Vladivostok Base.
"Attention all personnel! Joint mission! Headquarters under attack by monsters! Cherno Alpha is dispatched immediately to provide support!"
Alarms blared in every corner.
Beneath the colossal, cylindrical mechs, crew members were busy preparing for deployment: nuclear reactor checks, weapons inspections, system checks...
Sasha, with her silver hair, and her equally silver-haired husband Aleksis, carrying synesthetic helmets, quickly crossed the pier and entered the cockpit of the Cherno Alpha.
A moment later.
" Cherno Alpha, ready to go!"
"The mech lifting operation has begun..."
Feeling herself and her mecha slowly rising, Aleksis couldn't help but speak during this brief moment:
" Sasha, what's different about this monster compared to the others? Have they evolved intelligence? They can even use tricks!"
Just now, the Hong Kong government headquarters has attributed the monster's sudden change of direction to a cunning ability that the monster has never displayed before.
This has naturally caused concern among some people.
Aleksis was one of these people.
Sasha simply said in a cold, high-pitched voice, " Cherno Alpha and I are enough to crush any monster!"
She certainly has the right to say that.
As the main pilot, she has killed five monsters in the six years since 2018.
It's important to understand that the Cherno Alpha was only a first-generation mech, outdated and cumbersome.
The monsters have now evolved to the third generation.
The driver deserves much credit for this achievement, especially her as the lead driver.
Faced with his wife's confidence, Aleksis could only shake his head and remain silent.
Sydney base.
The Hansen father and son also boarded their fifth-generation Jaeger— the Striker Eureka.
Father Herc is explaining to his son Chuck the various situations they might encounter in the next few hours and how they should deal with them.
Chuck looked utterly dejected. He couldn't help but say, "Hey! We've already killed seven monsters. I'm not a kid anymore, so can you just shut up, old man?"
PPDC Headquarters.
The atmosphere was very heavy.
Pentecost, who was already Black, turned even darker.
"The monster is still 300 kilometers away from us..."
Two hundred and fifty kilometers...
Each piece of data Tendo Choi reported weighed heavily on his mind.
He touched his nose; it was red and moist. After wiping it away with a handkerchief, he casually took out a pill and swallowed it.
We cannot afford to lose this base!
At this point, all he could do was repeat this seemingly firm but ultimately powerless statement.
Four months ago, PPDC's funding was cut off. Billions of dollars originally intended for the subsequent construction of Striker Eureka, as well as more funds for the operation of the seven sub-bases, were diverted to the Anti-Kaiju Wall project.
The United Nations only agreed to continue providing funding for the operation of the Hong Kong government headquarters, and only for a period of eight months.
In other words, 4
A month later, their project will no longer receive any financial support.
Therefore, he has prepared to shut down all other bases, leaving only headquarters, and then concentrate the remaining three mechs here to execute a crazy plan—
Use nuclear weapons to attack the monster's wormhole, destroy its structure, cause it to collapse, and then sever the connection between the two timelines.
In this plan, the headquarters base, which is the most well-equipped and largest in scale, is a crucial component.
But now it seems that everything hinges on headquarters surviving this monster attack unscathed...
"Sir, the monster is 100 kilometers from the coast, Crimson Typhoon is 76 kilometers from the coast!"
Tendo Choi's voice roused Pentecost from his worries.
"Connect to live footage!"
"Yes!"
With a series of operations, Tendo Choi quickly connected the surveillance footage from various locations to the large screen at the base, including the monster monitoring data transmitted from the helicopter.
On the vast ocean, wherever a giant monster with a long tail passed, the waves churned and steam rose.
It is extremely fast; even the Crimson Typhoon flying in the sky cannot outrun it swimming in the water.
Only an empty helicopter can keep following it.
89 kilometers.
"85 kilometers..."
Tendo Choi read out the parameters on the screen.
The staff at the base weren't too panicked; they simply looked up at the screen.
Suddenly, a young man pointed at a scene and shouted, "Why are there still so many people on the shore?"
Everyone else looked over.
Sure enough, they found a black command vehicle parked under a coastal surveillance camera, with a dozen strange people wearing strange exoskeleton equipment, looking out at the sea through binoculars.
"Is he a monster worshipper?"
"That can't be it, they're carrying machine guns!"
"Are they planning to use machine guns to destroy the monsters?"
"Hurry up and make them leave..."
The unusual activity caught Pentecost's attention.
He pointed to that spot on the screen and said to Tendo Choi, "Send a helicopter to persuade these people to leave."
Tendo Choi made an "OK" gesture to his back and immediately issued instructions to the nearby helicopter.
On the coast.
Zhang Tianyuan held a telescope in his hand, and he could already see the huge monster "rushing" on the sea.
It was charging straight towards him, which was truly awe-inspiring.
The others were also holding binoculars.
Mie Juan looked incredulous. "Is that thing on the sea that looks like it's pushing the waves the monster that invaded this spacetime?"
Zhang Tianyuan nodded, but before he could speak, he heard a whooshing sound.
A helicopter flew straight over:
"You are currently in a danger zone. A monster is about to land. Please leave immediately!"
The situation was urgent, and the helicopter pilot couldn't worry about the fact that these people were carrying firearms.
However, Zhang Tianyuan and the others waved to the helicopter, showing no intention of obeying.
The helicopter called out several more times, but seeing that Zhang Tianyuan and his group showed no sign of leaving, it had no choice but to...
Abandon the mission and leave on your own.
"The target is unwilling to heed advice." At PPDC headquarters, Tendo Choi briefly reported the result of the persuasion to his superior.
"Then forget it."
No one can protect someone who's always courting death.
But as Pentecost looked at the exoskeletons of Zhang Tianyuan and his group on the screen, the same doubts arose in his mind as Hannibal's.
Where did these people get their equipment?
The Crimson Typhoon.
There are still people on the shore!
The eldest brother Wei Chang, spotted Zhang Tianyuan and his group at a glance.
"We're too late." Wei Jin, the second brother, estimated the distance between himself and the monster; the monster had already overtaken them by several kilometers.
"They'll be trampled to death by the monster before we get there!"
"Damn it!" Wei Hu, the third brother, cursed, unwilling to accept defeat.
He stared at the monster's figure ahead, his eyes bloodshot.
When he first met with the monster, he requested permission to use a descent attack to smash the monster to death.
However, headquarters rejected his request, citing that the mechs were not well-suited for deep-sea combat.
Now he can only watch as the monster ravages his homeland...
roar!
Amidst a deafening roar, the Scunner walked onto the shore, its massive body almost entirely exposed to the air.
Its body shape resembles that of a crocodile. It is not tall, only about 40 or 50 meters when it raises its head, but its body is extremely long and its tail is thick and powerful, covered with barbs.
As it crawls on all fours, each step it takes stirs up a foul stench, and its long tongue protrudes from its wide-open mouth, covered with barbs that resemble thorns.
This is the origin of its codename " The Scunner ".
Thump!
Thump!
Mie Juan and the others trembled with fear as the Scunner drew ever closer.
They suddenly remembered what President Zhang had once said about the giant mechs, and suddenly understood the significance of building those giant robots.
This is an opponent that humanity itself cannot defeat!
To defeat them, we must create our own "monsters"!
roar!
The Scunner spotted the little dessert on the shore at a glance and instinctively let out a roar.
This was not its original destination.
It came following the instructions of its Precursors.
This is because there is energy interfering with the frequency of the wormhole.
The Scunner's simplistic thinking cannot comprehend the meaning of wormhole frequencies; it only knows—
The Precursors are going to make a scene here!
It would be best to destroy all the nests of these little insects!
However, you can have a few desserts beforehand.
The Scunner flicked his tongue rapidly at the group of people on the shore, like a frog hunting its prey.
Shatterdome.
Those who witnessed this scene on the surveillance camera couldn't help but close their eyes.
They couldn't just stand by and watch others die a horrible death at the hands of the monster.
Pentecost also turned his head slightly, then turned back a few seconds later.
Then he looked at the screen again and was stunned.
It's gone!
It's not that people disappeared.
Instead...
The monster has disappeared!
Where is my monster?
I'm such a big monster?!