The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 372 Wings of Freedom! Keystone Fragments! Zerg Invasion!

[A large number of unidentified objects are falling into the atmosphere! ]

A large group of giant companies that had just landed on a planet in an orderly manner, rested and selected a place to build a frontline base, suddenly received a reminder from a monitoring team in low-Earth orbit.

The warnings from the monitoring team members made Paul, who was resting on the ground, feel like he was facing a great enemy. Although he had already prepared himself mentally to fight the enemy, he did not expect that the change would come so quickly.

David was the first to react and asked, "Is the falling object a meteorite? Why didn't your detector detect it in advance?"

Logically speaking, the monitoring team's detection system should not miss any information, which would make the troops on the ground very passive.

[Our detection system did not respond, and it is possible that there was a malfunction. Currently, we can only confirm the existence of the object through the AI ​​drone! ]

Upon hearing this, Paul immediately rushed to the screen. He saw countless meteors falling from the sky with long tails of flames. At first, everyone thought they were ordinary small meteorites.

But as the images and photos sent by the AI ​​drone became clearer, they discovered that the meteors were more like some kind of mutated tumor.

What is even more shocking is that these tumors have ugly tentacles, which at first glance look like octopus creatures wandering in the space environment.

However, this "space octopus" has a bloated and deformed abscess on its head, and at first glance it looks like it has some kind of highly contagious property.

"This thing... why does it look so much like the Flood from the Halo universe!"

David Martinez suddenly remembered the Flood species he had seen before. He had participated in front-line combat in the "Halo" universe, so he naturally knew that this type of monster would most likely be infectious in some way.

This is not good news!

"Issue a Level 1 alert order. All engineering staff members urgently return to the mothership. Dispatch the elite Astartes and Spartan troops. Put on your power armor and make sure there are no leaks."

"No matter what the hell that thing is, it must be controlled at the first possible moment!"

David made a prompt decision and said that it would be a good opportunity to capture a few alien species for research.

【Yes! 】

After receiving the emergency order from the flagship headquarters, Paul and others immediately put on power armor and followed the elite troops from various departments out.

At this moment, Paul, the Master Chief, Luke and others all came to the outside of the flagship and looked at the thousands of strange tumorous meteors in the sky, falling rapidly to the ground.

"What the hell is this thing? The strength of the body can actually withstand the friction of the atmosphere." Paul frowned and waited for the whole process.

Soon after, one of the meteors fell into the giant enterprise's fleet array, creating a huge hole in the ground. Bursts of black mist rose up, emitting an ominous sign.

"Captain, this thing looks quite dense. It can create such a big hole. Maybe it is some kind of semi-metallic species."

Penny Wells cautiously stepped forward, holding a hardlight series rifle tightly in his hand. He suspected that this was a mechanical biological weapon modified by some alien life form.

The landing of the Cosmic Corporation's fleet attracted the attention of these biological weapons wandering in space, so they suddenly landed here.

"Be careful, don't be careless."

Before Paul could finish his words, a strange and ferocious creature suddenly jumped out from the thick black fog and pounced towards Pani at lightning speed.

It was an alien species that was more than two meters long and looked like a wolf. Its front claws looked quite sharp, and its body was purple-red with strong and well-developed muscles.

In addition, this alien has gray-white diamond-shaped thorns on its back, and two sharp claws like mantis sickles are abruptly inserted in the front of its back.

When this thing is running at high speed, it can actually use the two sharp claws on its back to tear the enemy apart.

In short, this thing looks like a modified biological weapon, not a product of naturally evolved life.

Even though Pani took precautions in advance and fired in time, he was still knocked to the ground by the monster.

Fortunately, the MarkX power armor on his body was solid enough, and the sharp claws on the monster's back scratched him, only creating a few sparks, and did not directly tear Pani apart.

It was not until Pani pulled out his chainsword and cut off the monster's head that he finally dealt with the alien species.

As Pani climbed up from the ground somewhat awkwardly, more monsters that landed on the ground quickly crawled out of the holes, and a big battle was inevitable!

Although the number of aliens was greater than Paul had expected, everyone was still able to coordinate firepower in an orderly manner and quickly clear out the monsters in front of them.

The soldiers of their expeditionary force are all elite soldiers who have experienced many battles and are quite experienced in dealing with such sudden events.

Under the burning beams of light gushing out from numerous hard-light rifles and the pouring down of kinetic bullets, countless aliens were instantly broken into pieces and turned into lumps of rotten flesh that scattered all over the ground.

The violent explosion sent shock waves through the insect swarm, and smelly blood and disgusting pieces of flesh flew down like a torrential rain.

However, even in the face of such an attack, the monsters behind still maintained a fearless attitude and charged towards the Astartes and Spartan warriors.

Even if their limbs are broken and they are only breathing their last breath, these aliens will still struggle and pounce on the giant corporate warriors.

A creature like this that has no fear of death at all can basically be confirmed to be a modified biological weapon.

Just when the soldiers suppressed the charging aliens with dense hail of bullets, another even larger monster crawled out of the crater.

It was a creature with the lower body of a snake, but the upper body was covered by a huge triangular shell. It was more than two meters tall when standing up.

In addition, its skull is covered with rows of neat and sharp spines, the serrated jaw below the skull is full of sharp teeth, and the arms on both sides are a pair of bony sickles.

This snake-like monster is obviously an elite monster, and its attack methods are not limited to mindless charging.

Instead, it first uses its own strong muscle strength to activate the poisonous spines on its skull and burst out at supersonic speed.

When the sudden poisonous sting hit the power armor of the Astartes and Spartan warriors, everyone could clearly feel a strong force passing through the shell.

Although the alien's poisonous stingers did not penetrate their bodies, the powerful force made everyone realize in an instant that these monsters were no trivial matter.

"Use bubble shield to block it, and the Master Chief will attack from the flank!" Paul immediately gave the order, and everyone cooperated tacitly, and the cross-fire lines covered it again.

When the frontal troops used the bubble shield and unfolded a hexagonal protective shield, the alien's poisonous spine attack suddenly became ineffective and could only cause ripples on the surface of the force field shield.

At the same time, as the assault boats in the sky began to coordinate firepower and madly fired at the aliens in the pit, the situation on the battlefield began to become one-sided.

As there are fewer and fewer aliens on the ground, this ground battle is coming to an end.

After witnessing the sudden situation on the front line with his own eyes, Leon was able to immediately confirm the origins and names of these monsters.

Obviously, the monster as ferocious and swift as a wolf is the most basic combat unit of the Zerg - the Zergling, and the one that shoots poisonous spines is the Hydralisk.

These two alien creatures are authentic living weapons, and their arrival also means that the star system here has been invaded by the Zerg!

Soon, with the news sent back by the Xeelee night fighter, Leon has learned the current location of the giant enterprise fleet and the time period.

[The location of the Giant Enterprise Expeditionary Corps: the Kerprus Sector of the Milky Way, time point: 26th century AD! ]

Since he got the Xeelee night fighter, if Leon wants to learn about a new universe, he just needs to throw it in and start running. With a speed of tens of thousands of light years per second, it is more than enough to collect the local time period and location information.

'26th century AD, so the current time point should be around StarCraft: Wings of Liberty. I hope the Queen of Blades hasn't become a god yet, otherwise it will be troublesome.'

Leon was thoughtful. According to the current time period and the Zerg invasion that just happened, he guessed that the Queen of Blades should not have become a Xel'Naga yet.

The final battle between humans and Amon should not be over yet, otherwise there would be no reason for the Zerg to attack the human fleet here.

The possibility that best fits the truth is that the Zerg intended to ambush the Terran Federation's human fleet in this star region, but mistakenly mistook the Megacorp fleet for the enemy.

For the Zerg, who only know how to attack to the death, there is no difference between the fleet of the Cosmic Corporation and the fleet of the Terran Federation.

All they do is kill.

The good news now is that the Universal Corporation has the opportunity to get the human force of the Terran Federation for free during the integration process, but the bad news is that the current time point requires Leon to have extremely high micro-control capabilities.

Because the appearance of the Zerg means that at this moment the Zerg has most likely invaded the Terran Federation and has fought a war with humans.

If the original plot develops according to the original work, humans, Zerg, and Protoss will engage in a series of battles over the key stone fragments.

Keystones are one of the few artifacts in the StarCraft universe.

This thing was created by the Xel'Naga. Its main function is to resonate with the Temple of Urna in the void plane and transmit the Xel'Naga's consciousness and void energy to a specific target.

For Amon, the keystone can inject void energy into the body he created, helping him to become a god and destroy the entire universe.

For the Zerg Overlord, this thing is his token of allegiance to becoming a Xel'Naga, and it can also help him achieve ascension and become a new Xel'Naga.

For humans, the Key Stone can control and release void energy, and is also the key tool for the enemy to destroy the universe. It cannot be handed over to the opponent no matter what.

In addition, the Keystone is a sacred object of the Protoss. Originally, the Xel'Naga chose the Protoss as the next successor, but a rebellion broke out within the Protoss, which disappointed the old leader.

The Protoss, who have now repented, also want to collect the keystone fragments to fulfill the ideal of ascending to become a god that their ancestors failed to achieve.

It can be said that the key stone is a good thing and everyone wants it, including Leon!

However, if he wants to obtain all the key stone fragments in the melee among the Zerg, Protoss, and Human forces, this will be a great test of Leon's micro-management.

With the current strength of the Universal Giant Enterprise, it can certainly try to be invincible and sweep away all forces, but Li Ang is worried that pushing too hard will backfire.

After all, the existence of the giant corporation will cause a huge drop in the San value of all forces in the "StarCraft" universe.

The threat posed by a high-dimensional demon is no less to humans than that posed by Amon, who is bent on destroying the universe.

I'm afraid that even Amon would not be able to help but follow the Internet cable to destroy the main universe of the universe enterprise if he saw it.

After thinking it over, Leon decided to play it safe and find a way to get all the key fragments first. This was the same idea he had in mind when he built the Starkiller Base in the Star Wars universe.

……

At this moment, more and more Zerg airdrop capsules are entering the planet's atmosphere. These huge tumors with tentacles are the vehicles used by the Zerg to land on the ground.

Under normal circumstances, the Zerg's airdrop capsules will cooperate with the fleet to launch an attack on the planet.

But now it seems that these zerg sacs are just weapons deployed by the Zerg outside space. Of course, it would be best if they could disgust the opponent.

Even if they fail to disgust others, they won't suffer any loss. After all, the last thing the Zerg lacks is biological weapons.

As more and more airdrop capsules fell to the ground, Zerglings and Hydralisks crawled out of the pits and quickly gathered into a huge torrent of insects.

They were wreaking havoc on the planet, madly attacking all living creatures. In addition, the queen, who was protected by springtails and hydralisks, dragged her bloated egg-laying organs slowly while laying out fungal carpets to produce eggs, allowing the swarm to further expand.

This purple-red fungal carpet, which looks like sticky flesh and blood, contains a large number of spore bacteria and the nutrient secretions of the queen insect, which can quickly grow new insects.

In addition, these fungal blankets can also allow the Zerg to have greater movement speed and recovery capabilities. The places infected by the fungal blankets are equivalent to the Zerg's continuous production sites!
Under the command of the flagship headquarters, the ground forces of the Universal Corporation immediately launched a counterattack, cooperating with more heavy firepower units to forcefully suppress the insect swarm before them.

Countless hard-light beams, plasma shells, and howitzers fell into the swarm, and the fierce artillery fire turned a large number of Zerglings into ashes.

When facing the alien monsters, the battle-hardened giant corporate warriors did not panic at all, and they cooperated well with the air forces.

The insect swarm that had just started to spread was quickly curbed by the giant company.

However, while the Zerglings were attracting fire from the front, the Hydralisks in the rear were also continuously firing rounds of highly poisonous spines, and the dense venomous spines poured down like a rainstorm.

It hit the power armor of the giant corporate warriors, making crackling sounds.

Although the power armor is very durable, the kinetic energy caused by the stinger hitting the body will still cause impact damage to the human body.

The Astartes warriors wearing MarkX heavy power armor immediately deployed bubble shields and relied on the energy shield force field to help their comrades in the rear to output firepower.

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Although the hydralisk's poisonous spines have excellent penetrating power, they cannot shatter the bubble shield and can only wait until the shield duration disappears.

This also gives the world's giant corporate forces enough time to output and clear the pests.

At the same time, a group of flying troops wearing anti-Hulk armor also set off from their respective motherships and arrived at the ground battlefield.

They continuously dropped miniature metal hydrogen bombs from the air, blasting out hideous and terrifying vacuum zones among the Zerg swarms, protecting the ground forces from the Zerg invasion.

When the Zerglings approach the defense line, they will also launch a barrage of rockets in the air in time to burn out an isolation zone and resist the Zerglings' death charge.

However, just when the World Corporation had somewhat contained the Zerg and launched a final devastating blow, a large number of Zerglings suddenly crawled onto the fungal carpet.

Their bodies had unexpectedly mutated, with huge insect eggs bulging out, and no one knew what was hatching inside.

A moment later, a bunch of bloated and fat poisonous worms with poison sacs filled with highly concentrated acid, unable to move normally, crawled out of the eggs.

They curled up into a ball, rolled forward on the fungal carpet, and cooperated with a large number of springtails to continue their death charge towards the giant enterprise's troops.

With the Zerglings in front leading the way, these Banelings also pressed close to the defense line of the giant company's ground forces.

Faced with the bubble shields of the Astartes warriors and other energy shield force fields, the banelings directly detonated the poison sacs in their bodies, pouring a large amount of strong acid onto the shields.

This self-destructive acid had an amazing defense-breaking effect, and several energy shields were quickly damaged by the corrosion of the strong acid.

Immediately afterwards, the Hydralisks also coordinated their efforts and concentrated their firepower, shooting their stingers through the gap.

This is the most terrifying thing about the Zerg. Theoretically, there is no limit to their means of attack. As long as they assimilate enough species, they can use as many skills as they want.

Fortunately, the troops of the Universal Corporation have fought many Zerg-type enemies before, so they can respond quickly.

The two sides were like masters fighting each other, throwing their skills at each other in an attempt to find each other's weaknesses.

Seeing this scene, Morgan Blackhand, who had just stepped down from the Transformers universe, couldn't help but feel worried. He asked Leon:

"Boss, the Zerg on the front lines are multiplying too fast. Do you want to consider using the Flood to fight these Zerg head-on?"

With the knowledge in the think tank and the help of the orogeny, the global giant company has been able to transform the flood into a biological weapon for its own use.

When encountering a large number of difficult Zerg civilizations, the Megacorp troops will directly fight poison with poison, throwing a large number of Flood demons to fight the opponent's Zerg.

The biggest advantage of the Flood is its strong infectiousness. Looking at the entire sci-fi universe, the Flood is the most powerful existence.

Morgan believed that it would not be long before the Flood would be able to quickly assimilate these Zerg into part of itself and take over all invading enemies.

Afterwards, we will collect all the flood monsters, break them down into nutrients, and make them into fresh canned protein.

"No, this is a good opportunity for them to practice and warm up their bodies so that they won't be at a loss when they encounter the Zerg next time."

Li Ang shook his head and rejected Morgan's proposal.

This number of Zerg is just a minor trouble. It is not yet time to use the Flood or Scorpion Virus. If we can't even deal with this little trouble, we would be too spoiled.

What's more, giant companies now have an absolute advantage in firepower suppression, so there is no need to worry about failure.

Now let's just accumulate combat experience in advance to make it easier for the soldiers to fight the Zerg next time.

Here, after Paul cleared a group of insect swarms in the crater, he discovered that purple-red fungal mats had appeared in the suburbs, and these fungal mats were still expanding.

These living fungal mats, composed of an indescribable mixture of mucus and viscera, have covered rocks, hillsides, and rivers, turning large tracts of land into breeding grounds for the Zerg.

Hatcheries, fission pools, evolution chambers and other facilities formed a complete production factory almost in the blink of an eye, followed by the continuous expansion of the fungal blanket to produce more insect swarms.

Their energy comes from constantly devouring the essence of other organisms. Corpses, organisms, and even plants covered by the fungal mat will be quickly decomposed into nutrients and become nourishment for hatching Zerg.

In addition, the Zerg will not even let go of the corpses of their own people. Any insect corpses scattered on the ground will be recycled by the fungal blanket and hatched into new insect soldiers.

It can be said that the Zerg is a ruthless and extremely efficient war machine in terms of the speed of troop explosion.

However, at this moment, the world's giant companies have also begun to fully deploy their own firepower attack systems.

A large number of warships quickly locked onto the airdrop capsules falling from the atmosphere through ship-borne AI, and destroyed more Zerg reinforcements through close defense guns and long-range attack guns.

As long as the Zerg's subsequent reinforcements are contained, the Zerg on the ground will be wiped out sooner or later.

However, the swarms of insects on the ground are equally clever. They frantically grab resources everywhere, turning any living thing into a part of themselves, creating a huge flesh-and-blood production machine.

A large number of Zerg units kept dying and being recycled.

Fighting to support fighting is the biggest characteristic of the Zerg's tactics.

As long as there is enough biological essence for them to devour, even a larva can quickly hatch into a powerful insect queen, and then breed a powerful insect army.

This is why the Zerg deploys airdrop capsules in space. Just a small number of airdrop capsules entering the interior of an enemy warship is enough to cause a chaotic and horrific Zerg plague!

At this moment, Dr. Halsey, who was watching the battle on the front line at the central control console of the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.

If the Flood has the ultimate speed of infection and assimilation, then the Zerg has the ultimate speed of mass production and reproduction. If the two sides really fight each other, it is hard to say who will win or lose.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for David and his team to clean up this group of Zerg in a short period of time. The planet they landed on has many protozoa, which will allow these Zerg to easily grab resources."

V looked expressionless on the surface, but in his heart he was still worried about the soldiers on the front line.

Even the Zerg airdrop capsules at the back were destroyed by the giant enterprise's fleet in mid-air, but the Zerg troops on the ground were increasing in number, and there were obviously signs that they were out of control!
This is the first time V has seen such a ferocious Zerg, except for the Flood in the Halo universe.

Li Ang said nothing, but stared calmly at the hard-light screen, examining how the front-line troops were responding to the enemy.

This fleet carries a lot of "insect-clearing tools", including Scorpion Tailed Lion virus, neutron sterilization, and nano-plague, all of which are useful.

……

Here, Paul shouted in the team's internal communication channel: "Find a way to destroy their fungal blanket, otherwise the pest will not be eradicated!"

Through the battle observations during this period, Paul was very keenly aware of the Zerg's combat characteristics and also understood what the opponent's core area was.

Unfortunately, the Zerg's reproduction speed exceeded everyone's imagination. The Astartes warriors originally sent out were not enough, and more combat units were needed.

Fortunately, David Martinez had already noticed this, and just as the Banelings and a large number of Zerglings were sweeping in.

A huge steel army descended from various warships of the giant enterprise. Optimus Prime and the Decepticons each led their own troops and smashed into the waves of Zerg.

"I heard there's a pest infestation here, so why not try burning it down?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Optimus Prime, Megatron and other Transformers, holding heavy oil tank cannons, sprayed a large number of incendiary bombs towards the swarm.

In an instant, the banelings and springtails that had just rushed up were burned to ashes along with the fungal mats under their feet, and the air was filled with the burnt smell of burning protein.

"Here, try this!"

Relying on his excellent flying ability, Shockwave held the napalm flamethrower while flying, aiming it at the queen insect on the ground and pressing the fire button on the fungal blanket.

The scorching flames turned into a blazing fire dragon, which roared angrily and swept across large swathes of Zerglings and Banelings on the ground.

The springtails wrapped in flames were roasted into crispy proteins in an instant, until they were continuously burned into charcoal by napalm, and then turned into ashes.

The acid sacs of the Banelings kept making crackling sounds under the high temperature, but facing the flying Decepticons, they had no chance to get close and spray the opponents.

The addition of the Transformers caused serious damage to the Zerg's attack. Their flamethrowers had a devastating impact on the Zerglings and Banelings.

Although the hydralisk's highly poisonous spines can penetrate their steel bodies, the effect of the toxin on silicon-based mechanical life forms is almost negligible.

Faced with the air force attack of the giant enterprise, the Zerg changed their tactics again and made a response strategy.

A large number of spore crawlers quickly hatched on the fungal blanket, ready to deal with the dense AI unmanned fighters and Decepticons in the sky.

The overall appearance of these spore crawlers is like a biological mortar, with purple flesh and blood molded into a thick cylinder, which even looks a little cute.

But this thing has the ability to launch the spores in its body into the sky tens of thousands of meters high.

When the giant company's AI drone flies through the air and drops incendiary bombs, these spore crawlers will instantly spray yellow spore powder from their mouthparts.

It's like the Zerg's anti-aircraft gun!

Once the AI ​​drone is contaminated by spores, it will be quickly dismembered by these highly corrosive spores until the drone crashes to the ground.

What is even more shocking is that the firing speed of these spore crawlers is astonishingly fast, and they can form a dense biochemical corrosion barrage in mid-air.

This makes it impossible for the AI ​​drones released by the giant companies to get close, and they will be shot down by spore crawlers before reaching the bombing area.

In addition, even the miniature metal hydrogen bomb suffered the same fate. Before it landed on the fungal blanket, it was disintegrated by these spore crawlers in advance, and was completely unable to play a role in cleaning the fungal blanket.

(End of this chapter)