Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

At Fleet Commander Chen Yanyan’s order!

The twenty Lv19 Flying Wing Tanks at the forefront split into two teams of ten, forming a V-formation to act as the vanguard for the Dreadnought Battleship.

In an instant, cannon fire roared. Each Tank was armed with five Shotguns and twelve Heavy Machine Guns—that meant a total of one hundred Shotguns from the twenty Tanks!

No Black Spine Swarm could withstand such a volley; only Tier Two members of the Zerg Race could endure a bombardment from cannons dealing up to 190 Damage.

The Hai City Mother Empress, however, clearly hadn’t expected this. She never thought the Wu City defenders would dare to strike first after yesterday’s crushing defeat. Not only that, but they had dispatched a mysterious, mobile air force to brazenly assault the Tier Two Wind-winged Zerg bomber squadron—a unit she had painstakingly spawned and hatched at immense cost!

This was primarily due to a lack of intelligence. The Hai City Mother Empress mistakenly believed the human army holding Wu City had lost its air support. That was why she had confidently amassed Wind-winged Zergs at an altitude of over three thousand meters, preparing to wipe out the Wu City fleet and defensive line in a single wave.

Now, her own forces were the ones being wiped out.

Amidst the violent chain of explosions, the Hai City Mother Empress instantly lost twelve precious Wind-winged Zergs and was thrown into a dazed state.

The truth was, controlling Wind-winged Zergs from kilometers away to execute precise, cutting-edge aerial missions required an immense amount of Spiritual Power.

So much so that even as a Tier Three Middle Stage entity, the Hai City Mother Empress could not simultaneously maintain large-scale ground combat and precise aerial bombardments.

Therefore, when the Wind-winged Zergs were ambushed and destroyed, the resulting Spiritual Energy backlash plunged the Hai City Mother Empress into a dizzying trance.

By the time the human fleet had charged into the suburbs of Wu City—territory the Zerg had just recaptured the previous day—the thousands of Black Spine Zergs holding the ground positions still hadn’t received new orders and failed to react.

But Chen Yanyan wouldn’t give the Zerg Race time to come to its senses. The thousands of Warriors in the fleet, and the cannons and machine guns they operated, certainly wouldn’t miss this golden opportunity!

The twenty Tanks of the vanguard, joined by twenty more on the left and right flanks, formed a single charging line. Braving the rain of Zerg Armor fragments falling from the sky, they stormed toward the suburbs of Wu City...

A total of forty Tanks led the charge, spaced fifty meters apart, creating a two-kilometer-long battle line. Like a sharp sword, it pierced into the twenty-kilometer-long, north-to-south Zerg line outside the suburbs of Wu City.

Following close behind was the Dreadnought Battleship, anchoring the formation, along with twenty Tanks responsible for cleanup. Their job was to clear the remaining Wormholes on the battlefield, sealing off the Zerg Race’s subterranean arteries of expansion.

Once the fleet went full throttle, blasting its way forward at a top speed of one hundred kilometers per hour, it reached the border between the two cities. After pushing the front line forward by more than ten kilometers...

Chen Yanyan gave a wave of her hand and commanded the fleet to sweep northward and clear the remaining enemy positions, completely retaking the strategic buffer zone they had lost the day before.

Snapping out of her brief trance, the Hai City Mother Empress finally came to her senses. She hastily focused her Spirit to re-establish control over her reserve assault force.

At this point, she understood that the decisive battle on the main front had fully erupted. To simply retreat and defend Hai City now would be to admit defeat!

Because she wasn’t the only Mother Empress covetously eyeing the Great Lake behind Wu City.

The Jiangbei Mother Empress to the north had surely crossed the river, and the Jia City Mother Empress from the south had likely already laid claim to the Great Lake’s southern shore. Every day she delayed, the advantage she had gained by being the first to advance in tier would diminish.

What’s more, for the sake of victory in this decisive battle, the Hai City Mother Empress had adopted a strategy of aggressive over-militarization, pouring all her reserve Energy into the incubation and production of the Tier Two Zerg Race.

After the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs were born...

The entire Zerg Race’s food supply would only last a few more days. The Wind-winged Zerg bombardment was just a probing attack before the final battle, but the real reason behind it was that the Hai City Mother Empress could not afford to delay any longer. She had to be the one to initiate the decisive battle within a week.

From the destruction of the underground Biological Melting Furnace in Jiangbei County Town to the heavy damage suffered by the hatching Nest there, time was already running out for the Hai City Mother Empress.

Grand strategy is always a chain of interconnected events.

After Lin Feng’s unexpected attack on Jiangbei...

The Hai City Mother Empress was left with only one path: a fight to the death with the defenders of Wu City!

Victory meant devouring tens of thousands of Awakeners and gaining the vast biological resources of Taihu Lake. This would allow the Mother Empress to advance further, laying the foundation to reach the Tier Three Late Stage.

Defeat, however, would cause the entire Swarm to collapse. The Hai City Mother Empress would be forced to pull back her forces and hole up in Hai City Center, licking her wounds and recovering her strength by relying on resources from the ocean.

This would also mean she would lose her place in the global race among Mother Empresses, forfeiting her chance to become a Tier Four Zerg King.

Therefore, facing the aggressive human fleet, even though the Hai City Mother Empress was unwilling to risk a decisive battle, she was forced to enter the fray and intercept them.

And at her command, from the vast wasteland at the border of the two cities, hundreds upon thousands of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs suddenly emerged.

They were twenty to thirty meters in size, with a pair of sharp, hard Giant Mandibles that were over ten meters long.

The combat effectiveness of the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs was unquestionable. If they could engage a Tank at close range, they could destroy it with a single swing of their Giant Mandibles.

Meanwhile, in the suburbs of Hai City, hundreds of Pulse War Scorpions suddenly poured out of camouflaged Wormholes. They raised the muzzles at the tips of their tails, and the plasma sacs in their abdomens began to build a charge.

Once they were charged and aimed, raging balls of pulse energy shot toward the fleet five kilometers away, providing cover for the charging Tiger Spine Zerg Swarm.

The Pulse Cannon projectiles weren’t fast, but they couldn’t be destroyed by conventional artillery. Other than an Energy Shield, which could offer some defense, the only way to avoid them was to rely on maneuverability.