"These bugs are terrifying, Lord Blair. Looking at it now, the joint extermination campaign you and Warg carried out against the Zerg a few months ago was nothing more than a game the Zerg played with you!" Lai An said mockingly in the combat command room.
Claire's expression darkened. Though dissatisfied, he did not refute it. After all, it was the truth.
"Communications officer, send a distress signal to Toplos immediately!"
Lai An raised an eyebrow. "Lord Blair, what? Did a few bugs scare you senseless? I see your Vulcan Assault Squad has already entered the battlefield. No matter how powerful these bugs are, can they really be a match for the Vulcan Assault Squad?"
Claire glanced at him. "Those landed bugs might not be, but what about the five cruisers and more than a dozen destroyers stationed outside the battlefield? Their insignias have been concealed, so we can't tell where they came from. But if even the Zerg sent to lead the charge and serve as cannon fodder are this powerful, what kind of methods must the warships backing them possess?"
Lai An and Pete exchanged a look, their eyes filled with gravity.
Back on the battlefield, these newly arrived behemoths were unlike the mechs that enclosed human soldiers. These machines stood 3.8 meters tall, their entire bodies forged from steel alloy. Their two steel arms were as long as an ape's, nearly reaching their knees. A belt of ammunition ran along each arm, its end disappearing into a cubic ammo box one meter long, wide, and high on their backs. Their chests contained cockpits, but these cockpits were not meant for sitting! The human soldiers stood inside them, using the joysticks within to control the machine's hands and the foot pedals to control its feet.
Put simply, these