After several encounters with humans and breaking through several lines of defense, these clever and terrifying monsters also figured out how to deal with human weapons, they opened their shields and charged forward to cover each other, and one after another fat maggots filled with strong acid and highly toxic substances shot out of the muzzles of the acid cannons, turning into acid rain and settling poisonous gases to kill the fortifications and the human soldiers hiding in the fortifications.

Neither the human fortifications nor their ** can withstand this dense rotting attack, even if it is just a little acid on the forearm, the whole hand will turn into a semi-liquid substance that is constantly melting and festering like a slime; If you inhale even a mouthful of the precipitated poisonous gas, you will fall into an acute state of poisoning, and all the holes in the body, including pores, will continue to ooze blood, turning into a terrifying blood and dying of anger.

The dense swarm of insects was like a transit locust, and there was no grass growing in its pass, and for a moment, all parts of the energy tower were caught up in the flames of high intensity.

A large number of hostile reactions have been detected! The third line of defense in Sector A makes contact with hostile units!

The second line of defense in Area C is completely destroyed!

The 6th line of defense in Sector E has been hit with devastating firepower! The fortifications were destroyed!

The fourth line of defense in the R zone has been breached! Request support! Repeat! Request support!

The logistics group is under attack, oops! Your peasants have been beaten!

Information flooded the field of vision, flashing at an overwhelming speed and then being overwritten with new information, and the reports of battle from the front line flew like snowflakes, but all were bad news.

Despite the tacit cooperation on the human side, all kinds of defensive tactics were put together, and they fought bravely without fear of death, but under the attack of the swarm that they did not know how many generations of weapons and endless numbers, the soldiers who could not form a fighting force retreated again and again, and finally even the defense line was crumbling and about to be lost.

Domination of the throne.

It seems that Plan A, which locked these monsters in the energy tower, failed.

The chairman is sitting on the throne, and dozens of cable lines are directly connected to the throne through the direct connection behind him, so as to monitor and manage the various areas of the energy tower in real time, and see with his own eyes that another garrison team is drowning in the sea of insects.

Gwen, report on the operation of the power furnace.

As the external signal was connected to the Chairman's field of vision, a humanoid silhouette composed of snowflakes and chaotic color blocks suddenly appeared, and Gwen's voice sounded slowly.

The components are in good condition, the micro solar power furnace is operating normally, there are no obvious signs of overload or damage in the energy circuit, and there is no abnormality in the energy output unit. Gwen reported in a plain and simple voice that the power room had only undergone a sacrificial repair not long ago, and although it was a mass-manufactured test product, there was no problem with the repair effect.

Will it be able to withstand the next energy output?

The energy output of the main power furnace is definitely no problem, although the volume and mass are not comparable to that of the stars, but the energy provided will not be discounted at all, but Gwen paused here, and after a short calculation and silence, he continued to raise his concerns, I am more worried about the output line than the situation of the power furnace

The additional energy output units and circuits are all add-ons based on our own process, and I don't know if they can withstand the high intensity of energy output

Are you afraid of overload and short circuit? The chairman's indifferent voice sounded slowly.

That's the most optimistic idea. Gwen's voice still sounded mechanical and cold as usual, but there was a little more worry in it at the moment, and we didn't know if the meltdown, the power surge, the uncontrollable pulses, or even the machines over there would start properly

After all, this is a power furnace that permanently supplies energy to the spacecraft, and we still haven't understood the internal energy transmission circuit, so we can only add patches to it according to our own understanding

The chairman's response to his somewhat pessimistic views remained flat: But there is only one way ahead of us.

Now the static force field is unknown because of the unknown origin

Due to the failure, the insect monsters that should have been sleeping all the time woke up, and with our firepower and numbers, they could not stop their advance, which means that the plan drawn up before has become useless, and we can only fight to the death now.

Gwen was silent for a long time before he spoke, is it worth it?

On the other side of the channel, the eyes of the skeleton man sitting on the throne of domination flickered red, and he looked up at the ceiling with intricate lines and cables, the scarlet light swaying in the deep-seated metal sockets, like a candle flame flickering on and off, his mechanical and flat voice quietly echoing in the empty dominion.

Worth.

Forget it, I'm going to do the final startup preparations

I'll take care of the rest.

The communication was quietly disconnected, and the chairman's consciousness returned to reality again.

Domination of the throne.

The control center of the Energy Tower, the chairman of the board of directors sits on this iron toilet iron throne all year round, managing the big and small affairs in Night City&ash;&ash; of course, all this is just wishful thinking on the part of the residents of Night City.

In reality, however, the Throne of Dominion is the controlling core of a spaceship.

Decades ago, when the Old World was in chaos due to Cordyceps, a spaceship from outside the sky appeared in the Earth's low-Earth orbit without warning, was captured by the Earth's gravity, and finally crashed to Earth for unknown reasons.

Although the whole world was tired of dealing with Cordyceps disease, which everyone talked about, the allure of alien civilizations was too great, causing the hegemonic powers that had declined and were unwilling to decline because of Cordyceps disease at that time to reach out to this spaceship.

Coercion, inducement, conspiracy, conspiracy, coercion, commercial sanctions, in order to seize technology from the alien planet, the intriguing hegemons do everything they can, agents, spies, and military forces of all parties compete with each other in the open and in the dark, and they even almost set off a big war, they have the dream of seizing the spaceship after the technological leap and continue to use violence and force to stabilize their hegemony, but before the dream can be realized, the nightmare will come first.

A plague of insects has arrived.

In the day hemisphere, the insects that are on all fours, like wild beasts, act in swarms on instinct alone, are brought by this ship.

And the rebellion of the bones, the lock-in of the earth, the division of the planet into two hemispheres, the polar day and the polar night, and even the chairman and the first hunter and his party with the refugees to explore all the way in the eternal night wasteland, and settle around the energy tower, that is what happened in the past few years or even more than ten years.

In retrospect, it was almost a century ago, but it still feels like it happened yesterday to him.

At that time, they were advancing on the snowy wasteland of the eternal night, a rabble of refugees, led by a leader group of two skilled old hunters, a Buddhist priest, and a skeleton who had not betrayed, and fought to survive against all odds.

Cold, famine, disease, and the terrible hunters of the wasteland&ash;&ash;endless insect tides, any of which are fatal to the refugees, and the vast ranks of refugees are constantly falling, and new refugees are constantly joining, and they have finally found a warmer place after fighting their way through the demon-infested wasteland&ash;&ash; the site of the ship, the energy tower of the night city tonight, to end the long journey.

Subsequently, everyone went their separate ways.

The priests who believed in Buddhism continued to purify all living beings in troubled times, the old hunter named Alex died for his ideals, and the old hunter who inherited the title of the first hunter was disheartened and traveled around, and only the chairman of the board of directors, and only he was fit to stay and manage the refugees in Night City to build their own homes.

Under his command, they gathered materials and built the first shack area from scratch, and for the first time, the displaced refugees had tiled their heads.

In the midst of the bad weather when the temperature was constantly dropping, he gathered the first group of intellectuals, engineers and scientists,

The institute was formed, and the workers worked day and night to intensify the research and manufacture of the technological creations they urgently needed.

He led the refugees to hunt in the ever-cold wasteland, hunting and gathering the animal and plant resources that were not extinct at that time, catching the animals and bringing them back to domestication, and finding crops that had not yet frozen to death and bringing them back to be planted, solving the food shortage dilemma of Night City.

He sent out expedition after team to search the wasteland for refugees, supplies, and minerals of all kinds.

Relying on the transmission of information from the skeleton network, he knew that a large ice storm was forming in the distance, so he issued an order for the workers to work overtime to increase production capacity, stock up on various materials, and finally successfully led them through the nightmare extreme cold.

After the Ice Storm, the temperature in the Night Hemisphere began to settle down, and the residents of Night City had their happiest time.

Until he saw something sleeping in the Silent Chamber.

According to the chairman's speculation, the energy tower itself should be a ship, and it is an extremely technologically advanced colonial ship with enough technology to cross the sea of stars.

The bugs that are now raging all over the world are nothing more than cannon fodder for the advance army, and the bugs that have been sleeping in the stagnant chamber and have now woken up and frantically attacked all living creatures are the regular army.

This kind of thing, even in Night City, is known only to a very few people.

Ever since he knew about it, Night City had been in a state of indefinite readiness, and the inhabitants had never had an easy day.

After nearly a hundred years of preparations, nearly a hundred years of accumulating strength, one secret project after another was put on the agenda, and one weapon after another was submitted to the research institute, it can be said that half of the reasons for Night City's today are due to the sleeping bugs in the Silent Chamber.

A noise outside the door brought the chairman's thoughts back to reality, and he recovered from his rare state of distraction, just in time to see the dusty First Hunter open the door and walk in.

You're finally here. The chairman looked at him quietly and spoke.

What the hell is going on out there? The first hunter had a bad face.

I have something I want to ask you for. The chairman did not reply to his words, but said to himself: Do you remember how we carved a path in the wasteland in the first place?

Now, take the rest of the people and walk the path we did again.

Get out of here, get out of here, and don't come back.