Chapter 002: Flesh and Blood

But as the saying goes, you can't walk by the river without getting your feet wet. Finally, one time when they were secretly meeting, Gaspar's wife Nancy caught them in bed. In a fit of rage, Nancy left Gaspar, and that was the end of their marriage.

From then on, Gaspar smoked and drank, becoming destitute.

Although Catherine rose swiftly and joined DARPA, she relied too heavily on antidepressants and often took leave to enter the hospital, nearly being placed under investigation.

This incident almost ruined two geniuses.

But to save the world, the two resolutely came together again.

Just at that time, the major countries of the world decided to set aside past grievances and jointly fight the monsters, so they held a summit in Seoul, South Korea.

At the same time, the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps was established.

Gaspar and Catherine met Stacker Pentecost at the Seoul summit!

By the way, this Stacker was the supreme commander of the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps. He was very interested in Catherine and Gaspar's plan, so he invited them to join the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps.

They used it as a testing ground: one researched humanoid mechs, the other tackled the problem of bridging the mech and the pilot's brain.

Although they started from scratch with a lack of funds, in the face of the human crisis, these were nothing.

Soon, everything was arranged.

The two also achieved very smooth research results.

But just then, they were astonished to find that the burden of piloting a mech alone was too great; the human brain simply could not withstand such pressure.

The first test subject died from it.

Finally, the team revised the plan, deciding to have two pilots operate the mech, with one responsible for the left brain and the other for the right brain.

Thus, the mech project proceeded smoothly.

After relentless efforts, the first mech, Brawler Yukon, was assembled on Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA, and entered the testing phase.

This was the first mech under the United Nations, combining the strengths of major countries, finally assembled on January 30, 2015.

Brawler Yukon originally had no official name, but because it was too noisy when activated, the technicians called it 'Brawler.'

On April 23, 2015, Category I monster 'Karloff' invaded Vancouver, Canada, and was repelled by the US-Canada joint forces. Later, 'Karloff' reappeared and landed in the Yukon Territory of Canada. 'Brawler Yukon' was dispatched to intercept it. After a fierce battle, it finally defeated 'Karloff.'

This victory was the first time in human history that a monster was defeated without using nuclear weapons, and it was also the first victory of a Jaeger.

This step proved the importance of mechs, and people believed that mechs were the weapons to fight monsters.

So in the following period, various mechs emerged one after another.

Later, the Jaeger Academy was established to train pilots for the mechs.

Faced with the mechs built by humans, the real monsters began to retreat step by step, being killed again and again.

Humans no longer feared monsters; instead, they began to treat monsters as commodities to be sold.

But this good fortune soon ended.

On February 29, 2020, Knifehead invaded the west coast of the United States. The American mech 'Romeo Blue' was deployed early, but because Knifehead changed direction, 'Romeo Blue' failed to intercept it.

Afterward, Knifehead disappeared.

This was a great mystery in history.

After Knifehead disappeared, everyone searched desperately, but they never found the missing Knifehead.

Just when everyone thought Knifehead had returned home, on the third day of its disappearance, it suddenly appeared in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

The American mech 'Gipsy Danger' was urgently deployed. When Gipsy Danger arrived at the scene, it found Knifehead severely wounded, which shocked everyone.

Then, Knifehead was easily killed by Gipsy Danger.

Perhaps because this victory was too easy, the pilots of Gipsy Danger became overconfident and did not notice that Knifehead was not completely dead.

Finally, Knifehead used its last breath to ambush Gipsy Danger.

Gipsy Danger was destroyed.

The two pilots, Yancy Becket and Raleigh Becket, died on the spot.

When Wang Bo discovered this from the residual information of the mech maintenance engineer Wang Bo, he was momentarily speechless.

Perhaps the whole world didn't know where the missing Knifehead had gone, but Wang Bo alone knew.

The missing Knifehead had not returned home but had gone to another world, the world where Godzilla truly existed. After it landed in Tokyo, it encountered Wang Bo, who gave it a severe beating and sent it back to this world.

But Wang Bo never expected that because of him, the two pilots of Gipsy Danger would underestimate the enemy, leading to the death of the Pacific Rim protagonist and his brother.

This was damn bizarre.

He had only flapped his wings in another world; who knew it would affect this world?

Sin, oh sin.

But even stranger things were yet to come.

The death of the Becket brothers and the destruction of Gipsy Danger pushed the battle between humans and monsters into a new phase.

As the monsters grew stronger, the mechs began to retreat step by step.

It was like a replay of the previous years: one Jaeger after another was defeated by monsters.

The mechs that had once brought victory to humans gradually could not face the increasingly powerful monsters, and each destroyed mech meant a huge amount of money down the drain.

Under these circumstances, high-ranking human officials were considering whether to continue the mech program. After all, mechs were built with money. If Jaegers could not stop the monsters, they would naturally consider halting the mech program.

But if the mech program were suspended, what would humans use to stop the monster invasions?

That was a problem.

The high officials were wavering over this issue.

However, on March 9, 2024, a dramatic event occurred.

A Category IV monster, 'Scunner,' attacked Santiago, the capital of Chile. The third-generation South American mech 'Coastal Ranger' was urgently deployed to engage it. In the early stages, both sides were evenly matched, but later, under Scunner's speed advantage, Coastal Ranger gradually fell into a disadvantage. After three hours of fierce fighting, Coastal Ranger's power system was severely damaged by Scunner.

The situation was critical; it seemed Coastal Ranger was about to be defeated.

But just then, a woman appeared.

This woman, wearing ancient armor, holding a shield in her left hand and a long sword in her right, like a female warrior from ancient mythology, easily killed the Category IV monster with her mere flesh and blood.

When this event was broadcast via cameras to millions of television screens, the whole world was stunned.

By the way, this happened half a year before Wang Bo came to this world.