Hearing General Ross's roar, Lin Fan gave a bitter smile, thinking to himself, this is the Arachnid's fault.
Over 600,000 Arachnid were killed or injured, and Lin Fan's Splitter units were already devouring the corpses behind them, accumulating over 400,000 Splitters.
Due to the Tier 2 Zerg Base, the Zerglings' tier increased, and Splitters also gained Tier 2 physical and mental abilities, thus requiring more essence for their miniature embryonic forms.
Aside from the tens of thousands of fragmented Arachnid corpses that could not be devoured and yielded no essence, the remaining were mostly consumed by the Splitters.
Over 400,000 Splitters were ambushing the Arachnid from behind.
Currently, General Ross and the Arachnid's vanguard units were both heavily wounded, but the most crucial point was that humans did not understand the Arachnid at all.
The Arachnid have three tiers: Brain Bugs, Brood Queens, and Zerg Gods.
A Brain Bug with a million Zerg is already very impressive. It possesses ordinary intelligence but is very weak. It needs Zerg protection and acts as the commander of the entire force, hidden behind the scenes.
A Brood Queen is the second stage of evolution for a Brain Bug, with Zerg numbers ranging from 10 million to 100 million. They control most of the racial combat units, possess extremely high intelligence, can generate telekinetic power, and can even infiltrate and manipulate human electronic devices.
The Zerg God is the supreme being among the Arachnid, holding the fate of all Brood Queens. He is the key character of the Arachnid. His body is larger than a Planet, and the Zerg covering the starry sky will devour all resources of occupied Planets. He also possesses unknown and terrifying abilities.
The Chitauri only managed to persuade one Brood Queen this time. Her forces numbered around 20 million, and the vanguard units were merely an appetizer. However, tearing open a Warp Rift requires enormous energy, not to mention mass teleportation.
The Chitauri provided energy blocks to this Brood Queen, which is why she agreed to send over 1 million vanguard units first.
The Chitauri only wanted to retrieve the Tesseract, so they spared no expense in transporting energy blocks to the Brood Queen. However, that Brood Queen was extremely greedy; she had already collected 10 million energy blocks but was still not satisfied, delaying the transport of Late Stage forces.
The Chitauri could only transport resources again, which would take some time. However, in the Chitauri's eyes, 1 million suddenly appearing Arachnid would definitely throw Earth into chaos.
If Lin Fan had not existed on Earth, or if the Arachnid had already begun to reproduce, but under Lin Fan's operations, the Arachnid first clashed with Tony's mechanical army, then were lured to Picasso Bridge to face humanity's powerful firepower, suffering heavy losses.
At this point, the remaining 300,000 Arachnid, although still having an advantage over General Ross, were no longer sufficient to threaten the area. Lin Fan, even at the cost of losses, could make this remnant Arachnid force disappear.
General Ross's forces suffered more than half losses this time, leading to a profound understanding of the Zerg's spy and parasitic units. The Military was urged to research countermeasures, otherwise, if this continued, one day the sky might be filled with all the country's reserve eggs.
The Military was extremely indignant about this severe incident. Not only did they lose tens of thousands of Marine Corps, but the cost of those missile launchers was astronomical.
After discussions between the Military and the State Councilors, it was decided to carry out egg strike operations on the Green Zone, abandoning all important personnel trapped inside.
Now that Picasso Bridge was broken, ordinary rescue was difficult to carry out. All were declared Death, and their estates would be inherited by designated successors or donated to the national treasury, enforced by law.
Upon learning of the Military's decision, General Ross immediately withdrew his troops, moving away from the Manhattan border. Time was urgent; all remaining supplies were abandoned, and they swiftly evacuated from the egg strike range.
Lin Fan's Overlord detected an anomaly: frequent movements of nuclear submarines in the nearshore waters, indicating a possible egg launch. Combined with General Ross's hasty retreat, it was not difficult to predict!
"No, I can't let the eggs fall on Manhattan." Lin Fan rode the Overlord to the nearshore waters; he intended to detonate the nuclear submarines in the Water.
Arriving at the nuclear submarine's location, Lin Fan jumped off the Overlord and immediately transformed into a 1000-meter-long King Cobra.
The King Cobra itself is not adept in Water, but with Sen Ran King absorbed by Lin Fan, he was naturally skilled in Water and could move freely in the deep sea.
Arriving at the deep-sea trench in the nearshore, the nuclear submarine was waiting there, preparing for the final launch confirmation order for the eggs. The two egg officers used keys to unlock the launch tubes.
Radar operator: Report... Giant target approaching... 30,000 meters remaining... 10,000 meters remaining... extremely fast...
Lin Fan used his 1000-meter snake body to coil around the nuclear submarine, then compressed his body around it. His body, roughly 50 meters thick, was covered in many barbed scales, which crunched and embedded themselves into the nuclear submarine.
"It's leaking... We're 500 meters down... The Water pressure will suffocate us!!"
"What kind of monster is this!! It's... it's too big!"
"Why are we encountering something like this?"
Three to four hundred operators inside the nuclear submarine were panic-stricken. Seawater poured into the formerly sealed compartments, and the deformed facilities were collapsing.
The Military, through satellite, discovered the King Cobra in the sea, crushing the nuclear submarine. The thousand-meter-long snake body was toying with the nuclear submarine like a toy.
Splish...
Finally, the nuclear submarine's steel frame was completely destroyed, and the operators inside were all crushed, their red body fragments dissipating into the seawater.
Lin Fan swallowed three 1000-ton yield eggs into his snake belly, then dove into the deep sea, disappearing once more.
At this, the Military was dumbfounded. The King Cobra had reappeared; it was originally in the Amazon, but now it had appeared in Manhattan, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, and they didn't even know why the King Cobra attacked their nuclear submarine.
eggs are extremely strictly regulated Military assets. The Military losing three 1000-yield eggs required approval from the President, the Military Tribunal, and the State Council before they could be re-acquired.
After transforming back, Lin Fan returned to the Overlord. This time, he also had a trump card in his hand: three 10-million-yield eggs.
Without General Ross's containment, the Arachnid lost their target but could not cross the broken bridge, so they returned to the Green Zone. The Moon Goddess's zombie army and the giant spider swarm mutated by Space Spiders parasitism became their next targets.