555 Killing the Hellhound
“Mom, is that tall mech over there the hero who’s guarding our city?” a little child curiously asked his mother beside him.

He widened his eyes as he stared at the mech’s silhouette outside the window.

His mother smiled and nodded. “That’s right, baby. It’s the guardian of humanity. It’s known as a mech with human-machine integration. There’s a brave pilot controlling it from the inside!” she said in a gentle tone.

“Wow, really? When I grow up, I’ll be a powerful pilot too!”

The child’s eyes sparkled, as he was deeply fascinated by the mech’s heroic image.

From that day on, a seed was planted in the child’s heart. He waited to grow up and become a pillar of the country.

At the same time, Wu Mo was watching live footage of the scene in the desert not far away.

The pilot’s face caught Wu Mo’s attention.

It was not Dongfang Moyu, Hong Peng, or even any of the three newbies from before. This was a stranger.

Wu Mo examined him carefully and could not help but smile.

Wu eventually remembered that this young pilot was one of the elite students he had taught.

The young man had raised many questions, and Wu Mo had patiently answered them. This student never expected to finish his studies so quickly and start participating in actual combat either.

“Looks like this kid has a bright future,” Wu Mo muttered to himself. His eyes shone with anticipation.

The young pilot was also nervous. After all, this was his first time piloting a mech against a super sea monster.

Although he was nervous, he gritted his teeth and persevered.

“You have to defeat the sea monster!”

Everyone present prayed for the young pilot, and tension filled the air.

The hellhound was one of the most powerful sea monster giants. Although it was only ranked fifth, they could not underestimate it.

There were several hundred monsters of all sizes on the sea monster ranking list, and the hellhound was fifth. Hence, its strength was evident.

Boom!

Just then, the hellhound sensed the challenger’s arrival.

It roared, and the sound waves took on a physical form. They converged into a blade-like attack that tore through the air!

At this moment, the mech pilot pushed the control stick with both hands, and the mech quickly dodged the terrifying sound wave.

Then, the mech clenched its fists and swung at the hellhound’s heads with great ferocity.

Bang! Bang!

Following two heavy punches, two of the hellhound’s heads howled in pain.

However, the last head reacted quickly and bit down on the mech’s arm.

“Hmph, you’re courting death,” the mech pilot sneered.

He had already anticipated this!

The moment the mech’s arm was bitten, a few hidden compartments opened to reveal incomparably sharp spikes.

Kacha! Kacha!

The spike pierced through one of the hellhound’s heads and completely destroyed it.

The hellhound howled in pain and struggled desperately to escape.

The three heads were the source of its power.

With one head destroyed, its strength was reduced by a third.

Therefore, the cautious hellhound chose to retreat without hesitation.

“You’re trying to run away? You’ll have to get past me first.”

The pilot’s lips curled into a cold smile that was not unlike Wu Mo’s.

Then, he pressed a few buttons and activated the long-range pursuit mode.

He had apparently learned from Wu Mo’s performance at the training center because the mech moved with agility and speed through the complex underwater reef area!

Swoosh…

Once it got close to the hellhound, the mech raised both its hands high and delivered another hit. It landed on the monster’s skull like a blade and cracked it open.

Now, the hellhound only had one head left, and its tragic state was indescribable!

It struggled with all its might and frantically fell to the bottom of the sea in an attempt to escape.

However, at this critical moment, the mech’s ultimate weapon was finally revealed!

To everyone’s shock, the bottom of the mech suddenly opened to reveal a few small nuclear bombs.
“What kind of divine design is this?! There are hidden nuclear missiles under its feet. It’s unbelievable!”

The scene stunned everyone.

Without hesitation, the pilot launched the small nuclear missiles, and they automatically locked onto the heavily injured hellhound.

Half a minute later…

Boom!

The entire seabed was turned upside down. Boiling water churned, and huge bubbles kept spewing out.

After a while, the hellhound’s huge corpse slowly floated to the surface, and its blood dyed the surrounding waters red.

“That was insane! Who is that pilot?”

Right then, everyone wondered about the same thing.

Once everything calmed down, reporters rushed to the scene for interviews.

The mech slowly landed on the shore, and the pilot jumped out of the cockpit to be interviewed.

“Wow, he’s such a young and handsome guy!”

Everyone was surprised to see the pilot.

The pilot talked about how he had not learned much and needed to work hard to improve.

His humility made everyone present admire him.

“Mr. Chu, who would you thank for your achievements today?”

The media in China loved to ask this question.

“I would like to thank Mr. Wu Mo. He’s the one who started my mech career, and he’s also the one who helped me improve my mech piloting skills to the next level!” the young man surnamed Chu said without hesitation.

He sincerely expressed his gratitude to Wu Mo.

After the live broadcast ended, Wu Mo received another mysterious call.

When he answered, his eyes lit up. The second controllable nuclear fusion reactor was seemingly within reach!

The call came from the commander of the nuclear-powered submarines on the front line. He revealed that five more mysterious metal boxes had been found about 480 kilometers away after they expanded their search.

Although five metal boxes were not a lot, it indicated that more metal boxes were hidden nearby.

Sure enough, in the next few days, their harvest grew increasingly abundant.

After they expanded their search area, they found more metal boxes about 1,000 to 1,400 kilometers away.

Before them was a pile of metal boxes of various sizes. There were actually thirty-eight of them!

These metal boxes were enough to build another controllable nuclear fusion reactor!

However, after the metal boxes were transported to the research center, the researchers were shocked to find that one of the metal boxes contained many bizarre unstable elements.

These elements did not belong to the periodic table, which made this metal box unique. It was obvious that they could not use it for controllable nuclear fusion reactions.

Wu Mo was surprised to hear this news, and he immediately rushed to the research center to conduct joint research with various experts.

In the end, they confirmed a shocking fact: The chaotic elements in this metal box probably came from the explosion that occurred during space travel.

This explosive energy was then sealed in the special form of a metal box.

As for the reason for this phenomenon, there was no way to know if someone had deliberately created the boxes.

Basically, the metal box was like a time bomb on the base. Everyone trembled in fear, and they wanted to throw it away immediately.

“Let’s keep it on the base at sea. That way, if an accident happens, we’ll be able to deal with it,” Wu Mo suggested.

Therefore, this mysterious metal box was stored at the sea base for safekeeping.