Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 213 The Long Insect

After the white, unknown creature reached the ground, three more pulse lasers lit up, but this time the three burrowing bombs were not intended to kill the unknown creature.

With three muffled explosions, the tunnel at the far end collapsed, and dried mud and sand rushed in through the holes created by the bunker buster, blocking the newly excavated tunnel.

As the fighter jets dropped their bombs, the mechanical dogs surrounding the lake also controlled the mechs to launch an attack.

Six 130mm high-explosive shells exploded on his body, but only left a layer of gray-black marks on his surface.

After confirming the effectiveness of the first round of attacks, the mechanical dog controlled the mech to discard the ammunition magazine on the right side of the mech, which was filled with high-explosive rounds, and then launched an attack using 130mm armor-piercing high-explosive rounds.

Then all the mechs left their original positions and headed towards the ammunition magazine next to them, which was filled with white phosphorus incendiary bombs.

Robots will be responsible for retrieving the ammunition magazines that were left behind.

As the mechs moved, the second round of attacks arrived as expected, with six armor-piercing high-explosive rounds exploding beneath their bodies, creating circular cavities.

After they loaded the ammunition compartments with white phosphorus incendiary bombs, they launched another attack, only this time the impact points were closer to the craters created by the bunker buster bombs.

"Bang!"

Six craters of varying sizes exploded at the bottom of its visible body, after which the mech's loading mechanism propelled a white phosphorus incendiary bomb into the chamber of the electromagnetic cannon.

"Bang!"

Six incendiary bombs pierced through the hole created earlier and entered its body, after which a dazzling flame lit up inside its body.

After the incendiary bomb exploded inside its body, the white, unknown creature began to writhe wildly.

To avoid its massive size, the mechanical dogs steered their mechs backward, while simultaneously calling in a group of vehicle-mounted electromagnetic cannons located near the airport.

Five seconds later, 40 130mm high-explosive shells landed in a smooth curve in the crater in the middle of the lake, raising a cloud of dust.

Five seconds later, the second round of shells came. By then, the mechanical dogs had retreated 400 meters away, and all the stakes on their legs had been driven into the ground.

Along with the deafening explosion came a small mushroom cloud, followed by a powerful blast wave that spread outwards from the center of the explosion.

The mechanical dogs successfully withstood the powerful blast wave thanks to their own structure and the 16 spikes on their legs, while the robots that assisted the mechs in combat took refuge in pre-dug bunkers to avoid the blast wave.

When the smoke cleared, the surviving body shrank back underground, leaving only a three-meter-long section of the body still twitching on the surface.

The mechanical dog team returned to the vitreous pit and looked at the convulsing body below.

Subsequently, a large number of engineering robots emerged from the bunker, carrying winches, grappling hooks, drilling rigs, and other equipment, and returned to their original positions to continue their work.

Once the winch was secured to the ground, two relatively large engineering robots gripped the steel cable and slowly walked down to the bottom of the pit.

The two robots then stopped 25 meters from the bottom of the pit, removed the 80mm electromagnetic railgun from their backs, and placed a grappling hook resembling a steel nail inside.

After a brief period of charging, the two grappling hooks pierced through the white keratin layer on its body surface. Then, with the help of the explosive bolt, the three claws popped out and firmly fixed themselves into its pale pink flesh.

As the winch retracted, the section of the torso continued to throb restlessly until it was dragged to the ground, at which point the street dogs realized the reason for its unusual activity.

"Wow, the head is still there."

Roy walked around the trunk from a distance of 15 meters, carefully examining the 10-meter-thick behemoth.

Upon observation, the front of this creature only had layers upon layers of teeth resembling crushing wheels, and no sensory organs were found within them.

However, seeing that this guy was still active, the mechanical dog controlled the mecha and helped the engineering robot fix it to a steel plate, completely eliminating any possibility of its escape.

On the other side, two drilling rigs were working next to another bomb crater, and nearby were several paddle-shaped explosive transport vehicles.

These slurry explosives are formulated similarly to thermobaric bombs, but they contain some solid fuel particles and napalm to ensure that they can not only collapse the tunnel when they explode, but also burn the unidentified creature.

As the drill bit descended, the drill pipes were being assembled in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, the entire drill pipe slid downwards, and the safety rope at the top of the well tightened abruptly.

[Drilling depth reached; drill pipe retrieval begins; exploration robot prepared for deployment.]

During the drill pipe retrieval process, two probe robots, similar to Sentinels, each dragged a long cable to the drilling site.

During the drill pipe retrieval process, two probe robots, similar to Sentinels, each dragged a long cable to the drilling site.

These two probe robots differ from the sentry robots in that they have two additional pairs of auxiliary wheels, which enable them to move more stably.

Hanging next to the cable is a long detonating cord, used to detonate the slurry explosive buried deep underground.

One by one, the drill rods were quickly retrieved, and then two exploration robots, each more than a meter wide, were hoisted into the three-meter-diameter deep well.

During the descent, the robotic arm of the exploration robot works continuously to secure the detonating cord and cables to the sidewall of the deep well, preventing them from being damaged during the injection of slurry explosives.

After landing, the two robots activated their infrared lights and switched their optical sensors to low-light mode. They then sped forward along the smooth, spiral-shaped tunnel, with thick, gray-black slurry-like explosives behind them.

The two robots maintained a 10-meter distance throughout their movement, ensuring that one of them could transmit information back to the ground.

On the ground, the two wheels spun rapidly, and the cables wrapped around them gradually decreased until the two robots stopped spinning after they had traveled 100 meters underground.

But soon enough, a huge amount of slurry explosives engulfed the wheels of the two robots and was still slowly flowing down.

Time passed minute by minute, and the robot in the tunnel also vaguely noticed some subtle sounds.

When the unidentified creature appeared within the observation range of the first detection robot, an image of its tail was already being transmitted upwards via a long optical fiber.

Once the images transmitted back by the reconnaissance robot are obtained, the length and speed of the unidentified creature can be calculated.

The data transmitted back startled Lorraine: the unidentified creature, 10 meters thick and 78 meters long, was traveling at a speed of 64.2 kilometers per hour inside the existing tunnel.