<h4>Chapter 1288 Counterattack!</h4>


    Mars synchronous orbit.


    With two blue streams closing in, a starship slowly moved closer to the fiery red.


    Inside the bridge, the staff sitting in front of theputer calmly reported.


    “The orbital parameters have been corrected. We are entering the synchronous orbit.”


    “All parameters are normal.”


    “Initiate missionunch sequence. The droppartment has sessfully separated.”


    “Separation sessful, and the droppartment is leaving the synchronous orbit.”


    “...”


    “The course has been revised. You can leave at any time.”


    Looking at the fiery red outside the starship, the captain behind the bridge took a deep breath, picked up the wired inte, and ordered affirmatively, “All units, the main engine is igniting, we’re re-entering our course!”


    “Roger that.”


    After dropping thepartment suspended on the ship, SS Origin orbited for a quarter around Mars’ orbit and only encountered TS Expedition stationed in synchronous orbit for a moment before it adjusted its course. Origin’s next destination was the Asteroid belt between Jupiter and Saturn.


    With a dazzling white light stream pushing behind the starship, the dark ship pierced into the deep universe like a sharp sword and disappeared into the endless ckness.


    ...


    Ten thousand meters below, fierce battles continued outside the colony.


    The swarm continued to attack Celestial Trade Marines on the wall, chipping away the colony’s defense with their acid and corpses. The electromaic pulse cannon projectiles ravaged the battlefield, sent the yellow sand high up in the air before covering all the blood that spewed. Everything happened so quickly as if nothing had happened, then repeated again and again.


    As the two sides fought fiercely, a dark shadow surrounded by a ball me dropped down from ten thousand meters. Like a meteor, it crashed into the chaotic battlefield.


    BOOM!


    The steel hull came in close contact with the ground.


    The rough, hardnding ttened a sand dune, and a thick yellow haze set off around the impact site.


    The bottom of thepartment was deeply embedded in the ground, crushing dozens of Corruptors who were besieging the colony into pieces.


    When the bugs stared nkly at the unexpected visitor, the front door of the cabin copsed, revealing a giant drill bit hidden behind the cabin door.


    The bugs that lingered around thepartment seemed to have stop moving as they stared at the metal monster in the middle with confusion. Just as one of the Corruptors tried to spit acid, the metal monster inside started to move.


    The engine roared in the thin atmosphere.


    With the giant drill, a steel beast emerged from thepartment.


    The first difference between this rig and those in colony was its sheer size. This rig was more than double the size of the colony’s tiny rigs. A thickyer of organic anti-corrosive material was coated to the thick titanium alloy armor. This material was extracted from the blood of Devil Worms and could render acid strong enough to erode rocks useless!


    The top and sides of the rig were also modified with small-caliber electromaic rapid-fire guns, which could elerate ten-gram pellets to three times the speed of sound. The pellets could easily prate the armor of the Corruptors. In addition, there were two augers that resembledrge screws on both sides of the heavy rubber tires, to ensure that the rig was unimpeded in any terrain.


    Without any exaggeration, it would be fair to say that the steel beast could easily enter and leave the swarm without any damage.


    “Drill Warrior”, the name of the steel beast, was painted on both sides of the rig.


    The name perfectly exined its functionality. No matter above or below ground, no terrain could stop the steel beast from marching forward!


    “DAMN, this thing is giant...” A solider taking cover beside Zhang Hai watched the rig and eximed.


    “What did I just see? A heavily armed rig?”


    “Haha, Drill Warrior, that is a pretty bad*ss name.”


    Thepartment not only carried the steel beast, but also a hundred T-4H Aerospace Power Armors with corrosion-resistant coating. Unlike the T-4 Power Armor, the T-4H’s minigun was reced by a rtively slower, but more powerful electromaic rapid-fire gun. In the middle were two pairs of vortex engines and two bottles of oxygen tanks were added to increase the oxygen holding for 24-hour consumption.


    Soon, the gates on the west of the colony slowly opened, and a group of armored vehicles, in an attack formation, rushed toward thepartment abandoned in the swarm.


    Strikes from TS Expedition began to hit on the ground, disrupting the Corruptors that was surrounding the fleet.


    As the fleet rushed to thepartment, the door suddenly opened, and soldiers inside armored vehicles jumped off, and gathered together to form a defensive formation. They maintained open fire as they moved closer to the openpartment.


    Drill Warrior was already showing off its destructive power in its very first battle.


    The augers suspended on both sides of its tires dropped down, then the entire rig was lifted. The giant drill in front of the vehicle aimed down before it turned rapidly.


    Sand filled the air.


    The entire rig resembled a Devil Worm made of steel. In less than half a minute, the entire body already disappeared into the ground and headed towards the source of the Corruptors.


    The entire desert became restless, like limestones being tossed into ake.


    The corrupters, hiding underground, was taken aback by the sudden emergence of the steel beast. Without the ability to dig, they could only spit the acid at the giant rig in vain, using their ws as powerful as steel in an attempt to stop the steel monster’s destruction forward, but their fate was just shredded to pieces by the more powerful titanium drill.


    Their offense on the surface suddenly slowed down.


    Under the cover of the “Drill Warrior”, the soldiers who stormed into thepartment were equipped with the new power armor. Having already simted and operated the new power armor in the virtual reality training system countless times, they quickly adapted to this powerful new armor. One by one, they marched out of thepartment with the electromaic rapid-fire guns.


    “Here is the headquarters. Company A, your task is to follow Drill Warrior to Mine 071, and to recover thend and glory we once lost from those dirty bugs!”


    “ROGER!”


    Listening to the sound of electric current charging along his right arm, Zhang Hai’s entire body was stimted with energy.


    Streamlined casing, thick titanium alloy armor, blue light pulsing in the gun, and the blood and corpses of the Corruptors sshing on his body.


    The futuristic armor hit his G spot.


    With such a powerful equipment under his control, he had no doubt about the victory.


    The soldiers no longer needed to scramble to take cover? against the sshing acid.


    Covered by the same material as the blood vessels of Devil Worms, the armor was coated in an organicyer. Even if they were covered with acid, the anti-corrosive nature would protect them in the battle.


    Armed to the teeth, the soldiers assembled behind the dunes on the west side of the colony, re-embarked on the armored vehicles, followed the track of the Drill Warrior wrecking havoc underground, and headed in the direction of Mine 071...