The Seventh Base

In a state of battle, being affected by anything could be fatal.

Xu Mo leaned forward, and he was there.

He who sprinted forward left himself no way out. With a slash of his saber, the blade light turned into lightning, aiming for Lindi.

Lindi gripped his dual blades with both hands, crossing them in front of him without any gaps.

Thus, Xu Mo’s downward strike with his War Saber would inevitably encounter his dual blades.

He wouldn’t break through directly.

Lindi wouldn’t give Xu Mo a chance to break his armor.

“Bang.”

The War Saber collided with the dual blades, Xu Mo bearing down on them and forcing Lindi to retreat step by step.

“Sssss…” A shrill, grating noise sounded.

Xu Mo’s strength on the War Saber continued to intensify, concentrating all his power into a single strike.

The dual blades were pressed downward.

Xu Mo’s War Saber scraped against Lindi’s Battle Armor, creating a fissure, and the electricity penetrated directly, causing Lindi to go numb all over.

His hands no longer had the strength to hold up, and the dual blades dropped down.

Xu Mo’s War Saber slashed out repeatedly, releasing more than a dozen strikes in an instant.

Pieces of Battle Armor flew as shards, and bloodstains appeared all over Lindi, but he was not dead.

Xu Mo hadn’t killed him.

He needed someone alive.

“Ahhh…” A scream rang out as Xu Mo’s saber pierced right beneath Lindi’s shoulder, penetrating straight through and spinning with him to shield himself with Lindi in front.

The Mecha arrived, its immense War Saber poised to strike, only to see Xu Mo and Lindi swap places.

Lindi’s back was facing it, with Xu Mo behind Lindi.

A piercing screeching sound echoed as the Mecha forcibly halted its charge, the towering War Saber held aloft in the air, not daring to strike.

“Got him!”

The Arena was stunned by the scene unfolding before them.

A lone Armored warrior, had turned the whole Arena upside down.

Not one was spared.

The strongest fighters, Lindi and Zhu Wan, one killed, the other captured.

If Xu Mo didn’t need a hostage, Lindi would have been dead as well.

The Underground City State Arena’s highest level of Star Competition, all taken down by one man.

The Doctor’s face was extremely grim; everything that happened in the Arena was beyond his expectation.

He had thought that Lindi and the others could easily deal with Xu Mo.

Moreover, he had even ordered other people in the Arena to join the fight.

And yet, all were killed.

Two months ago, he didn’t possess his current strength, barely contending with Everson alone.

These two months, had he awakened?

“Crack…” The Doctor clenched his fists tightly, a violent look flashed in his eyes.

The people sent by the company, all killed.

Even he would struggle to explain this.

“Boom…”

Just then, a loud noise erupted from the direction of the Arena’s entrance. A line of figures was sent flying and then crashed to the ground.

It was the City State Guard.

“Bang, bang…” The loud crashes continued as a line of figures burst in, with the City State Guard following close behind.

The Doctor looked up towards them; it was Batu.

What on earth was going on?

And what about the other Genetic Warriors, how had they been released?

How had Batu escaped?

Outside, the rioting crowd also rushed in, creating chaos.

The Arena was completely in disarray; what had happened?

From both the left and right, loud noises came from high places—the Heavy Mechas had arrived.

“Boom…”

A loud blast, the crowd that had stormed the Arena was blown away, blood sprayed, and Master Batu was also sent tumbling down towards the lower levels of the Arena.

Those near that area, watching the event, suffered a similarly brutal fate.

Thunderous terrifying sounds echoed; the Heavy Mechas and the Mecha guards stormed in.

Batu’s massive body struggled to rise as he searched for Mia.

In the direction of the stands, a group of people were firing from a distance.

Elsa spread her wings to shield a figure; even though the figure wore a mask, Master Batu recognized it at a glance.

Master Batu bellowed and charged towards them.

Elsa was seen sprinting with Mia’s body, her wings spread wide as she seemingly glided through the air, flying towards the lower part of the Arena.

“Is it an Angel?”

The people around thought to themselves as they saw Elsa fly.

They were all infected by Mia’s emotions, tears in their eyes.

Is this the monster wanted by the City State?

She’s not a monster.

More like an angel.

The crowd that surged in from different directions also saw Elsa, and they knew her story and felt sympathy for her.

She’s so beautiful.

Yet wanted by the City State, forced into becoming a monster.

She was driven to this step by step by this malicious world.

Even so, the lab still wouldn’t let her go and wanted to use her for experiments.

“Overthrow the Council, destroy the laboratory,” the people roared in anger.

In one direction of the stands, Yimu and others were protected by heavy guards, with Mechas on both sides.

Watching the crowd pouring into the Arena, they knew everything had completely descended into chaos.

This uprising was far more ferocious than one a year ago.

Everyone’s gone mad.

The Doctor also realized that the situation was out of control.

What on earth happened outside while they were in the Arena?

This seemed like a long-planned uprising, just waiting for this day to make a move.

Elsa landed next to Xu Mo with Mia, and Batu was also rushing towards them, his body leaping down with a thunderous boom, flinging the guards of the City State away, breaking through and creating an opening to get to where Xu Mo and the others were.

“Xu Mo.”

Mia called out softly, tears in her eyes.

She had witnessed Xu Mo fighting alone.

Alone, battling in the Arena.

Elsa also watched Xu Mo, but with Mia there, she didn’t speak, just silently watched by his side, with tears streaming down as well.

Yet she wore a smile.

Xu Mo was still alive.

She had watched every moment of Xu Mo’s fight in the Arena.

Xu Mo was equally elated; he hadn’t expected to encounter Elsa and Mia here, both of them alright and not taken away by the lab.

Master Batu had also arrived.

However, he hadn’t anticipated this rebellion.

He just wanted to kill a few people and leave with hostages.

As long as he had a hostage, escaping wouldn’t be difficult for him, as he was adept at evading capture.

But it seemed that another force had made its move.

They had chosen this day as well.

“Who sent you?” asked Xu Mo to Elsa and Mia, without time for pleasantries.

Why they would appear in the Arena.

“Master Batu, how did you escape?” Xu Mo asked.

“The lab was infiltrated; someone let me out and told me Mia was here,” Master Batu spoke up. Not only had they released him, but they had also injected him with something else.

He felt that he wouldn’t live much longer.

“Someone brought Elsa and me here,” Mia also spoke up, but didn’t reveal who it was.

Of course, this was no coincidence, but intentional.

This was all part of a conspiracy.

Master Batu, Elsa, and Mia, they were all parts of the conspiracy.

And part of the rebellion as well.

Like a tide, many in the crowd surged towards the Arena below, surrounding the guards of the City State, many armed with weapons.

Xu Mo even heard many people shouting the name of the Armored.

Xu Mo didn’t understand what had happened; during the riot outside, everyone had seen his battle in the Arena.

Someone in the crowd told everyone that the Armored was the thug once wanted by the City State.

But he was not a thug, he was a hero.

He was fighting for freedom.

It was as if he had been deliberately crafted into a fighter, a hero.

And so this moment had come.

By now, the members of the City State Guard were panicked, the uprising had completely spiraled out of control, and it seemed very hard to suppress.

“Have you awakened?” Xu Mo saw the crowd that crazily rushed in.

On this day of grand festivity in the City State, countless people took to the streets.

Inciting the crowd on such a day was indeed clever.

However, he didn’t know how many more would die.

Mia was somewhat moved, having lived through the events of a year ago.

Seeing everyone awakening, she saw ‘hope’.

Would the Underworld see the light?

Xu Mo didn’t know if the light would come, but he knew it was perilous right now.

The situation had completely lost control.

Nowadays, even holding hostages seemed useless.

A piercing and shrill sound transmitted, it was the public address system.

“I am the City State Councilor Yimu.”

A solemn voice came through, causing everyone to look toward one spot.

There, the big shots of the City State were watching the rioting crowd with Yimu standing in the middle, speaking coldly: “All members of the City State Guard and the Law Enforcement Team are ordered to execute the mission to quell the riot. Any thug who does not leave the Arena shall be executed on the spot.”

Decisive!

To execute thugs on the spot.

Everyone had become a thug.

“Charge and take him down,” someone bellowed.

“Kill them,” the crowd also erupted in fury, rushing toward that direction.

“All Mechas and combat personnel, enter combat mode,” Yimu commanded, and all combatants on the scene picked up their weapons.

Heavy Mechas pointed their cannon barrels at the crowd.

“Kill!” Yimu ordered.