"What... what?"
Let alone Xu Kuang, Chu Sheng, and the others, even Ye Feng, who was being addressed by Han Xianxing, was completely baffled. What was going on with Han Xianxing? The change was too rapid!
"I didn't hit your head just now..."
"The once heroic Han Xianxing is now like a drowning man, desperately grabbing at a straw!"
Xu Kuang finally turned around. After a slight pause, he burst into laughter.
Han Xianxing ignored Xu Kuang and the others, instead looking at Ye Feng with an incredibly serious expression.
"This guy..."
Ye Feng's brow furrowed slightly.
This was because Han Xianxing had addressed him as "Young friend Zeng," not as a stranger. Before, when he had disguised himself to meet Han Qiuli and Han Xianxing, he had been called "Zeng Aniu."
Had this person recognized him?
"Han Xianxing, you indeed have the Fire Seed Record!"
"Hand it over honestly, and I'll leave you with a whole corpse!"
At this moment, Xu Kuang spoke again, his face full of smugness, as if he held the power of life and death.
Han Xianxing still ignored Xu Kuang; his gaze remained fixed on Ye Feng.
"Uh... Uncle, what do you mean by Young friend Zeng? You've mistaken me for someone else, right? This is our first meeting~"
"Besides, my neck is currently held at knifepoint. I don't look like I can help you, do I?"
Ye Feng did not admit it directly. He looked at Han Xianxing with some bewilderment.
"A strong person's eyes cannot be hidden. Although your neck is at knifepoint, I don't see a trace of fear in your eyes!"
Han Xianxing's reply was concise and powerful.
Ye Feng frowned again and asked, "Do you really have the Fire Seed Record? What does it look like?"
"It's... a bamboo slip inscribed with mysterious runes, with a landscape pattern on one end of the slip!"
Han Xianxing hesitated slightly before finally replying.
"Ah Kun, kill that kid!"
Suddenly, Chu Sheng, inside the red mecha, shouted at the yellow-green mecha with a rather solemn expression.
"Brother Sheng, this kid... is!"
Ah Kun, inside the yellow-green mecha, began to say dismissively, but suddenly stopped as he saw Chu Sheng's face turn cold.
The next second, Ah Kun manipulated the gleaming broadsword and was about to chop off Ye Feng's head.
"Boom!"
But as the broadsword moved, a dull thud echoed. Ye Feng twisted his body, evading the blade, and then kicked the yellow-green mecha's knee.
The force of Ye Feng's kick was considerable, causing its knee to instantly bend.
Almost simultaneously, Ye Feng leaped forward and arrived in front of the mecha's cockpit, grabbed Ah Kun from within the cockpit, and threw him to the ground, sending him tumbling.
"Bang bang bang!"
At this moment, the machine guns on the shoulders of the red and yellow mechas opposite Ye Feng opened fire.
Ye Feng quickly pulled Xiao Xiao and dodged. Xiao Xiao seized the opportunity and with a "boom," sent a ball of huge flame from her hand towards the charging yellow mecha.
Before landing, Ye Feng had already thrown Xiao Xiao quite far.
While in mid-air, a flash of light emanated from Xiao Xiao, and her grayish-white intermediate defense mecha instantly appeared.
After a series of mechanical clicks, Xiao Xiao landed on the ground, already inside the cockpit of the intermediate defense mecha, controlling it and adopting a defensive stance.
Ye Feng, meanwhile, stood bare-handed, confronting Chu Sheng's red mecha and another green mecha.
"Boss Chu Sheng, I told you long ago that this Ah Kun is a jinx!"
A mocking voice came from within the green mecha.
"Zheng Baowen, you t-"
Ah Kun, who was still angry, heard Chu Sheng's words and shamefully crawled back into the mecha's cockpit.
The next second, Ah Kun manipulated the mecha, wielding its broadsword and charging at Ye Feng.
Seeing this, Ye Feng's eyes narrowed. He did not dodge but instead clenched his fist and met the attack head-on.
"Boom!"
A dull impact instantly resounded. Ye Feng's fist struck the knee of the yellow-green mecha controlled by Ah Kun, causing it to stagger. Not only did it fail to hit Ye Feng, but it almost fell.
"Hiss... damn it..."
Ye Feng gasped slightly. "Although my strength is already Steel-grade, my body isn't truly made of steel... it hurts..."
Although Ye Feng's punch had been imbued with arcane energy, it still hurt intensely.
"Hmph, a mantis trying to stop a chariot!"
Ah Kun snorted coldly and once again manipulated the mecha's broadsword to slash at Ye Feng.
"Whoosh! Clang! Hiss!"
A flash of light appeared on Ye Feng's hand. The Tang dao instantly sliced through. Ah Kun's yellow-green mecha's broadsword, along with its fist, was instantly severed by Ye Feng.
"Xiao Xiao!"
Immediately, Ye Feng turned his head and nodded at Xiao Xiao.
Xiao Xiao understood instantly. She quickly ran to Ye Feng's side, kicked Ah Kun and the yellow-green mecha several meters away, and then controlled her mecha to pounce and engage in combat with the enemy.
Subsequently, Ye Feng turned his attention back to Chu Sheng and Zheng Baowen.
"An arcane energy cultivator? Decent strength, but that's all!"
Zheng Baowen's voice emanated from the green mecha.
"Boom boom boom!"
Before he finished speaking, the machine gun ports on the shoulders of Zheng Baowen's green mecha suddenly spat out a stream of fire.
Ye Feng leaped and dodged rapidly. The stones along his path were riddled with large-caliber bullet holes from the machine guns on the shoulders of Zheng Baowen's green mecha.
"Bang! Bang! Bang bang!"
As Ye Feng dodged and reappeared from behind a granite rock, he held a Barrett M82A1 and fired at the transparent canopy of Zheng Baowen's green mecha's cockpit.
"Boom boom boom!"
"Bang bang!"
While Zheng Baowen strafed Ye Feng with the green mecha's machine guns, Ye Feng's Barrett M82A1 also continued to fire.
After a volley of intense gunfire, Ye Feng once again hid behind a massive rock that Han Xianxing and Xu Kuang had unearthed during their fight.
"I've always used my Tang dao before, so I didn't feel much... these mechas are truly exceptionally tough... Even the special armor-piercing rounds from the Barrett M82A1 didn't even create a crack on the cockpit canopy..."
Ye Feng looked at the Barrett M82A1 in his hand and muttered to himself.
According to the information he had gathered, after leaving this Tyrannosaurus Rex Base, if he followed the direction of the arcane pointer, the next large human survivor base would be Mech City.
Along the way, whether he wanted to or not, he had provoked quite a few people from Mech City, and it seemed there was also a Wang family that held considerable influence in Mech City...
Therefore, Ye Feng wanted to use this opportunity to understand more about the combat capabilities of mechas, rather than simply destroying them. Especially the scene of the mecha appearing invisibly just now had piqued his interest.
"Since the NM173AP-S armor-piercing rounds didn't work... let's try that."
A flash of light appeared on Ye Feng's hand, and the Barrett M82A1 vanished instantly, replaced by a rocket launcher.
"Whoosh! Hiss!"
"Bang! Rumble! Boom!"
Ye Feng quickly leaped out, pressed the launch button, and the rocket launcher exploded on Zheng Baowen's mecha in an instant.
...
Not far away,
On Han Xianxing's side,
"Han Xianxing, is this the reinforcement you found? I was wondering who it was."
"This kid is worth you confessing without being pressured, and directly admitting you have the Fire Seed Record? And you're going to hand over the Fire Seed Record to him?"
Xu Kuang did not attack Han Xianxing and the others but looked at Han Xianxing with mockery and disdain. "Fine, then I'll let you watch your so-called savior be engulfed by flames!"
"Father... Father..."
Han Qiuli had woken up. Her face was pale, and her hair was somewhat disheveled. She was supporting Han Xianxing and looked in Ye Feng's direction with great worry.
Han Xianxing, however, looked quite puzzled, his eyes filled with confusion.
...
Beside the giant rock,
"Pat!"
Ye Feng dropped the rocket launcher rack on the ground, feeling somewhat dejected. "These mechas are really troublesome. They're fine even after being hit by rockets!"
"Kid, you don't actually think our mechas are the garbage kind you find on the market, do you?"
Suddenly, a middle-aged man's voice came from the seemingly empty space behind Ye Feng.