Chapter 164: Brain‑Flower Splatter

Inside the large passage on the outer hull of the mother ship.

"Tap! Tap tap!"

"Tu! Tu!"

The pulse‑gun fire interwove with the whistling of bone spikes, and the main force clashed fiercely with the seemingly endless raider creatures.

"Ri~ tap tap tap tap!"

Several heavily‑armed MTFs surged at the front of the main force, using the rotating pulse machine gun hanging on their right hands to unleash a frenzied barrage on the corrupt creatures that surged like a tide.

The other MTFs of Olympus's Spear relied on the fire‑suppression provided by the heavy MTFs and advanced steadily forward.

"Tu—!"

"Pfft!"

At that moment, an unlucky MTF was pierced straight through its armor and left shoulder socket by a slender bone spike, and it fell backward onto the deck with its head thrown up.

"Damn! That really hurts!" the MTF shouted in pain.

Immediately, he gritted his teeth, sat up, and even, in a self‑destructive mood, drew his pistol with his right hand, ready to shoot his own helmet.

"Want to die, you bastard!"

But an officer wearing a red helmet stepped forward, instantly stopped the self‑execution, and shouted over the comms:

"Medic! Medic! There are wounded here!"

Soon, a medic with a white helmet and a red‑white cross on its left chest plate rushed to the scene and crouched beside the injured MTF to examine it.

Then the medic retrieved a white cylindrical spray can from a large equipment crate behind them.

The medic aimed the can's nozzle at close range at the MTF's left‑shoulder wound.

Pressing the button, accompanied by a "czz~" sound, the white foamy substance completely covered the wound and the damaged armor.

After treating the front, he repeated the same steps on the back of the left shoulder.

When the medic stowed the can back into the crate, the foamy material had already solidified.

"Lieutenant Colonel, the bleeding has temporarily stopped," the medic reported to the red‑helmeted officer upon standing.

The red‑helmeted Lieutenant Colonel was Mi Xie Er·Wei Ke Duo, who commanded the main force.

"Medic! Medic!" Before Victor could say anything, someone called for a medic over the comms.

Hearing that, the medic hurried to the next wounded.

The injured MTF, after the wound was sealed and the bleeding stopped, no longer felt excruciating pain, and staggered to his feet, still gripping his gun with his right hand.

He said to Victor in a low voice, "Lieutenant Colonel, I may have already been infected by those disgusting creatures…"

"Bastard! Your powered armor can monitor your bodily state in real time! It knows better than you whether you're infected!" Victor raged, continuing to berate.

"If you really are infected, I will execute you myself, but before that! Your life belongs to the company! To humanity! Even more to your family! So for Earth, get out there and fight!"

"Yes! Lieutenant Colonel!"

Scolded by Victor like that, the injured MTF felt ashamed and, with his right hand gripping his rifle alone, threw himself back into the fight.

After reprimanding that MTF, Victor also joined the battle.

"This is the main force!" he shouted, while peppering the front with fire and switching the comms to the fleet, asking loudly, "We've expended over half our ammunition, yet the enemy numbers are not decreasing but increasing! How is the assault squad's entry progressing?!"

"Hold on a bit longer!" the fleet replied: "The assault squad led by OriginalBody Rus has already locked onto the brain‑bug's location!"

"Got it! I know!" Receiving that reply, Victor ended the comms with the fleet and turned to the entire main force, shouting:

"Everyone, attention! The assault squad has already snagged that cowardly brain‑beast! Hold your ground! Let them know humans are not to be trifled with!"

"Hoo ha!"

———————

Inside a large chamber in the core area of the mother ship.

The space is vast, with biological tissue clinging to the metal deck and walls, and rows upon rows of milky‑white giant egg cases, appearing to be a hatching nest.

Numerous giant creatures resembling tardigrades writhed their plump bodies, crowding the large chamber.

A few even larger insects happened to crawl through the chamber, as if fleeing deeper into the mother ship.

These insects, nearly thirty meters long, resembled Earth's mantises, entirely dark‑green, covered with a thick biological exoskeleton, and possessed two pairs of scythe‑like forelimbs.

Guarded at the center by the mantises is a "cockroach" and a "brain".

Precisely, a giant cockroach nearly ten meters long with the same dark‑green shell carried a mass of "brain tissue" on its back, scrambling desperately.

That "brain" resembled a human brain, but it occupied the cockroach's entire back, with slender red tendrils growing in the gaps.

The tendrils pierced deep into the giant cockroach's body to anchor it.

Just by its appearance, it's easy to guess that this "brain" is the brain‑bug that controls the entire raider fleet.

"Swish~—!"

Suddenly, a swarm of man‑portable missiles streaked in, charging toward the brain‑bug and its mantis guards.

"Boom—! Boom—!"

In an instant, the entire chamber shuddered violently from the fierce explosions, and dazzling flames seemed to devour everything.

It turned out that the assault squad led by Rus had already chased into this chamber.

Two paratroopers equipped with missile launch tubes, upon reaching the open area, immediately crouched on the ground and bombarded the brain‑bug, its mantis guards, and the entire chamber in a full‑scale strike.

After the bombardment, the two paratroopers rejoined the squad and walked together into the still‑smoky interior of the chamber.

Rus, equipped with a Thor hammer, trudged heavily across the viscous deck, each step emitting a "crack! crack!" sound.

Rus, Du Lang, and twenty‑four paratroopers formed a fan shape as they approached the chamber's center.

The smoke gradually cleared.

Those massive mantis guards collapsed on the deck, riddled with holes, shells broken, limbs fallen, oozing thick ink‑green blood.

The plunderer creatures are not vampires who have received the blood demon's "blessing", so the result when faced with a man‑portable missile is exactly this.

"Tap! Tap tap!"

However, the paratroopers still have the habit of reloading their guns, to make sure those guys are truly dead.

And the brain bug protected in the center by the encircling formation meets a similarly grim fate.

More than half of its body is charred, and the slender red tentacles are still twitching.

Rus, who possesses Spiritual Energy, felt only endless void and hunger when approaching the brain bug, without fear, pain, or sorrow.

The brain bug's life is fading, yet Rus still raised the Explosive Arrow Gun in his hand and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang! Bang!"

"Puff—Puff sizzle!"

Brain matter splatters in four directions.

…

The large passage on the outer hull of the mothership.

"Die! Die! You disgusting aberrations!"

"Dammit! Get out! Get out of our Solar System!"

"For humanity… wait? Those guys seem to have stopped moving?"

The high‑spirited main force, seeing the wave‑like plunderer creatures collectively freeze, fell into a moment of confusion.

"Hahaha!" Yet the MTF member with a left‑shoulder wound was the first to react, bursting into a hearty laugh and saying:

"Guys! The assault squad succeeded! We successfully dealt with that cowardly alien scum!"

(End of chapter)