188: Chapter 188 We're Saved

When Duke Louis King and the officers heard Nikon Da Niao say "something even more terrifying than the bugs," everyone subconsciously gripped their weapons.

"Great! Reinforcements are here! We are saved!"

The commander, who had long been terrified out of his wits, was so excited he almost cried out.

Compared to the wild joy of the other officers, Duke Louis King's face was filled with mixed feelings.

As an old-school aristocrat who had been struggling in the imperial bureaucracy for most of his life, he knew very well that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Judging from the various actions of this so-called Spark Alliance, such as annexing the prison star and even daring to send a fleet to annihilate the Governor's Honor Guard fleet, this mysterious force had very obvious expansionist intentions and great ambition!

Did the Alliance's army suddenly descend from the sky to provide help in time of need out of humanitarianism? Or were they taking advantage of the fire to loot and seize territory? Everything remained unknown.

"Even if they can really repel the swarm, I'm afraid my time as Governor is coming to an end," Duke Louis King sighed inwardly.

But then he thought, if the Alliance's army didn't come, this planet would sooner or later be eaten clean by the bugs, and he would die anyway.

"If they are here, at least they can save the lives of millions of civilians in this city. As long as they can survive, what does it matter if I hand over power or am even executed?"

Having figured this out, Duke Louis King's tense nerves relaxed instead.

He walked out of the bunker, looked up at the gray sky, and his eyes were filled with anticipation.

He really wanted to see exactly what kind of existence this army was—the one that could be blown up to the heavens by this outsider and could single-handedly kill a Tyranid Tyrant!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Hundreds of heavy drop pods, carrying enough friction heat to melt steel, struck the front line where the Defense Force and the swarm were engaged like a meteor shower!

The violent impact kicked up clouds of dust and debris, even crushing hundreds of Termagants charging at the front.

A brief silence descended upon the entire battlefield.

Whether it was the remnants of the Defense Force or the emotionless Tyranids, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at the giant metal cans that had smashed into the ground.

"Hiss—!"

Accompanied by the sound of high-pressure gas being released, the door of the largest drop pod that had landed at the very front of the position was kicked open violently!

However, when he saw the figure that walked out from inside, Duke Louis King's eyes, which had been full of anticipation, almost popped out of their sockets!

The surrounding Defense Force soldiers were so scared that they collapsed to the ground!

"Roar—!!!"

Accompanied by a deafening, terrifying roar, a giant alien monster standing seven meters tall and over ten meters long walked out of the drop pod with heavy steps!

The monster's appearance was comparable to the most terrifying nightmare!

Its lower body had four thick, anti-joint hooves like Roman stone pillars. Its entire body was covered in an incredibly thick layer of purple-black chitinous armor.

Its upper body vaguely resembled a Tyranid Tyrant, but it was even more hideous and twisted!

It had a pair of giant bone blades three meters long, as well as a pair of thick arms similar to bio-plasma emission ports.

On its chest, an extra pair of curved sickle claws specifically for harvesting small units had mutated!

Most eye-catching was its long tail covered in sharp barbs. The surface of those purple-black bone spurs was also coated with a ghostly green slime.

Intuition told Duke Louis King that the slime definitely contained a deadly poison that would kill upon contact with blood!

Besides that, to solve the heat dissipation problem, several slits had been crudely cut into the monster's back armor. Rows of heat-dissipating pipes with metal fins that conducted heat well were forcibly implanted inside!

This thing was much more efficient than the biological heat-dissipation tubes that the Tyranids originally relied on to cool down by spitting out hot air!

It is no exaggeration to say that as soon as this monster, which stitched together machinery and biology, appeared, the Defense Force was stunned, and even the bugs on the opposite side preparing to charge were dumbfounded! Their simple hive logic seemed to fall into some kind of chaos: "Is this a long-lost distant relative of ours?"

As more and more drop pod doors were kicked open, giant bugs with strange shapes, ranging from three to five meters tall, appeared on the battlefield one after another!

Some bugs only had two thick legs, with a smoking high-energy jet tube forcibly stuffed into their mouths; some bugs had thinner carapaces but had four huge membrane wings and a pair of giant mantis-like scythes on their backs; others looked like mutated giant crabs.

There were even a few large bugs that, as soon as they left the pod, spread their huge wings and took to the sky again, looking like venomous tiger hornets magnified several hundred times.

In short, these thousands of large monsters that descended from the sky did not have a single one that looked the same! It was like a crazy biological mutation freak show!

Nikon Da Niao, who had been standing in the command post, saw these things running out of the drop pods, and the face he had originally intended to use for posturing instantly turned green.

"Holy crap!" Nikon Da Niao cursed in his heart, "Why the hell did they send these perverts from Bear Ridge who pilot Flesh Mecha here?!"

Nikon Da Niao was sweating profusely. Just as he was about to forcibly explain to the frightened officers and the Governor beside him, the largest, seven-meter-tall stitched giant bug, personally piloted by Legion Commander Makabazi, suddenly raised its barb-covered head and let out another roar!

"Awoo—! Brothers! Time to eat!"

In an instant! These thousands of bizarre bugs moved!

Like tigers descending from the mountain, they charged directly towards the opposing Tyranids!

Some bugs opened their bloodthirsty maws, continuously spraying high-temperature green acid bombs, blowing the enemy's positions into chaos; others waved their claws and bone blades directly, rushing into the swarm and hacking crazily!

Especially the largest monster piloted by Makabazi, which was simply a meat grinder. That tail with poisonous stings and blades swept across, directly cutting a large group of charging Termagants in half and clearing a huge area!

At this moment, the attacked Tyranids finally reacted. No matter what these monsters that looked like relatives were, as long as they dared to attack the swarm, they were the enemy!

Tens of thousands of Termagants and Tyranid Warriors began to counterattack frantically.

Although the Defense Force in the rear had no idea what was going on, they at least understood one thing: these newcomers, these big bugs that looked even scarier than the bugs, were helping them fight the bugs!

The collapsed defensive line began to barely stabilize under the cover of these giant monsters. However, the soldiers' will to fight had been greatly reduced, and they could only hide in the trenches, trembling while firing in support.

On the battlefield, more than five thousand Bear Ridge players, controlling their respective DIY Flesh Mecha, began to skillfully form a dozen cross-covering combat formations.

They didn't bother with defense at all, directly pushing through the swarm's barrage and launching a violent counter-advance!

The player Void Terror piloted his heavy-armored bug, customized according to the shape of Cho'Gath from League of Legends, acting as the team's front-line tank and standing directly on the front line.

Those Termagants that rushed up like a black tide bit onto his triple-thickened purple-black chitinous armor, which was like scratching an itch, not even leaving a white mark.

"Wahahaha! Little bugs! Hand over your mother entity! Daddy is going to be your father today!"

Void Terror let out a villainous maniacal laugh while controlling the mecha to perform a fierce dragon tail sweep, sending a large group of close-range Termagants flying.

Subsequently, facing several three-meter-tall Tyranid Warriors rushing over from a distance, he controlled the big bug, opened its abyss-like giant mouth, and with a pfft, sprayed out a large amount of viscous, highly corrosive acid!

It accurately plastered the faces of those warrior bugs! The strong acid instantly made the warrior bugs' head carapaces sizzle.

Immediately after, under the horrified gaze of the Defense Force, the big bug piloted by Void Terror pounced on them, its fang-filled mouth opening to an exaggerated angle, and with a snap, it bit one of the struggling Tyranid Warriors in two!

Then, without even chewing, it tilted its neck and swallowed the half-corpse of the bug whole, dropping it into the mecha's built-in biological digestive sac!

This was not a deliberate imitation of a beast, but a physiological necessity!

As a living weapon, the Flesh Mecha also required massive biological energy to drive those muscle fibers.

Initially, when Stone Man Hong designed and manufactured the first generation of Flesh Mecha, Makabazi drove it excitedly for four days, only for the mecha to starve to death!

Because the first-generation mecha had no design for eating and digestion systems.

After several generations of optimization and iteration, the current third-generation Flesh Mecha was not only much improved, with an independent digestive system added to maintain high-intensity body operation, but to improve combat response, a weakened pain synchronization nerve system was also added.

This way, the player in the cockpit could clearly know which part of the mecha's armor was under attack and make evasive maneuvers.

And the nerve control algorithm was also optimized, making the player's operation as smooth as moving their own limbs.

However! After adding these complex biological systems, a bizarre side effect appeared that even Lin Li and Stone Man Hong had not anticipated.

That was, once the player's nerves were deeply linked with the Flesh Mecha, as the mecha's energy was consumed, a completely uncontrollable extreme hunger would appear in the pilot's mental state!

According to the players who participated in the test, that feeling was like the weakness of a normal person who hadn't eaten for three days and three nights, and had also masturbated a dozen times in one go!

Both empty and hungry! Feeling like they could eat an entire Tyrant!

Therefore, a strange scene appeared on the battlefield now.

Many players piloting Flesh Mecha, after killing the bugs opposite with bone blades, couldn't be bothered with disgust to alleviate that damn hunger; they would bite off the bug's abdomen or hind legs and swallow them raw into the mecha's stomach to replenish energy!

Then, they would burp and continue to kill with red eyes, looking for the next ingredient!

This crazy style of fighting while eating left the bugs on the opposite side completely confused.

In the sky, Paratrooper One was piloting his magnified version of a hornet, with a deafening buzzing sound constantly coming from behind him.

He disliked the Tyranids' purple carapace for being too monotonous, so he spent money to find someone to paint this mecha's shell with an extremely arrogant yellow and black striped livery!

In addition to two pairs of sharp predatory hooks at the bottom, the mecha was also equipped with a pair of biological ripper guns.

Unlike the backward fleshy wings that relied on muscle flapping like the Tyranid Gargoyles, the hornet piloted by Paratrooper One had membrane wings with better aerodynamics, which allowed his maneuverability in the air to be maxed out!

"Rat-tat-tat-tat!"

Paratrooper One performed a beautiful barrel roll in the air, a burst of fire from the ripper guns directly turning a group of swooping Gargoyles into a sieve.

Subsequently, he dived in close.