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Genius Mechanic: Chapter 210
Slared Contaminated Zone(Star Alliance Mission)
210. Super S Reserve
Proofread by Cloud Chip Cake and An Zheee
When the two faint signals deep in the planet’s core lit up, the elite teams from SLY and GBK, who were on high alert around the Snowy Mountains, were caught off guard by the appearance of two coordinates in the fiercely contested underground.
“Alice, the underground!” Bai Xuyan said coldly.
“I saw it without you telling me,” Alice responded. She had navigated deep into the ice cave and, upon reaching a leading position, turned to see two mecha signals from Dawn appearing in the deeper underground.
How did Dawn’s mechas manage to reach such a position in this ice cave!?
Moreover, the two mecha signals were almost 30 kilometers away from their current location. Slared’s surface was thin, and the planet itself wasn’t very large. 30 kilometers was still quite a distance from the true core, but the main issue was that the two mechas were near the core of the large energy source—right in the area that was dark red.
Reaching such a depth in this ice layer was astonishing, and those two mechas weren’t Stealth mechas. Even if they were, how could they completely hide their signals from detection? It was almost unbelievable.
“We haven’t received any information on KID about such weapons.”
“There’s also the highest-ranking radar systems of the Star Alliance. Even Stealth mechas would have a hard time avoiding detection by the Star Alliance’s systems!”
Alice smashed a pollutant beside her and looked towards the underground with a cold expression. “We’ve been set up from the start. Sink’s coordinates, exposed when the system was first restored, were closest to the location of those two mechas.”
Sink had deliberately led them in the opposite direction; the original path surely had a direct route to the pollutant’s location! They had all been diverted, or rather, Sink’s actions had confused their lead. Not only had Sink drawn them down to the bottom of the ice layer to exhaust them, but he had also directly moved their elite forces away from the combat zone.
“Is there anyone near the ice layer? What’s the situation now!” Bai Xuyan scanned Sink’s initial coordinates, frowning, “Block KID! Don’t let them use the spatial weapon for teleportation!”
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Xuyan suddenly noticed several unfamiliar mecha numbers appearing on the radar. These mechas seemed to have used teleportation to arrive near the tunnel Alice had dug. As he quickly checked the mecha numbers, he saw that the data for these mechas indicated they were from the Dawn Galaxy. “Some of them have changed their mechas—”
Among the two mechas, he saw two S-Level mechas.
Above Slared’s ice layer, some strong teams who had stayed outside on the ice layer suddenly stopped when they saw the Dawn mecha signals on the radar. Before they could determine the purpose of the Dawn mechas’ actions, one of the mechas, an Artillery mecha, reacted faster than they could, firing a Sniper Cannon shot that caused a Compression Windstorm. The blast whipped up the surrounding snow and created a white blind spot.
In those few seconds, Qi Sicheng’s speed booster was set to maximum, and he and several mechas charged into the tunnel Alice had dug.
“F*ck! What the hell is going on!?”
“S-Level mechas!?”
“Dawn’s Yan! He’s blocking the entrance!”
The remaining mechas from the strong teams on the ice layer quickly reacted. As they prepared to intercept, they saw a Tank mecha block the entrance to the tunnel, with its Counter-Damage Shield positioned above the entrance, providing protection for the rear.
“Move!” Huo Yan shouted, “Head down immediately, I’ll cover the rear.”
As Huo Yan decided to cover the rear, the other mechas swiftly moved down the ice tunnel. With no obstacles in the clear ice tunnel, they descended quickly and then moved towards the initial coordinates of the Parasitic Flower, following Ying Chenlin’s location.
There was no way around it; Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie had fallen deeper than they had anticipated, exceeding Ying Chenlin’s displacement range.
“F*ck! Thirty kilometers deep, how could they fall so far!” Ji Qingfeng shouted, “Who can catch up with that!”
“Is this what we wanted? Damn, this flower is rolling so much I’m about to puke,” Zhao Lejie’s voice crackled with electric noise, “And what’s with your attitude? Is this how you treat the hopes of the whole family? If you’re so capable, why don’t you roll instead!”
Ji Qingfeng said, “What is he saying? I only hear electric crackling.”
Zhao Lejie: “I said, f*ck your uncle.”
Lin Yao: “We can still go deeper! But this flower has gone on strike!”
The others: “…”
No one intercepted the Parasitic Flower’s coordinates, and a large amount of pollutants were redirected. As everyone closely followed Ying Chenlin to the Parasitic Flower’s coordinates, the reconnaissance mechas from other strong teams quickly noticed their intentions and moved towards them. Ke Lin immediately said, “We can’t all go underground. Once we enter the underground, there won’t be any targets left on the surface for evacuation. Leaving one mecha behind is too dangerous. I’ll stay with Xiao Hu.”
Hu Luobu: “We’ll cover the rear. You guys go!”
Lu Xi also spoke up: “I’ll stay too. My Spider Silk Cannon is useful in the ice cave; it can block people.”
With no time to hesitate, the others jumped into the ice cave’s fault line. This jump wasn’t as easy as Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie’s previous descent; all the root tendrils immediately surged towards them.
You Su leaped past Ying Chenlin and said coldly, “Fall back!”
The Steelwing Bird’s Energy Cannon had a strong repelling effect against the many plant root tendrils. A single shot pushed the obstructing plant roots back by several meters. Wen Yi also kept pace, using the frost-effect Heavy Strike Cannon, while Ji Qingfeng and Chi Lizi’s two Stealth mechas, equipped with a Hook Claw and Grappling Hook respectively, maneuvered freely among the roots.
Qi Sicheng immediately maxed out the booster, leading the several mechas through the root tendrils.
Under cover, they quickly descended while the responding strong teams’ mechas surrounded KID.
Above Slared’s ice layer, Huo Yan could barely hold off the numerous enemies, retreating step by step into the ice cave. Meanwhile, farther away, mechas suspended on a peak of the Snowy Mountains observed the surroundings. The PJT mechas remained in place, watching the active mechas. A mecha pilot beside them couldn’t help but ask, “Captain, we’ve been squatting here for a long time. When are we going to take action?”
Captain Norbert of PJT leisurely observed the situation at the bottom. He had already recorded the effects of the Sniper Cannon used by the previous Artillery mecha. What surprised him was another S-Level mecha he had seen before—Yuan, which had been recorded in the data long before the Sink event.
The record was for the mecha Yuan, but the data currently displayed for this mecha was all blank.
In the Mecha Alliance, any modifications to active mechas must be approved by the Alliance before they can appear on the competitive stage. Each modification is recorded, and if a mecha undergoes special modifications, that record is locked and cleared until the mecha undergoes a re-evaluation by the Alliance.
The data for Yuan shouldn’t be blank; if it was, there was only one possibility.
It was a modified mecha that hadn’t yet been registered.
“New modifications to Yuan?”
Norbert had previously shown little interest in participating in these team competitions. Even though there was a lot of buzz about Slared in the intelligence network, he preferred to watch from the sidelines rather than compete for items.
However, now he was suddenly interested in that mecha. “Underground, huh? The route seems a bit long.”
The nearby mecha pilots thought Captain Norbert was finally about to make a move, only to see him stand up and then return to his seat.
Norbert said, “Let’s wait for Alice to dig us a path.”
The mecha pilots: “……!”
The movements of several mechas from Dawn attracted widespread attention. All the strong teams knew what Dawn’s goal was, but they couldn’t redeploy their elites in Dawn’s path in time. The mecha pilots on the other side of the underground were also facing difficulties. The chaos and pollutants made it necessary for them to press on despite the obstacles.
At this moment, SLY’s captain, Alice, broke through the chaos, directly leaving with the cover of her teammates, and immediately headed towards KID’s location.
On the Dawn spaceship, Jiang Simiao, who was constantly monitoring the movements of the strong teams, exclaimed, “Alice and Bai Xuyan have broken away from the chaos.”
Zhang Ge quickly came over, “How are they moving so fast!”
They had initially thought they could use the chaos to delay these elite teams, but even with the planned tactics, the strong teams managed to react promptly.
“But we’re not without a chance,” Shen Xingtang said with a slightly somber expression, “Only a few mechas have escaped…”
They definitely couldn’t take on a full team of strong elites.
Currently, some strong teams were still engaged in Alliance missions in other areas, so only half of their mechas remained in the ice cave. The chaos had delayed most of them, leaving only a few mechas to deal with. Even against S-Level mechas, they had fought GBK in Coria before and managed to hold their ground!
Shen Xingtang said, “Chenlin’s move was accurate. He’s reduced the pressure on us.”
While they were discussing, the radar coordinates on the map changed again. The six-person team led by Ying Chenlin successfully entered the spatial displacement range. The moment they locked onto Lin Yao’s coordinates, the six mechas instantly displaced to the 30-kilometer depth.
Lin Yao, who had been waiting at the depths where the flower was about to wilt, suddenly looked up and exclaimed, “Wow! They’re down here!”
In the depths of the underground, where the roots were densely spread, the powerful energy reactions interfered with the communications between mechas. Qi Sicheng turned the signal booster to its maximum. When the six mechas landed at the lowest level, they were immediately met with a massive entanglement of roots. The roots were extremely dense, with gaps less than a meter apart, leaving no space for mecha movement. As the six mechas landed, they were immediately immersed in a sea of plant roots.
Roots wrapped around them, and Ji Qingfeng was bound before he could even deploy his Hook Claw. “Damn! What kind of lousy place did you choose!”
Nearby, within the Parasitic Flower, Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie were standing to either side, not stepping out of the flower.
Zhao Lejie: “Heh, is this place something we could choose?”
Lin Yao’s blade was still embedded in the flower. “I’ve stabbed it so many times, it’s almost dead, but it still doesn’t want to go down.”
Seeing their teammates arrive, Zhao Lejie used his knife to cut through some of the roots, and in the next moment, deployed his shield to protect his teammates, pulling the mechas into its protective circle. Ying Chenlin glanced over at Lin Yao’s position and ordered, “Kill the flower, retrieve the anomalous crystal! Kill it and use it as a stepping stone.”
Chi Lizi muttered, “Stepping stone?”
Zhao Lejie: “……?”
Lin Yao, who had been in the flower for a long time, already knew where the anomalous crystal was. To make the flower more compliant, he had stabbed it countless times before.
Hearing Ying Chenlin’s order, he immediately turned back to the flower and swiftly removed the anomalous crystal from its core. As soon as the anomalous crystal was removed, the Parasitic Flower visibly began to wither. The roots, which had tightly gripped the tendrils underneath, started to loosen, showing signs of falling.
You Su had been waiting for this moment. As the Parasitic Flower descended below them, he aimed his Energy Cannon at the flower and fired a powerful shot downwards.
The enormous body of the Parasitic Flower was pushed away by the Compressed WIndstorm, crashing forcefully into the underground. Everyone used the fallen flower as a path and continued moving downwards. Despite its death, the flower’s petals had high defense and could still withstand You Su’s bombardment. It cleared a wide path through the stacked roots, creating a clear route for Dawn’s mechas.
When the Parasitic Flower broke through the layers of entwined roots, what everyone saw wasn’t darkness, but rather a light emanating from the bottom of the roots.
Ying Chenlin was momentarily stunned. The several mechas had crashed into the roots and did not see any pollutants; they had collided with a red-glowing ice surface.
At this moment, all mecha alarm systems blared. They looked up and saw a pulsating blue “heart” high above the ice layer.
The alarm for high-level pollutants blared loudly, and the pollution levels surged to over 10,000!
Moreover, this pollution value was still fluctuating and continuing to rise. According to the Star Alliance’s database, S-Level pollutants with values above 10,000 were recorded as…
Qi Sicheng’s gaze was filled with astonishment. “This pollution level…?”
Ji Qingfeng responded, “Wait, with such a high pollution level, it seems to be similar to the level during the Qiu Jin incident—”
At this moment, You Su, standing behind several mechas, lifted his eyelids and coldly observed the pulsating blue light. “This thing is about to reach Super S-Level.”
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