"Get to work."
The moment Rovi gave the order, the silence was shattered.
The heavy logging guns mounted atop the two Chimera personnel carriers roared in unison.
The gun mechanisms, tuned by Priest Alpha, spat out two dazzling whips of fire.
Large-caliber bullets carved straight trajectories through the air, punching precisely through the torsos of the two Plague Workers at the front.
"Pfft, pfft."
Viscous yellow-green fluid burst outward.
The Plague Monsters' bodies had long since been warped beyond recognition. The bullets ripped through their bloated layers of fat and snapped the mutated bones supporting their bodies.
They slumped like heaps of rotting meat.
As they fell, their arms, still gripping the crane control levers, instinctively tried to pull them.
"Let's call this forcing you to stop work."
Rovi coldly defined the killing unfolding before him.
He continued issuing orders over the vehicle's communicator. "Vehicle One, ram it! Target the giant trying to seal the valve on the left. Don't shoot; bullets cost money. Use the wall to 'eat' it!"
In the driver's seat, Priest Alpha's eyes glowed bright red as he shoved down the throttle.
The electrically powered Chimera hummed low.
Its tracks crushed the thick layer of Corpse Wax Coal on the ground as it charged the foreman-class Plague Monster ahead, which stood nearly three meters tall.
The Plague Monster raised its swollen arms, trying to block the vehicle.
But a split second before impact, the dark-red armor plate at the front of the Chimera, the Wall of Gluttony, almost instantly "came alive."
"Zzt."
The moment the living metal touched the high-energy biomass, it displayed the hunger of an apex predator.
It was a pathological process of proliferation.
Hundreds of dark-red tendrils burst from the armor's surface.
Like a jellyfish hunting in the deep sea, they pierced the