rumbling...

The speeding mechanical foot stepped on the frozen soil, and the gravel along the way shook.

The mech troopers were galloping across the mountains, and the blue-black shock and the dark blue vicious shark formed an advancing formation, raising smoke and dust all the way.

"—All, stop marching!!"

Without warning, Lieutenant Colonel Huolin's roar suddenly came from the communication channels of each mecha, echoing like thunder.

The soldiers of Yin Beidou didn't know what happened. They only knew that this was a dangerous and urgent mission, and they were still far away from the target location. Logically speaking, they wouldn't stop so abruptly.

However, this does not prevent them from obeying orders.

Crash!

The five hundred mechas all stopped within three seconds.

In the cockpit of the mech L-Evil Shark, cold sweat rolled down the bridge of Huo Lin's nose.

The message from the stronghold flickered on the screen, icing him from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

The lieutenant colonel raised his head stiffly, and in front of him were two high and steep cliffs... At this moment, when the major general's instructions arrived, the front team of the 500-man rescue team had already entered the valley, and the rear team was outside the valley.

——One of their feet has already stepped into the enemy's trap, and it is very close!

The next second, Huo Lin yelled sharply: "Fortress order: urgent military situation, the whole team is withdrawn!"

"Listen to my instructions now. All mechs turn around, the rear team becomes the front team, exit the valley at full speed according to the original route, and form a team outside the valley!!"

In the valley, the air suddenly became tense.

Crash... Creak... A large number of mechs turned around, and the soldiers heard a hint of ominousness from the tone of the officer, and gradually became short of breath.

The tail team first started running at full speed, followed by hundreds of mechas, and retreated to the open area outside the valley!

"Lieutenant Colonel, look at the sky!" Raymond suddenly shouted in shock.

Huo Lin turned his head to look, and cursed on the spot.

On the other side of the thick sky, there are dense black spots zooming in. What is it if it is not the mecha of lava Space Pirates?

Yin Beidou had already sensed their ambush, and was going to put it on ordinary people. When he found that the plan had failed, he might have given up.However, this group of space thieves are undoubtedly desperate lunatics, and they rushed straight down like this, ready to fight a tough battle!

"Lava gang of thieves who don't remember to fight!"

Raymond hammered the console bitterly, "Lieutenant Colonel, the number of enemy troops is not much larger than ours, let's fight."

"Shut up," Huo Lin steered the Mecha Vicious Shark to turn, and roared into the channel, "Retreat while fighting, get out of the valley for me!

Go out and fight again!!"

Before the words fell, there was a strange noise from the exit of the valley.

"Roar……"

Immediately afterwards, the roar of the wild beast resounded through the world, deafening!

"Alien...alien creature!?"

Someone exclaimed: "How is it possible, where did they come from, why didn't the mecha detection system respond?"

I saw a few black shadows climbing down from the cliffs on both sides of the valley mouth. It turned out to be a black-haired ape taller than a large mecha, with ferocious fangs growing in its mouth, and its thick arms were almost completely covered by crystals.

Their eyes were bare, and they leaped off the cliff at first glance, clenched their fists like human beings and swung at the mechas of Yinbeidou.

"Front, front confirmation! A-level alien creature, iron-armed mountain climbing ape, the number... six——uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

All of a sudden, the mecha wreckage and human flesh and blood flew across the sky, eyes covered with blood, and exclamations and screams came and went one after another!

The retreating mech troops were cut off by these black apes, about two-thirds were outside the valley, and one-third were still inside the valley.

"Damn it." Huo Lin stood up suddenly from the cockpit, his eyes were tearing apart, and his teeth were shaking.

A total of six A-level alien creatures are enough to make people fall into despair for ordinary silver Beidou soldiers.

Not to mention, Lava's mecha is already in sight.The space pirates began to fire and bombard indiscriminately, and the Yinbeidou soldiers were forced to fight, and the valley suddenly turned into a melee.

The 500 soldiers he brought this time were all elite soldiers from Yin Beidou.They can fight space pirates, or alien creatures, but...

But no one has ever faced the combination of space pirates' mechs and intelligent high-level alien creatures at the same time!

If you want to deal effective damage to alien creatures, you have to rush out of the cockpit to fight with crystal bones, but lava's mecha hovers high in the sky, ready to aim and shoot at any time; once you want to fight lava, the fists of the group of black apes are enoughSmash their mechs...

Lieutenant Colonel Huolin's eyes were red, and he made a decision within a few seconds.

"Don't be obsessed with fighting, rush over at full speed! No matter what, let me rush out of the valley alive, the major general's support army is already on the way, as long as I rush out, I can live!!"

"Those who have already evacuated, don't fucking turn back, run forward for me! - Run!!"

run!

With the order of the officer, countless blue-black shock guns soared into the sky, charged towards the tall alien creature against the lava fire.

A mecha carrying soldiers soared at full speed, from the armpits and crotches of the black apes, from their raised arms, from their raised thighs, and even from those ferocious fangs... from life to death.A thin line of death passed by!

"Wahhahaha, don't be a deserter, pussies of the empire! Come, fight with your grandpas!"

High in the sky, the space pirates burst into laughter while baring their gold-encrusted teeth.

Some people even opened the cockpit, stood on the mech's fuselage and danced, making provocative and insulting gestures.

"Boss, look, they're so frightened, they're running away before they fight! Hahahaha..."

Inside the bright red L-Hephaestus, Chilong snorted proudly, and lazily snapped his fingers: "It seems that the Yin Beidou is nothing more than that, what are you talking about the strongest army in the empire... Hey, cowards, don't you think so?"You are only the strongest in escaping?"

Countless Yin Beidou soldiers blushed with anger and stared wide-eyed.However, at the moment of the commander's retreat order, no one pays attention to the aggressive tactics of the space pirates.

As time goes by, as far as the eye can see, the mechas of Yin Beidou gradually decrease.Most of them successfully evacuated from this valley of death, while a few turned into broken copper and iron.

The sky brightened completely during the chaos, the shadows on the stone walls changed from long to short, and the valley was already a mess.

On the devastated battlefield, Lieutenant Colonel Huolin was still manipulating the mecha.

Raymond has been driven away by him in the name of military orders, and the lieutenant colonel is behind him, and he is covering the last silver Beidou soldiers to evacuate the valley.

When he opened the cockpit and jumped out, roaring and receiving the heavy blow from the black ape with his crystal bone, the wind in the valley blew the silver Beidou military uniform on the lieutenant colonel.

The wind brings the smell of blood, which is the smell of the battlefield.

How long has he not smelled this smell?

It seems that it has been many, many years, and it seems that everything was just yesterday.

At that time, he was still known as an elite, a promising officer of the Yin Beidou, who took on the most dangerous advance missions.At that time, he was full of the smell of this battlefield, and he regarded it as his glory... until that day came.

boom!

Huo Lin's body hit the ground heavily, and he quickly got up after rolling twice to relieve his strength, turning his head with his face covered in blood.

Beside him was a brown-haired young man whose mech was damaged and collapsed to the ground in despair.

"Long...sir!" The brown-haired young man had tears in his eyes.

Hollin recognized the little guy he had brought three years ago, and grinned with blood between his teeth.

Immediately afterwards, he yelled up his head and covered his face: "Bai has taught you for a year to pack things! Get up for me, and go open my mecha!"

The young man quickly got up and rushed towards the mecha.Huo Lin didn't look back, he stared straight at the huge black ape in front of him, sweat mixed with blood, dripping down his temples.

The black ape has a pair of sunken eye sockets. It turned its huge body, and the eyeballs in the eye sockets seemed to be condescendingly staring at the lieutenant colonel.

This small, stupid, human being who came to die.

The sunlight was blocked for a moment.

It was the black ape who raised his arms high, and the crystal bones on his arms flickered.

Huo Lin squinted his eyes in the dazzling reflection of the crystal bone, and suddenly remembered that day of that year again.

The day when all but his advance party was wiped out.

In the already mottled memories, when it was time to eat lunch, the long-haired girl in the team once smiled heartily and praised the rare good weather.

That day, this cruel sky—

It is as clean and blue as newly washed glass.

Just like today.

The crystal bone climbed up the lieutenant colonel's face all the way, Huo Lin let out a sharp cry, and released a long knife-like crystal bone from behind.

With an indomitable momentum, he rushed towards the huge black ape several times taller than himself.

With the loud bang of the sky and the earth, a few drops of blood flew to the white clouds.

In the sky, Mecha S-Snow Dove flew across the blue.

The snow dove was already covered with blood. Garcia half-kneeled on one knee on the fuselage and panted lightly. The crystal bone dragged behind him, also dripping with blood.

They forcibly broke through from that snow-capped mountain all the way. During the battle, His Royal Highness basically relied on His Royal Highness to kill the Quartet alone, and Jiang Jianming was in charge of the machine armor and assistance.

Fortunately, most of Lava's mechas have been withdrawn, and the highly intelligent alien creatures are nowhere to be seen. What needs to be dealt with is only ordinary wild alien creatures, and the pressure has been greatly relieved.

Jiang Jianming nestled in the driver's seat, pressing his hands on the console, and asked the mechanical claw to hold the energy water for him to drink.

After feeling that his physical strength had recovered a little, he turned his face to the outside and asked, "Your Highness? Can you still hold on?"

Garcia raised his head, but said indifferently: "I should ask you this question."

After the continuous fierce battle from yesterday to this morning, there was no sign of tiredness on his brows.

"No, I feel much better than yesterday." Jiang Jianming sat up straight and looked at Garcia suspiciously. "Your Highness, last night... did you give me more than one shot of tranquilizer?"

"..."

Garcia was silent for a moment, and said nonchalantly, "How much do you know about lava space pirates?"

— This man changed the subject!

Jiang Jianming's heart trembled, and he thought in despair: How many sedatives do he have left?

But now is really not the time to pursue this, so he can only swallow his anxiety and answer Garcia's question.

"Probably...a little bit more knowledge than the textbook knowledge of the military academy and the knowledge that can be read in the books on the bright side of the empire."

Garcia: "Their armor configuration, combat style?"

Jiang Jianming: "There are a few, you don't have to worry."

In a few words, the valley was already in sight.

Jiang Jianming stared intently at the screen of the mech, zoomed in on the image, and scanned it quickly...

There are collapsing rocks, smoking scorched earth, the remains of mechs, and even human limbs and pools of blood, but there are no people.

Jiang Jianming adjusted his breathing and summed up succinctly: "There was a scuffle, but now everyone seems to have evacuated. There is no trace of crystal chaos breaking out, and the worst situation should at least be avoided."

Garcia: "Go forward for a while."

Needless to say, Jiang Jianming has already pushed the joystick forward.Snowdove kept flying straight at full speed, and the rock walls on both sides of the valley turned into afterimages and were thrown behind the mecha.

Until the scenery in front of me changed.

First, Lava's eye-catching mecha group appeared at low altitude; then, the figure of black ape appeared on the ground, unexpectedly not much slower than the mecha.

The last ones to be recognized were the silver Beidou mechas flying further ahead in a flying state.

Sure enough, this battle is not over yet!

Jiang Jianming's expression turned serious, and he quickly said: "The battle is still going on, and Yin Beidou is retreating while fighting... Confirm that there are six lava mechs and ape-like alien creatures. If I remember correctly, it should be A-levelthe iron-armed mountain-climbing ape."

"Very well, the mecha landed."

Garcia stood up unhurriedly, raised his hand and tightened the headband that bound his long hair, and stretched the red gold crystal bone behind his back again.

He said in a deep voice, "I'll solve it."

the smell of blood...

The smell of the battlefield lingers in the nose.

"Sir..."

"Lieutenant Colonel Huolin...!"

At the same time, there was an ethereal voice ringing in my ears.

With a hoarse cry, like mourning, it was extremely noisy.

Lieutenant Colonel Huolin opened his eyes with difficulty, and he saw white clouds floating above his head unhurriedly.

Moving his eyes down, he saw the mecha mechanical arm holding him, and the brown-haired young man in the cockpit with snot and tears all over his face.

Oh, the culprit of that loud noise just now.

This silly boy actually tried his best to bring him out.

Huo Lin sneered from the bottom of his heart, and his gaze, which had been as hard as iron for many years, continued to look down on his broken, bloody chest and abdomen...

Obviously anyone who is not blind can see that this kind of injury is beyond recovery.

"Little bunny, don't cry."

Then the lieutenant colonel sighed hoarsely.

Huo Lin's expression and tone of voice were unusually peaceful, even a little gentle.

He just murmured quietly: "In Yin Beidou... on the battlefield... people have to go through this kind of experience."

Either witness death, or usher in death.

Either become the person who pays homage to the heroic soul, or become the one who is sacrificed, and leave his name on the heroic monument underground in the fortress.

The brown-haired young man was crying even harder, muttering a series of words, but Hollin's ears were buzzing, and he couldn't catch a word.

"Death is not scary, little bastard..." The lieutenant colonel sighed wearily, vacating his gaze, "Don't be like me...so cowardly."

After that incident, because he no longer wanted to be the only survivor, he turned away from the cruel battlefield and became an instructor for officers in the adaptation period.

Year after year, he taught those little guys the knowledge to live in the distant interstellar, hoping that there would be fewer names engraved on the heroic monument in the future, and a little less.

He thought that he would work like this until his gray hair was gray, and decades later, he was still on crutches and yelling at a group of recruits.

Unexpectedly, fate is so fond of jokes, and in the end he will die on the real battlefield as an officer leading the troops.

The lieutenant colonel raised his head peacefully, feeling the passing of life.

Suddenly, a white flower seemed to bloom out of his dim eyes.There is a touch of whiteness reflected in the blue sky, and it is getting closer.

Is it snow?

No, the storm has stopped.

Is it a white dove?

No, there would not be such a weak and beautiful existence in the war-torn interstellar world.

Mecha S-Snow Dove flew across the sky full of gunfire, it flew so high and so fast; it was like a sharp sword piercing the clouds and wind, its beautiful fuselage was bathed in the dawn.

Lieutenant Colonel Holling's eyes widened slightly.

...Later, he led year after year of adaptation officers, those brats, those young students who could only talk on paper...

With a glance, he can see what kind of height each person can reach in the future.

Only this little bastard, he couldn't see through.

He didn't know how high this cripple could fly, how far he could go, and whether the final ending would be a dismal end, or open up new glory for the empire.

But now, the boy has flown higher than him, and his path will be longer than his.

The brown-haired young man in the mech hadn't cried enough, Huo Lin interrupted the crying impatiently: "Okay, wipe away the tears."

"You...cough, come and see."

The lieutenant colonel raised his arm, the blood flowed from the rough palm, and pointed his index finger at the rapidly approaching mech in the sky.

The lieutenant colonel narrowed his eyes, the corners of which seemed to be bent, and said in a hoarse voice, "You... look, that's the little bastard I brought too..."

Then keep flying, the colonel thought.

Go higher than this cruel sky.

"He's a...very talented...handicapped human being."

Huo Lin slowly closed his eyes, let out a breath, and muttered: "Let the fortress... take care of him."

The sound dissipated in the wind.

Huo Lin closed his eyes, his bloody chest stopped heaving.

In the distance, Raymond was manipulating the mecha, roaring and rushing over.

"Lieutenant Colonel!!!"

Raymond burst into tears, but in the next second he hit the vicious shark with the mechanical arm of the mecha.

He shouted hoarsely at the young man in the cockpit who was ashen ashes and with dull eyes: "Wake up, don't cry—the battle is not over yet!"

In the next second, the shadow above the head shrouded...

With the mechanical arm protecting one more person, and the driver's emotional breakdown, the mecha's progress was inevitably slow, and it fell at the end of the queue.

A black ape has already chased after it, and raised its arms covered with crystal bones towards the two mechas of Raymond and the brown-haired young man!

And the direction of the wind changed subtly at this moment.

High in the sky, Mecha S-Snow Dove flashed past.The wings of the plane reflected the sun's rays, casting white light on the upturned faces of Raymond and the brown-haired young man.

At the front of the mech, stood a slender figure.

In an instant, the figure leaped down from this small and exquisite mecha, and fell towards the top of the black ape's head. The platinum curly hair was more dazzling than the sunlight.

Raymond exclaimed: "His Royal Highness!?"

Garcia, who was falling rapidly, looked like ice, and there was no emotion in Jade's eyes.

He stretched his arms against the strong wind and opened his right hand. Each finger was slender and white, like a work of art displayed in the palace.

However, when the huge crystal bones grow from the shoulders and cover the fingers layer by layer, the artwork becomes the most powerful weapon in the world, which should be indestructible and invincible.

When the black ape raised its head and screamed, the prince also swung his fist in awe.The crystal bone on his arm suddenly stretched to the height of a person, and it was smashed down by the wind——

The human's crystal bone and the arm of the A-level alien creature punched each other head-on!

boom!!

The earth trembled, and blood rained violently.

The black ape screamed and fell backwards. Its raised right arm exploded from the fist, exploding a series of brilliant red fireworks.