In the early morning of November 1, Ocean City.

The battle between Franklin and Burgess has heated up.

The former, piloting a combat robot based on the technology of the "Third Kingdom", modified by himself; The latter is to fight directly in the form of "transformation".

Although Burgess has obvious advantages in combat experience, speed, and reflexes, Franklin can still compete with the opponent by relying on the mecha's excellent performance and UI assistance.

"Do you regret coming to me for revenge?" Despite transforming into a four-meter-tall giant with a furious appearance, Burgess's language and thinking skills were not affected, and he continued to provoke Franklin in battle.

"What do I have to regret?" Franklin, on the other hand, became very excited and angry from the beginning of the battle, "Regret that I can't see you suffer after you die?" ”

Boom –

After saying this, he aimed at the opponent's torso again, and released a beam of fire with his shoulder cannon.

Despite Burgess's huge size, he was extremely agile, and in the face of this attack, he made a sideways leap, supported the ground with one hand, and followed a somersault, which was able to dodge.

"Huh...... You're going to have a hard mouth......" After dodging the attack, Burgess sneered, "Can't you see it until now?" The combat power of your mecha is just one line worse than mine, and you can't kill me. ”

As he spoke, he flashed in front of Franklin, bang-bang...... Another round of heavy punches.

How powerful is Burgess's fist? Let's put it this way, if a person with a level of physique enhancement ability is hit by a fist like him, it will be one punch......

The EF "factory director", like the Newman under his command, is a body that has been modified by both mechanical and biotechnology; And the difference between him and Newman is that he is not an ability, he has never had his own innate ability, and all his abilities come from transformation.

Of course, all the techniques he used on himself were used when EF consumed countless test subjects (most of them living people) and was 100% sure to be effective, safe, and powerful.

It can be said that Burgess is the pinnacle crystallization of all the scientific and technological power of the Federation in the technology of "transforming people", and it is also an existence that is difficult to replicate, because ...... It's too expensive to make a transhuman like him.

"I know what you're up to......" Burgess said as he leaped high and lifted his foot in a tomahawk style to slash down.

Franklin controlled the mecha to raise his hands to block, and under this grid, the mecha was unharmed, but the ground under its feet instantly cracked, collapsed, and turned into a huge depression, causing the surrounding buildings to fall down from all sides.

At this time, Burgess had easily jumped into the air with the reaction force of the opponent's block, watching the drama as if the mecha in the pit under his feet was buried by the building.

“…… Do you think that if you continue to fight with me like this for a long time, as a living being, I will eventually become weaker and defeated due to the decline in physical fitness. Burgess's words did not stop, "Unfortunately, that kind of situation does not exist. ”

Boom –

The wreckage of the building had not yet settled, and a beam of light had burst out from under the smoke.

Burgess seemed to have expected this attack, and a second before the beam appeared, he slapped his palms and set off a gust of wind, allowing himself to move sideways in mid-air for a while, and preconsciously dodged the attack.

But that's not all, the mech piloted by Franklin followed the beam, breaking through the debris of the building all the way and flying into the air.

Seeing this, Burgess let out a loud shout, and then his ten fingers intersected, his hands clasped into hammers, and his arms swung down suddenly.

In the next second, the mecha's head hammer and Burgess's hand hammer collided violently, making a deafening sound that resounded through the night sky.

This is a pure clash of power, and it does not include an energy level of confrontation, Rao is so, and it still blooms with gusts of wind and sweeps in all directions.

[Warning, there is a crack in the head armor, the repair process is activated, and the nanobot will be guided to the damaged area through the repair stock solution, and it is estimated that it will take 63 seconds to fully repair]

Inside the mech, a voice alarm sounded in Franklin's ears, but he didn't have time to care about it, because the collision just now caused him to fall back into the pit on the ground, and the condescending Burgess was only catapulted higher into the air.

In the flash of lightning, Franklin's fingers were already skillfully dancing on several control screens, controlling the mech to activate some of the thrusters on its back and feet, and performing a slow descent motion to prevent himself from being shocked into internal bleeding when the mech landed.

"Your mecha is really durable, when I kill you, I will recover this mecha and study it well......" On the other hand, Burgess did not have any damage except for a little numbness in his hand; After he said this, he suddenly adjusted his posture and straightened his arms towards the ground, and then, the skin of his palms "opened" like flower petals, revealing two metal openings.

Whew—

Two seconds later, two beams of thermal energy erupted from Burgess's palm, striking Franklin's location with precision.

At this time, Franklin was unheard of, and just wanted to fly out of the pit, but was hit by this long-range beam pursuit. Helpless, he could only raise his arms again to block.

[Warning, the armor of the left forearm is severely shattered, and the defensive field of the right forearm is about to be exhausted, and the thruster energy has been called to make corrections]

"No, the hell knows how long his beam lasts, the output power of the thruster can't be reduced, and the forearm damage doesn't matter!" Franklin gave the order directly to the mech's internal systems in words, and at the same time, he himself had pushed one of the levers in front of him to the top.

So, his mecha flew up from the pit again, and approached Burgess all the way to Burgess.

[Warning, the left forearm of the mecha has been completely dissolved, and the right forearm has been damaged......]

Franklin didn't listen any more, he turned off the voice prompt as soon as he raised his hand, and continued to charge towards the enemy.

Seeing this scene, Burgess's sneer was even stronger.

"You're still the same, Victor......" Burgess said, his attention in battle was not distracted at all, he saw the right time, when Franklin got close to a distance of about two meters, stopped the output of the beam, and spread his arms to the sides, and grabbed the rushing mecha into his arms, "obviously has a higher IQ than anyone else, but he is always stupid like a child who doesn't grow up......" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but laugh strangely, "Heh, it seems that your brain is really sick." ”

"Even if I do have a problem with my brain or spirit, it's largely due to you." As he spoke, Franklin's cockpit had been damaged under the pressure of the other party's grappling, and half of his face could already face the other party through the mecha's breach.

"Hah!" Burgess laughed mockingly, "What are you talking about?" You should thank me, right? He paused, "If I hadn't pulled you out of the Nine Prisons, you would have rotted to death in it; You can live for so many more years in your current form, and what complaints do you have? ”

"Phew!" Franklin immediately replied, "You asked me to restore the 'pharmacist' formula, and lied to me that if the research was successful, it would cure me, and all the children with Progeria in the world...... As a result, you gave me modified data and asked me to study the 'elixir of life' for you, and after the matter was revealed, you locked me up for experiments on me, tortured me, and turned me into this half-human being......" Franklin gritted his teeth as he said this, "...... If I hadn't been prepared for it, and I had made many preparations to escape during my research, I would have been ten times worse than I had died in Nine Prisons. ”

“So…… what？ Burgess added, "What can you blame me?"

"At the end of the day, there is only one relationship between people, and that is the relationship of using each other to achieve their own ends.

"There's never a right or a wrong, just winners and losers......

"I'm a winner, always have been.

"And you...... It's a loser who gets eaten and wiped clean, someone like you...... No matter how good you study in school, you will be bullied; If you obey order in society, you will be taken advantage of; When you enter the unit, you are responsible for working overtime, and it is someone else who is promoted and raised; thinks that if you are kind, you will be rewarded, and if you treat people sincerely, you will encounter love sooner or later, but the result is to be a spare tire, a hat, and a fool behind your back.

"This world is a battlefield for human beings to fight each other, and it is precisely because there are so many losers like you that a winner like me can enjoy life......

"You who don't even understand this truth, naïve ...... If you can live, you should be grateful to Dade, don't always think about fighting me, you can't fight me! ”

While they were talking, before they knew it, the thrusters of the mecha had sent the two of them together to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters, and the altitude was still rising.

"Huh...... Want to freeze me to death? Or do you want me to choke from lack of oxygen? Burgess also noticed the changes around him, but he remained unhurried, "Don't dream...... I can think of anything you think, and over the years, my brain function has been transformed to a level that is not inferior to you. As he spoke, his arms pressed Franklin's cockpit further, "In addition to the artificial assisted brain that has been researched by the Federation for many years, I also have enhanced cells based on your technology, which gives me almost unlimited physical strength; Even if my physical strength is really exhausted, I still have the energy of the mecha part available; In addition, the formula I accidentally obtained due to the pharmacist incident gave me this ability to strengthen my transformation...... And these are just the tip of the iceberg, I still have a lot of secret technology that you have never heard of, which EF has obtained through countless experiments over the years......

"Do you think I didn't see through your tactics? I'm going to do it and let the cold interfere with the performance of your mech, so that I can destroy it more easily; Take a step back...... Even if you push me all the way to the universe, you will be the first to die. ”

"You're thinking too much." At this time, due to the damage of the cabin, Franklin was already pale and stiff, he reached out and grabbed the oxygen mask that popped out of the cabin, and put it on his mouth and nose, so that he could continue to talk to the other party, "From the beginning, I didn't think about exhausting your physical strength with a tug-of-war, nor did I think about anything to defeat you through the environment......"

When he heard this, Burgess's expression changed slightly.

"I agree with what you said, there is no right or wrong in this world, and even if there is, I am not right, at most I am as wrong as you." Franklin wore a mask, didn't know what button to press, and then sat there slumped, doing nothing, "Maybe I'm a loser, you're the winner, but no matter how much success you have by plundering and squeezing losers like me, only one thing before, we will be equal......"

"You ......" Burgess already knew what the other party was going to do, and he immediately wanted to let go of the mecha and get out, but soon found that due to the low temperature around him, his arms, including his entire body, were frozen with the mecha, and it was difficult to separate for a while.

"Wait!" Burgess struggled as he tried to buy himself some more time in words, "I see! It was me who was wrong! Don't do this, Victor, we don't have to go this far! ”

Franklin didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, looking like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, he collapsed in the driver's seat, and said weakly: "Don't say it, the self-destruct program cannot be stopped once it is started." ”

He is telling the truth, if it weren't for the voice prompt being turned off by him, the prompt tone would also broadcast the "can't be stopped" thing, and there would also be a countdown.

"Shh............h I! Die! No! Finish! ”

In fact, he was not convinced that he could not die, but he felt that he did have a chance to survive, after all, his physical strength and self-healing ability were very strong, and his brain and skull had been mechanically modified and reinforced, even if he was hit by a nuclear attack, he might not die.

"No, you're going to die." "I'm sure of that," Franklin said. ”

Click-

When Franklin said this, Burgess had just forcibly "torn" his right arm from the surface of the mech; And his action also made him drop a layer of jelly-like flesh.

Even though it hurts heartbreakingly, Burgess can't care so much about his life, and now he can do whatever he can, even if he gives himself the hope of surviving.

"You know the Book of Genesis, right?" Franklin's voice became smaller and smaller, like the self-talk of a critically ill person, but Burgess, who had strengthened his hearing, naturally heard it clearly, "The core of this mecha uses a similar power source...... Although it is only a production version, it is far from the output of the real 'Eternal Core' level, but the killing effect caused in a small area is the same. ”

Burgess didn't fully understand his words, and he didn't need to understand them completely, because it didn't make sense to understand.

At this time, the two had come to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and broke into the stratosphere.

The mecha piloted by Franklin finally blew itself up at this moment.

There was no sound, just a blooming light.

The dazzling light even pierced through the clouds and lit up the night in a matter of seconds, but soon everything returned to silence again, swallowed up by the darkness before dawn.