rushed toward the white scorpion group in the sand, the white scorpion in Chen Sui's hand also gathered not just one sand tornado around it.
However, the mech, pulled by vines, moved exceptionally nimbly in all directions. The sand tornadoes couldn't harm her at all. Instead, the white scorpion itself was repeatedly whipped against the wall, even causing one maze wall to directly collapse.
The white scorpion emitted a scream, a sound that could be captured. Chen Sui looked toward the yellow sand. The surrounding white scorpions seemed to be preparing to retreat, but were already targeted by mechs in advance. Just as they were about to leave, they were blown up from the sand by He Shuangmu's earth spiral columns.
As soon as a scorpion tail showed, it was directly gripped by a mech.
Chen Sui gave everyone inspiration.
White scorpions were ready-made demolition tools, directly whipping the energy bodies against the high walls.
"Wait, doesn't Zhu Jing Fu feel pain? These outer shells are all energy impacts."
Saint Laurent swung the white scorpions a few times, annoyed by the surrounding energy storms. They couldn't help but look at the black-gold mechs jumping around in mid-air, avoiding white scorpion attacks while whipping them against the walls, and were suddenly silent.
"Ah, pain is pain, but, you get used to it."
Zhu Jing Fu had undergone Chen Sui's version of energy resistance training and pain resistance training. Although they couldn't completely ignore damage like Chen Sui, they could act while complaining about pain.
"Don't you care about energy consumption at all?" He Shuangmu had just spoken when he suddenly realized: "Oh, you really don't need to worry."
"Come on, don't dwell on it, let's fight quickly. These things are quite stress-relieving. When we get to the base station, our analyst will repair everyone!"
As soon as Zhou Chen said this, the Saint Laurent team immediately jumped on the bandwagon: "Really?"
"Really, can you fire a shot here?"
Chen Sui joined in, throwing the white scorpion she had whipped to its last breath against the wall, reporting a position to Saint Laurent.
"Just blast it? Aren't you going to extract anything?"
Noya asked strangely. Could it be that this white scorpion had nothing worth extracting?
Chen Sui looked at him with a strange expression: "What needs to be extracted? This white scorpion has no attack to speak of, no resistance to speak of, only a confusing sound. Should I cut out its throat?"
Chen Sui said, this thing wasn't like Pure Blood.
"Huh?" Noya made a surprised sound, "This white scorpion has no usable materials?"
He had wasted so much energy??
"Hurry up, Leader Noya, it's about to climb away," Chen Sui said, seeing the white scorpion twitch on the wall, exaggerating.
Noya felt like a part of him had died.
According to her position report, as if possessed by Zhou Chen, his muscle memory fired without error, a shot with extremely high energy gathering, combined with Chen Sui's Fierce Fire Cannon, directly killing the white scorpion, the energy crystal dropping.
Seeing the black-gold mech bend down to pick up the energy crystal, Noya, somewhat pained by the energy loss, said to Chen Sui: "Sister Chen Sui, couldn't you just poke it with your spirit body? Why fire a shot, how troublesome."
But he was just complaining verbally. After learning the white scorpion was useless, he immediately lowered his energy control, joining Zhu Jing Fu to deal with the remaining white scorpions, not taking this matter to heart.
The audience watching the livestream also paid no attention.
But in the Competition Committee's control room, Lu Cuining, watching the light screen, suddenly smiled, looking at Song Xingzhang: "Is this also part of Master Song's training plan?"
Song Xingzhang's expression remained unchanged, his tone still calm: "Little Sui relies too much on energy, which isn't good for a strong attack analyst."
Mentioning this, Jian Run, who was about to speak, swallowed his words, his eyes carrying some darkness.
Lu Cuining clenched his fist, thinking to himself, what an old fox. Mentioning this here, continuing would just hit Jian Run's sore spot, but Chen Sui's changes made Lu Cuining somewhat curious.
After Song Baining disappeared, he had long been in and out of the God-Abandoned Domain. Besides the Border Army's special team for the God-Abandoned Domain, Lu Cuining was confident he was the person who knew the God-Abandoned Domain's energy bodies best.
Not to mention, due to the special attributes of the God-Abandoned Domain, he had also entered various top-level energy fields.
Wood-Born Flower's form was becoming increasingly strange.
This strangeness made Lu Cuining suspect, was this really Chen Sui's spirit body?
Although during awakening, the awakener would experience signal resonance with same-attribute energy bodies due to energy signals, causing the spirit body and energy body prototype to be extremely similar.
But could they really be similar to this extent?
Lu Cuining narrowed his eyes, not continuing the discussion, but following the light screen image to watch.
"How many of these energy bodies are there? They're annoying when they call, and I suspect that as soon as they appear, the surrounding walls multiply."
Zhou Chen said.
This wasn't his illusion. As the main energy bodies creating the maze, white scorpions had an influencing effect on the maze's layout.
The two teams had already solved most of the surrounding walls, but with the appearance of white scorpions, the density of walls ahead seemed to have increased.
"Keep blasting, we've come this far."
He Shuangmu patted him. Zhou Chen turned back, his mech's face still covered in dust, with sand scratching friction marks on the mech's connections, looking miserable. He Shuangmu's hand paused, leaning back: "Why don't you wash your face first, your appearance is a bit shocking."
Zhou Chen reached up to touch, "Damn, my handsome and dashing image."
After speaking, Chen Sui, Puluo, and the Saint Laurent team all looked over with question marks above their heads.
Do you even have such a thing?
Zhou Chen had already approached Xie Chunshi, being washed by the Commander's water flow, regaining a clean appearance, but the scratch marks on the mech couldn't be removed for the moment. He kept nagging Chen Sui all the way.
"I know, I know, I understand."
Chen Sui pushed Zhou Chen away with one hand, her cannon rushing out. Seeing him about to come up and instruct her again, she quickly looked at him: "Say one more word, and I'll remake Hawk to look like your summoned body."
Zhou Chen fell silent instantly.
The area around Chen Sui suddenly went quiet, but as she pondered this, she felt even more uncomfortable.
"Wait, is your summoned body not good-looking?"
Chen Sui asked in confusion.
Zhou Chen pressed his lips, looking left and right, his eyes signaling the Commander to say something, Ah Xue to say something, Puluo to say something.
Don't let him answer this question.
Chen Sui silently clenched her fist, good, fine, very well, her summoned body was merely not good-looking?!
Not good-looking to the point that when she thought of a threat for Zhou Chen, she blurted it out!
Chen Sui reflected for a second, then quickly comforted herself. Some people just lack taste. She had to believe in herself.
Chen Sui finally sighed in relief.
Zhou Chen looked around for help, his eyes suddenly fixing on a spot. Chen Sui's perception returned, coincidentally discovering something, looking in the direction of his fixed gaze.
The two simultaneously spoke on the team channel.
Chen Sui: "This energy body feels familiar."
Zhou Chen: "Holy shit!! It's the Sand Armor Beast! Sharp teeth, I'm coming!"
In the yellow sand, only the outline of an outer shell had emerged, yet Zhou Chen rushed over with absolute certainty.
Chen Sui drew her spear, sweeping it across the yellow sand on the ground. The spear energy shook away the surrounding sand dust, directly drawing out a straight air flow. The yellow sand parted to both sides, revealing the Sand Armor Beast's shell.
"Energy body group, let's work."
As Chen Sui's voice sounded, the surrounding energy became more chaotic. The analyst's energy perception could only clearly discern when close. Just as her warning reminder finished, Xue Yaoyao immediately added: "Comprehensive level SS, can fight."
The two teams looked at each other, directly rushing out around.
Zhou Chen pounced toward the Sand Armor Beast's position, his cannon moving faster than the mech, directly blasting in the yellow sand. Worried about the Sand Armor Beast running away, he even called He Shuangmu to harden the yellow sand below.
"Zhou Chen went that way, he seems really excited," He Shuangmu returned, telling Noya.
Noya had wasted energy fighting the white scorpion, and now didn't want to increase his energy control, or else Saint Laurent would face energy shortage before leaving the maze.
"Don't mind him, they get excited about everything they see in Zhu Jing Fu," then single-mindedly rushing out.
Noya now understood that as long as Zhu Jing Fu had a bit of sweetness, they would rush out like whatever.
The Sand Armor Beast was definitely Zhu Jing Fu's new bait trap. Chen Sui had long planned to use the sharp teeth to modify Gu Qinxue's Thorny Fire Whip. At this point, she wouldn't let these creatures escape.
Xie Chunshi drew his energy-reducing knife. Chen Sui inserted her long spear above the Sand Armor Beast's shell. Puluo's energy shield blocked the ground, preventing the Sand Armor Beast from escaping.
Gu Qinxue's Thorny Fire Whip surrounded the Sand Armor Beast, dispersing the approaching sand tornadoes.
Zhou Chen's Four-sided Mace burst with lightning, shooting along the energy shield, electrically stunning the approaching Sand Armor Beast in place.
Seeing Xie Chunshi's energy-reducing knife approach, he hurriedly said: "Commander, hurry up, there are many more waiting over there."
He spoke as if the Sand Armor Beasts were customers in a shop.
With these words, Zhu Jing Fu's assembly line people accepted it well, but the bullet comments were already laughing wildly.
[Good, good, good, a new assembly line has formed]
[Zhou Chen, you're quite slow at other times, but when there's something good, you react really fast]
[Hahaha "there are more waiting over there," what do you Zhu Jing Fu take SS-level energy bodies for? Hahaha]
[Zhou Chen: I put in 80% effort for me, 120% effort for Gu Qinxue]
[Love-brain, get out]
[When Chen Sui saw the Sand Armor Beast, her mech lit up, directly telling Puluo to bring up his shield, long spear lifting them all up]
[Emperor Sui: Today not one gets to escape]
[Good news, this maze is about to be blasted through]
[Bad news, someone is coming from the base station]
[Really? Is there someone at the base station already??]
[How to put it, if Saint Laurent and Zhu Jing Fu go out now, they'll run right into Na Luo River]
[Na Luo River is fully charged (deep tone)]
Chen Sui only had this group of Sand Armor Beasts in front of her, completely unaware that Na Luo River was just a few walls away.
Na Luo River's retreat route, after obtaining sufficient resources, happened to pass by the base station, through the maze. If Zhu Jing Fu's path broke through, they would indeed run into them.
But at present, the Commander's long knife was thrusting into the Sand Armor Beast's mouth, directly cutting off the sharp teeth and teeth bed.
"Commander, your knife skills are getting better and better."
Zhou Chen, seeing the teeth bed closely attached to the sharp teeth, praised.
Xie Chunshi laughed lightly twice, his energy-reducing knife's ring vibrating, directly deflecting the energy attack thrust by the Sand Armor Beast.
Seeing the sharp teeth removed, Chen Sui directly kicked the Sand Armor Beast up, her long spear piercing through the wide-open giant mouth, forcing out the internal energy.
Zhu Jing Fu's control of the Sand Armor Beast had formed an assembly line, the remaining Sand Armor Beasts quickly being dealt with.
On the other side, Saint Laurent cleared the energy bodies, watching Zhu Jing Fu taking the Sand Armor Beast's sharp teeth. That assembly line-like action made Noya narrow his eyes.
"Wait, what are they taking?"
The Saint Laurent leader looked over, noticing Zhu Jing Fu putting away the Sand Armor Beast's sharp teeth, immediately having a bad feeling.
[Noya (compassionately) go watch the White Sand Sky Pillar Sea recording again]
[Zhu Jing Fu has fooled the child to want everything]
[Although they rush at everything they see, generally when Zhou Chen rushes, it's good stuff (certain)]
Chen Sui put away the Sand Armor Beast's sharp teeth, turning her head to see five Saint Laurent mechs standing in neat formation, looking at her.
"What?"
The analyst took a step back, looking at the central mech.
"Sister Chen Sui, what have you found?"
Chen Sui opened her palm to show him, "Oh, Sand Armor Beast teeth."
Noya was silent.
After a while, seeing Zhu Jing Fu preparing to blast open the high wall, Chen Sui looked back at them, reminding: "Lend a hand?"
Noya approached, as his cannon gathered energy, saying to her: "So there are really good things in San Sheng, right?" Noya asked.
"Actually, think of it this way: if a spatial button this big can be filled and taken back, isn't that a profit?" Chen Sui reasoned with him.
"Don't worry about whether it's useful or good, just fill your spatial button first."
Noya seemed enlightened, immediately looking at Chen Sui with shining eyes.
This scene made Mo Qiu'an in the control room press her forehead.
She felt like Zhu Jing Fu was creating a second version of herself.
Noya was suddenly enlightened, agreeing: "That makes sense."
"Right?" Chen Sui pacified him, then said: "Leader Noya, could you increase your energy control a bit? This wall is thicker."
Noya cheerfully raised his energy control, firing a shot that completely covered the Fierce Fire Cannon's energy, directly blasting a large hole in the high wall.
Then the high wall collapsed with a rumble.
The two teams, seeing the base station signal within reach, became increasingly excited about flattening the high walls.
However, the rumbling and vibrations of the collapsing high walls transmitted to outside the maze. Yellow sand flowed down the slope toward the maze, raised by the vibrations, with energy entanglement, circling toward the maze.
In the yellow sand, a huge metal beast crouched in the desert, the central tower extremely tall, with the base station buildings retreating layer by layer around it.
The crimson team that had already left the base station, hearing the explosions from a distance, couldn't help but look up.
"Who's firing cannons at sand, or is someone fighting? It's so lively," Simos said, his eyes vaguely looking over, his expression humorless, only his voice deliberately showing an unaffected appearance.
Xie You's gloomy eyes swept over, his gaze looking toward the analyst.
He Lanqi's energy perception returned, but she shook her head: "It's the sand city maze. The internal energy is very chaotic, can't discern the situation clearly."
Na Luo River had also encountered the sand city maze on their way, but as defenders, Xie You hadn't entered it, instead choosing to go around.
Firstly to accelerate their entry into the base station, and secondly because the analyst carrying the absorption device entering the maze would mean being surrounded by energy bodies for Na Luo River.
"Let's go," Black Mamba pondered for a moment, deciding for his teammates.
He Lanqi carried the absorption device. Having just left the base station, there were already energy bodies stirring around them. If they encountered other teams, Na Luo River might not escape unscathed.
The crimson mechs increased their propulsion, heading directly toward the distance, away from the maze.
However, just as the mechs had traveled a short distance, the high walls of the maze behind them collapsed with a rumble.
Dust rose, immediately filling the air with yellow sand. A mineral powder storm swept forward, directly carrying the ground's sand dust toward Na Luo River's direction.
"Cough cough—"
Zhou Chen emitted a few coughs.
Even though Gu Qinxue's gale had pushed the maze city walls outward, the dust permeating from the collapse still made his breathing somewhat uncomfortable.
"Damn, why is this wall so thick? The dust is fiercer than other walls."
Zhou Chen had just complained when the two teams, accompanying each other, stepped out of the sand dust maze's energy range.
The surroundings for several meters were covered with sand dust, visibility obscured.
Gu Qinxue controlled a gale, just dispersing the smoke and dust in front, when both teams' analysts spoke simultaneously: "There's spirit body fluctuation, it's another team."
She applied force with her hand, energy sweeping out, clearing the vision in front. In the gray-yellow haze, Chen Sui keenly captured a crimson flash, its silhouette passing by, advancing forward.
"It's Na Luo River!"
Chen Sui's eyes focused: "Ah Xue, stop them."
As Chen Sui's voice fell, Gu Qinxue's gale wandered, directly howling forward.
In the Saint Laurent team, several people also had serious expressions. Noya's voice rang out: "Increase energy gathering, we're grabbing the absorption device."
The blonde shota said sternly.
He Shuangmu: "Are we still going to the base station?"
"Go to hell! After grabbing it, let's run quickly. Neither of these teams are easy to deal with."
Noya said.
Just as he finished, analyst Xue Yaoyao mercilessly added: "Let's grab it first, then talk."
Zhu Jing Fu had already leaped out, energy fluctuations bouncing outward. Fire like clouds, carried by the gale, rushed directly toward Na Luo River's direction.
"Oh ho," the two teams had just left the maze area when He Lanqi sensed the energy fluctuation: "Not just one team."
Seeing the gale approaching their direction, the Na Luo River team looked back. "Wind attribute?"
"Zhu Jing Fu," agile attacker Xiao Er caught a flash of gold from the murky vision, a dazzling color that instinctively made him think of the bright color on that analyst's mech.
"Why not Saint Laurent?" Hearing him mention the mech's gold color, Simos retorted.
However, as Gu Qinxue's sand vortex approached, the yellow sand in their vision was blown away, becoming clear.
The Commander's voice sounded somewhat gloomy: "It's Zhu Jing Fu and Saint Laurent."
"Can't escape, wind attribute energy has surrounded us." He Lanqi looked at the leader.
Xie You immediately changed his mind: "Fight, we're fully charged. Whether they have energy or not is uncertain."
Zhu Jing Fu and Saint Laurent were coming toward the base station, blasting open the maze's high walls along the way, with not a few energy bodies in the maze.
Zhu Jing Fu and Saint Laurent... did they really still have energy?
Xie You didn't believe it.
"Go!"
As the leader's command was issued, the Na Luo River team, originally rushing forward, suddenly stopped and turned back.