Silicon Invasion

Today was an exciting day. Luo Rui finally stood before the Mycans.

He hadn't expected it to be so soon. A year ago, he was still hoping his hand speed could reach the entry-level for pilots. A year later, he had already been selected as an outstanding student and granted the opportunity to enter the alien world for a mission.

And all of this was thanks to the attribute table.

The mission wasn't the kind Luo Rui had imagined, where Instructor Zeng would take everyone in for a brief tour to familiarize themselves with the environment. Instead, it was an ultra-large-scale team mission right from the start.

It was truly ultra-large-scale. Luo Rui saw tactical squads converging from all directions, quickly filling the huge plaza in front of him. There were at least four or five hundred mechs already waiting in formation, and even more were still being transported by trucks or helicopters.

"Instructor, what are we going to do?" Luo Rui asked in the team channel. They were about to depart, so there was no need for secrecy, right?

"Hehe, it's just a routine activity. Just follow along when the time comes," Instructor Zeng chuckled, still unwilling to say more.

Luo Rui didn't ask any further and waited quietly.

Based on his specialization, his position this time was still long-range support, piloting the Archer III mech, equipped with twin recoilless cannons. Since it wasn't a rapid assault-type mission, he brought three ammunition loads, one set of armor-piercing rounds and two sets of mixed ammunition.

The Archer III was transported to the designated location by a C-21 military truck. Luo Rui piloted the mech off the truck and then unloaded the recoilless cannons and ammunition.

Weapons and mechs were transported separately to avoid accidents. Only after three Warrior 7s were transported over did the Archer III, with the help of the Warrior 7s, complete the mounting of its weapons.

Instructor Zeng was also a Warrior 7 pilot. The squad only had Luo Rui as a long-range fire support, without the cooperation of an auxiliary mech, which was somewhat deformed.

However, in this kind of large-scale operation, there wasn't so much emphasis on that. Everyone was marching together, so even if the squad didn't have an auxiliary mech, relevant information wouldn't be lacking.

The last to arrive was Niu Wei's Warrior III. It wasn't because it was too heavy; the C-21 truck had a payload of over a hundred tons, and the Warrior III's weight wasn't even half of that. The reason it was last was because there was a traffic jam just now…

There were a total of 21 academy teams participating in this operation, only accounting for 20% of the total number of students. It seemed that more people were still practicing their teamwork. After all, it was rare to see a nearly full team like the Shining Knights.

Apart from these student team mechs, most of the other mechs came directly from the warehouse, so the rumbling sound was constant.

Luo Rui didn't find the sound noisy. It was the first time he had seen so many mechs assembled. The surroundings were all steel bodies, and the sound of metal colliding could only be felt when you were there in person, experiencing the surge of adrenaline.

It seemed that this was indeed a large-scale routine operation. Before the assembly was even complete, the vanguard had already begun advancing towards the spatial rift.

This was a huge spatial rift, nearly thirty meters high and over fifty meters wide. A mech less than ten meters high entering it was like passing through the gate of a giant's kingdom.

Luo Rui's squad was about a third of the way into the entire formation. Instructor Zeng led the way, and Luo Rui, as the squad's only fire support, walked at the rear.

The closer they got to the rift, the more excited Luo Rui became, his heart pounding faster. Under the surge of adrenaline, he briefly entered a state of complete focus, and the excitement slowly subsided.

The rift connected two worlds. Usually, no idlers were allowed to approach this place. Of course, the idlers here didn't refer to ordinary outsiders, but to all soldiers who weren't on duty or guarding the area.

It was also the first time Luo Rui had seen this rift. As they got closer and closer, although it was strictly forbidden to scan randomly with radar, simple optical capture could already see the scene on the other side through the rift.

The fiery red sky seemed to be burning with flames, and there were trees of the same color sparsely dotted around as decorations. But the most eye-catching were those buildings that were clearly of human style.

The towering giant cannons, the launch racks filled with missiles, and those majestic buildings made Luo Rui feel a little dazed. Was the other side really Myca?

Perhaps because they were about to enter Myca, the previous confidentiality regulations were lifted. Instructor Zeng's voice came from the team channel. From his low and descriptive explanation, Luo Rui learned that this rift had been stably in existence for nearly thirty years and was among the earliest rifts to be discovered and developed.

Such a large rift couldn't have been so peaceful from the beginning. It was only after the hard-fought battles of their predecessors that they had secured this base.

After Earth stabilized, the predecessors used this as a fulcrum and then advanced towards Myca.

Because there was a way out, humans adopted hit-and-run tactics, slowly eliminating the powerful silicon-based beasts around them, and then carving out a piece of territory. Subsequently, they spent a huge price to build this base.

However, the materials used to build the base were delicious food in the eyes of the silicon-based beasts. Although the silicon-based beasts were powerful, their intelligence was relatively primitive, belonging to wild beasts. After several times of attacking the base and being killed and losing their armor, they also knew that although the food was abundant here, it was not easy to provoke. Slowly, the base also consolidated its position in this area.

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Because the sky here is always a piece of activity, beautifully like a burning lake, this base was named Lake Splendor Base. Luo Rui now understood the origin of Lake Splendor Base.

With Lake Splendor Base as a fulcrum, humans finally had the ability to further develop Myca. In the unique environment of Myca, everything was worth studying, and some of these things were quite precious.

The first is the energy core from the body of the higher silicon-based beast - the Silicon Heart. At present, when humans cannot miniaturize high-power energy production devices, the Silicon Heart is the absolute core to support the entire mech combat system.

Only with the Silicon Heart will there be mechs, otherwise the mechs will only be metal toys that cannot continue to fight.

The second is various minerals. The Silicon Heart is only an energy production device, but it cannot generate energy out of thin air. It must consume raw materials to work. And this raw material is the magical Z element.

In Myca, silicon-based beasts can absorb these magical elements through eating and even breathing, and then transport them to the Silicon Heart by the matching organs evolved in the body, and then generate energy for the whole body to move and survive.

However, after the Silicon Heart is taken out of the silicon-based beast, although it can be used as a separate device because of its high degree of siliconization and mechanization, humans cannot take out the absorption organs and transportation system that match it in the silicon-based beast.

However, humans quickly found a replacement.