Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 448 SP-No.61
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"It's a brand new SP-type variant..." The speaker was a man wearing dark gray power armor with a DAS armband hanging under his shoulder armor. "If no other new SP has been recorded in the past few days... its number should be 61."
"Is this also a seed of erosion?" The soldier was stunned and accidentally looked into the eyes of a human face in the abdomen of the "centipede"... Before he could react to what happened, the screams and howls of hundreds of people sounded deep in his mind!
"Ah... my head... seems to be splitting apart!" The soldier covered his head and squatted down with a look of pain on his face. "My head hurts so much! It seems... it seems like there are many people screaming in my head..."
"Don't look directly at those faces!" the security agent shouted again, "It can launch a mental attack on the target through the sight of those 'human faces'. This attack method cannot be defended!"
"Then what should we do?" The officer turned his head and asked loudly, "How can we fight it if we can't even look at it?"
"Just don't focus on those people's faces!" the security agent replied, holding a heavy machine gun and continuously pouring ammunition at the monster.
It was unknown how long it took for the voices in the soldier's mind to gradually fade away, but even so, some of the echoes still echoed in his ears. He shook his head vigorously, looking a little dazed. He tried to get up from the ground, but found that his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand at all.
At this moment, a strong hand grabbed his shoulder, lifted him up, and then patted his back hard.
The owner of the hand yelled into the soldier's ear: "How are you? Can you still fight?!"
This voice... seems to be his superior... The soldier thought dazedly, then nodded.
"Remember! Don't look at the 'human face' on that thing! Never look at them! Focus your attention somewhere else!" the officer shouted while helping him pick up the sniper rifle that had fallen on the ground.
The soldier took the sniper rifle and subconsciously aimed it at the huge monster not far away, pulling the trigger repeatedly.
"Bang! Bang! — Bang!"
The remaining three bullets in the sniper rifle's magazine were quickly used up, but the soldier did not seem to realize this problem . He still pulled the trigger mechanically, and a "click, click" sound continued to come from the barrel.
His shooting habit was to shoot two shots in a row, the first shot incapacitating the target, and the second shot killing him. Even in this situation, his fingers still retained this muscle memory, and after pulling the trigger twice in a row, he would pause for a moment, and then pull the trigger twice more...
"Tick, tick, tick, tick..."
At this moment, a humanoid mecha climbed up the wall using its hands and feet, placed a shield across its body, and rushed towards the monster at full speed, firing the missiles and shells on its shoulders and back while rushing.
There were constant flashes of explosions on the monster's body, and many human faces were blown into bloody pieces, but soon, new faces would "squeeze" out of the monster's body to replace those destroyed faces.
The mecha was less than ten meters away from the monster. Two more steps forward would be a broken wall and a bottomless pit - the pilot operating the mecha suddenly threw away the shield in his hand, shouting at the surrounding soldiers to "get out of the way". The next second, the six thruster nozzles on the back of the mecha spewed out several meters long blue flames, instantly burning two circles of black marks on the wall behind it.
The entire mecha suddenly leaped into the air, and three grappling hooks shot out from its left arm, hitting the "centipede"'s head. Its right hand then pulled out the combat saber that had been hidden behind the shield. The blade of the saber had been heated to the limit, emitting a blazing white light that was difficult to look at directly.
The sharp claws at the front of the hook opened instantly after piercing the monster's body. Almost at the same time, the hook began to shrink, pulling the body and accelerating towards the monster!
Only ace pilots serving in elite troops would dare to perform such operations in actual combat.
"Go to hell!" The pilot's roar resounded throughout the battlefield. He swung his saber hard and chopped at the monster!
"laugh--"
With a smell of burnt protein, most of the blade emitting white light was sunk into the monster's body. The mecha instantly changed to grabbing the handle with both hands, releasing the hook line, and pulling it down suddenly with the help of gravity and inertia. The saber immediately tore a large gash more than three meters long with a charred edge on the monster's body.
But before the soldiers could cheer, the charred tissues fell off like molting skin, and countless pink granulations squirmed and grew out, about to block the incision.
The mecha raised its head, and the Vulcan cannons installed on both sides of the main monitor swept directly into the incision -
It was not known whether it was an auditory hallucination or an echo that had not yet dissipated, but when the bullet entered the incision, the soldier holding the sniper rifle seemed to faintly hear a series of screams...
Due to its size, the six-meter-class humanoid mecha was equipped with a 12.7mm caliber Vulcan cannon on its head. The ammunition reserve for this emergency weapon was also very limited. After a short while, the pilot had emptied the ammunition of the Vulcan cannon.
However, the effect of this sweeping attack was very significant. The incision was covered in blood and flesh, the granulation tissue stopped growing, and streams of blood mixed with pus continuously spurted out from the cross-section of the tissue. Even the faces of those close to the incision closed their eyes.
"Conventional ammunition can cause damage to the target at close range!" the security agent shouted, "Everyone, concentrate your fire on the faces in the monster's belly! They are very fragile! Just like the human body!"
"Is it similar to the human body?" The soldier repeated the sentence in some confusion. If the body strength of this giant monster is similar to that of humans, then how did it break through the hard rock and drill out from the ground?
Just as he was thinking this, the mecha driven by the ace pilot had already started the second round of attack - he fired the grappling hook again, swinging the mecha to the other side of the incision.
But just when he was about to stab the monster with the saber again, a pair of hands covered with pus, blood and mucus tightly grasped the blade!
It was a human... or rather, something that looked like a human. Its upper body, including the head, arms, and torso were exactly the same as those of a human. Below the waist, it was connected to a thick tentacle - just like the monster with a snake tail and a human body in the legends of the old era... except that it had no scales on its body. Instead, it had a layer of mucus like amniotic fluid.
