Liang Yuwei and Wang Shangmeng flew above the Black Star Central Metropolis in their hover cars.
The two men spoke little to each other.
Their only exchange of words came when Wang Shangmeng praised, "Brother Liang's skills are still unmatched. You fixed my body in just three minutes."
Liang Yuwei smiled refinedly. "I know the body I modified for you best. It was just a minor glitch."
Their vehicles, following the flow of hover cars, slowly turned past a skyscraper and headed west.
Wang Shangmeng inadvertently looked back and, from a distance, glimpsed a entire floor of the Black Command Building suddenly go dark.
Immediately after, several faint lights flashed within the darkened floor.
Wang Shangmeng quickly realized it might be an explosion.
He rapidly pressed the vehicle's brake button and peered back intently.
"What's wrong?" Liang Yuwei asked, puzzled.
Wang Shangmeng said as he looked, "Brother Liang, is that the research institute floor?"
Liang Yuwei slowly turned, adjusted the focus of his ocular implant, and zoomed in on the Black Command Building.
"Yes, looking at it now, it really does resemble it."
Suddenly, frequent white flashes erupted from the darkened floor!
Without a second thought, the two quickly turned their hover cars around and flew back against the traffic.
"We just left, and the research institute is in trouble!"
"This is definitely not good! The most crucial thing is Gu Ya's physical body is still inside the institute!"
"Hold on tight!"
At this moment, Ning Yu was single-handedly fending off dozens of professional combat personnel.
The enemy rotated combat personnel, with those replenishing ammunition withdrawing and reserves filling in.
They advanced wave after wave, suppressing Ning Yu with heavy firepower.
Ning Yu also attempted to break through, but was driven back by even more intense fire.
"Stay calm! Stay calm!! We must break out, even at the cost of our lives!!"
"Skill cooldown complete! All skills activated!!"
Time froze once more.
This time, Ning Yu quickly shed her external exoskeleton armor, emerged from her mecha, and, enduring the swamp-like air resistance, struggled to move her legs forward towards the enemy.
When time resumed, the enemy immediately spotted Ning Yu and turned their firepower towards her.
Ning Yu could only manifest her exoskeleton armor and thick steel plates to block the incoming fire, bracing herself in place.
Bullets hammered against the steel plates, a continuous bombardment that rattled her eardrums, making it impossible for Ning Yu to fully concentrate.
"This won't do. If this drags on, I'll die!"
"Calm down! Think hard, if Master were in this situation, what would he do..."
"But I'm not Master! He has Hei Yang and Yong Meng, and I have nothing!"
"So stupid! I'm so stupid!!"
Just then, Ning Yu suddenly felt the enemy's firepower begin to weaken.
The sound of bullets hitting the steel plates gradually lessened.
She listened carefully to the sounds, discerning the direction of the enemy's assault.
The enemies were shifting their fire to other directions.
Weirdly, the enemies didn't seem to be firing in a single direction; they were shooting randomly!
"Could it be Master is back?"
Ning Yu quickly shed her steel plates and broke through the encirclement.
Instantly, enemy bullets flew towards Ning Yu.
But compared to before, the firepower had significantly diminished, making it manageable.
Utilizing this fleeting gap in firepower, Ning Yu pinpointed the enemy's location and charged forward with frenzied speed.
A dark green lightsaber extended from her hand. She transformed into a grim reaper of the night, wildly slashing at the enemy.
After dispatching a small group of enemies around her at the fastest possible speed, Ning Yu pursued in the direction the enemies were advancing.
Within the pitch-black research institute, she saw not far ahead,
A dense mass of enemies was unleashing a barrage of fire towards the same target.
In front of the enemies, a blurry silhouette was dodging the rain of bullets with incredible speed, maneuvering and attacking.
Bullets struck the silhouette's arm, making "clang, clang, clang" sounds as they all ricocheted away!
The silhouette's speed was so great, it seemed to defy gravity, even allowing it to run along walls!
Ning Yu activated all her skills and blinked forward. The ten enemies in the rear were instantly decapitated.
Meanwhile, the silhouette in front had also charged to the enemies' side and engaged in close combat.
Along this ten-meter-wide corridor, Ning Yu and the silhouette, one after the other, surrounded dozens of enemies.
The opposing force, also professional combat personnel, quickly spread out to the sides, leaving an opening in the middle, and began to encircle Ning Yu and the silhouette from behind.
What had been their encirclement gradually transformed into their own entrapment!
After fighting their way through, Ning Yu and the silhouette finally met.
"Shiniang!? Where... where is Master?" Ning Yu shouted in alarm.
At this moment, Ye Ying was covered in blood, her eyes sharp and cold.
Her arms were actually constructed from alloy mechanical arms!
Her sharp arm blades extended, like the wings of two butterflies.
"Stop wasting words, kill them all!" Ye Ying calmly commanded.
Ning Yu instantly summoned an exoskeleton armor for Ye Ying.
With the armor's protection, Ye Ying no longer had to worry about her physical body.
Her arms suddenly bulged even thicker, and two more sharp blades extended from her arms!
Her leg thrusters ignited, and she rapidly charged forward, slicing through an enemy.
Using the auxiliary thrusters on her entire body, Ye Ying's speed became even more formidable.
Like a deadly assassin, she darted through the enemy ranks; even bullets were not as fast as she was!
Wherever she passed, enemies fell.
Ning Yu was now free of concerns.
She summoned her heavy firepower exoskeleton armor and unleashed a barrage of fire outwards.
The two stood back-to-back, one engaging in close combat, the other providing long-range fire support.
Soon, they had eliminated all the enemies who had surrounded them!
As they caught their breath, reinforcing enemies began to arrive!
Ye Ying shouted, "Fall back to me!" and quickly retreated into the darkness.
Ning Yu followed, suppressing the reinforcing enemies with her heavy firepower, covering their steady retreat.
Ye Ying rushed to the hover car bay.
Seven or eight enemy corpses already lay strewn across the bay.
Ye Ying burst into a hover car and yelled to Zhan Huo Wei, "Found Ning Yu, let's go!"
As the hover car began to move, it was suddenly slammed back into place by an immense force!
A monstrously large, dark silhouette emerged from in front of the hover car!
The silhouette swung a fist as massive as a boulder, powerfully smashing the front of the hover car.
Ye Ying roared, her arms instantly mechanized, and she broke through the glass, charging out.
This silhouette was at least four times Ye Ying's size, like a solid little mountain.
One of its fists was larger than Ye Ying's upper body!
"Capture Ye Ying and Wang Shangmeng alive. All other research institute personnel, kill them all!" the silhouette boomed with a rough male voice.
Ye Ying screamed in rage, activated her leg thrusters, and charged forward.
Her sharp arm blades sliced rapidly.
The massive man raised one fist to block Ye Ying's attack, while the other fist hooked upwards from below, delivering a heavy blow to Ye Ying's abdomen, sending her flying into the ceiling five meters above!
"Argh!!" Ye Ying cried out in agony, spitting a mouthful of blood!
This was with the protection of the exoskeleton armor; if it were her physical body, she would have been killed by a single punch!
At this moment, Ning Yu also gradually retreated to the hover car bay. She was still suppressing the enemies behind her with her firepower and turned, shouting, "What happened? Why aren't we leaving?"
"There are more and more enemies! If we don't leave now, we'll be surrounded again!"
Ye Ying flew down from the ceiling, landing steadily, positioning herself between the hover car and the massive man.
Her gaze was sharp and her anger immense. She said coldly, "Give me one minute!"
With that, Ye Ying ignited her leg thrusters and charged towards the massive man again!