Chapter 7: Butterflies in the Snow

The structure of the Central Square complex, as the name suggests, is based on the central square of the Old Town, which is usually used as the main venue for the activities of the Old Town government. After the war, in order to maintain law and order, a fence was built outside the central square. Directly north of the square is the podium, where the ambassador has spoken before. Behind the podium is a huge backstage area. The back-of-house area is divided into the B1 warehouse area, a back-office work area on the first floor, and a high-rise command building.

On the 15th anniversary of Confederate Day, the B1 warehouse area was transformed into a supply workshop for the Heart of the Machine Guard.

The backstage workspace on the ground floor was used as the headquarters, ambassador lounge and security room for the Alliance Day event.

The conning tower is a modern 20-storey building in the shape of an hourglass timer with a wide base and top and a thin waist in the middle, built by the post-war government, and is incompatible with the traditional architecture of the surrounding old city. The elevator connects the B1 warehouse area, the back-office area on the first floor and the command building. One of the direct elevators, reserved for high-ranking government officials and members of his Mechanical Heart Guards, stops only at B1, the first floor and the rooftop of the centre on the top floor, where Hung Yuet-sheng and Naka-kyu are ridden. Of course, in addition to the elevator, there is also a fire staircase, which rotates around the control tower, and after passing through the roof of the first floor, it is a semi-open-air design enclosed in the wall, leading to the top of the control tower.

A team of seven people was surrounding the elevator entrance on the top floor of the conning tower, each heavily armed and slowly advancing with submachine guns to the elevator doors that were about to open.

One of them, a young guerrilla, was in an unusually nervous state and accidentally kicked a discarded can as he walked forward, making a "pop" sound.

"Wow, ahhhh The young guerrilla tensed, pulled the trigger, and shot at the elevator with a sudden burst. Several other team members didn't know why, thinking that they had received an order and hurriedly shot together, and for a while, the gunfire was loud.

The captain waved his hand and shouted, "Stop!!" Stop shooting!! ”

In this way, the gunfire faded down.

At this time, the elevator door was full of holes, creaked open, and after the smoke, there was nothing inside.

Several team members walked over slowly, looked down the elevator, and found that the elevator floor had been welded through a large hole by a welding torch. Looking down, a mechanical heart mecha was sliding down the elevator shaft more than ten meters below, holding on to both sides of the wall with its hands and feet - although they had dodged the attack of Yaksha just now, Zhong Jiu and Hong Yuesheng both knew that going to the top floor was a dead end.

"Down there!" One of the guerrillas shouted, and more people ran over and raised their guns to shoot down.

"The button on the right hand is a Gatling gun, shoot!" Nakahisa commanded from the side.

He originally wanted Hong Yuesheng to shoot at the upper guerrillas, but he didn't expect Hong Yuesheng to manipulate the mecha's right hand to shoot at the wall in front of him, Zhong Jiu bared his teeth helplessly, and then manipulated his left hand to frantically smash the wall that was shot continuously, seeing that the wall was loose, Zhong Jiu shouted:

"Raise your right hand to protect your face! I'm talking about three right foot power pedals! ”

Hong Yuesheng finally obeyed the command this time, raised his hand to protect the door in front of him, and the external mecha followed suit at the same time, protecting the head of the mecha with his right hand. Zhongjiu manipulated his left hand to block in front of his body,

β€œ1,2,3!”

The two of them stepped on the power pedal at the same time, kicked hard with their feet on the body, and rushed all over their bodies, smashing the wall in front of them that had been shot through and loosened, and rushed out of the elevator shaft.

β€œShit!” The moment he just rushed away, in front of Zhong Jiu was at least fifteen stories in the air, and if he fell down directly, even if it was a mecha, it would inevitably be shattered!

He hurriedly grabbed the front controller tightly with his hand......

The Prince, who had just run halfway to the top floor around the conning tower on the Yaksha's body, heard a loud noise upstairs, and the prince followed the sound probe to look up, and a mechanical heart mecha had just smashed the outer wall of the conning tower above and rushed out, but immediately grabbed the wall with his left hand and slid all the way down the outer wall.

The bear and the other two yaksha also saw it, barking at the mecha that slid down, and the bear was even more eager to try to poke out, but he never expected the mecha to slide extremely fast, and the right hand that grabbed the wall pulled a trajectory on the wall.

When approaching the floor where the prince was located, the prince's eyes widened, and he saw that it was Hong Yuesheng and Zhong Jiu who were controlling the mecha together! Obviously, Hong Yuesheng also saw him, and the moment the mecha slid down and the two staggered, Hong Yuesheng suddenly stretched out his right hand and hugged the head of the bear who was roaring at the window, pulled the bear back to the wall and jumped out in the air, and fell to the ground together.

The prince was startled and hurriedly threw himself on the railing of the stairs to look down.

Even Zhongjiu was shouting, "What are you doing?!" ”

In the meantime, the mecha hugged the already frightened bear all the way down, and when it was about two stories high, Hong Yuesheng manipulated his right hand to push the bear's body to his feet, and kicked it hard with his right foot. While screaming and smashing to the ground, the bear monster reversed to bring power to Hong Yuesheng's mecha and jumped forward, while reducing the gravitational acceleration of the fall.

"You madman!" Nakahisa shouted as he raised his hand and pressed the green button in front of him, and the magnetic levitation jet behind the mecha jumping in the air activated, and the huge wave that was sprayed once again helped slow down the speed of the mecha landing.

Feng Die was about to run into the backstage from the podium, Peng's loud noise, the bear fell hard to the podium, fainted, fortunately he was rough and thick and Yaksha form, if he was replaced by someone else, it is estimated that he would have died a long time ago. After a brief twitch in his unconscious body, his bulging muscles began to atrophy and gradually return to their human form.

Not far from the podium, a mechanical heart mecha fell to the ground with a heavy breath, due to the huge force, the mecha knelt on one leg and fell to the ground, and the ground below was pressed out of a large pit. The people in the central square were screaming and chaotic again.

The display screen below the mecha pilot gave a red alarm, but fortunately it did not affect the operation of basic functions.

Zhong Jiu exhaled a heavy breath and looked at Hong Yuesheng: "Whew~~ You lifeless bastard!" Obey my orders from now on, do you understand?! ”

Hong Yuesheng nodded, but couldn't help but observe the whole body again-he was also surprised that the first time he manipulated the mecha, he was so handy, and at the moment when the mecha neuron sensing device was attached to his body, it felt as if the body that had been submerged in the water for a long time suddenly opened a door to a new world, and his potential was released, not only full of power, but also his perception became extremely acute. The control of this mecha is not as complicated as it seems, thanks to the help of the motion capture system, most of the time, the mecha can perfectly capture Hong Yuesheng's basic movements as a human, and realize these movements into the actions of the mecha.

And Zhong Jiu scolded and scolded, and he couldn't help but secretly admire Hong Yuesheng's learning speed so fast.

Hong Yuesheng turned his head to look in the direction of the prince of the command tower.

Also on the conning tower, the prince also looked at him, so angry that he had collapsed, and he could no longer hold the shelf as before:

"Bastard! Bastard! He muttered under his breath and finally shouted, "I'm going to kill you!" I'm going to kill you!!! He slammed the railing of the staircase.

Hong Yuesheng didn't say anything, just watched silently. Zhong Jiu sneered and stretched out his hand and raised his middle finger at the prince.

And Feng Die, who was half-kneeling on the podium, drew out a sniper rifle and aimed at the mecha driver's seat and was about to shoot, was surprised to find that it was Hong Yuesheng in the mechanical heart mecha!

There were also a few waiting yaksha in the central square, and as soon as they reacted, they roared and rushed up.

Zhong Jiu and Hong Yuesheng looked at each other, and at the same time pushed the joystick, the "Heart of Machinery" mecha jumped up from the crater on the ground, and finally had a broad space to play, coupled with the help of the magnetic levitation jet device behind it, for a while the mecha dodged like a butterfly in the snow, and attacked like a tiger, the two cooperated tacitly, like a tiger with wings, and after a few rounds, they actually knocked several yaksha to the ground, ** couldn't get up, but the machine also has a limit, and many overloads caused the mecha's left hand to be unresponsive, one was careless, The last Yaksha hissed and ripped off his entire left arm, and a large amount of oil poured out, like animal blood. The mecha shook off the Yaksha and fell to his knees like a trapped beast. Hong Yuesheng and Zhong Jiu were also panting in the cockpit, and when the two raised their heads and were about to fight again, Hong Yuesheng unexpectedly saw a phoenix butterfly not far away.

Feng Die was standing there, holding a gun at the mecha, with mixed expressions on her face.

Hong Yuesheng was also stunned for a while, not knowing how to respond. It seemed like time had stopped.

At this time, the prince, who had already rushed down the control tower, directly snatched the machine gun from a guerrilla who was stunned by the melee next to him, and fired at Hong Yuesheng in the cockpit of the mecha.

Bang bang bang!

Fortunately, Nakahisa blocked the bullet with his left hand in time,

"Run!! What a daze! Come on!! Zhong Jiu shouted into his ear, several bullets had already pierced his right arm, almost hitting the two of them, and Hong Yuesheng reacted. He gritted his teeth, turned the joystick in his hand, and together with Nakahisa, controlled the mecha and staggered to the sidelines.

Feng Die kept holding the gun and looked at Hong Yuesheng from the scope, her index finger was on the trigger but she couldn't press it until the mecha disappeared from sight, her eyes full of tears.

Hong Yuesheng was like a soul out of her shell, and her state just now was completely gone, so that the mecha stumbled and stumbled, and the two couldn't coordinate their movements.

Zhong Jiu also saw it and shouted, "What do you want?!" Now start commanding me! I shout right, you move your right foot! Shout left, I understand, ok?! Right! ”

Hong Yuesheng mechanically stepped on the pedal of his right foot.

"Left! Right! Left! Right! ……”

Zhong Jiu bared his teeth beside him, and Hong Yuesheng stared blankly ahead, just like this, the mecha with the face of a panda rushed out of the chaotic crowd outside, and the chickens and dogs jumped along the way.

When the prince followed the fragments of the mecha scattered all the way to an alley in the residential area, he saw a two-person mechanical heart mecha that was so broken that it was almost falling apart, sitting on the ground against the wall, and there was no driver. An uncle in the courtyard next to him who was so frightened that he peed his pants trembled and stretched out his hand to the side.

The prince looked in the direction he pointed, and the sewer manhole cover next to him was half opened, and there were still patches of blood around it.

In the backstage of the central square, Qiqi picked up Hong Yuesheng's tattered cotton clothes from the ground, and the tracker on it still flashed faintly.