Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 753: Minions of the Forest
The Blasphemer mech was much larger and more powerful than the walker, and the walker was knocked back several steps. Valentina seized this opportunity and slashed with her heavy armor-piercing sword from bottom to top, instantly creating a huge gap in the chest of the walker!
But before Valentina could swing the second sword, a large amount of mist vines, like the tentacles of the Seed of Erosion, surged out from the gap in the mecha and filled the gap in an instant.
The physical strength of these mist vines is even higher than the alloy armor used in mass-produced mechas like the walker. It would be more appropriate to say that it is a reinforcement rather than a "repair".
"The cockpits of these mechas seem to be filled with mist vines..." Sanshisan smacked his lips. "Tsk, could it be that the thing that controls these walker mechas is... this forest?"
"This statement is too personified..." Ivan frowned, "A forest composed of countless independent fog-dwelling trees, with a unified will... It feels to me like this is not a forest, but a huge beehive."
While Ivan and Thirty-Three were still discussing things related to the forest, Valentina had already controlled the Blasphemer mech and rushed forward again - the output power of the heavy armor-piercing sword was turned to the maximum, and one sword after another was chopped down continuously!
When the sword blade came into contact with the armor, there was no crisp sound typical of the collision of metal and iron. The energy shield covering the heavy armor-piercing sword could melt the walker's armor in an instant, and the chopping was like cutting butter with a red-hot knife.
Several other walker mechas also raised their machine guns, but this time, their machine guns exploded before they could even remember to fire... One of the walker mechas that was loaded with incendiary bombs was directly ignited by the exploded incendiary bombs - although the fog vines and the armor themselves had high ignition points, the large amount of splashing napalm covered the entire mecha, and the flames quickly spread into the dilapidated power compartment of the body. Accompanied by a dull series of explosions from the power compartment, the walker with flames burning on its body fell directly to the ground.
But before Ke Lan and the others could shift their attention away from the walker mech, the body covered in flames actually struggled to stand up again!
The joints that were burned red groaned under the heavy burden, and the mist vines wrapped around them layer by layer despite the raging flames, wrapping the exposed skeletons as tightly as dumplings... In less than ten seconds, the raging fire had been put out by the mist vines, and the black machine sank, spread its legs, and charged towards the crowd.
"Didn't its power reactor just explode? How can the machine move without a power reactor?" Thirty-three's face changed and he said in surprise.
"The power of these machines obviously does not come from the power furnace, but from the mist vines wrapped around their bodies." Ke Lan said quickly, "You can actually think of the machines wrapped in the mist vines as people, and the mist vines outside as a layer of power armor. It is the mist vines that drive the machines to move, not the machines driving the mist vines."
"The net weight of a walker mecha is eight tons, plus weapons, ammunition and armor... this number has to be doubled. The power of this mist vine is too exaggerated." Thirty-three said as he swung his right hand forward. Suddenly, dozens of black flying blades whizzed out and in the blink of an eye they wedged into the mist vines wrapped around the walker mecha.
As he got closer, Sanshisan twisted his wrist again, and the black flying blades that were wedged into the mist vines began to spin at high speed, crushing and cutting the mist vines.
However, the cutting speed of the black flying blade was completely inferior to the growth speed of the mist vine. These dark brown vines seemed to be endless and emerged from the sharp edges of the body. In a blink of an eye, a layer of "vine armor" with a thickness of nearly two meters was wrapped on the surface of the body.
At this time, the original shape of the walker mecha could no longer be seen. It was like a big vine ball with two legs, stumbling towards Ke Lan and the others.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang could burn the vine armor soldiers, but the fog vines wrapped around these walker mechas are even more fire-resistant than the mechas themselves. Even if napalm bombs are thrown at them, the flames will naturally go out when the fuel on them burns out, and they will not cause much .
If they could use fire attacks, the undead crew would have burned down the forest long ago.
"I'm at a loss." Sanshisan glanced at Ke Lan and spread his hands - his ability was to manipulate Nino Alloy, but the heaviest Nino Alloy creations at hand were a few short swords weighing less than ten pounds, which could not cause effective damage to the Mist Vine.
As for the early mass-produced tactical mechas such as the Walkers, there was not a single bit of Nino alloy used in their bodies, and he could not operate these Walker mechas like he remotely controlled Augustus on Alexander.
"Just leave it to Ze Luo." Ke Lan said calmly.
The "two-legged vine ball" that was striding forward the previous second crashed into an invisible barrier the next second. Then, it fell to the ground with a bang as if it was hit by something huge, with its knees sinking nearly half a meter into the mud.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
The hammering did not stop, as if a forging press of hundreds of thousands of tons was hanging over the walker. The invisible hammer, which was enough to crush a car into a discus in an instant, fell on the walker again and again, smashing it into the ground bit by bit.
Just when the walker was about to be completely buried by the soil, something seemed to push it up from the ground. Then, heavy hammers of forging machines appeared on all sides of the body, falling down in all directions without any dead angles. The violent force of space completely unreasonably squeezed the walker and the mist vines wrapped around its body into a cube, and then threw it out with force!
This cube made of metal and vines knocked over four walker mechas at the edge of the open area. Valentina, who was under siege, felt the pressure suddenly reduced. In just two seconds, she knocked over three walkers in succession, making the gap even bigger.
The nozzle on the back of the Blasphemer spurted out a tail flame several meters long, pushing the body out of the gap, going around behind a walker mech that didn't have time to turn around, and then stabbed the heavy armor-piercing sword into the opponent's power cabin with its backhand.
"boom!!!!"
The power reactor was penetrated, and a huge explosion resounded through the forest. Compared to the previous walker whose power reactor was melted by the high temperature and caused a secondary explosion, the explosion of this walker was more violent. The upper body of the entire machine was blown to pieces, and even the external armor on the Blasphemer who was nearby was affected.
This was Valentina's fighting style, just like when she fought other pilots in the arena - clean and decisive, with one blow killing her.
There are also detailed classifications of pilots ' combat styles. According to Chi Hanfeng and Layton, Valentina's combat style should be classified as a "Ranger", which means relying on the high mobility of the aircraft to contain the opponent through medium and long-range shooting, and then quickly approaching the opponent, and then relying on precise and swift melee attacks to finish off the opponent in a very short period of time. After a successful attack, she will immediately flee far away and then look for the next target to attack.
The Blasphemer mech shuttled back and forth between the dozen or so walkers as if it was in an empty space. The heavy armor-piercing swords initially targeted the cockpits, but later when Valentina found that poking the cockpits did not stop the machines from moving, she changed her target to the power cabins. The explosion caused by poking the power cabin directly was no less than a miniature tactical nuclear bomb, enough to completely destroy the upper body of the walker mech... Even if the mist vines wanted to "reshape" the machines, it would take quite some time.
Originally, there were nearly forty walker mechas surrounding Ke Lan and his men, but now the two sides have only been fighting for two minutes, and the only ones who have actually taken action are Valentina, Ze Luo, and an almost negligible number of thirty-three people. At this moment, there are less than ten walkers still standing on the field.
Every Blasphemer chopped down by Valentina would be taken care of by Ze Luo's "10,000-ton Forging Press". No matter how terrifying the growth ability of those mist vines was, after being pressed into a pancake, it would be impossible for the body to stand up again... What made Ke Lan feel a little strange was that these mist vines could obviously abandon the "fragile" walker bodies and gather on their own, even if they gathered into mechas or some other indigenous creatures. It was obviously much better to attack him and others in this state.
The power of these mist vines is far greater than the power that can be squeezed out of the mecha's power reactor. The walkers driven by normal power reactors cannot compare to these walkers "driven" by the mist vines in terms of speed, strength, or flexibility, not to mention the mist vines' super strong self-repair and defense capabilities.
But they can only attach themselves to mechas. When the main structure of the attached body is completely destroyed, these mist vines can no longer restore the body. At most, they can only restore the parts of the skeleton that are still intact. At this moment, there are several damaged mechanical legs on the battlefield, driven by mist vines, chasing the high-speed moving Blasphemer mechas... These mist vines wrapped around the mechanical legs can only restore the original functions of the mechanical legs, but cannot condense into the original torso of the body out of thin air.
"Don't blow up all the walkers, leave one for me to study." Ke Lan shouted to Valentina.
After hearing this, the latter stopped the heavy armor-piercing sword less than half a meter away from the power cabin of a walker mecha. The energy shield on the tip of the sword had already burned the armored shell of the power cabin red. If it moved forward a little more, the tip of the sword would be able to enter the power furnace without any hindrance.
The blasphemer turned the armor-piercing sword in his hand into a horizontal sword, cutting off the opponent's combat dagger, and then kicked the walker mecha towards Ke Lan and the others.
The walker drew a graceful arc in the air, but did not fall heavily to the ground. Instead, it was captured by two invisible big hands and hung in mid-air.
The walker apostle struggled to break free from the two invisible hands, but the two hands only slightly increased their strength, and the shoulders of the walker mecha were directly crushed. A teeth-grinding sound was heard, and the two mechanical arms drooped down directly.
The joints and skeletons were all "comminuted fractures", and these parts could not be repaired by the mist vine.
"Open the cockpit of this mecha." Although Ke Lan already knew that the pilots sitting in the cockpit were not the ones operating these mechas, the necessary confirmation steps were still necessary.
The third invisible giant hand grabbed the cockpit cover that had already been deformed and bulged, and tore it off like tearing a calendar. The scene inside the cockpit was immediately revealed to Ke Lan and others.
A skeleton without a trace of flesh and blood sat in the driver's seat. The remaining space in the cockpit was completely filled with wood fibers. Even in the chest cavity of the pilot's skeleton, there was no space left - these wood fibers did not seem to have grown out at all, but instead seemed to have been poured in like cement.
The control panel of the cockpit was pitch black, and the control system of the mecha had long been scrapped... There was no doubt that the operator of this mecha was the fog vines wrapped around it, and the power of the mecha was also provided by these fog vines.
As for why Wu Teng cannot create a mecha out of thin air and has to rely on these human creations, it will not be clear in a short time.
But this is not important... If Gray Mist Forest wants to launch an attack on Ke Lan and his team, they must rely on these things, then the most they have to face is only a hundred walkers plus some mechanical exoskeletons and tank armored vehicles...
Wait a minute!
Ke Lan suddenly shuddered, and an indescribable feeling of palpitations arose spontaneously.
He subconsciously looked up at the sky obscured by the dense tree canopy - what was destroyed in this forest were not only mechas and tanks... but also two real warships!
