Chapter 315

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Chapter 315: The Captain’s Duty
Bai Chou?
Luo Yan suddenly looked out from the panoramic window, surrounded by mist, the mecha looming in the thick fog.
He looked around but couldn’t see ‘Eight Doors’ anywhere!
“Where did Bai Chou go?”
“Where did ‘Eight Doors’ go? How did it disappear in the blink of an eye?”
Voices of the team members came through on the radio channel.
Rings of firelight appeared in his red eyes. Luo Yan used ‘Unjustifiable Blaze Eyes’ to search, but he couldn’t see Bai Chou’s bio-luminescence within his sight.
Bai Chou wouldn’t have left without a word. Plus, the signal of ‘Eight Doors’ is no longer on the formation interface, indicating that the mecha has moved away from the team, causing the signal to disappear.
Thinking back, from encountering the giant beast to Bai Chou’s disappearance, it had only been a few short minutes.
In such a short time, unless ‘Eight Doors’ deliberately chose to move away from the team, the signal wouldn’t have been lost.
Could it be that something grabbed it?
When the idea crossed Luo Yan’s mind, he felt a stir, and something immediately drifted in front of his eyes.
He looked up and saw a black cloak floating down, with a white mask floating inside the hood of the cloak, making it seem like there was an invisible person holding the cloak up.
Mysterious, pure black!
Luo Yan quickly said, “Little White’s mysterious appearance is in my cockpit.”
Then he saw the ‘pure black’ cloak rising, outlining the shape of an arm, pointing in a direction outside of the mecha.
Luo Yan paused for a moment, then asked, “Is Bai Chou in that direction?”
The white mask floating above the hood of ‘pure black’ seemed to nod.
Luo Yan decisively stated, “Pure black is indicating Little White’s location, I must go find her.”
Bai Chou saved herself, now she’s mysteriously missing, Luo Yan can’t just sit idly by.
Yan Wenbo was still indecisive.
Di Zheng had made up his mind, “Let’s go together.”
Then, he explained the situation on the public channel.
When he heard that the Guangling Legion was going to rescue the missing team members, Vice Captain Lu Shihan of the Changping Army Group said, “Captain Di Zheng, I understand how you feel.”
“But it’s getting late now, and the Forbidden Area is even more dangerous at night.”
“We still need to search for Colonel Liang Jiansenior and find the location of the Forbidden Area owner.”
“I think actively searching for a missing team member right now might be putting the cart before the horse.”
Listening to the voice coming from the public channel, Luo Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Then, they heard Di Zheng speak.
“I don’t think so.”
“As the captain, I have a duty to ensure the safety of each team member.”
“Besides, I promised at the beginning that I would bring them all back safely.”
“If this team member had unfortunately perished, it would be one thing, but since she is still alive, I will not give up on her!”
Lu Shihan remained silent for a moment, then said, “Alright then, let’s split up.”
“We will continue to venture deeper into the forbidden area, searching for the master of the forbidden land.”
“Once you locate the team member, please reunite with our team as soon as possible.”
With this decision made, the two squads set off in different directions.
Guided by ‘Black Nothingness’, Luo Yan led the way ahead, running through the mist.
Other mechas followed, quickly disappearing from the view of the Changping Army Group.
At the same time.
Somewhere in the forbidden land.
The Demon Mecha ‘Eight Doors’, resembling a white dog, was scrabbling with its four claws on the ground, but seemed to be pulled by an invisible rope, sliding continuously on the earth towards the depths of the forbidden land.
Earlier when encountering a giant beast suddenly, ‘Eight Doors’ also joined the battle, but was taken away by an invisible force during the fight.
Due to the sudden event, Bai Chou didn’t even have time to ask for help from her teammates before being dragged away from the group.
It was only when ‘Eight Doors’ barely resisted that force, Bai Chou could release ‘Black Nothingness’ to seek help.
Inside the cockpit.
The girl inside the helmet couldn’t help but smile awkwardly.
“I must hold on.”
“Hold on until Classmate Luo and the others arrive.”
She struggled to control the Mecha and the invisible force, but the force grew stronger. The ‘Eight Doors’ hind legs were already off the ground, looking like they could be dragged away at any moment.
“No, I can’t do it.”
“I can’t hold on any longer.”
Bai Chou tried to stay calm and find a solution.
Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck her.
The next moment, illusionary walls rose up from the ground, encasing the Demon Mecha ‘Eight Doors’ one after another.
Four walls rose up, forming a big room, then a roof and a front door appeared.
Under the eaves, big red lanterns hung on both sides of the door, and a pair of Spring Festival couplets appeared on the walls.
Shortly after, the house lifted off the ground, and legs appeared below the big house, as if giant legs were holding up the house.
Mysterious, A’fang!
As this mysterious thing appeared, the mecha protected by ‘A’fang’ finally broke free from that invisible force.
Bai Chou let out a sigh of relief.
Xuanji gave a bitter smile.
“Although A’fang has temporarily kept me safe, this means that Hei Wu can no longer guide Classmate Luo.”
“However…”
“The darkness can’t guide us anymore, but I can go meet up with everyone else!”
In an instant, the large house with lanterns hanging and spring couplets pasted on it, and countless legs at the bottom, swiftly entered the thick fog with Bai Chou.
From deep within the thick fog, there suddenly came an angry roar.
After a moment, a sharp sound suddenly rang out from the thick fog, followed by a missile breaking through the mist, revealing itself.
The missile hit A’fang in an instant, causing a huge orange fireball to explode, the shockwave causing the surrounding fog to surge and reveal a desolate land.
A’fang was knocked down to the ground, with the mecha inside staggering unsteadily.
Bai Chou was shaken and dizzy, and after a while, she saw mecha walking out from the thick fog outside.
At first, she thought it was a mecha from the Guangling Legion, but as soon as the two mechas completely emerged from the mist, Bai Chou was sure that these were not reinforcements from the Guangling Legion.
These two mechas had multiple damages, parts of their outer armor were worn and rusted.
The machine was covered in vines and leaves, and its energy furnace couldn’t work anymore. Despite that, it could still move somehow.
The movements of these two mechas were stiff and strange, making Bai Chou feel very awkward. It didn’t look like they were being controlled by a pilot, but more like puppets controlled by invisible strings.
Suddenly, the two mechas attacked A’fang in a strange manner.
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“Black Shadow… has disappeared.”
In the cockpit of ‘White Dragon’, Luo Yan looked around and confirmed that the mysterious ‘Black Shadow’ had vanished.
He felt instantly heavy-hearted.
The darkness suddenly disappeared, and Luo Yan could only think of two possibilities.
One possibility is that Bai Chou encountered enemies and needed to use other strange powers, so she had to release control over ‘the darkness’.
As for the second possibility, Luo Yan didn’t want to think about it.
But now there was a problem – without the darkness to guide him, how could he find Bai Chou?
Just then, there was a faint sound of an explosion coming from a distance.
Although the thick fog blocked their view, it couldn’t stop the sound from spreading.
Upon hearing the explosion, Luo Yan immediately locked onto the direction and looked through his ‘Unjustifiable Blaze Eyes’.
The world turned into a simple sketch in his eyes, and within that sketch, Luo Yan saw a small glimmer of light from a tiny creature, and above that light were thin but colorful lines of information.