Chapter 118: Chapter 109: Counterattack, Tank Upgrade, and Materials (Part 2)

Many of them crawled directly back to the Wormhole entrance.

The sight unfolding before them made the defenders in the main fortress quickly realize something was wrong. But after they contacted rear command, the message they received made them burst into cheers...

Judging from the sudden turn of events on the battlefield, the previous bunker-buster missile strike had most likely killed or severely injured the Zerg Race Mother Empress. Now, without their leader’s control, the Zerg army was in disarray, like chickens with their heads cut off.

And this was the perfect opportunity for the line’s defenders to go on the offensive!

Of course, they didn’t have the guts to venture onto the battlefield outside the defensive line. But the Wormhole entrances dug by the Red-Armored Beetles inside the walls, and the large number of remaining Swarms in the distance...

It was time to clean those up and reduce the threat of being attacked from both front and rear!

The order from divisional headquarters was to act as the situation dictated. However, many companies, eager for quick results, desperate for glory, and keen to strengthen their Awakening, directly dispatched two-thirds, or even all, of their troops...

They poured out in full force to encircle and annihilate the remaining Swarms inside the city.

A few companies stationed in other main fortresses, lacking sufficient weapons and ammunition, could only remain to defend the line and repel any potential Zerg Race attacks from the outside.

But many veteran Awakeners planned to follow the main force out of the city to kill Black Spine Zergs and advance to the Tier One Late Stage.

Among them were many of Li Ran’s old teammates.

They formed several elite squads with clearly defined roles, even including platoon-level communications soldiers carrying small, portable radios.

And very soon, they received an urgent notification from Li Ran!

In the dark depths ahead, inside the Wormhole entrance, a large army of Black Spine Zergs lay hidden in ambush.

They had been waiting for a long time. The moment their Mother Empress gave the order, they would surge from the ground and annihilate all the humans who had ventured beyond the defensive line!

At the same time, on the main battlefield outside, Tiger Spine Zergs would lead a Black Spine Zerg army to coordinate with the chaos inside the city and completely destroy the defensive fortresses, which now lacked sufficient firepower.

The Mother Empress’s secret plot was, at this very moment, about to come to fruition!

...

Even if Lin Feng had guessed the truth, he would have been powerless to change the outcome.

All he could do was his utmost to weaken the Zerg Race’s effective forces and enhance his own strength.

The Lv19 Flying Wing Tank used its Ground Effect Flight Mode to cross the ruined highway and arrive at the service area.

Inside the once-pristine and level service area, the ground was now completely shattered, covered in raised earthen mounds and deep, sunken pits.

If not for the Ground Effect Flight Mode, which greatly reduced the pressure of the Tank’s tires on the ground, even a tracked vehicle would have gotten stuck in the three-to-four-meter-deep trenches, unable to move an inch.

Fortunately, the Ground Effect Flight Mode was effective, and combined with Chen Yanyan’s expert driving, the Tank came to a steady stop beside the outpost.

The collapsed outpost was tilted; one side was completely submerged beneath the surface, while the other still had a three-to-four-meter-high wall exposed above the pit.

It seemed the Red-Armored Beetles had dug a massive cavern below, allowing the Tiger Spine Zergs to hide there and draw the missile’s tracking.

Lin Feng stood at the edge of the pit, looking into the center of the outpost. In the open area originally used for storing supplies, a massive hole over twenty meters in diameter had appeared. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Using Mind Sensing, he detected two points of light still present below. Inside the Tank, Chen Yanyan sent over the results from the Life Radar, which matched Lin Feng’s findings.

Lin Feng took a deep breath, activated the Flight Mode on his Flying Tiger Armor, and dove headfirst into the deep pit.

The destruction from the explosion had collapsed the entire cavern.

But the Tiger Spine Zergs were faster than the Zerg Race Mother Empress. They could begin retreating the moment the bunker-buster missile penetrated the earth and its booster ignited for the final push.

A Cloud Burst Bomb has a two-stage detonation. The first blast only serves to disperse the high-explosive fuel inside, mixing it thoroughly with the air to form an aerosol cloud. The second ignition, which causes the explosion to spread, is the truly devastating attack.

This worked on the same principle as the gasoline and hydrogen mixture Lin Feng had first used for an explosion.

And in those few seconds, while the Zerg Race Mother Empress certainly wouldn’t have had time to escape, it was enough for the highly mobile Tiger Spine Zergs to climb dozens of meters upward...

...allowing them to escape the central kill zone.

Lin Feng remembered that when he evacuated the outpost, there had been a total of five points of light beneath him, representing five Tiger Spine Zergs. Now, two were still shining...

That meant two were still alive!

And their trajectory showed them frantically digging and climbing upward.

Because as the outpost continued to sink, it would eventually crush the live Zergs buried in the earth.

There were also many Red-Armored Beetles digging nearby, but when Lin Feng appeared, clad in his Flying Tiger Armor and releasing the Might of the Tiger Zerg, the beetles scattered immediately.

Lin Feng landed smoothly at the bottom of the pit, over thirty meters deep.

His scan revealed one of the Tiger Spine Zergs. It had already extended a sharp claw from the debris, but most of its body was still buried beneath the outpost.

It would need to struggle a bit more to break free.

Seeing his chance, Lin Feng advanced on it. He grabbed its half-meter-thick leg and pulled with all his might. Aided by the lift from his flapping back-wings, he finally yanked the struggling Tiger Spine Zerg out of the pit floor.

But before it could react, a dark muzzle was already aimed down at its four limbs.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Four shots rang out. The Armor-Piercing Cannon, switched to its Level 19 Grenade Cannon mode, had locked onto the weak joints of the Tiger Spine Zerg’s limbs, blowing all four of them clean off.

In truth, this Lv23 Tiger Spine Zerg was already severely injured. Its Life Value had dropped from over 300 to about half that. Now, with its limbs blown off, it had less than fifty remaining.

At this point, even a standard Grenade Cannon could have taken its life.

Even after neutralizing the Tiger Spine Zerg’s threat, Lin Feng was still uneasy, so he picked up a woven steel cable from a nearby elevator.