Thirty seconds later, Xiao Ran found Cruz's AS holding a sniper rifle. Sousuke Sagara, Melissa·Mao, and Cruz were here. In the team, the skills of the three AS pilots are all considered top-notch in the world, but Melissa·Mao and Sousuke Sagara are more suitable for assault and frontal combat, while Cruz is good at sniping.
Moreover, Cruz is also the most frivolous and unrighteous person among the three. After seeing Xiao Ran's AS appear in front of him, in a training-based battle, Cruz fired several attacks at close range, but all of them were dodged by Xiao Ran. He directly threw away his weapon and controlled AS to lie on the ground, shamelessly choosing to surrender.
It wasn't until Xiao Ran drove the machine away again that Cruz wiped the sweat from his face with relief. Several consecutive close-range attacks were dodged by Xiao Ran. He was obviously driving the same model of M9 and knew that this was just an exercise, but Xiao Ran's machine standing in front of him already gave him great pressure.
After Cruz lay on the ground and surrendered, Xiao Ran did not deal with this guy, but went to find the last Sousuke Sagara. The reason why Sousuke Sagara was placed last was that Xiao Ran also had the idea of gradually increasing the psychological burden and pressure on the other party in the process.
As for attacking Melissa·Mao mercilessly, it was also based on this reason. In addition, Xiao Ran also wanted to show his powerful force to Sousuke Sagara and the entire Mithril, and the next step was to mercilessly force Sousuke Sagara to use λ-DRIVER.
Cruz's rather embarrassing behavior unusually did not arouse everyone's anger in the lounge, and this was especially true for Mithril's Technicians. They were very grateful to Cruz for lying on the ground with very common sense, because it greatly reduced their workload. Repairing one M9 was troublesome enough, and these guys didn't want to repair a second M9 that was also destroyed.
At this time, Sousuke Sagara was fully aware of Xiao Ran's super strength, and made an accurate judgment that he could not fight against Xiao Ran. No matter how Sousuke Sagara lurked in the forest, Xiao Ran followed him very accurately, but he was slowly approaching him like a lurker.
Perhaps in order to increase the pressure Sousuke Sagara was facing, Xiao Ran did not directly attack Sousuke Sagara, but deliberately stepped on broken branches in the forest from time to time, or pushed against the trees to make crackling sounds, reminding Sousuke Sagara that I am getting closer to you.
Under such circumstances, the pressure on Sousuke Sagara was extremely great. An enemy that he could not fight was just following behind him. Although he could hear the sound of the opponent's activities, he could not really determine where the opponent was, and he could be defeated at any time in the blink of an eye. Sousuke Sagara was also sweating profusely from such pressure.
In the end, Sousuke Sagara took the initiative to run out of the forest and returned to the training ground. Compared to the empty forest with poor visibility, the empty training ground gave him a chance to truly compete head-on with Xiao Ran.
"Aren't you escaping?" Xiao Ran also controlled the machine and appeared in the training ground, saying in an indifferent tone, "So how much do you know about your new machine now?"
As he spoke, the AS controlled by Xiao Ran also raised the two weapons in his hands. Without hesitation and decisiveness, he fired countless bullets directly at Sousuke Sagara's crossbow. The sound of gunfire suddenly sounded in the training ground, and every bullet was flying towards the various vital points of the crossbow.
To deal with the crossbow with λ-DRIVER, Xiao Ran did not hold back like he did with Melissa·Mao's AS. He really moved towards the head of the crossbow and the chest. When facing the attack of Xiao Ran's AS, the strong crossbow quickly jumped away and raised the gun in his hand to fight back at Xiao Ran.
All of a sudden, the two ASs moved quickly in the training ground and attacked each other mercilessly. The flying bullets flew across the training ground. Sousuke Sagara really couldn't completely lock on and hit Xiao Ran, and Xiao Ran deliberately controlled the bullets to pass by the strong crossbow's armor after Sousuke Sagara started to fight back. I don't know how many sparks and bullet marks were scratched on the strong crossbow's body.
While shooting, Xiao Ran's AS was also dodging, but it was also quickly approaching the crossbow controlled by Sousuke Sagara, but it was Ballistic Weapons after all, and there was a moment when the bullets of both sides were exhausted and could not be replenished.
Just when the weapon in the strong crossbow was unable to shoot bullets, Sousuke Sagara also completely lost the only tool that could prevent Xiao Ran from approaching. He could only control the strong crossbow with sweating profusely and took out the head dagger in front of him. He looked at Dual Guns who had also thrown away the bullet and obviously still had bullets, and pulled out the saw sword and rushed towards the M9.
In just a few seconds, the M9 controlled by Xiao Ran wielded the saw sword and struck the dagger held by the crossbow. When the dagger and saw sword collided with Setsuna, countless flying sparks popped out, illuminating the fronts of the two machines extremely brightly. You could hear the buzzing sound of the saw sword being activated, and you could also feel the dagger being gradually torn apart.
"Are you still thinking of a way? If your dagger breaks like this, then this Mithril's latest machine will definitely be split in half by me, or I will pull out the dagger and attack you, and you will be unable to resist." Xiao Ran controlled the AS and looked at the crossbow in front of him and said calmly, "Are you sure you have complete control of your machine? In addition to the dagger, there is another weapon besides guns, a weapon that can allow you to escape the current situation."
"Use that thing, as long as you think about it, you will feel that you can stop me. Think about it if I were your real enemy, if I had other purposes for Chidori, and I wanted to destroy this Mithril base. Once your body is broken by me, there will no longer be anyone in this base who can stop me, then West Pacific Base, Colonel Tessa, Major Kalinin, Sergeant Major Mao, Officer Cruz, and your comrades will all become my trophies, and they will all die in front of your eyes."
"No!" Sousuke Sagara replied to Xiao Ran in an extremely calm voice, and said loudly, "I will never let that happen, and I will definitely be able to block your attack!"
Just when Sousuke Sagara's words fell, Xiao Ran sneered and directly used AS's left arm to pull out the dagger behind him, and stabbed the crossbow's chest and cockpit mercilessly. Sousuke Sagara's eyes widened instantly after seeing this scene, and his mind was filled with thoughts of blocking Xiao Ran's attack.
A ray of golden light suddenly appeared between Qiannu and M9, and then spread out like ripples quickly. This ray of light was also an indestructible barrier. The dagger stabbed by M9 stopped and trembled as soon as it came into contact with the sudden light, and was blocked in front of Qiannu by a powerful force.
The place where the dagger and the saw sword collided bounced off each other because of the sudden light. Sousuke Sagara also seized this opportunity and reflexively operated the crossbow to jump away from a distance. Xiao Ran also used the moment when the sword was bounced to move away from the crossbow that had activated λ-DRIVER.
Sousuke Sagara stared at the disappearing light in front of him in astonishment. The intelligent AI of the machine was also reminding him of the activation of λ-DRIVER. He was so shocked that he murmured to himself, "λ-DRIVER, what is this?"
"λ-DRIVER, a Super Robot system that transcends the current era, converts imagination, impulse, and belief into physical power after being highly concentrated on the body and activates it. As long as you want, as long as you are firm enough, as long as you can be firm in your beliefs and believe that you can do it, and use this mood and determination, then you can do anything."
"What were you thinking at that moment?"
The golden light was Xiao Ran. Qiannu and M9 faced each other but neither attacked each other again. After hearing Xiao Ran's words and questions, Sousuke Sagara also seriously recalled his previous thoughts and then gave the answer, "Block your attack. I must block your attack."
"Yes, that's it. You must, you must think, you must be able to succeed, you must be able to achieve it. Remember the feeling just now, now I am going to start attacking."
Xiao Ran reminded Sousuke Sagara, and controlled the machine to rush towards the crossbow again. "If you can't block it, I will definitely cut off the left hand of your machine this time! If you can't block it, then next time... I will kill you, and then do what I just told you."
Xiao Ran's voice was extremely indifferent and full of unabashed murderous intent. It didn't look like a joke at all. This indifference and murderous intent immediately made Sousuke Sagara break into a lot of cold sweat again, and Xiao Ran The machine controlled by once again emitted a flash of dazzling red light. In the blink of an eye, it appeared in front of Qiannu and waved the saw sword in his hand again. He accurately placed the target on Qiannu's left arm and swung it down quickly.
"What he said is true, it feels, it feels... I can block it!" Sousuke Sagara seemed a little confused in the current situation, but although he kept in mind what Xiao Ran said, his hands unconsciously controlled the machine to start to retreat and turn sideways, and once again the golden light acted like a barrier blocking the front of the crossbow.
However, the barrier this time was not as strong as before. The saw sword swung by M9 penetrated bit by bit in Sousuke Sagara's eyes, and gradually forced into his left arm.
Seeing this scene, Sousuke Sagara was stunned for a moment and stopped moving his hand. At the moment of his daze, the barrier suddenly disappeared. The saw sword brought out countless sparks without any obstruction and directly chopped off the left arm of Qiannu.
"I said, if you can't stop it, you will die." Xiao Ran once again said words full of murderous intent in the same tone. Of course, he did not really want to kill Sousuke Sagara, but continued to pressure the other party to unleash the potential to control λ-DRIVER.
After deliberately pausing for a second or two, he swung the sword in his hand again and struck the crossbow.
At this time, Sousuke Sagara seemed to have understood something. He closed his eyes and directly controlled the crossbow he was sitting on. He took the initiative to meet Xiao Ran's M9 without having to go back. A barrier of golden light that was more dazzling than the first one, and even more silver light burst out under the golden light flashed in front of the two people, blocking the saw sword.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Ran also had a smile on his face. After the machine emitted red light again, a dagger was inserted into its head from behind the strong crossbow, and the strong crossbow instantly softened to the ground.
"It seems that you already know how to use this system. This test ends here. Get ready to run naked."