Hu Ling gently patted his teammate’s shoulder and comforted him in a low voice, "It’s okay. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. That kid definitely can’t compare to you when it comes to explosions."
Boluo was inspired and felt better, nodding in wholehearted agreement.
Glove watched these two from the side. So, the team leader meant Boluo was intellectually challenged, and Boluo actually felt much better after hearing that?
"If we’re lucky, we’ll find everything we want today. Then we can get out of this damned place!"
"There’s more good news." Leder smiled proudly and pressed a button. The interior of the [VSG-47] lit up, followed by a roaring start-up sound.
"Thanks to the outstanding military quality of the Confederation, after a few hundred years, this big guy could still work with just some simple repairs."
Without the heavy armored vehicles, they had all been on foot, which was not only strenuous but also dangerous. Now they finally had a means of transportation.
Leder operated the [VSG-47], taking heavy steps to exit the lair of the Burning Tyrannosaurus. As he passed by the Tyrannosaurus’s corpse, he couldn’t help but cast a reluctant look back.
There were many mechanical organs inside the massive creature that could have been harvested. However, Leder was now a commander without an army, and it wasn’t appropriate to let these Professionals know about harvesting mechanical organs. So, he had to painfully let it go. Content originally comes from NoveI★Fire.net
Just overnight, the Burning Tyrannosaurus was reduced to an empty shell.
Hu Ling operated the heavy mecha by himself, following behind. Compared to the mobile weapon station, the four-meter-tall heavy mecha looked like an inconspicuous little sidekick.
Like a monkey jumping around behind the Tiger King, it could only be described as lively.
The journey from the battleship wreckage to that coordinate was long. In the plan Leder made before the operation, they were to search one location after another: location one, then two, then three, and so on. The higher the number, the farther the distance.
They were now heading directly for the area between locations six and eight. With just the [VSG-47], it was estimated to take a full three days of travel.
Just as they set off, they encountered a grouchy group of steam-powered mechanical species—a six-meter-long ironclad wild boar, with its family of over twenty members, attacked them all at once.
Whether it was the heavy mecha or the weapon station, the ammunition had expired, so the Professionals had to take the lead.
Thankfully, the steam-powered mechanical species looked frightening but were far less capable in combat. After dealing with the group, Leder drooled over the mechanical organs scattered on the ground. He then reluctantly led everyone away.
Their luck afterward was unbelievably good. Until the morning of the third day, as they approached the target site, they didn’t encounter any danger.
Moreover, the weather that day was very clear. The thunderclouds that had constantly hung overhead appeared somewhat "light and breezy." One could even vaguely see the sun of Empire River Star through them.
Hu Ling was in high spirits, jumping ahead to clear the path, whistling while operating the heavy mecha.
Inside the [VSG-47], Leder also seemed full of anticipation. "Let’s finish the mission quickly. I really don’t want to stay in this godforsaken place any longer."
Chen Gu and Qing Ruyan were also in a good mood, as they had discovered three more traces left by Dilina along the way.
All were combat marks from Biological Nuclear Explosions. They connected the various traces into a route but felt bewildered. No matter how they looked at it, this "rebel" Dilina seemed like a battle maniac who was picking fights everywhere...
Her movements in the Yingudusi Devil’s Pit, apart from resting in the battleship, seemed to be just Biological Nuclear Explosion, Biological Nuclear Explosion, Biological Nuclear Explosion...
Chen Gu involuntarily thought of Milna Katerina’s very "mature" approach to handling things:
There is no problem that a Biological Nuclear Explosion can’t solve; if there is, then the yield isn’t enough.
Although he still didn’t quite understand what role Dilina played in that great battle years ago, and he lacked clues about the "Hand of World Destruction," Chen Gu felt that what he had found should be enough. It should allow him to exchange for the first two Energy Levels of the Nuclear Combat Technique from the Atomic Holy Church.
As for the latter part... I’ll figure it out later.
The [VSG-47] trudged heavily across the wasteland, each step leaving a deep imprint.
Ahead lay a prairie as green as emerald, with towering mountains looming faintly in the distance. Above in the sky, the clearly reduced frequency of lightning seemed like modest embellishments to this tranquil and serene landscape painting, merely adding to its charm!
Boluo’s wounds had healed. Seeing his captain bounding about outside while he could only stay cooped up inside the weapon station with everyone else, his heart, so eager for action, couldn’t be restrained any longer.
No one knew what he discussed with Hu Ling. After they exchanged a few words, Hu Ling returned to the weapon station. Boluo gave a shout of joy as he climbed into the heavy mecha. Then, he began to frolic, setting himself free on the vast wasteland.
Suddenly, he looked up at the distance and loudly said to those behind him, "I didn’t expect birds to survive in a place . It’s truly not easy..."
Leder and a few others turned pale. From within the [VSG-47], they shouted to Boluo in front, "What did you say? Birds?!" At the same time, Leder rushed to an optical observation post.
"Yep," Boluo pointed at the sky ahead. "Look, can you see? They’re flying over here, pretty fast. Probably a lively and friendly kind of bird..."
Chen Gu had already seen them; his physical constitution was stronger than many Professionals. At that moment, sweat dripped down Great Actor Chen’s forehead. This was no act.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "What kind of bird do you think could survive in this electromagnetic environment?"
Boluo was taken aback. "Yeah, that’s true. Then how could there be birds?"
"Idiot!" This time, even Leder couldn’t take it anymore. "Those are Energy Gathering Mechanical Species! Flying Energy Gathering Mechanical Species, don’t you find them terrifying?"
Boluo yelped, finally understanding. "Run, run!"
Suddenly, he remembered something. "Let’s get this straight, you there, Chen Gu! Don’t you dare come up with any human-slingshot tactics again. I won’t be your projectile!"
While speaking, he was scrambling out of the heavy mecha. "This little guy isn’t safe; its armor isn’t thick enough. Let me go back..."
Suddenly, a fierce wind howled from the sky, and a huge dark shadow dived down at high speed before dropping two unknown objects.
Within the [VSG-47], Hu Ling, his eyes nearly bursting from their sockets, bellowed, "Boluo, be careful—"
Just as Boluo had climbed out from the cockpit of the heavy mecha, WHIRR WHIRR, two objects descended from the sky. Amidst a loud SIZZLING CRACKLE and a shower of sparks, Boluo was sprayed full in the face.
He only felt a scorching heat on his face before two gusts of wind swiftly blew past his sides.
When he came to his senses, he saw that the heavy mecha had been sliced into three pieces. Its two arms and the outer portions of its thighs were severed, CRASHING heavily to either side.
Looking ahead again, he saw two serrated discs, each fully two meters in diameter, spinning rapidly as they continued to surge forward for several hundred meters, leaving two deep gouges in the ground...