Chapter 475 - 232: Optimization, Entering the Capital City, Seeing an Old Friend Again

Chapter 475: Chapter 232: Optimization, Entering the Capital City, Seeing an Old Friend Again

The corner of Ling Yi’s mouth twitched involuntarily.

’The Mother Empress’s flesh and bones aren’t the main point. The problem is that its brain can’t be divided. For both Biological Armor and Mecha, intelligent processing and reflexes all depend on the brain as the central control system.’

’A unit without the brain for control could at best bully a Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg. In front of a High-tier Mother Empress, it would be no different from a marionette. The Empress might even be able to seize control of the Mecha.’

’Forget it, I’ll worry about that later. Besides, without Tier Three strength, there’s no way to pilot them...’

’Maybe I should get one for myself...’

However, before Ling Yi could finish his thought, the man beside him unfurled wings of light...

Transforming into a golden streak of light, he vanished from the valley, launching vertically into the heavens and disappearing ten thousand meters into the air.

He left only a blurry afterimage, which ultimately shrank to a mere dot.

Afterward, once Ling Yi had seated himself on the head of the Reproductive Armor Mecha, the fully equipped warriors in the valley followed the colossal Mecha, marching confidently toward the front lines.

...

Wearing his level 30 Golden Armor, Lin Feng flew at an average speed of Mach 2, entering the troposphere and its thick white clouds within fifteen seconds.

Higher up was the silent, cloudless stratosphere, where multiple squads of Wind-winged Zergs patrolled. They were responsible for scouting the airspace around the Mother Empress, intercepting human fighter jets and missiles to ensure the safety of the Zerg ground command center.

Therefore, Lin Feng kept his altitude below ten thousand meters, using the thick cloud cover to advance slowly.

There was still about an hour before the Yunxia Ridge defenders would clash with the Zerg Race forces arriving from across the South.

He had more than enough time.

So, Lin Feng deliberately lowered his speed, maintaining a subsonic cruise of one thousand kilometers per hour. At this rate, he could still reach the Federal Capital within ten minutes.

The noise and disturbance from subsonic flight were much less than supersonic, effectively helping Lin Feng evade Zerg patrols.

Additionally, his Mind Sensing could detect and lock onto enemies twenty kilometers away, so his journey was uneventful.

Along the way, Lin Feng also deliberately lowered his altitude slightly, using his powerful kinetic sense and Mind Sensing to scan the Zerg armies he passed and pinpoint the locations of the Hives left behind by the departed Mother Empress.

Since the Mother Empress had taken more than half of the Swarm with her, the combat Swarm left guarding the Hive was less than a third of its original size. It now consisted mostly of patrolling Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs and Red-Armored Beetle Swarms handling logistics.

Just like the main Hive at Yunxia Ridge before, these poorly defended locations would soon become prime targets for human surprise attacks.

After logging the locations of three Hives, Lin Feng flew from the Taihang Mountain Range, over the remote urban districts of the Southwest, and finally reached the outskirts of the Capital. There, he finally saw the center of the Federal Capital, now transformed into a military fortress.

Where layers of elevated highways once encircled the city center, colossal hundred-meter-high walls now stood. Within each ring of these defensive walls were thousands of fortified bunkers.

Judging by the damaged outermost sixth wall, the concrete in these defensive fortifications was an astonishing ten meters thick or more...

Forget Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs—even the attacks of Pulse War Scorpions and Tank Flame Armors would struggle to breach the defensive line directly. It would require numerous assault squads attacking relentlessly in successive waves.

In comparison, the three hastily constructed defensive lines in Wu City seemed utterly inadequate.

Still, this was the heart of the entire Federation. As the symbol of both the Capital and the Federation itself, it was only logical that it would mobilize the resources of several major surrounding cities to construct such magnificent fortifications.

Now, seeing the breached sixth defensive ring answered the questions in Lin Feng’s mind:

Why had the northern Mother Empress Alliance, after gathering over twenty High-tier Mother Empresses and commanding a million-strong Zerg Race army, still failed to conquer the Federal Capital?!

Why had the stalemate that began after Qin Hu left Wu City persisted for so long?!

The reason was these six colossal, sky-piercing walls. Each ring was taller than the one before it, with the two innermost walls reaching a height of two hundred meters, creating an artificial chasm that separated the world within from the world without.

For the Zerg Race to break through these six defensive lines and slaughter the human survivors inside was a near-impossible task!

Without a full-scale assault—one that would cost them more than half their forces, or possibly even total annihilation—there was absolutely no chance of occupation!

This was precisely why the Zerg Race had opted for a strategy of attrition, choosing to wait and conserve their strength while attempting to trap the humans and let them perish in the isolated city.

At the same time, they were employing tunnel warfare, digging dozens of kilometers of Wormholes from deep underground to breach the defensive lines from within.

However, the scale of such a project was no less than the construction of the six great walls themselves; it would be difficult to complete in less than two or three months.

To avoid causing any unnecessary trouble, Lin Feng chose to descend slowly from the sky. He landed on the outskirts of the sixth defensive ring and began to walk through the rubble and ruins.

The rotting human and Zerg Race corpses, along with the smell of still-burning fat and hydrogen-storage sacs, filled the air with a strange and nauseating stench of death.

The reason the Zerg Race hadn’t made a large-scale effort to recycle the bodies was because of the dark cannon barrels looming behind the city wall.

This was a brutal and protracted war of attrition.

As Lin Feng walked through the area, his Golden Armor emanated the aura of a High-tier Life Form, instantly intimidating the massive Swarms lurking beneath the nearby Wormholes, which had been eager to strike.

He strode to the base of the wall, then kicked off the ground, leaping a hundred meters into the air to land atop it.

As he looked out, he saw that the four-kilometer-wide urban zone between the fifth and sixth defensive rings was also littered with Zerg Race corpses.