Martial arts have become extinct worldwide, yet I am forced to have a large family.

Deep within the fissure.

"Orange! Are you alright?"

Guo Jingyi sat in the cockpit, panting heavily.

Her mech knelt on the ground, her right arm embracing another mech that had collapsed in the rubble.

The condition of that mech was appalling.

The left arm was completely severed at the shoulder joint, the metal fracture surface was jagged, and electric sparks crackled and sputtered outwards.

A tear was made in the chest armor, exposing the energy core inside.

The core, which should have been shining brightly, has now completely dimmed.

"Sister Jingyi..."

Orange's voice came through the communication channel, barely audible.

"My mech won't move."

"The core is shattered too..."

She coughed twice, and blood foam seeped from the corner of her mouth.

Heavy footsteps sounded from the side.

The third mech stumbled over, its body covered in charred burn marks.

The driver inside is named Xiaochun.

"Don't worry about me, just go..." Orange cried out hoarsely, clutching her wound.

"What nonsense are you talking about! If we're going to leave, we'll all leave together!" Guo Jingyi finally couldn't hold back her tears, and they fell down in large drops.

She's kicking herself now.

Why did you secretly run away from your family in the first place?

Just to avoid that blind date?

If they hadn't been so willful, the three of them would never have encountered this danger.

If I had known it would end up like this, I would have been better off going on a blind date!

She originally thought that with the strength of the three sisters as third-level martial artists, they could easily defeat them.

As long as you don't do anything reckless, you will never encounter any danger.

But who could have imagined it?

Several strange people were hiding deep within this crevice!

Those creatures are not ordinary abyssal monsters at all.

Shot hard.

This pushed them to the brink of despair.

"Sister Jingyi..." Xiaochun squatted down:

"This place is safe for now. I just checked, and those monsters haven't followed us."

"I'll stay and take care of Orange."

"Go and get reinforcements."

"Why call for reinforcements?" Guo Jingyi's voice trembled. "This is deep within the rift! Besides the three of us, what normal person would come to such a godforsaken place?"

"But... if you stay, all three of us will die!"

Xiaochun's tears finally fell, but her tone became even harsher.

"Your mech is damaged, but the thrusters still work. As long as you return to the mid-range area at full speed, you'll definitely find someone!"

"Jingyi!" Chengzi spoke up, her voice soft, "You should leave now!"

Guo Jingyi stared intently at her two companions on the screen.

An internal struggle.

Staying behind is truly a death sentence.

Go out and look for people; there might still be a glimmer of hope.

Sisters, your lives are hanging by a thread, we can't hesitate any longer!

"You must hold on!"

"I swear—"

"I will definitely bring people back to rescue you!"

Guo Jingyi wiped her face, her voice hoarse.

She gave her two sisters a deep look.

The thruster emitted a blue-white exhaust plume.

The damaged mech wobbled as it rose into the air and flew at full speed in the direction it had come from.

It had only been flying for a few minutes...

"Bang!"

A dark red energy ball came hurtling from behind, grazing the mech's left shoulder.

Guo Jingyi's scalp tingled!

She saw two red dots rapidly approaching on the radar screen.

"Damn it! They've caught up!"

The second energy ball followed closely behind, and the mech somersaulted in the air, barely dodging it.

She didn't dare to turn around.

The thrusters maintained maximum power.

The mech raced wildly through the dark red mist, with alarms blaring wildly in the cockpit.

The pursuers behind were getting closer and closer.

Just when she was about to despair.

A thick blue beam of light suddenly appeared in the fog far ahead.

Those are laser cannons fired from the mechs!

"Very good!"

"There's someone ahead!"

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几分钟前。

"Well done!"

Yang Xian watched as the mechanical monster in front of him was blasted into pieces by the laser cannon and couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

The expression on his face was completely different from what it had been three days ago.

From initial resistance to this feminine mecha to now being completely enamored with it.

What does "it smells so good" mean? This is what "it smells so good" means!

In my past life, I could only fantasize in my dreams about piloting a robot and blowing up a building with a single shot.

In this lifetime, he actually achieved it.

"We've been traveling for three days and three nights now, and we're almost at the depths of this rift."

Yang Xian glanced at the monitoring data in the cockpit.

The energy concentration in the abyss is nearly five times higher than at the entrance.

"Is the abyssal power here concentrated enough? Can you help me refine the core now?"

Lin Ai thought for a while.

The concentration is sufficient, but to ensure a higher success rate, we should go a little deeper.

"Fine." Yang Xian shrugged indifferently.

"Anyway, I'm quite comfortable piloting this mech of yours, so there's no harm in piloting it a little longer."

"The acceleration, the power... it's really exhilarating!"

Honestly, I really didn't expect that a complete newbie like you, who has never even touched a mech before, could reach this level in just three days.

[The professionally trained drivers at Star Academy spend three months just on basic control training.]

【You, on the other hand, skipped this completely.】

Lin Ai's tone was tinged with surprise.

But what she didn't know was—

After that night, Yang Xian and Liu Ruyu rewarded him with a complete set of "mecha piloting experience".

Yang Xian further elevated it to the level of "comprehensive understanding".

It's like stuffing all the experience and muscle memory of a veteran driver into his brain.

So he is not a "quick learner".

He was self-taught.

But I can't say this to Lin Ai.

"I'm a genius, what's so strange about that?"

Yang Xian shrugged matter-of-factly, "Alright, full speed ahead!"

next second...

[Hiss—! Yang Xian!!]

Lin Ai's voice suddenly rose eight octaves.

"Be gentle! You'll break it—no, you'll break the mecha!"

"Sorry..." Yang Xian chuckled mischievously, "I forgot again that your sense of touch and the mecha are interconnected."

Are you doing this on purpose?!

"Absolutely not! I really forgot this time."

【You said the same thing last time! And the time before that! You've forgotten for three days!】

"That just means I have a bad memory."

【…】

Lin Ai was so angry she was speechless.

The thrusters continued to roar, and the white mech accelerated through the dark red sky, continuing its ascent deeper into the depths.

But soon, a fast-moving red dot suddenly appeared on the radar.

"Something's wrong! Something's up."

Yang Xian's expression instantly turned serious.

He raised the laser cannon and aimed it at the foremost mech.

Just then, a female voice, almost distorted, suddenly rang out on the public communication channel.

"Help!"

"That white mech in front of us! Kind person!"

"Please, please come and lend a hand!!"