The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 383 Blood Hunter! Colossus Siege Machine! Weather Weapon!
"How about it, our business capabilities are pretty good, right?"

Tosh, who had just returned from the front battlefield, took credit for it to Paul with a smile on his face. He could see that the world giant company had a deep foundation and was a rare big buyer.

If he performed well in front of the giant corporation, he might be able to take the opportunity to promote his mercenary services and get some terrazine resources.

"very nice."

Paul nodded to Tosh in approval. The combat capability of this group of ghost agents was indeed somewhat unexpected.

Their psychic powers are so powerful that they can interfere with the normal actions of the Protoss. Compared to training Jedi Knights, the cost of training these psychic warriors seems to be lower!
If the Universal Corporation controls the channels for training psychic warriors, then the Corporation will be able to mass-produce soldiers with supernatural powers.

From the soldiers of Doctor Cyrus to the Astartes warriors who are almost sanctified in the flesh, and then to the warriors with psychic powers, the world's giant companies are speeding towards becoming "Gods"!
Maybe one day the world's giant companies can really start an era where everyone can practice Taoism.

"Are you interested in establishing a long-term cooperative relationship with us? As long as you give us enough terazine, high-energy gas, and energy crystals, you will be able to command this special forces."

Tosh took the opportunity to promote his business, hoping to win another business from the giant company.

"I will seriously consider your services, but your top priority right now is to deal with the Tal'darim here."

Paul responded flawlessly that once they captured the planet Baysher and controlled the terrazine there, Universal Corporation would have plenty of ways to reduce the cost of manufacturing psychic warriors.

Why spend extra money to buy mercenary services from Tosh?

By then, Tosh and his ghost army would either have to join the giant corporation and eat from the same pot within the system, or they would have to watch the giant corporation monopolize all the resources here and starve.

"It's okay. I'll show you how much value a Ghost Agent offers. You might as well discuss it more."

Tosh said calmly that he was very confident in his ghost army. Even looking at the entire Koprulu star region, there were few special forces stronger than his own.

Obviously, he knew nothing about the powerful productivity of the world's giant companies.

Paul stopped talking. The most important thing now was to take the key stone fragments from the Tal'darim as soon as possible and conquer the entire planet of Baysher.

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Here, the attacks of the Tal'darim were repeatedly thwarted by the corporate coalition, which made the Protoss executor Naion quite annoyed. He could not accept these dirty monkeys staying here to defile the holy land of the Tal'darim.

After witnessing the failure of the Killer's harassment tactics, it finally issued the final order for a general attack. This time, it wanted to completely wipe out all these humans!
"To all the brave warriors of the Tal'darim!"

"Follow my command and kill all the humans here. Let these despicable and inferior races know what the consequences will be for offending and offending the Xel'Naga Saints!"

In the StarCraft universe, the Protoss are the civilization with the most serious species discrimination. They regard themselves as the chosen ones of God and despise all other civilized species equally.

This naturally includes humans.

Following Naion's order, countless rays of light came from the crystal tower behind it. That was the teleporter of the Tal'darim.

In order to organize this charge, Naion summoned almost all the Tal'darim troops on the planet of Baysher here, ready to fight a desperate battle with the coalition of giant companies.

In an instant, the Tal'darim warriors all over the mountains roared in anger and launched a suicidal charge towards the positions of the corporate coalition.

The agile killer still relied on his own phase flash, constantly looking for defensive loopholes in the position, trying to help the Tal'darim warriors tear open a gap.

In addition, a heavy armored unit equipped with a double-barreled phase disruptor and a Fortitude Shield has appeared in the Tal'darim's forces.

The Tal'darim Protoss called them "Immortals".

Relying on the thick and hard fortitude shield, the Immortals rushed forward despite the fierce artillery fire of the giant enterprise. The rest of the soldiers, under the cover of the Immortals, gradually approached the edge of the front line.

The coordination between the infantry and tanks of the Tal'darim achieved good offensive results, and their advancement made some progress, which was much better than the Killer's tentative effect just now.

But the Immortal is not an indestructible mecha device.

Like the Slayers, the Immortals are actually disabled Protoss warriors who have had their broken limbs implanted into machines in order to use their last remaining energy for the tribe.

In the social rules of the Tal'darim, there is a channel for crossing classes called the "Chain of Ascension".

Low-level Protoss can improve their social status by challenging high-level Protoss.

In the process of a duel, casualties are inevitable, and the loser will try to wash away his shame.

As a result, they will take the initiative to become combat units such as Immortals and Killers, and restore their glory through fighting.

These immortals, who were selected through layers of screening, relied on their extremely thick armor and hard shield force field, and were able to withstand the attacks of the hard light turrets and lead the team to the front line of the giant enterprise.

After approaching the right position, the Immortal will use the double-barreled fragmentation cannon to fire a scarlet rain of artillery to destroy the firepower equipment on the giant enterprise's position.

Even giant companies have deployed shield force fields, but facing the dense artillery fire and enemies pouring in from all directions, the defense value of the front-line positions is rapidly declining.

The ultimate battle to determine the ownership of the planet Baysher has begun, and both factions are ready to fight to the death.

At this moment, the Tal'darim's offensive has been fully launched, and a large number of Protoss troops are constantly passing through the crystal prisms and quickly warping to the highland battlefield.

It was obvious that Naion was planning to make a concerted effort and completely overwhelm these damn human invaders with the tactic of human wave.

The Hard Light Turrets are speeding up their charging speed as much as possible, trying to destroy the Immortal Armors that have rushed up, but only by attacking multiple turrets at the same time can these heavily armored mecha units be quickly defeated.

Otherwise, ordinary hard light cannon bombardment alone will not be able to cause effective damage to it in a short period of time.

After finally waiting for the hard light turrets to be fully charged and about to fire, several mysterious void energies suddenly enveloped several hard light turrets.

These AI devices that were supposed to bombard the Tal'darim troops were actually frozen in place, and even the light beams that had already been fired were suspended in mid-air.

It was as if time had stopped under a spell; this scene clearly did not conform to the normal laws of physics.

Seeing the abnormal situation at the front line, Pani Wells hurriedly asked the person in charge of the AI ​​turret: "What's going on? Why did the hard light cannon stop?"

Without the defense of the AI ​​turrets, the first line of defense of the giant company’s position will soon be broken by the Tal’darim Protoss!

[This shouldn't be the case. The AI ​​hard light turret system on the front line is working fine, but for some reason, it just won't work! ]

The command center heard surprised voices from the front-line leaders, and even they didn't understand what was going on here.

There was clearly no malfunction or error in the device, but the AI ​​turret just wouldn't move.

However, there is more surprising than that.

The hard light turret, wrapped in the mysterious void energy, gradually turned into a blurry phantom, as if it no longer existed.

Immediately afterwards, a group of lurking black shadows emerged from behind the giant corporate coalition's position. Holding scarlet light blades, they killed more than a dozen people in the blink of an eye.

Then he disappeared from the spot like a ghost.

By the time the soldiers around reacted, they could only see dead bodies on the ground and found nothing else.

"Enemy attack——!"

As the soldiers' exclamations rang out, the scythe-like light blade of the Grim Reaper appeared again. With the sound of blood splattering, more than a dozen soldiers were killed on the spot.

During the entire process, no one could clearly see the invading enemy. Fortunately, the ubiquitous AI drones had clearly transmitted this scene back to the command center in the rear.

Seeing this almost weird scene, Paul suddenly felt heavy-hearted. In the army of the global giant company, there were actually combat units similar to stealth assassination.

For example, the Marauder Squad from the Iron Hands Chapter can rely on advanced hard-light optical camouflage to achieve near-silent movement.

But to achieve this level of elusiveness, the giant company's raider team is still a little short of it.

"It seems that this conquest is much more difficult than I thought. The Tal'darim are not that easy to deal with!"

Paul was thoughtful.

"Are these Protoss Dark Templar? How could they appear here among the Tal'darim? This shouldn't be possible!"

Jim Raynor was very puzzled. He had fought side by side with the Protoss before, so he had some understanding of the history of the Protoss camp.

The Tal'darim are well-known "lone wolves" in the Protoss camp. They have extremely bad relations with other Protoss tribes. Logically speaking, the Dark Templar should not appear here to help.

"What are you thinking? Those guys are blood hunters from the Tal'darim. Using void energy is not an exclusive ability of the Dark Templar."

"The Protoss of the Tal'darim have used terrazine to establish connections with their god Amon, so it's not surprising that their psionic warriors have some powerful moves."

Tosh, who was well-informed, explained.

And this is indeed the case. It was these stealthy blood hunters who relied on their own void stasis ability to temporarily deploy the AI ​​hard light turrets of the universe giant into the void plane.

The force field generated by this void stasis ability can manipulate the cosmic dimension in a small range, stretch the discrete space in time and space, and produce a static area. Although it will not last long, for a while, the AI ​​hard light turrets of the giant enterprise will not be effective, and the troops of the Tal'darim will be able to rush up unscrupulously.

As for the Blood Hunters' excellent stealth ability, this makes them a nightmarish and terrifying existence on the battlefield, compared to the firepower fighting on the front line.

This completely unpredictable death threat will put tremendous mental pressure on the soldiers!
At the same time, the Colossus troops of the Tal'darim also arrived at the battlefield, trying to completely break through the defense line of this position.

It was an extremely huge giant siege machine, which mainly relied on four slender mechanical legs to move. It could easily cross a distance of 50 meters with just one lift of its legs.

At first glance it looks like a super plus version of the Imperial Walker.

The position of the global giant company was obviously built on high ground, but it was strafed and bombed from above by the siege machine.

The Colossus looks like a larger version of the Slayer, with two focused thermal ray cannons on either side of its thick shell.

Coupled with its huge size advantage, the heat energy rays it emits cut across in a cross-cutting manner, capable of burning a large number of soldier units to ashes.

Through the AI ​​drones on the front line, Paul could see that when the two heat energy rays of the Colossus swept across a group of soldiers, the power armor on these soldiers was actually melted into molten iron!
The flesh, blood, bones and steel of the power armor melted together. It was a horrifying way of death. The soldiers who were badly injured could not even save their own bodies.

After a while, the Colossus's heat rays swept across a trench area of ​​a fortification, instantly turning it into a sea of ​​fire.

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The tunnels that were originally used for cover and support activities now became the burial place of the soldiers.

Just when the Tal'darim warriors at the back wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the position in one go, gunshots were heard again from behind. A large number of AI sentry robots replaced them and defended the first line of defense.

The ground forces of the global giant have developed to the point where the human warriors who remain are basically all top-notch soldiers, and ordinary combat units have long been replaced by sentinel robots and AI clones.

The elite troops Paul brought this time were not many, but the sentinel robots were enough.

Faced with the burning of high temperature flames, these sentinel robots are not worried about their own safety, because their body structure is made with the same manufacturing technology as the T-1000 Infiltration Terminator.

Unless corroded by strong acid, even if melted by fire, they can still recover on their own and re-participate in the battle.

Faced with these immortal AI sentinel robots, the Tal'darim warriors began to feel helpless. They had dealt with robots before.

But they had never seen a robot like this that could be melted into liquid metal and then restored and condensed again!
Just when the Tal'darim troops decided to continue charging under pressure and seize the position as soon as possible, raindrops suddenly fell from the sky. They looked up and saw that dark clouds had covered them at some point.

Soon, heavy rain began to fall, and the big raindrops hit everyone on the position. Looking at this sudden rain, Executive Officer Naang had an ominous premonition.

This is not the season for rain, and it is even more unlikely that such a heavy rain would come without any warning!
"Could it be a psychic storm? But how could a human have such a strong psychic power!" Naion was extremely worried.

In the Protoss camp, high-level Templars are able to gather psychic energy to create a "super storm" that can release a large amount of destructive power in a short period of time.

There are only a handful of such "psychic masters" who can control the power of nature even among the Protoss, let alone humans.

At this moment, in the frontline base of the global giant enterprise, meteorological weapons are operating at full power.

As a super infrastructure civilization, the world's giant companies have long been proficient in controlling the weather. To call the wind and rain, it is just a matter of sprinkling water.

When Paul saw that the colossi of Tal'darim could release large-scale high-temperature killing power, he immediately thought that these high temperatures would cause the surrounding air to heat up rapidly, thus generating upward air currents.

The rising air currents in turn create cumulonimbus clouds, and the giant company’s meteorological weapons happen to be able to speed up the formation process, gathering the thunderstorms that already exist in the area.

With this meteorological weapon, a storm covering the front-line positions has been brewing!

"Let your men withdraw from their positions as soon as possible. Thunder is about to strike." Paul stared at the holographic screen without turning his head, observing the battle situation on the front line.

Anyway, the giant global corporations didn't send many living people to fight in the front trenches. Even if these AI sentinel robots were struck by lightning, they would be able to recover after a while.

But the same cannot be said for the Rangers, a group of humans.

Before Raynor could react, he saw a bolt of thunder falling from the sky and instantly landed in the middle of the Tal'darim army.

A large number of Tal'darim warriors were smashed by thunder and turned into charcoal in the electric current.

This kind of thunder with directional function can never be formed in nature, but this is just the beginning.

Even more terrifying thunder is brewing among the clouds, and the storm lightning that will sweep across all the front-line positions seems to be about to arrive!

After witnessing the horror of the giant company's breath weapons, Jim Raynor hurriedly issued an emergency retreat order to the rangers on the front line.

"Everyone leave the position immediately, ignore those useless things, and leave!"

Renault only has this little wealth. Once he defeats all his men, he will be left alone and have no respect in front of others.

Soon, the front-line troops near the edge of the storm quickly retreated.

Except for the giant company's AI sentinel robots, the rest of the human soldiers stayed away, fearing that they would be affected by the storm.

But the Tal'darim troops, completely shrouded in dark clouds and thunder, were not so lucky!
Their main force was right at the center of the storm, and a large number of Protoss troops were warping in through the crystal prisms.

It was already difficult for a large-scale legion force to turn around, and the heavy rain made the ground slippery, so many psychic warriors could not stand steadily.

Looking at the storm with lightning and thunder overhead, the Tal'darim troops began to riot, and internal communication instructions also showed signs of confusion.

boom--!
In an instant, countless thunders poured down from the dark clouds, and lightning like a waterfall washed over the Tal'darim camp. The surging electric current swept across the earth, swallowing up thousands of people in the blink of an eye.

Although the Tal'darim's psychic warriors activated their energy shields at the first opportunity, the continuous lightning storms could overload and render their shields ineffective in a matter of minutes.

Without the protection of the psychic shield, the Tal'darim warriors could only withstand the impact of the violent electric current, but the final result was that they turned into smoking charcoal.

Amid the thunder and lightning, the killers could barely use Phase Flash to dodge, but the cage formed by the dense thunder made all the killers inside suffer.

They do not have the liquid metal recovery ability like the Sentinel robots. Once struck by lightning, their fate is to be scrapped on the spot!

In addition, even the seemingly unstoppable Colossus siege machine was unable to move due to the continuous lightning strikes.

The huge size can indeed bring a huge sense of oppression, but the defect is also obvious, that is, it is difficult to turn the ship around.

The bulky Colossus was a complete sitting duck, and could only be impacted by the lightning current. Soon, the Colossus's shield force field was overloaded and scrapped, and the entire machine was paralyzed.

The most terrible thing is not just that the Colossus siege machine declared a strike, but that this thing itself is a machine made of a large amount of metal.

A huge metal object hundreds of meters high stopped in the middle of the Tal'darim troops. It was a ready-made lightning rod!

Countless lightning bolts gathered on the head of the Colossus, and eventually a violent explosion occurred. The shattered Colossus affected the surrounding Tal'darim warriors.

The thunder and metal fragments struck and crushed countless people to death. Naion could only helplessly watch his own troops being annihilated and perished in the storm.

At this moment, Naion was barely able to hold on under the protection of a group of high-level Tal'darim warriors, but it was impossible for him to command the large army that was in chaos due to the storm.

Now it can only place its hope on the blood hunters who have sneaked into the human army in advance, let these hunters find the equipment that controls the meteorological system, and use the void stasis ability to destroy those devices.

But Paul had already predicted the other party's intention. He sent people to the meteorological weapon system in advance to deploy a dragnet, waiting for the blood hunters to show up!

"It's terrifying that your meteorological weapons have developed to this level!"

Jim Raynor watched the "thunder catastrophe" happening on the front line, where countless psychic warriors were killed and disappeared. This gave him a new understanding of the strength of the Universal Corporation.

Paul didn't know how to respond to Renault. After all, the world's giant companies rarely used meteorological weapons in wars. For the giant companies, this thing was mainly used for production and adjusting the weather.

In terms of efficiency and simplicity, giant companies have a variety of large-scale lethal weapons, while the main function of this meteorological system is for farming.

There will be a complete ecosystem inside each aircraft carrier of the giant enterprise. When the expeditionary fleet occupies a habitable area, the giant enterprise will decide whether to farm or mine based on the local environment.

The meteorological system plays a huge role in farming. Unexpectedly, on the battlefield of Baysher Star, this thing suddenly turned into a powerful natural weapon!
"Our people haven't found any trace of the blood hunters yet. I'm worried that they will take the opportunity to sneak in and disrupt our weather system."

At this time, Horner reminded Paul.

"Don't worry, I've sent people to keep an eye on those hunters." Paul responded confidently.

In front of ordinary human soldiers like Rangers, Blood Hunters are terrible ghost killers. They have no way to counter these elusive enemies.

But their stealth camouflage isn't perfect.

For example, the Zerg's eye worm units can detect their movements, and in the armies of the Universal Corporation, there are also blood hunters who can see through them.

These are supernatural warriors like Paul, Chini, and Luke whose sensory functions have been enhanced by spices or the Force.

With their keen perception, every move of the blood hunter will be exposed!
At this moment, Luke Skywalker was guarding near the weather system.

(End of this chapter)