Chapter 2
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Chapter 2: Yanfu
Mecha?
They developed a mecha?
When Luo Yan heard the broadcast, he thought he must have misheard.
After all, he had only witnessed such things in movies before.
At that moment, in the truck compartment he occupied, a buzzing sound filled the air, and the roof unexpectedly opened!
Peering out from the open compartment, Luo Yan beheld the sky.
High above, at an incredible altitude, a dark silhouette was moving about.
It resembled a tree branch.
Suddenly, it expanded, creating a “crevice. ”
Peering into the “crevice,” one encountered an indescribable, abstract world within.
In a dimension beyond reality, numerous dark shadows moved about, and soon a flat, ever-changing dark shadow approached the “crevice. ”
It appeared to be drawn by an invisible force, gradually emerging from the crack that resembled a “branch. ”
Luo Yan was not unfamiliar with this phenomenon.
When the ‘Beast Calamity’ occurred, a greater number of denser cracks resembling ‘tree branches’ appeared in the sky.
These cracks enveloped the sky.
They created an extensive, despair-inducing ‘tree shadow’ that crisscrossed above.
Giant beasts emerged from those shadowy ‘tree shadows,’ originating from that unknown space.
The form of the alien structure resembles a colossal tree reaching up to the sky.
Consequently, it has been officially designated as ‘Yanfu Space. ‘
The “Long Agama Sutra” states, “Yanfu, there exists a great tree king named Yanfu, encircled by seven yojanas and rising a hundred yojanas high. ”
This description is quite appropriate.
At that moment, the carriage containing Luo Yan was fully unfolded.
He swiftly crawled into the waterproof fabric.
Then he heard the broadcast in the carriage continue to play.
“The dimensional barrier has been breached. ”
“The giant beast is about to manifest in three dimensions! ”
“Blue energy spectrum detected, now matching with the archive. ”
“Matching complete, confirmed giant beast deployed is ‘Tanuki Power’. ”
“Rank: lower rank 2.”
“Type: Luo Bug.”
“Characteristics: great strength, excels at charging!”
……..
As the broadcast sounded, the rope tied with waterproof cloth inside the carriage gradually bounced and untied.
As the front base of the carriage rose, the curtain-like waterproof cloth fell down.
Luo Yan quickly climbed out, fearing he would be crushed underneath and suffocated.
When he wriggled out from under the waterproof cloth, he suddenly noticed a gigantic shadow looming over him.
Luo Yan swiftly turned around.
The raised carriage bottom then functioned as a fixed bracket.
It supported a “giant”!
The silver-white coating with scratches all over it, the engine that started roaring in the chest and emanating a dark blue light…
Wide shoulders, big arms, all made of an alloy that Luo Yan didn’t know of.
Mecha!
There really is a mecha!
At that moment, Luo Yan’s gaze suddenly rose.
Everything started spinning.
It was only when he was thrown back onto the floor of the carriage that he realized he had been shaken into the air just now.
He saw in the distance a few buildings in the neighborhood rising up dust, and slowly but firmly leaning over and collapsing!
The broadcast in the carriage kept on saying, “the giant beast has landed, repeat, the giant beast has landed.”
“The Tanuki Power started to move.”
“Based on its movement trajectory, it will enter the ‘Galactic Sports Arena’ in two minutes!”
There was a commotion outside the car.
Luo Yan realized he couldn’t stay there any longer.
He was about to leave.
Suddenly, someone shouted, “Civilian! A civilian has been found in the cargo hold 3!”
Luo Yan immediately rushed towards the outside of the car.
“Stop!”
“Don’t move!”
“Or we’ll shoot!”
A sound came from behind.
Luo Yan had to stop.
These people were not scavengers.
They were trained soldiers.
Luo Yan believed they wouldn’t miss their shots.
They would end up shooting themselves in the head.
He quickly raised his hands.
“Get down, and place your hands where I can see them!”
Luo Yan followed along.
Soon, his arms were twisted behind him and he was lifted.
It was then that he noticed two fully armed soldiers in ink-black combat gear standing beside him.
“What are you doing?”
A voice sounded displeased.
“Allowing a civilian onto the transport vehicle.”
“Get him down quickly, I need to start the mecha.”
Luo Yan looked and saw a man in a suit similar to a diving suit, but covered with many circular sensor discs, staring at him with a dark expression.
His hazel eyes scanned Luo Yan with a disdainful and even disgusted look.
“Yes, Yang Rong the pilot, we will take the person away immediately.” A soldier responded and rudely pushed Luo Yan off the carriage.
Luo Yan fell from the carriage that was two meters high.
He fell heavily.
At that moment, there was a loud mechanical noise in the carriage.
Then the ceiling dimmed.
A tremendously huge ‘foot’ appeared above Luo Yan’s head.
He could see underneath this ‘foot’ there was a sophisticated framework and intricate machinery.
Luo Yan quickly rolled aside.
However, as the foot shifted slightly to the side, it heavily stomped on the ground, causing even a heavy-duty truck to shake.
Afterward, the ‘giant’ in the carriage stood up.
Due to the backlight, Luo Yan couldn’t see the full appearance of this mecha.
But the roaring of the engine and the heavy metal sensation brought an unprecedented sense of oppression to Luo Yan.
The broadcast continued to sound.
“Captain Di Zheng and pilot Cai Hua have already gone to the sports arena.”
“Pilot Yang Rong, please stay put.”
At that moment, Luo Yan was lifted by two soldiers and taken to an off-road vehicle. The soldiers did not give him any trouble, as the convoy was not inclined to engage in arguments with Luo Yan, a civilian. With several shiny gun barrels positioned close to him, Luo Yan was reluctant to attempt an escape. Suddenly, from a distance in the city.
A low rumble emanated from the vicinity of the sports arena.
Luo Yan turned to investigate.
He witnessed the ‘Galactic Sports Arena’ disintegrating like a pile of building blocks.
It was falling apart!
The ground trembled violently.
Distant roars of beasts could be heard.
Shortly after, the convoy’s radio crackled to life.
“Watch out! ”
“A huge creature called ‘Tanuki Power’ is approaching the convoy!”
Upon hearing the broadcast, the silver mecha piloted by Yang Rong advanced and drew a heavy, advanced silver rifle from its back.
Nearby, Luo Yan overheard a soldier remark, “It’s merely a lower rank Level 2 giant beast; Yang Rong can handle it alone. ”
Simultaneously,
Luo Yan noticed a dense cloud of smoke.
Within the smoke, a giant beast resembling a one-eyed wild boar with tough skin was barreling towards them.
Suddenly,
Luo Yan felt a slight heat in his eyes.
In his line of sight.
Aside from the gray light signifying ‘Tanuki Power’.
Behind that massive creature.
There was an additional cluster of gray light!
Luo Yan immediately realized that Tanuki Power was not nearing the convoy.
However.
Something was pursuing it!
“There’s another one! ”
Luo Yan exclaimed, “Another giant beast is approaching! ”
However, no one seemed to notice.
In fact, everyone’s attention was solely on the giant beast known as ‘Tanuki Power. ‘
Luo Yan’s warning went unheard.
Just then,
From the dense smoke behind Tanuki Power, a similarly large yet slender shadow emerged.
It featured a goat-like head with two curved black horns embellished with enigmatic patterns.
Its form resembled that of a human, but its skin was dark green and rough, marked with numerous wrinkles.
It extended its arms, revealing two human-like hands with claws that shimmered like metal in the sunlight.
Suddenly, it embraced Tanuki Power.
The massive beast, pursued by the peculiar creature with a goat’s head and a human body, soon appeared to exhaust its strength.
Its front legs buckled, causing it to collapse to the ground.
The nimble creature atop it performed a swift somersault and lunged back with agility.
Its mouth suddenly widened, exposing a gaping maw filled with sharp fangs.
In an instant, it sank its teeth into Tanuki Power’s neck, biting fiercely and tearing with intensity.
The Tanuki Power was violently devoured, resulting in a gruesome scene.
As Luo Yan observed this, his mind went into a haze.
He regained his focus when the convoy’s broadcast abruptly activated.
“Orange spectrum! It’s the orange spectrum! ”
“Immediately match conditions with the database! ”
“Matching complete! ”
“Attention, this is ‘Gluttony’!”
“Rank: middle rank 3.”
“Type: Luo Bug.”
“Characteristics: energy absorption, voracious eating, swift movement, invisibility!”
“The weak point is between the legs!”
The broadcast’s sound captured attention.
Nearby, the colossal creature referred to as ‘Gluttony’ halted, turned, and focused on the convoy.
The four small eyes on the sides of the goat’s head narrowed to slits.
Then, it surged forward.
It moved with remarkable speed!
The only silver mecha in the convoy took big steps forward, holding a high-tech rifle pointing at the giant beast.
Fire!
Bang bang bang bang!
The loud gunshots sounded like thunder.
One by one, yellowish-brown bullet casings with special patterns engraved on the surface kept falling to the ground.
Each bullet casing was as big as an oil drum!
Despite being hollow, when they hit the ground, it was still astonishing.
One of the bullet casings even rolled to the side of Luo Yan’s off-road vehicle.
Accompanied by the popping of the bullet casings, the silver rifle shot out bursts of orange-red tracer rounds, which were the ‘traces’ left by the bullets rubbing against the air.
They headed straight for the giant beast.
Gluttony suddenly stopped.
It opened its big mouth.
With a strong inhale!
The fiery line rushing towards it suddenly twisted, all shooting into the giant beast’s mouth.
In the blink of an eye, the rifle magazine emptied.
The rifle stopped firing.
Gluttony closed its mouth and ‘swallowed’ all the bullets.
This is ‘ravenous’!
Bang!
Almost like the size of an off-road vehicle, the empty magazine fell to the ground, and the mecha swiftly replaced it with a new one.
But by the time the magazine was replaced, there was no trace of Gluttony in sight.
It disappeared!
Luo Yan’s eyes burned.
The world turned dark in his eyes.
On the left side of the humanoid machine, Luo Yan saw a slim gray light stirring restlessly.
“It’s on your left!”
Luo Yan pointed towards the left side of the mecha.
Unfortunately, the pilot inside the mecha couldn’t hear this instruction at all.
Boom!
Suddenly, the silver-white mecha received a heavy blow and kept retreating.
With each step, the earth and rocks shattered into pieces!
A huge shadow enveloped Luo Yan and the off-road vehicle.
He couldn’t care about much, shouted loudly, and fell to the ground.
Behind him, the off-road vehicle was crushed like a toy under the mecha’s foot!
The mecha kept sliding backwards.
When it finally stopped, Gluttony had silently appeared on its right side.
The mouth on the goat’s head suddenly opened wide, and from its dark gaping mouth, the fiery lines that had just been swallowed flew out again.
Intensely spraying across the ground, sweeping over the mecha’s left leg knee joints, and passing through several off-road vehicles.
Boom!
Mecha’s knee suddenly exploded, spraying out orange flames from inside, and huge armor fragments flew in all directions.
This caused the silver giant to kneel down on one knee.
Gluttony took advantage and pounced, skillfully landing on the Mecha, spinning around, then fiercely kicking with its leg.
Bang!
With a dull sound, the external armor of Mecha’s chest engine caved in, the upper body crackled with electricity, and the giant groaned and fell to the ground.
The violence was shaking the earth, toppling numerous buildings.
The broadcast came on again.
“The pilot is unconscious!”
“The empathy system has been disconnected!”
“The hatchway malfunctioned, and the escape pod couldn’t launch!”
“Captain Di Zheng was on his way back.”
In a series of loud noises, Luo Yan felt a buzzing in his ears.
He shook his head, and stood up.
Suddenly, a chill ran down his spine.
Luo Yan turned around slowly.
He saw Gluttony crouched on the ground, slowly standing up.
Throughout the entire process, the four small eyes on the goat’s head were all staring at Luo Yan.
Luo Yan suddenly felt intense fear and despair in his heart.
Am I going to die here?
Just then.
He seemed to hear a strong heartbeat.
Splash.
Suddenly, his sight was replaced by a blurry light and shadow.
In that light and shadow, Luo Yan vaguely saw the burning land.
He saw the silhouettes of numerous wild beasts.
He saw some figures wielding weapons, releasing lightning and thunder.
Engaged in battle with those wild beasts.
Then he heard some sounds.
That was a language he didn’t know.
But Luo Yan understood some of the words.
“…….up…….fight…….”
He saw a person covered in blood, rising up again.
Roaring, he charged towards a wild beast.
Tragic, desolate, and unbowed.
A surge of passion overwhelmed him.
At that moment, Luo Yan couldn’t tell if it was himself or someone else.
The vision returned to normal.
He saw Gluttony standing up, already lifting its foot as if to crush an ant.
Stepped down.
I am not an ant!
I will not die here!
Never!
Luo Yan shouted and reached out towards the oversized foot coming down from above.
As if trying to block Gluttony’s attack.
Making everyone witnessing this scene feel overwhelmed.
Gluttony was about to squash Luo Yan with its foot.
Suddenly.
With a loud bang.
Gluttony was knocked back!
At that moment, a giant silver figure squeezed into people’s view.
Mecha!
The silver giant that had just fallen down now had blue light shining in its eyes and pounced forward.
Hit the giant beast.
The convoy’s radio broadcast immediately started again.
“The empathy system is online!”
“Hmm… This signal, this signal is not from Yang Rongpilot.”
“What’s going on with this foreign signal?”
“How did it connect to the system?”
For Luo Yan at the moment.
The broadcast voice, the gluttony’s roar, and people’s exclamations.
All faded into the background.
Right now, he was looking up at Gluttony, his perspective from below.
Yet, he had another perspective in his mind.
This view is straight ahead!
Gluttony turned over, vanished from sight, and pounced towards the mecha.
Luo Yan’s eyes burned with intensity, as he saw a gray light symbolizing the giant beast in his ‘magical vision’.
He yelled out and reached out his arm.
The robot next to Luo Yan mirrored the exact same movement!
The robot reached out its hand and suddenly grasped it tightly.
Grasping onto something.
In the next second, Gluttony’s figure appeared in thin air.
Its neck was grabbed by the robot!
Luo Yan raised his right hand and felt as if he was holding a rifle.
He felt like he had merged with the mecha.
He was the mecha!
The nearby soldiers saw the silver mecha placing the rifle between Gluttony’s legs.
That was the weak spot.
Fire!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Large bullets continuously fell to the ground.
This time, as the orange-red fire shot out from the barrel, it hit Gluttony, impacting its body.
The person-shaped giant beast grabbed by Mecha kept bouncing.
Sacs formed on the skin of its hindquarters, one after another.
Seconds later, a stream of fire shot out from Gluttony’s hindquarters.
Then more streams of fire followed!
One after another, the streams of fire blasted Gluttony’s body into two pieces!
The lower half of the body with its legs in one piece fell to the ground.
A dark gray spinal cord hung from the severed upper body.
Mecha raised his rifle again, aiming at Gluttony’s chest and fired.
Unfortunately, after a few shots, the magazine ran empty.
Luo Yan suddenly threw his left hand towards the ground.
The mecha made the same movement, heavily slamming the remaining half of Gluttony onto the ground.
Then, holding the rifle upside down, gripping the hot barrel with both hands, and fiercely hitting Gluttony’s goat’s face with the butt of the gun.
Again and again.
The warriors turned pale.
Watching the frenzied mecha, using extremely savage actions, gradually deforming Gluttony’s head with each strike.
Blood splattered continuously, fangs falling one after another, and finally, one of the four small eyeballs on Gluttony’s face was squeezed out, hanging on the sunken and deformed side of the face.
At this moment, the convoy’s broadcast resumed.
“Disappeared…”
“Gluttony’s energy spectrum disappeared.”
“It’s dead!”
If it were normal times, the soldiers would have cheered.
But now, they were slowly backing away.
The silver giant continued its onslaught.
It wasn’t until Gluttony’s head was smashed into pieces that the mecha finally stopped.
At that moment, the blue light in the mecha’s eyes dimmed and vanished.
At the same time, Luo Yan seemed to lose all his strength.
His legs gave way.
Sat down on the ground.
The distorted rifle was still embedded diagonally in Gluttony’s head.
Like an indestructible war flag.
This scene was witnessed by a newly arrived mecha, with a sleek design and red and blue armor.
