Chapter 714 - 686: Crumbling Apart (6)

At an altitude of over ten thousand meters, the roar of supersonic maneuvers sounded like thunder...

Boom!

Right beside Lille, countless missiles narrowly missed him and instantly exploded!

The mechanical body endured unimaginable forces, constantly switching between weightlessness and overloading, the massive load making even this prosthetic made of cutting-edge alloy creak—

This creaking sound transmitted through the sensors within his body to the central processor, the huge computational load bringing Lille back to the tension of a flesh-and-blood body:

Not even Si Anweisitan can make a person reach, or even slightly approach, the speed needed for combat at supersonic levels.

Yet now, he is genuinely engaged in aerial combat against dozens of supersonic fighters at over Mach 3!

The pilots of these fighters are restricted by the frail bodies of carbon-based life, and although the fighters can nearly match Lille’s speed, their reactions cannot keep up at all!

Explosions raged beside Lille as he abruptly shut down all thrusters, bearing the forces of the air, almost crushing his body—

But such extreme operations, such extreme maneuverability, made it impossible for the pursuers to counter or react!

The Octopus Arm closely attached to his body spread a claw, and a spiked bullet shot out, relying solely on the difference in relative speed to pierce the glass of the Quinjet!

Squelch!

The spiked bullet instantly pierced through the pilot’s head!

The cabin turbulence and head injury caused the aircraft to lose control, descending straight down at a speed of Mach 3!

But Lille, who had decelerated, faced considerable trouble too—

Several missiles exceeding speeds of Mach 4 followed closely behind; Lille had to launch the engines at full speed to dodge!

Boom!

The missiles missed Lille, but the explosion undeniably affected him!

[Pilot: Suspected hit target, observing...]

This wasn’t the first time these Quinjets thought they hit Lille...

Whoosh!

Lille flew out of the fireball from the explosion, launching a missile from his body, which exploded as it scraped past the cockpit of a pursuing Quinjet!

Boom!

[Pilot 02: Damn! What the hell is this! He’s still moving! Continue pursuit!]

[Command Center: Eagle 02, watch your route...]

[Pilot 01: He can’t keep flying like this forever.]

[Pilot 03: He’s flown almost all over Mei Country... I’m locked—]

Boom!

Lille broke away from the Quinjet hit, with a trace of anxiety appearing in his mechanical consciousness:

In fact, from Houston to Washington, then across Mei Country straight to New York, he had flown over two thousand kilometers!

The energy of the ark reactor is almost infinite...

That’s just a metaphor!

From Houston to Washington, two Space Airships were destroyed, but Lille was also locked by dozens of Quinjets—

These fighters were just slightly slower than him, but the missiles weren’t slow.

To counter and continue acting amid the dense pursuit, his metal limbs were struggling to hold up, and energy consumption far exceeded what Tony had envisioned...

After all, even the Mark 2 Armor in the "Iron Man" movies wouldn’t be able to battle so many fighters simultaneously!

Lille thought of this, speeding out of the clouds.

The sky before him no longer had anything to obscure his vision; 12 Quinjets flew out from the clouds to surround him!

There were still 41 Quinjets behind, and 12 more came from the front, instantly locking him with hundreds of air-to-air missiles...

Quinjets can’t be too fast, but missiles have no speed limit!

Chroni Titanium is very hard, and the metals Tony used to create parts are absolutely laboratory-grade aerospace materials.

In the vast sky, Lille felt it was so narrow—

The dense tail flames of rockets swept across the sky from all directions, this wall of death rushing in, the missiles in his eyes becoming countless tiny points of light...

Lille pushed all the equipment in his body to their limits!

His speed, his computational ability, his structural hardness... all reached their peak!

His tiny form found a sliver of space among the pursuing missiles, and Lille flashed past, rushing towards the sky!

Hundreds of air-to-air missiles followed closely; this spectacular scene seemed to compose a bonfire of death at over ten thousand meters high in the sky:

Lille was the sacrifice meant to burn.

He had to shake off those missiles!

Sizzle!

Discordant sounds were captured by the sensors:

the continuously running central processor finally overheated, the body that bore immense power finally let out a mournful cry...

He couldn’t shake them off!

Boom!

A dazzling explosion, forming a pattern like the sword of a Heavenly God.

The operators of the Quinjets finally breathed a sigh of relief: they hit the target.

The violent explosion enveloped Lille, high temperatures, shock waves, and metal fragments hitting him.

This formidable body maintained a speed of nearly Mach 4, fighting over two thousand kilometers, performing miracle after miracle at over ten thousand meters altitude, destroying two Space Airships and numerous Quinjets...

But bullets will always run out, and the strength of the body has its limits.

Under super-high temperatures, Lille didn’t know how long he was unconscious, but when he rebooted all systems, he had already fallen out of the explosion fireball, plunging towards the ground!

The second wave of attacks from the Quinjets was about to launch...

He could even see a Quinjet ready to fire a missile stance.

Boom!

But that Quinjet exploded!

More air-to-air missiles broke through the cloud layer, forcing back the Quinjets that had locked onto Lille!

The Raptor Fighter group pierced through the clouds, pursuing the Quinjets trapped in a passive position into high altitude—

[Natasha: This is Mei Country Air Force, I’m Natasha, genius, can you still start up?!]

Hoo—

Lille completed the restart, slightly adjusted his posture, just landing on a Raptor Fighter.

His armor already had obvious deformities, the structure sparking, and the thruster’s flame looked strange, occasionally sparking with electrical discharge.

[Lille: You guys are too slow.]

[Natasha: You need to leave here.]

Lille’s equipment showed evident damage, even his head revealed part of the mechanical structure.

The entrance ticket to this battlefield is Mach 3 flight speed; once that is met, other numbers matter.

But Lille’s real state was far worse than it looked.

His ammunition was depleted, energy insufficient, even computing speed showed noticeable delays.

Lille didn’t speak, Natasha continued:

[Natasha: The President is safe, the army is reorganizing, you’ve achieved your goal: Ellis wanted to seize a nation, but now he can only get half of Mei Country.]

[Natasha: However, it’s impossible to claim victory today.]

[Lille: I know, I’m just setting coordinates.]

[Natasha: Not Zhuya City?]

[Lille: No... Going there now would only lead to being hunted to death.]

[Lille: I’ll go to Latovia.]

Taking advantage of the chaos, Lille planned to escape to Latovia, not the well-known second stronghold.

Raptor Fighters began descending to the cloud-dense lower air space, those Quinjets dragged into the chaotic battle continued tracking—

But when Natasha flew out of the cloud layer, they found the metal man had disappeared.

The fighters continued flying towards the national borders, the Quinjets losing their target could only choose to report the tracks of this Raptor Fighter.

[Unstable energy is about to erupt.]

[Countdown: ?]

[You will be granted a new opportunity.]