As the rest were having fun creating havoc while they looked for the prisoners based on what the System had extracted from Rei’s memories, Jin and Hou Fei were having the ‘best’ times of their lives.
The heavy rotating guns were blasting bullets off their barrels onto the space shuttle but its ‘energy field’ was able to withstand the massive slew of impact coming from the rain of fire. The Heavy Armoured Mecha pilot had no idea that it was possible as most space shuttles of that particular size would already have been shredded into pieces with the same amount of firepower given.
And it was all thanks to Hou Fei who gave a push of his chi to ensure that his chi barrier was wide enough to cover the space shuttle from the trajectory of the mini gun spray and strong enough to withstand the attack. If not for Jin’s previous sentence, Hou Fei would not have bothered to even block these many bullets coming at such high speed impact.
“Why not fight Mecha with Mecha!?” Hou Fei suggested as he implied summoning Mechataur into the field and level the robot down with their very own.
“That’s basically like bringing our trump card against it immediately at the start of the fight..” Jin said through the System Channel while he ran out of the space shuttle to fight against the armoured Mecha.
“Hahaha, you are kidding me, right? That Minotaur is our trump card?? I feel that for once, we are the group that’s backwards after all the fights that we are in.” Hou Fei replied as he powered up his chi to strengthen the barrier. The Armoured Mecha could have been shooting its bullets from its head but it was simultaneously sliding the titan doors open forcefully so that it could squeeze through. Even if it couldn’t, Hou Fei knew that it would take the opportunity to perform a sleight of hand and literally bring a hand through the opening with a pistol or rifle to shoot at the space shuttle.
At that point, forget about tyre sized bullets, it could possibly be laser beam equivalent of chi energy from a Grade 15 cultivator and maybe more. At that point, he either has to sacrifice the size of his barrier to maintain his shield or risk a back blow for overexerting his chi powers to keep the barrier up.
Thankfully, he did not have to worry about that as Jin had already popped out from the space shuttle and into the open, prompting the spray of mini gun fire to be redirected at him. However, this time around Jin did not hold back any punches as he activated his Maqi throughout his entire body to produce Yellow Lightning Panda Energy and burst through the room towards the Armoured Mecha.
Initially, the Armoured Mecha Pilot thought that the incoming opponent was wearing enhanced body gear to improve his reflexes but the sudden flash of light and subsequently disappearing from the motion sensors caused the pilot to panic for a moment. He might have thought that he was seeing things but the sensors were portraying a different story when all of them suddenly shut down and there was no camera feed going through his cockpit.
But before he could react to anything else in order to diagnose the situation, he suddenly felt his entire body numbing momentarily before going into a state of extreme pain. His eyes saw streaks of electricity bursting through panels of the darkened metal box he was entrapped in and sadly that was the last thing the pilot ever saw.
Jin’s intense burst of Yellow Lightning Panda Energy brought time for Hou Fei to recover and possibly added an obstacle for the Xeon Union to overcome in order to reach the space shuttle. The Armoured Mecha shut down in between the doors, causing the doors to retract back to their original position.
However, the doors were still left slightly ajar despite the giant robot’s unfortunate shutdown, allowing personnel to enter the room but not other Mechas. If they wish to bring or sortie Mechas through it, they either have to break the current one that was trapped in between the two sliding doors or blast the entire thing so that the others could go through.
Else right now, heavily armed guards were going through the door and they were in full astronaut suits. Seeing that the perpetrators were not in any spacesuits, the Xeon Union Captain Coalran decided to cut the oxygen air supply and turn off the gravity manipulator so that the resistance rebels could die without them doing much.
But they were dead wrong.
The full animal masks the rebels were wearing had an oxygen breathing inscription charm which technically made the masks as oxygen breathers which could last for more than an hour or so. If their oxygen breathing inscription charm worn out, they could quickly swap to another from their storage rings.
As for the zero gravity problem, it actually poses no threat to the cultivators who could use chi to rebalance themselves so the problem they would have are absolute freezing temperatures if they were exposed to outer space. That was why Peppers merged the space shuttle she was on with the prison ship and Jin melded back the metal so that they would not be exposed to outer space.
Yet, if they were in an unexpected scenario where they were thrown out into space, all that were participating in the current prison heist had been bestowed with a customised Gearbox suit by the System that could expand in a moment’s notice and encapsulate them in it. The Gearbox Suit even has a mini air booster that allows them to travel around in space as well as a gyroscopic mechanism that enables them to gain balance easily.
The only problem was that the Astro Gearbox Suit was extremely fragile because of its compact design and expanding at a moment’s notice. The group initially wanted to use sturdier versions of previous gearbox suit iterations but that would hinder their movement as well as abilities since the suit had to cover the entire body while ensuring there was no leak.
As for now, Jin had successfully disabled their Mecha and the only thing that stand in their way to wreck their mission critical space shuttle were goons and Jin decided not to waste any time dealing with these armed astronaut guards, especially since numbers are on their side.
