The yellow sand was swept up by the strong wind, and the dazzling sunlight reflected on the armor of the two facing machines. A ball of tumbleweed rolled just right, but it didn't attract any attention because it was too small.

Outsiders had no idea what happened when Lin Ao and Sasaki Musashi confronted each other, and now the atmosphere in the bridge of the Osiris was extremely tense. Anton stood next to Captain Shepard's wheelchair, already in his pilot's suit, ready to respond to the HER forces that would rush to him.

"DAMN HER... He threatened us with his innocent life..."Anton's hand on the handle of the wheelchair was so hard that he could hear the rubber rubbing against the gloves.

"Now it's up to me." Captain Shepard.

"Captain, Princess Natasha wants to come in and watch the battle, is that okay?"

"Let her in."

Natasha barely washed, her hair sloppy. Since Dmitry's death, she has not eaten properly, and her words are so weak that she has not changed her driver's uniform now, and she only comes in wrapped in a sheet.

"Is it a fight with Sasaki Musashi?"

Seeing everyone nodding, Natasha walked to the screen and stared at Sasaki's special machine "Muramasa", tugging hard at the sheets on her body with both hands. For her, Sasaki Musashi is the source of all tragedy, and no one wants to see Sasaki die here more than herself, although it seems impossible.

"Is Katyusha repaired?"

"It's fixed, you... Do you want to go to war? ”

"Don't you need my fighting power?"

"Truth be told, but are you sure you're okay right now?" Captain Shepard asked with concern.

"Don't worry about me... Today, either Sasaki dies or I die. ”

As soon as Natasha's words fell, Jessica's communication soldier shouted nervously, "Oh no! Behind it, the HER Wuhou-class battleship dropped a humanoid weapon and was approaching the Osiris at high speed! ”

"What ?!!" Anton angrily scolded: "Why did you only find out now! ”

"The enemy is too fast!"

As soon as Jessica finished speaking, he saw a red light flash from the side of the bridge like a meteor, heading towards the field where Lin Ao and Sasaki were fighting alone, and Anton immediately knew who this person was. Except for the Red Knight at the Wuhou level, who else can have such speed?

"It's the Red Knight's Xiahoudun! What does he want to do? ”

At this time, Lin Ao had just finished asking the last question and was going to fight Sasaki. Sasaki activated the laser knife, but immediately retracted it and made a pause gesture. Lin Ao also noticed the movement behind him, and when he turned around, he just saw the red knight flash above his head, stopping at a distance of a thousand meters from the center of the two of them.

Lin Ao's heart began to pound, and he thought to himself, what is the Red Knight doing here? I can't even deal with one Sasaki, and the Red Knight suddenly killed out to join forces with Sasaki to deal with himself?

Lin Ao was nervous and didn't say a word, and Sasaki was also unhappy that the duel that was supposed to start was suddenly interrupted.

"Red Knight, the duel has begun, what are you trying to do when you suddenly appeared?"

"Your Excellency General, in the eyes of your subordinates, this duel is unfair, but your subordinates don't dare to ask too much. It's just for the sake of chivalry, and I want to be able to watch and supervise this duel to ensure fairness, do you think it's okay? ”

"Oh? You dare to oversee my duel? Zhuge Daozi asked you to come? ”

"No, it's a subordinate acting on his own. And your subordinates want to use your strength, if you use a combo to kill this teenager in one round, then this duel between the teachers and the crowd will be too boring, so please allow me to judge this game."

"Hahahaha!! Your son is really interesting, you are really condescending in the hands of Zhuge Daozi! Anyway! You can be the referee, and if you see me do anything inappropriate, you can always step in and stop the matchup. The teenager opposite, you don't have an opinion, right? ”

"No Sakura"

Lin Ao thought to himself, who knows what you HER are up to? Anyway, if you come to one, you may not be able to live, so what is the difference between two or three? Thinking so, his mind relaxed a little.

"Thank you for your trust, so please start over!"

As soon as the Red Knight's voice fell, the atmosphere became solemn again. Lin Ao set up the laser knife in his hand again, and Sasaki saw that Lin Ao was still timid in his heart, and he was afraid that he would not take the initiative to attack without urging, so he made the first move.

Unlike the last night battle in the city, this time the venue was in the wilderness, and the laser knife was much more conspicuous than the heat energy knife, so Lin Ao could see that Sasaki's knife was slashed at his own face. He hurriedly slashed his head and blocked Sasaki's knife. When the laser blades of the two sides collided, they suddenly shone with a dazzling light.

Sasaki pretended not to be used to such a light, took a few steps back, and deliberately lured Lin Ao to fight back. Lin Ao didn't know what to do, so he really slashed at the enemy's front door. Sasaki saw Lin Ao put on the trap, and pointed the tip of the knife upward, and the blade just blocked Lin Ao's blade, and then it was about to fall down. Lin Ao was taken aback, and quickly crossed his head to protect his head, but he didn't know that this was also Sasaki's false shot, and he suddenly changed to a stabbing again, stabbing the left forearm of the No. 2 machine, burning a hole in the armor.

"End of the first round!" The Red Knight shouted.

Lin Ao's heart beat wildly again, and from the short exchange of tens of seconds, it seemed that Sasaki's knife skills were too much beyond his own. As soon as he was nervous, he almost had a nauseous old problem again.

"Adjust your breathing! Adjust your breathing! AI reminded.

"Shut up!" Lin Ao rudely interrupted the AI's words, he could not be disturbed by any external objects now.

Sasaki just gave him a dismount, and the knife was impartial and didn't hit the point. He wasn't too smug about the droop either, and took a few steps back to kill again.

Sasaki's second knife was different from the previous one, and it was slashed horizontally to the left. Lin Ao and Old Jack had been training for months, and they could see that this was another virtual wink

"This trick is still to slash my face!"

Lin Ao guessed correctly, when Sasaki approached, the blade really changed to a downward split, and Lin Ao blocked the knife in front of his head in time, but he didn't know that this was Sasaki's serial sleeve again! Seeing Lin Ao's defense, he immediately changed his tactics to attack the next plate of machine 2! This knife is dangerous, because the cockpit of humanoid weapons is usually in the crotch, and fortunately, Sasaki's knife only scratched the skirt armor of the No. 2 machine. If he had used more force, Lin Ao would have been burned into gas by the scorching laser.

"Second round!"

"Damn!!"

Lin Ao was scared out of a cold sweat, he was just so close to death! It reminded him of a similar situation he had in Chicago a few years ago, which was very uncomfortable.

Because of the nervousness, a large amount of blood rushed to his head, making him feel a little dizzy, and his vision was a little blurred. The AI noticed the change in his physical signs and couldn't help it: "You can't beat him, surrender!" ”

"If I surrender, he'll kill me right away!"

"Then you can't die if you consume it? You are now like a mouse teased by a cat, and you will die! It's better to hand over the No. 2 machine and surrender now, even if he kills you, the information of the No. 2 machine can be preserved. ”

"You!! And now, still like that? Shut up! ”

When Lin Ao was distracted, Sasaki made another move. I saw that he was originally a vertical knife, and then his footsteps changed abruptly when Lin Ao didn't notice it, and with the help of the bounce and power of his legs, he stabbed at him. Lin Ao couldn't defend and was stabbed in the chest.

"Third round!"

AI: "I just pierced the front chest armor, and I almost pierced the inside!" ”

Lin Ao knew that Sasaki gradually lost the patience to play with him, and the move just now was to kill the enemy, but the enemy was tough enough to estimate the thickness of the armor of the No. 2 machine, so he didn't stab the inside.

"What thick armor!"

Sasaki suddenly put away the laser knife, and Lin Ao didn't know what tricks he wanted to play. In fact, it's just because the energy tank carried by "Muramasa" has been overheating the laser knife, so it is temporarily closed to cool down.

Seeing that Sasaki didn't pop out the blade for a while, Lin Ao took a deep breath and imitated Sasaki's move just now to assassinate him. It's just that he is just imitating after all, and he doesn't know Sasaki's footwork, and the force of this knife is insufficient, so Sasaki wants to bounce it away easily. However, to his surprise, when he ejected the laser blade and slashed at Lin Ao's blade, the laser knife in Lin Ao's hand suddenly "went out"! Before Sasaki could react, he saw that the wrist of the No. 2 machine suddenly rotated 180 degrees, aimed the handle at the lower plate of "Muramasa", and then ejected the blade again!

Lin Ao wanted to cut off the energy transmission tube connecting the energy tank on Sasaki's back and the laser knife, but because the strength of the shot was not enough, and Sasaki's timely reaction did not succeed. However, this knife stabbed "Muramasa" in the thigh impartially!

"Fourth round!"

Hearing the Red Knight announce the end of this round, Lin Ao didn't dare to advance, and took a few steps back from his sword. Sasaki saw that Aiji's thigh was pierced, and the electric light came out, and he couldn't help but clap his hands and praise: "Interesting, really interesting!" I almost dozed off, I can't look at any of my opponents! ”

Lin Ao was inevitably a little proud when he finally stabbed him, but this was smart after all, and he didn't know if Sasaki would be hit next.

Sasaki breathed out his breath and slashed head-on again, Lin Ao hurriedly defended, but at the moment when the blades intersected, Sasaki changed to stabbing again, cutting off half of the thumb of the left hand of the No. 2 machine and retreating to defend.

"Fifth round!"

Lin Ao thought to himself, Sasaki's move just now should be mostly a test or to find his rhythm, and he didn't take it seriously. He guessed correctly, this time it was Sasaki who attacked first, he raised the sword diagonally above his head, stabbed at the breastplate of the No. 2 machine, and when Lin Ao raised his sword to parry, he shook his wrist again, allowing the blade to stab at the head! Fortunately, Lin Ao pushed hard to deflect the blade, only scratching the left eye of Unit 2. Sasaki retreated, and Lin Ao fought back and was stubbornly stopped.

"Sixth round!"

"Toth, switch to somatosensory mode!"

The driver's seat of the No. 2 aircraft was transformed into a power frame bound to Lin Ao's pilot, and Lin Ao made a gesture of pointing the tip of the knife diagonally to the ground.

"Is it the fool's style in Western swordsmanship?"

Sasaki recognized this move and came with a horizontal sword, and when he approached Lin Ao, Lin Ao really made a move to lift the blade of the sword.

"The moves are too standard!"

Sasaki's blade suddenly changed, and he slashed the shoulder armor of the No. 2 machine in one go, and cut into it! It's just that he cut halfway, and suddenly retracts the blade and takes two steps back.

It turned out that Lin Ao guessed that Sasaki would definitely be able to see through his moves, so after making the movement of raising the knife, he immediately withdrew the refining blade. When Sasaki slashed him in the right shoulder, Lin Ao let go of his left hand so that his right arm could be stretched out as far as possible, and when the handle was close enough to Muramasa's arm, he popped the blade again, piercing the left upper arm of the Rieki in one fell swoop!

Sasaki secretly screamed badly, and instinctively wanted to attack the wrist of the No. 2 machine while retreating. But the laser knife is different from the sword he is usually used to, he retreated, and the blade that had pierced his upper arm just cut the elbow joint of "Muramasa's" left arm with his back, Lin Ao seized the opportunity to deflect the blade and unloaded the left arm of "Muramasa" like a cow!

"Oh! Round 7! ”

The Red Knight, who was watching the battle, almost couldn't hold back his applause, and the crew of the Osiris was suppressed for a long time, and they couldn't help cheering when they saw Lin Ao succeed.

"It's really up to you, a young man, who is willing to use his shoulder as bait!"

Sasaki's tone became more threatening, and Toth, the AI noticing Rin's abnormality, seemed more tired than expected.

"Are you alright? It's only the seventh round, and it hasn't been fought for long, how do you feel so tired? You don't usually get tired so quickly. ”

Lin Ao wiped the sweat from his head, he forgot that it was still somatosensory mode, and the No. 2 machine also made a gesture to wipe the sweat. Sasaki didn't expect that the humanoid weapon could also make the action of wiping sweat, thinking that Lin Ao had some strange move, so he instinctively raised his knife to defend it.

Lin Ao panted: "I don't know... I just feel a little dizzy. ”

AI: "You're so nervous, there's a lot of blood rushing to your brain, that's why you feel dizzy." ”

"Hmm... No wonder I feel like my body is reacting more slowly... By the way, do you feel that Sasaki's movements have slowed down a lot? ”

"Huh? No? I've been observing your move speed, and neither your nor Sasaki's speed has changed much, it's not as slow as yours is much slower than Sasaki's. ”

"Is that so? But I feel..."

Lin Ao couldn't finish, Sasaki shot again, this time the target was clear, it was aimed at the wrist of the No. 2 machine. Lin Ao subconsciously raised his sword to block it, and then swung his knife to fight back. But Sasaki parried the slash with ease, and at the same time twisted the blade, staggered Lin Ao's blade, and once again let the knife stab the left shoulder of the No. 2 machine!

The stab was so quick and precise that it didn't cut off the left arm of Unit 2, but it almost paralyzed it.

"Eighth round!"

"Tsk!"

Lin Ao snorted in dissatisfaction, he finally cut off one of Sasaki's hands, and Sasaki made up for it in the next round. He was a little anxious and took the initiative to stab him. But Sasaki suddenly spun around from his left front, just in time for Lin Ao to stab into the air. And when Sasaki turned back to the front, he waved his hand cleanly, and the next second the No. 2 machine was only half a head.

"Ninth round!"

"What !?"

Lin Ao was frightened by Sasaki's moves, he didn't expect such moves to exist in swordsmanship. If just now his advantage was to rely on familiarity with the characteristics of the laser knife, then Sasaki is still using traditional swordsmanship to maintain his advantage.

"Boy, I really didn't expect you to accompany me to the ninth round! Really, I can't bear to slash you anymore! ”

Lin Ao didn't have the heart to respond to Sasaki's teasing, he felt his head more dizzy, and it seemed that it was difficult to even stand firmly.

"Fortunately, some of the cameras on the head are still usable, which has little impact on the final imaging. Lin Ao, can you still continue to fight? ”

Lin Ao didn't answer, raised the knife to his chest, and suddenly cut it horizontally. There is no doubt about this move, Sasaki saw through the block. Lin Ao saw that the knife was blocked and quickly drew the knife back, Sasaki was afraid that he would make another move, so he immediately slashed Lin Ao's knife, intending to suppress his next move. But Lin Ao seemed to be waiting for him to do this, and saw the wrist of the No. 2 machine turn at 90 °C, the blade pointed upward, and slashed the right shoulder of "Muramasa" with unstoppable momentum!

"Got it!"

Before Lin Ao's cheers were over, Sasaki spun around again and slashed into the abdomen of Unit 2. Lin Ao was frightened by this sudden movement, and did not dare to continue to cut down and retreated.

"It's the tenth turn!"

Sasaki looked at the injury on his right shoulder and said in amazement: "Boy, you are making such rapid progress, and the combo just now is very similar to the way I am used to it." Under the same refereeing conditions as this matchup, even my subordinates rarely managed to last until 10 rounds! Really, why don't you learn from me? ”

"Phew!" Lin Ao simply refused.

"It's a pity... It's a pity. I'll tell you the truth, I don't have much energy in my body that can drive the laser knife. If I still have the intention of showing off my skills just now, I'm going to get real about it! ”

It was too late, and as soon as Sasaki's voice fell, he jumped over and killed, Lin Ao felt that this time the enemy's momentum was obviously different from just now, as if it was with a wave of qi! The laser knife in the enemy's hand was like a purple crescent moon, and before he could raise his knife to block, he slashed down.

"So fast!" The Red Knight couldn't help but admire.

Unit 2 did not dodge the knife, and a large cut was made from the head to the abdomen. If it was a human, then Lin Ao was already dead.

"Hah!"

Sasaki knew that the Red Knight was about to announce the end of the round, but the energy he was carrying might not last until the end of the next round, so he screamed and stabbed into the cockpit of the No. 2 machine before the Red Knight could speak.

At the moment of life and death, Lin Ao suddenly had a nosebleed, but now he can't care about dealing with his nose at all. His next move was beyond everyone's expectations.

He didn't dodge backwards, but took the initiative to meet it! Doing so was tantamount to suicide, and even Sasaki was stunned. But then Lin Ao's reaction was once again unexpected, and when the tip of Sasaki's knife had already stabbed his skirt armor, he suddenly spun in place, just like Sasaki had done before. In this way, Sasaki's blade slashed through a full half of the skirt armor along Lin Ao's rotation, and also cut part of the armor at the thigh, but the cockpit was avoided.

Sasaki didn't expect Lin Ao to react like this, he saw that Lin Ao's body was almost close to him, and he wanted to change the direction of the blade. But Lin Ao suddenly braked the car as he turned his left shoulder towards him. He could clearly see that the right hand of machine No. 2 was behind his waist, and the laser handle in his hand was facing him.

"Backhand sword?!"

Before he could say this, Lin Ao activated the laser knife. The purple blade of light popped out faster than a bullet, and with the help of the distance he actively pulled in, the next second, a large hole appeared in the crotch of "Muramasa" next to the cockpit.

Sasaki touched the wound pierced by the explosion fragments with his hand, and sighed, "I can't think of it... I will be defeated by you. ”

"Muramasa" exploded, and the whole body fell to the ground backwards. Lin Ao waited for more than ten seconds in horror, and saw that Sasaki did not speak again. Only then did he put away the laser knife, forcefully broke the right hand that "Muramasa" was holding, and took back his knife.

Lin Ao ripped off the head of "Muramasa" and held it high into the air, looking at the Red Knight. The Red Knight seemed to be shocked by the encounter just now, and then announced: "Winner! The boy of the Osiris! ”

"I, Lin Ao, am here to kill HER General Sasaki Musashi!! I, Lin Ao, killed Sasaki Musashi! ”

Lin Ao held Sasaki's head and roared excitedly, he could now finally wipe his nosebleed with his free hand.

"Hooray!! He won!! ”

The whole ship of Osiris boiled, and Anton Gao Xin hammered it down with one hand, but he forgot that it was not the table but Shepard's shoulder in front of him, and the old man's shoulder was red from the hammer. But Shepard was now only happy, and he saw Natasha's sheet fall to the ground, and he cried unsparingly, as if he had been relieved by Dmitry's vengeance.

The North American HER army was silent, and those in the front did not expect that the general would be beheaded by an 18-year-old boy, and those in the back could not believe it. They knew that the general had to let the Osiris go west if he was defeated, but now no one moved. And when Lin Ao saw that they didn't move, he didn't dare to move.

"Your general, as long as I defeat him, you have to let him go!"

HER's defense line was still indifferent, and the red knight flew in front of Lin Ao and pointed at them angrily: "Have you forgotten General Sasaki's order!" Is it still considered a soldier of the empire if there is an order that does not obey? Don't let it go yet! ”

HER's army slowly moved out of the way, and Lin Ao didn't expect the Red Knight to help him and say thank you. The Red Knight snorted, "Young man, I really remember your name now." You've grown more than I could have imagined, and maybe I shouldn't have let you go when I was in Yalta! Let's go, the next time I see you, I won't show mercy! ”

Lin Ao still held the head of "Muramasa" high and flew towards the west. More HER soldiers saw the head of the general's body, and only then did they believe in the fact that the general had failed, and the road to give way became wider and wider, and even the warships in the air were avoided.

I don't know if it was to express condolences for the general's death, many eagles made kneeling movements in the direction of Lin Ao. The crew of the Osiris, who was following Lin Ao, saw the scene on the ground, and then looked up at the HER battleships that were out of the way, and they all felt like they were dreaming.

"Amazing, really amazing..."

Captain Shepard said with tears in his eyes.

…

Zhuge Daozi was playing chess with his staff officer on the Wuhou-class battleship at this time, and he was not interested in Sasaki's duel at all, but he was waiting for Sasaki to finish playing the "game" and approved himself as a Western Colonel When he heard the news of Sasaki's death, the staff officer saw that he frowned and made a rare angry look, so he retired with interest.

At this time, he was the only one left in the room, and Zhuge Daozi was playing with the flag that was about to fall just now in his hand, as if the whole person was powered off. After a moment, he took a breath and placed the flag in his hand and most of his remaining pieces on the chessboard outside the chessboard, so that only the king and queen and a rook were left on his side of the chessboard.

"Sasaki actually died here... He's so reckless, it's useless..."

He picked up the rook and put it to the other pieces, then picked up the queen.

"Now... The only piece I have in my hands is you..."