The legend of Tiga

Earth-shattering!

Deafening!

The flames are roaring and dust is flying.

The scorching high temperature caused the mountain rocks that had been accumulated for hundreds of millions of years to melt into magma in an instant. It flowed freely along the mountain. It was also swept up by the violent air waves set off by the explosion and spread like a fountain. Along with it, There were countless sand and stones, mixed with the loud sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, rushing in all directions.

All unfixed items around were swept away. The valley that was originally covered with thorns and grass became clean. The green vegetation was burned to ashes, and the ashes were swept away by the hurricane, and even the rocks were melted. There were only deep pits left on the spot, but they were immediately filled with flames.

Suddenly there were flames everywhere, loud noises everywhere, sand and dust everywhere, and hurricanes everywhere.

The mountains are trembling and the valleys are shaking. It can be said that the earth is shaking, the landslides and the earth is cracking. It is a doomsday scene. Even people in cities dozens of kilometers away can clearly feel the earth shaking slightly under their feet.

If it was just shaking, it might be considered an earthquake, but the huge mushroom cloud rising from the sky clearly told everyone who saw it that a big explosion had occurred in the distance, and it might also be——

Nuke!

After this word came to mind, everyone's hearts trembled, because they immediately thought of the 'Battle of Tokyo' that happened twenty years ago but made everyone remember it today.

That battle also saw a monster attack, mechas fighting, followed by a nuclear explosion, and then...

Millions of people died on the spot, and tens of millions died of subsequent illnesses.

A series of numbers, passed down by word of mouth year after year, make people's memories particularly clear. Even if twenty years have passed, they are still remembered in the bottom of their hearts.

Maybe I didn't pay attention to it normally, but now I looked at this mushroom cloud rushing high into the sky, and I suddenly remembered it all, and then I was even more frightened.

Will the tragedy of that year happen again today?

It has become a doubt in the minds of many people, but no one dares to bet.

So when everyone saw the mushroom cloud rising, their first reaction was to run.

Even though he was out of breath just now, his legs were trembling, and he was about to collapse, under the threat of life and death, he gained some strength again, panting heavily, and moved forward with difficulty, just to run farther. , run a little further.

Although I knew that running these few steps was of no use to the monster, it was still better than standing there and waiting to die.

But in this chaos, someone suddenly shouted out of breath: "Win, win, we win, the Echo Army and the Saber have won."

Swish!Swish!Swish!

All eyes turned around, either surprised, happy or excited.

The man was looking at his phone, with beads of sweat on his face, but he couldn't hide his excitement and said: "The monster was... was destroyed."

Sure enough, the monster siren has stopped, and the big screen on the street no longer keeps repeating "Please take refuge in a nearby shelter as soon as possible", but instead plays the audio representing victory:

"The monster has been annihilated. Please leave the shelter in an orderly manner. Please do not approach the combat location before confirming safety. Repeat, the monster has been annihilated. Please"

Really won!

call!

The wave of cheers suddenly rose and filled the streets and alleys of the city.

The joy of surviving the disaster made many people jump up and even burst into tears of excitement.

But the cheers were so harsh in Xue Nai's ears.

Everyone is celebrating being alive, but no one knows or cares about who kept them alive.

The scene that was interrupted by the big explosion was restored after the deformation of the mushroom cloud. Although it was still blurry due to the raised sand and dust, and was constantly shaking, as if it was about to be interrupted at any time, it could still be seen through the lens. The mountains and deep valleys below have changed beyond recognition.

The originally lush vegetation has disappeared, leaving only charred blackness all over the ground; the originally towering mountains are now only half as high, while the deep valleys are almost level with them. Thousands of years of vicissitudes have been completed in an instant. .

The nearly 10,000-meter-wide scorch and the large pit more than 100 meters deep silently told how terrifying and powerful the previous explosion was.

The camera scanned back and forth while shaking, but could not find any trace of the monster, but at a glance, the Echo Saber was seen lying on the ground, leaning against a mountain.

It's just the same thing that's completely different!

The steel on the surface was melted and the arms were twisted like twists and turns. The power furnace on the chest was no longer shining and had obviously stalled. The whole body was in tatters and looked like scrap metal.

Such a miserable scene made people's hearts sink instantly, and the remaining hope was shattered.

The Mecha Hunter does have a lot of measures to protect the driver, but no matter how many, there is a limit. If it exceeds this limit, no matter how good the measures are, it will be useless.

The big explosion in front of us obviously exceeded this speed. The mechas made of steel were like this, and the people inside were made of flesh and blood.

Everyone inside and outside the screen was silent. This situation left people speechless, let alone what to say.

After a while, Captain Majima's voice sounded: "The medical team has arrived at the scene and will start search and rescue work immediately."

Although we all know that hope is slim, before we are sure, there is always a glimmer of miraculous hope.

Under the silent gaze, the medical helicopter began to descend slowly. The rapidly rotating propellers stirred up the dust still floating in the air, forming an earth dragon, which descended to the still hot ground with the helicopter.

Several medical staff wearing protective suits, carrying medical kits, jumped out of the hovering helicopter, then stepped on knee-deep hot floating soil, one step deeper and the other with difficulty, leaning forward on the mountain ridge, looking like A rag doll-like Echo Saber.

"Close to target."

"Arrived soon."

"Rescue begins immediately."

"No excess radiation has been detected."

"The power furnace was observed and no explosion occurred."

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In the silent and sad waiting, one good news after another unexpectedly came.

First, the radiation detector carried by the medical staff did not exceed the standard. Then, visual inspection revealed that the power furnace of the Echo Saber was still roughly intact. This means that the power furnace of the Echo Saber did not explode. This also explains Why does the value displayed by the radiation detector not exceed the standard?

This shocked everyone's spirits, and the broken hope in their hearts was healed immediately. Maybe

"Pilot found!"

The voices of the medical staff became louder, and then the camera moved, apparently from walking to running. But his voice made everyone in the tent happy, because they saw a person walking out of the broken Echo Saber in the shaking camera. Although the picture was blurry, the mecha that the world knew The driver's iconic high-tech uniform reveals his identity.

"Arata is still alive!"

The former Ford teammate shouted loudly, his voice full of joy.

Immediately afterwards, everyone cheered, and the sound almost overturned the tent.

"Great!"

Yukino was also smiling, but her tears couldn't stop flowing down, dripping down her cheeks and onto the ground.

But on the battlefield dozens of kilometers away, Qianye Cheng held his helmet and stood on the hot floating soil, breathing the air full of choking dust and looking at the gray sky, but he let out a long sigh of relief.

This fight is really difficult!

Since his debut, he has never had such a frustrating fight.

He obviously has a certain ability, but he can't use it at all.

At this moment, Chiba Makoto understood very well how Sero felt when he was wearing the training armor. He clearly reacted, but his body just couldn't keep up.

It's like there are countless pairs of big hands pulling you, making you unable to run fast, unable to move, and unable to exert one-tenth of your strength.

In the battle just now, if the Echo Saber had been more flexible, it wouldn't have been so miserable. They would have basically died together.

Chiba Makoto looked back at the tattered Echo Saber. It had basically lost its maintenance value and would probably need to be dismantled and recycled.

Ugh!

Thinking of this, Chiba Cheng sighed again. This mecha was declared scrapped just after it was shipped back. If all battles were like this, then even if humans put all their manpower and material resources into building mechas, the production speed would be very low. Can't keep up with the speed of damage.

After this battle, Chiba Makoto, who had personal experience, finally understood why the mecha hunter was so difficult to drive and required two people to drive it, because this thing required all-round control.

Let's put it this way, when people walk, they only need to walk forward, because humans have completed the data collection of walking, running and other actions as early as children, so when they want to walk, they only need to walk forward and lift their legs. How high to sit, how much to bend the knees and ankles, how to place the soles of the feet, etc. will all be done 'automatically' without the need for subjective control.

But the mecha hunter is different. There is no such "subconscious control" database, so the human brain is needed to supplement it, so that when the mecha hunter performs various actions such as running and walking, there is no need to input details into the angle. , height, coordinates and other data that is so detailed that it can drive a group of programmers to death, and only the relevant data needs to be retrieved from the human brain.

This is why a single human being cannot drive a mecha hunter alone, because humans are only more than one meter tall, or more than two meters at most, but mecha hunters are often dozens of meters tall, even if they only use some subconscious information The information is not something that an individual can bear.

Therefore, two people have to share the burden, one controls the left half, and the other controls the right half. Since the subconscious cannot be controlled, it is necessary for the two people's brains to be connected together, and there is a synaesthesia system.

This is the driving principle of Mecha Hunter!

It is very practical for human beings. After all, it is a temporary solution created by existing technology. We can't ignore the slight flaws. It is better than nothing.

But for Chiba Cheng, it is a big constraint.

Every move he made seemed like he was wearing a training armor, severely restraining Chiba Makoto, making it impossible for Chiba Makoto to exert his full strength. Even if he fought to die together, he still needed to use the electronic monster of the Ultra Dimension Card to defeat this rhinoceros. Ordinary monsters.

"It seems we can't have too much hope for human mechas."

Chiba Cheng thought silently in his heart, and then stood there, watching the medical staff running over, hurriedly loading him onto the stretcher, and then walking out, calling for the helicopter to land quickly.

When the helicopter took off again and flew Chiba Makoto to the nearest hospital, the aftermath of the battle spread to all parts of the world, immediately causing an uproar.

Not only because someone drove a fourth-generation mecha hunter to defeat a level six monster, but also because two monsters in a row attacked the same area.

This means that the rules summarized in the past may no longer apply, and it is necessary to re-establish a line of defense.

Will you continue to build Mecha Hunters?

However, increasing budgets, faster and faster replacements, and faster and faster losses have made countries hesitate, and even those at the top of the economy are struggling.

After all, it is very likely that the focus of defense will be changed to comprehensive defense in the future. The number of mecha hunters required will be overwhelming, and the increase in the number of mecha hunters will mean a sharp increase in the cost of upgrading.

My scalp feels numb just thinking about it!

You must know that this is not hundreds of millions or billions, but tens of billions or hundreds of billions, and it is a continuous pure investment without any output.

Even a landlord's family cannot afford such a bloodletting.

Ever since, the affordable and durable 'high wall fortress' has once again entered the vision of various countries and been placed on the desks of political leaders, and the practicality of this plan has been seriously and seriously discussed.

The first is the effect, whether it can block monsters and how long it can block monsters; the second is cost, how long and high it needs to be built, how much it costs, and how long it takes to build; and then there is.

However, these matters have nothing to do with Chiba Cheng for the time being. He has completed the examination and confirmed that he was not contaminated by radiation and was not injured. Therefore, he was quickly transferred to the general ward and could receive visits.

The first one to come in was Yukino, still wearing the uniform of the Ford team. She opened the door in a panic and saw Arata standing at the head of the bed, moving her legs and feet. She breathed a sigh of relief, but she still asked with concern. Said: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." 'New Tai' showed off her intact hands and feet.

"It's incredible!"

Yukino muttered to himself, such a terrible big explosion was so close, the steel mecha was almost broken, but the most serious thing for Arata was the scratch.

You must know that he still forced the mecha to go out alone. Logically speaking, it should have caused damage to the brain, but the inspection results showed that it was intact.

this.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Yukino would never have believed it.

But this can be a good thing or a bad thing.

because--

Yukino pursed her lips, closed the door, and then said hesitantly: "A text message just came from Xiangjiang Base, and I want you to go there for inspection."

Chiba Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm curious if it's okay if I fly a mecha alone?"

"Yeah" (end of chapter)