The wind howled in the deserted town, with collapsed buildings, broken streets, and car wreckage rising black smoke. Everything said, this town is dead. Once, thousands of people lived in this small town. The town may not be rich, but it is very lively. People took care of each other and helped each other through this difficult time. They are trying to make life better, but now, all efforts have been in vain.
Because they come.
An empty can rolled on the ground, making a series of noises. Suddenly, a figure rushed out from the two-story building where the cans rolled. It's a man, and there is no clean place all over his body. His eyes were red, and he ran forward desperately with a rifle in his hand. The man just ran ten meters away when the small building collapsed with a bang. Something crashed directly from the gate, and hit the wall by the way, causing the building to tilt and collapse.
The thing was going fast, and when it stopped on the road, it made a bright cloud of sparks. This is a strange creature, covered with dark nail leaves. The head is large and long, with the front eyes, nostrils and mouth all crowded together. The back coronal leaves have divergent lines, and there are fluorescent lights flowing inside from time to time. This monster is able to move upright and has long arms. On the outer side of the forearm protrudes a bone blade like a shark's dorsal fin, and its legs have a posterior joint structure. The feet are usually big and wide, with a hook claw.
From the back of the head to the spine to the tail, it has a row of sharp bony spurs. There is also a needle-shaped structure at the end of the tail, and when the long tail is swung, it is enough to crash into a concrete wall.
The monster stared at the man running ahead. It leaned forward, kicked its legs vigorously, and followed closely behind the man. The man turned down a street and passed through several houses, followed by the monster. Eventually, the man jumped onto a car and leaped across the road with force. Then it rolled on the ground, and when it bounced up again, the monster jumped over the car and fell to the ground.
It hit hard, and the ground suddenly collapsed. Below is a square five-meter-deep pit, which threw the monster hard. It shook its head, and when it was about to get up with its hands and feet, the three eyes at the front of its head saw several machine guns protruding from the four sides of the pit at the same time.
Then there was a burst of gunfire in the city.
The monster was beaten into a sieve, and green firefly blood flowed out from the bullet holes. The man who was in charge of luring the monster before sat down on the ground, cursed a few times, rushed up and shot the monster corpse in the pit again, but was pulled down by his companion.
These monsters appeared suddenly two days ago, they appeared without warning, followed by a crazy bloodbath of the town. Most of the people died, and the bodies were taken away. Only a small number of people survived and fought against the monster. These monsters are very agile and destructive. The only weakness is defense. Their carapaces are not immune to rifle fire, but these things are so resilient that it would be a mistake to expect a burst or two to kill them.
The man who was pulled away by his companion didn't even have the strength to curse, and instead burst into tears. His name is Bob, and he is the hunter of the town. The whole family was killed by these monsters, and the worst thing was that the three-year-old son was swallowed by the monsters in front of Bob.
"Okay, Bob. If you have the strength to cry, let's see how to get rid of these things." A man patted Bob on the shoulder and said. He had a rough appearance, and his blue-gray eyes always looked deep and depressed.
He is the mayor's Sheriff Barr, and right now, he is leading the survivors against other monsters.
"Sheriff, I think we should go," said a young man, Walker, the sheriff's assistant, a quick-witted fellow.
Barr nodded and said to everyone: "Leave here first, the gunfire will attract those things. Walker... Walker!"
When looking at Walker unintentionally, Barr happened to see a monster crawling along the base of the wall to the back of the young assistant. At the same time that Barr sounded the warning, the monster had already bit off the young man's head.
"You bastards!" Barr roared angrily, greeted the monster with the double-barreled shotgun in his hand, and gestured for everyone to retreat.
Barr himself stepped back, but bumped into someone. Looking back, it was Bob, and the sheriff shouted, "For God's sake, Bob, what are you still doing, run away."
Bob's body trembled slightly, and he said bitterly, "I can't run anymore."
"What?" The sheriff looked over Bob, and several monsters appeared in front of the people.
No, not a few, but a group. These black monsters appeared one after another in the shadows of the surrounding buildings, on the roof or behind the wreckage of the car, they had already surrounded people. Barr said bitterly: "Damn it, could these monsters also set up traps? Was that just a bait to lure us out?"
"Looks like it should be right." Bob suddenly shouted: "Come on, you bastards. Before you tear me apart, I will kill at least two, no, ten!"
"This way." The sheriff yelled, leading the people towards a low building on the street. It is only two stories high, but has few windows and only one door for the entrance. It was a warehouse, owned by Hodge, a small businessman in the town. Of course, now Huo Qi would not jump out and accuse them of using their own warehouse without permission, because that fat man had long since become food for monsters.
The sheriff and Bob stopped behind, preventing the monster from advancing. Finally, a group of eight people successfully entered the warehouse, and Barr immediately closed the door. Bob and two other young men moved heavy objects to block the gate. Barr yelled, "Windows, hold all the windows, don't let them in."
The gunshots echoed in the small town, and more and more monsters gathered in this small warehouse. Soon, the sheriff and the others had almost run out of ammunition, and an atmosphere of despair enveloped everyone in the warehouse.
shock.
At first it was just a slight vibration, only those monsters with keen senses could perceive it. But two minutes later, even the people in the warehouse felt the ground shaking under their feet.
"What is it?" Bob asked.
Barr shook his head. "Don't know, but whatever it is, we can't get any worse. Can't we?"
In such a desperate situation, people laughed instead. "How many bombs are there?" Barr said.
"I have three *."
"Only two *…"
Concentrate the bombs together, the number is pitifully small. Baal took a breath and said, "Guys, you probably don't want to make monsters' lunch, do you? So, how about we give these monsters a big surprise?"
"What do you want to do?" Bob asked.
Barr looked around: "Hodge has nitric acid in this warehouse, as well as some other materials. Together with what we have on hand, it is enough to make a big gift for the bastards outside. However, we probably won't be able to leave. How do you explain."
"It's done!" Bob roared, "Anyway, it's a death, and it's worth blowing up those bastards outside."
The proposal was passed quickly, and people got busy. Find a large enough container and materials, and Baal will prepare it according to a certain ratio to create a giant bomb. But obviously, they didn't need the bomb, because suddenly there was a violent gunshot outside.
Monsters don't use guns, only humans use guns. Barr immediately rushed to a small window, and looked through the window, a bright line of fire swept across the street, sweeping away monsters one after another. Then the tall walking mecha appeared in the window, and the rotary cannon hanging on the mecha blasted powerful bullets into the bodies of monsters, blowing them to pieces.
"It's a paladin mech! The reinforcements from the Pope's Hall have arrived!" Barr exclaimed excitedly.
A total of five paladins appeared on the street near the warehouse, four of them fired with rotary guns, blasting and killing the monsters near the warehouse. The other raised two robotic arms, and from the arms' external suspension members sprayed fire dragons, which turned out to be flamethrowers. After the high-temperature flame swept around and dispersed the remaining monsters, Barr and the others carefully walked out of the warehouse.
The pilot of a Paladin mech radioed: "Commander Yafidi, we have found survivors."
"You bring them to safety, and the rest continue to clean up."
"Understood."
Following the mecha in front to the safe area outside the town, Barr and the others saw a mecha entering the town. These big machines roaring by around them lift their spirits. Arriving outside the town, a temporary camp has been opened here. There are five long trailers parked in the camp, and the carriages on one side of the trailers are opened and put down, connecting with the ground to form a slope.
The mechas in the carriage just slid down from the top, and then entered the town in groups of five, launching an annihilation operation on the monster.
It was Yafidi who commanded this battle. After Paul, the new pope, took office, as one of the few old leaders of the Holy Seal Knights, Yafidi was awarded an important task. Just yesterday, the base where he was stationed received a report of a monster attack. Under the order of Black Wing, the new commander of the Knights, Yafidi led a mecha troop to come.
After seeing the survivors of Barr, Yafidi put them in a tent and asked the military doctor accompanying the team to conduct a detailed examination on these people. After learning that Barr was the sheriff of the town, Yafidi called him out.
"Sheriff Barr, how much do you know about these monsters?" Yafidi asked, "Where do they come from and how many are there? Please tell me everything you know."
Barr smiled wryly and said: "My lord, I don't know much. They suddenly attacked our town in the evening two days ago. Damn it, when I was having dinner at that time, such a monster broke in suddenly. I After trying to escape, I found that the whole town was full of monsters. I was lucky and hid. Until most of the monsters were gone, I found some other lucky guys."
"We have no supplies, and there are monsters wandering outside the town, so we can't leave. We have to stay and fight them. Fortunately, you arrived in time, otherwise we would definitely not survive today."
Yafidi nodded and said: "You said that most of the monsters left, can you tell me the exact number?"
"Many, at least several hundred."
"Okay, it's okay, you go down and rest first." Yafidi patted him on the shoulder.
At this time, a guard shouted: "Commander, you have to come here."
Yafidi walked over and got into an armored vehicle with the guards. This armored vehicle is actually a mobile biochemical laboratory, and there is a corpse of a monster on an operating table inside the vehicle. Several researchers are dissecting the monster, which was shot and killed by the army as passers-by arrived. The corpse was relatively complete, so it was handed over to the biological team.
The leader of the biological team was a middle-aged man in his forties. He nodded when he saw Yafidi, and told several assistants to continue working. I left the operating table and came to Yafidi after being disinfected, and said with a wry smile: "Commander Yafidi, these are not ordinary monsters. We have already dissected them. To be honest, as creatures, Their structures and organs are simply too simple."
"Too simple?" Yafidi said, "Can you elaborate?"
"Let's put it this way, whether we are humans or mutant beasts. As creatures, we have various functional organs in our bodies so that we can adapt to the environment and ensure our survival. But this kind of creatures, let's call them creatures. These guys, its organs are very single. That thing is like an integrator, which combines all the organs of many functions of the organism. I don't think this is an evolutionary phenomenon, because we don't have any in other organisms. A similar phenomenon has been discovered. If it is evolution, then the gap between it and us is too big."
"You mean, this is a standard weapon manufactured for a certain purpose?" Yafidi said.
"It can be said that after they have integrated organs, they can save energy waste to a large extent. From my personal point of view, no creature can achieve such high efficiency, not even a powerful person like you "The team leader spread his hands and said: "Efficiency and simplicity are the characteristics of war weapons? What's more, the size and even the cells of these guys are almost the same. They are simply things that came off the assembly line."
"That's even more strange, which laboratory produced these biological weapons..." Yafidi shook his head, a little puzzled.
There was a knock on the door of the armored vehicle, Yafidi opened the door, and a soldier hurriedly said: "Commander, just received a report. There are a large number of monsters in the east of the town, and we need reinforcements."
"I see." Yafidi gave the soldier a push: "Go and inform the base and ask them to send another mech squadron over. I'm going to the town now."
"But your Knights of the Round Table didn't come."
"It's okay, can't I drive a paladin?" Yafidi smiled and ran to a truck that towed mechs.
After a while, he personally drove a paladin to the ground and headed towards the town. After experiencing the Sauron incident, Paul vigorously developed the mecha technology of the Pope's Hall according to what Zero said that day. At present, the fourth-generation Sky Angel has been perfected and can be put into actual combat. The other generations of mechas have also been upgraded and modified, but the ones with the least changes and the greatest benefits are these generations of paladin mechas.
When the mecha engineers received the upgrade and modification for the paladin, they did their homework in terms of cost and efficiency, and finally focused on improving the flexibility of the mecha and changing the previous single attack mode. After nearly a year of trial and error, a fully upgraded paladin mecha has been completed. Now the feet are equipped with controllable pulleys, and the mech can be switched between walking and gliding with a single command from the driving position.
At the same time, the jet acceleration action is added, which allows the paladin mecha to accelerate its movement in a short period of time, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly breaking away or cutting in.
In terms of weapon system, in addition to the traditional killer weapon of the rotary machine gun, peripheral components such as flamethrowers, howitzers, wrist armor rapid-fire machine guns, and small cannons have also been added. According to needs and purposes, targeted loading can be carried out before going into combat.
Right now, the Paladin Yafidi is driving does not have a rotary cannon. Its weapons are small cannons mounted on its shoulders, a rapid-fire machine gun on the wrist of the mecha, and a high-frequency knife hanging on the back of the mecha. High-frequency knives are not commonly used in mecha battles. This kind of weapon that requires close-range attacks to exert destructive power is not something that every pilot can use freely.
Of course, Yafidi has no problems with this. With a high-frequency knife in his hand, it can play a greater role than a rotary cannon.
After the mecha switched to the sliding movement mode, a row of metal pulleys rose from the soles of the mecha. It looked like a row of pulleys under roller skates. As long as the driver mastered the balance and controlled the mecha's feet to slide alternately without interruption, he could move quickly. Under Yafidi's operation, the mecha quickly slid across the streets of the town.
Just as they were about to reach the other side of the town, there was an explosion in front of them. An orange fireball appeared from the corner of the street, and then the dead flames rolled across the street in waves. The mecha had to turn a corner, the pulleys wiped sparks on the ground, and the mecha stopped under emergency braking. Several nearby buildings were blown down. Through the thick smoke, Yafidi in the driver's cab could see some black figures entangled with several paladin mechs on the other side of the street.
With a muffled grunt, he stepped forward to help. Suddenly, the radar on the bridge showed several light spots rapidly approaching him. The next moment, six pitch-black monsters jumped out from the buildings on the left and right, and rushed towards Yafidi's mech with claws and teeth.
The cannon fired immediately, blasting away the two monsters jumping from the left first. Following the roar of the wrist armor machine gun on the left arm of the mecha, the flow of projectiles blasted the remaining monster on the left side with its head in its arms. At the same time, the two sides of the component that locked the high-frequency knife on the back of the mecha were opened, and the right hand of the mecha reached out, and the long knife drew a bright flash, dismembering the two monsters on the right.
All the actions were completed almost instantly, and four of the attacking monsters had already laid down.