Silicon Invasion

The wolf pack attacking from direction 156 was too small. Under the fierce barrage of the two long-range artillery units, they suffered over half their numbers before even fully engaging the squad.

As expected, howls came from deep within the forest. The wolves from direction 156, as if they had rehearsed countless times, immediately braked, turned around, and fled.

Prepared in advance, Luo Rui and Zuo Kun didn't waste any more energy or ammunition on them. They immediately turned and aimed their cannons at the wolf pack in direction 64.

There were 14 of them there. As long as they drove them back as well, they would only have to face the wolf pack from direction 75 alone.

However, although the wolf pack from 156 was small, it played a crucial role. Just as Luo Rui and Zuo Kun turned their cannons and each took down a wolf, both wolf packs arrived at the squad's defensive line simultaneously.

The three close-combat mechs had already taken their positions. Warrior Three faced direction 64 alone, while two Warrior Sevens together confronted the wolf pack from direction 75.

However, a defensive line composed of only three close-combat mechs was too thin to withstand the assault of nearly thirty wolves. They were already doing their best to protect themselves and couldn't spare any attention for anything else.

Despite Warrior Three's imposing and domineering presence and the Warrior Sevens' incredible combat power with their dual blades, from the beginning, the wolf leader knew that the two long-range artillery units hiding in the back, constantly creating noise and polluting the air, were the most threatening.

After all, so far, all the wolves that had been killed were related to them.

Therefore, the two long-range artillery units had long become thorns in the wolf pack's flesh and eyes.

Although the three close-combat units tried their best, the wolf pack used only half its numbers to make it difficult for them to move an inch. The other half, which they couldn't spare attention for, went straight for the two long-range artillery mechs.

"Damn it!" Not to mention Luo Rui, even Zuo Kun, who didn't often speak, cursed.

The three close-combat units only had to deal with half the wolves, so what made their two long-range artillery units worthy of such focus from the wolf pack?

"Coordinate with me!"

Luo Rui shouted loudly. The extreme crisis didn't make him frustrated. On the contrary, his spirit became more invigorated, and his blood seemed to boil. Although it was a simulation battle where losing wouldn't result in death, it was Luo Rui's debut in a large-scale competition. If he hadn't discovered the wolves' retreat mechanism, he might have just performed normally.

But now, after dealing with three waves of wolves, the light of victory had already appeared. Therefore, Luo Rui decided to take a gamble. He didn't want to lose. Thus, the sense of crisis that hadn't appeared for a long time returned to him.

The secondary Focused Mind state began to evolve and sublimate. The small amount of emotion that he still possessed was completely abandoned. Luo Rui's eyes became indifferent. The complete Focused Mind was activated. This was Luo Rui's strongest state!

He grabbed the two-handed greatsword stuck in the ground next to him. Archer Three couldn't be equipped with this thing, but Warrior Seven could. And this two-handed sword was what Luo Rui had asked Tong Yue to bring in.

The metal greatsword was 5.4 meters long, 0.6 meters wide, and weighed 2.1 tons. Although it was huge and very heavy, it was an optional configuration for close-combat mechs like Warrior Seven.

However, Archer Three, whose internal skeleton was almost identical to Warrior Seven, could barely wield this thing.

During the pre-battle meeting, when everyone was deducing the battle situation, they had already discovered that, no matter what, the long-range artillery mechs would engage the wolf pack at close range. Therefore, how to make the long-range artillery mechs last longer became the key to obtaining more points.

Because even if the long-range artillery mechs were surrounded and unable to support the close-combat mechs, as long as they held back a portion of the wolves and delayed their encirclement of the close-combat mechs, there would still be points to be gained from that time.

After all, on a real battlefield, every extra minute you hold out means one more chance to wait for rescue. Therefore, time is also an important data point for obtaining scores.

At this time, Luo Rui proposed the need for a close-combat weapon. He originally preferred two alloy battle blades, which were single-handed weapons in Warrior Seven's optional configuration, nearly half again as long as alloy short blades. As the saying goes, an inch longer is an inch stronger. When facing a wolf pack siege, their attack power would be stronger.

However, Warrior Seven could only equip two alloy battle blades, and Tong Yue and Wang Mingan both needed them as their main combat weapons. There was no way around it, Luo Rui could only settle for second best and choose a two-handed sword to have them bring in.

And Luo Rui's previous close-combat performance in the expert-level challenge had also convinced everyone to agree to his request.

Facing a wolf pack of fifteen, although Luo Rui shouted for Zuo Kun to coordinate with him, he didn't have much expectation, after all, no one could be as versatile as him.

His fingers danced on the keyboard, so fast that the afterimages seemed to solidify. This was an extraordinary 1.6 sensitivity, coupled with the magical scene displayed under the blessing of the Focused Mind state.

Originally, only controlling the long-range artillery unit couldn't bring out Luo Rui's strength at all, but now, the opportunity seemed to have come.

The sniper-grenade launcher had been thrown aside. Facing the rushing wolf pack, Archer Three stretched out its left arm, and a semi-recessed machine cannon poked out its head. With rhythmic "dong, dong, dong" sounds, two wolves that rushed close were beaten until they clutched their heads and scurried away.

Although this thing couldn't be fatal to them, it still hurt quite a bit when it hit them, and with Luo Rui's accuracy in using the machine cannon to shoot down missiles, it wasn't difficult to hit the wolves' fragile noses at close range.

At the same time, the two recoilless cannons weren't idle either. When changing ammunition pods just now, Luo Rui had chosen a multi-munition pod.

At this moment, both cannons fired simultaneously, and two incendiary bombs were shot to both sides.

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Super-concentrated fuel plus oxidizer instantly turned the area thirty meters away on both sides of Archer Three into a sea of fire.

Although the wolves were silicon-based beasts, their siliconization level was still very low, and they still had a large number of carbon-based structures on their bodies. Facing a sea of fire with temperatures boosted to thousands of degrees by the accelerant, they could only choose to temporarily avoid it.

"Activate the cooling program!"

Luo Rui's indifferent voice came. Although it wasn't directly scorched, detonating an incendiary bomb at such a close distance was also a test for the mech itself.

Fortunately, when the mechs were developed, they took into account combat in harsh environments, so there were some countermeasures.

Some white powder sprayed out from various parts of the mech. After contacting the mech, they quickly vaporized and took away a large amount of heat, so that the mech's temperature could be temporarily maintained, but this was definitely not a long-term solution. With Archer Three's configuration, it could barely last half an hour in this environment.

However, half an hour was really too generous for Luo Rui.

While the ammunition was being reloaded, Archer Three took a big step forward, raised the blade in its right hand, and then, at the moment of reaching the position, stopped firing with its left arm and raised it at the same time. Finally, both hands crossed and gripped the sword hilt tightly and chopped down fiercely.

A wolf that was still teary-eyed and unable to vent its frustration because its nose had been severely injured suddenly froze. Half a second later, its head fell from its neck, the cut smooth, and it no longer had to be troubled by pain.

At this time, the recoilless cannons, which had finished reloading, also aimed at their respective targets.