bookrandom Chapter 160 The First Cry of the Steel Behemoth! A Dimensional Reduction Strike from the Heavy Armor
Chapter 160 The First Cry of the Steel Behemoth! A Dimensional Reduction Strike from the Heavy Armor
As the steam gradually dissipated, dark red flames shot out of the exhaust pipe.
The strong smell of diesel fuel, tinged with the stench of blood, made several soldiers nearby cough repeatedly.
The entire open space of Warehouse No. 7 was completely silent.
Lei Zhan swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down with difficulty.
He pointed to the massive steel monster, as large as a small building, and stammered.
"Brother Jiang... Jiang Ming, don't tell me this is what was pieced together from that pile of scrap metal?"
Jiang Ming didn't reply, but directly opened the system panel and glanced at it.
[Heavy Armor - Mobile Fortress (Iron Tier - Upgradeable)]
[Armor: Heavy High-Strength Composite Armor (Physical Damage Reduction 45%, Magic Resistance +20)]
[Power Source: High-Energy Flesh Engine (Supports diesel/high-octane fuel, and can devour the flesh of high-level creatures and magical energy crystals to convert them into kinetic energy. When devouring flesh, it comes with the effects of "self-repair" and "localized berserk mode".)]
[Weapon Loadout: Twin 30mm Magic Energy Cannon (Ammunition empty, requires reloading with energy cores or live ammunition), Twelve-tube Rocket Pod (empty).]
[Upgrade Progress: 0/1000 (Consuming rare metals, high-level energy, or lord-level monster cores can upgrade the fortress's tier.)]
Top-notch!
Jiang Ming clicked his tongue in surprise.
I originally thought it was just a large armored vehicle, but I didn't expect it to have built-in blood-sucking and self-healing functions.
During the system synthesis, the [High-Energy Flesh Engine] was perfectly integrated into this mechanical creation, directly turning it into a semi-living entity.
"This kind of extravagance would probably drive even the old men at our Military Academy of Sciences crazy."
Chu Tianfeng walked to the side of the chariot, raised his hand and tapped the ridiculously thick matte black armor plate, which produced a dull metallic echo.
He turned his head and looked at Jiang Ming with an extremely complicated expression.
Previously, he only thought Jiang Ming was a master with exceptional individual combat skills.
But now, this ability to create things out of thin air has completely exceeded the scope of a "super soldier".
This is a monster capable of single-handedly raising an entire mechanized army!
"Commander Chu, I've taken the goods. We're even now." Jiang Ming patted the menacing bulldozer blade on the front of the truck.
Chu Tianfeng took a deep breath, and his tone became much more polite than before.
"Jiang Ming, I know you don't want to be bound by the rules and regulations of the military region. But you've seen the situation in Dongjiang City now; there are overlapping areas everywhere. If you're willing to stay, I can apply to the higher-ups to give you an independent operational unit, free from anyone's command, and all the military region's resources will be prioritized for you!"
"Forget about the official staff position; I don't like having someone above me." Jiang Ming casually pulled out a cigarette and lit it. "But I'm sentimental. You guys are in charge of collecting materials and intelligence, and I'll handle the tough stuff. We'll pay by the piece, no cheating."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Tianfeng's specially made encrypted walkie-talkie suddenly crackled loudly.
"Calling command! This is the position of the 3rd Regiment at the North Suburb Chemical Plant! The defense line has been breached!"
The radio crackled with gunfire and inhuman screams. Company Commander Zhao Hu's voice was hoarse. "Those bastards are too thick-skinned! Even heavy machine gun fire didn't leave a mark! Requesting artillery support! Requesting... Ah!"
With a scream, the communication abruptly ended.
Chu Tianfeng's expression changed drastically. He grabbed the walkie-talkie and roared, "Zhao Hu! Zhao Hu! Report on the casualties!"
There was only a crackling, blind sound.
"The chemical plant in the northern suburbs?" Lei Zhan exclaimed anxiously. "Brigade Commander, that's where our No. 2 ammunition depot is located! If those monsters get in and cause a secondary explosion, most of the northern suburbs will be flattened!"
"Notify the artillery battalion to provide cover for the perimeter of the chemical plant!" Chu Tianfeng made a decisive decision.
"We're running out of ammunition!" Lei Zhan was sweating profusely. "We've already used up two rounds of ammunition on the third defensive line in the south of the city. The heavy artillery battalion is waiting for supplies, and it will take at least half an hour before we can fire again!"
Half an hour later, by the time artillery support arrived, it was too late.
Jiang Ming exhaled a smoke ring and threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomping it out.
"Brigadier General Chu, a new business opportunity has arrived." He patted the tracks behind him. "I'll take care of the trouble at the chemical plant for you. After it's done, I want half of the explosives in that ammunition depot, whether they're expired or not, I want them all."
Chu Tianfeng gritted his teeth: "As long as you can keep the chemical plant, I'll give you two-thirds, not just half!"
"make a deal."
Jiang Ming turned and snapped his fingers at Chen Qi and Ma Luo: "Get in the car, let's get to work."
Marlowe could no longer contain himself and used both hands and feet to climb up the grooves in the armor plate.
Chen Qi nimbly climbed onto the roof of the vehicle and crawled into the cabin.
Jiang Ming leaped and landed directly on the position of the train commander's tower.
Upon entering the cockpit, Chen Qi was so struck by its structure that he immediately swore.
This is no tank cockpit!
There is no steering wheel, and no gear shift lever.
The entire control panel was covered with dark red, fleshy tubes that pulsated rhythmically like blood vessels.
In the very center is a neural connection panel that emits a faint glow.
"Boss, this thing is just what I want!" Marlowe screamed excitedly, plopping down in the driver's seat.
He didn't care how disgusting those fleshy tendrils looked, and without hesitation, he placed his hands on the connection panel.
"laugh--"
Several thin, fleshy probes instantly pierced Marlowe's wrist.
The goblin didn't cry out in pain; instead, he shivered comfortably.
"Neural connection complete. This is a million times better than the goblin airship's control stick! It's like I have four wheels!"
"Stop talking nonsense, let's go." Jiang Ming stood in the commander's position, looking outside through the panoramic periscope.
"Alright!" Marlowe grinned, revealing his yellow teeth, and shoved a bulging lump of flesh in front of him.
"Boom!"
The massive exhaust pipe at the rear of the tank suddenly spewed out a dark red flame with a bloody smell, and a strong sense of acceleration instantly swept over the tank.
The fifteen-meter-long steel behemoth let out a deafening roar, completed a tail-spinning maneuver on the spot, and its wide tracks dug two half-meter-deep trenches in the concrete ground.
"Hold on tight!"
The tank, like a ferocious beast unleashed from its cage, crushed the barbed wire surrounding Warehouse No. 7 and roared into the night streets.
It was moving so fast that it didn't look like a heavy armored vehicle weighing tens of tons!
Along the way, abandoned cars, lampposts, and even large concrete pillars blocking the way were all smashed away by that ferocious bulldozer blade.
"North Suburb Chemical Plant, 12 kilometers away, full speed ahead." Jiang Ming patted the command platform.
He could feel the metal floor beneath his feet getting slightly warm.
This tank also seems to crave a massacre.
……
North Suburb Chemical Plant.
Thick smoke billowed and flames shot into the sky.
The defenses have completely collapsed.
Dozens of overturned military trucks became the last line of defense.
Company Commander Zhao Hu, clutching his bleeding arm, leaned against a pile of sandbags, his automatic rifle already empty of magazines.
Surrounding them were more than a dozen monsters, each the size of a mini-P.E.K.K.A.
These monsters were covered in a layer of hard, grayish-black armor resembling rock, and each time their thick limbs landed, the ground trembled. (The latest chapter of the novel is highly anticipated! Come to Cola Novels!)
【Ironclad Rhinoceros (Lv.24)】
"Company commander, let's retreat! We've thrown all our grenades!" The communications officer next to him was so anxious that his face was covered in dust.
"Retreat my ass! The No. 2 ammunition depot is right behind us! If we retreat, the whole city will go up in flames!" Zhao Hu gritted his teeth, drew his tactical knife, and shouted, "Prepare for hand-to-hand combat! We'll die on this position, even if it means dying here!"
The two armored rhinoceros monsters let out a low roar, slammed their hind legs into the ground, and rammed into Zhao Hu's bunker like two runaway steamrollers.
Just as Zhao Hu was about to close his eyes and fight desperately.
Suddenly, a deafening roar of an engine tearing through the air came from the end of the street behind them.
The sound was so violent, it didn't sound like normal mechanical operation at all, but rather like a giant beast roaring madly.
"boom!"
The three-meter-high reinforced concrete wall surrounding the chemical plant was instantly knocked down, creating a large hole.
A massive black shadow, carrying a shower of bricks and stones, surged into the battlefield.
That's incredibly fast!
Before the two armored rhinoceros monsters that were charging forward could react, they were directly hit by the bulldozer blade on the front of the black chariot.
"Bang! Crack!"
The sickening sound of bones cracking echoed through the night sky.
The armored rhinoceros, weighing tens of tons, with its rock armor that even heavy machine guns couldn't penetrate, was as fragile as a biscuit in the face of the tank's terrifying kinetic energy.
The two monsters were smashed to pieces, flying more than ten meters away like rag dolls, before crashing to the ground, twitching a few times, and then remaining still.
"Holy crap..." Zhao Hu was stunned, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground.
The tank braked suddenly and came to a stop sideways in front of the position.
A long trail of dark red flames shot out of the exhaust pipe, illuminating the menacing matte black composite armor.
"Marlowe, start grinding, don't give them time to react," Jiang Ming's voice rang out in the cockpit.
"Just watch, boss!" Marlowe's face contorted with excitement as his hands flew across the neural control panel.
The tank didn't need to shift gears at all; it simply spun around in place, locked onto the area with the highest concentration of monsters, and revved the engine to its maximum speed, charging in.
What does it mean to unilaterally crush someone?
This heavily armored fortress gave all the Earth soldiers present a vivid lesson.
An armored rhinoceros tried to overturn a tank with its horn, but the horn broke off with a "crack" as soon as it struck the composite armor.
Immediately afterwards, the tank's wide tracks ran directly over it.
The most bizarre scene then unfolded.
Suddenly, countless dark red tentacles emerged from the bottom of the tracks, like straws, and instantly pierced into the monster's flesh.
[Devouring the flesh and blood of a Lv.24 Armored Rhinoceros Monster.]
[Tank kinetic energy replenishment +5%.]
The armor has been automatically repaired after minor wear.
Jiang Ming raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at the system notification.
This thing is practically a perpetual motion machine!
As long as there are corpses on the battlefield, it will never break down, and its outer protective armor can be repaired while fighting!
"Chen Qi, test fire the machine gun on the roof!" Jiang Ming ordered.
Chen Qi had already climbed into the turret on the roof of the vehicle.
Jiang Ming stuffed all the hundreds of low-level magic energy cores that had been looted at the monastery into the machine gun's magazine.
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
The twin-mounted 30mm magic cannons are firing.
Instead of brass cartridge cases, they fired clusters of dark blue, high-explosive magical energy orbs.
The ball of light struck the armored rhinoceros's hard armor, causing a violent explosion.
The blue flames were extremely hot and corrosive, instantly blasting more than a dozen monsters into a bloody mess, where they screamed and fled in all directions.
The situation reversed instantly.
Zhao Hu and the remaining soldiers lay hidden behind their bunkers, completely dumbfounded.
What kind of secret research institute developed this super weapon?
It can not only drift, but also has special attacks?!
Just then, a deafening roar suddenly came from deep within the chemical plant.
The roar contained an extremely strong sonic shockwave, and the windows of several surrounding factory buildings shattered instantly.
A behemoth, twice the size of a regular armored rhinoceros, emerged from the ruins.
Its scales had turned dark gold, and the single horn on its head emitted a chilling red glow.
【Ironclad Rhinoceros King (Lv.29, Warrior Level)】
"Boss, the big guy's here!" Marlowe shouted from the cockpit.
The rhinoceros king stared intently at the black chariot wreaking havoc in its territory, pawing the ground with its front hooves and launching a wild charge.
It was twice as fast as the previous few, kicking up a cloud of dust on the ground.
If this hits hard, even the thickest armored fortress would probably be badly damaged.
"Drive over there and crash into it head-on." Jiang Ming's voice was completely calm.
"Huh? A collision?" Marlowe was stunned for a moment, but his goblin madness was instantly ignited. "Let's do it!"
The chariot spewed long tongues of fire from its exhaust pipe and charged toward the Rhinoceros King at full speed.
The distance between the two sides closed rapidly.
One hundred meters.
Fifty meters.
Twenty meters.
At the very last minute, just 0.1 seconds before they were about to collide.
Jiang Ming suddenly flung open the hatch, and his entire body was ejected from the roof of the vehicle like a cannonball.
While he was in mid-air, he flipped his wrist, and the purple epic greatsword [Hellfire and Thunder Prison], exuding an aura of destruction, appeared out of thin air.
"boom!"
The chariot and the Rhinoceros King collided violently.
The enormous reaction force caused the front half of the chariot to lift up, and the Rhinoceros King's dark golden horn was deeply embedded in the bulldozer blade, holding it firmly in place.
However, it was also shaken by the terrifying weight of the chariot, causing it to spit blood from its mouth and nose, dragging its limbs in deep trenches several meters long on the ground, and its body inevitably became stiff.
It's now!
Jiang Ming fell from mid-air, gripping the sword hilt with both hands in reverse, his strength attribute soaring to the maximum of 45 points.
"Gravity Suppression!"
Skill activated.
The gravity on the Rhinoceros King instantly increased fivefold, and its attempt to lift its head was forcibly suppressed.
"Pfft!"
The greatsword, crackling with lightning and flames, pierced precisely through the gaps in the rhinoceros king's neck scales, penetrating its spine and embedding half of its blade into its flesh.
The power of thunder and fire exploded within the monster's body.
Before the Rhinoceros King could even let out a scream, its massive body stiffened abruptly, then crashed heavily to the ground, dying instantly.
[Defeat the Armored Rhinoceros King (Lv.29, Warrior Level) despite being a much stronger opponent.]
[Gained 55000 experience points.]
[Current level increased to Lv.19.]
Jiang Ming drew his greatsword and shook off the blood.
The chariot tracks rolled over, and its tentacles extended, instantly devouring all the remaining flesh and crystal core of the general-level monster.
[The heavily armored fortress devours a general-level monster.]
Upgrade progress: 250/1000.
[Gained Trait: Localized Armor Hardening (significantly increases the armor value of a designated area upon being attacked).]