Demon Sharks, Redback Shrimp, Hammerhead Beasts...
More and more level-three monsters surfaced in the distant waters, like algae multiplying endlessly beneath the sea!
Yu Xiao had run out of ammunition and lost all means of ranged attack. He could only control the three mechs and fight the monsters at close quarters!
"Too many!"
Yu Xiao could already sense that something was wrong. Judging by sheer numbers alone, this attack was already a full-blown "monster tide"!
The monsters gave him no time to think further.
As the Hammerhead Beast let out its first roar into the night sky, the monsters that had already broken the surface all fixed their gazes on the three mechs!
The eerie uniformity sent a chill down Yu Xiao's spine!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Towering waves pounded the rocks along the shallows. Almost in the same instant, every monster charged toward the mechs!
The scene looked like a locust plague sweeping across the land, enough to make anyone's scalp crawl!
The Demon Scorpion was the first to meet the monsters in battle!
For a third-generation mech, killing a level-three monster was no difficult feat.
The Demon Scorpion's arms suddenly transformed. The armor around its wrists folded outward, revealing six miniature turbines.
A surge of power instantly flooded its fists!
When the sixty-meter-tall Redback Shrimp raised its massive pincers, larger than its own head, the Demon Scorpion chose to meet them with its fists!
Bang!
A colossal shock wave, powerful enough to distort the air, sent waves more than ten meters high surging across the sea!
The Redback Shrimp's seemingly indestructible pincers shattered under the Demon Scorpion's punch. The whole thing was as clean and effortless as smashing an egg with a hammer.
The heavily injured Redback Shrimp inevitably staggered backward, but before it had taken more than a few steps, the Demon Scorpion's other massive fist swung straight toward its cylindrical head!
The Redback Shrimp didn't even have time to roar before its head was smashed into its flattened body like a rivet!
Green blood gushed from the cracks in its body like a spring, spilling into the sea.
But this was only the beginning.
The charging monsters showed no sympathy for their fallen comrade. If anything, they grew even more frenzied!
A Hammerhead Beast charged straight at the Demon Scorpion, trampling over the Redback Shrimp's corpse!
The Hammerhead Beast was one of the original forms of the Aggregate Beast that Xingtian had encountered at Xuanse Cangqiong.
The Aggregate Beast's head, hard as a battering ram, had been derived from the genes of the level-three Hammerhead Beast.
But this time, the Hammerhead Beast wasn't facing the outdated first-generation mech Xingtian. It was up against the third-generation Demon Scorpion!
[ G i a n t P i n c e r T h e r m a l C a n n o n a c t i v a t i n g ]
As the system prompt sounded, the Demon Scorpion opened its right hand. Its five fingers, made of high-strength alloy, retracted, revealing the blazing cannon muzzle hidden where the wrist connected to the hand!
"Fire!"
A flash of orange light struck the Hammerhead Beast in the head, blasting its hard skull into a mass of pulp!
The headless Hammerhead Beast finally stopped charging. Like an out-of-control truck, it toppled onto its side on the shallows not far from the Demon Scorpion!
Elsewhere, Cobra had just used its wrist blade to cut off a Redback Shrimp's pincer!
Though Cobra's power wasn't as formidable as the Demon Scorpion's, its "Viper Fang" chemical wrist blade could easily cut through the hide and bones of any level-three monster!
Behind the two third-generation mechs, Xingtian continually used the [Harden] skill to strengthen the Slayer wrist blades on his arms, slicing the vital points of every monster with their sharp edges.
But just three minutes into the battle, Yu Xiao already felt that his processing memory was about to exceed its limit!
The Demon Scorpion was struggling against four monsters at once. Even when it quickly took one down, another would immediately pounce!
Cobra was in even worse shape. Its armor had low physical resistance to begin with, and the severe damage it had taken in the previous battle had greatly reduced its mobility!
Xingtian was in an even more disadvantageous position. The [Harden] skill had a cooldown, so this first-generation mech, already pushed to its limits, could only evade the monsters whenever the skill was unavailable!
All three mechs were currently overloaded, and each faced a complicated situation!
"Machine Soul Synchronization!"
Yu Xiao decided to activate his Machine Soul skill. His memory was almost at its limit anyway, so he might as well kill as many monsters as possible while he was still conscious!
Three blue lights immediately appeared on different parts of the mechs.
The Demon Scorpion's turbine-powered punches were enhanced. All six miniature turbines surpassed their speed limits, doubling the power output of its fists!
Bang!
With its enhanced strength, every punch the Demon Scorpion threw took another monster's life!
Cobra's enhancement went to its power units, which connected the mech's bones, causing a qualitative change in their elasticity and density.
Already a light mech, Cobra became even more agile. Even while surrounded by multiple monsters, it could dodge every attack!
Xingtian's enhancement went to the strength of its Slayer wrist blades. That allowed him to focus on reinforcing his defenses with [Harden], preventing the mech from taking further damage!
One monster after another fell before the three brave mechs. The shallows beneath them had been completely stained green with monster blood!
Yet the monsters kept coming, more and more of them!
At last, with a sound like a snapping guitar string, Yu Xiao's memory crashed.
The effects of Machine Soul Synchronization immediately vanished.
The six miniature turbines on the Demon Scorpion's arms all stopped at once. The waste heat that could no longer be contained burst through the joints in its armor, sending up clouds of white smoke!
As Cobra tried to dodge an attack, it fell from the air. When it attempted to stand, it discovered that all its muscle units had worn out. They creaked under the strain.
Xingtian's giant Slayer blade couldn't cut through the Redback Shrimp's pincer, either. The broken blade spun halfway around in the air before plunging straight into the sand.
A wave of drowsiness swept over Yu Xiao. His brain was warning him to rest at once!
Yu Xiao knew that if he really closed his eyes now, the next time he opened them, he would be back in the hangar at Xuanse Cangqiong.
But even now, Yu Xiao still hadn't seen the unknown monster with an energy level of 5 on the radar—not even though its enormous red dot had filled the entire radar screen!
The earth still trembled. Howling winds and towering waves battered the monsters and mechs along the shallows!
"If this really is a monster tide, why didn't the Alliance get a warning beforehand?" Yu Xiao forced himself to keep his eyes open, his mind racing. "Deep-sea detection devices cover the entire ocean. There's no way a mass migration on this scale could go unnoticed!"
But Yu Xiao had no time to think any further.
The monsters surged onto the shore, stained green with blood, and gradually swallowed up the three fallen mechs.
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