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Chapter 624: Cheng Tian's save finally affected the Martian faction.
As the 'all-seeing eye' of the Chinese server in every sense, Cheng Tian was very clear about what was on the original Martian spaceship and what he had to face.
After successfully rescuing General Morden, there were theoretically three special BOSS battles:
Battling the Root of Mars, which was integrated with the Martian Mothership and functioned as its core operating mechanism.
Battling a large number of clone units derived from abducted companions.
Battling the Root of Mars, which had completely unbound from the Martian Mothership and regained its freedom.
Root Brother himself bore multiple identities: leader of the Martian race, mothership core, and master of the fungal network.
While strongly bound to the mothership, Root Brother could fully control its operations and networked control over his Martian units. However, he himself existed only as a living wetware mothership component, fixed in place, perceiving everything with his mental power, unable to move freely.
It was somewhat similar to 'The Ten Commandments,' the small Martian spaceship core with architectural properties encountered earlier in Morden's crater.
When Root Brother in this state sustained sufficient damage, a forced unbinding from the mothership itself would occur, leading to the disintegration and fall of the entire Martian Mothership.
So, what Cheng Tian was doing now was letting Cyber Utan infiltrate the ship's internal network to see if it was possible to take over the entire mothership after Root Brother unbound from it.
Cheng Tian temporarily had no solution for the power aspect; all he needed was a judgment for taking over the mothership. If the judgment was successful, then this Martian Mothership would change its surname to Cheng!
Of course, due to the general rules of the Heaven's Chosen Space instance, unless it was a world view like "Armored Warriors," "Super Robot Wars," or "Gundam G Generation," where mechs could be mutually captured by default, such non-loot-drop capture actions would generally not be recognized.
It was like the ambulance that could only be driven within the instance when first entering Metal Slug.
But Cheng Tian still wanted to try; after all, he was already here.
Moreover, Cheng Tian was pursuing two goals simultaneously. Configuring the bio-Utan here was just the first step. Next, he would follow the main force and participate in the crusade against the wetware Root Brother.
From a logical perspective, defeating the wetware Root Brother was clearly the most likely way to drop items and materials related to controlling the mothership's core. Furthermore, a final BOSS of that level would most likely award treasure chests based on participation.
The more players there were, the greater the probability of dropping relevant items.
"I'll leave this to you."
Cheng Tian said, leaving behind a Hellion and his standard astronaut helmet.
"Watch me work."
Utan casually took the helmet and gave an 'OK' gesture, his expression visibly excited.
Because the bio-mechanical puppet, which had replicated his personality, had already found a very familiar domain within the Martian Mothership's internal network:
Fungal fluid cultivation technology.
In layman's terms that Earthlings could understand, it was the Martian race's unique cloning system.
As mentioned before, Martians were an alien race combining features of octopuses and mushrooms.
The octopus features granted them intelligent brains, flexible tentacles, and the powerful mimetic ability to twist and transform their bodies to human levels.
The mushroom features, on the other hand, were reflected in their growth.
According to the data retrieved by the bio-Utan, Martians used humans as template material and their own race's bodily fluid component, called "fungal fluid," to clone and cultivate human replicas. It was precisely because of this unique fungal fluid that human replicas gained unimaginable growth speed and ability replication.
To describe it using a certain game race Cheng Tian once discussed with Utan, these human replicas cloned using Martian fungal fluid in the data bore an extremely high similarity in growth to the race called "Orks" in "Warhammer 40K"!
But when Cheng Tian led his people away, the excited smile on Utan's face disappeared.
It wasn't that he was discovered by the Root of Mars, but rather that the bio-Utan had found an ancient folder named "Super Dino Project" in the mothership's database.
"Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Five Stars..."
Utan recited the familiar proper nouns one by one, finally understanding why some key points of this cloning technology felt so familiar... The armaments Martians used to intercept human forces had changed, from small contingents originally composed mainly of Martians to an overwhelming tide of mechanical units.
It was overwhelming in the truest sense of the word.
The typically wide passage, which should have allowed large mechs to pass through normally, was densely packed with red, cycloptic mechanical spiders. The floor, walls, and ceiling—despite having Earth gravity simulated—these little gadgets could still move effortlessly on any surface within the entire passage.
These creatures, with their mimetic arthropod mechanical legs, spherical torsos, and a single large eyeball on their front, were called suicide spiders.
They generally had low health, but each one was a self-propelled bomb with a significant yield, easily capable of instantly killing a human.
Whether self-detonated or shattered by a remote attack, they would explode violently. Even stranger, they themselves would not trigger chain reactions, which caused great difficulty for the human side's advance.
And due to the presence of these overwhelming mechanical spiders, larger "Martian Chariots" with heavy firepower and armor, as well as "Ring Laser Armor" which only housed a Martian brain and could emit circular lasers, received excellent cover, making it difficult for Morden's army and the player side's firepower to precisely deal with these greater threats immediately.
It was true that Morden's army did not fear death, but this did not mean that everyone was aiming for a "Banzai!" charge. Precisely because their lives were still useful to the Commander-in-Chief, they could not easily throw them away.
Players, of course, were generally more protective of their lives; only those with true skill would actively take on such a challenging task.
The Beast King brother, who was fighting for pride rather than sustenance, confirmed again and again that the vast number of suicide monsters ahead was hindering their overall advance and that no one else could truly deal with them. He then took a deep breath and let out a long howl to the sky.
His figure also became more slender and gaunt, and a mane completely different from his previous dragon-man transformation began to grow from his skin. His entire being underwent a transformation utterly unlike that of a dragon-man—
Beast King's Power, Werewolf Transformation.
The Beast King brother's attributes, which were originally in a state of extreme strength breakthrough, also temporarily switched to a state of extreme agility breakthrough with the change in form.
If the Dragon-man Transformation was the ultimate lightning burst, then the Werewolf Transformation was the ultimate high-speed movement. Coupled with the werewolf form's unique zigzag charge ability, the brother was confident he could carve a path through the swarm of suicide spiders.
But just then, a loud elephant trumpeting sound, which should not have appeared here, pierced into the brother's ears. When he subconsciously glanced back, his body instantly froze.
The war elephant Mammoth, raising its thick trunk, sprayed an enormous burst of explosive fire into the cluster of suicide spiders!
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