162: Chapter 162 What's that? A Gundam? Dude, you're kidding me!
After shaking violently, the livestream footage finally stabilized.
The high-clarity lens pierced through the somewhat psychedelic, cold blue haze of the second underground level.
It locked firmly onto the very center of this vast underground space.
Dead silence.
A dead silence, where tens of millions of people stared at their screens, forgetting even how to breathe.
On that massive, semi-circular maintenance rack capable of housing two Boeing airliners,
stood a terrifying deity, over five meters tall, in silent repose.
It was not a machine.
But it was definitely not any carbon-based organism known on Earth.
It was an ultimate monster, a perfect fusion of extreme steel violence and living, genetic flesh.
【bio-mecha · Avenger Type II】.
Cold, bone-chilling matte titanium alloy armor covered most of its torso.
But in the gaps between the armor plates,
large swaths of dark red biological muscle fibers were tightly woven together like thick steel cables.
One could even clearly see the muscles pulsing slightly, accompanied by a low-frequency heartbeat.
"Thump."
"Thump."
It was a rhythm of life that would give anyone nightmares after just one look.
And beneath its pair of massive, wide wings, which possessed a metallic texture,
six neatly mounted miniature Hellfire air-to-ground missiles radiated a hopeless aura of death.
A pitch-black, six-barreled Gatling cannon hung low,
as if it could raise its muzzle at any moment to tear every living thing in its sight to shreds.
How could this be an abandoned warehouse for a veterinary Pharmaceutical Factory?
This was the heart of an arsenal capable of leveling a small nation!
Chen Nuo's hand, holding the selfie stick, trembled violently in mid-air.
Cold sweat instantly soaked through the thin top she wore underneath.
She felt her legs go limp like noodles; she couldn't even maintain the simple act of standing.
"Ch-ch-ch..."
It was the sound of her teeth chattering from extreme terror.
Just half a minute ago, she had naively believed that her brother was merely a misunderstood, compassionate entrepreneur.
She had thought those high walls and electric fences were merely to keep out the mutant wild boars of Texas.
But now,
the five-meter-tall bio-mecha before her, dripping with biological mucus and armed with live missiles, had completely pulverized the scientific worldview she had built over the last twenty years!
"Nuo Nuo."
Chen Yuan finally rushed through the gate.
He strode over, grabbed his sister's cold wrist, and tried to block the camera that was still livestreaming.
"Don't touch me!"
Chen Nuo jerked her hand away from Chen Yuan like a frightened little beast.
She turned her head.
Her eyes were red as she looked at her own brother—the one who had protected her since childhood, the one who had always been as gentle as jade.
Tears burst forth, uncontrollable.
"Brother... tell me, what is this?"
Chen Nuo's voice was thick with sobs.
She pointed at the red-glowing bio-mecha behind her, her entire being in a state of hysterical collapse.
"You lied to me! You've been lying to me this whole time!"
"You call this a waste disposal area? You call the machine guns on the walls 'wild boar defense'?!"
She shoved the phone's camera toward the missiles mounted on the mecha.
"What is this? Is this a Gundam?! Those are real missiles, aren't they?!"
"Brother, what on earth are you doing? Have you lost your mind?!"
"Are you trying to become a terrorist abroad?!"
Chen Nuo's cries echoed through the empty second underground level.
Every word struck like a heavy hammer against the hearts of the tens of millions of netizens in the livestream.
After a long, dead silence, the comment section finally erupted in a cataclysmic explosion.
"That's a fucking bio-mecha! A Gundam where flesh and steel are fused! Holy shit!"
"It's confirmed! Totally confirmed! This has to be the ultimate weapon from Umbrella!"
"That muscle is still moving, help! This is ten thousand times scarier than any Hollywood sci-fi movie!"
"Chen Yuan is a devil! He's actually building weapons! And bio-weapons that are ahead of this era!"
"We're doomed! The Streamer is going to be silenced for knowing such a huge secret!"
The screen was filled with terror and verbal abuse.
The global internet fell into an unprecedented state of frenzy and trembling because of this five-meter-tall monster.
Chen Yuan stood where he was.
He watched his sister's tear-streaked face and listened to her desperate questioning.
A rare flash of helplessness crossed his pitch-black eyes.
He knew.
Faced with this irrefutable proof of a war machine,
conventional commercial secrets and bullshit excuses like "wild boar defense" were completely useless.
At this very moment,
far away in Washington, The Pentagon and CIA headquarters had also fallen into a dead silence.
The high-ranking generals sitting before the giant screens watched the violent bio-mecha in the livestream, so shocked that they knocked over their coffee.
"What is that monster?"
"He actually managed to perfectly fuse biochemical muscle tissue with titanium alloy?"
"Get the technical department to analyze it immediately! This kid's technological level is a whole era ahead of us!"
Back on the second underground level.
The harsh, cold fluorescent lights shone on Chen Yuan's white lab coat.
Victor was hiding outside the door, not daring to come in.
He knew what kind of desperate situation his boss was facing.
Tens of millions of people were watching this scene.
Not even a god descending to earth could talk his way out of this.
But.
Chen Yuan took a deep breath.
He reached out to straighten the collar of his lab coat.
His originally tense expression suddenly and strangely relaxed.
Faced with his sister's hysterical questioning and the screen filled with panic,
there wasn't a trace of panic on his face, despite his secret being exposed.
In fact, at the corner of his mouth,
he slowly curled his lips into a helpless smile—one that seemed to see through the vanity of the world, carrying three parts embarrassment and seven parts fanaticism.
"Nuo Nuo."
Chen Yuan's voice suddenly changed.
It became somewhat shy, even carrying a hint of a rare, fanatical otaku trait.
He ignored the world-destroying missiles and the terrifying biochemical muscles.
Instead, he gazed gently at the five-meter-tall monster with the look one might reserve for a priceless treasure.
"Brother knows it was wrong to lie to you."
Chen Yuan spread his hands, his tone extremely sincere and innocent.
"But Brother has his pride, too."
"Do you really have to force me to admit in front of tens of millions of netizens that I'm a hardcore 2D mecha otaku?"
Chen Yuan pointed at the death-radiating bio-mecha.
Without batting an eye, he uttered a sentence that instantly petrified the entire internet.
"It's just an extra-large scale model that I spent a fortune to build in a 1:1 ratio."
"Even though it has some simulated muscle special effects."
"But this is a man's ultimate romance."
"Why are you crying?"