233: Chapter 234 The Roar of the Gorgons
sea breeze no. 9, Bridge Control Room.
The shrill sound of alarms intertwined with the sickening sound of flesh tearing.
Although sea breeze no. 9 was built with Golden Age high-tech materials and had an exceptionally sturdy hull, under the frantic squeezing of the Tyranid cruiser's remains and the tentacles of the Hive Mother Ship, some weak defensive nodes and airtight bulkheads inevitably cracked.
Since sea breeze no. 9 was originally just a luxury yacht, its internal defensive firepower was truly mediocre.
A large number of Tyranid guards with sharp bone spurs poured in like a tide through the cracks, attempting to seize control of this assault ship.
At this moment, in front of the wide bridge blast door.
Lin Li, clad in dark red Power Armor, stood alone at the very front like a war god.
Because there were too many bugs pouring in, and every single one was the kind of fragile but disgusting low-tier Termagant and Leaper.
While the high-frequency phase sword in Lin Li's hand was as easy to use as cutting tofu when dealing with high-tier elite units.
But when used against these dense swarms of cannon fodder, the efficiency of hacking and slashing was somewhat lacking.
Simply, Lin Li directly sheathed the phase sword back to his waist.
He thrust his hands out violently, grabbing the corpse of a warrior bug that he had just killed, which was over two meters long.
Lin Li basically didn't use any strength, directly using this hundreds-of-pounds bug corpse as a giant meteor hammer weapon!
"Hoo—!"
Lin Li swung the bug corpse and threw it casually in the narrow corridor!
The massive kinetic energy instantly smashed a large group of Termagants pouring in from outside the door into pools of green meat paste, with severed limbs plastered all over the walls!
"Boom!" Lin Li smashed the corpse against the doorway, temporarily blocking the gap.
Behind him.
Elite soldiers of the Central Army, led by Ironhead and Pointy Ears, were holding Bolters and plasma rifles, providing precise fire suppression.
Although the Central Army was small in number, after several bloody battles, they had already matured and were enough to hold the bridge firmly in this cramped space.
Although this forced boarding was extremely thrilling, it was finally a success without any danger.
Moreover, two Space Marine chapters suddenly appeared to participate halfway through, which was an unexpected joy that Lin Li had not thought of before the battle.
But in any case, this was a huge piece of good news.
Lin Li caught his breath.
The situation was now very clear. He just needed to hold the bridge and persist until Iron Man 73 restarted the engines and controlled sea breeze no. 9 to break free from the skin of the mothership and run away.
The remaining dirty work inside the mothership could be left to that group of players who couldn't be killed and could be infinitely revived.
As long as the player army broke into the hinterland, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Just at this moment, the terminal on Lin Li's wrist suddenly lit up.
He received an emergency help message from the player ikun True Fan.
Lin Li wiped the bug mucus off his gloves while quickly glancing at the message content.
"Can't dig through? Can't find the way?"
After Lin Li understood the players' predicament, he nodded deeply,
"Thinking about it, it's normal. This is a Hive Mother Ship! The total length is nearly twenty-five kilometers, and the diameter alone is several kilometers! That horny shell must be unbelievably thick!"
According to Lin Li's original tactical plan.
sea breeze no. 9 intended to directly drop the players near a large heat dissipation channel or exhaust hole of the mothership, allowing them to crawl directly into the interior of the mothership along the pipes.
But plans couldn't keep up with changes. Because of the unexpected accident, the current boarding position had completely deviated from the predetermined area.
"Letting them keep digging like this isn't impossible. But it's too time-consuming, and it consumes too much of the players' energy."
Lin Li frowned and thought quickly.
Although there were Space Marines helping to attract fire on the periphery.
But this operation to decapitate the Norn Queen concerned the safety of the entire galaxy's defense line, so it had to be fast! He definitely couldn't pin all his hopes on others.
But now, how to provide armor-piercing assistance to those players blocked on the shell had become a thorny problem.
sea breeze no. 9 was still stuck firmly in the flesh armor of the mothership, and escaping to save his life was the priority.
After all, players had a resurrection mechanism, but he, Lin Li, only had one life!
He must not risk staying here.
"Is there any super-large long-range firepower that can provide assistance?"
Lin Li quickly took stock of the Spark Alliance's current assets in his mind.
The Guardian was too far away, and the fleet was still outside the range of the fortress, so he definitely couldn't count on that side for the time being.
"Large long-range firepower..."
Lin Li's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly remembered something!
Previously, when he was on the industrial world of Gorgon, Iron Man U-999 had reported to him that on the surface of that planet, there was a giant interstellar electromagnetic mass projection cannon with an exaggerated orbital length of over a hundred kilometers left behind!
Although 999 said at the time that the magnetic rail of that giant cannon was damaged and required a lot of time and resources to repair.
But it had been several months, and he didn't know if it was repaired now?
Lin Li turned his head and looked at Iron Man 73, who was micro-managing the engines of sea breeze no. 9 at the console.
"Old Seven! Connect to the rear base immediately!"
Lin Li ordered at a very fast speed,
"Ask 999! Is that hundred-kilometer electromagnetic cannon on the industrial world Gorgon repaired now?! Who is responsible for operating that cannon now? Can it be remotely controlled to hit our current space battlefield directly?!"
"The most critical point is! Can the kinetic energy of its mass projectile penetrate this shell of the mothership across the galaxy?!"
73's blue eye light flickered, and it immediately opened an ultra-long-distance encrypted communication channel.
"Received. Connecting to the central computing array."
Not long after, the communication ended.
Lin Li received an affirmative answer.
73 made a cold electronic sound:
"Reporting to Creator. 999 states that the giant electromagnetic cannon was completely repaired two days ago. Currently, its original direct subordinates—those mechanical Servitors—are responsible for daily maintenance and operation."
"999 states that it can directly take over the fire control system remotely. Through the computing matrix, cross-sector strikes are completely achievable!"
"However!" 73 paused and raised a difficulty,
"Because we currently cannot provide precise millimeter-level gravitational strike coordinates for the Hive Mother Ship, coupled with the terrifying distance of cross-sector shooting. This mass projectile will likely have a significant deviation in the impact point during flight!"
Hearing this, Lin Li was not disappointed, but nodded heavily instead.
"That's enough!"
Lin Li waved his hand,
"The distance from Gorgon to this space battlefield is frighteningly far. It's not bad to be able to hit the surface of the mothership with this kind of cross-sector blind sniping! We don't need precision sniping!"
"And that electromagnetic cannon fires pure physical mass projectiles. Although its lethality is not as good as the Mass-Energy Conversion Cannon, even if a blind cat hits a dead mouse and hits the vital part of the mothership, I'm afraid it won't cause any fatal damage."
"But none of that matters!"
Lin Li grinned,
"We don't need that cannon to kill the enemy! As long as that massive kinetic energy can smash a big hole in the shell of the mothership! It's enough for the players to crawl in through the hole!"
Lin Li looked at 73:
"Immediately! Send the approximate coordinates of the clone players on the surface of the mothership to 999! Tell him, use the maximum charging power! Aim at the side of those coordinates and fire a shot for me!"
...
Meanwhile.
On the surface of the Hive Mother Ship.
After ikun True Fan received the reply message from Lin Li, he was so excited that he stood up from the flesh pit.
"Brothers! It's done!"
ikun waved the pv terminal in his hand and shouted,
"Look! Look! I said that when we encounter this kind of insurmountable obstacle, finding our boss will definitely have a way! The boss replied to the message, and the fire support is expected to arrive on time in fifteen minutes to help us open the door!"
Flame Fist, who was on the side, stopped his excavator movements, put his hands on his hips, and looked very unhappy.
"Damn! Isn't this forcibly lowering the game difficulty?"
Flame Fist complained,
"How can you play this kind of hardcore Soulslike game, if you can't beat the Boss, you just go to the faction NPC to help cheat? There is no game experience at all!"
"You don't know shit!"
ikun retorted triumphantly,
"This is called reasonable use of connections! What is favorability? I donate supplies to the boss in the guild every day, this is called maximizing the favorability with our faction Boss! This is called a hidden mechanism, do you understand?"
Ming Shen was listening to these two funny guys talking nonsense on the side, and suddenly felt a headache, helplessly holding his forehead.
Just at this moment.
A tall and strong player, looking like an iron tower, suddenly floated from the periphery of the flesh pit.
He ran to the front of the big shots, however, when he spoke to report the situation on the public channel.
From that rough muscular body, came a sweet, greasy, soft, cute girl's fake voice!
"Oh no! Big shots! A group of big guys in heavy armor suddenly came outside! So scary, coo!"
Flame Fist seemed to have not heard what the player was saying about the emergency military situation at all.
He widened his eyes, looking at the muscular man in front of him, and complained very unhappily:
"Not brother! You actually have such a huge muscular man model. How did you spend points to change the system voice to this disgusting fake voice? Is this appropriate? You are a pervert!"
The player heard this and seemed a little angry.
She directly raised her fist, which was as big as a sand pot, and smashed a punch on Flame Fist's golden helmet with a "thud" without ceremony!
"You are the muscular man! Your whole family is muscular men! I am a soft girl, coo!"
Hearing this iconic verbal tic, Ming Shen curiously opened the pv.
Gugu Eagle.
Ming Shen was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered a few months ago.
In the bun shop in the real world, the soft and cute girl wearing an exquisite Lolita dress with two buns on her head!
Ming Shen complained crazily in his heart:
"Good guy! This game planner is definitely a psychopath! In reality, such a soft and cute girl, in the game, was actually assigned a brotherly body comparable to Northeast Yujie plus Terminator! Is this appropriate?!"
But Ming Shen quickly realized that he was distracted and hurriedly came back to his senses.
"Wait! What did you just say?" Ming Shen asked.
Gugu Eagle pointed outside the pit: "I said, a lot of big Space Marines suddenly came outside!"
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.
They immediately activated their jetpacks, flew out of this temporarily excavated flesh pit one after another, and looked in the direction Gugu Eagle pointed.
I saw that on the shell of the Hive Mother Ship around this flesh pit.
I don't know when, many Astartes boarding torpedoes like iron nails had been stuck in!
A fully armed Space Marine squad was assembling.
There were not many people. Looking at the establishment, it should be an elite squad under a company.
Among them, a Space Marine with a conspicuous captain skull pattern painted on his shoulder armor was leading several battle brothers, walking towards the location of the players.
The players had been playing this broken game for several months.
This was the first time they had seen a real, living Space Marine in a non-CG cutscene!
For a time, everyone was a little uncontrollably excited and curious.
The big guy at the head.
Wearing a set of deep black and white Power Armor, this was the mark of the Death Spectres Chapter.
But on his head, he wore a silver Deathwatch special chapter alien-slayer helmet.
His hands were equipped with a pair of lightning power claws that flickered with deadly arcs, just like their Gene-father.
This captain was the elite veteran under Captain Roshiam's company—Lucas!
When the few Space Marines approached.
The players led by Ming Shen hurriedly made a non-standard Imperial double-headed eagle salute on their chests perfunctorily.
"For the Emperor!"
"For my son!"
"For free room and board!"
Veteran Lucas was stunned, and the brows under his helmet were tightly wrinkled.
He didn't quite understand this group of mortals with strange clothes in front of him.
In the rules of the Empire, ordinary mortal soldiers or civilians, when meeting holy Space Marines.
They all need to kneel and pray directly, or perform the highest level of military salute, to show absolute awe and respect for the God-Emperor's Death Angels.
But this group of guys in front of him! When they carelessly shouted the slogan "For the Emperor", there was no follow-up!
Not only did they not kneel.
Instead, they looked at him and the battle brothers behind him up and down with an excited look like looking at rare monkeys in a zoo!
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