The wind howls through the deserted town, with collapsed buildings, broken streets, and the wreckage of cars billowing black smoke. Everything is saying that the town is dead. At one time, thousands of people lived in this town. The town may not be rich, but it is very lively. People have taken care of each other and supported each other in these difficult times. They are trying to make life better, but now, all their efforts have been wasted.

Because they came.

An empty can tumbled on the ground with a series of rattles. Suddenly, a figure rushed out of the two-story building where the can rolled over. It's a man, and there's not a clean place on his body. His eyes were red, and he ran desperately forward with a rifle in his hand. As soon as the man ran ten meters away, the small building collapsed with a bang. Something crashed out of the gate, crashing into the wall and causing the building to tilt and collapse.

The thing was fast, and when it came to a halt on the road, it made a bright spark. It was an alien creature, covered in dark nail leaves. The head is large and long, and the front eyes, nostrils, and mouth are all crammed together. The coronal nail leaf at the back has divergent lines, and fluorescent light flows from time to time. The monster is able to move upright and has long arms. On the outside of the forearms protrude bony blades like shark dorsal fins, and the legs are posteriorly articulated, often with large, broad feet with a hook claw.

From the back of the head to the spine to the tail, it has a row of sharp bone spurs. At the end of the tail, there is a pin-ball structure, and the long tail is enough to collapse the concrete wall.

The monster stared at the man running in front of it, leaning forward and kicking its legs violently, chasing after the man. The man turned a street and passed several houses, and the monster was on his heels. Eventually, the man jumped onto a car and leaped over a stretch of the road. Then he rolled on the ground, and when he bounced up again, he saw that the monster jumped over the car and fell to the ground.

It slammed into it, and the ground suddenly collapsed. Below is a square, five-meter-deep pit, which smashes the monster not lightly. It shook its head, and as it tried to get up, it saw several machine guns sticking out from the four sides of the pit with three eyes on the front of its head.

Then a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the city.

The monster was cracked into a sieve, and green glow-like blood flowed from the bullet holes. The man who was in charge of luring the monster over sat down on the ground, cursed a few times, rushed up and gave the monster corpse in the pit a few more shots, but pulled it down for his companion.

These monsters appeared out of nowhere two days ago, and they appeared without warning, followed by a bloodbath of the town. Most of them died, and the bodies were taken away. Only a small fraction of the people survived and fought against the monsters. These monsters are agile and destructive, with the only weakness being their defenses. Their armor can't withstand a rifle attack, but these things are so powerful that it would be a mistake to expect a shot or two to kill them.

In the end, the man who pulled away from his companion didn't even have the strength to scold, but instead cried bitterly. His name is Bob, and he is the hunter of the town. The whole family let these monsters be killed, and the worst was the youngest son, who was only three years old, and let the monster swallow in one bite in front of Bob's eyes.

"Alright, Bob. If you have the strength to cry, you might as well see how to kill these things. A man patted Bob on the shoulder, saying that he had a rugged appearance and a pair of blue-gray eyes that always looked deep and depressed.

He's Sheriff Baal, the mayor of the town, and right now, he's leading the survivors against the other monsters.

"Sheriff, I think it's time for us to go. A young man said that he was Walker, the sheriff's assistant, and that he was a clever young man.

Barr nodded and said to the group, "Get out of here first, the gunfire will draw those things in." Walker...... Walker!"

When he accidentally looked towards Walker, Barr happened to see a monster crawling silently down the wall behind the young assistant. At the same time as Barr was warning him, the monster had already bitten off the young man's head.

"You sons of bitch!" Barr roared, beckoning the monster with his double-barreled shotgun and gesturing for the group to retreat.

Baal himself backs away, but hits someone. Looking back at Bob, the sheriff shouted, "For God's sake, Bob, what are you still doing in a daze, run." ”

Bob's body trembled slightly, and he said bitterly, "I can't run." ”

"What?" the sheriff looked over Bob and several more monsters appeared in front of the people.

No, not a few, but a swarm. These black monsters appeared one after another in the shadows of the surrounding buildings, and the rooftops or behind the wreckage of the cars surrounded people. Baal said hatefully, "Damn, these monsters also set traps. That was just a bait to lure us out?"

"Looks like that's right. Bob suddenly yelled, "Come on, you bastards. Before you tear me apart, I'm going to kill at least two, no, ten!"

"Come this way. The sheriff shouted, leading the people towards a low building in the street. It is only two storeys high, but there are few windows and the entrance is only one gate. It was a warehouse, owned by the town's petty merchant, Hozzy. Of course, now Hozzy will not jump out and accuse them of using their own warehouses without permission, because that fat man has long since become food for monsters.

The sheriff and Bob break back, stopping the monster from advancing. Finally, the group of eight people successfully entered the warehouse, and Barr immediately closed the door. Bob and two other young men brought heavy objects to block the door. Barr shouted, "Window, keep all the windows, don't let them in." ”

The sound of gunfire echoed throughout the town, and more and more monsters gathered in this small warehouse. Soon, the sheriff was running out of ammunition, and an air of despair enveloped everyone in the warehouse.

Shake.

At first it was only a slight vibration, which only these keen-sensed monsters noticed. But two minutes later, even the people in the warehouse felt a vibration under their feet.

"What is it?" asked Bob.

Barr shook his head and said, "I don't know, but whatever it is, our situation couldn't be worse." Isn't it?"

In such a desperate situation, people laughed instead. Barr said, "How many more bombs?"

"I have three grenades. ”

"There are only two detonators ......"

Put the bombs together, the number is pitiful. Barr took a breath and said, "Guys, you probably don't want to make a monster lunch, do you? So, how about we surprise these monsters?"

"What do you want to do?" asked Bob.

Barr looked around: "Hozzy has nitric acid in this warehouse, as well as some other materials. With the addition of what we have on hand, it's enough to make a big gift for those crumbs outside. However, we don't think we can make it. What do you guys say. ”

"Fuck it!" Bob yelled, "It's a death anyway, and it's worth it to blow up the crumbs outside." ”

The proposal was quickly passed, and people got busy. Gather enough utensils and materials, and have Barr mix them up in a certain proportion to create a giant bomb. But apparently, they didn't need the bomb because of the sudden sound of rough gunfire outside.

Monsters don't use guns, only humans can use guns. Barr immediately threw himself in front of a small window, and looked out through the window, and a bright line of fire swept through the street, sweeping monsters over one monster after another. The tall walking mech appeared in the window, and the minimum's suspended minigantry blasted powerful bullets into the bodies of monsters, blowing them to the ground.

"It's a paladin! Reinforcements from the Papal Hall have arrived!" Barr exclaimed excitedly.

A total of five paladins appeared on the streets near the warehouse, and four of them blasted with their rotary cannons, blasting and killing the monsters near the warehouse. The other raised two mechanical arms and spewed fire dragons from the outer suspension of the arms, which turned out to be flamethrowers. After the heat swept around and dispersed the remaining monsters, Baal and the others cautiously walked out of the warehouse.

The pilot of a paladin mech radioed, "Captain Yafidi, we have found a survivor. ”

"You bring them to safety, and the rest of them continue to clean up. ”

"Understood. ”

Following the mech in front of them to the safe area outside the town, Baal and the others saw one mech after another enter the town. These big machines whizzing past them lifted their spirits. Outside the town, a makeshift camp has been set up. Five long trailers are parked in the camp, and the carriages on one side of the trailers are opened and lowered to form a ramp with the ground.

The mechs in the carriage slid down from above, and then a group of five entered the town and launched an annihilation operation against the monster.

It was Jafidi who commanded the battle, and after Paul, the new pope, took office, he was given the important task as one of the few veteran commanders of the Order of the Holy Seal. Just yesterday, the base where he was stationed received a report of a monster attack, and under the orders of the new chief of the Knights, Black Wing, Yafidi led a mecha unit.

After meeting the survivors, Yafidi placed them in a tent and had the military doctor with him to examine them in detail. After learning that Barr is the sheriff of the town, Yafidi calls him out.

"Sheriff Barr, how much do you know about these monsters?" asked Jafidi, "where did they come from, and how many of them?" ”

Barr smiled bitterly, "My lord, I don't know much. Two days ago in the evening, they suddenly attacked our town. Damn, I was still having dinner when this monster burst in. When I tried my best to escape, I found that the whole town was full of monsters. I was lucky enough to hide. It wasn't until most of the monsters were gone that I found some lucky ones. ”

"We don't have supplies, and there are monsters wandering outside the town, so we can't leave. We're just going to stay and fight them. It's a good thing you arrived in time, otherwise we wouldn't have survived today. ”

Yafidi nodded, "You said that most of the monsters left, can you tell me the specific number?"

"There are a lot of them, at least hundreds. ”

"Okay, it's okay, you go down and rest first. Jafidi patted him on the shoulder.

At this time, one of the guards shouted, "Commander, you have to come." ”

Yafidi walked over and got into an armored car with the guards. The armored vehicle is actually a mobile biochemical laboratory, with the corpse of a monster on an operating table in the compartment. Several researchers are dissecting the monster, which was shot by the army on the way to passers-by. The corpse was relatively intact and handed over to the biological team.

The leader of the biology team, a middle-aged man in his forties, nodded when he saw Yafidi and told his assistants to continue their work. He left the operating table and came to Yafidi's side after disinfection, and said with a wry smile: "Captain Yafidi, these are not ordinary monsters. We've dissected it, and to be honest, their structure and organs are just too simple for living beings. ”

"Too easy?" said Yafidi, "Can you elaborate?"

"Let's put it this way, we humans or mutant beasts. As living beings, we have organs in our body that function in a variety of ways to adapt to our environment and ensure our survival. But these creatures, let's call them creatures. These guys, it has a single organ. It's like an integrator, a combination of the many functional organs of an organism. I don't think it's an evolutionary phenomenon, because we haven't found anything like it in other organisms. If it were evolution, the gap between it and us would be too great. ”

"You mean, it's a standard weapon made for some purpose?" said Yafidi.

"So to speak. After they have integrated organs, they can save the waste of energy to a large extent. From my personal point of view, no creature can be so efficient, not even someone as powerful as you. The team leader spread his hands and said: "Isn't efficiency and simplicity the characteristics of war weapons? What's more, the size of these guys, and even the cells, are almost the same, and they are simply things that have come down from the assembly line." ”

"Then it's even more strange, which laboratory produced these biological weapons......" Jafidi shook his head, a little confused.

There was a knock on the door of the armored car, Yafidi opened the door, and a soldier said urgently: "Regiment commander, I just received a report." There are a lot of monsters on the east side of the town, and we need reinforcements. ”

"I see. Yafidi pushed the soldier: "Go and inform the base, let them send another mecha squadron over, and I'll go to the town now." ”

"But your Knights of the Round Table didn't bring it. ”

"It's okay, can't I drive a paladin?" Jafidi smiled and ran towards a truck that was towing mechs.

A moment later, he drove a paladin to the ground and headed in the direction of the town. After the Sauron incident, Paul vigorously developed the mecha technology of the Papal Hall in accordance with Zero Day's words. At present, the fourth generation of Sky Angels has been perfected and can be put into actual combat. Other generations of mechs have also been upgraded, but the ones that have made the least changes and benefited the most are the Paladin mechs of these generations.

When the mech engineers received the upgrade and modification of the paladin, they did their homework in terms of cost and efficiency, and finally focused on improving the flexibility of the mecha and changing the previous single attack mode. After nearly a year of trial and error, the Paladin Mecha has been fully upgraded. Now equipped with controllable pulleys on the feet, the mech can switch between walking and gliding movements with a single command from the driver's seat.

At the same time, the jet acceleration action has also been added, which can allow the paladin mecha to move and accelerate in a short period of time, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly disengaging or cutting.

In terms of weapon systems, in addition to the traditional killer weapon of the revolver cannon, peripheral components such as flamethrowers, howitzers, wristplate rapid-fire machine guns, and small cannons have also been added. It can be loaded according to the needs and purposes, before being put into operation.

At the moment, the Paladin piloted by Yafidi does not have a minimunitor cannon, and its weapons are a small cannon mounted on both shoulders, a rapid-fire machine gun on the wrist of the mech, and a high-frequency knife hanging from the mech's back. The High Frequency Knife is not commonly used in mech combat, and this weapon requires close combat to be destructive, and not every driver can use it comfortably.

Of course, Yafidi has no problems with this. A high-frequency knife in his hand can play a greater role than a revolver.

When the mech switches to glide movement mode, a row of metal pulleys rises from the soles of the mech's feet. It's like a row of pulleys under a roller skate, and the driver can move quickly as long as he has a good balance and controls the mech's feet to slide alternately without interruption. Under the control of Yafidi, the mecha slid quickly through the streets of the town.

Just as he was about to reach the other side of town, suddenly there was an explosion in front of him. An orange fireball emerged from the corner of the street, and the dead flames swept across the long street like waves. The mech had to turn around, the pulleys sparked on the ground, and the mech stopped under the emergency braking. Several nearby buildings were blown up, and through the thick smoke, Yafidi could see some black figures in the cab haunting several paladin mechs on the other side of the street.

He snorted and stepped forward to help. Suddenly, the radar on the bridge showed several points of light rapidly approaching him. In the next moment, six pitch-black monsters jumped out of the buildings on the left and right, and pounced on Yafidi's mecha with teeth and claws.

The cannon immediately fired, blasting the two monsters jumping on the left side first. The wrist armor machine gun on the left arm of the mecha roared, and the flying stream of bullets hit the remaining monster on the left side. At the same time, the back of the mecha locked the two sides of the components of the high-frequency knife and opened, and the mecha poked out with its right hand, and the long knife drew a bright flash, splitting the two monsters on the right side.

All the movements were completed almost instantaneously, and the attacking monster was already lying down four.