Chapter 233: Storm Crimson Red's First Battle

Megan Fox's light mech is named the Explorer, and her co-star male actor is Tom Hiddleston, who later became widely known for playing Loki.

But in 2005, he was still just a young man who had just debuted, and while traveling in Haolaiwu he happened to encounter the Pacific Rim 2 crew recruiting male actors.

Just like the common story in the film and television industry, he went with a friend to audition, was inexplicably selected, and even played a fairly heavy male second lead in the film, which is truly hard to believe.

At this moment, Tom Hiddleston is sitting in the audience, eyes wide open, watching his own performance on the big screen.

"Oh no, the Atlantis is in danger!" Tom Hiddleston made a motion to struggle to get up.

The Explorer mech also sprang up, swinging its iron fist to smash the monster before it.

"Or think about how to deal with what's in front of us—do you really think we have the strength to take on two?" Megan Fox shouted while swinging her fist.

And just as the Explorer was engaging the monster, the Atlantis had its cockpit smashed; the two pilots inside had just shown terrified expressions when they were covered by a small mouthful of the monster's blue liquid.

The monster didn't spit much—just about a basin of water—but it is a strong acid capable of corroding even aerospace-grade materials.

Those two pilots only showed their faces before being corroded away to nothing, and even half of the Atlantis's cockpit was corroded, leaving the onlookers staring at each other in disbelief.

He also said, "Holy shit, this monster is way too strong!"

"This is its ultimate move; it takes a relatively long time to charge, otherwise we couldn't fight it at all!"

"How can it still spit!"

"It must be residual from the earlier launch; its volume simply can't compare!"

"It's too fierce—how would Storm Crimson Red even fight it!"

"The Explorer might not be able to hold out that long!"

As the audience chattered, the acid-spitting monster had already rushed toward the Explorer, which turned and fled!

Inside the cockpit, Megan Fox still said, "Don't listen to Dr. Newton's judgment—he's just a lunatic!"

Tom Hiddleston said, "I think these two monsters might just want to jump into the magma of Mount Fuji to self-immolate; why should we stop them?"

However, the Explorer's movement speed is clearly a bit faster; if the monster doesn't chase, it turns around and fires various weapons.

If the monster pursues, it turns and runs.

After a standoff, the two monsters suddenly split, one running east, the other west.

"What do we do?" Megan Fox asked anxiously.

Tom Hiddleston said, "Connect to the Tokyo Mecha Hunter Base; they should still have monitoring equipment nearby."

The communication was quickly connected, and the base replied: "One is stopped at the ten o'clock direction, the other at the three o'clock direction, moving quickly toward your side."

"We've already felt it!"

After Megan and Tom finished speaking, they abruptly turned right, crossing their arms in front of their chests.

At the same time, a monster came charging from the right, and with a boom it knocked the Explorer over.

"Run fast, the other one is coming too!"

In the communicator, the base's communications officer shouted loudly.

The Explorer also didn't hesitate, turned around and ran down the mountain.

The two monsters chased for a while, seeing they couldn't catch up, they let out angry, piercing howls.

On the Storm Crimson Red side, they were still on the long-distance transport route.

Huang Xiaoming and Liu Yifei were in the cockpit, able to chat casually.

Although it seemed like some nutritionally empty talk, it was the maximum extent of explaining their basic information.

There's not much backstory; the character Huang Xiaoming portrays is a military man, and ten years ago when the monsters rampaged, he was still in middle school.

By the time he went to enlist, the passage had already been blown up, but he still applied to be a mech pilot, hoping one day to drive a Chinese mech onto the battlefield.

As for the character Liu Yifei portrays, she looks rather clueless, saying she never thought she'd go to the battlefield; she originally became a mech pilot just because she thought this big guy was too cool and fun.

Huang Xiaoming asked: "Are you scared?" The latest battle report just said the Atlantis had been destroyed, and its pilots were burned by the monster's strong acid until not even a trace remained.

Liu Yifei's body trembled slightly, her expression still relatively calm: "Dad said, I can only put my only daughter on the battlefield to feel justified in sacrificing someone else's child!"

Huang Xiaoming turned his head to one side, then quickly turned back and said: "China, victory!"

"Victory!"

The background music suddenly became uplifting, and the Storm Crimson Red was also getting closer and closer to Mount Fuji.

The scene switched; the Explorer was covered head to toe in wounds, still struggling to fight the two monsters.

"Damn it, when will that bulky mech finally arrive? If it doesn't come soon, we'll be meeting God!" Megan's expression was somewhat collapsing.

Tom had blood at the corner of his mouth, his gaze somewhat dazed, and he asked Megan: "You say, after meeting God, he says the doctor's theory is wrong—would we die too unjustly?"

"Then let's ask God to bring the doctor over too, so we can have a proper debate!"

While they were speaking, the acid-spitting monster, after a long charge, opened its mouth to spray strong acid at the distant Explorer, with blue acid already jetting out several meters.

But at that moment, a commander in the transport aircraft squadron several hundred meters up said: "This is the position, release!"

The cables suspending the mech simultaneously "snapped," and behold, the Storm Crimson Red descended from the sky, waving a huge "miao dao" blade hundreds of meters long.

Inside the cockpit, Huang Xiaoming and Liu Yifei waved their arms, shouting loudly "I strike!"

"I strike!"

The Explorer, trapped in dire straits, instinctively looked up; inside its cockpit, Megan and Tom simultaneously raised their heads.

From the upward-looking camera angle below, one sees a wholly red, stout and towering Storm Crimson Red, wielding a huge miao dao as it descends from the heavens, mighty and awe-inspiring, like a deity descending to earth.

This scene moved countless viewers in the venue to tears.

"Holy shit, China's mech is too cool!"

"That sword technique descending from the heavens!"

But see, the monster that had been charging up to spray strong acid at the Explorer was cut at the neck by the huge miao dao, and with just one strike it was slain.

The monster's massive corpse collapsed with a boom, and its head rolled far away until it lay at the Explorer's feet.

The other monster, seeing this, turned and ran toward the sea, vanishing into the night in the blink of an eye.

"Storm Crimson Red" moved two steps, wanting to chase; "Explorer" sounded, "Forget it, you heavy mech—there's no point chasing and slashing monsters!"

"Are you okay?"

"Not bad, I finally held on!"

Just as the words fell, Megan inside the Explorer's cockpit had already fainted, and Tom vomited another mouthful of blood.

The huge Explorer crashed down with a boom, shaking the ground several times.

(End of chapter)