Chapter 987 - 93: City Defense 2

Chapter 987: Chapter 93: City Defense 2

After a friendly and harmonious discussion, motivated by interstellar humanitarian spirit, mutual sympathy among the 4th Celestial Calamity, and the common stance of the First Stellar Vortex’s intelligent species, the alien friend Baozi decisively decided to help the Mountain City Ruins withstand the Corpse Tide for free. As for any benefits, we’ll talk about them later, talk about them later.

’Could it be my illusion? This Brother Bao has an unmistakable aura of a crafty merchant that’s not being hidden. Perhaps I’ve seen too many zombies and have lost my basic ability to judge people. Are there really good people among the alien friends?’

Compared to guys like Rakish Knight and Ruins Chef, who are mired in self-doubt, the gang leader PP is very sure of the opponent’s personality.

It’s negative!

"What kind of conspiracy are you up to?"

Watching Baozi directing four Mechanical Black Tortoises placed at various strategic points in the Mountain City Ruins, PP head immediately suspected the other party.

"How can you doubt my conscience?" Baozi said dissatisfiedly.

"Open your System Panel, check your personality number, and then answer my question," PP head said bluntly.

Little Baozi, I knew you from Nightless City, back when you were hoodwinking players into human surgeries to get rich. Who are you trying to fool now?

Baozi also knew that the other party was aware of his shady past, so he stopped pretending, chuckled, showing a trademark swindler expression:

"Let’s put it this way, if I were doing this task, I wouldn’t intervene at this stage. I would wait until the city is about to fall, then sign a treaty of surrender with them, and split seventy-thirty."

"You’re only taking seventy percent?" PP head expressed surprise.

Baozi rolled his eyes, "Seventy is the deposit, thirty is the balance. I haven’t even mentioned how much debt is owed."

PP head realized, indeed it was the Baozi he knew.

"Then what’s the situation now?" Seeing Baozi in an international friend stance, PP head asked the question in her heart.

"If it were my task, I definitely wouldn’t work for free, but orders came from above for us to quickly help the players in Mountain City Ruins through the Corpse Tide," Baozi pointed to the sky.

"A private mission from a faction boss, I dare not mess up."

"So that’s how it is," PP head felt a little envious. Generally, receiving a faction boss’s personal mission indicates a certain level of favor has been achieved. As far as she knew, among hundreds of thousands of players, only a few people have done this – Baozi, Sister Ji, Brother Umbrella.

Sister Ji made a quick exit too. I wonder how her interstellar horror business is going. I’ll chat with her tonight.

The always silent Mechanical God Supreme suddenly spoke.

"Are these three Mechanical Black Tortoises task items from Mr. G?"

"Yes, what’s wrong?"

Mechanical God Supreme shook his head. After undergoing ’Intelligent Mechanical Transformation,’ he could feel a thick ’mechanical life aura’ from these four giant mechanical creatures, something he never felt even with mechas of the same level.

Realizing the person nearby was the first among mechanical stream players to experience Intelligent Mechanical Transformation, Baozi suddenly understood and said:

"It seems you noticed too – this is a new mecha template from the faction, using Spark Mechanism technology. Originally they wanted to develop something similar to a ’Interstellar Fortress’ as a large war machine, the boss gave me four, probably wanting to test their combat effectiveness."

"Isn’t this mechanical turtle too big in size, is it really suitable for combat?" PP head asked, puzzled.

Baozi shook his head. Being well-informed, he knew this creation is not meant for one-on-one combat; its purpose is for siege, no, for star wars – after the outer space defensive line of a planet breaks, it acts as a forward fortress deployed to the planet’s surface.

He even knew it’s an unfinished product.

It’s said this fortress mecha was developed by the faction’s actual boss, President Du Du Zhaodi, but it was only half-completed. The crucial mecha core, Spark Reactor, hadn’t been developed before President Du stopped appearing.

So this is only a semi-finished product.

Its energy startup doesn’t rely on a reactor but on a fist-sized ’Primitive Ore,’ a super energy ore suitable for Tier 4 Starships.

The energy level of these ores is so high that once the operation time exceeds the limit, the power consumption surpasses the threshold, and the energy pipes of the Mechanical Black Tortoises will collapse. So before coming here, the shrimp-head in the mecha development department advised incessantly – the usage time absolutely must not exceed three planetary hours.

This is probably one of the few drawbacks of this fortress mecha.

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With the strong support of interstellar friends, the Corpse King Knights of the Mountain City Ruins felt confident about defending the city and quickly triggered the second wave of the Corpse Tide.

Facing this seemingly endless zombie horde, players from Immortal Energy Star also showcased their unique skills. Even though due to the wasteland version, their equipment is outdated and levels aren’t high, they demonstrated excellent collaboration skills.

Wasteland players formed lines of defense, working with the rugged terrain of Mountain City Ruins, luring zombies into various treacherous paths, fighting while retreating, synchronizing with surrounding battle conditions, occasionally partnering with small combat squads for ambush counterattacks with remarkable results.

Baozi and the other two observed coldly, indeed a bit surprised, and asked people around only to learn that nearly every player from Immortal Energy Star has an [Advanced Tactical Competence].

This is due to the wasteland environment.

Before the appearance of the ’Corpse King Hunter,’ no single player could withstand zombie attacks. Those not good at cooperation were eliminated early.

"Giving them second-hand equipment could make them good cannon fodder prospects," Baozi muttered, his eyes shifting restlessly, contemplating some wicked ideas.

PP head rolled his eyes, ignoring the other party. A flash of light shone on his glasses, and a Holographic Map appeared, which included not only player positions and defense lines but also zombie attack routes.

Although there is no satellite positioning, as a Neural Editor mastering human brain hacking, hacking into the visual systems of a few zombies was quite easy. Combined with the neural editing function, within a few breaths, an electronic panoramic map was created.

The Rakish Knight and others expressed significant shock at such operations – what a damn high-tech profession. In contrast, over at Immortal Energy Star, due to emphasizing a wasteland style, even professions seem shabby, with names like ’Highway Killer,’ ’Zombie Hunter,’ ’Wild West Outlaw,’ with few remote support ones, let alone this kind of human brain hacking method.

PP head, however, shook his head and humbly said:

"My human brain hacking is only basic; constructing virtual networks and building a human brain firewall are my actual profession. If it weren’t for needing to fully convert into Electronic Life, necessitating electronic transformation, I wouldn’t also practice this skill. If it was a real Cyber Hacker with a Hacker Chip invading human brains, they’d probably even control the Corpse King."

If PP head showcased high-end operations of virtual streams to them, the Mechanical God Supreme demonstrated what absolute firepower suppression means –

’Electromagnetic Rifle,’ ’Self-Assembling Energy Cannon,’ ’Light Beam Laser Sword,’ ’Arm Mechanical Transformation,’ ’Spinal Energy Cannon’...

Especially being the first ’Intelligent Mechanical Transformation’ player, Mechanical God Supreme automatically gained several talents ’Human-Machine Unity,’ ’Intelligent Mechanical Control,’ ’Artificial Intelligence Empowerment.’

These methods, combined with various flashy weapons, made seven entries and exits within the Corpse Tide, and the Mountain City Ruins players had only one thought—

I want it too!!