Free Web NovelChapter 1133: Chapter 132: Giant Beast (12)
More than twenty armed helicopters took off one after another from the eight groups of helipads of the Broken Dome, ascending into the high sky,
half heading out to patrol the seas while the other half remained in position, illuminating the fortress below with searchlights.
Rumble—
Accompanied by the roar of engines, the three-ton hangar doors on the sea-facing side of the fortress slid open along the slots, revealing three heavy mechas.
The Storm Red, coated in bright red paint and relatively slim in shape, was the first to walk out of the hangar,
its feet equipped with magnetorheological dampers stepped into the seawater, and despite a slight tremor, it quickly regained balance, using the massive amount of seawater to support its weight.
"Storm Red advancing, estimated to reach the designated location in one minute."
Inside the cockpit, the Wei triplets with oriental faces uniformly pushed the control lever, walking in sync.
The heavy mecha broke through the waves, heading toward the sea under the illumination of helicopter searchlights in the sky.
In this world ravaged by monster wars, human civilization had to find a new path to gain the strength to contend with deep-sea giant beasts,
collecting the pineal organs of deep-sea giant beasts and connecting them with human pilots, mechas, and mech AI through a device called the Drift Flow System,
forming a four-corner link.
The Drift Flow System consists of several components,
Full-covering Tactical Suit—this tactical suit is filled with circuit sensors that can read physiological data.
Spinal Clip—this component utilizes mechanical arms in the cockpit to attach it to the back of the tactical suit during combat. The Spinal Clip’s function is to transmit the driver’s actions in the full-covering tactical suit to the mecha while organizing the driver’s chaotic brainwaves to be understood by the mech AI.
Relay Gel—this gel is similar to pale yellow orange juice and fills the helmet component of the tactical suit, submerging the driver’s face. The driver can breathe in the relay gel without suffocating, and once electrified, the relay gel will become transparent.
At the same time, relay gel also plays the most critical role—integrating thoughts. freewebnøvel.com
A single driver cannot control a heavy mecha over 50 meters or wield a third- or fourth-class deep-sea beast’s pineal organ to unleash an A.T. Force Field,
therefore, multiple drivers must collectively bear the enormous load connected to the beast’s pineal organ.
This is not enough; once the Drift Flow System is used, multiple drivers’ brains will connect, feeling each other’s thoughts, reading all memories,
even understanding the most secretive, dark, and sordid subconscious fragments deep within.
If one side cannot bear this mental burden, other drivers will also quickly lose control, causing mental disorder at best, and instantaneous death at worst,
PPDC has paid a lot of bloody lessons for this in history.
Therefore, once Drift Flow System technology matured, all PPDC mech drivers were divided into two-person, three-person, four-person teams,
each team of drivers must be intimately connected, freely sharing memories.
The Wei brothers driving the Storm Red mech were young triplets born in Port City,
and Alex Cadnovsky and Sasha Cadnovsky driving the Chernobyl Alpha mech were childhood sweethearts who became husband and wife,
while Kelly Hansen and Chaq Hansen driving the Eureka Raider were father and son from Sydney, Australia.
"Storm Red has reached the designated target location, activating lighthouse on the mech shoulder, patrolling the sea."
The eldest of the Wei triplets, Wei Jinlong, took a deep breath and reported to the command center via the communication system.
He stood in the central position of the cockpit; although his appearance was identical to his two brothers, his expression appeared more composed.
General Stake’s voice came from the command center, "Command center received.
Storm Red, this time the deep-sea giant beast is the power-type Ridgeback Turtle and the agile-type Tail Rat. Following routine, the stronger, more armored Chernobyl Alpha mech will attract the opponent’s attention.
Once Chernobyl Alpha engages one of them, you launch an attack.
Eureka Raider mech will remain behind you, ready for fire support at any time.
As for the one hundred and twenty small and medium-sized deep-sea creatures following Ridgeback Turtle and Tail Rat, other medium-sized mech arrays will intercept them at the coastal port.
You only need to deal with Ridgeback Turtle and Tail Rat."
"Understood."
Wei Jinlong nodded heavily, his voice as steady as ever,
but his brother Wei Yinhu, standing next to him, frowned slightly, and after the broadcast shut down, asked deeply, "Brother, are you worried about Mom and Dad?"
"Hmm."
Wei Jinlong nodded, and within the Drift Flow System, there were no secrets between the three brothers, "I don’t know if they are safe in Pengzhou City..."
To ensure the mech drivers had no worries, the Wei brothers’ parents were previously arranged to reside in the more inland Pengzhou City,
but the recent Pale World Mantle mutation affected a wide area, and Pengzhou City may not be absolutely safe.
"Mom and Dad should be okay; PPDC colleagues will protect them."
The youngest of the three brothers, Wei Tongshi, reassured, "Even if things get out of control, we, piloting Storm Red, have the power to resist.
Worst comes to worst, we can bring down Storm Red and have that Li Rising thoroughly destroy the mantle he created."
Storm Red is a fourth-generation mech produced by Northern Industrial Company, learning from the lessons of previous generations and optimizing various details,
styled for high mobility, low armor, and close combat specialization,
capable of executing more agile tactical moves than other heavy mechas,
with the three rotating hand blades having slain seven deep-sea giant beasts thus far, represented by seven star-sticker motifs on Storm Red’s chest.
The mech’s advanced technology, power, and combat achievements are second only to Australia’s newly-produced fifth-generation mech Eureka Raider—the Australian father and son have slain ten giant beasts so far.
"Maybe."
Wei Jinlong pursed his lips, still harboring some anxiety.
The Storm Red mech, equipped with three drivers, could release an A.T. Force Field capable of withstanding the most advanced cluster bombs and missile bombardments in the world,
also resisting all third- and fourth-class deep-sea creature attacks.
But somehow, wielding this most advanced mech on earth, he still felt a certain unease towards that different world visitor named Li Rising.
Tap tap tap tap.
Next to Storm Red, the even larger and bulkier Chernobyl Alpha Mech strides through the sea on its thick legs,
with the Eureka Raider following behind.
The three heavy mechs stand on the ocean’s surface, slowly coming to a halt, like three deities, backs to the city, overlooking the roaring sea, awaiting the imminent enemy.
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"...So, Brother Ma, have you been promoted now?"
In the command hall of the Broken Dome Fortress, Li Ang was flipping through the materials brought by PPDC while chatting with Black Trojan and Dawn.
"I suppose so."
Black Trojan gave a bitter smile. After the Door Seizure Battle ended, although Whale Song didn’t directly receive the portal reward,
the higher-ups at Whale Song somehow managed a trade of interests,
successfully connecting with Side Truth,
and, under the leadership of the Monster Alliance and the Beast of Thousand Throats, collaborated with a dozen large and medium guilds led by the Demon Scientist Alliance to jointly develop resources within a portal.
Having contributed during the Door Seizure Battle, the four members of Iron Cavalry, who successfully relayed the information about the Desolated Lion Monster to other players, were also promoted,
and recently, they officially entered the core layer of Whale Song, accessing more classified information.
However, this also made the Black Trojan more deeply aware of the disparity in strength between himself and Li Ang.
Even after being promoted to the core layer of Whale Song, receiving more resource support, and possessing Perfect Level equipment and items,
he still had no shred of confidence standing before Li Ang.
This battle game’s matching mechanism is truly absurd. I’m just a code-playing desk job, how am I matched with Li Rising?
Didn’t they say balanced strength to ensure fairness?
Black Trojan felt helpless, his gaze inadvertently shifting to the pink-haired girl Dawn beside him, who pretended to be watching the command hall’s big screen yet was spying on PPDC’s classified information.
Dawn’s combat ability was mostly concentrated in her personally bound equipment, the Capini Mech, and she couldn’t rely on training herself to bring about rapid improvements in overall strength.
However, I heard that the European Heavy Industry Group recently installed a lot of new equipment on the Capini Mech,
and from the way Dawn just summoned the Capini Mech directly, her combat style has become much more agile than before, her strength has improved,
making her well-suited to this mech-and-monster-themed script world.
"It’s good to be promoted. I’m quite interested in your guild’s electronic information engineering technology, perhaps we can trade someday."
Li Ang didn’t mind Black Trojan’s restraint and Dawn’s peeking, waving his hand casually to form a mental connection in the minds of the two.
He said in the spiritual energy communication channel, "Do you two have any leads on this script mission?"
"Uh..."
Black Trojan hesitated, pursed his lips, and said in the spiritual energy connection, "Our three tasks should be the same, right?
It’s all about [Escaping human faction pursuit, killing three deep-sea giant beasts].
When Dawn and I were teleported over, we appeared directly near the Broken Dome Base, and relying on my computer system manipulating abilities, we bypassed the PPDC’s detection methods to get into the Broken Dome Fortress.
Li... ahem, Brother Li, you might have surpassed the average line of the script mission in terms of strength, so you were targeted,
your initial teleportation wasn’t near us, and you were detected by PPDC and pursued.
This should be the first trap set by the system."
"Hmm."
Li Ang calmly said, "The tech tree of this script world is quite amazing, being far more advanced than Earth in some aspects.
You guys noticed too, right?
The A.T. Force Field released by PPDC mechs can significantly weaken the power of modern weapons and any form of extraordinary power.
Earth hasn’t achieved this even.
If we didn’t have the Pale World Mantle, a large number of medium-sized mechs swarming in could indeed be a bit troublesome."
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Black Trojan’s lips twisted. He had tested before,
the A.T. Force Field can block fire and prevent electricity,
and once activated, it truly feels like "fighting the world with individual will",
even Black Trojan’s computer skills can’t intrude inside the mech.
If a weaker player was to stand before the mech, it would feel like facing an indestructible, impenetrable iron can, with attack methods that couldn’t even break through the armor.
"Cough, cough."
Dawn cleared her throat gently and said, "The technological level of this world is indeed slightly more advanced than Earth’s, especially in materials science and engineering,
but in some areas, like medicine, chemical biology, and molecular biology, it’s somewhat inferior,
about equivalent to Earth two years ago without the battle game."
"Indeed."
Black Trojan added, "This script world’s tech tree is somewhat skewed.
I just checked one side, apart from Port City, PPDC has several other fortresses.
Lima, Anchorage, Vladivostok, Tokyo, Sydney, Los Angeles, Panama, and more.
Their research and development are shared, without particularly huge differences.
Moreover, some specimens of the deep-sea giant beasts they killed are stored in each of the other fortresses, but there are no living creatures."
