"Boss, are you insane?!"
Elena's voice over the communicator had changed pitch.
"That's three SS-level monsters!"
"Our rifles don't even have enough caliber to scratch them!"
"Enough nonsense."
Qin Yu gripped the steering wheel tightly.
"Take your people and get off the ship."
"Find cover and set up all the heavy firepower."
"I don't expect you to break through their defenses—just keep their attention divided!"
Elena gritted her teeth.
She didn't argue further.
Working under this man required only obedience.
"Everyone, grab the high-explosive shells and jump ship!"
On the lower deck, over forty female warriors poured over the sides like dumplings dropping into boiling water.
They quickly scrambled down the ship's rails, seeking cover among the scattered steel parts and scrapped machine tools littering the ground.
The moment they landed, the lead Mechanical Tyrannosaurus moved.
"Clank, clank, clank—"
Heavy hydraulic sounds echoed throughout the underground workshop.
Its red Electronic Eyes, each the size of a water vat, instantly locked onto the recklessly charging "President."
"Hum!"
The particle cannon on the Tyrannosaurus's back began charging, its blinding blue light illuminating half the workshop.
"Ruo Bing! Close-In Defense Cannons!"
"Full power coverage!"
Qin Yu roared.
Li Ruobing's hands flew frantically over the Fire Control keyboard.
Even though she was usually fiery and unrestrained, cold sweat now covered her forehead.
"Port and starboard Close-In Defense Cannons, fire!"
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat—"
Six six-barrel Gatling Close-in Defense Cannons roared simultaneously.
With a firing rate of tens of thousands of rounds per minute, they drew six glaring whips of fire through the air.
The bullets converged into a torrent of metal, slamming fiercely into the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus.
But a despairing scene unfolded.
"Clang, clang, clang—"
Sparks flew everywhere.
The Armor-Piercing Incendiary Rounds, which could tear ordinary mutated beasts to shreds, struck the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus's armor.
All were deflected.
Not even a dent remained.
"The armor is too thick! Physical penetration is ineffective!"
Li Ruobing shouted urgently.
"Switch to High-explosive Armor-piercing Incendiary Shells!"
"Target its joints!"
Qin Yu stared dead ahead.
"Boom!"
The Close-In Defense Cannons switched ammunition types, firing a volley at the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus's knee joints.
Flames erupted.
But the Tyrannosaurus didn't even stagger.
Instead.
Its massive mechanical tail swept violently.
It sent a nearby scrapped machine tool weighing dozens of tons flying through the air.
Like a cannonball, it hurtled straight toward the "President."
"Shit!"
Qin Yu jerked the steering wheel hard.
The ship's hull screeched sharply as it skidded across the smooth metal floor, forcibly sliding sideways by three meters.
"Bang!"
The machine tool crashed beside the ship's rail.
The entire deck shook violently.
"Fire!"
Before the ship had even stabilized, Qin Yu pressed the secondary cannon's firing button.
A high-explosive shell blasted out.
It struck the Tyrannosaurus's chest with precision.
However.
As the smoke cleared.
A faint blue Energy Shield shimmered in front of the Tyrannosaurus's chest.
"An Energy Field?!"
Li Ruobing was completely stunned.
"How are we supposed to fight this?"
"Physical attacks don't break through, and now it's immune to energy attacks too?!"
"Stay calm."
Qin Yu's eyes were cold and sharp.
"There's no such thing as an unbreakable turtle shell in this world."
"If it needs to charge up, there must be a weakness."
Just then.
A desperate warning from Elena came through the communicator.
"Boss! Above you!"
Qin Yu looked up sharply.
Without anyone noticing.
A second Mechanical Tyrannosaurus had climbed onto the dome like a gecko, completely silent.
Its limbs were equipped with powerful magnetic adhesion.
Now it hung upside down directly above the President.
Opening its massive steel jaws.
"Zzzzz—"
A highly concentrated Plasma Fireball began to form in its mouth.
"They're coordinating?!"
Qin Yu felt a chill run down his spine.
One was tanking the firepower head-on, drawing attention.
The other had flanked them for a sneak attack.
"Full rudder! Reverse!"
Qin Yu yanked the throttle all the way back.
The Engine groaned under the strain.
The President jerked backward on the spot.
"Boom—!!"
The Plasma Fireball struck where the ship's bow had been just moments before.
Instantly melting a glowing, deep crater into the metal ground over ten meters thick.
A wave of heat washed over them.
The cockpit glass began to crack.
"Alert! Forward armor damaged!"
"Temperature critical!"
Before Qin Yu could catch his breath.
"Right side! The third one is gone!"
Li Ruobing pointed at the Radar.
On the screen, a red dot was rapidly closing in from the flank.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
From the darkness on the side, three High-energy Beams shot out in succession.
Aimed directly at the President's Engine Room.
"Elena!"
Qin Yu roared.
"Received!"
Elena's squad, hidden in the shadows, finally opened fire.
Dozens of rifles spat flames simultaneously.
Mixed with several Individual Rocket Launchers.
"Whoosh—Boom!"
The Rocket struck the side armor of the third tyrannosaurus.
Though it didn't break through.
The massive impact threw its aim off by a fraction.
The three beams grazed past the President's stern.
Severing an external antenna.
"Nice!"
Qin Yu seized the opportunity.
Swerving the ship, he aimed the main gun at the third tyrannosaurus, now thrown off balance.
"Die!"
"Boom!"
The shell left the barrel.
Just as it was about to hit.
Something bizarre happened.
The tyrannosaurus taking the hits head-on actually slid over.
Its massive body directly shielding the third one.
"Hum!"
A blue Energy Shield flared up again.
Taking the full force of the shell.
Completely unscathed.
Immediately after, it retracted the Shield.
The third tyrannosaurus leaned out from behind it, the cannon on its shoulder beginning to warm up again.
Meanwhile, the second one hanging overhead adjusted its aim as well.
A perfect trident formation.
Offense and defense combined seamlessly.
Without a single blind spot.
"Damn it all."
Qin Yu gritted his teeth, slamming the console hard.
"Did these three hunks of metal grow brains?"
"Qin Yu, look at their eyes!"
Li Ruobing noticed something odd.
She zoomed in on the screen image.
"Their Electronic Eyes are flashing at exactly the same frequency!"
Qin Yu squinted to see.
Indeed.
Those three pairs of massive red eyes.
Their pulsing rhythm was perfectly synchronized.
"Data sharing."
Qin Yu realized instantly.
"They're connected on a Local Network."
"What one eye sees, the other two see as well."
"If one takes a hit, the other two immediately cover for it."
This wasn't three separate monsters.
It was a single killing system with three bodies.
No communication costs.
No emotional fluctuations.
Unless you could instantly annihilate all three of them,
they would wear you down to death with their perfect positioning and mutual cover.
"Boss, we can't hold on any longer!"
The comms were filled with the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
"Left flank is suppressed by fire! Second team has over fifty percent casualties!"
Elena's voice was tinged with despair.
Their firepower was like scraping a dead body—utterly ineffective.
Meanwhile, a single sweep from the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus could turn their cover into a sieve.
"We can't drag this out like this."
Qin Yu glanced at the weapons panel.
Ammunition levels were plummeting.
And the enemy's armor didn't have a single crack.
"Ruo Bing, divert all power to the thrusters."
"What about the shield?"
"Forget the shield!"
A flash of madness gleamed in Qin Yu's eyes.
"Let's play a big hand."
"Fasten your seatbelt."
Li Ruobing was stunned for a moment, but her hands didn't stop moving.
She instantly cut off power to the shield.
"Boom—"
The tail of the President spewed out nearly white exhaust flames.
"What are you planning?"
"If they coordinate so well,"
"then we'll disrupt them."
Qin Yu stomped the throttle to the floor.
The ship's hull surged forward like a frenzied rhinoceros.
Instead of retreating, it charged straight ahead.
Directly toward the Tyrannosaurus activating its shield head-on.
"You're insane! That's SS-level Armor!"
"We'll be smashed to pieces!"
Li Ruobing screamed.
"Shut up and hold on tight!"
Fifty meters.
Thirty meters.
Ten meters.
The Tyrannosaurus directly ahead didn't dodge. Its legs were planted firmly on the ground like hydraulic clamps,
ready to withstand the impact.
The two Tyrannosaurs on either side immediately locked onto the President.
The muzzles of their cannons all lit up with deadly red light.
It was a dead end.
Crash, and the ship would be destroyed.
Don't crash, and they'd be pierced by crossfire.
Just as they were less than five meters from collision,
Qin Yu yanked the handbrake hard.
"Drop anchor!!"
"Clang!"
A two-ton steel anchor dropped straight from the bow,
wedging firmly into the metal crevices of the ground.
The immense inertia carried the massive ship, pivoting around the anchor point,
instantly executing a ninety-degree high-speed drift.
"Screech—!!"
Amid the teeth-grating sound of tearing metal,
the President slid sideways, skimming past the shield of the frontal Tyrannosaurus.
The moment it slid away,
the crossfire from the two flanking Tyrannosaurs arrived.
"Boom!!"
Both shots landed squarely on the frontal Tyrannosaurus.
"We did it!"
Li Ruobing shouted in delight.
Friendly fire!
But before her smile could fully bloom,
it froze.
From the smoke,
the frontal Tyrannosaurus slowly emerged.
Its armor was indeed scorched black from the blast,
but it hadn't sustained fatal damage.
Instead,
the energy core in its chest lit up with an unprecedented, blinding glow.
"Warning! Detecting ultra-high-energy reaction!"
"It... it converted the attack energy it just absorbed!"
Li Ruobing's voice trembled.
The Tyrannosaurus opened its massive maw.
Deep in its throat, a Death Beam capable of melting everything was taking shape.
And this time, its aim
was the President's cockpit.
"These damn metal beasts."
"Even friendly fire is part of their calculations?"
Qin Yu's face turned ashen.
This AI's processing speed was utterly insane.
There was no dodging it now.
The hull was still violently shaking from the forced drift moments earlier.
The Engine was overheating, making it impossible to gain any speed.
"Qin Yu..."
Li Ruobing closed her eyes, gripping the edge of her seat tightly.
Waiting for death.
But Qin Yu did not close his eyes.
His mind was racing at this moment.
His gaze swept rapidly across the workshop.
Three Tyrannosaurs.
Forming a triangular formation.
No matter how they moved, they subtly surrounded a central point.
That was the Golden Light Sphere, suspended in mid-air at the deepest part of the workshop.
"Elena!!"
Qin Yu suddenly roared into the communicator with a deafening shout.
"Forget these three beasts!"
"Fire all your Rockets, grenades—everything you have—at that glowing golden sphere!!"
"All of them!! Now!!"
Although Elena didn't understand why,
her execution was flawless.
"Everyone, change target!"
"Aim at the golden sphere, empty your magazines!"
"Fire!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—"
Over a dozen infantry Rockets streaked across the sky, passing over the Tyrannosaurs' heads.
Heading straight for the Golden Light Sphere.
What happened next
made everyone hold their breath.
The Tyrannosaur directly in front, which had already charged its energy and was about to blast Qin Yu into dust,
forcibly halted its attack.
With a "click,"
it actually shut down its main cannon.
Its massive body abruptly turned around.
Not just it.
The other two Tyrannosaurs also went berserk.
They abandoned their suppression of the "President."
The three mechanical behemoths, in a near-suicidal manner,
frantically lunged toward the Golden Light Sphere.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The Rockets exploded.
But all the explosions landed on the backs of the three Tyrannosaurs.
They used their Steel Bodies to solidly block all the damage for the golden sphere.
As the flames dissipated,
the armor on the backs of the three Tyrannosaurs was left pitted and scarred.
One of them was even emitting black smoke.
But the golden sphere remained completely intact.
"Hah..."
Qin Yu let out a long sigh of relief.
The corners of his mouth slowly curled upward,
revealing a grin even more ferocious than that of the Tyrannosaurs.
"Found your weak spot."
He patted Li Ruobing, who was still in a daze.
"See that."
"These hunks of junk's core programming isn't to kill enemies."
"It's to protect that sphere."
As long as their highest command was to guard,
they were no longer invincible killing machines.
Instead, they were three meat shields bound by shackles.
"So what?"
Li Ruobing swallowed hard.
"They can still tank the damage. Our firepower isn't enough to blow them up along with the sphere."
"Who said I was going to blow up the sphere?"
Qin Yu yanked open his collar.
He casually grabbed a nearby High-precision Rifle and hung two strings of High-explosive Grenades on his waist.
"Boss, what are you doing?"
Elena's tense voice came through the communicator.
"The ship's firepower isn't enough."
"Then I'll go myself."
Qin Yu pulled open the side door of the cockpit.
A gale mixed with the smell of gunpowder rushed in.
"Ruo Bing, take control of the main cannon."
"Fire one shot at that sphere every ten seconds for me."
"No need to aim accurately—just scare them."
Li Ruobing was horrified.
"Are you insane?! You're going to take on an SS-level Mecha alone?"
"Take on alone?"
Qin Yu sneered, placing one foot on the edge of the ship's railing.
His eyes were like a wolf staring at its prey.
"In Qin Yu's dictionary, there's no such thing as a fair duel."
"Aren't they fond of being connected to the Local Network like conjoined twins?"
"I'm going to go cut their network cables."
Before the words even finished,
Qin Yu leaped forward.
He plunged directly into the smoke-filled steel ruins below.