Chapter 1 A Little Bit More

Ding Zhensi, who was operating the mecha in a standing position within the cockpit, replayed the terrifying scene of Li Ang's spear thrust in his mind.

His body, however, preempted his consciousness, and he unhesitatingly pressed the button on his right hand.

Buzz—

The high-frequency cutter, gleaming with a dark golden metallic luster, vibrated at an extremely high frequency, actually deflecting the spear tip's direction, causing the long spear to veer toward the mecha's left armpit and miss its mark.

First defense, then offense!

The Kui Niu mecha's right arm, holding the double-edged blade, swung forward,

While the right hand turned inward, changing the blade's orientation, pointing the cicada-wing-thin blade surface toward Li Ang.

The high-frequency cutter could cause the objects it touched to fracture at the molecular level due to its extremely high-frequency vibration.

In the Special Affairs Bureau's experimental records, only a handful of extraordinary materials could briefly withstand high-frequency cutting.

Apart from these, even alloy armor and energy shields

Could be sliced in two like a hot knife through butter.

Of course, the prerequisite was being able to hit.

The cicada-wing-thin vibrating blade cut through the air, emitting a very characteristic "buzzing" sound,

But no flash of blood was seen.

Thump.

Li Ang inexplicably appeared on the other end of the arena, stepping right on the Snow Flower beer bottle he had used to smash himself earlier.

It was again the [Abyss Demon Mirror]'s [Mirror World Travel] effect, allowing Li Ang to randomly teleport to a mirror object within a radius of one thousand meters.

Due to the arena's rules, he could not teleport out,

Therefore, once the effect was activated, he would inevitably teleport to the shards of the beer bottle he had smashed earlier.

Good work exists every day, but disappears without deliberate action. All deliberate actions must ultimately land in reality; otherwise, they are flowers in a mirror, the moon in the water, beautiful but impractical.

"Phew, that was close."

Li Ang brandished the Overlord's Crossbar Spear and wiped non-existent cold sweat from the dragon head mask.

The Biological Template ability instantly activated, restoring the slight tearing damage to the tiger's mouth of his palm caused by the high-frequency vibrating blade's contact with the long spear.

Flash, huh...

The artificial intelligence auxiliary system in the Kui Niu cockpit projected light into Ding Zhensi's retina, allowing him to clearly see the scene outside the cockpit.

At the same time, it also projected dozens of UI interfaces in his vision, clearly displaying the mecha's status in all its parts, and all information from the outside world.

Wind speed, angle of light, ground hardness, temperature, hostile target thermal imaging, hostile target movement trajectory prediction, hostile target muscle contours...

With the help of the artificial intelligence auxiliary system, Ding Zhensi, huddled in the narrow and cramped cockpit like a nutshell, could see everything outside in great detail, with all information at a glance.

The opponent directly reappeared in the place where he first stood. If this wasn't a random teleport, then it was intentional!

Ding Zhensi abruptly swung his left arm and pulled the trigger. The heavy machine gun held by the Kui Niu mecha fired fiercely, and nearly 30mm heavy high-explosive ammunition pulled out a metal storm of death in mid-air.

Li Ang stomped hard on the ground with his right foot, darting to the left. The machine gun bullets hit the spot where he had just been standing. The high-explosive ammunition tore apart the beer bottle shards and other debris, while also ripping up chunks of the solid arena floor.

Tat-tat-tat-tat!

Li Ang activated the [Phase Boots] effect, moving at high speed close to the ground in a zigzag trajectory, avoiding the machine gun bullet chains—those bullets, like the ones Liu Wudai had used before, had their own anti-magic effect.

The [Phase Boots]' effect of ignoring most kinetic energy damage probably wouldn't be of much use.

Three thousand.

Two thousand five hundred.

Two thousand.

In the cockpit's UI interface, the ammunition capacity of the Vulcan anti-aircraft machine gun dropped rapidly.

Ding Zhensi strode forward, adjusting the Kui Niu mecha's stance, his finger never releasing the trigger, continuously maintaining suppressive fire.

In his vision, Li Ang was like a black lightning bolt, leaping and jumping close to the ground, sometimes accelerating, sometimes decelerating, sometimes suddenly turning back, slowly and steadily approaching forward.

A large amount of heat also dissipated from the surface of his body, causing the artificial intelligence auxiliary system's muscle movement prediction system to malfunction,

Forcing him to use the Vulcan anti-aircraft machine gun to chase the opponent's afterimage.

The scene on the arena, at first glance, looked like the Kui Niu mecha was suppressing Li Ang, but only Ding Zhensi himself knew how much terrifying pressure he was enduring.

The distance between the two sides had been reduced to ten meters.

A transparent rectangular energy entity formed by the [Ladder Cloud Step] skill suddenly appeared under his feet, providing Li Ang with a platform to borrow strength.

He kicked off the energy entity and leaped up. Countless transparent bricks appeared under his feet, allowing him to step on them in succession, adjusting the direction of his body in mid-air.

Confidential machine gun bullets, powerful enough to shatter alloy walls, grazed his ear.

The Biological Template effect activated, growing elastic small flesh sacs inside the ear canal, blocking the ear canal, preventing the sharp whistling sound of the bullets passing by from damaging the inner ear vestibule and semicircular canals, which would interfere with the body's balance.

Clang—

The [Overlord's Crossbar Spear] collided with the [Chiming High-Frequency Cutter Blade], the air waves generated by the violent impact blew away the dust under their feet, clearing the entire arena.

Clang clang clang clang!!

Dense metallic collision sounds echoed throughout the arena. Li Ang, standing in mid-air using the Ladder Cloud Step skill, half a head taller than the Kui Niu mecha, wielded the long spear,

Chopping, sweeping, slashing upwards, thrusting.

The four-meter-long heavy spear was as light as a feather in his hands, agile and swift like a poisonous snake.

Each attack aimed at the Kui Niu mecha's weak spots in armor such as the wrists, neck, vector propulsion thrusters, cockpit, and limb joints.

Thump!

The heavy Vulcan machine gun fell to the ground, the heavy bullet chain that had not yet been fired drooping on the ground like a giant firecracker, spreading out haphazardly.

Ding Zhensi, forced to abandon the Vulcan machine gun because he couldn't keep up with the opponent's movements with a single blade,

Clenched his teeth, gripping the high-frequency cutter blade tightly with both hands, barely keeping up with the opponent's slashing movements with the support of the auxiliary system.

Every time he thought he could block the opponent's long spear, using the high-frequency vibration to damage the opponent's weapon,

Li Ang had already retracted his weapon in advance, continuing to use dragonfly-skimming attacks to force Ding Zhensi to parry.

"So, so strong..."

Chu Yin, sitting in the audience, watching the life-and-death struggle between humans and mecha on the arena, couldn't help but swallow.

In her vision, the movements of the two people's hands had almost turned into afterimages, and she couldn't tell which side had the advantage at all.

"Ding Zhensi, he's being suppressed."

Xun Zi'an, who had been silently observing the situation, suddenly said, "Li Risheng is testing.

From the beginning of the close combat, he has been slowly accelerating at a small frequency, wanting to see where the limit of the Kui Niu mecha, or rather Ding Zhensi's reaction speed, lies."