"You're insane!"
Li Ruobing's voice crackled with distortion over the communicator.
"That's an overloaded SS-Grade Core!"
"The temperature can melt titanium alloy!"
"You're reaching in with your bare hand?!"
"Enough talk!"
Qin Yu ripped off his earpiece.
Cutting off the communication directly.
He had no time to explain.
Because on the conveyor belts all around him.
Those mechanical skeletons, once lifeless.
Had already begun to move.
"Clank, clank, clank—"
The grating sound of joint friction converged into a sea of steel.
Pairs of crimson electronic eyes lit up in the darkness.
Dense and countless.
Enough to make one's scalp crawl.
On the lower deck of the "President."
Elena, holding her rifle, kicked over a mechanical soldier that had just climbed up.
"Everyone, board the ship!"
"Now! Immediately!"
The female warriors supported each other, scrambling frantically up the lowered rope ladders.
"Boss, get out of here!"
The second squad leader stood on the deck, shouting at Elena.
The surrounding mechanical soldiers were growing in number.
Like tireless ants.
Elena glanced at her squad, which had already completed its retreat.
Then turned her head to look deep into the underground workshop.
There.
A black figure.
Was charging alone toward the mountain-sized third tyrannosaurus.
His back resolute.
Like a single man charging against an army of thousands.
Elena gritted her teeth.
A flash of madness flickered in her pair of azure blue eyes.
"Second squad, assume command."
She coldly issued the order.
"What?!"
The second squad leader was stunned.
Before she could react.
Elena directly tore off the communicator from her waist and threw it onto the deck.
Grabbing two large-caliber shotguns from the armory crate in one smooth motion.
Then stuffed thermite grenades into the tactical straps on both sides of her thighs.
"Boss, what are you doing?!"
The female warriors screamed in terror.
"Hold the fort."
Elena didn't look back.
Her legs suddenly exerted force.
Her entire body like a mother leopard.
She leaped directly from the reversing "President"!
"Thud!"
Her tactical boots slammed heavily onto the ground littered with metal wreckage.
Elena rolled on the spot to dissipate the impact.
Lifted her head.
And without hesitation, charged into that steel ocean.
Deep in the workshop.
Qin Yu's situation was already extremely dire.
He was still a hundred meters away from the third tyrannosaurus.
But this short hundred meters.
Was already blocked by a wall of bodies.
No.
A wall of iron.
Hundreds of awakened mechanical soldiers, brandishing alloy combat blades crackling with high-voltage electric arcs.
Surged toward him madly.
"Those who stand in my way, die!"
Qin Yu roared.
The leg thrusters of his S-class combat armor activated at full power.
He neither dodged nor evaded, charging directly into the mechanical horde.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Qin Yu punched, shattering the head of a mechanical soldier.
Blue plasma splattered onto his visor.
He seized the opponent's alloy combat blade, and with a backhand slash, cleaved through two skeletons pouncing at him.
But there were too many.
Impossible to kill them all.
Just as he cut down three, ten more lunged forward.
"Alert! Left arm armor damaged!"
"Alert! Combat armor energy remaining at 30%!"
The system's cold prompts sounded incessantly.
Three mechanical soldiers took advantage, grabbing onto Qin Yu's legs.
High-voltage electric arcs surged through the gaps in his armor.
"Zzzzt—"
Qin Yu grunted in pain.
His movements were instantly slowed.
Immediately after, five Alloy Combat Blades slashed down from above simultaneously!
Qin Yu's eyes sharpened. He was about to forcibly overdraw the battle armor's energy to withstand the blows.
"Boom—!!"
A violent explosion erupted beside him.
Blinding white light instantly engulfed the five Mechanical Soldiers.
The powerful shockwave sent Qin Yu flying.
He tumbled twice on the ground before kneeling on one knee.
He looked up.
Amid the smoke.
A woman with an incredibly hot figure strode out, holding two shotguns.
Her black tactical undergarment was tattered.
Revealing large patches of snow-white skin.
Sweat mixed with engine oil trickled down her impressive abdominal lines.
Wild.
Deadly.
"Bang!"
Elena blasted apart a Mechanical Soldier trying to get up.
With practiced ease, she flicked one gun to reload it single-handedly.
Smoke curled from the barrel.
Qin Yu was stunned.
"Are you fucking insane?!"
He cursed loudly.
"I told you to retreat to the ship!"
"You came back to die?!"
Elena walked to Qin Yu's side, turning her back to him.
Her gun barrels aimed at the surging tide of machines.
"I'm your personal bodyguard."
Her voice was icy, yet carried a barely detectable hint of a light laugh.
"The boss is fighting for his life up front."
"If the bodyguard runs away, how am I supposed to keep my reputation in the underworld once word gets out?"
"It's the apocalypse! What fucking underworld is there left?!"
Qin Yu laughed in exasperation.
He shoved aside the wreckage blocking his path and stood up.
"I don't have time to protect you!"
"Who needs your protection?"
Elena suddenly turned her head.
Her beautiful eyes gleamed with a frenzied fighting spirit.
"Qin Yu, listen up."
"I signed a contract selling myself. This life is yours."
"If you die, who am I supposed to collect my salary from?"
Qin Yu looked at this stubborn woman before him.
His heart was struck hard.
In this dog-eat-dog apocalypse.
Some betrayed, some stabbed others in the back.
But this woman, for a single command from him, was willing to throw her life away.
"Fine."
A fierce, ruthless smile curled at the corner of Qin Yu's mouth.
"Since you're not afraid to die."
"Then keep me company in raising hell."
"Gladly."
The corner of Elena's mouth also lifted.
The two stood back-to-back.
Facing the steel tide surging from all directions.
"Target, the Third Tyrannosaurus."
Qin Yu stared fixedly ahead.
The core in that Tyrannosaurus' chest was glowing to its limit.
Overload was about to complete.
That golden sphere was spinning faster and faster.
More Mechanical Soldiers were awakening.
"Distance eighty meters."
Elena clicked, discarding the shotgun.
She drew two modified submachine guns from her thighs.
"I'll clear the path."
"You charge."
"Good!"
Qin Yu didn't hesitate in the slightest.
At a time like this, being sentimental was asking for death.
"Kill!!"
The two roared simultaneously.
Like two sharp blades, they plunged fiercely into the steel torrent.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!"
Elena opened fire with both guns.
Bullets poured down like rain ahead.
The gunfire illuminated her wild face.
Even when the recoil made her palms bleed, she didn't even blink.
When encountering heavily armored ones, she directly pulled out Thermite Grenades.
Biting off the pins with her teeth, she accurately tossed them into the Mechanical Soldiers' joints.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Continuous explosions blasted a bloody path ahead.
Qin Yu followed closely behind her.
Dealing with any stragglers one by one.
The two cooperated seamlessly.
As if it had been rehearsed a thousand times.
"Whoosh—"
A battle blade slashed in from the side.
It sliced through Elena's arm.
Blood instantly gushed out.
"Elena!"