Chapter 339: Chasing After Here

POSTED ON MARCH 10, 2023 BY KEN

At this time, although Fang Linyan had already made enough mental preparations, he was still taken aback.

“Who… who are you?”

That voice said indifferently,

“There is only one warning. This is because you have a mechanical companion and are also good at maintaining machinery.”

Although Fang Linyan heard the voice speak harshly, it could actually issue a warning. This was equivalent to showing its friendly position. He hurriedly said,

“But, I have a reason to go inside.”

That voice said,

“If you want to enter the core area, you must show enough skills!”

After finishing speaking, the blue light in the elite mechanical warranty officer‘s eyes quickly faded away, returning to his normal form.

After hearing that sentence, Goat couldn’t help but said in frustration,

“Damn, what’s this? Doesn’t that mean asking us to break in forcibly? Does it mean that we are too weak?”

Fang Linyan waved his hand to make the elite mechanical warrant officer stop, then he said thoughtfully,

“This mysterious guy is very likely to be a very powerful artificial intelligence. You should think about what it said. The reason for treating me preferentially is that the first is I have a mechanical companion, and the second is I’m good at maintaining machinery.”

“A lot of things can be analyzed from this sentence. If I have a mechanical companion, I will be treated preferentially, which means that it should be a mechanical creature itself. This is just like the reason why humans always have a good impression of animals that can be close to humans.”

“Being good at repairing machinery contains too much information. Since I entered here, I have repaired submersible outside. This shows that it has started to monitor us from there. Of course, it should be a hint more directly.”

Goat immediately moved in his heart when he heard the words,

“Could it be… the other passage?”

Fang Linyan said,

“This passage here was violently cracked open by the people from the Bloody Umbrella Company using a cutting machine, so in the end, they all died here tragically.”

“But this is not our only choice. Although the gate of the other passage seems to be damaged, I think we can still try to repair it! This is in line with the meaning of enough skill in its words!”

Having said that, his voice became more excited,

“Now I finally have a clue. We are like a stranger who broke into someone’s house… A few years ago, the people of the Bloody Umbrella Company smashed their way in. The owner must not be happy, so it took the initiative to clean them up.”

“If we choose to knock on the door politely, help the owner cut the lawn and repair the garage and go in, we will be able to retreat safely if not completing the mission! Let’s go! Take the cutting machine too. I can use it to process parts.”

***

A few minutes later, Fang Linyan and Goat had re-entered the passage on the left and came to the thick and solid metal door again.

Fang Linyan studied here for a while before. After returning, he dismantled the damaged controller without much effort and found the obvious logo of RKA on the parts.

And RKA was the abbreviation of Russian Aerospace Agency!!

“As expected…”

Fang Linyan said to himself.

Then he found the problem. He felt that the control method of this door was very like the Russian way. In addition to the electronic initiation method, there was actually a manual initiation method.

Fang Linyan couldn’t help thinking of a group of burly Russian men taking off their shirts, exposing their furry chests, drinking vodka, shouting and raising the door together. Just thinking about it made him feel hormones bursting.

Needless to say, Fang Linyan began to process the parts. The elite mechanical warrant officer helped with the rough and heavy work, so the progress of the work was still very fast. It’s just that a completely damaged crankshaft needed to be precisely processed from scratch, which took a little more time.

But at this moment, Goat, who was standing guard outside, said in the team channel in a panic,

“Boss! Someone is coming!”

Fang Linyan frowned and said,

“Is it the group of people chasing us on the pier?”

Goat said,

“It’s not clear who it is, but a submersible floated up from below.”

Fang Linyan said,

“It’s probably them… there are experts in this group. We took all the spare keys and the operation manuals away. How could they find the key, repair the submersible and come in such a short time!”

Then he said decisively,

“No need to think. Goat, attack them! I’ll send the elite mechanical warrant officer over to help immediately. Delay them as much as possible!”

Goat was stunned and said,

“Okay!”

After hearing Fang Linyan’s words, Goat immediately looked outside. He found that the submersible was probably only 4 meters away from the simple pier on the shore.

The cover above the submersible had been opened, and someone came out of it. His back was facing Goat as he was going to throw the rope to the pier for landing.

Seeing this great opportunity, Goat started singing [Large Fireball] without saying a word, and directly aimed at the distant submersible and blasted it!

However, this person’s perception was very strong. As soon as Goat started chanting, he turned around.

It was just that he was a little awkward after he found Goat.

Because the submersible was shaking a bit, he wrapped the rope a few times around his waist directly.

And he seemed to have no means of long-range attack. If he wanted to attack Goat, he had to untie the rope wrapped 3 times around his waist, then jump ashore and run 20 meters before reaching Goat.

However, just as he untied the rope at his waist and pulled out his weapon, [Large Fireball] had already come to his face. He only had time to cover his face with hands, then he was directly engulfed in the flames, lost balance and fell on top of the submersible.

The entire submersible also shook violently and drifted to the side after suffering this violent impact.

This person was Kanner from Koi’s team. He had been guarding against attacks all the way. Even before surfacing, they used the periscope in the submersible to carefully observe the place where they landed and made sure that there was no abnormality before going ashore.

But Kanner never expected that the enemy actually pinched the moment and launch a spicy spell when he just crawled out!

Seeing the enemy lose his balance and fall, Goat was overjoyed immediately and began to chant the second [Large Fireball].

This was the advantage of the bloodline magician. Casting the same spell did not need to wait for a long cooldown. As long as the MP was enough, the spell could be cast again immediately after the successfully cast.

As a result, just as Kanner got up, the second [Large Fireball] blasted over, rendering him in a burn status.

Kanner was hit twice for nothing. Just as he was about to fight back, Goat raised his hand and made a fisting motion. The flames burning on his body immediately exploded.

Kanner let out a scream, feeling dizzy. His body seemed to lose control in an instant!

It was his pursuit skill: [Flame Burst. When causing damage to the enemy, it will the enemy him for 2 seconds.

Then Goat continued to chant [Large Fireball. Right after Kanner woke up, Goat’s [Large Fireball] came again.

Not only that, but Goat activated the ability attached to the ring: [Flame Tide].

Activating it will let the wearer instant cast the next fire spell. (The channeling time of the fire spell cannot be higher than 3 seconds)

Then another shot of [Large Fireball] followed the buttocks of the first [Large Fireball], looking like a string of candied haws.

At this time, although Kanner only had the buffer time of one second, he could actually dodge; if he dodges, the 2 [Large Fireball] would bombard the submersible directly!

It really took them some effort to repair this thing.

When Fang Linyan boarded their submersible, he gave up the idea of ​​repairing it after taking a glance at it, which shows how broken it was.

The reason why it could be repaired directly in a short period of time was that Gores used team resources to let Old Black use occultism to summon the dead spirits of those mechanics at the maintenance dock. They truly spent a lot on this.

Before seeing the reward of this mission, their team had consumed casting materials worth more than 10,000 common points.

Seeing that Kanner wanted to dodge, Gores had figured out the condition and immediately shouted in the team channel,

“Don’t dodge, drink potion to tank it! Otherwise the submersible won’t last!”

Kanner gritted his teeth and drank a potion to tank it, but he had almost calculated the damage of the 2 shots of [Large Fireball], so he was not willing to take too expensive medicine and just drank a small healing potion.

He calculated that these 2 shots of [Large Fireball] could only reduce about 70HP, at most 80HP. His current 96HP was enough to tank it.

What’s more, once he tanked the 2 shots of [Large Fireball], he could retreat into the submersible and let Koi come up. After all, Kanner’s position in the team is reconnaissance and assassination. Versus a person with kobold magician bloodline who was dozens of meters away wasn’t within his range of expertise.

What Kanner didn’t expect was that there was a deviation in his calculation. Goat’s second shot [Large Fireball] inflicted a critical strike!

Therefore, this was equivalent to a double burst [Large Fireball], which directly put Kanner into the dying state.

At this time, the explosive power of Goat, the bloodline magician, had been clearly reflected. In just 8 seconds, Goat launched [Large Fireball]+[Large Fireball]+[Flame Burst]+[Large Fireball ]+[Large Fireball] ([Flame Tide] instant cast), and he also stunned the enemy for 2 seconds.

Such a crazy output could be said to be described as a machine gun turret.

TL: Well, he wouldn’t regret choosing kobold magician now…