𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟏: 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 (2)
“No one can calculate imagination.”
A corpse of the infected Crepitus crashed into Fractal.
Crepitus, the entity, was dead, but the life form bomb attached to Crepitus’s corpse was still alive.
Kkujikkujikkujik. . .!
The life form bomb rapidly eroded Fractal’s new material armor, making the molecules that made up the armor its own.
The Chimeraz substance, which was high in metal content, wriggled blackly and penetrated Fractal’s interior. The countless Chimeraz that made it up indiscriminately used any substance as a resource and proliferated.
As Fractal’s mass decreased, the mass of the infected part increased. The substance that simply looked like a black liquid soon became a living tissue of the Chimeraz and moved with will.
➖ The Chimeraz substance has infiltrated.
➖ Burn it.
The lower body-less humanoids inside Fractal approached, levitating with anti-gravity. They fired blue flames at the grotesque living tissue crawling out of the wall.
Hwaaahhhh!
The living tissue exposed to the high-temperature flame burned, emitting black smoke.
Kwik. . .! Kwik. . .!
The living tissue exhaled the moisture it had to resist the heat. Bubbles rose and the cells were carbonized and twisted tightly.
The flame was a strong external stimulus.
It was an all too obvious danger.
So, those born with infinite possibilities are judged by themselves.
Kwik. . .!
The living tissue, which was continuously exposed to the flamethrower, used the substance that made up Fractal’s new material armor as a weapon.
Peureung!
A thorn with tremendous durability was completed and indiscriminately stabbed the anti-gravity humanoids. Soon after, the humanoids stabbed by the thorns stopped moving all at once.
➖ Network connection lost.
➖ Unauthorized substances are spreading in the fuselage. . . @·[email protected]#
Bang!
The humanoids stabbed by the thorns suddenly attacked the humanoids that were not stabbed by the thorns.
➖ Stop. You are attacking your allies.
➖ The fuselage is f11d45?\ The error is clearly internal parts are damaged and the access that replaces the parts is forcibly operating the fuselage.
➖ . . .! . . .!
Some of the humanoids who first came to remove the living tissue were infected. The system and artificial intelligence mounted on those humanoids seem to be intact, but the fuselage moves on its own, shooting guns or wielding cutters at friendly humanoids.
➖ Stop the fuselage operation and escape to the network.
➖ Acknowledged. . .
Puwooooosh. . .!
Suddenly, the infected humanoids spewed tentacles. And they revealed strange teeth or arms like nails. They have the appearance of humanoids, but they are half-monsters.
➖ The operation has stopped and escaped to the network.
➖ Still, the infected fuselages seem to be moving.
The humanoids who were attacked by the infected humanoids at least once were eroded by the Chimeraz substance spreading inside the fuselage and became infected humanoids.
After a small-scale battle, as if an epidemic had spread to the machines, the place was occupied by the Chimeraz substance.
➖ We must prevent physical access.
➖ It is spreading inside Fractal. Aim for the source of the infection.
Keeeeing!
Chaintroopers, making a sharp roar, roll down the metal passage, aiming at the living tissue of the Chimeraz. They aimed at the unidentified flesh mass, which was growing larger and larger from where the infection began.
Tatatatatang!
A group of infected humanoids poured bullets at the Chaintroopers. Then, the Chaintroopers deployed shields to block the bullets and then beat up the group of infected humanoids.
The group of infected humanoids tried to grab the Chaintroopers by crawling on the floor, even if their arms or heads were cut off. Even the severed heads or arms made their own legs and moved like small creatures.
➖ They are life forms with no concept of body.
Keeeeing!
The Chaintroopers rotated the plasma cutters so that no Chimeraz entity could touch their bodies. And kept rolling.
➖ Self-destruct when access is complete.
➖ We must release it into space.
The group of infected humanoids collapsed like scarecrows and the Chaintroopers broke through the passage.
Jjeureung!!!
At that moment, thorns protruded from below the Chaintroopers.
➖ Movement is blocked.
➖ Self-destruct there.
Keeeeing!!!
The Chaintroopers, skewered like skewers on thorns, were fixed in the air and spun.
➖ I ordered you to self-destruct.
However, the Chaintroopers stopped working.
And it was repeated.
Puwooooosh. . .!
The Chaintroopers turned into balls with a lot of tentacles and began to walk on the floor strangely. The plasma cutters that were swung in a rotating manner were connected to the tentacles protruding from the inside and protruded far from the fuselage.
The group of infected Chaintroopers became grotesque, walking with round cutters and many tentacles. They returned the way they came and neatly cut the gate blocking the passage with a plasma cutter.
And the living tissue imitated the plasma cutter of the Chaintrooper, transforming the tips of the tentacles that pierced the walls and ceilings all over the place into superior cutters.
In this way, the speed at which the metal area was penetrated and the area was expanded increased exponentially.
🔷🔷🔷
There is no major change in the aspect of the fleet battle yet. The Phlegeth and Jiannettera groups are fighting in close proximity to Fractal, and the entire Chimeraz fleet is overlapping with the Fractal fleet and engaging in a firefight.
But this aspect will end someday.
If the number of the Chimeraz is greatly reduced by the firepower of the Fractal fleet, they will lose the capacity to hit the planet.
Therefore, the most important thing now is the degree of infection of Fractal. Fractal must be damaged as much as possible in order to gain an advantage in the fleet battle. Then, some of the power invested in the fleet battle can be removed to create the capacity to hit the planet.
“The life form bomb seems to be fighting well. . . .”
Ludwig once again shared control of the main force with Kreion.
“When will Fractal realize that internal purification is impossible. . .?”
“It will be the moment when they confirm that their weapons and environment are being used in reverse.”
The moment Kreion said that, Fractal showed a dramatic change.
Fractal is a ship in which small shapes have geometric shapes similar to the whole. So, does it mean that even if a small part of the ship is missing, it doesn’t matter if the whole is there?
“Master. . . . They abandoned that compartment. . . .”
The compartment, which was infected by the life form bomb, was separated from Fractal.
Just then, a thought flashed through Kreion’s mind like lightning.
‘By separating the infected part like that, pushing it away. . . .’
Some of Fractal’s cannons turned their heads after firing at the surrounding Chimeraz aircrafts.
Ludwig also noticed the clear movement.
“It seems that they are trying to destroy the separated compartment as a whole. . .!”
Kreion, who was concentrating on countless individuals of the main force, sharpened his psychic power to the limit and gave orders to the life form bomb.
‘Never fall!’
The life form bomb, unaware that they had fallen from the main body, immediately stopped the infection in progress according to Kreion’s orders.
Soon after, a massive order to control the Chimeraz at the cellular level arrived, and the life form bomb moved its members to form new organs in an instant.
It was Shockphonia’s tentacles.
Kwawakwakwakwang. . . .
The tentacles that rapidly expanded from the infected compartment attached themselves to Fractal. At the same moment, Fractal, which had already turned its cannons, fired at the infected compartment from close range.
The infected compartment, in other words, the part made of new material armor and all kinds of machines, was gradually torn off as it was exposed to Fractal’s close-range cannon fire.
It is unknown what was in it, but parts that made up a certain deck and metals that made up a certain deck were broken, shattered, and fell.
And among the hard debris, something of flesh and blood came out mixed together.
Like a monster wearing armor.
Like a deep-sea mollusk with many tentacles.
A creature that hid inside a compartment of Fractal, made of Fractal, and received the cannon fire of Fractal was forced to reveal its true colors.
“I think that child would feel embarrassed because his clothes were taken off. . . .”
“To be exact, it’s not a child, it’s children.”
“It looks like a single entity now, but it’s still a colony. . . .”
It is a dark gray mutant octopus with a very high metal content and a twisted head. The guy pulled his tentacles and attached himself to Fractal.
Kkikikikikikiki!
The group of creatures used a cutter that rotated like Chaintrooper’s plasma cutter as teeth. It cut off Fractal’s new material armor with it.
Probably, inside the part that was eaten like that, you can see the black liquid, red eyeballs, and wriggling intestines gushing out between the guy’s rotating teeth.
Fractal, who failed to detach the compartment hit by the life form bomb, was gradually infected.
‘An infection without a vaccine. It must be too late for surgery.’
Now, all Fractal can do is endure as much as possible by fighting inside.
It has become a terminally ill person who cannot be blocked even by the body’s immunity.
If a person gets such a disease, the end result is death, and if a weapon of that size gets such a disease, the end result is an explosion. Because the last thing Fractal can choose is self-destruction.
If Fractal ends up like that, a life form bomb cluster the size of Fractal could be completed and fall to the planet. Or, Fractal itself could orbitally bombard the planet.
There is no way of knowing what will happen unless there is a separate order.
That’s why it’s a life ‘bomb’.
That’s why it’s a bomb.
“The enemy fleet’s movements are getting sloppy. . . . Our fleet is starting to gain the upper hand in the battle. . . .”
“It will be the result of putting the computing resources that were being used for the entire fleet into the internal battle.”
“Then, this fleet battle will eventually end in our victory. . .?”
“If it continues like this. The fleet battle itself will probably be like that.”
🔷🔷🔷
The Chimeraz fleet gained the upper hand in the battle with the Fractal fleet. So, even though some of the Chimeraz fleet left the fleet battle and headed for the planet, the Fractal fleet did not have the power to block their movements.
Planet Obsidia Drake.
Thousands of state-of-the-art defense satellites are orbiting above numerous orbital structures.
“Let’s check the defense network. . . .”
Euryale and Lemegeton approached near the planet’s geostationary orbit and dropped dozens of Drop Cysts. Then, the defense satellites fired crimson projectiles all at once and shot down all the Drop Cysts.
“It’s a gauss weapon that fires physical bullets.”
Obsidia Drake’s defense satellite was a gauss weapon that boasted excellent penetration and power against hostile objects approaching orbit.
It is about firing an expensive armor-piercing shell coated with depleted uranium with the power of a coil. The recoil generated in this way is suppressed by the thruster at the back of the defense satellite.
“Use bio-barrier.”
Then, dozens of Drop Cysts were dropped again. Then, the defense satellites reacted immediately, and this time the Drop Cysts surrounded themselves with bio-barriers, drastically reducing the power of the armor-piercing shells.
In this way, the bio-barrier of the Drop Cysts disappeared due to the impact of the armor-piercing shells. Even so, they passed through the geostationary orbit and approached a lower altitude than the defense satellites, and it seemed that they were safely entering the atmosphere.
Kwawakwakwaaa. . .!
At that moment, dozens of beams of light turned dozens of Drop Cysts into dust.
The beams of light that were seen for a moment had a strangely bent feeling, and despite being energy weapons of that size, the shape of the clouds in the atmosphere from which the beams of light rose hardly changed.
The output of hitting the Drop Cysts in geostationary orbit from the planet, and using that amount of energy weapons on that number, it is strange that there is little change in the atmosphere.
Shouldn’t the air be plasmaized or large clouds form?
“What is that? Gnox.”
“Some kind of artificial charged particle. . . . It seems to be. Those beams of light just now were bent too artificially.”
Kreion borrowed Cresecter’s eyes to look at the ground of Obsidia Drake.
Hundreds of war machines with telescope-like heads lined up on a high mountain and aimed something like sniper rifles at the sky.
“Have they already prepared countermeasures in anticipation of the possibility of protecting Drop Cyst with a bio-barrier?”
“Those war machines with the ability to strike low-Earth orbit are stationed on the mountain near the capital. If you drop Drop Cysts on other continents or cities, you might be able to avoid their defenses. How about just going to the other side of the planet?”
“They must know that we can think of such an alternative.”
“Then what should we do?”
“It is dangerous to push only with the number of Drop Cysts. We have to send individuals who can check the anti-air war machines at the same time as dropping Drop Cysts.”
“. . . Drop Cysts always fall in a straight line. So, there is a problem that they are easily defeated by anti-air weapons. We need a means to land troops on the planet with irregular movements.”
“Originally, the main means of deploying troops to the planet is not just being strong.”
“I told you that the Chimeraz have been too obsessed with being strong so far. . . . Can I use what I prepared now?”
In the collective consciousness of the Chimeraz, there are many individuals who were not actually born due to various realistic problems and necessities. There are also incomplete individuals that the leaders devised and gave up, and there are also wild individuals captured in various colonies.
“I thought we didn’t need Drop Cysts and Organic Pipes because of our race. The leaders didn’t feel the need for the child you devised.”
“But it’s really useful. It’s simpler than Lemegeton and it’s small, so you can make a lot of it.”
“Yeah. . . . I was wrong. In the end, there was a reason why every race had a transport ship.”
It was a project conceived 100% in Gnox’s head, and the Chimeraz whose genetic blueprint was stored in the collective consciousness.
“Ludwig.”
“Yes. . . .”
“Prepare Asotus There should be no problem?”
“If there is a minor problem, it is the child’s unoriginal appearance. . . . I’m a little worried about how the enemies and the leaders will accept the child when they see him. . . .”
“What do the leaders think of Asotus?”
“There are many opinions that it is useless and looks somewhat stupid. . . . However, that’s the leaders’ impression, and performance can’t be judged by looking at the appearance. . . . I’ll prepare it if the situation calls for Asotus. . . .”
Gnox, who had been emphasizing the need for individuals like Asotus all along, must have been frustrated.
“Oh, really Ludwig! Other leaders say something about Asotus’ appearance, but what’s wrong with you? How hard did I make it! That’s an individual really needed by our race?”
“I want to answer master with any thoughts or feelings honestly. . . . If Gnox-nim was uncomfortable with that part, I apologize. . . .”
“Oh, no, I didn’t mean that! Because of my hard work to make it, when you talk, I want you to consider my feelings like. . . . I’m not mad about that.”
“Gnox. Since before, you seem to have shown a lot of surprise and embarrassment at Ludwig’s actions or words.”
“That’s because Ludwig suddenly popped out and. . . . He’s much bigger than me and his eyes are red. That’s why.”
Then, Ludwig and Kreion asked the same question at the same time.
“Do you hate me. . .?”
“Are you not on good terms with Ludwig?”
Gnox’s ears turned red.
It was because he felt ashamed that he had gotten ahead of his emotions when he had nothing to raise his voice to Ludwig. Even though he was a Chimeraz, he was still a 16-year-old with the memories of when he was a human.
Was it because he was very immature compared to the two beings in front of him?
“Even when you first saw me, you screamed. . . . Gnox-nim. . . .”
“No, no. I’m sorry. Ludwig. I guess I didn’t know this or that.”
“Then let’s talk about it separately later. Let’s start with Asotus production.”
“Yes.”
After that, Euryale of the Chimeraz fleet went into Asotus production. The leaders questioned the production of Asotus with the production power of the precious Euryale, but Kreion said it was necessary, so they understood and passed it.
According to the classification criteria set by Gnox, Asotus is called a Necro-class ‘multipurpose high-speed transport’.
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