Chapter 1 Monsters Appear

The pilots of the three heavy mechas and seven hundred heavy mechas standing in the ocean sensed the changes in the ocean itself immediately.

The seawater churned incessantly, forming rapid and chaotic undercurrents.

The originally solid seabed vibrated violently,

Rising and falling like a trampoline, stirring up fine sand and the organic matter of dead creatures buried in the soil, making the seawater extremely turbid.

Even with all the mechas turning their searchlights to the brightest setting, they couldn't see the surrounding scenery at all.

*Zzzt*—

A circular arc of intense electrical light flashed out from the murky trench below,

Expanding rapidly, sweeping across all the mechas standing on both sides of the trench.

It was the same electromagnetic pulse that the Hunchback had released before, but with greater intensity and speed.

However, the humans were prepared for this.

Most of the mechas had undergone relevant modifications before coming, capable of defending against EMPs.

And those mechas that didn't have time to modify stood far away on the periphery, unaffected.

The electrical arc flashed and disappeared. Eureka Striker remained standing in place.

In the channel broadcast, the Hansens father and son grimly shouted, "Hmph, you think the same trick will work on me again?

Arrogant and ignorant!"

"Indeed arrogant."

Raleigh Becket said in a low voice, "Everyone, activate A.T. fields,

Use A.T. fields to sense the enemy!"

*Buzz*—

Before the words faded, golden lights lit up in the seawater,

The A.T. field is a manifestation of individual mental power against the world.

Any external object that intrudes into the range of the A.T. field will be sensed by the releaser immediately.

It's more comprehensive than the naked eye, and faster and more precise than radar.

All the mechas activated their A.T. fields, like golden spheres, neatly distributed on both sides of the V-shaped trench.

The top of this trench cliff was neither narrow nor wide.

The three heavy mechas stood in a triangular position, mutually guarding each other.

*Splash!*

Without any warning,

Tens of thousands of tons of seawater in the cliff shot up, rapidly gushing out along the cliff face,

Mixed with countless fragments of rock and terrifying deep-sea creatures.

"Stop them!"

Eureka Striker roared, flicking its arms left and right to activate the ejector blades.

Its feet heavily stomped on the seabed, crushing out clear footprints.

The vector thrusters on its back sprayed out ghostly blue flames, evaporating seawater and providing enormous thrust,

Propelling the mecha forward rapidly, pouncing on a deep-sea creature of about 50 meters.

The A.T. fields of both sides collided fiercely. As the sensors had detected,

The deep-sea creatures that appeared this time were all smaller than Deep-Sea Titans, but their Hume indexes were slightly higher.

The human mechas were essentially fighting enemies of equal strength, only the opponents were smaller, more agile, and faster.

Eureka Striker collided head-on with the deep-sea creature. The A.T. fields of both sides clashed and canceled each other out in the seawater, igniting dazzling golden light that even the surrounding sand couldn't conceal.

"Die!!"

Eureka Striker roared, the golden light on its surface erupting again. The ejector blades on its arms pushed forward little by little, piercing toward the deep-sea creature's chest, struggling against the resistance of the protective A.T. field.

The deep-sea creature resisted fiercely, using its hands and feet to pound on Eureka Striker's chest and limbs,

Causing the latter's armor to vibrate and parts to fall off.

Damage to the mecha would be reflected in the pilot's brain through the Drift system.

Usually, this pain would make the pilot feel uncomfortable, as if they were being hit or having their flesh carved off.

The Hansens, father and son in Eureka Striker's cockpit, also felt intense pain.

Instead of retreating, their fighting spirit soared and burned wildly. They roared, "Resist?!

I will blast you into smithereens!!!"

Eureka Striker retracted the ejector blades on its arms, grabbed the deep-sea creature's head with one hand, exerting force,

While completely ignoring the deep-sea creature's fierce resistance with the other hand,

It rained punch after punch on the deep-sea creature's chest.

If the previous ejector blades were piercing damage, which could be hindered by the resilient A.T. field,

Then the blows that landed squarely transmitted most of the force to the surface of the deep-sea creature's body.

The latter's chest armor shattered like a spider web.

Under the increasingly rapid blows, the chest bones caved in at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The massive body rapidly slumped, as if its soul had been extracted, and fell to the ground.

With Eureka Striker's heavy punch,

The deep-sea creature's chest was directly pierced through. Its head, without A.T. field protection, was crushed like a rotten orange.

The same kind of fighting was happening everywhere on both sides of the trench.

A fierce battle broke out,

The violently colliding A.T. fields lit up the ocean like daylight, like searchlights.

The three heavy mechas were undoubtedly the mainstay of the battle.

Especially the enhanced fifth-generation mecha Eureka Striker.

Within close range, a 40-meter deep-sea creature could be defeated with one blow.

Against 50-meter deep-sea creatures, it could also suppress them with its overall advantages, fighting one against two, and even winning.

The other two heavy mechas were also quickly racking up kills.

"Thunder, this heaven-reaching cultivation shatters the earth, the Purple-Gold Hammer!

Purple Lightning, this Mysterious True Flame, Nine Heavens Sword, shocking change!"

The two pilots in the Mammoth Apostle cockpit roared meaningless lyrics, smashing a deep-sea creature to death with a steel hammer in their hands, accompanied by the beat of the music.

"I am the Heavenly Emperor, I shall suppress all enemies in the world!"

Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori whispered deeply, punching a hairy deep-sea creature on the back, blasting it away,

But they didn't rush to pursue. Instead, they reached out and plucked the hair from the deep-sea creature's back,

Slapping it on themselves,

While constantly muttering nervously, "Ugh, the curse of the Source Celestial Master in his later years, with hair all over his body, can no longer be suppressed?

No, we are Dacheng Holy Physiques, we must prove the Great Dao!"

Having said that, Gipsy Danger suddenly accelerated, rushing forward, and firing its plasma cannon, shattering the deep-sea creature's head,

Continuing to look for the next hairy enemy.

The suddenly enhanced human mechas caught the deep-sea civilization off guard.

If it were unenhanced human mechas, they would have been killed or injured in the first round of assault, without any room for resistance.

However, this wasn't enough.

Outside the three heavy mechas,

The seven hundred medium-sized mechas were encountering their own troubles.

The seawater environment made the mecha bodies, which didn't conform to hydrodynamics, appear slow and cumbersome, unable to turn the overall numerical advantage into a local combat advantage.

It also prevented the human mechas' ranged weapons from having their due effect.

Damn it!

Eureka Striker scanned the battlefield. The deep-sea creatures were executing wolf pack-like hunting tactics, abandoning the hard-to-crack heavy mechas,

Relying on a numerical advantage in local areas, they turned to attack the easier-to-get medium-sized mechas, quickly reaping them.

One medium-sized mecha was knocked down by a deep-sea creature. Before it could resist, it was bitten on its hands, feet, and limbs by swarming deep-sea creatures, who tore it apart with force.

In an instant, its limbs were severed.

And the other medium-sized mechas were completely unable to rescue it due to distance and terrain.

"Get out of here!"

Eureka Striker rushed forward, the ejector blade in its hand drawing a crescent trajectory underwater, cutting open the throat of a deep-sea creature,

But the next second, more deep-sea creatures pounced up fearlessly, holding tightly onto Eureka Striker's hands, feet, and limbs.

Eureka Striker struggled desperately, but was surrounded.

Under layers of squeezing, the A.T. field couldn't repel the enemies from all directions.

The other two heavy mechas were the same.

A dozen or so medium-sized mechas nearby shouted, "The deep-sea creatures aren't even afraid of plasma cannons, which shows that they're not ordinary monsters! We must strike hard! Send in the tanks one by one!"

Trying to come up and rescue,

They were also stubbornly blocked by the deep-sea creatures.

The opponents seemed to realize the importance of the three heavy mechas, trying to eliminate them first.

Just as the heavy mechas were trapped in a siege,

A missile plunged straight down from the sky, piercing through the seawater resistance and hitting a deep-sea creature that was entangled with Eureka Striker, blasting it away.

The one who released the missile was the Qubeley mecha piloted by Fuxiao.

Compared to last time, the surface of the Qubeley mecha was covered with a layer of visible light green data streams.

This layer of data stream, as if possessing its own intelligence, automatically spread and extended to all the mechas in the sea.

The AI intelligence and computing power of the mechas infected by the data stream rose inexplicably. They could sense the deep-sea creatures' attacks in advance, reacting ahead of time as if they had foreseen them—

This was the buff released by the Black Stallion before Fuxiao came to rescue,

[Cyber Martial Arts • The Wise Man Thinks a Thousand Times]

Arriving with the Qubeley mecha were also more than 1,300 light mechas that had been left on the shore earlier.

These mechas went straight for the deep-sea creature groups, stubbornly blocking the monsters trying to break through the encirclement, buying time for the other medium-sized mechas to provide support.

And the Qubeley mecha itself, relying on special technology different from this world, freely shuttled through the water, constantly firing funnels and missiles,

Hitting the deep-sea creatures and freeing the three heavy mechas.

They were out of trouble.

Eureka Striker, freed from the encirclement, unhesitatingly slashed out, hacking and slashing wildly.

Under the effect of the buff applied by the Black Stallion, it was like having divine assistance, efficiently destroying the deep-sea creatures.

Blue blood flowed and spread in the ocean.

A large number of marine fish that didn't have time to escape were poisoned and corroded to death by the blood.

Every second, the severed limbs of mechas or deep-sea creatures sank to the seabed or floated on the surface.

The scales of victory gradually tilted toward the human camp.

The timely support of Qubeley and the light mecha array was crucial.

And the Black Stallion's wide-area buff could even be said to be more powerful than ten heavy mechas.

In the broadcast channel, there were already intermittent, slight cheers from PPDC personnel.

Even they hadn't expected that the situation would suddenly turn around after the interdimensional travelers intervened.

They didn't need to pay the price of 70% casualties to achieve a pyrrhic victory.

They didn't need to release nuclear bombs to force back the enemy in a self-destructive way.

The dawn of victory was at hand.

However, in the airship's bridge, General Stacker's unease grew stronger and stronger.

He reached out and firmly gripped the edges of the table. He was using so much force that the back of his hand turned pale.

Something's not right. Something's wrong.

The PPDC's broadcast channel was filled with the noisy and chaotic shouts of the mecha pilots.

"Stepping on yin and yang to settle the universe, from ancient times to the present, I am the supreme!"

"My drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!"

"Great Desolation Sky Imprisoning Finger, half a finger shakes heaven and earth!"

The number of deep-sea creatures was decreasing steadily, but they stubbornly continued to stay in place and fight, as if they wanted to fight the human mechas to the very end.

Like... soldier ants in an ant nest.

Stacker's pupils suddenly widened. He suddenly realized something.

Five hundred Deep-Sea Titans could indeed pose a great threat to the human camp of the past, even destroying and removing human strongholds one by one.

But that was in the past.

According to the assumptions proposed by the think tanks, the party that takes the initiative in a civilization war would most likely use the majority of its strength when launching a full-scale war.

A lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit.

Striving to form an absolute advantage in the shortest amount of time, not giving the weaker civilization a single bit of room to fight back.

Five hundred Deep-Sea Titans could flatten human fortresses, but they couldn't completely destroy human forces in a short amount of time—if the deep-sea civilization wanted to deliver a decisive blow, it would have to send at least two or even three times as many Deep-Sea Titans.

Unless, the deep-sea creatures appearing on the seabed were just bait...

A terrible possibility flashed through Stacker's mind. Before he could press the broadcast button to remind the heavy mechas to prepare for the enemy,

He heard a sharp, ear-piercing alarm from behind.

"Hume index exceeds the maximum measurement range!

Hume index exceeds the maximum measurement range!"

Cai Tian Tong stood there as if his soul had been taken away, gaping at the red spot that had newly appeared on the screen, almost occupying 1/3 of the space, muttering, "Level Five... no! It's a Level Six Deep-Sea Titan..."

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*Ka-ka-ka.*

The trench cliff shook violently, and countless rocks fell into the bottomless abyss.

The magnitude of the earth's tremors was so great that a group of medium-sized mechas lost their balance and almost fell to the ground.

*Crack.*

Gipsy Danger, one of the three heavy mechas, reached out and inserted the chainsword on its arm into the seabed rock layer, stabilizing its body.

The other two heavy mechas also squatted down, lowering their center of gravity to avoid tipping over.

Strangely, the wounded deep-sea creatures around them didn't take the opportunity to attack. Instead, they abandoned their respective enemies and swam toward the trench cliff,

Prostrating themselves on both sides of the cliff, like a group of ants kowtowing.

The earthquake slowly subsided, and the sea became calm.

In the dark sea, there were only the mechas' searchlights and A.T. fields.

In the silence, the pilots swallowed unconsciously, looking toward the deep sea abyss.

The unknown, intense pressure even overwhelmed Li Ang's mental alterations to them, forcing them to be quiet.

Light.

Blue, illusory light lit up from the sea abyss.

A deep-sea creature so huge that it defied imagination slowly rose from the abyss.

It had a huge, hammerhead shark-like head,

With two eyes on each side of its head.

Its lower jaw protruded, enclosing the upper jaw. Its mouth contained two rows of sharp, serrated teeth.

Its four-limbed body was covered with plate-like armor,

These plate-like armors were like medieval European plate armor, thick and solid,

Covering the monster's strong and powerful limbs, and its slender tail,

It didn't appear bulky at all, but perfectly fitted, exceptionally agile and light.

The heavy mechas, over seventy meters tall, were as solemn and majestic as celestial gods in the eyes of ordinary people,

But in front of the Deep-Sea Titan that stood over two hundred and thirteen meters tall, and exceeded three hundred meters with its tail, they were as small and fragile as children.

The three heavy mechas looked up at the Titan Queen that was slowly rising from the sea abyss.

The A.T. fields on their bodies vibrated violently under the intense pressure,

And the A.T. fields of some of the medium and light mechas behind them had even begun to collapse and dissipate directly.

"Hoo..."

The Hansens, father and son in the Eureka Striker cockpit, slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, their eyes seeming to burn with flames.

Nuclear engine efficiency, pushed to 100%.

Vector nozzle efficiency, pushed to 120%.

Ejector blade temperature, pushed to 200%, regardless of damage.

"Fight! Your! Mother! Fucker!"

With the Hansens' roar, Eureka Striker stomped forward and rushed forward.

The deep-sea creatures prostrating and worshiping the Titan Queen stood up, trying to stop it,

But they were slashed and crushed by Striker's consecutive strikes.

Severed limbs flew and blood surged wildly.

The distance between the two sides rapidly shortened under Striker's rampage.

And the floating, tranquil Titan Queen simply raised her tail, forked into three strands, and lashed out slowly but surely.

*Bang!!!*

Like a spinning top being whipped by a copper-headed belt,

The A.T. field on Eureka Striker's body violently rotated and twisted, making a sharp friction sound.

The entire mecha flew backward, crashing heavily on the seabed, scraping out a deep trench.