The Real Daughter Just Wants to Pilot Mechas - Chapter 80

Meanwhile, on the other side, Lu Feng was directing his subordinates to hold off the alien beast and evacuate civilians while also watching the combat footage being transmitted from Planet No. 332.

In the top right corner of the footage, the garrison commander in combat gear looked like he was about to cry, speaking fast and anxiously.

“Major General Lu! Command said reinforcements were coming but there’s only one person on the ship? We thought she was an advance scout but she fell off the ship! We couldn’t catch her, she was too fast!”

Anyone with eyes could tell Jiang Momo had jumped on her own. Lu Feng knew the commander was just fishing for a reaction. He didn’t even glance at the man.

“Planet No. 333 is in worse shape. You hold the line there,” Lu Feng said flatly.

“But we don’t even know if this alien beast has any special abilities!” the commander shouted, voice cracking from the stress.

The alien beast hadn’t been on their planet long. The military had been keeping a safe distance, so there hadn’t been any direct clashes yet.

Lu Feng didn’t look up as his hands flew across the controls. “If it has special abilities, that’s even better. It means it has a weaker defense.”

The commander saw how cold Lu Feng was and felt a wave of despair.

“Cover her!” Lu Feng ordered.

The commander snapped out of it and quickly fired a shot at the alien beast’s head before it could sense Jiang Momo approaching.

Boom!

The particle cannon made the alien beast lift its head in rage. A thin layer of skin had been broken at its forehead. Enraged, it clawed at the ground and opened its mouth, yellow light gathering inside.

The commander went pale. As the alien beast fired an energy beam, he hastily ordered evasive maneuvers.

His ship barely dodged it but the ship behind them took a direct hit, causing one side to wreck and the ship falling. Another warship immediately used grappling hooks to catch the falling ship in mid-air. But now, the two attached ships were visibly slower and became the alien beast’s main target.

The alien beast continued its barrage. The commander watched as the small black shadow, Jiang Momo, landed silently on its back. Then he looked at their own half-destroyed fleet and felt the taste of bile rise in his throat.

“We’re done for. This is going to get really bad,” the commander mumbled while dodging attacks. “An alien beast on the Capital Star and it’s nothing like what we trained for… Am I going to die here?”

“No,” Lu Feng said, giving him a rare glance and scanning the live footage. “You can retreat now.”

Jiang Momo had already started scanning the alien beast for weak points during her descent. Truthfully, when she realized the alien beast had special abilities, she actually felt relieved because it meant its physical capabilities like strength, speed, and awareness were likely lower.

She was proven right when the alien beast didn’t even notice her on its back. It just kept wildly spewing energy beams to kill everything in sight.

She darted across its back and stopped at a spot along its waist where there was a subtle curve in its body.

Alien beasts with abilities didn’t just generate them at will. Instead, they were built up over years and the abilities source was usually fixed. That was something Jiang Momo learned after killing half a planet’s worth of alien beasts.

She pressed on the slightly raised patch of skin. It was softer than the rest, confirming her observation.

Then she yanked out a single fine, curled hair from the edge of the bump.

As soon as it came out, the hair straightened and hardened. The previously subtle bump swelled rapidly.

“The alien beast’s gone berserk!” the commander shouted. He barely avoided the next energy sweep, frantically working the console.

If the previous attacks were like bullets, now they were laser sweeps. Everything the beam passed through shimmered from the heat.

“Major General Lu!” the commander cried, almost in tears. “We can’t hold it!”

“Why haven’t you retreated?” Lu Feng asked without looking up from the battlefield on Planet No. 333. He finally spared a glance at Planet No. 332 when he heard the yelling.

“I’m your soldier!” the commander yelled. “You said if civilians are behind us, we’d rather die than run!”

Lu Feng smirked faintly. “Forget it. It’s too late to run anyway. Don’t tell anyone I trained you.”

“There probably won’t be a next time,” the commander whispered, activating the self-destruct system. He looked at their wrecked ships and the town in the distance. A solemn expression crossed his face. “I’ll take the alien beast down with me.”

His hand trembled. As he was just about to press the button, the alien beast screamed in agony.

Jiang Momo, a mere black dot on its back, activated her thruster and flew away, kicking off the commander’s warship as a springboard, and vanishing in a few leaps.

The next moment, the alien beast exploded.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, its power matched a large-scale weapon. The few still-operating warships lost all power and crashed.

Just moments earlier, Jiang Momo had dragged the extracted hair to the alien beast’s neck and with precise force, stabbed the entire meter-long hair through its fatal weak point, piercing its throat. Blood sprayed from the wound, leaving a red streak down her face. Her mid-length hair fluttered in the wind as she turned away. When she felt the alien beast’s energy destabilize, she bolted immediately.

She’d landed far enough away from the blast to avoid being caught in the explosion. Then she boarded a nearby warship that hadn’t taken off yet, took over the controls, and set course straight for Planet No. 333 to assist Lu Feng.

The Siamese cat popped up from the bottom of the light brain, circling Jiang Momo with a complicated look on its fluffy face.

[You could’ve just punched it to death. Why go through all that?]

Jiang Momo only used such elaborate methods back when she was still young and weak. These days, her hunts were straightforward and brutal. Now, it was almost like she’d shown off on purpose.

“Because I figured Lu Feng was watching,” Jiang Momo replied matter-of-factly.

The cat’s expression got even weirder.

[Lu Feng may be 32 and single, and he’s at the prime age in the Federation, but—]

Jiang Momo paused and cut it off. “Did you get a virus? Don’t scare me.”

[No. I do daily self-checks.] The cat gave up on the Lu Feng topic.

“I just think that with the alien beasts showing up more and more on the Capital Star and the Federation having such high-tech weapons and manpower, it’s ridiculous they’re still so passive. So I figured I’d give them a demo.”

Jiang Momo said, “You saw it yourself. Things were that urgent and yet out of all those people, only a hundred actually did anything. Two alien beasts appeared and I had to handle it alone. What happens if three or four appear at the same time?”

The warship’s speed became faster and faster as they talked. Multiple spatial jumps were performed in a short time, causing the ship’s self-diagnose system to start blaring alarms.

Jiang Momo ignored them and continued to accelerate. Soon, she arrived above Planet No. 333.

The battlefield there was brutal, painted red with blood everywhere. In the ruins of collapsed buildings, a massive alien beast was surrounded by hundreds of mechas.

It was huge. Even mechas over ten meters tall looked small next to it. It looked like a mix between a hippo and a bull with thick skin and tough muscles. Unlike the alien beast that self-destructed earlier, the second one had no special abilities. Its only attacks were ramming and biting. But even with such basic attacks, the mechas couldn’t do anything to it.

“This is just a regular alien beast that grew by eating. Its hide is thick and regular weapons don’t work on it. For now, we think its weak points might be at the back of its neck or on its forehead.” Lu Feng’s voice came through the warship’s comm system.

“We lost three mechas while probing it. Its defense is estimated to be seven times stronger than the alien beast on Planet No. 332. Can you handle it?”

“I think so,” Jiang Momo said.

Lu Feng asked, “Have you seen this kind of alien beast before?”

“I’ve seen plenty growing up,” she replied.

What’s the most common on the desolate planet? The alien beasts. Especially the plain-looking ones like the second alien beast. It was the base of most alien beast populations. They don’t have clear strengths and their weaknesses vary. Some fear light, some are night-blind, and some are hypersensitive to sound.

So what’s this one afraid of?

Jiang Momo stared at the alien beast pushing through the ruins toward the crowd. Sharp-eyed, she noticed it blinked faster, though barely, when facing reflective surfaces.

“Shine strong lights in its eyes!” she told all mechas through the warship’s system.

The mechas ignored her.

“Follow her orders,” Lu Feng commanded.

Only then did the mechas switch to high-intensity spotlights and take turns flying in front of the alien beast to flash its eyes.

The alien beast’s long tail twitched faster.

“Aim for the eyes!” Jiang Momo ordered.

“Will it die if we attack the eyes?” Lu Feng asked, looking curious.

Jiang Momo paused. “Of course not.”

She doubted a major general who rose through the ranks by killing alien beasts didn’t know that. A thought flashed through her mind.

“Then what should we do? You’re not going to fight it yourself?” Lu Feng asked. “Are you scared by the scene?”

“Of course not,” she said. “Aren’t you also not on the field?”

“I am on the field. I’m out there now,” Lu Feng said.

“So am I,” Jiang Momo replied.

She could still casually banter with Lu Feng because the civilians had already been evacuated and the buildings mostly destroyed. Things weren’t getting any worse, so she had time to test her theory.

Lu Feng chuckled. “Standing in a warship won’t earn you a paycheck.”

“You said as long as I join a mission, I get paid. I’ve already taken down one alien beast, so my mission is completed,” she argued.

“So where do we hit this one for a one-shot kill?” Lu Feng asked.

“It’s too well-defended. That’s not possible,” Jiang Momo answered flatly.

Lu Feng sounded thoughtful. “It looks like we’ll need to evacuate and use large-scale weapons.”

Jiang Momo suggested, “I can try knocking it unconscious instead. Then we can keep it somewhere for the army to train with.”

“It’s too risky. We have virtual training simulations and we fight simulated alien beasts every week. There’s no need to cage a real one,” Lu Feng said.

And this is the result of that training?

Jiang Momo held back from commenting. “Can I try that training simulation sometime?”

“Of course,” Lu Feng said.

E/N:
Lu Feng: We have a virtual simulation to train.
Jiang Momo: Hah.