201: Chapter 201 Black Rain

The team penetrated deep into the fortress hinterland. The entire facility structure was extremely minimalist, and all layouts revolved around the core electromagnetic acceleration launcher.

Mosid and his party quickly arrived at the location of the launch capsule.

"When can the virus bomb be launched?"

Mosid asked.

The nearby Star Guard squad leader immediately responded respectfully:

"My lord, we still need to complete the final parameter calibration, and it will be ready soon."

Mosid looked toward the railgun console and saw several Adeptus Mechanicus technicians bending over to debug the control panel, with several Star Guard standing by to supervise.

The Adeptus Mechanicus technician nodded to the squad leader, confirming that the virus bomb could be loaded into the launch capsule.

At the same time, the situation in the space battlefield became increasingly tense.

Learning that the ground troops' advance had suffered repeated setbacks, Lux IV knew that more troops and resources must be invested into the ground.

He looked toward the battlefield outside the porthole. The breach rammed open by the battleship had already formed a stable projection channel. The Orbital Defense Platform surrounding the breach was enduring the alien fleet's full suppression and could not spare extra firepower to seal the breach.

Meanwhile, Xia Xingchen had long since issued an order that it was unnecessary to deploy heavy troops to hold the breach to the death.

The dream star was like a giant shark wandering in the void, continuously tearing apart the warships of the Lux Aliens.

Lux IV resentfully stared at the black-gold ship shadow and immediately ordered the mobilization of the only remaining battleship, paired with several cruisers, a large number of destroyers, and frigates to form an encirclement formation to hunt down the dream star.

Now he only had this single battleship capable of mobile combat left in his hands, while his flagship always hid behind the battle line, looking more like a logistical command ship.

Taking advantage of the gap where the encirclement formation pinned down the dream star, a large Lux cruiser forcibly approached the breach. The bow hatch was fully open, and countless transport ships and landing capsules poured out like a swarm of bees, madly projecting troops toward the ground.

For a full hour, this cruiser emptied all combat units in the cabin at maximum speed. The Lux Aliens concentrated almost all available delivery vehicles onto this ship and sent them all to the ground in one go.

Just at the moment when the cruiser was about to evacuate, the Slaughterer laser cannon locked onto it. A blinding beam of light traversed the void, directly cutting the entire cruiser in half from the middle.

"How much of the ground force projection has been completed?" Lux IV sat on the command seat of the flagship, calmly watching the explosion image of the cruiser in the projection, his voice icy without a trace of emotional fluctuation.

"Seventy percent has been projected, and the rest were destroyed along with the ship." Before the adjutant could finish speaking, Lux IV directly interrupted him.

"I am very satisfied with this delivery volume." Lux IV ordered, "Now focus all attention on frontal combat and destroy all Orbital Defense Platforms at all costs."

At this point, three-fifths of the 100 billion Lux Alien troops under his command had been committed to the battlefield of this planet.

All the attention of the alien fleet was focused on the frontal orbital offense and defense battle. No one noticed that in the deep space shadow behind them, a massive expeditionary fleet was like a poisoned dagger, silently stabbing into their rear.

On the electromagnetic railgun launch position of the underground fortress, the Adeptus Mechanicus technician finally loaded the virus bomb into the launch capsule and completed all debugging work. With just a press of the launch button, the shell would roar out.

Just at this moment, the latest instructions from Saint Mountain City came through the communication channel, clarifying the attack coordinates and final orders.

"Target confirmed, open fire."

After the orders were issued, the Adeptus Mechanicus quickly loaded the virus bombs into the electromagnetic railgun.

The holographic screen quickly connected to the detection map of the space orbit. Since the Empire firmly controlled the air supremacy of the entire planet, they could easily see the situation of the entire planet.

A hidden location on the Orbital Defense Platform opened the canopy defense shield on its belly, and something resembling a Heavenly Eye detector extended out of the platform.

However, in the fierce battlefield, no one noticed this picture except for a very small number of direct operators, while the rest of the Lux Aliens—or rather, the combat soldiers—all focused their attention on the battlefield.

After obtaining the accurate target, the power source inside the entire fortress quickly began to operate.

The entire arc formed by the electronics began to glow with blue light. With a vibration, the upper roof of the base began to open.

As the hillside dome opened, the muzzle of the gun extended out of the mid-mountain.

In front of the console, the Adeptus Mechanicus were carrying out intense final debugging.

After confirming that everything was correct, they handed the launch button over to Chapter Master Mosid.

"My lord, now as long as you press this button, the virus bomb can be dropped towards the place where there are the most Lux Aliens. At that time, they will explode in the sky, and then quickly form a poisonous rain of venom, slaughtering all the Lux Aliens across the land area."

Without the slightest hesitation, looking at the countless Lux Aliens on the battlefield arriving on the ground via delivery capsules and transport ships, gradually forming wave after wave of human-like sea.

What Mosid aimed at was precisely this direction. As the button was pressed, huge energy began to accelerate, and the internal virus bomb went off with a boom.

The virus bomb was launched at the fastest speed, directly reaching the clouds far behind the Lux Aliens and exploding.

The entire sky suddenly changed from azure blue to a dull gray.

The gray color kept deepening, eventually turning black.

The sky began to continuously drop black water.

When the drops of black rain fell on the heads of the Lux Aliens, no problems occurred at the first moment. All the Lux Aliens in the rear simply thought that the intensity of the war had triggered this bizarre phenomenon, and what fell from the sky should just be the dust of those shells and soil.

Soon, some of the Lux Aliens began to feel weak and powerless.

They found themselves possessing strength in vain yet unable to exert it.

Most of the Lux Aliens only thought whether they had caught some illness, and that resting for a while would make it better.

However, these Lux Aliens did not know that they had become new pathogens; every breath and sneeze of theirs would transmit the virus to more people.

And the concentrated outbreak of the virus occurred one day later.

Fierce battles were breaking out on the front line, and many officers also found that the troops under their command began to experience a large number of abnormal attrition rates. However, the alien officers did not regard this matter as important.

To them, the ordinary Lux Aliens at the bottom might die for various reasons, so these casualties were not taken seriously. Everyone still focused their center of gravity on attacking and taking Saint Mountain City.

Under various factors, this intelligence concerning ordinary soldiers was directly not transmitted to the command headquarters, so no one paid attention to it at all.

But—it cannot be said that there was none. Commander No. 24 quickly discovered this problem. The consumption rate of medical supplies in the logistics medical department was truly unreasonable.

What the army needed now was no longer treatment for major trauma drugs, but rather internal injuries. It was obvious that something extraordinary had happened throughout the army.

Commander No. 24 immediately investigated personally.

Soon, Commander No. 24 investigated most of the matters, and began to experience severe fever and general physical weakness.

This scenario made Commander No. 24 think of a possibility.

Plague.

A plague has appeared in our army!

Commander No. 24 did not hesitate at all and immediately mobilized all resources that could be mobilized in his hands to organize a medical team specially used to investigate this matter. Through extensive investigation, they quickly determined that the starting point of this plague outbreak was that black rain.

Through statistics, observation, and some experiments, the physicians of the Lux Aliens concluded that the transmission of this virus through the air was fatal to the Lux Aliens, but for humans, it was difficult to cause an impact unless too much of this gas was inhaled.

Commander No. 24 immediately had a conjecture in his heart: it must be a trick played by humans, and this plague must be specially made targeting us.

In less than a day, Commander No. 24 deduced from his mind almost all the masterminds behind everything—it was definitely humans.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Commander No. 24 could not care about anything else.

He immediately summarized the data sorted out by the physicians and reported the matter to Lux VI.

He hoped that Lux would take it seriously. After all, in less than a short three days, the affected Lux soldiers had grown from thousands to hundreds of thousands.

When Commander No. 24 came outside the tent of the headquarters holding this report, staying from morning till night, he did not even get a single opportunity for an audience.

Watching people enter and exit the command tent, everyone treated Commander No. 24 as air.

No one glanced at Commander No. 24.

Commander No. 24 still couldn't hold back anymore. He found a subordinate who used to be very good, wanting him to take the information and hand it over to His Royal Highness the Prince, but when he stopped his former subordinate...

The subordinate saw the commander's request and immediately refused without hesitation.

"Lord Commander,"

The subordinate still had respect and awe for his former proud commander.

"Nowadays, everything in the entire command headquarters must be prepared for attacking and taking Saint Mountain City. Anything that affects the offense is wrong. Therefore, I hope you can understand that this matter is simply impossible to be brought to the desk."

After saying these words, the subordinate fled like running away, dodging Commander No. 24's gaze while leaving the spot immediately.