"Ling Tong, why are you back so fast? Weren't you supposed to be on a date?"

"Ling Tong, is your boyfriend not up to par? Should I help him with some endurance training?"

"I advise you all not to make fun of him," Red Serpent chuckled. "Ling Tong's boyfriend is a little scary. We should keep our distance from him. Applauding and cheering from afar is enough to show our support and approval."

"Huh? Red Serpent, what's wrong with you? Shouldn't you be egging him on, saying that Big Brother Deep Sea has been feeling weak lately or something?"

"Alas, I witnessed a less-than-pleasant scene earlier," Red Serpent sighed melancholily. "Don't pry into classified matters that aren't your responsibility. Maintain discipline."

"He's not my boyfriend yet."

Ling Tong's voice rang out, calm and composed:

"But I must correct you. He's a very good person, with a cheerful personality and very courteous."

The chat channel went silent for a moment.

Several girls whispered:

"Oh no, Tongtong's fallen for him."

"Aiya! How annoying! Tongtong is so cool, yet she's been bewitched by a man! I love Tongtong!"

"How handsome must this man be? How far have you two gone? Have you started kissing? Have you experienced the difference between high-elastic film and threaded film?"

Inside the truck's cargo container, Daoist Wang raised his hand and touched his cheek, feeling smooth skin.

He always makes sure to groom his stubble.

Black Instructor made a disapproving face with his mechanical face, muttering, "I always feel like my own cabbage has been rooted by a pig."

Wang Ji Xuan frowned and said, "Senior, it's not right of you to insult people."

"Hahaha," Black Instructor continued to grumble, "These guys have such poor vigilance. They haven't even noticed the enemy aircraft entering the airspace. They're going to fail."

Deep Sea's voice immediately rang out: "Enemy aircraft detected!"

The chat channel went silent instantly.

Red Serpent and another battle maiden quickly reported:

"Target locked."

"Six esper, esper reaction levels are 3A2B1C, suspected to be the Judgment Squad."

"Mission objectives have been assigned."

Deep Sea said quickly:

"Repeat: Team A, first wave of attacks. Team B, prioritize eliminating the two strongest. Team C, continue to lie in ambush, beware of their backup plans. Try to capture one target alive, prioritize self-protection!"

"Laser cannon emplacements, ready. Missile emplacements, ready. Drone elimination team, ready. Team A, ready."

"Countdown, three, two, one..."

"Fire."

On the holographic terrain map, dozens of areas simultaneously showed energy reactions. The nearest Camp C outside Fortress 76, the outer perimeter of the ambush location, simultaneously illuminated more than a dozen red laser beams.

A major characteristic of laser cannons is that their energy is easily weakened by dust in the air, the further the distance, the lower the power.

But more than a dozen laser cannons simultaneously irradiating the belly of that aircraft still transmitted tremendous energy.

Boom!

An explosion sounded in the distance!

The C-level esper reaction disappeared immediately!

On the terrain map in front of Wang Ji Xuan, it was clearly visible that the red dot representing that aircraft had exploded into five red dots, two red dots remained in the sky, their figures almost overlapping, and three red dots fell towards the earth, one decelerating, two in free fall.

Semi-human mechs deployed!

A pop-up window appeared on the holographic map.

Wang Ji Xuan could clearly see from the overhead perspective:

Three three-meter-tall mechs rushed out of the desert, firing three beams of purple light from annihilation cannons in other directions, targeting the three falling figures.

Almost instantly, these three A and B level espers, helpless in mid-air, one had half of their body blown away directly by the annihilation cannon, and another had their chest pierced.

Only one telekinetic esper controlled his body to float upwards, dodging the fatal annihilation cannon bombardment, but the semi-human mechs rushing out from three directions had already surrounded him!

A huge wave of fire suddenly appeared in the sky!

A humanoid black shadow passed through the wreckage of the exploding aircraft and smashed straight down towards the B-level telekinetic esper marked as Target Four!

Wang Ji Xuan could barely see clearly through the video frame appearing on the sand table.

Telekinetic shockwaves appeared around Target Four!

This was the mental shock he released, trying to force back the three semi-human mechs.

Target Two, rushing down from above, suddenly stopped, raised his hand from afar, and pulled Target Four upwards, accelerating Target Four's ascent.

The three semi-human mechs simultaneously opened the ammunition compartments on their mechs!

Hundreds of anti-personnel micro-missiles, with trailing flames, densely bombarded Target Two and Target Four!

Target Two was an A-level esper, and at this moment, he demonstrated a powerful battlefield dominance. Special armor on his body appeared with scale-like light, and bursts of flame rushed in all directions from him as the origin. Two huge fireballs enveloped him and Target Four simultaneously!

The dense roar was deafening!

Wang Ji Xuan watched with great excitement.

The three semi-human mechs crisscrossed, like a waltz in the night sky, gracefully passing under the fireball. When the energy of these two fireballs weakened, the three semi-human mechs simultaneously raised their mechanical arms, and three annihilation cannons, which had been waiting for a long time, simultaneously bloomed with purple halos!

Annihilation cannon attack!

Target Four opened his mouth and let out a shrill cry, trying to make a final struggle, but three high-energy beams instantly melted his neck, heart, and abdomen!

Target Four's body exploded violently.

Target Two decisively abandoned the rescue and flew rapidly into the sky.

The three semi-human mechs wearing special armor for espers spewed out butterfly tail flames from their backs and quickly retreated.

They did not pursue.

And the real attack against these two A-level espers had arrived!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Sudden bursts of rapid air-piercing sounds came from all directions, and thick 'arrows' with bright tail flames, rushed towards these two A-level espers at supersonic speed, numbering in the hundreds.

Target Two kept shouting, and bursts of fire swept in all directions!

Wang Ji Xuan could barely see clearly that the armor on this guy's body kept spraying white smoke, which seemed to be a kind of combustion improver.

Target One kept raising his head and raising his hands, as if he was pulling on the curtain of the night sky.

A cloud was rapidly gathering in the high altitude, a thousand meters above the ground!

Immeasurable Heavenly Lord!

Target One could use magic?

Wang Ji Xuan's eyebrows twitched as he watched.

Because it was too far away, Wang Ji Xuan couldn't directly sense the strength of the aura in this person's body, but he had already seen through the battlefield images that a huge ice ball was rapidly condensing in that cloud.

The ice ball was more than sixty or seventy meters in diameter!

Such a scale of spells, in their cultivation world, can only be cast after entering the Golden Core Realm, or achieved by Foundation Establishment cultivators using formations.

It can be seen that the strength rating of these espers who have received esper infusion has a very large error; even as A-level espers, Target One's strength is much higher than Target Two's.

The drone swarm arrived!

One by one, the 'arrows' unfolded their wings, ejected their shells, and accelerated again. Some drones directly impacted the two aerial targets like missiles, while others formed an array and opened their machine guns to start rapid firing.

One by one, the drones were swept away by the fire waves and exploded, and dense fireballs appeared in the sky.

Commander Deep Sea's calm voice rang out: "Ling Tong, Black Scale, stop the ambush, immediately snipe Target One! The energy reaction above him is still rising!"

"Yes!"

"Understood."

Two responses, two pop-up boxes.

In the boxes, two silver mechs appeared simultaneously from two directions!

Both of these mechs were six or seven meters tall. Ling Tong's mech removed its camouflage, kneeling on one knee on a sand dune, the smooth mech lines, the slender body symbolizing the exclusive female pilot, interpreting the violent aesthetics of mechanical science.

The mech raised a huge electromagnetic gun that was five meters long, the sand dunes behind it kept shaking, and the machine hidden underneath was operating at high speed, with bursts of energy injected into the electromagnetic gun.

The same situation played out on a hillside a few kilometers away.

Fire!

The electromagnetic gun made a muffled sound, the ground showed shockwaves, and grains of sand jumped and floated upwards. The two mechs were almost overturned.

Two slender special ammunition, at a speed close to ten times the speed of sound, shot towards the sky!

The entire trajectory of the shot took less than two seconds!

The A-level esper who was raising his hands at this moment had no time to react at all. The self-defense armor on his body was successfully activated at the critical moment, and just as the electromagnetic shield was about to burst outwards, two high-speed metal blocks had already pierced through!

Target One's body was blasted to pieces!

Target Two let out a desperate cry.

Below, Ling Tong and another semi-human mech had controlled their mechs to regain balance and aimed at Target Two.

Deep Sea's voice rang out: "Try to capture Target Two alive, as bait to attract more powerful espers from the other side to show themselves. Let the drone swarm exhaust his esper energy."

"Yes!"

Several semi-human mechs responded simply, and the second and third batches of drone swarms took off again.

Inside the truck's cargo container.

Daoist Wang frowned as he watched this scene, and couldn't help but click his tongue lightly.

"Mediocre," Black Instructor shook his head, "Worse than they perform during their usual training, and the contingency plans aren't enough. Deep Sea is not a qualified commander."

"This isn't good enough?" Wang Ji Xuan asked with wide eyes, "Grandpa! Aren't you being too demanding?"

"It's not that I'm being too demanding, but that there are indeed many people who are more outstanding than Deep Sea."

Black Instructor said:

"Generals and soldiers are different. Even if the soldiers themselves are strong, they are still just soldiers."

"Remember to grade them, eh?"

Black Instructor suddenly let out a light sigh, his mechanical bionic face became extremely serious, and he murmured:

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"This situation again. These Espers are really persistent, refusing to die completely."

Deep Sea's voice came through the holographic map: "There's still Esper energy reaction in the high altitude! That ice ball is still growing! All combat units, prepare to conceal yourselves!"

"The Joint Defense Forces are reporting! Multiple missiles have been launched near Fortress 82! Their flight paths are projected to intersect our area!"

"Those sons of bitches!"

Deep Sea cursed.

"Continue the drone attack. Red Serpent, take over the nearby air defense system. We're trying to fish out Espers, not these trash!"

Black Instructor shook his head: "See, he's even swearing now."

Wang Jixuan: …

The trajectories of several missiles appeared on the terrain map, and several anti-aircraft missiles shot up from near Fortress 76.

The incoming missiles were easily defended against.

But that ice ball became a major problem, withstanding the mechs' attacks time and time again.

Black Instructor couldn't help but mutter: "Do they not know how many resources a missile costs? How much manpower it takes to maintain and repair them? That Fortress 82 is really rotten to the core… Fortunately, hypersonic missiles and tactical nukes are controlled by the Joint War Zone Command; these are just ordinary medium-range missiles."

Wang Jixuan asked: "How do we deal with the ice ball above?"

"There's no way to deal with it. We can only wait for it to fall," Black Instructor said. "Logically speaking, that A-level Esper is already dead, so this ability should have been interrupted. The ambush location was in an uninhabited area."

"Soul?"

Wang Jixuan said simply, then frowned in thought.

Even if he set out now, he wouldn't make it to the battlefield in time.

The second target was being methodically tormented by the drone swarm. Capturing him alive wouldn't be a problem.

Every semi-human mech is an extremely valuable resource, especially with fifteen semi-human mechs lying in ambush here.

The cost of this battle is extremely high.

Fortunately, it's not a one-time cost.

The ice ball in the high altitude began to fall!

But what made everyone on the scene and watching from the periphery feel incredible was that this ice ball actually began to slowly accelerate horizontally, as if a large hand was pushing it from the side!

Black Instructor narrowed his eyes slightly: "Not a soul. There's an S-level Esper hiding in the shadows, possibly hiding in even higher altitudes. Each of their abilities is unbelievable… This assessment is not bad. Let's see how they react."

The communication channel's chatter immediately increased. The voices of the semi-human mechs were automatically transcribed into text, quickly scrolling past in front of Wang Jixuan.

"The nearby area is the C Zone expansion of the fortress! The ice ball's impact point is the C Zone!"

"Mobilize missiles, prepare for high-altitude detonation! Team B, full firepower! Team A, continue to focus on capturing Target Number Two alive!"

"The ice ball is suddenly increasing in size!"

"The ice ball has begun to fall. Missiles have been launched!"

"Fire the Annihilation Cannon!"

"Esper energy reaction around the ice ball! An armor is forming around the ice ball! Its mass is suddenly increasing!"

"There's a hidden Esper. The opponent is using their ability to increase the mass of the target ice ball!"

"The ice ball is accelerating its descent! Missile interception failed! Can't break through that ice armor!"

"Annihilation Cannon, full firepower! Team C, provide limited support! Ensure your own energy is sufficient! Reserve team, full firepower! Shatter it!"

A huge screen appeared directly above the holographic sand table. This was footage taken from cameras in the C Zone expansion of the fortress.

The camera was pointed at the sky, showing a huge fireball with cloudy ice inside, smashing towards the ground at high speed, constantly magnifying in the camera's view.

The ice ball wasn't vaporized. The ice armor that appeared on the outside blocked all the heat, and it was precisely because of this Esper-condensed ice armor on the outer layer that its weight could no longer be measured by volume!

Attacks flew from all directions, but they were all blocked by the outer ice armor.

A piercing alarm sounded in the C Zone military camp.

Miners rushed out of the dormitory, frantically running towards the mine tunnels under the reminders of autonomous robots.

The soldiers in the military camp aimed all their weapons at the sky, firing streaks of light.

Outside the Yuanling Child Supply Station, several mechanics were looking up, their expressions turning incomparably pale.

A miner couple held each other's rough hands tightly, looking up at the increasingly large sun, the dreams in their minds about their child entering the Central City constantly shattering.

That fireball reached the surface almost in the blink of an eye…

Ten thousand meters in the sky, a 'young' woman wearing an elegant evening dress stood quietly, her open right hand constantly pressing down, her expression very calm.

She looked at the firelight flying from the left, a playful smile outlining the corners of her mouth, and gently tapped her finger.

The huge ice ball slammed into the earth, the shockwave collapsing the tin-roofed houses in the C Zone camp, countless firelights exploding in all directions, countless figures instantly torn apart.

In the roar, a huge mushroom cloud slowly rose.

The earth continued to tremble.

The 'young' woman's figure flashed, her figure wrapped in a faint cyan light floating in the air, flying towards the higher sky.

Machines have a flight altitude limit, but she doesn't.

Inside the truck carriage.

Wang Jixuan calmly watched the aerial photography footage in front of him. The C Zone was almost completely destroyed, and the number of casualties started from several thousand and was rapidly rising.

The semi-human mechs were temporarily fine. They were chasing the S-level Esper.

The Daoist was silent.

The Black Instructor was incomparably calm, tapping his fingers on the air.

"Fortress 76 is temporarily unsafe. It's not an ordinary S-level Esper who came. Those six old bastards have intervened and started fighting with the Commander-in-Chief."

"Next, I have several options for you to choose from regarding the location of your temporary hideout. I personally prefer an agricultural fortress with a good view…"

"How about we go to Fortress 82 to hide?"

Wang Jixuan looked up at the Black Instructor, a hint of coldness in his eyes.

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