Miao Xin Intercepts

Earth Support Base.

The information Su Ming sent back before he fell into a coma had two key points.

First, Xiyu possesses powerful wind-based abilities.

Secondly, his battle plan was to use disastrous weather to cause mass destruction, and then devour souls to increase his own power.

A collective gasp filled the command center.

Almost simultaneously, everyone's eyes fell on the weather map.

Typhoon Lupit is approaching Qing City!

There is no more disastrous weather than this.

If Xiyu actually arrives there, it will be a city-wide massacre!

Miao Xin ignored the fear of those around her.

She walked straight up to Jisu and grabbed him by the collar.

Is "Yinglong" correct here?

Jisu subconsciously looked at Ling Wen.

Listen!

Miao Xin didn't give Ling Wen a chance to speak at all.

"I don't want to be hunted down by a Destiny Level expert carrying hundreds of thousands of soul energies an hour from now."

I must stop him.

"Now, immediately!"

She said, enunciating each word clearly, "This isn't a request, this is a demand!"

Time is of the essence.

Ling Wen knew there was no time to ask for instructions now.

She hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded to Jisu.

Jisu visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Follow me!"

He turned and ran, rushing out of the workshop, jumping onto a construction vehicle, and slamming on the ignition.

The vehicle sped off with a screeching sound of tires, quickly traveling along the internal roads of the base.

Miao Xin jumped in as well and sat in the passenger seat.

"The ' Yinglong ' is ready," Jisu quickly explained. "It is prepared to be piloted by the intelligent system and launched into battle under remote command from the rear."

"It's pointless," Miao Xin said.

"Artificial intelligence cannot fight enemies it has never seen before."

"The remote command from the rear is also completely unable to keep up with the reaction speed."

A logic system trained on an existing database might be able to handle conventional combat.

But Xiyu is Destiny Level powerhouse from another world.

Faced with an enemy never before recorded, the machine will only sink deeper into erroneous judgments.

****

The distance isn't far.

The engineering vehicle quickly stopped outside a hangar.

Ground staff were busy around "Yinglong".

The aircraft is slender overall, yet does not appear bulky.

Four high-thrust turbofan engines roared softly from its back, while six adjustable wings folded back behind it.

The maintenance team leader rushed up, speaking very quickly, "The intelligent driving module has been deactivated."

"The normal auxiliary prompts are still working."

Several staff members rushed over carrying a set of power suits.

Miao Xin opened her arms, letting the other person put the things on her body.

Then she leaped into the cockpit that opened in the chest of the "Yinglong".

The hatch closed.

Self-check complete

The storm environment correction module has been loaded into the propulsion system, and the standby mech is already in a pre-start state with the engine idling.

As Miao Xin controlled it, the deep roar began to rise.

Ground personnel hastily retreated.

"Clear the area! Clear the entire area!"

"Release the mounting bracket!"

"External cable disconnected!"

Click!

The locking arms fixed to Yinglong's shoulders, back, and legs popped open in sequence.

The thick power cable was forcibly dragged away by the robotic arm, and the electric arc flashed briefly at the interface.

Yinglong slowly raised its head.

Inside the cockpit, Miao Xin gripped the control stick, her voice coming through the communicator.

"They're gone!"

She pressed down on the control lever.

The auxiliary wheels on the bottom of "Yinglong" popped out, and the aircraft glided in a zigzag motion, suddenly twisting from the maintenance position onto the runway.

A ground crew member nearby hadn't even had time to retreat beyond the safety line before the blast wave knocked him backward.

"Hey! The runway isn't finished yet!"

Boom!

The four turbofan engines suddenly lifted off.

The ear-piercing roar instantly drowned out everyone else's voices.

Yinglong's tail flames burst forth as the machine glided at high speed along the runway, its speed increasing in an almost unreasonable manner.

The overall thrust-to-weight ratio of a fighter jet is approximately 1:1.

Even the Earth-based mecha version, "Yinglong |Mecha," boasts an astonishing 3:1 overall thrust-to-weight ratio.

With a mere two hundred meters of acceleration, "Yinglong" suddenly raised its head.

The aircraft was lifted off the ground by the violent thrust.

Retract the wheel assembly and adjust the wing deployment.

A silver-gray figure plunged into the low-lying clouds, leaving behind a shockwave of white air.

Then it climbs while creating a sonic boom cloud.

Once the air thinned slightly, Miao Xin immediately pushed the speed up to Mach 3.

Ling Wen and her team are still working hard to find out Xiyu's exact location and transportation routes to Qing City.

Among them, expressways are a key focus.

However, the general location is certain.

Miao Xin looked at the huge storm cluster on the radar image.

He manipulated "Yinglong" and plunged headlong into it.

****

The car that Xiyu was in slowed down.

"How?"

Xiyu's tone was extremely dissatisfied.

The driver, however, was looking at the navigation system with a trembling gaze.

Fifteen minutes ago, the navigation suddenly jumped, indicating that the road ahead was closed due to typhoon weather, and automatically provided an alternative route.

The driver didn't pay much attention.

He usually follows the navigation when driving.

But the more he drove, the more he felt something was wrong.

This road is gradually deviating from the Qing City that the "guests" are going to.

"No... it's nothing," the driver quickly replied.

He didn't dare tell the truth at all, so he could only grit his teeth and continue driving.

But Xiyu still noticed something was wrong.

He looked out the window and saw that the vehicle was moving away from the direction of the thunderstorm.

"[Don't worry, sir. It's normal for humans to take detours on their paths," Lie'aonisi said.

"[It would be better if we just flew back and forth in a straight line.]" Xiyu said disdainfully.

He didn't actually get out of the car.

The surrounding terrain is open, with very little cover.

Lie'aonisi has already told him:

If this were done, a humanoid, high-speed flying object would appear on human air traffic control radar.

It will quickly attract a crowd of onlookers.

But after a while, even Lie'aonisi sensed something was wrong.

[Sir, aren't there too few cars around?]

On the highway, the once dense traffic has thinned out.

There wasn't a single car in the several hundred meters in front and behind.

The sound of wind seeped in through the cracks in the car window.

Dark clouds hung low in the distant sky, and lightning flashed deep within the clouds.

"No, we're being taken far away!" Xiyu shouted.

"It wasn't me!" the driver cried out in alarm. "I followed the navigation!"

His phone has been taken over by the technical department.

Lie'aonisi immediately realized the reason.

We've been discovered!

Xiyu was about to make a move.

The next moment, he suddenly looked up.

I sensed that a dark cluster of energy was approaching at an alarming speed.

"Broken Wing!"

Before the words were finished, a silver-gray machine suddenly emerged from behind a small hill in the distance.

"Yinglong" flew over swiftly.

The two auxiliary fuel tanks were jettisoned simultaneously, tumbling backwards to the left and right in the gale, crashing into the wilderness.

The mech's weight decreased sharply, and its thrust-to-weight ratio increased again.

Miao Xin lowered the aircraft's altitude, skimming almost touching the ground.

The bushes on both sides of the highway were flattened by the blast wave, and the guardrails rattled with a series of piercing metallic clangs.

The next moment, Yinglong swept across the airspace above the highway.

The fore wing is depressed.

It sped past over the car.

The swirling gusts of wind easily overturned the car, and the entire vehicle was thrown off the road like a cardboard box.

Everything seemed to slow down.

Measured in milliseconds, the mech's silhouette moved forward segment by segment.

Glass shards hung in mid-air.

The car body rotates.

The driver's terrified face was swallowed by the airbag.

Xiyu tore open the car door with a single claw, his figure blurring as he tried to escape from the tumbling vehicle.

Gotcha!

A spark ignited in Miao Xin's eyes.

Despite the illogical speed of the maneuver, the high-frequency oscillating blade already extended from the "Yinglong" robotic arm slightly deviated.

Blade did not chase the car.

Instead, they waited in advance at the spot where Xiyu had left.

It's like a hunter pointing his gun at the path his prey is bound to take.

Snap!

A crisp popping sound.

Xiyu rushed out of the car, he was caught in a high-speed horizontal slash.

A visible shockwave was seen as it passed through.

His figure flew far away, crashing into the embankment beside the highway, where Crushed Stone and soil exploded.

"Yinglong" swept past in a flash.

****

Miao Xin frowned slightly.

She made a very precise cut.

But Xiyu was too light.

After taking some of the impact, the enemy retreated, not actually absorbing much of the force.

There are also shields to block them.

These are high-level superhumans with absurd strength and relatively small individual size.

This is the most troublesome!

"Yinglong | Three pairs of adjustable wings quickly deploy, cutting through the airflow."

The body was forcibly deflected.

At supersonic speeds, the silver-gray mech performs a turn with an ultra-small radius at thirty times the force of gravity.

Even the high-strength alloy wings emitted a teeth-grinding groan during this brutal maneuver.

Structural overload warning!

The risk of aerodynamic instability has increased!

"It's a super typhoon now!"

On the communication channel, Jisu's voice had changed.

"Don't fly so violently!"

The current wind speed has exceeded 50 meters per second.

As a super typhoon, "Lupit" carried atmospheric kinetic energy equivalent to up to one billion tons of TNT.

This belongs to the great power of nature.

Even nuclear weapons can only stand aside and sigh.

On weather maps, those seemingly beautiful giant cyclones are extreme manifestations of the energy released by the Earth's atmosphere.

But Miao Xin ignored it all.

She pushed the machine to its limits, squeezing out every last bit of performance.

The system warnings were not turned off, and various red data were allowed to flood the screen.

Let's just treat it as a dashboard for now!

Peak acceleration reached 32.3G.

At supersonic speeds, the "Yinglong" completed a 180-degree turn in just over four seconds.

Jisu gasped.

He finally realized that during the "Yinglong" test, Miao Xin's manipulations that almost gave everyone a stroke were actually kept under wraps!

****

On the embankment, a figure burst out from the swirling mud.

Xiyu's disguise was completely torn apart, revealing a layer of cold-cast armor that shimmered with fine silver light.

"Dust Serpent Mithril Armor"

Although it is far smaller than the "Dust Serpent Heavy Armor" of the Miasma Throat, the strength and materials used in this armor far surpass it.

Xiyu wings, and cyan Magic Power spread throughout her body.

He leaped off the roadbed, skimming along the undulating terrain, and sped towards Qing City.

"Yinglong" quickly caught up.

The mech lowered its six-barreled 30mm cannon, a flash of muzzle flash, and a barrage of bullets rained down.

The tracer rays stretched into bright, straight lines in the rain.

Xiyu left and right, his body swaying back and forth, trying to slip through the gaps in the hail of bullets.

But the amount of ammunition was simply too large.

Ding ding ding ding!

He was hit several times quickly.

The Mithril patterns on the armor surface flashed continuously, and several dazzling sparks exploded at the point of impact, Xiyu's figure to sway.

This won't do!

Xiyu cold, and he suddenly leaped up from the ground, soaring directly into the sky.

His speed exploded in an instant, and he actually tore the air apart with his bare body.

A clear sonic boom cloud ring erupted behind them.

"Yinglong" took the initiative and bit down firmly.

The same sound exploded.

****

Below, the mountains and roads were swallowed up by the rain.

In the distance, a wall of leaden-gray clouds surged like a sea.

The Winged Feather Race moved forward, their wings swirling with azure light, appearing and disappearing in the gale.

"Yinglong is like a steel spear drawn from its sheath, its turbofan engine spewing out blazing white flames, firmly attached to the rear."

Scattered flashes of lightning occasionally streaked across the surroundings.

Long, bright silver snakes illuminated the gloomy sky, turning it deathly white for a fleeting moment.

Hundreds of wind blades were unleashed from Xiyu's hand, striking the "Yinglong" behind him.

The latter executed a swift barrel roll, causing all the wind blades to miss!

However, this is not entirely due to maneuverability and dodging.

Miao Xin unleashed the power of the Nether Sea to interfere with the trajectory of the wind blades.

Xiyu noticed something was wrong.

"The extraordinary power of the Broken Wing... it seems vaguely familiar," he murmured.

Miao Xin did not fire again.

Dense anti-aircraft weapons have advantages, but the power of a single projectile is too low.

Moreover, with supersonic firing, the projectile's kinetic energy will drop by at least one-third, or even half, upon impact.

However, it doesn't matter much.

Since the airborne weapons were ineffective, the surrounding clouds were suddenly pierced one after another.

Dozens of trails, accompanied by billowing white mist, suddenly descended from the sky.

The cloud curtain tore open, revealing a sharp, cone-shaped metal projectile that lunged towards Xiyu's location.

Xiyu suddenly changed, and his entire body was enveloped in a blue light.

The next moment, more than a dozen feathers flew off his body.

Each feather exploded in mid-air with a burst of lightning, then transformed into an illusion identical to him, scattering in all directions.

In an instant, the sky was Xiyu's figure.

The target quantity has increased from 1 to 17.

The infrared signatures are consistent.

The visible light pattern analysis is consistent.

Radar detection was obscured by lightning noise.

The primary target could not be identified.

Just as the intelligent system completed its assessment and was preparing to distribute the attack targets evenly,

The guiding beam fired by "Yinglong" precisely struck one of the figures.

Miao Xin's Nether Sea tentacles had already extended out, locking onto Xiyu body.

The next moment, all the missiles, like piranhas that had smelled blood, swarmed toward the real body!

Boom boom boom boom boom!!

The sound of explosions echoed continuously in the air.

Clusters of firelight ignited a layer of light in the gloomy sky.

As the explosion subsided, a slightly disheveled figure suddenly rushed out.

Xiyu was surrounded by a layer of emerald green wind-elemental protective aura, the edges of his wings were slightly charred, and his aura was clearly fluctuating.

Despite his efforts to change speed, the missiles would explode upon approach.

The Xiyu were covered by shockwaves and shrapnel.

Fortunately, Lie'aonisi knew the details of the principle and guided him to avoid the most damaging envelope.

But Xiyu hadn't even had a chance to rest for a while.

"Yinglong" stuck to me again like a piece of chewing gum that I couldn't shake off.