To the west of the Central Continent, cross the endless sea of radiation, pass through the huge vortex "Gate of the Abyss" that straddles the two continents, and you will reach another continent, the West Continent.
The area of the Western Continent is only one-third the size of Central Continent. During the cataclysm, the Eurasian plate, one of the original six continental plates, split into two. One piece was carried away by turbulent ocean currents and eventually sank deep into the trench. The subsidence of the plate had a huge impact on the ocean currents, and eventually formed a huge vortex abyss door that lasted for decades and has not yet disappeared. The only remaining plate survived and became today's Xizhou Continent.
In the disaster of that year, Rome, the capital of Italy, was fortunately spared serious damage. So the lucky human beings who survived the cataclysm gathered in this city. During the dark period when the order collapsed, the Catholic Church in the Vatican became the spiritual pillar in people's hearts. The church also used all its savings to help the survivors through the dark period. In the end, while helping the survivors regain their faith, the Pope's Hall came into being.
This is the first ruling force in the Western Continent. At the very beginning, the Pope's Hall only existed as a management and scheduling institution. The same is true in Chaochu. Under the unified scheduling of the Pope's Hall, resources have been utilized to the greatest extent. People built a more magnificent underground city under the old site of Rome. This city called New Rome has pinned the hopes of countless people.
In the center of New Rome stands a statue of God that can be seen in any corner of the city. As the only true God of the Catholic Trinity, the benevolent God cares for this new holy city with merciful eyes. This statue is both a symbol of New Rome and the location of the Pope's Hall. Just behind the square where the statue is located is a Baroque church, which is completely modeled after St. Peter's Basilica. It is not only the headquarters of the Pope's Hall, but also an irreplaceable holy place in the hearts of all the people of New Rome.
The twenty years after the Cataclysm were the most glorious golden age of New Rome. The Pope's Hall is committed to the research and development of genetic engineering, trying to improve the physique of the survivors of the catastrophe and solve all the problems left over from their radiation pollution. And with the advent of water purification plants and genetically modified food, survival is no longer an immediate concern.
After that, the first army of the Pope's Hall was formed.
The Knights of the Holy Seal are composed of believers who are full of enthusiasm and have enough focus on the Pope's Hall. They are trained and pledged to give their blood and heart to protect the peace and tranquility of New Rome! With the support of religious beliefs, this army possessed indestructible beliefs. They destroyed several strongholds of mutant beasts and living corpses near New Rome, and made indelible and illustrious military exploits for the expansion of the territory of the Pope Hall.
Five years later, the first generation of power armor "Paladin I" came out. This is a heavy machine using hydraulic machines and titanium armor. It is undeniable that the Paladin armor has unparalleled powerful firepower. Therefore, after it was put into use, it also became the trump card of the Holy Seal Knights.
If everything develops as usual, New Rome may become a paradise like the Garden of Eden. But just fifteen years ago, General Sauron, the head of the Knights of the Holy Seal, launched a rebellion, removed the then Pope Paul V in one fell swoop, and pushed Paul VI, who was only 5 years old, into the political arena. But in fact, it was General Sauron who was manipulating everything behind the scenes.
After Sauron took power, the pope began to deteriorate. In the second year after Paul VI took office, the Inquisition was established, and any voice that dared to question Sauron would eventually disappear in the Inquisition. These people were all accused of heresy and burned at the stake, so the city of New Rome began to reproduce the dark period of the Middle Ages.
The dawn has not yet come, and the darkness continues to spread. After Sauron took power, he didn't care about the well-being of the residents of New Rome, he cared more about how to satisfy his own ambitions. All genetic engineering laboratories were closed one after another, and all scientific and technological forces were devoted to the research of power armor and other weapons of war. It has to be said that the warlike nature of human beings has been brought into full play in this field of research.
Soon, the second and third generations of knight power armor were developed one after another. Unlike the bulky armor of the first generation, the second-generation Griffin Knights pay more attention to speed and flexibility. They use lighter materials and are more resistant to pressure than the first-generation armor, but the weight is only one-third of the first-generation. Gryphon Riders even possess the ability to glide over short distances, making their use more flexible and strategic.
The knights of the round table of the third generation are completely war puppets. They are ten meters high and equipped with Vulcan cannons called Barrem cannons, guided missiles, electric knight spears, and alloy tower shields. There are thirteen Knights of the Round Table, among which the special model code-named King Arthur is the car of Sauron, equipped with more powerful weapons and performance than other Knights of the Round Table.
In the past five years, the fourth generation of armored air angels is in the research and development stage. This is a kind of unmanned power armor, which is remotely controlled by the driver through the brain. Air Angel power armor is mainly used for reconnaissance, and they can also serve as the role of transporting miniature nuclear bombs when needed. But so far, Air Angel has not yet been put into actual combat, and there is still a considerable distance from assembly line production.
While the Pope's Hall was making every effort to develop weapons of war, out of aversion to Sauron's high-handed policy, rebels gradually appeared in the city of New Rome. It's just that the rebel army can't compare with the Pope's Hall in terms of numbers or weapons and equipment, but they are very popular, so they get funding from the residents of New Rome and some high-level officials in the Pope's Hall who are dissatisfied with Sauron.
Although the Vatican has carried out several large-scale military operations against it, the rebel army is as dead as a centipede. Whenever Sauron thought he had got rid of this serious worry, they would wander around the edge of the Pope's sight after a while, making Sauron very upset.
The new era is an era of ability, but the Pope's Hall does not know whether it pays too much attention to the research and development of technology, but ignores the development of ability. In short, in the army of the Pope's Hall, they don't have many abilities. In Central Continent, fourth-level ability users are nothing more than mid-to-high-level soldiers of giants like the Hall of Valor or the Dark Council. However, in the Holy Seal Knights in the Pope's Hall, fourth-level ability users can already hold captain-level positions. And higher-level points can even be competent for such important tasks as sub-team leaders. As for Sauron himself, he is only a ninth rank, and the only ninth rank in the entire city of New Rome, and has his own exclusive domain.
There are not many capable people in the Pope's Hall, but they make up for this deficiency with the help of technology. On the contrary, in the rebel army without much technological support, the proportion of capable people is higher than that of the Knights of the Pope's Hall. It is also for this reason that the rebel army has survived until now.
Perhaps noticing the shortcomings in this area, the Pope's Hall also began research on genetic biochemistry. Not long ago, the rebel army got a definite message from the mouth of the top of the Pope's Hall. Sauron is conducting a top-secret research in several secret bases in the Western Continent, and the object of the research seems to be some kind of life form from the last era. It is said that this life form has genes close to that of human beings, but much more powerful. Sauron's purpose is to decipher the genetic code of this living body and make his soldiers have this super gene.
Once Sauron is made successful, he will not only have a powerful armored force, but also have the strength of a person with assembly line production capabilities. At that time, it will be the end of the rebel army. Therefore, after getting this news, the rebel army quickly organized an operation in order to destroy this research, thus causing a substantial blow to Sauron.
Just to the east of New Rome City, there is a small town on the corner of Xizhou Continent. In this small town called Mota, most of the residents in the town make a living by fishing. Of course, they cannot go to the deep sea like the fishermen of the old days. In fact, the fishermen of Mota can only fish in the relatively calm bay nearby. And the mutated fish they caught were not used as food, but were sold to merchants or biological research institutions in New Rome City. The former is resold to rich people as ornamental decorations, while the latter is used to study the ecological changes in the radiation sea area.
Fishermen, boats, fishing nets, and all kinds of strange sea creatures, these are the impressions of the town to outsiders. But few people know that there is actually a secret base under the town, and the purpose of the base is to carry out a top-secret life research project. The code name of the project is "Beast", which is also the nickname of the experimental subject.
Three years ago, the Sky Angel unmanned mech accidentally discovered the wreckage of a spaceship left deep underground. I don't know what happened before, the damage found by the Sky Angel is very serious, and it even looks like some large parts. The conclusion of the spaceship is that the Pope's Hall collected all the damage and was "added by the brain" Bailie" pieced together part of the image deduction.
In that experiment, the wreckage obtained from the Pope's Hall was of little use, but the shell armor of the hull was of considerable research value, so it was being studied as a material model for the fifth-generation conceptual armor. Apart from these ruins, Sky Angel also found more than twenty oval metal objects. After these things were shipped back, the Pope confirmed that it was a device similar to a hibernation chamber.
They forced the demolition of one of the hibernation chambers, and they got The Beast. The Beast is its or his code name, and the code name for the whole of genetic engineering. The Pope's Hall found extremely powerful cells in the body of the beast. If the genetic code in this cell can be deciphered, the Pope's Hall can officially put the envisioned "Angel Legion" plan on the agenda.
For a long time, a kind of emotionless humanoid weapon with powerful combat power proposed by Sauron has been another research topic of the Pope's Hall after the Power Mecha. It is presided over by Dr. Jane Lockchev, who is quite authoritative in biochemistry and genetics, but the implementation of the "Angel Legion" plan is not easy. The emotional aspect is easy to deal with. Before this, there was an operation to remove pain nerves from injured soldiers. Later, in order to facilitate the battle, almost every soldier of the Holy Seal Knights had undergone implantation surgery of pain-masking components, making them fearless fighters.
As long as this nerve shielding component is improved, the soldiers' emotions can be completely shielded, turning them into killing machines without emotions. However, according to Sauron's vision, the soldiers of the Angel Legion have at least an average of five to six levels of ability. This is a difficult problem. You must know that there are not many capable people in the Pope's hall. If the capable people are forcibly recruited to form the Angel Legion, there will be only a thousand people. Moreover, after using emotional masking, turning capable users into loyal and obedient killing weapons will also erase their potential to continue to evolve, which is somewhat worth the candle.
The appearance of the beast gave hope to this stranded plan. The researchers found a series of data in the cells extracted from the beast. His metabolism is more than 20 times that of ordinary humans, and his cell activity is 12 times that of normal people. His basic strength and physical strength have even reached the level of sixth-level strengthening. But most importantly, his cells have the ability to modify other organisms.
In one experiment, researchers injected cells taken from him into a mouse. This mouse immediately mutated, its size expanded rapidly, its teeth and claws were about four or five times sharper than normal ones of the same kind, and its strength had also improved a lot. But soon, the mouse suffered a genetic breakdown and died.
Since then, the research team headed by Jane has been working on how to completely transplant the cells from the beast body to ordinary soldiers, so as to transform them into powerful fighters. However, the collapse of the beast's cells due to mutual repulsion after the transformation of the organism has not been resolved, so this research has been dragged on for three years, and the number of soldiers and civilians who secretly died in the experiment has reached an appalling level. Number of.
In order to cover up the death toll, so as not to cause panic after exposure. The Pope decided to transfer the beasts, and the subjects of the experiment were mainly refugees from the wilderness. The research base located under the town of Mota was secretly built a year ago for the continued research of beasts, and it was put into use only recently.
The central laboratory, this is an important laboratory that has been heavily encrypted and protected by Paladin mechs. Two staff members are doing routine data recording on a culture tank. One of them took out an information recording chip from the instrument under the cultivation tank, and inserted it into the slot of his tablet brain, which immediately automatically read the data and updated the relevant information database. After doing all this, the man put the chip back again so that all the data in the culture tank could be automatically stored.
"I'm leaving, I'll leave it to you here." Waving the tablet in his hand, the person before said so.
The remaining one showed a helpless expression and said: "I really hope to go back to New Rome. We have been here for almost seven months, and we are not even allowed to go out of the base. Staying here is driving me crazy."
"As long as the problem of the big man behind you can be solved, we will not be far away from going home."
"Is it that easy? If this problem is so easy to solve, we don't have to travel all the way to this town."
"Stop complaining and work hard."
Then there was the sound of an automatic door opening, and when it closed again, only one researcher was left on duty in the lab. It was already late at night, he sighed and sat down in front of the computer. Seeing the data on the screen almost unchanged from three years ago, the researcher felt a burst of fatigue.
Maybe you won't get anything in the end? He thought so, then put his legs on the workbench, and just fell asleep with his eyes closed. Why don't you sleep, there is no entertainment to entertain you in the base.
But he didn't know that just after he fell asleep, the data on the screen began to change slightly but continuously.
In the culture tank, there was a huge figure in the green base solution. This is a giant, at least three meters tall, with a strong physique, comparable to a paladin mech. He has a human body and looks like an Earthling one size up. In fact, no matter from the structure of the body to the internal organs, he is exactly the same as a human being.
Except for some cell differences.
For example, the cells that are far more powerful than ordinary humans, and the trilobate-shaped crystals on the front of the forehead that don't know what to do. But now, three lights lit up in the cultivation tank. The culture medium changes from the original calm to rising bubbles, and then to the final boiling state. As the data on the computer screen on the workbench continued to soar and was about to reach a certain critical point, all the lights in the laboratory flickered.
Following that, two more red lights lit up in the cultivation tank, and then two scarlet energy flames sprayed on the cultivation tank. The culture tank couldn't last for even 1 second before it exploded, and a large amount of green base liquid gushed out from the damaged gap. In this waterfall-like torrent, a pair of gigantic fists stretched out, several punches in succession widened the gap in the training tank, followed by the tall figure inside, jumped to the ground, and then stood upright.
Awakened by the computer's alarm and the sudden rupture of the culture tank, the researcher fell to the ground in a hurry, and saw him when he looked up again. Under the constant flickering of the lights, the researchers saw this perfect body. This body is full of rigidity and wildness, as if possessing endless power. Because it is so tall, his face and the light source behind him form a backlight. But on that unclear face, on the brows, there are three leaf-shaped bright lights shining brightly. Looking at it like this, it actually made the giant code-named Beast have a bit of divinity.
At this time, an alarm was heard. The automatic door of the laboratory opened, and two paladin mechs rushed in, but what greeted them were two scorching death rays. The researchers on the ground clearly saw that these two blood-red energy beams spewed out from the eyes of the beast, and the red flames spewed out more than ten meters away, and easily passed the two paladins as the head of the beast swung. Mecha. When two charred traces of Mars appeared on the mecha's chest, the mecha exploded into two fireballs amidst a loud bang. computer screen. When the unlucky guy fell to the ground, he was already stunned.