Silicon Invasion

"Alright everyone, both sides are ready, the battle is about to begin!"

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The countdown ends, and the originally silent display screen lights up, relaying the virtual scenery to the pilot.

Swift Rainbow, attack!

Luo Rui muttered to himself, pushing the control stick forward and stepping down on the pedal, causing the mech to stride out of the sci-fi-filled tunnel.

"Number 8, scan the opponent's mech!"

Knowing the enemy and knowing yourself ensures victory in every battle. Knowing the opponent's model is the top priority upon exiting.

While instructing the AI to work, Luo Rui maneuvered the mech into a sideslip, leaving the original spot to avoid the opponent's "one-trick pony" attack, which was the second priority.

Swift Rainbow's maneuverability is very strong. The thrusters on the sides, rear shoulders, and skirt armor work together, instantly propelling the mech twenty to thirty meters.

At this time, the observation system had scanned the opponent and magnified the image, relaying it to the large screen on the right.

As expected, it's Azure Bird.

But what's with the shoulder mounts?

Luo Rui immediately noticed the very symmetrical shoulder mounts on the opponent.

Buddy, this is a bit targeted, huh?

"Warning, warning, the mech is locked by fire control radar, be careful to evade!"

Before the warning was even halfway through, Luo Rui saw thick smoke coming from the shoulders of the opposing mech and hurriedly shouted.

"Heat flares!"

Bang, bang, bang~

Swift Rainbow's hidden rear magazine opened, directly launching six heat flares.

"Oh, it seems like Moon Owl's handling here is questionable," the female commentator Zhou Zhou said with a frown.

"Perhaps he's still too young and lacks experience. Guest is clearly trying to trick him into using his heat flares," Daitou'e nodded in agreement, also somewhat puzzled. Such a simple trick is understandable for a newbie, but someone participating in a match can't really be defined as a newbie.

Luo Rui was so angry at this moment that he wanted to slap himself. No matter how much cranial training you do and how perfect the thinking details are, it's never as memorable as the lessons learned in actual combat.

In his haste just now, he didn't define the number of heat flares. The auxiliary AI, that spendthrift, directly defaulted to launching half of the ammunition's worth of heat flares.

However, there's no point in regretting it now. He could only deeply engrave this mistake in his mind. Experts won't fall twice in the same place.

Since it was a feint, Azure Bird naturally wouldn't fire a full salvo. Only two tracking missiles were launched this time. As expected, they were interfered with and detonated by the far greater number of heat flares.

Although the aftershock of the explosion was not far away, 70mm tracking missiles, as long as they don't directly hit, are difficult to cause effective damage to the mech.

Ignoring the aftershock, Luo Rui controlled Swift Rainbow, and the thrusters on its back and skirt armor began to exert force, rushing towards Azure Bird.

The Warrior 7's alloy soles are densely covered with tens of thousands of automatically adjusting sensor units, allowing it to adapt to various terrains, but walking is still easily affected by terrain or small obstacles.

Swift Rainbow is different. Even if it's only flying one meter above the ground, it can ignore more than 90% of the obstacles. The mech's movement process is much more comfortable than the Warrior 7's bumpy cockpit.

But this is only temporary. The faster speed puts exponentially more pressure on the pilot when making evasive maneuvers.

Although Swift Rainbow is very fast, Azure Bird is also a light mech. The extra shoulder mounts may make it perform poorly in short-range agility, but running in a straight line or making large turns, Azure Bird, which also has back and skirt armor thrusters, is not slow either.

Facing the rushing Swift Rainbow, Azure Bird also turned on full thrust, running circles around the field while turning the rocket launcher 180 degrees, aiming the launch port directly behind it.

"Swish, swish~"

Two more tracking missiles flew out with tail flames. At a distance of several hundred meters, the missiles hadn't reached their maximum flight speed yet and had already arrived near Swift Rainbow.

Locked by fire control radar, Luo Rui couldn't dodge these tracking missiles like he would ordinary rockets. Helplessly, he had to launch two more heat flares.

"It seems our Moon Owl player has realized his mistake just now."

Zhou Zhou said with some concern: "However, Moon Owl's situation is still not optimistic. According to Swift Rainbow's configuration, the number of heat flares in the ready state is 12, and now 8 have already been launched. He only has 4 reserves left."

"That's right."

Daitou'e adjusted his black-rimmed glasses and nodded in agreement: "Even if Moon Owl brought extra ammunition reserves, reloading would take time. But Guest probably won't give him this chance. The twin nine-linked rocket launcher mounts have doubled the number of tracking missiles, and now there are still 14 in the firing state."

"The advantage is huge. I don't even know how Guest can lose. It seems this match is about to end."

Zhou Zhou said with regret. She thought Moon Owl's courage to choose Swift Rainbow would lead to an extremely exciting match, but she didn't expect it to be so disappointing.

"That's it? I waited an hour just to watch this?"

Not only the commentary booth, but also the audience area was filled with negative comments.

"Who is this? When did Starlight Arena find such an idiot?"

"I heard from my second uncle's comrade's friend's nephew that they recently got a guy through connections. This might be him."

One audience member revealed information mysteriously.

"Damn, with this level, they shouldn't even hire him through connections."

"That's right, fighting like this is worse than letting me go."

"Brother, what's your level?"

"Iron VIII!"

"Hiss…"

"Hiss what hiss, anyway, we're going to lose, it doesn't matter who goes."

"That makes sense…"