隆!!

The Otachi's massive body slammed onto the ground, its truck-sized head leaning against the bottom of a tall building.

Its mouth, large enough to swallow an elephant, gaped open, with dark blue blood constantly flowing from between its sharp teeth, corroding the pale world lichen below.

Li Ang didn't retract the Wish-Granting Staff, but instead gripped it tightly, stabbing the Otachi's corpse below several more times, smashing and breaking the bones, destroying vital organs.

After confirming that the creature was completely dead, he canceled the Wish-Granting Staff's shapeshifting special effect and looked down at the pineal gland organ in his hand.

He had seized this organ from the PPDc mecha some time ago.

After studying the data and the physical object for a while, Li Ang had almost figured out the operating mechanism of the pineal gland organ.

"My guess was correct. The Deep Sea Civilization really did embark on the path of psionic development.

Although they may not call psionics 'psionics', the essence is mental energy.

The pineal gland is actually an advanced psionic organ,

capable of guiding mental energy from the bodies of psionicists or ordinary people with psionic talent,

amplifying it, and projecting it into the real world.

However, unlike other psionic items,

this pineal gland's special design only allows it to release one type of psychic power."

In the system of psychic powers, there is a ninth-level power that exists only in legends: Reality Manipulation.

Its specific effect is to rewrite reality with one's own will.

Distorting the real world within a certain range into the form one desires, or negating what others consider to be "reality."

This is how it was described in the psionic data that the Side of Truth gave to Li Ang.

Reality Manipulation transcends time and causality, directly tampering with reality at its root.

For example, allowing flames to burn in the deep sea,

allowing living beings to survive without a heart,

or rewriting a rainstorm from a thousand years ago, thereby causing a river to disappear in the present day,

rewriting an earthquake from ten thousand years ago, so that a certain mountain never existed,

or even rewriting the fate of a certain intelligent creature, causing one of its ancestors to meet their destined lover a few minutes later, thereby preventing that intelligent creature from ever being born.

Of course, the psychic power released by the pineal gland is far from reaching the terrifying level of genuine Reality Manipulation.

It doesn't possess the invasiveness, expansiveness, and high status of true Reality Manipulation,

but instead uses all of its mental energy for defense,

only retaining the function of "defending against attacks that one does not want to happen within a certain range."

"Manufacturing this type of psionic organ requires consuming psionicists, and they have to be mid- to high-level psionicists' non-renewable biological material. Like brain tissue.

Even for the Deep Sea Civilization, production capacity is probably limited.

In this world, humans' understanding of psionics is still very backward,

they can't imitate the pineal gland at all, and can only rely on war to seize them."

Li Ang somewhat disappointedly put away the pineal gland organ.

The Deep Sea Civilization's understanding and utilization of psionics did not exceed his expected scope.

He took out the Automated Pet Feeder from his backpack,

took out the gigantic surgical saw he had used to modify the Finke's Pit Beast, disassembled the Otachi in no time, and used pale world lichen to make waterproof cloth, packing the blood,

and finally transferred all the Otachi's body parts into the feeder.

Having done all this, Li Ang turned to look in the direction of the ocean. "Then next, it's the other one..."

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"With! All! Our! Might!"

Above the sea, the roars of Kelly Hansen and Chuck Hansen, father and son, echoed in the cockpit of Striker Eureka.

The silver-painted Striker Eureka swung its special alloy fists, heavily smashing towards the Leatherback in front of it.

Bang!

Striker Eureka's fists, equipped with Model 4211 Stun-Cuffs, directly hit the Leatherback's thick neck.

And the Leatherback's fist also struck Striker Eureka's armpit from below.

The two sides' A.T. fields collided fiercely, bursting out dazzling sparks.

The two behemoths, on the rain-drizzled sea surface, launched a frenzied attack on each other like boxers, fighting to the death.

"External armor damage at 20%, power core overheating at 15%. If we drag this out, we'll lose."

In the cockpit, Kelly Hansen was still roaring, but his will was transmitted to his son Chuck Hansen's mind through the cockpit's drift system.

Striker Eureka is currently the only Mark-5 fifth-generation heavy Jaeger in active service in the world. It is 76 meters tall and weighs 7,200 tons. It integrates many advantages of the previous four generations of Jaegers, achieving a relatively perfect balance in the three dimensions of strength, speed, and firepower.

While stationed in Sydney, Australia, and other Pacific continents' bases, it has slain ten deep-sea creatures that can be called behemoths, and its record ranks at the top of all Jaegers.

However, this Leatherback that appeared was just too... peculiar.

The Leatherback's outer shell is extremely thick, possessing more formidable defensive capabilities than all the deep-sea monsters they had seen before.

And whether it had evolved specifically to counter Striker Eureka,

its keratinous shell was insulated and resistant to electricity, directly eliminating the advantage of Striker Eureka's Stun-Cuff fists.

Even more fatal was that the Leatherback's A.T. field strength also exceeded everyone's expectations.

Striker Eureka punched it, and the Leatherback seemed to feel nothing, continuing to trade blow for blow at close range.

And as long as Striker Eureka was hit by a punch,

even with A.T. field protection, its body would tremble,

causing a serious burden on the pilot's body and mind.

"Damn it, if only the new stinger missile blade components had been installed..."

The blond youth Chuck Hansen stared intently at the Leatherback in front of him, almost grinding his teeth to pieces.

The stinger missile blades are located in Striker Eureka's arm-mounted blade sheaths, are exceptionally sharp, and indestructible. Equipped with carbon nanotube heat dissipation, they can withstand temperatures of one thousand degrees.

They had helped them slay several deep-sea monsters.

However, in the previous battle in Sydney, the old stinger missile blades were corroded by the deep-sea monster's venom and could not be used.

They had to go to the Shatterdome, repair the Jaeger, and install new, corrosion-resistant stinger missile blades,

which had not yet been officially mounted.

If the stinger missile blades were present, Striker Eureka could completely concentrate its power on one point, first break through the Leatherback's A.T. field, and then use the missile blades for a fatal blow.

"Striker Eureka, this is the Shatterdome. We have dispatched Gipsy Danger to provide support. It is estimated to arrive on the battlefield in 10 minutes. You must hold on!"

General Stacker Pentecost's voice came from the broadcast system.

The Hansen father and son frowned and subconsciously asked, "Who are the pilots?"

General Stacker Pentecost paused almost imperceptibly and quickly said, "Raleigh Becket, Mako Mori."