On top of the towering wreckage of a black mech,
The Azure Swordsman and the Nightingale stood facing each other, heads bowed,
The Azure Swordsman was a medium-sized, versatile melee combat mech, slightly larger than the Nightingale,
They looked like a pair of clinging lovers.
Beneath the two colossal mechs, Gu Ya sat cross-legged, happily recounting the events of the past two weeks.
Ye Ying held her knees with both arms, her head tilted to the side, her eyes on Gu Ya, listening with a slight smile.
They both wanted to share their experiences and feelings from these days with each other.
To let the other relive those experiences through their words.
As the two were engrossed in conversation, they didn't even notice the light footsteps approaching from behind.
"Hello, little hero!" a cheerful female voice came from behind.
Gu Ya turned to look, and a woman was standing at a distance that wouldn't disturb them, smiling at him.
"My name is Liang Xun, and I'm a battlefield mech mechanic. I've been ordered to deal with the black mech," Liang Xun said with a smile as she introduced herself.
"You're very brave, I couldn't help but want to get to know you."
Gu Ya turned his head away and coldly refused, "Not interested."
"Hahaha!" Liang Xun laughed a few times, unfazed, "I'm a special appointment instructor at the Kuanghai Zhi Feng Academy in the southern part of Zhuoyuan City."
"Little hero, if you want to enroll in Xianxia's strongest mech mechanic program, you'll definitely get to know me later."
Gu Ya turned his head back to scrutinize the woman named Liang Xun.
She seemed very polite, standing at a distance without approaching.
"Dong Yong Gu Zhi Lan Academy also has a mech mechanic program," Gu Ya said.
Liang Xun nodded and said with a smile, "That's right. But in terms of the strongest, it's still Zhuoyuan City."
"Goodbye, I hope you'll come!"
Liang Xun turned and walked away with a smile.
Gu Ya silently watched her leave, finding that he didn't dislike the woman very much.
"Are you going to Zhuoyuan City?" Ye Ying asked softly.
Gu Ya thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps, it's not a bad thing."
At this moment, Ye Ying's chest badge lit up, displaying a string of chaotic, disordered code.
Ye Ying slid the code to her communication bracelet, and a new combat order appeared:
[Immediately proceed to the front lines to resist enemy invasion]
"I have to go," Ye Ying said softly, standing up.
Gu Ya's gaze followed Ye Ying upwards and said, "I'll go with you."
The lifting cables outside the mech cockpit lowered, and both of them grabbed their respective handles.
The cables lifted them out of the cockpits.
The Azure Swordsman and the Nightingale restarted, their pale blue and dark blue flames drawing two beautiful blue arcs in the night sky as they flew towards the front lines.
Soon, Taoxi and Youzun followed closely.
The sky in the distance was already beginning to brighten.
On the mech screens,
From left to right, from sea to sky,
Countless mechs shrunk into black dots, entangled together.
Seen from afar, the beam cannons were no longer straight lines but slightly curved lines of extreme white light.
And the missile trails, where only smoke could be seen, and countless weapons of unknown names,
Were being wielded wantonly.
Tiny bursts of fire ignited and vanished,
Distant and faint explosions rose and fell one after another,
Shockwaves compressed the air into spherical membranes, waves following waves, like ripples in space.
Countless mechs in the screen exploded, disappeared, fell, and shattered into fragments,
While innumerable mechs joined the brutal war.
This was Gu Ya's first formal large-scale battle; the previous one was merely repelling a small group of enemy mechs.
Gu Ya watched silently, feeling no panic or unease, but an unusual calm, even a hint of anticipation.
Lan Jing asked coldly, "Gu Ya, Tao Na, you two are non-combat personnel. After your mechs are damaged, the recovery procedures might be a bit troublesome."
Gu Ya glanced dismissively at the Youzun mech and replied calmly, "I won't let myself get hurt, and I will protect Ye Ying."
"As for you lot, do as you please."
"Tsk." Lan Jing sighed coldly, wondering about Gu Ya's background. He could deal with the black mech, so he must have some strength. But his attitude towards others is worse than mine!
A surge of anger rose in Lan Jing's heart, and he said in an even colder tone, "You will temporarily be assigned to the Tenth Company and follow my command. Start by annihilating small groups of straggling enemy mechs on the periphery."
"Taoxi and Nightingale are responsible for luring the enemy, and I'll handle the killing."
"As for Gu Ya, whatever."
They weren't needed, yet they insisted on being the bulb, and even volunteered to command us.
Considering he was Ye Ying's comrade, Gu Ya suppressed the urge to curse.
Ignoring Lan Jing completely, he said with a smile, "Ye Ying, stay with me."
Ye Ying immediately responded, "Okay."
The two mechs left the formation and charged directly into the front lines alone.
The front lines were ahead, getting closer and closer, even the clear outlines of each mech could be seen.
Ye Ying asked softly, "Do you have any tactics?"
Gu Ya smiled and said, "You just need to follow me and help me clean up the remnants."
Ye Ying also smiled softly, pouting slightly, "No. I've become so lazy when I'm with you."
"You protect me so well. What will I do when you're not here?"
Gu Ya teased, "How could I possibly not be here, hehe."
"Alright, alright, the two-person enemy elimination tactic, advance alternately, lure each other."
Ye Ying replied softly.
The Azure Swordsman and the Nightingale, with no fear, plunged directly into the front lines.
As soon as they entered the battlefield, the ecological simulation system inside the cockpit immediately came into play.
The ambient air temperature outside had been baked to 50°C by the thruster flames and thermal weapons.
The entire battlefield was like a giant oven.
Not only that,
There were also the sudden long-range offensive weapons,
And the enemy's hidden strikes,
Ye Ying's reaction was swift, easily dodging these obstacles.
Gu Ya's reaction was even faster; even without using his mech pilot skills, these weapons' speed was like an old lady practicing Tai Chi in his eyes.
But dodging one meant preparing for a second, a third, or even countless more.
As soon as Gu Ya entered the battlefield, he immediately recognized the danger of these "hidden strikes"; those long-range mechs had to be eliminated as soon as possible.
"Shake off those melee mechs! Let's go to the rear of the enemy formation!" Gu Ya shouted loudly.
"Okay, be careful, they have defensive mechs protecting them," Ye Ying calmly reminded him.
Gu Ya smiled faintly and said, "What's there to be afraid of? We'll kill whoever comes!"
The Azure Swordsman, with even more explosive speed, rapidly passed through one friendly mech after another,
Maneuvering to bypass small enemy formations.
Countless mechs appeared on the screen and then rapidly darted to the sides and disappeared.
The Nightingale's propulsion capabilities were no less than the Azure Swordsman's, coupled with Ye Ying's unparalleled operational skills, it closely followed Gu Ya.
Directly ahead, the enemy seemed to have sensed their intentions,
And decisively organized forces for defensive tactics,
More than fifty mechs of various types converged, forming an "aerial roadblock" from left to right and top to bottom, blocking Gu Ya and Ye Ying's advance.
"Ye Ying, let's go!" Gu Ya roared!
With an aura of invincible might, the Azure Swordsman charged into the enemy formation without fear.
Simultaneously, its twin swords spread outwards, and its body spun violently,
Two missiles shot towards the Swordsman, both split by its ruthless blades and exploded on either side of the Swordsman.
The Swordsman transformed into a blue storm, moving at an eerily fast speed, passing directly in front of five enemy mechs.
The five enemy mechs didn't even have time to resist before their armor was torn into a million pieces.
Just as the Azure Swordsman flew past,
The Nightingale descended from the sky, landing on the shoulder of an enemy mech, plunging its twin swords into the enemy mech's neck, and with a turn of its mechanical hand, severed the enemy mech's head.
It pushed off with its feet, using the enemy mech as a springboard, and immediately flew towards another enemy mech.
Repeating the same move, in less than half a minute, the five mechs whose armor had been torn apart were finished off by the Nightingale.
[Heart Thought Following]!
Gu Ya roared in his heart!
The Azure Swordsman's pale blue aura instantly turned pure white, like a white light whose trajectory was imperceptible to the naked eye, drawing sharp, crooked lightning-like shapes in the air, charging straight towards the enemy mechs.
The ten-plus defensive enemy mechs in front hadn't even had time to assume a defensive posture,
The Azure Swordsman had already flashed behind them,
Frenziedly hacking at the weak points on their backs.
As soon as the beam sword contacted the enemy mechs, it exploded with countless blue sparks.
In an instant, it was like a hundred flowers blooming! Seven or eight enemy mechs were cleanly beheaded.
The other defensive enemy mechs adjusted their stances, facing the Azure Swordsman with their hardest frontal armor, encircling it.
The Nightingale, like a killer in the shadows, suddenly appeared from the enemy's blind spots.
Its white beam sword was incredibly cold, precisely stabbing at the weak points of the enemy mechs' necks, waists, and lower limbs.
Three enemy mechs were killed and fell without any pretense by the Nightingale.
In an instant, the newly formed defensive formation was once again broken!
More than a dozen enemy mechs were surrounded by two mechs.
The Azure Swordsman and the Nightingale, with mutual admiration, charged forward simultaneously,
Blue and white light blades mercilessly reaping the enemy mechs that prided themselves on their defense.
Just then, a flash of white light streaked across the sky, heading straight for Gu Ya.
The dim sky was illuminated into daylight by the white light!
The white light was so colossal, wider than anything Ye Ying had encountered before.
It was even impossible to discern the direction from which it was fired!
"Gu Ya!" Ye Ying shouted urgently.
A millisecond later, the white light completely engulfed the Azure Swordsman.
Even the enemy mechs next to it were not spared.
The Nightingale was on the edge of the white light, but the extreme heat caused the temperature inside the cockpit to instantly reach 68°C.
Ye Ying's breathing stopped, and her heart was immediately filled with anxiety.
She stared at the incredibly glaring white light, trying to find Gu Ya's trace.
Even though the tears that had just flowed were immediately dried,
Even though her eyes were so dry they were about to go blind,
Ye Ying couldn't take her eyes off it.
That was Gu Ya!
"Gu Ya, don't die!" Ye Ying cried out anxiously in a low voice, her eyes dry and sore, her heart aching as if pierced by a thousand needles.
"Gu Ya..."
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Ya's cheerful voice suddenly came from behind.
"I haven't married you yet, how could I possibly die? Hehe."
Ye Ying turned back in disbelief.
She saw the Azure Swordsman hovering perfectly behind the Nightingale.
It was real!
Ye Ying happily covered her mouth, tears of joy welling up.
This was the first time she had cried tears of happiness for a man.
"It's too hot! Wait until I finish this!"
Gu Ya shouted, pushing the control stick hard!