Chapter 794 - 73: The Ghost in the Factory (Part Five)

The bomb spider exploded!

Jack’s brain was racing, just one step away, and the Death God would catch up with him!

But the directional impact from the bomb spider happened to block the Death God’s charge path perfectly, with the impact facing the Death God directly, flames enveloping its entire body!

Boom!

BT broke through the locked training field wall at this moment, delivering a flying kick that sent the Death God flying!

The massive kick, weighing several tons, turned the Death God into a heap of scrap metal, crashing into a room several meters away!

"Pilot, this is a highly hazardous environment, I recommend you embark."

In fact, just as BT was voicing the reminder for Jack to board, Jack was already jumping into the cockpit with BT’s hand, and as soon as it finished speaking, the neural link between the Pilot and Titan was already complete!

[BT7274: The route provided by our mysterious ally has been marked on your combat helmet, let’s break out together.]

With these words, BT pulled the trigger of the weapon in its hand: the Tracking Cannon originally couldn’t penetrate this training ground’s outer wall, but Lille had already disabled the electromagnetic locking system between the outer wall modules, meaning that the wall’s resistance to impact was greatly weakened now.

After this round of bombardment, BT used all its strength to slam into the wall, forcefully creating a big hole!

The rebel rifleman saw BT already rushing out of the wall and immediately waved to his companions:

"Quick! Follow the Pilot!"

...

The factory has a hundred test sites in total, the number of sites might even exceed the number of living people in the factory at this moment.

Under Lille’s gradual hacking control, the machinery inside the factory kept rebelling, using physical attacks and explosions induced by circuit overload to greatly disrupt the IMC soldiers’ gatherings, completely throwing them into chaos as the communication system was cut off!

On the other hand, the rebels who accidentally entered this place, as well as those previously captured and used to test weapons in different test sites, were gradually converging under Lille’s deliberate control over the opening and moving of the test sites—

Explosions continued to erupt in the factory, gunfire became more and more dense, lights flickered brightly and dimly, the AI used to command the factory’s production management constantly resisted Lille’s hacking, while drones flew around like headless flies, out of control, and completely scrapped!

This artificial intelligence AI was defeated time and time again in confrontations, issuing self-destruct orders for different blocks...

As the network warfare followed Lille’s control of the production line, after completing the initial layout, it became a foregone conclusion, making the situation within the factory network become bizarre:

The AI that originally controlled here kept issuing damage orders, but the outsider Lille strove to prevent the self-destruct orders from being executed, frantically leveraging the production line to produce combat robots!

[Ash: What’s going on?! How did his Titan end up here?]

[Zzz—]

[Communication failure.]

At first, Ash just noticed BT suddenly appearing unexpectedly, but soon, the factory uprising made him fully aware that something was terribly wrong!

It seemed like the entire factory was haunted, the whole factory was turning against them!

A hacker!

Her question was cut off, as the IMC communication channel was mainly based on the factory’s communication equipment operation, just now, Lille decided to completely expose himself, cutting off IMC’s communication!

Not only that, but behind, the factory’s hoisting arm suddenly erupted with intense electric light, with the motor rotating beyond the safety threshold, and the safety restraint device simply fell off—

This massive arm was flung from the air like a cannonball, slamming hard onto the gas pipeline, causing a severe explosion!

Boom!

Rocks fell, the factory debris blocking the rifleman’s advance route, while more explosion sounds came from the depths of the factory at the same time!

Ash’s mechanical brain instantly realized something was wrong: it didn’t sound like they had surrounded those rebel guys, rather something in the factory ambushed them!

But thinking about these things now wasn’t very meaningful: she was already on the battlefield, as long as she could outright defeat that flying around Pilot, things would be simple, she could handle them one by one.

With this in mind, she directly jumped into her Titan cockpit, which appeared much lighter in design, grabbed the massive long sword behind her with one hand, and pushed off forcefully with a flash of white light, disappearing from her spot!

A pure white light point appeared abruptly then dissipated in the air, the change in light reflecting unnaturally in human eyes.

This advanced technology completely exceeded Lille’s realm of understanding, but he knew that this was exactly what he needed most!

Having stepped into the Void, Ash and her Titan crossed the blockage obstacle passage in an instant, rapidly passing through the area of explosions, directly appearing on Jack’s inevitable path!

The two Pilots faced each other, immediately locking onto their enemy:

For Ash, the tactics and combat capabilities of this Pilot were astonishing, but despite the current myriad of issues, she didn’t believe that she, a seasoned Top Hunter, would lose to this upstart Pilot.

And in Jack’s memory, this was his first day becoming a Pilot.

Yet so far, he had never felt that any enemy could stop him!

[BT7274: Pilot, the opponent is a ’Ranger’ type Titan, very fast, the sword core gives her excellent melee abilities, and she seems equipped with a kind of Phase Shifting Device.]

[Jack: I know!]

The Ranger Titan’s speed was far quicker than BT, the Vanguard class Titan, BT raised the cannon in its hand to fire, while the Ranger raised the large sword in its hand to block!

The forward momentum of the Ranger didn’t falter in the slightest, the shell was slashed by the large sword, this lightweight Titan making an extremely exaggerated spin move during its advance, the blade in its hand charged with energy, swung emphatically from top to bottom—

An arc of electrical energy slashed along with the sword swing, rushing along the ground straight towards BT!

However, as she swung the sword, BT simultaneously launched tracking rockets from the shoulder, forcing BT’s movement with strikes approaching from the ground, while the rockets from the sky sealed off the Ranger’s advance completely!

Boom!

Such a dramatic output of firepower completely changed the battlefield’s atmosphere!

[Ash: Brisk has placed a high bounty on your head; it seems you do have some value, Pilot.]

Space distortion and void flickered, suddenly the Ranger blinked onto an open space near the explosions, while BT completed a reload just in time, continuing to fire!

The distance between them fluctuated during these rounds of combat, with both sides clearly aware of the other’s advantages:

BT was equipped with a 40mm cannon and missile core, providing overwhelming power in medium to long range combat.

The Ranger Titan’s sword core, based on the Titan’s robust mobility and melee burst power, made it difficult for BT to keep pace if sufficiently close.

In medium to long range scenarios, whenever the Ranger failed to block BT’s shots, it would be shot and then face a barrage of rocket attacks; but once the gap closed, BT would likewise struggle.

The battle seemed to be turning into a tug-of-war, but after all, this was not an authentic, vast battlefield outdoors.

Ash calculated BT’s methods of evasion and maintaining distance, wielding the sword and using the Phase Shifting Device to approach once more, BT employing the same method, combining firing, missile squad suppression, and retreat, but this time, he was backed against walls and rocks!

In just this hesitation, the Ranger broke free of the firepower blockade, with electric light and fragments returning to reality, the large sword in hand charged with electricity, closing in on BT straight away:

With no way to maintain distance now, the reloading gap meant she could directly go for BT’s cockpit!

Long blade swung down, BT threw out an energy shield, although effective against ballistic weapons, it was completely futile against the Ranger’s energy sword—

However, just as Ash thought victory was assured, dozens of missiles and plasma bullets struck her Titan’s joints first!

Boom!

The Destruction Shell robots flew over the passage like bombers, stunning Ash into confusion, with the delay BT used the butt of the cannon to strike her cockpit, blasting the cockpit cover off!

In the blink of an eye, after the cover flew, BT reached directly in to grab Ash, smashing her against the wall!

Smash!

[Jack: Looks like our support arrived just in time.]