Jia Wen's eagle-like face froze.
His killing shot had missed. By a mile.
Just as he fired the Genesis Laser, the diamond-shaped force field behind him suddenly expanded and enveloped him.
It was a cage of his own making, a weapon meant to trap Huang Ji.
But at the critical moment, it had surged over him from behind and turned his body against his will.
It all happened too fast, too perfectly, with timing too precise to be a coincidence.
He had no warning and no way to defend against it! A moment earlier, and Jia Wen would never have fired. A moment later, and the laser would have struck Huang Ji.
"Damn it..."
"How can he control my force field? This equipment can't be controlled—ah!"
Jia Wen's shock gave way to understanding when he examined the diamond-shaped field.
Huang Ji had not seized control of the Six-Prism Red Light Shield or disrupted it. He had done the opposite: he had fed it more power!
"He sent a huge amount of energy into it. He used those million Life-Slaughtering Wheels to fuel my force field, making it expand and engulf me in an instant..."
"No! That's not all. The energy circuits and positions of his two million Aerospace Weapons were meticulously calculated!"
"He knew all along I'd use the Six-Prism Red Light Shield to trap them!"
"And he took that chance to... optimize my force field!"
The realization made Jia Wen's scalp prickle. He had never imagined Huang Ji would pull off something so inspired and unpredictable: I'll help you make it stronger! Only another field could control a force field, and doing so required even more energy. A mere signal could not take it over.
The alternative was to seize control of his mech. But mechs were vehicles operated