#628Chapter 628: Spraying once is not enough, come againAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 628: One spray wasn't enough, so here's a second one.
The "Venusians" in Cheng Tian's words are the true successors to Metal Slug 3, appearing in Metal Slug 6 as an entirely new alien faction.
As for Metal Slug 4 and 5, they were actually produced by a Korean company after SNK went bankrupt. Not only did they stuff new Korean playable characters into them, but the content also fell far short of the peak of Metal Slug 3. Of course, this also has to do with Metal Slug 3's own "nothing to lose" peak brilliance, which we won't discuss for now.
The Venusians, who appeared in Metal Slug 6, are not only a new alien force but also have a superior-subordinate food chain relationship with the Martians, meaning the Venusians hunt Martians for food.
It could be said that there is no simpler and more direct food chain relationship than this. For the Martians, the Venusians are an absolute natural enemy!
And when Cheng Tian actively mentioned the existence of the "Venusians," Heaven's Chosen Space's Completion mechanism began to operate at high speed, linking the Venusians, who had no prior signs of appearance, with the already existing Martian forces, and carrying out a series of reasonable background completions and relationship planning.
The reason why the Martians did not stay on Mars but fled to Earth was because they suffered a strong invasion from the Venusians, which led to the destruction of their homeland. In the end, only the Root of Mars, with a portion of its people, successfully escaped Mars in a mothership, eventually choosing Earth as their new reserve home.
However, although the Martians have an overwhelming technological advantage over Earthlings in terms of space travel, it does not mean that they can completely crush humanity. Humans, currently in a state of civil war, may not have developed more space travel technology, but in terms of mutually destructive firepower, they are advancing by leaps and bounds.
Humans truly have an extraordinary talent for self-destruction; how many technological breakthroughs have occurred during wartime?
The performance of humans also, to a certain extent, deterred the Martians. Their not-so-tough bodies simply couldn't withstand such weapons of mass destruction.
So, after the Root of Mars's first failure, which involved trying to forcibly seize the spoils of victory from the Regular Army and ultimately being smashed by a plane, it changed its thinking from overt to covert, starting to secretly cause trouble, mainly along two routes.
One was to infiltrate and strengthen the Regular Army, allowing it to eliminate the human government forces and become the sole warlord organization on Earth, ultimately leading to the Martian forces indirectly occupying Earth.
The other was the combination of the Eye of Mara and the Ten Commandments of Mara, which Cheng Tian destroyed in his first main mission. More precisely, it was the zombie radiation brought by the Ten Commandments of Mara, which would only affect Earth humans!
Since they couldn't directly contend with humanity's destructive weapons, they would let humanity destroy itself in civil war, eventually turning into cannon fodder puppets that the Martians could control.
Only by achieving either of these goals, possessing the power to mobilize the resources of an entire planet, would the Root of Mars dare to take the next step —
Reproduction.
Martians, with their mushroom-like characteristics, actually have a great advantage in population reproduction. Even without doing anything, just by sprinkling Martian bodily fluids into suitable soil, and providing the right temperature and moisture, new Martians would quickly grow from mushroom spores into new individuals.
Their method of reproduction is really similar to that of the Orks.
Over these two years, the Martians have experienced some losses, but their numbers have generally remained stable, and they have not chosen to reproduce on a large scale early on.
The reason still lies with the Venusians.
The Root of Mars's own psychic strength is limited; it can only shield a fixed number of its kin. Once the Root of Mars dies, or the number of kin exceeds the psychic shielding limit, they will be discovered by the Venusians, who are feasting on Mars, and they will come directly, following the scent!
In fact, Metal Slug 6 directly continues the plot of Metal Slug 3, and at the time of Metal Slug 6, the Root of Mars had already been destroyed by Peregrine Sparrow. Without the protection of the Root of Mars, the Venusians detected the existence of the remaining Martians, tracked them to Earth, and began a full-scale hunt of the surviving Martian group, who had not all died and had no power to ascend as new leaders… and also began to parasitize and infect Earthlings.
Cheng Tian's active mention of the Venusians was akin to pulling out a knife plunged into the Root of Mars and then stabbing it into the exact same wound again.
It hurts! It hurts so much! Both body and mind are in pain!
The Root of Mars, whose brain felt suddenly more painful, had its gray, even slightly greenish skin visibly turn… uh, cyan?
Are you also a "see-hand-green" mushroom?
Cheng Tian had indeed never seen a Martian in a rage; after all, all the individuals he had seen so far had died before they could get angry. Perhaps the Martians' "see-hand-green" is similar in nature to humans' "red-lining."
The next second, on the outside of the glass dome near the Root of Mars's brain, a spherical body, a mixture of psychic energy and highly condensed energy, rapidly grew from small to large and shot directly towards Cheng Tian's direction!
"Everyone scatter! The enemy's fatal weakness is the dome on its head! Other places are basically useless!"
Cheng Tian shouted loudly while constructing an AT Field—no, a Psychic Barrier—on Roller Gory's chest.
The energy sphere, condensed by mobilizing the entire mothership's energy transmission, possessed extremely high lethality and was extremely difficult to neutralize by other projectiles. It also had the characteristic of continuously causing damage upon touch. This meant that if Cheng Tian dared to use a Protective Barrier to block the energy sphere, he might deplete all his mana in a single encounter!
So Cheng Tian only used a Psychic Barrier with a fixed mana cost to block it for a moment, then activated the "Mirror Reflection" effect of the Eight-Headed Serpent's Soul.
By consuming additional MP, he performed a 100% reflection of a flying projectile.
As the necklace glowed, the Psychic Barrier instantly displayed a mirror surface so smooth it could directly reflect the Root of Mars's massive forehead. And the mirrored energy sphere reflected within it directly emerged from the mirror, colliding with its original body!
Cheng Tian's MP suddenly dropped by nearly 200 points.
But almost seamlessly, Cheng Tian, who had already begun planning while trash-talking, saw his mana bar drop sharply by another 250 points.
And the 10 green-skinned Steves on the periphery of the Root of Mars suddenly stood at attention, then the green skin on 5 of them rapidly turned cyan.
Their abdominal cavities creeping, bodily fluids churned, and finally, their mouths opened wide enough to dislocate, all aimed squarely at their former boss!
Anyone who played and completed Metal Slug 3 knows that characters abducted by Martians appear before the player in the form of numerous clones. And when the player successfully rescues a comrade, these remaining clones, while dissolving and disappearing on their own, also stand up again like zombies, possessing the zombie's strongest offensive skill—
High-pressure! Blood column!
At that time, Cheng Tian didn't understand why this phenomenon occurred, but after the Ten Commandments incident, he now knew that these radiation viruses that could turn people into zombies were created by the Martians.
And Cheng Tian's 『Dominator』 skill, which shares the same origin, has even greater control over zombies than over living people!
Five emerald-green high-pressure blood columns erupted from the mouths of the five clones, who were affected by 『Dominator』 and had their internal zombie virus radiation forcibly activated, mercilessly blasting the Root of Mars's most vulnerable brain protection shield!
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