Chapter 849, Broken Bones
Ankachi VIII system.
On the surface, insects and beasts are fighting frantically; in the outer orbit around the planet, the Zerg's biological ships and the Orcs' garbage ships are also fighting desperately for control of the planet's orbit.
From outside the galaxy, troops from both sides continued to come to support. Ships full of soldiers were airdropped to the ground; warships covered transport ships, or simply attacked the enemy's transport ships.
There is no doubt that the battle has reached its most intense level.
And in this environment of a life-and-death battle, a human ship sneaked close to the planet's orbit.
Grand Master Chen Yanqing is on this ship.
His position is Grand Mage of the Storm Mage Corps, and he is also a senior instructor of the Imperial Psionic Association.
He was not originally from the Alliance, but a low-level member of the Psychic Association from Holy Terra. After Gu Hang became the honorary president of the Psychic Association and formulated a new development strategy for the Psychic Association, he followed him to the Alliance's territory.
He started by setting up a branch of the Psionic Association in the Alliance, and then participated in the integration of the Psionic Association and the Alliance's Storm Mage Corps.
In this process, he also made great progress and joined the Western Front Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the Dark Side Expedition.
He was soon promoted to leader of the Storm Mage Corps' tactical observation team on the western front, and led his team to build the first psychic beacon array. He had successfully located the jump trajectories of major enemy target fleets many times, and played an important role in specific battles many times.
He can be considered a person who grew up in the war. During his most recent trip back to the Alliance to rest, he had already been promoted to A-level psychic strength. He was personally received and commended by Gu Hang, and was even bestowed with a psychic crown.
After the battle in Omgeria began, he also performed outstandingly. In a battle against the greenskins, he reversed the waagh force field frequency of the greenskin garbage fleet and assisted the fleet in paralyzing the orc gravity well generator, laying the foundation for victory.
And now, he has accepted Gu Hang's order and become one of the four observers stationed in the most dangerous area of the front line.
He was extremely courageous. While his colleagues could only communicate with other more peripheral galaxies where the fighting was not as intense, and try their best to use their psychic powers and astral tunnels to observe the situation on the main battlefield, he went directly to the core of the war zone.
The psychic reconnaissance ship he commanded, disguised as a meteorite, broke through the Zerg spore cloud and Ork space junk defenses, and approached the vicinity of Ankachi VIII in order to observe the battlefield at the closest distance.
He can break through the physical limitations of conventional reconnaissance methods and directly capture battlefield mutation signals at the interface between the subspace and reality; he can maintain the concealment and stability of the human observation network under the interference of huge subspace fluctuations and waagh force fields; he can build a dynamic combat power model of the Zerg and the Greenskins, and provide a quantifiable decision-making basis for the window of opportunity...
It can be said that the information he provided was the most important part of the battle information Gu Hang obtained from the front line.
He was even bold enough to send a company into the surface during the chaos. When he observed that the orcs were fighting the Zerg and had no time to spare, he found an area on the planet where the war was relatively calm and used psychic power to teleport an elite reconnaissance company down.
Although this company did not last long on the ground of Ankachi VIII, it soon lost contact. Moreover, with less than a hundred people, no matter how elite they were, throwing them into the fierce battlefield of Ankachi VIII would be like throwing a stone into the stormy sea. The waves it stirred up were meaningless compared to the original huge waves.
Although their sacrifice was quick, it was not without value.
At least, with their own people on the ground and the "Cold Light Type III" device they brought down, Master Chen Yanqing did have the ability to directly observe the situation on the ground for a short period of time, allowing him to get a glimpse of some things that were difficult to see clearly before.
And it was this fleeting glimpse that brought him a huge gain - he roughly grasped the approximate location of the Bone Crusher King on Ankachi VIII.
Although humans had speculated earlier that Boneziller must be on Ankachi VIII, otherwise the Zerg would not have suddenly launched such a large-scale and all-out attack on this world at this time.
But guesses are just guesses after all. It is better to be like now, when there is clear and direct evidence.
More importantly, through the information about the Bone Crusher King's position on the surface, combined with the information about a wave of unusual movements in the insect swarm that he had observed not long ago, he suddenly realized that the actions of the insect swarm in front of him were very likely targeting the Bone Crusher King!
He immediately mobilized all means of psychic observation, and ordered the ships to move closer to the surface orbit, even at the risk of exposing them.
Finally, he saw something he wanted to see.
…
Chen Yanqing placed his palm on the metal bracket of the observation cabin, and the crystal inlaid with the psychic crown glowed coldly on his forehead. The jumping data stream in the holographic projection of the bridge gradually twisted into a dark red color, and the psychic vision penetrated the interference of the biological shield. The energy fluctuations of the battlefield on the surface exploded at the nerve endings like boiling magma.
"High-energy aggregates appear in the southwest quadrant." His voice was transmitted from the communication matrix to the entire ship, "Captured a seventh-level biomass collapse reaction."
His pupils contracted slightly.
In the psychic vision, the hexagonal honeycomb structure of the Zerg ambush circle is closing in, and the psychic nerve bundles of the neuron worms are pulsating like silver-white blood vessels beneath the earth's crust.
As Bonecrusher's war fortress smashed through a fourth acid turret, the lurking Hive Lord finally tore through the rock formations.
"Record time node: standard Terra time, 19:37:42." Chen Yanqing's psychic tentacles wrapped around the tactical link, "Activate the spectrum comparison module, and calibrate the battlefield energy level to the red zone threshold."
The holographic image suddenly became clear. Three Hive Tyrants with obsidian-colored shells advanced in a triangular formation, their limbs plowing out furrows that emitted green smoke on the ground.
The executioner tyrants, their curled blade claws suddenly ejected, and the cutting beams accurately covered the movement trajectory of the orc leader.
The Bone Crusher's reaction was beyond the Zerg's calculations. His armored right arm suddenly expanded several times, and the green light of the Waaagh force field condensed into solid gears at the elbow joint. When the blade claws were about to touch, the gears suddenly rotated in the opposite direction, and the misalignment caused by the curvature of space and time caused the Tyrant's attacks to shift to the hill on the left.
"Abnormal energy readings!" Chen Yanqing's mouth and nose were bleeding, and the psychic crown he wore on his head was shining at full power. But he didn't bother to wipe the blood off, and kept reporting what he saw, "The target's body is experiencing gravitational distortion, and it seems that a high-level waaagh force field has materialized!"
At this moment, his psychic vision suddenly began to ripple.
The Bone Crusher King pulled out a battle axe made of unknown bones from his back. The vacuum zone created by the rotation of the axe blade actually rolled back the two biological plasma cannons. The coordination network of the neuron worms was delayed for a moment at this moment - this was enough for the orc leader to break into the center of the Zerg array.
"Pay attention to the frequency of neural pulses." Chen Yanqing increased the output power of the Psychic Crown. "The seismic waves in the northeast are oscillating regularly. It's the neural worms that are reweaving the encirclement."
The holographic image suddenly shook violently. The biological artillery positions of the Zerg fired acid-corroded mucus shells, forming a circular cage that cut the battlefield into six sectors. The Executioner Tyrant took the opportunity to climb to the gap in the armor of the Bone Crusher King, and the blade claws vibrated at a high frequency to try to cut off the power pipeline.
But the strength of the Waaagh force field exceeded the observation limit at this moment. The Bone Crusher's eyes burst into green light, and the battle axe suddenly disintegrated into hundreds of rotating gears, each of which was wrapped in different energy properties. As these gears cut into the gaps in the Tyrant's shell, Chen Yanqing saw that the signal sources representing the Zerg units on the tactical panel began to go out in pieces.
"Biomass concentration plummeted!" Just after he finished saying this, his right eye suddenly exploded.
But he did not stop talking, and continued to report the content indifferently: "Mass annihilation reaction detected! Re-switching the observation link..."
In the reappearing scene, Chen Yanqing had already seen the Bone Crusher King holding half of the Hive Overlord's head and using it as a war hammer. The kinetic energy conversion efficiency granted by the Waaagh force field was astonishingly high. Whenever the remains of the Overlord hit a new Zerg unit, a circular shock wave would shake the nearby Zerg into minced meat.
That's the overlord of the hive!
But in the judgment of humans, there is a being in the Zerg that can defeat the Warp Demon alone!
In the hands of the Bone Crusher, it was destroyed so quickly? He just observed the broken chain for a moment!
The neuron worms tried to reorganize the psychic network, but the Bone Crusher suddenly pulled off the rocket jump pack hanging from his waist. When he completed several right-angle changes in the air, the fragments of the battle axe accurately pierced the core ganglia of three neuron worms. The swarm that lost its coordinator immediately fell into chaos, and countless loopholes appeared in the originally tight encirclement.
"Record combat data: The target demonstrates melee skills at the level of space folding." Chen Yanqing's psychic tentacles marked twelve key frames on the tactical link. "Pay attention to the rune array on his left shoulder armor. There are traces of some special power flowing before each attack."
When the last Executioner Tyrant was stuffed into the acid cannon barrel he fired, the Bone Crusher suddenly roared to the sky. The green beam of light formed by the Waaagh force field shot straight into the sky, and the biological ship on the orbit actually exploded at this roar!
A roar, can it be used as an anti-rail gun? !
It's too outrageous.
Chen Yanqing had to activate the psychic barrier, and the ship's shield began to ripple under the impact of the energy aftermath.
"The psychic reading has exceeded the threshold!" The auxiliary observation wizard shouted before he died: "It is recommended to cut off the observation link immediately!"
These were his last words before he died.
But Chen Yanqing pushed the output of the Psychic Crown to the critical value.
His other eye shattered as well, but before his psychic vision was completely shattered, he caught a glimpse of the Bone Crusher tearing open the chest of yet another Hive Overlord with his bare hands—distorted spots of light like miniature black holes flowed between the orc leader's fingers, and when the Overlord's core biomass was forcibly pulled out, it spontaneously collapsed into a strange substance in the vacuum.
What’s even more terrifying is that when he lost the visual information for the last time, Chen Yanqing felt that the powerful green-skinned leader seemed to glance in his direction.
When the emergency airlock of the observation cabin closed with a bang, Chen Yanqing's combat uniform was soaked with cold sweat. On the tactical panel, the signal sources representing the Zerg ambush forces had all turned dark red, and the life readings of the Bone Crusher King continued to rise.
"Collate the observation records." He took off the psychic crown, and tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the crystal. "Focus on the target's ability to manipulate time and space in the third stage of the battle. This is beyond the scope of the conventional waagh force field."
The adjutant was retrieving the backup data at the console: "Do we need to send an emergency warning to the headquarters?"
"The priority is adjusted to S level." Chen Yanqing stared at the still expanding green spot in the holographic star map.
The ship suddenly shook violently. The starry sky outside the observation window was dyed a strange orange-red, and the surface of Ankachi VIII was erupting with some kind of mixed energy flow. Chen Yanqing activated the backup psychic link and saw that the surviving swarms were madly rushing to the underground tunnels, while the orc army began to build some kind of giant device with the battlefield debris.
"They are recycling Zerg biomass." The Tech-Priest's scanners shrieked in alarm, "Detecting the construction characteristics of a starship-like reactor!"
Chen Yanqing called up the strategic model shared by Gu Hang and imported the latest data into the prediction algorithm. On the holographic sandbox, the curve representing the threat value of the greenskins suddenly rose exponentially, and the remaining Zerg forces were collapsing towards the edge of the galaxy.
"We must deliver the observation data to the main fleet before the orcs complete battlefield recovery!"
Chen Yanqing already sensed that the situation was very bad.
The latest information was quickly transmitted to Gu Hang along with his psychic power.
The ship he was on was also starting its engines at full capacity in an attempt to escape.
He would not take the sight of the broken bones in front of him lightly.
As the ship began to turn its bow, Chen Yanqing finally recalled the remaining images in his mind.
The Bone Crusher was standing on the corpse of the Hive Overlord, swinging his battle axe, and the aftermath of the Waaagh force field was still tearing the atmosphere apart. The torn Zerg carapaces were reorganizing in the green light, forming the skeleton of a new war machine.
As the hum of the jump engine echoed through the bridge, Chen Yanqing entered the highest level of warning code into the encrypted channel.
(End of this chapter)
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