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Chapter 377: The Thunder Beast with Amazing Tans! Entropy Energy! Extreme Escape!

"We still have a teleporter with us. If we have to, we can still leave here."

Paul said, patting the Chief on the shoulder.

Every member of the investigation team of the Global Giant Enterprise carries a teleporter, so if the last moment comes, they will definitely be able to escape danger safely.

But this is not necessarily the case for these survivors.

"Well, you guys pay attention to the time!" Seeing that Paul had made up his mind, the sergeant didn't say anything more and walked straight towards Pine, who was exhausted and powerless.

Before Pine could react, the Master Chief had already picked him up, and under the cover of Ding Djarin, continued to speed up and rush towards the evacuation site.

Seeing that someone had left here first, the remaining survivors suddenly became suspicious and nervous. There were not many people protecting their retreat, and now there were two less.

With the mentality of being more concerned about inequality than scarcity, the survivors looked at Paul eagerly, fearing that they would be abandoned by him.

Once these weak ordinary people are abandoned on this planet, the only fate they will have is death.

Paul could also see the worry of the crowd, he said to comfort them: "Don't worry, they have other tasks to go ahead, we will stay here to escort everyone to leave safely."

"You still have three minutes of rest time. When the time is up, no matter if you can run or not, you must keep going."

"Those who still have the strength should take the initiative to help the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and try not to abandon anyone."

After hearing what Paul said, the survivors felt a little relieved. They took the time to take deep breaths and took out some sugary foods to eat, trying to replenish their strength as quickly as possible.

This is their only hope to survive, and everyone is trying their best to hold on until the last moment.

Seeing these survivors before him igniting hope of living, Paul felt a little reluctant for a moment. They, the investigators, also had the giant enterprise's transporter, so they could quickly return to the Hyperion and leave.

But these ordinary people do not have this treatment. They have been abandoned by the Terran Federation once. How desperate they would be if they were abandoned again!

"Paul, you have tried your best. Even if you fail, at least we did try."

Chinnie could see what Paul was thinking and could feel his compassionate heart. She held Paul's hand to express her appreciation.

If she were to come, she could only do this much. Whether she could save these survivors depended entirely on God's will.

"I'll go patrol the area to see if there are any bugs chasing us."

At this time, Pani walked towards the rear of the team with a hard-light sniper in his hand.

Although the purification beam released by the Protoss caused great damage just now, the melted glass liquid and the beam damage cleared out a lot of insects invisibly.

The pressure of Zerg attacks that Paul and his team are facing now is much lighter than before. The only thing that can put imminent pressure on them is the Protoss fleet in low-Earth orbit.

Perhaps it was because the Zerg prioritized the Golden Fleet as their first target of attack. After failing to hunt down Paul and the others, they simply gave up wasting resources and continued to harass them.

Anyway, no one can escape when the Protoss' purification beams are fired down.

After a few minutes of rest, the survivors finally recovered some of their strength, but at this moment the golden fleet was very close to the planet.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Protoss's purification main gun has entered the charging process, just waiting for Selandis's order to fire!
Here, Pani, who had just completed his reconnaissance mission, came back in time to report: "Another group of insects appeared from behind. It seems that these damn insects are still not going to let us go."

Perhaps knowing that they were powerless to fight against the Protoss' Golden Fleet, the Zerg set their sights on Paul and his gang, even as if they were picking up a burial object.

"withdraw!"

As Paul finished speaking, the team set off again, with the Zerg behind them chasing closely. In order to cover everyone's escape, Paul and Luke could only fight the Zerg even harder.

The Terran Federation soldiers and local militia on the side also tried their best to cooperate with the investigation team members' fire defense. The C-14 Piercer Gauss rifles in their hands also had considerable destructive power.

Thanks to the amazing power of depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets, even the thick shells of cockroaches cannot withstand this powerful kinetic energy, and this is also the standard weapon of the Terran Federation against the Zerg.

Just as Paul and others were covering the survivors and continuing to move towards the evacuation site, bursts of roars suddenly came from the ground.

A huge beast suddenly emerged from the ground and stood before Paul and his companions like a mountain.

It was a thunder beast that was thirty meters tall and weighed nearly 60 tons. It had an extremely thick shell on its back and wielded two monomolecular bone sickles.

Among the Zerg's ground forces, the Ultralisk can definitely be regarded as one of the advanced arms. Its huge size makes it unique among the Zerg's ground forces.

In addition to the hard and thick shell covering its entire body, the bone-like scythe on the Thunder Beast is like a huge battering ram that can be used specifically to break through human fortresses and tear apart defenses.

After breaking out of the ground, the thunder beast immediately locked onto its target, waving its strong limbs with bared fangs and claws, and roared as it rushed towards the group of survivors.

As the thunder beast approached step by step, the earth began to shake and roar like an earthquake. The survivors were frightened by this scene and their faces turned pale. No one dared to continue running forward.

The federal soldiers fired at the huge thunder beast in unison, but the depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets, which had always been indestructible, failed to break the thunder beast's shell.

The metal bullets made crackling sounds as they landed on the shell, but failed to tear the body of the Thunder Beast apart. Their firepower was completely useless against the Thunder Beast!

Seeing this, another soldier brought a rocket launcher and fired at the thunder beast. When the shell landed on the thunder beast's huge head, a huge fireball exploded on the spot. This should have been enough to kill the giant beast.

But after the smoke cleared, everyone saw that the Thunder Beast's head armor seemed to have only a small, insignificant gap. The Thunder Beast, which had no sense of pain, was stunned for a moment, and then charged at everyone again.

"This thing should really compete with our Kaiju. I think Axehead will definitely like such an opponent."

The corners of Pani's mouth twitched, and he thought that if this thing was used for transportation and trade, it would seem to be a good choice.

"Stop talking nonsense, Pani. Now is not the time to think about giant beasts fighting!" Chini tried to shoot a hard light cannon sniper at the thunder beast, but the damage caused by the energy cannon to the thunder beast was still limited.

The firearms they used could only deal with insects of the cockroach level, and it would be a bit inadequate to eliminate higher-level thunder beasts!
In fact, the chitinous carapace of the Thunder Beast is made of crystal minerals from the Koprulu star region, and its hardness far exceeds that of the ordinary Zerg creature shell.

The so-called chitin is actually a linear, uncharged polysaccharide polymer composed of many N-acetyl-d-glucosamine units.

The carbon element in the crystal ore is controlled by spiritual energy. When combined with chitin organic matter, it will transform the intermolecular connection into carbon-carbon bonds, and the molecular arrangement structure will imitate diamond.

This makes the Ultralisk's shell extremely tough and powerful, almost able to ignore conventional human artillery attacks. A Zerg tank like this that is so hopelessly tanky is definitely a nightmare for humans!
In a hurry, Luke Skywalker quickly passed under the body of the thunder beast. He tried to cut off the opponent's limbs with his lightsaber to make the thunder beast lose balance first.

The lightsaber in Luke's hand can indeed cut the carapace limbs of the Thunder Beast to a certain extent, but compared with the huge size of the Thunder Beast, the wounds and lethality it can cause are really insignificant.

Embroidery needles can pierce human skin and flesh but cannot cause fatal damage.

This also applies to thunder beasts!

Although Luke had tried his best to stab, cut, and chop the limbs of the thunder beast, he was still faced with limbs that were as thick as thousand-year-old trees.

His lightsaber was just scraping the thunder beast, and there was no way he could cut it in half cleanly and sever its limbs.

"What kind of monster is this!"

Luke slashed with his sword several times in a row, but he only scraped off the hard shell on the outside of the thunder beast and slightly injured the internal organs and tissues, but failed to cut off the entire limb.

The next second, the thunder beast, feeling the pain, angrily raised its front legs and stomped towards Luke. The shadow of its raised legs and falling giant limbs was enough to completely cover Luke's tiny figure.

Boom——!
With a loud bang like an earthquake, the thunder beast's huge limbs had stepped out a deep pit in the ground.

If Luke hadn't been quick enough, he would have been turned into meat paste on the spot by this kick.

"Oh no! This thing is different from the previous bugs. We can use swords and guns, which will definitely be useless!"

Luke quickly stepped back and reported the situation to Paul through the internal channel.

A Thunder Beast running at full speed is indeed an unstoppable tank. Even the Protoss's isolation field cannot stop its charge.

Now the only thing Paul could do was to disperse the crowd to avoid being dispersed and trampled by the thunder beast. With its two pairs of huge single-molecule sickles, the thunder beast could cut the survivors into pieces in one go.

However, even if these survivors are scattered, they will be attacked by other springtails, which will still put the survivors in danger.

At this moment, the thunder beast had quickened its pace and rushed towards the crowd. Pani seized the opportunity to fire another hard light cannon, but the result was only to break off a sharp corner of the thunder beast's head.

This level of firepower is not enough to stop the charge launched by the Thunder Beast!

Paul released hunting darts, trying to turn the thunder beast's brain tissue into mud. Perhaps by destroying the thunder beast's core organs, he could stop the opponent's attack.

But Paul soon discovered that there were a large number of spare organs inside the Thunder Beast's body!

Once an important organ is destroyed, the remaining replicas will immediately replace it to maintain the body functions of the Thunder Beast. These organs are spread throughout the body of the Thunder Beast and can be used for replacement at any time.

This scene stunned Paul, Luke and others. They didn't expect that the Zerg's body structure could be so abnormal!

"What the hell is this stuff..." Pani was almost in despair. He thought that by shattering the thunder beast's external armor, he could use the weak points to crush the thunder beast's organs and tissues from the inside.

Unexpectedly, the Zerg actually had this backup organ waiting for them. The world's giant companies had never seen a Zerg opponent of this strength.

In the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Worlds Base, after witnessing the terrifying tankiness of the Thunder Beast, the senior executives kept talking about it.

The number and strength of the Zerg's troops far exceeded their expectations, and using conventional firepower to fight against them was simply ineffective!

It is almost impossible to kill this huge monster with one blow. Only absolute fire suppression can completely destroy it.

At this moment, it was too late for Paul to use the hunting dart to pierce the thunder beast one by one and crush the excess organs in its body.

The huge body of the thunder beast was already in sight. It opened two pairs of hideous and terrifying single-molecule sickles and smashed them fiercely towards the group of survivors.

But just as the two pairs of giant sickles were about to fall and crush the survivors, who were already limp and frightened out of their wits, into meat paste, a dark figure flashed under the sickles and blocked the heavy blow!
"This is really troublesome. Watching you guys struggling here will only cause me trouble for nothing."

Zhen Tianzun withstood the force of dozens of tons of the thunder beast's attack with one hand, turned around and looked at the survivors behind him with cold and evil eyes.

As the black energy gathered in Zhentianzun's hands, the huge body of the thunder beast began to rise uncontrollably.

Even though the Thunder Beast struggled desperately, trying to break free from Zhen Tianzun's control, it was still of no avail.

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Immediately, Zhen Tianzun exerted force and squeezed, and actually broke the giant sickle of the thunder beast.

The thunder beast spun several times in the air before crashing to the ground. The moment it landed, it smashed a lot of insects into pieces, raising clouds of dust on the ground.

Just when Paul wanted to move forward to finish off the thunder beast and kill it completely, he saw bursts of black flames burning on the body of the thunder beast!

That was the entropic energy of Zhen Tianzun. The Thunder Beast's body tissues were constantly dissolving and turning into nothing as entropy progressed.

"Is this done?"

Luke looked at the Transformer, who obviously looked like a villain, in astonishment, thinking that if this guy had taken action earlier, they wouldn't have to spend so much time killing bugs here.

After making sure that the Thunder Beast was dead, the survivors felt relieved. Their tense nerves and muscles relaxed again. It was a pity that they no longer had the energy to cheer for Zhen Tianzun.

Paul looked up at Megatronus and expressed his gratitude sincerely: "Thank you, Megatronus."

"Stop talking nonsense, if you keep dawdling like this everyone will die!"

Megatronus looked up at the sky and saw that the Protoss' golden fleet had entered the planet's low-Earth orbit and the Mothership Purification had entered the final stage of charging.

The countdown to destruction has entered the final 10 minutes!
Just as Paul was thinking about how to take away these exhausted survivors, explosions suddenly sounded from the swarm of insects behind him.

It turned out that it was a squadron of assault boats sent by the flagship headquarters. The Knights and Transformers landed here just in time to help take away these survivors.

With a round of intensive artillery bombardment, the assault boat team tore a hole in the insect swarm. The leading captain, William Cage, had no time to greet everyone:

"Come up quickly, it's too late!"

The Autobots and Decepticons that arrived at the scene transformed into vehicle form and quickly left with the survivors towards the airships and assault boats.

With the help of this group of reinforcements, Paul naturally no longer needed to waste time covering the evacuation of the survivors.

Paul also boarded William Cage's assault boat and took a deep breath, "If we were any later, we would have died!"

Cage smiled. This was all thanks to the Protoss and Paul and the others for holding on long enough. Without the Protoss' intervention, it would have been difficult for their assault boats to land from the air.

After all, there are eye bugs, banelings, and dragons along the way, so it is difficult to get here quickly. The Protoss's golden fleet also helped the giant enterprise to some extent.

"Paul, you've shown off at the Myriad Worlds Base, wait for your return and your promotion!"

The more William Cage looked at Paul, the more he felt that he had some of the shadow of V and David in the past, and he specifically chose the most difficult tasks to do.

With outstanding personal abilities and incredible luck, it would be hard for such a person not to succeed!

With the help of the expeditionary forces that arrived at the scene to provide support, the survivors boarded the airship and quickly evacuated the planet that was about to be destroyed.

At this time, facing the overwhelming Protoss Golden Fleet, the Zerg began the final stage of the suicide charge. A large number of dragons, accompanied by the giant corporate airships, flew towards outer space.

During the launch, not a single flying dragon attacked the giant enterprise's airship, which was beyond Paul's expectations.

It seems that the Zerg has no time to deal with other targets in order to concentrate on dealing with the Protoss.

After a while, the Protoss's Mother Ship Purification completed the final stage of charging and officially started the bombardment program towards the planet's surface.

A dazzling blue-white beam of light shot down from the Purification's main gun muzzle, like the holy light that appeared when the gate of heaven opened.

But this light that saves all living beings is not a soft holy light, but an ultra-high energy beam that can destroy everything in the world. The power of this beam of light is not comparable to the previous attack.

At the point where the purification beam landed, a shock wave cracked the earth, shattering and collapsing the surface of the entire planet.

A large number of insects were reduced to ashes in an instant. Even a monster like the Thunder Beast, which had armor so thick that it was intimidating, could not withstand the impact of this energy.

The sinking ground swallowed countless fungal mats and insects deep underground, and the high temperature of the energy beam evaporated the ocean.

The horrible heat wave came with the wind, scraping off the insect's outer shell and revealing the tender red muscles inside.

Fortunately, the Enterprise's assault craft had carried everyone above low-Earth orbit, and they were not affected by the Protoss' purification beam.

As soon as they left the atmosphere, several assault boats entered stealth mode. With the dragons as cover, Paul and his crew successfully slipped away from under the noses of the Protoss.

In the planet's low-Earth orbit, Paul looked out through the porthole and saw that all the places affected by the purification beam were burned into red-hot purgatory.

A large amount of liquid glass was flowing on it, and thick black smoke rose up with the spread of blue ripples, like the ghosts of billions of insects.

Through the thick smoke, Paul could clearly sense that the vitality of the planet was gradually disappearing, and the purification beam was killing this billions of years old ancient planet.

Paul was accustomed to scenes like exploding stars and destroying planets, so he did not show any surprise or surprise.

He was just observing how long it took the Protoss to completely destroy a planet, and judging by the current situation, the Protoss' purification process would only take less than 20 minutes.

Not even half an hour!
Of course, if we really want to destroy all living things on the ground, the purification beam can complete the attack in an instant in just a few seconds, and the subsequent process is entirely aimed at completely vitrifying the planet.

After witnessing the entire process of the planet's destruction, the survivors on the assault boat suddenly felt cold sweats on their backs. They were just a little bit away from being wiped out along with the bugs below.

At this moment, the hometown where they have lived for most of their lives has been covered by a thick layer of black fog, and dark red liquid glass, like bloodshot eyes, covers the surface of the planet.

The entire planet looks like a red-threaded pupil when viewed from outer space!
In an instant, countless survivors couldn't help but cry out in grief.

They were crying for joy that they had luckily escaped the disaster, but they were also mourning for their dead relatives and destroyed hometown.

Luke Skywalker could fully understand this, after all, he had experienced such a thing before, when the Empire's Star Destroyer destroyed Tatooine.

If it weren't for the help of the global giant, he and Uncle Owen might have died in the bombing.

Soon, after completing the purification of the infected planet, the Protoss' Golden Fleet sailed away without staying in this star system for too long.

This is just one of the countless planets they have purified, and it is not worth their while to stay here.

After the Protoss's mandatory "purification", this fertile colony was left with only devastated charcoal, becoming a death star no longer suitable for any life form to live in.

……

At this moment, in the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Worlds Base, countless employees of giant companies are entering the battle process into the AI ​​program, analyzing the data in detail, and calculating the strength of the Protoss fleet.

After a series of comparisons, evaluations, and budgets, the intelligent AI Loki presented the final result to Leon: the strength of the Protoss fleet - top-level S-class!
From the perspective of conventional space naval power, the gap between Cosmic Corporation and Protoss is not that big.

If a head-on conflict occurs between the Cosmic Corporation and the Protoss without the use of regular-level weapons and relying solely on conventional firepower, there will inevitably be a large number of casualties.

And this is definitely not a price that Leon can accept.

After all, he was busy calculating the cost of war just to save some material and manpower to maintain the unified universe as much as possible.

Routine deterrence, suppression, and counterinsurgency are the most expensive projects for giant companies.

If a large-scale war or conflict really breaks out in the StarCraft universe and there are heavy casualties, the corporation will have to spend at least 10 more years recuperating.

But this is not the efficient integration that Li Ang wants.

(End of this chapter)