"What's wrong with those Mechanical Squids?"
Commander Nock was equally bewildered.
An army of 250,000 machines would have been enough to overwhelm them even with no tactics at all. Once stragglers had begun slipping through and roaming freely, he had known it was only a matter of time before the spaceport fell!
Yet the Mechanical Squids that had broken away from the main force were not attacking the most threatening defensive turrets, nor were they targeting the fragile but high-damage armored units. They were only fixated on a few infantrymen. What was going on?
"It's them..."
After the Mechanical Squids had killed a third of the Reincarnators, Nock had naturally been able to determine from the dead and the squids' movements that they were killing with a purpose.
Why were they targeting them?
Could it be because they were the best hackers?
Still, that might actually be possible.
"Make full use of those bait pieces. Capture them all and use them to manipulate the Mechanical Squids' movements. Stall for as much time as possible and kill as many as we can!"
Without hesitation, Nock immediately gave the order to use the Reincarnators as bait.
Forget their personal grudge—in a critical moment like this, anyone could be sacrificed!
The Reincarnators, who had already exhausted themselves and could not even unlock another bit of power, were brutally seized by the mecha units.
They were carried back and forth, luring the Mechanical Squids that had escaped the Death Spiral's exit back into the hail of fire.
It had only been an experiment, but the results were astonishingly effective.
Every Reincarnator who was caught and killed took a huge number of Mechanical Squids down with them!
And before the Reincarnators had been used up, Zion miraculously suffered no losses at all!
The Mechanical Squids