The appearance of the 67-meter-tall Thunderclap Omen Star around Guya infused the air with an immeasurable sense of desolate killing intent.
It felt as if a heavy mountain had been placed upon the hearts of everyone present. Even Shen Jingming, as powerful as a war god, immediately felt the terror of this mecha.
Dozens of enemy mechas that burst from the walls of skyscrapers began to make mechanical transformation sounds, their crawler tracks and movement mechanisms raising their limbs. Their limbs then separated at the shoulders at a ninety-degree angle, transforming into bizarre mechas shaped like dragonflies with four wings.
The end of each wing suddenly lit up with black energy focusing spheres, and with a "sizz —!" countless black lasers rained down.
Heiqian was the first to shoot into the sky. Its back armor cracked open, revealing eight slender, javelin-like floating cannons that hissed as they shot out from the mecha.
The eight javelins continued to split and rotate in the air from the middle, forming sixteen javelin floating cannons.
The Heiqian mecha then began to circle in a large diameter, breaking through the laser rain to fly above the enemy swarm. Its mechanical five fingers suddenly straightened and shot out from its palms, forming ten javelin floating cannons.
The twenty-six floating cannons agilely dodged the enemy mechas' black lasers, their sharp javelin heads erupting with black energy beams, rapidly piercing towards the enemy mechas.
The Thunderclap Omen Star's right arm armor rapidly flipped up, revealing its liquid energy cannon barrel, which blasted a huge hole in the reinforced concrete skyscraper wall as it drilled inside.
The sounds of "bang! boom! rumble!" echoed from within the skyscraper. When the Thunderclap Omen Star burst out again, it was already above the black star enemy swarm.
The swarm of four-winged bizarre enemy mechas below promptly reversed their wing direction and fired black lasers upwards.
Simultaneously, the enemy mechas' waist sections ejected propellant flames, pushing the mechas into the sky. Like a swarm of black four-leaf clovers, they once again surrounded and attacked from all directions.
The Heiqian mecha was now like a sword-controlling immortal performing "Wan Jian Gui Zong" (All Swords Return to the Source). The javelin floating cannons shot from it formed a "sword array" that weaved through the enemy swarm like dragons, continuously firing lasers. Using their sharp, hard heads to pierce through enemy mechas, they then continued to pursue other enemies.
After expending their energy, the javelin floating cannons quickly retreated into the Heiqian mecha. After a mere three seconds of charging, they erupted outwards once more.
After a round of interception, almost no enemy mechas remained.
Suddenly, a roar like that of a colossal beast reverberated from the distant sky, sounding like a dragon's roar yet also like a tiger's roar.
Not only that, but a vast horde of bizarre enemy mechas emerged from behind the skyscrapers.
The sky, which had been cleared, was once again filled with enemy mechas.
Guya's eyes were calm as he activated his mecha's skills. The hard alloy control handles suddenly opened their mouths like snakes, swallowing Guya's two arms.
The soft leather pilot seat melted like a gelatinous body, engulfing Guya from the front. Oxygen supply tubes extended from the ceiling and plugged into his combat helmet.
The entire cockpit, like the heart of a giant beast, suddenly throbbed, rapidly transforming into a gelatinous substance that lunged towards Guya.
A few seconds later, Guya was completely enveloped by the cockpit, pilot seat, and control console. Countless tiny cables appeared out of nowhere, and small suction cup connectors adhered all over his body.
Guya gradually felt himself become one with the Thunderclap Omen Star. He no longer needed mechanical point-to-point operation or retrieval of mecha action commands; he could control the mecha with his own movements, and even deploy offensive weapons with his mind.
The hard steel had come alive like flesh and blood!
The Thunderclap Omen Star's left arm rapidly inverted inwards, and four alloy bow limbs popped out from its arm armor. The four ends of the bows shot out blue electromagnetic lines that connected with each other, forming two electromagnetic bowstrings.
With a gentle pull of the electromagnetic bowstrings, six lightning ball-shaped electromagnetic cannons, connected by several white-blue lightning bolts, shot out with a "bang!" like a string of lightning grapes.
After the six energy balls hit the enemy mechas, larger leakage currents erupted from the mechas, connecting the surrounding enemy mechas within the lightning network.
As the electric net disappeared, the enemy mechas, as if losing control, plummeted to the ground.
Just as the Thunderclap Omen Star and Heiqian were clearing the enemy mechas, that earth-shattering, terrifying roar sounded again! Several distant skyscrapers collapsed from their waists with a loud crash!
Using the sensors distributed throughout the Thunderclap Omen Star's body, Guya could clearly feel the surrounding temperature and atmospheric pressure suddenly increase.
"High-energy evasion!!" Shen Jingming's urgent shout had barely finished.
A massive cannon beam directly broke through the skyscraper wall and shot towards the Thunderclap Omen Star.
At the critical moment, Guya twisted his body, controlling the mecha to dodge beneath the giant beam cannon.
"Hot!" Guya roared, instantly severing the sensor connection, thus preventing himself from being scorched by the high temperature.
When he looked up again, a terrifying black hole was visible on the hard reinforced concrete skyscraper wall, with molten red lava dripping around the edges of the hole.
Suddenly, giant beast-claw-shaped five fingers pressed down on the top of a skyscraper. Several hundred square meters of skyscraper were not even as large as that beast claw!
"Argh—!" The giant beast's roar came from behind the skyscraper, blowing away the enemy mechas in the sky like an air cannon.
A beast head, larger than three merged skyscrapers, appeared in the sky. The beast's head blocked the sunlight, and two mountain-sized red glowing beast eyes looked down upon the Thunderclap Omen Star.
The surrounding enemy mechas fled in panic.
At this moment, two nearly kilometer-long mechanical wings unfolded from behind the skyscrapers, like a giant net that obscured the heavens and the earth! With just a slight flap, the glass of skyscrapers within a radius of several kilometers was shattered by the immense wind!
The Thunderclap Omen Star and Heiqian split into two groups, flying rapidly in circles within the skyscraper cluster, evading the giant beast mecha's firepower.
When they rendezvoused outside Shan Hai City, they turned to look back at the city. The unimaginably large, bizarre giant beast mecha, as if entering Lilliput, was wreaking havoc in the skyscraper jungle.
Its nearly kilometer-long body resembled a fierce tiger, with two enormous metal wings unfurled on its back, like a tiger with wings.
The giant beast mecha opened its massive maw, spewing out earth-yellow laser cannons. With a sweep of its beast head, skyscrapers within a radius of several kilometers were all melted at the waist by the laser cannons!
Following the giant beast mecha's cannon fire, countless black dots began to ascend from the south of the city.
Upon closer inspection, they were all four-winged bizarre mechas.
"Who would create such a mecha?" Guya asked in shock.
Shen Jingming calmly replied, "Lai Jing · Fa Nan."
Guya suddenly had an idea, "I've suddenly come up with a new tactic that can help me quickly enter Porcelain City."
"Let's hear it," Shen Jingming said calmly.
"There are still many remnants of the Starfall Army gathered outside Shan Hai City. If I gather them to counterattack Lai Jing · Fa Nan's troops, and then pretend to be captured, wouldn't I be directly sent to Porcelain City prison?" Guya said coldly.
"That's not wise," Shen Jingming analyzed calmly.
"How will I know if I don't try? You don't need to follow me anymore. Go ahead and scout Porcelain City. Notify me immediately if there's any new intelligence," Guya said calmly.
Shen Jingming glanced at the deep blue Thunderclap Omen Star on the display screen, thought for half a minute, and said, "Good luck."
Immediately afterward, massive black planes unfolded behind the Heiqian mecha. It retreated and disappeared into the black planes as if submerging into a calm lake.
When the planes vanished, the sky was empty.
"Could this be void technology from underground? Why didn't Xian Xia let Shen Jingming lead the research? It seems there's more to this," Guya muttered to himself.
Glancing once more at the giant beast mecha rampaging through the city, Guya no longer dwelled on it. He turned his mecha and flew towards the area outside Shan Hai City.