Chapter 304 - Kirin

Chapter 304: Chapter 280: KirinJust as previously suspected, Ye Shen Yue deceived everyone; he didn’t plant rockets underground as claimed, but hid an EVANGELION Universal Humanoid Decisive Battle Weapon from the "Neon Genesis Evangelion" series.

The EVA that rose from the deep underground is the red-painted Unit-02, forty meters tall, with a slightly hunchbacked thin humanoid shape, four green visual sensors embedded in its eyes, towering shoulder armor, and holding a vibration particle blade styled like a dagger in its hand, its body connected to a thick cable leading underground.

Step.

Unit-02 took a half step forward, crushing the armored vehicles used by City Hall to blockade the district as if stepping on ants.

The other armored vehicles and Divine Eagle Gunboats fired at Unit-02 in a brief moment of shock and chaos.

However, all the cannon fire hitting EVA was blocked by a warm white concentric octagonal barrier—known as the AT Field, which could block, weaken, and neutralize energy and physical attacks from the outside.

Under the absolute defense of the AT Field, Unit-02 moved like a tiger among sheep, crushing a large number of armored vehicles.

Seeing the adverse situation, the Divine Eagle Gunboats in the sky turned to bomb the cable behind Unit-02—according to the original setting of "Neon Genesis Evangelion," EVA is a humanoid weapon replicated by humans based on the Angel Envoy, needing power through the cable; otherwise, it could only operate for a short duration.

The pilot inside Unit-02 obviously knew this, he squatted down, grabbed a tank, and violently threw it towards the sky, accurately striking each of the Divine Eagle Gunboats, replicating scenes from "Black Hawk Down" and "Grandpa Unit-02 Knocks Down Toy City Planes with Tanks."

At the same time, a large number of small-sized monsters also sprang from the cracks in the ground.

Large canine-sized flea-shaped parasites from "Cloverfield," four-legged insect species from "Galaxy Warriors," terror robots from "Red Alert," mimics from "Edge of Tomorrow"...

A common feature of these monsters was their vast numbers, and they all had the same type of metal device mounted on their heads, suspected to be brain control devices.

All the monsters spread out like a tide, intercepting the reinforcement troops coming from different routes.

All of this happened within just a few seconds,

And Li Cheng, who had personally pushed forward this mess, had already stored Gray Rain in the Electronic Pet Egg, took out a paper crane and the Electromagnetic Gun, executed the "Demon Exchange" Skill to teleport away, leaving behind only his wild laughter and the lingering words, "Bye."

Boom, boom.

The sounds of gunfire continued non-stop, landing on Li Cheng who descended on an overpass kilometers away calling out Gray Rain, the two looked back towards the city center engulfed in continuing gunfire.

Unit-02 stood in place surveying its surroundings, after confirming its bearings, it dragged the thick cable and strode towards City Hall.

Around the cable, a fierce battle broke out between the massive number of monsters and Toy City’s Terrorist Mobile Team.

"What in the world is Ye Shen Yue trying to do?"

Gray Rain wondered, "Wasn’t it agreed to use rockets to pry open the barrier above Toy City? Now why switch to summoning EVA?"

"I don’t know, let him be."

Li Cheng put away the Electromagnetic Railgun, thinking now, he and Gray Rain in the Lower Nest Infected Camp, what they saw covered with waterproof cloth, was probably this Unit-02.

If there hadn’t been a Joker launching a terror attack, stirring up the situation, if Eugene had not joined City Hall early to speed up the deadly combat rhythm,

As an official reporter of Toy City, Li Cheng might have been able to investigate the behind-the-scenes relationship between Ye Shen Yue and City Hall.

But now, it doesn’t matter anymore, it’s all the same.

He took out the People’s Power Armor labeled "American Empire Must Lose" from the Backpack, placing it on the overpass.

This model of Power Armor, unlike the assembly-type armor of Iron Man worn on the body, resembled more of a "ride" inside.

The Armor plates on its back automatically opened up to reveal humanoid space; after slipping in, the Armor plates closed on their own,

Simultaneously, the artificial muscles inside the armor tightened synchronously, like a load-bearing suit for pilots, regulating blood flow in the wearer of the Power Armor, increasing tolerance to overload.

Strength, a continuous surge of strength welled up.

Li Cheng casually grabbed a handful of the cement barrier on the overpass, crushing the cement and breaking the rebar like squashing tofu.

"Why is this Power Armor’s head so pointy?"

Gray Rain’s gaze reluctantly moved away from the antenna on top of the Power Armor, eagerly suggesting, "What do we do now? How about we first test the strength by arm wrestling?"

"Don’t break my new Power Armor," said Li Cheng helplessly as he pulled out a piece of paper from the Suicide Notebook, "The priority is to find Gouchen and end all this."

The picture on the paper clearly showed the battlefield. Li Cheng put away the drawing, propped himself on the curb with one hand, flipped over, and jumped off the overpass.

A second before hitting the ground, he activated his Jetpack and landed smoothly.

"Cough, cough, cough."

Deep in the dense forest, nailed to a tree, Gouchen gripped a thick gold arrow piercing his abdomen — as long as a javelin — enduring the intense pain of his churning innards as he slowly pulled it out.

Scattered around him on the ground were numerous empty medicine bottles with traces of suspicious purple potion inside—

Gouchen had drunk all the Life Potions he brought along and had turned to using Alchemy Magic Potion made and sold by the Witch Alliance,

which had a healing effect comparable to the Micro Life Potion but with even greater side effects.

Plop.

The heavy gold arrow was completely pulled out and thrown to the ground, where it vanished on its own,

Gouchen, weakened, knelt down, and as the residual effects of the Magic Potion worked, flesh began to grow and slowly heal the gaping hole in his abdomen.

In the reflection in the pool of blood, Gouchen’s face was shown at this moment.

Most of his face was no longer human, replaced instead by the green, fanged face of a Qilin.

Gouchen, also a Qilin, commanding the central power on Earth.

Lies don’t hurt people; the truth does, like a sharp knife. Frankenstein wasn’t wrong; he truly wasn’t human but a monster created from a mix of a wealthy scion’s body, an otherworldly powerful soul, and Qilin Bloodline.

He dug his fingers into the ground, gripping the soil, his eyes bloodshot.

Two lifetimes emerged in his mind,

One as the second son in the family, constantly compared with his brilliant older brother, living under his shadow, numbing himself with frivolous pursuits, and dying senselessly in a car accident.

The other as a powerful otherworldly warrior, fought for his country but was distrusted by his lord, eventually captured and wrongfully died in prison.

Memories from both lifetimes clashed, one obliterating the other, fiercely colliding, causing intense pain in his mind.

Enough.

He punched his forehead hard, the wound on his brow burst open, spilling fresh blood.

"I am neither that idle rich second generation nor that dejected otherworldly warrior. I am me."

When he opened his eyes again, there was no more pain or confusion in Gouchen’s eyes. Seeing a black dot rapidly expanding in the sky through the reflection in the blood pool, he pushed off the trunk behind him and rolled out.

Boom!

Grey Rain smashed down from the sky where Gouchen had just been, blasting a large crater in the ground.

Tsk, a pity.

Grey Rain turned to the sword-wielding Gouchen who had narrowly escaped death, holding two Iron Swords, his expression once again calm and collected, "I should thank you all.

Frankenstein, Joker, Eugene, Ant.

This death battle has enlightened my mind, no longer confused or lost.

As the tide signal from Qiantang River comes, today I finally know I am..."

Before he could finish, he was smashed away by a hammer from Grey Rain charging over.