(Today there was only one chapter. It was Saturday, after all—our weekly gathering. Yi Zui wrote this chapter outside on his phone, and it was slow going, which was why it was only finished now.)
A huge black shadow descended from the sky, diving from high above at a speed no slower than an ordinary fighter jet. The instant the Variable Fighter evaded the Mecha codenamed Destruction's combined assault again, it fired several beams along with two Fire Snakes, raining down to envelop the Variable Fighter.
The instant that enormous silhouette appeared, the Variable Fighter's alarms had already warned Xiao Ran of an incoming enemy. He immediately controlled the Variable Fighter into another seemingly impossible turn, only to see the black shadow streak past in front of him in a flash of light. The fierce gale it stirred up sent sand and dust flying from the ground.
It also allowed Xiao Ran to clearly see the enormous Mecha that had suddenly appeared—a massive black warplane brimming with an otherworldly feel. Just as it seemed about to crash down with tremendous force, Xiao Ran saw the huge warplane suddenly begin to transform.
The nose folded sharply downward, its back flipped over, and a massive head popped out. Its wings rotated as arms unfolded in the opposite direction, while the rear thrusters extended as a whole and transformed into legs. What stunned Xiao Ran, however, was its transformation method, which completely disregarded the structure and shape of its armor.
No, rather, as it transformed from warplane form into humanoid form, the armor originally suited to a fighter's shape underwent almost complete structural reorganization. It was as though the armor itself transformed along with it, becoming armor best suited for its humanoid form.
Yet the entire transformation process was much slower than the