Volume 13 Ancient Bronze City Ruins Chapter 637: The Seed of Primal Corrosion
As for the very few pieces of rubble that were massive enough to penetrate the shield, they were hit head-on by a gray blade light and turned into powder in the blink of an eye.
But compared to Ke Lan and his men, the situation for the soldiers in the mobile force was not so optimistic - the few remaining mechas were almost all destroyed in the collision. Without the cover of the mecha body, the scattered infantry could not stop the falling rocks from above. They were either smashed to pieces by Alexander's body, or evaporated in mid-air by the lasers fired by the anti-aircraft equipment because the distance was too far.
Ke Lan and his team had only fallen less than three kilometers, and there were only a few soldiers left following them. As for the commander of the mobile force, he was unfortunately hit by a boulder the size of an off-road vehicle just as he jumped off the platform, and died heroically.
Ke Lan and the others also wanted to help those soldiers, but in the current situation, they were unable to take care of themselves, let alone lend a helping hand to others.
"Not good." Such words suddenly came out of Ze Luo's mouth, causing Ke Lan's eyes to twitch violently - in this girl's dictionary, words like "not good" and "bad" rarely appear, but once they appear, it means that what they are about to face is definitely not an ordinary trouble.
"What's wrong?" Ke Lan asked quickly.
"We can't pass this section of the road ahead." Ze Luo replied.
"Why?!"
"The pass below is the only way we can go through, but this pass will disappear in sixteen seconds. At our current speed, we won't be able to get through it before it completely closes." Ze Luo explained.
"Can we go around it? Or climb over it?"
"We can't go around. There are laser cannons on both sides. That pass is the only safe passage. As for climbing over it, it will exceed the safe distance." Ze Luo immediately rejected it, "There are twelve seconds left."
"Can't we speed up our descent? Turn my body around, and have the thrusters of both bodies spray at maximum power at the same time. We should be able to get through before the pass closes!" Layton said anxiously.
"I've already taken Augustus' power into account, and it's still not enough." Ze Luo replied calmly, "The total length of the pass is over one kilometer... There are still eight seconds left until it is completely closed."
At this time, without her saying anything, everyone could see that not far below, a series of high-speed rotating gear sets were gradually approaching - and the increasingly smaller gap between these gear sets was the "only safe passage" that Ze Luo mentioned.
"Wait! I have a plan!" Layton suddenly shouted, "Throw my body out! Jam those gear sets! Augustus's frame and outer armor are 100% pure Nino alloy! With the strength of Nino alloy, it shouldn't be crushed in an instant! Maybe it can buy you enough time to escape!"
"Then get out of the cockpit quickly!" Ke Lan also shouted at him.
"Four seconds left."
"Augustus doesn't have an automatic driving system! Ke Lan, please help me tell the old dog a message, just say——"
Before Layton could finish his words, a bloody giant claw had already inserted itself through the gap in the cockpit door, then tore the entire door off and grabbed Layton who was sitting inside out.
"What are you doing?!" Before Layton could break free from the bloody giant claws, the Blasphemer mecha had already grabbed one of Augustus' legs and forcefully threw the already severely damaged machine out.
"If there's no one to operate it, it will simply..." Layton roared, but the next second, he suddenly swallowed the second half of the sentence - because he found that Augustus, who had lost his driver, was actually "alive", and flexibly drew a Z-shaped movement in mid-air, avoiding two fallen rocks from the sky, and then accurately got stuck between the two gears.
As the giant teeth rolled down, Augustus' head monitor was instantly crushed into a discus, but the remaining limbs were tightly held together with the torso, and the entire body was rolled into a ball, stuck tightly between two rotating gears.
"Who told you that no one is controlling it?" Thirty-three wiped the blood from his nose and said in a deep voice, "Don't forget what my ability is... Although this thing is a bit heavy, I can still control it for a short period of time."
With a teeth-grinding sound, Augustus' body was crushed and dented - but when the skeleton of the entire machine was compressed to a certain extent, the huge gear could no longer move forward, and the movement of the entire gear set also stopped.
"We've successfully stuck it!" Layton shouted excitedly, "Quick, let's rush over now!"
The speed of the Blasphemer mecha suddenly increased to the fastest, and the power limiting valves of the external thrusters were all opened. The entire body plunged downward with a tail flame hundreds of meters long, and passed through the two sets of gears stuck by the wreckage of Augustus at the fastest speed.
It was not until this moment that everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
At the same time, the cell phone in Ke Lan's pocket suddenly rang, which made him stunned - Augustus, which had previously served as a signal repeater, is now damaged. Even if it was not damaged, with the intensity of signal interference on Alexander's body, the team's external communications would be completely cut off. In this case, how could a call come in?
He immediately took out his cell phone and saw that the number calling was a string of garbled characters, but this string of garbled characters had an address book avatar that looked familiar to him.
This is a mirrored side-on cat head portrait that seems to have been sketched with a pencil, and is wearing a pair of punk-style windproof goggles - this is the forum avatar that the information dealer has been using, and Ke Lan doesn't know when it was saved in her mobile phone address book.
But since the person who called was this guy, his previous doubts naturally disappeared without a trace - with the ability of the Undead Crew, solving this small interference problem would not surprise him at all.
After connecting the phone to the headset, Ke Lan answered the call.
"Congratulations, you've just escaped death again." A cute little loli voice sounded in Ke Lan's ears.
"You are the information dealer? You...you are a woman?" Ke Lan had always communicated with this guy through text messages, never by voice. But in his subconscious, the top of the top ten trolls who were always fighting quarrels with people online should not be a little loli!
"Come on, you are one of the top 500 hackers on the Internet. Can't you even use such a simple voice-changing software?" the other party replied. The next second, his voice changed from a little girl's voice to a thick and ambiguous uncle's voice. "If you don't like the little girl's voice, how about this voice? If you don't like it, it's okay. I can keep changing it."
"Now is not the time to talk about this!" Ke Lan immediately changed the subject, "Since you know we just escaped death, you should also know the situation here, right?"
"Of course, the situation is very bad. The ground attack force is almost completely wiped out, the remaining combat power of the air force fleet is less than one-third, the ruins of the ancient bronze city have been fully activated, and the heretic sect has successfully summoned the strongest mobile weapon of the Alpha civilization - the hidden great military god: Alexander. Of course, I know all this."
"What is your purpose in attacking the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City?" Ke Lan wanted to ask him directly about the β-type replicator, but after thinking about it, she decided not to say it out loud. "Don't tell me that the Undead Crew doesn't know about the existence of Alexander, and that this thing needs the flesh and blood of 100,000 people as sacrifices to wake it up!"
"We know that the Bronze City Ruins have a certain connection with Alexander." The intelligence dealer said, "Based on the intelligence we have, we once believed that the Bronze City Ruins were Alexander's experimental area..."
"But you didn't expect that the ruins of the ancient bronze city were Alexander's real body, right?"
"There was such a speculation before, but with the subsequent exploration and discovery, this speculation was rejected. Otherwise, the grade of this relic would not be only A-level."
"Can the crew come up with a solution now? If you can't deal with Alexander, the consequences... you should know the consequences better than me, right?"
“The solution is right here.”
"Right in front of me? What do you mean?!"
"Do you still remember the super-giant erosion species that caused huge losses to the ground forces before?" The intelligence dealer suddenly changed the subject.
"I know... that thing, could it be the solution?" Ke Lan was stunned, and vaguely, he seemed to have guessed something.
"That Corrosion Seed is an indispensable part of the solution." The information dealer continued, "You should know that there is a saying called 'God's Blood' in the core of the Corrosion Seed, right?"
"...Please continue." Ke Lan suddenly felt that his guess was almost correct.
"The blood of God is not a cheap mass-produced product. The blood in the bodies of ordinary Corrosion Seeds is just fake blood of God created by the Alpha Civilization through biotechnology. Even the mutants as strong as the SP type do not have the real blood of God in their cores... But that super giant Corrosion Seed is different. It is the real thing."
"This thing has the real blood of God?!"
" That's right . We call this kind of Erosion Seeds that have the blood of true God the 'Original Erosion Seeds'. These are the first batch of Erosion Seeds produced by the Alpha Civilization, and the materials used are all genuine 'God's Blood'. It's just that because the power of the real God's Blood is too strong, most of the Original Erosion Seeds couldn't withstand this power, and exploded and died not long after they were born. Only a very few lucky ones survived... and the Erosion Seed outside the Bronze City is one of the lucky ones." The intelligence dealer explained to Ke Lan.
"But what does the Original Corrosion Seed have to do with resolving Alexander?"
"You have had the Living Armor for quite some time. During this time, you should have used it to kill quite a few Corrosion Seeds and their vessels, right? Don't you know its characteristics yet?"
"You might as well put it more clearly."
"The Living Armor can be strengthened by absorbing the 'God's Blood' in the Seed of Corrosion. Although what you have absorbed now are only some inferior imitations of God's Blood, you should be able to feel that the Living Armor has become much stronger than when you first obtained it."
"You mean, let the living armor absorb the 'real stuff' in the core of the Original Corrosion Seed, and then use it to defeat Alexander?" Although it was a little unbelievable, the "solution" proposed by the undead crew was completely consistent with Ke Lan's inner guess.
But... even if it absorbs the real blood of God, can the enhanced living armor really kill Alexander?
"Absolutely correct. I know you must be doubting the feasibility of this plan. In fact, if you compare the difference between the original erosion seeds and ordinary erosion seeds, you will know how terrifying the power contained in the real blood of God is."
"No, that's not the key point." Ke Lan shook his head. "The problem is that we can't kill the original seed of corrosion at all. Since we can't kill it, let alone absorb the blood of God and defeat Alexander. The first step of this plan is an impossible task."
"Don't worry, we will help you complete this first step."
As soon as the intelligence dealer finished speaking, a "Garuda-class" heavy tactical transport ship suddenly drove into the battlefield from a distance.
More than a dozen tall figures jumped out of the airdrop hatch at the belly of the "Garuda-class" and fell rapidly to the ground.
Although the distance was quite far, Ke Lan still recognized the true identities of those figures—the Blasphemer Mechas!
"You actually have so many...Fallen Angel Mechas?" Ke Lan asked in surprise.
A single Blasphemer mecha is already a force that cannot be ignored on the battlefield, and an entire squadron of Blasphemer mechas... its combat power may be able to rival an entire cruise fleet!
"In fact, the crew will also know that the original name of this thing is 'blasphemer', and Fallen Angel is just its common name within the Ark... It's just like in the old era, different organizations would have different names for the same weapon equipment. There is no need to dwell on such things." The information dealer said, "But these mechas you see are not real Fallen Angel mechas, but the 'Fallen Angel mass-produced models' we imitated."
"Fallen Angels, mass-produced? Are they any different from the Blasphemers of the Alpha Civilization?"
"The difference in performance is almost negligible, but there is still a big gap between our technological level and that of the Alpha civilization. We cannot perfectly imitate the neural connection device that can be separated at any time, so we can only seal people inside the mecha and act as the living CPU of the body. The life of these living CPUs is maintained by drugs and life support devices. Their consciousness will always remain in a semi-conscious state, able to fully obey the orders they receive, and at the same time possess the combat skills and instincts of ace pilots."
