Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 687: Seizing the Mecha
The speed of the hover sports car driven by Ke Lan was so fast that both sides on the battlefield - whether it was the "unidentified" attackers or the escort troops who were suppressed and retreating step by step, had no time to react.
Many people even only heard the roar of the engine, and when they came to their senses, a luxury car that was obviously worth a lot of money was already lying in the middle of the battlefield.
Before the attackers could figure out whether the car was a friend or an enemy, Ke Lan had already jumped off the car, raised his hand and drew his gun to knock down several attackers who were close to him, then leaped straight onto the top of the engineering mecha.
Engineering mechas are different from regular military tactical mechas. In order to prevent rescuers from being unable to open the cockpit from the outside in the event of an accident, all engineering mechas are prohibited from installing cockpit locking devices during production. In addition, on the outside of the fuselage, on the side of the cockpit, there is a quick-release button for the hatch painted in a striking red color...
It was called a release button, but in fact it was a handle with a silicone cover. When Ke Lan stepped on it, the cockpit cover instantly bounced up several centimeters, revealing a gap.
Insert your toes into the gap, lift it up slightly , and the hatch will be completely opened.
The attacker pilot sitting inside raised his head in confusion, but before he could see Ke Lan's face clearly, he felt a huge force coming from his collar, and then he was forcibly pulled out of the cockpit and fell heavily to the ground.
After glancing at the crude and shabby cockpit with some disdain, Ke Lan still sat in it and reached out to grip the joysticks on both sides whose anti-slip coating had been worn off.
This machine should be an antique from nine hundred years ago in the new era, that is, the era of interstellar drifting. Not only does it not have trendy functions such as AR imaging and holographic projection display, it does not even have a traditional monitor display. The driver's field of vision is completely provided by a small observation slit in front of the hatch. For Ke Lan, who had just driven the luxury hovercraft, switching to this machine made him feel as if his top-of-the-line machine with a 29th-generation Ryzen processor and an RTX10080 graphics card had been replaced with a 386. The operating feel is simply incomparable.
Without even a monitor display, there is naturally no possibility of a fire control device... For civilian engineering mechas, that thing is an absolute contraband. Not only is there no space reserved inside the body for installing a fire control device, even the functions related to the main control chip are locked - the modifier of this body simply installed an electrically controlled firing device on the trigger of the two Minigun machine guns, and then connected it to the interior of the cockpit with a wire.
The hit rate of these two miniguns is naturally up to chance, especially when shooting while moving... Perhaps the faith shooting of the black uncles in Africa is more accurate than this.
However, Ke Lan did not plan to rely on these two Miniguns to deal with these attackers - he pushed the joystick hard, the engineering mecha turned around suddenly, raised the mechanical arm on the right side, and then smashed it hard at an attacker who was still in a daze!
These two Minigun machine guns are genuine products from regular military factories. A certain proportion of Nino alloy is mixed into the metal material to increase the strength. Even if they can't hit the target, they can still be used as blunt weapons for close combat with considerable power.
In the blink of an eye, two more unlucky guys were smashed into a pulp.
The barrels of the two miniguns were severely deformed and had basically lost their ability to shoot, but their power as close combat weapons had not only not been weakened, but had actually been strengthened to a certain extent...
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When this engineering mecha crushed the head of the last attacker, its own movable joints had reached their endurance limit. The locking steel ring at the knee broke into two pieces. The unfixed knee joint immediately fell apart, and the entire machine suddenly fell to the ground on one knee with a dull loud noise.
"The quality is too bad... Which dusty warehouse did these attackers find such a dilapidated machine from?" Ke Lan complained softly as he climbed out of the cockpit that was filled with the smell of sweat and rust.
It was only then that reinforcements from nearby troops arrived.
Just like all movies that promote personal heroism, the police or the army will always arrive only after the protagonist has defeated all the villains...
"You... you are not hurt, right?" Councillor Xia Houying also arrived at the scene with this batch of reinforcements. Under the protection of a large number of soldiers wearing power armor, she got out of the armored vehicle in a hurry. Ke Lan could see that she seemed to want to run towards her quickly, but she didn't dare to do so. She must be worried about whether there were still enemy snipers lurking around the battlefield.
"I'm fine." Ke Lan waved his hand casually. "These attackers... how should I put it? They are very weak, and they don't have a container that is parasitic on the Seed of Corrosion. They were able to launch a sneak attack because they took advantage of the surprise attack."
The command was chaotic, the equipment was simple, the personal tactical quality was low... If the "advantage" of fearlessness and bravery was excluded, this group of people could be completely described as a "mob". Even the rookies who just came out of the recruit camp were much stronger than this group of attackers.
Moreover, judging from the clothes of this group of people, they did not look like exiles who had infiltrated from the wilderness, but rather people who originally lived on the Ark.
"Clean up the battlefield immediately... Well, there should still be some survivors... For those who are still alive, try to save their lives and then hand them over to the Security Bureau for interrogation." Ke Lan ordered the reinforcements.
Ke Lan knew a thing or two about the Security Bureau's interrogation methods. Even if they couldn't pry useful information out of their mouths through torture, they could use the "equipment" invented by the research institute to make the prisoners speak... Although the side effects of these devices would most likely turn the person being interrogated into a fool or a vegetable, in terms of efficiency, they could make them tell you everything they knew in no more than two hours.
As for the side effects, these people are going to die anyway...what does it matter if they become idiots or vegetables?
"To be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to yourself." Ke Lan has always adhered to this philosophy when dealing with members of heretical sects.
Although the identities of these attackers have not been confirmed, it is basically certain that they are the remnants of the heretical sect. Only those fanatical believers who have been brainwashed by the doctrines of the heretical sect would use their unprotected flesh and blood to attack the fire blockade of the 25mm caliber machine gun...
