Xingtian's cannons couldn't do any real damage to Demon Scorpion. The enhanced molecular-memory armor covering its body could almost completely repair itself in a second.
But the explosions and impact from the cannons still affected Demon Scorpion's movements.
To Demon Scorpion, Xingtian was like a child throwing pebbles at it—harmless, but incredibly annoying!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Xingtian charged toward Demon Scorpion, firing wildly as he ran!
One cannon shell after another exploded against Demon Scorpion's armor. Inside the cockpit, Poison Scorpion was thrown backward again and again by the impacts.
The old-fashioned cannons might have been underpowered, but they had large magazines and plenty of ammunition!
Only when Xingtian's barrels had overheated to the point of nearly breaking did Demon Scorpion finally seize its chance and deploy the missile launchers beneath its shoulder armor!
But just then, Cobra attacked again—this time, instead of keeping his distance, he retracted his wrist blades and engaged Demon Scorpion at point-blank range!
Poison Scorpion had never expected Cobra to launch such a reckless attack!
As Cobra slammed straight into Demon Scorpion's body, all eight corrosive missiles were fired!
Kaboom!
Purple flames erupted in the narrow gap between the two mechs. Chemicals capable of dissolving alloys poured down over both their armors like a torrential rain!
"Aaaah!"
Inside the cockpit, Poison Scorpion clawed frantically at her body. Even though neural-sync protection had activated immediately, she still felt the lingering pain—as if her skin were rotting away!
[Warning: 71% of body armor damaged!]
Yu Xiao wasn't heartbroken over the damage to the mech, but his heart had shattered into pieces!
These were my upgrade materials!
"You're not leaving here alive today!"
Poison Scorpion's fury had become impossible to contain. It had been a long time since she'd lost control like this!
The next second, Demon Scorpion charged at Cobra and swung its iron fist!
Before Demon Scorpion's fist had even reached him, Yu Xiao had already analyzed the terrifying force behind the blow, so he chose to catch it with both hands!
Thud!
The collision between the two giants sent a violent shockwave surging outward, blasting debris off every nearby building!
[Warning: 27% of wrist armor damaged!]
If Yu Xiao hadn't caught the blow with both hands, Cobra would likely have had an arm broken!
"Die!"
With rage consuming her completely, Poison Scorpion no longer cared whether Cobra could be recovered intact.
As the other iron fist slammed into Cobra's shoulder, Yu Xiao dropped to one knee!
[Warning: Shoulder armor destroyed!]
At the same time, a gigantic silver chain sword suddenly burst from Demon Scorpion's back and slashed straight toward Cobra's head!
At the critical moment, Cobra's chemical wrist blade sprang out, catching the tip of the chain sword just a few meters from his head!
Black corrosive fluid dripped from the blade of the chemical wrist weapon, melting the anti-energy armor on Cobra's leg!
"Your venom can't corrode genuine giant-strength metal!"
Crack!
[Warning: 37% damage to Poison Fang chemical wrist blade!]
Yu Xiao clearly heard the metal shatter.
He could see a web of cracks spreading across the wrist blade, with chunks of black metal continuously falling away!
"Let him go!"
With Demon Scorpion's "Scorpion Tail" chain sword only a few meters from Cobra's head, Xingtian swung the black Slayer greatsword and charged straight at Demon Scorpion's head.
"Too naive."
In that split second, Yu Xiao watched as the chain sword raised above his head broke in two, revealing rows of saw teeth as sharp as a shark's.
The "Scorpion Tail" chain sword split apart!
One half swung straight toward Xingtian's wrist blade to block it!
Clang!
A sharp crack rang out among the ruins.
Poison Scorpion stared in disbelief as the broken Scorpion Tail spun through the air, silver fragments scattering like a dazzling galaxy.
The next second, the black greatsword plunged straight through the cockpit in Demon Scorpion's head, stopping right in front of Poison Scorpion's tiny body!
This time, Yu Xiao had activated [Harden].
"I surrender!"
The remaining half of the Scorpion Tail retracted into Demon Scorpion's back, and the fist pressing down on Cobra slowly rose into the air!
Against anyone else, Poison Scorpion might have considered how to ambush them.
Unfortunately, her opponent was Bai Ying, a crazed girl who didn't care if she lived or died.
Poison Scorpion had every reason to believe that even if she used the other half of the Scorpion Tail to pierce Xingtian's cockpit, Bai Ying wouldn't pull back to defend herself.
She'd just seize every chance to swing her greatsword and cut Poison Scorpion in half before she died!
But as long as Poison Scorpion remained in the cockpit, she still had a chance to turn the tables.
Demon Scorpion was a bio-authenticated mech that had undergone special modifications. No pilot other than her could operate it.
Even if she disconnected the neural sync, Bai Ying had no way to transport Demon Scorpion back to Xuanse Cangqiong in the short term.
By the time Xuanse Cangqiong realized what had happened, her reinforcements would already have arrived.
"Turn off your network security firewall and open all connection ports." Yu Xiao told Bai Ying to say this.
Her chance had come.
"Okay," Poison Scorpion agreed readily.
Demon Scorpion's biological authentication was embedded in the system's lowest level, and this custom system was the only one the mech could run. That meant the mech would always be bound to Poison Scorpion herself.
No matter how skilled Bai Ying and Xingtian were, they couldn't wrest control of Demon Scorpion's foundational systems from Poison Scorpion.
This technology was unique. It was tied to a secret of Poison Scorpion's, and as far as she knew, no other mech besides Demon Scorpion used it.
Now all she had to do was wait patiently for her opponents to walk into the trap, then turn the tables at the last moment!
A puppet that could break free of its strings at a crucial moment was the most lethal kind.
[Network intrusion in progress... Suspicious abnormal activity detected!]
Yu Xiao frowned.
At that moment, he was moving through Demon Scorpion's system as a torrent of data. Everywhere he looked, code floated through a blue expanse.
"Could even Black Tech encounter an anomaly it can't handle?"
Yu Xiao, suspended in midair, decided to fly in the direction indicated by the system.
The deeper Yu Xiao ventured into Demon Scorpion's core system, the stranger the code floating around him became!
A program that could run properly should have clean, efficient code that the system could recognize.
In other words, when humans wrote code, they were creating a language that systems and machines could understand. Those characters weren't meant for people to read.
But the code around Yu Xiao was growing increasingly bloated. Every section was packed with a mass of meaningless characters, as absurd as someone writing a diary in the code's comments.
Aside from burdening the processor, it served no purpose.
Yu Xiao flew farther into the system's core. Then, with a casual glance, he caught sight of something that shocked even a mech's soul like his!
Inside a long, unbroken command, he spotted a string of red-highlighted characters!
[Sis, I want to go home.]
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