boom!
The final "flare" created by the rear admiral and the crew can be clearly observed even on the surface within the atmosphere.
After all, the Zerg fleet is approaching from the sunny side of Teroker. Millions of living battleships and transport ships cover the sky, and the "bright light" of the Yandu class is particularly eye-catching.
The UNSC fleets that returned to the atmosphere according to the order of the major general were parked above the energy shields in the core area of the city.
at this time.
The 29th district of the city belongs to the outer zone.
Near the edge of the energy shield, inside one of the bunkers.
"May your souls rest in peace. The cold brilliance of the Lord of Humanity will sweep away all the chaos and evil in different dimensions for you."
All the intern sisters knelt on one knee, touched their decorations about "Human Truth", and mourned the major general and others with great piety.
"..."
The Iron-Blooded Captains and scouts stationed here with them opened their helmets, held their weapons in both hands, and silently listened to the sisters' heavenly voices.
After finishing their condolences, the sisters stood up.
The Iron-Blooded Captain and the scouts also closed their helmets again, returned to their respective posts, and continued to pay attention to the outside world.
No matter what, the atmosphere in this bunker cannot be lively at all.
Because they lost orbital control and a senior general, and the size of the unknown Zerg main fleet far exceeded previous estimates.
They are confident that they will persist until the arrival of the Thirteenth Legion, but they cannot imagine what the unknown Zerg are capable of.
Shortly after.
Tanya and Celestine stayed on the right side of the bunker, looking at the sky through the observation window, and through the simulated star map on the holographic screen, they could "clearly" see millions of living battleships, surrounding Tigrell. Live, package.
At the same time, the sky also became gloomier and darker.
Regular communications failed.
Psychic detection failed.
Only quantum communication remains normal, making Tyroker not completely isolated from the outside world.
But this cannot be avoided. Wherever the unknown Zerg go, everything seems to be plunged into darkness and silence.
Moreover, when the psykers among the official battle sisters tried to use their psychic powers to pry into the minds of the unknown Zerg, they were almost backfired by the other party.
Fortunately, the psyker ended her spying in time, otherwise she would end up either dead or mad. This also shows that the unknown Zerg has a higher consciousness, which ordinary psykers alone cannot compete with.
Tanya and Celestine were still watching the content presented on the holographic screen.
After the insect swarm fleet completed the encirclement, it released an even denser number of insects that broke through the atmosphere, descended on the surface and began to wreak havoc...
"eating".
Yes, eating.
The low-intelligent artificial intelligence that continuously monitors Tyroker found that countless bugs swallowed every living thing in sight as soon as they arrived on the surface.
Moreover, they will also release some kind of living plants, which will quickly erode and take root in the soil, causing sudden changes in the ecological environment.
Almost instantly, what was originally a vibrant green rainforest, after some manipulation by the unknown Zerg, turned into a corrupt and festering swamp green, although it was still "green".
Immediately afterwards, those living battleships that came into the atmosphere would lower their huge, thick sucking tubes to suck up all the soil that had turned into "soup" and "swamp".
After a while, the low-intelligent artificial intelligence lost its surveillance vision because various facilities were destroyed by the insect swarm.
"Good guy..." After seeing what the swarm did to Tyroker, Tanya couldn't help but sigh: "This swarm is even more exaggerated than the Flood, and they simply can't get enough to eat..."
"The Great Devourer," Celestine agreed.
"Yes, Great Devourer, your word describes it very aptly."
Tanya nodded in agreement, then she turned the holographic screen in front of her left eye back to the shooting assist mode, and looked at the sky in the distance, feeling melancholy:
"Hey... I didn't expect that we had just been practicing for a month and we encountered an unprecedented Zerg attack. Moreover, this big devourer can block and isolate psychic energy. So what do you think... can the chairman of the board keep an eye on us?"
"..." Celestine did not respond immediately.
After a few seconds of silence, he replied: "The spiritual energy is isolated and shielded, so naturally our prayers cannot reach the chairman. Sergeant Ran Ze should not have the right to contact the chairman directly, but the original source of the Thirteenth Legion The body is absolutely fine, but..."
Celestine was unable to say the next words.
Because the Primarchs of the Thirteenth Legion belong to the new generation, as young and vigorous as them, how could they easily apply for assistance from the Chairman, or other legions, or Primarchs when faced with Zerg enemies who can earn enough achievements? ?
Only the Red Queen and the White Queen could notice Tyroker's situation immediately and then report it to the Chairman.
However, deep down in their hearts, Celestine and the sisters always felt that the Chairman would pay more attention to the thoughts and opinions of the original body.
There is no way. Although they claim to be the daughters of the Chairman (the Lord of Humanity), they are not related by blood at all, and the principle is the "blood son" of the Lord of Humanity.
If the Primarch of the Thirteenth Legion wants to show off, the Chairman may acquiesce and acquiesce, and will not directly lend a hand to rescue unless necessary.
After all, the chairman's focus is not on a certain planet or a certain universe, but on the multiverse and tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of planets and colonies, so it is absolutely impossible to focus on one point continuously.
"Boom...boom..."
At this time, there was a faint vibration on the ground, causing Tanya, Celestine, and everyone in the bunker to look outside.
I saw living battleships attacking from the sky overwhelmingly, releasing at least hundreds of millions of insects, trying to attack the urban area with the entire population of the planet.
"All personnel be prepared, we are about to launch the first round of artillery strikes." On the communication, a reminder came from the elite captain.
The words fell.
"Shua...shua..."
Tanya, Celestine and the others saw hundreds of missiles passing above with white trails, and then heard the whistling sound of the missiles.
Thousands of missiles dispersed the distance and rushed straight into the incoming insect swarm, and then...
Ri~-------!
White light and blue light appear suddenly.
This caused Tanya and Celestine to narrow their eyes slightly and raise their hands in front of themselves to shield themselves.
"boom!
!
"
When the light was about to dissipate, they heard a deafening explosion.
Hands down.
I saw that the suburbs at this time had been reduced to purgatory, everything was burned and destroyed, and even the incoming insect swarms were wiped out and "purified".
really.
To deal with dense enemies like insect swarms, dropping plasma bombs and anti-matter bombs in the atmosphere is one of the best options.
Although Tyroker's UNSC fleet does not have the authority to equip Nova nuclear bombs sufficient to carry out an extermination order, it still has a reserve of more than 10,000 plasma bombs and anti-matter bombs with conventional yield (no more than 20 grams).
Hot, scalding air waves swept around.
“Buzz~!
"
However, the energy shield generated in City Area 29 easily offset the aftermath of the intrusion, and the salvo of thousands of missiles easily defeated the first round of the unknown Zerg's offensive.
However…
The opponent had no fear at all, and could see clearly that the advantage it had was numerical superiority, so it began to gather troops and rush towards the metropolitan area.
At the same time, the opponent launched an orbital bombardment. Huge bioplasma cannons continued to fall from the sky, continuously bombarding the two Steadfast-class ships and four Paris-class ships of the UNSC fleet, as well as the entire metropolitan area.
Faced with such an offensive, the UNSC fleet had to withdraw within the energy shield of the metropolitan area.
Even though the attack was fierce, in a short period of time, the unknown Zerg could not break down the defense of Tyroker authorities.
Next.
Tanya, Celestine and the others saw outside the energy shield. Every once in a while, blue and white lights representing plasma bombs and antimatter bombs would appear.
However, not long after, they heard another command from the elite captain on the communication: "Everyone will retreat to City Area 01 immediately. At the same time, all units from Areas 02 to 12 will also escort civilians to City Area 01."
?
Hearing this, all the intern sisters were doubtful, but they still followed the order and followed the Iron-blooded Captain and the reconnaissance company to withdraw from the bunker and come to the empty streets.
"Gah..."
Seemingly sensing the confusion of the intern sisters, Captain Ironblood walked slowly to them and explained: "It seems that the enemy's artillery fire is fierce, and the superiors need to concentrate all energy on maintaining the energy shield in Area 01. That’s why everyone had to evacuate to Area 01.”
In fact, when Sergeant Ran Ze, Zack Redfield and others moved the people of the entire planet and concentrated them in the metropolitan area, they took into account the fierce artillery fire of the unknown Zerg, and then invested all their energy into the backup in Area 01. plan.
Therefore, most civilians are concentrated in 01, and areas 02 to 12. In this way, when the backup plan is activated, time can be saved and efficiency improved as much as possible.
As for not doing this from the beginning, it is because the top management still has a certain "illusion" that they can preserve the urban area that has been operating for nearly half a century.
But the current situation shows that not only the urban area cannot be preserved intact, but even Tyroker will be eaten clean by the unknown Zerg.
"Hey..." Even after hearing the explanation from Captain Ironblood, one of the sisters couldn't help but sigh: "In this case, we will really be fighting with our last resort, and there will be no way out."
"A last-ditch fight?" When Tanya saw that the sisters' morale was relatively low, she immediately clenched her right fist and waved forward, raising her voice and said: "Aren't many classic battles in history always a last-ditch fight? I believe that we can also create miracles!
What's more! It's just a transfer now. The navy is firing missiles and the army artillery is doing saturation bombing. There is nothing to worry about for the time being. "
"That's right." A sister who was also militant immediately agreed.
"..." Celestine didn't express any opinion, because she always felt that Tanya was more clumsy, but she still nodded in agreement.
After learning about their superiors' intentions, the intern sisters and the 3rd Battalion under the elite captain's command, as well as a reserve combat team, and many friendly troops took air and ground rail trains to transfer.
When everyone, including them, withdrew from Area 29 and arrived at Area 20 of the city, Tanya, who was standing in the rear carriage, saw the energy shield in Area 29 dissipate on its own initiative.
Endless insects swarmed forward, and the first to fall was the bunker they had been stationed in, followed by the remaining defense lines, and then all the buildings collapsed one after another.
There was no resistance on the ground, so the insect swarm was overwhelming and swallowed up the entire area 29 in the blink of an eye.
“Boom! Boom!
"
Suddenly, they heard a violent explosion on the right side of the carriage, not far from them.
? !
This caused them to quickly look out through the car window.
The orbital bombardment of the insect swarm changed from covering all urban areas at first to concentrating firepower, and began to focus on "taking care of" areas 02 to 06 of the city.
Not only that, they also saw countless giant flying insects, waving rotten and hole-shaped wings, escorted by many small flying insects, attacking the air defense barrage regardless of casualties. It seemed that their target was also Directly pointing to the 02 to 06 districts of the city.
Once the energy shields of these five metropolitan areas are broken, the escape route for nearly 100 million people will be cut off.
"Fuck!" Seeing this, Tanya exclaimed: "Did these insects make changes by chance, or were they carefully planned? Are they so smart?"
Immediately afterwards, the mission information displayed on the holographic screen was changed from "Retreat to City Area 01" to "Go to City Area 06, assist in evacuating civilians, and prepare to respond to the enemy."
This time, the elite captain did not continue to boost morale on the communication, but simply said: "Everyone, you have all seen the content of the mission. I don't need to remind you of any unnecessary matters. Just remember one sentence, if you see bugs, kill them." !”
"Yes, sir!" Tanya, Celestine and others responded in unison.
Afterwards, the rail train carried everyone across the deserted streets and quickly rushed to the nearest District 06.
Come to the high-altitude site.
Get out of the car.
Tanya saw a Krieg combat team stationed on the platform equipped with exclusive power armor and wearing iconic helmets.
When they passed by these silent warriors, they nodded in return when they saw that the other party nodded.
soon.
The group of people came to the street below.
It was not as chaotic as imagined. The ground vehicles followed the guidance of the traffic police officer and drove towards Area 01 in an orderly manner, but at a relatively slow speed.
The same is true for air channels.
Many veterans armed with semi-automatic pulse rifles spontaneously left the opportunity to evacuate first to young people who had never received training.
elder?
No, eighty years old is the prime of life.
If there are old people, they are the first batch of colonists from the main universe to arrive in Tyroker, and they are also the most martial and moral colonists of the main universe. And most of these "old people" are retired veterans armed with firearms.
"Boom...boom..."
The Zerg's bombardment of energy shields was also constantly shaking everyone's minds. Although the streets were densely packed with people, they were surprisingly quiet.
"Huh...ha..."
Even while patrolling the streets, Tanya's breathing rate unknowingly increased a little.
“Crack…clap!
! "
In the end, it meant that the energy shield could no longer support it. At the same time, the shattering sound that everyone least wanted to hear was heard from above.
