75: Chapter 75 A Disagreement Leads to War

However...

Facing that steel behemoth rushing over like Mount Tai pressing down...

Standing at the very front, Zhang Man's wild eyes showed not a single trace of retreat; instead, they ignited with an almost insane flame of violence.

"Just this much speed? It's not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth!"

Zhang Man let out a roar like an ancient mother tyrannosaur, and her B-rank talent [Steel Body] was instantly activated to a 120% overload state!

Her already explosively powerful body became indestructible, wrapped in a physical-looking titanium alloy luster.

"micro anti-gravity thrusters, maximum power, burst!"

Following Zhang Man's command, the eight deep-blue exhaust ports on the back of the [valkyrie exoskeleton armor - modified] suddenly spat out high-temperature plasma tail flames a meter long!

Boom!

Under the incredulous gazes of all the enemy forces...

Zhang Man completely defied gravity, transforming into a silver lightning bolt that the naked eye simply couldn't catch.

Not only did she not dodge, she charged head-on toward the heavy mecha leading the charge at an initial velocity more terrifying than a missile!

In less than a tenth of a second...

Zhang Man's slender fist, wrapped in terrifying kinetic energy, collided with the heavy mecha's ten-centimeter-thick composite explosion-proof armor like Mars hitting Earth!

BOOM——!!!

A terrifying explosion, like ten thousand tons of TNT detonating on the plains, instantly tore through the dead silence of this wasteland wilderness!

Amidst that deafening crash, a visible wave of violent air, mixed with flying sand and stones, swept outward from Zhang Man's fist like a tsunami.

All the Northern Military District player soldiers present, even Long Chen sitting in his heavy command vehicle, felt their eardrums buzzing from the shock.

However...

When the billowing dust was blown away by the airwave and the optical radar transmitted the image of the collision center back to all the holographic screens in the enemy camp...

The entire Northern Military District—hundreds of trains and thousands of fully armed regular soldiers—seemed to have their throats grabbed simultaneously, falling into a tomb-like, suffocating silence!

That heavy tracked mecha, five meters tall and weighing dozens of tons, which they regarded as the King of Land Warfare and the symbol of the military's highest technological crystallization...

Had actually... actually been struck by Zhang Man's seemingly delicate straight punch...

...and forced to slide backward frantically for a full dozen meters!

Those two originally indestructible steel tracks plowed two shocking, deep gouges into the hard rocky ground, and the ear-piercing sound of metal friction made one's scalp tingle.

What made them feel even more creeped out—even causing their worldviews to collapse in an instant—was...

...that the ten-centimeter-thick composite explosion-proof armor on the mecha's chest, claimed to be able to withstand even a direct hit from an anti-tank missile...

...was now deeply caved inward with a terrifying crater over a meter in diameter, centered on Zhang Man's fist!

The high-strength metal armor plates were like fragile crackers, showing an extremely exaggerated pattern of cracking and twisting; one could even see the hydraulic pipes inside, torn apart, frantically spraying blue coolant.

"This... how is this possible?!"

"Am I blind? That woman... she knocked back a heavy mecha with one punch?!"

"That's a steel monster weighing dozens of tons! Just what level of physical evolver is she?!"

In the enemy's public channel, terrified screams like pigs being slaughtered erupted.

Those military soldiers who, just a second ago, were laughing mockingly at Su Chen for sending women to their deaths, now looked at Zhang Man standing proudly before the mecha like an ancient goddess of war, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

Sitting in his command chair, the new crystal goblet Long Chen had just replaced was once again crushed to pieces by his unconscious grip.

Glass shards pierced his palm, and blood flowed down through his fingers, but he seemed unable to feel the pain; his arrogant eyes were now filled only with unbelievable horror.

"This is absolutely impossible!"

Long Chen roared hysterically in the command room.

"How could a single-soldier exoskeleton erupt with this level of physical kinetic energy? That's a problem even the top military laboratories of the Old Era couldn't solve!"

However, this one-sided slaughter and crushing show, which overturned all their military common sense, had only just raised its magnificent curtain of violent aesthetics!

"Sisters, don't let these hicks spoil our Train Master's mood."

"Finish this quickly!"

Zhang Man slowly withdrew her slender fist, still glowing with titanium alloy luster, from the dented armor and turned to flash a bloodthirsty, wild smile at the Valkyries behind her.

In that instant, the battle erupted in full!

But this wasn't an evenly matched duel at all; it was a complete, 360-degree, one-sided crushing of strength!

Clang, clang, clang—!

The pilot of the mecha that had been dazed by Zhang Man's punch finally snapped out of the violent shock.

With a face full of terror, he frantically pushed and pulled the control levers, attempting to control the mecha's massive mechanical arm and use the large-caliber rotary cannon to tear the humanoid monster before him to shreds.

But...

...how could a clunky mecha's fire-control radar lock onto a Wasteland Valkyrie who, bolstered by [micro anti-gravity thrusters], was as agile as a ghost?

The tongues of fire from the cannon swept frantically through the air, but besides shattering a few rocks, they couldn't even touch a corner of Zhang Man's clothes.

"Too slow! You're just like a rusty turtle!"

Zhang Man's mocking voice rang out from outside the mecha cockpit like a god of death.

Using the counter-force of her thrusters, she leaped onto the mecha's broad mechanical shoulder like a nimble swift.

"Open up for me!"

Zhang Man gave a sharp cry, her hands suddenly thrusting into the gaps at the edges of the cockpit's heavy protective door.

The terrifying power of the B-rank [Steel Body], which exceeded the limits of carbon-based organisms, exploded forth.

RIIIIIP————!

Amidst a metallic tearing sound that set one's teeth on edge...

...that mecha explosion-proof door, which required an extremely complex hydraulic code to open, was actually torn off by Zhang Man's slender arms like it was a piece of paper!

Inside the cockpit, the pilot in the elite military uniform was looking at the beautiful tyrannosaur who had just torn a mecha apart with her bare hands as if he were seeing a ghost.

Before he could even scream for mercy...

...Zhang Man reached in and grabbed him by the neck like a chick, pulled him straight out of the cockpit, and then threw him onto the hard plain like trash.

Bang!

The pilot instantly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell completely unconscious without even a groan.

While this absolute violence was being staged on one side...

...on the other, the always cold and ethereal Chu Qingxue stood quietly at the edge of the battlefield in her fluttering white silk nightgown, like an ice goddess descended to the mortal realm.

In her clear eyes, where the black and white were distinct, an emotionless ice-blue light flickered.

Facing two other heavy mechas attempting to charge her, Chu Qingxue didn't even make a move to dodge.

"S-rank talent—[Extreme Cold Domain]!"

Chu Qingxue's red lips parted slightly as her hands quickly formed seals in front of her chest.

A terrifying element of extreme cold that could freeze even space itself spread out frantically in a fan shape ahead of her, like an invisible blizzard.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

The two heavy mechas, which were racing forward on their tracks, the moment they touched this extreme cold element...

...their diesel engines that were originally radiating high heat, the high-speed rotating track gears, and even the two cannon barrels preparing to fire rockets...

...were completely frozen and sealed within less than two seconds by a half-meter-thick layer of deep-blue Extreme Cold Frost radiating piercing chill!

The two massive steel monsters slid a few meters forward due to inertia before being pinned to the spot like two lifelike ice sculptures, unable to move an inch.

They had completely turned into the most ridiculous sitting ducks on the battlefield.

"The freezing boundary is complete. Mo Mo, it's time for your performance."

Chu Qingxue's cold voice rang out in the team channel.

"Got it, Qingxue-jie!"

Lin Momo, with her twin ponytails and soft, cute first-love face, pulled out her specially made pink microphone from somewhere.

In her large, watery eyes, however, there was a flicker of wild excitement that didn't match her temperament at all.

If Chu Qingxue was the ultimate crowd control, then Lin Momo was absolute true penetration damage that ignored physical defense!

"A-rank talent—[Vitality Notes · Overclocking Resonance]!"

Lin Momo took a deep breath and let out a highly penetrating high-pitched cry into the microphone.

This wasn't some pleasant song, but a terrifying infrasound wave with a frequency so high it was nearly invisible to the naked eye, capable of causing metal atoms to resonate!

This high-frequency sound wave was like an invisible blade, directly ignoring the mechas' thick explosion-proof armor and penetrating through without hindrance.

Buzz, buzz, buzz—!

The interiors of the two mechas frozen into ice sculptures instantly became lethal sonic resonance chambers.

"Aaaaaah!"

The two elite military pilots trapped in the cockpits let out shrill screams like pigs being slaughtered.

Under the vibration of those terrifying overclocked sound waves, they felt their internal organs churning and tearing frantically, and their eardrums ruptured instantly.

In just a few short seconds...

...the two of them were bleeding from their seven facial orifices, their eyes rolled back, and without even a chance to resist, they were shaken unconscious inside the cockpits, their fates unknown.