It was pitch black, and there was silence all around, except for the snowflakes that were slowly falling.

A thin figure wrapped in an old red coat slowly emerged from the darkness and staggered forward, vaguely revealing a slender tail from the hem of the coat.

"Hey!" Hong Yuesheng shouted at the figure.

Hearing his voice, the red figure not only did not stop, but lay down on all fours, like a crippled animal, limping faster and faster, the footprints that fell on the snow were of different sizes, and a messy hair fluttered in the oncoming cold wind.

"Don't run! Wait a minute! Hong Yuesheng followed the figure, and the street in front of him gradually appeared, and the dim and faint street lamp light was projected through the iron fence at the top every other section, making Hong Yuesheng realize that he was running in the sewer.

"Hahahaha~"

The lights cast the figures of the children playing on the ground, and Hong Yuesheng chased the red figures while looking up through the iron fence, but there was no figure above, only the children's clothes hanging on the clothesline fluttering in the snowy night.

At the next light, a pair of figures of a man and a woman in love were projected into the sewage puddle of the sewer, and the shadows of nothingness muttered something in the water, but before they could hear clearly, they were stepped on by the bare limbs under the coat of the red-clothed figure, and the figures of the man and woman were broken into pieces in the halo.

"I'll shoot if I run again!" Hong Yuesheng shouted, desperately chasing after him, and the remnants of the monks chanting the scriptures were projected above the sewer in turn, the silhouette of the oriental attic, and the ringing of the bell of the third watch at night was endless. But no matter how hard he ran, he couldn't catch up with the figure in front of him, as if he was running on the treadmill, chasing the image on the movie screen in front of him.

Seeing that the thin figure turned around a corner, Hong Yuesheng followed, and in front of him was a ramp that sloped up to the ground, and the old red coat was thrown on the ground. Hong Yuesheng looked up in the direction of the front of the red coat, the thin figure was naked, revealing gray-white skin, a skinny back and a slender tail, and was opening the iron door of the exit in the distance.

"Stop!!" Hong Yuesheng shouted at the figure again.

The figure turned its head as he opened the door, and a pair of large eyes of different colors looked at him in horror through his pale hair......

"Reiko? Is that you, Reiko?! Hong Yuesheng's eyes widened in shock.

"Zla!"

The light outside the door shot in like a flame, scorching the thin girl's figure, accompanied by the sound of "zla", the girl's face and thin body burned out like a piece of paper swallowed by the flames, and then evolved into a flock of pigeons, "hulala" flew towards Hong Yuesheng, Hong Yuesheng quickly stretched out his hand to block his face, and the snow white in front of him was inevitable, accompanied by the scanning line of electronic interference.

"Machine One! It was already warned during training! If there is a drastic change in light, you must manually turn off the night vision function immediately! Hong Yuesheng's ears heard the red-haired Arya's reprimand, and when he looked down at his outstretched hands again, he realized that he was not dressed in civilian clothes as he had felt before, but was wrapped in a mechanical heart mecha.

The scene in front of him was transmitted through a wireless signal and projected onto the large screen of the headquarters.

"What's wrong with him?" Nakahisa asked, standing behind the busy data personnel in the 360-degree transparent glass command room, his right hand still bandaged. From his vantage point, he could see the images transmitted back by the mechanical heart mechs on the large screen outside, as well as the tactical and intelligence remote control team led by the red-haired Arya on the large screen. In addition to this, there are more than a dozen black sealed devices of unknown purpose arranged in a circle on the perimeter of the ground, each more than three meters long and wide, with a large number of thick cables connecting the devices to the central computer.

"There is an abnormality in the brain waves, but it is not particularly serious." Emily, the military physician in the command room, reported, "Everything else is normal. When she looked back at Nakaku, she couldn't help but roll her eyes: although looking at Nakahisa in the command room from below, she could see that he was wearing a formal lieutenant colonel uniform. However, from Emily's position, you can see the big pants under Nakaku's military jacket and the thighs with thick leg hair......

"Why is this happening?" Nakahisa ignored Emily's facial expression.

"The new trial machine of the mechanical heart has greatly improved the mental sensing device through the neurons connected to the human body, and its advantage is that it can maximize the sensitivity of the body to the driver's operation, but the unsolved defect is that if the driver is too sensitive, it is easy to cause illusions." Emily seemed to be very concerned about Hong Yuesheng's situation, and carefully observed Hong Yuesheng's brainwave reaction and body data as she answered.

"Mission continues." Outside the command room, the red-haired Arya who was in charge of directing the operation ordered, "Although you are controlling the latest land combat mecha of the "Machine Heart": Lionheart King (Lord_the_LionHeart), which has been strengthened in all aspects, but even so, use your mind and the knowledge you have trained before, and don't trust the equipment too much!" ”

Inside the sewers, a hand patted Hong Yuesheng's shoulder, and he turned his head to find that it was the Green Snake, and he was also wearing the armor of the Heart of Machinery, along with the White Tiger and the other four Yaning or half-breed team members.

You okay? Second, the master.

In order to communicate quickly during the mission, the green snake did not speak, but made a gesture to ask according to what was said in the previous training. Hong Yuesheng made a "no problem" gesture. At this moment, there was a bombardment on the ground, and dust fell down the top of the sewer.

Another message came from the helmets of each team member: "Your mission today is to search in the target area, and rescue the Meda Busoya hostages held by the Revival Society, and take the hostages to the rescue site, so be sure to solve them quickly." Mission Codename: "Fireworks", get into the action now! ”

Hong Yuesheng manipulated the mechanical arm to make a forward gesture and led the team to walk out of the sewer along the inclined ramp. Being able to sit on the mecha again, not only did he not feel heavy, but it made him feel like a fish in water, like he had a second body.

The familiar mirage of the night of the old town jumped back in front of them behind the iron gate, they were on the old city street, but the street was empty, and the mutilated man who had just lost his red clothes disappeared, disappearing into the crowded and narrow alleys and dilapidated oriental buildings on both sides of the road.

Seven mechs walked in the silent street before and after, and the red-haired Arya continued to guide:

"Make the most of the mech's pane viewing system," she said, referring to Lionheart's new circular display around the driver, which can help the mech driver to see the surrounding environment to the fullest: "Observe the surrounding situation and the dangers hidden behind the environment." ”

Just as Arya said this, several figures quickly flashed between the buildings near the mecha and in the corridor where the mecha could be observed.

"Boom~"

The sound in the sky caused the team to look up, and a few bat fighters flew rapidly in the narrow sky surrounded by the buildings, followed by the huge black flying fortress "Valkyrie" suspended in the air against the background of the huge full moon, and the searchlight she shot down kept sweeping through the streets, and it was this light that almost blinded Hong Yuesheng's eyes through the sewer door just now.

After the Valkyrie found her target not far away, the bottom opened, and the inside was like a beautiful galaxy, and then many comets dragged their long tails down towards the block, and in an instant the block turned into a sea of fire, followed by a wail that resounded through the sky.

From the firelight at the end of the street, hundreds of people suddenly ran out, rushing towards Hong Yuesheng and his team.

Everyone hurriedly manipulated the mecha into a state of alert, raised the machine gun in their hands, and the facial vigilance mask fell: the alert state represented by "demon" in the old model changed to the face of a lion in the Lionheart model.

The command in the mech sounded again: "Dangerous elements need to be effectively identified during the operation!" Avoid harming the innocent. ”

Hong Yuesheng and the other team members formed a back-to-back circle, ready to respond to emergencies at any time. In a matter of moments, the panicked crowd had flooded through their seven mechs. The display screen in front of Hong Yuesheng quickly analyzed the face model and armed status of the people rushing over to determine whether there were dangerous people among them.

A sense of threat was captured by Hong Yuesheng before the mecha computer could react, he raised his gun violently and shot at the head of a person in the rushing crowd, the new machine gun of the Lionheart mecha he controlled was powerful, instantly shattering the entire head of the target person, but the body was still running, leaving behind the owner's broken skull, muscles, brain marrow and the only remaining intact eyeball.

The running crowd immediately burst into screams, and people fled in one direction towards the Lionheart team at the beginning to flee in all directions, but the headless body staggered a few steps towards Hong Yuesheng's position, and then finally fell in front of him, the bomb on the corpse that had not been activated was still flashing red, it was a suicide attacker.

"There's an ambush in the crowd!"

It was only at this point that the entire squad of mechs finished comparing the database of dangerous people, and each person's electronic display showed seven or eight dangerous characters, who were rushing towards the Lionheart team from different directions around.

"Shoot!"

The team members aimed at their target and spewed tongues of fire in their hands. One of the suicide attackers who jumped down from the next floor was hit by the green snake in the air, and the bullet hit the bomb in his chest, and the victim was instantly blown to pieces, and the blood and flesh were sprinkled on the green snake, which caused the green snake to scream.

The staff under the large screen of the headquarters are reporting various real-time information, and the heads of the killed dangerous elements are marked with red Xes one after another, and then replaced by new ones.

"How could he recognize a dangerous person faster than computer analysis results?" Bonnie, who was in charge of intelligence analysis, was surprised.

"He didn't recognize it." Red-haired Arya watched Hong move on the screen and replied.

Thinking of Bonnie's puzzlement, Arya added, "Judging by his muscular responses, he's just following the feelings." ”

"Just by feeling?"

"You can clearly foresee danger and react accordingly just by feeling it, and sure enough, it's ......," Nakahisa in the transparent command room suspended behind Arya was repeating the same words.

"It's just a little faster than the average person." A familiar girl's voice came from behind Nakahisa, and Emily, who was in the same room, and the others hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Lieutenant_Brunhild! (Captain Brunhilde)! ”

Zhong Jiu turned around and saw that it was indeed his sister, who was wearing a triangular tower hat on her head and an iron-gray military tweed shawl, and slowly walked into the room. Brunhilde waved to Emily and the others to continue working, "Brother, you're paying too much attention to him. Be careful, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. ”

Zhong Jiu shrugged at his sister and smiled, "Then we'll wait and see." As he spoke, he looked at the big screen with Brunhilde.

On the streets of the old city, Hong Yuesheng quickly flashed the bullets of a terrorist who used a hand-held machine gun to shoot continuously, and burrowed into the old building next to him. In between the terrorists' reloading magazines, Hong Yuesheng manipulated the mecha to directly smash the wall on his side, grabbed his head and shoulders with both hands, and with a single effort, "Kata" broke his cervical vertebrae.

In this way, under the powerful firepower of the Lionheart Squad, only the last person left to kill the terrorists was a very powerful skinny monkey cripple with a back pot. Seeing that the general trend had gone, and he couldn't get close, the skinny monkey turned around and ran, and the white tiger that followed was about to shoot, when Hong Yuesheng pressed the muzzle: "Follow him." ”

The skinny monkey quickly circled a few blocks before slamming into the crowd of other fleeing civilians.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The Lionheart team that followed behind pushed away the crowd along the way, causing chickens and dogs to jump, but the mecha with a height of more than three meters was huge after all, and it was far less convenient than ordinary humans to travel between the crowds. It didn't take long for a few team members to find no trace of the skinny monkey.

The tall and dilapidated walls are plastered with equally dilapidated posters and advertising slogans, and the flag of the Revival Society is hung in the flames of war. The skinny monkey scurried underneath it, dodging the Valkyrie searchlights above under the rusty bus canopy, walking through the alleys below the tube building, hiding in the corners and looking around, making sure that everything was safe, and finally entering an abandoned factory, finally relenting, the skinny monkey slowed down, dropped his heavy bomb-strapped jacket, and exhaled.

Snowflakes fell from the broken roof high above the factory and dripped onto the snow-soaked ground. In the middle of the empty factory, where the only moonlight could reach, the hostages were being tied to a chair with a black hood on their heads, apparently gagged and only whining.

Seeing the Meda Busoya hostage again, the skinny monkey became angry, pulled out the belt from his waist, and walked quickly towards the hostage. Hearing the sound of the skinny monkey's feet stepping on the water as it approached, the hostage's voices became more rapid out of nervousness, and the writhing efforts were to no avail.

The skinny monkey raised the belt in his hand and was about to wave it down, when a loud bang came from overhead. When he looked up, Hong Yuesheng had already manipulated the mecha to smash the roof, falling from above along with the glass and reinforced concrete residues, and falling straight to the location of the skinny monkey. Don't look at the skinny monkey man, but his movements are flexible, and he rolled behind the hostages as soon as he snorted, used the hostages as cover, raised the machine gun in his hand and shot at Hong Yuesheng who was falling.

"Beware of hostages......" Before the red-haired Arya could finish her warning, Hong Yuesheng also fired almost at the same time, and the bullet dragged a long air flow to accurately avoid the hostage's body, knocking away the right arm of the skinny monkey holding the gun. The skinny monkey fell backwards with a wail, and then the bullets from behind pierced his chest and thighs, and he fell to the ground spitting blood. Hong Yuesheng and his mecha fell heavily to the ground, and in order to cushion the acceleration, the hydraulic buffer devices on the legs and waist of the mecha sprayed white air waves.

"囋囋囋~" The monitoring personnel of the headquarters exclaimed in a low voice, and at the same time were surprised by Hong Yuesheng's accuracy.

"N39°53′34.96", E116°40′46.04", if the hostages are found, all units will immediately report to the coordinate location. Hong Yuesheng reported the coordinates according to the numbers displayed on the screen, while manipulating the two huge fingers of the mecha to gently pull up the hostage's black hood, revealing a face of a Meda Busoya with a short beard and a bruised nose and swollen face, and a long scar pulled down his right eye, Hong Yuesheng felt familiar for a while, but because the face of the tortured hostage was already a little out of shape, he suddenly didn't think of where he had seen it.

"Two masters! No. 2 and No. 3 are here to report! "Green Snake, the white tiger arrived from the factory gate at this time.

"Captain, report to machine six." Other team members arrived at the scene according to the coordinates.

"No. 5, No. 7, No. 4 machine check-in."

"Hehehe, cough cough ......" suddenly came from the ground a miserable laughter, everyone followed the sound to see that it was the skinny monkey who had just been hit by bullets and his body was scattered, his eyes were blood-red, and he laughed while spitting blood: "This thing is done, and it is worth accompanying your life!" ”

As he finished speaking, the factory gate fell with a bang. The laughter of the skinny monkey was eerie, and the sound wafted through the vast factory space like a ghost. Ice blue eyes appeared one by one in the shadows through which the sound drifted, and more and more.

"It's a Yaksha!!"

As soon as Hong Yuesheng's words fell, a group of Yaksha jumped down from the shadows on the top of the factory, and before the fourth and sixth machines could react, they were immediately pounced on by several Yakshas, whose sharp teeth penetrated deep into the mecha and pierced into the pilot's flesh.

The mobility of the two Lionheart mechs in the headquarters turned into a line of despair, and the pilot's avatar turned gray.

"Free Fire!" In the midst of the wailing of his teammates, Hong Yuesheng commanded the other mechs to either shoot or shake the machine gun in his hand and pounce on the Yaksha hand-to-hand combat.

"Protect the hostages!" Hong Yuesheng entrusted the hostage saved from the chair to the green snake, turned around and shot the Yaksha who was rushing up with the butt of his gun, "Retreat!" ”

The green snake put the hostage on the mecha's shoulder, and the remaining team members surrounded the green snake with the hostage in the middle, led by Hong Yuesheng, and the White Tiger retreated outside the factory.

Because of the rapid movement and combat of the mech, the large screen screen was shaky, and the sound of gunfire, fighting, and the screaming of Yaksha echoed in the room. For a long time, when Brunhilde was paying close attention to the picture, there was a "drip" sound of the elevator arriving behind him, and a non-commissioned officer pushed a man in a wheelchair into the elevator:

"My_apology, Lieutenant_Colonel, he_insists_on_meeting_you. (I'm sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Nakaku, he insisted on seeing you.) ）”

Nakahisa looked back at the person in the wheelchair and called out in surprise, "Kevin?!"

Medical stents were installed in many places throughout the body, and fixation brackets were also installed on the neck to fix the cervical vertebrae, and the wound stitches on the face were particularly conspicuous.