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109: Chapter 109 Warp to Mars! Olympus Hive!
Global Financial Center, 99th-floor indoor bathhouse.
Chu Feng stood up from the warm pool water.
His thoughts shifted, and the silver Rubik's Cube on the back of his left hand instantly melted.
Liquid metal spread rapidly along his arm, forming a form-fitting silver battle suit on his body within seconds, sealing off all moisture.
Top-floor helipad.
The Ghost-class assault ship spewed blue exhaust flames, carrying Chu Feng and his group as it soared into the sky, passing through the stealth defense grid and docking smoothly inside the hangar of the central black hole-class star destroyer.
star destroyer, bridge command center.
The holographic star map was spinning rapidly. Five massive black warships had already left Earth's orbit.
Chu Feng sat on the cold captain's throne.
Jessica wore a tight-fitting black combat uniform, her legs wrapped in tactical leggings.
Helena stood before the holographic tactical table, her hands sliding quickly as she made the final confirmation of the deployment coordinates for the ten thousand special troops.
Her blonde ponytail was tied high, her eyes focused.
Having stayed by Chu Feng's side for a long time, she had transformed from a first daughter who only understood political maneuvers into a qualified tactical adjutant.
"Master, the space jump engine has finished preheating. Coordinates set to Mars synchronous orbit."
Zero knelt to the left of the throne, data streams flickering in her water-blue eyes.
"Launch." Chu Feng took a sip of bitter black coffee to refresh himself.
The five steel behemoths, each five kilometers long, simultaneously erupted with blinding purple light from the dark matter reactors at their sterns.
The vacuum of space was torn open once again.
A massive wormhole slowly opened, swallowing the five star destroyers in one gulp.
Just three minutes later.
A violent distortion occurred in the space surrounding Mars.
Five black hole-class star destroyers appeared out of thin air, hovering steadily in the orbit of this red planet.
Through the panoramic screen, Chu Feng clearly saw the current miserable state of Mars.
This planet, originally covered in red dust and rocks, had undergone earth-shaking changes on its surface.
Looking down from space, a large expanse of hair-raising dark black patches had appeared near the equator of Mars.
These black patches were not stationary but were like some kind of living slime mold, spreading to the surroundings at a terrifying speed.
"Magnify the image." Chu Feng set down his coffee cup.
The image on the screen zoomed in rapidly, penetrating the thin atmosphere of Mars.
When the image clarity reached its peak, the women in the command center all gasped.
Alice even buried her face into the side of Chu Feng's thigh.
What black patches on the surface?
They were all bugs!
Hundreds of millions of Void Swarm were densely covering the red sand.
They were crowding and rolling over each other, greedily gnawing on all the metal minerals on the surface of Mars.
Wherever they passed, even the rocks had a layer of skin gnawed off.
The "Ripper" that had appeared in the video.
Here, they were just the lowest level of cannon fodder. Their numbers were so great that even the radar couldn't count them.
"Master, the scanning results are out."
The Hive's electronic voice echoed in the bridge.
"The current number of Void Swarm on the surface of Mars is about three billion. They are breeding crazily."
"The high-energy reaction source is located inside Olympus Mons on the northern hemisphere of Mars."
"The mountain has been completely hollowed out by the swarm and converted into a giant incubation nest. The core energy of Mars is being continuously extracted by the nest."
Olympus Mons, the highest known mountain in the Solar System.
It is over twenty thousand meters high, with an area comparable to a medium-sized country.
Now, the entire mountain had become a huge bug nest.
"Three billion bugs." Chu Feng tapped his fingers on the armrest.
The number was indeed astonishing.
But space warfare is never won by numbers.
"Five star destroyers, main guns charging. Aim at the dense area of the swarm on the equator for me." Chu Feng's eyes were cold. "Let's help them lighten their burden first."
The order was given.
The super-large gun barrels at the front of the five warships began to gather dark purple light. The surrounding space trembled slightly.
"Dark energy annihilation cannons charged. Fire."
Five dark purple beams with a diameter of one hundred meters instantly penetrated the Martian atmosphere and struck directly into the center of the black bug tide on the surface of the equator.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
The moment the beams landed, five bottomless giant craters were directly annihilated out of the Martian surface.
The Void Swarm within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, whether they were ordinary Rippers or larger mutated species, were left without even a drop of green blood under the devouring of dark matter, directly turning into nothingness.
Just one round of salvo.
At least tens of millions of bugs were instantly evaporated.
The originally impenetrable black bug tide was forcibly bitten with five huge gaps.
The swarm on the surface seemed to sense the threat from space.
Countless Rippers raised their heads and let out silent roars at the sky.
But they had no anti-aircraft weapons and could only wave their sickle-like appendages wildly in place.
"Fleet, lower altitude. Hover one hundred thousand meters above Olympus Mons." Chu Feng stood up.
The five star destroyers descended slowly, casting huge shadows on the surface of Mars, covering most of Olympus Mons.
"Drop the one thousand newly bred Heavy Armored Behemoths." Chu Feng walked to the tactical table. "I need to test their actual combat data."
The hatch at the bottom of the star destroyer opened wide.
One thousand huge black drop pods were ejected from the warships, dragging long trails of fire, smashing towards the foot of Olympus Mons like a meteor shower.
"Rumble!"
The drop pods smashed heavily into the red sand, kicking up clouds of dust.
The hatch burst open.
One thousand Heavy Armored Behemoths, five meters tall, stepped out with heavy strides.
They did not wear any mecha armor.
They were completely exposed to the thin atmosphere of Mars, relying solely on their terrifying bodies modified by the system.
Their muscles were like hard granite blocks, and their skin surface shone with a faint metallic luster.
The Heavy Armored Behemoths did not need to breathe oxygen; the cells in their bodies could directly absorb nutrients from the surrounding energy fields.
Their arms were modified into weapon firing platforms.
The left arm was embedded with a large-caliber multi-barrel Gatling machine gun, and the right arm was a six-tube micro-missile launcher.
Ammunition was generated in real-time directly by the micro-energy converter on their backs.
The huge commotion immediately attracted the swarm around the volcano.
Hundreds of thousands of Rippers gave up gnawing on minerals, turned, and like a black tsunami, rushed crazily towards these one thousand uninvited guests.
"Fire." The Heavy Armored Behemoth commander let out a low roar.
One thousand large-caliber Gatling machine guns began to rotate simultaneously.
"Hum—"
It was not the sound of traditional gunpowder weapons, but the tearing sound of high-frequency energy pouring out.
The dark blue energy barrage instantly intertwined into a death fire net, colliding head-on with the rushing bug tide.
The thousands of Rippers running in the front had their hard carapaces turned into paper in front of the energy barrage.
Green liquid splattered everywhere, and broken sickle appendages and broken insect bodies were blown into the air by the powerful kinetic energy.
The Martian surface instantly turned into a huge meat grinder.
The Rippers were extremely fast; they braved the dense firepower net, stepped on the corpses of their kind, and rushed to the front of the Heavy Armored Behemoths.
A few huge Rippers leaped high, waving their two-meter-long sharp sickles, slashing fiercely at the heads of the Heavy Armored Behemoths.
"Clang!"
The loud sound of metal colliding rang out.
The indestructible Zerg sickles, slashing on the skin of the Heavy Armored Behemoths, actually only left a shallow white mark.
Not even a drop of blood seeped out.
The physical defense of the Heavy Armored Behemoths had completely surpassed ordinary special alloys.
The attacked Heavy Armored Behemoth did not retreat at all.
He raised his thick right leg and kicked heavily into the belly of the Ripper in mid-air.
"Bang!"
The bug, weighing several tons, was kicked flying dozens of meters away, rolled a dozen times on the sand before stopping, green internal organs flowing all over the ground, twitching a few times before stopping moving.
Another Heavy Armored Behemoth swung the missile launcher on his right arm, like a hammer, smashing it fiercely onto the head of a bug next to it.
The huge force directly smashed the bug's hard skull to pieces.
One thousand five-meter-tall flesh-and-blood giants rampaged through the tens of thousands of swarms.
Artillery fire roared, fists flew.
It was pure power crushing.
Although the number of swarms was huge, they could not break through the defense of the Heavy Armored Behemoths at all, but were instead slaughtered in droves.
In the bridge command center.
Chu Feng looked at the real-time combat images uploaded on the holographic screen, and pinched Stussy's cheeks with satisfaction.
"Good defense. As a meat shield and firepower support point for position warfare, they are very qualified."
The unit unlocked with ten million Wealth Points was indeed worth the price.
With this group of humanoid tanks at the front, the conventional mecha troops behind could output firepower without any scruples.
"Let the Ghost Assassin and the Electromagnetic Disruptor go down too." Chu Feng continued to order.
Since they were here, he had to bring out all the new units to practice.
Five thousand Ghost Assassins wearing black nano combat suits and four thousand Electromagnetic Disruptors carrying electromagnetic coil backpacks quickly entered the drop pods.
The second wave of air drops landed at the foot of Olympus Mons again.
The Ghost Assassins had just landed.
The black nano suits on their bodies changed immediately.
As the refractive index of the ambient light changed, the figures of the five thousand people quickly faded on the red sand of Mars, and disappeared completely after a few seconds.
Even the mother ship's conventional radar lost their biological signals.
The next moment.
The rear position of the swarm suddenly became chaotic.
Many Rippers who were charging forward were beheaded while running without warning.
Green blood gushed out, and their huge bodies collapsed to the ground.
A faint blue light of high-frequency oscillating short blades flashed in the air.
The Ghost Assassins were like invisible reapers, harvesting crazily inside the swarm.
The bugs had no idea where the enemy was.
They could only wave their sickles wildly, and even slashed many of their own kind.
Meanwhile.
Four thousand Electromagnetic Disruptors, under the cover of the Heavy Armored Behemoths, began to advance.
The electromagnetic coil backpacks behind them made a low humming sound.
Strong biological electromagnetic pulses spread out from them to the surroundings.
Although the Void Swarm were evolutionarily biological creatures, their neuron conduction relied heavily on the biological electrical signals in their bodies.
The pulse swept across.
Large swaths of Rippers suddenly became staggering as if they were drunk.
Some were even paralyzed on the ground, twitching all over, completely losing their combat effectiveness.
The three major special units cooperated with each other, like a sharp scalpel, forcibly tearing a huge opening in the impenetrable sea of bugs.
They stepped on countless bug corpses and advanced step by step towards the entrance of Olympus Mons.
Suddenly.
A very dull roar came from inside the volcano.
The entire land of Mars began to tremble violently.
The red dust was shaken into the sky, obscuring the sun.
The energy readings on the holographic screen soared instantly.
"Master! There is a super-large high-energy creature rising rapidly inside the volcano!" Zero warned loudly.
The rocks at the edge of the crater shattered inch by inch.
A giant limb, hundreds of meters long and covered in sharp barbs, pierced directly through the mountain rock wall and was exposed to the air.