206: Chapter 206 There's Only One Truth!

The first to receive the push notifications were the die-hard military fans who had set the official social media accounts of the Xia Kingdom military to "Special Follow."

These people usually inhabited the nooks and crannies of various major forums. Their greatest daily hobby was scouring various satellite images to judge what new equipment the other side had built based on a blurry outline.

At this moment, a steel behemoth five or six meters tall barged into their field of vision in an almost tyrannical manner on the screen.

A certain senior military fan sprang directly out of his chair.

"Holy shit!!"

He slammed his palm on the desk, then grabbed his phone, and with the hand speed of a thirty-year-old bachelor, he shared the video link to seven groups simultaneously.

"The south heaven gate project is out!"

"I knew it! I fucking knew it! Once nuclear fusion came out, there was bound to be a major move following it!!"

The thread counts on major military forums were also rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this was only the beginning.

Once the propaganda power of the state machine was fully engaged, its speed and scale were incomparable to spontaneous grassroots dissemination.

Within minutes of the video being posted, the official accounts of major central media outlets had completed their synchronized reposts.

Pop-up notifications, homepage stickies, forced SMS pushes...

With several mechanisms bearing down simultaneously, every Xia Kingdom citizen currently using a mobile phone received this message at the same moment.

Those slacking off at the office watching dramas.

Those having afternoon tea and gossiping.

Those stuck in traffic waiting for a red light.

Everyone was pinned in place by that single vibration from their phones.

Countless people looked at the title and clicked on the video.

The footage began in pitch-black darkness.

Immediately following, five large characters burst forth from the darkness—

[south heaven gate project]

The font was as coarse as cast iron, with sharp edges, and every stroke carried an undisguised air of slaughter.

Accompanied by heavy drumbeats, these five characters stayed on the screen for a full three seconds.

Countless people's fingers hovered over their screens, their movements frozen.

south heaven gate.

These three words had appeared repeatedly in various previous rumors, but they had never been officially confirmed by the authorities.

But now, it appeared so openly and legitimately in a video from the military's official media.

The screen flashed.

The subtitles switched—

[Cheng Ying · Tactical Mecha]

Accompanied by a burst of mechanical roaring, a streamlined steel behemoth five or six meters tall burst into the shot without warning.

The early winter sunlight spilled over its cold gray composite armor, gleaming with a heart-stopping metallic chill.

Wide, flared shoulder armor and thick, powerful bionic leg chassis.

Every angle spoke of the violent aesthetics of industry, the sense of oppression rushing out from the screen.

At the chest position, a ring of faint blue halo pulsed rhythmically, like a heart beating at a steady pace.

At this moment, countless people even stopped breathing.

Before the audience could recover from the static shock of this steel behemoth.

The steel behemoth moved.

It didn't have the tooth-grinding clumsiness and sluggishness of traditional heavy-duty tracked equipment.

The thick composite armor on its back flipped and unfolded layer by layer, and a deep blue tail flame spewed out from within.

“Boom!”

The massive object, weighing over ten tons, pulled off the ground and surged forward at low altitude.

There was no swaying or redundant movement throughout; that steel afterimage pulled a straight blue trajectory across the sky of the testing ground.

Then, at the very instant it was about to hit the boundary of the testing ground—

A perfect emergency stop.

Seeing this scene.

Countless people in front of their screens gripped their phones tightly, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.

"Ho...ly shit?"

But the footage gave no room to catch one's breath.

The camera suddenly shifted again.

On the back of the Chengying Mecha, that hair-raising heavy cannon barrel rose.

Then, a thick, grayish-white beam of light shot out with the force of a hot knife through butter!

A world-shaking explosion.

The 3.5-meter-thick permanent fortification in the distance collapsed and shattered like it was made of paper.

Dust and smoke soared into the sky, blotting out the sun.

The footage came to an abrupt end.

The screen returned to darkness.

...

The entire internet was dead silent.

This silence lasted for less than thirty seconds.

Then, the comment sections of all social platforms exploded at the same moment.

"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!!!"

"Incredible! My country!!!"

"What did I just see? What the fuck did I just see?! A Gundam?! The Xia Kingdom actually built a Gundam without saying a word?!"

"That mobility! That firepower! The main battle tanks The Other Side of the Ocean probably don't even have the right to be cannon fodder in front of this thing, right?!"

The carnival-like emotion was like a prairie fire, completely igniting the entire Xia Kingdom internet.

As countless netizens frantically hammered their keyboards to vent their excitement, they suddenly recalled yesterday's events.

At that time, a large group of people was still worried, posting online for fear that showing all the country's trump cards would provoke those jackals The Other Side of the Ocean into a desperate gamble.

Now, looking at the world-destroying, completely irrational display of firepower from the Chengying Mecha.

Everyone laughed.

They laughed heartily, laughing until tears almost came out.

"Hahahaha, I take back what I said yesterday. I was so stupid, really! I actually doubted the country's strategic resolve!"

"When has the country's fine tradition ever changed? If they can release a civilian version for you, the military version has already been clearly arranged!"

"This isn't just being clearly arranged; this is fucking flipping the table directly!"

"I declare that from today on, the Xia Kingdom people's fear of insufficient firepower is completely cured! This is the ultimate antidote!"

Self-mockery and ecstasy intertwined.

Everyone's fear was uprooted, replaced by an extremely inflated sense of security that came from the marrow of their bones.

However.

Just as the entire internet was still immersed in the all-crushing combat power of the Chengying Mecha and unable to extricate themselves.

A post by a Big V quietly climbed to the homepage of a certain hardcore military forum.

The post title—

《Beyond the Carnival, Have You Really Understood the Key Point of south heaven gate?》

Once this long article was published, its highly controversial and leading title was quickly captured by the data-scraping algorithms of major social platforms.

With the push from the trending lists, the article was quickly propelled to the top of the trending lists on various platforms.

Countless netizens who had just finished watching the video and hadn't fully cooled down were attracted by the words "Key Point" in the title and clicked into this long article one after another.

The beginning of the article featured three images.

The first was the rhythmically pulsing faint blue halo on the mecha's chest.

The second was the deep blue tail flame spewing from the back.

The third was a close-up of the air around the muzzle violently distorting when the Pulse Particle Cannon fired.

The Big V used eye-catching red circles to heavily mark these three positions.

"Brothers, I know everyone is very excited right now, and so am I."

"But as a veteran who has studied military equipment for over a decade, after slowing down the video frame by frame thirty times, I discovered something extremely terrifying."

"Think about it carefully."

"A steel body five or six meters tall—to support its flight and make reverse emergency stops and hovers at high speeds."

"And to support its release of a Plasma Beam capable of penetrating 3.5 meters of reinforced concrete."

"How much energy is actually required for this?"

Immediately following, the article listed a series of energy derivation formulas that ordinary people couldn't understand at all, but which looked extremely profound and complex at a glance.

From kinetic energy conversion and vector counter-thrust consumption, all the way to the high-energy electrical threshold required for plasma excitation.

Finally, the Big V gave the result in bold red font.

"I can tell everyone with extreme responsibility."

"No existing chemical fuel, whether it's aviation kerosene or special propellants, can absolutely provide such a terrifying thrust-to-weight ratio!"

"No existing high-energy battery pack, even if you stuffed the entire mecha full of batteries, could support the energy demand of that single shot!"

Seeing this, countless netizens' brows furrowed tightly.

Just as everyone was puzzled, the article took a sharp turn at the end.

The Big V posted a screenshot of that massive, silver-white fusion device placed in the experimental hall from last night's News Broadcast.

Right next to it was an extreme magnification of the faint blue halo on the Chengying Mecha's chest.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"There is only one truth—"

"What is beating in the chest of the Chengying Mecha is a miniaturized..."

"Cold Controllable Nuclear Fusion Core!"