infinite loop

Every time she was alone with Chuck Hansen, Su Li always felt embarrassed unconsciously.

Who told him that the message conveyed by his eyes was much more straightforward than that of himself.

His pupils are also an indescribable blue, but slightly darker than Raleigh's clear and transparent blue, and appear stiff and sharp for no reason—something obscure is sinking and smoldering in one corner. Every contact made her uncomfortable, as if she was reminded all the time that she was not Catherine Lopez, an individual who should exist in this world.

The air was so sticky and oppressive that she could hardly breathe.

Fortunately, he didn't stay for long, and left with an unfriendly and cold expression as usual.

……saved.

What didn't surprise her was that within a few minutes after Chuck left, a pale blond head poked in through the door.

"Just now I ran into your... well, Catherine's ex-boyfriend."

Raleigh Beckett walked into the room and sat beside her bed. His eyes drifted a few inches towards the door and then he retracted. He spread his hands towards her, "We had a chat."

Rowley brought her some aspirin, stared at her half-urgingly, and swallowed it with lukewarm water.

Of course, this kind of thing has no effect on the internally diseased brain, but facing those eyes, Su Li unconsciously lost all the strength to question, obeying his insistence and swallowing those small white pills.

"Anyway, thanks for taking me back."

The astringent feeling remained in her throat, she took a few more sips of water to moisten her throat, and said to him.

"At first I thought you had…"

Raleigh didn't finish his sentence right away, he was silent for a moment and then resumed the conversation, "I saw you die countless times in the synaesthesia, I don't want you to die in front of me again - that's not a pleasant thing, for you Same for me."

Su Li didn't expect him to mention this suddenly - this fact that both of them have avoided by coincidence since their memories merged.

Her expression was blank for half a second, an unspoken negative attitude flashed across her face, and she said hesitantly, "...But I have to leave after all, Raleigh."

As if he had expected to get such an answer a long time ago, he shook his head slightly and rejected it almost without thinking.

"Don't forget, I know everything about you in a synesthesia state. I know why you want to kill yourself, maybe you feel like a..."

Scratching the fluffy short hair that was pressed against his ear, he managed to find a word that didn't sound so strange, "Alien?"

"..."

Su Li twitched the corners of her mouth at his lame description.

She put down the cup of hot water she was holding in her hand, her eyes fluttered somewhere and did not look at him, and she replied calmly, "As you said, I am not Catherine, and I am not in tune with this world."

"But don't forget, we drive the homeless together - if you don't survive, there is a high chance that I will be screwed off by a monster."

As if thinking of some interesting scene, Raleigh suddenly laughed and tapped his chin with his fingertips, "I guess life after destroying the gap should be pretty good, so...hey, are you willing to live with me?"

But he couldn't wait for the answer.

Because it was less than half a minute after he finished speaking——

"Emergency. Dangerous Ranger Pilots, Eureka Raider Pilots, assemble at the entrance of the Shatterdome, ready for battle, ready for battle."

……

After only about half a day, it was the second time they had put on the jet-black operational armor.

Standing at the hot and humid meeting place, Asako Mori gave instructions softly while flipping through the clipboard in his hand, while Su Li and Luo Li listened carefully.

This time will be the final decisive battle, and the key to the survival of mankind is here.

For many years, it has never stopped—the terrorist nuisance originating from the deep sea is becoming more and more intense.

It has never stopped—the bustling city after being invaded was destroyed by sharp claws, and it was dilapidated in an instant. The corpses in the ruins were frozen in posture, and their faces were distorted and deformed due to excessive panic.

It never stops—millions of living beings wither and wither, unmarked tombstones strewn across the wilderness, flesh and blood on pale gray limestone.

It never stopped—countless happy families fell apart in an instant, people were forced to be displaced, and riots and riots broke out frequently.

Now everyone has come to a fork in fate.

Either end it all.

— or perish.

There was a loud sound of metal slamming, and the door of the Shatterdome opened to both sides, and Heck Hansen came here from the inside.One of his arms hangs limply in a bandage, hanging just below his chest.

General Steck Pantecost, who was walking side by side with Heck, looked straight ahead and stood in front of several people.

He wasn't wearing his well-tailored black suit, and he was wearing the gleaming driving suit that clearly belonged to an Eureka Raider.

"Heck's arm is injured, and I'll take his place." He said, then walked past several people and went straight to the tower that entered the inner cabin of the mecha head.

It was only then that Su Li realized that Chuck was always behind him, leading Max to follow the general's pace, without looking in her direction.

The only two remaining mechas were urgently adjusted and adjusted. After all the drivers were in place, all the existing transport helicopters in the base were dispatched to transport the dangerous homeless and Eureka Raiders to the sea area on the edge of the gap.

Breaking away from the cables of the high-hanging fuselage, the heavy mecha fell into the sea and set off huge waves.

"All ports are closed, ready to dive." Observing the surrounding environment through the dripping water stains hanging on the front window, General Steck pressed the communication channel connection button on the upper corner of the side with one hand, orderly commanding the actions of the homeless.

At the same time, as his co-pilot, Chuck Hansen had a keen response, bent his knuckles and tapped several switches in succession. The smart gear was ordered by the system to adjust the motorized nut, completely sealing off all the gaps in the Raider body for ventilation. .

The Eureka Raiders moved forward to explore the way, and the dangerous wanderers followed closely. The soles of steel feet stepped on the seabed sand and printed a concave mark, which was wiped away by the ripples of the undercurrent of the seabed in an instant.

The two mechas stepped steadily step by step, slowly but firmly stepped into the deep sea, within a short while, the salty, turbid black water had covered the cockpit, and the water level rose all the way and finally covered the top of the head.

"Raiders, Wanderers. Now just above the gap, the two monsters are still in a circle without a target. They are fourth-generation monsters."

At the same time, they all heard the contact from the Lawson Center - Heck Hansen was acting as the acting general, and based on the remote monitoring data given by Cai Tiantong, he was performing real-time updated overall layout control.

"receive."

After Su Li answered briefly, she immediately withdrew her right hand that was pressing on the communication button.

She manipulated the left half of the machine to break through the deep sea and move forward with difficulty. By the way, she glanced at Raleigh who was half a foot away from the corner of her eye.

"It's still half a mile from the sea cliff, it's time to jump off, sir." On the other hand, Chuck in the Raider glanced at the dazzling red value displayed in front of his eyes, and reported aloud.

As the depth continues to accumulate, finally even the last ray of light is isolated on the other side of the sea level.

The thin lips were pursed into a thin line like a knife. Chuck turned on the searchlight on the top of the machine to the highest wattage, but it still failed to illuminate the chaotic and surging thick black water in front of him.

"Zero visibility..."

He had no choice but to move his eyes down, staring at the red knob marked with small English words, squinting his eyes slightly for confirmation, and then raised his hand to clap, "Turn on the automatic cruise."

At the bottom of the deep sea, where all senses are on the verge of being out of balance, the wanderers and raiders still accurately approached and finally reached the edge of the sea cliff.

The two airframes drove side by side, and both of them took half a step forward to jump to the bottom—that was a deep valley in the sea adjacent to the gap.

After falling to the ground, they quickly adjusted the driving device to return to a balanced state, and took a few steps forward. Although they were far apart, they could still see the circular channel that was flickering and spouting muted noise at a glance. It is a big obstacle, and the photon-like substance that is surging on the top layer can only be vaguely distinguished.

That corner of the halo is creepy on the dark seabed. During the advance, Su Li rummaged through the life body scanning program in the mecha system and opened it. As expected, he caught the traces of two monsters. As K said, aimlessly circling and swimming around the gap.

It's just like……

As if protecting something.

When she locked on one of them and tried to find out the law of its movement, she suddenly discovered...

"Raider, Wanderer, those two monsters have stopped!" Cai Tiantong in the Lawrence Center just reported the latest emergency situation, and Heck, who has a keen sense of tactics, realized that something was wrong, and hurried to the microphone to notify The two mechas on the front line, "They stopped...at one o'clock!"

The homeless and the raiders also stopped moving forward in unison.

Right at the gap where the dim yellow light continuously emerged, the monsters with strange shapes at both ends swallowed lowly, condensed and suspended in the water, motionless.

Heck's voice almost squeezed out from between his teeth: "Find a way to seize this opportunity, you..."

"Wait, sir!"

In the middle, a confident voice interrupted Heke's words. The intruder took over the conversation unconsciously, and eagerly spit out a series of long sentences, "The opening of the gap does not mean that your nuclear bomb If you can pass through smoothly, the passage will only be opened for monsters, so you must grab a monster and jump into the gap with it!"

……

"General Steck's scientific research team... Fortunately, they found a reliable solution at the last moment."

Clenching his sweat-drenched fingers, Raleigh muttered to himself, "Now, we have to deal with these two guys first."

Su Li knew what he was referring to—the two fourth-generation monsters waved their tentacles and stirred the sea water irregularly, making a greasy and wet sound. Disappear!

...that is a speed that is simply unheard of!

"Wanderers, there are monsters approaching you, at three o'clock—"

Before the urgent reminder from the Lawson Center was fully explained, Su Li and Luo Li in the cockpit felt the violent impact together!

Su Li turned back and changed the attack mode, the long sword trembled twice and was unsheathed from the right palm of the mecha, and the two of them raised their arms together and were about to deal a fatal blow to the monster attacking the flank, when a black shadow sprang out from behind, emitting The fangs that were filled with icy coldness opened and opened, tearing off the entire arm holding the sword!

That was the other one that went in the opposite direction just now——

The monster that bumped into it immediately lowered its body and fell to the ground with all four limbs, ruthlessly grabbing and biting the right leg of the mecha, causing important parts to be damaged and fall off one after another!

The right upper limb controlled by Raleigh almost lost all kinetic energy. He raised the wanderer's still movable right leg and stepped on the monster on the ground. In Zhang's mouth, a series of plasma cannonballs were shot clean, directly smashing the upper body of the monster from the throat!

"Raider! The sign of a monster was detected again at the gap! This one is... the first fifth generation in history..."

At the same time as the sirens at Lawson Center sounded, the ammunition was declared depleted.

She gritted her back molars and forced herself to tighten her nervous bowstring, calmly converted the jet port into a left-handed giant sword, swung her backhand, and nailed the other monster to a sedimentary rock wall!

The dangerous wanderer dragged his damaged right leg, moved most of the missing body, limped across the dying monster's bones, and walked forward to the Eureka Raider who was passively bearing the blow of the fifth-generation monster.

The defensive shell of this new generation of monsters, never seen before, was so nearly invulnerable that Chuck Hansen realized with exasperation that he couldn't find a single exploitable weakness in it.

"This is the most perfect Destroyer of Humanity... Ordinary shells are useless against it."

Withdrawing his right hand that had cleared the howitzer, Steyk made his judgment in a low voice.

The five-generation monster roared, spinning at a high speed with a huge body as thick as a tree trunk and slamming straight into it. The terrifying gravity impact was hard to resist, and it was extremely ferocious——

The Eureka Raider suddenly flew more than ten meters away, the system circuit was severely damaged, and the entire machine body was damaged in a large area!

After repeated attempts to enable the self-repair function to no avail, Chuck roughly checked the damage manually, and reported loudly to the side, "Our nuclear bomb delivery device has failed, and more than [-]% of the system has stalled, sir!"

General Steck remained silent, frowning tightly.

"Raleigh, Catherine... Take my order: don't come!"

After a while, he finally made a sound, but he said to the mecha that staggered behind him, "The Wanderer is nuclear powered, take her to the gap!... The raider's nuclear bomb can't be dropped, and it's still going to be released." There are other uses... Let's clear the way for you."

Chuck Hansen understood the general's decision almost immediately.

He hesitated to raise his right arm, hesitated for a moment in mid-air, and still stuck the communication link button between the mechs.

"Catherine. Yesterday you asked me if I believed that absurd nonsense . . . Well, it's time to tell you my answer—I don't."

The volume was so low that it was almost inaudible, Chuck said in a hoarse voice with a smile.His words were interrupted by the unstable electric current, "...Farewell. Damn, you know, I..."

He said a few more words later, but Su Li didn't catch them clearly.She opened her mouth to say something to him, but...

But he has unilaterally cut off communications.

"My father used to say... seize the opportunity in front of you and you won't regret it."

In the porous Raider cockpit, Chuck took off his helmet, and the salty moisture hit his face and instantly wet the corners of his brows. He frowned and immediately relaxed, smiling softly and saying slowly, " It has been an honor to fight alongside you, sir."

He raised his hand and released the brake of the third nuclear explosion switch.

Clear the way for the homeless.Be the last stepping stone.

No one will die from it, except himself.

If any stupid bastard had to be sacrificed for this operation, he hoped it would be him, and only him.

Next, General Steck over there nailed down the penultimate one.

"Stupid bastard".That's right - there was no one more stupid than himself.

Chuck snorted, not sure where the stuffy feeling in his chest and the bitter taste on the back of his tongue came from, and what they represented.

He just curled up the corner of his mouth mockingly.

the last one.

Putting his hand on it, it froze for half a second.

He did enjoy his life, and he wasn't lying then.

He also wanted to return to the base alive and see with his own eyes what the new world without monsters would look like.

just now...

With force on his knuckles, he pressed the nuclear explosion start button.There was no hesitation or trembling.

...It's just that now, I'm afraid there will be no more chances.

The curled flare exploded at close range in the wet space with eye-burning brightness and heat, trying to control and barely stabilize the body that was shaken by the explosion, Su Li couldn't even say a complete "goodbye" because Choking had already filled his throat, and tears were hanging down heavily on his eyelashes.

This has never been seen before...

The original owner of this body, Catherine Lopez's will.

...it's unbelievable.

There has always been only one explanation for her ability to travel to other dimensions and live in someone's body: there is no sign of life in that body*.In other words, Catherine Lopez died the moment before Su Li came here.

It was in this way that she was able to travel to Catherine's body and help her continue her life.

So normally speaking, it is impossible for the original owner of the body that was supposed to be dead to be triggered any more emotions... But how can she explain her abnormal emotions at this time?

As if every nerve in his brain was screaming and trembling, Su Li raised his uncontrolled right hand with difficulty, pressing down on his throbbing heart.

Anyway...she's not Catherine, sorry.

The author has something to say: * There has always been only one explanation for her being able to travel to other dimensions and live in someone's body: there is no sign of life in that body: that is, the moment the original owner died Su Mei will pass through, and it is precisely because of this that the body can be worn back again after death... I don’t know if the explanation is clear_(:з)∠)_About this point, I have laid a foreshadowing before w first Marianne's heart attack, "I can't even believe she's alive" at the beginning of this volume, etc.

Accidentally exploded the word count again... I was supposed to have a good sleep and then get up to complete this chapter, but after lying on the bed for half an hour, I got up and typed...

Take the wallaby bento and go all the way, please believe that the author Ma Ma loves you. Ps Because the general’s illness has little to do with this volume, I didn’t write it, and I didn’t write about the parting of the father and son, so I didn’t write it... put a GIF animation, everyone is ready to read down (note that the expression of the wallaby is so cruel Liver tremor QAQ) ↓

[Wallaboo Perspective] BGM "Iron", the taste is better after clicking to play↓

Attached are the lyrics (in Chinese):

The deep sea, dead and lost, scorched by fire

Even if it's a million miles away from home, I'm going forward

I'm frozen to the bone, I'm...

The weapon is in my hand, but I forgot the way

I carry endless shame

I wait to call my shield and sword, I'm ready to face fate and fight

The sound of the impact of steel lingers in my mind, and the thunder continues like a heavy drum

The fall of the drum, the weight of death, the horn of the rise, keep going

From dawn to last days I had to flee

I want to feel the pain and the bitterness, the blood on my lips, flow again

A deadly snow that burns my hands

I'm frozen to the bone, I'm...

A million miles away from home, I'm still going forward fearlessly

I can't remember your eyes, I can't remember your face

Combined with the lyrics of God's fit, when I think of the wallaby, I feel bad...

Ps The ending is cruel, you can hit me but you are not allowed to hit me in the face, you can scold me but you cannot say that I am not handsome.

The next chapter is the end of this volume... Do you have any guesses about the way it will end? XD

I'm starting to struggle with the identity of Iron Man Juan Sumei... How about playing with artificial intelligence this time_(:з)∠)_【Stop!

Thanks to [Ming Kong] for mine=333=Love you so much!The girls who throw thunder are all little angels!

The state of coding in the middle of the night is not good, wait for me to get up at noon to fix a text~