Bang!
At the top of a skyscraper overlooking the entire city, the outer glass suddenly shattered.
Li Ang, holding the Silverback mech without a pilot in one hand, crashed into the top floor of the building along with the exploding shards of glass. He lightly stepped onto the carpeted floor and steadied himself.
He casually scanned his surroundings.
The floor was decorated with gold and splendor, luxurious and elegant.
Wealthy and distinguished male and female guests in suits and gowns mingled, clinking glasses and chatting happily.
Even the service staff moving through the crowd were handsome men and beautiful women with professional smiles and impeccable posture.
It seemed like a charity gala was being held here.
Li Ang's appearance disrupted the atmosphere of the party.
Guests, staff, and the host all turned to look at the shattered glass, their faces showing astonishment.
Buzz buzz—
The buzzing of dense mobile phone text messages rang out in the banquet hall.
Some guests suddenly came to their senses, not reaching for the phones in their pockets, but instead bending down, retreating to the back of the crowd, and rushing towards the emergency exits of the hall.
Some less quick-witted guests subconsciously looked at their phones, only then noticing the emergency disaster notification text message from the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDPC).
Someone screamed. The once lively and noisy hall instantly descended into chaos, the crowd surging towards the escape exits like a school of fish.
Li Ang glanced at the crowd.
The unique and keen perception of a mind-power esper allowed him to easily discern the emotional fluctuations and psychological characteristics of these people.
Several dignitaries with the highest status in the crowd suddenly stopped, their eyes dull and turbid, and turned against the crowd, walking towards Li Ang.
As the distance closed, Li Ang casually browsed their memories, searching for the information he wanted.
The people in this script world also called their home Earth.
Nine years ago, the people on the planet lived their lives peacefully as always, discussing oil prices, the stock market, genetics, housing prices, entertainment stars, movies, the wars in Africa and the Middle East, and the emerging Bitcoin.
Until the second Sunday of August, an underwater earthquake erupted off the coast of San Francisco. The tsunami triggered by the earthquake reached a height of 15 meters, destroying more than 1,000 buildings along the coast.
Just as the residents of San Francisco were panicking and despairing, waiting for rescue,
A giant beast, which previously existed only in fantasy, slowly stepped out of the ocean.
92 meters tall, 7,200 tons in weight, with an axe-blade-shaped head (later named 'Axehead' by people), the giant beast tore through the Golden Gate Bridge and landed in the San Francisco Bay Area.
At that time, the American government exhausted most of its military power.
Tanks, planes, and missiles bombarded the deep-sea monster in an area of 35 square kilometers.
However, all of humanity's conventional weapons were unsuccessful—the deep-sea monster's body was covered with an invisible and intangible energy shield.
When human modern weapons bombarded it, the shield would show color, greatly weakening the power of modern weapons, making it impossible to penetrate the armor of the deep-sea monster.
Three days.
During these three days, the American military, symbolizing the pinnacle of Earth's military power, watched helplessly as the opponent rampaged in the San Francisco Bay Area, demolishing buildings and slaughtering residents who could not be evacuated in time.
Finally, when the deep-sea monster left the ruined San Francisco and continued inland towards California,
The American military sent a bomber squadron to drop the most powerful man-made weapon on this planet over the deep-sea monster.
A nuclear bomb.
A vast mountain-like mushroom cloud slowly rose, and the intense light and heat illuminated the entire field as bright as day.
The shock wave of the explosion shook the ground hundreds of miles away.
Assault troops braved the thick smoke and intense radiation to rush into the scene for observation.
However, when they sent the photos back to headquarters, everyone was incredulous.
The deep-sea monster named "Axehead,"
The left half of its body had been charred and broken by the nuclear bomb,
But the right half of its body was still shrouded in a hexagonal light shield.
Axehead did not die. On the contrary, the nuclear bomb triggered some kind of stress response in its body,
Allowing it to absorb the omnipresent nuclear radiation, heal its injuries, and further expand in size.
The American military, in despair, dispatched three more bombers.
But this time, an accident occurred—a pilot who was supposed to execute the nuclear bombing plan became emotionally overwhelmed and piloted his plane, carrying the nuclear bomb, head-on into the deep-sea monster's carapace,
Actually tearing a hole in the yellow light shield that could not be penetrated by cannons, missiles, or even nuclear bombs.
Although the pilot died unfortunately, this hole was enough for the nuclear bomb to be dropped inside.
In a burst of dazzling light, the deep-sea monster finally crashed to the ground with a bang, its chest and abdomen evaporated, and the remaining body turned into a pool of rotten flesh emitting strong radiation.
Scientists dissected and studied the monster's remains, but it was like facing a black box, completely unsure of where to start.
The official had to hide the news and announce that it was an accidental attack by a mutated creature—like Godzilla.
The San Francisco disaster finally ended, and people mourned, commemorated, and rebuilt, thinking that these things would pass, but the disaster happened again.
Manila in the Philippines, Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, Sydney in Australia...
Deep-sea monsters of various shapes appeared in every corner of the world, attacking cities and slaughtering humans.
Each time, government officials in various countries were forced to adopt the same plan as the United States in San Francisco—allowing nuclear bomber pilots to carry out suicide attacks.
This was not without a price.
The blue blood of all deep-sea monsters contained irremovable toxins.
When this blood was evaporated by high temperatures, it would enter the Earth's water cycle system, entering rainwater, seawater, river water, and groundwater.
Crops failed, land was polluted, living things died, and thousands of miles were poisoned.
Furthermore, if the first nuclear bomb did not kill the deep-sea monster, then the opponent would begin to absorb nuclear radiation and evolve,
Becoming an even more terrifying opponent.
To deal with the threat of deep-sea monsters, humans established the PPDPC, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, integrating all their strength.
Through unremitting analysis of monster organs, scientists finally understood the specific nature of that golden composite polygonal shield—it was a reflection of mental power in the real world.
Scientists believed that deep-sea monsters could generate vast amounts of mental energy and spontaneously form a "Wall of the Mind."
The Wall of the Mind could affect the real world, automatically repelling all energy and matter contact in the real world.
The Earth's military had previously used so many shells and missiles, but failed to penetrate the Wall of the Mind. Only the earliest nuclear bomber pilot in San Francisco was able to break through with his own body.
The reason was that the San Francisco bomber pilot had a heart as strong as iron.
The mental energy he generated was small in quantity but high in quality, neutralizing part of the "Wall of the Mind" created by the deep-sea monster, thus successfully breaking through.
Wall of the Mind, absolute territory, AT Field (Absolute Terror Field).
No matter what title is used to call this form of mental energy expression,
The current human civilization's technological creations have no way to break through it.
The only way is to use the Wall of the Mind to fight against the Wall of the Mind.
Under the guidance of this policy, the PPDPC, with the full support of countries around the world, recruited a scientific research and engineering team and launched a project called "Jaeger."
They built giant mechanical warriors, internally equipped with organs similar to the "pineal gland" in the brains of deep-sea monsters. Through electrical stimulation of the pineal gland,
The pilots controlling the Jaeger mech warriors could also generate huge amounts of mental energy, forming a "Wall of the Mind" that defended against everything.
Thus, Jaegers became the savior of all mankind.
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"It really is an AT Field..."
Li Ang's expression was as calm as water. The human civilization in this world had been attacked by deep-sea monsters for nine years.
War promotes technological progress.
The PPDPC had made breakthrough progress in the field of mech warrior research and development.
They built a total of forty giant mech warriors and thousands of medium and small mechs.
All the mechs were distributed to port cities around the world that were most vulnerable to deep-sea monster attacks.
Newport City, Lima (the capital of Peru), Anchorage (Alaska), Vladivostok (Far East), Tokyo, Sydney...
And around these cities, they built extremely thick anti-monster walls and interconnected underground shelters.
He shifted his gaze away from those so-called big shots attending the banquet, and the latter immediately fainted and fell to the ground.
Li Ang stepped over these people, carried the Silverback mech, passed through the banquet hall, and stood in front of the transparent and clean floor-to-ceiling windows.
Standing here, he could clearly see the brightly lit and prosperous city.
The crowds of people and vehicles were as small as ants.
Thousands and tens of thousands of tons of freighters sailed on the distant rivers, like small boats.
And outside the river was a circle of steel walls—a continuous reinforced concrete structure wall up to fifty meters high, surrounding the rivers, seas, and islands.
The walls were full of artillery defense arrays. Although ordinary people did not have a reinforced Wall of the Mind, these mighty and majestic artillery pieces might be able to provide a little fire support when the deep-sea monsters charged over,
And, in peacetime, provide psychological comfort to the citizens.
Tada, tada, tada!!
The sound of metal feet stepping on the ground rang out in the street below.
The three- or four-meter-tall mech warriors who had gotten rid of the entanglement of armed helicopters,
They had received instructions from their superiors, realized the danger of Li Ang, and all raised their interlocking polygonal shields called the Wall of the Mind.
Controlling the mechs, they climbed on the surface of the buildings, rushing towards the skyscraper where Li Ang was located.
Wherever the mech warriors passed, the people screamed and rushed towards the underground air-raid shelters in a panic but not chaotic manner—the long-term monster war had made everyone adapt to the emergency evacuation process.
Bang bang bang bang—
The heavier mech warriors climbed along the surface of the high-rise building.
The lighter mech warriors used their superior foot jumping systems and grappling devices to quickly rise, level with Li Ang.
"Ax-009 fourth-generation two-series mech, Nosed Wombat. Human-shaped cockpit, high-efficiency fuel engine power core, 'Ping Xiao' operating system, originally produced by the Northern Industries Group manufacturing plant, the driver is 44-year-old PPDPC Lieutenant Colonel Fang Xuewen."
Li Ang looked at the olive-shaped mech that jumped up and casually recited a string of information.
Among the dignitaries he had captured and mind-read in the banquet hall earlier, there happened to be a high-ranking PPDPC officer.
"Who exactly are you?"
The middle-aged driver named Fang Xuewen took a deep breath. The floor-to-ceiling windows next to him were constantly shattering, and more PPDPC comrades jumped in from the outside.
"Me?"
Li Ang tilted his head, "I'm just a well-rounded young man passing by.
If you are willing to cooperate, I can help you fight monsters or something.
But before that, I want something."
Fang Xuewen subconsciously asked, "What thing?"
Li Ang smiled slightly, "The command of this world."