Chapter 373 The ever-flowing life machine? Juqi brand highly effective insecticide!

At this moment, although the front-line troops of the giant company have withstood the attack of the Zerg tide, the fungal blanket has spread to a large area of ​​​​living corners, and the signs of spreading seem difficult to stop.

The dense queens on the fungal blanket are constantly injecting essence into the hatchery, which further accelerates the reproduction speed of the Zerg.

As more and more living organs infect and spread to various areas of the planet, some more dangerous new forms of Zerg creatures are also brewing in the eggs.

Seeing the amazing reproduction and raiding capabilities of the Zerg, everyone in the Wanjie Base was amazed, especially Francis, the director of the Biotechnology Department.

In his opinion, the Zerg is simply a perfect biological weapon that is no less than the Flood. If the Zerg can be conquered, the cost of the army of the giant company can be reduced by a large amount!

"David and his team are really unlucky. They just chose a planet with more species. If they landed in a desert or a lifeless planet, the Zerg here would have been dealt with long ago."

Johnny Silverhand clicked his tongue and shook his head.

He could see that these Zergs expanded their population by devouring and absorbing the flesh and nutrients of other creatures.

As long as there are not enough resources for them to absorb energy and essence, the reproduction momentum of these Zergs will soon stop.

But in this situation, I am afraid that some large-scale lethal weapons must be used!

Paul also had the same idea as Johnny. Through this confrontation, Paul also deeply felt the horror of the Zerg.

Before the headquarters of the giant company made the next decision, a large number of cockroaches had broken out of the fungus mat and began to move towards the defense line of the giant company.

This so-called "cockroach" unit is not the cockroach on Earth, but a creature that looks like a turtle, with a heavy shell and claws on its back.

Its head is almost completely retracted into the thorny shell, revealing only the fierce fangs and sharp teeth, which makes people feel chilling.

The cockroach is much larger than the springtail. If the springtail is the basic infantry unit of the Zerg, then the cockroach is equivalent to the tank of the Zerg.

Its heavy biological armor is enough to prove the excellent protection ability of the cockroach.

The carapace on the cockroach is synthesized from rare earths and metals in the soil. The hardness of this special biological carapace is almost comparable to the alloy material forged by human industry.

What's more terrifying is that even if this carapace is broken, it can be restored by the substances in the soil.

This planet with a good ecological environment and rich resources is simply a paradise for cockroaches!

In addition, the ability to grab soil components also makes cockroaches extremely good at digging.

As soon as this batch of cockroaches hatched, they quickly used six digging claws to pierce the ground, sneaked to the defense line of the Universal Giant Enterprise Force, and then broke out of the ground.

This scene is quite like the miner zombies digging the soil and sneaking around in "Plants vs. Zombies".

At this moment, Bumblebee was holding a flamethrower, burning the surrounding bugs into ashes, and suddenly a cockroach jumped in front of it.

Bumblebee's first reaction was to aim the flamethrower at the cockroach, but the scorching fire failed to burn the bug instantly!

Logically speaking, biological weapons like the Zerg, no matter how powerful they are, are just carbon-based creatures. Facing high-temperature burning, they should soon turn into charcoal.

But this cockroach with a heavy shell was able to run rampant in the flames without any damage, and even counterattacked, spitting a ball of high-concentration acidic venom at the Bumblebee.

"What the hell is this thing, how can it not burn to death!"

Bumblebee was obviously stunned for a moment. It had never expected that there would be a creature that could withstand the high-temperature burning of the flamethrower.

In a brief trance, Bumblebee's left arm was hit by the cockroach's acidic poison.

In an instant, the highly corrosive venom melted and decomposed Bumblebee's metal armor at a speed visible to the naked eye, corroding its mechanical arm to the point where the skeleton and circuit structure inside could be seen.

Such a deadly Zerg unit made Bumblebee dare not be careless anymore. It urgently avoided the venom splash of the cockroach and smashed the flamethrower in its hand at the opponent.

Since cockroaches are not afraid of the burning of flame weapons, the flamethrower is useless.

Just as Bumblebee was thinking about how to deal with the cockroach in front of him, Optimus Prime jumped from the side and used the hard light mantis knife that popped out from his wrist to cut off the body of the cockroach in one stroke.

Facing the ultra-high energy hard light weapon, the hard shell body of the mantis is still a little fragile.

"I have reported the situation here to the headquarters. It seems that we have to use large weapons to completely exterminate these damn bugs."

Optimus Prime reminded Bumblebee that even these Transformers would feel a little helpless in dealing with the ever-changing Zerg.

Bumblebee looked at the hideous wound that had corroded the arm line. Although the wound did not hurt, it was indeed a big loss for him this time.

"Ordinary guns and cannons can no longer do anything to this thing. It has to be bombarded with hard light cannons to be effective."

Bumblebee said while calling the Veronica system.

Immediately, a flying parts assembly box appeared, quickly dismantling and replacing Bumblebee's damaged arm, making it look brand new.

Veronica is the most advanced battlefield auxiliary response system in the Universal Corporation.

When a soldier is short of ammunition or needs to replace armor parts, these floating assembly boxes will respond quickly.

For example, replace a new steel arm for Bumblebee and rejoin the battle.

The same thing happened in other Megacorp defense lines. After the cockroaches joined the battlefield, the Zerg, which had just been suppressed, came back to life and launched a wave of counterattacks.

Ordinary hard light series rifles or blaster rifles can't cause much damage to the thick shells of cockroaches.

Flamethrowers that are fatal to springtails are useless against cockroaches. Coupled with the skill of being able to burrow underground, this caused the Megacorp troops' defense line to become unstable.

The acidic venom of cockroaches can cause strong corrosion to metals, and even Transformers can hardly resist it.

After fighting for so long, the Astartes warriors, whose power armor was already worn out, had to be cautious in the face of these elusive cockroaches.

After all, ceramic steel armor is not a universal protective gear.

Seeing this, the troops of the Universal Megacorp can only retreat, re-establish a new defense line, and continue to fight against the crazy attack of the Zerg tide.

Fortunately, not long after, the giant enterprise mothership in the sky sent more large war machines.

For example, the hunter mecha team, which is as high as 50 meters, - Storm Red, Danger Wanderer and other heavy mechas.

Thanks to the popularization of transforming metal, these behemoths weighing tens of thousands of tons have transformed from their initial clumsy form to sensitive combat machines.

The giant mecha can be regarded as a super Plus version of Transformers. When the high-explosive bombs it carries fall on the Zerg, even cockroaches will be blown to pieces.

With the arrival of the support of the hunter mecha, the ground forces of the Universal Enterprise have stabilized the front again, and this tug-of-war is tilted towards the giant enterprise.

In the Wanjie base, seeing that the battle on the front line has not been able to stop, Li Ang also feels that it is time to end this war test.

With the rich resources on this planet, the evolution of the Zerg will never end until the living creatures on the entire planet are squeezed out, and the giant enterprise can stop.

But by that time, the ground forces of the Universal Enterprise will have been exhausted.

Anyway, the soldiers of the giant enterprise have seen the power of the Zerg, and it is time to end the raging Zerg wave.

"Let David release the Scorpion Tail virus and prepare to clean up the battlefield."

When Leon's order was conveyed to the flagship of the front-line troops, David Martinez was a little reluctant at first. He really wanted to fight this group of Zerg for 300 rounds to try.

After all, David has fought for so long, and he has never seen any Zerg that can change into so many forms to cope with different battlefield environments.

In a way, the Zerg is one of the few opponents that can fight the ground forces of the giant enterprise.

The review value and quality of this battle are much greater than their usual training!

[All combat units are ready to retreat, and the Scorpion Tail virus will be released next. The Hunter Mech Team will stay in place and wait. ]

When David's order was transmitted to the headsets of the ground troops through the internal channel, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, this group of Zerg is much more difficult to deal with than they imagined. If it weren't for their firepower reinforcement, they might have been torn apart by now.

Even many Astartes warriors feel a little tired after this ground battle. The average damage of their power armor has reached more than 60%.

If the tug-of-war continues, there will be a large number of casualties!

Fortunately, the winning magic weapon of the giant enterprise has never relied on human lives to fill the battlefield, but on the dimensionality reduction strike that crushes the opponent to death.

It's time to show the real power of the universe giant enterprise to those damn bugs!

As the warships of the expeditionary corps received the command from the flagship, a large number of black spore viruses began to fall from the sky, and the spores as erratic as coconut charcoal powder fell on the battlefield.

At this moment, countless insect eggs are still tirelessly absorbing the essence of nutrients around them, preparing to hatch the next batch of main forces of the swarm.

These eggs also include a lot of Universal Corporation troops, advanced Zerg arms that have never been seen. In short, the Zerg's underlying logic is only one, that is, conquest.

As long as there are resources and life essences for them to grab, the Zerg's attack will never stop until the entire planet becomes a breeding ground for the Zerg.

However, Universal Corporation will no longer play this boring war game with them.

After all, the next to appear is the high-dimensional demon's efficient insecticide!

When the black spores in the sky covered the light of the stars and sank like mist, the queen who was busy injecting eggs couldn't help but look up at the sky.

It tried to see what was about to fall on the Zerg's head. During this period, the queen kept blinking her dark eyes, feeling confused.

Finally, the spores of the manticore virus, which symbolizes death, fell on the Zerg's fungal carpet.

The crawling and wriggling insects, and the insects that have not yet hatched, quickly decomposed, merged, and changed in an instant.

Their nutrients were all rewritten into the composition of the manticore virus spores.

These insects watched their bodies being slowly dismembered by spores and turned into the same black powder.

Seeing such a strange scene, many insects mistakenly thought that their own kind had mutated, so they turned around to kill and devour the insects that were being sporeized.

Soon, a large-scale mutual devouring and fighting occurred within the Zerg. Paul and his group did not even need to do anything, they just stood there and watched the show.

Such a shocking scene that makes people's scalps numb is rare.

Not long after, the Zerg discovered that devouring their own kind who had mutated into spores did not seem to be able to suppress this genocidal virus attack.

They desperately grabbed resources and attacked the giant enterprise troops and the living creatures around them, trying to accelerate reproduction and offset the demise of the Zerg by the spores.

But unfortunately, the spread of the spore virus was much faster than the reproduction speed of the Zerg. It didn't take long for tens of thousands of eggs to be killed.

The high-level Zerg troops such as flying dragons, thunder beasts, and infected insects were decomposed and melted into ashes by the spore virus before they were formed, and were completely annihilated on this planet.

Of course, the killing of the spores of the manticore virus is aimed at all creatures that are not giant enterprise combat units, including local creatures.

In order to completely eliminate the Zerg with excellent reproduction ability, the giant enterprise can only do this, which is more humane than using neutrons to kill all life on the planet.

After cleaning up the spore crawlers on the fungal blanket, the AI ​​drone of the giant enterprise returned to the battlefield again and dropped incendiary bombs to burn all the fungal blankets.

The rest of the troops cleaned up the battlefield and continued to help the engineering department participate in the construction of the front-line base.

After this sudden insect pest was resolved, Paul also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If he relied on himself alone, he would definitely not be able to deal with these insects.

Fortunately, standing behind him was the Universal Giant Enterprise that spanned the multiverse!

At this moment, the ground forces of the giant enterprise were still searching the ground to find out whether there were any fungal blankets that had not been cleared. They had to make sure that it was clean enough and there was no threat left.

Under the arrangement of David Martinez, the front-line base of the giant enterprise began to carry out normal construction work, and Paul also returned to the flagship headquarters and made a post-war report to the headquarters with David.

The scientific research team on the battleship took the fungal blankets collected by the AI ​​drone and the fragments of the Zerg corpses back to the laboratory for analysis and research.

David and Paul faced the screen and reported the war damage to the top executives of the giant enterprise at the headquarters.

The good news is that even after such a fierce battle, there were no casualties among the ground forces of the giant enterprise, only injuries of varying degrees.

There were only a lot of damaged AI drones, but in the face of the powerful industrial system productivity of the giant enterprise, this loss was completely insignificant.

However, after this battle, although there were no casualties in the ground forces of the giant enterprise, everyone was extremely aware of the dangers of the "StarCraft" universe.

If there were not enough strategic weapons as a backup, I am afraid that even if the giant enterprise took human lives to fill the battlefield, it would not be able to integrate this universe.

"Continue to explore externally, collect more intelligence information, and report to the headquarters immediately if there is any situation."

Li Ang knew that the situation in the "StarCraft" universe was quite complicated. What he should think about now is how to gain a foothold here and take the five keystones as soon as possible.

"Yes."

After the conversation ended, David quickly took over the planet and released more AI drones to explore this area of ​​the star system.

In addition, he also built a planetary energy shield force field here to prevent the Zerg airdrop capsule from invading again.

Although this cannot completely prevent the occurrence of danger, it can at least reduce the probability of the front-line base being occupied by the Zerg.

Watching the front-line base being built in an orderly manner, Leon, standing in front of the central console, began to wonder whether there would be other Zerg troops in this galaxy.

Logically speaking, the Zerg should not waste resources to deploy traps in this galaxy, which is obviously wrong.

Just as Leon was lost in thought, the front-line troops sent the latest AI drone reconnaissance results.

Sure enough, they found a continent covered with purple-red fungus blankets on another planet in this star system, just like a Zerg base camp!

"This... Is this the Zerg's nest?"

When Morgan Blackhand witnessed this scene, his hands and feet felt goose bumps. Densely packed insects entrenched in every corner of the continent, devouring each other and breeding new insects.

Like a life machine that never stops.

If someone unfortunately falls into this sea of ​​insects, they will merge into the other party in less than a second.

[According to our information collection, there are the remains of artificial satellites in the orbit of this planet. After data analysis, we found some weak distress signals on it. ]

[I think there is a high probability that it is a human colony planet, but the Zerg invaded here and they couldn't hold on. ]

David Martinez reported the intelligence to the headquarters truthfully.

Hearing this, Leon quickly reacted to the real intention of the Zerg.

They first attacked the human colony in this galaxy, and then deployed a large number of airdrop capsules along the way. As long as the human fleet passed by or landed on a planet, it would be ambushed immediately.

Classic tactics of besieging a point and attacking reinforcements.

"So, we just happened to encounter the trap carefully arranged by the Zerg, and we were hit right at the beginning."

Morgan also reacted quickly and shook his head with a smile. He didn't need to think about it to know that the real target of the Zerg was the fleet of the Terran Federation.

As a result, David cleared the mines for them first.

"Since we have encountered the trap of the Zerg, they will soon know that there are uninvited guests here."

V said thoughtfully that he was worried that the Zerg would send its main force to come here. If the other side had any means to isolate the Scorpiontail virus spores, it would be troublesome.

Leon was not worried about the main force of the Zerg, but he was worried that the Zerg would regard the Universal Corporation as its main target of attack, which would undoubtedly cause the integration cost of the Corporation to soar rapidly.

He came to the StarCraft universe to be a "fisherman", not to play snipe and clam with the Zerg.

"Yes, I think the Zerg will soon notice something is wrong and send out reconnaissance worms to search here. At that time, we will still be attacked."

Johnny Silverhand also echoed.

In his opinion, this place is no longer suitable as the front-line base of the Corporation. It is the right choice to run away as soon as possible. Staying here and being shot at by others is what a fool would do.

Leon nodded thoughtfully. He looked at the hard light screen and asked David: "How far is the nearest star system from here?"

[About two light years, at the speed of our fleet, it is just a blink of an eye. 】

David Martinez responded that the fleet of the giant enterprise had already been equipped with superluminal engines, and this distance was not worth mentioning for them.

Leon did not immediately issue an order to evacuate, because in the current situation, it is better to stay still than to move.

If they encounter the Zerg fleet or the Terran Federation fleet on the way, there will be some unnecessary troubles.

Just when the senior executives were arguing about whether to retreat or stay, Paul Atreides suddenly said:

[Commanders, before deciding whether to retreat, I have a risky plan, maybe you can try it! 】

At this time, Paul's volunteering attracted everyone's attention. Leon raised his eyes and looked at Paul on the other side of the hard light screen, nodding to signal him to continue.

[I suggest cleaning up the planet that has been occupied by the Zerg, but before that, I want to lead the team to go deep into the planet to find the source of the distress signal. 】

Paul's confusing words made all the senior executives look confused. Since this place has been marked by the Zerg for occupation.

Even if the Zerg on that planet are cleared, the risk cannot be eliminated!

There is no need for them to waste Scorpiontail virus spores to remove the Zerg, and there is no need to send people there to rescue the humans whose lives are unknown.

The Zerg fungus blanket covering the planet is there. If they want to save the humans there, they cannot use the Scorpiontail virus that will accidentally hurt the local humans. They can only send team members down in person.

But doing so is basically the same as sending a head!

Just when Morgan Blackhand wanted to scold Paul for his risky move, Leon raised his hand to stop them and motioned Paul to continue.

Seeing that his boss Leon seemed interested in his ideas, Paul quickly seized this rare opportunity to show off, facing the top executives of the giant company calmly, and said in a stern and upright voice:

"Since our AI drone can receive the distress signal there, it means that there are still humans who hope to be rescued."

"If we can save them, maybe we can get more key intelligence information, and even form an alliance with the humans here!"

Since he has experienced the hardships of the "Star Wars" universe, Paul has felt more and more clearly the truth that those who are righteous will have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous will have few supporters.

Since he was able to meet the Rebel Alliance on Jedha and help the giant company to win over an armed force to fight back against the Galactic Empire.

Why can't he win over a human force for the giant company again in the "StarCraft" universe, so that they can join forces with the giant company to unify this universe.

Getting more intelligence information and forming an alliance with local human forces is Paul's entire plan.

In fact, this is the best breakthrough for this integration operation!