Meng Hao, full of confidence, began to refute the rumors in the live broadcast.
He could completely ignore the trolls and those paid to stir up trouble.
However, there were still a large number of genuine fans in the broadcast room.
"Everyone,"
"This video was released by Major General Gude Yefu earlier."
"Many fans might be new and not understand the situation..."
Before Meng Hao could finish speaking,
Not only the trolls,
Even the true fans who had been silent for a long time couldn't help but "blast" him.
"Brother Hao, can you please stop deceiving yourself!"
"New netizens? I was one of the first users to follow Mech Ji... that was before you offered a million cash for questions."
"Brother Hao, we are willing to believe that you would never infringe on national interests... but, please don't deceive us old fans who have been following for so long!"
"Military industrial enterprises are military industrial enterprises, it's no big deal... If you had admitted it confidently, would those trolls be smearing you and making Bilibili distance itself from you?"
"..."
What's going on?
Meng Hao was bewildered by the sudden change in the live broadcast room.
It was one thing for the paid trolls and keyboard warriors to spew venom,
But why were these familiar old users and fans also bombarding him with bullet comments?
Wait.
Could it be that old Russian Gude Yefu was up to his old tricks again?
Did he perhaps re-edit the previous video and add some new content?
The crux of the problem seemed to be found.
Meng Hao once again focused his gaze on the mobile phone in his hand.
He let the bullet comments in the live broadcast room scroll wildly and replayed the video on his phone to see what had happened.
The video quickly loaded.
Meng Hao was astonished to find that
The first frame of the video had changed.
It was still the same icy, snow-covered world.
However,
This time, the main focus of the scene was not the desolate forest plain that Meng Hao remembered seeing before.
Instead, it was a mountain pass.
In front of the mountain pass was an open area.
And about ten kilometers behind the mountain pass was the final command center for the Russian military exercise.
Countless military robots, armored units, and even infantry from the Western Alliance countries had already gathered.
It was evident that
Without the support of Hua Rong Industries' 10 Hua Rong Type I mechs as a barrier, Russia was ultimately no match for the Western Alliance countries.
Russia was about to lose this military exercise.
Although Meng Hao felt sorry for them,
Under the combined onslaught of the Western Alliance,
Russia's defeat was inevitable.
However,
With the army approaching,
Even though Meng Hao had delivered 10 Phantom mechs, they would likely be useless in such a situation.
Well,
At least he didn't have to worry about his company's mechs appearing on such a battlefield and being mistaken for military robots.
Suppressing the urge to argue with the live broadcast audience,
Meng Hao continued to watch the video.
The next frame.
Meng Hao was dumbfounded.
The 10 Phantom mechs appeared.
Wait.
Were these still the mechs produced by Hua Rong Industries?
The entire mech was repainted with a snow-white stealth optical coating.
Major General Gude Yefu, the old Russian, seemed to have deliberately etched off the words "Produced by Hua Rong Industries" from the mech's chest to spare Meng Hao's feelings.
Even more absurd was—
The Hua Rong Industries mechs were reinforced at the core during design and manufacturing to prohibit private modification into military robots.
Well,
The old Russian's approach was very much in line with their national characteristics.
Since the core of the mechs could not be modified or equipped with various weapons and equipment,
They simply
Scaled up human weapons.
Good heavens.
A custom three-meter-long Gatling gun!
A shoulder-launched rocket launcher with a barrel as thick as a tank's!
A submachine gun as big as a child, slung at the mech's waist!
It was fortunate that Russia's heavy weapons forging technology was robust,
Otherwise, such terrifying enhanced weapons would never have been manufactured.
What made Meng Hao's scalp tingle even more was yet to come...
As the allied forces of the Western Alliance blindly charged forward,
The ten Phantom mechs unleashed their firepower simultaneously.
Instantly,
Bullets flew everywhere.
Mech casings were scattered.
The first wave of military robots that charged forward were pulverized.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the allied forces of the Western Alliance, which had been heavily bombarded, immediately retreated.
They switched to using artillery to bombard the base set up by Russia on the snow-capped mountain top from more than ten kilometers away.
With such concentrated artillery fire,
If the continuous ranks of Western Alliance troops could not be dealt with immediately, Russia's base would sooner or later be bombarded into collapse!
The problem was,
These 10 heavily modified Phantom mechs, armed with oversized guns, were blocking the mountain pass and holding back the allied advance, but they could not counterattack.
Their limited ammunition would not last long.
Furthermore, to evade attacks from the Western Alliance troops, the mechs could only engage in low-altitude flight for counterattacks.
The modified equipment added by Russia had caused them to be significantly overweight.
Their original flight endurance of over four hours would likely only last for an hour at most when carrying so much equipment.
Just as Meng Hao was pondering,
Another bizarre scene unfolded.
The ten overweight Phantom mechs simultaneously took to the sky.
They unleashed a barrage of fire upon the allied forces spread across the mountainside.
Meng Hao was stunned.
Putting aside the fact that his Hua Rong Industries mechs had been converted into weapon platforms and were indiscriminately firing,
Moreover,
This kind of all-out, bullet-storming assault was indeed in line with the Russian style.
However,
The carrying capacity of each mech was limited.
Russia's modifications had severely exceeded the mechs' lift capacity for takeoff... but even so, the amount of ammunition they could carry was very fixed.
Such reckless expenditure of firepower would deplete their ammunition before their flight endurance ran out.
Once these ten mechs left the battlefield and had to replenish their artillery shells and flight energy, the mountain pass would be undefended.
It was likely that the Western Alliance army would then surge forward.
Rumble.
In the sky,
Several fighter jets pierced the battlefield at Mach 2.
Meng Hao's expression instantly froze.
What the hell.
Weren't these the long-range assault flight modules that he had previously equipped on the Hua Rong Type I mechs... modified F-35 fighter jets?
The previous 10 Hua Rong Type I mechs had been destroyed on the battlefield.
What did the old Russians mean by deploying these 10 modified F-35 fighter jets?!
Just as Meng Hao was wondering,
The ammunition of several of the Russian-modified Phantom mechs ran out, and their endurance was about to expire.
Subsequently,
Right under the noses of the Western Alliance forces,
Those Phantom mechs, in groups of two, took to the sky, soaring directly into the heavens... and then, in mid-air, accurately docked with the modified F-35s.
Holy crap!
No way!!
What kind of international joke is this!
It was only now that Meng Hao truly understood the purpose of the old Russians deploying the modified F-35s!