It's Not Easy To Be a Man 210+

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On his end, Qiao Ting had just managed to suppress Li Lanfeng, but before he could think of a way to finish off the other once and for all, he suddenly felt his heart clench, a strong sense of danger rushing over him. He decisively stopped attacking Li Lanfeng and operated his mecha to rise rapidly into the air ...
Qiao Ting's intuition was undoubtedly accurate. He had just left his original position when three beams of light struck right there.
Qiao Ting quickly zoomed out his mecha's screen and only then did he notice that several hundred metres behind him, heaven knows when, another three Lingtian mecha had appeared.

Seeing this, Qiao Ting felt the faint stirrings of regret in his heart. If you recall, back when he had tried to ambush Zhao Jun, he had fired a radar disruption missile. Indeed, this radar disruption missile had caused the radars of Zhao Jun's group to lose their functionality, but within the same area, the radar in his own mecha was equally affected by the missile. This was why he had not noticed Li Lanfeng, nor had he discovered the unexpected arrival of these three mecha.

Now, in retrospect, this decision of his back then was just digging a pit for himself. Keep in mind that the mecha he was operating was an ace mecha which had a radar search range of 5 kilometres. If he had not fired that missile at the start, with his search range of 1 to 2 kilometres larger than the Lingtian mecha's, how could he have been taken by surprise again and again by these Lingtian mecha?

The ones who had failed in their sneak attack were Wu Jiong, Lin Zhong-qing, and Xie Yi. Seeing Li Lanfeng fighting alone and catching sight of the thick smoke down below as well as the remains of mecha scattered on the ground, and then looking over at Qiao Ting to see that his mecha was missing half a leg, they had a good idea of what had happened. Their teammates who had arrived before them had most probably used the tactic Boss Lan had designed, and bringing that piece of Qiao Ting with them as their spoils of war, they must have been defeated and ejected from the field.

The three of them did not dare to hesitate. As the primary mecha, he was the first to pounce with his mecha, while his secondaries Xie Yi and Lin Zhong-qing followed close behind. Meanwhile, at that moment, due to the assistance of Wu Jiong's trio, Li Lanfeng had finally managed to catch his breath. He likewise operated his mecha forwards, the initially snuffed out beam gun in his hands lighting up once more to attack Qiao Ting.

"Godd*mmit!" Seeing Lingtian about to attack as a group once more, Qiao Ting carefully evaded Li Lanfeng's beam attacks while flying swiftly in a particular direction at the same time. He did not want to be surrounded again and be forced to endure the opponents' self-destructs and add even more wounds on his mecha.

Seeing Qiao Ting choose to flee, Wu Jiong and the others were surprised, but they immediately revved their engines to fly after him. Even though Qiao Ting's speed was very fast, perhaps the damage on his mecha had still affected his speed — combined with the fact that Wu Jiong and the rest did not hesitate to overload their engines, Qiao Ting was actually unable to lose them for a while.

In this manner, chasing and running, this stalemate continued for two to three minutes. The extended pursuit made many of the spectating students think that this might be a match of endurance now. Perhaps they could only wait for one side's mecha to completely run out of power before this boring chase war would end.

The cadets were dissatisfied by this — they wanted to see a fierce battle, and not this kind of boring chase which carried some element of luck. Qiao Ting's active retreat also tarnished the glow of his previous glorious image as an unbeatable legend; he was swiftly losing his shine. In contrast, the Lingtian Mecha Clan which had always presented a brave front had earned the goodwill and favour of many of the cadets.

Even the spectating administrators in the VIP room were extremely unhappy at this moment, thinking that Qiao Ting's performance was indeed too lame, upsetting their plans. However, they still did not give up hope. They were waiting for Qiao Ting to turn the tables around and carry off an exciting reversal from his dire situation right now ...