A newborn Dunsaxin infant was tightly embraced by its mother, whisked away before it could cry.
Ten meters after the mother and daughter fled, a Dunsaxin mecha descended from the sky, crashing down and collapsing the makeshift tent.
Immediately after, a colossal elbow appeared from above, smashing heavily into the mecha's waist.
As the Dunsaxin mecha tried to rise, countless hands emerged from all directions, tearing the machine apart.
In the sky, not many Dunsaxin mechas could be seen anymore.
All that met the eye were immense hands, feet, and legs.
The Queen Mecha, like a leviathan, opened its entire array of weapon ports, continuously unleashing its fury.
Now, the Queen Mecha and the remaining Dunsaxin mechas had retreated near the energy channel.
Around them, across the land, mountains, rivers, and grasslands, were scattered the strange, half-human, half-mechanical creatures, advancing on their bellies.
"How many more mechas do we have left that can fight?" Queen Cewang asked, her brow furrowed with worry.
The captain of the personal guards responded in a panic, "One hundred and thirty-eight!"
"Cewang! We should retreat, save as many as we can! If we don't leave now, we'll all die here!"
A flicker of hesitation appeared in Queen Cewang's calm gaze.
The vast majority of the fallen Dunsaxin soldiers had not been defeated by the enemy, but by exhaustion.
She watched, her eyes wide, as a Dunsaxin mecha, still fighting one moment, suddenly charged into the monster horde the next, detonating its self-destruct device and blasting away a host of monsters.
Some mechas had also plummeted from mid-air, unable to restart.
They had held the line for four days and four nights without a drop of water.
If reinforcements didn't arrive soon, Dunsaxin might face another bloody purge.
Queen Cewang hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Have all the residents entered the Queen Mecha?"
The captain of the personal guards replied, "The last mother and daughter have just entered!"
Queen Cewang nodded, looked at the display screen ahead, and said calmly, "Tell the soldiers to return for resupply. I'll handle the rest."
All the Dunsaxin mechas, dragging their battered bodies, returned to the foot of the Queen Mecha.
In comparison, the Queen Mecha was as majestic and colossal as the Himalayas.
This mecha was the vital legacy brought back from Xianxia Country by the previous-previous Cewang after enduring trials on the surface.
It boasted dozens of beam aggregate energy cannons, hundreds of electromagnetic burst missiles, and thousands of enemy-slaying missiles.
Additionally, it had two arm cannons capable of unleashing a blast yield of millions of tons, and four tactical light blades.
Since this mecha was brought back to Dunsaxin, Dunsaxin scientists, utilizing ancient technology, had maintained its normal size.
Learning to pilot it had become a mandatory course for every Cewang.
The Queen Mecha was the ultimate trump card for defending Dunsaxin.
Queen Cewang dimly remembered witnessing this mecha in battle when she was very young.
She never expected that one day she would pilot it on another expedition.
Queen Cewang glanced back at the unrecognizable land behind her, and the vast expanse dotted with countless swarming monsters, sighing softly.
The hope of the Dunsaxin race now rested entirely on her shoulders.
"I cannot fall!"
The Queen Mecha slowly unfurled its limbs, opening its shoulder missile launch bays.
As thick white smoke billowed from behind its shoulders, missiles were launched chaotically from the pods.
The ground was instantly engulfed in a sea of explosions.
The massive shockwaves hit, and all the Dunsaxin mechas huddled together to avoid being blown away.
Following this, countless beam energy cannons roared from the Queen Mecha's body,
Sailing towards the hands and feet that had appeared out of nowhere.
These suddenly appearing hands and feet were as large as the hands and feet of surface dwellers without the constraints of compressed energy matrices.
It was unclear who, or what technology, had killed the subterranean people, dismembered them, and transformed them into half-human, half-mechanical beings.
And then endowed them with the ability to summon their own severed limbs at will.
These severed hands and feet were giants compared to the subterranean mechas,
But before the colossal Queen Mecha, they were like ants with no destructive power.
After an initial round of explosions on the ground, few monsters remained, with the land littered with countless fallen corpses.
Just as the Dunsaxin people thought the war was ending,
The Queen Mecha suddenly reopened its external armor, revealing the beam cannon barrels within.
Queen Cewang, piloting the mecha, was stunned into silence!
On the distant mountain peaks stood countless subterranean mechas!
Furthermore, as far as the eye could see, in all directions, whether on land or in the sky, monsters as numerous as grains of sand in a desert were rushing towards them!!
This scale was likely equivalent to killing all the humans in the subterranean world and bringing all the mechas from every nation.
Queen Cewang's heart felt as if it had been struck by clubs thousands of times, reduced to a bloody pulp, a void of silence.
A sense of escapism, of facing fear, surged through her.
If she were to cross the energy channel now, protected by the unique space and the Queen Mecha, she could survive the blizzard!
But the thousands of Dunsaxin civilians within the Queen Mecha would be brutally killed by the energy channel and the blizzard.
Even if they miraculously survived the extreme cold in the unique space, they couldn't escape the blizzard-ravaged extreme south! They would starve to death!
The next second, Queen Cewang summoned her courage and let out a battle cry!
The Queen Mecha strode forward, and then, an inferno capable of melting everything on the surface erupted! It rose like a flying Himalayas!
The very earth trembled!
Thousands of long-range attack weapons exploded from the Queen Mecha, turning hundreds of subterranean kilometers into scorched earth!
The entire subterranean world, both crust and ground, vibrated with this violent energy!
Suddenly, not far in front of the Queen Mecha, a robust humanoid creature, formed from tens of thousands of intertwined hands and feet!
Then another!
Soon, dozens of twenty-meter-tall behemoths appeared on the ground,
These humanoid creatures circled the Queen Mecha, preparing to charge with a running start, their legs pounding forward!
The Queen Mecha scrambled to meet them, unleashing weapons and scattering these flesh-and-blood monsters.
But the monsters, just blown apart, reformed from bloodied hands and feet, covered in gore, pouncing on the Queen Mecha like maddened beasts!
The Queen Mecha retracted its dual hand-held blades and swung them clumsily and sluggishly,
One giant monster was manageable, but two, three, four, ten, or more were difficult to handle!
The Queen Mecha was grappled by these flesh-and-blood monsters, their armor being torn apart, and it was thrown heavily to the ground!
The thousands of Dunsaxin civilians hidden within the mecha were instantly crushed, causing countless casualties!
Just as they were about to be defeated,
Numerous Dunsaxin mech pilots emerged from their mechas, appearing on the ground.
With the help of ancient technology operators, they reverted to their normal size and charged at the Queen Mecha bare-handed!
An exceptionally brutal close-quarters battle unfolded around the Queen Mecha.
The valiant Dunsaxin people, with their own hands, ripped apart the blood-and-flesh giants ten to twenty times their size, attempting to rescue the Queen Mecha!
Simultaneously, countless Dunsaxin people were killed by the giants!
The entire battlefield was filled with primitive blood, violence, slaughter, and roars!
But how could human bodies overcome technology?
Soon, the Dunsaxin mech pilots, unarmed and fighting naked, were crushed, squeezed, and trampled to death by the flesh-and-blood giants!
The entire land flowed with blood, littered with countless severed limbs and broken bodies!
Queen Cewang watched as her former comrades perished one by one around her, her heart bleeding, the battle intent in her eyes gradually fading, replaced by fear and despair.
She was merely a queen, seated in high office, who had never witnessed such a bloody and brutal scene.
"Dunsaxin... is finished!"
"Dunsaxin is ruined by my hand..."
Amidst Queen Cewang's despairing wail, the Queen Mecha suddenly deflated like a leaky balloon, its arms hanging down, unable to stand any longer.
The surrounding flesh-and-blood giants, hearing the queen's lament, also seemed to lose their support, collapsing and disappearing instantly.
A strange male voice, as if death itself had spoken, suddenly reached Queen Cewang's ears from outside.
"Very good, esteemed Dunsaxin Queen Cewang."
"To save your people, come and make a deal with me."
Queen Cewang's despairing eyes rekindled with light,
She thought this voice belonged to a deity descending to save the Dunsaxin race!
With hope rekindled, Queen Cewang raised her head again and looked at the mecha screen,
Only to see a man, lifted by countless appearing hands, hovering above the Queen Mecha.
"Dunsaxin Cewang, come and trade with me! This is the most meaningful thing you can do for your people."