Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1410 Magnetic Sand Storm

Wu Yi and Guan Ying's sisterhood during their years as fellow students was no joke.

The two of them don't need to communicate, but Merlinnil needs to notify them in advance.

"Count down three times, floor the gas!" Wu Yi shouted, gripping Lu Xinyuan's arm tightly.

"Three, two, one!"

The three exerted their strength simultaneously, and three streams of blue flame burst forth, using the inertia of the vortex to propel them away.

The moment they burst out of the vortex, all three were nearly thrown off the pedals by the immense centrifugal force. Fortunately, they reacted quickly and held on tightly, thus escaping elimination.

More and more people are successfully breaking free.

As the last person rushed out, the massive whirlwind suddenly disappeared, and the water wall collapsed with a roar.

Huge waves surged towards the athletes who had just escaped danger, burying them all underwater and pushing them forward.

After the giant wave receded from the beach, there were far fewer contestants remaining than before.

They were all soaked to the bone, their soft armor covered in seawater and mud, and their star shuttles were damaged to varying degrees, but no one stopped.

Lin Fan took off his helmet, poured out half of the water, shook it off, and looked ahead.

In the vast desert, yellow sand swirls everywhere. Huge tornadoes rage across the desert, whipping up massive sand pillars that move continuously through the sand.

"Tsk!" Antonio wiped the water off his face and put his helmet back on. "Why does this place look so familiar?"

"The realm of consciousness?" Lin Fan asked, "Or Mount Mingmin?"

She currently maintains a leading advantage, but because of that huge wave, the people behind her are closing in tightly, making it difficult for her.

“Don’t even mention it,” Antonio spat twice. “It’s not a good place at all.”

“This is much better than the sand in Mingmin Mountain,” Wu Yi’s voice came. “At least the sand in Mingmin Mountain isn’t like this.”

“It’s always better to be able to see the shape,” Lu Xinyuan said at the end. “It’s better than something that you can’t see and that just appears out of nowhere.”

“How do you know there isn’t?” Antonio replied.

Lu Xinyuan: "...I suddenly agree with what Dr. Jin said."

"What? What did you say?" Wu Yi asked curiously.

“It’s better for him to keep quiet than to open his mouth,” Merlinnier unexpectedly chimed in.

"Hey~" Antonio protested, but when Lin Fan said "Shut up," he immediately replied with a smile, "Okay!"

Just as he entered the hundred-meter mark, Lin Fan felt an unusual pulling sensation under his feet.

She looked down and saw that the originally flat sand below had developed circular ripples that spread forward, with the central area sinking at a visible speed.

"It's shallow quicksand! The gravity might be off; increase altitude immediately!"

As soon as Lin Fan finished speaking, the strong suction force generated by the sinking quicksand pulled her star shuttle downwards.

But compared to the waterspout from before, this is nothing.

The airflow from the engine created a brief stalemate with the suction, which also created a noticeable shallow crater in the sand below.

Lin Fan quickly increased the pressure, and the engine instantly strengthened, rapidly shaking off the upward suction.

Then, Antonio yelled, "Oh no! I think I'm locked down!"

Lin Fan asked what happened without turning his head.

Antonio was simply curious and wanted to get a closer look at what else was in the sinking quicksand.

In his opinion, if such a huge tornado has already appeared, what's there to be afraid of with this little bit of suction?

The result may be that the height was too low, and it was firmly sucked in by the negative pressure generated when the quicksand sank.

Antonio pressed the pedal hard but could only maintain the height without moving forward.

"If going forward doesn't work, try going backward, or to the left or right, to see if there's an airflow channel to push it out," Lin Fan advised.

Antonio immediately took action, managing to shift more than ten meters to the right to break free of the restraint.

By this time, the quicksand trap below had expanded to over twenty meters. The gravitational pull was also increasing. Any later, and it would likely be even more difficult for him to break free of the lock.

Antonio hurriedly increased his hovering height, and when he looked up, he saw that many people in front of him had already taken the opportunity to overtake him.

wipe!

Ahead, the sand pillars that had been swept up by the wind suddenly dispersed, forming a dark yellow sand wall that roared towards the group.

The wind wasn't strong, but grit was constantly being blown onto the Star Shuttle and helmet, quickly turning into piles of cement that not only increased the load but also affected the Star Shuttle's maneuverability.

Lin Fan cleaned away the sand, only to find that another layer quickly accumulated.

These tiny particles seem to be magnetic, automatically adhering to any metal surface.

A magnetic sandstorm?

Could this test be a battle against magnetic forces?!

Lin Fan was shocked and looked down at his feet, which were now buried in gravel.

Their equipment doesn't seem to have anti-magnetic capabilities, does it?

"Immediately increase altitude to avoid the impact of the low-altitude magnetic sandstorm!" Lin Fan said, and took the lead in climbing.

Behind her, Guan Ying's Star Shuttle malfunctioned—the engine seemed to be blocked by magnetic sand.

The sand was completely unaffected by the high temperature and quickly coalesced into a single mass. The flames at the nozzle were getting smaller and smaller, and the exit was about to be completely blocked.

The Star Shuttle's power became unstable, and it began to shake violently, threatening to lose control and plummet at any moment.

"Don't panic, I'm coming!" Wu Yi's sweet voice rang out.

She approached Guan Ying from behind, and with a wave of her hand, the sand stuck in the engine seemed to be pulled away by an invisible force, all falling off.

Guan Ying seized the opportunity to push the power to the limit and flew up.

"Thank you," Guan Ying said sincerely.

"Don't mention it," Wu Yi smiled sweetly. "Hurry up, don't let Antonio catch up."

They had barely caught up with the advantage they gained by overtaking Antonio, and they didn't want to lose it so easily.

"Hehe! I heard you!" Antonio laughed. "Waaaaah~ I'm coming!"

After escaping the magnetic storm's range, Lin Fan quickly performed several spiral rolls to shake off all the sand particles from his body.

Although the crisis was over, they deviated from their original route to avoid the geomagnetic storm area and headed towards the rock pillars on the left.

Those rock pillars are hundreds of meters high, and they are all funnel-shaped with thicker sides and thinner middle. At first glance, they look similar to the sand pillars on the right that have been swept up by the wind, but their structure is not loose and may be comparable to the original canyon walls.

The rock pillars are arranged irregularly, but densely packed together. From a distance, they look like pillars stretching across the sky and earth, or like a golden bamboo forest.

However, the top is a continuous rock wall, and to get through it, you have to pass through the middle.

Maneuvering and twisting among the numerous rock pillars will inevitably require a lot of effort.

However, there are advantages as well. The timing of an opponent choosing to detour and slow down inevitably makes it seem like an opportunity to overtake. Moreover, there are so many distractions and gaps here.

As the race progressed, the distance between the competitors widened again. The top few were tightly packed together, but the gaps widened as the race progressed.

Merlinnir fell to the top of the second tier.

He could have been even faster. But Wu Yi and Guan Ying had just pulled him out of the sea, giving him a chance to continue, even though he should have been disqualified from the competition. Now they were chasing after him and overtaking him... He felt a little guilty, so he willingly stayed behind the two of them for the time being.

Once a ranking gap is established, it generally won't change unless something unexpected happens at a constant speed.

Just now, Guan Yingfei encountered a problem with the shuttle, and Wu Yi helped her. Actually, this delayed their progress.

But they had Mellinn behind them helping to block them, preventing the people behind them from overtaking them.

Those people missed the chance to be at the forefront, how could they not hold a grudge?

We happened to come across rock pillars that were winding and had so many gaps.

If we don't surpass it now, when will we?

Just as they were full of confidence and preparing to accelerate and overtake Merlinnil, the rock pillar in front of them suddenly collapsed.

One falls, then all the others fall.

The chain reaction caused dozens of rock pillars, hundreds of meters high, to collapse.

Broken sand and dust rained down like a storm, and the billowing smoke instantly obscured everything.