Chapter 1059 Vulture's Assault
Corell stared at the brain-like organ in the center of the incubation chamber and instantly understood the robot's intention.
He unbuckled his seatbelt and pulled out the survival kit from under the seat. "Are you sure you can remotely activate the torpedoes?"
R5's indicator light flashed rapidly, and it made an affirmative gesture with its robotic arm.
Jack was cutting the seatbelts with a dagger when three samurai bugs crashed through the canopy.
The corrosive saliva dripped onto his flight suit, and white smoke immediately came out of the shoulder armor.
He rolled out of the cockpit and fired continuously from his blaster pistol, shattering the nearest samurai bug's compound eyes.
";Now!";
Corell yelled and jumped off the wing. R5 immediately started the program, and the safety devices of the three proton torpedoes were released at the same time.
The five-second countdown begins.
Corell ran wildly on the slippery flesh wall, and the screams of the Zerg behind him were getting closer and closer.
He leaped into a vertical tunnel secreting digestive fluid, and the corrosive liquid instantly burned through his right leg armor.
With three seconds left on the countdown, he grabbed a hanging nerve bundle and swung towards the cluster of bone spurs protruding from the side.
A deafening explosion sounded behind him.
The chain reaction caused by the proton torpedo was much larger than expected. The fighter's fuel tank was detonated first, followed by the torpedo's fusion core.
The blue-white fireball expanded outward with the hatching cavity as its center. Wherever it went, the insect eggs were instantly vaporized, and the flesh wall tissue was carbonized and disintegrated in the high temperature.
The brain-like organ emitted a shrill bioelectric pulse, and the entire biological battleship began to twitch convulsively.
Corell was blown away by the shock wave and hit hard against a soft bubble.
He saw starlight flickering outside the dome of the chamber that had been blown through. That was the real universe.
The instinct for survival drove him to pierce the cyst with a dagger and use the gushing liquid to push himself into the crack.
In the last moment before he lost consciousness, he seemed to see the glory of the Emperor.
The moment Major Corell's X-wing fighter exploded in the belly of the biological battleship, the entire Zerg fleet seemed to be hit by an invisible hammer.
Later, according to verification, Major Corell should have killed a Tyranid node creature, forcing an entire swarm of Zerg into civil strife.
With the fusion reaction triggered by the proton torpedo, the central ventricle of the node organism was completely vaporized.
The remaining nerve bundles twitched like a dying python, releasing the last and most powerful pulse of psychic energy.
This out-of-control pulse propagated backwards along the Zerg's unique psychic network, instantly burning the neural nodes of twelve Zerg battleships.
The Zerg fleet that was besieging other Star Destroyers suddenly fell into a strange stillness.
Those biological warships that were originally precisely coordinated began to twitch irregularly, the weapon holes on the surface sprayed acid indiscriminately, and even poured artillery fire on their own kind.
The three cruiser-class biological warships closest to the explosion point disintegrated directly, exposing the immature insect eggs inside, which quickly froze into ice crystals in the vacuum.
On the holographic tactical screen, Admiral Reynard witnessed a miraculous scene as the originally neat swarm array began to devour itself.
The warrior worms that lost control of their ganglia suddenly attacked the knife worms next to them, while the gun worms fired acid at the nearest biological battleship.
This kind of infighting spreads exponentially, like a colony of ants being poured into boiling hot iron.
";Attention all units, the Zerg command system is paralyzed!";
The sensor officer's voice was distorted with excitement, "They are indiscriminately attacking all moving targets! Everyone! Start counterattack!"
At the edge of the battlefield, a hive carrier suddenly emitted a dazzling bioluminescence. It tried to reestablish the psychic network, but the collapsed psychic pulses had formed a fatal feedback.
The chitinous armor on the mothership's surface peeled off piece by piece, exposing the boiling organic matter inside.
With a scream that transcended the physical dimension, the twenty-kilometer-long behemoth exploded from the inside, and the splashing body fluids condensed into emerald ice rings in space.
As the Zerg swarm descended into chaos, the tactical AI on the bridge of a Star Destroyer was recalculating the battle situation at a rate of one trillion times per second.
In the light blue holographic projection, the red dots of light representing Zerg units were annihilating each other at an alarming speed, while the blue dots of light representing friendly forces began to condense into a cone-shaped array.
The counterattack officially begins.
B1 battle droid commander IG-1109 received special instructions.
The electronic eyes of this killing machine equipped with an independent tactical module suddenly turned from dark red to dark blue. It sent an attack order to all robots through binary broadcast, attacking and advancing at all costs.
Eight thousand vulture robot fighters changed course at the same time, their gyroscopes humming in overload and their ion engines emitting abnormal dark purple tail flames.
These war machines, which have no concept of fear, are constructing the Spear of Death in a perfect geometric array.
IG-1109's processor flashed a final logical judgment: "Sacrificing 97.3% of units can achieve the tactical goal." It activated the overload protocol without hesitation.
The first batch of 300 Vulture fighters crashed into the weak point of the Zerg's defense.
They released an electromagnetic pulse bomb 0.03 seconds before detonation, paralyzing the bioelectric defense field in the area.
The melta bombs carried by the second batch of 500 fighter planes immediately burned the flesh barrier at the gap into charcoal.
"Fuck! Look at what those battle robots are doing!"
Human pilots exclaimed in the communication channel. They saw the robot troops repeatedly hitting the same point with millimeter accuracy, and some Vulture fighters even used the wreckage to pave the way for subsequent units.
When the gap widened enough for the Star Destroyer to pass through, IG-1109 personally led the final elite formation to launch a charge.
The robot commander's fighter plane has been specially modified, with an antimatter reactor removed from the maintenance cabin mounted on its belly.
The moment it crashed into the core of the swarm, a miniature black hole-like ball of light swallowed up all matter within a three-kilometer radius.
This passage, paved with the wreckage of 189,631 robots, finally revealed the unprotected Tyranid warships in the rear.
The tide of the war was turned completely.
"All remaining fighters, immediately pass through the gap opened by the robots!" Admiral Reynard's order resounded throughout the fleet, "Concentrate firepower to attack the Zerg warships!"
The surviving X-wings and TIE fighters rushed towards the passage like arrows.
A surviving officer was flying a makeshift spare fighter, the cockpit filled with the smell of hemostatic gel. His helmet display kept flashing medical warnings, but his right hand always held the joystick tightly.
Surprisingly, the remaining Zerg biological warships began to show strange coordination.
The two cruisers suddenly merged into a larger organic body, spewing out a cloud of acid that covered the entire passage.
Just when the human fighter fleet was about to be destroyed, the remaining vulture robot troops made their final contribution. They took the initiative to fly into the acid cloud, neutralizing the corrosive substances with their metal bodies, and opening up a brief period of pure airspace for friendly forces.
"Fire!"
Seizing this opportunity, the first salvo reduced the three aircraft carriers to burning skeletons. The unprotected insect eggs were exposed to the vacuum radiation, and the immature biological fighters were distorted like melted wax figures.
The second round of bombardment focused on clearing out the nerve regeneration nodes, and the biological tissues that attempted to reorganize the command system were completely carbonized.
