The wind howled past his ears.
Qin Yu plummeted like a meteor, crashing toward the sea of steel wreckage below.
Thud!
A dull impact.
No broken bones or snapped tendons as he had imagined.
The surface of his S-class combat armor rippled with a deep blue, watery glow.
The nanofibers in the armor instantly tightened, perfectly absorbing the terrifying force of the fall.
Qin Yu knelt on one knee, completely unharmed.
He slowly rose to his feet and looked up at the three SS-class mechanical tyrannosauruses, towering like mountains.
His perspective had shifted.
From the cockpit of the President, these monsters had seemed like towering walls.
Now, standing at their feet—
They were practically three skyscrapers.
But there was no fear in Qin Yu's eyes.
Only thick mockery.
"The bigger the target, the faster it dies."
"Today, I'll teach you a lesson."
Beep beep beep—
The electronic eyes of the leftmost tyrannosaurus suddenly flashed.
Its radar system had detected movement on the ground.
Its heavy mechanical head slowly lowered, locking onto Qin Yu amidst the wreckage.
Hum!
The secondary cannon on its back began charging, glowing red.
"Trying to hit me?"
Qin Yu sneered, pushing off hard with his feet.
Boom!
The leg thrusters of his S-class combat armor erupted with terrifying force.
Qin Yu transformed into a black lightning bolt, streaking across the ground.
Too fast.
So fast that the tyrannosaurus's fire control radar couldn't lock onto him.
Sizzle—
A high-energy beam grazed Qin Yu's afterimage.
It carved a scorched trench dozens of meters long into the ground.
But Qin Yu was long gone.
This was the absolute advantage of individual combat.
Small unit size.
Maximum mobility.
On the open sea, this S-class armor might not withstand the barrage of ship cannons.
But in this complex, cover-filled underground workshop—
Qin Yu was a flea darting around inside a metal box.
A deadly flea.
"Ruo Bing! Fire!"
Qin Yu roared into the communicator.
"Copy!"
BOOM—!!
The President's main cannon let out an ear-splitting roar.
A high-explosive shell, trailing a blinding tail, wasn't aimed at the tyrannosauruses.
Instead, it shot straight toward the golden light sphere floating at the center of the workshop.
Click!
All three tyrannosauruses froze simultaneously.
The highest defense directive had been triggered.
In their underlying logic, protecting the light sphere took priority over everything else.
Even if Qin Yu, this insect, had already jumped to their feet.
They had to fall back first!
The three behemoths spun around, using their massive steel bodies to shield the light sphere.
Boom!
The shell exploded, flames engulfing the armor on the tyrannosauruses' backs.
No penetration.
But the goal was achieved.
"Now."
Under the cover of the flames, Qin Yu's figure flickered.
In a few leaps, he charged directly to the feet of the leftmost tyrannosaurus.
It was enormous.
A single toe was taller than Qin Yu himself.
Qin Yu didn't hesitate, digging his hands fiercely into the armor gaps on the Tyrannosaurus's lower leg.
The strong magnetic adhesion module in the battle suit's palms activated.
"Zzz—"
Like an agile gecko, Qin Yu frantically climbed up along the Tyrannosaurus's mechanical thigh.
Three seconds.
He had already reached the Tyrannosaurus's knee joint.
Only then did the Tyrannosaurus react.
Its internal sensors sounded an alarm.
Foreign object attached!
The Tyrannosaurus abruptly lifted its thick mechanical leg, trying to shake Qin Yu off.
"Hang on, boss!"
Elena's exclamation came through the communicator.
"Shake? I'll let you shake all you want!"
Qin Yu clung tightly to the gap with one hand, while his other hand pulled out a high-explosive grenade from his waist.
With a flick of his finger, he yanked off the pin.
He seized the moment when the Tyrannosaurus's knee armor lifted.
Forcefully, he shoved the grenade into the exposed hydraulic transmission shaft.
"Take that!"
Qin Yu pushed off with both legs, instantly deactivating the magnetic adhesion.
He performed a tactical backflip mid-air, landing steadily on top of a nearby scrapped machine tool.
"BOOM!!"
A muffled explosion erupted inside the Tyrannosaurus's knee.
The external SS-level armor was indeed tough.
But the inside wasn't solid.
The high-explosive armor-piercing shell unleashed terrifying destructive force within the enclosed joint cavity.
Blue hydraulic fluid mixed with electrical sparks gushed out instantly.
"ROAR—!!"
The Tyrannosaurus let out a pained electronic synthesized sound.
Its massive body lurched violently, the support strength of its right leg instantly dropping by 30%.
It half-knelt on the ground.
"It's working!"
Elena's eyes lit up from behind the distant cover.
"Everyone, ignore the armor!"
"Aim for its joint gaps!"
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!"
Intense firepower instantly covered the half-kneeling Tyrannosaurus.
But at that moment.
The other two Tyrannosauruses moved.
They didn't pay attention to Elena's team in the distance.
Two pairs of red eyes, each the size of a water vat, locked onto Qin Yu on the machine tool.
"Hum—"
Two main cannons, four secondary cannons.
All simultaneously aimed at Qin Yu.
The threat of death instantly enveloped his entire body.
With just one volley, Qin Yu and the machine tool beneath his feet would be vaporized into gas.
"Qin Yu! Dodge!"
Inside the cockpit, Li Ruobing's pretty face turned pale with fright, her palms sweaty.
But Qin Yu didn't dodge.
He stood in place, even reaching out to dust off his battle suit.
A mocking curve lifted the corner of his mouth.
"Fire away."
"Grandson."
The air seemed to freeze for a second.
The red glow in the two Tyrannosauruses' cannon muzzles flickered to its peak.
Yet they hesitated to fire.
"Beep-beep-beep—"
Their AI processors were frantically reporting errors.
Because Qin Yu's position was just too damn tricky.
He was exactly in the blind spot to the left of the half-kneeling Tyrannosaurus.
If the other two Tyrannosauruses opened fire.
While vaporizing Qin Yu, the high-energy particle beams would also indiscriminately penetrate the side armor of the half-kneeling Tyrannosaurus.
In the AI's logic, friendly fire was not allowed.
Moreover, they were too close to the light sphere.
The shockwaves from large-caliber weapon explosions would most likely affect the golden light sphere they were desperately guarding.
Don't fire, and the target escapes.
Fire, and their ally gets hit, endangering the light sphere.
A deadlock.
The red glow in the two Tyrannosauruses' cannon muzzles flickered on and off, falling into a brief logic crash.
"See that?"
Qin Yu sneered through the communicator.
"These hunks of junk's brains are only about Pentium 4 level."
"As long as you don't follow their script, they'll crash."
"Ruo Bing, keep firing!"
"One shot every ten seconds, don't stop!"
"Understood!"
Li Ruobing grasped Qin Yu's tactics and excitedly slapped the control panel.
"Boom!"
The President's main cannon roared once more.
The shell still slammed into the energy sphere.
The two Tyrannosaurs that had crashed were forcibly reactivated, rushing back to defend again.
"My turn."
Qin Yu's eyes sharpened as he transformed into a shadow and charged out once more.
This time, his target wasn't the joints.
It was the eyes.
He sprinted up the lowered tail of the kneeling Tyrannosaur, racing upward along its length.
The grip of the S-class combat armor made it feel like walking on flat ground.
Spine.
Neck.
Skull!
In just a few seconds, Qin Yu was directly riding atop the massive mechanical head of the Tyrannosaur.
Beneath his feet was the enormous electronic eye glowing with red light.
"That's a bright eye."
Qin Yu snorted coldly.
He drew a modified anti-material sniper rifle from his waist.
This wasn't the Kiss of Death.
But its caliber was still terrifyingly large.
Qin Yu pressed the barrel directly against the lens of the Tyrannosaur's electronic eye.
"Shut your damn eye!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Three consecutive armor-piercing explosive shells fired at point-blank range.
Even SS-grade bulletproof glass would shatter under repeated kinetic impacts of this magnitude at the same spot.
"Crack—"
A crisp sound of shattering glass rang out.
The electronic eye, as large as a water vat, exploded into a ball of fire.
"Hiss—"
Black smoke billowed wildly.
The Tyrannosaur's right-side vision instantly went dark.
The moment its vision blacked out,
something bizarre occurred.
The two other Tyrannosaurs, which had been rushing back to defend the energy sphere, simultaneously jolted violently.
Their steps actually faltered.
Even the charging of their cannons was forcibly interrupted.
"That's the reaction!"
Qin Yu stood atop the Tyrannosaur's head, the fierce wind whipping his hair wildly.
He had guessed correctly.
Local network shared vision was their trump card for seamless coordination.
But it was also their most fatal weakness!
Data sharing worked both ways.
When one Tyrannosaur's visual sensor suffered catastrophic damage, a flood of error codes and static would instantly transmit to the other two via the network.
It was like wearing VR goggles when the screen suddenly explodes.
The brain would plunge into momentary sensory chaos.
"Elena!"
Qin Yu roared.
"While they're lagging, hit the joints of the other two!"
"Understood!"
Elena raised her rifle, her eyes gleaming with bloodlust.
"Sisters, beat the drowning dogs!"
"Rat-tat-tat-tat!"
The fire net below instantly poured onto the leg joints of the other two Tyrannosaurs.
Though it couldn't penetrate the main armor, it was enough to destroy several external sensors and cooling lines.
"Roar!"
The Tyrannosaur Qin Yu was riding went completely berserk.
Its remaining electronic eye flashed with furious red light.
It abruptly straightened its body, its massive head shaking violently.
Trying to fling Qin Yu off its head.
"Can't hold on?"
Qin Yu sneered.
He simply tossed the sniper rifle aside.
His hands gripped the metal barbs around the shattered eye socket tightly.
With a powerful kick against the Tyrannosaur's nasal bridge,
he used the massive inertia of the head shake to launch himself into the air like a cannonball.
"Ruo Bing! Thirty degrees left front! Anti-aircraft machine gun cover!"
Qin Yu shouted mid-air.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat!"
The President's anti-aircraft machine guns instantly spat tongues of fire.
A metallic web of fire interwove before Qin Yu, forcing back the second Tyrannosaurus that sought to intercept him.
Qin Yu traced a perfect parabola through the air.
He landed steadily on the back of the second Tyrannosaurus.
"The first one is blind."
"Now it's your turn."
Qin Yu stood on the armor plating of the Tyrannosaurus's back, looking down.
Dozens of thick Energy Pipelines were intricately arranged across the creature's back.
These were the lifelines connecting the main cannon to the core power furnace.
"Too thick—a dagger won't cut through them."
Qin Yu frowned.
"Beep, beep, beep—"
The Tyrannosaurus beneath his feet sensed the threat on its back.
The armor plates on its back slowly began to rise.
Revealing densely packed micro automatic interception cannons inside.
Hundreds of dark muzzles were aimed directly at Qin Yu.
"An air defense system?"
Qin Yu's scalp prickled.
The distance was too close; if they fired a volley, even S-class combat armor would be riddled like a honeycomb.
"Boss, be careful!" Elena cried out.
"I won't die!"
Qin Yu's eyes hardened with resolve.
Instead of retreating, he lunged forward, charging straight toward the newly risen array of interception cannons.
In the split second before the cannons fired.
Qin Yu simultaneously drew all the remaining high-explosive grenades from his waist.
Pulling all the pins.
He shoved them through the mechanical gaps left by the rising cannons, stuffing them all into the Tyrannosaurus's backpack armor layer.
"Eat your fill!"
After tossing the grenades, Qin Yu didn't hesitate for a moment.
He leaped directly off the Tyrannosaurus's back.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom—!!"
A chain of explosions erupted inside the Tyrannosaurus's back.
Even SS-level Armor couldn't withstand such internal, consecutive blasts in its vulnerable areas.
Large chunks of metal fragments were blasted into the air.
Several thick Energy Pipelines were severed outright.
Blue plasma flames shot skyward.
"Alert! Number two unit's power impaired!"
Amid the piercing electronic alarm.
The main cannon on the second Tyrannosaurus's back instantly went dark.
Its power supply was cut.
It had become a super infantry unit capable only of close combat.
"Beautiful!"
Li Ruobing waved a fist excitedly inside her cockpit.
So strong.
This man was practically a tactical madman.
With minimal cost, he had forcefully dismantled three invincible SS-level Mecha into scrap metal.
The first one crippled and blind.
The second one with its main cannon destroyed.
Only the third remained intact.
Qin Yu rolled twice on the ground to dissipate the force, then pushed himself up with one hand.
He glanced at his armor's remaining energy.
40% left.
Enough.
"Number three unit."
Qin Yu wiped a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth—internal injuries from the close-range explosion.
But the light in his eyes grew brighter.
He looked at the sole remaining intact Tyrannosaurus.
"Just you left."
But at that moment.
A sudden change occurred.
The third Tyrannosaurus, which hadn't been the primary focus until now.
Suddenly ceased all movement.
It no longer aimed at Qin Yu.
Nor did it pay attention to Elena in the distance.
It slowly turned, facing the floating Golden Light Sphere.
"Click."
The armor on its chest split open to both sides.
Revealing a pulsating, blindingly white Energy Core inside.
"What is it doing?"
Li Ruobing was stunned.
Qin Yu's pupils contracted sharply.
"Damn!"
"It's overloading its core!"
"This bastard knows it can't win—it's trying to forcibly activate that sphere!"
The next second.
A dazzling beam of light erupted from the core in the third Tyrannosaurus's chest, directly striking the Golden Light Sphere.
The once quietly floating light sphere suddenly began to spin violently.
"Hummm—"
A terrifying wave of energy swept through the entire underground workshop like a tsunami.
The temperature around them instantly soared.
The tens of thousands of metal skeletons that had been lying still on the conveyor belts—their eyes, under the sweep of this energy, lit up with blinding red lights, row after row.
"Crack, crack, crack, crack..."
Eerie metallic grinding sounds rose from all directions.
The dormant mechanical soldiers were awakening.
"Boss..."
Elena's voice trembled over the communicator.
"It seems like..."
"We've stirred up a hornet's nest."
Qin Yu watched the mechanical army rising like a tide around him, took a deep breath, and cursed under his breath.
"This Armory's security system is really fucking insane."
He clenched his fists and looked up at the madly spinning golden sphere. There was no way to fight this conventionally.
"Ruo Bing."
Qin Yu's voice was unusually calm.
"Preheat the President's power furnace to the red line."
"Elena, take your people and get on board immediately."
"Within five minutes, I want you all evacuated from this workshop."
"Qin Yu, what about you?!" Li Ruobing panicked.
Qin Yu didn't look back, his gaze fixed on the third tyrannosaurus that was overloading.
"I'm going to dig out the Nuclear reactor in its chest."
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