Chapter 194: Beginning the March
After determining the Hive Base as the next target, the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force also made various special preparations for this special battle.
More than a dozen human-sized Transformers have been teleported to be engaged in combat operations against the Hive Experimental Base.
They are a rare small man among the Autobots, and their combat ability is far less strong than normal-sized Transformers such as Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, but at least they are not afraid of virus infection and can enter the battle as a vanguard.
On the other hand, the first batch of mass-produced steel suits on The Wandering Earth are also ready to be put into actual combat for the first time in this operation.
In order to be able to achieve mass production, this mass-produced steel suit had to make many compromises in materials.
For example, instead of continuing to use expensive and scarce gold-titanium alloys for armor shells, ordinary bulletproof steel was only used as armor materials.
In addition, the energy consumption and power consumption of the small Ark reactor are reduced, so as not to consume a large amount of cold nuclear fusion fuel for each battle.
After all, the Steel Suit is powered by a new element that needs to be synthesized, and this new element needs to be collided with a particle accelerator to complete, so in fact, every new element is expensive to produce, and there is no way to make the production model so profligate.
With the reduction of armor energy consumption, the ability to fly was first castrated, and its main weapon was changed from an energy weapon such as an electromagnetic pulse gun to a rotating machine gun, and small missiles have been kinetic weapons such as howitzers, at least it is easier to replenish ammunition than to replenish fuel.
After such a series of changes, in the end, the model of this batch of steel suits is closer to another superhero war machine, rather than the iron man Tony Stark, who is not bad for money at all.
There is no way, Tony can build himself a set or even dozens of steel suits to play with, regardless of the cost.
But if you really want to put mass production into the troops, you have to consider the problem of cost performance.
If the steel suit had been produced exactly according to Tony's original design, the technology would never have been mass-produced, let alone mass-produced.
In any case, the soldiers of this operation can finally be equipped with a set of steel suits, and their defensive performance is probably equivalent to that of the Ultron mechanical soldiers in "Avengers 2", which can reach the shooting of small-caliber firearms, and ordinary zombies are impossible to bite through no matter what.
But in the face of more perverted biological weapons, this armor may not be able to withstand the tyrant's claws or the tracker's revolving machine gun.
This operation still requires extreme caution.
In the interval between the assembly of troops, Liu Peiqiang also asked Qiao Lu: "In the previous world, didn't you know a few people with very strong individual combat ability?" Why don't you call them over to help? ”
Qiao Lu knew that he was talking about the Avengers, and if Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk and others were willing to come over, this operation might be a lot easier.
However, Qiao Lu asked rhetorically: "Their physical fitness is different from ordinary people, but it doesn't mean that they are immune to virus infection." In case they become infected zombies, who do you let deal with them? ”
How terrifying it is for superheroes to turn into zombies, just look at the Marvel Zombies Universe.
Qiao Lu would rather not let them come over to help than take the risk.
In case the Hulk is infected with a zombie, the picture is too beautiful.
In short, after some rectification, the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force finally began to march on the Hive Experimental Base of New Ambrera.
Along the way, the expeditionary force continued to use various incendiary bombs to open the way, using the fire to carve a way out of the zombie horde.
In this process, New Ambrera did not send biological weapons to obstruct it, and probably they all realized that it was extremely stupid to confront the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force on the ground, and no matter how many zombies cooperated, it was impossible to cause any losses to this army.
After easily killing thousands of ordinary zombies, the expeditionary force finally reached the ground entrance of the hive base.
At this time, the place has been protected by the soldiers and zombies of New Ambrera, and it seems that they are also planning to resist to the end.
In the final analysis, these soldiers who have been transformed by the virus have long been brainwashed into complete loyalty, and even in the face of a powerful threat, it is impossible to betray the new Ambrera.
For such people, it is better not to think of them as human.
"Start attacking!"
Under Wang Lei's order, the expeditionary force's offensive against New Ambrera was finally officially launched.
First, dozens of white phosphorus bombs exploded above the entrance to the hive ground, exploding like fireworks to unleash countless meteors that landed on the new Ambrera soldiers who were guarding the area.
Each of these fire meteors is a violently burning white phosphorus, and when it falls on a zombie or soldier, the flesh is instantly penetrated, all the way to the bone, and then sticks to it like an appendage, burning until only a skeleton remains.
This weapon has an extremely efficient lethality against zombies, after all, no matter how tenacious the zombie's vitality is, only a charred skeleton remains, it is impossible to continue to move.
However, once these new Ambrera soldiers were glued to the white phosphorus, they immediately turned into a hard chrysalis on the spot, blocking the further erosion of the white phosphorus, and remained active in the flames, as if something was hatching inside.
A round of white phosphorus bombs bombarded past, and all the zombies protecting the entrance to the hive were burned to scorched bones, but those soldiers who obeyed the orders of New Ambrera all turned into chrysalis of different shapes one by one, and no matter how white phosphorus burned, it could not penetrate its hard shell.
This is the effect of another of Novoambrera's products, the C virus.
Unlike the T-virus, which can only be used to create zombies, the biggest role of this C-virus is to modify the human body into a biochemical soldier with various insect characteristics.
Pupae is the secondary mutation behavior that occurs when it encounters danger, and once it becomes like this, the infected person will completely lose the human body and turn into various forms of insect monsters.
These soldiers are able to maintain a certain level of intelligence before forming a pupa, and can even use weapons and team work normally.
Once pupated, they are complete monsters.
Of course, at this stage, the expeditionary force will not give them a chance to break out of the cocoon, while these soldiers are still hatching, dozens of Transformers will immediately run over them, braving the fire to crush all these chrysalis.
The entrance to the hive experimental base was easily cleared out in this way.
But then, here's where the real pain lies!