Proximity to Water, First to Get the Moon

The battlefield was filled with smoke, the pungent smell of burning and blood mixing together, drilling into one's nostrils like a living parasite, making one feel nauseous.

Crimson Typhoon's arm, severed by a grenade launcher, sparked with electricity. As it walked, parts occasionally fell off, hitting the ground, kicking up dust and shattering bricks and stones.

Cherno Alpha's steel fists slowly opened, then rapidly closed. Immediately after, like a gorilla, it slammed its fists together, displaying its formidable power.

Then, it took a huge stride and charged towards Fist Scorpion, which was also swinging its fists.

Eureka Striker, currently the most powerful mecha on the battlefield, directly charged towards Flowing Blade, which moved like a swimming dragon or snake.

The sharp spike on Flowing Blade's head, like a blade tip, rushed straight at him. But Eureka's reaction speed was extremely fast. With a powerful right hook, it knocked this attack aside. The spike pierced through its upper right shoulder.

Cherno Alpha directly swung its double fists and smashed them onto the head of Fist Scorpion, which was trying to land a hook.

Crimson Typhoon followed closely behind. Its remaining two arms immediately deployed the Thunder Cloud Array. Alloy blades flashed out instantly. Within seconds, they spun to their maximum speed, slashing across the monster Fist Scorpion's body, leaving long blue bloody trails.

The one-sided slaughter on the ground continued.

Quan Tiehua's large hand directly pierced through little idiot's facial features, grabbing it like a bowling ball. In an instant, he ripped it out along with the spine and then smashed it towards another little idiot still charging in the distance.

This scene was clearly seen by everyone watching the footage. These almost brutal and impactful actions shocked everyone's hearts.

On-site, the remaining over 200 little idiots witnessed this brutal scene firsthand. Some who were close even had their faces covered in blood.

Looking at the battlefield of monsters and mechas fighting a few kilometers away, and then looking here at the Ironclads still approaching and slaughtering him.

The fear in their hearts finally overwhelmed the frenzy brought on by the drugs. Everyone instantly broke down and cried, dropping their weapons to the ground.

They turned to flee, but the escape route had already been sealed!

Quilstein excitedly collected the severed heads that were intact and had the Tech-Sergeant find some steel bars to weld onto the back of his Power Armour.

Just like the World Eaters, he hung these heads high!

He even took out some bottles and jars, and put minced meat and various blood mud from the corpses into them.

The genes within these skulls and flesh, which were purer than those from the Imperium, would definitely interest those mechanics back in the Imperium.

If he were to make servitor skulls... they would be better than the heads from the Loyalist Academy anyway.

Low-key and understated, yet not lacking in luxury; Ancestor-selected, the first choice!

All the warriors twitched at the corners of their mouths at this somewhat heretical behavior and attire. But when they saw Quan Tiehua, like a child, treating a head like a soccer ball, they were momentarily speechless.

"Let's go!" Quan Tiehua said, giving a powerful kick. However, the head didn't fly as expected; instead, it shattered into eight pieces.

The battle between monsters and mechas behind them was getting closer. All the brothers quickly packed their belongings.

The two monsters fighting the mechas at this moment, seeing their targets were withdrawing, suddenly became frenzied.

"What happened? Why are they all a bit agitated?"

"Not a bit, definitely."

"I suspect they've been provoked!"

The pilots of the three mechas were communicating with each other. Everyone at Shattered Dome Base also noticed this situation.

Stark Pentecost looked at the scene transmitted by the satellite feed. "Could it be that the targets of these two monsters are really these Ironclads?"

Cai Tiantong was rapidly comparing various data. After a while, he looked up and said, "Sir! The data for the wormhole when these Ironclads appeared is basically consistent with the data for the monster wormholes!"

Stark Pentecost didn't understand technology. Cai Tiantong, accustomed to it, compiled the two sets of data into a simple and easy-to-understand comparison table.

Stark Pentecost looked at the data comparison on the table and finally asked, "Why is their energy level different?"

"This is really difficult to analyze. It's possible that the wormhole technology energy or power source used by these Ironclads is much more advanced than that used by the monsters! For example, the gasoline used by ordinary cars cannot be compared to the gasoline used in the military aviation field."

"Immediately send transport planes to pick them up!" Stark Pentecost looked at the transport planes preparing to fly to a safe zone to land and await orders, and immediately issued a new mission.

As the mission was issued, the transport planes slowly turned and flew towards the Blood Angels who were rapidly withdrawing.

But in the next second, a missile, fired from an unknown location, directly triggered alarms in all the transport plane cockpits.

The transport planes, which had been neatly lined up, instantly scattered like a swarm of mosquitoes and flies being swatted.

At the same time, flares were ejected from both sides of the planes. So many flares converged in one place, causing the missile to instantly collide with them.

The huge explosion and shockwave caused the transport planes, which had not yet fully dispersed, to sway violently, almost crashing into the ground.

Stark Pentecost and the others naturally received this news. "What's going on? Where did this anti-air missile come from?"

Cai Tiantong hurriedly mobilized satellites to check. Finally, he said, "Sir! This anti-air missile was deployed in the field. It's impossible to determine, but this missile is 20 li from the nearest military camp."

"Which military camp? Fusang's?"

"No! Sir! It was fired from Hengtian Base, which means it belongs to the America military."

"Can we confirm the attack came from the America military?"

"I'm very sorry, sir. We all concentrated most of our computing power on the mecha and monster battles. We..."

"Alright, I understand." Stark Pentecost waved his hand with some helplessness, interrupting what he was about to say.

And as it turned out, it was indeed an anti-air missile fired by the America military!

Furthermore, this order was unanimously approved within minutes by several representative senators, including the president.

Because once these transport planes picked up these Ironclads armed with high-tech weaponry and returned to Shattered Dome Base.

Then, for Huaxia, that proverb would be well-proven!

The nearest water source gets the moon first.