231: Chapter 232 Sea Breeze No. 9 Boards the Ship

In the deep space battlefield, things change in the blink of an eye.

Opportunities like this, once they appear, must never be missed.

At this moment, the second wave of players who had forced their way through the formation successfully pinned several rocket pods onto the mothership's chitinous hull.

This rare opportunity absolutely could not be wasted!

The docking bay of The Guardian.

Lin Li was clad in Power Armor, a Phase Sword hanging at his waist.

Leading Iron Man 73, along with Ironhead, Pointy Ears, and a few other Central Army elites, he quickly boarded an assault shuttle and flew directly into sea breeze no. 9.

"Buzz—"

As 73 took over piloting control,

the voice of Commander Ushtan came through the communication channel:

"My Lord! The latest battle report from the front line! The second wave of clones who successfully landed on the mothership's hull are currently being besieged by a large number of the mothership's royal guard swarm!"

"Although the situation is temporarily in a controlled stalemate thanks to the formidable combat power of those clones, they have no extra heavy firepower to force open the hull and find a way inside! They are blocked outside!"

"Understood. sea breeze no. 9 is about to accelerate and depart. Prepare to clear a path for them!"

...

Inside the spacious cabin of sea breeze no. 9,

Ming Shen keenly noticed that the originally stable floor beneath his feet began to vibrate violently at a high frequency, making his heart race.

The speed of sea breeze no. 9 was increasing in a crazy parabolic curve.

"It's starting!"

A sharp glint flashed in Ming Shen's eyes.

"Brothers! With this speed, it must be our turn to go!"

He turned around and roared at the more than three hundred fully armed core players of the Scourge Legion:

"Everyone, attention! One last check on your firearms! Check the airtightness of your Void Suits! We're going in!"

"Awoooo!"

"For the Emperor! For the first kill!"

"Waaaaagh!! Crush those damn bugs!"

The Fourth Calamity players inside the cabin let out wild roars like beasts released from their cages.

The speed of sea breeze no. 9 was simply too fast!

As a vessel employing black technology engines from the Golden Age,

the moment it completely disengaged its speed limiters and unleashed its full power,

its two-hundred-meter-long streamlined hull instantly left the massive and clumsy Guardian far behind,

turning into a dazzling streak of golden light, plunging directly into the deepest part of the swarm fleet with terrifying kinetic energy!

At this time,

the chaos in the swarm's formation caused by the second wave of rocket pod boarding had already been forcibly suppressed by the mothership's commander.

Although Flame Fist and the other players of the second wave were still pinned to the mothership's surface,

the heavy frigates and cruisers responsible for protecting the mothership on the outer perimeter had already contracted again, organizing a tight, impenetrable wall of flesh and blood defense!

By the time sea breeze no. 9 rushed near this airspace, what lay across its path was already a dense, seamless wall of organic flesh-and-blood warships.

The Zerg fleet immediately locked onto this rapidly approaching golden spaceship.

Instantly, they opened fire with everything they had!

Countless fluorescent green high-energy bio-plasma bolts and steel-corroding acidic venom slammed furiously against the hull of sea breeze no. 9 like a violent tempest!

"Hum hum hum!"

However,

as a Golden Age yacht, sea breeze no. 9 possessed a Void Shield that was constantly active!

Moreover, 73 had directly pushed the shield's overload threshold to the absolute redline!

The biological artillery fire, which was enough to melt rocket pods, struck the Void Shield only to stir up ripples of faint energy,

failing to cause any substantial deceleration or damage to the hull.

sea breeze no. 9 was still accelerating frantically!

Inside the cabin,

Flash clung tightly to the bulletproof glass.

He watched the dark red wall of flesh composed of the hive fleet in front of him expand rapidly in his vision over just a few minutes, until it completely filled his entire field of view!

"Holy crap!"

Looking at the Zerg cruiser looming closer and closer like a mountain, Flash instantly broke into a cold sweat.

"Old Ming! How on earth are we going to board?! There isn't even a rocket launch pod on this ship! Are we supposed to open the hatch and fly over ourselves with jetpacks?!"

Ming Shen stood firmly in place and turned to look at Flash as if he were looking at an idiot.

"You still don't understand the boss's tactics?"

Ming Shen pointed at the violently vibrating deck beneath their feet and said word by word,

"At this very moment, this sea breeze no. 9 under our feet is the fucking largest rocket boarding pod!"

Hearing this, Flash's brain buzzed, and his scalp instantly went numb!

Are you crazy?!

You should know that the sea breeze no. 9, which was only two hundred meters long, was no different from a slightly larger mosquito in front of the four-to-five-kilometer-long Zerg heavy cruiser!

Its volume was not even as large as a single giant torpedo fired by The Guardian earlier!

Just ramming straight into it?! Isn't that like throwing an egg against a stone!

The truth was exactly as Ming Shen had said.

Under the precise control of Iron Man 73, sea breeze no. 9, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, completely ignored the difference in size and charged straight like a materialized sword at the cruiser blocking the way ahead!

"Holy shit! We're really ramming it!"

Flash was so terrified that he subconsciously gripped the armrest of the fixed seat next to him and squeezed his eyes shut.

"BOOM—!!!"

In the next second, a terrifying impact that seemed capable of shattering the soul resounded throughout the entire interior of the ship!

Fortunately!

all the players present had followed orders in advance, putting on their heavy Power Armor helmets and turning on their hearing protection and noise reduction systems.

Otherwise, this sonic shock alone would have blown out the eardrums of at least half the people on the spot.

After the violent vibration subsided,

Flash slowly opened his eyes and looked out the window again with lingering fear.

He saw that the originally transparent bulletproof glass was now smeared with a thick, nauseating layer of green slime and disgusting minced flesh!

It was impossible to see what was happening in the space outside.

"Old Ming! What's the situation?! Did we crash to death?!" Flash shouted.

At this moment, even the usually calm Ming Shen was in a state of high excitement.

The voice coming from his helmet's built-in communicator was clearly very thrilled:

"We didn't die! The boss's tactics are so fucking awesome!"

"At the exact moment right before the impact, Number Seven fired, letting sea breeze no. 9's Electromagnetic Acceleration Cannon blast right in its face!"

"The massive caliber of that main cannon blasted a gaping hole right through the flesh of the enemy cruiser's thick chitinous hull, instantly destroying the overall defensive tension and structural stability of that flesh-and-blood ship!"

"Then, sea breeze no. 9 squeezed right through the blasted hole! Our ship has now literally pierced through this flesh cruiser from the inside!"

Ming Shen clenched his fists.

"If I'm not mistaken, once we pass through this cruiser blocking the way, we'll be able to successfully board the mothership immediately!"

Hearing this explanation, all the players gasped.

This is the fucking violent aesthetic of 'fire the cannons and blast their mothers'!

Right at this moment,

a vague sound of battle cries and wild laughter began to filter through the Scourge Legion's public communication channel.

"Hahaha! Brothers! These bugs can't take it anymore! Hack them down hard!" This was Flame Fist's voice.

"That show-off Flame Fist actually hasn't kicked the bucket yet. It seems they..."

Before Flash could finish his sentence,

"BANG!!!"

A deafening metallic crash rang out!

Then, the entire hull of sea breeze no. 9 rolled and vibrated violently, as if struck hard by a giant sledgehammer!

"Clang!"

Flash was thrown directly into the air. He desperately used his Magnetic Boots to latch onto the deck, barely stabilizing himself to avoid being smashed into minced meat.

"What's going on?! Did we crash into the mothership?!" Flash cried out.

However, what answered him was a tooth-gritting, even more violent and ear-piercing sound of metal grinding and twisting.

Following this hair-raising sound,

the originally flat metal bulkheads and ceiling inside the cabin actually began to buckle and deform inward, being compressed bit by bit by some terrifying external force at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Not good!"

Ming Shen stabilized his footing, his face changing drastically.

"sea breeze no. 9 must have been tightly constricted by some large deep-space tentacle, or bitten and trapped by the massive maw of a cruiser!"

"Boom!"

There was another muffled boom.

Under the terrifying compression of the massive external force,

several panes of ultra-high-strength bulletproof glass at the front of the cabin finally failed to withstand the inhuman pressure and shattered with a bang!

The spatial equilibrium of the sturdy hull was instantly breached.

A gale-force wind howled!

A large amount of clutter and broken seats inside the cabin were violently sucked into the cold, silent vacuum of space the moment the air pressure became unbalanced.

But this also allowed everyone in the cabin to finally see the terrifying battle outside clearly through the shattered windows!

As the wind rushed out, the dead silence of the vacuum instantly stripped the cabin of all sound.

Flash gripped the seat restraints for dear life.

Looking through the completely shattered porthole, he finally saw the true battle situation outside.

At this moment, sea breeze no. 9 was tightly bound by several massive biological tentacles as thick as pillars holding up the sky!

These tentacles came from the Zerg cruiser that had just been pierced.

Even though the ship itself had been shot through, its remaining muscles, which possessed independent neural cords, still instinctively bit down hard on sea breeze no. 9.

And not far directly ahead,

was that giant Hive Mother Ship, resembling a dark red wall of flesh!

From the dense, gaping abyssal maws on the mothership's surface, highly corrosive green spore clouds and a massive volume of Self-detonating Squids were being frantically spewed out.

At the same time, various heavy acid cannons and biological plasma spikes erected on the mothership's armor were pouring destructive firepower toward sea breeze no. 9, which was pinned down by the tentacles!

"Rumble!"

Blinding light erupted from the surface of the Void Shield as energy ripples vibrated madly.

Fortunately!

even though sea breeze no. 9's hull was damaged to this extent, that black-technology Void Shield generator could still run at full capacity, stubbornly blocking the barrages that were enough to melt metal.

But everyone knew.

If they remained trapped here as sitting ducks, no matter how high the shield's overload threshold was, there would eventually come a moment when it could no longer hold out and would collapse.

Taking a beating passively like this was ultimately not a long-term solution.

Feeling the weightlessness gradually taking over his body after the depressurization, Flash shouted anxiously in the channel:

"Old Ming! What do we do now?! Do we just turn on our jetpacks and charge out to board them with our bare bodies?!"

"Don't move yet!"

Ming Shen also gripped the bulkhead tightly, calmly commanding,

"The enemy fire outside is too dense right now! If we leave the shield and enter space now, we'll be sitting ducks! Without cover, we'll be vaporized in an instant! Wait a bit longer!"

Just as everyone was at their wits' end,

the main engine at the rear of sea breeze no. 9 suddenly erupted with another round of bone-numbing, violent vibrations!