Who Fired Those Shots?

Battle Space, Ruined City.

As the final whistle suddenly sounded, everyone watching before the giant screen fell silent.

Even the entire first-floor hall of the club became incomparably quiet at that moment.

"What the hell was that?"

"She lost! The Blood Flame Spear Princess actually lost!"

"A regular in the national semifinals lost!"

Everyone stared at the headless blue mech. After several seconds of silence, wave-like cheers erupted, so loud they carried beyond the club and gave pedestrians on the street a fright.

"Captain Li is awesome!"

"No wonder he was able to defeat the Blood Flame Spear Princess in the individual tour! Now, in the national tournament, who would dare look down on our Storm Shadow team?"

"That senior controlling the long-range mech was incredible too. He could land Triple Micro-Control so accurately from five kilometers away."

The Storm Shadow members went wild at that moment. Looking at the two red mechs on the giant screen, their eyes brimmed with worship and excitement.

As a regular contender in the national tournament semifinals, Blue Enchantress had only three teams capable of defeating them. But from today onward, there would be one more.

Although this was only a scrimmage and would not be recorded in the league standings, this moment was enough to go down in Storm Shadow Club's history.

"Well done!"

"Their coordination was simply perfect."

"Hahaha, in this national tournament, it's finally Storm Shadow's turn to steal the spotlight."

"Ranxing really is a fine captain. Who knew where he found this newcomer? Triple Micro-Control, shooting skills like that, and that bizarre movement style... His strength is probably already catching up to Ranxing's. At this rate, Storm Shadow Club will have twin stars under one roof!"

As the coaches watched Blue Enchantress voluntarily concede, even their backs seemed to straighten. They were already planning to drink a few extra glasses in celebration when they got home.

Yet Li Ranxing, inside the Battle Space, wore a completely bewildered expression.

"Dead?"

"What the hell happened?"

Li Ranxing stared at the blue mech that had already vanished, utterly unable to make sense of it.

Just moments ago, he and Chen Ya had been locked in an even fight. Yet for some reason, three bullets had suddenly struck at Chen Ya, forcing her to use the divine skill, Eight Leaves One Sword Slash.

In the end, Chen Ya failed to block them and was hit by a single shot. Then their team had won for no apparent reason.

The outcome truly exceeded his expectations.

First-floor hall of the club.

"Which one of you fired those shots during the fight?"

"Speak!"

"Say it, and I promise I'll only beat you half to death!"

Chen Ya leaped out of the Virtual Game Pod. The fury in her star-like eyes burned fiercely as she glared at Blue Enchantress's six members.

What a joke.

She had persuaded the club to arrange this scrimmage against Storm Shadow specifically to defeat Li Ranxing and wipe away her past humiliation. Yet she had been taken out by someone firing a hidden shot.

That Triple Micro-Control had been used slickly indeed!

She had never known there was such a crafty bastard among her teammates, one who had directly ruined all her plans.

"Captain, is there a possibility that those three shots came from the other side?" Wang Yi Dao raised his hand and said. "They might not have been fired by any of us."

"Do you take me for an idiot? Is Triple Micro-Control something someone from Storm Shadow could use?" Chen Ya could not help cursing.

Triple Micro-Control placed extremely harsh demands on physical reflexes and control. Anyone who mastered it was generally a captain-level expert among the national top sixteen.

How could an expert with the strength of a national top-sixteen captain possibly join Storm Shadow Club? If such an expert had truly joined, the news would have spread throughout the industry long ago.

As for a newcomer using Triple Micro-Control, it was not impossible. But as the person involved, Chen Ya could clearly sense just how crafty that person had been. The timing had been precise down to the smallest fraction, and the firing angle had been positioned right behind Li Ranxing, where the muzzle flash could not be seen at all.

Someone that crafty could never be some young rookie fresh out of the gate.

"Captain, I can prove that." Zilan stepped forward and said, "While you were fighting, Daozi and I were working together against an expert controlling a long-range mech. That person kept using Triple Micro-Control, and then Daozi and I were taken out."

"The two of you joined forces and still couldn't beat them?" Chen Ya was startled upon hearing this.

Wang Yi Dao and Zilan were both top-tier first-rate experts in the industry. They were only a hair away from reaching the level of Triple Micro-Control; with another year of practice at most, they would probably achieve it.

With one at range and one up close, even against an expert who had mastered Triple Micro-Control, they should at least have been able to force a one-for-one trade at the limit.

"Yeah. I don't know how that person did it, but they forced a long-range mech to move as fast as a melee mech," Wang Yi Dao explained. "The moment I got close, they pulled away again. Then, to increase my speed, I threw away my shield. But in that instant, they made an airborne leap and used Triple Micro-Control. I had no time to react at all."

"An expert beyond first-rate?" Chen Ya could not help pondering. Her gaze immediately locked onto Li Ranxing, who had just emerged from his Game Pod, and she shouted, "Captain Li, what impressive methods. You actually gave me such a big surprise here. I wonder if you could let me meet that expert?"

"Expert? Do we have an expert on our team?" Li Ranxing looked at Chen Ya strangely.

Those three bullets had come out of nowhere, but Li Ranxing also knew full well that they were the shooting technique of Triple Micro-Control. Such a technique was not something Storm Shadow's members could master. Only Blue Enchantress's members might have been capable of it.

"Ranxing, there's no need to hide it anymore. Which newcomer from our club is it?" Several coaches from the coaching staff were also full of curiosity.

"I really don't know," Li Ranxing said helplessly.

"Unwilling to say?" Chen Ya frowned slightly and walked directly toward the only Storm Shadow Game Pod that had yet to open. "Come out and let me have a look. Weren't those shots just now fired quite smoothly?"

Storm Shadow's Game Pod slowly opened. Everyone present turned to look in unison, curious to see which newcomer was about to rise like the morning sun.

"Fang Zhen?"

"How could it be you?"

"Where did that newcomer go?"

As Storm Shadow's members watched a bearded middle-aged man step out of the Game Pod, their mouths opened wide enough to fit two eggs. The regular team members especially, those familiar with Fang Zhen, looked as though they had seen a ghost.

Triple Micro-Control!

That bizarre acceleration technique!

And taking down four members of Blue Enchantress in a single battle, one of them being Blood Flame Spear Princess Chen Ya—such an endlessly glorious record would have been a classic case worthy of being recorded even in Mecha Continent's national tournament.

No matter how they looked at it, it was not something Fang Zhen, a man on the verge of retirement, should have been capable of.

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