That's what the armed forces of this world look like?

Li Ang, with great interest, endured the intense glare of the searchlights as he observed the four S.W.A.T. members and one mech that were aiming their weapons at him.

The four S.W.A.T. members could be considered burly and strong, and well-trained.

His thoughts were calm, his breathing steady.

The overall design of the firearms in their hands resembled an enlarged version of the AAC Honey Badger PDW assault rifle from the real world.

The ammunition used was armor-piercing rounds with a tungsten carbide core, capable of penetrating the armor of cars, armored vehicles, and even the vulnerable spots of armed helicopters.

High-explosive grenade launchers were also mounted beneath the assault rifles.

The three-meter-tall mech, shaped like a silverback gorilla, possessed a modern industrial mechanical aesthetic that was out of sync with the surrounding urban environment.

The external metal armor had a matte black finish.

Through the gaps between the armor plates, one could vaguely see the hidden cables and complex, dense hydraulic transmission system within.

The style and design were similar to the Shanhai series mechs developed by the Special Affairs Bureau.

"Attention, citizen! We are the Newport City Special Mobile Response Force!

You are ordered to stand still! Slowly raise your hands and turn around!!"

Seeing that Li Ang remained motionless,

The pilot of the silverback mech shouted sternly, the rotary machine gun in its hand spinning slowly and menacingly,

Its heavy feet stomped, crushing the concrete pavement, one step at a time, slowly approaching.

Li Ang blinked. Spiritual energy surged naturally like a tide.

The next second, the four S.W.A.T. officers instantly turned their guns to aim at the silverback mech.

"What—"

The pilot of the silverback mech, seeing his suddenly rebellious comrades, was shocked and stunned.

What shocked him even more was

Li Ang's figure disappeared without any warning from the liquid crystal panel of the narrow cockpit.

It should be known that this silverback beast-shaped mech, codenamed Bty2105, was equipped with the most advanced thermal, photosensitive, chemosensitive, magnetosensitive multi-function sensors, radio detection radar, and automated electronic identification friend or foe system.

As long as it successfully locked on,

Even if the target was a nimble and cunning fly, it would never be able to escape the mech's fire control system's automatic targeting.

Li Ang had not disappeared. He flashed to the front of the silverback mech, his unremarkable hand gripping the electrically driven rotary machine gun in the mech's hand.

Crack—

The machine gun was firmly grasped, brought to a standstill,

The tungsten steel barrel, in the face of the most primitive brute force, made a harsh, twisting sound.

The motor behind the machine gun billowed white smoke.

Squeak—

Li Ang twisted the machine gun into a ball like he was wringing out a towel, and casually blocked the mech's right arm, which was coming down like a battering ram from high above.

Bang!

Under the heavy force, Li Ang's feet were smashed into the ground, and the concrete pavement shattered, leaving two deep footprints.

"Not bad."

Li Ang raised his head, gazing at the silverback mech's triangular, ape-like head with a smile that was not a smile, as if he wanted to see through the thick armor and make eye contact with the incredulous pilot in the cockpit.

"But, that's all it is."

He slowly bent his knees, released his right hand that was holding the broken rotary machine gun, and turned his palm into a fist.

Jump, punch.

Boom!!!

The three-meter-tall, burly mech flew out along the ground like a bowling ball.

The thick armor on its back smashed open all the vehicles along the way.

Its duck-like feet scraped against the concrete pavement, leaving two long marks on the ground.

It wasn't until it crashed into an unmanned double-decker red bus, smashing the roof of the bus and shifting the entire vehicle back two meters,

That it stopped its momentum.

It slumped against the bus, sitting on the ground,

The chest armor that had been punched was dented inwards, faintly revealing the imprint of a fist.

White smoke billowed from the joints of its limbs.

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.

Considering the weight of the mech, the force of his punch should have sent it flying even further.

However, at the moment his fist came into contact with the armor,

He felt as if he had struck an invisible, sturdy shield.

The force of his fist was forcibly weakened by thirty percent.

He hadn't been able to destroy the mech with a single punch.

"Doesn't feel like an energy shield..."

He narrowed his eyes slightly. A faint, imperceptible golden light flashed across the surface of the mech in the distance, which was tottering and swaying as it stood up.

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"What... is that thing?"

Outside Newport City, at the Pacific Rim Allied Defense Force military base, in the command hall.

A skinny scientist in a suit, leaning on a cane, stood up from his chair in stunned silence, watching the scene of Yau Ma Tei street in Newport City on the big screen, along with his colleagues.

On the desk in front of him were scattered a large number of drawings with mathematical formulas and geometric patterns.

Hanging from his suit lapel was a name tag—Hermann Gottlieb, Kaiju Science Division.

"That's not a 'thing,' Hermann.

If you look closely,

One head, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two arms, two legs.

The gentleman in the picture looks just like us, he's human—

Except he can punch a ten-ton silverback mech flying."

Next to Hermann, a man in a white shirt and glasses stared blankly at the screen, instinctively mocking his best friend.

His chest also bore a name tag, which read Newton Geiszler, Kaiju Science Division.

"Newton, Hermann,

Analysis."

A dark-skinned general in a navy blue, crisp uniform, with general stars on his chest and shoulders, interrupted the two scientists' mutual ridicule.

He stood in the center of the command hall, his face calm and composed, his gaze fixed on the big screen.

"Yes, sir."

The physicist named Hermann Gottlieb coughed, leaned over, and quickly pressed the computer keyboard, calling up a large amount of parameter data.

"The spatial energy sensing detector in the Yau Ma Tei area has detected an Alpha-level spatial reaction, which is a strange indentation and collapse in the spatial structure.

Normally, this only occurs when deep-sea Kaiju come to our world through spatial wormholes, but this time it happened, and the energy level sensed by the sensor is far lower than that of a conventional spatial wormhole."

Hermann paused, and continued, "Based on the current information, there are four hypotheses that are most likely.

One, the spatial sensor is giving a false alarm, and the person in the picture is just an ordinary person—which is clearly unlikely.

Two, the person is a space-based esper from a superhero comic—which is also unreasonable. If there really were space-based espers, they would have stood up to defend Earth during the Ten-Year War, and we wouldn't have had to sacrifice so many compatriots.

Three, the person is a deep-sea Kaiju thrown over from the wormhole, wearing human skin, responsible for lurking, infiltrating, and assassinating.

Four, the person is not related to the deep-sea wormhole, but comes from another world.

Regardless of the possibility, my suggestion is..."

"Observe, assess, control, contain, research,

Negotiate, if possible."

The general finished the second half of the sentence for his subordinate with a calm expression, took a deep breath, and pressed the Pacific Rim Allied Defense Force communicator button.