The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 376: Dragon on the face! Purification beam! Death on the run!

After taking back the hunting dart, Paul turned and walked towards the human soldiers. Before he could speak, one of the soldiers asked excitedly:
"Are you soldiers from the Federation? They actually received our distress signal!"

Judging from the equipment of Paul and his group, the soldiers' first reaction was that the other party was most likely a special forces unit of the Terran Federation.

After all, it is unlikely that the Rangers would have so many advanced weapons.

Paul smiled mysteriously and responded, "Our identities will remain secret for now. You are saved now."

Seeing this, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, their tense nerves finally relaxed a little. They had been waiting here in despair for too long, and at one point they thought they would be devoured by the Zerg.

Now that there was a glimmer of hope, fatigue suddenly came over them like a tide, making everyone feel weak all over.

"Are you the only ones left here?" Paul looked around and saw less than ten humans.

The soldier shook his head and pointed to the passage below the fortress. He said, "No, there are more than 20 people down there. A ghost agent went out to scout the situation and look for other survivors."

"As for whether there are any survivors in other places, I don't know either, but looking at the current situation, maybe we are the only ones left on the entire planet."

The soldiers sighed. Those who remained here were basically powerless civilians. The dignitaries had already escaped on spaceships before the Zerg arrived.

"Sorry, you won't be able to wait for that ghost agent."

Paul handed the neural module in the agent's brain to him, and then told everyone: "We have to leave here as soon as possible. The Zerg army will arrive here soon."

After taking the blood-stained neural module, the soldiers immediately realized that the agent had met with an accident. After observing a two-second silence for the agent, they immediately ran under the fortress and let the survivors inside come out in an orderly manner.

At the same time, Paul also called the Hyperion above and asked Megatronus to send out AI carrier-based aircraft to pick up the survivors and leave the scene.

"We have found some survivors. The other side estimates that there are about 30 of them. Send a few assault boats as soon as possible to pick them up."

【receive. 】

As soon as Zhen Tianzun finished speaking, David Martinez from the flagship headquarters immediately reminded:

[Paul, the Protoss's golden fleet is accelerating towards this planet. In order to avoid any complications, we can only temporarily withdraw from the planet's orbit.]

[You must be careful. Unless it is absolutely necessary, please try not to disturb the Protoss troops. ]

For the world's giant companies, now is not the time to reveal their identities, so they should try to stay hidden as long as possible.

As the golden fleet approached, the giant company's detectors also captured more detailed information.

This golden fleet was composed of a large number of Void Rays and some Storm Battleships. They surrounded the mothership Purification and rushed towards this side.

When he saw the Purification about to arrive, David was able to determine what the Protoss' true intentions were.

It won't be long before they use the Purification's main gun to destroy the planet until the entire planet is burned into glass, leaving no grass behind!

As the war situation became tense, the Protoss troops seemed anxious to purify more Zerg-infected planets, so they were constantly accelerating throughout the journey.

Now, the Golden Fleet is less than twenty minutes away from here!
[The AI ​​assault boats have been deployed, and the AI ​​combat drones on the Hyperion have also been released, trying their best to cover your landing on the assault boats.]

[You guys need to move quickly, don’t fight too long. ]

The voices of Zhen Tianzun rang out one after another.

"understand!"

Soon, the survivors crawled out from under the fortress. Unlike the fully armed soldiers, these people were basically unarmed civilians, including many women and children.

If the Cosmic Corporation had not arrived, even if these people were not devoured by the Zerg, they would have been purified by the Protoss who arrived and forcibly ascended to "heaven".

At this time, one of the survivors came up and asked Paul excitedly: "Are you from the Rangers? God bless us, I thought we were dead!"

Because the signal transmission equipment is too old, the distress signal here can theoretically only cover the low-Earth orbit of this planet.

There is no way to transmit it outside the star system.

But the Universal Corporation fleet happened to pass by here and received the signal from here.

"You were the one who sent the distress signal?"

Paul stared at the man in front of him. He was a middle-aged man with square glasses and thin cheeks. At first glance, he looked like an intellectual engaged in science and engineering.

"My name is Pine, and I'm an engineer from the Terran Federation. The distress signal you received was sent by me."

Pine had the opportunity to leave here on a spaceship, but his boss forcibly took his place in order to take his own pet dogs with him.

This left Pine staying here in despair, and he no longer had any expectations or good feelings towards the Terran Federation.

To them, the rich and the common people are creatures of two different species, and the worthless people are not even as good as domestic dogs.

Hearing this, Paul immediately nodded to the Master Chief, signaling everyone to protect the engineer. He might be the key point for the giant enterprise to contact the Rangers!
"Everyone follow me immediately, put down all your luggage and luggage, and run as fast as you can!"

As soon as Paul finished speaking, a group of flying dragons suddenly flew over everyone's heads. They were one of the advanced Zerg troops.

The flying dragon looks like a deformed pterosaur, but its wings are extremely strong and powerful, making it the most terrifying aerial predator among the Zerg.

But what surprised Paul was that these dragons ignored them and flew out of the atmosphere, as if the real enemy was outside the planet.

"Is the Zerg planning to intercept the Protoss fleet outside?"

Ding Jialin breathed a sigh of relief. If that was the case, they might have more time.

Of course, it is still too difficult for the Zerg to stop the Protoss' Golden Fleet with their insignificant power.

However, judging from the Zerg's reaction, they also knew that the Protoss fleet was approaching, so they quickly sent out so many Mutalisks to harass the Protoss.

"Hurry! Hurry up!"

While Paul urged everyone to hurry, he and the members of the investigation team covered the survivors and repelled the Zerg that were swarming from all directions.

Although the Zerg have used their air force, such as the Mutalisks, to resist the Protoss' Golden Fleet, the ground forces left on the planet should not be underestimated.

Faced with the evacuating survivors and the assault boat troops that had landed in the designated area, the Zerg launched a frenzied attack, trying to eat these people alive.

At this moment, Paul and other members of the investigation team were busy covering the survivors and reaching the landing site of the assault boat.

The Zerg sent ground troops to devour the invaders, while at the same time producing more dragons to resist the Protoss' golden fleet.

The Protoss were busy clocking out, and after finishing this planet they were waiting to go to the next one to continue the purification project.

The three forces are racing against time!
In outer space, the Purification of the Protoss Fleet was gradually approaching the planet, leading the Golden Fleet to prepare to vitrify it.

It was a super mothership of nearly a hundred kilometers in length. The entire warship was wrapped in a thick shield force field, so it was not afraid even if it collided head-on with an enemy warship.

In this vast universe, the Purification is like a giant, and it is escorted by Void Rays and Phoenix Fighters, as well as aircraft carriers and storm battleships that are like mechanical beehives.

Just like the stars guarding the sun, the formation gives off a magnificent, overwhelming and oppressive feeling.

At this moment, swarms of flying dragons also swept through the planet's atmosphere, attacking the Protoss fleet like locusts.

In order to urgently deal with the purification of the Protoss fleet, the Zerg Queen almost exhausted all the larval eggs that had not yet hatched, creating an army of hundreds of millions of dragons.

The flying dragons in the sky formed a terrifying swarm of insects and charged towards the Golden Fleet. This was the only counterattack the Zerg could make against the Protoss fleet.

However, even when faced with a dragon charging at her, the Protoss executor Serendis on the Purification remained calm and did not take the Zerg attack seriously at all.

It gave orders to the crew below: "Don't slow down, keep speeding up, all warships open fire freely, shoot down these troublesome bugs!"

Selendis is the fourth executive officer of the Protoss Templar and one of the few female high-ranking officials who holds real power among the Protoss.

Its current mission is to lead the Golden Fleet to purify the Zerg, so it has encountered many Zerg fleet attacks along the way.

But without exception, all the Zerg fleets were defeated by the Golden Fleet.

It is precisely because of this that the Zerg Queen on this planet will do her utmost to seize biological essence resources and create as many troops as possible.

Unfortunately, the Zerg here are still a step late!
As Selandis's orders were conveyed, the Void Rays around the Purification immediately began to charge, emitting dazzling prism beams at the oncoming army of dragons.

These prismatic beams were like countless precise, straight swords of light, constantly slashing and slicing through the Zerg swarms, cutting countless flying dragons into pieces and scattering them across the space battlefield.

In addition, the Protoss aircraft carrier in the rear also released a large number of interceptors, forming a steel torrent to block the oncoming dragons head-on.

The Protoss don't want disgusting dragon carcasses to fall into the interior of their warships, lest they create difficult-to-detect and clean fungal mats or other little bugs.

At this moment, metal and flesh collided violently in the space star field. Waves of laser beams and sweeping guns swept across, turning the battlefield into a bloody meat grinder!
Every second, tens of thousands of drones and dragons are torn into pieces. Life and soul seem worthless at this moment. Only a steady stream of troops charge forward and die one after another.

This space war has turned into a pure resource game.

In order to win this life-and-death struggle, the Protoss aircraft carriers in the rear are constantly producing unmanned interceptors and deploying them to the battlefield in the front.

The Zerg on the planet's surface were also desperately absorbing all the energy they could, hatching more dragons on the fungal blanket and sending them flying into the space battlefield to die.

The fleet of the giant cosmic enterprise hidden behind the stars, after witnessing all this, couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on their scalps.

Such a primitive and rough tactical play actually seems to be quite exciting!
At the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Worlds Base, V watched the Protoss and Zerg fighting head-on, and quickly analyzed the combat characteristics and habits of both sides. Johnny Silverhand commented on the side: "These stupid bugs can only use their lives to fill the gap, giving the rear troops space to break through, but this consumes too much energy."

"With the resources on this planet alone, there is no way they can squander them so recklessly."

If humans also fight the Protoss using this filling-the-line style of play, then within a day, the resources of the entire planet will be drained dry!

"The core gameplay of the Zerg is to seize the initiative with convenient and fast troop explosion speed. Death is not worth mentioning to them."

"Compared to gaining precious development time and opportunity, using one's life as collateral is actually a low-cost approach."

Morgan Blackhand thought thoughtfully that if it were a giant corporation coming here, they would naturally have many ways to deal with these Zerg on the space battlefield.

Little Doctor MD·500 molecular fission, hard light cannon, neutron annihilation, nano plague, psionic cannon...

No matter which method of attack is used, these insignificant bugs can be quickly dealt with. It's a pity that now they can only watch from the sidelines and cannot easily intervene.

Leon watched the battle situation on the front line silently without any expression. The Protoss's Golden Fleet, the retreating Terran Federation, and the rising Rangers...

It seems that the plot line of Wings of Liberty has begun to develop to the point where three forces are competing for the key stone fragments.

They need to move faster!

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Here, David Martinez called the investigation team on the ground and reminded: "Paul, the Protoss's Golden Fleet is fighting a fierce battle with the Zerg."

"The two waves of forces are fighting fiercely. The Zerg has bought you an extra half hour of retreat time. This is your last chance, you must seize it!"

David originally estimated that it was too late and was about to order Zhen Tianzun to forcibly take his people away, but the Zerg's counterattack just gave them more time.

"Roger that!"

Paul has brought the survivors to the landing site of the assault boat, as the Zerg Queen is frantically absorbing, reorganizing, and mobilizing resources to produce more dragons.

Many bugs were forced to be rebuilt, so the offensive pressure faced by Paul and his team was reduced a lot.

However, taking these twenty-odd civilians with us would indeed delay some time.

If the Zerg and Protoss had not been fighting, Paul would have had to abandon these sick and weak ones and prioritize taking the engineers away from here.

Just as Paul was leading his team members to cover the survivors' retreat, an extremely dazzling beam of light suddenly descended from the horizon.

The deafening and dull roar made people's eardrums beat, and the surface of the entire planet was shaking, as if a devastating earthquake was about to come!
That was the purifying strike launched by the Protoss Golden Fleet.

Because the diameter of this star-destroying beam is too large, humans on the ground can only see an infinitely long and wide wall of light with the naked eye.

If the beam of light had not landed on a thousand-meter-high mountain, the mountain would have quickly fallen apart as the beam of light fell, melting and decomposing on the spot like ice cream.

No one would have thought that the holy light would be such a terrifying killing weapon!
"It's burning glass--!"

Chini exclaimed, "Burning glass" can be regarded as a joking term within the world's giant companies, and the giant company that likes to play burning glass the most is naturally the Star Alliance.

As a member of the giant enterprise army, Chini is of course very familiar with this familiar star-destroying attack.

The material melted by high temperature will appear as a flowing liquid. When the mountains turn into scarlet magma, it will rush in all directions.

Luke, Din Djarin's thoughts suddenly flashed back to the time when he was bombed by the Imperial Star Destroyer two years ago.

However, the Empire's orbital bombardment will last at least one or two days, while the beam attacks of these Protoss may not even take half an hour!

"Run, it's too late!"

Paul shouted to everyone that the Protoss' purification procedure had been initiated, and it seemed that even the Zerg's dragon army could not buy them time.

In an instant, a large number of insect swarms in the distance were instantly submerged in the hot liquid glass. Unfortunately, these high-temperature liquids did not turn the insects into beautiful and delicate amber stones.

Instead, it burns them to ashes the moment they come into contact.

In order to achieve efficient extermination in a short period of time, the Protoss' purification beam attack basically uses maximum power to carry out the killing process.

The only way for the insects to die is to come into contact with the light beam and be instantly annihilated into ashes, or to be engulfed by the burning liquid glass and slowly burn into charcoal.

Of course, no matter how they die, it doesn’t matter to the bugs. The only ones who are truly afraid of death here are Paul and his group.

Seeing the scorching air wave sweeping in, the survivors were running at the fastest speed of their lives. They had already seen the location of the assault boat and were just a short distance away from successful escape.

During this process, Paul and others could only speed up, clear the bugs that were in the way, and contact the troops above to inquire about the latest situation.

"What's going on? Didn't we agree that we still have half an hour? Why are they suddenly launching a beam bombardment here?!"

Paul asked anxiously.

[The Protoss are just firing at the Zerg swarm. The official purification strike may be less than 20 minutes away.]

David Martinez responded.

It turned out that in order to deal with these damn bugs as quickly as possible, the Purification directly activated its main gun to bombard the army of flying dragons that were rushing up.

It's just that the power of the purification beam was too strong. After burning through the swarm of insects that covered the sky, it fell to the ground of the planet, causing the shocking damage just now.

"Depend on!"

Paul gnashed his teeth in anxiety. Fortunately, the light beam did not fall on their side, otherwise everyone would have been "purified and ascended" on the spot.

Soon, this short-lived beam of light weakened and dissipated, and the surface of the planet, viewed from outer space, looked like it was burned with a faint dot.

Just like the scars on a monk's body.

But this seemingly insignificant scar actually spread over hundreds of thousands of miles of devastation, and countless insects were wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, this was just an unintentional beam attack by the Protoss. If they had waited until the purification beam was fully charged, the beam would probably have just reached the surface of the planet.

All living things will be vaporized by the high temperature heat wave, and the remaining time is just a countdown to the death of this planet.

The survivors who had temporarily escaped did not dare to stop, as no one knew when the next wave of beam attacks would arrive.

Driven by the desire to survive, everyone was running as fast as they could.

With the main gun bombardment of the Protoss mothership Purification, the Golden Fleet has defeated the surging army of dragons.

Countless flying dragons turned into ashes and disappeared into the universe. A large number of unmanned interceptors and Phoenix fighters were also expelling and clearing the remaining flying dragons.

There were no more troublesome bugs that could stop them from landing above the planet's orbit.

Immediately, the Purification's main gun began its second round of charging. This time the beam attack was purely intended to kill all living things on the planet.

Watching the golden fleet becoming increasingly clear in the sky and the leading mothership changing from a faint light spot into a concrete form, Paul knew that the Protoss had arrived.

However, the survivors had already shown signs of exhaustion, and some even had their lungs ruptured on the spot, dying in this death run.

Most of them are powerless civilians, unlike Paul, a super soldier with genetic mutations and enhanced superpowers.

When you run out of strength, death may be a good way to get relief.

"I can't do it anymore, I really can't hold on any longer!"

Engineer Pine spoke weakly. He felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest, and his alveoli were swollen to the extreme with blood.

If he continued running at this high intensity, he would really die here.

"John, take him to the evacuation point first."

Seeing this, Paul could only order the Master Chief to take his men away. Pine was the key person for them to contact the Rangers, and among all the survivors, he was the most valuable.

"What about the others?"

The sergeant turned around and looked at the survivors who were exhausted. It was obvious that this group of people could no longer run, so it seemed that they had no choice but to leave them behind.

From the perspective of completing the mission, the best solution is naturally to bring back only Pine, and abandon the others, letting them die in the Protoss' purification and extermination.

This will not cause any loss to the global giant company at all, and it can even ensure that the members of the investigation team can return safely.

"You take Pine away first, and I will take care of the people here." Paul did not indicate that he would give up these survivors. He still wanted to make a final attempt.

"Why can't we let Megatronus come down to help? It has the ability to teleport and can definitely take these people away!"

The sergeant expressed confusion, as it was clearly just a matter of Paul's words.

"No, it won't agree. It has only one mission here, which is to provide cover and help us leave safely. The rest is not within its mission scope."

Paul smiled helplessly. It was already an exception to transfer Megatronus from the Transformers universe to help here. Now he was asked to lower himself to save some unimportant humans.

Zhen Tianzun will definitely not accept it. This is a matter of principle.

According to the giant company's mission execution procedures, there was nothing wrong with Zhen Tianzun doing this. Even though Paul was the captain of the investigation team, he could not force the other party to do so.

(End of this chapter)