The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 396 The flames of war are burning! Death race productivity competition!
"Since the Zerg army is coming in full force, should we consider taking the initiative to intercept and annihilate part of the Zerg fleet?"

Jack Wells asked.

Head-on confrontation and active attack are his usual tactics. Although it is a bit monotonous, the effect of great force working miracles is often quite good.

For example, last time in the "Transformers" universe, when the advance team of the Universal Corporation intercepted the bounty hunters, it worked wonders.

Maybe it applies this time too!

"No, our mission this time is not to destroy the main force of the Zerg, but to capture the Blade Queen. There is no point in rashly sending a fleet to stop the Zerg."

V immediately retorted. He knew very well what the core goal of the mission was. If it was just to kill bugs, then Universal Corporation could easily release large quantities of Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores.

Why bother sending out any more blocking troops?

With the defense system carefully deployed by giant companies, it is likely to be sufficient.

"We have deployed nearly 100,000 orbital hard light cannons in the outermost star orbit area. Although we cannot guarantee that we can successfully stop the Zerg's offensive wave."

"But we can at least delay the Zerg's offensive, inflict more damage to them, and force the Blade Queen out of her position!"

David Martinez said that according to intelligence, the number of Zerg troops in the entire Koprulu sector is in the billions.

This time the Zerg are coming out in full force, and their numbers will be even larger than what the giant companies expected.

In such a situation, the hard light cannon array in the outer orbit of the galaxy is really nothing. After all, with dragons riding on your face and Zerg attacks covering the sky and the sun, it is difficult to resist with just a few defense systems.

David was not sure whether it was necessary to temporarily dispatch additional troops, so he raised this not-so-critical issue at this parliamentary session.

"Don't worry, the Zerg's main goal is to seize the Keystone. They won't spend too much energy on a full-scale attack to capture the orbital defense zones one by one."

"I think they will most likely concentrate their forces, tear through the defenses with a quick victory, and rush all the way into the core orbital area."

Li Ang analyzed calmly.

He considered from Amon's perspective that the human holding the keystone was definitely the most dangerous point at the moment, and it had to be dealt with as soon as possible before the next step could be taken.

In terms of time and situation, Aamon can't wait.

"If the Zerg concentrate their forces to force their way through our lines, we won't have to worry about that."

The keystone can still use a small-scale psychic shock during the charging phase, and this shock force has a one-hit-kill effect on the Zerg.

Even if the Queen of Blades led her troops to attack fiercely, she would not be able to reach the core orbital area and land on the frontline base star of the Universal Corporation in a short period of time.

After listening to Li Ang's supplement, the executives present were thoughtful. If this is the case, then the offensive strategies that the Queen of Blades can use are quite limited.

First of all, it is impossible for the Zerg to advance step by step and gradually erode the defense system of the giant enterprise. Doing so would be a waste of time. It would take at least one or two months to break into the core orbital area.

If they concentrated their forces to attack one point in pursuit of a quick victory, the psychic impact of the key stone would cause great damage to the Zerg.

No matter which of these two methods is chosen, the world's giants will firmly have the upper hand.

This battle is a contest between Aamon and Leon on the chessboard. It depends on who loses patience first.

"Then what we need to do next is to delay the Zerg's offensive as much as possible so that the psychic impact of the keystone can play the greatest role."

"As long as we can keep the keystone at the frontline base, no matter how many Zerg troops come, they will rush over to die!"

Morgan Blackhand made a summary of the parliament and determined the subsequent actions of the giant company.

"This was a tough battle. We haven't played a defensive counterattack for a long time." David Martinez took a deep breath and spoke in a heavy voice.

But no matter how worried we are, this day will still come, and everyone has made all the preparations, waiting for the arrival of the Queen of Blades.

At this moment, the key stone was transported to the front-line base headquarters. In order to charge the key stone, the giant enterprise directly connected a War Moon engine to it.

The long-lost key stone signal reappeared, which meant that the Zerg would soon come here in droves like sharks smelling blood.

The final battle also begins!
After the giant company's scientific research team confirmed again and again that there was no problem with the key stone, they officially started the engine device and began to charge the key.

The troops of various armies of the world's giant corporations have also assembled and are ready to fight at the front-line bases, ready to welcome the arrival of the decisive battle.

boom--!
As the War Moon engine started up, the planetary engine immediately generated a huge beam of energy and rushed towards the Keystone, and this ancient Xel'Naga artifact began to activate.

In an instant, the key stone quickly emitted a mysterious signal source, which spread at a speed faster than the speed of light, spreading to the entire Koprulu star region.

The star system where the cosmic giant is located is like a flame suddenly ignited in the dark night. All unknown creatures in the darkness focus their attention here.

In the distant star field of space, the Queen of Blades is leading a huge Zerg fleet to destroy one planet after another, just to find the whereabouts of the Xel'Naga artifact.

Although the Zerg received the signal source of the key stone fragment as early as three months ago, the weak signal would not last long in the vast universe.

The Queen of Blades captured cities and strongholds along the general direction, continuously igniting the flames of war in the Koprulu sector, and countless civilized species turned into charcoal in her hands.

Just when the Queen of Blades was anxious about how to re-lock the location of the key stone, the signal emitted from the giant company base finally spread here!
"It's the Keystone. It reappeared—!"

The Queen of Blades was overjoyed. Her Zerg troops had fallen into an endless state of confusion. Fortunately, the energy fluctuations emitted by the charged key stone pointed her in the direction.

In an instant, the Queen of Blades ordered the entire army to march out and rush towards the giant company's front-line base.

Here, just as the keystone charging progress on the War Moon engine reached 2%, countless wormholes appeared on the outskirts of the star system.

A huge Zerg fleet appeared!

The insect swarm is coming.

Countless flying dragons emerged from the wormhole, and a huge Zerg fleet emerged in the dark deep space of the universe.

The Queen of Blades' flagship, the Leviathan, with its kilometers-long tentacles wriggling, sits in the center of the fleet, like the central system commanding this Zerg army.

Unlike the steel fleets of giant enterprises, the Zerg fleet does not have the cold metallic texture or the rigorous order of an industrial system. Instead, it has twisted, uneven, and hideous irregular shapes.

On the giant enterprise's detection radar, the red dots representing the Zerg were so dense that they occupied the entire screen. The suffocating bright red color occupied the entire holographic screen.

[Warning! Zerg biological signals detected, estimated 39 trillion units... Recalibrating, 41 trillion units, calibrating again...! ] The prompt signal jumped out of the holographic screen like snowflakes, which meant that the scale of the Zerg force entering the star system had completely exceeded the calibration check of the detection system.

Seeing this scene, even Jim Raynor, who had been through many battles, couldn't help but exclaimed:
"This is crazy! The Blade Queen wants to kill us all!"

Renault always felt extremely uncomfortable when he thought that his most beloved woman had turned into such a big devil.

"Otherwise, she is now the leader of the insects, and there is reproductive isolation between us. Your affection for her is useless."

Tychus on the side said mercilessly that now he had successfully taken off the power armor with the help of the giant enterprise, so naturally he didn't need to worry anymore.

This time the Zerg really came out in full force. In order to seize the Xel'Naga artifact as soon as possible, the Queen of Blades spared no effort and sent out the Vanguard Legion to withstand the bombardment of the orbital cannon and quickly tear open the channel of attack.

Faced with such a large Zerg force, a fierce battle is inevitable.

Seeing this, David Martinez decisively issued an order: "Fully activate the defense system, and lock the hard light cannons in each orbit to the Zerg fleet, causing as much casualties as possible and slowing down the enemy's advance."

From this moment on, the entire star system will become a burning battlefield, and the success or failure of the integration of the world's giant enterprise will depend on this battle!
The action deployment three months in advance had already made the giant company's front-line defense system impregnable. A large number of hard-light turret arrays and fully AI-automated attack fleets began to show their power.

[The highest order from the headquarters of the world's giant enterprises——

The Zerg army has arrived, and its number is estimated to exceed one hundred trillion. All units are strictly following Action Plan No. 1 to block it.

This battle concerns the progress of the giant enterprise's integrated operations. All departments are requested to execute the established deployment at all costs! 】

On the planetary engine of the Moon of War, five keystone fragments were floating in the air, and the energy of the engine was continuously flowing into the keystone.

[Keystone charging progress - 3.3%, expected to be completed in 39 hours. ]

Looking at the data displayed on the screen, Qiansihu frowned slightly. It seemed that charging the key stone was quite troublesome. They had to hold on in this battle no matter what.

"The Zerg's vanguard corps' offensive is very fierce. Our outer orbital defense positions of the galaxy may not be able to hold out for too long."

David Martinez was shocked when he looked at the data sent back from the front line. The Zerg's attack was more fierce than he expected.

"No matter how difficult it is, you have to hold on. If you don't have enough manpower, ask the rear for more. Since this battle is bound to cost a lot of money, then we have to fight to the end!"

Qiansihu gritted his teeth and said that the large-scale confrontation between the world's giant enterprises and the Zerg was indeed like a money-burning competition to determine the strength of both sides.

The Zerg rely on their innate genetic advantages and their crazy intensive production of troops, while the world's giant corporations rely on their industrial system that has lasted for hundreds of years and several super factories in the universe.

The two sides are competing for ultimate productivity.

"After the keystone is charged by the War Moon engine, its psychic impact can spread to the entire star system. At that time, no matter how many Zerg troops there are, they can be wiped out with one blow."

"Before this, we can only passively defend and use space to buy time. We can lose the outer orbital positions, but we must not lose them so easily."

Qiansi Fox knew that the Blade Queen was probably also waiting for this moment.

For the Zerg fleet, this is also a death race to the death.

Either they would overwhelm the defense system of the Universal Corporation before the Key Stone was fully charged, or they would be wiped out by the enemy.

At this moment, the Zerg fleet of the Queen of Blades has crashed directly into the first line of defense, and the Zerg troops are now rapidly destroying the position facilities.

But at this moment, the hard light cannons in other orbits were opened at the same time, and countless dense blue light beams appeared from the dark space battlefield.

The eye worms and flying dragons at the front were instantly shrouded in blue light, and the spreading hard light cannons instantly engulfed a large number of Zerg units, annihilating them completely.

Under the impact of ultra-high temperature energy that is almost at the stellar level, these insects disappeared silently in the space in the blink of an eye, as if they had never existed.

Immediately afterwards, the blazing hard light cannon burned out a vacuum zone between the dense Zerg fleet array.

Hundreds of millions of flying dragons and eyeworms were reduced to ashes by this attack and became cannon fodder that could be destroyed in the blink of an eye.

In addition, thousands of huge nest worm lords with heads shaped like rays were affected. Before they could launch an aerial siege, they were burned to ashes.

The hard light cannon and other super plasma cannons jointly bombarded the inside of the body of the worm lord, causing it to explode violently.

The spreading explosion shock wave then drew in other Zerg units one after another.

At this moment, the entire Zerg fleet was illuminated by the dazzling blue light of the explosion. Against the inky black background of space, the dazzling blue light was particularly bright.

"Don't stop, keep attacking!"

The Queen of Blades calmly commanded and coordinated the Zerg fleets throughout the battle. She knew that this battle was bound to result in heavy casualties.

As long as the Lord's will can be fulfilled, this sacrifice is worth it!
Not to mention a few thousand Nest Worm Lords, she would not hesitate even if there were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them.

[Fire!]

Here, hard light cannons in the entire galaxy orbit fired at the Zerg fleet at the same time.

Millions of hard-light turrets roared down towards the Zerg, like a dense meteor shower, hitting their heads one after another.

This round of intensive fire bombardment directly smashed the Zerg fleet into pieces, leaving behind a large number of hideous high-temperature holes. With this one strike alone, the Zerg's forces were reduced by 20%!

Countless flying dragons and hive lords were hit by hard light cannons, igniting raging flames. The light produced by the explosion of the shells rose and fell in the dark universe.

Even when attacking the Protoss' home planet Aiur, the Zerg had never encountered such a fierce defensive counterattack.

The battle had just begun, and the giant enterprise had already caused the Zerg to lose no less than ten trillion combat units.

Under normal circumstances, any civilized fleet would inevitably suffer a drop in morale or even collapse after suddenly suffering such heavy losses.

But for the Zerg, they have no concept of morale, and they don't need any morale to boost their combat status. They just need to maintain a steady killing from beginning to end.

Under the social structure of the hive mind, the vast majority of bugs will only act according to the will of the ruler.

As long as the Queen of Blades, who controls the Zerg forces, does not flinch and retreat, the Zerg will not collapse even if the fleet suffers great losses.

(End of this chapter)