Alas, I'm Just Playing~

"Gulp~"

In the Simulated Battlefield.

Within Chou Shao City.

Leng Feng, Ostrich, Old Cannon, Yu Fei, and Shao Bing, along with Brick, six people, were still alive.

They remained motionless, diligently and intently guarding their respective directions.

However, there was no sound from their surroundings; even the wind couldn't be heard through their aircraft radios.

If it weren't for the occasional gulping sounds from others transmitted through the screen, they would have thought they were the only ones left alive on the battlefield.

One minute.

Two minutes.

One hour.

They stayed put for a full hour.

No one spoke, no one chatted idly.

Only calmness, focus, and silence, like beasts hunting their prey!

They had entered a state of special operations, as if unaware of fatigue or sleepiness, waiting only for that fleeting opportunity.

The sacrifices of Geng Jihui and the other four had pierced their hearts.

Although they knew it was fake, training was real combat!

Therefore, all of this was real to them too!

Geng Jihui and the others had "sacrificed"!

To avenge them, to live up to their "sacrifice," and for self-redemption, they had come to view this battle as a fight that couldn't be any more real.

"Yoho, still holding on!"

Guo Yi walked in from outside the training room, letting out a satisfied burp.

Inside the room, seventy-six people sat neatly on the ground, staring intently at the projection.

Among them were the "death five"...

As for why Guo Yi burped and walked in from outside the training room, the reason was simple...

Fifty minutes ago, Guo Yi had exited the Gundam virtual cockpit.

Forty-five minutes ago, he had pulled the "death five" out of their cockpits and issued an order to everyone: stay silent along with the people in the projection.

If Ostrich and the others don't move, you can't move either.

And now, Guo Yi had returned to the training room after eating and drinking his fill.

That's right, after Guo Yi had seen off the medic and Xiao Zhuang, he had disembarked to go eat.

Meanwhile, the surviving group of six had remained on standby in their original positions, completely unaware that Guo Yi had already slipped away.

"Not bad, worthy of being Special Operations Team members, full of resilience!

Never give up!"

Guo Yi watched the projection, sweat trickling into Leng Feng's and Ostrich's eyes, yet they didn't even blink. He couldn't help but praise them.

But as soon as he finished praising them, Guo Yi changed his tune: "Too bad they're all idiots, morons, their brains are just filled with muscle fibers!"

After saying that, Guo Yi went back online with a cold expression.

"Beep beep beep~"

Not long after Guo Yi went online, a piercing alarm finally sounded inside Ostrich and the others' cockpits.

One kilometer away, Guo Yi's blue Zaku stood on the rooftop of a building, half of its body blending into the structure beneath it.

However, the quickest to react to Guo Yi's appearance were the missile bases.

Just as Ostrich and the others were turning, two missile bases fired eighteen rockets, which, trailing long fiery tails, turned Guo Yi's location into ruins.

"Did we hit it?"

Shan Pao stared intently at the aircraft radar and asked everyone coldly.

"...Probably not, those buildings... here they come!"

Ostrich looked at the billowing smoke rising from the ruins. Before he could finish speaking, he saw the figure of the blue Zaku appear at the corner of the street in front of him.

"Boom~"

A beam five meters in diameter shot out from Ostrich's sniper rifle.

However, Guo Yi merely shifted his position and narrowly avoided the beam.

At the same time, Leng Feng had already separated his combined dual-mode beam rifle, changing it from one sniper rifle into two submachine guns.

Following that, he unleashed a barrage of gunfire at the blue Zaku, which had dodged the Ostrich's attack.

Guo Yi seemed to be hindered by Leng Feng's gunfire.

The blue Zaku suddenly turned 90° and crashed directly into the alleyway in the street.

It smashed through houses and went into another street.

"Shan Pao, can you hit it?"

After forcing Guo Yi back, the Ostrich quickly asked Shan Pao and the others.

"No... the auto-targeting can't keep up..."

Yu Fei and the others had wanted to help earlier, but Guo Yi's movements were too fast.

By the time they were ready to aim, the blue Zaku had already escaped their attack range.

So, Yu Fei gritted his teeth and ordered, "Old Cannon, clear a path!"

"Boom boom~"

Following Yu Fei's command, Old Cannon used missiles to blow up the houses between their street and the Ostrich's street.

However, just as Old Cannon finished, Guo Yi's blue Zaku leaped up from where it had disappeared and reappeared on their screens.

Then, the Ostrich and Leng Feng's pupils constricted, and they scrambled to get away from their positions.

This was because Guo Yi had fired shoulder-mounted missiles at them while jumping.

At the same time, he used the recoil from firing to constantly shift his position in the air, dodging Yu Fei and the others' attacks.

Finally, he landed without taking any damage!

Outside the battlefield, everyone also saw Guo Yi immediately unload his shoulder missile pods upon landing.

The Zaku, which had been very agile under Guo Yi's control, became even more so.

The moment he finished unloading, the blue Zaku immediately returned from the alley it had smashed through.

It slid all the way, accompanied by loud noises and dust, appearing on the Ostrich's screen like a flash.

Then, the blue Zaku half-crouched and retreated backward.

While retreating, he fired a shot at the Ostrich's Zaku cockpit.

"Boom~"

As expected, the Ostrich went down.

The beam rifle accurately hit the Ostrich's cockpit, and at the same time, it disappeared from where the Ostrich had spotted him.

Flawless!

Outside the battlefield, those who had been watching with a God's eye view suddenly had this phrase appear in their minds after this battle concluded.

Jump, fire, descend, unload, move, attack, disappear – the entire sequence was exceptionally smooth and pleasing to the eye?

In short, it was awesome and cool to watch!

Inside the battlefield, the five survivors had the opposite sentiment.

They watched helplessly as Guo Yi appeared, casually harvested the Ostrich, and then disappeared from their sight without taking any damage.

Their hearts were filled with bitterness: they couldn't hit him, couldn't catch him. They had already fallen into Guo Yi's encirclement, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Their hands, gripping the control sticks, were covered in sweat.

Sweat dripped incessantly from their foreheads.

"Leng Feng, come over and regroup," Yu Fei swallowed hard and calmly said to Leng Feng.

Then, Leng Feng kept looking back as he cautiously regrouped with Yu Fei and the others.

"Beep beep beep~"

Just as Yu Fei and the others finished regrouping, Guo Yi appeared from the corner of Yu Fei's street.

Following that, Yu Fei and the others instinctively attacked Guo Yi simultaneously.

Guo Yi simply sidestepped, dodging the attack while also disappearing from their sight.

Then, just a few seconds after they stopped attacking, Guo Yi reappeared.

And then he disappeared again, leaving behind only a mess of craters.

Appear, disappear, reappear, disappear again...

Everyone felt like they were playing whack-a-mole, with Guo Yi being the mole.

It seemed that due to their firepower, he couldn't advance further.

In this way, Guo Yi and Yu Fei's group reached a stalemate.

Therefore, Yu Fei and the others' tense hearts relaxed slightly, and they couldn't help but smile: it was normal for them to lose, after all, they were just rookies.

But by being able to spit blood in Guo Yi's face while losing, they considered their loss a victory!

However, outside the battlefield, those watching the projection were the opposite.

They had already foreseen Yu Fei's fate!

A fate like a dark history!