Until she was forcibly ejected from the battle arena, Ji You was still completely dumbfounded.
Again, 5 seconds and Xiaoqing had taken her down!
Ji You felt like swearing non-stop, furious to the point of exploding! Especially when she thought about Xiaoqing’s calm and easy face before her own death, as if he had just gone out to buy some soy sauce and casually taken down an opponent, Ji You was extremely irritated!
She couldn’t stand this humiliation!
She couldn’t swallow this anger; she had to smash Xiaoqing’s head!
Of course, if she wanted revenge, she couldn’t just rush in hot-blooded and headstrong; she had to find the reason first. Thinking it over, Ji You hurriedly went to the forums to search for information about the bombs.
Upon seeing the details, Ji You couldn’t help but gasp.
She was ignorant indeed.
Turns out, the High Energy Particle Bomb used by Xiaoqing had an auto-lock and tracking system. Within a certain range, if it didn’t hit the target, it would automatically initiate a search, track, and attack mission, and of course, once launched, a bomb couldn’t search and track indefinitely—otherwise, wouldn’t it be defying the natural order? It could do so up to 5 times, after which it would become ineffective.
Or, if the target was too far from the bomb, it would also lead to mission failure, causing the bomb to self-destruct.
And this type of bomb wasn’t something included in the default Mechanical System Library; it had to be bought actively by the Mecha Driver on the Star Network to be loaded into the mech’s weapon library.
What made Ji You click her tongue was that one tracking bomb cost 20 points!
It was basically daylight robbery!
In the past, no one would spend so many points to get such high-level weapons because everyone was poor; there was no need to hurt each other like that. However, since that silly boss accidentally started the antique mech self-destruction trend, and it was further popularized by the Rag Queen, attracting a large number of students to imitate it. Although most people failed, there were still successes.
This caused a lot of battles where players using antique mechs self-destructed to kill opponents in the arena. Using antique mechs, which didn’t cost any points and didn’t cause heartache when self-destructed, was simply a cost-free trade, and if they succeeded in killing the opponent, the opponent’s mech would also be damaged. The opponent would need to spend points to repair it, a classic strategy of harming others for one’s own benefit.
It was too fun! Many students who saw little hope for advancement began to embrace this despicable self-destructing style, causing the atmosphere of the online competition to become very weird. Those who wanted to advance and fight seriously had to be careful of such players.
The traceable bombs came into play. The first one to use these bombs was a powerful elite competitor, who shocked the audience by sending his opponent off with just one bomb in 1 second.
It was from then on that people realized that there was no need to panic when facing those despicable tactics; one bomb could solve it all.
Afterward, many began to experiment and found firing traceable bombs at antique mechs was like slicing watermelon with a machete, utter devastation! The feeling was incredibly exhilarating and satisfying!
An elite could settle one in 1 second.
An average person could solve one in 5 seconds or 10 seconds!
From then on, everyone’s mech weapon library, no matter how miserly, remembered to back up some traceable bombs, just in case they encountered an antique mech, they would be sending warmth and "heads" as if serving the community.
Since then, the antique mech self-destruct trend plummeted, leading to virtually no brave souls daring to use this despicable tactic again.
Because—traceable bombs teach you a lesson!
After reading all this, Ji You’s face went absolutely dark.
She was the one who had been taught a lesson.
What made her even more unhappy was that if she didn’t want to continue being taught a lesson, she would have to change her mech. But what should she change it to? Ji You went to the mech library and flipped through it; looking at the prices made her even more unhappy.
As a poor ghost, as someone with 15000 points, and even more so as a miserly penny pincher, asking her to spend points on this kind of thing was more painful than gouging her heart out.
What’s wrong with antique mechs?
No need to spend a single point, and you can use them indefinitely.
With a troubled look, after thinking it over and over, Ji You decided to try the antique mech again! To break the current situation, she just needed to dodge the tracking 5 times or create enough distance, then let the opponent’s bomb self-destruct to break the game.
Ji You, without a second thought, sent a challenge request to Xiaoqing again.
Xiaoqing, slightly surprised by the new challenge request, replied: [Not afraid to die a third time?]
Ji You curled the corners of her mouth: [Hah! Did you think this queen could be so easily defeated?]
Xiaoqing nodded: [As you wish.]
Immediately after, Ji You and Xiaoqing were transported into the same arena.
Xiaoqing showcased his mech first, a towering and ferocious beast with a body that glinted coldly, clearly not to be trifled with.
Then, he signaled Ji You to show her mech.
Ji You, with an indifferent face, pulled out her heirloom treasure—the antique mech.
In that moment, Ji You distinctly saw a flash of surprise and shock in Xiaoqing’s eyes, which quickly passed as he regained his composure.
Ji You chuckled, "I don’t need another mech, just this antique mech will make you wail and cry for your mommy, make you piss and roll on the ground..."
Xiaoqing didn’t say a word, and after a moment of silence, decided to use a trackable bomb to give a hard slap to this so-called Rag Queen.
At the moment the bomb was fired, Ji You bolted!
The bomb almost grazed her earlobe, whistling in.
Ji You was desperately running for her life.
By then, it was no longer a matter of seconds, but milliseconds, microseconds. She kept dodging the trackable bomb, once, success!
If she could evade it three more times, Ji You felt she could see a glimmer of hope; she didn’t think Xiaoqing would be willing to waste a second trackable bomb on her. After all, those things aren’t cheap, using one means burning points.
While desperately fleeing and wildly increasing the distance, Ji You realized that the arena’s platform was too small to escape the range of the bomb pursuit. In such a case, the only way to counter-attack was to dodge its five pursuits.
Ji You felt a hair-raising sense of danger surge in her heart.
A loud explosion followed, and Ji You, along with her shattered antique mech, slammed onto the ground.
Xiaoqing: "Thanks for the points, goodbye."
So, even with her own speed, she still couldn’t outrun it?