Volume 7: Abandoned Sandstone City Chapter 332 Revenge
But less than five seconds after Ke Lan and the other two jumped out of the cabin, another team of contestants also jumped out and followed closely behind them.
Valentina was the first to notice the tail behind her and said in the team channel: "Someone is following us."
"In this extremely poor corner, there are people who are competing with us for property?" Ke Lan pulled the surveillance camera image at the back in front of him. With just a glance, he had guessed the other party's purpose.
The three machines left long purple and yellow trails behind them - the trail was one of the markers used to identify the team the players belonged to during skydiving, and the team represented by the purple and yellow was none other than the "Angres Mecha Athletic Club" that had lost to them in the opening match.
"This group of people is here to seek revenge." Ke Lan said, "Let's move to the left and try to get as close to the safe zone as possible ."
Just as Ke Lan expected, as soon as the three of them turned in the air, the three people from the Angelus Club immediately followed them, not caring at all that the two teams had already passed through the area where the supply point was located.
"These guys are really hot on our trails." Ke Lan said with emotion. However, the other two people in the team were very taciturn and spoke sparingly, which made him feel like he was performing a one-man show.
"Well, after we land, Asano Akira and I will be responsible for holding them back... Valentina, you rush to the supply point immediately and get your weapons before joining the battle - Asano, you should be fine, right?"
"I'll do as you say," Asano Akira replied.
Although he helped Asano Akira get an M5-level driver's license before the competition, his actual driving level was not even the entry-level M1. In addition, he was blind and could not see the surrounding scenery through the monitoring screen in the cockpit. All he could do was to let the mecha perform some preset actions stored in the chip according to the instructions given by Ke Lan, and that was all.
"Follow the movement route I sent you. After landing, run forward 165 meters. There is a half-collapsed spiral tower, which is just tangent to the light curtain. That is the battlefield I planned." Ke Lan said.
"The entrance to the tower is located at... Never mind. It won't be used later anyway. Just activate the thrusters and jump up. Set the ascent height to 65 meters and try to make the angle as vertical as possible... The platform on the top of the tower is not large. Be careful not to crash into the light curtain."
Fortunately, with the help of the ability to stop time, Ke Lan was able to transmit various motion parameters accurate to the meter to Asano Akira's body. He felt like a puppeteer in a fantasy game, who had to manipulate the character's body while also distracting himself to control the movement and fighting of the puppets he summoned... If there was no time stop, he might not be able to take care of it at this time.
"Those people are keeping up the pressure..." Ke Lan glanced at the altimeter. Their three aircraft were only a hundred meters away from the ground. If they descended any further, they would have to activate the buffer jets. "Right now, Valentina, increase your altitude and glide towards the supply point. Don't save fuel. They won't be able to react in time!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Valkyrie had already separated from the three-plane formation. Several thrusters on the fuselage simultaneously sprayed out powerful flames, pushing the body towards the green cursor not far away, while the three pursuers behind it landed on the ground together with Ke Lan and the others.
"Hurry, hurry, occupy that spiral tower first!" Ke Lan said. They had just landed, and the only weapon they had was the standard mecha combat dagger. In the absence of long-range weapons, they had an absolute advantage by attacking from high up and low down.
The landing point he chose was an empty square. The spiral tower tangent to the light curtain stood alone in the center of the square. Before the Alpha civilization disappeared, this place should have been their religious sacrificial site. The mysterious and intricate patterned ditches on the square also illustrated this point well.
"May the great gods' protection last forever... May the great gods' grace cover all things..." Ke Lan silently recited the Alpha words implied in the pattern in his heart, and with the help of the thrusters, he rushed towards the spiral tower in a half-running and half-jumping posture.
The three people from the Angelus Club did not split up to pursue Valentina. In their opinion, Ke Lan and the other man, who had lost their ace pilot, could not pose any threat at all. The best option was to take this opportunity to quickly kill them both, and then turn around and besiege Valentina together.
Even if Valentina got the weapon, she would be at an absolute disadvantage under the siege of three people.
It is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers. In a team fight, the number of people is always the most important factor.
When the three of them landed, they were about eighty meters away from Ke Lan and Asano Akira. But when Ke Lan and Asano Akira reached the top of the tower, the distance had been shortened to less than thirty meters.
"I'll block the stairs. If they choose to fly up using thrusters, you should know what to do, right?"
"Yeah." Asano Akira nodded, even though Ke Lan couldn't see it at all.
There were still many broken large stones scattered on the top of the spiral tower. Ke Lan directly pushed these stones down from the stairs. Although the rolling stones could not cause damage to the high-strength frame of the mecha, they could still hinder the movement. The two Angres players who rushed into the tower were unable to move forward for a while. They could only squat on the spot and raise their arms to resist the impact of the stones... After all, the edge of the stairs was right next to the light curtain. If they lost their balance and fell in, even the human body would be eliminated.
The ace pilot of the Angelus Club chose the same way to climb the tower as Asano Akira - he started the thrusters when he was still more than ten meters away from the base of the tower and flew directly up. However, before his feet touched the ground at the top of the tower, Asano Akira's mecha suddenly pounced on him and hugged him tightly.
The skeleton used by Asano Akira was not the latest Phoenix prototype launched by the Ye Group, but a light skeleton called "Jungle Scout Type III". In addition to being light and flexible, the most special feature of this skeleton is its two arms like a gibbon. Although the opponent immediately drew out his combat dagger and cut off the power pipeline in the left arm of the "Jungle Scout", Asano Akira had already locked the joint long before that... Unless these two arms were cut off, the opponent would have no way to break free from this "embrace".
After completing this action, Asano Akira input another preset action into the console, and then jumped out of the cockpit from the emergency escape hatch on the back of the mecha.
The second move is a wrestling move that is very common in unarmed combat.
