“Aren’t we going to use the clever methods?”

Li Ang wasn’t surprised. It would be strange if there were deep-sea behemoths waiting to be harvested. “Can the mechs from Vladivostok, Tokyo, and Sydney be transferred here?”

“It’s probably too late.”

Black Stallion said cautiously, “Because of the need to use the Drift system to connect the pilot’s consciousness with the mech, almost all mechs are designed in human form.

In the PPDPC mech sequence, mechs from 3 to 10 meters have a certain low-altitude flight capability.

However, mechs above 10 meters don’t conform to aerodynamics and can’t fly long distances. This is especially true for heavy mechs that can contend with Tier 3 and 4 deep-sea creatures.

To move a heavy mech, you either have the mech walk on the seabed or land, or disassemble the mech into parts and transport it with heavy trucks or trains, or load it onto a 10,000-ton or 100,000-ton ocean freighter for transoceanic transport.

All three methods are too slow.”

“To prevent us from gathering a dozen mechs and ganging up on the deep-sea behemoths?”

Li Ang casually flipped through the data.

In fact, the design of a large humanoid mech walking upright on two legs doesn’t conform to modern science at all.

Standing upright means a larger attack surface.

Walking on two legs means the mech’s own weight will press down on the legs, risking sinking into soft ground.

A flat humanoid torso means the cockpit can’t enjoy the thickest armor protection no matter where it’s placed.

At the same time, the humanoid design with limbs and torso violates aerodynamics and greatly increases the difficulty of flying and running.

Theoretically, the optimal design for a high-mobility weapon within the atmosphere should be a moderate-sized fighter jet or a drone.

Small attack surface,

Aerodynamic, fast flight speed,

Flexible steering, capable of launching all-around attacks,

And cheaper to build than a giant mech.

It’s just that the setting of this world is special.

The A.T. field must be triggered at close range,

And only human-shaped vehicles allow pilots connected to the Drift system to treat the vehicle as their external body, thereby activating the A.T. field.

If it’s a non-humanoid vehicle, the pilot’s brain will become chaotic and unable to regain consciousness.

“The setting that only an A.T. field can deal with an A.T. field also renders conventional human weapons like intercontinental missiles and cluster bombs ineffective.”

Xiao said from the side, “Nuclear weapons are also useless.

Nuclear radiation will accelerate the mutation rate of deep-sea creatures, sometimes producing unknown and negative effects.

For example, it might charge the deep-sea behemoths, causing them to evolve,

Or cause the deep-sea creatures to explode, releasing toxins and polluting the environment, and so on.

We can only use the resources of the New Port City fortress…”

Before she could finish, a rapid alarm sounded from the screen in the command hall.

“Damn it! The speed of Hunchback and Otachi has suddenly increased!”

Cai Tiantong, the chief technical advisor of Shatterdome, said with a sweaty face, “50 knots, 60 knots, 70 knots, still rising!”

“What’s going on?”

Stacker Pentecost said in surprise, “Have they evolved again?

What about the underwater monitoring footage?”

“Can’t see it.”

Cai Tiantong shook his head, “Smaller deep-sea creatures are moving faster than those two Tier 4 behemoths, destroying the underwater drones we deployed in advance.

At this speed, they’ll probably meet Crimson Typhoon in just ten minutes.”

“…”

The surrounding people gasped. Stacker Pentecost calmly took a sugar cube from the small iron box he carried with him, swallowed it silently, and quickly issued instructions: “The original battle plan remains unchanged. Let Crimson Typhoon prepare to engage.

The fortress hangar sends out four groups of unmanned underwater drones to move ahead of Crimson Typhoon.

It doesn’t matter if all the underwater drones are destroyed. I need their specific intelligence.”

“Yes!”

Everyone in the command hall immediately busied themselves.

Xiao frowned slightly when she saw this and said quickly, “This script mission has mission objectives and rewards, but no failure penalty or time limit.

It’s possible that if we don’t kill enough deep-sea behemoths within a limited time, it will trigger terrible consequences.

For example, the portal to the alien planet is destroyed, there are no more deep-sea behemoths in the world, and we are stuck here forever.

Or the deep-sea civilization will no longer deploy Tier 4 behemoths, but a massive number of Tier 3 deep-sea creatures, making it impossible for us to complete the mission objectives.

To be safe, I’ll go to the sea and see what’s going on.”

“Okay.”

Li Ang nodded. “I’ll provide support at any time if you’re in trouble.

Go ahead and do your thing.”

“…”

Hearing Li Ang’s words, Xiao couldn’t help but twitch her lips, took a deep breath, and turned to walk out of the command hall.

There were still many staff members at the entrance of the command hall, bringing large and small carts filled with documents, data, and biological specimens to Li Ang.

Some of them didn’t know what had happened yet. Seeing Xiao, with her pink short hair, beautiful appearance, and tactical gear, rushing out of the command hall, they were puzzled and curious about her identity.

Xiao ignored the surrounding gazes and went straight to the rooftop outside the command hall. Amidst a crowd of shocked and stunned eyes, she stomped on the rooftop floor and leaped out.

The howling wind swept past her ears, and the deep black ocean grew closer in her vision.

Just before she was about to fall into the sea, a large number of mechanical parts appeared in the void around Xiao, forming a tall mech.

Boom—

The absorption wings on the mech’s shoulders spewed out azure flames, propelling the mech to skim across the sea surface at low altitude and fly into the distance, the airflow stirring up turbulent white waves along the way.

————

The enemy is approaching.

On the sea, the Wei triplets piloted the Crimson Typhoon mech, rotating the spotlights on its head to scan the undulating sea ahead.

As the distance shortened, they could feel the approach of hostility from afar.

The voices of the dispatchers from the command hall no longer came through the headphones—just like on a conventional battlefield, once the two sides engage in close combat, remote command from above becomes sluggish and slow, and it’s better to let the soldiers control the battle themselves.