Chapter 364: The Will of the Hive: Wan La, are you coming for me? !
Bar Airspace.
I don’t know how long the space war lasted.
The huge muzzle of the macro cannon emits fire, and the light of the spear ray bursts out from time to time, and the torpedo sways its tail flame and crashes into the Tyranid creature.
The defense line formed by artillery fire is intertwined with the snarling Tyranids.
Although these artillery fire defense lines are tight, many attacks still cross the defense line and break out in the area of the ship.
The void shields twisted or were penetrated by the impact of living missiles, and the Tyranid predators galloped through the flames of bioplasma, ejecting spines strong enough to pierce the hull.
There are many tentacles made of flesh and blood adsorbed on the edges of the hulls of some large battleships.
Through the writhing movement of their muscles, they reveal huge, gnarled chitinous teeth that embed themselves into the hull, releasing swarms of metal-devouring Tyranids.
These creatures are like barnacles, adhering to the ship, trying to eat the metal that decomposes the hull.
More living weapons were destroyed in the violent explosion, and a large number of small Tyranid creatures and flesh and blood residues were splashed into space.
Become a floater.
These Tyranid creatures, which have long adapted to space, eject gas from their backs and push them towards the area of human ships.
They will work hard to get into every pipe, destroying and killing everything they see as much as possible.
His~
A slimy Tyranid predator crawled along the breach into the ship's corridor, gnawing at the unprepared shipwright.
"Savior, these damn aliens are endless!"
The strong man's voice sounded.
Following that, fierce explosive bombs came over, killing the alien hunting beast, but more slimy alien figures appeared.
"Brother, we should be grateful that we are still alive. At least it is much safer here than on the ground, if the damn aliens did not destroy this ship."
Another soldier continued: "Now this ship is our life, and it is also the responsibility given to us by the Savior, so feed those bugs more explosive bombs!"
Several Azure He stepped into this corridor with colored armored combat boots, and intensive gunshots rang out.
The intertwined bullet chains swept away all the alien life forms in the corridor.
That was the Savior's combat armor squad, cleaning out any Tyranids they could that had invaded the hull.
Another large ship power area.
"For the golden sun and the savior!"
A high-pitched war cry sounded, and the power hammer flashing with electric arc smashed the ferocious insect head into pieces.
The Red War Angel Terminator team teamed up to kill a Tyranid Tyrant, and then used flamethrowers to incinerate its body to prevent the acid in its body from corroding valuable ship parts.
However, the power gear still stopped suddenly, followed by white smoke and sparks.
Seeing this, the captain of the Terminator team immediately used communication to access the maintenance channel:
"It's time for the brothers in the maintenance department to work overtime. The power components in the A34 area are lying down and may start to burn. You'd better come here quickly..."
After that, he ignored the matter and quickly brought the The team left the area.
Go to the next battlefield.
Another big guy broke in there, I hope he didn't cause too much damage.
Bang~
The power gears burned with flames, making the dark space brighter.
The fire is about to spread to more areas.
Fortunately, Mechanical Sage Reina rushed over with the engineering team.
"Mechanical Goddess, put out the fire, put out the fire quickly!"
Reina cursed and uttered a very dirty binary curse: "010, why didn't those muscle guys destroy everything here when they fought? , so there’s no need to repair it!”
Based on the data detected by the electronic eye.
If the damage to the power components increases by another 5%, this area will be completely destroyed beyond repair, and the entire ship will lose 20% of its power.
In this way, the probability of a ship being destroyed in a war will increase by 10%.
The mechanical sage couldn't help but worry: "Judging from the current situation, there is a high chance that this ship will be destroyed by Tyranid aliens. The probability that I can survive tomorrow is less than 60% ..."
He didn't want to die just like that.
Because in one and a half standard Terra months, he would be able to get the rare mechanical goddess badge with collectible value.
For that rare badge.
He spent almost all his wealth on a very unpopular project, and he was about to get the results and receive the badge.
Reiner touched the two slightly dim badges with the mechanical goddess pattern on his chest. When the time comes, he can create the shining rare mechanical goddess badge entity as a decorative holy object. .
This way you will feel more confident when you go out, join better groups, and gain more skills.
"Oh, I hope I can live until that time..."
Reiner was a little depressed.
But he quickly thought of another thing and felt a little comfort.
If you unfortunately die in the war this time, you can also get a nice war honor mechanical goddess badge with flashing patterns.
It’s not like there’s nothing gained.
In this way, there will be three badges on his mechanical tombstone, which is at least not so shabby.
Of course, if you can survive, that is the best outcome.
Reiner thought as he entered the detected damage data into the mechanical brain.
Fire-fighting work in the power area continues.
“Hurry, the fire is spreading again!”
The technicians hurriedly pulled out the hose from the engineering vehicle and trotted to the burning area with the hose.
At this time, the flames had jumped to three or four meters high.
They pointed the hose at the burning area and pressed the valve, and a large amount of foam mixed with high-ignition point holy oil was sprayed out, covering the burning area.
The air-blocking foam quickly extinguished the flames.
Of course, what is more effective is holy oil.
Those holy oils with extremely high ignition points can very well soothe the machine soul and prevent it from becoming more irritable under the scorching flames.
The red and green lights on the engineering vehicle flashed, and the sound generator continued to play the mechanical goddess version of the binary hymn to further appease the machine spirit.
After the flame goes out.
The Mechanical Sage stepped on an octopus-like aircraft with mechanical tentacles to reach the damaged part of the power gear to repair it.
His robot hand quickly cleans the damaged area, refills it with new parts, and then performs closed welding.
Suddenly, the entire power zone shook.
The mechanical sage's attention was drawn to the source of the vibration. Through the reinforced glass porthole not far away, he could see the ship's huge macro gun muzzle, which was emitting thick smoke.
It was a large ship-based cannon nearly half a kilometer long, and it was adjusting its angle.
Boom!
A blazing light emerged, and the macro cannon shells flew out.
The shell flew towards the area where the Tyranid biological fleet was located at high speed, passing by many ferocious living creatures.
A huge tentacle swept over and tried to block it, but failed.
With a silent roar, the macrocannon shells luckily flew into the tentacle-covered mouth of the Tyranids.
Next second.
Explosive flames erupted from the body of the Tyranid Siren, and it fell apart during the rapid expansion, turning into pieces of meat floating in mid-air.
But soon tentacles swept away these dozens of meters long pieces of meat and recovered the biomass.
Not far behind these tentacle creatures, there is a huge, ferocious shadow in the starry sky.
That is Leviathan in space, a giant beast of the void that is thirty kilometers long and nearly five kilometers wide. Its huge size makes it the most eye-catching presence on the battlefield.
All prototypes of living biological ships, biological weapons, and Tyranid units are produced from this mother body, and its value is immeasurable.
It is also the trophy that the savior wants most.
However, judging from the current situation, no artillery fire can threaten the safety of this void beast.
The attacks of the human fleet were all blocked by the biological defense line.
On the chitin armor on Leviathan's body, there is a hole dozens of meters long, which was made by the demonic beast named Kabanha.
Dozens of worker insects are busy in the breach.
They store a lot of thick slurry in their stomach pouches, and then spit it into the breach through their tubular mouthparts, repairing it bit by bit.
This soft slurry quickly hardens, eventually forming a chitinous armor layer strong enough to withstand shipboard gunfire.
After a thin worker insect finished consuming the slurry, he immediately turned around and followed the tunnel into the interior of the void beast.
It needs to be filled with new slurry.
Inside Leviathan, transport tunnel.
In this cavity, countless Tyranids shuttle busily through it, adding a sense of vitality to the place.
The surface of the cavity is covered with a layer of tentacles similar to water plants. They are soft and delicate, swaying gently with the weak airflow in the cavity.
The thin worker insect was hit hard by other insects and smashed into the tentacles of a water plant.
But it has no anger or any sense of resistance.
As the lowest level unit, worker insects are not given the right to fight, or there is no relevant concept in the gene chain at all.
Whether it is the war inside or outside the biological ship, it has nothing to do with the workers living inside the biological ship, and they are not given the thinking to think about it.
Its only function is to work according to established procedures. It is enough to be able to maintain the biological ship well.
The thin worker insect that fell to the ground quickly climbed up from the tentacles of the water plants, tried hard to flapping its flippers back on the right track, and continued to slide towards the biomass pool.
This is the most familiar track in its genes. Over the past hundreds of years, I have continued to go back and forth on this passage countless times.
But now, the situation has changed.
In the node area of the cavity, there are always tentacles or arthropods hunting the worker insects that come and go.
Those Terenricat and the tyrants had many scars on their bodies and were hungry.
They stuff the captured workers into their mouths and eat them in large chunks, with sticky blood flowing down the tentacles around their mouths.
The workers and insects did not resist, or even did any evasive behavior, and still glided forward along the route in their memory.
Even the screams of the same kind around them did not cause them to react.
The hunting behavior of Tyranid war units is obviously abnormal because they have independent food grounds to supply biomass.
That means there is an ecological problem within the void beast, and the order has become unstable.
The skinny Tyranids were lucky not to be hunted and devoured.
Although its body was stained with the blood of the same kind, it seemed to know nothing about it and continued to move forward by flapping its flippers unhurriedly.
When the thin Tyranids arrived at the biological pool, their thinking finally changed slightly.
It floated blankly above the biological pool, somewhat at a loss.
Because this biological pool has completely dried up, the biomass solution that used to be full and continuous has disappeared.
This place has fallen into extreme hunger...
At this time, in the core chamber of the void beast.
Zila~
The arc of the brainworm array flashes, and more biological currents interweave, all of which affect the special sporangia linked to the brainworm array.
The old, wrinkled skin of the Leviathan Hive Will body wrapped in spores suddenly opened its eyes.
Its chest heaved violently, and there was a hint of fear deep in its compound eyes.
The ancient wisdom of the swarm is afraid. This extremely rare emotion is brought by the savior.
He brought too many blows to this ancient being.
The Hive Mind has completely understood that this battle was a mistake. From the Hades galaxy to the Baal galaxy, the shadow of the savior lies across the swarm.
Never dissipates.
To put it simply, this guy was psychologically affected by the savior.
The thinking of the Hive Mind becomes active:
"The loss of the swarm has reached an intolerable limit, and the tentacles of the Great Devourer must leave this land full of threats..."
According to the latest bioelectric information coming in, mass starvation has occurred and biomass pools are drying up one after another.
More trouble is.
Whether it is a space war or a ground war, the swarm is at a disadvantage and has no hope of victory.
The insect colony continues to shrink.
If we don’t evacuate in time, I’m afraid everything will be destroyed here.
The Hive Mind gave the order to retreat.
It ordered the Tyranid biological fleet to shrink its front and gradually gather together, preparing to collectively use the space channel to leave the Baal system.
For this failure and retreat, the ancient wisdom of the swarm did not feel too depressed.
Because this battle was not all in vain.
During the long front and raids into the central area, the Licat Assassins devoured many of humanity's elite, including military commanders, technicians, religious priests, and more.
He even accidentally devoured a savior's Thunder Guard.
Because Likart has the ability to retrieve memories, the Hive Mind obtained a large amount of information about the Savior's territory and the Savior from the memories of these people.
From the command system to the composition of the army and the execution of tactics, including many rare technologies and concepts.
This is knowledge that the Galaxy has never had before, and it is a huge gain.
Now the Hive Mind has digested all this and learned a lot of precious knowledge from it, which can further evolve the insect swarm.
not to mention.
The Tyranid swarm reproduces extremely quickly.
After the biological fleet leaves here safely, it will use this precious knowledge to cultivate new and more powerful insect swarms for further growth.
By that time, the swarm will be unstoppable!
This is the horror of the Tyranids. They can constantly learn and evolve. The stronger the enemies they encounter, the stronger they will become.
The original Leviathan was just a medium-sized insect swarm, but after devouring the Greenskin Empire, it became the most powerful insect swarm in the galaxy.
Now, it has encountered the savior's territory and absorbed the opponent's superior knowledge and technology, and will become even more terrifying!
“Perhaps, I should thank the savior for giving the swarm a chance to evolve!”
The Hive Mind became active again after absorbing the memory information about the savior. When I got up, the previous fear was gone.
It recorded this hatred.
When the insect swarm recovers again, the Savior will truly see the abyssal maw of the Planet Devourer.
The Hive Mind is confident that it will defeat the savior in the future, because no one knows the savior better than itself!
In those hundreds of human memories, there is a lot of information about the savior, especially the savior’s Thunder Guards, who contributed a lot of top-secret information about the savior.
The Hive Mind analyzed these human memories and the entire battle situation, eliminating the influence of religious worship, rights and other factors, and completely restored the character and behavior pattern of the savior.
That is really a terrifying and cunning human being...
After it learned more about the Savior, it made such an evaluation.
Fortunately, I have a deep understanding of that existence, which will provide considerable assistance to future wars.
To put it simply, this ancient swarm wisdom understands the savior, takes off the opponent's pants, and can use this to formulate targeted tactics!
The only thing it needs now is time. It needs time to recover and evolve the insect swarm and regain its strength.
The Hive Mind has stabilized its mentality, don’t panic, there will be a chance to win in the future!
Suddenly, new bioelectrical information came.
"The savior has left Baal and is... approaching the Hive Mothership?!"
The Hive Mind screamed, the activity of the brainworm array became more intense, and the CPU continued to heat up. .
This information completely panicked it.
Based on the previous analysis of the savior’s character.
He is an extremely cautious, conservative, and even timid human being. Especially in war, he is almost conservative to the extreme and is unwilling to take any risks.
And this is what is terrifying about him.
The terrifying armament coupled with the conservative and cautious character has enabled him to achieve great victory in every war he has experienced.
More trouble is.
He himself almost never appears on the battlefield. Only after he has mastered the absolute advantage and is sure that victory can be safely won, will he show up to take the final victory.
Now that the savior is coming to him, this means... that he is the final result!
This is an ending that the Hive Mind has never imagined. Humanity not only resisted the swarm, but also tried to eliminate itself?
How ridiculous this is!
If it were other humans, it might not be worried.
But that is the savior, an existence that will not take action without absolute certainty.
That scary existence is here, it’s no longer safe here!
The savior dared to come out of the fortress and launch a counterattack against him. What other terrible, insidious, and despicable means could he not do? !
"Retreat, get out of here immediately!"
The Hive Mind screamed and hissed.
It did not wait for the rest of the biological fleet, but ordered the Tyranids' leading creature, the narwhal insect ship, to take action immediately and lead the Leviathan hive mothership into the space compression navigation channel.
Just abandon those biological fleets.
As long as the insect nest mothership leaves here, the insect swarm will still have a chance to recover.
In the void.
The narwhal insect ship flew to the front of the fleet, and many biological ships gradually gathered around it to form a protective layer. The Tyranid pilot creature quickly used its complex senses to lock in its new position.
Then the space fluctuated, compressing a horizontal funnel-like channel.
However, the next second, something changed suddenly.
Boom——
A plasma warhead with amazing energy hit this area at an extremely tricky angle.
In an instant.
The plasma warhead exploded like a small star, causing a huge explosion. The high temperature almost destroyed everything around it and slightly distorted the space.
The living biological ship howled in the flames.
Wait until the hot heat dissipates.
"The retreat failed?"
The Hive Mind fell into a daze as it looked at the charred pieces of meat floating in the void and the narwhale insect ship that had turned over and was charred and twitching.
That was an attack that had never appeared in the battle, and the savior still had reservations!
(End of this chapter)