Blood-Red Dusk

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Outer armor damaged. Overall damage: 11%!"

"Alarm! The mech's neural conduits have been damaged. Overall neural transmission speed reduced by 8%!"

"Alarm..."

The various alarms blaring inside the cockpit gave Chen Guanglie a splitting headache. He had never expected there to be so many Proud Worms.

If he had known so many "giants" would appear, he would have run away long ago.

But now, he was hopelessly trapped.

"Get lost!"

"Don't come over!"

"I can't kill them all! There are too many!"

Proud Worms crawled all over the feet of the jade-green mech with black patterns. Although the mech fired wildly, it couldn't cover everything at once and was soon overwhelmed by the hordes of Proud Worms, which forced it to the ground.

At that moment, through the panoramic window, Chen Guanglie saw bizarre human faces plastered against the glass, staring straight at him.

Then a Proud Worm twisted its head. Its rear skull split open, revealing a set of mouthparts. Large and small mouthparts alike began gnawing at the panoramic window.

The shocking cracks spreading across the glass made Chen Guanglie's heart pound.

"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?"

"I don't want to die here."

"Zhou Chang—right, Zhou Chang, come save me!"

Only then did Chen Guanglie remember that he had shut off the communications channel earlier.

He fumbled to turn it back on, but an alarm suddenly sounded.

"Communications system malfunction. External communications unavailable!"

"Damn it!"

Chen Guanglie shouted, then went to activate the emergency escape system. The computer, however, informed him that the escape pod's hatch was jammed. The escape function could not be activated until the malfunction was fixed.

"No!"

"No!"

Chen Guanglie frantically slapped the control console. "Open! Open!"

At that moment, the panoramic window made a