Chapter 1 The Beginning

"Lead the way."

Li Ang nodded calmly, following the person into the extraordinarily spacious elevator car.

As an important part of the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps' (PPDC) fortifications, the Shatterdome base was designed with the goal of "being able to withstand a full-scale attack by deep-sea behemoths."

The above-ground portion had more than forty floors.

The internal hangar on the first floor, and the underground space that extended from it,

In addition to being able to park heavy mechs of the 70-80 meter class, and providing work and living space for 50,000 PPDC personnel, it could also accommodate millions of New Port City citizens in case of emergency evacuation.

Each of these elevator shafts, deeply embedded in reinforced concrete, was the size of a container.

They could usually transport supplies, personnel, and even vehicles and helicopters.

A group of people standing inside didn't seem crowded at all.

On the elevator's LCD screen, the floor numbers steadily rose.

Li Ang closed his eyes and pondered. The deep-sea creature's brain organ he was holding continued to shrink until it was the size of a walnut.

This pineal gland-like organ was very... peculiar.

Its overall structure, when viewed as a whole, was quite similar to the brain of a higher mammal. The surface was covered with grooves, the outer layer was gray matter, and the deep layer was white matter. The white matter contained nerve fibers and nuclear groups.

However, the specific structure was more complex. The regions within the brain were filled with neural structures that Li Ang had never seen before.

The most critical point was that the basic organic matter forming this organ was not a conventional protein, that is, a polypeptide chain composed of amino acids by "dehydration condensation."

Instead, it was a polypeptide formed by replacing amino acids with amide molecules.

"Amine life?"

Li Ang blinked, his tone calm.

The Japanese woman named Mori Mako looked at Li Ang strangely, tossed her hair, carefully concealing the faint golden light emanating from her body.

She nodded cautiously, "Are you talking about the Kaiju (deep-sea behemoths)?

According to the dissection results from our Kaiju Science Division, their brains do have the characteristics of amine life as imagined in science fiction and by scientists,

But their bodies, like Earth creatures, are completely carbon-based."

"Is that so."

Li Ang nodded, said nothing more, and casually put the pineal gland organ into his inventory.

Out of some kind of cautious self-preservation mentality, the PPDC personnel who came down to greet Li Ang were all mid-to-high-level staff who could use the pineal gland organ installed in their tactical suits to release A.T. (anti-kaiju) fields, in order to prevent Li Ang from using what appeared to be mind control abilities.

Standing in Li Ang's position,

He could clearly feel the weak or strong mental abilities on these people, as well as their complex emotions mixed with awe and fear.

Among them, the Japanese woman named Mori Mako had the highest psychic energy level.

In terms of energy reaction alone, she could almost reach the level of a second-level esper, but she had no psychic skills at all, and her mental foundation was quite unstable.

From the information gathered previously, Mori Mako was from Kyoto, Japan. When she was a child, she and her parents encountered a Kaiju attack in Tokyo.

Her parents died, and Mori Mako, who was only nine years old at the time, was rescued from the Kaiju's claws at the last moment by the Striker Eureka mech (originally from Tokyo, Japan) pilot, who later became General Stacker Pentecost.

Since then, Mori Mako joined the Ranger Academy to study mechanical engineering, and later became one of the PPDC's mech technology department supervisors, and a reserve mech pilot.

This story was not a secret within the PPDC. Mori Mako's age seemed a bit young for the position of mech technology department supervisor.

Moreover, her personal relationship with Stacker was also gossiped about in private by some busybodies.

However, General Stacker himself was upright and incorruptible, had no bad habits, and Mori Mako was indeed accomplished in mech design, construction, and maintenance, so no one had questioned it in recent years.

Li Ang casually browsed through the life stories of some people in the elevator.

The ordinary people in this script world did not have particularly outstanding psychic talents.

But those pineal glands, which were obviously psychic organs, could materialize mental power.

Li Ang frowned and pondered, 'An alien civilization capable of mass-producing psychic organs...'

Ding-dong.

The elevator rose to the command hall on the fortieth floor. Two heavy blast doors slid open to the sides, and Li Ang also saw the tense-faced PPDC senior personnel in the command hall, as well as two familiar faces.

"It's you guys."

Li Ang smiled at Hei Se Mu Ma (Black Horse) and Fu Xiao (Dawn). Hei Se Mu Ma was an old acquaintance, and he had seen Fu Xiao twice after the Doorway Contest, so they weren't strangers. "Just the two of you? Are there any others?"

"It should just be the two of us."

Hei Se Mu Ma smiled awkwardly, and said succinctly: "Our starting location was near the Shatterdome base.

Due to the perennial Kaiju War, New Port City is basically full of surveillance cameras with facial recognition systems.

I just checked and didn't find any familiar faces besides us—"

"Mm."

Li Ang nodded nonchalantly, looked at General Stacker, who had a solemn expression and the most psychic energy in the room, "Hello, it's nice to finally meet you, General."

"Hello, Mr. Li."

Stacker carefully chose his words, just about to ask the other party's purpose with the most friendly attitude possible,

Li Ang waved his hand and said, "Let's cut to the chase.

General Stacker, everyone in this command hall now, and the official representatives of the Pan-Pacific countries who are listening in through communication equipment at this moment,

You only need to remember one thing—

We are here to help eliminate the Kaiju.

I need the PPDC to provide all the Kaiju samples and Kaiju data collected over the years.

I need this to develop a corresponding bioweapon against the Kaiju.

At the same time, the PPDC must also provide me with the construction blueprints for the heavy mechs,

The metallurgical data of the metal materials used for the mechs,

And the engineering drawings of the production lines for building the mechs.

To show my sincerity,

I will temporarily stop the expansion of the Pale World on land."

He casually clapped his hands.

On the surveillance screen in the command hall, the boundless white lichen that covered most of the surface area of New Port City,

Suddenly stopped its almost unrestrained expansion.

Only some lichen aggregates that had already entered the third stage and become like Yuan Shan algae were still erupting spores towards the sky and the ocean.

"After we kill the Kaiju, we will leave here.

All the Pale World lichen will self-destruct and will not cause any damage to the planet's ecology."

Li Ang calmly glanced at the war clock on the wall of the command hall, which was constantly recording the time (recording the time since the last Kaiju attack), and said, "I think this is a very fair deal.

If you don't mind, let's start preparing now.

They are already here."