From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 628: A Race Not to Be Slaughtered by “Humans”
It won't take long.

The low roar of the engine tore through the silence above the shelter, and a Luna transport boat slowly landed at the intersection. The hot air flow ejected by the reverse thrust device blew away the scattered gravel and insect corpses on the ground.

The hatch's hydraulic system made a soft sound and slowly opened, revealing a bright cabin inside.

Seeing this, the survivors in the shelter rushed to the transport boat. Most of them were in tattered clothes, with blood and some scars on their bodies.

Many of them are former colonial security personnel. Although they have long since retired due to the expiration of their terms, their judgment of the battlefield situation is still much more acute than that of ordinary civilians.

After entering the cabin, they all crowded around the portholes, staring intently at the more than twenty Flame Lizards outside who were actively charging at the insect swarm.

“They are dying”

A middle-aged man with traces of gunpowder on his face murmured in a low voice.

This middle-aged man was a veteran of the security force and knew better than anyone that facing an insect swarm of this magnitude, even hundreds of Terran Empire soldiers equipped with CMC power armor would not be able to escape unscathed.

Therefore, most civilians, including this middle-aged man, believed that the Flame Lizards chose to risk their lives and die in order to buy them time to evacuate.

However, the next second, reality "shattered" their pessimism.

The leading Flame Lizard suddenly accelerated, and its magnetic boots stomped on the ground with a deafening roar, and its entire body turned into a dark green afterimage.

Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bolter in the Flame Lizard's hand roared and spewed out a half-meter-long muzzle flame. The .75-caliber standard bolter bullet pierced through the Zerg with devastating accuracy.

Bullet casings fell like a rainstorm, bouncing and rolling on the debris and blood-covered ground opposite, making crisp impact sounds.

Each explosive bolt hit the target accurately, and the three approaching Zerglings were torn into pieces in an instant. Their shells and internal organs exploded in the air, and the smelly green blood splattered on the road.

"Oh my God!"

Someone in the transport boat screamed in surprise.

The Flame Lizards have already broken into the center of the Zerg tide. More than twenty steel bodies have formed a circular defense line with their backs, and the bolter's firepower network is impenetrable.

Every time a hydralisk raised its head and tried to spit out bone needles, its skull would be shattered by a precise headshot the next second.

As soon as the lurkers poked their hideous bodies out from the ground, they were greeted by concentrated fire from several plasma weapons. The high-temperature plasma instantly melted through the weak parts of their shells and evaporated their internal organs.

The numerical advantage that the Zerg was most proud of seemed so ridiculous in front of these warriors.

Of course, this is due to the geographical location, which provides a lot of convenience and cover for the Flame Lizards.

The streets and intersections are narrow, and the dilapidated ruins of buildings on both sides limit the Zerg's room for maneuver, making it impossible for them to launch a true charge, circumvent, or encircle an enemy.

The Flame Lizards took advantage of this accurately, turning the battlefield into a death funnel, and any alien that tried to break through would be minced into pieces under the crossfire.

Then, a more intense close combat began.

When the swarm of Zerglings broke through the fire net and pounced in front of them, the Flame Lizards suddenly put away their guns and drew melee weapons from their waists.

Buzz~Buzz——Boom boom!

The teeth of the chainsaw sword let out a bloodthirsty scream, splitting the first Zergling that pounced on it in half.

The power axe's energy field hummed, and each swing could snap several Zerg in half at once.

The most astonishing thing was a team leader who used a power sword. He wielded the blade wrapped in a plasma force field, and it instantly turned into a dazzling blue whirlwind of death. Wherever the Zerg passed, they were dismembered as if they were thrown into a meat grinder.

'This is not a fight'

The middle-aged man with a weather-beaten face stared blankly out the window, his cracked lips trembling slightly, and his voice as hoarse as if sandpaper was rubbed against it.

His pupils reflected the giants' devastating advance. Under the heavy trampling of the power armor, the fungal blanket spasmed and retreated like a living thing, and sick ripples appeared on the surface of the sticky organic matter.

“This is pure slaughter.”

His whisper was particularly clear in the silent cabin.

The retreat of the fungal mat was not a simple physical collapse. The purple-black organic networks twitched and curled up as if they had pain nerves, forming a strange vacuum zone in front of the Flame Lizard's magnetic boots.

At a certain moment, you can even see the pulsation of the fungal blanket surface bulging and collapsing, as if the entire earth is trembling in fear.

Along the route the steel giants marched, the finely forged soles of their magnetic boots left three-centimeter-deep dents on the hardened road surface.

A soldier's left forearm armor was splashed with acid. The corrosive liquid hissed on the metal surface where the energy shield had failed, emitting pungent smoke.

But the soldier just flicked his wrist casually, letting the acid splash.

When the smoke cleared, only a few white burn marks remained on the refined gold composite armor. The original dark green paint was corroded with spider-web-like cracks, but even the outermost plating could not be penetrated.

The engine of the Luna transport boat roared, and the plasma tail flame drew a dark blue trail in the low sky.

As the altitude climbed, the view outside the porthole gradually widened, and more than a hundred survivors finally saw the entire city clearly -

The once relatively prosperous and comfortable city has now been eroded by fungal mats, with the surfaces of buildings covered with wriggling organic matter and black swarms of insects surging on the streets like a tide.

However, in this wave of death, there is a torrent of steel going against the trend.

"Oh my god."

A young woman leaned over the porthole, her voice trembling.

Looking down from the sky, a large number of burning airdrop pods smashed into various parts of the city like meteorites. The pods exploded at the moment of impact, revealing the fully armed Flame Lizards, Hell Paratroopers, and many biological and mechanical weapons inside.

As soon as the Flame Lizards landed, they quickly deployed a tactical formation, and the firepower network of the bolters tore open bloody paths in the swarm.

What is even more shocking is that these giants fight with terrifying efficiency.

They accurately targeted every gathering point of civilians, broke through the encirclement of the Zerg with great force, and escorted the survivors to the temporarily constructed evacuation area.

There were far more Flame Lizards active throughout the city than the twenty they had just witnessed.

The airdrops continued, and more tactical teams landed in key areas. They coordinated with each other to form a cross-fire network, which forcibly curbed the Zerg offensive.

The Zerglings' charge was torn apart by a hail of explosive bullets, the Hydralisk's bone needle shots were deflected by the energy shield, and even the largest Ultralisk was bombarded by the armored units that reached the ground, and then combined with orbital bombardment, it was eventually turned into charred corpses.

"Look over there!" Someone suddenly pointed to the east side of the city. A six-man squad of Flame Lizards and a combat platoon of Hell Paratroopers were escorting hundreds of civilians through the ruins. They built a mobile steel fortress with three Cyclops battle mechas as the core.

The battle mecha's assault guns roared continuously, blasting any Zerg that dared to approach into pieces, while the Flame Lizards roamed around the periphery, using chainswords and power axes to clean up the escaped fish, and the Hell Paratroopers were in the center, conducting precise point shooting and fire suppression.

Under their protection, no civilians were injured or killed, and all of them safely boarded the waiting Luna transport ship.

In addition, auxiliary military units also completed their deployment along with the landing of the transport formation.

Thousands of auxiliary troops also poured out of the hatch like a steel torrent.

Their footsteps echoed on the ground, and their neat and uniform tactical formations showed a discipline that far exceeded that of the armies of the old era.

These warriors reflect the development of the human empire's military technology over the past decade.

In the early days of the human empire, the standard equipment for the elite auxiliary forces was only a closed combat uniform with a full-coverage mechanical skeleton.

Although this system allows soldiers to maintain combat capabilities for two hours in a vacuum or more extreme environments, it is still quite far behind real power armor.

Only the elite of the elite can be equipped with the McP power armor. This expensive equipment is equivalent to the configuration of special forces and is specially used for decapitation operations or infiltration behind enemy lines in high-threat environments.

However, with the expansion of the empire's territory and the integration of multiverse technology, especially the reverse engineering of the Forerunner's remaining technology, coupled with more than a decade of recuperation, the auxiliary army's individual equipment has undergone a revolutionary upgrade.

The "power suit" currently in service has completely changed the battlefield. Its design concept and appearance are strikingly similar to the conceptual equipment proposed by the United Citizens Federation in the "Starship Fleet" universe, but it has achieved comprehensive superiority in performance.

At this stage, all members of the Legion's auxiliary forces are equipped with "power suits".

The most significant improvement of the new power suit is its integrated life support system.

Unlike old equipment, the new system's nano-scale air circulation device can continuously purify the outside air, and combined with subcutaneous injection of nutrients, it can support soldiers fighting for 72 hours without supplies.

Magnetic flow sealing technology is used in the armor joints to ensure absolute airtightness even in deep sea or highly corrosive environments.

In terms of tactical mobility, the vector jets on the back-powered backpack give soldiers amazing battlefield flexibility.

The standard tactical manual states that a well-trained auxiliary soldier can use the jet system to achieve a single 50-meter tactical jump or land safely at an altitude of meters.

This capability demonstrates decisive value in orbital airborne operations. For example, when a transport vehicle is destroyed, the soldiers floating in the air are no longer lambs to be slaughtered, but deadly blades that can actively control their landing trajectory.

As the sharp knife force in the auxiliary army, the power suits equipped by the Hell Troopers can be called "works of art".

Its armor composite layer is infused with quantum crystal materials discovered in Forerunner ruins, allowing it to withstand direct hits from plasma bombardments.

The neural link system will increase the reaction speed of the paratroopers who have been injected with Inquis serum. Combined with the mechanical arm-mounted intelligent weapon platforms on the shoulders and waist, the firepower output of a single Hell Paratrooper is comparable to a mechanized platoon in the old era of the Earth in the main universe.

It is worth noting that the visual interface of the Hell Troopers' helmets uses a more advanced holographic projection technology, which can not only display battlefield data streams in real time, but also improve the survival rate of the Hell Troopers through spectral analysis of enemy energy fluctuations and prediction of attack trajectories.

From "simple" survival equipment to today's conquest weapons, the evolution history of auxiliary army equipment is the concrete embodiment of the military philosophy of the Human Empire.

As these soldiers marched toward the battlefield in neat steps, every step they took told a truth:

In the dark universe, only by continuous evolution and conquest can you win the right to survive.

However, the survivors' celebration did not last long.

As more and more transport boats took off, the swarms of alien insect mantises in the sky also noticed the movements of their prey.

They swooped down from the clouds, raining acid bombs like a rainstorm, trying to intercept the fleeing transport formation.

"It's over." Inside the cabin, an old man closed his eyes in despair. "There are too many flying insects. We can't get out at all."

The atmosphere in the cabin became tense again.

Everyone knows that the armor of ordinary transport boats cannot withstand the corrosion of Mantis' acid. Once hit by intensive firepower, the entire ship will dissolve within a few seconds.

But just as the group of mantises were about to close in -

Ri~Buzz————Boom! Boom!!
A series of intensive gunfire and explosions suddenly exploded above the transport formation, and the hot metal storm instantly tore thousands of mantises into pieces.

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The survivors' dull gazes were caught by the huge dark green shadow that suddenly flashed outside the porthole.

It was a six-hundred-meter-long frigate, its thick armored hull reflecting a cold metallic luster in the sky.

The close-in defense gun arrays outside the ship were suddenly activated at the same time. Each close-in defense gun rotated at a dizzying speed, creating a deadly steel storm at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

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A woman holding a baby subconsciously hugged the swaddling clothes tightly in her arms.

Outside the porthole, a dark blue barrage formed by countless spike bullets intertwined into a web around the transport boat formation. Every second, more than 20,000 specially made intelligent high-explosive spike bullets whizzed out.

The flocks of mantises that tried to approach were torn into pieces in an instant, and the smelly insect blood condensed into strange ice crystals in the sky.

At the same time, the belly armor plate of the frigate slowly opened, and twelve carrier-based aircraft rushed out, dragging dark blue plasma tail flames.

These killing machines equipped with miniature nuclear fusion engines can easily break the sound barrier.

A carrier-based aircraft swooped down at a nearly vertical angle and suddenly opened fire as it passed over the swarm. Three mantises that tried to outflank them were immediately vaporized by the high-temperature plasma and turned into drifting black smoke.

Under the cover of such three-dimensional firepower, the Luna transport boat formation finally broke through the death blockade of the mantis group.

As the altitude continued to rise, the sky outside the porthole gradually changed from deep indigo to the dark universe.

When the last layer of thin atmosphere was left behind, the transport craft suddenly shook slightly, a sign of entering low-Earth orbit.

The tense atmosphere in the cabin finally relaxed and the survivors breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people slumped in their seats, tears streaming down their cheeks silently.

They survived, and this was entirely thanks to those unknown steel giants.

Outside the porthole, more Flame Lizard warships were parked in low-Earth orbit, their guns pointed at the Zerg fleet and the planet's surface, also in low-Earth orbit, ready to provide fire support for subsequent evacuation operations.

In the center of these fleets, the huge Emperor-class battleship was slowly adjusting its course. Its presence seemed to be silently announcing—

Humans are not a race to be slaughtered by others
(End of this chapter)