Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 930 - 656: Breakthrough! (Part 2)
"Hiss~"
Bai E fired a decoy missile, precisely hitting the hull of the biological battleship nearest within sensing range.
Behind, the crew aboard the trio of main starships, including Xing Zhuo, had been waiting for a long time. Upon seeing the decoy missile signal, they immediately ordered to fire.
The main cannons of the three starships, having cooled off for a while, simultaneously roared, launching a counterattack against the Bug Race's giant battleship.
From afar, the attack landed almost precisely ten seconds after the decoy missile hit, and the small Bug Race units cleaning up were instantly annihilated by the saturation strike.
Even the resilient surface of the Bug Race biological battleship was ripped apart by the sudden barrage, leaving large areas of biological tissue destroyed.
Driven by their singular decisive will, countless wriggling bugs swarmed towards the damaged area.
Nourished by their flesh and blood, the surface of the colossal biological battleship quickly healed at a pace visible to the naked eye.
But the final line of defense of this biological battleship hasn't been breached yet!
'Can't wait for the next strike.'
The main cannons were still charging, and by the time of the next attack, the opponent would have mostly repaired itself.
"Follow me!"
Bai E switched the handle of the Devouring Star Blade, powering up the Ship-cutting Blade with spiritual light, and slashed into the writhing flesh wall.
"Boom!"
The thin armor layer was instantly torn apart, releasing thick, pungent, acidic corroding fluids and high-pressure gas from the breach, which froze into crystals and then evaporated.
Bai E's mecha forged ahead through the spray, being the first to forcefully break in!
Inside, it wasn't like the corridors of human warships.
What appeared was a vast, blood and flesh-merged cavity space.
Thick biological conduits, resembling blood vessels and nerve bundles, intertwined chaotically, pulsing as they transported a green energy stream.
The chamber walls were riddled with dense holes, where numerous fist-sized, nematode-like "maintenance bugs" maneuvered, ignoring the intruders and focusing on repairing their "mothership's" wounds.
The air was thick with high-temperature, corrosive steam and nauseating odors, with gravity direction bizarre due to the biological ship's rotation.
"Watch out! They're coming!" Catherine's warning resonated in the tactical channel.
Darkness surged from the depths of the cavity.
Not worker bees or mantis bugs, these were troops specifically designed for warfare within the ship.
First, several "Breaker" units appeared, clad in heavy bone plate armor, resembling upright tanks.
Their forelimbs were equipped with pairs of enormous rams and cutting blades capable of tearing apart the toughest alloys, moving slowly but unstoppable, their heavy armor immune to direct mecha weapon strikes, making them excellent meat shields and line-breakers.
Behind them were "Blade Dancers" resembling mantis bugs but with longer, sharper limbs, streamlined chitinous armor, and foldable wing membranes on their backs.
They moved silently with incredible speed, maneuvering in three dimensions through the complex terrain of flesh channels, striking lethal blows from tricky angles, clearly designed for surprise raids and assassination.
Further away, flesh tumor-like turrets on the chamber walls—miniaturized versions of the earlier bio-plasma cannons that attacked human starships—turned in direction, charging with blue light.
The entire cavity environment was essentially a Bug Race arsenal.
"Maintain formation, stay together, advance!" Bai E led the charge, while Remington Storm from the Thunder Dragon Empire actively moved forward.
"I'll clear the way." His heavily armored mecha "Thunderstorm Monarch" raised a heavy ion shield, blocking the first wave of plasma beams from the walls, which instantaneously etched terrifying grooves into the shield's surface.
In the next instant after he deflected the initial assault, Bai E darted out from his flank.
The mecha engines at full throttle, rushing headlong towards the "Breaker."
Brandishing the massive Ship-cutting Blade, its edge glowing with Armor-breaking Spirit Light targeting Bug Race, utilizing skill over brute force against such heavy-armored units—
The blade deftly sliced into the softer tissue gaps where the thick bone armor connected, akin to dismembering an ox, complemented by the mecha's brute strength and the explosive force of instant kills, severing an entire forelimb in one cut!
Green acidic blood surged like a fountain, with the off-balance Breaker wailing in anguish, but Bai E had already bypassed it to face the incoming Blade Dancer.
Blade light and insect limb afterimages tangled madly within the narrow space, each collision sparking sharp sparks and acidic splashes.
Catherine's mecha provided precise firepower support from the flank, psionically-enhanced special rounds pinpointing the Blade Dancers attempting sneak attacks from above or blind spots, while disrupting distant charging tumor turrets, clearing corridors for the squad.
"Left front, the fiercest psionic fluctuation!" Bai E sensed the strong pull from the Insect Race Killer, "It's mobilizing more guards. Faster!"
The squad advanced like a sharp knife, battling fiercely within the living starship's flesh maze.
They faced a complete, self-contained, efficiently operating defensive ecosystem inside the biological ship.
Each step forward met with fierce crossfire, every breakthrough of flesh barriers confronted potentially new, unseen Bug Race units.
The battle had just begun...
Not much deeper than a hundred meters, suddenly, anomalies arose!
From the dense shadows within the chamber wall wrinkles, three obscure figures dropped unexpectedly.
Their chitinous shells acted like living prisms, perfectly refracting the ambient green biological glow, almost blending seamlessly with the background—some kind of stealth assassin units.
Resembling the "Tyrant" Bai E had encountered in the past, but overall sleeker... a variant of the Tyrant?
Their scythe-like forelimbs slashed through the viscous air, screeching towards the "Iron Curtain" mecha positioned at the flank.
"Watch out! Invisible units at three o'clock!" Xing Hen's urgent warning rang out, but slightly too late.
"What?!" Iron Curtain only felt the radar alarm blaring, yet his view only showed distorted light and shadow.
Instinctively, he maneuvered "Iron Curtain" to block, but the heavy armor forged by the Thousand Stars Commerce Alliance with sixteen-element alloy was cleaved open by the spectral scythe, creating a half-meter deep breach!
Green acidic liquid dripped along the breach edges, corroding the internals.
Almost simultaneously, swarms of fist-sized, membrane-winged "Bone-Eroding Flying Locusts" flooded out from the countless holes in the chamber wall like a breaking dam's black torrent.
Their target wasn't the mecha body but aimed directly at joint gaps and transmission systems!
Their pungent acidic spore was ejected at high velocity, adhering precisely to the joints, drive shafts of "Xing Hen" and "Dragon Roar," and Catherine's "Silver Feather's" precision sniper gun barrel!
"Ssss——!"
A cringe-inducing corrosion sound exploded instantly.
Xing Hen's "Xing Hen" shoulder missile bay had just opened for a counterattack when the right arm transmission system burst into glaring sparks, halting movement.
Buton's "Dragon Roar" had it worse as several locusts breached the cockpit seams, corrosive white smoke seeped from the damaged eyepiece seams, with internal alarms shrieking.
"Damn! Their acid is exceptionally potent! It can corrode our mecha!" Xing Hen's voice carried rare fury and shock.
"Maintain formation! Stay together!" Remington shouted assertively, as arcs surged across "Thunderstorm Monarch's" body, powerful electrical currents exploded, with blue Lei Long cascading unpredictably across the flesh structures.
Yet even this burst could only temporarily relieve pressure, swarms of bugs persistently emerging without end from flesh structure crevices.
More perilous were the three suspected Tyrant variants—far more menacing than regular Tyrants.
One had already reached Dragon Roar's side.
"Their weak spots are psionic nodes!" Just as Dragon Roar was about to suffer a hit, Bai E's calm voice resonated in the channel like a stabilizing force.
