You call me a calamity? But I am Hyper Zetton!

west coast.

Lin Zhendong stood quietly, watching the five mechs that had arrived late in the distance.

After a few muffled roars, the five mechs crashed heavily onto the ground.

As soon as they stood up, the five mechs didn't say a word...

...They drew their swords, set up their cannons, charged up, and roared as they charged toward Lin Zhendong with heavy steps.

Lin Zhendong lowered his body slightly, shifting his center of gravity, and assumed a fighting stance.

"You need to use your brain in battle." Wu Bai's calm voice echoed in his mind. "Don't fight head-on. Use 'Trillion-Degree Fireball' to attack the ground beneath their feet."

Without pausing, Lin Zhendong straightened up, raised his hands in front of his chest, and a fireball condensed and took shape in front of him.

He pushed forward sharply, and the fireball slammed directly into the ground in front of the five mechs.

The ground, which had been submerged by seawater for years, collapsed instantly.

The five charging mechs suddenly stumbled, and in their panic, they could only use their weapons to support themselves and barely manage to crouch down.

One of the larger mechs even fell flat on its face.

Without Wu Bai needing to speak, Lin Zhendong rushed forward. He leaped high into the air and, using the momentum of his fall, kicked a yellow mech that was trying to stand up hard in the head, knocking it to the ground.

Then, Lin Zhendong landed and engaged in combat with the remaining mechs.

Initially, the situation was one-sided, with Lin Zhendong completely disorganized and frequently falling victim to attacks.

Sparks flew as the mech's alloy blades slashed across his body, and its heavy punches forced him to stagger backward.

But with Wu Bai's restoration, it quickly came back to life.

As time went on, Lin Zhendong's actions changed.

From clumsy dodging at the beginning, he became precise and sharp, and began to predict the trajectory of the mech's attacks.

He dodged the heavy punch to the side and struck the mech's weak joint with a backhand elbow. The battle had only lasted a few minutes, but the situation had already become evenly matched.

The pilots of the five mechs looked at each other in bewilderment.

They looked at the damage data constantly alarming on their instrument panels and the electrical sparks coming from their fuselage, then looked at the Hypergryph across from them, which didn't even have a white mark left on it.

A deep sense of powerlessness and frustration welled up inside me.

Lin Zhendong wanted to rush forward, but Wu Bai stopped him: "Their reinforcements are here, let's retreat."

Lin Zhendong glanced at the five mechs, bent his knees slightly, and suddenly soared into the sky, quickly disappearing into the horizon.

The five mechs remained where they were, looking at each other in bewilderment.

"This Hyper Zetton doesn't seem as amazing as Wu Minmin described, does it?" the overweight mech pilot asked doubtfully. "It seems just so-so?"

"It's hard to say." The yellow mech shook its massive head. "Maybe it wasn't using its full strength."

"Don't forget, it used skills to instantly kill that level 4 monster and the two level 3 monsters."

"Yeah, in that fight just now, apart from the fireball that slammed into the ground at the start, it was fighting us hand-to-hand the whole time."

Another driver chimed in, "Didn't you notice?"

"At first, it fought like a haphazard bunch, full of openings."

"But later on, it was able to predict my movements."

"This feeling... is like it's using us as sparring partners to get familiar with this body."

……

KRU Headquarters - Command Center

An officer yelled at the technicians, "Keep an eye on it with satellites!"

The technician typed rapidly on the keyboard, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

On the big screen, Hyper Zetton's figure was rapidly ascending, with a green locking frame tightly encircling it.

Suddenly, Hyper Zetton in the scene transformed into tiny, colorful particles and dissipated into the air.

The lock box on the screen turned red instantly, displaying "Target lost".

"Report: He has disappeared."

……

After half an hour.

KRU Headquarters, Mech Standby Area.

Wu Minmin was wearing a black combat suit and holding a helmet in her hands.

Looking up at the brand-new steel behemoth in front of me, the new machine has smooth lines and no longer has the rough industrial feel of the previous mechs.

On the control panel not far away, a middle-aged female PhD student wearing a white lab coat and thick-rimmed glasses turned around.

She glanced at the data panel, a barely perceptible sneer playing on her lips, and then gave Wu Minmin an "OK" sign.

Wu Minmin stepped onto the elevator, and with the sound of the machinery operating, she slowly rose to the height of the cockpit.

The hatch slid open, and she went inside.

This cockpit is different from the previous one. The previous one used sensors to capture motion, and the only thing in the entire cockpit was a robotic arm at the back to hold the body in place.

Inside the cockpit now, four mechanical arms extend out, securing the hands and feet respectively, allowing for purely mechanical control using human physical strength.

Wu Minmin put on the helmet, stood on the control panel, and as soon as her feet stepped into the grooves, her ankles were locked with two clicks.

Then, the robotic arms on both sides extended and completely wrapped around and secured her arms.

"Test begins," the female PhD student's voice came through the earpiece.

"This mech uses a 'power multiplication' structure."

"Simply put, it means amplifying your strength several hundred times to drive the mech."

"Now, I'll turn off the electronic assistance for now. Try moving your arm using only your physical strength."

As soon as she finished speaking, Wu Minmin felt a weight on her shoulders.

She gritted her teeth, exerted force with her right hand, and the mecha's heavy right arm slowly rose.

Wu Minmin looked at her right hand, feeling extremely stiff, as if she were waving her arm in the deep sea.

Although it can move, it requires a huge amount of physical strength to move even an inch.

"Try it on your left arm too."

Wu Minmin did as instructed, and struggled to raise her left arm as well.

"Very good, the data is normal." The female PhD's voice was eerily calm.

"Next, I will release the waist lock of the mech. You need to try taking a couple of steps."

"Okay." Wu Minmin took a deep breath and adjusted her breathing.

Suddenly, she felt a sudden heaviness all over her body.

Although the weight was still within her tolerance, an inexplicable feeling of fatigue suddenly overwhelmed her.

She tried to take a step forward with her left leg, but as soon as she lifted her leg halfway, a strong feeling of dizziness shot straight to the top of her head.

The screen in front of me started to show double images, and my limbs seemed to have lost all feeling.

The massive mech lost its balance and crashed face down onto the helipad with a loud bang.

On the control panel, the female PhD student pushed up her glasses, looking at the soaring heart rate data on the tablet, her face revealing a feverish excitement.

"What an interesting alien creature."

She muttered to herself, "To knock you out, I turned the concentration of the sedative in your oxygen supply tube to the maximum."

"This dosage is enough to keep a level three monster asleep for three days and three nights."

This was a meticulously planned hunt.

She deliberately subjected Wu Minmin to a high-intensity test of pure strength.

This was to accelerate her blood circulation so that the potent sedative mixed with oxygen could enter her brain as quickly as possible.

Under such a high-intensity, oxygen-deficient state of work.

Wu Minmin could not possibly have noticed the strange smell in the gas.

Even if you realize it, it's too late...

...Those four robotic arms are not just an operating system.

It was an indestructible instrument of torture that had already locked her firmly inside the cockpit.

……

Laboratory Zero.

After an unknown amount of time, Wu Minmin regained consciousness and slowly opened her eyes.

She found herself lying on a tilted metal lab table.

Her limbs were tightly bound by specially made alloy shackles, and her neck and waist were also fixed with metal rings.

Several robotic arms hovered around, their sharp surgical blades gleaming coldly under the operating lights.

Directly in front is a huge one-way bulletproof glass.

Outside the glass, a large crowd had gathered, including high-ranking generals in crisp military uniforms and tycoon businessmen in suits.

Although their identities are different.

But at this moment, the expressions on their faces were surprisingly consistent... they were undisguised greed.

Why?

Wu Minmin's voice was very weak, "I helped you fight off the monsters and protected Tian Shu Star so many times..."

Why did you betray me?