Ye Ying had just stood up when her legs went weak, and dizziness and nausea struck simultaneously.
The Gu Ya in her eyes suddenly showed blurry triple images of red, yellow, and blue. Then, she tilted her head back, fell heavily onto the chair, and a fine sweat broke out on her body for no reason.
"Now is not the time to rest," Ye Ying gritted her teeth, gripping the armrests tightly. She struggled to prop herself up. After staggering two steps, her vision suddenly blurred, and she collapsed onto the ground.
When Ye Ying regained consciousness, an hour had passed. Two members of the异械部队 had helped her onto the chair when she fainted. Scattered sounds of combat could be heard outside the medical bay.
Glancing at Gu Ya, Ye Ying got up and rushed out.
At this time, the carrier-class mech had surfaced, and assault mechs were ascending the deck one after another.
As soon as she reached the deck, the strong sea wind almost blew Ye Ying away. Without much thought, Ye Ying boarded a mech, her fingers frequently tapping the control panel, starting the engine, and launching into the sky.
"We are under attack by remnants of the 星沉军! Approximately eight thousand combat mechs of various types. The commanding general is Hu Yang · Chi Long, promoted just a few months ago." The enemy's information came through the communicator: "The enemy's objective is to rescue Hong Lian · Zhi Wu. Reinforcements are being dispatched to the war zone and will arrive in twenty minutes."
It was late at night, and the sky and sea were pitch black. Countless mech searchlights and flare emissions illuminated this sea area.
The enemy's choice to attack at night seemed to have been carefully considered.
"Ao Ying Team Three, report combat status." Ye Ying called out weakly.
After a slight crackle of static, Tao Na reported first: "Captain Ye, we are operating three nautical miles west of the main battlefield's center. All team members are in good condition."
Liu Feng asked worriedly, "Captain Ye Ying, are you alright? If you can't take it, go back and stay with Gu Ya. We're here!"
After cursing the enemy, Qiao Weiwei responded, "Captain Ye, your mech is in such bad shape, don't push yourself! Fighting can kill people! We don't want to lose another captain."
Ye Ying calmly checked the mech's data. The battle with Shi Ji Shen had left Ye Ying with 73% loss of maneuverability and combat capability. It could barely fly now and had no combat weapons.
However, Ye Ying did not intend to be a turtle hiding in its shell. She controlled the mech to quickly deal with a Black Star enemy mech that had detached from the formation, seized two black beam swords, and flew deeper into the battlefield.
Sweat soaked through her pilot suit, feeling like a sealed plastic wrap clinging to her damp body. As Ye Ying operated frequently, the pilot suit, which should have been snug, shifted uncomfortably.
More uncomfortable still were the weakness and dizziness that plagued Ye Ying's consciousness, making everything appear blurred.
"You're sick..." Bai Ying's words flashed through Ye Ying's mind like an alarm: "Let me."
"I can hold on," Ye Ying said calmly, suppressing the discomfort.
But as Bai Ying's consciousness grew stronger and more prominent, Ye Ying's head spun, and she was held tight by the safety harness, slumping forward unconscious.
When she stood up again, her pinkish-brown hair had turned completely silver, and her calm eyes showed no emotion.
Bai Ying regained control of the body. Her fingers danced lightly and swiftly across the control panel. The Nighting Gale mech's gray-blue propulsion flames instantly turned a pearly white, like a ray of sunlight splitting the night, charging straight into the battlefield.
Three Black Star enemy mechs attacked from the rear sides at high speed. Six missiles shot out from the enemy mechs, followed by six sharp beam ripple swords, all attacking simultaneously!
The Nighting Gale's main thruster and four limb auxiliary thrusters behind it released stronger white light, enveloping the entire body and turning it into an extremely dazzling, high-temperature white sphere of light.
The missiles entered the sphere of light and detonated, creating a series of fireballs within it.
The sphere of light suddenly extinguished in the air, and the instantaneous loss of light caused visual impairment to the Black Star pilots, their vision filled with a white haze.
By the time the three Black Star pilots regained their sight, the Nighting Gale was already behind them. Several black ripple waves cleaved their armor, revealing the internal mechanical structures of the enemy mechs.
The Nighting Gale's mechanical hand blades, as if stripped of their outer skin, thrust into one of the enemy mechs, pulling out over a dozen warheads. With a gentle squeeze, the warheads suddenly exploded in the Nighting Gale's hand!
The Black Star pilots were stunned. This kind of suicidal attack method was truly baffling.
But after the explosions subsided, the Nighting Gale mech was not damaged. Instead, its hand armor seemed to have become more complete.
"What... what is going on?" a Black Star pilot asked in alarm.
Before they could understand, the Nighting Gale swiftly decapitated the enemy mech with a swift strike, and its body slumped rigidly into the sea.
After being hit by continuous explosions, the Nighting Gale's mechanical structures were not destroyed. Instead, they seemed to have been re-solidified and fused together like molten metal that had cooled.
"I've discovered another way to use attack synchronization," Bai Ying said calmly. "As long as the basic communication, transmission, energy, and power transmission functions are intact, the explosive force can be used to temporarily repair damaged parts of the mech."
Suddenly, Qiao Weiwei's furious roar came through the communicator: "Give me Rui Zi's mech back!!!"
At this moment, Ao Ying Team Three, located at the center of the battlefield, witnessed a bizarre and astonishing sight. Standing before them were two mechs with very familiar appearances: Wind House 1 and 2, the former mechs of Qiao Weiwei and Rui Zi.
Wind House 2 had already detonated, and Wind House 1 had been contained in the Yong Gu Zhi Lan war zone hangar. Why were they in the Black Star formation!
Anxious and grieving, Qiao Weiwei desperately maneuvered the controls. The massive Boundless Crimson charged straight forward, engaging in close-quarters combat with Wind House 1 and 2, like three fat figures fighting each other in mid-air.
The Black Star had actually redesigned the two original long-range heavy artillery mechs into close-combat, super-heavy mechs.
With a colossal height of 73 meters, equipped with countless reinforced close-combat capability attachments, they became even more ferocious.
"Wind House 2" swung its ferocious steel fist, which suddenly released red ripples. Its elbow armor rapidly flipped up, revealing several auxiliary thruster vents!
Brown flames erupted, and the giant fist, like a powerful pile-driving hammer, heavily struck the chest of the Boundless Crimson!
A deafening "Boom—!" reverberated, piercing and chilling. Qiao Weiwei, inside the Boundless Crimson, felt her bones rattling as if they had fallen apart due to the powerful impact, but her face was obscured by tears of grief.
"That's Rui Zi's mecha, how dare you insects pilot it!!" Qiao Weiwei roared furiously, controlling the mech to counterattack.
Explosive flames, capable of melting everything, ignited from the mech's body. The Boundless Crimson transformed into a Flaming Phoenix of Red Cinders. The extreme heat of tens of thousands of degrees vaporized the sea below and consumed the air. Cold and hot gases quickly compressed together, gradually forming an orange-red tornado that swirled around the Boundless Crimson.
"Wind House 1" spread its limbs like a net, pouncing onto the Boundless Crimson. Green-glowing liquid began to flow out from its body!
As the liquid was vaporized by the high temperature, a faint green steam with a slightly bitter taste formed, instantly engulfing the entire Boundless Crimson.
"Wind House 2" held its fists horizontally, its wrists, elbows, and shoulder auxiliary thrusters erupting suddenly. Dual fists struck the head and waist of the Boundless Crimson.
The iron fists, imbued with red beam ripples, generated explosions upon friction with the super high temperature, and a series of fiery flashes lit up the Boundless Crimson.
Qiao Weiwei recalled the scene of Rui Zi's death. The immense grief coupled with the fierce attacks from the enemy mechs pushed her emotions to the brink of collapse.
She could no longer see the control panel in front of her, but her fingers continued to randomly press buttons.
"I'm too useless! I'm too useless, Rui Zi's death is my fault. If I were stronger, Rui Zi wouldn't have died!" an overwhelming sense of guilt surged within Qiao Weiwei.
Tao Na was the first to notice Qiao Weiwei's abnormality and shouted, "Calm down! Those are not Wind House mechs!! They are fakes!"
"Haha! Hahahaha!!! Hahahahaha!!! I will become the flame that melts all things!" Qiao Weiwei suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, shouting madly, "Ultimate Skill—!!"
[Crimson Flame That Severes Bonds!!!]
The sub-form, Boundless Crimson, broke out of its massive body and shot straight up. It wrapped its hands and feet around the head of "Wind House 2," and its entire body's auxiliary and main thrusters rapidly changed direction, rotating clockwise.
The rapid rotation created a fiery whirlwind around the smaller Boundless Crimson, directly tearing off the head of "Wind House 2"!
"Wind House 2," now headless, swung its arms, grabbing the limbs of the smaller Boundless Crimson. Its powerful auxiliary flames suddenly ignited, tearing it forcefully in half! A gut-wrenching screech of tearing metal echoed through the sky.
"Qiao Weiwei!!!" Tao Na's eyes widened in horror as she screamed!
Just then, a green light flashed. Green Duke lunged like a predatory mantis, its giant glaive slashing horizontally to sever the wrist of "Wind House 2," steadily catching the halved smaller Boundless Crimson.
But even more terrifying emotions surged into everyone's hearts with a sound that tore through the sky.
From the massive body of the Boundless Crimson, tens of thousands of incredibly bright white lights suddenly radiated!