The unprecedented beast tide caused considerable damage to Base 2. Almost half of the command building was paralyzed, and most of the auxiliary equipment was destroyed. Fortunately, the mastermind was not affected, but the amount of reconstruction work was still huge. Many of the equipment were left over from the previous federation, and there was no way to repair them after they broke. Although these devices are not as indispensable as the main brain, without them, work will become less smooth.
The dormitory area was also severely damaged. First, half of it was blown up by huge thorns, and then a herd of beasts rushed inside, turning it into a battlefield. As a result, two-thirds of the area was destroyed. The huge thorns that exploded at the rear had some impact on the production area and destroyed several refining furnaces.
The personnel losses were not large, mainly due to the tragic loss of nearly a hundred officers in the command building at one time, and secondly, the loss of more than 200 personnel under construction in the underground space. Apart from this, the casualties of the remaining combatants were only in single digits.
The traditional beast tide attack method no longer poses much of a threat to the base, but the beast tide evolves at an alarming speed, and new units appear in almost every major beast tide. Some of the new units are flashy, such as the balloon war beast that appeared this time, and seems to have no effect other than projection propaganda.
But there are also units with unlimited potential and great power, such as the thorn monster that appears for the first time. The thorns it fires are infinitely powerful and have the ability to explode. It is completely a catapult version of a ground-attack missile. If Chu Jungui hadn't deployed alpha cannons and cheating particle main cannons at the base, these two behemoths alone would have leveled the base.
In addition to material and personnel losses, the base's plan to expand into underground space was shelved.
What worries Chu Jungui even more is the tactical coordination ability displayed by the war beasts. This makes the beast tide more like an army, well-trained and fearless of death.
To be honest, Chu Jungui didn't want to fight such an enemy, and no one did. However, there is no way to avoid or escape on Planet 4, the only option is to fight.
Chu Jungui suppressed his worries and arranged the renovation work of the base first. Then he led a team of commandos into the passage where the war beasts came from underground and went back to explore.
As a result, after about a few hundred meters, the passage was blocked. Looking at the traces of blocking, it was obviously the work of a war beast. Chu Jungui tried digging, but after digging several meters, there was still earth and rock that was firmly sealed. He didn't know how thick the blocked road section was.
It seemed that the war beasts had completely blocked all the passages. At this moment, Chu Jungui lacked large tools, so he had to retreat to the base first.
Everyone inside and outside the base was seizing the time to clean up the battlefield. A large number of soldiers were rummaging through the ruins, recovering equipment that could still be used, and then cleaning up the ruins.
Fortunately, the production capacity of the base was not greatly affected, so more than 100 engineering vehicles were urgently produced, greatly improving the cleaning efficiency.
Beast tides are both a crisis and a resource. War beasts are the source of almost all important organic materials, and some rare materials are the only source. New beasts always surprise people, and this time is no exception.
The two hill-like thorny giant beasts not only provided a large amount of flesh and blood, but the thorns on their backs also contained a brand new liquid. Once the spines are fired, the inside of the base will rupture, leaking a new body fluid. When the two biological liquids are mixed together, they become a powerful liquid explosive, which is twice as powerful as Chu Jungui's existing biomass explosive.
With the samples in hand, biologists at the base can mass-produce them. Before there was a dedicated large-scale reactor, a certain degree of efficiency could be guaranteed by relying on the organic matter editor.
With the new explosives, almost all existing weapon systems have to be re-researched, which can be considered a happy trouble.
The Balloon War Beast is another surprise. These guys look somewhat like floating fish and can expand their bodies several times when needed. There is a transparent hard membrane on their back, with very high light transmittance and purity. They can produce hydrogen and helium in their bodies to float. Subdural organs can emit surprisingly high heat, thereby projecting a high-brightness beam of light, somewhat similar to a laser.
The power of the beam projected by each balloon beast is not high, only a few hundred watts, but the problem is that they have mastered the correct direction, and they have successfully evolved an organ that can emit lasers, and have put it into practical use.
It's just that the war beast uses the biological laser as a big killer for propaganda, which makes people speechless. It's just that the people of the Mist tribe, headed by Brother Dao, are actually very intelligent. It won't take long for them to find the correct use of the Balloon War Beast. At least the Alpha Cannon has pointed out the direction for them.
At this time, Chu Jungui couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that he had killed the Mist Clan at the beginning, otherwise it would have brought back the information about the Alpha Cannon. Maybe Chu Jungui would also have a taste of the Alpha Cannon next time.
The encounter with the S-class beast tide drew Chu Jungui's attention back to Planet 4. The existence of the Mist Tribe and War Beasts is a direct threat to the base, and their extraordinary evolution speed puts pressure on the test subjects. However, the threat from the Outer Space Federation is also real and is growing day by day.
Chu Jungui didn't know the grand strategy of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he just knew that he had to hold on to it week by week. If you can't survive it, there will be nothing left for you.
At this moment, Chu Jungui felt quite trapped inside and outside. Fortunately, the test subjects never had mood swings. Some of them just solved problems when they encountered them, one by one.
Chu Jungui immediately ordered the dispatch of 100 commandos to bring engineering vehicles and continue digging along the passage blocked by the war beasts. They must figure out from which direction and how the war beasts dug into the base.
At the same time, he arranged a group of scientists to study the geological structure beneath the base and the way the war beasts tunneled. Under normal circumstances, the Cambrian exists, and the base has a grasp of the underground conditions within a radius of one hundred kilometers, but it was unexpected that the war beast could avoid Cambrian's detection. If the threat from the underground is not dealt with, I'm afraid I won't even be able to sleep.
After all the work was arranged and Chu Jungui had time to go back and sort out the data, he discovered a small anomaly. The materials recovered from the war beasts this time were 10% less than the normal level.
Chu Jungui searched carefully and found the reason: a large number of war beasts killed by particle cannons were basically evaporated on the spot, leaving no materials behind.
The test subject didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and could only accept this result. Just when he was about to start developing a new generation of weapons, Li Xinyi rushed into his laboratory and waved: "Guess what I found?"
Chu Jungui looked into her palm and saw a light black crystal. For some reason, the moment he saw this crystal, Chu Jungui suddenly felt that all the cells in his body were shaking slightly.
