47: Chapter 47 The Mechs Take Shape: The "Valkyrie" Squad is Born

"This is... too cool, right?!"

Zhao Xiaotang's eyes had turned into star shapes; she even softened her breathing, afraid that a puff of air might break this treasure.

"The left shoulder is equipped with a micro high-explosive missile nest."

Lin Xiao walked forward, his gaze burning like a torch as he inspected these weapons of slaughter, his fingers gently brushing over the cold metal surface.

"The right arm is loaded with a high-frequency oscillating blade, and there is an electromagnetic grappling hook at the waist."

"The legs are retrofitted with pneumatic shock absorbers and micro vector thrusters."

"With nuclear power, the strength amplification of these three sets of mecha is at least five times that of the original physical body."

Lin Xiao turned around and looked at the two stunning warriors beside him, their pretty faces flushed with excitement.

"Su Qingqian, Zhao Xiaotang."

"Put them on."

The two women did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately stepped forward.

"Wait."

Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something, a mischievous smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"The interior of this mecha has extremely sensitive neural sensor patches and temperature-regulating gel."

"If you wear clothes that are too thick, it will not only affect the sensor efficiency but also lead to heatstroke due to the reactor's heat dissipation."

He looked up and down at the combat uniforms the two women were wearing.

"So, you have to strip down to your underwear to wear them."

"What?!"

Zhao Xiaotang exclaimed, her pretty face turning red instantly.

Although they all lived together, stripping down to just their underwear in front of Lin Xiao, a grown man... it was still a bit too stimulating.

Su Qingqian glared fiercely at Lin Xiao.

She knew this man too well.

This was clearly an opportunity for him to take advantage of the situation.

But she had to admit, as a combatant, she knew what Lin Xiao said was the truth; this kind of skin-tight power armor really required minimizing clothing obstruction.

"Turn around."

Su Qingqian said coldly, her voice laced with a hint of shame and annoyance.

Lin Xiao shrugged and obediently turned around, but the smile on his lips could not be suppressed no matter what.

The rustling sound of undressing in the quiet workshop was particularly jarring.

Although Lin Xiao wasn't looking, he had already automatically filled in the picture in his mind.

Su Qingqian's slender waist that could be held in one hand, Zhao Xiaotang's explosive abdominal muscles, and the proud curves wrapped in black lace...

"Ahem... are you done yet?"

Lin Xiao coughed twice to cover his embarrassment.

"We're done."

Su Qingqian's voice, suppressing her emotions to the limit, came from behind.

Lin Xiao turned his head.

Instantly, his eyes lit up.

The two women were already standing in the mecha's auxiliary wearing platform.

Following the program set by Xiao Ai.

The mechanical arms operated rapidly.

"Click! Click!"

Heavy titanium armor plates were precisely locked onto the two women's graceful figures.

The cold metal formed a visually striking contrast with their fair skin.

Especially the two protruding chest plates, which perfectly fit their curves, making them look even more prominent.

"Buzz—"

The micro cold nuclear reactor on their backs started instantly.

The dark blue energy flow traveled across their whole bodies along the energy conduction grooves on the armor surface.

The helmet visors dropped automatically, covering the two women's faces, leaving only an ice-blue V-shaped optical observation band at the eyes.

"This feeling..."

Under the helmet, Zhao Xiaotang's voice, processed by a voice changer, carried a metallic texture.

She tried to clench her fist.

The terrifying sense of power, as if she could punch a planet to pieces, made her intoxicated.

She jumped lightly.

"Boom!"

A loud noise!

She shot into the sky like a cannonball, hitting the workshop's three-meter-high alloy ceiling directly!

The hard ceiling was actually dented by her head!

And when she landed, the leg pneumatic shock absorption system intervened instantly, and the half-ton armor landed steadily without making much noise.

"Damn... this thrust-to-weight ratio is too insane!"

Zhao Xiaotang rubbed her helmet and laughed excitedly.

On the other side.

Su Qingqian appeared much more elegant.

She moved her mind slightly.

"Swish!"

On the outside of her right arm armor, a one-meter-long high-frequency oscillating blade radiating dazzling blue light ejected instantly.

She didn't use her abilities.

She just swung it casually.

"Sizzle—"

A discarded, ten-centimeter-thick steel machine tool next to her was easily sliced into two halves like a hot knife through butter! The cut was as smooth as a mirror!

"Perfect."

Lin Xiao nodded with satisfaction.

With this set of mecha, their combat power had undergone a qualitative leap.

From now on, they were no longer ordinary brawlers.

But true—Valkyries!

"There is one more set."

Lin Xiao looked at the last, slightly slender mecha on the display stand.

This was originally prepared for himself.

But as the doomsday countdown approached, he changed his mind.

As the Conductor, in this war against the insect swarm, he had to stand at the command console to coordinate the overall situation and respond to emergencies at any time.

If he got caught in a melee, the whole train would lose its brain.

Moreover, with his physical fitness and the various heavy weapons in his hands, he could protect himself even without wearing mecha.

This set of mecha needed to be given to an assault trooper who could charge into battle.

Who should it be?

Liu Ruyan? No, she was too shrewd, not pure enough.

Shen Man? She was a healer and shouldn't take risks.

"Go call Chen Yuanyuan over."

Lin Xiao made his decision.

This girl, who usually looked soft and cute and a bit timid.

Last time, when facing the mental control of the Enchanting Demon Flower, although she almost caused a big mistake.

But after sobering up, the courage she showed to make up for her mistakes made Lin Xiao look at her with admiration.

Especially in the subsequent missions to clear zombies, although she was trembling with fear, the gun in her hand never wavered.

Moreover, her plant affinity talent, if combined with special mutant plant seeds in battle...

Perhaps it would have miraculous effects.

Ten minutes later.

Chen Yuanyuan was called to the workshop with a bewildered look.

When she saw the three majestic mecha, and Su Qingqian and Zhao Xiaotang standing inside like sci-fi gods of war, her small mouth opened wide enough to fit a duck egg.

"Squad... Squad Leader... are you looking for me?"

She nervously tugged at the corner of her clothes, thinking she had done something wrong again.

"Take off your clothes."

Lin Xiao was concise.

"Ah?!"

Chen Yuanyuan was so scared she took a step back, covering her chest tightly with both hands, her face as red as a ripe tomato.

"Squad Leader... there are... there are other people here..."

Although she didn't actually resist in her heart, after all, the Squad Leader was so handsome.

But in this workshop, in front of the other two big sisters, this progress was too fast, right?

"What are you thinking? I'm telling you to wear the mecha."

Lin Xiao knocked her on the head in annoyance.

"This third set of mecha is for you."

"For me?!"

Chen Yuanyuan pointed at her nose in disbelief.

She didn't even dare to kill a chicken; how could she be worthy of such an domineering weapon?

"Less nonsense, time is running out."

"This is an order."

Lin Xiao's tone was unquestionable.

Under Lin Xiao's highly oppressive gaze.

Chen Yuanyuan could only blush and rustlingly take off her coat, leaving only a set of pink underwear with a bear pattern, feeling so ashamed she wanted to find a crack in the ground to hide in.

However, when she put on the silver-gray power armor and the visor dropped, that moment.

The helmet's holographic UI interface connected to her optic nerve.

An unprecedented sense of powerful strength filled her whole body.

At that moment, the weak and timid Chen Yuanyuan disappeared.

Replacing her was the third member of the "Valkyries" squad!

"From today on, you three are the sharpest daggers of the Black Iron."

"Codename: Valkyries."

Lin Xiao looked at the three mecha in front of him and said in a deep voice.

"Remember, your mission is not defense."

"It is slaughter."

"Tear apart any enemy that dares to approach this train."

"Do you understand?!"

"Yes! Conductor!"

Three uniform metallic synthetic voices echoed in the workshop.

Filled with killing intent.

"Beep—!"

Just then.

The piercing system countdown finally hit zero in everyone's mind.

**[The Insect Swarm disaster has descended.]**

"Boom—rumble!"

In the outside world, a terrifying roar, like countless nails scratching glass, suddenly came.

Lin Xiao turned around abruptly and rushed out of the weapon workshop.

The three Valkyries mecha followed closely behind.

When they arrived at the command room of the first carriage and looked out the window through the thickened bulletproof glass.

Everyone gasped.

At the end of the horizon.

The originally gray sky suddenly surged with a black "sandstorm."

No.

That was not a sandstorm.

Those were countless mutant locusts the size of millstones!

They were bloodthirsty beetles over a meter long with carapaces flashing with metallic luster!

They were poisonous wasps with stingers on their tails, making a nauseating buzzing sound!

They were dense, layered upon layer.

Like a huge black curtain, sweeping towards the Black Iron with a terrifying posture that covered the sky and sun!

The sunlight was completely blocked.

The surroundings instantly plunged into darkness where one couldn't see their fingers.

Only the roaring of the insect swarm flapping their wings was deafening, as if it were about to tear this world apart.

"Searchlights! Full power!"

Lin Xiao stood on the command platform, his hands supporting the console, his eyes cold without a trace of temperature.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Dozens of high-power searchlights on the roof and around the Black Iron lit up instantly.

Like dozens of sharp swords, piercing the darkness.

In the light beams.

A scene like hell was reflected.

Countless ferocious bugs rolled, collided, and bit in the light beams, their dense compound eyes flashing with greedy fierce light under the strong light.

They had discovered this train emitting heat and the scent of living people.

Instantly, like a school of sharks that had smelled blood, they dived down crazily!

"It's here..."

Lin Xiao's voice was low and calm.

"Insect repellent wave generator, start at maximum power!"

"Buzz—!"

An ultra-high-frequency sound wave that ordinary humans could not hear, centered on the roof of the Black Iron, instantly rippled out like water waves!

The invisible ripples swept past.

The batch of low-level locusts rushing in the front.

Their simple central nervous systems were destroyed the moment they came into contact with the sound waves!

"Pitter-patter!"

Just like dumping dumplings.

Thousands of locusts instantly lost their balance in mid-air and fell like rain onto the Gobi Desert around the Black Iron.

In less than half a minute.

A thick layer of insect corpses was laid around the train.

However.

This was just a drop in the bucket.

There were too many bugs.

So many that it made people despair.

Stepping on the corpses of their companions, those larger mutant beetles and toxic moths with harder carapaces actually braced against the damage of the insect repellent waves and rushed out of the death zone!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Iron-armored beetles the size of small cars slammed heavily into the explosion-proof glass and titanium armor of the Black Iron.

Making a deafening loud noise.

"Sizzle..."

The strong acid sprayed by the toxic moths landed on the blue energy shield, frantically corroding the shield's energy value.

The shield began to flicker violently, and the alarm sounded throughout the train.

**[Warning! Energy shield is suffering from dense high-intensity corrosive strikes!]**

**[Current energy reduction rate is too fast! Expected overload collapse in ten minutes!]**

"Squad Leader! Can't hold on! There are too many bugs!"

Luo Yao was sweating profusely at the console.

"What are you panicking about."

Lin Xiao snorted coldly.

He walked to the weapon console and pulled down the microphone on his head.

"Thor electromagnetic cannon."

"Cancel single-shot armor-piercing mode."

"Switch to high-explosive shrapnel scatter mode!"

"Charge to 150%... clear the field for me!"

Following Lin Xiao's order.

The huge silver-white electromagnetic railgun at the front of the Black Iron, the barrel emitted an extremely dangerous humming sound.

Two dark blue electric arcs jumped wildly between the rails.

"Sizzle—!"

Accompanied by a loud noise that shattered eardrums.

There was no single straight beam that pierced the sky.

Instead, a huge light net composed of countless metal fragments carrying high-voltage electric arcs exploded hundreds of meters in front of the muzzle!

This light net was like a shotgun of death, sweeping towards the insect sea that covered the sky and sun in front with terrifying speed exceeding the speed of sound!

"Boom!"

No matter how large the iron-armored beetles were, when they came into contact with these tungsten steel fragments accelerated by electromagnetic force, they were as fragile as thin paper.

Not to mention those fragile locusts and toxic moths.

Just in an instant.

Tens of thousands of bugs didn't even have time to scream, directly vaporized into ashes by the violent kinetic energy and high temperature in mid-air!

In the sky directly in front of the Black Iron, an absolute vacuum zone several kilometers long and hundreds of meters wide was forcibly cleared by this shot!

The long-lost dark red sunlight shone on the train through this gap.

"Yay!!!"

The girls in the carriage let out a deafening cheer when they saw this scene.

The power of the electromagnetic cannon was terrifying.

However.

There was no relaxation on Lin Xiao's face.

Because there were too many bugs.

For an insect sea calculated in "billions," killing a few tens of thousands was just a drop in the ocean.

In less than five seconds.

The dense bugs around were like filling a black hole, instantly submerging that vacuum zone again.

Even worse.

"Click... click..."

The four twin-mounted automatic machine gun turrets on both sides of the train, after pouring out hundreds of thousands of bullets, the barrels were burned red and even began to soften and deform.

The automatic cooling system couldn't cool them down in time.

The machine gun turrets were forced to cease fire.

Having lost the suppression fire on the flanks and top.

Those large, hard-shelled bugs finally broke through the fire net and slammed heavily onto the roof of the Black Iron!