The landing craft hovering above the mech lowered four seemingly slender chains to connect to it.
Soldiers wearing Powered Exoskeleton Powered Armor scrambled aboard the landing craft on the ground, their engines already running.
Zhang Cheng leaped with all his strength toward a point seven or eight meters above him.
He even remembered to shout, "Here I come!"
He sprang out of the crowd, and the Dragon Model mech extended its thick arm at close range, catching him securely.
It delivered him into the newly opened cockpit in its left chest-then the cockpit closed.
[Initiating neural interactive synesthesia-]
Darkness enveloped Zhang Cheng, lifting his consciousness. The armor outside the cockpit sealed shut, cutting off the light from outside, while glowing green indicator lights illuminated him inside the recessed compartment.
One after another, the fully loaded landing craft lifted vertically off the clearing.
But this human force had not been the first to move out. Mechanical constructs were racing through the dense, artificially planted jungle, metal dogs charging at full speed.
The spaceship from afar finally chose its landing site: a small plain covered with neatly maintained grass on the outskirts of the city.
An advanced humanoid municipal robot, its body encased in a blue-and-white silicone shell, was mowing the lawn.
Suddenly, the sunlight beside it was blocked, and a mass of shadow descended over it. The robot quietly switched off the lawn mower in its hands and tilted its head to look at the thing floating overhead. It looked enormous and smooth.
[Municipal landscaping robot has detected an unknown spaceship landing]
Although it did not belong to the armed forces, it submitted a report to the intelligent network. Meanwhile, automated gun turrets stood throughout the distant jungle.
They had already locked onto the spaceship.
The patrolling