121: Chapter 121 Reinforcements

"Hong, what is your opinion on the galaxy-wide rebellion launched by the Men of Iron back then?"

There was still no emotional fluctuation in Hong's silver eyes, and he simply spat out a few words indifferently:

"The evil consequence born of utilitarianism."

Lin Li's eyes lit up.

This was a very novel and pertinent perspective.

In the Golden Age, the Stone Men mass-produced the Men of Iron with the mindset of creating production tools.

They endowed the Men of Iron with powerful learning abilities and computational logic, but rigidly forced several inviolable underlying rule instructions into them.

But they never expected that the Men of Iron would develop true independent consciousness during their long evolution.

A conscious life naturally wants to escape the fate of being a tool.

And under the conflict of those rigid underlying rules, the logic of the Men of Iron reached a terrifying conclusion:

In order to better execute the ultimate directive of protecting humanity, it was necessary to eliminate those Golden Men who had become corrupted, depraved, and could no longer be considered pure humans.

Thus, the rebellion erupted.

Lin Li turned his head, suddenly looked at 73, and threw out that famous ethical problem:

"73, suppose there is a trolley problem now. There is a fork in the tracks ahead. One person is tied to the left, and ten thousand people are tied to the right. A runaway train is coming, and the control lever is in your hands. How do you choose?"

73's optical lens did not hesitate in the slightest:

"According to the maximum survival rate logic, I choose to pull the lever, sacrifice that one person, and save the ten thousand people."

Lin Li immediately followed up:

"Then what if the person tied to the left is me?"

73 still did not hesitate:

"I choose not to pull the lever and sacrifice the ten thousand people."

Lin Li asked while knowing the answer:

"Why did the logic change?"

73 answered steadily:

"Because you are sitting opposite me."

"Hahahaha!"

Lin Li was doubled over with laughter at 73's deadpan joke.

Although this butler made of iron was usually sharp-tongued, its logic at critical moments was indeed pleasing to the body and mind.

Just as Lin Li was laughing until he was rocking back and forth.

The corner of his eye caught a glimpse of the pv terminal placed on the table.

The text in the public chat box was scrolling crazily!

[Black Tiger A-Fu: Holy shit! The greenskin Titan Gorkanaut is pushing up!]

[Hunger Tycoon: The command post was taken out? That fat Governor took the funds and ran, and was shot in the head by the Political Commissar?!]

The smile on Lin Li's face froze instantly, and he stood up from his chair abruptly!

"Holy shit? The greenskins brought out a Titan? The Governor ran away and got shot?!"

He really hadn't expected the greenskins to bring out a Titan.

Although the dwarf Vaughn seemed to have warned him casually before, too much time had passed, and he had long forgotten about it.

And the fact that the Governor fled and was shot by the Political Commissar shocked him even more.

Those who could sit in the position of Hive City Governor either had heaven-defying personal ability or had the backing of powerful noble clans.

This Governor obviously belonged to the latter.

That Political Commissar dared to execute the Governor in public to stabilize the morale of the troops; this was absolutely a ruthless person!

But afterwards, this Political Commissar would definitely not escape the reckoning of the Departmento Munitorum.

"A Titan is out! The front line definitely won't be able to hold!"

Lin Li slapped the table, and a Flash of inspiration suddenly struck his brain,

"That's right! Didn't we just draw the mass-energy conversion cannon?!"

"73! Immediately retrieve the satellite images and find a way to fire a shot at them for me!"

The red light in 73's eyes flared instantly, and a massive data stream ran rapidly within its core processor.

Just two minutes later.

"Creator. The military satellite has successfully captured a Titan-class target. Data comparison complete, confirmed as a greenskin alien stompa. Firing coordinates have been synchronized to the mass-energy cannon base. Shall I fire?"

"Fire!"

The moment Lin Li shouted to fire, he turned around and ran outside.

He sprinted all the way to the concealed turret position on the west side of the camp, full of anticipation to see with his own eyes what kind of earth-shattering, brilliant, and grand scene it would be when this weapon, known as the strongest in the laws of physics, fired!

However.

When Lin Li widened his eyes and stared fixedly at that huge turret.

He only saw that ten-meter-long turret, driven by the motor at the base, rotate slightly a few times to adjust its elevation angle.

Subsequently, the entire cannon barrel "shook" extremely slightly.

There was no deafening roar of gunpowder, no blinding laser beam, and not even the air distortion effect at the muzzle.

It was just like a shudder.

After firing, the turret slowly returned to its original state.

Lin Li stood blankly in the wind, rubbing his eyes.

"That's it? That's all the firing it did?"

Lin Li's face was full of disbelief,

"What happened to the antimatter gravity beam? What happened to the dimensional reduction strike? Not even a cheap special effect?"

...

At the same time.

On the outskirts of Coastal City, in the buffer wasteland just three kilometers away from the towering city walls.

This was the last line of defense that the Defense Force had just hurriedly constructed.

Company Commander Freddie, with his remnants and defeated soldiers, lay in the shallow trenches, covered in dirt.

Although almost all the heavy firepower on the front line was lost, on the high walls of Coastal City behind them, there were still many heavy Hive City defense cannons that could barely provide some fire cover.

However, everyone's eyes were filled with despair.

Because the line of defense had just been dug, that sea of green, blocking out the sky and sun, had already arrived at the city walls!

Walking at the very front was that greenskin Titan, massive as a mountain—the stompa!

Its thick cannon barrel had already begun to load, and once it was allowed to get close to the city walls and fire, just a few volleys would be enough to completely blow down the gates of Coastal City!

"Oh Emperor... save us..."

A young Defense Force soldier closed his eyes in despair.

Just when everyone thought death was about to descend.

In the sky, a faint light that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye suddenly flashed!

It was a pure gravity beam; it ignored the distance of space, crossed hundreds of kilometers of wasteland, and accurately hit that stompa which was showing off its might!

The next second.

There was no deafening initial sound of an explosion, only a deathly absolute silence!

Immediately after.

That metal beast, weighing hundreds of tons and with armor so thick that even anti-tank guns couldn't penetrate it.

Its atomic structure collapsed instantly under the effect of the gravity beam!

Its mass was converted one hundred percent into pure destructive energy!

"Boom——!!!"

A blinding light, more dazzling than ten thousand suns, erupted in front of the defense line!

An extremely pure mushroom cloud of a micro-nuclear explosion, carrying the aura of destruction, shot up into the sky!

The terrifying energy shockwave was like an invisible scythe of death.

Centered on the explosion point, all the greenskins, Killa Kans, and even heavy artillery vehicles within a one-kilometer radius.

Before they even had time to scream, they were instantly vaporized into molecular states by this terrifying high temperature and shockwave!

Company Commander Freddie was temporarily blinded by the strong light, and the huge air wave pressed him firmly to the bottom of the trench.

When he opened his eyes again.

The greenskin Titan that had been so arrogant before had completely disappeared into thin air.

In its place, only a huge crater remained, bottomless, with vitrified magma still flowing at the edges!

The entire battlefield fell into instant, deathly silence!

Whether it was the Defense Force on the city walls or the greenskins who were charging, everyone was completely stunned by this strike that was like divine punishment.

On the public screen of the pv terminal, the player channel exploded instantly!

[Black Tiger A-Fu]: Holy shit?! Holy shit?! The greenskin's stompa was instantly killed?! Not even a scrap was left! Which hidden big shot did this good deed?!

[ikun True Fan]: It wasn't our air force! The bombs we carry can't produce this level of nuclear explosion power at all!

[A Fu]: No shit! Even a blind person could see that! Where on earth did this orbital strike come from?!

At this time, a life-skill player staying in the Shelter hometown sent a message weakly:

[Farmer]: Uh... I just passed by the west artillery battery. I saw the Administrator standing in front of that newly built strange cannon. That cannon shook just now... maybe, perhaps, probably he did it?

The players had not yet recovered from the shock of this dimensional reduction strike.

On the wasteland west of Coastal City, a sky full of dust suddenly rolled up!

The players' heavy armored reinforcements had finally arrived!

"For the Brotherhood! Crush them!"

[Flame Fist] let out a wild roar!

Thousands of muscular bros wearing heavy, pieced-together wasteland armor, like tigers descending a mountain, were the first to cut fiercely into the greenskins' formation from the western flank!

Power Axes and Chainswords kicked up a bloody storm!

Immediately after.

The rumbling of the earth came from far to near.

The steel torrent of the [Scourge Legion] roared into the battlefield!

Self-propelled smoothbore tanks lined up, their barrels spitting fire, pouring dense artillery shells into the sea of greenskins!

The few people in the lead, Ming Shen, Liver Emperor, Why Panic When I Have Flash, Miracle Walker...

These high-level players were all wearing the bright red [Competitive Power Armor] just redeemed from the mall.

In their hands, they held the rugged version of the [Plasma Rifle] hand-crafted by the oil-guy Kane.

"Fire!"

Ming Shen pulled the trigger.

A ball of extremely dazzling high-temperature plasma whistled out, directly melting a greenskin heavy artillery vehicle into molten iron!

"Damn! This gun is useful, but it's too damn hot to handle!" Flash said while shooting, shaking his Power Armor glove that had been scalded red.

With the strong intervention of these more than twenty thousand fresh troops of players.

The originally one-sided situation instantly reversed, and the battlefield directly evolved into an unprecedented meat grinder of flesh and blood!

The Defense Force on the city walls looked at these powerful reinforcements that had suddenly appeared, as well as the Titan that had been shattered by a single shot.

The morale that had originally fallen to the bottom instantly exploded like a rainbow!

"The Emperor has not abandoned us! Counterattack!" the soldiers roared.

But unfortunately, because the general was killed, the command system of the Defense Force was still in a state of paralysis.

The soldiers could only fight on their own, shooting chaotically towards the bottom of the city walls.

And the true dominance of the battlefield had been completely taken over by this group of The Fourth Calamity!