Steel Torrent

The process of body fusion was slower than Yu Xiao had imagined.

He felt as if his consciousness was lying in an endless void, a mysterious power grafting things that didn't originally belong to him onto his body.

The Scorpion and Cobra bodies were now completely covered in black fluid, and flickering currents appeared and disappeared around the three mechs.

The entire process was like a spider preying on its victim. The black fluid, like the venom secreted by Xing Tian, slowly digested the two steel bodies and absorbed them into its own.

"Careful!"

Yao Yan's roar pulled Mary's attention away from Xing Tian.

The moment she turned, a dense tide of beasts attacked simultaneously from three directions!

"Open fire!"

Boom, boom, boom!

The heavy mechs on the flanks raised their arms, and their four fifteen-meter-long "Vulcan" Gatling guns roared deafeningly!

Countless bullets flew from the spinning barrels, raining down on the charging beast tide!

Scorching projectiles pierced the monsters' chests, twisting their grotesque flesh into spirals before blasting out through their backs!

Innumerable spent casings cascaded to the ground, rolling to the feet of the steel giants.

If one were to look down from the night sky, the dense bullet trajectories would resemble a curtain of rain!

"Die, you beasts!"

Yao Yan was in a blood frenzy, green beast blood spraying like a fountain before him. The roars of monsters and the sounds of flesh being torn apart mingled.

[Warning, barrel overheating, cooling control initiated, estimated time: 40 seconds]

"Rotate!"

At Yao Yan's command, all the mechs at the front neatly retracted their barrels and stepped back three paces.

The heavy mechs originally in the second row immediately moved through the gaps in the formation to fill the front line.

"Open fire!"

The dense volleys intertwined, once again forming a defensive net with no blind spots.

Meanwhile, protected at the rear of the formation by the heavy mechs, the White Angels immediately began repairing the mechs that had just rotated out!

The original forty-second wait time was reduced to twenty seconds with the help of the White Angels' cryogenic spray guns.

In the distance, Xun Lei's golden eyes were fixed on the scene. He didn't advance further, standing his ground like a commander.

After only four rotations, a small hill of monster corpses had already been piled up in the 120-degree fan-shaped area in front of the squad.

"Roar!"

Just as Yao Yan gave the order for the fifth rotation, Xun Lei let out another roar to the sky!

This gave Yao Yan a faint sense of unease.

Under Xun Lei's roar, the nearly endless beast tide charged once more!

"Continue firing!"

Yao Yan couldn't guess Xun Lei's intentions, but that didn't stop him from continuing the tactic that had proven effective!

But the next second, he noticed a problem.

Some of the beast tide's attack method had changed from charging to leaping!

A new wave of monsters leaped up, stepping on the piles of corpses formed by their companions, attempting to break through the dense firepower from the air!

At the same time, another portion of the monsters still chose to attack from the ground!

"Activate missile array!" This was the only solution Yao Yan could think of. "Maintain formation, retreat at a constant speed for one hundred meters!"

The five heavy mechs in the second row immediately activated their shoulder-mounted missile launchers, unleashing a salvo of missiles at the monsters attacking from the air!

Boom!

Tumbling flames exploded in the air like fireworks. The rain of blood was vaporized by the intense heat before it could even hit the ground!

Corpses that had lost all signs of life were flung out from the flames, some even shattered into charred chunks of meat, hurtling down like meteorites towards Yao Yan and his team!

"Rotate!!"

Yao Yan warned everyone with a volume he had never used before, but the massive chunks of flesh still slammed heavily onto the heavy mechs, throwing them off balance.

Gaps immediately appeared in the torrent of bullets!

"We'll do it!"

In this critical moment, three White Angels unhesitatingly moved to the front line!

Their arms rapidly transformed. The magnetic needles originally used for electrical repairs split in the middle, becoming three stabilizers surrounding the energy emitter.

Zzzzzz!

Three arcs of electricity, each over five meters in diameter, shot out simultaneously from the White Angels' energy emitters.

Instantly, countless wild currents began to conduct madly through the beast tide. In an instant, all the monsters at the forefront fell!

"Fall back!"

At Lava's command, all heavy assault mechs immediately readjusted their formation. The White Angels retreated to the rear once more, and the entire phalanx began to withdraw at the predetermined speed!

As expected, once the distance was re-established, the monsters lost the makeshift ramp of their fallen comrades and could no longer break through the defense line with their leaps!

But Lava knew he was about to face a more difficult situation.

After three White Angels simultaneously used their Electric Shock, their power cores would temporarily decrease in output, rendering them unable to use energy tools, including their Condensing Sprayers, for a period.

This meant the heavy assault mechs would have to endure a forty-second cooldown period.

However, under full firepower, the Vulcan miniguns could only sustain fire for thirty seconds!

Everyone would face a full ten-second firepower vacuum!

Lava's brow was now completely furrowed, his mind racing as he desperately searched for any way to withstand this ten-second void.

He already had an answer in mind, but he stubbornly refused to consider it.

Yet, he was out of time.

As the last shell casing hit the ground, all Vulcan miniguns fell silent at that instant!

The scorching gun barrels, the still-spinning rotors, and the faint white smoke yet to dissipate from the muzzles.

"First wave of missiles, fire!"

The mechs, retracting their miniguns, launched their first volley of missiles under Lava's command!

"Second wave of missiles, fire!"

Lava knew very well that missiles would not provide sustained suppression against an endless tide of beasts.

Bang, bang, bang!

The second wave of missiles launched from the shoulders of the mechs that had moved to the front, obliterating the monsters that had already advanced dozens of meters!

The next second, dozens of monsters broke through the crimson flames, charging straight at the mechs despite their scorched bodies!

Buzz!

Two heavy assault mechs raised their arm-mounted chainsaws, their spinning chains etched with sharp teeth!

This was the solution Lava had thought of, but others had also realized it.

To buy ten seconds of vacuum with their lives.

"William! Robin!" Lava shouted their names hoarsely from his cockpit.

The two mechs that had already charged into the beast tide turned back in unison, casting one last glance at the retreating phalanx.

It was their silent farewell.