253: Chapter 253: Armored Battle Against Heavy Robots – Who is the True Strongest on Earth?

In the monitoring center, the duty staff, who had been relatively quiet, instantly looked up.

On the giant screen, a light spot was cutting into the perimeter of the base at an incredibly unreasonable speed.

That speed was too fast.

It was so fast that even after the system refreshed three times, the trajectory prediction could not keep up with its changes.

A technician stood up abruptly.

"This is impossible!"

"The speed exceeds the limit of any known fighter jet!"

Another person stared fixedly at the screen, cold sweat already breaking out on their forehead.

"Could it be a meteorite?"

"No, the trajectory has active corrections!"

"It is evading our lock-on!"

On the command deck, a white-haired officer's face instantly darkened.

"Adjust the high-definition optical array."

"Turn on infrared, thermal imaging, and low-light cameras, all of them."

"Confirm the target's form."

A few seconds later.

Multiple sets of equipment on the outer high points turned simultaneously.

In the distant night sky, a silver-white afterimage flashed past the mountain ridges.

Following closely behind it was a pitch-black shadow that had almost merged with the night.

The footage only captured less than half a second.

But that half-second was enough to make everyone in the monitoring center's scalp tingle.

That was not a plane.

Nor was it a drone.

That was a humanoid.

Two humanoid flying objects clad in metal armor.

The hall instantly fell into a moment of dead silence.

Then, someone shouted involuntarily:

"God……"

"What is that thing?"

The commander's face turned livid, and he grabbed the communicator abruptly.

"The base is entering Level 1 alert!"

"Prepare the air defense system!"

"Deploy the ground rapid response team!"

"Seal off all underground areas!"

"Report this immediately!"

The next second, Area 51, this confidential base that had been silent for decades, suddenly opened its eyes like a giant beast awakened from its slumber.

Lights on both sides of the runway suddenly lit up.

The hangar doors in the distance began to open.

Ground defense turrets slowly rose from the camouflage structures.

Teams of fully armed security personnel rushed out from various passages.

Automatic surveillance drones took to the sky, their red scanning beams crisscrossing into a net in the night.

But no matter how fast their reaction was, they were still a step too slow.

Lu Li looked at the dense array of lock-on boxes lighting up on his Battle Armor interface, his tone remaining lazy.

"The defense is quite thick."

Lin Qinglan's voice was calm.

"The risk of a forced breakthrough is relatively high."

"Then don't let them fight at their own pace."

Lu Li raised his right hand.

A circle of fine blue light lit up in the palm of the silver-white Battle Armor.

The next second, an invisible electromagnetic pulse spread out.

It did not destroy the entire base system.

Nor did it completely paralyze Area 51.

But in those few short seconds, the outer monitoring array, drone formations, and some automatic identification modules simultaneously experienced snow-like interference.

The large screen in the monitoring center flashed violently.

"Signal lost!"

"Abnormalities at outer monitoring points 3, 7, and 12!"

"Drone formation communication delay!"

"The target has disappeared!"

The commander's face changed drastically.

"It hasn't disappeared!"

"They've come in!"

Almost the moment his words fell.

Above a low building on the east side of the base, the silver-white Battle Armor dropped vertically from the night sky.

Boom!

The thick camouflage roof panel was smashed through with one punch.

Shattered metal and concrete collapsed inward.

Lin Qinglan followed closely behind; her black Battle Armor, like a falling black blade, cut cleanly into the interior of the building.

Red alarm lights flashed frantically in the corridor.

The piercing alarm sound was almost enough to make one's eardrums ache.

Several guards had just rushed out from around a corner; before they could even raise their guns, Lu Li raised his hand and struck.

Hum——

The air felt as if it had been slapped by an invisible giant palm.

Several people were instantly flipped over, slammed heavily against the wall, and knocked unconscious on the spot.

Lin Qinglan took a look.

"Non-lethal?"

Lu Li said indifferently:

"We are here to steal data, not to slaughter the base."

Lin Qinglan didn't waste words; her black Battle Armor had already rushed to the other side.

Her movements were extremely fast, yet without a single superfluous motion.

Dismantling monitors.

Blocking passages.

Cutting off close-range tracking nodes.

All actions were as if they had been rehearsed countless times before.

Lu Li walked straight toward the alloy door at the end of the corridor.

The door was thick and heavy, with no ordinary keyholes on the surface, only multiple authorization identification areas.

Iris, fingerprint, voiceprint, dynamic key, internal authorization chain.

None were missing.

Lu Li glanced at it, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.

"Quite cautious."

Lin Qinglan stood guard in the rear.

"Can you open it?"

Lu Li raised his hand and pressed it against the door.

"That's an unprofessional question."

"You should ask, how many seconds."

As soon as he finished speaking.

Fine blue light spread from his palm into the interior of the door.

The circuits behind the alloy door seemed to be taken over by some invisible hand; the originally layered authorization locks disintegrated rapidly in front of the Battle Armor's auxiliary AI.

Ten seconds later.

Click.

A low, muffled sound.

The thick alloy door slid open slowly to both sides.

Behind the door was a huge, enclosed data room.

Rows of black data cabinets were neatly arranged, with a large holographic file array suspended in the center.

Cold white light fell, making the entire room look like a temperatureless tomb.

As soon as Lin Qinglan walked in, her breath hitched slightly.

Because on the walls, several high-security classification labels were clearly posted.

And on the semi-transparent screen in the center, rows of shocking project names were scrolling.

[Non-Earth Material Sample Analysis]

[Crashed Aircraft Structural Disassembly Records]

[Abnormal Biological Tissue Cryopreservation Report]

[Reverse Energy Framework Experimental Logs]

[Unknown Gravitational Field Residual Data]

[Exogenous Metal Memory Structure Research]

Lin Qinglan's pupils contracted sharply.

"This information……"

Lu Li didn't speak.

He had already accessed the database.

Massive data streams flashed frantically across the Battle Armor's visor.

His originally relaxed gaze slowly darkened as those files unfolded page by page.

Because these things didn't look forged.

At least many of the underlying experimental logics were definitely not something that could be glossed over by just making up a few terms.

Those material parameters, energy decay curves, structural fault records, and even the accident reports after several failed experiments, all carried a near-cold sense of reality.

Lin Qinglan stood to the side, her voice lowered.

"Is there really an alien spaceship?"

Lu Li stared at the screen, his eyes deepening a bit.

"The data says it's a wreck."

"But the wreck is enough."

"The United States has taken some very strange technical paths over these years; I used to think they were just lucky."

"Now it seems……"

He didn't finish his sentence.

But Lin Qinglan already understood what he meant.

Just at this moment.

From deep within the building, a dull, extremely heavy metallic vibration suddenly came.

Thud——

The sound was very low.

Yet it was so heavy that it felt like some behemoth was slowly moving in the darkness.

Lu Li and Lin Qinglan turned their heads simultaneously.

At the end of the corridor, an even thicker isolation door was slowly rising.

Behind the isolation door was not an ordinary laboratory.

But a giant underground storage area that had been completely hollowed out.

Rows of cold white light strips lit up.

The huge space was like a steel abyss hidden beneath the desert.

And in the center of the storage area, a dilapidated spaceship lay quietly, its body dark gray, its surface covered with tear marks and scorched burn marks.

Its shape was unlike any aircraft currently in existence among humans.

It had no obvious wings.

It had no conventional tail thrusters.

Nor could a traditional cockpit be seen.

It was more like a metal shuttle body that had been forcibly cracked open by some terrifying force, lying quietly under the cold white light.

Like a corpse from another civilization.

Around the spaceship, several heavy-duty security mechas over three meters tall activated simultaneously.

Their originally lowered heads slowly raised.

The energy lights on their chests lit up one after another.

Scarlet electronic eyes locked onto the intruders at the same time.

Lin Qinglan's voice changed its tone for the first time.

"Chief Engineer Lu……"

Lu Li looked at the dilapidated spaceship, the last trace of laziness in his eyes finally disappearing.

He exhaled softly.

"It seems this trip was worth it."

The next second.

From the distant corridor, an alarm sounded.

As the thick blast door opened, more than a dozen Robots stepped out, holding organized electromagnetic rifles.

They fired directly at Lu Li.