Book 10: Chapter 10: Accident

Captain Marx was not wrong; Qin Lun was indeed very upset now.

Actually, in the combat rules of this world, Bobby was not the luckiest one among them.

Biomass particle state was indeed a good ability, but it was just a very strong special power, not a complete skill system. Qin Lun, however, solidly brought in an attack system—his gun techniques.

Although this world’s combat rules were different from most other dimensions, Qin Lun found that basic energy and physical conversion laws still existed in space. In other words, his Spiral Shot, Ballistic Refraction, and Weakness Crosshair, as well as the Death Notice combat model, could all be used.

For this reason, Qin Lun gave up the particle railgun specially configured by Sherlock for the “Seventeenth Fallen Angel” and chose two Gauss steel pellet guns.

Compared to beam weapons like the magnetic gun and particle cannon, which hit as soon as they locked on, physical projectile weapons using particle acceleration were somewhat outdated. No matter what, in space mech combat due to high mobility, even with the help of fire control systems, physical projectile weapons had a high chance of missing, and the hit rate was really not good.

Of course, physical projectile weapons had their advantages. Because they could use various special physical bullets, their power was very strong.

Sherlock had done similar shooting range experiments. As long as two high-explosive shells hit the same area of an AP field at the same time, they could directly break through any mech’s miniature AP field. If steel-core armor-piercing rounds were continuously fired at the same area, even a battleship-level AP field could be pierced.

After Bobby ruined the ambush plan, Qin Lun had a sudden idea. He let the other four act as bait while he used Holy Thorn to disguise his mech as a small asteroid, waiting for an opportunity.

In the first few days of testing, Qin Lun had already learned that the bio-energy converted by the eternal particle furnace could also grow thorns, so he didn’t need to use too much Sacred Pool energy. This simple disguise was just for show. If it were face-to-face combat among Apostles, it would definitely be seen through.

However, when the battlefield shifted to outer space, things were different. Unless the mech’s detection equipment was set to a very precise resolution, the disguise was still effective.

Unfortunately, just as Captain Marx said, Qin Lun was too cautious and lacked mech combat experience, missing his chance. Because the Gauss steel pellet guns couldn’t hit immediately upon locking on, he had to get closer to the enemy to turn the tables in one move.

But once the two sides engaged, whether it was Balin or Robin and the others, they quickly realized their tactics were wrong. The battle turned from a surround-and-destroy into a chaotic fight. The whole area was filled with flying fire and shadows, everyone moving at high speed under AP fields, leaving no room for ambush.

As a result, Qin Lun had to keep waiting and waiting, and until the battle was nearly over, he still hadn’t found a chance to strike.

Seeing this, Qin Lun could do nothing. Actually, before this exercise, they had asked the guides about mech squad tactics and watched many combat recordings of Gith pilots.

However, neither the Apostles nor the Gith had practical experience with full-bio mechs. The Gith mostly used mechanical mechs or semi-bio semi-mechanical mechs. Although protected by AB fields, because the Gith themselves couldn’t resist Jannamer’s physical and mental pollution, they usually avoided close combat and fought in unit formations.

This unit tactic usually involved groups of three or five mechs coordinating and covering each other. Some acted as bait, some provided fire cover, and the last part was responsible for assault and sniping, using tactical advantages against Jannamer.

This approach minimized casualties. Essentially, the Gith were trying to outlast Jannamer through attrition. Of course, when individual quality wasn’t superior, maximizing tactical potential was the best choice.

However, no one realized that the Descendant Apostles and the full-bio tissue mechs were completely different.

Pollution immunity, higher mobility, endless powerful special abilities, combined with the various strong weapons the Gith had developed over thousands of years specifically to deal with Jannamer, made their combat power far surpass that of small-sized Jannamer.

In other words, when the Apostles got into the Bingren mechs, even they didn’t realize that their strength no longer required teamwork. They had become extremely powerful individuals, so strong that they didn’t need other companions and could control a battle sector alone.

They had changed from pack wolves in team combat to roaring beast kings of the mountain forest. Having three or five beast kings gathered on one mountain would obviously reduce their hunting efficiency instead.

“So that’s how it is. Although the Bingren, as a single soldier mech, appears very small in space, the powerful drive of the eternal particle furnace, combined with the high load and high mobility of the full-bio mech, gives it the ability to control a sector of space.

The scale of our exercise was too small; it didn’t test everyone’s true strength. Apart from Bobby, almost no one else showed their replacement abilities.” Robin’s beautiful eyes flickered as she quietly watched the battle ahead.

She had already stopped. Currently, there were four Bingren in the combat area—four on their side, and only Balin left on the enemy side. Even if that sneaky guy hiding who-knows-where jumped out again, he couldn’t turn the tables.

“We lost!” Seeing the third person on their side, Sawa, get “eliminated,” Qin Lun knew their side had lost.

Actually, he realized his mistake earlier than Captain Marx had said. He shouldn’t have stayed hidden for so long when they didn’t have a numbers advantage. Also, choosing the asteroid belt for an ambush wasn’t wrong, but facing enemies who also had high mobility and without a numbers advantage, this space was too narrow, not good for the weaker side to maneuver.

Just as Qin Lun was about to drop his disguise and rush out to “heroically sacrifice” himself alongside Balin, he suddenly felt a chill. A furry tentacle hidden at the edge of his Holy Thorn disguise turned slightly.

The gun techniques Qin Lun brought into this world couldn’t really be considered an “ability” given by Star Void, but rather a gun skill that relied on Death Notice’s precise calculations. Now, this furry tentacle was one of his replacement abilities.

The Gith used Jannamer biological tissue as components for the full-bio mechs mainly because this biological tissue’s defense was no weaker than metal composites, yet its toughness and elasticity were stronger, allowing the mech to handle greater overload and mobility.

However, when the Apostles got into the Bingren mechs, they quickly discovered another major characteristic of Jannamer biological tissue, which was the real reason the full-bio mechs became strong individual combat units—the mimicry ability of Jannamer biological tissue.

All the “abilities” the Apostles obtained through Star Void replacement could be expressed through the mimicry ability of Jannamer biological tissue.

This thing that looked like a moth’s antenna was the replacement ability of Qin Lun’s original two eye techniques and Staring Aura, called Multieye Bramble Horn. If the tentacle was magnified to a certain extent, you could see that the fuzz on its surface was actually tiny, grain-sized black compound eyes.

The Multieye Bramble Horn could radiate a bio-wave based on Qin Lun’s heartbeat frequency, used to detect all cosmic life forms with life characteristics.

Don’t underestimate these Multieye Bramble Horns. Every hundred of them consumed 1% of the conversion energy from the eternal particle furnace. The Multieye Bramble Horn had a three-dimensional field of view and could feed back external images to the mech’s core optical computer, also possessing thermal, biological, optical, and other detection functions.

With its assistance, Qin Lun was still an excellent Hunter in this world.

Because of the disguise, Qin Lun needed to minimize the mech’s thermal response, so he only maintained six Multieye Bramble Horns in the six directions around the “Holy Thorn asteroid”—up, down, left, right, front, and back.

At this moment, one of these Multieye Bramble Horns detected an abnormal situation.

His current position was actually very close to the battlefield. However, because they were in the asteroid belt, his small asteroid was almost undetectable. And the Multieye Bramble Horn just noticed that another small asteroid a few kilometers away had moved slightly.

“Is someone from Robin’s side also setting up an ambush?” Qin Lun couldn’t help but have that thought, but he immediately dismissed it himself.

All five of Robin’s team had already appeared. Apart from Dean, who was taken out by Sawa, Balin, and Frank’s combined fire, the other four were still in the combat area. The “eliminated” guys had stepped aside, pointing at the battlefield and discussing their experiences.

Something’s not right! Qin Lun felt a cold sensation shoot up from his tailbone, making him shiver all over. Even though the Apostles were fighting enthusiastically, remember they were only using toy guns now. Apart from a few people’s special abilities, no one had real weapons.

Dozens of Multieye Bramble Horns quietly emerged from the disguised asteroid’s surface. As the bio-waves stacked, about twenty faint red dots appeared in the Seventeenth Fallen Angel’s field of view. These red dots were scattered randomly throughout the asteroid belt, with about ten of them quietly gathering behind the four “eliminated” Apostles.

These things definitely weren’t Gith monitoring devices but some kind of living cosmic organisms. Qin Lun was sure of this immediately.

His finger moved slightly; he wanted to send a message to the Faith, but he stopped immediately. To make this exercise as realistic as possible, the Faith was currently parked 2000 light-seconds away from them, with only a few monitors scattered around, so they couldn’t count on help soon.

Qin Lun didn’t know if sending an electronic signal would alert these cosmic organisms whose nature was still unclear. They could only rely on themselves for now.

“Robin, listen to me…”