After hearing Luo Lin's explanation, Lu Feng had a rough understanding of the White-haired Eagle.
The ones attacking the Expeditionary Force were all intelligent Leader-level individuals. The Warrior Squads probably didn't stand a chance against them.
He glanced at the enormous bird in front of him and, without hesitation, made the Mecha leap onto its back.
"Come with me!"
Under his control, the White-haired Eagle could offer no resistance. It spread its wings and took off, carrying the thirty-ton Alloy Mecha toward the Chasing Wind Squad.
Luckily, he hadn't drained all its energy earlier. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to fly.
A sudden thought came to Lu Feng.
Since he could control this Flying Beast, why not make it his mount?
He'd heard that on many satellite planets, Warriors used Exotic Beasts as mounts.
Especially the seasoned Beast Tamers. Nearly all of them took pride in owning an Exotic Beast mount.
The Chasing Wind Squad was more than two hundred kilometers away.
But the White-haired Eagle was incredibly fast.
In just over ten minutes, it had reached the airspace above the Chasing Wind Squad.
Lu Feng looked down and saw that Gao Zhan and Hong Kun, the two Innate Realm Warriors, had both left their Mechas behind and were fighting two White-haired Eagles with their bare hands.
Several squad members already lay in pools of blood within the battlefield.
They had clearly been killed by the White-haired Eagles' talons.
The Mechas' weapons could do almost no real damage to Tier 4 Exotic Beasts.
The squad's Tier 3 Martial Artists were no help at all against them.
Gao Zhan and Hong Kun could only fight with all their strength to buy time, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
Hong Kun was in especially bad shape. He had only one arm left, and he was covered in wounds deep enough to expose bone.
Lu Feng immediately controlled the White-haired Eagle beneath him and sent it diving toward the ground.
The sight was like an immortal riding a white crane down from the heavens.
The members of the Chasing Wind Squad all looked up.
"Watch out! Another one!"
"Quick, open fire!"
The squad members panicked and prepared to shoot. Though they knew the Thermite Cannon couldn't hurt a Tier 4 Exotic Beast, they instinctively raised their weapons and took aim.
"Stop! Don't fire!"
Someone shouted over the squad channel. He'd spotted a person standing on the back of the great bird.
More accurately, it was someone wearing a Mecha.
"What's going on? Why is that White-haired Eagle carrying someone?"
Before anyone could figure it out, the White-haired Eagle swooped down and landed smoothly on the ground.
Lu Feng jumped off its back and fixed his eyes on the other two White-haired Eagles fighting Gao Zhan and Hong Kun.
At just one look from him, the two Tier 4 Exotic Beasts stopped attacking. Their eyes went blank as they stood frozen in place.
Gao Zhan and Hong Kun seized the opportunity, swinging their Alloy Short Blades and stabbing them hard in the neck and throat, ending the fight.
Lu Feng couldn't help rolling his eyes.
Couldn't they have waited until he'd drained their energy before killing them?
Hong Kun, especially, seemed afraid one stab wouldn't be enough. He frantically stabbed the White-haired Eagle in front of him dozens of times, stopping only when the ground was drenched in blood and it no longer moved.
In the distance, Gao Zhan turned and walked toward Lu Feng, raising his Alloy Blade high as if to kill the White-haired Eagle he'd ridden in on, too.
Lu Feng's pupils contracted. He hurried forward to stop him.
"Captain! You can't kill this one."
"Why not? Those White-haired beasts just cost me five more brothers!"
"I've tamed it. It's my mount now."
"Your mount?" Gao Zhan froze for a moment, then glanced behind him.
The White-haired Eagle clearly tried to hide behind Lu Feng, afraid the human in front of it would kill it with one blow.
"You can control a Leader-level Exotic Beast?"
Gao Zhan suddenly understood.
No wonder the two White-haired Eagles they'd been fighting had suddenly gone blank...
But intelligent Tier 4 Exotic Beasts couldn't be tamed.
That was a universally accepted fact in the Beast Taming world.
How had Lu Feng managed it?
Just then, the other squad members gathered around, asking questions all at once. Some of them eyed the White-haired Eagle curiously.
What they didn't know was that dozens of pairs of eyes were watching them from a hillside half a kilometer away.
"Captain! How'd that kid do it? He actually rode in on a White-haired Eagle?"
Zheng Yi narrowed his eyes as he watched the distant Chasing Wind Squad, fury practically blazing in his gaze.
"That kid was born with the ability to tame beasts."
"But... that White-haired Eagle is Leader-level. Weren't Tier 4 Exotic Beasts impossible to tame?"
"I don't know either."
After receiving several calls for help from different squads, Zheng Yi had immediately used the radar to locate the Chasing Wind Squad, then led the Night Owl Squad over at full speed.
He hadn't come to help. He'd come to watch Gao Zhan and the others get overwhelmed by two Leader-level Exotic Beasts.
Once the Chasing Wind Squad had suffered heavy casualties, he could strike amid the chaos and wipe them all out without anyone knowing.
Then he could report to the Command Center that the Chasing Wind Squad had been annihilated by several Leader-level Exotic Beasts.
He would never pass up a Heaven-Sent Opportunity like this.
He intended not only to eliminate Gao Zhan, but also to kill Lu Feng with his own hands and avenge his son.
Yet when he arrived and searched the area carefully, Lu Feng was nowhere to be seen.
The Mecha bearing Lu Feng's number, "1227," wasn't among the Chasing Wind Squad.
Just as the squad was about to be overwhelmed, that kid had suddenly appeared from the sky on a White-haired Eagle.
And he'd used his beast-taming ability to turn the battle around.
"Captain, there's no chance now. We should retreat," one of the squad members urged in a low voice.
Zheng Yi clenched his jaw, his face full of reluctance.
If he gave up now, he might never get another chance like this.
And only today had he learned that Lu Feng could tame Tier 4 Exotic Beasts.
That ability was far too terrifying!
If the kid tamed many Leader-level Exotic Beasts in the future, Zheng Yi would have little chance of avenging his son.
"Everyone, get ready. Attack the Chasing Wind Squad!" Zheng Yi suddenly ordered.
"C-Captain! Are we really doing this?" one of the squad members stammered.
If they attacked, there was no telling whether they could win.
And even if they did, once their crime of killing allied troops came to light, the entire Night Owl Squad would face military punishment.
"Don't worry. As long as we finish quickly, no one will know the truth. We'll say the White-haired Eagles did it."
Zheng Yi turned to a burly, middle-aged man beside him. "Zhou Tong, you take care of that White-haired Eagle. I'll handle Gao Zhan and Hong Kun."
Zhou Tong was the only other Innate Realm Warrior in the Night Owl Squad besides Zheng Yi.
Zheng Yi himself was already at the Innate Realm Peak. Taking on Gao Zhan, who was at the middle stage of the Innate Realm, and Hong Kun, who had lost an arm, would be no trouble at all.
"Everyone, prepare for battle! Once this is done, the Zheng Family will give each of you three hundred Star Source Stones!"
At the promise of three hundred Star Source Stones, the squad members' eyes lit up.
It was a huge amount of resources, enough to greatly improve each of their cultivation levels.
But no one realized that Zheng Yi was making an empty promise.
Once it was over, who would dare expose their role in killing allied troops?
He didn't have that many Star Source Stones to begin with. Even if he did, he'd never honor his promise.
"Aim—fire!"
At Zheng Yi's command, all the Mechas of the Night Owl Squad emerged from behind the hillside, their High-Energy Thermite Cannons trained on the Chasing Wind Squad.
Blazing beams of energy poured out in an instant...
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