"Gulp~"
Inside the simulated battlefield.
Within Chou Shao City.
Leng Feng, Ostrich, Old Cannon, Yu Fei, Shao Bing, and Brick, the six of them were still alive.
They did not move at all, earnestly and with supreme concentration guarding the directions they were each responsible for.
Yet the surroundings remained completely silent, and not even the sound of the wind transmitted through the airborne intercoms.
Had it not been for the occasional sound of swallowing coming through the screens from the others, they would have thought they were the only ones left alive on the battlefield.
One minute.
Two minutes.
One hour.
They stayed just like that, for a full hour.
No one spoke, and no one chatted.
There was only calm, focus, and silence, like beasts of prey hunting their quarry!
They had entered the state of special operations, seemingly tireless and devoid of sleepiness, living only for that split-second opportunity.
Because the sacrifice of Geng Jihui and the four others stung their hearts.
Although they all knew it was fake, training was actual combat!
Therefore, all of this was real to them as well!
Geng Jihui and the others had already "sacrificed" themselves!
For revenge, to live up to that "sacrifice," and for self-redemption, they had come to view this match as a battle that could not be any more real.
"Yo-ho, still hanging in there!"
Guo Yi burped loudly as he walked in from outside the training room.
Inside the room, seventy-six people sat orderly on the ground, watching the projection with unblinking eyes.
Among them were the group of five who had died...
As for why Guo Yi had burped and walked in from outside the training room.
The reason was very simple...
Fifty minutes ago, Guo Yi left the Gundam virtual cockpit.
Forty-five minutes ago, he hauled the dead five-man group out of the cockpits and issued an order to everyone: all of you stay as quiet as the people in the projection.
If Ostrich and the others don't move, neither can you.
And now, Guo Yi was well-fed and had returned to the training room.
That's right, Guo Yi had gone off to chow down right after sending away Medic and Xiao Zhuang.
As for the six surviving members, they had remained on guard in their original positions the whole time, completely unaware that Guo Yi had bolted long ago.
Not bad, truly worthy of being Special Operations Team members, full of tenacity!
Never admit defeat!
Guo Yi watched the projection as sweat streamed past Leng Feng and Ostrich's eyes without them even blinking, and he couldn't help praising them.
But right after praising them, Guo Yi changed his tune: "Too bad they're all dorks, assholes, whose brains are stuffed with nothing but muscle fibers!"
With that, Guo Yi put on a stern face and logged back in online.
"Beep beep beep~"
Not long after Guo Yi logged back on, shrill alarm bells finally sounded inside Ostrich and the others' cockpits.
One kilometer away, Guo Yi's blue Zaku stood on the roof of a building, half of its body merging with the structure beneath its feet.
Yet the fastest to react to Guo Yi's appearance was the missile base.
Just as Ostrich and the others were still turning around, two missile bases and eighteen rockets dragged long fiery tails behind them, blasting the location where Guo Yi stood into ruins.
"Did we hit him?"
Old Cannon stared fixedly at the airborne radar and asked the others in a cold voice.
"...Probably not, those houses... They're coming!"
Before Ostrich finished speaking as he looked at the rising smoke of the ruins, he spotted the figure of the blue Zaku appearing around the street corner ahead of him.
"Boom~"
A beam five meters in diameter flew out from the sniper rifle in Ostrich's hands.
Yet Guo Yi merely shifted his position slightly, letting the beam brush right past him.
At the same time, Leng Feng had already split the Combination Dual-Mode Beam Rifle apart, turning one sniper rifle into two submachine guns.
Following that, he unleashed a barrage of fire at the blue Zaku that had dodged Ostrich's attack.
Guo Yi acted as though he were blocked by Leng Feng's barrage.
The blue Zaku spun violently by ninety degrees, directly crashing into a side alley within the street.
It smashed straight through a house to reach another street.
"Old Cannon, can you guys hit him?"
After driving Guo Yi away, Ostrich hurriedly asked Old Cannon and the others.
"No good... The automatic aiming correction can't keep up..."
Yu Fei and the others had wanted to help earlier, but Guo Yi moved much too fast.
By the time they prepared to aim, the blue Zaku had already left their attack range.
With a grit of his teeth, Yu Fei ordered: "Old Cannon, clear a path!"
"Boom boom~"
At Yu Fei's command, Old Cannon directly used missiles to blow apart the houses standing between their street and Ostrich's street.
Yet no sooner had Old Cannon finished blasting than Guo Yi's blue Zaku actually leaped up from where it had vanished, appearing right on their screens.
Subsequently, the pupils of Ostrich and Leng Feng shrank abruptly, and they scrambled away from their spots in a panic.
Because while jumping, Guo Yi had also launched shoulder-mounted missiles at them.
At the same time, he utilized the recoil from the launch to continuously alter his position in mid-air, dodging Yu Fei and the others' attacks.
In the end, he landed without taking a single hit!
Outside the battlefield, the spectators also saw that Guo Yi uninstalled the missile pods on his shoulders the very first second he landed.
The Zaku, which was already very nimble under Guo Yi's control, became even more agile.
The moment he finished uninstalling them, the blue Zaku wasted no time returning from the side alley it had previously smashed through.
Sliding all the way with a deafening roar and flying dust, it appeared before Ostrich's screen as though flashing into existence.
Subsequently, the blue Zaku half-squatted and retreated backward.
While retreating, it fired a single shot directly at Ostrich's Zaku cockpit.
"Boom~"
Ostrich went down, exactly as expected.
The beam rifle accurately struck Ostrich's cockpit, and simultaneously vanished from the spot where Ostrich had spotted him.
Smooth as flowing water!
Outside the battlefield, the people who had been watching the battle from a God's-eye view suddenly found such a phrase popping into their minds once this fight ended.
Jumping, firing, landing, uninstalling, moving, attacking, vanishing—the entire sequence of movements was unusually fluid while also being exceptionally pleasing to the eye?
Anyway, it was awesome and cool to watch!
Inside the battlefield, however, the surviving five-man group felt the exact opposite sentiment.
They watched with their own eyes as Guo Yi appeared, effortlessly harvested Ostrich as if it were nothing, and then vanished from their sight without taking a scratch.
Their hearts held only all sorts of bitterness: they couldn't hit him, they couldn't chase him down, and they had fallen into Guo Yi's encirclement like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
The hands gripping the joysticks were covered in sweat.
The sweat on their foreheads poured down nonstop.
"Leng Feng, come over and regroup." Yu Fei swallowed hard and said calmly to Leng Feng.
Afterward, Leng Feng looked back three times for every step he took, cautiously regrouping with Yu Fei and the others.
"Beep beep beep~"
Just as Yu Fei and the others finished regrouping, Guo Yi emerged from the corner of Yu Fei's street.
Following that, Yu Fei and the others instinctively launched simultaneous attacks at Guo Yi.
Guo Yi simply dodged aside, avoiding the attacks while once again slipping out of their line of sight.
Then, mere seconds after they stopped attacking, Guo Yi appeared again.
Then he vanished again, leaving behind only a pile of pockmarked craters.
Appear, vanish, appear again, vanish again...
Everyone felt as though they were playing Whack-a-Mole, and Guo Yi was the mole.
It was as if he couldn't continue moving forward due to the group's firepower.
Just like that, Guo Yi reached a stalemate with Yu Fei and the others.
Consequently, the originally tense hearts of Yu Fei and the others relaxed slightly, and they couldn't help smiling: it was normal for them to lose, seeing as they were facing complete rookies.
Yet while losing, if they could just spit a mouthful of blood onto Guo Yi's face, then even in defeat they would win!
Meanwhile, outside the battlefield, the people watching the projection saw the exact opposite.
They could already foresee Yu Fei's end!
An end worthy of being a dark history!