Crossing to the Future, it's Not Easy to Be a Man Chapter 693

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

Seeing this, Yang Mingzhi immediately turned his mecha around. His beam gun pointed towards the tentacles and pulled down on the trigger with a great force. The barrel of gun suddenly had a bright yellow flower come out from its tip…

“One of the ace operator's sure-kill techniques, Blossoming Flas.h.!.+” Those who were familiar with gun techniques would definitely be excited if they saw this move. It was a sure-kill technique because once this skill was used, it would always produce some results.

“Bang!” A large explosive sound echoed. The ground shook from the shockwave of the blast, not to mention the surface of the lake as it created countless tidal waves. A few mechas that retreated a bit slower than the rest were even hit by waves. The surface of the sh.o.r.e was flooded and required a long time to return back to normal.

Just as it was about to explode, Yang Mingzhi quickly backed up ten meters. Although he had already put his beam s.h.i.+eld on the highest setting, the shockwave created by the explosion was still too much for him to handle. The beam s.h.i.+eld's energy levels were almost depleted and his mecha was losing energy as well. If someone were to attack him at this moment, it was possible that they would be able to by-pa.s.s the beam s.h.i.+eld and cause damage to the mecha itself.

Yang Mingzhi's move had its merits. Countless numbers of tentacles were blown off by the explosion. The explosion stopped the tentacles for a short while and averted the crisis the mecha operators were in.

The tentacle creature saw that its attack was unfruitful. Its patience was already running thin and now it was really angry.

“RAWR! A terrifying howl echoed from within the lake. Every mecha operator felt somewhat dizzy. Many of the mechas that were still in mid-air, began to lose control and fall towards the ground. However, these mecha operators were after all not second-rate mecha operators, their spiritual power levels were quite high. They quickly regained back their controls and immediately controlled their mechas.

The tentacle monster used sound waves to attack them. This attack was to incapacitate these mecha operators for a moment. That small window of time was enough for the monster to whip out more tentacles to attacks these bugs that had harmed it.

This tentacle monster was more intelligent than what they had come to have known. It instantly took away their opportunity to escape, created by Yang Mingzhi putting his life on the line. Right as they were about to wake up, they saw countless numbers of tentacles outside of their mechas. They knew they no longer had the chance to escape, thus they steeled their nerves and prepared to fight to their last breath.

It did not come to their mind that they would be caught in such a huge predicament within the field area. The mecha operators were no longer relaxed as they were in the beginning. They all had the realization that they needed to fight for their lives.

“Whirlwind Strike!”

“Multiple Point Strike!”

In the team, there were only three people who were not affected by the howl of the monster. They moved in together and attacked the tentacles once again. It was Luo Lang, Xie Yi and Li Lanfeng.

“RAWR!” The monster howled in pain. The entire surface of the lake began to rumble. A large circular shadow emerged from the lake along with the countless tentacles on its body. They began to wildly move about, causing the water to flood the sh.o.r.e again.

“As expected, it's a tentacle monster and it's a large one.” Seeing this, Yang Mingzhi and the others felt their nerves tingle.

With just a small part of the main body coming out from the lake, along with its tentacles, they instantly knew this monster was hard to deal with. The thickness of those tentacles were about the same size as their mechas. Moreover, it was definitely 10 times longer than their mechas. No wonder with them exploding, cutting them or slicing, they didn't do too much damage to the tentacles. Are they able to dispose of this large monster with the equipment and weapons they have on hand?

“Where is our regiment commander?” Yang Mingzhi asked worriedly.

“Don't worry, this little guy would be way over its head if it thinks it can take down our regiment commander.” Luo Lang's first response had a tone of looking down on the monster as if this large creature wasn't even a cause for concern.

Hearing this, Yang Mingzhi didn't know where Luo Lang's confidence came from, to trust the regiment commander's group of six to not have any problems in the lake. Even if it was Yang Mingzhi himself, he would not be much of a help and would just shudder at the sight of this large creature if he was in their regiment commander's position.

However, Yang Mingzhi didn't have the luxury nor the time to worry about others. The tentacle whipped towards them once again, complementing the sound wave attack that was coming towards them at the same time. An attack that was both physical and spiritual. This made Yang Mingzhi and the other mecha operators fall into another difficult battle.

“Luo Lang, Xie Yi, we can't keep attacking like this. We need to get closer to the main body.” Li Lanfeng battled with a tentacle for a while and finally found the time to communicate his plans with Luo Lang and Xie Yi.

Although Li Lanfeng's hands were already full with his own battle, he was also paying attention to everyone else. He discovered that Luo Lang and Xie Yi were also not affected by the spiritual attack.

Li Lanfeng was spectral ability user. Spectral ability users were also able to use spiritual power to attack. The only thing that could harm him spiritually was a spectral ability of the same level. This crude spiritual attack was of course not effective against him. As for Luo Lang and Xie Yi, Li Lanfeng determined that the reasons why they were not affected was because Luo Lang's innate talent and Xie Yi's dual personalities. Luo Lang was able to easily switch between his various personalities and with him being the primary personality, he definitely had the highest level of spiritual power to be able to control all of his personalities. For Xie Yi, after fusing his light and dark personalities, his spiritual power had grown stronger and was able to easily negate damage from crude spiritual attacks.

This was why Li Lanfeng shared his plans with Luo Lang and Xie Yi.

“Just say it, what should we do?” Luo Lang replied. Li Lanfeng was a strategist that even the Boss trusted, so he of course would trust in Li Lanfeng's plan.

“Xie Yi and I will create a path for you. You will then try to move closer to it. As for the main body's weakness… Xie Yi and I will try our best to give you one minute's worth of time.” Li Lanfeng looked at the main body in the lake. His eyes showed a hint of determination. He couldn't let Rabbit be disappointed in him.

“Understood!” Luo Lang shouted. Among the three of them, his close combat skills was the strongest which made him the most suitable to attack the main body. As for the other mecha operators, it was already good enough that they could endure the spiritual attack and stay alive. It would be a miracle if they could provide any help.

The three of them began to slowly change their positions and got closer to each other. Yang Mingzhi had noticed their weird movements. Although he didn't know what the three of them were doing, but he was sure that it was to attack the large monster. After blocking an incoming attack, he split a bit of his attention towards the three of them.

Finally, the three of them stood together in a triangular formation. Li Lanfeng suddenly shouted, “Xie Yi, coordinates (234,312), beam gun!”

Xie Yi raised his beam gun without hesitation and shot towards the coordinates Li Lanfeng had given him. This type of coordinate was only used inLingtian Battle Clan. Of course, now it had become a speciality for 250 Mecha Clan. Only they knew the coordinates and would cause the enemy to be confused(that was unless the enemy hacked into their communications channel).

The beam from both mechas. .h.i.t the same location at the same time. The power of the attack wasn't comparable to the power of one beam. It also wasn't simply just adding the power of of two beams, it increased exponentially when combined. Not long after, the tentacles in the path of the combined beam were vapourized.

Before Li Lanfeng could say anything, Luo Lang, who was already ready, shot out like a cannonball, following the beam Li Lanfeng and Xie Yi had shot. He went straight through the path the beam had created.

In actuality, all these steps were done instantaneously. When Li Lanfeng and Xie Yi's beam dispersed, Luo Lang had already arrived above the tentacle monster's main body. A brightly flas.h.i.+ng cold weapon was stabbed straight towards the circular main body without hesitation.

“Shu!” The large sword cut into the circular body for half a meter. A black liquid squirted out from the wound. It quickly changed the original clear blue water to pure black.

“RAWR!” The monster screeched, leaving everyone with headaches. Luckily the monster stopped attacking because it was under immense pain. The mecha operators weren't harmed physically, but everyone had cold sweat dripping down their foreheads from being afraid. If they were attacked when they didn't have their guard up, they would definitely be heavily wounded.

As expected, land clearing missions were the most dangerous type of missions within the military. They had only just arrived at the new planet and landed in the safest location. Even so, they still almost all perished.

After getting injured, the tentacle monster's entire circular body began to flop around. The tentacles that were originally attacking everyone, flailed towards Luo Lang, who was wrestling with the main body for the sword.

“Not good. Quickly everyone, attack the main body!” Yang Mingzhi saw this and knew something bad was going to happen and immediately gave an order.

Everyone knew Luo Lang was in danger. In that moment, they didn't care about preserving energy. The beams from their guns were shot out as if they were selling cabbages on the street.

The main body could no longer disregard the attack. It couldn't help but use a few of its tentacles to protect itself. This also showed the disadvantage of having such a large body. Without the agility to dodge these attacks, it could only use its tentacles to block.

Even then, one-third of the tentacles were still attacking Luo Lang. Luo Lang saw this and couldn't help but temporarily give up on the sword that was stuck in the main body and maneuvered his mecha to dodge the tentacle. Just like that, a mecha was dodging through the tentacles that were ten times taller than the mecha itself gracefully. This scene made the mecha operators on the sh.o.r.e watched anxiously. They were afraid that with one mistake, Luo Lang would be crushed by a tentacle and would perish.

At that moment, sweat poured down from Luo Lang's forehead like rain and his spirit was waning. The reason the mecha dodged so gracefully was because of his countless combination of controls. If one command was executed slower, he would meet his doom. In that situation, Luo Lang didn't think about anything else and only wanted dodge, dodge and dodge.

Suddenly, Luo Lang's finger slowed down and in turn Luo Lang's mecha slowed down. This sudden slowness was only for a blink of an eye, but as luck would have it, in this amount of time, Luo Lang lost the chance to dodge a cross chop attack from two tentacles.

The mecha operators on the sh.o.r.e watched in horror as their mouths were wide open with disbelief. Right at that moment, two whirlwinds came down from the sky. Just as the tentacles were about to hit Luo Lang, they were sent flying back by the whirlwinds.

“You guys are finally here. You guys are too slow,” Luo Lang said with discontent.

“Sorry, we wasted some time getting past the monster,” Xie Yi apologized sofly. The danger Luo Lang was in just now almost made Xie Yi's heart stop.

“Here!” Li Lanfeng suddenly took out a long and large sword that looked similar to a tangdao and pa.s.sed it to Luo.

Luo Lang caught it and took a look. He instantly shouted out, “Li Lanfeng, why is the Boss's Firmament with you?”

“Boss was afraid someone would lose their weapon, so he told me to bring it if by any chance that happened,” Li Lanfeng said coldly. Luo Lang didn't know what to say. He could only hold the Firmament and ruthlessly pounce towards the tentacle monster.

“Wuwuwu, I will wash away the disgrace!” Luo Lang thought frustratingly.

Li Lanfeng didn't care about how his conversation with Luo Lang may have harmed Luo Lang's pride. He and Xie Yi worked together and blocked all of the tentacles attacking Luo Lang. This made Luo Lang put all of his focus into attacking the circular main body.

The attack just now made them realized that the main body was not as tough as the tentacles. However, because it was so huge, one sword strike could not cause a fatal wound. They only hoped that the sharp Firmament could create a miracle.

Luo Lang's sword attack was even more ruthless than the last one because of the disgrace he had received. In other words, this strike Luo Lang made gave off a feeling that it was either his enemy dying or himself.

“Shu!” As expected, the Firmament was undoubtedly a very sharp and tough cold weapon. It easily cut open the main body. This time, it instantly cut through around two meters. Luo Lang's mecha also followed the sword's downwards momentum and dropped into the water, creating countless ripples.

“RAWR!” The tentacle monster gave off another screech of pain which stopped the attacks of the mecha operators on the sh.o.r.e again. Without having to defend against the attacks of the mecha operators from the sh.o.r.e, all of the tentacle began to attack Li Lanfeng and Xie Yi along with Luo Lang, who had not come out from the lake.

Li Lanfeng and Xie Yi used all their might to defend against the tentacles, but still couldn't defend against the tentacle monster's desperate attack and were both struck down into the lake. The tentacle monster's attacks didn't stop there. All of the tentacles that could still move split into three groups and ruthlessly pounced towards the three mechas that were struggling to get out of the water.

At that moment, one mecha suddenly appeared in the sky. The tentacle monster actually didn't notice this mecha because all of its attention were on the three in the lake.

That one mecha plummet straight down from the air. Quicker than words could say, the mecha instantly landed on the main body, then a beam gun was ruthlessly stabbed into the wound Luo Lang had created and the operator pulled down the trigger of the beam gun without hesitation.

“Bang!” A large explosion was heard. The entire lake blew up. Mechas that were close to the sh.o.r.e were instantly blown away by the shockwave of the blast. The tidal waves from the lake instantly pushed them back tens of meters.

The mecha performing the final attack was also sent flying many meters away by the rebound of the gun and smashed onto the surface of the lake. Perhaps the force of the rebound was too great because his destroyed mecha was released black puffs of smoke.

“Captain!”

“Captain Yang!”

While all the mecha operators were shouting with concern, Li Lanfeng's group of three were also watching Yang Mingzhi. In their time of need, Yang Mingzhi made a move. In order to save the three of them, he used a move that destroyed both him and the monster. Without enough the beam s.h.i.+eld to protect the mecha, it would of course be destroyed by the terrifying explosion.

“Shu!” Yang Mingzhi's battered mecha suddenly floated above the water. Could it be that the damage to Yang Mingzhi's mecha wasn't as severe as they had thought? Everyone relaxed a bit, but quickly discovered it wasn't the case. It was because Yang Mingzhi's mecha didn't float above the water by itself and was brought up by Luo Lang who had fallen into the lake earlier.

“Captain Yang, Captain Yang…” After putting down Yang Mingzhi's mecha softly on the ground, Luo Lang anxiously shouted to Yang Mingzhi. If he didn't respond, Luo Lang would have opened the c.o.c.kpit and perform emergency first aid.

“Ugh, ugh… Captain Luo, I'm alright.” Yang Mingzhi had blood coming out of his mouth and tried his best to relief Luo Lang's worries.

“Drink the emergency medicinal agent our regiment commander had prepared for us. Brother s.h.i.+yu's medicinal agents are very effective.” After hearing that he was alright, Luo Lang instantly breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't forget to remind Yang Mingzhi to drink the medicine for the fear of some undetectable internal injuries. As long as he drank the medicine, it would make sure nothing could go wrong.

Hearing Luo Lang's concern, Yang Mingzhi wasn't going to ignore it. He took out the medicine from the small fridge contraption, opened it and drank it. These simple movements made Yang Mingzhi use all of his body's energy, causing immense pain.

“I haven't been injured in so long. Didn't think that being injured would be so painful!” Yang Mingzhi smiled bitterly. He had forgotten the feeling of pain. As expected, living peacefully was a warrior's grave. Back then, his injuries were more severe than this and yet he could still continue to operate his mecha and battle with the enemy until the bitter end. If it was back then, he wouldn't need Luo Lang's help to swim out of the lake and wouldn't be rendered him unable to move by such small injuries.

At that moment, Li Lanfeng and Xie Yi had crawled out of the lake while dragging out the main body from the tentacle monster.

In reality, the power of the explosion that Li Lanfeng, Xie Yi and Luo Lang had endured wasn't any less than Yang Mingzhi's. Moreover, they had already sustained attacks from the tentacle monster. They should have all been injured, but the three of them were like wild beasts, as if they weren't even affected…

Yang Mingzhi looked at these three and couldn't help but think to himself, “As expected of the new generation replacing the old generation, while the old generation dies on the battlefield. I'm indeed old.” Yang Mingzhi's mood was slightly depressed and felt some regret, but he felt more happy. These mecha operators that were too young to be true were much stronger than he was back then. He really wanted to see how far these young mecha operators will go.

Perhaps he could follow behind them and become a legend too. Yang Mingzhi didn't know why but he actually had a thought like this.