Gundam UC Hunting Time

The secretary hurriedly ran out. Jamitov loosened his collar, put his hands behind his back, walked to the observation window, and watched the black MS walking in this direction. A rare, intriguing smile appeared on his gloomy face.

But suddenly, the black MS stopped.

"Don't you guys think...it's too easy?"

Inside the cockpit, looking at the wreckage scattered all over the ground, Lin Xingyuan suddenly realized something and asked a question through the communicator.

"Too easy?"

"There are still enemies?"

"Oh dear, as expected of the Black Reaper, this isn't enough to satisfy our appetites. We're about to be exhausted!"

Doris was right; it would be difficult for other MS units to perform this well, but Lin Xingyuan still felt something was off.

Having captured the base, the enemy didn't send any more ground-type mobile suits, but instead relied solely on conventional tank units and a few aquatic vehicles to confront the Federation forces? What was their objective? It couldn't be the gold in the base or capturing Djamitov, could it? Although that's plausible.

but--

Antares 3, what can you see from your position?

"...I didn't see anything~" Doris, who was high up, looked around but didn't find anything unusual. Worried that Lin Xingyuan might have a psychological problem, she asked with unusual concern, "Captain, are you alright?"

"I am fine."

Lin Xingyuan frowned, trying to discern the source of his unease.

Are they remnants of a defiant army?

Being hated by enemies is a common occurrence—but since his level as a new human was low, he wasn't entirely sure, so he asked Lilith again.

Antares 1, do you have any particular feelings?

According to the information displayed in the comments, Lilith is also a Newtype, a point also pointed to by Durandal's analysis.

Lilith didn't answer immediately, but Doris couldn't help but interject first.

"What kind of weird play are you two doing? Don't involve us, okay? It's making us all nervous."

What's there to consider with this reaction? There's definitely something wrong with it.

[If you can tell something's wrong, why aren't you running?]

"Everyone, evacuate!"

The barrage of comments flashed across Lin Xingyuan's vision, solidifying his resolve. However, before he could finish speaking, a sense of crisis struck him like a needle prick.

"team leader!"

A flash of electricity appeared on her forehead, and Lilith sensed it as well, letting out a sharp warning!

"Jump up!"

In the blink of an eye, Lin Xingyuan stepped on the pedal and gave instructions!

Although Sherry and Doris had not yet developed the battlefield instincts of seasoned veterans, they had already cultivated the habit of obedience during their hellish training and carried out their operations without hesitation!

In an instant, the back thrusters of the four mobile suits activated simultaneously, spewing blue flames and propelling the machines into the air. Almost at the same time, more than a dozen rockets pierced through the rain, leaving terrifying trajectories on the screen!

"boom--"

The rain curtain was torn apart into a misty spray by the shockwave, and the entire base was instantly engulfed in flames from the explosion! Before they even landed, Anita's anxious report came through the communication channel.

"Nine o'clock! Eleven o'clock! One o'clock! Three o'clock! Enemy MS! Number... I'm very sorry! Bad weather and background noise have interfered with the target acquisition system, so we cannot confirm!"

Lin Xingyuan had no time to listen to her report; all his energy was focused on scouting the enemy. He immediately observed the direction from which the rockets had come and quickly spotted clear "movement lines" in the coniferous forest on a nearby hillside—traces left by mobile suits. Then, several mobile suits jumped up and fired rockets again!

At the same time, the others quickly reported the enemy situation.

"This is Heart Constellation 2 (Shirley)! Multiple enemy aircraft detected, number 2, no, 3!"

"Spirit Constellation 1 (Lilith) reports! Enemy planes are approaching! Three of them!"

"This is Antares 3 (Doris), and there's one here too! We've been set up!?"

Rockets came again, and the aircraft quickly maneuvered to avoid them. Suddenly, a super bright bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, allowing everyone to see clearly that a total of 13 mobile suits rushed out of the taiga, running, gliding, and jumping, spreading out their battle lines and charging towards them!

"Are you kidding me!?"

The enemy outnumbered them by more than three times. Doris, who always loved to joke, felt like she was being played by fate, and her voice trembled uncontrollably.

At the same time—

"They should be running low on ammunition. Each aircraft, proceed according to plan, divide them up, and destroy them one by one!"

On the Zeon side, Colonel Frederick Cranberry, leading the experimental Dom, coldly issued his orders, receiving a resounding response.

"learn!"

The MS units, charging in a linear formation, immediately converged, forming four attack spearheads. They raised their machine guns and rocket launchers and opened fire again, not to hit their targets, but simply to drive the MS away.

Soon, after another round of dense and precise rocket launches, all four black mobile suits were forced to different locations.

"It's done! Let's go!"

"For Captain Doug!"

"For Magasija!"

Long live Zeon!

Accompanied by frenzied shouts, the four teams of Zeon mobile suits rushed toward their targets. The fastest of them were the elite forces personally led by Colonel Frederick Cranberry. Through the previous battle and the analysis of the evasive reaction just now, he confirmed that the black Land Cruiser was the "Black Reaper's" ride!

That is--

Seeing three of the four enemy planes ignoring the terrain and speeding towards them at an astonishing speed as if gliding, Lin Xingyuan immediately made a guess. Looking at the two leading planes, their large bodies, their skirt-like bulging armor structure (with orange-red propulsion flames shooting out from the edges of the armor), their huge, trumpet-like legs, and their pink single eye moving in a cross shape, he became even more certain of their model.

The Great Demon of the Zeon Army!?

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The comments section is driving me crazy... I have to add more chapters to show my attitude.

Chapter 129 A Beast at the End of Its Tunnel?

The powerful rockets kept coming in one after another, forcing the black ground combat Gundam to retreat repeatedly. By the time Lin Xingyuan realized that the communication had been cut off, the squad's units had already been separated by the enemy.

"Oops……"

With the fiber optic cable broken, wireless communication is only accompanied by intermittent static.

Lin Xingyuan stared at the enemy planes on the screen. While still in the air, he had already begun to retaliate, firing a series of shells at the three planes to stop them from getting closer. But the enemy planes immediately drifted swiftly to evade, and all the shells landed in the water mist kicked up by the hovercraft thrusters, without hitting their targets.

Wow! That's fast!

Lin Xingyuan clicked his tongue, and at that moment, the barrage of comments refreshed with key information.

The Dom's ground movement speed is three times that of the Zaku! It can reach a maximum speed of 240 kilometers per hour.

Find terrain that prevents them from utilizing their movement speed.

A true monster is one that tumbles and rolls on a high-speed trail through the rainforest.

Fans were full of confidence, but reality was not so easy—the enemy had obviously taken this into account, so they chose to conceal themselves in the mountains and forests before launching their attack, deliberately compressing the battlefield into a flat valley where there was no terrain that could restrict mobility.

The valley soil was soaked with rainwater. As soon as the black ground-based Gundam landed, it slipped and fell to its knees, splashing mud and water everywhere. The Zaku that landed behind the three hovercraft immediately seized the opportunity and opened fire with its large-caliber cannon.

In the nick of time, the rapid defense skill activated. Lin Xingyuan maneuvered his mech to raise its shield, blocking the incoming shell—the Luna Titanium Alloy Shield withstood the attack, but the mech was still propelled away by the explosion, dragging a deep trench in the mud. A malfunction code appeared in his shoulder joint, but he couldn't afford to deal with it. He immediately stepped on the propulsion pedal, maneuvering his mech to leap into the air and counterattack, but after firing only one burst, the machine gun stopped responding.

"Out of ammo!?"

Was this also part of the enemy's calculations?

He was secretly alarmed. The machine landed again, but immediately lost its balance due to the slippery mud. He had to activate the thrusters again to jump up. Under gravity, the machine could not stay airborne for long.

This can't go on!

To conserve precious propellant, Lin Xingyuan decisively discarded the empty machine gun and switched to a beam rifle, aiming at the artillery-type Zaku and firing.

The beam pierced through the rain and hit the enemy aircraft that was firing. The Zaku exploded, but the beam rifle also ran out of energy at that moment!

[Sacrificing their own people's lives to avoid running out of ammunition here!? Typical Nazi!]

"hateful--!"

Lin Xingyuan couldn't help but curse as well, his mind racing as he considered a solution.

Without favorable terrain, the only way to deal with a machine like the Dom is to blast the floor with a rocket launcher or shoot its feet with a beam rifle—its air cushion movement is both its greatest advantage and its greatest disadvantage. If the thermonuclear engines under its feet malfunction, it will immediately crash and roll like a gourd. And when this 80-ton machine crashes at a speed of over 200 kilometers per hour, the pilot, unless made of iron, will most likely lose his combat ability on the spot.

The problem is that his machine guns are out of ammunition, his beam weapons are out of energy, and he has used up all his anti-armor and anti-personnel mines. All he has left are his head close-in weapon system, his chest 60mm Vulcan cannon, and two armor-piercing thrusters.

The Vulcan cannon is okay against the Zaku, but it's not very effective against the heavily armored Dom. As for the two armor-piercing thrusters—there are three enemy aircraft in there!

This is bad...

"Drip-drip-"

The alarm signaling the approaching enemy aircraft suddenly blared in the cockpit—it was those three enemy planes! Lin Xingyuan immediately stopped thinking, retrieved his beam rifle, and casually drew his beam saber from his waist.

Well, at least we dealt with the long-range threat before running out of ammo, so we can still go all out!

"bring it on!"

The ground beneath his feet was too slippery to apply any leverage. Even with the anti-slip grappling hooks deployed, he could only maintain clumsy movements. The three enemy planes, propelled by air cushions, darted and drifted across the slippery ground, completely unaffected by the mud. Their speed was astonishing, and even Lin Xingyuan's enhanced dynamic vision could hardly keep up with them. They kept firing, pushing him into a desperate situation.

The Dom's 380mm rocket launcher is the largest caliber weapon that a mobile suit can be equipped with. Its power is astonishing; a single shot is enough to severely damage a cruiser! — Clearly, the enemy has done their homework in this regard and knows that ordinary machine guns pose no threat to Gundams!

I was thinking of outsmarting the enemy, but I never expected to be outsmarted and manipulated by them!

It's like a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs.

For a moment, Lin Xingyuan couldn't help but feel agitated and grit his teeth, but as a seasoned elite, he quickly adjusted his mindset, held his breath, and stared intently at the enemy plane, focusing all his attention on sensing its movements.

The high-temperature mist rising from the beam saber interfered with his vision, so he simply shut off the power supply temporarily.

"Die—!"

The pink monocular pierced the rain, exuding a murderous aura. Three hovercraft approached again, their movements synchronized, charging in a V-formation, firing their rocket launchers. Their figures were finally fully and clearly exposed in the scope.

[It really is an experimental Great Demon!?]

Send over this kind of machine!?

The barrage of exclamations went off, but Lin Xingyuan had no time to pay attention—one rocket after another flew in with a split second to the others. He could only intercept them with his machine gun while maneuvering his mobile suit to make small leaps to evade them. However, due to the terrain, the Ground Combat Gundam was unable to take off in time and was still affected by the blast wave of the rockets—no! They were originally aimed at the ground!

By the time he realized this, the explosion had already created a massive wave of mud that obscured the Land Gundam's vision, and the shockwave made it impossible for Lin Xingyuan to control his mech. Just as he was struggling against the shaking and pulling, trying to take off and escape the unfavorable situation, a mech smaller than the Great Demon, yet also capable of hovering and propulsion, broke through the mud wave and suddenly appeared in front of the black Land Gundam. It swung its spiked hand shield, striking the Land Gundam squarely in the abdomen as it had just taken off!

"not good--!!"

Lin Xingyuan was shocked!

The next second, a powerful impact sent the black ground combat Gundam crashing backward uncontrollably. Inside the cockpit, the seatbelt dug deep into his collarbone, the pain nearly causing him to faint, and acid reflux surged up his throat. As the machine slammed heavily onto the muddy ground, another violent jolt left him breathless and dizzy. At the same time, a piercing alarm blared in the cockpit, and a dangerous red message flashed on the screen: Fusion reactor output halted, drive system inefficient!

"Ah, cough cough cough..."

The screen on the aircraft was flashing violently. Lin Xingyuan was crying and coughing incessantly, his mind still replaying the enemy plane that had just launched the sneak attack.

It's not the Great Demon, it's Guf!?

[Air cushion experimental Gough!? Why is Zeon sending only experimental machines?]

Zeon has run out of troops.

Although it's an experimental unit, this Gouf is incredibly powerful, specializing in melee combat; most mobile suits can't withstand its attack.

If the shot had hit the cockpit, PL might have been knocked unconscious immediately.

The barrage of comments danced before his eyes, while his mech, like a dying man, was completely out of control, giving Lin Xingyuan a long-forgotten sense of the threat of death. They were right; that attack was clearly aimed at the cockpit. If Lu Gao's cockpit hadn't been in his chest, he would have been destroyed on the spot!

No, things aren't much better now than completely destroyed...

The rain gradually stopped, but rumbling thunder echoed in the sky, indicating that the heavy rain was not over.

Is this where we stop?

No! These cats and dogs won't take my life!