Chapter 1075: Chapter 84: Arrival

The underlying implications of Tumor Xiang Shan’s words were more or less understood by Li Like. The Hunters of the Six Dragons Sect had already proven themselves. They truly could identify members of the Six Dragons Sect from within a crowd. Aside from the fixed-point assaults initiated by the Six Dragons Sect, they were among the few who had engaged with the sect.

He was somewhat skeptical about the so-called “unidentifiable” aspect mentioned by Tumor Xiang Shan. Li Like didn’t immediately doubt “the Hunters possess advanced Inner Strength, enabling them to identify a faction’s members through personality profiling,” but instead thought the Six Dragons Sect Hunters might have mastered some sort of Enemy Identification Secret Key related to the sect.

However, at this moment, he couldn’t really turn hostile.

Tumor Xiang Shan’s previous performance was overly strong. Despite the disadvantage in propellant and ammunition reserves, he could still fight to a standstill with the masters of the Six Dragons Sect who squander propellant… no, he even held the upper hand. This was impossible for Li Like, whose propulsion system was disabled at a glance.

Considering the intelligence from Guardian Little Sandrel of the city of Ur, stating that “the external strength of the Hunter is very strong”…

Li Like concluded that the Hunter’s actual external strength level should surpass most of the Chaldean Guardians.

Chaldea’s only chance of victory was to engage in a war of attrition, exhaust his ammunition and propellant, and then annihilate him using firepower positions.

But for a Space City, this was unrealistic.

A Space City is a fragile artificial environment. The metal framework barely supports the entire structure. A First Heavenly Layer Martial Artist unleashing his prowess in the Space City might even damage the entire framework, causing the city to collapse.

This was also the reason Li Like chose to learn the Electron Beam Greatsword, a comparatively weaker weapon. Although it’s not a good weapon, in this complex and fragile environment of a Space City, such a weapon with a strictly confined destructive range still had unique value.

To surround and kill such a First Heavenly Layer Martial Artist within the city, the cost was indeed too great.

Tumor Xiang Shan swung his arm, utilizing the air to let himself float onto a spot on the ground. The four spider-leg prosthetic limbs on his lower body, along with the two from his shoulders, clamped onto the complex ground, generating a strong magnetic field at the spider leg tips to fix Xiang Shan in place.

Tumor Xiang Shan asked, “Do you have any plans to intercept that Six Dragons Sect protector?”

Li Like was taken aback, and then replied, “First, we need to prevent him from attacking the residential area.”

The Chaldean residential area can be seen as countless containers pieced together. These containers have gaps between them, connected by chains.

With this population density, considering Protector Shi’s capability, he doesn’t need to do anything; just a collision would result in a massacre.

“Attacking where the enemy must defend, is it…” Tumor Xiang Shan felt a headache. “Have the people in the commercial area been evacuated… never mind, it seems too late. In that case, half of your Chaldean Guardians must block him at specific junctions.”

Tumor Xiang Shan had seen the Chaldean commercial area before. It was an open vertical space with only countless chains hanging across the sky, some iron frameworks serving as stalls.

Again, that Six Dragons Sect protector making one collision would be a massacre.

In front of a First Heavenly Layer Prosthetic Body, typical cybernetically enhanced people weren’t much stronger than wheat in a field.

“I have a proposal, it’s like this: you provide me with some propellant, preferably a few usable weapon modules and propulsion modules,” Xiang Shan said. “Then quickly organize the city’s outer firepower positions to move, to avoid being directly breached by the opponent. Let’s go fight outside.”

Li Like said, “Outer artillery positions? That’s stationed on the battleship outer armor!”

“Right, do you think battleship outer armor is very strong?” Tumor Xiang Shan almost rolled his eyes, “The battleships you salvaged with intact wreckage were all pierced by First Heavenly Layer Prosthetic Bodies. Battleships pierced by battleship main guns wouldn’t have such complete wreckage. These are battleships from over a hundred years ago, and the opponent’s prosthetics at most are a decade old. Do you think he can penetrate the outer armor with weapons?”

“Oh, by the way, I remembered. When these battleships were shot down, the Sonicon Blade hadn’t appeared on the front lines yet, right? Battleship outer armor of that era wouldn’t have mixed in too many flexible energy-absorbing layers during casting—a few cuts open a gap, then stuff in gel explosive. Considering he’s planning to attack from inside out, maybe lasers are also a good choice. The reflective coating on the outside won’t counteract lasers fired internally.”

And what the Six Dragons Sect protector intends to do after breaking through the outer armor…

Li Like even had the illusion of “cold sweat streaming down.” The city’s outer artillery positions, aside from anti-aircraft fire, mainly charged with “destroying approaching large asteroids,” were inadequately staffed with guardian warriors, and their level wasn’t particularly high…

Li Like hurriedly issued a command.

Then, he looked at Xiang Shan and said, “I can agree with you.”

………………

Protector Shi had already engaged with the Chaldean Guardians three times.

Each time, he gained the upper hand, and each time, he successfully shook off his pursuers. Despite having only two legs, plus one rear waist at most, his martial studies level was far superior.

Now, only one First Heavenly Layer Martial Artist was still relentlessly pursuing.

Protector Shi wasted no time in turning back to attack this dispensable figure. His primary goal was still “to escape the City of Ur.” His propellant reserves were still sufficient. Once he fled into the Asteroid Belt, its chaotic terrain would become his best ally. Any Chaldean Guardians daring to pursue would face the predicament of “difficulty in obtaining material assistance.” Meanwhile, in the Asteroid Belt, the Six Dragons Sect had pre-established supply points.

That would be his battlefield.

The destination was nearing. This was Chaldea’s “Memorial Plaza.” This is the shell of Chaldea City, a large battleship wreck hauled over during the “Chaldean Expansion Movement” thirty years ago. Chaldeans set up the memorial plaza here.

Protector Shi launched a row of small missiles from afar, clearing debris from the ground, then turned around, emptying all the ammo boxes on his lower body. A torrent of medium and small missiles scattered like dazzling fireworks. The Chaldean warrior hastily dodged while firing back.

A mechanical arm emerged from the mechanized limb at Protector Shi’s calf, drawing out a dagger. It was the Sonicon Blade.

This “Memorial Plaza” had long been scouted by the Six Dragons Sect, the applicable frequency for the Sonicon Blade had been determined, and the suitable trajectory for the strike had been calculated.

The blade of the Sonicon Blade glided across the ground. Like a nail grazing soft tofu, a scar opened up on the steel surface.

Under the afterglow of exploding small missiles, Protector Shi retraced his steps along the knife scar.

This time, he filled the growing knife scar with gel explosive.