210: Chapter 211 Warship Takes Flight

"Ding dong!"

A crisp system prompt sounded in the ears of over 600,000 online players across the server simultaneously.

Immediately after, the pv terminal on everyone's wrist, as well as the center of their game field of view, popped up a top-level announcement panel with a bright golden gear border!

[Legendary Large-Scale War Expansion Pack Officially Released: Island of the Universe!]

[Background Note]:

The tentacles of the Great Devourer have crossed the void and are sweeping over.

These terrifying cosmic predators are staring at our world with endless hunger!

However, what they don't know is that in this seemingly fragile galaxy, a group of even crazier and more terrifying predators are lurking!

Now, who is the real prey?!

[War-Time Privilege Description]:

During the war, the system will provide unlimited free biomass.

All player resurrection costs after dying in battle are free!

War-time military supplies giveaway!

As long as players are in the combat zone, all conventional weapons, vehicles, and ammunition supplies in the system store will be sold at a 50% discount!

[Military Merit System] and [Military Merit Leaderboard] are officially activated!

Killing any Tyranid units will earn corresponding military merit points.

After the campaign ends, players can use accumulated military merit to redeem various rare cross-era equipment, special items, and various privileges such as territory tax exemptions at designated quartermasters!

"Holy crap! Resurrection is free! Ammunition is half price!"

Ming Shen looked at the expansion pack announcement on the pv terminal, his black eyes instantly lighting up amazingly, like two hundred-watt light bulbs!

"Brothers! The official is bleeding out! Say no more! Let's go! Let's crush the bugs on the other side!" Ming Shen shouted, waving his arms.

In the operations room, dozens of high-ranking core players of the Scourge Legion stood up in unison.

Everyone quickly put on their respective high-tier Power Armor, took their weapons, and walked quickly to the starport to board the ships.

In less than an hour, tens of thousands of fully armed players under the Scourge Legion were all in position!

On the vast tarmac of the starport, more than a hundred Great River ships, each about a kilometer long, ignited simultaneously!

"Rumble—!"

More than a hundred violent nuclear fusion engines sprayed out dazzling, scorching high-temperature working fluid toward the ground at the same time!

The huge thrust instantly overcame the planet's gravitational pull.

The massive fleet rose from the ground, pulling out more than a hundred long contrails, and flew toward the deep space battlefield at full speed.

...

Meanwhile, on the arctic ice sheet of the Prison Planet.

The number of people in the Bear Ridge Legion was not large to begin with.

Therefore, they didn't need to organize any fleet groups like the Scourge Legion.

A four-kilometer-long living biological warship, golden armor, was enough to comfortably accommodate all the players of Bear Ridge.

The internal structure of this golden armor was nothing short of insane.

In addition to the main weapon systems and the huge stomach used to digest organic matter, the remaining vast chambers inside the ship were densely packed with rows upon rows of incubation sacs, as well as metal cloning culture tanks for all the Bear Ridge players!

Makabazi's tactics were very simple and crude:

They moved the resurrection point directly onto the warship!

After the battle started, players drove Flesh Mecha and rushed out to sacrifice their lives for kills;

After dying, their consciousness returned to the culture tanks inside the ship in seconds, and they immediately changed into new bodies to continue the charge!

As long as this golden armor, which served as the mother base, wasn't blown to pieces, Bear Ridge could perform what is called infinite troop spawning in space!

And on the other side.

As the Brotherhood of Steel, known for their melee brutes, this group of muscle-heads naturally had their own simple and crude suicidal tactics.

Because their guild was full of battle maniacs who only knew how to fight and didn't understand technology research and development, they didn't have their own high-end shipbuilding factories.

Therefore,

their fleet was all made up of large civilian merchant ships bought at low prices from bankrupt nobles, and then roughly modified and pieced together with iron sheets!

The players of the Brotherhood of Steel randomly installed deflector shield generators on the surface of these dilapidated merchant ships, and insanely piled up a large number of micro-nuclear fusion engines at the stern!

Since they were facing bugs flying all over the sky, these muscular brutes unhesitatingly chose the most effective tactic: ship-board close-quarters combat!

So,

on these ships that had been modified beyond recognition, there were no Macro Cannon or plasma emitters installed for long-range bombardment.

Except for a few automatic laser cannons used to clear short-range spore mines, the interior of the reinforced ram at the very front of the entire ship was stuffed with rocket pods that were extremely fast!

Their goal was only one:

Enter the rocket pods, and crash head-on into the flesh of the Tyranid warships!

Then all members would grab their chainswords and power hammers, rush into the bugs' bellies, and mince them!

...

And in this chaotic expedition ceremony, the most outrageous style belonged to the Ork players stationed in the northern wilderness of Mobius!

In the huge Ork camp full of scrap metal, the Ork player [I Think The Emperor Can Stand Up] was standing on a high pile of scrap iron.

In front of him stood two batches of distinct-looking Orks!

The group of Orks on the left were painted deep blue from head to toe with crude blue paint!

There was even a white upside-down U-shaped pattern crookedly drawn on their helmets.

This group of blue-skinned Orks was jokingly named "Ultramarines" by I Think The Emperor Can Stand Up.

And the other group of Orks on the right was even more dazzling.

They were covered in gold paint!

This group of golden Orks, known as "Shrimp Boss Boys," had quite a background.

Back in the Battle of Coastal City, these Orks witnessed with their own eyes Lin Li glowing with blinding golden psychic light, cutting off Wa Banxian's arm with one sword!

From that day on,

this group of single-minded Orks developed a terrible, twisted closed loop in their strange Waaagh! Energy brain circuits.

These Orks firmly believed: When the Shrimp Boss (Lin Li) was glowing with golden light, it was the strongest form in this universe!

Even their subconscious believed:

The strongest Ork should also be like that Shrimp Boss, holding a sword that could breathe fire to cut people!

Consequently,

this group of Shrimp Boss Boys directly discarded their ancestral rusted big iron axes with disdain.

All members switched to the flame greatswords they welded themselves, equipped with fuel injection ignition devices!

At this moment, behind I Think The Emperor Can Stand Up,

there were many strip-like objects clumsily pieced together and welded by the Mekboyz using all kinds of scrap metal, garbage, and even scrapped truck carriages.

That's right! These long, tattered things that looked like garbage mountains were the Orks' space warships!

I Think The Emperor Can Stand Up drew the machete from his waist, pointed it at the sky, and let out a deafening roar:

"Wo Xun Si! There's a big fight to be had in the sky now! Boys! Follow the boss! Charge!!!"

"Waaaaaagh!!!"

The blue and golden Orks below let out fanatical war cries, like a swarm of ants leaving the nest, crazily squeezing into those garbage ships.

As everyone knows,

in the physics of the Warhammer universe, Ork creations are based on the idea that if I think it works, it really works!

The larger the volume of the garbage, the more scientific it is!

Accompanied by a harsh roar of engine explosions and billowing black smoke, those garbage ships that didn't conform to any aerodynamics and didn't even have airtight cabins, under the idealistic blessing of the massive Waaagh! Energy, actually ignored gravity and wobbled into the sky!

They not only miraculously flew into space, but the interior of the ship even came with an invisible gravitational field and life-support oxygen supply equipment!

As for what the specific physical principles were?

If you ask, the answer is: I think it can fly, so it must be able to fly!

...

Outpost Planet, Shelter underground main control room.

Lin Li stood in front of the screen, watching 600,000 players, like mad dogs released from a cage, driving all kinds of strange-looking fleets and heading toward deep space in a mighty force.

He rubbed his hands excitedly.

"Number Seven!"

Lin Li turned his head to look at the Iron Man beside him,

"The Central Army led by Carmen, as well as Ushtan and that staff team, have they all boarded the Guardian now?!"

"Yes, Creator."

73's eyes flashed with blue light, "All personnel have been loaded, and the armory fill rate is 100%."

The Guardian.

It was that orbital defense platform with autonomous movement capabilities that 73 had rushed to build using the highest-level blueprints from the Golden Age!

Because the construction period was too tight and time was pressing,

this fortress did not reach the massive size of ten or twenty kilometers as in the original design.

Instead, it barely reached a length of 10 kilometers.

Because the platform's volume was too large, it was built in zero gravity in the outer orbit of the Outpost Planet.

Therefore, Lin Li still needed to take the sea breeze no. 9 spaceship to ascend into the platform personally.

Although this 10-kilometer volume seemed a bit petite compared to the Tyranid mothership, which was often twenty or thirty kilometers long,

the firepower carried on this fortress would definitely make any interstellar fleet feel terrified!

In addition to the core 100 mass-energy conversion giant cannons capable of causing matter annihilation,

this platform was also insanely covered with nearly a thousand large-caliber high-frequency laser anti-aircraft guns, and a full thousand standard heavy Macro Cannon arrays!

As for why Lin Li didn't replace all weapons with energy weapons?

The answer was very simple and realistic: insufficient power supply!

According to 73's rigorous tests, even if stuffed with nuclear fusion reactors, the instantaneous power supply simply couldn't support the simultaneous firing of thousands of energy main cannons!

And although the Macro Cannon technology was retro and required gunpowder to physically propel live ammunition,

its advantage was that it didn't consume electricity at all!

As long as the surface factory could continuously stamp out mountains of shells, this thing could keep pouring out firepower without stopping!

"Let's go! Let's meet those bugs!"

Lin Li waved his hand and took 73 out of the control room.

The two boarded the sea breeze no. 9 parked at the starport and flew at full speed toward the Guardian in the planet's outer orbit.

Not long after, the sea breeze no. 9 broke through the atmosphere and entered satellite orbit smoothly.

That huge Guardian finally appeared completely in front of Lin Li.

It was a magnificent space fortress presenting a perfect regular pyramid shape!

On the dark gray adamantium outer wall of the pyramid, besides the dense, hedgehog-like thick gun barrels,

the four faces of the fortress were each carved with a huge double-headed eagle statue symbolizing the Imperium of Man, and the hand-held torch emblem symbolizing the Spark Alliance, using special reflective metal!

Under the light of the stars, the two statues looked incomparably solemn and majestic, full of cold violent aesthetics.

The sea breeze no. 9 followed the guidance signal, flew in from the giant gate at the bottom of the pyramid, and parked steadily on the internal tarmac.

Lin Li walked quickly into the core command room of the fortress.

At this time,

including the commander-in-chief Ushtan, more than a dozen tall Thunder Warriors were already fully armed and sitting in front of the command consoles, forming the temporary tactical command center of the fortress.

The Iron Man U-999 was given the highest fire control authority by Lin Li, specifically responsible for controlling the heavy firepower network projection of the entire fortress!

Letting a war AI with killing instincts manage the firing was definitely making the best use of everything.

And Iron Man 73 was responsible for connecting to the hub and overseeing the overall data coordination and shield energy distribution.

Lin Li stood in the very center of the holographic sand table. As the supreme commander of the Spark Alliance, he would make the final decision here.

All personnel, weapons, and fleets were ready.

On the oversized screen covering the entire wall of the operations room, the image was constantly refreshing.

It was already able to clearly display the dense Tyranid biological fleet surging like a tsunami in the deep space!

The suffocating feeling of war was rushing toward them!

At this time,

the pv terminal on Lin Li's wrist issued a rapid vibration as expected!

The system panel popped up automatically!

[Challenge Quest Triggered: Decapitation!]

[Quest Goal: Completely destroy the node mothership of the main Tyranid fleet in the field of view!]

[Quest Reward: 10,000,000 Core Points! Scorching Weapon Core Array Etching Plate!]