The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 373: The ever-flowing life machine? A giant enterprise brand of highly effective insecticide!

At this moment, although the front-line troops of the giant company have withstood the attack of the insect tide, the fungal blanket has spread to large corners where there are living things, and the spread seems difficult to stop.

The densely packed queens on the fungal mat continuously inject essence into the hatchery, further accelerating the reproduction speed of the Zerg.

As more and more living organs infect and spread to various areas of the planet, some more dangerous new forms of Zerg creatures are also brewing in the eggs.

Seeing the Zerg's amazing reproduction and assault capabilities, everyone in the Wanjie Base was amazed, especially Francis, the director of the Biotechnology Department.

In his opinion, the Zerg is a perfect biological weapon that is no less powerful than the Flood. If the Zerg can be conquered, the military costs of the giant companies can be reduced significantly!

"David and his crew were so unlucky that they chose a planet with many species. If they had landed on a desert or lifeless planet, the Zerg here would have been dealt with long ago."

Johnny Silverhand clicked his tongue and shook his head.

He could see that these Zerg expanded their population by devouring and absorbing the blood, flesh and nutrients of other creatures.

As long as there are not enough resources for them to absorb energy and essence, the reproduction momentum of these Zerg will soon come to a halt.

But given the current situation, I'm afraid we have to use some large-scale lethal weapons!

Paul had the same idea as Johnny. Through this confrontation, Paul also deeply felt the horror of the Zerg.

Before the headquarters of the giant company could make the next decision, a large number of cockroaches had already hatched from the fungal mat and began to move towards the defense line of the giant company.

This so-called "cockroach" unit is not the cockroach on Earth, but a creature that looks like a turtle, covered with a thick shell and has claws on its back.

Its head was almost completely retracted into its spiky shell, leaving only its ferocious fangs and sharp teeth exposed, which made people feel chilling.

Cockroaches are much larger than Zerglings. If Zerglings are the basic infantry units of the Zerg, then cockroaches are equivalent to the Zerg's tanks.

Its thick biological armor is enough to prove the cockroach's excellent protective ability.

The shell of the cockroach is synthesized from rare earths and metals in the soil. The hardness of this special biological shell is almost comparable to that of the alloy materials forged by human industry.

What’s even more terrifying is that even if this shell is broken, it can be restored through substances in the soil.

This planet with a good ecological environment and abundant resources is simply a paradise for cockroaches!

In addition, the ability to grab soil components also makes cockroaches extremely good at burrowing and digging.

As soon as these cockroaches hatched, they quickly used their six burrowing claws to pierce into the ground, sneaked all the way to the defense line of the Universal Corporation's forces, and then broke out of the ground.

This scene is quite similar to the scene in "Plants vs. Zombies" where the miner zombies dig the soil and attack from behind.

At this moment, the bumblebee was holding a flamethrower, burning the insects around it into ashes. Suddenly, a cockroach jumped in front of it.

The bumblebee's first reaction was to point the flamethrower in his hand at the cockroach, but the scorching fire failed to kill the insect instantly!

Logically speaking, no matter how powerful biological weapons like the Zerg are, they are just carbon-based organisms. When faced with high temperature burning, they should quickly turn into charcoal.

But this cockroach covered in a thick shell was able to charge through the flames unscathed, and was even able to fight back, spitting a ball of highly concentrated acidic venom at the bumblebee.

"What the hell is this thing? How come it can't be burned to death?!"

The Bumblebee was obviously stunned. It had never expected that there could be a living creature that could withstand the high temperature burning of a flamethrower.

In a brief trance, Bumblebee's left arm was hit by the cockroach's acidic poison.

In an instant, the highly corrosive venom melted and decomposed the Bumblebee's metal armor at a speed visible to the naked eye, corroding its mechanical arms to the point where the skeleton and circuit structure inside could be seen.

Such a deadly Zerg unit made Bumblebee dare not be careless anymore. It quickly avoided the venom spray of the cockroach and smashed the flamethrower in its hand at the opponent.

Since cockroaches are not afraid of the burning of flame weapons, flamethrowers are useless.

Just as Bumblebee was thinking about how to deal with the cockroach in front of him, Optimus Prime jumped over from the side and used the hard-light mantis knife that popped out from his wrist to cut the cockroach's body in half with one stroke.

Faced with ultra-high-energy hard-light weapons, the mantis's hard-shell body is still a little fragile.

"I have reported the situation here to the headquarters. It seems that we have to use large-scale weapons to completely exterminate these damn bugs."

Optimus Prime reminded Bumblebee that even Transformers like them would feel helpless in dealing with the Zerg's ever-changing forms.

Bumblebee looked at the hideous wound that had corroded the line of his arm. Although the wound didn't hurt, it was indeed a big loss for him this time.

"Ordinary guns and cannons are useless against this thing. We have to use hard light cannons to attack it."

Bumblebee said as he called the Veronica system.

Immediately, a flying parts assembly box appeared, quickly dismantling and replacing Bumblebee's broken arm, making it look brand new.

Veronica is the most advanced battlefield auxiliary response system in the world's giant corporate forces.

When soldiers are short on ammunition or need replacement armor parts, these floating assembly boxes will respond quickly.

For example, replacing a new iron arm for Bumblebee and letting him rejoin the battle.

The same thing happened in the defense lines of other giant companies. After the cockroaches joined the battlefield, the Zerg, whose momentum had just been suppressed, suddenly came back to life and launched a wave of counterattacks.

Ordinary hard-light series rifles or blaster rifles cannot cause much damage to the cockroach's thick shell.

The flamethrower, which is deadly to Zerglings, is completely useless against cockroaches. Coupled with the ability to burrow underground, the defense of the giant enterprise troops began to become unstable.

The acidic venom of cockroaches can cause extremely strong corrosion to metals, and even Transformers find it difficult to resist.

After fighting for so long, the Astartes warriors, whose power armor was already worn out, had to be cautious when facing these elusive cockroaches.

After all, ceramic steel armor is not a universal protective gear.

Seeing this, the troops of the Universal Corporation could only retreat, reorganize a new defense line, and continue to fight against the crazy attacking insect tide.

Fortunately, not long after, the giant corporate mothership in the sky dispatched more large war machines.

For example, the Hunter Mecha Team that is up to 50 meters tall - Storm Red, Dangerous Wanderer and other heavy mechas.

Thanks to the popularization of deformable metal, these huge monsters weighing tens of thousands of tons have transformed from their original clumsy forms into agile fighting machines.

The giant mecha can be seen as a super Plus version of Transformers. When the high-explosive bombs it carries fall among the Zerg, even cockroaches will be blown to pieces.

With the arrival of support from the Hunter Mech, the ground forces of the Universal Corporation once again stabilized the front line, and the tug-of-war tilted towards the Universal Corporation again.

In the Wanjie Base, seeing that the battle situation on the front line could not be calmed down for a long time, Li Ang also felt that it was time to end this war test.

With the abundant resources on this planet, the evolution of the Zerg will never end. The giant corporation will not stop until all living things on the planet are drained away.

But by that time, the ground forces of the global giant would have been exhausted.

Anyway, the warriors of the giant company have already witnessed the power of the Zerg, and it is time to end the raging Zerg wave.

"Let David release the Manticore virus and prepare to clean up the battlefield."

When Leon's order was conveyed to the flagship of the front-line troops, David Martinez was a little reluctant at first. He really wanted to fight this group of Zerg for three hundred rounds to try.

After all, David had been fighting for so long, but he had never seen any Zerg that could change into so many forms to cope with different battlefield environments.

In some ways, the Zerg are one of the few opponents that can fight on equal terms with the ground forces of the Giant Corporation.

The review value and quality of this battle is far greater than their usual training!
[All combat units are preparing to retreat. The Scorpion Tailed Lion virus will be released soon. The Hunter Mech Team will stay where they are and wait for orders.]

When David's order was transmitted to the earphones of the ground troops through the internal channel, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, this group of Zerg was much more difficult to deal with than they had imagined. If it weren't for their strong firepower reinforcement, their defense line might have been torn apart long ago.

By now in this ground battle, even many Astartes warriors were feeling a little tired, and the average degree of damage to their power armor had reached over 60%.

If the fight continues like this, there will be a large number of casualties!

Fortunately, the winning formula of giant companies has never been to fill the battlefield with human lives, but to rely on devastating dimensionality reduction strikes to kill their opponents in one blow.

It's time to show those damn bugs the true power of the Universal Corporation!

As the warships of the expeditionary corps received orders from the flagship, large amounts of black spore virus began to fall from the sky, and spores as light as coconut charcoal powder landed on the battlefield.

At this moment, countless insect eggs are still tirelessly absorbing the essence of nutrients from the surrounding area, preparing to hatch the next main force of the insect swarm.

These eggs also include a number of giant corporate troops and advanced Zerg arms that have never been seen before. In short, the Zerg has only one underlying logic, which is conquest.

As long as there are resources and life essence for them to seize, the Zerg's attack will never stop until the entire planet becomes a breeding ground for the Zerg.

However, the world's giant companies will no longer play this boring war game with them.

After all, the next thing to appear is the high-dimensional devil's highly effective insecticide!

When the black spores in the sky covered the light of the stars and sank like mist, the queen insect, who was busy injecting eggs, couldn't help but look up at the sky. She tried to see what was about to befall the Zerg. During this time, the queen insect kept blinking her dark eyes, feeling confused.

Eventually, the death-defying Manticore virus spores fell onto the Zerg's fungal blanket.

The crawling and wriggling insects, the insects that have not yet hatched, quickly decomposed, merged, and changed in an instant.

All of their nutrients were rewritten into the composition of the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores.

These insects watched helplessly as their bodies were slowly dismembered by the spores and turned into the same black powder that floated away.

Seeing such a strange scene, many insects mistakenly thought that their own kind had mutated, so they turned around to kill and devour the insects that were being transformed into spores.

Soon, a large-scale chaos of mutual devouring and killing broke out among the Zerg. Paul and his team didn't even need to take any action. They just had to stand there and watch the show.

Such a shocking scene that makes your scalp tingle is rare.

Before long, the insects discovered that devouring their own kind who had mutated into spores did not seem to be able to suppress the genocide-level virus attack.

They desperately grabbed resources and madly attacked the giant corporate troops and living things around them, trying to speed up reproduction and offset the spores' destruction of the Zerg.

But unfortunately, the spread of the spore virus was much faster than the reproduction rate of the Zerg. It didn't take long before tens of thousands of Zerg eggs were killed.

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High-level Zerg troops such as flying dragons, thunder beasts, and infected insects were decomposed and melted into ashes by the spore virus before they could even take shape, and were completely annihilated on this planet.

Of course, the killing effect of the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores is aimed at all creatures that are not giant corporate combat units, including local creatures.

In order to completely eliminate the Zerg with excellent reproductive ability, the giant company can only do this. It is more humane than using neutrons to kill all life on the planet.

After clearing the spore crawlers on the fungal blanket, the giant company's AI drone returned to the battlefield again and dropped incendiary bombs to burn the fungal blanket completely.

The rest of the troops cleaned up the battlefield and continued to help the engineering department in the construction of the front-line base.

After this sudden insect infestation was resolved, Paul secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If he had relied on himself alone, he would definitely not be able to deal with these insects.

Fortunately, standing behind him is a giant corporation spanning the multiverse!
At this moment, the ground forces of the giant enterprise are still searching the ground to see if there are any fungal blankets that have not been cleared. They have to make sure that this place is clean enough and that no trace of threat can be left.

Under the arrangement of David Martinez, the construction work of the giant company's front-line base began normally, and Paul also returned to the flagship headquarters and made a post-war report to the headquarters with David.

The scientific research team on the battleship brought the fungal mats collected by the AI ​​drone and the Zerg corpse fragments back to the laboratory for analysis and research.

David and Paul faced the screen and reported the battle damage to the top executives of the giant company at headquarters.

The good news is that even after such a fierce battle, there were no casualties among the giant company's ground forces, only injuries of varying degrees.

There were only a lot of damaged AI drones, but in the face of the powerful industrial system productivity of the giant company, this loss was completely insignificant.

However, after this battle, although the giant company's ground forces did not suffer any casualties, everyone was extremely aware of the dangers of the "StarCraft" universe.

If there are not enough strategic-level weapons as a backup, I am afraid that even if the giant companies sacrifice human lives on the battlefield, they will not be able to integrate the universe.

"Continue to explore externally, collect more intelligence information, and report to headquarters immediately if there is any situation."

Li Ang knew that the situation in the StarCraft universe was quite complicated. What he should think about now was how to gain a foothold here and obtain the five key stones as soon as possible.

"Yes."

After finishing the conversation, David quickly took over the planet and released more AI drones to explore this area of ​​the star system.

In addition, he also built a planetary energy shield force field here to prevent the recurrence of Zerg airdrop capsule invasions.

Although doing so cannot completely prevent the occurrence of danger, it can at least reduce the probability of the front-line base being captured by the Zerg.

Looking at the front-line base being built in an orderly manner, Leon, standing in front of the center console, began to wonder whether there would be other Zerg troops in this galaxy.

Logically speaking, the Zerg should not waste resources to set traps in this galaxy. This is obviously wrong.

Just as Leon was lost in thought, the front-line troops sent the latest AI drone reconnaissance results.

Sure enough, they discovered a continent covered with purple-red fungal carpet on another planet in this star system, which looked like a Zerg base!
"This... is this the Zerg's nest?"

When Morgan Blackhand witnessed this scene, he felt goose bumps all over his hands and feet. Densely swarmed insects lurked in every corner of the continent, devouring each other and breeding new insects.

Like a life machine that never stops.

If someone is unlucky enough to fall into this sea of ​​insects, he will become a part of them in less than a second.

[According to our information collection, there are remnants of artificial satellites in the orbit of this planet. After data analysis, we found some weak distress signals on it.]

[I think it was most likely a human colony, but the Zerg invaded and they couldn't hold on.]

David Martinez reported the intelligence truthfully to headquarters.

Hearing this, Leon quickly realized the Zerg's true intentions.

They first attacked the human colonies in this galaxy, and then deployed a large number of airdrop capsules along the way. As long as the human fleet passed by or landed on a planet, it would be immediately ambushed.

The classic tactic of besieging a point and attacking its reinforcements.

"So, we just happened to run into a trap carefully set by the Zerg, and we were hit hard right from the start."

Morgan also reacted quickly and shook his head in a helpless smile. He knew without thinking that the real target of the Zerg was the Terran Federation fleet.

As a result, David cleared the mines for others first.

"Since we have encountered the Zerg's trap, they will soon realize that there are uninvited guests here."

V said thoughtfully that he was worried that the Zerg would send its main force here. If the other side had some means to isolate the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores, it would be troublesome.

Le Ang was not worried about the main force of the Zerg, but he was worried that the Zerg would regard the Universal Corporation as its main target of attack, which would undoubtedly cause the integration cost of the Corporation to soar rapidly.

He came to the "StarCraft" universe to be a "fisherman", not to play a game of mutual assistance with the Zerg.

"Yes, I think the Zerg will soon notice something is wrong and send out scouts to search this place. We will still be attacked by then."

Johnny Silverhand echoed.

In his opinion, this place is no longer suitable as a frontline base for a giant enterprise, and the right choice is to run away as soon as possible. Staying here and being shot at is something only a fool would do.

Leon nodded thoughtfully. He looked at the hard light screen and asked David, "How far is the nearest star system from here?"

[About two light years, at the speed of our fleet, it would only take a blink of an eye.]

David Martinez responded that the fleet of Megacorp had already been equipped with superluminal engines, so this distance was nothing to them.

Li Ang did not immediately give the order to evacuate, because given the current situation, it was better to stay still than to move.

If they encounter the Zerg fleet or the Terran Federation fleet on the way, there will be some unnecessary trouble.

Just as the top leaders were arguing over whether to withdraw or stay, Paul Atreides suddenly spoke up:

[Commanders, before you decide whether to retreat, I have a risky plan. Maybe you can give it a try!]

At this time, Paul's volunteering attracted everyone's attention. Leon looked up at Paul on the other side of the hard light screen and nodded to signal him to continue.

[I suggest cleaning up the planet that has been occupied by the Zerg, but before that, I want to lead the team to go deep into the planet to find the source of the distress signal.]

Paul's confusing words made all the senior executives look bewildered, since this place had been marked by the Zerg as a place to be occupied.

Even if we clear the Zerg on that planet, we cannot eliminate the risk!

There was absolutely no need for them to waste the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores to remove the insects, and there was even less need to send people there to rescue the humans whose lives or deaths were unknown.

The Zerg fungus blanket covering the entire planet is right there. If they want to save the humans there, they cannot use the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus which may accidentally harm the local humans. They can only send team members down there in person.

But doing this is basically the same as giving away your life!
Just as Morgan Blackhand was about to scold Paul for the risky move he proposed, Leon raised his hand to stop them and motioned for Paul to continue.

Seeing that his boss, Li Ang, seemed interested in his ideas, Paul quickly seized this rare opportunity to show off, and said calmly to the top executives of the giant companies:
"Since our AI drone can receive the distress signal there, it means there are still humans who hope to be rescued."

"If we can rescue them, we might be able to get more crucial intelligence and even form an alliance with the humans here!"

After experiencing the trials and tribulations of the Star Wars universe, Paul has increasingly felt the truth that those who are in the right will have many supporters, while those who are in the wrong will have few.

Since he was able to get to know the Rebel Alliance on Jedha, he helped the giant company to gather an armed force to fight back against the Galactic Empire.

Then why can't we once again attract a human force to the Megacorp in the StarCraft universe, and let them join forces with the Megacorp to unify the universe.

Paul's entire plan was to obtain more intelligence and form an alliance with local human forces.

In fact, this is the best breakthrough point for this integrated operation!

(End of this chapter)