After passing by an ordinary planet, the ship's AI hacked into an imperial satellite and successfully downloaded the strategic star map of the Koprulu Sector before finally arriving.
Star Origin hovered in orbit, its presence masked by the hidden properties of the Eternal Sun Wall, rendering it completely undetectable to the Zerg's Overlords and the ten-meter-tall Spore Crawlers.
Feng Xiao raised an eyebrow as he looked at the creep covering the majority of Mar Sara on the screen.
In the game, the Zerg merely used the interstellar travel capabilities of Overlords to invade, but now, a massive Zerg force was coordinating the invasion.
Tens of millions of Zerg ground units were rapidly air-dropped onto the planet's surface, while countless massive biological structures rose from the ground to occupy major resource sites.
In outer space, three Leviathans, comparable to Tier 3 Star Beasts, wandered alongside thousands of Corruptors—unlike the small-looking Corruptors in the game.
In reality, these Corruptors were three hundred meters long and radiated energy fluctuations equivalent to a Tier 1 Star Beast. Looking at the hundreds of thousands of Mutalisks, it was clearly a blockade by a heavy force.
"Hah, I wouldn't believe this wasn't special attention from Kerrigan if I didn't know better. But given the differences between reality and the game, I doubt the Hyperion is the only warship that broke through."
Observing the Zerg forces with keen interest, Feng Xiao chuckled.
Wang Hao, however, was somewhat puzzled: "Boss, the energy levels of these Zerg are completely inferior to the Cosmic Zerg. I estimate clearing them out would only net us a few hundred thousand Star Points..."
"The Koprulu Sector contains three Tier 3 civilizations; the potential value is absolutely immense. Don't just focus on the Star Points right in front of you."
After explaining, Feng Xiao, his internal interest irrepressible, suddenly thought of something and spoke directly.
He reached out and traced the star map of the Koprulu Sector on the Matrix's three-dimensional projection, pointing to a specific area: "According to intelligence, a fleet of the Protoss branch known as the Tal'darim is located here. Go take care of them."
As the vice-captain, Wang Hao possessed the secondary authority to control Star Origin.
Wang Hao was startled: "What about you, Boss?"
"I'm going down to take a look. Besides, a human fleet will be arriving shortly, so my safety won't be an issue."
As an explorer, the appeal of personally experiencing the plot of a certain game was absolutely massive.
Besides, he was quite strong himself, after all.
Captain: Feng Xiao Talent: Immortal Ship (lv5) Ability: Divine Sense Level: lv10 (Self-improving)
Of the fruit absorbed not long ago, seventy percent of its energy was absorbed by his talent, while the remaining thirty percent was absorbed by his Divine Sense ability.
However, Feng Xiao hadn't expected that improving his talent would be far more difficult than his ability.
He estimated that the Legendary Captain talent operated on the level of rules, affecting the entire starship's combat power and potential in every aspect, which was why its tier was higher than his ability.
The energy required for an upgrade far exceeded that of his ability.
His lv10 Divine Sense was Feng Xiao's insurance.
A Legendary ability at lv10 was definitely no less powerful than a standard ability at lv30. According to the Star Sea Alliance's official classification of ability users, a lv30 individual's destructive power was already capable of annihilating a medium-sized nation's interstellar force of several hundred people.
If he could wipe out a force of several hundred from a medium-sized nation of a Tier 4 or even Tier 5 civilization, surely taking out thousands of Zerg would be a breeze, right?
As for the war machines, although they were strong enough to slaughter an Ultralisk, there was no need to bring them along.
"Alright, don't worry."
According to the experience of certain predecessors, he would be able to return to the main universe five days later as the captain, even if he wasn't on the starship, and he would appear directly in the starship's control room.
He casually granted secondary authority to Wang Hao and, without giving the latter a chance to speak, boarded an unmanned transport craft and sped rapidly toward an area with fewer Zerg.
That was the area where Jim Raynor had set up his defensive position.
"Damn it, there are too many Zerg!"
Raynor, holding a massive Gauss rifle, stood atop a large barracks and fired continuously at the Zergling pack that looked like tigers and leopards in the distance.
Fifty Siege Tanks roared incessantly, their high-powered thermal cannons blasting hundreds of Zerg into slag, yet they still couldn't stop the endless Zerg army.
Even defending just two bridges was incredibly difficult. First, the military-grade alloy bridges, three hundred meters wide and twenty meters thick, could not be destroyed in a short time.
Second, the bridge decks were too wide, allowing the Zerg to form significant swarms to continuously assault the defensive line.
If this weren't reality, with nearly ten thousand troops and a large number of Siege Tanks, and even Missile Turrets capable of ground-to-ground attacks, the defensive line would have collapsed long ago.
At the bunker complex at the bridgehead, dozens of soldiers inside the alloy bunkers pulled their triggers, and a large number of Zerglings and Hydralisks were killed by the dense barrage of bullets.
However, the Zerg were still advancing overall.
BOOM!
A massive Zerg unit, comparable to a tank, suddenly burst out from the smoke of the explosion, its armor reflecting a metallic luster that was highly oppressive.
Seeing this three-meter-tall, six-meter-long Zerg unit approaching, the squad commander was horrified.
"Roaches!! Marauders, fire!"
Enduring the dense fire, the Roaches sprayed a large amount of corrosive liquid, and in just a moment, the sturdy alloy bunker was pitted and scarred by the corrosion.
Two Marines were unfortunately struck by the corrosive liquid sprayed through the firing port, and after a few seconds, they screamed and fell silent.
Roaches were not the high-level cannon fodder seen in games; in reality, they served as armored units!
Several Marauders arrived quickly and used their grenade launchers to kill the Roaches, but the front armor of this bunker had already been more than half destroyed.
Dense shells and bullets blanketed the entire defensive base, while dozens of massive Mutalisks streaked across the sky from time to time.
The glaive wurms they dropped killed quite a few soldiers.
If viewed from high above, this alloy base was now completely shrouded by the Zerg, with a massive number of biological structures surrounding it tightly.
"Jim, if the surprise you mentioned doesn't arrive within two hours, we're finished."
Tychus, who was sweeping his heavy machine gun at the Mutalisks, opened his visor and said with a grave expression.
Raynor checked the time, his tone also carrying a hint of worry: "I hope it arrives before the defensive base is breached; the Zerg's offensive is unusually fierce..."
ROAR!
Accompanied by a thunderous roar, Raynor suddenly looked toward the bridge on the right, his eyes filled with astonishment.
Tychus also turned his head to look, only to see a war beast twenty meters tall and thirty to forty meters long suddenly charge out from behind the ruins on one side!
Its entire body was covered in extremely hard heavy armor capable of withstanding the firepower of a warship, and it possessed ten-meter-long mono-molecular blades that could easily tear through alloy fortresses.
Everything about it revealed its identity.
The Zerg's strongest ground unit, the war beast capable of easily tearing through Protoss shields—the Ultralisk!
"Are you kidding me? The Zerg have only been here for half a day, how could they possibly have hatched an Ultralisk!!"
Raynor said in disbelief; he did not know that three Leviathans were hovering in space.
Even with the Leviathans keeping watch over the Terran Dominion fleet, dropping a hundred Ultralisks would not be a problem.
"Damn it!"
The power of anti-air missiles was insufficient to kill an Ultralisk, so Raynor could only order ten tanks to focus their fire on it.
He had no choice but to create a defensive gap; if the Ultralisk wasn't eliminated, even a single one could punch through the front line.
The moment Raynor prepared to give the order, the Ultralisk, which had raised its mono-molecular blades and was preparing to destroy the alloy bunker before it, suddenly froze.
This sudden scene left not only Raynor and the many soldiers bewildered, but the Brood Mother controlling the Zerg behind the scenes was also filled with confusion.
Soon, both sides discovered the anomaly.
At some point, a young man wearing a black combat suit had appeared on top of the bunker, a faint golden halo radiating from his body.
They watched as he raised his right hand, the veins on his temples bulging, and the motionless Ultralisk began to tremble violently before its entire body was compressed into a ball.
A large amount of green blood seeped out, and Feng Xiao casually smashed the ball of flesh into the Zerg army before turning his head with a smile.
"Yo! Commander of the Raiders!"
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