The giant corporations that started in Night City - Chapter 398

The Zerg’s tunnel worms can stretch their bodies dozens of times and use their own flesh and blood to drill channels underground, so as to lead the Zerg swarms behind to invade the designated area.

As long as the tunnel worms drill deep enough, they can always dig into the soft soil area and sneak in with the Zerg directly.

Although the AI ​​detector inside the base identified the location of the tunnel worms at the first time and mobilized the turret device to bombard them.

But the tunnel worms still spit out a large number of Zerg troops in the chaos, and there are more than one worms performing stealth missions. More Zerg troops also emerged in other areas at the same time.

Faced with this sudden situation, David Martinez was not panicked. He calmly ordered: “Send the drill beast immediately!”

The giant Transformer drill beast from Cybertron played a significant role in mining energy crystals. Now it is used as a war machine.

This iron worm, like a dragon, is very similar to the positioning of the tunnel worm.

But the difference is that it is forged from deformed metal. With the serrated blade on its head, the drill beast can easily crush soil, rocks and other materials.

Underground, the drill beast is in its element. As we all know, the equipment used in construction projects is also useful in wars, and the drill beast is the best proof of this.

The drill beast, which is covered with sharp serrations all over its body, digs through the ground crazily at high speed, turning into a death meat grinder and killing all around.

The tunnel worm was still busy transporting the alien zerg troops, and was suddenly cut off by the attacking drill beast.

Unlike the drill beast, which is made of steel and covered with blades, the armor of the tunnel worm is basically grown in the head area.

In order to extend its body as much as possible, it has to become as flexible as possible, which has become the fatal weakness of the tunnel worm.

Just one drill beast can easily tear apart several tunnel worms underground.

When the tunnel worms tried to fight back, they found that their bloody mouths were unable to bite the drill beasts with sawtooth blades all over their bodies. The offensive and defensive capabilities of the two sides were completely different!

Due to the attack of the drill beasts, the tunnel worms could no longer go deeper. If they dared to step in again, they would only be strangled by the drill beasts underground.

In desperation, the tunnel worms could only stop while they were ahead, first leading a part of the Zerg troops to bypass the shield force field, and then break out of the ground.

They would rather withstand the firepower of the turrets on the ground than be torn into slag by the drill beasts underground.

In this way, the role of the tunnel worms was infinitely reduced. They could not continue to carry out raids behind enemy lines, and could only barely bypass the shield force field, allowing the Zerg troops to have a chance to enter the base.

However, even if the Zerg went through great pains to enter the shield force field, there were still a large number of defense systems waiting for them in the base city area.

AI machine gun arrays were deployed in each area, and a large number of small hard light turrets were like giant trees, forming an imposing steel jungle.

As soon as the tunnel worms transported their troops here, they were torn apart by the dense firepower network, and they still could not approach the core area where the keystone was placed.

In this wave of underground battles, the Universal Corporation completely crushed the Zerg’s plan to sneak attack from behind with the advantage of the drill beast.

As time went by, the outside of the shield force field had long been covered by the Zerg’s fungal blanket.

Densely packed bugs rolled and surged on it, extending all the way to the end of the horizon, as if the entire planet was submerged by bugs.

In addition, there were still countless airdrop capsules falling from the sky, and each airdrop capsule was like raindrops merging into the ocean, causing some waves in the endless sea of ​​bugs.

More alien bugs are joining the battlefield!

Under the threat of the drill beasts, the tunnel worms dare not go deep into the core area of ​​the front-line base. They can only pop up from underground from time to time like moles to help some Zerg troops bypass the shield force field.

But as more and more drill beasts arrive, the casualty rate of tunnel worms is gradually increasing.

Nowadays, the entire front-line base of the Universal Giant Enterprise is in chaos from inside to outside, and there are endless Zerg outside constantly attacking the shield force field.

Inside are Zerg troops that pop up from time to time, and they fight fiercely with the AI ​​sentry robots and turrets in the urban area.

Although the existence of drill beasts has caused the death rate of tunnel worms to soar, the number of Zerg is enough, even if the drill beasts have been killing crazy.

But it still can’t stop the Zerg from “smuggling” into the base.

Finally, under the endless wave of Zerg attacks, a small number of blocks in the front-line base have fallen, and these defense systems have become ruins and occupied by Zerg fungal blankets.

However, these losses are acceptable.

As David Martinez had initially expected, the Blade Queen concentrated most of her forces on the front-line base.

As for other defense positions, although they were also attacked to varying degrees, they were all within the range that they could withstand, far from reaching the strength of quickly destroying the turret facilities.

“These bugs are really crazy, their casualties have probably exceeded one hundred trillion!”

Johnny Silverhand was stunned by the hard light screen of the headquarters. After so many years of fighting, this was the first time he saw such a scene.

After all, the world’s giant companies rarely play a tug-of-war with their opponents. First, it is unnecessary, and second, it is too wasteful of resources and time.

As long as they can kill them in one move, they will definitely not waste more effort.

At this moment, the Zergs surrounding the front-line base of the giant enterprise seemed to have turned on the acceleration key, squirming and gnawing at the shield force field more frantically.

On the one hand, the energy magnetic field emitted by the keystone has a natural attraction to the Zerg, and on the other hand, the Blade Queen began to be unable to hold back and wanted to expand the invasion results as soon as possible.

She didn’t have much time left, but she hadn’t gotten the fatal Xel’Naga artifact yet!

If they didn’t speed up and remove this fatal hidden danger as soon as possible, all of these bugs would be wiped out as the keystone was charged.

Just as the defense systems of the various departments of the Universal Giant Enterprise were trying their best to resist, the command will of the Blade Queen once again echoed in the minds of every combat unit of the Zerg:

“Speed ​​up the attack–!”

In order to achieve faster results in the war, the Blade Queen maximized the potential of all the bugs that were attacking the front-line base of the giant enterprise. As long as they could cause more damage to the shield force field, it didn’t matter if they lost some health points.

Let alone a 1:10,000 casualty ratio, even a 1:100,000 or 1 million casualty ratio, the Zerg in the Koprulu sector can afford it!

This battle concerns the fate of the Zerg, and the Blade Queen is ready to fight to the death.

In this regard, Leon remained unmoved, patiently waiting for the passage of time.

With the order of the Blade Queen, more advanced Zerg troops began to appear on the battlefield.

In addition to the Hydralisks and Cockroaches that had appeared before, Corruptors with squid tentacles, bird beaks, and swollen cysts appeared in the sky.

They attacked with more ferocious firepower and launched a destructive attack on the shield force field.

Under normal circumstances, Corruptors only appear in the nest area with a higher degree of evolution.

This advanced insect can generate a powerful electromagnetic force field through its own tentacles, distort the gravity nearby, and make itself fly out of thin air.

Corruptors will attack by splashing parasitic spores in the cyst fluid, or spitting out dark green corrosive venom, using strong acid to continuously damage the shield.

But no matter which attack method, the damage to the shield force field caused by Corruptors is extremely exaggerated.

Therefore, the internal AI turrets have to adjust their direction and focus their firepower on these disgusting and terrifying advanced insect units.

However, the defense of Corruptors is far better than that of Wyverns.

On the surface of its seemingly bloated body, there are bulbous neuron shells. When hit by other objects, these tissues will turn into foam to absorb.

This is like the reactive armor of a tank, which has an excellent protective effect against anti-aircraft missiles.

After the damaged neuron tissue is used, it will be discarded, and new neurons will continue to grow in the original part, which allows Corruptors to absorb more offensive firepower.

And they can also cause greater damage to the shield force field of the giant enterprise.

As expected, after sending a large number of Corruptors, the loss rate of the shield force field soared rapidly.

The tunnel worms underground also risked their lives to fight the drill beasts. As long as they could escort the Zerg troops to the interior of the base, they would have completed their mission.

The hydralisk’s poisonous spines were fired at the same time, turning into a violent storm. Although each spine would be deflected by the shield force field, under the dual corrosive attack of physical and chemical corrosion.

The shield force field of the front-line base obviously could not last until the key stone was fully charged!

In the correct version of Yiyi!

What’s more terrifying is that the figure of the thunder beast has appeared not far away. Once such a huge siege-level behemoth hits.

Even the interception force field of the Protoss mechanical sentinel will be trampled into slag. There are not many defensive facilities that can stop the thunder beast’s impact!

At this moment, Paul felt more and more bad when he saw that the shield value displayed on the holographic screen was less than 30%.

If this batch of thunder beasts rushed over, their shield force field would probably collapse completely on the spot. The thunder beast would be the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

“This Blade Queen is so patient that she hasn’t come here yet!”

Paul looked at the image on the holographic screen and saw that the flagship of the Zerg fleet, Leviathan, was still firmly anchored in low-Earth orbit.

If an accident occurs, the Blade Queen can run away at any time.

David Martinez thought for a moment and decided that the shield force field must be preserved as much as possible so that enough time can be delayed.

So they must not use the shield force field to withstand the impact of this wave of thunder beasts.

Finally, David issued an order: “Open the ground barrier and concentrate the remaining shield force field energy to resist the Zerg air force.”

This is also a helpless move. Leaving half of the shield force field to block the Zerg air force is better than destroying the entire force field.

As for letting in Zerg units such as thunder beasts and springtails, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, the front-line bases of the giant companies have set up enough defense systems.

We can still spend some time with these bugs.

If it really comes to a desperate moment, there are still Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores waiting for these bugs!

After receiving the order to open part of the shield force field, Paul immediately contacted Pani on the other side and asked: “Pani, we are going to open the shield force field on the ground.”

“What’s the situation over there?”

Looking at the Zerg troops surging outside, Pani responded truthfully:

“To be honest, the situation is not good. I estimate that within 15 minutes, the Zerglings outside will jump on my face and tickle me.”

The AI ​​turret array, which Pani was in charge of, was constantly emitting brilliant blue light, killing the Zerglings that climbed above the shield force field like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves.

However, as soon as the gap was blasted open, it was pushed up by the Zerglings behind it, not giving the shield force field any chance to breathe.

Some AI turrets began to smoke and self-ignite due to energy overload. The Zerg that could continuously attack left the turrets with no chance to stop.

Even if the turret collapsed due to overload, there would be new AI turrets to replace it.

If human soldiers were to fire with weapons, they would probably have exploded.

After all, to deal with these endless bugs, they could only weld guns and cannons to their own hands and shoot at the bugs the whole time.

This is the liberation of human labor by AI automation. Indeed, the defense system of the Universal Corporation is solid enough to allow these people to sit back and watch the show safely.

Unfortunately, this good show will not last too long. In order to prolong the existence of the shield force field, they can only allow some Zerg troops to penetrate into various areas of the base.

“Let your people withdraw as soon as possible. Next, we will use metal hydrogen bombs to clear the area.”

Paul ordered.

“Yes!” Pani nodded, and then led people to run away.

At this moment, the missile silos of various departments in the front-line base were pouring metal hydrogen bombs towards outer space and designated bombing areas.

Since the Zerg has increased its invading forces, the giant company naturally has corresponding defensive weapons.

However, the weapons used by various departments of the giant company are relatively conventional. In order to fight with the Zerg as much as possible, Paul and others did not even use the MD·500 bomb of the little doctor.

But even if high-lethal weapons are intentionally banned, the fireballs produced by the explosion of metal hydrogen bombs still have a considerable destructive effect on the Zerg troops.

Countless shining suns lit up in the dark deep space of the universe, and then quickly extinguished, and countless flying dragons and airdrop capsules disappeared into outer space out of thin air.

However, even though more than half of the airdrop capsules were intercepted by the defense system of the giant enterprise, a large number of Zerg troops still successfully landed on the front-line base position.

If it were the human troops of the Terran Federation, they would have been overwhelmed by the Zerg wave long ago, unlike the Universal Giant Enterprise, which has been dragging on until now.

During this process, the thick-skinned Thunder Beasts showed their amazing vitality.

A miniature metal hydrogen bomb fell down, but failed to kill the Thunder Beasts. They dragged their injured legs, healed themselves while running, and recovered as before in a short while.

Soon, the shield force field on the ground was activated as scheduled, and the bugs lying on the force field fell one after another and were trampled into meat paste by the bugs behind.

The dense swarm of insects rushed to various areas of the front-line base like seawater backflow.

In an instant, a large number of bugs emerged from the internal protective wall area, and larger and more AI hard light turrets immediately opened fire to organize a new defense line.

The flamethrowers, gravity fields, particle cannons and other weapons at the bottom also restrict the Zerg invasion from various designated functional areas.