The City of Terror - Chapter 509

Chapter 509: 509

Chapter 509: Chapter 509 – The Tea Table Is Full of Cups

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

The Zerg’s means of reproduction came from the Hatchery’s larva . The larvae were created by reorganizing genes . On the other hand, the humans’ means of reproduction was through breeding clones .

This might be the reason why their souls were a bit deficient, causing them to be unable to sense the effect of [Enlightenment] .

After [Enlightenment] activaed, two status panels appeared .

The first one was for the vehicle called Vulture . It was described as a normal quality vehicle capable of high-speed driving, laying mines, bombardments, and many other things . As for the other status panel, it was for the driver of the vehicle . The driver’s creature rank was only a normal 1-Star . He was a lot weaker than the Marines, but his intelligence was quite high at 12 points .

According to Wei Xiao Bei’s understanding of StarCraft, if the Marines were 1-Star Elite Creatures, then the Vulture should at least be a 2-Star Elite, which was on the same level as the Hydralisk .

However, it appears that the Vulture and its driver were calculated separately . The driver was useless without the Vulture .

The Vulture was quite fast . By his estimate, it was moving at least three hundred kilometers per hour, in other words, it had the same speed as modern helicopters .

Moreover, one of its effects was to ignore obstacles that were lower than three meters, allowing it to easily move through the terrain .

Just when Jessica spoke, the Vulture stopped in front of them . Immediately, the vehicle cover lifted and a soldier appeared . He saluted to Jessica, “Second Lieutenant Jessica, private first-class James has received orders from base to escort the 17th squad!”

“Then I’ll ask you to stand guard for us . ” Jessica saluted back and gave her orders .

James? 007 James?

Wei Xiao Bei chuckled .

“Ma’am, yes ma’am!”

The soldier closed the vehicle cover and quickly started the Vulture again . With a spin in place, he once again drove and disappeared in the distance .

Wei Xiao Bei did not ask why they did not just ride the Vulture to return to base .

He was not an idiot . He could see that the Vulture was the size of a truck, yet there was no place for people to ride on it at all . Its back should contain spider mines, while the cockpit in front was only fit for one person .

As for riding on top of it, that was an impossible thing . With the speed and maneuvering of the Vulture, other than Wei Xiao Bei, other people would probably be thrown flying with how smooth the hull of the vehicle was .

“Continue advancing!”

The squad immediately picked up the pace, but the mood was a lot better than before .

After all, among the Terran Empire army, the Vulture could already be considered a heavy-duty weapon compared to the Marines . Moreover, the spider mines that it planted would deal significant damage to the Zerglings . The explosion radius would not allow the Zerglings to escape at all .

According to Jessica, this place was considered a red zone, in other words, it was the most chaotic part of the warzone .

They could encounter a Zergling at any time . Living and dying were completely based on luck .

However, it was now good . With the Vulture leading the way to investigate, it would be harder for the squad to encounter a Zergling ambush . Jessica explained all this with a lively voice .

Wei Xiao Bei had been influenced by the other party’s mood as he smiled .

If Jessica was placed in the real world, she would be considered an absolute beauty . Moreover, she was an extremely cheerful type .

Who knows how many handsome men would strive to outdo each other to obtain her .

“How much farther do we have left?”

After walking for half an hour, Wei Xiao Bei inquired .

“Going straight, there should be 12 . 615 kilometers left . ”

Jessica took a look at the watch on her right hand and replied with great accuracy .

Twelve kilometers?

According to their walking speed, it should take less than an hour for them to make it to the so-called base .

However, at this moment, Jessica suddenly removed her helmet . In a few moments, the slightly weakened voice of the private first class named James was transmitted from the helmet, “In Zone J6, I have encountered the Zergs . The counts are three hundred and seventy Zerglings, twenty-seven Hydralisks, and two Wyzerns! My bombardment has killed five Zerglings . I am currently escaping from J6 to J7 while laying down spider mines . I cannot continue the mission of escorting you . I wish you good luck . ”

It was very clear that the voice came from a transmission channel . Perhaps showing consideration to him, Jessica played out the audio .

There was no doubt that this information would make someone feel gloomy . The atmosphere immediately changed from liveliness to despair .

Three hundred and seventy Zerglings and twenty-seven Hydralisks were not considered much . After all, the perception of these Zerg creatures was not great . As long as they were not encountered head-on, there was still a good chance to run away from them .

The problem was the two Wyverns .

These so-called Wyverns were not the Wyverns from Western fantasy, but a fighting force of the Zerg .

It’s figure looked like a Wyvern . It had two wings and can spit out something to attack, dealing damage to enemies with range . The worst part about them was that they could fly, making their field of vision further than the Zerglings on the ground .

Just like that, if they continued on the path of J6, then there was a huge chance for the Wyverns to notice them .

Naturally, making a detour was a way to dodge this .

The problem was that the topography between zone J6 and J7 was two interweaving canyons, a place you needed to pass through to reach the base . According to Jessica, they had built a few mechanical bunkers in the two canyons to control the canyon zone .

Now, it appears that the Marines inside the mechanical bunkers had been annihilated .

Otherwise, it was impossible for there to be so many Zergs .

If they wanted to take a detour, then they would need to walk at least sixty kilometers, with the chance of encountering more Zergs .

In other words, the squad currently had no room to advance or retreat .

Naturally, there was an extra option, finding a place that was easy to defend and waiting for reinforcements .

The problem here was that they had already been on a mission for five days . The food that they carried would only last them a few days .

Although the Zerg’s corpses could be turned to food, that could only be done back in the base, where equipment to remove the poison from the Zerg corpses was .

If it was not processed, then they would die from food poisoning .

After understanding everything, Wei Xiao Bei felt that these soldiers were unlucky .

However, something more unfortunate was quickly about to happen .

Just when Jessica was pondering which option to chose, her face suddenly turned stiff, and she said a few things .

It appears that the Vulture that had escaped was surrounded in the end, but the driver remained unyielding . He immediately called for the tank near the base to bombard his location .

Although the bombardment had killed the Zerglings surrounding the Vulture, the leader of the Zergs appeared to have become angry . In the end, thousands of Zerglings, hundreds of Hydralisks, more than a hundred Wyverns, and other Zerg creatures had surrounded the base .

Naturally, it would be difficult for the Zerg to just charge into the heavily defended base .

However, it made Jessica and the others unable to retreat . Moreover, with the base heavily surrounded, it would be difficult for reinforcements to come and provide support .

“Let us find a safe place first, then we can discuss other matters . ”

The main reason for Wei Xiao Bei’s visit this time was to see the village’s situation in the Dust World, as well as finding the six missing people .

Now that the base was surrounded, he would naturally not hurry to go there .

Although this region of the Dust World had big changes, Wei Xiao Bei could still faintly sense from buildings . Thus finding the village would not be too difficult .

Seeing that Wei Xiao Bei began advancing in a certain direction, Jessica hesitated for a bit and could only follow behind Wei Xiao Bei .

After all, being able to travel with someone strong like Wei Xiao Bei was a safe choice .

After walking a certain distance, Wei Xiao Bei found the direction of the village and began walking straight there .

But walking in a straight line caused some problems as it was easy for them to encounter wandering Zergs .

After advancing for three kilometers, Wei Xiao Bei saw tens of Zerglings charging toward him .

This did not mean that the Zerglings’ field of view had widened, it was instead because of a strange hot-air balloon-like monster floating in the sky .

Its entire body was blue . Above was a flesh-formed air sac while the bottom had ten-meter long tentacles .

Wei Xiao Bei immediately used [Enlightenment] to identify this monster .

This was the famous Overlord of the Zerg!

Its name sounded awe-inspiring, but in truth, it was the transport aircraft of the Zerg . Its speed was very slow and it did not have any fighting power . It could provide nourishment to a certain number of Zergs, float in the air as a scout, and signal warnings to the Zergs . Everywhere that it went, whether it was the humans or the Protoss, it would be able to detect them .

However, going back to the issue, the terrain was extremely flat . For Jessica and the squad, this was not a good place to defend against the Zerg’s attack .

“Where are you leading us! We are now doomed!”

The Marine guarding the rear was currently shouting at Wei Xiao Bei .

From his point of view, facing tens of Zerglings in a flat piece of land would, without doubt, lead to death .

Since they were about to die, then they need to let out all their frustrations and curses before they die .

Naturally, it was not only this Marine that thought this way, but even others were complaining about him in their hearts .

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc . . ), Please let us know so we can fix it as soon as possible .

Tip: You can use left, right, A and D keyboard keys to browse between chapters .

Note : Please download the sponsor's game to support us!