Super Martial Era: My Little World

Chapter 149: Resisting the Insect Tide (Extra update for the reward from Minglong 78)
"This is a Tier 5 Grey Knight mech. I'm lending it to you! However, if you can avoid it, it's best not to use it. The mech's maintenance costs are too high!"

With a wave of Yang Lie's hand, the space necklace containing the fifth-level Gray Knight mecha flew directly into Xiao Zitong's hands.

Xiao Zitong smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you, President!"

Yang Lie said solemnly, "Our reward for this mission is only 1000 credits! So everyone, please consider the cost of our battle! Try to use long-range thermal weapons, and leave the rest to me! Only when we enter the insect nest and obtain the royal jelly for a battle, we are allowed to fight with all our strength!"

According to the rules of squad combat, all expenses such as ammunition and energy must be paid for from the squad's public funds. The squad's public funds are the mission rewards earned after completing missions.

Jia Luo, Ye Kongyao and Zhao Meixian used mechas and colonial suits respectively to fight. If they fought with all their strength, it would be equivalent to burning money and disappearing credits.

Gallo chuckled and said, "Got it, stingy captain!"

Xiao Zitong raised her eyebrows and said, "How can this be called stingy? This is called cost control! If a team can't achieve cost control, it will soon collapse. As far as I know, there are many teams that have negative mission returns due to poor cost control. The end of those teams is basically to fall apart."

Yekongyao smiled sweetly and said, "That's right! Jialuo, a team that can't control costs has no future!!"

"Alright! Get ready for battle!"

A trace of solemnity flashed across Yang Lie's eyes, and he immediately performed the Holy Dragon Sword Technique. Sword Qi transformed from the golden dragon's true energy soared into the sky and pierced into the flying insect swarms in an instant.

Under the slashing of sword energy, the insect demons were directly chopped into pieces.

"I can finally show my true strength!!"

A glimmer of excitement appeared in Gallo's eyes. He activated one piece of space equipment after another, and intelligent mechanical turrets were quickly deployed on the city wall.

With the help of the intelligent auxiliary equipment on the mecha, Gallo can easily operate a hundred intelligent mechanical turrets.

"Fire!"

The one hundred intelligent mechanical turrets flashed with fire, and dense shells blasted towards the swarm of insects in the sky.

The demon insects were directly blown to pieces by the shells.

Yekongyao chuckled and activated the space equipment. One hundred intelligent mechanical turrets were deployed and, under her control, fired at the demon insects in the sky.

Xiao Zitong, Zhao Meixian and Nangong Hui held large-caliber Gauss rifles and shot at the magic insects in the sky.

"He can mobilize sword energy to kill demonic insects more than ten miles away! My junior is truly remarkable! After he graduates, I'm afraid he'll be able to climb to a higher position than me in just a few years!"

Chen Yunxing stood on a high ground in the fortress, watching Yang Lie use the Holy Dragon Sword Energy to easily kill the demon insects more than ten kilometers away. A trace of envy flashed in his eyes and he sighed softly.

Fang Li also had a hint of envy in her eyes: "The geniuses at the War University are truly outstanding!!"

The large group of demon insects were shattered by the Holy Dragon Sword Qi and various artillery shells before they could get close. However, there were too many of them, and a large number of demon insects still broke through the blockade and approached the fortress.

"Enter level one war state!"

A mechanical synthesized sound rang out, and countless automatic cannons emerged from the fortress. They locked onto the incoming demonic insects, and dense streams of fire shot out, blasting them into the swarm, shattering them one by one. The insect tide hardly stopped, pouring in from all directions. However, as soon as they approached the fortress, they were blasted into pieces and fell from the sky.

On a big tree in a forest far away from the fortress, there stood two insect-men with human-like torsos and mantis heads, blending completely into the environment like chameleons.

A tall insectoid gazed at the fortress, eyes filled with hatred as it spoke, "Mantjiu! Look!! Because of humans, every time this season comes, our compatriots are forced to fly to the fortress to die. They send people to our mother to seize the royal jelly!! We have been oppressed by humans for generations! Only by eliminating the humans here can we control this planet and allow our Black Ancient Demon Insect Clan to thrive and multiply."

Another insect man said with a puzzled look on his face: "Manting Er, since we are going to launch the attack, why should we let our compatriots die in vain?"

Tang Yi said slowly, "Just know that the time is not right yet! And it is a necessary sacrifice! Okay, let's go back!"

"Yes!"

Mantis Two followed Mantis One and left here quietly.

Wave after wave of Zerg attacked the fortress and were torn to pieces. Even if a swarm of Zerg flew into the fortress, it would be easily killed by the elite soldiers wearing power armor.

Power armor is a weakened version of a mecha. A mecha requires a warrior to pilot, and only a mecha master can fully unleash its combat capabilities. However, power armor can be used by any ordinary person, and after equipping it, even an ordinary person has the power to kill a martial arts master at the Heavenly Realm. This is the power of technology.

Yang Lie fought for nine consecutive days, slaying a vast number of third-order demonic insects. On this aquaculture planet, the extraordinary creatures killed by Yang Lie's dragon team were their trophies, which they could take directly or sell to the fortress on the spot.

Selling a third-level demon insect corpse directly to the fortress can also earn dozens of Alliance coins. Those third-level demon insect corpses can also become nutrients for Yang Lie's small world.

Except for Yang Lie, everyone else also took action. After all, this was a good opportunity to make money.

Nine days later, Yang Lie took the entire team to rest for a whole day to adjust their condition.

Although Yang Lie possessed a life essence far beyond that of an ordinary Heavenly Man Realm cultivator, and his recovery speed was astonishingly fast, he still rested for a day out of caution.

Early next morning.

"I will bless you with a layer of illusionary clothing! Under the power of the illusionary clothing, it can disrupt the perception of living things. It will make those demonic insects turn a blind eye and deaf ear to us."

Ye Kongyao sat in the Colonial Fantasy Dragon and activated the Mirage Dragon Eye. Layer upon layer of illusionary waves merged with her mental power and intertwined to form layers of illusionary clothes, which fell on Yang Lie and his party.

Ye Kongyao said, "Alright! The illusion robe can last for two hours! But once it is used in battle, it will break and lose its effect. Of course, the effect of the illusion robe is limited and cannot be hidden from some powerful people with illusion-breaking abilities."

"set off!"

At Yang Lie's command, everyone flew towards the outside world.

In the forest outside, there were all kinds of pitch-black demonic insects, but none of them could see through the illusionary clothes. Yang Lie and his group arrived at the first black ancient insect nest very smoothly.

That ancient black insect nest had dozens of passages, one of which was thirty meters high and extremely spacious. It was made entirely of a super alloy that was difficult to corrode, and was obviously a human creation.

(End of this chapter)