Mech: Shattering of the Galaxy

Deep underground, the metal gate of the Nautilus warehouse slowly opened, and a heavily armored truck draped with felt cloth drove out.

It then silently entered the underground highway, heading toward the three-dimensional Rubik's Cube.

The felt cloth covering the huge cargo box in the back clearly bore the logo "Golden Crystal Logistics."

Black had just controlled the central control hall's machines in the warehouse to spray that logo.

Golden Crystal Logistics was indeed a logistics company, but half a month earlier, it had been acquired by the Lan Du Military Group.

Thus, when this giant truck appeared in the underground tunnel, nobody paid much attention.

Since there were far too many vehicles coming and going every day.

Mu Fan sat in the driver's seat, his hands resting lightly on the steering wheel, naturally turning his palms each time the wheel turned automatically.

At least from a cursory glance from the outside, it looked like a driver was at the helm.

In several key intersections in the urban area on the surface, some off-road floating cars began to enter one after another, then quietly parked on the roadside, motionless.

In the urban monitoring center of Zhongjing City, a military officer wearing a colonel's insignia appeared, flanked by two squads of soldiers equipped with various devices.

"I am Colonel Li Shen of the Lan Du Military District War Department. To ensure the safety of this Mecha demonstration competition, the military will now take over routine monitoring, please cooperate."

The two squads of soldiers then marched into the monitoring room, countless surveillance camera feeds, like a blank sheet of paper, lay unprotected before them.

At the top four corners of the monitoring room, that was the normal self-monitoring of the monitoring center.

The indicator lights on these four cameras constantly blinked, faithfully recording everything happening inside, from sounds to images, all backed up and stored on the servers.

This was the officials' reasonable demand to the military: do not block the monitoring equipment, and require information transparency.

Li Shen naturally had no reason to refuse, he did not care either, since he was not planning to tamper with anything, he was just here to find someone.

But unbeknownst to anyone, on these data lines transmitting to the server, an unnoticed Intelligent Life quietly waited.

Whenever information passed through, it was quietly copied and inserted into a hidden network channel.

As for the alarms in the monitoring center, they were completely just for show.

Having had experience infiltrating urban monitoring centers on Loga Star, handling it now was a routine task for Black.

Thus, in the surveillance footage, the figure of a heavy truck was quietly erased without a trace.

The heavy truck, draped in military green felt, drove directly out of the underground tunnel and entered the three-dimensional Rubik's Cube, then proceeded along a winding route.

If these routes were drawn on paper, one could see the advancing black dot, with its destination always clear—

South Suburb Plain.

...

This time, Wang Nuonuo sat in the driver's seat, calmly driving the floating car.

She firmly remembered the words Mu Fan had told her, to drive to the entrance of the South Suburb Plain and then calmly wait.

That was her only task, and she need not concern herself with anything else.

Through the electronic rearview image, she could see two floating cars closely following behind.

The pursuers had even run two red lights just to keep up.

It was completely an attitude of tearing off the mask, crude and blatant.

Nuonuo's eyes were resolute.

Mu Fan wasn't by her side because he was engaged in something more important.

Since Mu Fan had already told her to meet there, she had to trust him unreservedly.

Now she had to face these things on her own and even do better.

Yes, definitely not drag her feet!

Nuonuo's gaze grew even more resolute, and she paid no heed to the tails following her.

She followed the most direct and nearest route on the navigation and drove straight south.

In the floating car trailing her, the driver dangerously swept past a red light and narrowly avoided a perpendicular car as it passed, cursing loudly:

"Has that woman up front gone mad? She didn't take any detours and just drove straight—it's been half an hour without a single turn. Is she out of her mind? You aren't planning to run away, are you?"

The bearded man, whose voice communication had been on the entire time, frowned and cursed upon hearing this, "Just drive properly! If we lose them, we're all screwed."

The driver immediately shrank his neck and obeyed.

After another half-hour, the car ahead had maneuvered through three crowded streets, and then a vast cluster of buildings loomed ahead, ringed by a guard belt that seemed to stretch endlessly.

The floating car abruptly stopped and perfectly positioned itself by the side of the road, right next to the red caution tape and a human wall of fully armed soldiers.

The two cars chasing behind also braked hard and stopped at the side of the road.

Did they stop in front?

Aren't they running anymore?

At this moment, their gaze finally had a chance to sweep the surroundings—it was the South Suburb Plain area!

Crowds, vehicles, army, Mechas—a spectacle that nearly covered the whole area.

Sitting in the passenger seat, one of them said through the communicator, "Boss, that girl isn't running anymore, just stopped by the roadside. This is the South Suburb Plain, there are loads of soldiers and cops ahead. Is she scared we'll kidnap her? Hahaha."

"F*** your mother, repeat the location you just mentioned!"

"The South Suburb Plain..."

Hearing these four words again, the bearded man felt the situation had genuinely gotten tricky.

Because today, the words 'South Suburb Plain' held a special significance.

Moreover, the master was also here!

At the city intersection, unable to spot anything, the bearded man couldn't sit still longer and fiercely stepped on the accelerator.

A force pushed them back as the floating car began speeding towards the south.

At the same time, Donatello, who had just finished a conversation with military and political dignitaries, also received a call from the bearded man.

"Loki Heavy Industry is still not giving up?! Do this—all personnel move to my location, take full control of the last few intersections leading to the South Suburb Plain."

"Act immediately if anything unusual is spotted, and as long as they don't appear in front of the military at the entrance to South Suburb Plain, there will be no trouble! Keep your eyes peeled, and make sure you don't screw up this time."

"Yes, boss!"

The bearded man's eyes grimly passed down Donatello's order and then contacted Li Shen.

But after an hour, the news Li Shen provided was that nothing unusual had happened!

But why did it still feel like something was off?

Forty more minutes passed, and the bearded man, leading dozens of cars, was already guarding the last five intersections entering the South Suburb Plain.

The girl had never gotten out of the car from beginning to end, and yet there was no news of the boy.

What were these two up to?

Time ticked away...

10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour passed, and they even received another message from Donatello via Sky Communication. However, the master's tone was not so fierce after hearing that nothing had happened so far.

Finally, they could relax a bit. However, the group led by the bearded man still stared intently outside through the car window.

On another road spaced behind them, a heavy truck marked with [Golden Crystal Logistics] was slowly approaching.

When it passed the intersection right in front of them, the heavy truck turned left without pausing and continued moving.

And this road it had turned into led to one of the last five main roads into the South Suburb Plain!

It was also from this moment onwards that Black finally disabled the surveillance block.

Because ahead lay Mu Fan's final destination.

"Mu Fan, there are six off-road floating cars on both sides, they are tailing us, but they haven't spotted us yet."

"Understood, then proceed as normal."

Mu Fan commanded cooly.

The next moment, the heavy truck would brush past those men...