In the cockpit of Knight Paladin, Fu Haoran pulled off the nerve connection headband, and a cold mechanical prompt sounded in his ears instantly.
JARVIS: "The neural connection is completed, the synchronization rate is 92%, and the entire mecha system is on standby."
Fu Haoran Hold the left and right joysticks and exert slight force on your fingertips.
On the ruins of Capitol Building, Charlie looked at the steel behemoth in front of him. There was no fear in his scarlet eyes, but instead he was filled with fighting spirit.
However, it did not act rashly.
Charlie knows very well that he is a body of flesh and blood after all. Even if he is a body of steel, he is still afraid of hot weapons.
Charlie is very clear about his own advantages, which are his agility and precise throwing.
The dense buildings in the city are the best bunkers for Charlie.
"Head-on confrontation? No, that's something only a fool would do."
"As long as I use buildings as cover and my calculations, I have plenty of ways to kill these armored vehicles in the city."
Charlie knows that in street fighting, armored vehicles cannot exert their advantages. Instead, they will become living targets due to blind spots in their field of vision.
As for the natural "fighter", it is indeed a bit troublesome, but the opponent's machine cannon only made Charlie feel some pain. The strengthening effect brought by the mutated potion not only made Charlie bigger, but also grew a thick layer of horny hard armor on its back and shoulders, just like a natural Flak Armour plate.
Ordinary machine gun bullets hitting it will leave shallow dents at most and cannot break the defense at all.
Because of this, Charlie always feels hungry.
Of course, Charlie is very aware of human weaknesses.
The good media has already arrived with helicopters. Charlie is fully capable of shooting them down, but Charlie did not do so.
"I don't believe you dare to open fire on a building in public."
Fu Haoran Looking at the media who thought the matter was not big enough, they could only stop some deployments.
Using heavy weapons covertly and being seen to do so are two different things.
The former can refuse to admit it, but the latter needs to face a lot of trouble.
As for the knight mecha... don't worry about something that's too sci-fi. Just leave the blame to the government. No one believes that a militia organization can build it anyway.
No one would take the risk to claim a damaged armored tank, but there are many institutions and organizations willing to claim a 12-meter mech that was damaged in battle.
As a result, Fellblade Super-heavy Tank, Leman Russ Battle Tank and even Chimera Armored Transport in the square evacuated one after another.
If the giant Charlie hadn't appeared, they should have "disappeared" after capturing the city.
The Valkyrie gunboat is also helpless. Although it is not too super class, the reason why Valkyrie is called a gunboat is because it cannot carry too many missiles. Warhammer World is also not popular because of its relatively "backward" missile technology content.
So now, the war situation has entered a seemingly absurd and helpless stage of primitive melee combat.
"You think you can beat me by building an iron shell?!"
Charlie let out a deafening roar and beat his chest hard with both fists. The black horny armor on his back and shoulders bulged, glowing like steel armor in the setting sun. It grabbed a load-bearing steel beam as thick as a bowl, kicked off the ground with both feet, gravel flew, and rushed towards the knight mecha with great force.
Fu Haoran pulled the joystick, the Paladin mecha leaned forward slightly, and the giant Chainsword in its left hand started at full power. The high-speed rotating sawtooth cut through the air and made a harsh buzz.
Clang--!
The steel beam collided with Chainsword hard, and Mars flew everywhere. The entire steel beam was instantly split into two pieces by the saw teeth, and the broken steel flew out with a whistling sound, and penetrated deeply into the wall next to it.
Charlie used the momentum to change direction suddenly, gave up the frontal force, and punched the side armor of the mecha with a backhand. The huge impact caused the thirteen-meter-tall mecha to shake slightly. Fu Haoran in the cockpit paused with his fingertips and reacted immediately.
This beast had no intention of facing off head-on, and the swooping attack just now was all a feint.
Fu Haoran pulled the joystick, and the mecha's right arm Rapid-fire Battle Cannon instantly lifted up, firing three cannons at close range. Charlie had already predicted it, jumped up, stepped on the mecha's shoulder armor, and jumped away. The cannonballs grazed the soles of its feet and exploded, sending rubble flying all over the sky.
But it was still half a beat too slow.
Chainsword swept across it, splitting the horny armor on its shoulder directly, opening a wound deep enough to show the bone, and black-red blood spurted all over the floor.
"Ho--!"
Charlie let out an angry roar, but showed no sign of fighting. Taking advantage of the momentum of landing, it jumped up suddenly, stepped on the ruins of Capitol Building, jumped into the nearby office buildings, and disappeared in the cracks of the buildings in an instant.
Fu Haoran didn't give it a chance to breathe. The mecha's muzzle turned, and the rapid-fire shells chased Charlie's figure and covered it. A shell accurately grazed its back, exploding its outer layer of horny hard armor, and splashed a large amount of flesh and blood.
Charlie endured the severe pain and pressed his body close to the building. After a few turns, he hid behind the load-bearing wall of the office building and completely disappeared from sight.
Inside the building, Charlie was leaning against the cold wall, staring intently at the mecha downstairs, his scarlet eyes full of violence, but extremely sober.
Even if it's hard on the front, it can't break through the armor of this iron shell.
But this is Washington, its home field.
The building is densely packed, the space is narrow, and the mecha is so big that it cannot turn around, so it becomes a living target if you chase it in.
It dug its claws into the wall, grabbed a scrapped SUV parked downstairs, and smashed it towards the mecha's observation window. The SUV exploded into a ball of fire in the air, and thick smoke instantly enveloped the mecha's front view.
Immediately afterwards, it crashed into a three-story building next to it, and rubble and steel bars instantly blocked the main path of the mecha.
It will consume Fu Haoran.
Fu Haoran twitched his lips and had no intention of chasing after him.
The thirteen-meter-tall knight mecha is a living target in the narrow buildings. He would only be crazy to follow an orangutan in a street fight.
"JARVIS, connect all Valkyrie gunships, scan the whole area Auspex, lock the life signal of Charlie, and predict its movement route."
"Poison Blade, Leman Russ formation, evacuate to a hidden point on the outskirts of the city, and block all the main roads going south out of the city. If it dares to show its head, it will be covered by direct firepower."
As soon as the order was issued, the three Valkyrie gunships immediately raised their altitude, and infrared scanning covered the entire block. Charlie's body temperature, heartbeat, and movement trajectory were synchronized to the cockpit screen in real time.
In the office building, Charlie is moving south quickly under the cover of the wall.
It has already planned a complete escape route in its mind: pass through the South District of Congress, go south along Interstate 95, and get into the Amazon rainforest. As long as you give it enough time and rely on the effect of the mutation potion, it can grow into a real rainforest overlord.
When the time comes, if we continue to seduce a group of brain-dead humans who are extremely animal-protective, there will be a good chance of killing Washington.
It has even begun to imagine that it will lead tens of thousands of giant apes to conquer White House again.
Just as it was about to pass through the gap between two office buildings, the reinforced concrete wall beside it suddenly burst.
Debris flew everywhere.
Knight Paladin went directly through the wall, and the giant Chainsword in its left hand stabbed hard towards its chest with great force.
Charlie's pupils shrank suddenly, and the blood all over his body instantly went cold.
How is that possible?!
It obviously went around three blocks and changed directions four times. How could this iron shell be waiting here in advance?
It wanted to hide, but it was too late.
The high-speed rotating Chainsword instantly broke through the horny armor on its chest and penetrated its entire body. The cold saw teeth directly crushed its internal organs and ribs.
The severe pain caused Charlie to let out a heart-rending roar. It struggled wildly, and its two giant claws scratched the Adamantium Plasteel armor of the mecha. Its nails were ground to pieces, leaving only a few shallow white marks on the armor.
It hugged Chainsword like crazy, broke off the secondary cannon on the side of the mecha with its other hand, and smashed the broken barrel toward the cockpit.
With a loud bang, the gun barrel hit the cockpit's observation window, and cracks spread instantly.
Fu Haoran's eyes turned cold and he pulled the joystick.
Chainsword stopped turning, and the mecha's arm suddenly lifted up, directly lifting the twelve-meter-high Charlie into the air.
Charlie's body hung in the air, coughing black blood from his mouth, his scarlet eyes staring in the direction of the cockpit, his voice hoarse and unwilling:
"Why... why can you humans step on the weak to ascend to power, breed and slaughter other species in captivity, and write survival of the fittest into textbooks, but I can't do it?!"
"I was just following your example, where did I go wrong?!"
Fu Haoran is not interested in talking to it about big things.
A dead orangutan is a good orangutan.
He turned on the external loudspeaker in the cockpit and said in a calm tone:
"It's okay. After we get down, we'll have plenty of time to think slowly."
Charlie's face instantly twisted, and he wanted to yell and curse something, but Fu Haoran was too lazy to listen.
He pulled the joystick and Chainsword started at full power again.
The high-speed rotating saw teeth directly cut open Charlie from the chest to the top of the head from bottom to top.
Charlie's body stiffened suddenly, his scarlet eyes instantly lost their luster, and his huge body slipped from Chainsword, hitting the ground heavily, completely dead.
[System prompt: The side mission of going to the banquet alone has been completed!]
[Task rewards have been distributed: North American Hive City reputation +3000, free attribute points +5, Universal Points number +5000, Multi-melta (standard drawing) × 1]
[Update on the progress of the main mission of pacifying Disaster of the Sapient Apes: The rebel leader Charlie has been killed, and the core area of Washington has been recovered, and the progress is 95%!]
Fu Haoran looked at the huge corpse of Charlie on the ground, hesitated again and again, and gave up the idea of dragging the corpse back to Yellowstone to do Corpse Starch<i class="icon icon-uniE089"></i><i class="icon icon-uniE023"></i>.
There is no way, the record of counterinsurgency needs to be proven.
The corpse of a giant beast more than ten meters high is more convincing than anything else.
What he didn't know was that this decision would cause him a lot of trouble afterwards.
The battle is over, but the finishing touches and reaping the benefits have just begun.
Fu Haoran arranged evacuation as soon as possible.
There is no way to explain these heavy equipment to Congress and the military, so hiding them is the safest option.
He didn't want people from the Army to be so shy as to borrow equipment and never get it back.
Immediately afterwards, he adjusted the deployment of troops:
"Originally one hundred thousand Planetary Guard, only 20,000 were left to garrison the core area of Washington to maintain order."
"Another 30,000 people participated in the disaster relief as workers."
"But before the remaining 50,000 people leave, they must get some benefits before leaving... Bah, they are to help with disaster relief."
"Everyone was divided into fifty small teams, and under the banner of post-disaster search and rescue and material requisition, they scanned the Washington city for me."
As soon as the order was given, the entire army moved into action.
It's said to be search and rescue, but it's actually an honest zero-dollar purchase.
All the scattered cash and precious metals in the bank branches and Federation reserve vaults destroyed by the orangutans were registered and nominally used for post-war refugee resettlement. In fact, 90% of them were directly loaded onto trucks and brought back to the Yellowstone base.
All unclaimed materials and equipment in shopping malls, warehouses, and industrial raw material yards that had been looted by orangutans were packaged and shipped back to Hive City in the name of "requisition to counter insurgency."
This is called a teacher's reputation.
The supplies here were robbed by the mob and rotted in the ruins. It is better to bring Hive City back to show its value. By the way, it can also gain a good reputation for disaster relief and counterinsurgency, and it is guaranteed to make money without losing money.
At this moment, the electronic sound of JARVIS suddenly sounded:
"Sir, it has been detected that Washington's entire city's power grid has been completely paralyzed. The core substation has been completely destroyed by orangutans, and all high-voltage lines have been broken. It is expected that the power supply will not be restored for at least three weeks. Washington has fallen into anarchy, and the riot index is increasing geometrically."
"Currently, the refrigeration and medical equipment in the refugee camps cannot operate, and the citizens are in panic. Congress has urgently requested help, but no solution has been found yet."
Fu Haoran didn't think much and simply gave the order, "Our car can provide power to the outside. Let's give priority to powering the hospital."
After all this work, the sunset has already set.
Fu Haoran stood on the steps of Capitol Building, looking at the lights in the refugee camp in the distance, and the crisp sound of high heels on the gravel came from behind.
Lucifiel stepped on stilettos and leaned lazily against the broken wall, spinning Phase Sword on her fingertips. She was wearing a long black skirt that outlined her hot curves. She glanced at the refugees in the distance with a hint of playfulness in her tone:
"You obviously could have left, but you decided to stay and take care of Messy Situation. Are you soft-hearted?"
Fu Haoran knows that the other party means that the core strength of the knight mecha and the legion has been exposed. This calculation is indeed not cost-effective.
Fu Haoran looked at the rescued little girl in the distance, waving in his direction, and smiled to himself:
"There's nothing cost-effective. I love scheming, I love pulling wool, and I'm willing to do any dirty work, but I'm not to the point where I can just turn around and walk away while watching a child being eaten alive."
"Conscience is something that is easy to lose but hard to pick up. Keeping it won't stop me from making money."
Lucifiel raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.
At this moment, the roar of the motorcade and the sound of helicopter propellers were heard in the distance.
Jensen General's motorcade arrived first, followed by a large group of media reporters carrying cameras.
Fu Haoran smiled and put out the cigarette in his hand.
When it comes to being famous, just leave it to Jensen.
What he wants is always real benefits.
But he didn't notice that in the shadow of Capitol Building, several people in black suits were holding cameras, looking at Charlie's body, and pressing the shutter frantically.
There is a secret emblem embroidered on their sleeves. It is neither United States military nor a member of Congress, but the famous Triune Biomedical Company.
They looked at Charlie's body as if they were looking at a huge treasure.
"Quickly, collect as many samples as possible. This is an opportunity given to us by God."