On the position.
The blast wave scattered the spore cloud hanging over the mountain of corpses and sea of bones. On the street piled with concrete rubble and twisted rebar stood a tank nearly ten meters long and three to five meters wide!
Junk Collector Level 99, crouching behind a blast shelter, widened his amber eyes in disbelief and repeatedly rubbed them with the back of his scaled hand.
"Holy shit?!"
He wasn't the only one shocked. Quit Smoking and Tomato Scrambled Eggs, crouching nearby, were just as stunned.
"A slime mold tank?!"
"What the hell is that thing?!"
It was a tank in the most literal sense.
It had no turret and no tracks. Its pitch-black, sharply angular body looked remarkably futuristic, but the dark-red slime mold crawling over its entire surface and the thick tentacles dragging along the ground made it resemble a centipede carrying a turtle shell.
Chu Guang stood atop a building with his brows tightly furrowed, staring unblinkingly at the monster revealed on the drone feed. The officers around him wore equally astonished expressions.
"...Is that a Human Alliance tank?" Vanus swallowed.
Wearing power armor, Chu Guang took the Gauss rifle from his back and casually asked,
"You've seen one?"
"...I haven't, but it clearly came from the city center."
Chu Guang said nothing. He silently aimed, then pulled the trigger.
An electric arc flashed through the tuning-fork-shaped barrel in an instant. The "Spike" shot out like lightning and struck the tank's frontal armor.
However—
The armor was completely unharmed. Instead, a nearby concrete wall was blasted apart, exposing the steel framework inside.
It hadn't penetrated!
Chu Guang frowned.
The bizarre result gave him the feeling that the "Spike" that had struck the tank at five times the speed of sound hadn't even left a