Interstellar boss, she doesn't talk about martial arts

Chapter 1771 Treating Everyone Equally (Two-part long chapter combined)

Even inside a fully enclosed helmet, sound is not blocked.

Therefore, he can still hear sounds from the outside world.

That was a piercing buzzing sound that could rupture eardrums.

The world before him seemed to shake violently, tilt, and collapse.

"Ouch!" Wu Hang cried out in pain.

A section of the ceiling in the repair shop collapsed and pinned him underneath.

Fortunately, he had a second-generation mecha, so he didn't suffer any external damage, but he almost had internal bleeding from being hit by the ceiling.

"Wu Hang! Are you alright?!" Lin Nian'en struggled to lift her head, wanting to check on her.

But a second and third wave of terrifying impacts followed one after another.

The ground trembled violently under the relentless bombardment, as if the entire space fortress was howling in agony.

Outside the repair station, the monotonous wail of the alarm is no longer heard.

Instead, it was the dying screams of the stationed personnel.

The roar of energy weapons automatically firing, and the continuous collapse and disintegration of the space fortress.

"Let's go! Get out of here! We can't stay here!"

Chen Yanjun roared, his ears still ringing.

He struggled to his feet, grabbing Zhao Laotou and Lin Nian'en's arms on either side and desperately dragging them toward the gap in the cracked wall of the repair station.

Wu Hang activated the mechanical arm of his mech, pushing aside a piece of ceiling that had crashed onto him, and gritted his teeth as he followed.

Supporting each other, they stumbled and struggled out of the ruins of the repair station, the sight that greeted them almost driving them to despair.

The space fortress before them was no longer the familiar, enormous domed building with a pale blue hue.

It had been completely twisted into an abstract, grotesque mass of scrap metal!

The uppermost structure where the supreme commanders of the space fortress resided has been completely destroyed, leaving not a trace.

It resembles a strangely shaped new cosmic tomb.

The middle layer is squeezed between the upper and lower layers, forming a flat plane.

It seems that the mid-level officers and elite soldiers are also in grave danger.

Only the basic structure of the space fortress remains, and at this moment, some ordinary garrison troops are frantically dodging and fighting back.

Chen Yanjun's heart was pounding.

He was not unfamiliar with fighting against the Zerg.

The battles of the past were far more dangerous than this.

However, at that time, they had a strong command, various weapons, and alliance tactics!
But now, they have nothing left.

Senior commanders, mid-level officers, and elite soldiers all perished in the very first second of the Zerg's sneak attack.

Only the greenhorns at the very bottom of the space fortress, and the ordinary space marines, escaped unscathed.

Chen Yanjun is neither a green recruit nor an ordinary space marine.

He has been promoted to major.

However, due to his disagreement with the supreme commander of the space fortress, he was relegated to the lowest level of the space fortress, where he lived and worked alongside the new recruits and lower-ranking space marines.

His classmates from the Imperial Royal First Military University stood with him through thick and thin, and also volunteered to come to the lowest level of the space fortress.

Unexpectedly, this accident allowed them to escape the fate of being wiped out in the first wave.

At this moment, they looked up at the Zerg soldiers who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and their feelings were complicated.

Countless enormous and ferocious flying insectoids, their carapaces shimmering with a dark purple luster, their green membranous wings flapping incessantly.

Like meteor showers that occasionally appear in the universe, they densely filled their field of vision.

The tails of these Zerglings spewed out dark purple flames, like missiles, leaving long trails of fire as they slammed into every corner of the now-abandoned space fortress.

Each impact sends up a mushroom cloud filled with steam, metal fragments, and bits of flesh and blood.

What was once a space fortress that resembled a medium-sized town has long since become an inescapable hell.

The once neatly planned residential, warehouse, training, control, and command areas are now reduced to twisted alloy skeletons and rising black smoke.

Countless ferocious and terrifying flying insectoids, seemingly produced from the same mold, surged like a burst dam of dark purple water, engulfing the space fortress.

Wielding their scythe-like, gleaming forelimbs, they spewed out highly corrosive acid—a substance only low-level Zerg nest builders could produce—easily tearing apart the space fortress's energy defenses.

The automatic weapons on the defensive line launched counterattacks upon detecting an enemy attack.

However, there were too many Zerg invaders.

The light from these energy weapons flickered sporadically a few times within the swarm of insects before being swiftly and completely swallowed up by the surging dark purple tide.

The automatic weapons of the Northern Star Empire will immediately lose their automatic firing function if the hardware is damaged.

These flying insectoids can disable all automated energy weapons simply by spraying highly corrosive acid at them.

"Notify the ground forces of Guiyuan Star!"

"Notify the Northern Star Empire's military headquarters!"

"Notify... Lieutenant General Xia!"

Chen Yanjun screamed hoarsely inside his fully enclosed helmet.

He was not the supreme commander of the space fortress.

But at this moment, he was already one of the highest-ranking officers and had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the entire space fortress.

"Major Chen, the StarNet signal is intermittent and we can't send a message!"

"Then send someone down to inform them!"

"Tao Pao! I order you to leave the space fortress now and head to Mulan City on Guiyuan Star below to inform the ground troops and Lieutenant General Xia!"

"Yes, Major Chen!"

Tao Pao didn't mince words. He immediately activated his second-generation mecha, fighting against the swarming flying insectoids while rapidly plummeting into the atmosphere.

Several flying Zerg even followed.

Upon seeing this, Wu Hang anxiously asked Chen Yanjun, "Captain! Should we send someone to cover her?!"

Chen Yanjun said coldly, "No need. We are already short-handed."

"If she can't complete the mission like this, we'll send another person!"

On the battlefield, no one cares about your gender anymore.

In the face of war, men and women are equal and treated equally.

Wu Hang took a deep breath and looked for places to hide within the limited field of vision of his remaining control equipment.

"Captain! Let's go to the command area on the lower level! There's still effective cover there! And heavy firepower is still there!"

Wu Hang pointed to the area not far away, covered by a white energy shield.

That was the last sanctuary in the entire space fortress.

Chen Yanjun recognized the huge flag with the North Star displayed on the energy shield. It was the family crest of the Tantai royal family of the Beichen Empire, and also the emblem of the Beichen Empire.

The banner, imbued with energy, trembled violently amidst the shockwaves from the flying Zerg's repeated impacts, seemingly on the verge of being torn apart.

"Damn it!" Chen Yanjun cursed angrily, "What kind of time is this, still piling images on energy shields!"

"That takes so much energy!"

"It also affects the shield's effectiveness!"

Wu Hang immediately said, "I'll turn it off!"

As he spoke, he manipulated his control device a few times, and the North Star on the energy shield disappeared. At the same time, the energy shield became thicker.

The area that was almost breached suddenly solidified, causing the Zerg to lose a significant portion of their offensive power.

"Well done!" Chen Yanjun exclaimed joyfully, giving Wu Hang a high-five in celebration. ...

Chen Yanjun, Wu Hang, Lin Nian'en, and Old Zhao fled desperately towards the command area along a narrow, rutted passage filled with rubble and debris.

Each collision of the Zerg sent shockwaves that made them lose their footing and nearly fall over.

Each shriek from the Zerg's psychic attack caused their hearts to stop.

Lin Nian'en bit her lower lip tightly. The visor of her mecha helmet was covered with slime from the Zerg and dust from the collapsed buildings inside the space fortress.

She supported the already panting old man Zhao, showing no intention of giving up on him.

As Wu Hang ran, he continued his futile attempts to contact any possible friendly forces or support using his portable communicator, but all he received was a deathly silence of electromagnetic noise.

"The StarNet has indeed been cut off by the Zerg!"

He used the mecha communicator to communicate with the survivors inside the space fortress.

As everyone had previously discovered, apart from the mechs communicating with each other via their local area network, all connections with places outside the space fortress had long been severed.

"Hang in there, Old Zhao! We're almost there!" Chen Yanjun shouted, his lungs burning with pain.

He was a high-level genetic evolver, but even he couldn't withstand running while fighting against the Zerg, who were comparable to S-level genetic evolvers.

At this moment, he was in a state of extreme exhaustion, both mentally and physically.

But we can't stop.

After a rapid march, they finally reached the rear of the massive alloy bunker at the edge of the command area.

This place is relatively safe for now.

The force field of the energy shield hummed overhead, shielding against the Zerg's deadly slashes, charges, and psychic attacks.

We've arrived at the lower command area.

In the center of the command area is a square.

Before Chen Yanjun arrived, a group of people had already gathered here.

There's even a commander here, directing everyone's resistance!

When Chen Yanjun stepped forward to report, he discovered that the person was none other than Lieutenant Colonel Sang Yadi.

She should have been in a higher or middle management position.

However, it happened to be her shift today, so she went to the lower level to check the work and escaped unharmed.

After the upper and middle levels of the space fortress were destroyed, Sanya became the highest commander at the bottom level, a rank higher than Chen Yanjun's.

Chen Yanjun was overjoyed and quickly led Wu Hang, Lin Nian'en, and Old Zhao to join Sang Yadi's command.

This is the last temporary command post for their space fortress garrison.

Before long, Sangyadi stood in front of a makeshift command platform. Although her face was ashen, her voice remained steady and powerful, carrying through the loudspeaker across the chaotic command area square.

"According to the group assignments we just did."

"First team, hold the front line!"

"Second team, responsible for filling the gap in the western district!"

"Third team, concentrate firepower on the most powerful flying Zerg!"

"Also, support! I need strong support! Can anyone repair the StarNet relay station communication system?!"

She waited for a while.

No one stepped forward to take the initiative to repair the StarNet relay station communication system.

Those relay stations are all on satellites, not in space fortresses.

Because the vast majority of these people are the lowest-ranking Star Marines, and some are ordinary military academy soldiers who have just graduated from military academy and have no background.

There is not a single technical branch of the military.

Wu Hang was the only technical soldier, but his expertise did not lie in hardware repair.

He was also unable to repair the StarNet relay station communication equipment.

Sang Yadi's gaze swept across everyone with disappointment, and she waved her hand: "Then forget it, let's get moving!"

Everyone stood silently before her, and according to the groups they had just been assigned, they headed to their respective battlefields.

The first group of space marines, relying on cover and makeshift sandbags, set up energy beam weapons and unleashed a barrage of firepower at the flying Zerg swarming in from all directions.

The bursts of energy beams, the roar of electromagnetic cannons, and the deafening explosions of grenades intertwined within the collapsed space fortress, creating a sound of resistance tinged with both despair and hope.

The corpses of the flying insectoids gradually piled up in front of them, quickly forming a small mountain.

But the dark purple tide seemed endless, one wave crashing down only to be followed by another surging wildly upward.

"Captain! It's confirmed!"

"All external connections to the StarNet have been blocked by unknown, powerful interference! We are isolated!" Wu Hang reported desperately.

Just then, a sudden silence enveloped the area where Sangyadi was located.

But this silence was not true stillness; rather, the continuous, surging sound of the flying insectoids flapping their wings outside the command area plaza had mysteriously disappeared.

Sang Yadi turned around abruptly, her pupils suddenly contracting.

Less than ten meters from their hiding place, the dark purple clouds of flying insectoids parted sharply to the sides, creating a vast, desolate passage.

A bone-chilling coldness surged up Sangyadi's spine and up to her head.

At the end of the passage, a gigantic insectoid creature slowly descended to the ground.

Although it was on the ground, it was no shorter than the Zerg that flew in mid-air.

Its appearance is even more distorted, as if it were a personification of everyone's most terrifying nightmare.

The Zerg's carapace was pure black, as if it could absorb light.

It is covered with flowing black energy patterns, as if ancient whispers are being conveyed.

It had no obvious eyes; its entire head resembled a huge, straight bone scalpel, its edges gleaming with a chilling light.

Beneath its body are four pairs of long, slender limbs covered with sharp barbs, supporting its bizarre form.

When it moves, it is silent, as if it is gliding on ice.

As it moved forward, a pure killing intent, like water, instantly permeated the surrounding space.

Everyone present felt as if their thoughts had been frozen.

"What is this thing?" Wu Hang's voice trembled violently, filled with an extreme fear stemming from biological instinct, a fear of a predator from another species.

"...Have the Zerg evolved again?"

Chen Yanjun muttered to himself.

On the display screen of his mech's goggles, the mechanical intelligence was recording information about this new type of Zerg.

It is marked as extremely dangerous.

The mechanical intelligence of the second-generation mechs even created a simplified image of this new type of mutated insectoid race and stored it in the mech's mechanical intelligence database.

But that's about it.

Their second-generation mecha's mechanical intelligence was not as advanced as Xia Chujian's Qi Lu.

They have not yet explored the capabilities of this unknown new Zerg species, and thus lack the intelligence to propose auxiliary combat plans.

The ability to record data autonomously is already a very advanced form of mechanical intelligence.

Sanyadi clearly also noticed the sudden, deadly silence.

She looked up sharply, her wary gaze fixed on the end of the eerie passage in the sky.

This is today's update.

I've been quite busy with work lately, so I'm combining two chapters into one.

The next update will be at 12:05 tomorrow.