Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 171: Hydralisk

Fan Chen heads to Alpha Team to see the alleged insect as “Zerg”. The Cougar No. 01 team itself is broken up into five parts with the Magnet Levitation Car (Conquest Knight XV) in the middle.

Fan Chen kept on the left wing with Katerina, on the back they were filled with conventional firearms before the existence of weapons with laser bases.

These weapons are not used on Earth because of their high levels, but on Mars which has little air and gravity, conventional weapons are still valuable.

Katerina leaned against Fan Chen's shoulder, enjoying the caress of her future husband's hand on her head. "Captain, I still didn't expect our relationship to be like this."

"Don't call me “Kapten”. Before our relationship was official, I had asked you to call me by name, and now our relationship is official."

Katerina nodded and lowered her head. "Okay, Fan Chen."

Fan Chen rubbed Katerina's head and gave her a kiss at the temple. "I don't really understand my feelings yet, but for sure, I really want to have and make you my wife."

Katerina smiled warmly and said, "Sa— I also don't know more about feelings, but I was very happy when Fan Chen proposed to me. If possible, I'd like to have your child."

Fan Chen looked down at the embarrassed downed Katerina. "It's still too soon to get there. By the way, you once said that your body is half robot, where is it?"

Katerina looked up, her eyes met Fan Chen's eyes. "The left eye is an artificial eye, and the right hand is a robotic hand that stores various surgical tools."

Fan Chen clasped Katerina's right hand wanting to be sure, but she suddenly remembered that they were in the form of a Substitute Robot.

Katerina looked at Fan Chen's awkward expression, she chuckled a little that looked adorable and sweet.

Fan Chen touched Katerina's chin, lifted her up and kissed her lips gently. She could feel a real touch on her lips, but it was not comparable to Katerina's real lips.

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Not long after that their team had covered thousands of kilometers and landed on a rocky area like small hills measuring from 3 — 15 meters in orange red.

There is a long excavation in the middle of the rock that forms the flow of the river, which may even have been a river before Mars was finally unable to hold water on the planet and out of the thin atmosphere.

In this stream was seen a low-flying Magnet Levitation Car, just inches from the ground level, and in front of it was Team Alpha who was exerting all their abilities to deal with the strange insects.

Fan Chen looked at the insect with its upper body like a mantis that had two sword hands, and its lower body part was like a slithering snake. The insect bends down, revealing a large number of shark-like fins on its back, and its face has dark red eyes, and an open mouth without skin exposing all of its teeth, which are like piranha fish.

Seeing this, Fan Chen realized what he really thought to be true.

Fan Chen requested that the car descend to a low altitude on a small hill that was more suitable to be said to be a cliff, then he got out of the car through the floor below which it was opened.

Fan Chen and Katerina slid down on the steep ground carrying conventional weapons, when they had already landed or were on par with Team Alpha shooting Zerg with a step back, both lifted the AK-47 and opened fire.

Da da da!

The released bullets shot at speeds reaching Mach 8 due to the absence of air resistance, and this speed greatly increased the resulting firepower.

The shot that hit the carapace left a crack trail, although not as effective as a laser capable of penetrating the carapace directly, but the damage from the kinetic weapon was scattered.

The zerg itself is very difficult to kill, so weapons that damage the entire carapace can play an important role.

Team Cougar No. 01 jumped from the Magnet Levitation Car, they immediately helped Team Alpha to secure the area.

The Magnet Levitation car that guards the Conquest Knight XV model, flies high and at the bottom there is an M134 that has been modified to be able to fire 8,000 ammunition per minute.

[System Guide: Successfully Killed Level 80 Hydralisk Insects. +1,920 System Coins, +960 Points, and +80 Evolution Points]

[System Reminder: The Host is assigned to collect a certain number of Evolution Points. Evolution Points can be used for a wide variety of things at the next system level]

Fan Chen was slightly surprised when he saw that income was three times more than killing mutant beasts as well as zombies, then he was perplexed when there were Evolution Points, then there was another notice of the improvement of the system he did not know about.

Zerg, who had received a new threat, suddenly grew wild in terms of movement and attack.

The ground behind the Zerg began to crack, then another Hydralisk appeared of varying sizes, the smallest being 5.4 meters long and weighing about 350 kilograms.

This newly-emerged Hydralisk aimed their backs at Team Alpha.

Fan Chen saw this, he rushed towards Team Alpha and shouted, "Retreat!"

The Alpha team did not question this and immediately retreated away.

Fan raised his hand forward, then saw a thick wall made of metal alloy with a thickness of 1.5 meters.

The hydralisk on the metal side, firing spines on their backs as the metal appeared. The thorn was travelling at a slightly slower speed than the AK-47 projectile.

Fan Chen just put down the metal wall and did not dare to linger there, he immediately turned around; going away from there.

A moment after Fan Chen left from there, the special metal alloy revealed a piercing thorn, albeit only a centimeter, but made it clear that the Hydralisk attack was extremely strong.

Surely this is not an attack, but as thick and strong as any alloy, if attacked in one place continuously with a steady force and magnitude of energy at 20,738,368 Joules.

Fan Chen who had already drifted away with the others, had already changed weapons, there was even a Leopard 2A7 controlled by Xiaochu.

The Leopard 2A7 has seen a major increase from the one that originally used diesel engines, now has changed to using electric motors, although electric motors, but produce greater force. The battery uses Graphene Battery, has ammunition with triple explosive power and longer range, there are even ammunition with infrared ray system that is able to track the heat source.

When the Leopard 2A7 came along, it was along with a completely crushed metal wall and many Hydralisk moves. But luckily there was only one path, so the target was in the same place.

The Leopard 2A7 steers the muzzle of the turret, then releases the projectile...

Bang out!

The projectile struck the carapace and penetrated it directly.

Bang out! Boom up!

The second shot is different, the first shot uses a bullet that relies entirely on kinetic force, and the second there is an explosion trigger on its front, which every time it hits an object with a certain force, will activate the trigger and explode.

The fire propagated slowly and extinguished in a short period of time, but the explosion did not lie to the power of the projectile. The ground beneath it was destroyed, many Hydralisks were killed in an instant with scattered bodies, as well as metal walls whose damage was more severe.

"Chen'er, do you know what this is?"

Fan Chen did not immediately answer him, he pretended to think. "Xiaochu scanned it and we agreed to give his name as Zerg. Xiaochu's calculations tell us that this is the actual evolution of the Space Worms, as for the Space Worms on Earth, maybe they are already completely mixed with the animal genes there ..."

Fan Chen himself still did not understand, all he knew, Zerg would destroy anything he passed, not picky prey. So, the plants, animals, and humans on Earth would be wiped out in a short time after Zerg came down to Earth.

However, the First Disaster alone lasted for more than two years, but still there was no change...

"Is it possible that their races fought each other?" Fan Chen scratched his head and muttered.

But all he knew, this race had one thought. The low level has no pain, fear, emotion as well as awareness; it will only follow commands on it.

However, the Space Worms on Earth had individual thoughts, and only followed other orders due to force.

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