Translator: Callis
Editor: Playerprophet & Shiru
This type of creature, the Dimensional Zerg, didn"t just hunt anything with flesh or energy, but also went after plants and mineral resources. They were more terrible than swarming locusts. A planet that the Dimensional Zerg pa.s.sed through was a dead one.
The Dimensional Zerg had no natural enemies in this universe. The only ones that could destroy it had to take up weapons just to survive.
In a forest with trees four to five meters tall, there were five Dimensional Zergs with short hair all over their bodies. They were about a meter tall and two meters wide, and resembled huge spiders. They were enjoying the delicious banquet in front of their eyes.
Soon, however, these clueless spiders would become a great, delicious banquet for another team.
"Everyone, be careful." Staying out of sight, the six mechas surrounded the five spiders. Salah watched the image shared by the master-sub system. He didn"t forget to issue a warning before they moved.
"Understood."
"Haha, Salah, you can rest a.s.sured."
Salah looked at Haney, who could still smile in such a tense moment, and ignored him. He gave the order to fight.
"Charge!"
At the command, the two who were responsible for the attack, Haney and Bit, shot photon artillery sh.e.l.ls with their mechas. They emitted faint rays of light as they approached the spider Zergs, which were still gnawing on tree bark.
Bang! The sound of the photon artillery sh.e.l.ls" explosion spread, and smoke and fire obstructed everyone"s sight. Although their line of sight was blocked, the monitoring system on the mechas were faithful to their duty and showed the spiders" situation.
"Two less red dots, very good. Zhang Ye, there are two red dots heading in your direction, be careful!" Wu Zimo handed the battle commands to Salah. He himself didn"t remain idle, his attention glued to the mecha"s monitor.
They noted that the sneak attack had taken out two targets, but the spider Zergs weren"t stupid. After being attacked, they would remain in their original positions, unmoving.
The first attack had eliminated two targets, and the while the remaining three had dodged, two spider Zergs ran towards Zhang Ye"s position.
"Understood."
"Laney, support Zhang Ye with Baffil as backup. Haney, you follow me." Salah gave a new round of instructions. As for him, he went straight for the remaining spider Zerg.
"Okay." After receiving the order, the three men moved quickly.
Wu Zimo saw Salah rush a spider Zerg while Laney and Baffil moved to Zhang Ye"s side. He looked at the lower screen and said to Bit, who was beside him: "Bit, move back ten meters."
"Okay." Bit didn"t know what Wu Zimo"s plan was, but he didn"t ask. He steered the mecha to retreat to the coordinates Wu Zimo had given.
Wu Zimo"s position was ideal for observing everyone"s circ.u.mstances on the battlefield.
This was Salah"s first time facing the spider Zergs. However, the many days of training allowed him to keep his cool better than most people, even though it was indeed his first time.
In a one-on-one situation, even if Salah didn"t have the advantage over the spider Zerg, it had no advantage over Salah either. Wu Zimo watched Salah a bit before shifting his attention. Zhang Ye"s situation worried him.
As Wu Zimo observed, he found that the special training really improved things for Zhang Ye and their team. Even if Salah wasn"t there to launch the master-sub system, the coordination of Zhang Ye and the other"s mechas wouldn"t have any problems.
Zhang Ye and the others were facing two enemies. In a two-vs-three situation, even if they couldn"t win, nothing dangerous should happen.
While everyone was fighting, Wu Zimo wasn"t vacantly standing off to the side. His hands kept tapping around his light brain, making Bit glance at him. He didn"t know what Wu Zimo was doing. Even though he was curious, he didn"t ask. He was just remained standing like a loyal guard for Wu Zimo.
Wu Zimo, who had been tapping on the light brain with both hands, suddenly stopped and frowned. He paused, then opened the map on his light brain, thought for a moment, and then told Bit to move five meters to their left.
Bit followed Wu Zimo"s directions.
After the mecha moved five meters, Wu Zimo"s light brain seemed like it had convulsed. Incomprehensible data was flashing incessantly.
"What in the world is going on?"
Bit, a layman, didn"t understand the data on Wu Zimo"s light brain, but even Wu Zimo himself didn"t understand it well. Unable to figure it out, he raised his head and looked at the spider Zerg that Salah was fighting. The Interstellar monitors faithfully showed the spider"s circ.u.mstances.
The image was very clear, to the point that even the individual strands of hair could be seen. It was because of this that Wu Zimo was scared when he first saw the spider Zergs.
Wu Zimo"s line of sight moved up from the spider"s claws, and he saw eight compound eyes. The image was too clear, making people feel a bit disgusted. However, Wu Zimo"s expression remained unchanged, and he then noticed the spider Zerg"s peculiarity.
"That antenna……"
Looking at the antenna, which was swaying with a rhythmic frequency, Wu Zimo had a flash of inspiration and remembered the characteristics of certain insects.
"f.u.c.k! No wonder!"
Wu Zimo opened the map, calculated the distance between their coordinates and the coordinates of the ten other active spider Zergs, and opened the Dimensional Zerg monitoring system that the First Military System had provided. He opened it to the largest range possible.
"d.a.m.n! So it"s really like this."
Seeing the red dots slowly appearing at the edge of the monitoring map, Wu Zimo felt the urge to gnash his teeth.
"Don"t play anymore Salah, these spider Zergs will call their little friends over to fight!" As he spoke, he sent the information he had discovered to everyone.
The monitoring map showed ten dots running towards them. Wu Zimo lamented that even Dimensional Zergs had learned "an arrow piercing through the clouds, a thousand soldiers meeting".
Seeing that the situation wasn"t in their favor, they would call their friends to engage in a group fight. How reprehensible!
The others were shocked when they saw Wu Zimo"s discovery. While it seemed that they were playing around as they were cleaning up the spider Zergs, it was only with a sneak attack that they were able to achieve such good results.
Seeing that they still hadn"t managed to clean up the spider Zergs despite having a fairly large number of people, it seemed that the spider Zergs weren"t weak.
They were able to deal with five Dimensional Zergs because of the sneak attack, but even with a sneak attack, they might not be able to deal with ten Zergs. Moreover, the spider Zergs already knew of them and were ready for a direct confrontation. This would just be seeking death.
Salah"s expression became cold, and Lyle asked, worried: "Salah, are you okay?"
When the gloomy-faced Salah saw that Lyle, who was beside him, look at him in concern, his eyes flashed and his restless mood calmed down.
"Don"t worry."
If the enemy had backup, they would have to move faster.
Salah"s quantum beast, the feathered snake, was summoned, as were everyone else"s quantum beasts, and joined in Zhang Ye"s fight. Even Bit"s wasn"t an exception.
It was only then that Wu Zimo discovered that the silent Bit"s quantum beast was a rhinoceros.
The sentinels fought with their quantum beasts, and their attack power doubled. Zhang Ye"s fight, which had been locked in a stalemate, tilted in their favor when Bit joined the fight.
Wu Zimo didn"t have time to pay attention to his comrades" fighting. He had been monitoring the distant spider Zergs.
"The ten spider Zergs are eighteen kilometers away from us." Although eighteen kilometers seemed far away, the spider Zergs were fast. At their speed, they would reach them in half an hour.
"Understood!"
Everyone knew that time waited for no one. After the beginning of the battle, they found the spider Zerg"s weakness and got rid of all three spider Zergs in less than ten minutes.
"Hurry and leave!" It was an inappropriate time to be cleaning up the battlefield; it was more important to escape.
The five other mechas followed Bit. Wu Zimo asked Bit to adjust his route while keeping an eye on the spider Zergs chasing them.
To be honest, the experience of running for his life was really uncomfortable. Fortunately, Wu Zimo and the others were not the type to accept defeat. With Wu Zimo"s precise calculations, they ran for more than two hours across Planet XT781 before they finally left the spider Zergs behind them.
While escaping, Wu Zimo and Salah didn"t want to join forces with other teams to eliminate the Dimensional Zergs following them. But the situation soon spiraled out of control, and because there were more and more spider Zergs following them, Wu Zimo was forced to choose a safer route, avoiding the First Military Academy"s other a.s.sessment teams as well as other spider Zergs.
Wi Zimo and the others, who were expending all their energy into fleeing, were being observed by Da Li and the rest of his team. They commented that either Wu Zimo"s team was fierce, or lucky.
It was clear that their running was random, but they avoided the larger groups of spider Zergs with ease. They didn"t even run into the First Military Academy"s other a.s.sessment teams.
"Boss, do you think that some sentinels on this team have a good sense of danger? Like they have the ability to predict danger?" Otherwise, it would be very difficult to explain away Wu Zimo"s route with just "good luck".
Da Li didn"t respond to Lao Yu"s suspicions, but Xiao Ba shouted back: "How could that be? Our sentinels" spiritual strength is very formidable, but their strength is in their combat ability. This kind of prediction of danger is more like a guide"s ability."
"Their team doesn"t have a guide." Another team member interrupted.
"Right, right. It was said before the Wu Zimo had a high change of awakening as a guide, but didn"t he fail to awaken?"
Luck? Perception of danger? The team"s conversation allowed them to ponder for a while, and then, ignoring the other team members who were still shouting, they faithfully recorded Wu Zimo"s team"s circ.u.mstances and sent it to Rocard.
Of course, Wu Zimo and the others weren"t "lucky", nor did they have "perception of danger". Their results were achieved thanks to Wu Zimo"s cheat. If they ran down the wrong path with such a clear map, then Wu Zimo would really break it down and rebuild it again.
Even in the past, when Wu Zimo was running in the more complex world of the Internet, he had never run down the wrong path!
On Planet XT781, Wu Zimo and the others, who had finally gotten rid of the spider Zergs, all felt a new sense of relief. In that moment, when they saw a dense wave of red dots behind them on the monitor, their fear ran down into their pores.
Late update!! o(≧∇≦o)
If you read VPOHE, I mentioned that I have a bunch of term project demos this week and a hackathon this weekend, but I"ll still try to TL more chapters!