16: The use of anchor points before a storm

The final twenty hours passed in suffocating silence. The Moon Base was like a crouching beast, all its fangs sharpened, every nerve stretched to its limit. Sun Zheng barely slept, staring intently at the radar screen and unit feedback, repeatedly simulating possible battle scenarios in his mind.

After the “Anchor Point” was set, he felt a little more at ease. He tried entering and exiting his homeworld space from beside the Combat Laboratory several times, and indeed, as the system said, the mental energy consumption was almost negligible, and the cooldown time was greatly reduced. This provided immense flexibility for his tactics.

The newly constructed second prism tank and five Rocket Troopers were in place, bringing the base's defensive strength to a new height. But Sun Zheng didn't relax at all—monitoring from the Combat Laboratory showed that the energy peak of the Scrin's second spatial warp was several times stronger than when they summoned the “devourer” last time!

Time ticked closer to the predicted latest deadline. Vibration sensors from the crater cave direction began to transmit abnormal data, with fluctuations becoming increasingly dense.

"They're here," Sun Zheng took a deep breath and sat up straight.

The moment the predicted time arrived—

"Boom!!!"

It wasn't from the direction of the cave, but high above the base! Terrifying energy ripped through the vacuum, and a spatial vortex several times larger than before suddenly opened! The powerful gravity even caused the lunar dust to subtly float up!

Immediately after, not one, but three massive shadows slowly descended from the vortex!

The one in the middle was precisely the devourer tank they had fought before, but its size was even larger, and its armor shimmered with a stronger energy glow! On either side were two never-before-seen Scrin units!

The one on the left resembled a floating jellyfish, with glowing tentacles swaying beneath its translucent body, emitting a powerful energy field—[Scrin "Stormcaller", advanced psionic unit, adept at area-of-effect energy attacks and mental interference].

The one on the right looked like a giant metallic starfish with multiple mechanical arms, and a constantly rotating drill at its center—[Scrin "Eradicator", heavy siege unit, adept at breaching defenses and digging tunnels].

An enhanced devourer, a psionic unit, and a siege unit! This was clearly a fully functional siege squad!

"All units! Maximum alert! Enemy air-drop! Anti-air firepower, full blast!" Sun Zheng roared his command. He hadn't expected the enemy to air-drop directly onto the base this time!

Almost simultaneously with the command, the floating "Stormcaller" unit glowed fiercely, and countless dense arcs of electricity rained down like a storm!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!"

"Ah!"

Intense electrical sparks erupted on the surface of the patriot missile arrays and several prism towers. The system reported that the defense towers' electronic systems were being interfered with, and their firing rate and accuracy had significantly decreased! Even more terrifying, several American Soldiers in the front row were hit by the electric arcs, experiencing brief confusion and beginning to shoot at each other!

"Mental interference! All infantry units activate mental shielding! Retreat!" Sun Zheng's heart tightened. This energy unit was too effective against infantry!

"patriot missiles, lock onto the 'Stormcaller'! Fire!"

"prism towers, prioritize attacking the 'devourer'!"

The surviving defense towers fired valiantly. patriot missiles ascended, but the "Stormcaller" seemed to have an energy shield around it; the missiles exploded upon impact, with little effect. prism tower beams shot towards the enhanced "devourer", which its thick armor resisted, causing damage but not proving fatal.

At this moment, the "Eradicator" moved! Its central drill spun wildly, plunging into the lunar surface, and its entire body rapidly burrowed underground!

"Not good! It wants to breach defenses from underground!" Sun Zheng instantly understood its intention. Neither prism towers nor patriots could hit underground targets!

"Engineers, immediately check underground structures! multifunction infantry vehicles carrying Rocket Troopers, patrol mobilely, attack immediately if any ground anomaly is detected!"

"grizzly tanks, prism tanks, confront the 'devourer' head-on! Don't let it get close!"

The battlefield instantly plunged into extreme chaos. In the air was the continuously releasing electric arcs of the "Stormcaller", head-on was the relentlessly advancing, fiercely firing enhanced "devourer", and underground lurked the "Eradicator", which could burst out from anywhere! The base's defense system was completely tied down, even suppressed!

A multifunction infantry vehicle had just driven to the side of the base when the lunar surface beneath it suddenly exploded! The "Eradicator" burst out of the ground, its mechanical arms coiling around the infantry vehicle like giant pythons!

"It's over!" The crew's hearts sank.

At this critical juncture, a glint flashed in Sun Zheng's eyes!

"Now's the time!"

He locked onto the multifunction infantry vehicle and its crew, which were about to be destroyed, and simultaneously activated his homeworld space ability with full power! Because the "Anchor Point" was nearby, this teleportation was unusually easy!

Whoosh!

Just as the "Eradicator"'s mechanical arms were about to close, the entire multifunction infantry vehicle, along with the soldiers inside, vanished into thin air!

The "Eradicator"'s mechanical arms grabbed nothing, and its central sensor flickered a few times in confusion.

The next moment, beside the Combat Laboratory, space rippled, and the multifunction infantry vehicle reappeared there, completely unharmed! The crew members, still shaken, exchanged bewildered glances.

Sun Zheng had no time to explain, immediately activating his ability again to teleport them and the vehicle to the other side of the hole where the "Eradicator" had burst out!

"Hit its underside! That's its weakness!" Sun Zheng roared through the communicator.

The crew members reacted instantly, unleashing all their firepower from the vehicle-mounted machine gun and the Rocket Troopers' shoulder-fired missiles onto the relatively vulnerable underside of the "Eradicator", which had just emerged from the ground and hadn't yet adjusted its posture!

"Boom boom boom!"

The unexpected strike exploded on the "Eradicator"'s underside, causing it to emit a sharp shriek and its movements to instantly freeze!

Sun Zheng successfully used the spatial Anchor Point to complete a brilliant tactical rescue and counterattack!

However, before he could celebrate, the energy readings on the main screen once again maxed out! The "Stormcaller" seemed to be enraged, abandoning area interference and concentrating all its energy into its top tentacles, forming a terrifying, massive plasma sphere over ten meters in diameter!

Its target, directly—the Command Center!