Steel Chang'an

Chapter 39

In the depths of the dead castle, as Li Jing had expected, six [-]-ton mechas were fighting hard with ten iron spiders.

"My lord, you can't drag it on like this!" A samurai comet mecha slashed the oncoming spider silk attack with a knife, but the knight in the mecha had a relationship with Mu Yun once in Jing Ge arsenal He Kai.

He Kai had just completed his studies as an apprentice knight from the Eagle Fort in Donglin not long ago. With a sum of money prepared for him by his family, he carefully selected in the Jinge Arsenal for a long time, and was finally bullied by Mu Yun. The act of buying two of the oldest and cheapest zero-type mechas stimulated him, and he bought this latest comet mecha completely out of impulsive consumption.

Although this samurai mech is mighty, the price far exceeded He Kai's original budget for himself, so he borrowed a huge sum of money for it.Originally, He Kai's family background wasn't too bad, but in front of such a large loan, he still wanted to pretend to be tall, handsome and rich, and continue to live the life of extravagance, but he had to find a source of income by himself.

It was also because of this that He Kai signed up without hesitation when he heard that the young master of Eagle Castle was recruiting a group of accompanying knights to carry out a secret mission, and the reward was quite generous.Relying on the fact that the young master of Eagle Castle is also He Kai's senior brother in name, and has met several times in Eagle Castle, He Kai's process of joining the team went smoothly.The other five people who joined the team with him were all apprentice knights of Eagle Castle, and there was a female knight among them, Chu Fengyao, the schoolmaster whom He Kai had long admired.

After entering the dead castle, He Kai also knew that the target of this mission was the amethyst on the crystal beast.According to the young master of Eagle Castle, he accidentally discovered an ancient book in his father's library, which recorded the real history and internal structure of the Castle of the Dead, and described in detail how the castle domesticated beasts from them. Amethyst was taken on the body, and the legendary anecdote of the castle owner was also recorded.

Also from this ancient book, the young master of Eagle Castle deduced that because the betrayal of the Immortal King and his army of kings came very suddenly, when the Millennium War broke out, the Death Castle side rushed to fight, and there was no time to destroy the amethyst on the crystal beast. Take it all away.In other words, there must be crystal beasts in the dead castle, even if it is a dead crystal beast, the amethyst on its body will not rot with time.

With such a priceless mission goal, the reward for this mission is naturally extraordinarily generous.Moreover, the young master of Eagle Castle also promised that as long as the purple crystal is successfully obtained, everyone will have an extra bonus, which allows He Kai to be full of energy and not shrink back even if he faces a formidable opponent like the iron spider.It’s just that the new mecha I just bought is covered with scars within a few days, and He Kai’s heart is bleeding. I don’t know if the young master of Eagle Castle will reimburse the repair cost of the mecha afterwards...

It can't be delayed like this!After He Kai yelled at the young master of Eagle Castle, he was also very anxious: when they first entered the Castle of Death, everything was going well, and they only encountered some small mechanical creatures.Unexpectedly, when they were halfway forward, there was a sudden explosion, followed by ten iron spiders popping up out of nowhere, dragging them into a bitter fight.

Although He Kai behaved like a playboy, his skills were not bad, and his mind was not bad. After a rough calculation, he knew that six mechas of his own could deal with ten iron spiders at their limit.Moreover, people get tired, but machines don't. Once they are all fatigued, the current evenly matched situation will be broken, and it will be a matter of time before they are defeated by the iron spiders one by one.

What's more, the burst of explosions from the road indicated that there were still people entering the dead castle after them.Regardless of whether the latter team has the same purpose as them, anyone who dares to enter the Fortress of Death, even if it is just to pass through the Fortress and take the East Forest, is a daring desperado. If the crystal exists, there will inevitably be competition: after all, it is a thing without an owner, and there is no such thing as first-come-first-served. If you tell others that I discovered it first, they will ignore you at all.What's more, they haven't even seen a single crystal beast's hair yet...

He Kai was thinking about things like this, and he couldn't keep up with the operations in his hands.Except for the young master of Eagle Castle, their team is all fledgling novices, that is to say, relying on the spirit of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, he insisted on fighting against these ten iron spiders until now.If not for everyone's full attention and showing their best every minute and every second, they would have been blown up several times.

So when He Kai was distracted, he was immediately entangled in the spider silk, and at the same time another iron spider sent him a shell in time——

"Get out of the way!" He Kai was still standing there stupidly, but he heard a shout from a Yanshi mecha not far away. It was Chu Fengyao, the only female knight in the team.I saw the mecha named "Jinghong" she was driving was slightly sideways, and a small bomber code-named "Yunyuan" transformed from the shoulder of the mecha, spread its wings, and shot directly at He Kai's shell intercepted and went away!

"Boom—" With Yun Yuan's body size, when it hit the iron spider's shell, it was naturally blown to pieces.Fortunately, under Yun Yuan's stop, He Kai finally cut off the spider's thread, and manipulated his warrior mecha to roll and crawl out of the iron spider's range of fire.

Chu Fengyao sighed: her Yanshi-type mecha relies on the puppet machine carried on her body to fight. The puppet machine can be remotely controlled from the mech or act autonomously according to the program. This is the Yanshi-type mecha. A big plus.However, if the puppet machine is damaged and cannot be recovered during the battle, it will directly weaken the combat effectiveness of the Yanshi type mecha.

The Yunyuan she released just now is a bomber puppet plane with relatively strong combat effectiveness on her body. It not only has the ability to fly, but is also equipped with induction bombs and heavy machine guns.The entire Yanshi Mecha was equipped with two Yunyuan, but this one was only used to block the shell, and it just blew up. It can be said to be quite a waste, and Chu Fengyao felt very sorry. .

But human life is at stake, among the puppet machines on her mecha, only this Yunyuan can catch up with the speed of the cannon ejection, so no matter how regretful Chu Fengyao was, she did not hesitate at all when releasing Yunyuan .Thanks to her timely release, He Kai's life was saved.

"Thank you, Sister Chu, for saving me!" He Kai narrowly escaped death. Although he was a little embarrassed, seeing that the person who saved him was the goddess Chu Fengyao in his heart, he immediately felt a burst of sweetness. In the battle situation around me, how can I help at such a critical moment, regardless of how cold the goddess is usually, I still have me in my heart!

Of course, Chu Fengyao knew nothing about He Kai's thoughts.The Yanshi-type mecha she drives also has certain melee capabilities, but Chu Fengyao himself is not good at melee combat.Therefore, she did not try her best to single out the iron spider, but wandered around the periphery of the battle situation, looking at the overall situation, and deployed her robots to the positions where they were most needed, playing a supplementary tactic to fill in the gaps.That's why she was able to discover He Kai's danger in the first place and rescue him in time.He Kai's self-imagined goddess is paying attention to him all the time, but it's not entirely obsessive: the goddess does pay attention to his battle situation, but at the same time, the goddess is also multi-tasking, and also pays attention to the battle situation of the other four people at the same time. ...

And the person Chu Fengyao is most concerned about at the moment is Fei Yu, the young master of Eagle Castle who doesn't need her support at all... No way, every goddess also has a male god in her heart.Fei Yu is such a man who can fully bear the word "male god": Leaving aside Fei Yu's noble status and wealth as the young master of Eagle Castle, it is completely incomparable for a fake tall, handsome and rich man like He Kai. Just because he fought the three iron spiders alone without Chu Fengyao's support at all, it can be seen that this person's ability to control the mecha is far superior to them.What's more, Fei Yu's appearance is also very outstanding, with his black hair and tall and straight figure, when he accidentally appeared in the courtyard where the apprentice knights of Eagle Castle gathered, he immediately became the focus of the stars and attracted the admiration of the girls gaze.The younger brothers and younger sisters who were fortunate enough to be taught two or three tricks by him, immediately fell into his fans... Unfortunately, Chu Fengyao was one of them.

It's a pity that Chu Fengyao's current situation is a bit similar to He Kai's. They are all intentional and ruthless: as a veritable tall, handsome and rich man, Fei Yu is also quite arrogant and cold.After Chu Fengyao was fortunate enough to be taught by him once, there was no further comment.As the young master of Eagle Castle, Fei Yu seldom interacted with these juniors and sisters except for a few demonstrations when he was in Eagle Castle.On the contrary, for this mission in the dead castle, perhaps it was because of the love of the teacher, or maybe it was for the sake of secrecy, Fei Yu did not recruit experienced hired knights, but only brought them a few apprentice knights who were fledgling , this made Chu Fengyao grateful, but also wanted to seize the opportunity to perform well and attract Fei Yu's attention...

It's just that the performance of these few of them may have disappointed the male god in his heart... Looking at the chaotic battle situation in front of him, Chu Fengyao was also secretly annoyed.She knew exactly where the problem was: it wasn't that their mech operation skills were too poor, but that they had too little experience. In this kind of actual combat environment, they couldn't show their strength at all!
Before that, Fei Yu tried to command them to organize an offensive, but they couldn't even do the basic movement.After several rounds, Fei Yu simply gave up commanding, and asked them to use their own strengths to hold down one or two Iron Spiders, and then they didn't say a word.Fei Yu also ignored He Kai's yelling, it seemed that he was extremely dissatisfied with their performance.

Just as Chu Fengyao was thinking, Fei Yu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "Fengyao, the location of the crystal beast has not been determined yet?"

"Ah!" Chu Fengyao was so multitasking that he had completely forgotten about the two bat reconnaissance planes he released before encountering the iron spider.At this moment, under Fei Yu's reminder, it was discovered that the two reconnaissance planes had already sent back ultrasonic scanning images. On the basis of the plan of the dead castle that Fei Yu provided earlier, a complete three-dimensional picture of the interior of the dead castle was formed. [-]D map.

"The image sent back by the reconnaissance plane matches the floor plan of the dead castle. The location of the crystal beast is in the dragon tower below the circular square. You only need to go through another corridor." Chu Fengyao quickly received the map and passed it on to everyone.At the same time, the two bat reconnaissance planes that had returned also folded their wings under her command, transformed into a shuttle shape, and embedded themselves above the thighs of her Yanshi mecha.

"Leave a reconnaissance plane and see who is coming behind." Fei Yu ordered.

"You guys can leave now." Immediately afterwards, Fei Yu said coldly, "Leave this to the scavenger. I don't have time to continue admiring your clumsy performance."

"This..." Chu Fengyao, He Kai and the others were taken aback when they heard this order in the mecha, and then turned their attention to the group of soldiers who were waiting outside the battle.Although wearing armor and holding a rifle in his hand, the size of a human being is so small in front of a giant like the Iron Spider...

"This is to send them to die..." Chu Fengyao said in a low voice.

The soldiers were all wearing helmets, and the expressions on their faces could not be seen at all, but they had obviously received Fei Yu's order, and Chu Fengyao could see deep despair from their figures when they started to move...

"They were here to die," He Kai muttered in a low voice, "Didn't you see the explosive packs on their backs? These people are all poor ghosts who have paid for their lives in advance, and they also know that they have entered the castle of death." There is only one dead end."

"But..." Chu Fengyao bit her lip. When she was receiving knight training, she already knew the fate of these soldiers called scavengers on the battlefield.But after witnessing this scene with her own eyes, it is still difficult for her to accept such a cruel reality...

"There's nothing wrong." Fei Yu's voice said coldly, "It's your incompetence that let these people die. If you can deal with the iron spiders, then you don't need to sacrifice them at all. It's better to reflect on your sympathy. Own.

"The scavenger leads the way, you know what you should do."

Amidst Fei Yu's command without the slightest emotion, Chu Fengyao lowered his head in shame, manipulated the battle armor and walked away quickly.The rest of the mechas also quickened their pace like her, unable to bear to see what happened next, so they didn't even notice that a soldier left the team and walked towards a side road on the map...

"Find the statue, the fire is already on you, and you should know what to do next." Fei Yu whispered to the petite soldier in a private channel, "Compared with those trash, I hope you will not Let me down, Xuenv of the Rui Clan."

(End of this chapter)