Chapter 249: The Invasion
The exterior of the entire base was constructed from an extremely sturdy metal and a transparent glass-like material, forming a sealed structure with an independent air circulation system.
The glass-like material, despite appearing fragile, was astonishingly hard and thick. Even concentrated artillery fire would struggle to breach it in a short period. Ironically, the seemingly sturdier metal sections were weaker in certain areas due to functional requirements.
For example, several exits used by maintenance personnel to repair instruments and equipment were only one-half to one-third the thickness of the fortress walls.
The Swarm quickly identified these weak points. Raiders maneuvered cautiously into the blind spots of surveillance equipment near the doors and destroyed them.
Some bugs, slightly different in appearance from the Raiders, crawled forward and raised their abdomens, spraying viscous liquid onto the doors. This was the oldest and most basic acid-spraying mechanism. After subsequent improvements, the strength of the acid increased by hundreds of times, enough to corrode these tough metal barriers.
Even the inner walls of the emission tubes within the bugs’ bodies had been enhanced, allowing them to spray acid as far as twenty meters.
In the base’s monitoring room, one of the screens suddenly turned to static.
“Damn it! This piece of junk broke again. Whoever procured these things ought to be court-martialed,” complained a Riken soldier.
He picked up a communicator. “Team Three, Team Three, the camera in front of Maintenance Passage Seven is down. Go check it out.”