From BOSS to Canon Fodder: She is Currently Out of Service!

”What the hell is this loading bar!” Su Jiameng almost exploded as she stared at the ticking loading bar on the screen, feeling a bit on edge. Liang Xiaonuo, who was beside her, had no idea what she was doing and blinked suspiciously... Loading bar? What’s that?

Su Jiameng’s expression was quite awful because a distant explosion had already begun. The ground shook violently, and even cracks emerged. Cui Hu, who had come down to assist Liang Xiaonuo and Theo Mossley, was taken aback...

Su Jiameng broke free from the restraints binding her, her face extremely pale. The shaking of the ground was no less than a colossal earthquake of over ten levels! Although she couldn’t figure out how the loading bar came about, at this speed, they’d be overwhelmed by the explosion before the loading finished. Nearby, there were still a few little ones... She gritted her teeth, quickly clicked on several people’s icons, and forcibly dragged them into the team...

If they were still alive by the time the loading finished, it would be a stroke of immense luck. If the loading completed after the explosion... they’d be on their own. Having done this, she planned to take out the Lord of the Sky—Fei Feng—to escape high above, fleeing as far as she could...

After what seemed like a sky-cracking explosion, the surrounding area seemed to receive orders, and massive explosions followed one after another, with barely a second’s buffer interval, and the explosions truly reached here...

”Get up here quickly!” Cui Hu did not immediately recognize Su Jiameng’s true identity, and with both arms, he lifted her into the mecha’s cockpit.

With Liang Xiaonuo, the other four, the two unconscious little ones, and Su Jiameng, seven people crowded into the not-so-spacious cockpit. Lu Anchen, who had prepared everything, saw Cui Hu come up and immediately chose to ascend at top speed, his heart pounding...

”It seems we’re too late...” Liang Xiaonuo’s face was pale, and the bodies on the ground had long been buried by the explosion, sinking into the cracks. As for the secret that incited the ordinary war, its true visage hadn’t even been revealed before it was buried here...

The range affected by the explosion far exceeded their expectations. In such a short time, their escape to higher altitudes didn’t win them a chance for survival, only slightly delaying by a couple of seconds. The waves from the explosion impacted the mecha’s operation, and even the wings suffered severe damage, the ascent slowed, the hull swayed unstably, and the flames and heat wave rushed up from the ground, engulfing it instantly...

Gu Ningyi wasn’t far from the explosion point, and naturally received significant impact, narrowly escaping danger several times before finally surviving. Luo Xin was a bit farther, not only her but even her subordinates didn’t suffer many casualties...

”The place of the explosion... is there...” Due to the tremors caused by the explosion, Gu Ningyi also looked quite disheveled, with some superficial wounds. He hadn’t yet grasped what Luo Xin meant by ’that place’ before his expression suddenly changed...

Seeing Gu Ningyi rapidly stand and look towards the constantly reverberating site of the explosion, Luo Xin understood what he was worried about and couldn’t help but console, ”Don’t worry, she might not be in trouble... maybe she’s already escaped...”

The battle between Su Jiameng and Yun Cuixi took place there, in the area least populated on the entire battlefield, with hardly any sign of the three factions’ warriors clashing in a frenzy. This was also one of the reasons Yun Cuixi chose this place for the transaction...

In truth, if it weren’t for the little bear kids running amuck, Liang Xiaonuo and the others wouldn’t have been led over there.

But now, with such a large-scale explosion happening, just who set it off? How could she and Gu Ningyi not figure it out? Su Jiameng, in the center of the battle, had a very slim chance of escaping in a short time... Her words of comfort, in the end, were just that—words of comfort.

On an unnamed black planet, a man dressed in a tight black suit pursed his lips tightly, golden pupils slightly agitated as he stared at the window outside. This was his private office, yet at this moment, he felt no sense of security.

”Yu Feng... what have you been so restless about lately? You’re always uneasy, unable to control your emotions... do you know, your emotional changes lately have affected the morale of the soldiers?” As the man paced back and forth, his subordinate and friend from school days entered with a stack of documents.

It’s hard to imagine that in the Future Interstellar, where paper products are banned by order, such a precious stack of paper documents would appear.

”If it affects them, it affects them, what does it have to do with me? It only means they’re too weak... easily swayed by others’ emotions...” The man furrowed his brows, clenching his fists tightly, yet considering it was a friend he was speaking to, he restrained himself a bit, ”I’m fine...”

”You’ve been like this since you were a kid...” His friend mumbled a couple of dissatisfied words, leaving the documents and a cup of freshly brewed hot coffee, ”You’ve had this personality since you were young, never saying what’s on your mind... Now that you’ve grown up, it’s only gotten worse.”

The man named Yu Feng chose to ignore it, his gaze fixed on the view outside the window. It was a fairly despairing planet, with no resources, no life, and even the daily sunlight lasting only six brief hours... the rest was an oppressive darkness where you couldn’t see a hand in front of you.

Moreover, the extreme temperature differences between day and night were unbearable, and the air was thin to the point where even the fittest warriors couldn’t stay exposed on such a planet for too long... How long would such a hopeless existence last?

Doo doo doo—

As the two remained silent, there came a knock at the door. Glancing at each other, they cleared their throats before reluctantly saying, ”Come in.”

”Admiral, the seventh patrol team discovered seven unknown spies at the edge of Demon Canyon... Two are dead, four seriously injured, and one is critically injured... They’ve all been sent to the medical facility.” The individual reporting wore a simple military uniform and appeared normal, but upon closer inspection, both his hands turned out to be mechanical arms, and even one eyeball was electronic!

”Seven... spies?” For some reason, the days of anxiety instantly calmed down...(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)