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Chidori thought that what she felt at this moment was probably the sight aiming at prey?
"Sousuke, I know it's you, come out now!"
The chidori's voice echoed in the forest, but no one answered.
"Come out now before I get angry!"
She shouted again. This was a lie, and she was already furious. But she still didn't answer.
Chidori vaguely felt that something was wrong. There was no one else in the forest, no students sketching, no other tourists, it seemed unusually quiet.
Suddenly, she lost her footing and twisted her foot, almost falling. A big hole appeared on the flat ground. She quickly stepped back a few steps. The hole was big enough to swallow her whole.
It was more like a cave than a pit. It was pitch black, with an opening wide enough for a cow to fall through, and it was unknown how deep it led into the ground.
Chidori couldn't understand how such a cave was formed. It was definitely not the result of natural evolution of the underground rock strata. However, if it was dug by humans, it seemed meaningless in such a place.
Could Sagara be hiding underneath this?
Chidori suddenly had this idea. Generally speaking, ordinary people would never do such a thing, but Sagara Sosuke is not an ordinary person. That military idiot, anything he does is possible.
So Chidori shouted towards the cave entrance.
"Sosuke! Sagara Sosuke!"
The cave was indeed very deep, because Chidori actually heard an echo. But then she felt that it was not an echo. A rustling sound came from the cave, and at a certain moment, a black shadow suddenly burst out of the cave.
Chidori had no way of seeing what it was, the shadow was moving so fast that all she could do was fall backwards.
There was a gunshot.
The bullet came from nowhere and tore through the air at an extremely high speed, almost brushing Chidori's face. Even the fine hair on her face could feel the heat of the air.
The shadow made a strange sound.
"Run, Chidori, it's dangerous out there!"
She heard Sagara's voice, not in the cave, but coming from the direction to her right, the direction where the bullet had just come from.
Unexpectedly, it was not Sagara who appeared there, but a huge humanoid mecha. It was so unlike anything that would appear in the real world that she almost thought she had fallen into a fantasy.
The tall mecha held a gun and kept shooting, firing bullets one after another. Chidori finally realized what was happening, she covered her ears and quickly backed away, wanting to leave here.
After running a few steps, her ankle was entangled by something, and she was suddenly pulled to the ground. She was dragged along the ground with an inhuman force.
Chidori then saw clearly that what was sticking out of the cave was a long fleshy object. At first she thought it was a python, but then she realized that it was a huge tentacle.
It was a tentacle stretched out from an unknown creature hiding in a deep pit.
With Chidori's knowledge of biology, she had no idea what kind of monster it was; it didn't even exist in any textbook.
She had no time to think about it now. The monster was pulling her into the cave.
Ping, ping, ping
After three consecutive gunshots, Chidori felt her ankle loosen and the tentacles wrapped around her were broken.
"Come here, Chidori!"
The voice coming from the mecha was Sagara's. Chidori no longer had the heart to think about why this classmate, whom she thought was a serious military fan, was sitting in such a mecha. She ran desperately in the direction of Sagara.
Tentacles continued to grow in the hole, unwilling to give up the delicious food, but they were repeatedly repelled by the crossbow's 57mm caliber shotgun until Chidori ran to the mecha.
"Zongsuke...is it Zongsuke?"
Before, she hadn't seen much comparison from a distance, but now that she was standing in front of the mecha, Chidori realized that it was even bigger than she had imagined. It was nearly ten meters high, equivalent to the height of a three-story building. She was 166cm tall, but when she stood up straight, it was only as high as the mecha's calves.
The mecha knelt on one knee, like a knight facing a princess. Of course, Sagara was not chivalrous, he just used this gesture to place his palm on the ground.
"Come up, I'll take you away."
Chidori had ridden in cars, trains and planes, but had never ridden in the palm of a mecha. But now she had no choice.
The ground was shaking, and from the deep hole, a monster uglier than anything human could imagine was emerging.
"What on earth is that thing?" Chidori felt that the outlook on life that she had formed over the past sixteen years had been overturned.
How could there be such a monster in the world?
Isn't this something that only appears in horror movies?
"This is a xenomorph. Don't worry, I will protect you. This is just a nightmare, and the world will return to normal when you wake up."
This was not the first time that Sagara had said this. In fact, when Sagara first transferred to Jindai High School, he said that his mission was to protect her and that he was ordered to come to Tokyo to serve as her bodyguard.
Chidori just thought it was a joke, a military nerd's fantasy.
But now she realized that this was no fantasy, that Sagara was telling the truth.
And, nightmare?
"Are you saying I'll forget about this later?"
Chidori suddenly thought of a possibility.
"This isn't the first time you've protected me, but I've forgotten about it, right?"
Sagara did not respond. Chidori was telling the truth. But alien beasts should not be known by more people. He protected Chidori not to let her know and get thanks.
The alien beast Baigbazun has completely emerged from the soil. It is currently nearly 20 meters tall, of course it is a giant, but this is not its complete form.
Now it is still in the larval stage, hiding underground and occasionally extending its tentacles to catch humans for food.
The hunting was interrupted, which angered the monster. It liked the smell of humans, but it liked the smell of fear even more.
The crossbows were still firing, but the shells that had previously been able to break the monster's tentacles now had no effect on its shell.
The alien beast rushed towards the crossbow.
The shells that could break the opponent's tentacles had no effect on the monster's shell.
The most powerful weapon of this machine is not the shotgun it is equipped with, that is only a secondary weapon. The real killer is the λ-Driver system.
But Sagara was not quite sure how to use this system.
The instructions for redemption are just one sentence: spiritual power materializes. If you think hard about defense, you can resist all damage. If you think hard about attack, you can be invincible.
The important thing is to "think"! Just concentrate on thinking.
It sounds so simple, but sometimes it is difficult to control people’s thinking.
So when the alien beast rushed towards him, Sagara could only jump high into the air with his crossbow. Chidori was screaming, this was much more exciting than a roller coaster!
There was a roar in the sky, and the Night Raid Team arrived at the scene in a Chrome Chester.
"The target has been found, the alien beast Baigbazun, confirmed!"
"Captain, there are people at the scene. Is that mecha a member of the association?"
The previous Ultra Armor, this time it’s another unknown mecha.
"What exactly is this association you're talking about?" Ishihori asked.
He always felt that the captain and vice-captain seemed to have secrets that they were hiding from others. This feeling was not good, and he did not like things that were out of his control.
Wakura didn't say anything. As an ordinary member of the Night Raid Team, Ishihori's security level was not high enough to know these things.
"Don't worry about that. Our enemy is the alien beast."
They are not enemies of the association. Although the secret organizations that are independent of the official authorities make the top government officials very dissatisfied, the night raiders fighting on the front line do not have such concerns.
The only thing to worry about is that there is a human on the mecha's hand.
"CIC, unrelated civilians found on scene, requesting guidance."
"Himeya, Komon, please land on the ground and help civilians evacuate. Other planes stay on standby in the air." Ling also ordered in the communicator.
Himeya and Koto were flying the same plane. Upon hearing this, the two of them landed the Chrome Chester α in the forest. The Chester fighter does not require a runway and can take off and land vertically in all terrains.
The two didn't know whether there was any hidden meaning in the arrangement of the assistant officers. Coincidentally, Himeya and Komon were also members of the association.
Baigbazun was still chasing the crossbow. Just now, a few times, Sagara did activate the λ-Driver system and blocked several attacks of the alien beast, but he was still unskilled.
Those times were when the machine had no way to avoid it, and Sagara activated the λ-defense field in a hurry, and the invisible energy blocked the invasion of the alien beast. The black technology that projects what you think into reality.
But he couldn't attack actively. People's thoughts are free, even one's own, sometimes it's not easy to control.
Komon and Himeya fired the Dewait rifles in their hands, and the bullets hit the monster's shell, but also had no effect.
Seeing this, Himeya took out the Evolution Truster, which was not only a transformation device for Nexus, but also a weapon. In shooting mode, the Evolution Truster released light bullets.
This attack was much more powerful than the Deweyt Gun, but as Assistant Officer Oshima had previously provided with the monster data, its shell was so strong that even the attack of the Evolution Truster was ineffective.
It only caused the alien beast some pain, but it decided to ignore it. The alien beast was still attracted by the crossbow.
Its front limbs had two sharp claws, which fiercely dug into the crossbow.
To be precise, it was chiseling towards the crossbow's hand, trying to snatch the chidori from AS's hand. The girl was wailing, and the feeling of fear and despair was so tempting.
It likes this, human desperation allows it to evolve.
An invisible wall blocked the claws.
Sagara was roaring, otherwise he couldn't concentrate. The λ-defense field did hold off the opponent, but it consumed Sagara's mental strength. He felt as if a red-hot iron rod was stirring in his brain.
This is a manifestation of rapid consumption of mental energy.
Chidori heard Sagara's distressed voice.
"Please let me go, Sagara, are you hurt?"
"I'm fine, just a nosebleed. It's okay, I said I would protect you."
Regardless of anything else, protecting Chidori is the mission given to him by Mithril.
Chapter 523 The Whisperer
"Kiraraze, what do you think of the association?"
When Oshima suddenly asked this, Kirasawa Yu answered without much thought:
"It's a troublesome organization. It will cause trouble to our battle plan."
He had just heard of the term "association". Beforehand, even the existence of the association was kept secret, but now that he was assigned the task of investigating the association, the secret was slightly lifted for him, so Kirarasawa was inevitably angry.
“Is that a bother? That’s what Kirarasawa said?”
It's not surprising, probably many people in TLT think this way. The higher up you are, the more you feel wary and even fearful of power that you can't control.