Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 335 The Seeds of Doubt Have Been Planted
Will the Blood Armor Squad believe Cheng Tian's story?

I don't believe it, but I don't dare to completely disbelieve it either.

From the perspective of being completely opposed to the opposing camp, it's best not to believe a single punctuation mark in Cheng Tian's words.

But if you don't believe it, there's no way to explain the situation at hand.

Jeff and Sarah, being young and inexperienced, could only passively reject and defend against all the sweet talk from the enemy. However, at this moment, Goodwill Ambassador Ray, who was held in the mechanical octopus tentacles, and veteran Glenn, who was suffering from severe PTSD, were suddenly awakened by Cheng Tian to the most incongruous and inexplicable problem in the whole incident.

That is, why was New York, the core city of the Earth Federation, so easily invaded?

The planet Leia paid a heavy price to break through the Earth Federation's firepower blockade in several major battles and finally landed on Earth. Even if both sides had disposed of a large number of old weapons, New York City, as the core, should not have been so easily breached.

However, if we add the precondition of "the Earth Federation's default", then everything makes sense.

However, just as Glenn was about to say something, Cheng Tian seamlessly added another sentence.

"Believe it or not, I'm too lazy to provide any concrete evidence... Aren't you the most elite soldiers of the Earth Federation? Go find the truth yourselves!"

Almost at the same instant Cheng Tian finished speaking, the area directly beneath the Statue of Liberty suddenly exploded, and two drills with identical power emerged from either side of the lower half of the Statue of Liberty.

One of them is a drill tank that has never existed in the Armored Warriors universe, while the other is a machine with the same model as the Fody, but with a very different body structure.

Iron Fist has been replaced with two drill arms, further enhancing its digging capabilities, while its conventional upright legs have been replaced with a tracked chassis similar to that of the drill vehicle.

"It's my Metrorod!!!"

Meanwhile, seeing the original machine that hadn't even had its paint job changed and was being used right away, Ran, piloting the old Gates, let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Clearly, before Cheng Tian, ​​piloting the octopus mech Agomis, officially surfaced, he had already secretly shoved the Metrodora and the Drill Tank, which had been incorporated into the tank matrix, into the spacious interior directly beneath the Statue of Liberty, and was ready to launch a surprise attack at any moment.

Who knew that the instruments built into the Metrorod were of the same specifications as those on the Foddy, capable of both searching and shielding. Under Cheng Tian's vehicle matrix synergy, both machines only needed to remain off, so Sarah's side couldn't detect them.

So when the three drill bits suddenly shot up, it was already too late.

Under the influence of Cheng Tian's current "Goddess Conqueror" title, all enemy units with the "Goddess" affix will have a higher probability of suffering leg fractures or amputations. This means that buildings will be more easily penetrated to their load-bearing critical points.

The Statue of Liberty began to slowly tilt downwards, just like the Twin Towers that had collapsed before.

Players who didn't have any special connection to either the Twin Towers or the Statue of Liberty reacted quickly, launching an attack as soon as the twin-drill vehicle broke through the statue's body. However, the damned hexahedral barrier still arrived as expected, like a persistent evil spirit.

Even if they couldn't completely withstand the attack, they had still managed to buy themselves the opportunity to have both tanks dive directly into the water.

The moment the torch of freedom, held tightly in the Statue of Liberty's hand, shattered completely, prompts popped up for the main quests of both factions.

["Twin Screams, Goddess Roars," completed.]

[The project "Protecting the Statue of Liberty" has failed.]

Upon seeing the mission completion notification pop up, Cheng Tian decisively threw Ray on his octopus claws directly towards the Blood Armor Squad! With the seawater as a buffer, the trajectory was not enough to kill the physically strong Leia.

Glenn and Jeff also frantically maneuvered their mechs to make way so that Ray wouldn't crash headfirst into their mechs.

Cheng Tian escaped. In the underwater area, apart from the combined mecha, no one could stop the octopus mecha, which was determined to run away.

The Mitrod escaped thanks to its unmanned and highly maneuverable operation, while Cheng Tian had already used "rapid recovery" to put the drill vehicle back into the garage.

Because Glenn did not cut off communications, what Cheng Tian said was received by the communications department specifically responsible for the Blood Armor Squad. However, the head of the communications department decisively suppressed Cheng Tian's unsettling remarks and prevented them from spreading further.

Furthermore, it was repeatedly emphasized that this was an enemy scheme, and that elite units like the Blood Armor Squad should not be easily influenced by the enemy's nonsense.

...But were they really not affected?
Once the seed of doubt is planted, it's only a matter of time before it takes root and sprouts!

After the mission failed, both the Blood Armor Squad and the Chosen Squad temporarily returned to their dedicated shuttle, preparing to support the Third Army of the Allied Forces, which was under heavy attack by the rebels.

"What exactly happened?! Who is that person? Is he an enemy? How much of the truth is he telling us?"

Jeff, a hot-blooded young man who beat up his former boss, wanted to directly question his superiors, but was stopped by his teammates. However, he inevitably began to question them wildly within the team, his mind filled with questions that completely exceeded his brain capacity.

“Any words from the enemy are a poison to the mind… Although I would like to define this matter directly, it is clear that there are too many inexplicable doubts surrounding this insurgent invasion.”

Veteran Glenn looked serious, then slowly turned to Ray, who slowly replied.

"More importantly, even though the other side knew that our team was a participant in the combined mecha project, they still spared my life."

While this could be explained as him deliberately trying to confuse us, I'm more inclined to believe that he didn't actually want to kill me.

"We've found his information!"

At that moment, Sarah shoved her laptop screen in front of the group.

In the somewhat blurry images, there is a fragmented narrative of Cheng Tian forcibly demolishing the Twin Towers and the Goddess Statue in the world of "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs".

Among them, Cheng Tian's very distinctive mask and the drill chariot that pierced through the goddess statue are exactly the same as those in the archival images.

At that moment, Cheng Tian's 2 points of legendary status activated, and all the members of the Blood Armor Squad showed expressions of sudden realization, and at the same time, they completely "understood" Cheng Tian's original motivation for demolishing the Twin Towers and the Goddess Statue.

"A terrorist with a distorted thought process..."

This is how Jeff, a local, described it.

"However, it seems there is also a record here that he should have had an accomplice who was not actually involved in the whole process, and the person looks somewhat familiar."

As Sarah spoke, she brought up another image of a woman.

And there it was—a half-body portrait of Eileen drawing her bow and shooting an arrow!
(End of this chapter)