Chapter 270 The Dead Can Also Speak (6k)
After the Mechas belonging to Xuanxing joined, the subsequent battles held no suspense.
However, the remaining Mechanical Forces clearly had no concept of victory or defeat and continued to resist fiercely.
Moreover, Xuanxing seemed not to have given up, still making a last stand by occasionally launching nuclear bombs at critical moments to impede Bai Yi's advance, causing her quite a bit of trouble.
There was even an instance where an attempt to use the explosion of the first batch of nuclear bombs as a cover for subsequent ones almost succeeded, causing injury to Bai Yi's forces.
Fortunately, Bai Yi noticed something was wrong in time; she directly swallowed several subsequent nuclear bombs using the power of decay, preventing them from unleashing their true power, thus avoiding damage.
But this also allowed the Mechanical Forces enough time to delay, preventing Bai Yi from completely annihilating them until everything was clear.
With the lessons learned from the previous mechanical factories, as the core territory of Xuanxing, Bai Yi naturally remained vigilant and continued to use the experience of scouting mechanical factories by combining a small number of the Insect Swarm with Fei Wen reconnaissance.
The more it came down to critical moments, the less likely Bai Yi was to lose her head.
Otherwise, if she subdued all the prey, only for a dying prey's last words to trigger Resurrection Armor, it would be too ridiculous.
Thinking that if Xuanxing were to sit in the territory waiting for her and then one button blow the territory sky-high, making a comeback, she would be very displeased.
However, this time, whether it was because Xuanxing hadn't set it up in time or simply hadn't set such a feature for his territory, after Fei Wen scouted the entire territory, it was found to be completely deserted.
Not to mention a trap, they didn't even see a shadow of Xuanxing.
This news was quickly brought before Bai Yi.
"Xuanxing ran away?
Well then, so all those mechanical units fighting so hard were just buying time for escape!
I even thought Xuanxing was such a tough guy, determined to fight to the end...
Though even so, I still won't let him go..."
Thinking that once Xuanxing was in her hands, even the best result would be turning him into a witch and then extracting all his knowledge.
For an ordinary person, this seems like a hard-to-accept result, so making such a choice seems unsurprising.
"But if it's a matter of running away, as long as it's on this planet, I will still find him...
Unless, World Transfer Certificate?"
Bai Yi immediately thought of this thing that was useless to her.
If it's this thing, then catching Xuanxing might be tricky.
Though because it wasn't very useful to her, she hadn't redeemed it, but having interacted with the expeditionary army and the Zone Transfer Certificate, she had specifically learned the basic function of such certificates.
It requires disengagement from combat, and unlike the Zone Transfer, it cannot relocate all your territories, only oneself and territories within a certain range.
Xuanxing couldn't have taken off directly with a small amount of resources; surely he planned to take some sub-territory with him...
But, which place's territory would Xuanxing choose...
Quickly, Bai Yi's mind conjured up the world map shared by Qian Baosi these past two days, ready to ponder which place was most likely.
But before she could come to a conclusion, a message from the network turned her thoughts into insignificant musings.
This message came from the sea, from the Sea Sons she had deployed in the ocean long ago.
"Xuanxing's sea base? And a sighting of Xuanxing?
This...
Didn't expect that after all this circling, without even starting my search, he would directly fall into my hands!"
.........
One minute earlier, several hundred kilometers away, above the ocean
Sometimes mechanical intellect has its benefits, at least in critical moments, not dithering like a human, failing to consider all fronts.
After confirming the endgame of his defeat, his withdrawal became decisive and efficient.
He had already packed some resources and stored them in the ultimate sea base ahead of time.
To avoid unforeseen circumstances, he prepared three portions in advance, each sufficient for him to quickly establish and develop in a new world.
Besides war-depleted resources, the remaining territory only had some documents needing sorting.
Most were already backed up in the panel, with his Lord's talent, and the rest completely destroyed.
Even so, there were still plenty of things to take away. If he used the flying machine he currently rode, it would be too conspicuous.
Like he feared Fan Mao wouldn't notice him abandoning his territory and retreating, he still hoped the now-empty territory could buy him enough time!
He chose an underground high-speed railway built months ago for resource transportation, now the perfect secret escape route.
He fled via this secret route to the sea, distanced from the territory, then transferred using the previously prepared aircraft.
Moreover, before leaving, the subway entrance was camouflaged and sealed, even all communication with the territory was cut off, abandoning the last plan to explode the territory to prevent Fan Mao from figuring out his escape direction from signal traces.
If it were the former him, even before the battle commenced, he might have confidently thought Fan Mao could never track him via signal.
But now, having witnessed the bizarre method Fan Mao used to turn his meticulously crafted Mecha against him, he was no longer confident.
Truth be told, he was indeed startled this time.