The First Analyst of the Interstellar Era

Chapter 176 : Extra Chapter - Military Team Friendship Match (5)

Energy storms swept rapidly through the jungle, gunfire pierced through, and fierce fire cannons shuttled through layers of flames, directly hitting the top of the marked tower. With a thunderous boom, the tower's stones disintegrated, collapsing from top to bottom.

Instructors hiding in the surroundings heard the commotion, peeked out from behind their cover, looked at the intense battlefield ahead, and questioned their teammates on the joint channel.

"What's the situation? Need backup?"

On the other end, the signal was chaotic for a few seconds, then came a voice panting heavily, "Need it, hurry up, if you don't come we'll be wiped out."

"No way!"

The concealed team at the rear was clearly skeptical, but when they moved their mechas forward, they had barely shown themselves before being forced back behind trees by incoming fire. Then they said somewhat panicked: "Damn, these little brats are too vicious, fighting so fiercely?!"

"Hey, no message from the neutral persons? Who's connecting the signal?"

A weak voice came through the team channel: "Don't mention it, there's no signal at all!"

"Can't be, did all the military students choose their own camp?"

An instructor joked: "So united?"

"They don't even want to settle personal grudges?"

"No, how much firepower did you put on the marked tower? Damn, these kids have been fighting for a day and night, what's going on?!"

"The cannons are inexhaustible, huh?"

"If you've got the guts, fight me in close combat, why is this so frustrating!"

"Ahem," the instructors quickly changed positions under the cannon fire, preparing to find suitable assault points under the pressure from the opposing teams. Just as people were moving, an amplified voice sounded across the battlefield, "Instructors, friendly reminder, you are surrounded, repeat, you are surrounded!"

"Now, surrender the marked tower, withdraw from attack range, or surrender!"

The instructors' faces paled as they heard the arrogant terms of surrender from the other side. Their previously joking attitude toward the team competition now ignited their fighting spirit, "That's too arrogant! Who gave him the courage!"

"Which team is this kid from, can you tolerate this?"

"Must be Zhu Jing Fu, this is exactly the kind of thing they'd do."

"Brothers, at a time like this, we've got to take them down!"

The instructor channel immediately boiled over.

On the other side, Zhou Chen, who had opened the loudspeaker, proudly lowered his voice, "Awesome!"

He sighed with refreshment: "I have to say, the information from the neutral persons is quite useful, worthy of you all."

The location of the marked tower was tricked out of the instructors by the neutral persons.

Of course, Chen Sui silently exchanged glances with Xie Chunshi through their mechas, both somewhat aware of the truth.

It wasn't information from the instructors at all; they had found it in advance and then led people here.

Even the instructor teams they encountered on the way were sensed by Chen Sui beforehand, and she led people to them. Otherwise, they truly might not have been able to fool them.

"They're setting up cannons on the other side, prepare to respond."

Xie Chunshi reminded in a deep voice on the team channel.

The military students, originally shouting across the jungle, immediately moved their mechas quickly from the side as soon as the Commander's order was given, rapidly occupying high positions. The instructors above, sensing people approaching, immediately cursed, and before they could react, the vanguard mecha's cannons were right in their faces.

Fierce cannon fire exploded around, and the instructor rolled directly down from the high slope, dodging along the edge of the flames while controlling energy. A fire snake coiled in the dust, then stood up and spat out an extremely long flame toward the top.

"Xuanwu!"

Song Yuan said softly, and water surged up, layer upon layer wrapping to form a tsunami-like water screen. As it approached, the temperature dropped sharply, directly colliding with the energy from below.

Others seized the opportunity—the cannons finished charging, and energy bullets rained down like a downpour, making the instructors below dodge with gnashing teeth.

"These little brats are too impolite!"

Several people led by Zhou Chen charged particularly forward. When he wanted to show off and boast a bit, only Chi Buyu remained not far from his side. Lightning flashed between the two, and Lu Ting's peacock feathers shot out from below, carrying layers of lightning nets, like a solo performance by the three.

Zhou Chen's impoverished intelligence sensed something was off. He looked back and saw Noya behind, "Strange, why is this guy so low-key now?"

But he was clearly good at self-consolation, immediately feeling he saw through Noya, somewhat smug: "Maybe he knows he can't beat me and has given up!"

Zhou Chen happily fired down thunder, striking the rocks below to scatter debris, and then nodded with satisfaction.

However, the instructors weren't so easy to deal with. As soon as the vanguard mecha's attack paused slightly, countless energy sources burst out from below. Vines like tentacles wrapped around the high-flying mechas and began pulling them down.

"Well, they're not doing so well. At least fight back a bit, otherwise it looks like we're just coasting," Noya gathered and dispersed fluorescence in his hands, moving very leisurely.

On the other side, Xiao Er glanced at him, then looked at Chen Sui, waiting for instructions.

"You guys are quite clever, even choosing the third camp. I'm already looking forward to seeing Commander Zhang's face when he finds out the result."

Jiang Zhongyu circled his fingertips around the end of his hair, his tone very amused. Zhang Yingjie was so smart, yet he still didn't guess that he was playing the spy within a spy within a spy.

If he could win this time, he could laugh at Zhang Yingjie for a long time, and see how he could still keep the upper hand. Sister Xin Ming would also praise him!

Jiang Zhongyu's beautiful face revealed a smile. Just for the chance to beat Zhang Yingjie, he immediately agreed when Xie Chunshi approached him for cooperation.

Chen Sui looked at the battle situation and agreed with Noya's words: "Let's stop fishing in troubled waters from behind. Let's go around and directly take out the instructors over there."

This way they would also be contributing effort. When it came time to settle accounts, no one could suspect them.

As they spoke, they acted. Chen Sui's spatial energy spread silently, the energy fluctuations perfectly concealed beneath the spatial energy. The mecha moved very carefully, stopping when approaching the edge of the instructor's defense.

"Little Flower."

Chen Sui called softly, and Wood-Born Flower's juvenile form appeared in her palm, blinking carefully, its face red with effort. The slender branches and leaves on its head grew rapidly, burying into the grass, silently extending forward.

Feeling the energy approaching the instructor area, Chen Sui nodded to Xie Chunshi.

The Commander made a gesture, and with Noya, one on the left and one on the right, led the team to encircle from behind.

The instructors watched the battle situation. Originally still observing, but during the shouting they became somewhat impatient, "Let's join in too. You're still worried about whether we'll eliminate the military students too early? If we don't act now, we'll be eliminated ourselves."

The instructors had many considerations in the team competition, including that it was at least an assessment of the military students' learning outcomes. At the very least, they couldn't just wipe out the military students right from the start, and therefore they would hold back a bit initially. But now, where did these military students need them to hold back? Not sending them off would be considered good.

This clearly resonated with the other instructors, so more and more mechas came out from behind cover.

However, no one noticed that beneath the grass where they were crouching, several branches rose from the turf, like small animals carefully exposing a pair of eyes to observe the outside world, looking for a moment before slowly burrowing back under the vegetation.

Until the military students' position was confirmed behind, a cannon fire shot from behind.

The instructors who sensed the crisis felt a chill down their backs, and battle instinct made them fall to the side.

"Damn, no way, there are people behind us too!"

"There's an ambush, combat alert!"

The cannon was just a signal. After the instructors scattered, before they could figure out how the military students had silently encircled behind them, they felt the ground shake.

Plant branches sprang from the ground, vines surrounding the instructors, seeming to form a cage.

"How ridiculous?!"

Some people's expressions twisted, "These military students are so vicious?"

"I said early on, these kids are not ordinary people. Have you forgotten those tricks the military students pulled in the league?"

"I just thought they were petty tricks!!"

Some also regretted not eliminating some people before the military students gathered, to avoid being suppressed by firepower like this now.

"Aren't any of you more cautious? Chen Sui is an SSS-level spatial attribute analyst, how simple is it for her to conceal an energy fluctuation!"

An analyst from the instructor camp roared helplessly.

But at this moment, no one listened to these hindsight remarks. As Wood-Born Flower formed its encirclement, the military students, like wolves seeing fat meat, frantically rushed forward to tear at them. Guns and energy crisscrossed, directly forcing the instructors who had been hiding, preparing to fight in rotation to conserve energy, into the battle.

"Damn, this is all or nothing!"

The instructors had fighting spirit in their bones too, and once their battle intent was aroused, they didn't hold back at all. Both sides fought fiercely.

The military students had found quite a few marked towers along the way, and after discarding empty towers, they had collected a large amount of cannon energy, after all, Zhu Jing Fu was known for their fear of insufficient firepower.

This led to a sky full of cannon fire charging toward the instructors, pressing them to raise an extremely strong energy barrier.

The instructors with perfect energy control were also at ease when dealing with military students. The military students had the advantage in terms of level, but were still somewhat green in other aspects. The energy collision was retreating step by step, fortunately the two groups could support each other, so the battle remained deadlocked.

But soon, after nightfall, the energy field fluctuations changed. The transformation of the main energy signals gave the instructors an opportunity. The border army, dealing with energy fields year-round, found any changes in the energy field as natural as drinking water and eating food. They immediately adapted to the energy level of the energy field, which was completely different from daytime. With a slight gathering of energy, their control over energy had no deviation.

But the military students clearly couldn't achieve such proficiency, and therefore were caught off guard when a fierce attack was launched.

The side formation was broken open, the vanguard mecha directly reaching critical condition. The instructors seized the opportunity to directly engage in close combat. Without cannon support, the military students were at an extreme disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, and several were immediately eliminated.

When the Commanders of several teams heard the elimination notifications in their ears, they vaguely felt something was strange. Xie Chunshi wasn't idle either, leading the neutral persons weaving through the battle, seemingly trying very hard but actually achieving very little. His only mercy was throwing out military students whose mechas were at critical condition, not letting already eliminated classmates suffer further.

But his behavior compared to his previous style was very different. Earlier, everyone's attention was captured by the battle and no one paid attention, but as both sides had eliminated many and the battle was entering its final stage, this abnormality became extremely obvious.

The first to notice something was wrong was Xie You. Seeing Xie Chunshi and Chen Sui huddled together, his alarm bells went off instantly. His peripheral vision distractedly monitored their actions, and as a result, he was grazed by cannon fire two or three times, finally capturing a strong sense of dissonance.

While Xie You was still pondering, on the other side, Zhang Yingjie's spirit body black mist broke through the energy attack in front of him.

"You feel something's wrong too, right?"

Zhang Yingjie asked with a serious expression.

Xie You realized, his face instantly darkening: "Something's not right, we've been tricked!"

Who said neutral persons could only choose between military students and instructors?

This information came from Xie Chunshi, but what if Xie Chunshi had tampered with it?

In the past, Xie You wouldn't have thought this way about Xie Chunshi, but ever since he joined Zhu Jing Fu, with outrageous moves emerging one after another in the Star League, Xie You knew this guy was definitely not aboveboard!

"It can't be just us getting eliminated," Zhang Yingjie, enduring his internal displeasure, conspired with him: "Deflecting trouble eastward isn't just Zhu Jing Fu's specialty!"

The instructors' fighting spirit was high, having eliminated many military students, but not a single neutral person!