Silicon Invasion

Even now, the master-apprentice relationship is widespread in all walks of life, especially in fields that require technical skills.

Having a master to guide you, impart knowledge, and answer questions will definitely lead to faster progress than exploring on your own, perhaps many times faster. A casual piece of advice could be the accumulation of years or even decades of experience.

Among mech pilots, master-apprentice relationships are also common. Hearing Sun Gang's speculation, everyone couldn't help but feel envious. Luo Rui is already so strong; if he had a powerful master, wouldn't he take off like a rocket?

Not just Sun Gang, who is striving to become a mech pilot, but even other friends who don't have that goal felt a sense of imbalance.

He's handsome, tall, and lucky, but unfortunately, he's a bit poor...

The only flaw...

But even so, he can still get some priority in finding a partner after college.

So envious...

If only it were me...

Just as everyone was immersing themselves and indulging in some fantasy, Li Yi's words brought them back to reality.

"Zhang Xiao, are we continuing this round?"

"Ah?" Zhang Xiao didn't react at first, but after realizing what was happening, he immediately said with a smile, "Yes! Let's continue, hehe."

This is just for entertainment anyway, and Zhang Xiao didn't expect to make money from it. He's almost swept the board in the two rounds tonight and has already won enough. Even if he loses this round, it'll be like giving everyone a little something back.

Everyone are classmates who see each other often, so it's good to leave some room for the future.

"Generous!"

"Magnanimous!"

The other friends understood and showered Zhang Xiao with praise, making him feel quite elated.

"Damn it!" Suddenly, Song Hui's low roar interrupted the cheerful atmosphere.

"What the heck!"

"What is this?"

Seeing the live broadcast of the battle, the other friends were also stunned.

Not to mention the bewildered spectators, Luo Rui was also taken aback when he saw the information coming back from the observation system.

On the right side of the cockpit screen, a mech appeared whose shape was very different from light mechs like the Bluebird and Swift Rainbow.

King's Guardian!

This is a real mech replicated into the game based on real-world mech parameters. It's made by the Serso Alliance, the same company that produces the Swift Rainbow.

But unlike the Swift Rainbow's superplastic deck, which is almost purely decorative, the King's Guardian's armor is made of a new type of super-fiber tempered material with a thickness of up to an astonishing 200mm, a full twice as thick as the armor of the close-combat mech Warrior 7.

This also makes its height reach 9.3 meters. But even though it has a height that dwarfs other mechs and an unimaginable armor thickness, it still looks strong and sturdy, like an enlarged version of a dwarf warrior.

Moreover, even though the super-fiber steel has been lightweighted as much as possible, the accumulation still results in the King's Guardian's unladen mass reaching 57 tons. If it's equipped with corresponding weapons, the total mass may even exceed 60 tons.

The overweight body makes it very susceptible to the combat environment. Besides the hardened roads of Maikan, it can probably only show its skills in the game.

However, although the heavy armor makes the mech appear clumsy, the extreme development also brings outstanding performance in one aspect.

The King's Guardian lives up to its name as a guardian. Its powerful defense makes it impossible for machine guns and cannons to break through. Even long-range fire weapons, such as rockets, can play a very good defensive role. Only recoilless guns loaded with armor-piercing warheads can cause significant damage to it.

But with the King's Guardian's standard six-meter-high tower shield, if used properly, even armor-piercing warheads cannot break through its defense in a short time.

Luo Rui had only seen this type of mech in videos before, but he had never encountered it in actual combat. The reason is that it's an expensive gold coin mech. And because it uses many fifth-generation mech lightweighting technologies, the King's Guardian, known as a 4.5-generation mech, costs even more to use than the Swift Rainbow and Bluebird.

Secondly, even with lightweighting, the King's Guardian is still a rather bulky mech, which means it must adopt a defensive counterattack tactic against most opponents.

Even though the King's Guardian is known as the nemesis of long-range fire, that's all theoretical data, the most optimized simulation program. There are too many uncertainties in real combat. The thick armor strengthens the defense but also makes the King's Guardian slow.

Therefore, the pilot must anticipate the incoming attacks in advance, defend, and seek opportunities. A quick fist is easy to hit, but a slow fist is difficult. Although it's an exaggeration to describe it as catching bullets with tai chi, it must be said that playing the King's Guardian well requires a terrifying amount of experience.

The mech pilots participating in the alien exploration mission don't know, but in the game, a good King's Guardian pilot must first be an excellent long-range fire mech pilot.

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Otherwise, this machine is just a target, completely created to increase the opponent's gaming experience.

Various reasons have led to few people using this mech.

"Not easy to deal with."

The unfamiliar opponent and unfamiliar mech made Luo Rui quite cautious. Cui Qiang is so arrogant that even Uncle Niu often suffers setbacks, so he must not be an easy person to deal with. Since he chose this mech, he must have considerable confidence.

Two rocket missiles flew through the thick smoke. Let's try the water with two shots first.

Cui Qiang is experienced. With the King's Guardian's heavy body, trying to avoid attacks with mobility is undoubtedly a pipe dream. So, after the mech entered the arena, he didn't move sideways to avoid the possible "one-shot" attack but directly held the standard tower shield in front of him.

The six-meter-high tower shield directly blocked most of the King's Guardian's body, especially when the mech's body was slightly bent. From Luo Rui's perspective, it was like seeing a door panel standing alone in the arena.

The advance prediction was not in vain.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two loud explosions left two black marks on the tower shield, indicating that they had indeed hit the target, but when the smoke from the explosion dissipated, the overall structure had not suffered much damage except for a slight depression at the point of impact. This means that the biggest result of the two rockets was probably just getting the tower shield dirty.

Taking advantage of the gap in the attack, Cui Qiang slowly retreated with the tower shield raised. He wasn't far from the edge of the arena to begin with. The 9.3-meter metal giant took only a few steps to retreat to the wall.

"This..."

Luo Rui scratched his head a little. Due to the limitations of the arena, the opponent's actions directly reduced Luo Rui's attack angle by nearly half. Coupled with such a large tower shield for defense, there weren't many places left for Luo Rui to attack.

What's more, the tower shield can be moved. Based on the defense just tested, even if he used up all his ammunition, he didn't know if he could break through this metal wall.