Fatal Blow

Xingtian's cannons couldn't inflict any substantial damage on the Scorpion. The Scorpion's reinforced molecular memory armor could self-repair in almost an instant.

However, the explosions and impacts from the cannons themselves did affect the Scorpion's movements.

To the Scorpion, Xingtian was like a child throwing pebbles, causing no damage, just annoyance!

Boom, boom, boom!

Xingtian charged towards the Scorpion, firing wildly!

One cannonball after another exploded on the Scorpion's armor. Inside the cockpit, Scorpion was forced back by the shockwaves from the cannons!

Although the old cannons lacked power, they made up for it with a large ammunition capacity and ample reserves!

Only when Xingtian's gun barrels were about to overheat and break did the Scorpion finally seize an opportunity, deploying the missile launchers hidden beneath its shoulder armor!

But just then, Cobra launched its attack again—this time, it didn't keep its distance. It retracted its wrist blades and engaged the Scorpion at point-blank range!

Scorpion had absolutely not expected Cobra to launch such a ferocious assault!

As Cobra lunged directly at the Scorpion's chassis, eight corrosive missiles were just launching!

Boom!

Purple flames erupted in the narrow gap between the two mechs. Chemicals capable of dissolving alloys rained down on both their armors!

"Ahhhhhh!"

Inside the cockpit, Scorpion clawed desperately at its body. Even though the neural sync protection had activated immediately, Scorpion still felt the skin-rotting pain in the residual sensation!

Warning, 71% of full body armor damaged!

Yu Xiao didn't feel the pain in his wallet, but his heart was shattered!

This is my upgrade material!

"You're not walking out of here alive today!"

Scorpion's rage had reached an uncontrollable level. She hadn't lost control like this in a long time!

The next second, Scorpion charged at Cobra, swinging its iron fist!

Even as Scorpion's fist was still in mid-air, Yu Xiao had already analyzed the terrifying force contained within the punch. So, he chose to catch it with both hands!

Gulp!

The collision between the two giants instantly created a powerful shockwave, blowing away debris from all surrounding buildings!

Warning, 27% of arm armor damaged!

If Yu Xiao hadn't caught the punch with his hands, Cobra would likely have lost an arm!

"Die!"

Rage completely consumed Scorpion's mind. She no longer cared if Cobra could be recovered intact.

As another iron fist slammed into Cobra's shoulder, Yu Xiao was forced to his knees!

Warning, shoulder armor destroyed!

At the same time, a giant silver metal chain sword suddenly shot out from Scorpion's back, slashing directly towards Cobra's head!

In the critical moment, Cobra's chemical wrist blade suddenly extended, catching the tip of the chain sword just a few meters from its head!

Black corrosive fluid dripped continuously from the chemical wrist blade's edge, melting the anti-energy armor on Cobra's legs!

"Your venom can't corrode pure Hyper-Strength Metal!"

Crack!

Warning, 37% of Fang Chemical Wrist Blade damaged!

Yu Xiao clearly heard the sound of metal shattering.

He could see spiderweb-like cracks appearing on the wrist blade, and black metal fragments were constantly falling from it!

"Let him go!"

Just as Scorpion's "Scorpion Tail" chain sword was mere meters from Cobra's head, Xingtian also swung its black Executioner greatsword, charging directly at Scorpion's head.

"Too naive."

In a flash of lightning, Yu Xiao watched as the chain sword held above his head snapped in the middle, revealing rows of saw-like sharp teeth.

The "Scorpion Tail" chain sword split in two at that instant!

The split chain swords then moved to block Xingtian's swung wrist blade!

Clang!

A crisp shattering sound echoed through the ruins.

Scorpion stared in disbelief as the broken Scorpion Tail danced in mid-air, silver fragments scattering like a brilliant galaxy.

The next second, the black greatsword pierced directly through Scorpion's cockpit, blocking the path of the tiny figure of Scorpion!

This time, it was Yu Xiao who activated [Hardening].

"I surrender!"

The Scorpion's remaining half-tail retracted back behind the Demon Scorpion, and the fist pressing down on the Cobra slowly rose into the air!

If it were any other opponent, the Scorpion might have considered how to sneak attack them at this moment.

It was just unfortunate that the opponent was Bai Ying, a reckless girl who didn't care about her own life.

The Scorpion had every reason to believe that even if she used her other half-tail to pierce through Xing Tian's cockpit right now, Bai Ying wouldn't be able to pull her hand back to defend.

She would only seize every opportunity to swing her giant blade and slice the Scorpion in half before dying!

However, as long as the Scorpion remained in the cockpit, she still had hope of finding another turning point.

This was because the Demon Scorpion was a specially modified bio-certified mech. No other pilot could operate it besides her.

Even if she disconnected her neural sync, Bai Ying wouldn't have a way to transport the Demon Scorpion back to Xuan Se Cang Qiong in a short period.

By the time Xuan Se Cang Qiong reacted, her reinforcements would have already arrived.

"Turn off your network security firewall and open all connection ports." This was what Yu Xiao had asked Bai Ying to say.

An opportunity had arrived.

"Okay," the Scorpion readily agreed.

The Demon Scorpion's bio-certification was etched into the system's core. This custom system was also the only one the Demon Scorpion could load, meaning this mech would forever be bound to the Scorpion herself.

No matter how advanced Bai Ying and Xing Tian's technical skills were, they couldn't seize the Scorpion's core control over the Demon Scorpion mech.

This technology was unique and related to a secret of the Scorpion herself. As far as she knew, no other mech currently used the same technology besides the Demon Scorpion.

Now, she just needed to patiently wait for the opponent to fall into this trap to complete a desperate counterattack at the last moment!

A puppet that breaks free from its strings at a critical moment is the most deadly.

[Network intrusion in progress... Suspicious abnormal fluctuations detected!]

Yu Xiao frowned.

At this moment, he was traversing the Demon Scorpion's system in the form of a data torrent. Everywhere he looked, there were lines of code floating in a blue space.

"Are there abnormalities that even advanced technology can't overcome?"

Yu Xiao, floating in the air, decided to fly in the direction indicated by the system.

As Yu Xiao delved deeper into the Demon Scorpion's system core, he found that the floating code around him began to become increasingly strange!

A program that can run normally should have concise, efficient code that the system can recognize.

In other words, when humans write code, they are creating a language that can be understood by systems and machines, because these characters are not meant for human recognition.

But the code beside Yu Xiao became increasingly bloated. Each section was filled with a large amount of meaningless characters, as if someone was writing a diary in the code's comments, which was absurd.

These contents were useless except for burdening the processor.

It wasn't until Yu Xiao flew further down to the core that he accidentally caught a glimpse of something that shocked him, even as a mech spirit!

Within a long instruction that lacked any segmentation, a piece of text marked in red was embedded!

[Sister, I want to go home]