Chapter 349
Chapter 349: Never Letting Go Again!
Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr
The supreme commander of the base saw all the soldiers below beginning to move and only then did he turn to leave the command centre . Coming to his personal office, he acted according to his original setting and sent a situation report to the Mecha World mainframe, detailing all the orders he had given in response as well . However, the transmission channel had already been altered by the Caesarian hackers so that his report would be sent directly to the mainframe of the spaceship hidden on the base . Meanwhile, the Federation mainframe remained oblivious to everything that was happening here .
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The starship had successfully shifted to high speed and was temporarily out of danger, but this risky order of the commander left Ling Lan in a sticky situation . When the commander had commanded for the ship to shift into high gear, Little Four, who had immediately grasped the information, had quickly passed on the bad news to Ling Lan .
If Ling Lan had not been too far away from the starship, the amount of time left would have been enough for Ling Lan to board the ship again . However, it just so happened that back when Ling Lan had been fighting the Caesarian ace operator, in order to finish the other quicker, she had purposefully pretended to lose control to trick the opponent . At present, she had already fallen to about an altitude of 800 metres, almost a whole 1000 metres away from the starship's altitude of 1700 metres .
This distance cut Ling Lan's time extremely short . She operated her imperial mecha to fly at high speed towards the starship, trying to land within the ship while it still had not officially entered high gear . But just as Ling Lan was about to successfully enter a launch port of the starship, the ship managed to activate high gear and shoot forwards like an arrow, leaving Ling Lan to pounce onto empty air . The ship instantly pulled a considerable distance away from Ling Lan .
Seeing this, Ling Lan clenched her teeth and decisively pushed the imperial mecha to its maximum speed, which was the mecha's overdrive . Overdrive mode was typically in a sealed state and would not be readily activated, because running in overdrive was a great burden on a mecha's engines . The energy consumed per second was no less than when firing a heavy energy projectile cannon . Not only that, overdrive would also take a high toll on the operator's body .
The reason Ling Lan had not activated overdrive mode from the start was because she was afraid her body would not be able to bear it . At the same time, she was placing her hopes on the long shot that she would be able to successfully board the starship by only using high speed . Unexpectedly, all of her cautions was for naught in the end . However, presented with the dire situation of having to stay behind at the Swift Dragon base if she did not use overdrive, Ling Lan naturally would not hesitate any longer!
She needed to board the ship successfully before the starship broke through the atmospheric layer . Otherwise, based on the mecha's power and mobility alone, she would not be able to escape the gravity of the planet to fly into outer space . Even though Ling Lan was currently piloting an imperial mecha, it was still out of the question unless Ling Lan was controlling a god-class mecha . Frankly, even if an imperial mecha could fly into outer space, Ling Lan's current level of strength and physical constitution would not allow her to sustain long periods of cross-level operation anyway . . .
This time, Ling Lan's caution taught her a bloody lesson . She understood now that she needed to apply her full strength in all things from now on and not put her hopes on luck and chance, otherwise she might have to pay an even greater price .
Time was running out bit by bit . Ling Lan's mecha came closer and closer to the starship . 100 metres, 50 metres, 30 metres, 20 metres, 10 metres . . . she saw the number countdown of the 5-minute limit she set for herself to operate in overdrive dwindling smaller and smaller, and cold sweat poured uncontrollably from her forehead . For the first time, she felt how truly helpless she was .
She clearly only needed to speed up a little more to wrap her hand around that handle at the outermost edge of the final launch port of the starship, but no matter how hard she tried, she just could not close that final bit of distance . Meanwhile, the x192 high-glazed nuclear power source had also begun to emit the red lights warning that its power was about to run out . . . could it be that she was still going to fail in the end and be unable to leave the Swift Dragon base? A bad feeling coursed through Ling Lan's heart .
What made Ling Lan even more nervous was the fact that she had begun to feel pain in her body . It started with minor cramps, which slowly turned into an acute ripping sort of pain . It looked like the feedback force of cross-level operation had already seriously impacted her body, and with the passage of time, her condition was only getting worse .
Just as Ling Lan was beginning to despair, a voice suddenly rang out in her mecha's comms, "Rabbit, come on!"
Ling Lan's spirits rallied . She raised her head and saw the figure of a familiar mecha appear at the tail end of the launch port . It was the leopard — with one hand on the handle, he reached his other hand out towards Ling Lan, attempting to grab hold of her mecha .
Seeing the leopard, Ling Lan's heart fluttered and she stretched out her right arm with determination . Her companions had not abandoned her, so why was she giving up hope? Without fearing the acute pain coming from all over her body, Ling Lan pushed her mecha's engines till they were working on overload . Ling Lan's mecha's speed boosted even further and her hand came closer and closer to the leopard's outstretched hand . Five metres, three metres, one metre . . .
"Argh . . . " Ling Lan let out an unwilling scream . The x192 high-glazed nuclear power source finally fizzled out — Ling Lan pushed forwards at that final moment, reaching out with a desperate hand, and the two mecha's fingers were linked for a moment before slipping apart . Ling Lan's mecha lost all mobility and fell out of her control . . .
"Rabbit . . . " Ling Lan could almost hear the leopard's mournful wail . She had failed, hadn't she? However, as long as the leopard passed the document to the city lord of Grandsweep City, their mission would be complete . Even if she remained at the Swift Dragon base, it would not affect the formation of the clan .
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