Chapter 192: Luring the Enemy

Sizar covered his ears with both hands and pressed his body close to the ground. Then, with a loud boom, a large amount of mud and gravel mixed with grass roots and scraps fell from the sky like rain.

Before this “rain” ended, another dull sound came from behind. Sizar only felt the ground beneath him shake violently as the “big crab” that had been blown into the air crashed down. Unfortunately, there was no expected secondary explosion. The quality of the crab mech’s ammunition box was really good!

“Under attack, entering alert status!” The mech, with its legs pointing skyward in a face-plant pose, made a muffled sound. Then, its arms stretched out horizontally, switching to a three-claw state, with elbows rotating 90 degrees to press against the ground. The mechanical arms suddenly extended, pulling its body out of the ground, and it spun 180 degrees in the air before landing on its feet again.

Sizar peeked over. Aside from being covered in mud, the mech only had an obvious dent on its back where the explosion occurred, with no other damage. It was really tough!

“I hate reliable quality products!” Sizar muttered under his breath.

His plan was to blow up one mech and send Milk to lure the other in the opposite direction from Dorothy. Now that the first goal was achieved and he had attracted their attention, escaping became a problem. If they ran separately, one of the mechs would follow him. This did not fit his plan.

“Target spotted!” The undamaged mech searched around and successfully discovered Sizar in the mud but did not notice Milk or Dorothy’s Replica nearby.

“Attack!” The “undamaged mech” rotated its arms, switching from chainsaws to mechanical claws, and reached behind its back. At that moment, a cover panel under each of the two ammunition boxes popped open, revealing four rows of four neatly arranged folded javelins.

The mechanical arms skillfully pulled out two javelins. During the aiming process, the meter-long javelins suddenly extended and were thrown hard by the mech toward Sizar.

The young man pushed off with his feet, his sneakers tearing apart. Evil Fist activated, Virus initiated, melee mode engaged. Sizar’s body turned into a streak of light as he darted forward. Immediately after, two “booms” sounded, and two small craters appeared where he had been lying.

“Cowards! They filled the javelins with explosives too?” Sizar spat out a mouthful of sand and gritted his teeth at the two mechs standing side by side. He knew nothing about these things and couldn’t spot their weak points right away. On the other hand, these mech pilots often practiced how to deal with Ability Users, making him look disheveled and embarrassed. Luckily, his sister wasn’t here.

Feeling frustrated, Sizar secretly gestured to Milk. The two mechs had moved from their original positions to chase him, and at that moment, Milk was right beside the “damaged mech” with the dent on its back.

Seeing his master’s signal, Milk, who had been inactive until now, gritted his teeth. It was time to prove his loyalty to Sizar! He had been supported by his master for a long time but had never shown any value, which made him feel vaguely ashamed. He couldn’t go on like this anymore—he had to be a useful, idealistic, cultured, and moral Mummy!

“For honor~!” Milk shouted, throwing a bundle of grenades and then fleeing in the opposite direction. Seeing this, Sizar finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought this stubborn fool was going to self-destruct.

The cluster of grenades had just approached the damaged mech when a light blue protective shield deflected them, sending them flying toward Milk. As he ran, Milk seemed to sense something and raised his hand to fire a shot behind him without looking back.

“Boom!” With a loud explosion, the damaged mech was once again knocked over by the blast and fell to the ground.

The other mech, noticing another attacker, abandoned its cat-and-mouse strategy. It retracted the javelins, extended the bullet chains, and its arm tips rotated again. The mechanical claws disappeared, replaced by two multi-barreled machine guns, with the bullet chains successfully attached to its arms.

The pilot of the undamaged mech seemed much more skilled than the one in the damaged mech. It raised both hands simultaneously, struck a pose, and pulled the triggers. Two trails of earth erupted behind Sizar and Milk. No matter how erratically they tried to escape, the mech kept pace with them, firing bullets right behind them.

“Almost there.” Sizar, who was running, suddenly turned back and grabbed with his five fingers. Several Demon Flies that had landed on the ammunition boxes at some point, under Camilla’s control, slipped through the gaps in the bullet chains and entered the ammunition boxes. Feeling their master’s call, they excitedly self-destructed!

“Boom!”

This time, the undamaged mech’s right ammunition box was finally detonated, but the result greatly disappointed Sizar. The right ammunition box automatically detached from the mech the moment it was ignited and was ejected. Apart from causing the mech to stagger, there was no other impact. Thinking about it, it made sense. After so many years of perfecting the technology, such high-end and expensive equipment couldn’t just explode easily.

Seeing the effect, Sizar was greatly disappointed and shouted, “Camilla!”

The hidden cat pinched the Empress in her hands. The insect cried out in pain, and a large swarm of Demon Flies, as if on stimulants, charged forward wildly and then self-destructed one by one. The individual self-destruction power couldn’t harm the mech, but the continuous explosions forced it to retreat step by step.

As for the damaged mech that had climbed out of the mud again, it was pushed back into the pit by the explosion for the third time. At this moment, Sizar finally understood why two mechs were deployed simultaneously. It was clearly a case of a veteran training a rookie!

Just as Sizar thought his Demon Fly tactics had successfully suppressed the mechs and he could even take the chance to finish off the “intern,” the veteran also showed his skills.

The remaining ammunition box opened again, and nearly a hundred spherical throwing stars with winged blades spun and floated up, surrounding the mech tightly.

At the mech’s command, the throwing stars plunged into the densest areas of the Demon Flies, dancing nimbly. Camilla had sent too many Demon Flies, and the throwing stars just rammed through, slicing many to death. Then, the spherical throwing stars exploded in batches, killing the Demon Flies over a wide area. The Demon Flies controlled by Camilla were too densely packed, and when affected by the explosions, they self-destructed one after another. Soon, before the throwing stars were used up, the Demon Fly swarm triggered a chain reaction, and not a single one survived.

“That stupid cat ruined me!” Sizar lamented, then turned and ran deep into the Forest.

At that moment, the mech raised its left arm, and the machine guns targeted Milk again, while the remaining throwing stars chased after Sizar.

Sharing vision with Dorothy, Sizar clearly saw everything behind him. While running, he spread his arms wide and shouted, “Explosions are art!”

Following his shout, a large number of Demon Flies buried underground self-destructed collectively. Countless mud and grass scraps flew upward against the sky, not only detonating the throwing stars but also blocking the line of sight, creating an escape opportunity for the master and servant.

Before leaving, Sizar also let out a heroic and tragic cry: “Big brother, run quickly! Don’t worry about me, take the item and go! If there is an afterlife, we must be brothers again!”

The mech, unable to see Sizar’s retreating figure, became furious and activated the large cannon on its shoulder, firing randomly a few times.

One crater after another appeared beside him. Sizar’s legs weakened, and then he was blown away as if riding clouds. Countless shrapnel pierced his body, and he was instantly critically injured and near death.

Pulling out the Nail of Death, the young man did not hesitate and stabbed it into his heart. Then, he activated the Demonic Virus, began the Zombie transformation, picked up Camilla hidden in the grass, and disappeared into the woods.

His plan had succeeded. From now on, it was up to Milk to hold them off as long as possible. He had more important things to do. The injuries he suffered this time, he would repay a hundredfold!

After Sizar left, Milk was also fleeing for his life.

Because of Sizar’s last words, the mech focused all its attention on him. Milk was an Undead servant and didn’t dare refute Sizar’s false accusation, so his body was riddled with holes, his stomach became like a honeycomb. If placed under sunlight, many points of light would shine through.

But these were minor injuries. He was a loyal Mummy, an Undead who would shed blood for his master. A mere honeycomb stomach—who cared? Thinking about how he had openly challenged two mechs, not only escaped unscathed but also protected his master, Milk couldn’t help but feel proud.

Just as he was feeling proud, his heart suddenly sank! Where was the young lady that his master entrusted to me?

Milk looked back and felt his heart turn cold. His stomach had been turned into a honeycomb, so the backpack behind him couldn’t have been spared. From this, it could be inferred that the milk candies in the backpack had spilled out!

At this moment, the Dorothy Replica, whose intelligence was infinitely close to zero, not only did not escape or hide but foolishly squatted on the ground, happily picking up the milk candies, unwrapping them, and eating them with a blissful expression… and then…

“Whoosh~!” A sound.

A missile flew over, flames erupted, and Dorothy’s Replica, along with the spilled milk candies, turned to ashes simultaneously.

“It’s over! My master will definitely kill me!” Thinking of Sizar’s greedy, gleaming eyes when he looked at the Replica, Milk, fleeing for his life, felt that his “rebirth through reconstruction” was not far away.

…

“Calling headquarters, calling headquarters, this is Number Six. Targets spotted, three in total. Besides the young boy and girl, there is also a bandaged creature suspected to be a Goblin. Except for the boy, the other two show no heat signatures. Suggest switching search modes. The girl has been eliminated, currently tracking the Goblin… escape direction northwest.”

After reporting, the mech released a mechanical bird, which flew off after Milk. Sizar escaped too quickly, his movement route was bizarre and hidden, making him untraceable, so he luckily escaped.

“Master! Please, pull me out!” the damaged mech shouted.

Bang!

The undamaged mech kicked over the damaged mech, removed its ammunition box, attached it to its own back, and then chased after Milk.

“Master! Don’t leave! Save me!”

“Master…”