Ling Lan was waiting for her team members to gather up, not just blindly waiting. She took out a long-range beam rifle, aimed it at the ground below her and fired without specific purpose.A beam of light flashed across the night sky, descending from the sky.
"Bang." A m.u.f.fled sound followed. The beam that had hit the ground did not make a loud sound. That bright light of the beam had vanished instantly, without a trace, like it had been swallowed up by something.
"This feeling. There isn"t any ground below us.." Ling Lan frowned. Her expression became grave and she asked Little Four, "Little Four, regarding that shot just now, did you find out anything from it?"
"The reaction of the beam seems to show that it is highly likely for there to be some sort of liquid down below." Since they were 200 to 300 meters above the ground, the pitch-black darkness was giving Little Four a lot of trouble in obtaining data using only the mecha"s long range video recording gear.
"Boss, there"s a mecha approaching." Just when Ling Lan wanted to take a closer look, however, Little Four suddenly warned her of something happening.
"Boss!" After reaching the distance where the team"s commlink started to work, Ling Lan heard a familiar rooster-like scream; only, that voice was colder than the usual right now.
"It"s Luo Lang!" Ling Lan smirked. She didn"t think that the first to come find her was going to be Luo Lang. However, when she thought about Luo Lang"s voice just now, she knew that he had kick-started his extremely calm personality. When Luo Lang used this personality, his mecha operating abilities shot up exponentially, directly advancing to the special-cla.s.s operator level. This made it understandable as to how he had been able to find this place so quickly.
"Boss, I"m coming." Although Luo Lang was operating an advanced mecha, his speed had reached the fastest level that advanced mecha could achieve—there wasn"t much of a difference compared to special-cla.s.s mecha.
"Luo Lang, I"m going to go down and take a look at the situation. I"m leaving this place to you." Ling Lan flung these words at Luo Lang and then controlled her mecha to rapidly descend.
Upon hearing this, Luo Lang quickly took out a beam saber and a short range beam gun from his back. In this darkness, the beam sabers which gave off light were more suitable than cold weapons. Of course, this meant they were effective in close range combat, but beam sabers were not suitable at this time; although beam sabers could light up a 40 to 50 meters area around the wielder, it would also make them a target for a sneak attack. Having activated his calm and collected personality, Luo Lang wouldn"t make such a low-level mistake.
Luo Lang"s expression became very calm, being carefully guarded in all directions. Boss Lan"s simple orders, in reality, meant that he had put his life in Luo Lang"s hands; thus, even the Luo Lang who had activated his calm and collected personality still felt immense pressure.
Even so, however, he would not allow himself to fail the trust Boss had in him! In the c.o.c.kpit, Luo Lang clenched his fist tightly.
Suddenly, he felt movement from the his right side coming from the thick darkness. He didn"t even stop think and raised his beam gun and took a shot.
"Holy sh*t, murder!" Qi Long had just arrived, but before he could take a break, he felt a great catastrophe approaching. His finger speed definitely broke his own record at that moment, and it was because of this mystical reaction speed that he was able to dodge the shot that came out of nowhere.
It was only now that Qi Long discovered there had been mecha hidden in the darkness less than 100 meters from his location.
Hearing the loud voice that suddenly erupted in the team channel, Luo Lang knew he had made a huge mistake—he had shot at his teammate. He put away the gun and said coldly, "Oh, Qi Long, it"s you."
"Luo Lang… ugh. Even if it"s you, Luo Lang, why didn"t you say something before shooting?" Qi Long also put away the weapon in his hand upon seeing a familiar face. He moved his mecha before where Luo Lang was hovering.
"Why didn"t you say something when you were coming?" Luo Lang asked coldly. His words almost seemed to contained a trace of blame.
Qi Long rubbed his nose for a bit before saying embarra.s.sedly, "I… I was in a hurry."
"You deserved it!" Luo Lang glanced at Qi Long with a disapproving look. Qi Long shouldn"t think that he was the Luo Lang with the original personality, believing whatever he said.
Qi Long speechlessly rubbed his nose again, then changed the subject and said, "What"s wrong? Is Boss not here?" He had actually wanted to give Boss a surprise, thinking he was the first to arrive. He didn"t think that the first to arrive was Luo Lang, and it was even the Luo Lang who had activated his cold personality. This was a really hard personality to fool.
Luo Lang didn"t answer but instead pointed below himself. Qi Long was no idiot; he thought about the order given through the bright purple flare that Boss had shot out. He knew that there was something wrong at the bottom and it was most likely dangerous.
Since Boss didn"t tell them to go down, Qi Long wouldn"t make a decision on his own. He waited with Luo Lang and was also alert towards his surroundings.
Ling Lan, who had flown her mecha straight down, took out the beam saber from her back and switched on its power. The beam saber instantly shined with a brilliant light and instantly illuminated the area in a 40 to 50 meter radius around her.
With this small amount of light, Ling Lan continued to descend and finally drew near to the "ground". The "ground" was flat and so clear that it began to reflect the light from the beam saber, and this white light blinded Ling Lan"s eyes.
Without Ling Lan"s orders, the mecha"s screen instantly lowered its brightness; Little Four had put up a shield against the reflected light so that Ling Lan"s eyes would no longer be affected.
Ling Lan flew above the "ground" towards one direction and found that the surroundings were all this kind of "ground". She couldn"t tell the end of it.
Ling Lan stabbed hard at the "ground", but her beam saber met no resistance, going straight through the "ground" up to the sword hilt.
Ling Lan quickly brought it back up. The originally flat "ground" began to slightly stir, slowly shaking.
"One-sixth of the the beam saber"s energy was instantly depleted. This water is very odd," Ling Lan said to herself upon seeing the warning on the screen that had shown the beam saber"s energy consumption.
"It is water and this water may have a corrosive effect, or the ability to drain energy." Ling Lan quickly put back the beam saber behind her and at the same time took out a cold weapon, a large sword.
Ling Lan gripped the large sword and used its tip to flick at the endless amounts of liquid below her. She then took out a light source and lit up the large sword"s tip, and found drops of water falling from it one by one. However, the sword was still the same as before, without any damage.
"Maybe the corrosive nature of this water is ineffective against the material of the large sword. However, what"s more likely is that perhaps this is some mysterious substance capable of draining energy." If it really had a corrosive nature, the host of the mecha tournament probably wouldn"t have had the guts to throw it down at this location. With so many mecha dropping down, who knew what would happen.
Ling Lan fell into brief contemplation. Just when she wanted to return to the previous location where she had shot out the flares, however, the originally pitch-black darkness where she could not see even her own hands slowly became lit up.
"Little Four, why do I think the night is getting brighter?" Ling Lan asked.
"Really?" At Ling Lan"s observation, Little Four remembered and began to search through the data he had collected. Indeed, visibility was improving. "It looks like daytime is approaching."
"Not sure how long it is until daytime. We probably only have less than six hours left until it reaches midnight at our origin point, planet Qiming."
"Yes, only 5 hours and 41 minutes left," Little Four responsibly reported the correct time.
"Then we need to find our landing location as soon as possible, or else we won"t be able to decide which direction we should go." If this area wasn"t a lake, then it was a sea. She picked out a mountain range, but this was the complete opposite of that. Unfortunately, although Ling Lan thought about it for a long time, she still couldn"t manage to figure out which lake or sea she was at.
Following this small exchange of words, the night continued to fade until daytime quickly arrived.
This time, Ling Lan was able to see clearly. This area that they were dropped off at was indeed a vast sea of water and this sea was very odd. One side was full of fog and dark clouds, making it hard to see what was inside, while the other side was very clear in contrast. Ling Lan could even somewhat see that there were multiple mountain ranges close to each other at the end of sea.
"Yin Yang Sea!" Ling Lan automatically remembered the name of this sea that was written on the map. Half of this sea was clear as far as the eye could see, and the other half always had a dark and rainy weather without many days of sunlight. This was the reason why it was called the Yin Yang Sea.
"Looks like the foggy and cloudy side here is the Yin side of the sea and that other side should be the Yang side of the sea. Although the sun hasn"t come out yet, if we want to get to our destination, we can just move along the Yang side of the sea and go around those mountains," Ling Lan thought to herself.
"Little Four, give me the map for the Yin Yang Sea," Ling Lan ordered.
Very soon, the detailed map of the Yin Yang Sea appeared in Ling Lan"s mind s.p.a.ce. It was very clear that their headquarters location was very close to the Yang side of the sea. Taking a look at the distance and measuring the time, it would take them around one and a half hours to get there. Ling Lan thought about this and felt relieved. She began to patiently wait for everyone to gather up.
With daytime approaching, those other academies that didn"t have a direction or knew what they were doing began to actively gather up their respective team members. On Ling Lan"s side, although most of her team members had gathered to their respective factions, there were still a few people who hadn"t reported in. The other battle team"s team leaders didn"t sit around either and sent out their subordinates to form search teams.
The last few to arrive were Li Lanfeng and the others. They came towards Ling Lan"s side with their faces full of smiles. They gestured "we won" with their hands at Lin Zhong-qing, who was currently reporting on the amount of supplies used. Lin Zhong-qing saw this and became pumped up.
The reason why they had been so late in meeting up with the main force was that they had gone to find Lin Zhong-qing"s logistics mecha team and give them the supplies they had s.n.a.t.c.hed up at the very last second. The four who had waited until the end to s.n.a.t.c.h supplies was indeed none other than Li Lanfeng, Zhao Jun, Han Jijyun and Xie Yi.
This idea had been proposed by Li Lanfeng in the last three minutes before dropping off. Han Jijyun had agreed, and Zhao Jun and Xie Yi voluntarily joined in. In the end, they had perfectly executed and completed the undertaking of this creative idea, successfully s.n.a.t.c.hed some supplies and ejected.
After going through the stolen goods, it became clear that everything these four had brought with them was very useful. Some were even stuff that they had not exchanged for, which benefited them greatly. This made them feel great about themselves.