The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 398 Corruptor! Metal hydrogen bomb clears the area! Sea of ​​insects floods back!

The Zerg's tunnel worm can stretch its body dozens of times, and use its own flesh and blood to drill tunnels underground, so as to lead the Zerg swarm behind to invade the designated area.

As long as the tunnel worms drill deep enough, they can always dig into the soft soil area and sneak in with the alien insects directly.

Although the AI ​​detector inside the base identified the location of the tunnel worms at the first time and mobilized the turret device to bombard them.

However, the tunnel worms still took advantage of the chaos to spit out a large number of alien zerg troops, and there were more than one zerg troops performing stealth missions. More alien zerg troops also emerged in other areas at the same time.

Faced with this emergency, David Martinez did not panic. He calmly ordered: "Send out the drilling beast immediately!"

The giant Transformer Drillmon from Cybertron once played a significant role in mining energy crystals, and now it is being used as a war machine.

This dragon-like steel worm has a very similar positioning to the tunnel worm.

But the difference is that it is forged from deformed metal, and with the serrated blade on its head, the drill beast can easily crush soil, rocks and other materials.

Underground, the Drill Beast thrives. As we all know, equipment used in construction projects can also be used in warfare, and the Drill Beast is the best proof of this.

The drilling beast, with sharp sawteeth all over its body, digs through the ground madly at high speed, turning into a death meat grinder and killing everyone in its path.

The tunnel worms were still busy transporting the Zerg troops when they were suddenly cut off by the attacking drill beasts.

Unlike the Drill Beast, whose body is made of steel and covered with blades, the armor of the Tunnel Worm is mainly located in the head area.

In order to stretch its body as far as possible, it has to become as flexible as possible, which has become the fatal weakness of the tunnel worm.

Just one drilling beast can easily tear apart several tunnel worms underground.

When the tunnel worm tried to fight back, it found that its bloody mouth was unable to bite the drill beast with serrated sharp blades all over its body. The offensive and defensive capabilities of the two sides were completely different!
Due to the attack of the drill beast, the tunnel worms can no longer go deeper. If they dare to step in again, they will be strangled by the drill beast underground.

With no other options left, the tunnel worm could only take advantage of the situation and lead a part of the Zerg troops to bypass the shield force field before breaking out of the ground.

They would rather endure the turret fire on the ground than be torn into pieces by the drilling beasts underground.

In this way, the role of the tunnel worms is infinitely reduced. They can no longer continue to carry out raids deep behind enemy lines and can only barely bypass the shield force field, giving the Zerg troops a chance to enter the base.

However, even if the Zerg go through great pains to enter the shield field, there are still a large number of defense systems waiting for them in the base city.

AI machine gun arrays are deployed in each area, and a large number of small hard light turrets are like a forest of giant trees, forming an imposing steel jungle.

As soon as the tunnel worms transported their troops here, they were torn apart by the dense firepower network, and they still could not approach the core area where the key stone was placed.

In this wave of underground battles, the Universal Corporation relied on the advantages of the drill beasts to completely crush the Zerg's plan of a sneak attack from behind.

As time went by, the outside of the shield force field had already been covered by the Zerg's fungal blanket.

Dense swarms of insects rolled and surged on it, extending all the way to the end of the horizon, as if the entire planet was submerged in insects.

In addition, there were still countless airdrop capsules falling from the sky. Each airdrop capsule was like raindrops melting into the ocean, causing some ripples in the endless sea of ​​insects.

More Zerg are joining the battlefield!
Under the threat of the drill beasts, the tunnel worms no longer dared to go deep into the core area of ​​the front-line base. They could only pop their heads out of the ground from time to time like gophers to help some Zerg troops bypass the shield force field.

However, as more and more drilling beasts arrived, the casualty rate of tunnel worms was gradually increasing.

Nowadays, the entire front-line base of the Universal Corporation is in chaos from the inside out, with endless Zerg outside constantly attacking the shield force field.

There were Zerg troops popping up from time to time, engaging in fierce battles with the AI ​​sentry robots and turrets in the city.

Although the existence of drill beasts caused the death rate of tunnel worms to soar, the number of Zerg was large enough, even the drill beasts were killing like crazy.

However, it still couldn't stop the Zerg from "smuggling" into the base.

Finally, under the endless waves of Zerg attacks, a few blocks of the front-line base have fallen, and these defense systems have been reduced to ruins and occupied by the Zerg's fungal blanket.

However, these losses are acceptable.

Just as David Martinez had initially expected, the Queen of Blades concentrated most of her forces at the front-line base.

As for other defense system positions, although they were also attacked to varying degrees, they were all within the range that they could withstand and were far from strong enough to quickly destroy the turret facilities.

"These bugs are really crazy. Their casualties have probably already exceeded one hundred trillion!"

Johnny Silverhand was stunned as he watched through the hard-lit screen of the headquarters. After fighting for so many years, this was the first time he had seen such a scene.

After all, the world's giant companies rarely engage in tug-of-war with their opponents. First, it is unnecessary, and second, it wastes too much resources and time.

As long as I can kill the enemy in one move, I won’t waste any more effort.

At this moment, the Zerg surrounding the giant enterprise's front-line base seemed to have turned on the accelerator, wriggling and gnawing at the shield force field more frantically.

On the one hand, the energy magnetic field emitted by the key stone has a natural attraction to the Zerg. On the other hand, the Queen of Blades can no longer hold back and wants to expand the results of the invasion as quickly as possible.

She doesn't have much time left, but she still hasn't gotten the deadly Xel'Naga artifact!
If we don't speed up and eliminate this fatal hidden danger as soon as possible, all of these insects will be wiped out when the key stone is fully charged.

As the defense systems of the various divisions of the Universal Corporation tried their best to resist, the command and will of the Queen of Blades once again echoed in the minds of every combat unit of the Zerg:

"Speed ​​up the attack--!"

In order to achieve war results faster, the Queen of Blades maximized the potential of all the bugs that were attacking the frontline bases of the giant companies. As long as they could cause more damage to the shield field, it didn't matter if they lost some health points.

Not to mention a casualty ratio of 1 to 10,000, even if it's a casualty ratio of 1 to 100,000 or 1 million, the Zerg in the Koprulu sector can afford it!
This battle concerns the fate of the Zerg, and the Queen of Blades is ready to fight to the death.

In this regard, Li Ang remained unmoved and waited patiently for the time to pass.

As the Queen of Blades issued orders, more advanced Zerg troops began to appear on the battlefield.

In addition to the hydralisks and cockroaches that had appeared before, corruptors with squid tentacles, bird-like beaks, and swollen cysts appeared in the sky.

They attacked with even more ferocious firepower, launching destructive attacks on the shield field.

Under normal circumstances, Corruptors only appear in areas of more evolved Hives.

This advanced insect can use its tentacles to generate a powerful electromagnetic force field, distorting the nearby gravity and allowing itself to fly into the air.

The Corruptor attacks by spraying parasitic spores from its sac fluid, or by spitting out dark green corrosive venom, using strong acid to continuously damage shields.

But no matter which attack method the Corruptor used, the damage to the shield force field was extremely exaggerated. Therefore, the internal AI turrets had to adjust their direction and focus their firepower on these disgusting and terrifying high-level insect units.

However, the Corruptor's defense is far better than that of the Dragon.

The surface of its seemingly bloated body is covered with bulbous neuronal shells. When hit by other objects, these tissues will turn into foam and absorb the objects.

This is like the reactive armor of a tank, providing excellent protection against anti-aircraft missiles.

After use, the damaged neuronal tissue will be discarded and new neurons will continue to grow at the original location, allowing the Corruptor to absorb more offensive firepower.

They can also cause greater damage to the shield field of the giant enterprise.

As expected, after sending out a large number of Corruptors, the rate at which the shield force field was depleted soared.

The tunnel worms underground also risked their lives to fight the drill beasts. As long as they could escort the Zerg troops into the interior of the base, their mission would be accomplished.

The hydralisk's highly poisonous spines fired at the same time, turning into a torrential rain and falling down. Although each spine would be bounced off by the shield force field, it was still under the dual corrosive attack of physical and chemical corrosion.

The shield force field of the front-line base obviously cannot last until the key stone is fully charged!

What’s even more terrifying is that a thunder beast has appeared not far away. Once such a huge siege-class beast hits, it will be very dangerous.

Even the interception force field of the Protoss Mechanical Sentinels would be trampled into slag. There are not many defensive facilities that can stop the impact of the Thunder Beast!
At this moment, seeing that the shield value displayed on the holographic screen was less than 30%, Paul felt increasingly uneasy.

If they were allowed to charge over, their shield force field would probably collapse completely on the spot, and the thunder beasts would be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

"This Blade Queen is so patient that she hasn't come here yet!"

Paul looked at the image on the holographic screen and saw that the Zerg fleet's flagship, Leviathan, was still firmly anchored in low-Earth orbit.

If an accident happens, the Queen of Blades can run away at any time.

David Martinez thought for a moment and decided that the shield field must be maintained as much as possible to delay enough time.

Therefore, they must not use the shield force field to withstand this wave of thunder beasts' attacks.

Finally, David gave the order: "Open the ground barrier and concentrate the remaining shield force field energy to resist the Zerg air forces."

This is also a helpless move. Leaving half of the shield force field to block the Zerg air force is better than destroying the entire force field.

As for releasing Zerg units such as Ultralisk and Zerglings, it doesn’t matter. The giant company’s front-line base has set up enough defense systems anyway.

We can still fight these bugs for a while.

If the situation really becomes desperate, there are still Scorpion Tailed Lion virus spores waiting for these bugs!

After receiving the order to open part of the shield force field, Paul immediately contacted Pani on the other side and asked: "Pani, we are going to open the shield force field on the ground."

"How is the situation over there?"

Looking at the Zerg troops surging outside, Pani responded truthfully:

"Honestly, the situation is not good. I estimate that within 15 minutes, the springtails outside will jump on my face and tickle me."

The AI ​​turret array in charge of Pani was constantly emitting brilliant blue light, killing the Zerglings that crawled above the shield force field like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

However, as soon as the gap was blasted open, it was filled up by the Zerglings behind it, leaving the shield force field no chance to breathe.

Some AI turrets began to smoke and combust due to energy overload. The Zerg's continuous attack left the turrets no chance to stop.

Even if the turret collapses due to overload, a new AI turret will replace it.

If this had been a human soldier firing a weapon, he would have probably lost his mind.

After all, to deal with these endless bugs, they could only weld guns to their own hands and shoot at the bugs the whole time.

This is the liberation of human labor by AI automation. Indeed, the defense systems of the world's giant companies are solid enough to allow these people to sit back and watch the show safely.

Unfortunately, this good show will not last too long. In order to prolong the existence time of the shield force field, they can only allow some Zerg troops to penetrate into various areas of the base.

"Get your people back as soon as possible. We're going to use metal hydrogen bombs to clear the area."

Paul gave the order out loud.

"Yes!" Pani nodded and then led his men away.

At this moment, the missile silos in various front-line bases were pouring metal hydrogen bombs towards outer space and designated bombing areas.

Now that the Zerg has increased its invading forces, the giant corporations naturally also have corresponding defensive weapons.

It’s just that the weapons used by the various departments of the giant company are relatively conventional. In order to fight the Zerg as long as possible, Paul and others did not even use the MD-500 bullets of the Little Medic.

But even if high-lethality weapons were intentionally banned, the fireball produced by the explosion of the metal hydrogen bomb still caused considerable destructive effect on the Zerg forces.

Countless shining suns lit up in the dark deep space of the universe and then quickly went out. Countless flying dragons and airdrop capsules disappeared into outer space out of thin air.

However, even though more than half of the airdrop capsules were blocked by the giant company's defense system, a large Zerg force still successfully landed on the front-line base position.

If it were the human forces of the Terran Federation, they would have been overwhelmed by the Zerg in one wave long ago, unlike the Universal Corporation which has dragged on until now.

During this process, the thick-skinned and tough thunder beast showed its amazing vitality.

A miniature metal hydrogen bomb was thrown down, but it failed to kill the thunder beasts. They dragged their injured legs, healed themselves while running, and recovered as before in a short while.

Soon, the shield force field on the ground was activated as expected, and the insects lying on the force field fell down one after another and were trampled into meat paste by the insects behind them.

The dense swarm of insects rushed towards various areas of the front-line base like the backflow of sea water.

Suddenly, a large number of bugs emerged from the inner protective wall area, and larger and more AI hard light turrets immediately opened fire, organizing a new defense line.

The flamethrowers, gravity fields, particle cannons and other weapons at the bottom also restrict the Zerg invasion from various designated functional areas.

(End of this chapter)