Seriously thinking about it, I realized that Pandora was really suffering by my side. Who was she? A senior general of the Empire, a conqueror who once led the Pandora Army to sweep through countless civilizations. But by my side, she could only become a quiet little loli, enduring the flawed basic knowledge taught by those "primitive," "ignorant" junior high school teachers, and patiently coexisting with the carbon-based life forms of this world. Although the little one didn't say it, I guessed that if this continued, she would develop an internal injury...
Therefore, my command was practically a declaration of liberation for Pandora. Watching the near-solid flames of fighting spirit behind the little loli, I secretly wiped the non-existent cold sweat and thought of the legend about Pandora's Box. The difference was, that Pandora opened the box, and I opened Pandora...
Also, the above sentence had no grammatical errors.
Under Lin Xue's shocked gaze, Pandora's body was swiftly covered with a layer of silver-white tight-fitting alloy armor. A light green translucent mask covered the lower part of her face, leaving only a pair of pupil-less purple-red eyes. Those strange eyes were now staring at the Big Lizard in the sky with a gaze full of appetite (it seemed not only Lin Xue and I were hungry...).
An inhuman cold mechanical voice came from behind the mask, "Anti-Proton Floating Cannon Array—"
As Pandora's voice fell, dozens of semi-transparent whirlpool-like ripples appeared rapidly in the surrounding air, followed by dozens of silver-white floating cannons the size of cars emerging from these whirlpools.
"Diffusion Shooting!"
All the floating cannons simultaneously emitted a unique screech of high-energy flow, and dozens of dazzling white beams, carrying an astonishing amount of heat, rushed towards the Giant Dragon in the sky, instantly sealing off all possible escape routes.
The sudden attack left the Giant Dragon momentarily stunned. During this brief pause, dozens of floating cannons quickly ascended into the sky, surrounding it from all directions.
"Pandora 1000mm Ship-to-ship Ghost Energy Cannon!"
Pandora's right half suddenly merged with a rectangular energy cannon that appeared in mid-air. Massive energy pipes extended from her body to the tail of the cannon, continuously supplying a vast amount of energy to this unfair human-world weapon. Accompanied by a low humming sound, blue-white light rapidly gathered at the muzzle of the Ghost Energy Cannon. Three seconds later, a meter-diameter energy beam roared towards the dazed Giant Dragon in the sky. As the recoil hit, the ground under Pandora's feet immediately cracked like a spider web.
Due to the omnipresent floating cannons, the previously arrogant Big Lizard had no space to avoid. It seemed there was no other choice but to take the hit head-on.
But after all, being a very powerful carbon-based life form, the Big Lizard before us still had its tricks. As the Giant Dragon opened its large mouth, a ball of yesterday's meal... cough cough, a ball of scorching flames met Pandora's attack.
The two powerful energies collided violently, resulting in a burst of intense light. Following this blinding light was a deafening roar. Clearly, although the powerful Dragon Breath blocked the attack, the Giant Dragon still suffered considerable damage.
When the flying lizards before my eyes, caused by the intense light, gradually combined into one, I finally realized that the Giant Dragon wasn't hit by Pandora's Ghost Energy Cannon—it had been dazzled by the bright light and ended up flying directly into the shooting range of the floating cannons, with a perfect Beidou Seven Stars pattern shot into its wings...
The strength of the "food" before it was clearly beyond the Giant Dragon's expectation. Its original appetite had now disappeared without a trace, and the Giant Dragon now only wanted to escape this dangerous place as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, with its leaking wings, it had no chance of escaping the omnipresent attacks of the floating cannons. Soon, the Beidou Seven Stars turned into the Twelve Houses, with a tendency to evolve into the Star-Spangled Banner...
Pandora seemed in no hurry to kill the already panicking and erratically flying Giant Dragon. Instead, she put away the Ghost Energy Cannon and focused on controlling the floating gun platforms to leave various artistic graffiti on the Giant Dragon.
Watching the frantically struggling Giant Dragon above us, I couldn't help but recall Er Pang being chased by hornets thirteen years ago in an alley on South Mansion Street...
Lin Xue, who had been terrified to the point of being stunned, finally reacted. She pointed at the future soldier-like Pandora and stammered, "Li... Lili... ro... robot... turned into..."
I interrupted Lin Xue's reckless desecration of Chinese grammar and said, "That's a false name. Her real name is Pandora-zero. I seem to have mentioned this name earlier, right?"
"Chen Jun!" Lin Xue shouted, her face on the brink of collapse, "What the heck is going on? This can't just be described as a superpower, can it? Is Lili a future person? A machine warrior? You can't be..."
Seeing Lin Xue starting to regard me as something non-human, I quickly interrupted, "Stop, stop! I am a genuine human being. As for Pandora's identity... I'll tell you when I have more time. Don't forget your promise to keep this secret, or both Pandora and I will be in big trouble."
Lin Xue was no ordinary girl. Although she hadn't fully recovered from the shock of Pandora transforming into a Super Soldier, she still tried hard to calm herself down and then looked at Pandora, who was bullying the Giant Dragon with the floating cannons, with a strange gaze.
"Chen Jun... I know you have many secrets, and I don't plan to dig too deep, but can you at least tell me what Lili... Pandora is doing?"
I glanced at Pandora, happily playing the barbecue game with the Giant Dragon, and couldn't help sweating. "Um... who knows, maybe she's playing... This girl's hobbies are different from ordinary people."
It seemed Pandora really had a bad habit of teasing her opponents. This was evident from the day she spent an entire day and night tormenting the siblings Lin Xue and Lin Feng. Now, she seemed to have taken a liking to the game of loli teasing hungry dragons...
The Black Giant Dragon in the sky had now completely lost its will to fight. From the beginning, it was tightly suppressed by Pandora's floating cannons. Its one and only counterattack left it with a neat Beidou Seven Stars pattern. Now, it didn't even dare to stop to release Dragon Breath; those agile floating cannons wouldn't even give it a chance to take a breath. The Dragon Clan's most proud melee combat ability had become a joke under Pandora's long-range suppression.
The game continued for about an hour, and the forest started to be filled with the fragrance of roasted meat...
Could it be that this was Pandora's real intention all along?
At this moment, the Giant Dragon in the sky, either exhausted or dazzled by the surrounding beams, crashed straight into the area with the densest floating cannon attacks.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the poor Flying Lizard's eyes were brimming with tears...
A final farewell to the B cannon fodder that was already half-cooked. We will always remember your aggrieved silhouette...
Just when we thought the opponent was about to escape its misery and achieve liberation, a distorted light screen suddenly appeared in the air, wrapping around the heroic and self-sacrificing Giant Dragon.
Before being entirely enveloped by the light screen, I seemed to see a hint of a post-disaster breath of life in the Giant Dragon's big eyes.
As the light screen dissipated, our potential meal had disappeared without a trace.
What a miscalculation! I had forgotten that in many novels, the Dragon Clan always mastered many mysterious and powerful magics. And it turned out that this unfortunate Dragon's final survival trick was... space transmission...
Pandora was slightly stunned, and then she put away her floating gun platforms, walking towards me with a hint of unwillingness.
"What a pity, another thirty minutes and it would have been ready to eat..." Lin Xue sighed softly.
"Stop it..." I was drenched in cold sweat, "You're much scarier than Pandora."
By this time, Pandora had already exited her combat state, her eyes returning to that unfocused "Blind Girl State." She gently tugged on my sleeve and said, "Brother, I'm hungry..."
To be honest, at that moment, I was charmed by Pandora's little-bird-leaning-on-man pose and loli voice...
However, being charmed can't fill your stomach...