After a series of earth-shattering explosions—
On the Command Center screens, a magnificent mushroom cloud filled nearly every corner of the image.
Kunlun's blazing Chain Sword ignited the natural gas inside Gecko's belly and in the air. These alkane gases, indispensable to human daily life, transformed into miniature nuclear bombs at this moment. They frantically reacted with the oxygen in the air, sending up one mushroom cloud after another. Kaiju fragments, dust, and smoke rapidly rose, spreading through the dark, rainy night.
Several nearby mechs were immediately swallowed by flames—especially Kunlun and Shandong. At the center of the blast, they almost instantly lost contact with the Command Center.
"Restore the signal, now!" Jiang Tianzheng ordered urgently.
But no matter what the staff tried, there was still no response from the communicators.
"Tianshan! Luoyang!" Jiang Tianzheng continued, asking the other pilots, "Are you all right? Did you discover anything?"
"I'm fine..." Su Luoxia's coughing voice came through the communicator. "Smoke is getting in through the breach in the cockpit. Visibility is too low. I can't see anything."
In the end, Jiang Tianzheng could only place his hopes on the helicopters circling nearby. The Chinook carrying Sun Zheng Tang was the first to take on the task.
At that moment, Rosen had already closed his eyes. He sat silently in his chair without any reaction, as if he had entered some strange state.
Sun Zheng Tang hurriedly instructed the pilot to descend. The helicopter's searchlight swept through the smoke and dust.
"Rosen?!" Sun Zheng Tang leaned out as well and roared downward.
Should he be calling Mike Kane, or Rosen? Sun Zheng Tang thought. Either way, they were practically the same.
A gust of wind and heavy rain gradually carried away the dust hanging in the air. The helicopter continued circling overhead