Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1677 - 950: Battle for Survival (Part 2)

The counterattack of the human forces was swift, sweeping madly through the surrounding enemies. The roar of the heavy bombs instantly tore through the fungal carpeted tunnels, ripping apart the remnants of the ratmen, creating a muddy mush of flesh and blood.

Every charge and roar of the plasma pistol could evaporate a straight line of the rat tide, and the high temperatures of the plasma even temporarily carbonized and solidified the fungal carpet.

The rusted metal walls on both sides suddenly softened, and vines rapidly extended out, glowing with bluish symbols, with shimmering light flashing as groups of elite ratmen units were teleported into the midst of the crowd.

Engineering rats were teleported next to the Interstellar Warriors and human armored units. The presence of these engineering rats brought considerable trouble to human forces. The electromagnetic bombs they carried caused the engines of heavy armored vehicles to groan and stall in the thick fog, and the sentinel mechas also suffered severe interference. Only the power armor of the Interstellar Warriors had relatively strong anti-interference capabilities, but inside their helmets, the communication channels were filled with static noise, which was extremely unpleasant to the ears.

The self-destructing rats that were teleported in not only caused significant damage with their direct explosions, but their bodies contained strong acid spores, which vaporized and spread during the explosion. The corrosive yellow-green smoke swiftly obscured the vision and was highly toxic.

The Interstellar Warriors could only contract their formation, their chain-saw swords forming a blade forest to grind down the rats that escaped the bomb net.

But when some frenzied combat mice charged over, although they seemed no taller than the knees of the Interstellar Warriors, they acted just like real mice, swiftly rushing to their feet amidst the slaughter of their kind, climbing up. They would insert precision drills into the gaps of the power armor, furiously boring through the armor joints!

A warrior’s power fist joint was disabled by the insertion of a liquid metal solvent. As more mice surrounded him, he could only swing his chain-saw sword to cut off his own entangled left leg at the knee to escape the bind. This freed him, allowing him to swiftly kill many close-range mice, but the final outcome was still being overwhelmed.

“Abandon the vehicles! Move forward! Assault!”

Lu Baigang roared the order through the communication channel inside the helmet.

The warriors began to forcibly assault the base of the signal tower, while the Heavy Bomb Group continued to suppress the rat tide under the cover of their comrades, but every step forward was on the corpses of rats that had rushed to their deaths.

As they fought their way out of the tunnel, their view opened up slightly, and the base of the signal tower became clearly visible. However, the plaza surrounding the base was completely covered by thick, raised bone vines. What’s more terrifying was that these vines were still contracting, as if they had a heartbeat.

When the vanguard squad stepped onto the edge of the plaza, the “heart” suddenly contracted violently! The ground beneath the plaza collapsed abruptly, forming a bottomless pit of flesh and blood, and many soldiers fell into it unprepared! At the bottom of the pit, a gel-like digestive liquid was secreted, with a swarm of rats raining down from above!

The formidable bodies of the Interstellar Warriors and their power armor were enough to withstand tearing, but the corrosive mucus at the bottom of the pit was dissolving their foothold at a terrifying speed.

Lu Baigang was forced to painfully abandon those comrades trapped in the pit, but as they got closer to the base, they increasingly felt the terror of everything.

Lu Baigang felt that this entire area was like a labyrinthine trap!

The so-called signal tower was long since an eroded shell, and the giant vine organism underneath was the key node supporting the teleportation channel.

“All bombs, concentrate fire on the base!”

Lu Baigang’s order was imbued with a sense of hopeless determination.

The remaining warriors poured their last heavy weaponry firepower towards the base.

Under the bombardment of high-explosive bombs and thermite rays, the fungal carpet rolled up in scorched black chunks, but what was exposed below was not the expected energy core, but countless writhing giant rat fusion embryos. They were connected to the fungal carpet by numerous pipelines, like a grotesque heart parasitizing this death labyrinth!

The intense assault firepower only temporarily interrupted its pulsation but couldn’t really solve the problem.

On the contrary, from the pulsating ‘heart,’ an innumerable amount of mice ‘hatched’ from within, swarming towards Lu Baigang’s unit.

The edges began to collapse and expand, and more Interstellar Warriors and soldiers staggered and fell.

“Retreat! Abandon the target!” Lu Baigang issued the order in the final moment of communication cutoff, while the remaining warriors detonated preset thermite bombs to create a firewall that temporarily blocked the rat tide, dragging each other as they retreated into the twisted passage behind.

However, at the passage entrance, the unit responsible for their cover never managed to receive those they were meant to retrieve.

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Deploying two hundred Interstellar Warriors for a single operation is already a considerable investment. Moreover, those two Armored Corps are also among the elite units of the Alliance Army. With sentinel mechas, Titans, and heavy armored tanks, a significant proportion of soldiers are equipped with feedback-powered armor.

This is definitely an elite force.

The Alliance could deploy more forces, such as more troops or forming the entire force of Interstellar Warriors.

However, doing so wouldn’t be particularly meaningful.

If deploying two or three full battle groups of Interstellar Warriors, it might be possible to secure the target. But even though the Alliance has a large number of Interstellar Warriors under its command, only a few dozen battle groups are fighting here. Needing Interstellar Warriors as the backbone to hold the lines everywhere means that pulling out so many to take this city district would likely result in greater sacrifices elsewhere.

Overall, the Alliance’s engagement with this flesh labyrinth is progressing unsatisfactorily.

On another battlefield, the Alliance is also at a disadvantage.

The Dark Spirit Race has opened a new battlefield in the real universe.

Of course, it’s not direct confrontation.

After all, in direct confrontation, in their home, Comoros also relies on living war machines like labyrinths to barely withstand human attacks, let alone confront the Alliance in the real universe, on their territory.

However, they don’t need to do so.

Over the many long years, the Dark Spirit Race has preserved a considerable number of Veil Spirit Gates across various places in the universe. Those found by the Alliance were only a fraction.

They emerge from one unfamiliar region to another within the Alliance’s dominion, targeting non-core planets for sudden raids with a few warships.

Elite Dark Spirit Race raiding parties wipe out and massacre Alliance planetary government officials, plundering populations and resources, and then proceeding to wreak havoc.

Every action is swift; they strike and then immediately retreat.

Even worse, they have released bioweapons on several agricultural planets. The effects of these do not match the forms of human Extinction Order weapons, but the results are similar. Within days, with the spread through air and water, a gene plague infecting all organic life ravaged the planets’ ecologies, resulting in the deaths of billions.

This was a blow to the Alliance.

The Alliance’s garrison troops and fleets were spread throughout the stationed regions, attempting to capture these elusive Dark Spirit Race members, but these slippery foes were extremely hard to catch.

This forced the Alliance to invest more lực lượng in spreading defenses all over.

However, due to the Dark Spirit Race’s difficult guerrilla tactics, even with a hundred times the enemy’s forces invested, significant losses were still incurred periodically.

This was clear proof for the humans, verifying the previous warning from Veselani, the Dark Spirit Race diplomat.

The Dark Spirit Race is not made of clay; even if seen from a long-term perspective, they might eventually be wiped out, but before that, the Dark Spirit Race, fighting with all their might for survival, will bring immeasurable losses to humans.

Negotiations surfaced once more.

Gu Hang received two reports. The Alliance Military General Staff Department and the Alliance Government both solemnly deliberated over the conditions offered by the Dark Spirit Race. They deemed that accepting negotiations wasn’t entirely unacceptable.

As long as the conditions were suitable and the interests fully obtained.