Chapter 422: Chicken Pheasant Beast

Unlike those mid-to-high-rank mechas beside him, the "Earth Dragon I Type" Wang Yu was driving, as a basic mecha, was not only a head shorter than the mechas around him, but its round head and square body also looked exceptionally simple.

Fortunately, the silver giant gun in the mecha's hand and the golden serrated giant blade on its back still looked somewhat domineering, otherwise, being sandwiched among those tall mechas, it would really be like a toy.

Some players in the mechas beside him were also sizing up this basic mecha through the mecha window from time to time, and most of their faces hung with strange or amused expressions.

"Star River" has been open for more than a year. In such a long time, players who are still using basic model mechas are really rare.

Moreover, reward-type dungeons are the dungeons that test players' combat power the most in the game. How much combat achievement and merit points can be obtained almost entirely depends on the player's mecha technology and mecha performance.

At this moment, Wang Yu in the Earth Dragon mecha had already entered the mecha neural link state. Although the mecha itself had no wings, its feet sprayed flames, directly rushing toward those Star Cloud Beasts that were rushing over.

Unlike those NPC mechas in front, which used the four-

Some player mechs formed small squads of a dozen or so to hold formation against the Nebula Beasts, while others fought in teams of seven or eight. However, there were also some lone mechs that ignored everything, driving their mech-vehicles straight into the beast horde just like Wang Yu.

"This bunch of trash, no coordination at all—are they just here to throw their lives away?" Seeing this, those organized players loudly complained in the instance's temporary communication group.

"Lone wolf players are always like this. They don't care if the instance can be cleared; all they want is to kill more Nebula Beasts to claim the high bounties," someone in the communication group replied quite calmly.

Just as various voices rose and fell in the communication group, the mechs in front had already engaged the Nebula Beasts.

It had to be said that although there weren't many player mechs—only four or five hundred—in terms of pure mech performance, they were indeed superior to the previous NPC mechs.

As soon as the hundreds of mechs at the very front charged out, they immediately collided with the individual Nebula Beasts.

In front of the beast horde, the roar of mechs and the sound of giant blades cutting through the air rose and fell.

At the same time, the other mechs behind launched long-range attacks, with dense beams and missiles pouring into the beast horde like a rainstorm.

On the canyon floor, a large number of Nebula Beast corpses appeared in an instant.

But as more Nebula Beasts swarmed up, some suddenly leaped into the high air, flapping their wings to glide directly over the front-line mechs, pouncing straight toward the other mechs in the back that were outputting damage frantically.

The giant spaceship in the high air, after a series of mechanical sounds, extended dense, slender gun barrels from its belly, releasing hundreds of thin beams that plunged into the rear of the beast horde, instantly annihilating dozens of Nebula Beasts.

More Nebula Beasts also took to the air toward the spaceship, and from time to time, a slender gun barrel would be crushed by the claws of these Nebula Beasts.

Several hatch covers on top of the spaceship popped open simultaneously, ejecting a dense swarm of small drones that rushed toward the nearby Nebula Beasts like a swarm of bees.

For a time, across the entire battlefield—whether in the sky or on the ground—mechs, Nebula Beasts, and drones were entangled and intertwined, falling into complete chaos.

Sitting in his mech, Wang Yu felt his body tremble slightly as the silver firearm in the mech's hand spat out a white beam, piercing the head of a Nebula Beast that had pounced toward him.

But immediately, a whistling sound rang out from the side, and a long, electric-flickering feather, like a sharp blade, swept across his waist.

Without a second thought, Wang Yu controlled his mech to leap into the air, tossed the silver firearm in his hand, and smoothly drew the golden serrated giant blade from his back.

A gale rolled down, and the black mech landed beside another Nebula Beast like a ghost, slicing through its body and splitting it directly in two.

The black mech held the golden giant blade horizontally in front of it, and strands of green beast blood slid down the edge of the blade.

"Pheasant Beast."

Wang Yu muttered in his mech after glancing at the giant ostrich-like Nebula Beast corpse on the ground.

Since he had chosen to accept this bounty instance, he had naturally already learned about the Nebula Beasts that appeared in this instance on the forums.

This Nebula Beast, which was only about a zhang in size, might not be as massive as a mech, but it was famous among the many Nebula Beasts for its agility and ferocity. Moreover, a group of Pheasant Beasts would often have a leader; as long as the leader didn't die, the ordinary Pheasant Beasts would never flee or retreat.

The leader of the Pheasant Beast horde was extremely powerful, ranking among the best even among all known Nebula Beasts, and it once had a terrifying record of destroying over a dozen elite mech pilots with the strength of a single beast.

Therefore, although the "Moon Interception Instance" was not considered a very difficult bounty instance—often requiring only holding out for half an hour in front of the beast horde to protect the spaceship overhead from being shot down to have a large number of NPCs arrive to support and clear the instance—the act of killing the Pheasant Beast leader directly within the instance had truly not happened many times.

Because the Pheasant Beast leader would often turn and flee when reinforcements appeared, to kill this beast, one had to do it within the half-hour before the reinforcements arrived.

But during that first half-hour, the number of player mechs was far fewer than the beast horde; the difficulty of killing such a powerful Pheasant Beast leader under these circumstances was self-evident.

And the few successful challenge records were mostly achieved by inviting multiple top-tier mech pilots from the top hundred of the mech leaderboard, combined with the joint efforts of multiple large teams, to barely succeed a few times.

The challenge with the fewest mechs that resulted in a kill was when Prince Aisa piloted a star-level "Archangel" mech, bringing his own team along with two other mech pilots from the top ten of the leaderboard to achieve a kill.

As the Nebula Beast with the highest bounty in the instance, Wang Yu was naturally very interested in this Pheasant Beast leader in the horde, but limited by the performance of the mech he was currently piloting, he only thought about it in his heart, intending to wait until he had seen the beast's strength with his own eyes before deciding.

At this moment, Wang Yu moved his feet slightly in the cockpit, and the black mech outside leaped up again. A golden blade flash cut down a Pheasant Beast that had just glided over his head, and with a burst of fire from the mech's feet, he jumped into the middle of several other Pheasant Beasts nearby.

A cold light bloomed like a golden full moon, and several Pheasant Beasts shattered simultaneously.

Wang Yu, inside the black mech, frowned.

This "Earth Dragon Type I," compared to the "Sky Wing Standard Type" mech he had piloted during his assessment, was indeed far inferior.

Both the mech's agility and the mech's own output efficiency were significantly lower by a large margin.

Fortunately, although his Star Mind Power didn't receive much amplification from the mech, with his terrifying mind power, it was enough to instantly kill these Pheasant Beasts in the vicinity.

It was just that he didn't want to appear too exaggerated at this moment, which was why he hadn't driven his mind power to attack the Nebula Beasts directly.

But even so, under the sensing of his terrifying mind power, all the approaching Pheasant Beasts couldn't take a single strike, and in the blink of an eye, the ground nearby was covered with a pile of beast corpses.

The performance of the "Earth Dragon Type I" made the mech pilots in the other few mechs who had inadvertently noticed this side stare with their eyes almost popping out, repeatedly shouting in the communication group, "A super expert has appeared!" and "The god-man is awesome!"