【Name: Jester's Salvo】
【Type: Prop】
【Quality: Fine】
【Effect: Cannonball Comet. After igniting the fuse, launches the contents of the cannon barrel at the speed of a cruise missile, inflicting no kinetic damage upon impact.】
【Consumption: The higher the energy level of the launched object, and the farther the distance to the destination, the greater the consumption.】
【Cooldown Time: 10 minutes】
【Usage Requirement: Jester Industry Certificate】
【Note: I'll be back!!!】

The black Trojan horse drilled into the mortar's barrel, and an L-shaped wooden stick was used to light the fuse.

With a deafening boom,

the black Trojan horse flew out of the command hall in the stunned gazes of the PPDC crowd, transforming into a shooting star.

The mortar disappeared without a sound.

Thump.

The black Trojan horse landed nimbly and steadily on the shoulder of the Eureka Striker. Without a word, he rolled up his sleeves, causing circuit board-like blue-green纹路to appear on both arms.

He inserted his hands into the shoulder armor seams of the Eureka Striker, unleashing the special skill [Cyber ​​Martial Arts · Emergency Repair Fist], taught only within Whale Song.

Zzzzt.

Blue electric current and green data streams permeated every corner of the Eureka Striker, urgently repairing the areas of the mecha damaged by the electromagnetic pulse.

"Estimated repair time... 30 seconds..."

The red prosthetic eye in the black Trojan horse's left eye socket clearly displayed countdown numbers.

The structure of the mecha in this world was far more complex than he imagined, requiring more time to restore the Eureka Striker.

But, the Deep Sea Kaiju would not give him that opportunity.

Not far away,

the Leatherback slowly closed the electromagnetic pulse organ on its head. It slammed its fists into the seabed,

creating a slight tremor while its massive body charged forward.

Uh oh.

The black Trojan horse's heart clenched.

Xiaoxiao's Cabrini mecha, piloted by Fuxiao, had been hit by the A.T. Field and venomous smog and was still on its way,

while the Gipsy Danger, piloted by Kelly Beckett and Mako Mori, had just emerged from the Shatterdome.

Reinforcements were far away, the situation was critical.

Was he really going to give up this only active fifth-generation mecha, a major aid in this script mission?

Just as the black Trojan horse hesitated,

the Deep Sea Kaiju had already charged over.

The Leatherback seemed to know that the black Trojan horse had come to rescue and repair, and it charged savagely,

its fists heading straight for Eureka's shoulders and the black Trojan horse standing on top.

Time seemed to slow down.

The black Trojan horse could clearly see every mottled detail and every muscle on the surface of the Deep Sea Kaiju's armor.

Even the falling rain丝 in the sky was clearly visible.

Bang!

Just a split second before the Leatherback's fists were about to land, the familiar sound of a revolver bullet rang out in his ears once again.

Li Ang's figure instantly appeared on the sea surface. He held the enlarged Xin Yuan staff in his right hand, and in his left hand, he held up a pineal gland organ the size of a half-grown man.

A layer of light golden A.T. Field enveloped his body.

He swung the Xin Yuan to strike the Leatherback's swinging fists.

Boom—

The golden force fields of both sides collided and canceled each other out.

The Xin Yuan staff vibrated violently, flying backward and slamming into the sea, almost slipping out of Li Ang's hand.

After all, there was no leverage point this time, and the Leatherback far surpassed the agile Otachi in terms of physical strength.

But correspondingly, the Leatherback's charging momentum was also stalled, its arms raised high.

"Ugh aaa—"

The Leatherback stomped on the seabed to regain its balance. Its orange-yellow eyes stared at Li Ang and the pineal gland organ in his hand, clearly just disassembled from the head of Otachi.

"Are you angry?"

Li Ang stepped on invisible stairs to ascend into the air, and said calmly to the Leatherback, "Seeing your comrades killed, disassembled, skinned, and their value exploited and consumed.

Or, do you not feel any anger at all, after all, you are just tools..."

The moment the last word was spoken, Li Ang had already propped up the A.T. Field, and swung the Xin Yuan staff, hitting the Leatherback again and again.

The golden shields of both sides collided violently.

The entire sea surface surged, setting off wave after wave of tsunami.

The Leatherback was thick-skinned and stubbornly withstood the brute force strikes of the Xin Yuan. Its arms attempted to grab Li Ang,

however, Li Ang relied on the Ladder Cloud Step skill to move around in the air, dodging agilely, always maintaining the distance between the two sides at the A.T. Field boundary, preventing himself from getting too close and being affected by the opponent's A.T. Field.

Whenever the Leatherback tried to abandon him and attack the Eureka Striker in the downed state,

Li Ang would close the distance, knocking it back to restrain the Leatherback firmly in place.

That pineal gland organ... So Otachi was killed by Li Ang?

The black Trojan horse watched Li Ang kiting the Leatherback, his mind wandering for a moment, but his hands did not stop at all.

He quickly finished repairing the Eureka Striker.

[System reset completed!]

Electronic mechanical sounds echoed in the cockpit of the Eureka Striker. The electrical injuries on the Hanson father and son were also healed by the black Trojan horse's skills.

"Command center, we're back!"

The Hanson father and son shouted excitedly, just about to join Li Ang in completely beheading the Leatherback,

when they saw Li Ang stepping in a series of steps in mid-air, directly leaving the battlefield.

"Huh?"

Not only were the PPDC people stunned for a moment, but even the black Trojan horse was stunned, "Brother Li, you..."

"Eureka Striker, you guys deal with it."

Li Ang put away the Xin Yuan staff, shook his palms.

After all, the human body still had many inconveniences: light weight, little strength.

"Ah?"

The Hanson father and son in the Striker cockpit were startled when they heard this.

They had already tested it just now, even using the Striker's strongest firepower, the six-barreled Akm anti-Kaiju 2x90 missile launcher,

had failed to penetrate the Leatherback's A.T. Field, let alone kill it directly.

In their current state with only a pair of fists...

Was this really not a joke?

"Recall your own memories, I have already told you the method."

Li Ang did not waste any words, and directly retreated to a safe distance, handing the battlefield over to the Leatherback and the Eureka Striker.

Seeing this, the black Trojan horse followed suit, releasing skills to leave this place.

"This..."

The Hanson father and son looked at each other, not knowing the specific meaning of Li Ang's words.

The Leatherback in front was no longer disturbed and restrained. It slammed the sea surface in fury, turned its head to look at the Eureka Striker.

"We can only go for it."

The Hanson father and son exhaled a breath of濁气 in unison, manipulating the mecha to raise their arms and adopt a fighting stance.

Their minds completed neural connection once again through the Drift system.

"Huh???"

This time, the Hanson father and son immediately realized that something was wrong.

Fragments of memories kept popping up in their minds,

filled with all kinds of bizarre scenes.

Some of the memory scenes they had definitely not experienced, but they felt so realistic...

"Striker? Striker?!"

In the command hall, General Stack shouted sternly into the microphone.

Just after Li Ang finished saying that the Hanson father and son should deal with the Leatherback themselves,

the Eureka Striker suddenly froze.

Not only did the raised arms droop down, but even the A.T. Field on the surface of the body disappeared.

"What's going on? Striker, can you hear me? Answer me!"

General Stack slammed the table hard, completely unable to get a response. That feeling of powerlessness as the situation gradually spiraled out of control surged through his body once again.

"Roar..."

The Leatherback narrowed its eyes slightly, staring intently at the Eureka Striker, which had suddenly stopped moving in front of it. Its arms drooped down,

like a real gorilla,

cautiously circling half a circle around the Striker.

It could feel that some kind of change was taking place inside this mecha, and it didn't know whether it was good or bad...

The Leatherback briefly thought for a few seconds, and finally made a decision.

It directly maximized the A.T. Field and punched the Striker's head.

At such a close distance, in such a short time,

the Leatherback expected that even if the Striker activated the A.T. Field, it would definitely suffer serious damage, or even directly crash and shut down, after this punch.

However...

Pa!

The Eureka Striker, which was still standing still the second before, instantly raised its arms and grabbed the Leatherback's thick wrists,

holding the Leatherback's arms tightly like iron鉗.

How is this possible??

The Leatherback's pupils shook, trying to pull its arms back, but found that its arms did not move at all.

Correspondingly, there were those clearly visible, dazzling golden lights on the Eureka Striker's body.

"Hume index, the Striker's Hume index has risen to 30, 35, 40, and it's still rising!"

In the command hall, chief technical consultant Cai Tiantong looked at the constantly fluctuating data on the screen and was horrified, "What's going on?

Mecha cannot evolve on their own!

This has exceeded the Eureka Striker's design limit!"

The so-called Hume index, humes, is a unit used by human civilization in the Deep Sea Kaiju world to measure the strength of the A.T. Field.

Through reverse engineering of the essence of the pineal gland organ, scientists in this world have proposed a view,

reality, or rather the laws of physics in popular cognition,

is like a盘沙子, not necessarily evenly distributed in space.

The lower the Hume index, the more average and "normal" the laws of physics are.

The higher the Hume index, the higher the degree of堆叠of the laws of physics, and the greater the degree of reality distortion.

When the Hume index is 0, everything is normal and uneventful.

When the Hume index is 10, some phenomena that violate physics begin to appear, such as objects floating in the air.

When the Hume index is 20, the distortion becomes more and more obvious, flames can burn in water, and two identical heavy objects will have one land earlier.

When the Hume index of the A.T. Field reaches 30,

(This is usually the standard for level 4 Deep Sea Kaiju)

many human common senses fail, shells and missiles can suddenly turn, and lethal nuclear radiation that is enough to kill any life also loses its effect.

The black Trojan horse on the sea had read some of the PPDC confidential materials. He and the people in the command hall were equally surprised—

The player's real-world Earth also has a new scientific concept similar to the Hume index.

The more powerful the player is, the higher the ability to transform the real world, and the higher the Hume index.

It is equivalent to a new standard for measuring the strength of transcendents.

And now, what exactly happened

that could allow the Eureka Striker to break through the limitations of design and function and possess an A.T. Field that exceeded expectations?

Was it really as Li Ang said, he just said a few words and gave the Hanson father and son the ability to burst out?

This is unscientific!

Crack, crack.

The Eureka Striker slowly applied force to its hands.

The Leatherback tried to resist, but still could not avoid being suppressed—the comparison of the strength of the A.T. Field between the two sides had been reversed.

"Hmph hmph hmph hahahaha, hmph hmph hmph hahahaha!"

Suddenly, extremely abruptly, without any foreshadowing,

the Eureka Striker's broadcast system broadcast a young man's frantic laughter.

Chuck Hansen, in fluent Mandarin with a slight New Port City local accent, laughed loudly at the Leatherback: "Bullshit, you motherfucking monster,

do you think I am still the me of the past?

You are far from qualified to defeat me!"

???

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in the command hall, as well as the helicopter pilots in the sky, and the PPDC senior officials, Black Trojan, and Fuxiao in the remote observation outposts,

were all dumbfounded.

Chuck Hansen was a standard Australian white youth who was recruited into the PPDC because of his father, trained to become a pilot, does not speak Chinese, let alone the New Port City dialect,

Where did he learn such an impassioned Mandarin?

"Kekeke, like father like son,"

One wave was not settled, and another wave rose. The Striker's broadcast system broadcast Kelly Hansen's equally outrageous New Port City accent Mandarin, "My son Chuck really has the qualifications of an emperor!"

???

The people who heard these words almost popped their eyes out.

Kelly Hansen had always been mature, prudent and reliable.

You, a good old comrade, why are you also becoming abnormal?

"Father is too kind!"

Chuck Hansen said in a standard villain tone, arrogantly: "Fighting tigers requires brothers, fighting battles requires father and son.

Father, today we will let this monster taste our eternal rage!"

"Good!"

The father and son shouted loudly: "Electric Poison Dragon Drill!"

Manipulating the mecha, they grabbed the Leatherback's wrists with both hands, and kicked the Leatherback in the waist and abdomen, actually kicking it away.

Bang!!!

The Leatherback's body pushed up waves. The Deep Sea Kaiju, which had been knocked dizzy, staggered to its feet.

Before it could figure out the current situation, the Eureka Striker pressed forward and punched it in the face.

"Dragon Overlord Fist, Angry Dragon Appears!
Netherworld Fist, Annihilation Forever!
Heavenly Frost Fist, Frost Marks Everywhere!"

The Hanson father and son used the broadcast system to read the names of inexplicable martial arts moves in a powerful and forceful Mandarin, punching the Leatherback with ordinary punches again and again,

causing the latter's facial skin to explode and blue blood to splatter.

"Father is truly powerful, truly powerful!!!"

"My son, you are not bad either, quite like your father in his prime, hahahaha!"

The inexplicable father and son were fighting an inexplicable battle.

In the dumbfounded gazes of everyone (except Li Ang), they actually cracked the Leatherback's face,

"Father, it's about to give out!"

"Well, then let's use that move to finish it off!"

Not to mention how everyone was frantically吐槽ing in their hearts, what exactly that move was,

The Hanson father and son raised their right arms high and punched the Leatherback in the face, causing the latter's entire face to sink into its skull.

With a flash of electricity, the Deep Sea Kaiju's entire face exploded,

The Leatherback was no longer moving.

"The last move, Thunderclap Fist, Five Thunderbolts Strike the Top."

Chuck Hansen reported the name of the last move, which was read as Thunderclap Fist, but written as the 4211-type Iron Fist Eletrocutioner, in a casual and cool manner,

put down his fist, abandoned the Leatherback's corpse, and looked up at the night sky where the drizzle had stopped,

and said faintly: "This monster is extraordinary,

but alas, geniuses always die young.

Eliminating the opponent before they grow, so this is martial arts?

Master Li, we have realized it."