Flood and Iron Curtain

"Go, hurry up!" The soldiers from the God Era jokingly urged the prisoners to form a long line and walk towards the snowy plains in the wilderness.

Qing Chen watched all this silently, Kamiyo Yunzhi looked towards the pigsty from the prison area, a slight smile playing on his lips.

He enjoyed watching Qing Chen's powerlessness to change the status quo; no matter how many prisoners he killed, they could only stay obediently in the pigsty.

Kamiyo Yunzhi Qing Chen had stood up at some point and was deep in thought, head down, had no idea what was going on.

Upon arriving at the entrance of A02 Base, the massive gate slowly rose.

This prison, built entirely of black stone walls two meters wide and four meters high, is a small fortress.

Inside is hell, but outside may not be heaven.

The prison's huge searchlights cast white beams of light, and snowflakes drifted in the beams like murky dust.

Kamiyo Yunzhi emphasized to the prisoners, "Remember, I will only give you two hours to escape. This is your most precious chance. Those who escape will live, and those who fail will die!"

The prisoners looked at each other in dismay. In the freezing winter night, with temperatures below minus forty degrees Celsius, they had been running outside for two hours. Leaving aside whether they could escape, they might freeze to death in the snow if no one chased them.

When the soldiers of the Age of Gods catch up with them, they will be faced with unarmed and exhausted opponents.

Therefore, the graduation ceremony at the A02 Base of the God Era was never intended to test the trainees' abilities, but rather to have them slaughter the weak, cut off their heads, and kill the last bit of compassion and humanity in their hearts.

It is said that in another secret base, female spies are specially trained, and their graduation ceremony is performed by soldiers from the Age of Gods who help them erase the last trace of shame.

Such organizations produce intelligence agents who are inherently brutal.

Therefore, in the Outer World, those trained Time Walker don't even want to let Jingūji Maki go.

At this moment, Kamiyo Yunzhi drew his sword from his waist. The sword was adorned with golden tassels, which were symbols of status and position within the Kamishiro Corporation.

He raised his long sword high and shouted, "Begin, slaves!"

The soldiers of the God Era fired their guns into the sky in rows behind the prisoners, and the gunfire startled the prisoners, who ran away in all directions.

Someone whispered, "How many of us will die this time?"

Old Li thought for a moment and said, "We might all die. If Tie Dan wasn't lying to us, then Inspector Qing Chen must have been prepared to leave and that someone would come to rescue him. That's why he ate something out of character to conserve his strength. Shen Dai must also know this. The upcoming battle will destroy this A02 Base, and in order to keep our three thousand men out of sight, he wants to kill us all in advance."

Hearing Old Li say this, many prisoners panicked...

In previous years, at least a considerable number of people would survive the Winter Hunt, but this year it seems that almost everyone will die.

Old Li glanced at the Qing Clan intelligence agents beside him; their faces were solemn yet resolute. He looked at an older one and said, "Hey, Qing Ling, aren't you going to think of a way? Maybe the people who come to rescue him can take you with them."

Qing Ling glanced at Old Li: "Do you have a way to take more than nine hundred people away from here? Where is this? This is the rear of the Kamishiro Corporation. Even if the gods came, they couldn't take us away, so don't think too much. Just die openly and honestly, and don't cause trouble for others."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Old Li said irritably.

Qing Ling led the group forward, saying, "You're not from the Qing family, you wouldn't understand."

This infuriated Old Li: "Are we Li family members inferior to your Qing family? Who are you trying to humiliate?"

As he spoke, he glanced back at the direction of A02 Base. The boy was standing in the pigsty, head down, seemingly lost in thought.

Old Li turned and led the Li family members to flee southwest. For the past nineteen years, he had participated in the Winter Hunt every year and had long since figured out the situation outside.

He is going somewhere.

When Li's intelligence agents realized that Old Li was leading them in the wrong direction, one of them suddenly asked, "Old Li, have you fucking thought this through?"

Old Li said, "I've thought it through."

Inside A02 Base, Kamiyo Yunzhi coldly watched the prisoners escape into the icy wilderness and the dark forest.

Just half an hour later, he said to the 1,600 waiting soldiers of the Age of Gods, "Move out, leave no one alive."

The soldiers of the God Era seemed to have known all along that the departure time would be brought forward, so the soldiers of the three battalions immediately set off in three different directions after receiving the order.

The soldiers, dressed in warm, self-heating uniforms and well-made boots, carrying menacing black automatic rifles, stood in stark contrast to the disheveled prisoners.

This well-trained army could easily kill three thousand unarmed prisoners, let alone double that number.

This is an unequal massacre; the soldiers who emerge from here will lose what is inherently "human" within them.

The most amazing, and also the most despicable, aspect of this people is that they possess sophisticated methods to turn docile sheep into wolves.

Kamiyo Yunzhi slowly walked towards the pigpen, his hand gripping the hilt of the sword at his waist, his posture as proud as that of a victorious general.

He stood outside the pigsty, smiling, and asked, "After tonight, they will all die because of you. How do you feel about that?"

Qing Chen stood in the pigsty, head bowed, and said, "I've been waiting, waiting for the right opportunity."

Kamiyo Yunzhi moment. He suddenly felt a strange emotion envelop him, as if he were not facing a prisoner, but a warrior waiting for the dawn of victory.

However, the other party had clearly already given in.

"I'll wait until you drive the prisoners out of the camp, then I won't be afraid of harming innocent people."

"I'm waiting for you to send the Shindai soldiers to hunt them down, which will leave A02 Base vulnerable..."

Qing Chen's voice grew softer and softer until it was barely audible in the cold wind.

In order to hear what Qing Chen was saying, Kamiyo Yunzhi involuntarily took two steps forward, but quickly stopped.

He smiled and said, "You think you can lure me over there and kill me to vent your anger? Not so easy. And you think the A02 Base is poorly defended? Did you see those 24 Metal Storm robots on that black wall? They've already locked onto your vital signs. The moment you step out of that pigpen, they'll open fire. And these 24 'Amaterasu-1' war robots, each one is comparable to a **-level gene warrior!"

Kamiyo Yunzhi continued, "Of course, you're bound by shackles, so you can't get out of the pigsty either."

At that very moment, Qing Chen looked up with a smile, "Is that so?"

Suddenly, the sound of metal shackles falling off came from the pigsty, and the chains fell into the mud.

Kamiyo Yunzhi was startled. Before he could react, all of Qing Chen's shackles had been removed!

It was only then that Kamiyo Yunzhi noticed that Qing Chen had a black pinky ring on his finger.

In North American legend, the pinky ring, known as "Power," can open all doors in the world.

But this description is inaccurate, because it can also open all the locks in the world!

Qing Chen calmly said, "Although I had good grades when I was in school, I couldn't really understand the true meaning of those poems when I read them. But when I spent seven dark days in Osaka, I somehow remembered Xin Qiji's line, 'In my drunken stupor, I pick up my sword by lamplight; in my dreams, I hear the bugles of the camp; eight hundred miles of roasted meat are distributed among my troops; fifty strings of music echo beyond the border.' For some reason, I felt a surge of heroic spirit."

Kamiyo Yunzhi didn't know why Qing Chen was saying such nonsensical things. He retreated step by step in fear, his face contorted with rage, and said, "I advise you not to come out. Don't seek your own death."

Qing Chen suddenly asked, "I promised Wang Yuchao and Zhao Mingke that they would be reborn in a peaceful era where the weak would no longer be bullied. Perhaps they will be reincarnated soon, so I need to hurry."

Kamiyo Yunzhi, "War robot, seize him!"

Qing Chen rubbed his wrist and smiled, "One."

But then the 24 Amaterasu-1 war robots simultaneously turned to look at Kamiyo Yunzhi: "I'm here."

In that instant, Kamiyo Yunzhi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, his whole body chilled to the bone!

How could these 24 war robots, which he had worked so hard to obtain, suddenly obey Qing Chen's orders?

The next moment, Qing Chen was no longer as listless as before. Instead, he suddenly leaped out of the pigpen and Kamiyo Yunzhi.

However, between him and Kamiyo Yunzhi, there were still 24 Metal Storms.

Although One managed to gain control of 24 war robots from the outside, this Metal Storm belonged to the independent military defense system of the A02 Secret Military Base. They were controlled by cables and could not be compromised by any wireless network.

There is no way to take control of them unless you physically connect them to the network.

Just then, an electric hissing sound began to emanate from the metal storm on the black wall, and the six gun barrels began to spin rapidly.

Heavy firepower weapons with a rate of fire of 3,600 rounds per minute make bullets flow like a river or waterfall.

In the history of the Federation, humanity once invented a metal storm with a million bullets per minute. However, people eventually discovered that when conducting frontal battlefield coverage, a million bullets per minute was even more expensive than electromagnetic cannons, and ineffective shots would account for more than 99% of the firepower.

In fact, 3600 metal storms per minute is already the optimal solution.

With a single ammunition load, it is sufficient to achieve full coverage within a range of 4,500 meters.

In the darkness, a torrent of metal bullets stretched out a curtain, covering the entire square outside the prison area.

But something astonishing happened: the 24 black-bodied war robots ingeniously formed a black iron curtain, blocking the torrent of metal outside.

Using the most powerful computing capabilities, they moved with Qing Chen, yet were always positioned above the trajectory of the metal storm.

Like 24 heroic men who sacrificed themselves to support the sky!

The bullets clanged as they hit the war robots, leaving their alloy armor riddled with holes and uneven.

The hydraulic transmission device of the war robot was broken, and the blue liquid in the hydraulic pipes flowed onto the snow, but the war robot still persisted, limping and guarding Qing Chen's side.

A war droid's mechanical eye was hit, but the war droid was still able to share its field of vision with other war droids.

When the alloy armor on the chest of a war robot was shattered by the torrent of metal, it immediately turned around and walked backward with difficulty, using its back armor to withstand the impact.

The devastating power of the twenty-four "Cloudfall-Type" metal storms was actually held back by these twenty-four war machines.

Their tilted postures are like warriors fighting floods, protecting Qing Chen as he quickly swims upstream!

That indestructible, alloy body that the gods were most proud of had now become Qing Chen's most solid mobile fortress!

These war robots protect Qing Chen regardless of the cost or the damage they cause!

Yi didn't need to communicate with Qing Chen. That tacit understanding was the result of two of the most calculating "people" in the world working together to break through. There was only one optimal solution in the world, so they knew what choices the other would make.

There is only one option.

Kamiyo Yunzhi a madman, feeling fear despite being protected by such powerful firepower.

He only felt that he might die tonight!

However, in the next moment, Qing Chen silently counted in his mind: 10, 9, 8, 7... 3, 2, 1!

This is the attack interval of the Cloudfall-Type metal storm. Even the most powerful mechanical thermal weapons in the world must take into account the issues of cooling and reloading.

Even the most powerful coolant has a limited specific heat capacity. Therefore, in order to ensure that the mechanical parts do not overheat, each Electromagnetic Metal Storm is designed with an optimal time for changing the coolant and magazine.

There are 5 seconds every minute.

The moment Qing Chen's countdown ended, the 24 Metal Storms were firing in a crisscross pattern. So while two Metal Storms went into cooldown, the remaining 22 Metal Storms were still spewing flames.

But for Qing Chen and Yi, that was enough.

With two units stopped, a flaw appeared in the originally designed coverage trajectory.

Qing Chen felt as if he had returned to Prison No. 18, where the metal storm in the sky poured down rain, but not a single drop of rain fell on him.

Such incredible calculations were not difficult for Qing Chen and Yi!

Right there in this torrent of metal.

The moment Qing Chen finished counting down.

The 24 war robots suddenly changed formation. 23 of them formed a new Iron Curtain on the verge of destruction, while the last one, together with Qing Chen, navigated the gaps in the ballistic trajectory of the metal torrent and rushed into the interior of the A02 Secret Military Base.

But the moment the last war robot rushed into the building, it inserted its finger into a circuit.

0.1 seconds later, the external metallic storm ceased firing, and the black gun barrels, like the heads of wild beasts, drooped down.

It is precisely this bowed head that symbolizes the complete subjugation of the A02 Base's independent military network.

Qing Chen looked at it and said, "There are still 180 soldiers on duty inside the base. Kamiyo Yunzhi heading to the underground temporary shelter. I can open the alloy gate of the shelter for you, but I promised my father I wouldn't kill anyone."

"Thanks."

There will be another chapter at 11 PM.