The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

Warning! Energy overload!

Force field failure!

The armor plating is severely corroded!

"..."

A series of piercing alarms blared wildly inside the cockpit.

The strong acid seeped wildly into the gaps in the armor, corroding the chest plate and shoulder area, causing it to hiss and dent layer by layer.

The two tried to break free, but at that moment, the mech's left arm was ruined because the monster's bone spikes had pierced the joints, causing some circuits to be corroded and damaged by the acid.

The entire machine shook violently, and its power output dropped by 30% instantly.

Lu Qing and Chen Lin turned pale, just as the sharp teeth of the acidic fangs were about to completely tear the cockpit apart—

A large-caliber shell suddenly pierced the air from afar, accurately striking the hyena at the junction of its head and spine. The explosion tore the giant beast's skin apart, its body stiffened, and it nearly died with its eyes rolling back in its head.

But in that critical moment of respite, Lu Qing and Chen Lin instantly channeled all their remaining power into their right arms.

The alloy blade suddenly activated high-frequency vibrations within the acid hyena's abdominal cavity, and the violent blade waves directly shredded its core organ.

A sour hyena let out an extremely hoarse scream.

The massive body finally lost all support and collapsed heavily onto Zhen Yue.

Zhenyue was also pulled by the enormous force and staggered to one knee, with the fuselage damaged and smoking in many places.

Despite his left arm being completely destroyed, he still stood firmly on the ruins, confirming that the monster had no chance of survival.

Only then did they have time to look up at the high slope outside the city, following the trajectory of the shells.

There stood a group of armed forces they had never seen before.

Chapter 182 Nine War Zones

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!"

"boom!!"

With the final gunshot, the last deep blue-skinned, four-legged dog-like monster crashed to the ground.

The artillery fire had alerted the nearby monsters.

Dozens of level-one monsters, each several meters long, launched a surprise attack, but before they could even finish one round, they all fell on the road where the monsters were charging.

Lu Qianwei walked up to a monster whose body was still intact. He grabbed the monster's head with his giant metal hand and looked at it. The petal-shaped mouth and the six triangular eyes gave him a sense of familiarity, but he just couldn't remember what it was called.

Standing in front of the armored vehicle, Sylvia chewed gum and greeted them, "The satellites in this world are still there!"

In 2040, the Pioneer Civilization invades again, with a large number of monsters flooding into Australia. The PPDC (Pacific Rim Defense Force) mechs are deployed in full force.

After the battle, the human mechs suffered heavy losses and were unable to sustain themselves for long.

Given the attacks occurring in many parts of the world, in order to preserve their strength and safeguard the overall situation, countries ultimately chose to abandon the Australian continent and impose a complete closure on Australian waters.

It is defined as a black zone where entry is prohibited.

Survivors in the Black Zone are struggling to survive, and the situation is no better in other countries.

For five years, the monster used the Black Zone as its outpost to invade all coastal countries.

Apart from the Xia Kingdom, all the countries along the southeastern coast have fallen, leaving only a few small countries struggling to survive.

Judging from the intercepted satellite images, the Xia Kingdom is not doing well either. Apart from the provinces that are key grain-producing areas being protected, most of the coastal cities have been abandoned.

"Having the internet is quite convenient." At least it lets Lu Qianwei know that the world still maintains a certain order.

"Someone's coming!"

Since this was in China, the logistics response team arrived to rescue the Zhenyue mecha less than ten minutes after it was destroyed.

The expeditionary force's powerful artillery barrage, which revealed their location, naturally attracted attention.

The Xia Kingdom was not keen on an unknown force suddenly intruding into its territory, even though the ruins had created a breach in the border.

"Holy crap! An armored unit has appeared here!"

"They're all wearing power armor!"

"The weapon appears to be laser-based!"

"Please take note!!"

After speaking into the walkie-talkie, Lu Yixian's serious expression turned into a smile as she got off the military armored vehicle.

"Hey guys over there, which unit are you from?"

"We are the Southeast Mobile Column of the National Defense Force, Third Armored Supply Battalion."

"I am Battalion Commander Lu Yixian."

Squeezing through the wary crowd, Lu Qianwei walked up to the vigilant soldiers and extended his hand.

He introduced himself as follows: "I am Lu Qianwei, the commander-in-chief of the multi-party joint expeditionary force."

Hearing the other person speak fluent Chinese, Lu Yixian was stunned for a moment before quickly reaching out to grasp the large metal hand.

"Thank you for your help earlier!"

"It's a small matter."

Was that multinational expeditionary force formed by the United Nations?

"How come I've never heard of this before?"

“No!” Lu Qianwei shook his head, “We actually come from a parallel world…”

"Parallel worlds? Isn't that ridiculous?" Shao Wenzhe, commander-in-chief of the Southeast Mech War Zone, frowned.

He grumbled and said he didn't believe it, but he still invited the person back first.

After all, leaving an unknown armored force out in the open is dangerous no matter how you look at it.

"Report this to headquarters!"

With powered armor and armed hovercraft, they're no simple force.

The messages went back and forth, and the result was: "Unclear!"

However, faced with a high-tech force, headquarters still gave the order: "Be cautious!"

After a moment's consideration, Shao Wenzhe decided to meet with them personally to see what they were up to.

However, the other party was not one to mince words. After a few casual words, he immediately demonstrated the existence of a time portal and parallel universes.

Looking at the city and photos of World 2, Lu Yixian was dumbfounded. After the news was further confirmed, Shao Wenzhe forced a bitter smile while secretly rejoicing.

He saw the interstellar warships over there; using them to fight monsters would definitely save China, no, the whole world a lot of effort.

"Warship?"

"This is too much trouble. We actually have mechs here too. Should we send this Ultraman Tiga to provide support, or this Red King?"

"Hehe, I actually think this legendary Hyperle Zetton is pretty good!"

It's a real mechanical life form, you know.

"Don't worry, each one weighs over 10,000 tons, guaranteeing one punch to take down a kid!"

"connect?"

"It requires a mental link, but only one person needs to control it remotely. We already have a mature solution for this technology."

"..."

Lu Qianwei projected a series of mecha images with a sly grin. These were images he had secretly collected as models by abusing his authority.

The fact that it's now come in handy is nothing short of bringing smiles to the faces of Paradox Interactive's war criminals.

…………

After five years of monster invasion, the Xia Kingdom was divided into three regions: the inner, outer, and high-ring areas, from coastal cities to the plateau.

The outer ring refers to the occupied areas.

This region was divided into two major coastal war zones, the Southeast and the Northeast, comprising a total of nine regional modules.

Each area has at least 30 guard mechs protecting the defense line.

The Zhenyue that Lu Qianwei saw at the time was a patrol mech, with three units per group specifically for routine patrols and defense of the area outside the city.

Sometimes they also take on recycling and conservation tasks.

Monsters also appeared in other areas at the time, which forced us to split our forces to deal with them.

The wars against the pioneering civilizations have now turned from odd to even.

The corpses of dead Kaiju can pollute the environment and even spread a mutation virus that causes the original animals to decompose their DNA, eventually merging and recombinizing to form new Kaiju monsters.

War has almost become a new tactic for the opposing side to use native organisms to sustain the war effort.

Although these monsters are only level one or two, their sheer number makes up for it.

For unarmed civilians, these weapons are enough to cause widespread panic and destruction.

Just as the Seventh Special Operations Zone concentrated its firepower to repel a wave of monsters consisting of Level 1, 2, and 3 monsters, dozens of Level 4 and 5 monsters followed in quick succession.

"Ha, can't you come up with something different?" The commander was speechless. It was always the same old routine: first send in cannon fodder, then elites.

Knowing that this is an important economic plantation for humans, they still frequently harass it; that's just unbelievable.

"Prepare the tactical hydrogen bombs, and fire at those level 5 monsters!"

"Leave the rest to the guard mechs."

"By the way, wasn't an eighth-generation experimental model recently issued?"

"This is a good opportunity to have them go up and collect experimental data."

"boom!!!"

As several tactical hydrogen bombs detonated, a blinding white light instantly engulfed all the Level 5 monsters on the battlefield.

Before the level four monster, which had been thrown into the air, could recover from its disorientation, a large number of guard mechs armed with standardized weapons rushed into the battlefield and began their dirty work.