Tan Lingyun's green mecha sped up as soon as the match began, displaying a high-level simulation technique.
Whether it was speed or mecha piloting, he was also a Sovereign-class mecha pilot, but he was much stronger than Xiao Han, who had represented the students earlier.
Xiao Han had only just crossed the threshold of Sovereign-class. At most, he would be able to reach the Sovereign-class standards. Tan Lingyun, on the other hand, was a veteran Sovereign-class mecha pilot, and the strongest in the National Eastern University. He had already entered the ranks of Sovereign-class A-class mecha pilots.
Even in the Eastern Alliance, he was one of the most powerful men in the world.
However, in the face of Tan Lingyun's instantaneous acceleration, Su He reacted strangely.
Piloting his sniper mecha, he didn't immediately run away.
He didn't take out his electron cannon and aim it at Tan Lingyun.
Instead, he piloted his yellow mecha and headed straight for Tan Lingyun.
What was he doing?
Many people looked at this scene in confusion.
Their hearts were full of questions.
The two mechas closed in on each other. Tan Lingyun sat in the simulation pod, her brows furrowed.
She didn't know what her opponent's goal was, but with her unwavering will, she wouldn't be so easily fooled by her opponent.
The green mecha spread its arms to the sides, and at the same time, the wings on its back opened up. The mecha's palms suddenly lit up, and a three-meter long spike drilled out of each hand.
In the hands of an eighteen meter tall mecha, the weapon was only three meters long. This could only be considered a short weapon.
But Tan Lingyun's speed suddenly increased. The thrusters on the mecha's back spat out a blinding white light, and when the two were less than a hundred meters apart, the mecha accelerated.
It was like a green hurricane.
It swept towards his opponent.
However, Su He's yellow mecha faltered momentarily in that instant.
It didn't continue to accelerate.
The mecha curled up slightly in the air.
"Clang!" A loud sound exploded in the air.
The two mechas collided and then separated.
Su He's mecha was still far away, but Tan Lingyun's green mecha had borrowed the momentum to fly several hundred meters away.
A pair of long blades had appeared on the arms of the yellow mecha at some point in time. The blades extended from the mecha's arms all the way to its shoulders, and when the mecha's arms were bent, the blades naturally protruded from its elbows.
Close combat?
He actually chose to engage in close combat with Tan Lingyun with the electron cannon on his back?
Tan Lingyun's mecha had already turned around in the air. What was shocking was that on the two shoulders of her light green mecha, there was a pair of wings.
If it weren't for the final protection of her energy barrier, it seemed as if her mecha would've been sliced open.
How could they not be shocked that such a situation had occurred in a mere instant?
Almost none of the spectators clearly saw what happened at that moment when the two sides collided.
Tan Lingyun's green mecha was already damaged.
Su He's yellow mecha moved. In the air, that yellow mecha seemed to be taking a leisurely stroll. With a single step, it crossed a distance of several hundred meters in an instant.
The yellow mech itself seemed to be swaying slightly.
But at this moment, every spectator seemed to see a double image on the screen.
What is this?
Most people were at a loss.
Only the most outstanding mecha pilots seemed to understand something.
"This is a lightning doppelganger?" Wang Hongyuan exclaimed.
He turned his head and wanted to ask Lan Jue.
Only then did he remember that Lan Jue said that she had gone to the washroom and hadn't come back.
At this moment, Wang Hongyuan.
However, his heart was already in turmoil.
Of course he knew what the Lightning Doppelganger was. It was a technique that only god-ranked mecha pilots could use.
Through the mecha's multiple thrusters, it was able to quickly make the mecha flicker and sway.
Because the speed was too fast, there would be a ghost-like effect.
Not only did the Lightning Doppelganger have high requirements on the pilot's control, but it also had high requirements on the pilot's physical endurance.
Without a Discipline of the seventh rank or higher, it was impossible to withstand the inertia of a mecha's high-speed swaying.
At present, there was no technology that could prevent this sort of impact on the human body.
DreamNet's simulator was a complete imitation of a mecha, but it would adjust to suit the needs of the human body.
If the human body experienced a strong reaction, it would automatically stop to protect its safety.
Because of this, using the Doppelganger in the simulator was relatively easy, but it wasn't something the average pilot could handle.
Wang Hongyuan knew he couldn't do it himself. He couldn't maintain a high hand speed while the mecha swayed at high speeds.
There were different levels of Doppelganger. It was said that the strongest Doppelganger could make the mecha look like it was using a doppelganger technique. Two mechas would appear out of thin air, making it impossible for the opponent to tell them apart.
The best god-ranked pilots were said to be able to create a doppelganger, separating the two mechas more than ten meters apart from each other.
Su He's mecha looked like a phantom, but he couldn't actually separate it from the real body. Still, it was half a body. It could be said that he was using a doppelganger.
The most frightening thing about doppelganger was that it was impossible to tell where it was.
No radar could pinpoint the exact location of the mecha when it was swaying at high speeds.
This was supposed to be the most powerful countermeasure a top-tier mecha pilot could use against a sniper mecha, but now, it was being used by Su He, who was using a sniper mecha.
When Tan Lingyun saw the doppelganger in front of her, her mind went blank.
The audience hadn't seen how she'd been injured, but how could she not?
In that instant of collision, her green mecha's pair of spikes had completely missed. This was because in the instant that the two sides had come into contact with each other, Su He's yellow mecha had shaken its body at an inconceivable speed.
He'd evaded her attack, and even damaged her mecha.
If not for Tan Lingyun's reflexive reflexes, the fight would have been over.
Tan Lingyun was confident that her hand speed was fast enough. A Sovereign-ranked pilot was required to have a hand speed of twenty moves per second.
She herself had the strength of twenty-five moves per second, which was quite powerful for a Sovereign-ranked pilot.
But after the clash just now, Tan Lingyun understood that her opponent's hand speed was probably over forty moves per second. This meant that in a second, she could control her mecha 40 times through the control panel.
This was an absolute suppression in terms of technique.
Wang Hongyuan recognized the doppelganger, and as a Sovereign-ranked pilot, how could Tan Lingyun not recognize it?
In that instant, she understood.
Even if the opponent before him wasn't a god-rank mecha pilot, he was at least infinitely close to it.
She'd lost. She'd lost, just like that. It couldn't have been any easier.
Two exchanges, huh?
God-ranked and Sovereign-ranked. It might seem like there was only one level of difference between them, but in reality, even ten Sovereign-ranked pilots wouldn't stand a chance against a God-ranked pilot.
In the world of mecha piloting, the higher the level, the greater the difference between each level.
And in the world of God-ranked pilots, although there were no clear divisions, those who truly understood the difference between them knew that the gap between them was as wide as the sky and the earth.
"Bzzz —" Without warning, Tan Lingyun felt a strong sense of dizziness.
In an instant, she felt as if her body was about to be separated.
Even though she was in a simulation pod, she had no choice but to use her ability to expel this sudden feeling.
Had she lost?
So this was what it felt like to be defeated.
Tan Lingyun thought bitterly. It'd been a long time since she'd experienced the feeling of a mecha being defeated.
Although she'd used her Discipline to control her body, she found that her eyes were blurred. Her hands couldn't even control the control panel in front of her.
Her eyes and body couldn't keep up.
That's not right!
This was a simulation, not a real mecha. Even if her mecha had been defeated, all she needed to do was wait for the match to end.
What was going on?
Confused, Tan Lingyun pulled herself together and returned her senses to the battle.
The entire audience, including the VIP podium, was in an uproar.
Yes, an uproar.
What had they just seen?
What had just happened?
Was that a miracle?
When Su He's yellow mecha had used the Lightning Doppelganger to create a phantom image, the mecha pilots who understood what it meant were stunned. But in the next moment, everyone saw it.
The green mecha, which had been about to be swallowed by the yellow mecha, suddenly blurred.
In the blink of an eye, the green mecha had been sliced in half.
It hadn't been sliced open. Instead, it had forcibly manifested another green mecha that was identical to the one that had just appeared.
Even though it had only been a moment, the yellow mecha had passed through one of the phantom images of the green mecha, the image of the two green phantoms was deeply imprinted in everyone's minds.
A miracle?
No, a miracle!
Even those who didn't understand mecha piloting couldn't help but gape at the sight of the two green phantoms merging into one.
Was this really something a mecha could do?
Before today, none of them had ever imagined that such a huge mecha could actually … could actually create a phantom image.
Wang Hongyuan was also stunned. The words' Lightning Doppelganger 'that he had cried out involuntarily still lingered in his mind.
This … this was a real Lightning Doppelganger. Unexpectedly, Tan Lingyun and Mr.Tan could actually use a real Lightning Doppelganger.
In that instant, Wang Hongyuan felt a rush of hot blood rush to his head. In that instant, he felt as if his entire body was on fire.
To be able to witness the appearance of a Lightning Doppelganger was a memory that would forever be engraved in the soul of any mecha pilot!
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