"After everything I've been through, I really am quite the legend..."
Just as Xia Ya was about to step forward and confirm the situation, his body trembled. He exclaimed in shock, "He can still maintain consciousness!?"
Crowdfunding group: Four Five Six One Two Seven Nine Four Zero "Wait! Xu Qi, he...!"
"He hasn't fallen... He hasn't lost yet!"
Inside the command hall, Elysia's livestream, and the Golden Courtyard, voices rose and fell in volume, but everyone could hear the sounds of relief and excitement.
He braced both hands against the floor behind him, then slowly rose to his feet.
V2V's current condition definitely couldn't be called good. It was just that...
"Professor, I know now why you've always liked Griseo so much. That little girl... The things she painted were actually Mental Power coating..."
The floating cannons aimed at V2V again as Xia Ya spoke.
"Though I don't know how you managed to stand up, why are you so unwilling to give up, Xu Qi?!"
Why was he unwilling to give up?
Xu Qi looked at the bright-red Sazabi in front of him and slowly said,
"Because until the very end, Romieu gave everything he had to become someone else's hope, to tell them... that it wasn't time to give up yet!"
"What? Romieu?"
"I'll stop you here. We can't keep making one mistake after another! Master!"
The Solar Furnace on V2V's back suddenly began operating at an abnormal frequency, rapidly accelerating!
On the helicopter, Mobius cried out in alarm, "This is bad! How does he know this mode!?"
"Trans-am System! On!"
Green Mental Power radiance suddenly burst from V2V's entire body! The originally black-and-white V2V Armor also took on a strange, dark-red glow.
Trans-am? Whatever you are, you still can't stand against my floating cannons!
"Funnel!"
Xia Ya repeated his old trick, aiming the floating cannons at Xu Qi's position for a precise strike. However...
He had disappeared!
No, it was simply that his opponent was moving far too fast for even his dynamic vision to track!
How was that possible!?
Enduring terrifying gravitational acceleration that had nearly exceeded 20G, Xu Qi piloted V2V and rapidly closed in on the Sazabi! Then, he firmly seized the Solar Furnace on its back!
"This is bad!"
Blood had already spilled from the corner of his mouth. Xu Qi roared as he forced his arms to exert even more pressure! The high-output V2V forcibly tore the Solar Furnace installed on the Sazabi's back free!
"This ends here, Xia Ya!"
"Bang!"
The Solar Furnace was ripped out. Deprived of its power source, the Sazabi slowly collapsed.
39. Mei: I Can't Do Anything
Xu Qi panted heavily. His mouth was filled with blood, leaving him with an unbearably metallic sweetness on his tongue.
Damn it, this really wasn't something a human should be doing...
Xu Qi had no idea how many people were cheering excitedly at that moment. He simply walked step by step to the circuit breaker, reached out, and pulled it—power cut!
Xu Qi let out a long breath. This should be over now...
He connected to the communications channel of the Meilong command hall and said, "This is Xu Qi. The circuit breaker has been cut. Has the line network been powered down?"
Had it been powered down? Did he really need to ask? Of course it had...
Still, Xu Qi had to ask as a matter of procedure.
But for some reason, after waiting for a while, Xu Qi still received no reply from the command hall.
"Hm? Command hall, do you copy? Anyone there?"
"Xu Qi."
The sudden voice made Xu Qi freeze.
It was Yae—and judging by her tone...
Xu Qi's heart sank to the bottom.
"The high-voltage power grid... hasn't been cut. The train... is still moving..."
"I tampered with the circuit breaker here long ago." Xia Ya, who was lying nearby, spoke from inside the Sazabi. "It's useless, Xu Qi. It's already too late...
"956 will definitely derail, and the deaths of everyone aboard will mark the dawn of a new era. You can't stop any of this."
"Heh."
The soft chuckle not only reached Xia Ya's ears; through the communications system, it also reached everyone in the command hall of Meilong Base.
"You can't assume everything will always fall within your calculations... I'll show you how I change things, Xia Ya."
Inside the command hall, Mei seemed to realize something. She rushed to Yae's side, took the communications device from her, and said,
"Xu Qi... Xu Qi, what are you going to do? Xu Qi!"
"Mei, I'm sorry. I'm probably... going to break my promise."
"...You bastard!"
Inside the V2V Armor, Xu Qi wore a smile.
"I love you, Mei."
Mei's eyes instantly reddened and grew wet. Gritting her teeth, she stared at Xu Qi on the monitor. The helplessness surging through her heart struck harder than ever. In the end, she still couldn't do anything...
"Wait for me to come back."
Xu Qi crushed the communications device in one hand.
He hoisted the now-immobile Sazabi onto his shoulders and charged toward the rapidly approaching 956!
What was he trying to do?
Xin An, who had come along with them, cried out, "He wants to... use that Armor to stop the train!"
"Is he insane?! He'll die!"
But as soon as Chief Engineer Xia finished speaking, he froze.
Because Xu Qi had already done something like this once before.
Inside the substation, Kevin abruptly shut his laptop! He contacted Vil-V and said, "Vil-V... did you see that?"
"Mm... I saw it."
"Find a way to restore communications with 956!"
"Okay!"
At the same time, on the helicopter, Mobius screamed, "Is he insane?! No... No! I have to stop V2V! I have to stop V2V!"
"Calm down, Mobius."
"How can I calm down?!" Mobius's body trembled. Only at this moment did she finally understand... what Xu Qi truly meant to her.
Suddenly, she seemed to remember something.
"Communications... Kosma is still on that train! Restore communications! We have to restore communications with 956!"
Inside the underground tunnel beneath Xujiahui, Xia Ya, slung over Xu Qi's shoulder, shouted, "What are you doing!? Xu Qi! Don't do anything reckless! You'll really die!"
"Shut up! It's just a train, isn't it? Watch me use V2V to push it back!"
"Do you know what you're doing? That's a train traveling at high speed! You're trying far too hard!"
"How will we know if we don't try?"
"Are you serious?"
The headlights flashed, revealing it—956!
The Solar Furnace on V2V's back began operating at full speed, and HK Particles once again enveloped the entire V2V. However, Xu Qi wasn't moving toward the train. Instead, he maintained the same direction as it, but at a slower speed.
The train gradually caught up to Xu Qi. Xu Qi also began repeatedly reducing his speed. He held the heavy Sazabi in front of him, slowly... slowly...
"Docking!"
"Bang!"
"Aah!!!"
The train crashed into the Sazabi! Xia Ya couldn't help but cry out from the tremendous impact!
Xu Qi didn't fare much better. His body was already injured, and now it felt as if his bones were about to fall apart!
And yet... they had endured it! They had both endured 956's first impact!
They weren't dead!
"V2V isn't just for show!"
Xu Qi began continuously applying counterforce against the train.
Meanwhile, inside the train...
A gun-wielding terrorist stood in every passage between the cars, while all the passengers were forced to crouch in place with their hands clasped over their heads.
The entire train car was shrouded in despair and terror.
Because communications had been cut off, the passengers inside didn't know that the train's brakes had failed. Otherwise, they would probably have already fallen into even greater panic.
Kosma was currently mixed in near one of the connecting passages. At this distance...
One flying tackle should be enough.
But the problem was that every connecting passage was guarded by two people. Besides, everyone was crouching on the floor now. Even if he dealt with the people here, the people at the other end of the car would have a perfect chance to shoot him dead!
What should he do?!
Just as he was thinking, the train suddenly shook!
The abrupt impact made everyone inside struggle to remain standing.
"What happened!?"
"The... The train hit something."
"What!?"
Through the open driver's cabin door, they looked inside and easily saw a gigantic Exoskeleton Armor pressed against the front of the train.
If the glass at the front of the train hadn't been made of high-strength material, it would probably have shattered completely from that impact!
"W-What is that thing?!"
While most of the people in the car focused their attention on the Exoskeleton Armor outside, Kosma began boldly observing his surroundings.
"Hey, boy over there."
The voice was barely above a whisper, yet Kosma could hear it clearly.
He couldn't help looking toward where the voice had come from, only to see a white-haired girl with a single ponytail gesturing toward him.
Can you understand sign language?
Heh... Of course ordinary people couldn't understand it...
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