BA, I just want to save the world

The overly exaggerated statement made Mo Lu frown and shake his head repeatedly.

He was originally planning to explain it, but then he thought it was quite interesting? This made him want to tease the girl who had the wrong idea.

Bai Zi opened his eyes again when he heard him say he liked her, but before he joined the conversation, he seemed to have discovered something and suddenly pulled at his clothes: "Teacher."

"Ok?"

"What is that...?"

"what?"

He subconsciously looked in the direction of the girl's fingertips.

On the sand dunes not far away, a large number of black spots were constantly crossing the dunes and appeared in their field of vision.

The dark group, if you look closely, are obviously robots, which are generally called automatons here.

In other words, it is a robot with complete autonomous capabilities.

Some of them held a huge metal shield in one hand and an automatic rifle in the other, and some carried a rocket launcher on their shoulders - it was obvious that they were all combat robots.

Next to these robots, there are a large number of drones that look like large sweepers, equipped with two rotary machine guns or small rocket nests.

They were one meter above the ground, suspended in mid-air, following the robots towards this side, and it seemed that they were coming towards them.

On the hills farther behind, you can see groups of tanks rushing towards here.

"Are they also...here to look for treasure?" Meng stared into the distance, swallowed his saliva, and asked uncertainly.

"...Robots can use weapons and shields to dig, but how can something like a robot vacuum cleaner dig? Do they need machine guns and rocket pods to shovel sand? And I've never heard of using tanks to dig... If you say they are asking for directions, that's more reliable."

"Yes, yes, maybe you really came to ask for directions?" Meng looked at him with burning eyes, expecting his affirmation, holding on to the last glimmer of hope.

But he held his forehead with one hand, shook his head and asked, "...A fully armed army is asking you for directions in such a menacing manner?"

"Stop talking... Let's run away." Bai Zi had already begun to think about retreating, and Mo Lu had no time to say anything more. He took her hand and ran away: "——Run away quickly!!"

“Oh, oh! Wait…. Wait for me!!”

Meng reacted a beat late and quickly followed the two of them to escape.

The actions of these three people immediately stimulated the mechanical army in the distance. While they accelerated their pace to catch up, some of them directly raised their rocket launchers and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

In an instant, deafening roars were heard, and hot tongues of fire gushed out from the rocket launcher. Several rockets dragged blazing tails, drawing beautiful trajectories on the desert.

At this critical moment, Meng quickly opened the folding shield he carried with him, smashed it on the ground, and held it in front of him, trying to block the upcoming attack, but...

Boom-! ! ! !

Several rockets exploded, and the cumulative shock waves were like strong winds and huge waves, causing the shield to emit a harsh metallic whine.

Immediately afterwards, a huge force was transmitted from the shield, making Meng, who was unable to keep her balance on the sand, fly out with a scream and hit the two people behind her heavily.

Mo Lu subconsciously hugged the girl beside him and endured the impact from behind. Then, together with Meng behind him and Bai Zi in his arms, the three of them were caught in the rolling dust and tumbled a considerable distance.

"Why, why did those guys attack us?" Meng struggled to get up, nervously gripping the shield, and asked anxiously.

Mo Lu glanced at her intact shield, not understanding why the metal jet couldn't penetrate it. He couldn't help but ask, ".... You really didn't cause this?"

"Of course not! I don't know them at all!" Meng looked aggrieved and pitiful, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

But he had no time to comfort her or brush off the dust on his body. He held the girl in one hand and the loli in the other, and ran in the opposite direction of the mechanical troops again.

"——If you don't know, just ignore it! Let's run first!"

There were three people at the scene: a loli with no weapons, an adult with only a knife, and a girl with only a shield and a pistol.

Facing an armored force equipped with both light and heavy weapons, there is no chance of winning. Even a quick glance back...

The vanguard of the robots had already crossed the sand dunes, and were following them at a speed far exceeding their running speed, like a terrifying tsunami.

Chapter 17: Stopping the Steel Flood

Facing the mechanical army that surged like a tide, Mo Lu couldn't figure out why these guys wanted to attack him. Were they bandits in the desert? Or what? Or were they really Abydos's debtors who couldn't help but want to occupy Abydos?

And....was Meng killed by them in the previous timeline?

Everything is unknown, but reason tells him that facing this situation which is as ruthless and unreasonable as reality, he must make a choice at the first moment.

There was no chance that the three of them would win a running race against the machines, and with their backs to them, they would be killed by the bombardment in a short while.

If you want anyone to escape safely, someone needs to hold them back.

Simply put, a sacrifice is needed - this is something that cannot be avoided no matter what.

After realizing this, Mo Lu ignored the rain of bullets passing by him, slowly closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath. He quickly began to calm down, resolutely let go of the two people's hands and stopped.

"Teacher?!" Meng, who was running past him subconsciously, stopped and turned to look at him, not knowing what was going on.

Bai Zi was stunned for a moment, then immediately grabbed his hand and said, "——Run quickly!"

"...If we run together, no one can escape." He gently broke free from Bai Zi's hand and looked at Meng who was protecting him with a shield: "Please take good care of Bai Zi for me. I will be back soon."

"....What do you want to do??"

"I promised Xingye that I would protect you, and I have to take good care of Baizi... As a man, I have to take this responsibility, right?" He stroked Baizi's hair gently and smiled: "Believe me, I may get hurt, but it will be nothing serious."

“——How is it possible! Even if they are from us, they might die if besieged by so many people!!” Mengxiang rejected his proposal without even thinking about it.

Bai Zi desperately grasped his clothes, shook his head and managed to squeeze out a weak voice: "...No, no, don't go! You can't go!"

"Don't make it seem like we're parting forever. Believe me, I still want to play with Baizi." He hugged her gently. The young girl, feeling the pleasant warmth, whispered, "Don't look at me like this. I'm actually surprisingly good at critical moments~"

"No! You can't stop me. You have to stay no matter what. Then I...I want to stay too!" Bai Zi's voice was trembling and inaudible, like a willful child.

"In fact, if you stay, you will become a burden to me, and we will really be separated forever, okay?"

"That kind of thing..."

"Baizi, you are a good boy, right?"

"Woo..."

The young girl was extremely reluctant to be separated from him, but in front of his irresistible gaze, Bai Zi, with tears in her eyes, still twisted her face and lowered her head with a small sob.

Although she seemed more immature due to her lack of memories, she was more mature than her peers in this respect and understood the price of being willful at this time....and she had no idea what to do and just subconsciously obeyed his words.

Meng, who was holding up a shield to defend against the attack, was also at a loss at this time: "Wait, wait, teacher, what are you doing..."

"I'll leave Bai Zi to you. You understand, right? What will happen if you keep talking at this time... Run away now, and you still have a chance to call for reinforcements." He handed Bai Zi's hand to the girl beside him, and said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doing. After all, I'm an adult, and I always have some means to protect my life~"

"....I, I will definitely bring someone back!!"

Meng, who had already been at a loss, had tears in her eyes and was forced to choose to believe him. She immediately protected Bai Zi with her shield and ran away with her in the opposite direction of the mechanical army.

...........................

Why did they come to the desert just to search for treasure, but were attacked by a large army of machines? Mo Lu was left alone, feeling mixed emotions.

The only thing we know and can figure out is that in the previous timeline, Meng Zimeng’s halo must have been destroyed by these guys.

But Meng Zimeng's personality doesn't seem like the kind that would make enemies with others, which means...either her existence is a hindrance to someone, or there is something in the desert and she is afraid of being discovered and wants to kill everyone, or maybe she is a creditor of Abydos?

"But no matter what the answer is, we still have to deal with the enemy in front of us first." He thought to himself, but Prana's voice came more loudly in his ears: "Question, fighting with so many enemies, are you serious?"

"Whether we like it or not, we can't let these guys attack Bai Zi and Meng, right?"

He looked at the mechanical frenzy that was rushing towards this place, raising dust in the distance, and answered the question without thinking. Then he took a deep breath and prepared himself at an incredible speed.

"——I won't let you pass here!"

At the moment of whispering, the high-dimensional card in his pocket glowed in response to his will, and his eyes began to glow red like the princess of the nameless god. Even the blade of the sword in his hand was stained with bright red, and a blood-red halo that seemed to have been usurped appeared above his head.

The influx of power caused a circular air wave to burst out from his body, directly blowing away the surrounding sand and dust.

But before he could get familiar with this power, the mechanical troops prioritized pouring firepower towards him, the motionless target.

A strong sense of crisis instantly brought him back from his trance and dizziness, and forced him to face the barrage of bullets that came like a storm, and instead of retreating, he rushed towards the torrent of steel.

It's not that he is so brave, it's just that the way he fights requires him to fight in close combat.

Even if you want to delay time, you can't just stand there and let others attack you, right? It would be better to rush into the enemy's formation and limit their firepower output.

Even if you can dodge eight out of ten of the bullets that are as dense as raindrops, just one layer is still enough to kill you.

But at the moment when the barrage reached him, the tablet in the inner pocket of the coat he was still wearing in the hot weather lit up again.

Prana used the "card" he called upon and the power borrowed from the future to activate the power of the nameless god in his body to form a protection. A shield composed of countless red diamond squares then appeared in front of him.

—Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! !

Bullets rained down on the shield, causing ripples, but they could not get past the line.

Chapter 18: Battle against Armored Clusters

The red shield made the hail of bullets pale in comparison, and even Mo Lu, who had been prepared to be hit by bullets, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But while perfectly blocking all the attacks, Prana seemed to be genuinely troubled and warned him for who knows how many times:

"Teacher, although you have divine power, you are only a mortal. You know the price of using this power, right?"

"know."

"...the body will collapse and turn into the black suit you saw before, but before that...perhaps the soul and mind will burn."

"Although I don't know who Black Suit is, I know that overuse can have serious consequences."

Without even thinking about answering, Mo Lu arrived in front of the mechanical army under the hail of bullets at a speed beyond his imagination, which could even be said to be the limit of human beings.

“——Go to hell!!” He growled and used all his strength to swing his blade at the enemy for the first time.

The alloy blade, reflecting the firelight, instantly cut through the sand and mechanical armor - the battle horn was officially sounded.

The alloy blade was endowed with unimaginable power, allowing the robot's armor to be torn apart with ease.

The robot was divided into two parts with the sound of wind cutting, followed by a large amount of electric sparks. A few beats later, a loud bang was heard when Mo Lu disappeared from its presence.

With the yellow sand all over the ground as the background, torn metal fragments and flames burst out in the sky.

But before he could leave this place, Mo Lu's figure was instantly engulfed by the spreading flames.

However, the red shield firmly blocked everything out, allowing him to slide into the middle of the mechanical army, the blind spot of two missile-type robots, and he just cut his way through the group of robots.

Countless fireballs burst out wherever they passed.

The scene was like a joke. The dark figure was dancing on the edge of a knife, relying only on a knife to shuttle through the army of the future at a speed that was too fast to be recognized by the naked eye.

Even though she was standing in the inner pocket, Prana was fully aware of the situation and couldn't help whispering, "...Teacher is unexpectedly brave. It's the first time for her to engage in actual combat, both in the past and now."

After hearing this, Mo Lu's movements slowed down a lot: "Actually, my legs are a little weak... To be honest, this is the first time I know what it feels like to go to the battlefield."

"That....."

"But compared to my own affairs, I am more afraid of them dying here!" He sighed helplessly and chopped off the heads of two robots with his backhand.

With the electric light conducted by the blade, he turned around and let the slash draw a semicircular trajectory. With its terrifying sharpness, it cut the robot that had just put up a shield behind him into two pieces, including the man and the shield.

At this moment, on the dry desert, a large number of mechanical soldiers' wreckage were lying in a mess.

The dense sparks and flames symbolized the defeat of the vanguard troops, and finally forced the tank troops in the rear to make a decision.

They ignored their remaining companions, making it so that there was no problem of excess power in this world, and the 155mm main guns, which far exceeded the conventional tanks in Mo Lu's past memories and reached the level of heavy artillery, roared in unison.

The roaring shells landed on Mo Lu's location one second earlier than the sound, penetrating directly into the ground, raising dust all over the sky, and even blowing up all the surrounding robots.

A red figure suddenly kicked the ground and leaped out, approaching the armored cluster like an arrow before the dust caught up with him.

Challenging dozens of main battle tanks alone is not something a normal person would think of, but... those red eyes clearly saw the future trajectory, which made it easy for him to avoid the trajectories of the shells that intercepted him.

Countless shells narrowly missed the shield, but his blade, which was dyed red by the special power, could cut through the tank's armor as easily as cutting paper.

Without even actually touching, the blade extended to an area that instantly and without warning split the huge land overlord into two.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the car body tilted along the cross section, followed by fire and explosion.

In the midst of the red and black flames, the figure with a halo on his head looked like a mythical god of war.

Because this entire battlefield was a one-sided abuse, the speed, strength, and defense were all crushed, so Mo Lu only needed to hack and chop to sweep them away.

However... after more than 70% of the enemy troops were eliminated and the surrounding tanks began to flee in all directions, blood oozed from his eyes, and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood and rust. The capillaries in his right hand, which was wielding the weapon, burst, and trickles of blood spurted out, even flowing along the hilt, and even his movements slowed down unconsciously.

"Teacher, your body is beginning to be unable to bear it. It's about time that - wait a minute... a large number of high-speed flying objects have been detected! They are rockets!" Plana's words suddenly became sharp halfway through.

Intuition and the girl's screams brought about a premonition of danger, but Mo Lu had no chance to catch his breath.