Chapter 1149: Chapter 148: Giant Beast (28)
The previously noisy broadcast channel was now dead silent, you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone stared blankly at the Monster Queen suspended above The Abyss,
a deep-sea Giant Beast named "Venomous Woman" according to PPDC naming rules for monster ecology, overlooking the deep-sea creatures and Human Mechas from above.
Its three long tails swayed casually in the water, their graceful posture seemed entirely at odds with their massive weight.
"Huff, huff..."
Hansen and his son panted heavily, forcing themselves to stand despite the intense pain throughout their bodies while controlling the Mecha.
The sound of system alarms echoed in the cockpit,
multiple body parts were damaged and flooded, the available power of the mechanical system dropped by 30%, the abdominal armor was completely compromised, another attack would be total destruction.
The Mammoth Messenger’s pilot asked in a deep voice, "To dominate the world, to face packs of wolves, to have soldiers at your doorstep, what of it? Are you alright?"
"We can still hold on."
The Eureka Raider stabilized, forcefully hitting the ejector knife stuck on its hand, causing it to "swish" back out. "Is this the ultimate enemy? Indeed, quite tough."
"This battle can only end in victory, defeat is not an option."
Raleigh Becket murmured deeply, "When yin and yang reverse, I shall dye the sky with my demon blood.
Charge!"
At the sound, three heavy Mechas stomped the seabed like three heavy crossbow arrows, hurtling towards the Venomous Woman.
Splash —
The Venomous Woman flicked its long tail, the streamlined tail creating dense bubbles in the water, drawing an arc and striking the three heavy Mechas.
Both sides’ A.T. Force Fields clashed violently, bursting into brilliant golden light,
the Gypsy Danger’s chain sword bounced off as if striking a wall,
the steel hammer swung down by the Mammoth Messenger was also heavily deflected by the Venomous Woman’s A.T. Force Field.
The three heavy Mechas, like tennis balls slammed against a wall, were easily knocked away,
yet they unrelentingly charged again, only to be knocked away once more.
"Is this, really, not a mistake?"
Dawn complained crazily in the Caboni Mech cockpit, originally thinking the newly emerged deep-sea beast’s strength was only equal to four heavy Mechas,
a problem but still within a solvable range.
However, the A.T. Force Field of the Venomous Woman before her was already strong beyond the sensor’s detection limit,
even the most advanced Fifth Generation Mech, Eureka Raider, couldn’t close in to a melee range.
Dawn pursed her lips, pressing the red button heavily on the console, causing the surrounding Floating Cannons to hover in place, continuously firing at the Venomous Woman to cover for Eureka and other Mechas.
Meanwhile, under her control, the Caboni Mech’s body rapidly retreated, drawing a semicircular trajectory,
then diving towards the trench abyss.
meters, 700 meters, 1000 meters...
Quickly, the Caboni Mech halted, overlooking the origin point of space energy fluctuations.
It was a red ravine spanning the mid-air of the abyss canyon,
meters long, 50 meters wide, surrounded by rapidly disappearing dense lightning, constantly bubbling up,
vaguely revealing the dazzling purple light within.
After a brief hesitation, the Caboni Mech fired a beam ray downwards,
the beam avoided dense lightning and accurately hit the red ravine,
but failed to achieve any results—an A.T. Force Field also emerged on the red ravine’s surface, easily deflecting the strike.
Indeed.
Dawn understood in her heart, the human faction had once thought of using the space channel to reach the deep-sea civilization’s home planet, to shift the battlefield and reduce war damage.
However, the space channels created by the deep-sea civilization were all one-way, allowing exit but not entry, and were protected by A.T. Force Fields, even nuclear bombing would be futile.
"The mission objective is to kill three deep-sea beasts. So the Monster Queen must be eliminated?"
The Caboni Mech no longer hesitated, leaving some glowing fluorescent stick-like tools at the original location, then charged upwards.
The battle situation was already precarious, with the three heavy Mechas being repeatedly struck by the Venomous Woman, severely damaged, on the brink of collapse at any moment,
while the other medium and Light Mechas were entangled in battle with deep-sea creatures.
Dawn glanced over the chaotic battlefield, summoned back the Floating Cannon for continued firing, while reaching out to the individuals on the airborne airship, Stacker and others, directly forwarding the seabed footage captured by the Caboni Mech.
"Your ships are still anchored at sea, aren’t they?"
Dawn spoke quickly: "It’s only a matter of time before the Raider is defeated,
this time the Venomous Woman has exceeded your capacity to handle,
"Prepare for underwater nuclear bombing."
"What..."
The astonished Stacker was cut off before he could speak by Dawn, "This is part of your contingency plan, isn’t it?
If a deep-sea giant beast can’t be eliminated through conventional methods,
In order to prevent it from causing large-scale damage to human settlements, we must at all costs intercept it in the ocean.
Whether it’s directly dispatching fighter pilots to carry nuclear bombs and crash into the deep-sea giant beast,
or having a mech pilot control the mech for a close-range self-detonation—the A.T. Force Field on the mech’s surface can neutralize the deep-sea giant beast’s field, allowing the nuclear bomb to unleash its full power.
As long as there are enough nuclear bombs, it can be blown to dust before the deep-sea giant beast undergoes mutation and evolution."
"..."
Upon hearing these words, Stacker fell silent,
What Dawn said wasn’t absolutely classified,
Even some mech pilots are well aware that their last resort is to become disposable expendables.
Unlike the last time at Port City,
This is Manila Bay, the water is deeper, farther from human habitation, and nuclear explosions are tolerable.
But if the target is a deep-sea giant beast of Venomous Woman’s caliber,
Even the simultaneous self-destruct of one or three heavy mechs might not be enough; more mechs and more nuclear reactors are needed.
The crowd on the airship bridge subconsciously focused their gaze on Stacker,
His hand trembling slightly; he was acutely aware that his decision might cause the sacrifice of thousands of mech pilots who shared camaraderie.
Stacker hesitated, but Dawn had no time for idle thoughts,
She directly contacted Black Trojan, "If Stacker disagrees, you know what to do."
"...Alright."
Black Trojan, still on Corregidor Island, took a deep breath, red light flickered in his prosthetic eye, releasing an intangible stream of information, quietly seizing control of nearby ships and aircraft via the PPDC command system.
The player’s remaining task is merely to kill the third deep-sea giant beast,
As long as Venomous Woman can be eliminated,
The cost paid by the indigenous inhabitants of this world is not within the player’s scope of consideration.
Cruisers, destroyers, nuclear submarines...
Black Trojan’s consciousness flickered and jumped across carriers using electromagnetic waves,
The chip processor loaded in his brain operated at high speed, calculating countless possibilities.
Purely on paper data, the nuclear explosion force generated by three heavy mechs plus over seven hundred medium-sized mechs could inflict effective damage on Venomous Woman,
Yet an unsettling feeling inside him grew stronger.
Something is off...
Killing three deep-sea giant beasts is a deliberately set objective in the kill-field game,
Previously, players eliminated Ridgeback Turtle and Tail Rat, completing two-thirds of the task,
And from the image data transmitted back by Dawn, the spatial passage to the deep-sea civilization permits exit but not entry—
Meaning players can’t access the deep-sea civilization’s world through the spatial passage to simply kill a deep-sea giant beast to finish the mission.
Considering all this information, the remaining part of this task is, and must be, to kill the level six deep-sea giant beast, [Venomous Woman].
Could it be that even with a nuclear missile bombardment and mech self-destruct, Venomous Woman can’t be killed?
Or perhaps, the act of nuclear bombardment won’t have the desired effect but will instead increase the mission’s difficulty?
The next second, a sudden mutation interrupted Black Trojan’s chaotic thoughts.
Venomous Woman swung her tail, easily forcing back the heavy mechs that again surrounded her, while her four limbs plunged downward, her massive body rapidly surged towards the ocean surface.
"Stop it!"
Dawn’s heart skipped a beat, an inexplicable sense of foreboding surged within her, without hesitation she pulled the joystick, controlling Capini Mech to dive forward, releasing the Floating Cannon Beam.
Hearing Dawn’s words, Hansen’s father and son and others also realized something,
Piloting their mechs they dashed forward, employing every means—missiles, plasma cannons, chain swords, all weapons unleashed, attempting to prevent Venomous Woman from surfacing.
However, all attack methods failed under the sweeping of those three long tails,
Everyone could only watch as Venomous Woman rapidly ascended, breaking through the surface.
Splash—
The deep-sea giant beast’s body stirred tidal waves, the seawater roiling like boiling.
Even the searchlight beams from helicopters high above, shining on her, seemed so insignificant and trivial.
Venomous Woman’s head, resembling that of a Two-Ped Shark, bowed slightly, ignoring the solitary human vessels on the distant sea like scattered leaves,
Slowly, three long tails rose from the sea, lifted high above its head.
Rip——
The armored plates at the end of the Venomous Woman’s tail automatically split open to the sides, revealing the blue luminous glands hidden beneath the armor, and muscle fibers as strong as a modern power generator.
"Helicopter unit, descend in altitude, I need a clear view of the top of the Venomous Woman!"
Staker was engulfed in intense unease, roaring loudly without regard for decorum, his eyes fixated on the large screen on the bridge.
As the camera zoomed in, everyone finally saw the scene at sea—
Inside the three tails lifted high by the Venomous Woman, oval egg-shaped structures appeared clearly,
the Venomous Woman, like a squirting cucumber plant, was slowly squeezing the egg-shaped object in the tail duct, pushing it to the tail’s end.
Then, launch!
Bang, bang, bang!
The Venomous Woman’s tails suddenly contracted, launching three giant egg-shaped objects wrapped in gray mucus.
Its power was so great that the three eggs soared high into the air like intercontinental missiles, flying far away, disappearing from sight.
"It’s... laying eggs."
The Black Trojan took a cold breath; the three eggs flew toward the waters of Australia, South Asia, and East Asia respectively,
From the images intercepted from the air,
after the eggs flew out, the gray mucus on the surface quickly hardened, producing a buffer layer to prevent damage upon impact.
Bang, bang, bang!
Just as everyone was shocked and stunned, the deep-sea giant beast used its three long tails again to fire a second round of cannon eggs.
So, this was the purpose of the deep-sea civilization?
Dawn’s eyes blurred, and she finally understood everything—previously, they sent deep-sea creatures and giant beasts merely for probing attacks, primarily to gather intelligence.
Once intelligence was gathered, the deep-sea civilization sent the ultimate force of war sufficient to determine the outcome, to completely obliterate humanity’s hope of turning the tide.
The Venomous Woman, capable of continuously laying eggs and nurturing deep-sea giant beasts, was their ultimate weapon.
"No!"
Raleigh Becket almost ground his teeth; for a long time, humanity’s defense against deep-sea creatures had focused mainly on coastal defenses,
while inland areas had hardly prepared for war.
If a deep-sea giant beast suddenly appeared in a bustling urban inland area without city walls or defenses...
it would be more efficient than a massacre.
"Mori Masako!" Raleigh Becket called out his teammate’s name, rapidly piloting the mech to ascend.
"Understood!"
Mori Masako took a deep breath, and through the Drift Flow System, the two pilots were able to share thoughts and feel each other’s unwavering resolve.
Under the desperate propulsion of Gypsy Danger’s vector noozle mouth, without regard for fuel consumption, it finally burst through the sea surface,
its surface shining gold, its chained sword cleaving toward the Venomous Woman.
Clang!
The A.T. Force Field clashed again,
But this time, just when Gypsy Danger was about to be knocked away, two massive figures rose from beneath the sea—
The Mammoth Messenger and the Raider, also charging out from underwater,
supporting Gypsy Danger’s waist,
jointly activating the vector noozle mouths, advancing instead of retreating,
The three A.T. Force Fields, under the pilots’ roars, overlapped on the Venomous Woman’s Golden Shield, melting a narrow breach just enough for the three mechs to penetrate.
It’s now!
In the cockpits of the three mechs,
six pilots simultaneously pressed the red buttons, initiating the self-destruct program for the nuclear reactors,
and in the distance, Dawn and Black Trojan seized this extremely brief opportunity,
The former piloted the Capini, flashing forward, flinging a series of explosive-like volatile objects toward the Venomous Woman through the A.T. Force Field gaps,
The latter revealed its dagger in desperation, forcibly usurping control of PPDC ships, planes, and submarines,
firing nuclear missiles towards the Venomous Woman within the A.T. Force Field.
[Melt-down self-destruction program activated]
[Pilots are advised to eject immediately]
[Countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7...]
The same system notification sounded in the cockpits of three mechas,
The six pilots chose not to eject and escape, but continued to maneuver the mechas, grappling with the limbs of the Venomous Woman at close range, tightly entangled with the opponent, preventing the deep-sea Giant Beast from kicking the mechas out of the A.T. Force Field range.
As part of humanity, they were already prepared to make sacrifices for today.
Born as a human, I am honored.
Attacked while in hatching state, the Venomous Woman was exceptionally furious, using all her limbs to hammer the Human Mechas.
The heavy mechas that could easily withstand assault Mechanical devices were no more solid than Lego bricks in front of the Venomous Woman’s sharp claws.
Parts flew, flames burst, seawater seeped in.
The three heavy mechas, like broken rag dolls being abused, had limbs severed but still held fast to the limbs of the Venomous Woman, refusing to let go.
A blue light illuminated the chest of the mecha,
Nuclear missiles launched from underwater submarines were the first to reach the Venomous Woman’s close proximity due to distance advantage.
Facing a desperate situation, the Venomous Woman seemed to give up resistance, lowered her three vertical long tails, retracted her Golden Shield, and floated quietly on the sea surface.
The next second, a dazzling octagonal A.T. Force Field blossomed like a lotus!
Golden light rapidly expanded with the Venomous Woman as the center, instantly enveloping the heavy mechas and incoming nuclear missiles,
Boom!
The driver’s goggle lenses in Dawn’s cockpit shattered, sharp glass grazed her eyelids, leaving a shallow wound that bled,
But she had no time to wipe it off, desperately pulled the joystick, rapidly retreating the Capini Mech, narrowly avoiding the Venomous Woman’s expanding A.T. Force Field.
Five hundred meters.
The range within a radius of five hundred meters, centered around the Venomous Woman, was enveloped by the A.T. Force Field,
Golden light reached the seawaves, abruptly solidifying them,
The missile malfunctioned and fell into the ocean, unable to explode
The mecha lights dimmed and stopped self-destructing.
"Huh—huh—"
Mori Masako laboriously removed the non-functioning pilot breathing mask, surveying the cockpit surrounded by failed electrical systems, her heart engulfed in despair.
Is this the true power of a Level Six Giant Beast?
Crunch, crunch.
The Venomous Woman at the heart of the A.T. Force Field casually plucked the Mammoth Messenger from her shoulder, like a cat cafe staff picking up cats,
With a light squeeze, she twisted off the heavy mecha’s limbs, accompanied by explosive bursts of fire, tossing it into the sea.
Next was the second one.
The Venomous Woman casually removed the Eureka Raider,
Faced with the mecha that slaughtered the most deep-sea Giant Beast companions, the Venomous Woman slowly lifted her fingers and used her nails to slice through the chest armor of the Eureka Raider.
At this point, medium and light mechas on the seabed had also arrived,
They tried to break through layers of deep-sea biological obstacles to invade the domain of the Venomous Woman,
But even the strongest of them (such as Storm Red, mechas piloted by the original drivers of Chernobyl Alpha) could not affect the A.T. Force Field of the Venomous Woman in the slightest.
Amidst the noise,
The Venomous Woman continued to raise three long tails for hatching tasks,
On the other hand, she easily tore open the cockpit armor of the Raider and admired the two little figures hidden inside.
Unfortunately, inside the cockpit, the Hansen father and son, looking up with angry eyes, showed no fear or despair expected by the deep-sea Giant Beast.
Boring.
The Venomous Woman reached out her claw, about to crush the Hansen father and son to powder, but the next second, as if realizing something, she abruptly raised her head, looking toward the distant water surface.
Around her, the pilots’ faces showed shock and confusion,
Dawn breathed a sigh of relief, exhaling a turbid breath, her expression complex.
In the distance, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier slowly sailed forward on the sea horizon.
With a length of 332 meters, width of 41 meters, a full load displacement of 110,000 tons, equipped with various functional carrier-based planes, capable of attacking enemy aircraft, ships, submarines, and land targets.
Such an aircraft carrier, placed in the old era before the monster wars, was undoubtedly the highest embodiment of human military power,
However, its current role was merely a canoe—
An almost eighty-meter-high giant mecha, fused with steel and plant vines, stepped firmly on the aircraft carrier’s deck,
With arms hanging down, extending countless vines along the sides of the carrier,
Vines submerged into the seawater, continuously spewing massive amounts of air,
Propelling the carrier to accelerate persistently, dashing forward.
