"Yi Mu, was that you just now?" Lin Lin looked at Yi Mu with a puzzled look. Besides her, there was only Taoxi, and Taoxi didn't have Yi Mu's shooting skills, so Lin Lin immediately thought it was Yi Mu. Shots fired.
Yimu shook her head. She really wanted to shoot just now, but Lin Lin and Lott Mantis were too close. If she forced the shot, not only would she not be able to help Lin Lin escape, but she might even harm Lin Lin.
Just when Lin Lin and the others were wondering who was helping them, a voice rang out on the public channel: "Are you okay?"
After hearing the sound, Lin Lin and the others saw a spaceship not far away, and detected that the high temperature still remained on the muzzle of the spacecraft.
"Did you save me just now?" Lin Lin asked doubtfully. This area was allocated to the Black Mist Team, and no one else would appear. But now that they have appeared, there is only one possibility.
The spaceship was inside the outpost. It was probably the fighting on their side that attracted the attention of the outpost, so a spaceship was sent to help them.
However, it arrived a little late, and only fired at the end to take away the life of Lott Mantis.
"It's us, but it's not safe here. You should follow us back to the outpost first." The people in the spaceship said solemnly. According to the news from the outpost, a group of Zerg is coming here. They need to return as soon as possible. , otherwise we will collide with the Zerg.
Hearing this, Yimu and Taoxi looked at Lin Lin. Now that Heiwu is gone, Lin Lin can only be the temporary captain.
Lin Lin pondered for a moment, unable to think of any intention of harming them, so he nodded and said, "Okay."
Then, the three mechas followed the spacecraft and flew towards the outpost not far away.
The moment they entered the outpost and closed the door, an overwhelming swarm of bugs came to the area, feasting on the bodies of the Lott Mantis and the unknown bug.
Seeing this scene, Lin Lin and others felt like they were surviving a disaster, because they found several insects of the same level as the Lott Mantis among the newly arrived insect swarms. If they had not entered the outpost, they would have been killed by countless insects. The bug ran away.
After leaving the mecha, a man came up, stretched out his hand to Lin Lin and said, "Hello, strange mecha team. I am the temporary commander of the outpost here. My name is Mulka."
"Hello, we are the Black Mist Team. Thank you for helping us." Lin Lin reached out and shook Mulka's hand.
"No need to thank you. We all belong to the Milky Way, and it is normal to help each other." Mulka smiled, and then asked: "Since it is the Black Mist Team, then you should be the captain Black Mist, right?"
Lin Lin shook his head: "Our captain disappeared not long ago. I am the acting captain. Just call me Ziguang."
"Missing?" After hearing these two words, Mulka frowned: "What are the characteristics of your captain? Before we set out to help you, we recovered a scrapped mecha. Maybe it has something to do with your captain. Maybe, but there is no pilot in the mecha's cockpit."
"Mecha?" Lin Lin was stunned and asked quickly: "When is it? Can we take a look?"
Mulka nodded and said, "Of course, please come with me."
Later, Lin Lin and the others followed Mulka to the warehouse of the outpost.
After Mulka opened the warehouse door, Lin Lin and the other three were stunned.
The scrapped mecha in the warehouse is Black Mist's Shadow Killer Mecha, but its current condition is particularly bad. Not to mention the broken arm, the mecha's entire body is covered with traces of explosions. The outer armor has been completely missing, leaving only the body. The internal skeleton is in such a condition that even if it is handed over to the repair station with the best technology, it is estimated that there is no way to restore it.
"What? Do you really know this mecha?" Mulka read something from the expressions of Lin Lin and the others, and said: "When we recovered this mecha, we looked for it nearby. There is no trace of the pilot, but unfortunately, there is no trace. According to our speculation, this mecha seems to have been sent here by some kind of big explosion."
After hearing this, Lin Lin knew why the Shadow Killer Mecha appeared outside the outpost and was captured by the outpost.
It should be the explosion and fire they saw before that sent the Shadow Killer Mecha over, but unfortunately, there is still no news about the black mist.
"Let me try to see if I can recall the last thing the Shadow Killer Mecha saw." Yimu whispered, then walked straight to the scrapped Shadow Killer Mecha and connected his portable computer to the Shadow Killer Mecha.
Fortunately, although the Shadow Killer Mecha was scrapped, its system could still be used. Yimu easily intervened in the Shadow Killer Mecha's internal system and retrieved the files.
After that, Yimu directly projected the image, and everyone could know what happened to Black Mist in the end.
After a flash of snowflakes, the picture became clear.
It can be seen that everything was normal at first, just as Lin Lin thought. The black fog display searched the surroundings. After finding that there was no problem, they contacted them, and then the scythe attack of the void bugs came.
After this, it was different from what Lin Lin had guessed. After the Shadow Killer Mecha had its arm cut off, it was not Black Mist that launched a counterattack, but the Shadow Killer Mecha's energy core was hit by a bug, causing a big explosion.
From this brief scene, it can be seen that the probability of death of Black Mist is almost 100%, and no one can survive an explosion of that level.
"Black mist..." After seeing this scene, Taoxi couldn't hold it in anymore and cried on the spot.
Even the calm Yimu's eyes were filled with tears.
Only Lin Lin remained calm, thinking over every scene in the picture. Finally, Lin Lin discovered something was wrong.
So, Lin Lin immediately stepped forward to take Yimu's portable computer, lowered the playback speed to the lowest, found the abnormal frame, and enlarged it.
"Heiwu may still be alive." Lin Lin said solemnly, because in the scene where he paused, a hand appeared out of thin air, grabbing Heiwu's hand just before the explosion, and then was drowned by the fire of the explosion.
Moreover, Lin Lin discovered that in the firelight of the explosion, there seemed to be a bright light where the black fog was, but it was not very obvious due to the firelight.
Hearing this, Taoxi quickly wiped away the tears on her face and looked at Lin Lin: "Ziguang, are you serious? Black mist is not dead?"
Lin Lin nodded: "I am 70% sure that Black Mist is not dead."
"You mean, someone saved her?" Yi Mu looked at Lin Lin with doubtful eyes.
"It's just possible, because we don't know whether the hand at the last moment appeared on the screen due to the impact of the explosion, or if someone really appeared and saved Heiwu." Lin Lin shook his head, he was not sure, With the current technological strength of the galaxy, there is still no way to save people.
However, at least it is good news and gives everyone hope.
"She will definitely not die." Taoxi said solemnly.
"Well, nothing will happen to her." Lin Lin nodded and then winked at Yi Mu.
Taoxi's condition is not stable now. If she is stimulated again, she doesn't know what will happen.
Yimu nodded, she understood what Lin Lin meant.
Then, Lin Lin turned around and looked at Mulka: "Mr. Mulka, thank you for your willingness to recycle this mecha. This mecha is our captain's mecha."
Mulka waved his hand: "You're welcome, we are all compatriots. If my guess is correct, you should move on, right?"
"Yes, this is the task assigned to us by the alliance. We need to keep moving forward and reactivate the outposts visible on the route." Lin Lin nodded, and then said: "However, I don't think you need our help here. It’s activated, and in that case, we’re going to prepare to head to the next outpost.”
Hearing this, Mulka's face darkened, and he said to Lin Lin in a serious tone: "Mr. Ziguang, it's not that I want to attack you. The road ahead will not be easy, and you have also seen that there are so many bugs outside now. I suggest you stay with us for a while and wait until the bugs outside are almost gone before moving on." m.
"..." Lin Lin was silent for a while. Mulka was right. There were a large number of bugs gathered outside the outpost. Among them, there were no less than seven types of bugs of the Lotor Mantis level that were seen by Lin Lin and others. If Lin Lin and the others left the outpost now, not only would they be immediately surrounded by insects, but even the outpost would be at risk of being exposed.
Mulka was not in a hurry to let Lin Lin answer. He would not stop Lin Lin and the others from doing anything. Even if Lin Lin finally decided to leave, he would do his best to successfully send Lin Lin and the others away from here.
After a while of silence, Lin Lin looked at Mulka: "I understand, I'll leave this time to you."
"Haha, don't worry." Mulka laughed loudly, and at the same time informed the outpost kitchen to prepare something for Lin Lin and the others.
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At night, Lin Lin lay in the room Mulka arranged for himself, thinking about the last scene of the black mist.
The more Lin Lin thought about it, the more something was wrong. The empty space before the hand appeared looked familiar.
Thinking of this, Lin Lin immediately called the system in his mind.
"System, did you feel the aura of the nine mechas at that time?" Lin Lin now suspected that it was the nine mechas that rescued Black Mist. No, it should be said that the remaining six were not discovered by Lin Lin. The mecha host did it.
Because Lin Lin was so familiar with that hole, it was exactly the same as the small wormhole that appeared when the Xinghai mecha attacked Xinghai City, except for the color.
And the three mechas that Lin Lin now knew would definitely not rescue Black Mist.
One is the Xinghai Mecha. As an enemy of Lin Lin and even the entire galaxy, he has no reason to save Black Mist. Secondly, the Star Curtain Mecha is now in An Xue's hands. With her current strength, there is no way for him to rescue Black Mist. There was no way to save Black Mist; thirdly, there was only the Starlight Mecha temporarily stored in Lin Lin's mind, but the Starlight Mecha not only had no host, but was also imprisoned by the system, making it even more impossible to take action.
Therefore, Lin Lin was sure that the fourth of the nine mechas had appeared.
"I didn't feel it. The distance was too far, the duration was too short, and the explosion also concealed the opponent's aura in disguise." The system replied: "Maybe Xingguang felt something."
Hearing this, Lin Lin quickly called to Xingguang: "Xingguang, have you felt the aura of your companion?"
Xingguang was silent for a while, maybe because he saw Lin Lin's friendly behavior towards Xingmu, he finally decided to speak.
"It's Nebula."
"Lucky?" Lin Lin looked at the starlight ring in confusion.
The starlight ring swung up and down a few times: "Yes, it was Nebula. The moment the explosion occurred, I felt Nebula's breath. If nothing else, your companion was saved by Nebula."
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