Elizabeth and her group were exhausted, having walked continuously for over ten hours!
Having a protective shield meant they weren't afraid of the sand and dust, but the star beasts along the way never stopped coming! The mining planet was truly different from their previous training grounds...
They couldn't rest well anyway! Last night, everyone discussed it and decided to travel through the night, which would also save a portion of the energy used for cooling.
It was just that they had accidentally fallen into quicksand earlier... By the time they finally got out, the sky was already getting bright.
"Let's make camp and rest here. The tent is temperature-controlled, so everyone try not to go out at noon. If you really must leave the tent, make sure you are properly protected."
The two single-combat soldiers entered the tent and fell dead asleep without a word; they had completely overdrawn their energy over the past day and night!
Lian Sheng sat next to Elizabeth, nodding off.
"You go inside and rest too, I can handle it alone."
Hearing the captain's voice, Lian Sheng patted his cheeks.
"Forget it, no matter how strong your mental power is, you haven't slept all night either... But we really can't keep walking like this today."
"Currently, Santorini has gained 329 points, ranking first, and they have covered a full two days' worth of distance.
Our mecha energy is at 52%. If we continue traveling at night and walk during the neither-hot-nor-cold periods, we will have no problem steadily making it to the seventh day.
But Valk should have already obtained Beichen's energy..."
Elizabeth took small sips of water.
"The map is very large this time, and we must get the three hundred bonus points. If we can't find extra energy during this time... we must at least ensure the mechas can last through the seven days."
As she spoke, she noticed Lian Sheng had gone quiet. He had fallen asleep sitting up. Waking him up and sending him back to the tent to sleep, Elizabeth wiped her face with a wet wipe.
As a possessor of offensive mental power, the people of the Paige family had long been accustomed to functioning on minimal sleep.
She could still hold on, but her teammates' mental and physical strength wouldn't keep up, so it was better to let them sleep a bit longer during the day.
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"Something is coming."
"Sister Ma, watch out!"
"Sister Ma, stand in the middle of us."
The three friends warned in unison. Wang Tianwei gritted her teeth as she looked at the red dots displayed on the radar.
"Although I'm not an S-class, I have a radar, okay! I can see it!"
Her words made the three of them fall silent at once.
"..."
The mutant beasts Huang Yan had been waiting half the night for were finally arriving.
They had seen sandworms before... but those were the white, plump sandworms on Shuomo Star that mainly relied on their tentacles and sheer size to attack!
This black sandworm, over fifty meters long, was covered in jagged teeth!?
The entire worm spun as it drilled out from underground and then back in, kicking up a storm of black sand all around! What the hell was this thing!!? The three-headed sandworms of Shuomo Star were like babies compared to it!
Jian Jingyu piloted his mecha into the air and fired at the mutant beast. A compressed artillery shell hit the sandworm, only slowing its movements for two seconds.
Then, several tentacles shot out from the black mist, grabbing toward Jian Jingyu in mid-air at an extreme speed!
Zhang Lyra took aim from a distance, and an electromagnetic cannonball hit a tentacle dead on. Jian Jingyu had already dashed above the sandworm, looking for a chance to fire a single-soldier missile into its mouth!
Wang Tianwei and Huang Yan provided covering fire from the side. The sandworm's giant mouth, filled with sharp teeth, opened layer by layer.
"Roar!!"
"Goldfish, dodge!!"
Hearing Huang Yan's warning, Jian Jingyu didn't hesitate at all. He hit the accelerator and slipped away!
The sandworm's reared-up body wriggled and spat a stream of black venom from its mouth! It splashed onto the ground with a sizzling sound! Soon after, a large chunk of the sandy ground caved in!
Wang Tianwei couldn't help but look grave.
"Holy crap!"
It could even corrode the sand!? Goldfish's mecha defense was not as good as Sir Huang's!
"Be careful not to get sprayed by it!"
Jian Jingyu also felt a wave of delayed fear.
"Have the sandworms outside all mutated like this!? I miss Shuomo Star!!"
While they were speaking, another one drilled out from underground! It chased after Zhang Lyra with its mouth wide open!
Wang Tianwei broke into a sweat as she looked at the seven new red dots suddenly appearing on the radar.
"Why are there eight of them!? We have to go all out!"
Four and a half kilometers away, four dark blue mechas lay flat on the black sand.
"How is it? Did they all go over?"
It was Santorini's other team.
Commander Wu Cong observed for a long time.
"They've already started fighting. Ryota, Matt, get ready. When the time is right, we'll go over and reap the rewards."
The mecha mechanic, Ruby, was more concerned about the energy.
"All four are super-grade mechas. We'll go over and lend a hand when necessary. We can't let them deplete all their energy, otherwise it will be meaningless."
"Understood."
Huang Yan continuously sniped at the small eyes under the sandworm's massive mouth.
"There are four people four and a half kilometers away."
"Why at this time? Are they waiting to pick off the scraps!?"
Another giant sandworm drilled out from the ground, rising and falling in a crisscross pattern with the other two. There were also more tentacles in the air, scattering the four members of Qilin even further!
"We have no choice, let's bring out the tech. We can't let them seize an opportunity."
"Alright!!"
Amidst the astonished expressions of the Santorini team members in the distance, Jian Jingyu pulled up his altitude and pressed Transform.
The light mecha turned into a mobile artillery battery in fractions of a second! There was absolutely no trace of the limbs it had just a moment ago! It continuously bombarded the star beasts on the ground from mid-air!
Zhang Lyra and Huang Yan followed closely behind!
Three artillery batteries of different specifications and calibers fired alternately. Shell after shell hit the sandworm, finally breaking through its flesh!
The pain made it thrash around even more violently! The venom it spewed couldn't even touch the edges of the mechas!
The several sandworms that were originally buried underground all leaped out, spinning at even higher speeds! Their tentacles multiplied, trying to drag their prey right in front of them!
"Head northeast!"
Huang Yan commanded calmly.
Didn't those four people love watching a show? Let's give them something to do!
Wang Tianwei's mecha was almost wrapped up by the tentacles of the last sandworm that drilled out. Gritting her teeth, she pressed the transform button and fiercely pulled the control stick upward!
Her Super-A mecha didn't turn into a mobile artillery battery like the other three, but instead transformed into a triangle and ascended vertically.
"It's an old-fashioned fighter jet!!"
A line of commentary floated out from the barrage of !!!??? on the screen!
The mecha mechanics in the camp area, who had just set up the projectors and testing equipment, were energized before they could even return to their seats!
"Mobile artillery battery! Transformation!?"
"Quickly test the strike data! Make way, make way!!"
"Why can they transform so perfectly!? Were all these exterior shell data matched in advance?"
"Are you saying that every component of their mechas was measured to scale!?"
"Wang Tianwei's cockpit is on the outside!"
The fighter jet's speed was even faster than the three Super-S mobile artillery batteries!
Everyone could clearly see Wang Tianwei inside the glass canopy press the acceleration button, shuttling among the eight sandworms and firing continuously with a multi-barrel Gatling-style autocannon!
The safety officers and the soldiers of the Third Military Region in the same battlefield simply stopped looking at their screens. They hovered their aircraft in mid-air, put on their observation goggles, opened the doors, and looked down!
"...Holy crap! What kind of mecha is this!?"
"Why don't we have them!?"
