Chapter 213 - 195: If Poland Had a Gundam

"Hello? Got any ideas...!"

Bang!

Gwen leaped high into the air as Rhino Man crashed into the building, shattering its corner like blocks—

Rhino Man turned and walked out of the rubble, his missile launch bays opening—

Gwen immediately grabbed a manhole cover with her spider silk and smacked the missile towards an uninhabited area!

Boom!

The explosion startled a helicopter hovering nearby, which quickly started to distance itself.

"There we go, scared off the media, no one to take your picture now..."

Gwen had barely finished speaking when suddenly an RPG flew out from the corner!

Boom!

The rocket launcher hit the Rhino Armor, causing smoke and dust, but it only made Rhino Man slightly step back, stabilizing his stance.

As the smoke cleared... only additional scratches could be seen on the surface of the armor.

"Good shot, got anything more powerful?"

Gwen waved at the masked men in the corner, but they completely ignored her—

A car was flung into the air, rolling over the congested traffic and crashing towards the masked men.

The Heart Demon Gang hurried to dodge, but still, one unfortunate soul got caught in the rolling car.

"Damn—got any more rocket launchers, drive him away!"

Gwen saw a man in a black and white mask followed by a group of underlings, moving fast with a rocket launcher.

Black and white? This world doesn’t seem to have people with that skin color, does it?

"Tsk... I seem to be working with someone who looks very much like a supervillain..."

Gwen’s spider sense tingled, and she frowned and leapt high!

A utility pole was knocked out, plunging like a javelin deep into the stair structures of the buildings on either side.

The damage was escalating—both Rhino Man and those gang-looking guys had formidable destructive power.

"If only there was something to pry that armor open..."

Gwen was speaking when her phone started to ring.

Lille: "Attract his attention and lead him next to that building on the left."

"Attract his attention...what would catch the Rhino’s attention?"

Gwen looked around, left and right—nothing but cars and trees, the only somewhat useful thing... seemed to be the manhole cover.

"Hope dad doesn’t arrest me for stealing manhole covers..."

.....

[Participated in development: All-Terrain Assistive Exoskeleton]

[Description: A simplified version of the Octopus Arm, attaches to limbs as an exoskeleton, providing all-terrain grasping capabilities, extends and anchors to the stress surface when stability is needed.]

[Reward Technology Points: 1000]

[Participated in development: Data Knife]

[Description: Made of special armor-piercing steel, indestructible, built-in hacking circuits, just needs to be connected to an electronic circuit to invade networks]

[Reward Technology Points: 500]

[Participated in development: Armor-piercing Ejection System]

[Description: Remodeled from the Scorpion Battle Suit, uses bionic structures for energy storage, extremely high energy conversion efficiency, significantly shortens the absorption and release process.]

[Note: Extremely energy-consuming.]

[Reward Technology Points: 300]

[Reward Points vary based on the level of participation.]

[Current Technology Points: 3500]

Click.

The exoskeleton connected to the Magnetic Suction Gloves through a complete stress frame and linked with Lille’s body, uniformly controlled by the nervous system.

The more complex the activities the machinery can perform, the higher the data flow the brain-machine interface needs to handle, the more likely it is to mess up someone’s brain.

Lille, having a large brain capacity, strong carrying capability—climbed the walls step by step.

On reaching the rooftop, Lille shot out spider silk, sticking to a building dozens of meters away—

With the exoskeleton for support, this time he could bear the weight of his own body and equipment, freely swinging through the air!

Whoosh!

The wind roared past his ears as Lille soared swiftly between the buildings!

He soared past chaotic streets and panicked crowds, the exoskeleton providing great strength for him to move quickly between buildings, even occasionally detaching from his limbs and transforming into tiny octopus arms to adjust his posture when he lost balance!

This set of exoskeleton retained a minimal AI, analyzing the wearer’s form and making adjustments, utilizing the neural link—it felt almost like Lille himself was moving!

[From the exoskeleton AI’s subtle influence on thought patterns—minimal effect.]

[Evolution Heart has eliminated the influence.]

Boom!

Rhino Man crashed into a roadside shop, Martin raised a rocket launcher and signaled to his subordinates—

"Fire!"

Boom!

The smoke from the explosion covered the ruins, but the rumbling engine noise from Rhino Man and the heavy footsteps were still audible!

Bang, bang-bang—

Bang!

A massive figure burst from the smoke and easily pushed aside the large truck in front of it, leaving the members of the Heart Demon Gang without any cover!

Bang!

At that moment, a manhole cover flew at high speed and hit Rhino Man on the head, making a crisp sound.

The pilot of this monstrous mecha seemed to really possess the mind of a rhino, slowly turning its head, as steam hissed out of the mecha...

Gwen pointed to the sky. Rhino Man foolishly looked back but couldn’t turn his neck far enough.

Meanwhile, seizing the opportunity, Lille abruptly pounced on the back of Rhino Man!

Bang.

The exoskeleton detached from his feet, leaving only the framework structure to support Lille, transforming into Octopus Arms that firmly grabbed onto the Rhino Armor.

The mecha pilot felt as if something had hit him again, and then felt slightly heavier, continuously swaying—

But Lille was not affected at all, his arms detached and transformed into Octopus Arms, connected to the Armor-piercing Launcher—

Electrical energy transferred from the battery behind Lille to the launcher, which, like a scorpion’s tail, charged up section by section, its sharp blade reflecting the sunlight...

Click-click-click-click—

Bang!

A loud noise as the blade stabbed into the Rhino Armor!

This loud bang also caused the pilot inside the armor to scream in pain—

The damaged armor compressed the circuits, similar to compressing his nerves!

But the blade wasn’t deep enough!

The Rhino Man crazily jumped and ran, and after realizing it was futile, its armored legs transformed and it even stood upright!

The nearly four-meter-high armored Rhino fiercely smashed into the building behind it, trying to crush the bug on its back!

Lille frowned. Si Anweisitan instantly activated, and the operational speed of the Prosthetic System increased exponentially with neural activity!

The blade rapidly retracted, the Octopus Arms loosened, and Lille bent forward and let go, sliding downwards—

Boom!

Half of the building collapsed under this impact, leaving the office workers inside shocked...

They had been using their phones to take photos and watch, never expecting the Rhino to stand up!

As the dust settled, Rhino Man confidently shook its shoulder plate but then heard that familiar charging sound of the launcher—

Click-click-click-click...

Lille’s Octopus Legs braced against the ground, while the other two Octopus Arms raised high, still aiming at the previous hole!

"No..."

Bang!

A great recoil force traveled through the mechanical structure created by the built-in AI in the Octopus Arms, transmitting to the ground and forming a web-like crack.

This time, the Data Knife went in!

This was the most conservative armor designed by the Osborne Group; the exoskeleton only made up a small part of the entire armor, thus making it clumsy and slow.

But under two launches, the Data Knife pierced through the outer armor, penetrated the hydraulic mechanism, and breached all the way to the electronic circuit layer...

Electricity surged, and Lille tapped into the control layer of the Rhino Armor!

...

Thousands of miles away, in a military base, an electronic lifeform felt the intrusion!

"Interesting, let’s see what you have...uh—"

Bang!

The electronic life, responsible for the Rhino Armor’s server sector, suddenly emitted black smoke as its digitally configured brain encountered an issue it had never faced before—

It was as if, after years of preparation and about to launch a blitzkrieg on Poland, at the moment when he should be watching his iron streams overrun the enemy’s land, the Polish suddenly pulled out a Gundam and charged straight for Berlin!

The server sector lost control as black smoke rose, and a highly intelligent program spread within his sector!

Fortunately, he quickly mustered computing power and extinguished this invasion—

It’s a good thing he wasn’t really commanding the armies of the Third Reich; he could call back the computing power instantly.

However, he had lost a storage sector... and he couldn’t be sure what information had been stolen in that instant!

"..."

The electronic life remained silent for a whole second, then rapidly issued a barrage of commands.

"Osborne Group servers compromised; implement Plan B, lower visibility."

"Compromised? What are you playing at?"

"It’s our target causing the mischief! Increase Lille Lee’s threat level, isolate the event impact."

"But Osborne still has one piece of equipment..."

"I’ve already lost control over Osborne’s network; those pathetic network security measures I could break in a second, how long do you think that kid will take? Switch to low-profile operations!"

"Alright, but the partner certainly won’t be happy—he had high hopes for the Osborne Group."

"We must let go of the Osborne Group, both for us and the partner, he will understand. Have him prepare for acquisition."

"By the way, Dr. Zola, it’s not just the partner who won’t be happy, we’re not too thrilled either."

"...I know."