Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 636: Escape from Alexandria
The carrier-class energy shield was like paper in front of this beam of light. It was melted away with a "hiss" at the moment of collision. The hull, which was more than a kilometer long, was first cut in half longitudinally, and then suddenly exploded and disintegrated. Countless burning wreckage fell from the sky, dragging thick smoke columns in the air.
"What kind of weapon is that that can kill an aircraft carrier and a battleship instantly?" Layton was stunned. You know, even the Ark's main gun or the Alpha Civilization's death ray cannon couldn't so easily split an aircraft carrier and a battleship in half, but the seemingly unglamorous beam of light just now did it...
If the aircraft carrier battleship was replaced by an Ark... Layton couldn't help but imagine a scene in his mind of a large round cake being cut into dozens of pieces with a few clicks of a knife...
If Alexander could cross the White Ridge Mountains, the Ark would probably become the cream cake in this imaginary picture...
At this moment, the platform under everyone's feet suddenly split into several pieces. Caught off guard, several soldiers and an armored vehicle that was right above the crack fell directly from a height of nearly 10,000 meters.
Fortunately, the power armors of these soldiers were equipped with parachute packs. After a brief panic, the soldiers who fell had adjusted their body balance in the air and opened their paragliders.
However, before they could float far in the air, several laser beams shot from "Alexander" caught up with them and hit them accurately.
"The anti-aircraft system of the ruins is still in operation!" the commander of the mobile force shouted, "As long as we leave the range of this platform, we will be attacked!"
At this time, the bronze pillar in the center of the platform had retracted into the body of "Alexander", and the prophet's real body also disappeared from everyone's sight. In this way, the possibility of stopping "Alexander" by killing the prophet's real body was basically cut off.
Moreover, from the fact that various parts of "Alexander"'s body are still constantly deforming and reorganizing, it can be seen that the ceremony led by the prophet has not yet ended, and the current "Alexander" may not be considered a complete body.
"At least let's leave this place first, otherwise I'm afraid we will all be built into this big guy's body in the end!" Ke Lan said to the others - not only the field legion soldiers who broke into the ruins, but even the members of the heretical sects who blocked them inside the ruins were used as Alexander's sacrifices.
Ke Lan watched helplessly as a Type B mutant was running wildly on the street, and was suddenly sucked into the floor by the lifted floor and crushed into a meat paste... Although it was not completely dead at this time, it had lost the ability to resist and was soon "sucked" into a crack.
Ke Lan felt as if he could hear the sound of flesh and bones being crushed and broken by the hard gears. The flesh and blood of the sacrifices were collected by mechanical pipes onto the platform where they were now, and then fell from the sky along the gaps and edges of the platform, and poured onto Alexander's magnificent body.
" The Mechanical God awakens from blood. The light of divine judgment will punish all heretics in the world and spread His will to every corner of this planet..." The ancient prayer written in Alpha script kept echoing in Ke Lan's mind. Although everyone on the Ark called the Prophet and his men "heretics", in the eyes of "Alexander", they, the outsiders from distant galaxies, were the heretics who really needed to be judged.
"How can I leave?" Layton looked around in confusion. "There is no way to go!"
They couldn't return to the tower by the "original route", so the only way to leave the platform was to jump off the platform, but in this way, they would be immediately locked by Alexander's anti-aircraft firepower...
"Can we slowly crawl down along the body of this creature?" Sanshisan asked. "As long as we don't leave the surface of its body, we shouldn't be attacked by those lasers."
"This is indeed the only way out." Ivan nodded, "But the prerequisite is that there will not be a crack or a high-speed rotating gear suddenly appearing under your feet during the climb..."
"That's better than waiting to die here!" Leighton took a deep breath and controlled Augustus to the edge of the platform.
But when he just glanced down, he heard a gasp in the communication channel.
Ke Lan had observed Alexander's torso long before Layton. The body of this mechanical god was full of deadly mechanisms. The difficulty of climbing down from it was probably comparable to a perverted version of "Cat Rio".
But as Ivan said, it was their only escape route.
The platform, which had already split into several pieces, suddenly sank, and a huge shadow suddenly covered everyone on the platform. Everyone looked up and saw that at some point, the part of the ancient bronze city ruins that had sunk underground had turned up and was clearly about to snap onto Alexander's torso.
The platform they are standing on now is obviously one of the connection points between the two parts.
If they continued to stay on the platform, their fate would be to be trapped inside this alloy body weighing billions of tons - as to whether there would be a gap big enough to accommodate a person after the two parts were fastened together, no one dared to bet.
"Fuck! Let's get out of here!" Without saying a word, Layton grabbed the edge of the platform and swung Augustus' body out.
"Everyone, leave the platform immediately and descend to the ground!"
Ke Lan, Ze Luo, Asano Akira, Ivan and thirty-three-five people jumped directly onto the back of the Blasphemer - although the Blasphemer mecha itself does not have an external man-carrying device, a set of customized nested outer armor was delivered together with the body. This outer armor has many hidden pull rings for people to climb on... The guys in the equipment department obviously took into account the special situation at the moment where the mecha needs to be used as a means of transportation.
The Blasphemer's body is much more powerful than Augustus. It doesn't even need to rely on the edge of the platform for support. It can stay in the air for a short period of time relying solely on its own thrusters and anti-gravity devices. While Augustus was still moving inward along the cracks of the platform, the Blasphemer had already stuck close to Alexander's torso and was falling down at a speed very close to free fall.
"Pay attention to the distance, maintain the current state, and don't move more than 20 meters away from Alexander!" Ke Lan shouted, "It is better to crash into Alexander than to move too far away! So far, I have never seen those anti-aircraft lasers miss!"
He squatted on top of the Blasphemer, holding the pull ring at his feet tightly with one hand, and holding a peculiarly shaped - this shield can not only help the Blasphemer mecha correct the flow of gas on its surface, allowing Valentina to control the body's posture more smoothly during high-speed landing, but also be used to protect other people on the back of the mecha from being hit by debris falling from the sky.
The part of the trunk that was turned up from the ground was attached to a large amount of rocks and soil. As the mechanical body moved, these rocks and soil attached to it began to separate and fall off. Although compared with Alexander's huge body, these falling rocks were like dandruff shaking off the hair, but for Ke Lan and the others, the smallest piece of fallen rock was about the size of a dining table for ten people. If they were rubbed by this thing, they would be seriously injured if not killed.
In just over ten seconds, several soldiers of the mobile force wearing power armor were unfortunately hit by falling rocks and fell out - fortunately, they were unconscious the moment they were hit by the boulders, and when they were hit by the lasers, their entire bodies and armor were vaporized in an instant, so they basically did not feel any pain.
"Move one hundred and fifty meters to the left!" Ze Luo suddenly said. Valentina only felt her head shake violently, as if another consciousness had taken over her body, controlling the Blasphemer mecha to fly a long distance to the left.
The next moment, on the original descent route, a giant gear with a diameter of more than 300 meters suddenly emerged from Alexander's body and meshed with the gear set hanging from the top of an inverted tower.
If the Blasphemer had not moved to the left in time, he would have probably hit the gear hard by now.
"Zeluo! You can sense the changes in Alexander's torso, right?" Ke Lan asked loudly.
"I can make predictions based on the flow of energy, but it's not 100% accurate," Ze Luo replied.
"That's enough," Ke Lan nodded to her, and then said to Valentina, "Zero will bind you and her thoughts and consciousness together. Try not to resist. She will tell you what to do next!"
"Yeah." Valentina gritted her teeth and responded in a dull voice. Although the feeling of "sharing" a body with another consciousness was extremely strange, for her, as long as everyone could leave here alive, she would not hesitate even if she had to be sacrificed, not to mention that they were just sharing a body.
With the addition of Ze Luo, the movement trajectory of the Blasphemer Mecha suddenly became extremely weird. However, it was this high-frequency turning and changing of direction that not only allowed the Blasphemer Mecha to avoid all obstacles and traps on the descent path, but even the falling rocks hitting Ke Lan's shield suddenly became much less.
Ke Lan suddenly thought that if he had really let Ze Luo, the "physical plug-in", participate in the mecha competition, I'm afraid no human pilot would be able to last more than three moves under her hands?
No... three moves are not necessary at all. In a one-on-one situation, I estimate that this girl can defeat the enemy with just one move.
"Leighton, and everyone else, follow closely behind us! With Ze Luo's guidance, our route is safe for the time being!" Ke Lan said in the staff communication channel. However, except for Augustus who was equipped with a laser communication device, everyone else's radio communications were severely interfered with, and no one could hear what Ke Lan said.
Layton did hear it, but looking at the complicated movement patterns of the Blasphemer mecha below, he could only curse silently in his heart -
"Ke Lan, you guys are too fast, I can't keep up." He followed for a while, but not only did he fail to avoid the falling rocks above his head, but he also had his right arm and a jet thruster on the right side of his backpack cut off by a spike protruding from Alexander's body. Augustus, who lost his balance, immediately crashed into Alexander's body and fell several times. The originally beautiful silver-white armor had already though it was damaged like this, Layton still forced the body to adjust its posture back.
After narrowly avoiding a tenon nearly 100 meters high, Augustus's descent speed suddenly slowed down. Layton's hesitant voice rang out in the communication channel: "Why don't you just leave quickly and leave me alone. I can still help you block the rocks from above..."
"You'd better shut up." Ke Lan replied immediately. The next second, two tail flames several dozen meters long suddenly spurted out from behind the Blasphemer, which was still descending. The entire aircraft flew up against the falling rubble and caught the remains of Augustus.
Augustus is a six-meter-class humanoid mecha. When held in the arms of the more than ten-meter-tall Blasphemer, he felt like a "little bird relying on its mother". However, the two mechas were combined into one, and the area affected by the attack suddenly increased by about one third, while the efficiency of the Blasphemer's maneuvers was significantly reduced compared to before.
"Why bother! Don't let me get you all killed!" Layton shouted with red eyes, "Tell Xiaona to let me go! Quickly!"
"If you die here, how can I explain to Old Dog when I go back?" Ke Lan asked, "Does Augustus still have any usable weapons? Instead of wasting your energy arguing with me about these meaningless things, you might as well focus more on the rocks falling from above--"
"You - OK, I get it!" Layton gritted his teeth and said, "The Vulcan cannon on the head of the machine and the missile launcher on the left shoulder are still usable, but there is not much ammunition left... In addition, the shield generator on the left arm is still there, and the remaining energy can support at least ten minutes!"
The Blasphemer mecha's energy shield is full-coverage. Although it can defend against falling rocks from overhead without blind spots, when the shield is activated, Ke Lan and others clinging to the surface of the mecha will also be evaporated by the shield at the same time. Therefore, Valentina and Ze Luo can only rely on operation to dodge falling rocks throughout the whole process, as for those that cannot be avoided, they can only withstand them.
"I'll take care of the falling rocks above, you just need to focus on this big guy!" Leighton responded loudly, and several micro missiles whizzed out, smashing a huge rock into dozens of pieces, and then pushed the energy shield upwards, and those smaller fragments were instantly burned away.
