Chapter 111

Boom!

The two remaining vector thruster nozzles ejected cyan flames, providing immense thrust that propelled the mech forward.

In an instant, it crossed dozens of meters, flashing before Li Ang and slashing down with its blade.

Ladder Cloud Steps.

Beneath Li Ang's feet, solid energy platforms materialized out of thin air, providing leverage for him to retreat explosively, narrowly avoiding the slash.

"Buzz—"

The distinctive sound of the high-frequency cutting blade slicing through the air rang out again.

The Kui Niu mech, with its vector thrusters at full power, abandoned all defense, focusing all its energy on offense.

Li Ang retreated again and again, his Basha Henglan Shuo leaving more than a dozen deep wounds on the Kui Niu mech's vitals with dragonfly-skimming-water precision.

Several times, he was only a hair's breadth away from severing Ding Zhensze's limbs in the cockpit,

but he was restricted by the Kui Niu mech's reckless attack style and could only pull back his weapon to continue defending.

"So this is the Special Affairs Bureau's secret weapon..."

Countless viewers had this thought in their minds. The battles on the other dozen or so arenas had already ended, but on Arena 45, dust was still flying.

The brick ground of the entire platform was scarred and pitted, filled with holes and cracks left by the high-frequency cutting blade and the Basha Henglan Shuo.

Judging solely from the state of destruction of the arena itself, the level of energy displayed in this match was even higher than the previous round's [Long Xiang Bao Bian] versus [An Boli].

The faces of the lone wolf viewers were filled with amazement and envy.

The expressions of members of other factions, especially those of guild organizations whose relationship with the Special Affairs Bureau was not so amicable, were as ugly as could be.

The bloated heads of the Special Incident Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were exchanging anxious and annoyed whispers, with people constantly going online and offline, presumably reporting the situation to the real world and issuing instructions.

The Prometheus Laboratory Company, which styled itself as the leader of future technology, sent several representatives in suits to the Special Affairs Bureau area, apparently wanting to discuss something, but they left with blank faces, clearly not getting the result they wanted.

Various organizations had sent think tanks to personally observe the first round of the arena matches.

The young man in the blue and white tight-fitting combat suit was clearly not a purely combat-oriented type, but he was able to briefly suppress an opponent with terrifying physical qualities with this mech.

Even if the owner of the Stainless Furnace was not using more skills and was using normal attacks all the time,

who could guarantee that the Kui Niu mech had completely revealed its trump cards?

The strength displayed by the magnetohydrodynamic mech completely exceeded the expectations of other factions.

While their own mechs were still in the laboratory stage and unable to be mass-produced on a large scale,

the Special Affairs Bureau's mechs were already able to participate in high-intensity battles above Lv20, and even gain a firm foothold.

One Kui Niu mech was not scary. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Prometheus Laboratory Company had plenty of players who served as secret weapons,

but the greatest significance of mechs lay in mass production, in stabilizing social order, and in completely innovating the model of modern warfare.

"The Special Affairs Administration really has a deep foundation..."

Shi Jiang couldn't help but exclaim. Upon hearing this, Lu Yu, who was beside him, shook his head and smiled, "No, it's not the Special Affairs Bureau, but the Yihui Society that has a deep foundation."

"Eh?"

Shi Jiang turned his head and looked at his otaku senior, hesitating, "Isn't that mech entirely a technological creation?"

"Of course not."

Lu Yu supported the back of his head with his hands, leaning back as much as possible into the back of the chair, and said lazily, "Teacher said that the Slaughter Field Game has something called a technology barrier.

It's difficult to produce near-future technological creations that can be easily cracked and put into large-scale practical use.

Even if the Special Affairs Bureau has extremely high authority and can mobilize a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, it's unlikely that they could independently develop a Gundam from scratch in such a short period of time without any reference—scientific research can't be done by just throwing more people and money at it.

The core of that mech must have used the Yihui Society's technology.

Only they can provide such technical support."

"..."

Shi Jiang opened his mouth, unsure why his senior Lu Yu was so full of praise for the Yihui Society.

While everyone's minds were being pulled by the brave and iron-blooded fighting figure of the Kui Niu mech, the members of the Special Affairs Bureau's equipment technology department below the arena, who had been silent, fell into some kind of anxious mood.

Only they knew the essence of the [Shan Hai Kui Niu] mech, only they knew what Ding Zhensze on the arena had sacrificed.

"Dad..."

Researcher Yan Han Yan was interrupted by her father, Yan Jianbai, as soon as she opened her mouth.

"I know what you want to say,"

Yan Jianbai said seriously, "But this is Zhensze's own choice. He doesn't want to let down our efforts and his own.

Before the result comes out, all we can do is bless him."

"..."

Yan Han Yan fell silent. She turned around and looked at the back of the giant mech on the arena, whose fighting movements had begun to deform and whose body was constantly trembling.

Kill kill kill kill!

Die! Die! Die!

In the narrow cockpit, the heavy and rapid breathing of Ding Zhensze echoed.

His face was covered with veins, and his pupils were full of bloodshot eyes.

A large number of magnetohydrodynamic fibers pierced out from his bones, muscles, and skin.

The whole person looked like some kind of grotesque creature parasitized by parasites.

The real energy core of the Shan Hai series of mechs was actually the spirit of a ferocious beast dwelling in the depths of the mech.

After several months of exploration, and guided by the Dream Eater, the front-line expedition team had penetrated deep into the bottom of the Prisoner Demon Cave, where they discovered an ancient temporary stronghold left inside the Prisoner Demon Cave by the Yihui Society's predecessors, and excavated a large number of books from the stronghold.

One of the books secretly pointed to a secret passage in the Prisoner Demon Cave.

Following the map's guidance, the front-line expedition team entered the secret passage and used the unique identity authentication method inherited from the Yihui Society to pass the test.

After several spatial jumps, they arrived at a super-giant pocket space.

That space should have been a museum, or rather, a cemetery.

In the empty, boundless darkness, there were energy fields formed by anti-gravity devices everywhere.

Floating within the energy fields were a large number of lifelike giant biological corpses, hundreds or even thousands of meters long.

A crimson tiger with wings on its back – Qiongqi

A horse with a horn on its head, a white body, a black tail, and claws – Bo

A crane with one foot and covered in cyan feathers – Bifang

....

By reading the stone tablet at the bottom of the cemetery, the front-line expedition team learned that what was placed here was not the real mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas,

but fake imitations cloned by the Yihui Society during its heyday, based on textual data left over from the Primordial Era.