Chapter 491 - - The strongest heat_3

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How could it be like now, sitting in the stands, jostling with a crowd for video resources…

And yet.

Those media folks are shameless. It was he who first employed the Shock Genre, and in just a little while, those shameless jerks all learned it.

Now.

The entire network is inundated with headlines like “Shocking, the tenth-ranked ace pilot forces his opponent to do this on the field” and “Gorgeous examiner uses hands and feet…” The titles are explosive, but the content inside is utterly ordinary, forcibly eroding his advantage, and he had only reaped a wave of dividends.

Ptui!

Disgusting.

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The happiest has to be Jian Weiliang, who rose to fame alongside Duge. He had braced himself for social death, but a string of comments about Duge instantaneously dissolved his disgrace.

Losing to an ace pilot was not embarrassing.

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Currently, in the stands, numerous Alien Warriors were hidden among the crowd, equally focused on Duge on the field and immediately confirming his Alien Warrior identity.

Many were convinced that “Kill One Every Ten Steps” was none other than Duge.

But the battle network was not reality, and even if they knew it was Duge, they couldn’t approach to verify his identity.

Moreover, only the top three in this Alien Battlefield got resources, so rashly approaching Duge wasn’t necessarily beneficial.

Pan-Universe Entertainment clearly didn’t want to see them allying with Duge. The last Alien Battlefield was abruptly halted, and those who followed Duge failed to break into the top ten, so they still lacked resources, right?

So.

It was better to climb the ranks oneself, to advance one’s own ranking. Best to craft one’s skills first.

Duge, through his own efforts, raised the game’s difficulty – who knows how many people from countless planets wanted to seize the opportunity to doom him!

Approaching Duge at this time was like painting a target on oneself.

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On the field.

Wu You persisted annoyingly, while Duge was impervious to influence.

In the end.

Annoyed, Duge raised his hand and fired a shot, forcibly initiating combat. Wu You was compelled to engage, finally quieting the noisy crowd in the stands.

Wu You came with a mission, but being a senior pilot, his skills were many times superior to those of intermediate pilots; what’s more, the Mecha he used was advanced.

As soon as the battle began, he unhesitatingly launched all three homing missiles from the Phantom at once.

The three missiles arranged in a “品” formation, cutting off all of Duge’s dodge paths.

In the previous battles, Duge always sabotaged the radar system first, and once the radar-guided system failed, the remaining homing missiles would lose their effectiveness. Better to launch them all as soon as the fight started.

That way, even if the radar was destroyed, it wouldn’t matter much.

And Wu You didn’t believe that Duge, piloting the Sea Swallow, could avoid one homing missile, much less three?

Not changing Mechas?

He intended to make this overconfident guy taste the bitterness of Mecha-grade suppression…

But as a senior pilot, Wu You never took things lightly on the battlefield. The instant he launched the missiles, he was already executing tactical evasive maneuvers and swiftly closing in on Duge. As he moved closer, he covered Duge’s position with fire from his machine cannons.

The Phantom was equipped with twin machine cannons, five thousand rounds each.

The twin cannons firing together could form a no-dead-angle barrage; the Sea Swallow, being so fragile, would be destroyed by just one or two hits.

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“Despicable!” Gu Qingyan frowned slightly, humming in disgust.

And many viewers shared the same sentiment.

Isn’t this too much of a bully?

Many cursed out loud in the stands; they wanted to see a contest of pilots’ skills, not a one-sided suppression of firepower…

But soon.

The stands were silent, with almost everyone holding their breath.

Three tracking missiles exploded almost at the same time, but amidst the explosion sounds, Sea Swallow not only remained unscathed, but it also burst through the smoke completely intact and even raised its machine gun to counterattack.

However.

Phantom had a force field shield, and the kinetic energy of Sea Swallow’s bullets would be greatly reduced when penetrating it, causing minimal damage to the Phantom upon impact and at most leaving a small white mark on the mecha.

Sea Swallow had only three hundred bullets.

If three hundred shots couldn’t break the defense, then Sea Swallow would become a live target, and Phantom could effortlessly take it out.

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Although Sea Swallow evaded through Phantom’s barrage of fire with agility akin to a real sea swallow weaving through a storm, all the spectators sighed in unison.

As expected.

The gap between the mechas couldn’t be bridged by skill alone.

Sea Swallow was defeated!

Perhaps the limit for Sea Swallow was fending off blade-level mechas!

But, even in defeat, Sea Swallow was still honorable; Kill One Every Ten Steps had pushed Sea Swallow to its limit…

However, unlike the ordinary audience, the elite pilots and ace mecha operators in the stands had very serious expressions—only they knew how strong the ability demonstrated by Kill One Every Ten Steps was.

No radar interference.

He dodged three tracking missiles.

How did he do it?

And in the dense fire network, in just a short while, he had advanced two kilometers and hadn’t been hit by a single bullet…

What kind of devilish agility was that?

How strong must his spiritual power be to maneuver the simplest mech to make such limit moves, granting the Sea Swallow mecha a pair of wings, they wouldn’t doubt that Duge could fly.

Is he even human?

The powerful self-confidence of the pilots was shaken to the core by Duge, unable to imagine how to cope with such an enemy on the battlefield.

“Impossible, how did he do it?” Gu Qingyan murmured to herself, “Does Limit Dodge really exist?”

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Actually, the most panicked was Wu You.

It was true that Phantom carried five thousand bullets, but at such an intense rate of fire, the ammunition would run out in less than a minute.

Once the missiles were depleted, and the bullets spent, his remaining weapons would only be the pulse cannon and the laser sword, and seeing Duge’s agile movements, he seriously doubted whether the pulse cannon could hit him…

Wouldn’t this guy tire mentally from controlling the mecha to perform such difficult evasive maneuvers consecutively?

Was Phantom really trying to engage in close combat with Sea Swallow on the battlefield?

This had never happened before—what kind of monster was he?

But Wu You quickly adjusted his mindset.

If it was close combat, then it would be close combat.

He was an elite pilot after all, and besides, Phantom had a force field shield—why be afraid of engaging in close combat with a brittle adversary that would fall at the slightest touch?

However.

Only moments later.

Wu You experienced what was truly cruel.

When Duge controlled Sea Swallow to rush up close, retracted the machine gun, and drew the broadsword, Wu You endured the most brutal beating he had ever faced since becoming a pilot; he had never seen anyone wield a broadsword fast enough to create afterimages.

His piloted mecha, compared to the opposition, was as clumsy as a child learning to walk.

Until the force field shield’s energy was depleted by the adversary, and he watched helplessly as the opponent’s broadsword pierced the cockpit, Wu You’s laser sword hadn’t even grazed Sea Swallow.

The moment Phantom was killed by Sea Swallow.

The audience was speechless.

In everyone’s mind, the battle was supposed to end with Sea Swallow running out of ammo and being butchered by Phantom; no one could have imagined that it would be Phantom who would run out of ammo and be impaled by Sea Swallow with a sword through the chest, suffering the most humiliating defeat.

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