Kuerla Demonstrating Selling Points

An earth-shattering roar kicked up a massive cloud of dust like a missile explosion, its sound shaking the earth for miles.

But soon, the thruster exhaust of the Titan units swallowed the dust. In the clear view, the giant serpent's head burst apart, yet its massive body still twitched amidst the scorched earth, making a futile and pointless final resistance against death—this scene was projected into the eyes of all executors.

"Hiss, this Colonel Kuerla has unexpected pluck."

"Military talent, eh? Tsk tsk, Cocolia really has more good things than expected."

"The previous executor representing the military recently passed away from illness..."

"Still not enough, but she is a talent worth looking forward to."

Through Cocolia's sharing, Kuerla heard the high praise the executors had for her.

Only, Kuerla had no heart to care right now.

She and her two teammates hovered above the giant serpent's corpse, casually dropping their already crack-riddled greatsword. The greatsword shattered before the corpse of the snake-type Honkai Emperor, yet Kuerla felt no joy of victory, instead gradually frowning.

"Strange?"

"Captain, what is it?"

"The combat situation of each squad is going very smoothly. Although not as efficient as ours, they are also steadily suppressing their respective opponents, and decapitation is just a matter of time."

"Isn't that great, Captain?"

"Too smooth! Compared to the energy intensity of the nearby Emperor-class Honkai Beast we detected, these few Emperors are too weak!"

Kuerla said with unconcealed confusion, subconsciously looking up toward the high sky.

A Titan in the rear scratchily rubbed its head, and the pilot's slightly smug words came through:

"Isn't it because we're too strong?"

"Idiot! That must be the thinking of a romance novelist, it cannot be ours! Right, the blizzard shows no signs of stopping at all, and so far we haven't seen a single Honkai Emperor display the power of low temperature and wind!"

Kuerla looked up amidst the rushing wind and snow, raising the Titan's long-range observation capabilities to the limit, and then, her pupils suddenly shrank.

"Captain! Support squad under attack! Under attack!"

"There is something in the snow!"

"That's not snow! That's—Honkai Beasts!"

Dispersed support squads suddenly sent chaotic words.

And Kuerla saw countless slender, finger-sized Honkai Beasts lingering in the wind and snow, rapidly flapping their wings and swarming through the air. Or rather, manufacturing snow and making up the wind, they were the true body of this blizzard!

"All units, close in on your teammates nearby and activate the Adamant Shield!"

Kuerla only had time to issue such an order.

The next moment, countless white arrows fell down patter-patter like overturned snowflakes, piercing down from high above with terrifying kinetic energy.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Titans numbering five or six at most, or two or three at least, gathered into groups, protecting themselves with blue energy shields. Countless white, slender Honkai Beasts smashed against the shields like successive small cannonballs, while sharp, chittering screams still sounded everywhere.

The Titan vanguard temporarily lost vision.

And unfortunately, a support squad dispersed outside had one unit fail to converge with companions, becoming the sole straggler.

Clang clang clang!

Screaming little Honkai Beasts crashed endlessly against the blue shield.

Because he was alone, Evans Fahandral had to prop up two shields and maintain them with single-unit power supply efficiency. Yet the hardness and impact force of these little Honkai Beasts were unexpectedly strong, and if not for the protection of the shield, it would have been entirely sufficient to pierce the plate armor of Titan BT72. There were simply too many of them, and the continuous strikes rapidly consumed Evans's energy, exceeding the value Anqi could transmit through the Dominion Authority.

"Evans!"

"Captain, I'm fine! Don't mind me, they can't break through, but I can't move for the time being. You guys figure a way to break out first!"

Evans responded loudly to Kuerla's communication.

Yet his expression carried a hint of a sigh, smiling with a relaxed face.

"Hey, BT, how much longer can we hold?"

"According to system calculations, at the current consumption rate, the Adamant Shield will shatter in 23 minutes and 16 seconds. Evans, we must seek a breakthrough and return to the collective."

"When I was forced to land, I took a look. The gathering point closest to us is 13 kilometers away. Usually you could fly there in the blink of an eye, but now... I'm afraid that won't work out."

"Evans, don't give up, I will protect you."

Titan Anqi turned her attention to this Titan, encouraging him with the electronic voice of a deadpan girl.

Kuerla was also thinking of a way.

After a few minutes of observation and thought, Kuerla suddenly opened her eyes wide and said:

"No vision! They have no visual and auditory organs on their bodies, and fundamentally cannot distinguish direction and targets, which is why they have been wandering around high in the air and didn't launch an attack on us at the very beginning—there must be some factor, there must be something guiding them! All units, report the abnormalities you discovered before the attack, do not miss a single trace!"

"Captain, we seem completely normal. Right, the Honkai Beast we attacked suddenly let out a long roar toward the empty sky where there were no mechs, does that count?"

"What a coincidence, our target also roared at the sky!"

"Yeah, ours did too!"

"And so did ours!"

Before the small Honkai Beasts descended from the sky, except for the giant serpent-type Honkai Emperor whose head Kuerla had blown off, all the other Emperors had made roaring sounds toward the sky.

"So, the Honkai Emperors are their eyes and commanders?"

Kuerla guessed. And logically speaking, high-ranking Honkai Beasts commanding low-ranking Honkai Beasts was also a common pattern for Honkai Beast swarms, which was very reasonable.

"For now we can only guess like this..."

"Captain! The Honkai Emperor has launched an attack on us, visually the shield is not going to hold!"

Misfortunes never come singly; one Honkai Emperor after another, surrounded by small Honkai Beasts, launched attacks toward the Titan gathering points closest to them.

Removing the shield, small Honkai Beasts would quickly chisel through the Titan's body. Not removing the shield, movement would be extremely difficult, and it wouldn't take long for the Honkai Emperors to smash the Adamant Shield. In short, the situation was very bad.

In the emergency, Kuerla drew some conclusions through the Titan's calculation system, gritted her teeth, and decisively said:

"Take a gamble! According to calculations, after super-reinforcement of unit strength, we can persist for 6 minutes in the current attack intensity... Analyzing the current distribution of gathering points, the most generous is 8 mechs against 1 enemy, the most difficult is 2 mechs against 1 enemy. The assigned targets have been marked for you, resolve the Honkai Emperor you are responsible for within 6 minutes!"

"I don't know if the previous guess is right, and I don't know what these little things will turn into after the Emperor falls, but there is no choice! Evans stays in place, I will reinforce the squad of 2 mechs against 1 enemy. All other units, enter Quantum Stealth, activate Super Reinforcement—kill!"

"Kill!" ×n

The figures of the white Titans suddenly vanished into thin air, the defenses of one gathering point after another were withdrawn, and all that was sent back to the distance were images of dense, arrow-shaped Honkai Beasts shuttling rapidly.

At this moment, all the gazing executors either leaned forward or stood straight up; although unable to provide support, they felt a sympathetic resonance with the imminent life-and-death crisis.

"Hang in there! Do not die, absolutely!"

Far away in North America, Tesla bit her lip, murmuring anxiously and worriedly.

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Today the sixth person in the office went down. I'm also starting to get a headache and arm pain, feeling a bit dizzy and muddled, not sure if I caught it... Not having nucleic acid tests is really agonizing, nothing is certain. Anyway, I hope nobody goes down tomorrow, there are still tasks, and I'm the only one left who can do this job (bittersweet smile) 4

Chapter 44 Kuerla Demonstrating Selling Points

"Hang in there! Don't lose!"

"Bang!"

Dr. Special Lobster Head Tesla, under the influence of strong emotions, slammed her right hand wearing the mechanical gauntlet straight through the desktop.

Dr. Einstein, sitting right beside her, gave a hand tremor because of this sudden vibration, and the black tea in her cup almost spilled out. She sighed, and in her accustomed, weary deadpan tone, said:

"Dr. Tesla, the table—is very expensive."

"What time is it to be saying this? Did you see? Honkai Beast types that have never appeared, this kind of scale, adding up to even approach Emperor-class energy levels; if they reached the urban area, it would be a horrific massacre!"

"I know. So the Silver Bullet has been deployed and in position, plus Cocolia seems to have other backup plans over there, please rest assured, the situation is under control."

"That's why what I'm worried about is that Titan vanguard! Done for, done for, the distance is too far, Cocolia's Titan Legion is still on the transport road, there is simply no force that can provide support! Ah, damn it, if my Alahato Giant Robot was there, it would be fine!"

Tesla grabbed her head frantically.

Even if the people in the screen were ordinary people, Tesla would find it harrowing, let alone brave warriors belonging to the same organization?

Einstein was silent for a moment, and let out a long sigh:

"Trust them, Dr. Tesla. I think they've long since had this kind of resolve."

Aside from this, they, these executors far away at the ends of the earth, temporarily had no countermeasure either.

"Captain, there's a weak point at the neck, I'll leave it to you!"

The two Titans fighting two-against-one shuttled through the hail of bullets formed by the insect sea, just like being in a surging, chaotic wave, yet they still used all their strength to trip the huge bear-type Honkai Beast, heading toward Kuerla who was coming in this direction.

Kuerla manipulated the mecha, a sharp blade extending out from the right arm of the mechanical arms.

"Iron Pilot, according to calculations, amidst the encirclement of small Honkai Beasts, our propulsion force is insufficient to form an effective attack power."

"I know, trust me, BT!"

"Following Protocol Two: Uphold the Mission. Mecha safety limits lifted, extreme propulsion mode initiated. Iron Pilot, I always trust you."

"Me too, BT. We... kill!"

The brief and resolute dialogue was transmitted through the wide-area communication channel to the ears of the team members and the distant executors, making everyone's heart tighten.

"Clang!"

The arm blade parted the bodies of countless insect-type Honkai Beasts, plunging straight and precisely into the lower neck of the bear-type Honkai Emperor, passing through that narrow fur-free area without armor protection, and sinking deeply into the giant bear's body.

"Roar!"

The giant bear roared and struggled, knocking away the other two Titans that had been struggling to control it, and frantically whipped around in the air with Kuerla's Titan.

"It's over!"

"No one-hit kill!"

"Captain, are you alright?"

"Captain!"

From the two Titans submerged by the swarm, the panicked words of the pilots came over.

Subsequently, through the perspective of Kuerla's Titan, everyone saw Kuerla—wearing a silver-white exoskeleton—jump out of the cockpit, braving the ubiquitous bullet-like small Honkai Beasts, and smash a heavy punch right into the mad giant bear's eye.

"Roar!"

At the moment of its wild roar, Kuerla landed on one of its teeth, grabbed a section of a black cylinder slung across her back, and threw it down its throat.

"Nano Fusion Battery, kid!"

Kuerla let out a soft laugh inside her helmet, leaped up, and jumped onto the Titan's opened palm.

"Iron Pilot, having lost the last fully-energized battery, the mecha can no longer continue to maintain effective protection."

"It's fine, BT, our mission is accomplished."

Kuerla stood casually in the Titan's fist, blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth, while her tone sounded nonchalant.

The communication transmitted the wildly excited shouts of the teammates. Kuerla patted her head, sighed, and said:

"Stop shouting, I'm not dead yet, what are you making a racket for? The rest of the business is left to you guys. BT, block out their voices, they're making my head hurt."

"Iron Pilot, the mission is not yet over."

"Huh?"

"Kuerla, trust me... Execute Protocol Three: Protect the Iron Pilot!"

The Titan spoke thus in its deadpan girl voice, placed Kuerla into the cockpit on its chest, and then, extending the blade on its left arm, abruptly severed its right arm, which had been jammed by the giant bear's fur.

The one-armed Titan was falling.

At the same time, the giant bear's body swelled abruptly, and a muffled, explosive roar split open its massive body, smoke and fire dispersing into the surroundings.

Through the perspective of the two nearby Titans, the final image everyone saw was the one-armed Titan turning its back to the fallen body of the giant bear, facing downward, and being buried by the shattered corpse of the Honkai Emperor.