Boluo was lucky, finding himself right between two sawtooth discs.
He patted his face. "Good grief, I really am lucky, hahaha!" He laughed heartlessly.
Before his laughter had faded, the sky above once again filled with the enormous sound of sothing tearing through the air.
As he looked up, he saw a gigantic Flying chanical Species dive down, its huge claws aiming straight for his shoulders.
Boluo’s complexion instantly changed as he tried to scramble away. "Help! Help! Help! Don’t let it catch —I’m afraid of heights—"
The Flying chanical Species swooping down from the sky looked sowhat like a vulture, with a wingspan of over thirty ters and another six sawtooth discs suctioned beneath its wings.
A tallic chain-hook, similar to a scorpion’s tail, trailed behind it.
Atop its head was a bright, ring-shaped Energy Core, constantly emitting intense light and heat, providing copious power to the massive chanical beast.
BANG!
A gunshot rang out, the recoil shaking the VSG-47, and a hole imdiately appeared on one side of the Flying chanical Species’ wing.
This caused its flight pattern to change. After it took so ti to stabilize, the group, all hands on deck, dragged Boluo into the VSG-47.
The Flying chanical Species wobbled, adapted, and then soared high again, circling several tis in the sky before diving once more.
This ti, it cunningly changed directions often. The people on the ground fired repeatedly, but even Dora, with her special shooting talent, had difficulty hitting it.
RATTLE, RATTLE, RATTLE...
As it dived, the sound of chains being released was heard. The crowd gasped as the Flying chanical Species passed over their heads, rising high, its tail chain-hook detached and snagging onto the VSG-47!
BANG!
The chains tensed, and then the VSG-47 was lifted bit by bit!
"Jump off quick!"
Everyone was in a ss, and Qing Ruyan shouted, "Co to , everyone!"
Struggling to ascend, the Flying chanical Species lifted the VSG-47 over a thousand ters before loosening its grip and letting it fall.
It paid no further attention to the VSG-47 and turned around, flying back. However, its behavior was strangely erratic, and it did not continue the attack.
Qing Ruyan spread her arms wide, everyone huddled close around her, her body trembling slightly, sweat soon appearing on her temples.
Protecting so many people all at once was stretching her limit.
In the sky, the Flying chanical Species kept circling, emitting loud, tallic cries, but was unwilling to leave.
Barely managing to speak, Qing Ruyan said, "This won’t do. Chen Gu, think of sothing..."
The mont Qing Ruyan’s powers were withdrawn, the Flying chanical Species would imdiately attack. The creature was too strong, and with it flying overhead, the people without the protection of the VSG-47 were like lambs to the slaughter.
As soon as Qing Ruyan told Chen Gu to think of sothing, Boluo felt a tightness in his chest.
Chen Gu had already been devising a plan. His gaze swept over everyone’s face and finally settled on Glove, who imdiately had a bad feeling.
"Don’t feel burdened; this strategy is pretty standard," Chen Gu hurriedly explained.
Glove breathed a sigh of relief. "Go ahead."
"Ever caught a bird when you were little?" As soon as Chen Gu spoke, he saw that everyone was baffled and quickly realized: The children of the new era, your childhoods were indeed deprived!
Chen Gu detailed a simple bird trap and then said, "It needs air to provide upward force for takeoff—in this process, air is a dium, which you can use with your ability..."
Glove, prone to fanciful thinking, imdiately nodded. "I get it! I’ll use my powers to make it so it can never fly!"
And then I’ll be the man who saved the whole team! The boss will reward with a fortune for my ritorious deeds, and both Big Rabbit and the little President, grateful for my lifesaving grace, will have no choice but to dedicate their lives to !
But Chen Gu looked at him with a pitying gaze. Within Hu Ling’s team, intelligence seed to be in short supply...
"Absolutely not!" Chen Gu said. "Making it fall to the ground once is enough. First, to make it so it can never fly again... how many tis would you need to use your ability? Are you sure you can manage that?"
"Besides, this thing might not be so easy to deal with once it’s on the ground."
The group looked up at the Energy Gathering chanical Species circling above. It had a wingspan of hundreds of ters, a sword-like beak, and terrifying steel claws. They all nodded in solemn agreent, their movents in unison.
Glove asked, "So, what should I do?"
"You just need to make it land once," Chen Gu replied.
Glove was dismissive. "That’s simple, leave it to ."
Following on, Chen Gu said, "Next, it’s up to Old Mo."
Old Mo, in his listening-to-opera mode, was startled when ntioned. "?"
"Yes, you are the key to the whole plan!" Chen Gu said. "Do you know the chanical species’ biggest flaw?"
Old Mo guessed with a puzzled face, "Energy?"
Chen Gu shook his head. As expected, he couldn’t guess—it was official, Hu Ling’s team had an intelligence deficiency.
"It’s wear and tear," Chen Gu spared them any further "difficulty" and simply gave the answer. "Even chanical Species are the sa; with severe wear and tear, they beco nothing but a pile of scrap iron."
"You’ll transform into quicksand and hide in the ground. Glove will bring the big bird down, and that’s when you’ll wrap around it. Then, keep infiltrating its body, using your sand to wear down its inner parts..."
"Hold on a second!" Old Mo interrupted. "Am I wearing it down, or is it wearing down? tal is harder than sand, in any case, isn’t it?"
"So who’s actually wearing down whom here?"
Chen Gu explained patiently, "It’s relative. Besides, for you, it’s just about the sand getting ground a bit finer, not fatal..."
"But it hurts a lot!" Old Mo bellowed, his protest fueled by the prospect of pain, tossing out Chen Gu’s light comnts about it being "relative" and "not fatal."
Chen Gu shrugged. "This is the best strategy I can think of. If you’re unwilling, you guys co up with sothing else."
The group exchanged glances. First off, anything from Hu Ling’s team could be discounted; with their intelligence running on empty, what kind of plan could they co up with?
Big Rabbit... umm, there’s an old saying, sothing about being big and brainless. So Dora’s two ears twirled around, and her gaze gradually beca vacant. She was indeed thinking, but coming up empty-handed.
Qing Ruyan simply didn’t have the energy to think and was on the verge of being unable to hold on any longer, clenching her teeth and fiercely urging, "Hurry up!"
Liu Shichan and a few others did have so ideas, but after considering everything, Chen Gu’s seemingly nonsensical tactic appeared to be the most fitting.
Leder cleared his throat and, in a forceful and persuasive tone to Old Mo, said, "More money!"
Old Mo sighed deeply and relented. "Fine..."
Chen Gu snapped his fingers. "Good. The next step is for you two to go out and get ready. Glove, you’ll have to be the bait. Rember the birdcage I told you about just now..."
Glove yelled out, "I have to be the bait too? Didn’t you say it was a normal tactic?!"
You scoundrel, you liar!
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