229: Chapter 230 Roshan

After numerous optimizations and improvements based on experience gained in combat, the Spark Alliance's rocket boarding pods are now technically very refined.

Whether it is the vector propulsion steering system, the spiral ram at the front for armor penetration, or even the burst speed, everything has improved by more than just a notch!

The breakthrough speed of this new generation of boarding pods is even faster than some conventional high-explosive missiles!

But there is no such thing as a perfect machine in this world.

Because the entire rocket pod was forcibly packed with many complex life-support and jamming systems to increase the probability of a breakthrough.

Therefore, the crew space inside the pod was inevitably compressed significantly.

This resulted in the standard rocket pod, which could originally carry eight people, now only being able to cram in four fully armed players for a desperate suicide boarding charge!

At this moment, in a group of first-wave rocket pods rushing madly toward the Hive Mother Ship like meteors.

Inside the pod, the space was so narrow that even turning around was a struggle.

The tall and burly female player, Gugu Eagle, who was as sturdy as a bear, was struggling to hold a portable oxygen mask and roughly clamped it onto the face of another player next to her, Devil Muscle Thor.

Before entering the game, Brother Suo complained about it constantly, but in reality, he was a Liver Emperor who had barely touched the threshold of level 30.

However, his stat growth was mainly in intelligence, and his physical fitness was pitifully low compared to other high-level players.

Therefore, when the rocket pod kept accelerating in space and made various extreme, roller-coaster-like sharp turns to dodge the biological anti-aircraft shells fired by the Zerg fleet.

The terrifying G-force generated inside the pod made Brother Suo see stars, and he suffered from severe hypoxia!

"Brother Suo! Take a few deep breaths of oxygen!" Gugu Eagle shouted while pressing the oxygen mask tightly onto Devil Muscle Thor's face.

After a while, the hypoxia and purple discoloration of Devil Muscle Thor seemed to improve.

But! His eyes were wide open, and his eyeballs were almost popping out.

His thin arms and legs struggled frantically in the narrow seat, his hands flailing about, and muffled grunts came from his throat.

Li Xianghe, sitting opposite, was scared out of his wits when he saw this.

He hurriedly reached out to pull Gugu Eagle's arm. "Big Sister! Damn it, let go! Suo is about to be suffocated to death by you!"

Gugu Eagle paused and looked down.

It turned out that she hadn't controlled the strength of her muscles, and her large hand, wearing a heavy Power Armor glove, had pressed the oxygen mask directly onto Brother Suo's nose and mouth, covering them completely! Not even a sliver of space was left!

"Oh my! Sorry, sorry, Brother Suo!" Gugu Eagle hurriedly released her hand as if electrocuted, put her hands together, and apologized repeatedly. "I didn't control my strength, coo! It's just a habit, coo!"

Regaining his freedom, Devil Muscle Thor gasped for a large breath of air, looking like a stranded fish.

He coughed violently for a long time before finally coming back to his senses.

"Big Sister! Cough, cough..." Brother Suo pointed at Gugu Eagle, tears streaming down his face. "Why the hell are you using so much strength! I didn't get blown up by the bugs outside, but I almost got smothered to death in my own cabin by you! Are you an undercover agent sent by the other side?"

Just as the cabin was in chaos, "Holy crap! Brothers! Look out there! Is that the Hive Mother Ship?!"

Li Xianghe suddenly pressed against the bulletproof porthole, pointing at the deep space directly ahead, his voice cracking with excitement.

Everyone heard this and crowded to the window.

Due to the absolute firepower of The Guardian fortress in the rear pressing forward, and the Zerg swarm splitting its forces to flank the rear in response to the threat.

This movement of troops caused a visible gap in the defensive formation on the front of the Hive Mother Ship!

Through the gap in this formation, the four people in the rocket pod finally saw the tip of the iceberg of the Hive Mother Ship located at the core!

It was a living biological vessel so vast that it completely exceeded the limits of human imagination!

Its towering body, a full twenty-plus kilometers long, was like a dark red continent floating in the sea of stars.

Compared to the player's rocket pod, which was only a mere dozen meters long, it was like an ant looking up at a mythical mountain rising into the clouds!

Almost every player who saw this terrifying existence with their own eyes felt an uncontrollable, deep sense of insignificance and powerlessness in that instant.

On the mothership's thick, purple-red body, countless muscles as thick as pythons were writhing crazily.

If one looked closely, one could even clearly see that this giant ship seemed to be breathing, undergoing a very rhythmic, slow expansion and contraction in space!

In the mountain-like folds on the side of the ship, countless abyssal maws filled with sharp teeth were distributed irregularly.

"Good grief..." Devil Muscle Thor swallowed his saliva, breaking the silence. "This thing looks too disgusting, doesn't it? Why does it look so much like the boss, the Wall of Flesh, from the old game 'Terraria'?"

Li Xianghe nodded with deep empathy. "Come to think of it, your description is really accurate. It's just a Wall of Flesh magnified ten thousand times!"

Gugu Eagle pressed her face directly against the cold glass, looking at the progress of other guilds' boarding pods around them. "Hey! Brothers! Look! Our rocket pod is currently flying in the very front, with the fastest speed!"

Gugu Eagle slapped her thigh excitedly. "Do you think it's possible for us four to become the first in the whole server and take the first kill of the Norn Queen?!"

Hearing this, Devil Muscle Thor also turned to look left and right. "There really is a chance!"

Thinking about the upcoming first kill of an epic boss, plus the server-wide system announcement and going down in history, Brother Suo's face, which had just been purple from hypoxia, instantly twisted into a smile, and all his fear was thrown to the back of his mind!

"Charge, charge, charge! Hurry! For the server-wide first kill!"

However, fate always likes to play the most cruel jokes on this group of The Fourth Calamity.

Just as this batch of lead rocket pods, which had luckily dodged the outer crossfire network, was about to pierce into the heavy armor of the mothership like sharp thorns!

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!" The countless giant maws distributed in the folds on the surface of the mothership suddenly opened violently like a volcanic eruption!

The next second, large groups of mutated suicide bugs, shaped like giant squids, were spewed out from the mothership's body by high-pressure airflow!

Those things spread their fleshy wings in space, moving at an astonishing speed, and they were as numerous as hair on an ox, forming a dense, airtight web of death, colliding head-on with the rocket pod group!

"Oh no! The enemy's close-in defense interception missiles are here!" Gugu Eagle exclaimed.

Seeing the rocket pod's radar alarm going crazy, about to make various extreme, physics-defying sharp turns again to dodge the squid swarm.

Devil Muscle Thor reacted extremely quickly this time. With quick eyes and fast hands, he snatched the oxygen mask from Gugu Eagle's hand, clamped it tightly onto his own face, and prepared for the G-force.

"It's over! There are too many, we can't dodge them! We're going to get blown up!" Li Xianghe shouted in despair, watching the squids colliding towards them.

The rocket pod tumbled continuously in space like a butterfly, trying to slip through the gaps in the squid swarm.

But unfortunately, the density of those suicide squids was just too high!

Finally, accompanied by a violent vibration, the rocket pod was directly hit by seven or eight intercepting squids in mid-air!

"Boom!" The violent biological acid bomb melted the cabin wall instantly. A large hole with a diameter of two meters was blasted in the middle of the rocket pod.

The air pressure inside the cabin became unbalanced instantly, and all unfixed items leaked crazily out into the vacuum!

"Put on your helmets! Activate the jetpacks! We're boarding manually!"

In the weightlessness and strong winds, they immediately put on their Power Armor helmets and locked the airtight seals. Then, without hesitation, they pressed the jetpack buttons on their backs and ejected directly from the blasted cabin! Attempting a final manual boarding charge.

Gugu Eagle forcibly stabilized her body in the vacuum. After adapting to the eerie feeling of floating in space with nothing to stand on, she immediately drew the plasma rifle from her back and fired wildly at the large number of suicide squids rushing towards her!

"Zzzzt!" The scorching plasma beams hit accurately. More than a dozen squids were detonated in mid-air, bursting into balls of green fire.

However, when Gugu Eagle had killed a few squids and finally had time to look around, she discovered in despair that her teammates Li Xianghe and Devil Muscle Thor had long since disappeared.

There was only dead static in the communication channel.

Not only that, the first batch of hundreds of rocket pods that launched the boarding charge as the vanguard were almost completely wiped out! All of them were tightly intercepted halfway by those terrifying suicide squids!

Only a few scattered rocket pods on the edge that luckily escaped were forced to change course and collided with the armor of the frigates around the mothership.

Facing this desperate wall of copper and iron, Gugu Eagle gritted her teeth and identified the direction of the mothership. Without fear, she activated her jetpack to full power, and alone, like a moth to a flame, launched a final charge toward the massive body of the Hive Mother Ship!

And just as the first batch of boarding rocket pods launched their charge, those Zerg detachment fleets that had taken advantage of The Guardian pressing forward to successfully bypass the front line were already approaching the various planets of the base camp in the rear of the Yuanwang Star System like vicious wolves!

Outpost Planet, Coastal City. Kolom stood before the towering floor-to-ceiling windows of the City Hall.

He looked up, staring intently through the thick bulletproof glass at the originally blue sky.

The clouds were torn apart. High-speed drop pods, dense like dark red raindrops, vaguely appeared in the sky!

They whistled down toward the plains, trailing high-temperature flames from atmospheric friction.

Kolom took a deep breath, turned to his assistant, and shouted, "Quick! Sound the highest-level air defense alarm for the whole city!"

"Spread the news immediately! Tell all the Defense Force and civilians that the bugs are here! But as long as we can hold off these monsters on the surface, and wait for the leader to defeat the Hive Mother Ship in space, we will have completely won this war!"

The piercing air defense alarm sounded instantly throughout Coastal City.

This city naturally also had broadcasts and holographic video streams of this interstellar war.

But because the public had an almost blind trust in the Spark Alliance, and everyone always believed that those immortal super-soldiers could easily defeat the bugs, the usual attention was not particularly high.

But now that the alarm was sounded and the sky had changed, many civilians were somewhat confused and panicked.

Therefore, quickly spreading the news and stabilizing the morale of the troops was placed first by Kolom.

It was not just Outpost Planet that was in a critical situation.