Battle on the Insect Planet (1): Rejection

Gao Hexuan therefore prepared for himself a [Lightning Gun] that was strong enough and had a fast enough attack speed to ensure that he would not be killed instantly by the opponent before his bloodline attack was triggered.

After selecting the skills and weapons they wanted, the three of them bought a lot of practice time as usual to quickly familiarize themselves with their new abilities.

Because they often went to various small restaurants in the Silver Page Area to eat, the three of them got to know many trialers, and more importantly, they met trial participants from different countries.

There was no language barrier in the Endless World. In just five days, the three of them witnessed no less than three passionate verbal battles between trialers of different strengths. Although no matter how fierce the verbal battles were, they never really came to blows in the end, the verbal battles would often quickly spread to the surrounding areas, involving all the trialers of the same or different strengths.

Fortunately, Silver Page Area was artificially divided into five areas by the trialers. If daily activities were carried out in the corresponding power areas, at least it would be easy to gain the upper hand when encountering a verbal battle.

But who wants to eat with all kinds of curses in their ears?

So after encountering three melees, Xia Ruize and the other two stayed in the team space to practice cooperation on their own except when they needed to go to the main temple to use the training auxiliary function, and relied on “takeout” for their three meals.

They found that they could place orders remotely in their private spaces, and the food would be automatically delivered to their respective spaces.

After 15 days of hard training, they returned to the real world and found that they still had a month of vacation. They felt relieved.

Before, they completed the mission once a month, and they were very punctual. Now it was better, once every two months, they feel a lot more relaxed.

So much so that a month later, when they received the notification that the mission was about to begin, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and the thoughts in their minds were “It’s finally here…”

…

There was a buzzing sound in his ears. Before opening his eyes, Xia Ruize couldn’t help but frown slightly because of the noise in his ears.

The mental power fed back the surrounding situation to the brain before the eyes did, so when Xia Ruize opened his eyes, there was no expression of surprise on his face.

He was sitting on a seat at the edge of a spaceship’s cabin. He could turn his head and see through the porthole that the spaceship was flying rapidly around an ochre-colored planet.

The seats in the cabin were spaced very far apart, so even though the cabin was huge, it only held about two hundred people, two hundred silent people wearing uniforms.

Xia Ruize was wearing the same clothes as everyone else, a one-piece suit made of an unknown material, which wrapped him from the neck to the soles of his feet. There was also a big hat behind his neck, which looked like it could cover not only his head but also his face.

A mechanical voice in the cabin was broadcasting:

“Dear brave soldiers, to the left of the AD-9047 spaceship is the target of our exploration this time, the planet Erdogan!

This is a resource planet that was just discovered by the Alliance three months ago. According to preliminary exploration data, this planet contains a vast amount of energy and resources. Completely controlling the Erdogan planet is an important task for the Alliance in the next five years, and you will be the first lucky ones to land on this virgin planet!

The Alliance has high hopes for you. As long as you successfully complete the one-month exploration mission, you will receive an amazing reward of 100,000 Alliance Coins and a chance to be promoted first! In addition, all kinds of valuable discoveries will receive corresponding rewards!

To this end, the Alliance has prepared sufficient logistical support for you.

During the exploration, you will receive round-the-clock support from a planet-level resource station, equipped with HS-6 multifunctional mechas, high-energy electromagnetic shock guns, and sufficient energy supplies.

Are the passionate soldiers already eager to complete the mission?

The command is looking forward to your good news!”

The radio played the encouraging mechanical sounds in a loop, but the soldiers in the cabin were not encouraged. Most of them remained calm and indifferent. Only the occasional low complaints provided Xia Ruize with more clues.

“It sounds nice, but they only mentioned the rewards and never mentioned any dangers. It’s really unlucky. How could I be chosen to open up the wasteland?”

“Don’t even mention cheating us. I know some inside information. We are not the first group to be sent here. The first group of explorers who entered Erdogan’s planet have all lost contact. That’s why the military sent people to open up the wasteland.”

“It’s so unlucky. The whole army randomly drew lots, and we, the 1,000 people, were the most unlucky. We don’t know what kind of dangers we will encounter if we go, and if we don’t go, we will be court-martialed? It’s really pushing us to a dead end!”

…

As Xia Ruize listened, he finally understood why there was no passionate and excited atmosphere among the soldiers in the entire cabin, but only dead silence, because they did not volunteer to participate in the dangerous pioneering.

Xia Ruize also captured a key piece of information. There were a total of 1,000 soldiers coming to explore the land this time, which made him feel a little relieved. There was no sign of Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan in the cabin of his spaceship. They were most likely on other spaceships.

Xia Ruize, who kept activating his [Heart Net] skill, was the first to connect with Gao Hexuan. He heard Gao Hexuan sigh, “These equipment look so high-tech, but there’s just one problem: I don’t know how to use any of them!”

The range of [Space Backtracking] was far smaller than that of [Heart Net], so Xia Ruize’s mental power was unable to lock onto Gao Hexuan’s position, but the heart net had already connected to the person, and being able to communicate with each other made him feel more at ease.

Soon Cheng Huaiqian’s voice also appeared in the heart network: “The spaceship I am on is indicating that it is ready to enter the planet Erdogan. It seems that I am on the spaceship in front.”

Completely relieved after hearing his lover’s voice, Xia Ruize saw the floor beneath his feet suddenly flip over to reveal a big hole, and then a huge humanoid metal mecha rose from the hole. The mecha’s metal hand stretched forward and in front of Xia Ruize. There was a watch-shaped controller on its open palm.

The soldier next to him had already picked up the controller and put it on his wrist. Xia Ruize quickly imitated the movements of the native soldier next to him, put on the controller, opened the hatch on the chest of the mecha, and dived in.

After the hatch closed, the screens in front of him lit up one after another and began playing the mecha instruction manual.

At the same time, Xia Ruize, who was paying attention to the situation of the surrounding mechas, immediately discovered that they were not the only three who did not know how to use mechas. It might be because the pioneers were selected by drawing lots from the entire army, and it was inevitable that some new recruits, civilian soldiers and even logistics soldiers were selected. These people did not seem to be very skilled in operating mechas and weapons. Of course, it was not ruled out that there were trialers among those who were in a hurry.

When Xia Ruize followed the instructions in the manual and followed the people around him to successfully secure himself to the sensor cabin inside the mecha, he received a mission reminder in his mind at the same time:

[Located at the edge of the star map, Erdogan is a beautiful and gorgeous planet. Anyone passing by will be mesmerized by its beauty and sleep here forever.

Main Mission: Survive for 30 Days

Mission completion: reward 2,000 survival points

Mission failed: deduct 1,000 survival points

Special reminder: This mission can be rejected. Please confirm within 30 seconds whether to reject this mission… Yes/No?]

“Hey, that’s pretty humane. Let’s first enter the mission world to understand the basic situation before deciding whether to reject the mission. What do you think?”

Cheng Huaiqian’s voice echoed in the heart net  with a smile.

“I’ll listen to you all.” Gao Hexuan, the little tail, immediately expressed his opinion.

Xia Ruize thought about it and decided decisively: “Let’s give it a try.”

Although they had one chance to refuse a mission every year after entering the Silver Page Area, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian agreed after discussion that they would not use the right to refuse unless there were special circumstances. For them, every mission was both a challenge and an opportunity.

All three chose “No”. The next second, as a reward, the basic usage of the mecha and weapons was directly imprinted into their memories. Suddenly, the movements of the three people in the mecha became smooth.

“The spaceship I’m on is about to enter the planet. See you on land.”

Cheng Huaiqian greeted him, and then his voice disappeared in the heart net. It seemed that the spaceship he was on suddenly accelerated and left the coverage of Xia Ruize’s heart net.

Xia Ruize paused, then started again, fixing himself more firmly in the sensor cabin. The mecha control method in this mission world was to amplify the actions of the driver inside the mecha. In theory, when the driver walks, the mecha will walk, and when the driver makes an attack, the mecha will also make a corresponding attack.

Therefore, the level of mecha control will be largely limited by the driver’s actual combat level, but on the other hand, as long as the mecha is skilled in maintaining its balance, the mecha can perform the same actions as the driver.

At this time, the floor in front of the mecha flipped up again, and a mechanical gun more than one meter long and half a meter wide appeared in front of Xia Ruize. Under the mechanical gun was an energy box full of energy blocks.

Xia Ruize picked up the gun with the mecha’s huge metal hand and fixed it on the metal arm. With his other hand, he grabbed the energy box, lifted it lightly, and fixed it behind the mecha with his backhand.

After packing up, Xia Ruize did not stop, but tried to take slow steps, feeling the heavy pressure coming from the sensor cabin. As he moved, the mecha also took steps and walked towards the rear of the cabin.

Some weapons were prepared at the rear of the cabin for the soldiers to choose freely. Xia Ruize picked up a huge mechanical bow that was more than two meters long with his left hand, and picked up a box of energy blocks with his right hand and fixed it behind his back.

The soldier who chose a big sword next to him reminded him: “Brother, carrying too many energy blocks will affect the speed of your mecha, the gain is not worth the loss.”

The sound came from the opponent’s mecha’s loudspeaker, with an electronic “sizzling” sound. Xia Ruize nodded to express his gratitude for the reminder, but did not put down the energy box. Instead, he turned and walked towards the cabin of the spaceship, letting the mechanical arm extend from the cabin to fix the huge body of his mecha.

Five minutes later, all the soldiers controlled the mechas and fixed themselves to the wall of the ship. Even though some soldiers were not very skilled in operation, they had received basic training when they joined the army and could still keep up with the pace.

After all 200 soldiers were in place, the broadcast inside the spaceship cabin was switched to the broadcast inside the mechas, and at the same time the internal communication channel between the mechas was opened, each person’s number was determined, ten people were divided into a team, the leader of each team was selected, and the group captain who managed ten teams was selected.

Xia Ruize was assigned to Team 4708, whose leader was named “Liu Wennian”. This name made Xia Ruize’s heart move, and he couldn’t help but turn his head to look at the team leader not far away, trying to see the other person’s appearance through the window of the mecha.