Chapter 492: Attack and Defense

"What did the Legion say?"

In the headquarters, the fourth-level mechanic in charge of this command, a tall woman with short red hair, slightly red skin, and pointed ears, asked the subordinate who was responsible for contacting the superior.

The subordinate replied:

"The defense corps has already rushed here, and the estimated time is eight minutes."

"Eight minutes..."

Anya calculated the time, looked at the obviously abnormal number of mechanical beasts in the periphery, and took a deep breath:

"Then hold on for another eight minutes. If necessary, you can activate the Sky Sword system and carry out a large-scale attack on the periphery."

"Really...really do this? There are still many mineral veins in the periphery..."

"If you don't do this, people will really die this time."

Anya exhaled slowly, with a helpless tone.

The Wuling government certainly knew that there were mechanical beasts rampant on the mining planet, and they certainly investigated it, trying to find the source of the mechanical beasts, the mechanical factory that was unknown where it existed.

However, it had little effect.

After much effort, there was no gain. In addition, the strength of these mechanical beasts was not very strong. They were only level 2 or 3 at most, and there was not even a level 4 individual.

So the Wuling government decided to temporarily ignore the matter of the mining star. They turned the mining star into the trial field of the academy star. The students of the mechanic and mecha academy, or other academy students with combat capabilities, could accept tasks through the academy channels to earn credits.

This is how it has been for the past few years. Every time it is time to transport minerals, the mining star will send tasks to the academy star, and the students of the academy star will come here to provide support.

These supporters are temporary mercenaries, and since they are soldiers, they must obey the orders of the local commander.

But at the same time, the commander is also responsible for protecting the safety of these students. If the students have an accident, the commander will bear part of the responsibility.

This part of the responsibility will be cancelled or increased depending on the situation, so the local commander Anya is so concerned about the lives of these students.

In fact, this task was not difficult. At least based on past experience, the mechanical beast tide can be easily repelled, and most of the time they can't even get close to the outer defense barrier.

However, there was something wrong with the beast tides in recent times.

Not only are there more mechanical beasts than usual, but the rare third-level individuals also appear frequently. The outer barrier was torn apart by the tide of mechanical beasts last time.

If the transport ship had not been loaded and flown into the air, attracting the attention of most mechanical beasts, I am afraid that everyone would have suffered heavy losses that time.

This time it was even more excessive. There were still twelve minutes before the loading was completed, and the mechanical beasts had already rushed into the barrier.

At this speed, it would be good if the second layer of barrier could hold up until the defense team arrived.

So in order to avoid any accidents, Anya decided to activate the Sky Sword system, that is, the anti-ground weapons on the interstellar battleship on standby outside the mining planet.

Regardless of whether the outer mineral veins are damaged, the most important thing is to save the lives of these students.

God knows whether there will be powerful and powerful disciples among these students. Anya is just an ordinary mechanic, an ordinary lieutenant stationed on the star, and does not want to offend anyone here.

Thinking of this, Anya shouted in the communication system:

"All mechanics, retreat to the second-layer barrier, all mecha masters, do not retreat before the mecha is damaged!"

Before reaching the fifth level, the mechanics' bodies are quite fragile, not as good as mecha masters. Besides, they are standing outside in the flesh. Once an accident happens, it is difficult to escape from the scene, so they need to retreat first.

Mecha masters are different. First of all, they have outer mechas to protect them, and secondly, there are transfer devices in the mecha cabins.

Through the transfer platform set up inside the base, they can be detached from the mecha and transferred back to a safe area in an emergency.

That's why Anya gave such an order.

After doing everything, Anya had put the Tianjian system on the spacecraft on standby, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

If she found that she couldn't defend it, she would let the spacecraft launch an attack on the ground. With the power of the Tianjian series of weapons on the spacecraft, it would only take two shots to clear a large area.

At that time, the front-line students will be able to reduce the pressure and gradually advance outward.

Then wait until the defense corps arrives, and her work will be over.

Anya didn't think that destroying the outer mines was a loss, and even if it was a loss, it couldn't be blamed on her.

After the first beast tide was wrong, she asked her superiors for help, but the answer given by her superiors was that everything would remain the same, and at most they would give a little more military funds to hire students at the academy.

After that, Anya reported to her superiors twice, and the results were the same.

So if something really happened, Anya, who had reported these times, would not be guilty, but the crime would not be too serious.

As long as there were no accidents next.

"No... It's bad, sir! A mecha master rushed out!!"

"What?!"

Anya, who had just relaxed, heard the sudden report from her subordinates and immediately looked outside with wide eyes.

Sure enough, a silver-gray standard mecha flew into the air through the tail jet system and ran straight to the back of the mechanical beast.

Seeing this, Anya immediately ordered:

"B12! Stop and return immediately!! This is an order!!"

"Commander, I found a special individual..."

A calm voice came from the communication. Anya looked at the pilot of the B12 mecha, named Milia, and the half-human, half-machine figure appeared in her mind. She immediately understood what had happened:

"What special individual? Stop and report first!"

"At the end of the mechanical beast tide, there seems to be a 'beast king'."

"Beast king??"

Hearing Milia's report, Anya's first reaction was disbelief.

But out of caution, Anya still infinitely magnified the dense beast tide like black water, and actually found a very special individual at the end of the beast tide!

It was a special mechanical beast that was slightly larger than the surrounding mechanical beasts and covered with some bionic skin.

Different from the mechanical beasts that kept emerging from the ground, it was the only one that did not charge with the beast group, but just flashed its red eyes and stared at the mine base covered by the barrier in the distance.

After confirming this special individual, Anya's heart sank.

She said to Milia:

"B12, come back! I will activate the Sky Sword system to carry out air strikes on the target. You don't need to carry out a decapitation operation. In addition, next time you find anything, you must report to the command post first. Do you understand!"

"..." There was a few seconds of silence in the communication system, and then Milia's response came: "...Yes, I know, commander."

The mecha that rushed out stayed in the air and returned to the inside of the barrier, and together with other mechas, it prevented the mechanical beasts from pouring into the base.

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Li Qi could also observe the movements of the mecha division.

Li Qi could also hear the voice of the commander coming from the communication.

That's why he was surprised why Milia did such an irrational thing.

Even if the students are not soldiers, they may not enter the army in the future. It is common sense that they do not need to obey the commander's orders.

But one thing is another. Since they came here and accepted the mission, they must obey the arrangements of their superiors. Otherwise, if anyone acts recklessly like Milia, there is no need to defend this base. Just give it up.

Squinting slightly, Li Qi took advantage of the idle time when the Sky Sword system was attacking the target in the distance, switched the communication to the internal communication of the team, and asked Milia:

"What's the situation?"

"It's just that a special individual was found..."

"Do you think I'm stupid, classmate Milia?"

Li Qi said in a cold voice: "If you don't explain the real reason why you rushed out, then after this mission, our team can be disbanded."

Li Qi can allow people with personality to appear in the team, but he will never allow uncontrolled people to appear in the team.

Milia rushed out for no reason, it's okay, but before rushing out, she must at least explain the reason.

Even if there is no explanation before, the situation must be explained later.

Otherwise, if Milia's impulse offends someone, the consequences will be paid by the entire team!

"..." There was silence on the other end of the communication for a long time, and then Milia's voice came: "... Sorry, I... I didn't control myself just now, I will explain later."

"Okay."

Li Qi responded indifferently.

He didn't insist on asking the question clearly at this time. This is a battlefield, and the crisis may come at any time. Instead of wasting time here, it is better to kill more mechanical beasts.

Moreover, he really didn't have time to ask these.

Because there was a new change in the mechanical beast group.

Milia found a special individual and reported it to the upper level, and then Anya arranged the outer Tianjian series of weapons to carry out air strikes on the special individual.

There was nothing wrong with this process.

But when the laser like a sharp sword fell straight from the space, the mechanical beast group had a new change.

They seemed to have self-awareness, and they gathered towards the special individual and kept climbing up to form a hill formed by mechanical beasts stacked together!

Then on the hill, a light blue light curtain covered from top to bottom to the bottom.

That is, the next second after the barrier appeared, the white laser cannon fell on their heads with a bang!

The laser cannon is extremely powerful. If it can hit the ground normally, the aftermath alone can destroy a large group of mechanical beasts.

What's more, this laser can also draw a pattern on the ground with fine-tuning. With just a light sweep, half of the mechanical beasts will die instantly.

If this is true, the pressure on the battlefield will be reduced suddenly, and everyone can at least hold on for a few more minutes.

However, now this naval gun, which is a big killer, is blocked by the barrier of the mechanical beasts!

The barrier shattered layer by layer, and those mechanical beasts died in batches, but until the laser cannon disappeared, the laser cannon had not destroyed the special individual locked by the naval gun.

"Not good!"

Seeing this, Li Qi secretly said that it was not good.

Judging from the behavior of the mechanical beasts, they obviously have a real "leader". If that special individual is the "leader", then the behavior of the human side is undoubtedly completely angered them!

It can be predicted that their next attack will be even crazier!

Li Qi's guess unfortunately came true.

Just as he finished his thought, he saw all the mechanical beasts on the battlefield strangely stagnated for a moment.

Then... they rushed madly towards the nearby mechanics and mecha masters, launching a suicidal attack!