Chapter 268: Iron Man vs. Swarm
Hive Will is faced with two choices.
One, retreat.
Second, keep fighting until you complete your goal.
In a short period of time, the Hive Will has been thinking for the longest time, and every swarm of synaptic creatures has joined in the thinking activity.
In the end, the hive will choose the second option and continue to fight.
The battle on Baal's side has not yet been decided, and the war between Hades and the Iron Man is bound to fail, but sometimes a partial defeat does not mean a complete loss.
Once you are deterred by the inorganic predator in front of you, and then completely stop from Baal, it is the real failure.
Moreover, even if the battle between the two battlefields of Baal and Hades was completely lost, the swarm was still able to obtain information about the inorganic predators, and in the years that followed, they would develop a targeted evolutionary plan and build a targeted hive fleet to deal with them.
In any case, it is not cost-effective to stop in time, and it is always advantageous to continue fighting.
After making this decision, the Hive Will began to concentrate on directing the war in the Hades system, hoping to detect all the information about the enemy before the swarm was completely exhausted.
And so the all-out war between the swarm war beast and the iron man battle body began.
All the biological warships in the Hades system are heading towards Hades-1, and all the swarm warbeasts are moving towards Hades-1.
With the exception of small insect colonies that are necessary to forage on other planets, all other biomass is used to make war beasts.
The Leviathan Iron Man Mothership, which lies between dimensional space and the real universe, has also begun to make more Iron Men.
The Controlling Intelligence also wants to get more information about the swarm, rather than immediately exterminate the discovered abominable organisms.
Hades-1's largest land plate near the North Pole and an entire trench that has been sucked dry of sea water have become the fiercest battlegrounds.
The Iron Men of all sizes marched in neat lines on the ground, their slow and heavy steps, their movements clumsy, but nothing could stop them for even half a second.
When the Iron Man at the front engaged the swarm, it was the Iron Man's arc weapon that fired at the Endless Blade Insect Sea.
This is a specialized weapon of lethal use against organisms.
It was first researched by Qin Mo, and when he was conducting research while integrating positions in the fortress of the bottom nest, he considered the possibility that the genestealer rebels might recruit the swarm, so he designed a weapon that could easily kill the insects.
But in reality, this weapon was only gradually perfected when the Celestial Engine was built.
When the Leviathan Ironman Mothership received its many weapon blueprints, the Arc weapon was called the Celestial Engine Arc Array Youth.
The effect of a small arc weapon is not much different from an arc array.
When the Iron Man pulled the trigger, a torrent of lightning erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and countless arcs of lightning flowed and flashed through the air, piercing through all Tyranid beasts within its reach.
The pieces of knife insects shattered the moment the arc penetrated the body, and the visual effect looked like the building blocks had been hammered, and various parts burst apart in an instant.
Just an arc weapon in the hands of the Iron Man can kill thousands of Knife Worms within a second of the start of the battle, and the number of Iron Men is as boundless as that of the Zerg.
If one could look down on the continental plate of Hades 1 in orbit, they would see that the neatly advanced metal specks were instantly emptied of a large black speck.
The advance speed of the Iron Man troops does not depend on the rate of fire of the arc weapon, or the rate at which the bugs are killed, but on the speed at which they move.
The massive number of knife insects on the Tyranid side were quickly annihilated by eighty percent, and this was also expected by the will of the hive.
The Iron Man forces continued to advance, their thick metal legs wading through the scattered minced flesh.
Those minced meat are also biomass, and in this quality war in which both sides are competing for resources and fighting a war of attrition, biomass is an extremely precious resource that cannot be wasted.
Rippers, which are responsible for grabbing biomass, quickly crawl out of the sea of insects, trying to snatch back the scattered minced meat with the advantage of being small and fast.
At this time, the nanobee colony that had been expelled by the bioelectric field evolved by the swarm returned.
A white storm swept across the battlefield, breaking down all the scattered pieces of flesh into gradually burning molecules.
For the swarms, the resource they rely heavily on, namely biomass, has been reduced a little.
The advancing Iron Man troops gradually came into range of the long-range war beasts.
There are many different types of ranged beasts, but one of the characteristics of them is that they will definitely carry a biological turret about the size of their body on their large bodies.
The green biological cannonballs explode between the iron men, releasing not metal fragments but bugs, which gnaw back and forth on the iron man's body, and although they cannot digest the metal that gnaws into the iron man's stomach, they can gradually burrow into the iron man's body to destroy their circuitry.
When the tiny bugs were detected through the Iron Man's sensory devices, the main control intelligence within the Iron Man Mothership was surprised.
Bugs that are so small that they are not the size of the hair of an erect ape can gnaw at the metal shell of an iron man.
Although the pure gold made of stone and iron as raw materials and then made by atomic conversion devices is not as hard as the pure gold in nature, the movement that can be gnawed by insects still greatly shocks the main control intelligence.
Although the Tyranids are living beings, they are very efficient in their energy use and ability to convert organic matter into attack organs.
The main intelligence's assessment of the Tyranid Zerg has changed.
[Swarm thinking prey on creatures.] 】
[Delete.] Write new information. 】
[A sophisticated biological war machine. 】
After the new data is stored in the database, the main control intelligent control iron man responds.
The Iron Man, who was in the center of the Iron Man Force and was not yet within the battle range of the Zerg, raised his weapon to his companion and fired in an arc, and the electric light flowed back and forth between each Iron Man.
The tiny bugs that were eating the Iron Man were all cleaned up.
Hive Will has observed this, and in order to conserve biomass, it has forbidden ranged beasts from firing biological munitions at enemies, and instead has deployed pure-blood genestealers into battle.
In the brief interval between the Iron Man forces unleashing another arc of electricity and the weapon began to recharge, the pure-blood Gene Stealers crawled out of the underground tunnel and attacked the Iron Man.
These tunnels were excavated during the previous process of collecting biomass from the planet's shallow layers, and are now being used for tactics.
Genestealers appear directly among Iron Man, their claws with biodegradable force fields and begin to tear at Iron Man's shell.
The heavy shell creates a crater with each blow, until a genestealer persistently digs open the Iron Man's shell and inserts his claws into the Iron Man's body to destroy the electronics inside.
The Hive Will controls every genestealer, allowing them to concentrate on attacking with complete disregard for their defenses.
At the same time, the giant battle body in the Iron Man Force was intelligently mobilized by the main controller.
In addition to arc weapons, the giant battle body can also carry many kinds of weapons, among which there are no incendiary weapons, but there are defensive means.
A gray gas erupted from the shoulders of the giant warbody and quickly spread across the battlefield, killing all genestealers when a spark appeared.
(End of chapter)