I Am The Swarm-Chapter 745: Grave Injury

Though Sarah Kerrigan’s insectoid body was equipped with various detection organs, compared to specialized large-scale equipment, both the precision and range of her detection capabilities were inferior, especially when it came to energy-based sources.

Thus, when Sarah sensed a distant surge of energy gathering, she immediately foresaw trouble. The location of this energy source contained no Swarm units, ruling out the possibility of it being from her side. Moreover, the position was already beyond her effective detection range, yet she could still sense the overwhelming energy fluctuations, indicating that the source was a massive device.

In this situation, such an occurrence could only mean that the Ji race was targeting her with something extraordinary. Sure enough, in the next moment, Sarah’s hairs stood on end.

Unfortunately, danger struck too swiftly. She had barely begun to evade when the attack arrived. An immense force transmitted to Sarah’s body—a familiar mode of assault. Electromagnetic projectiles over thirty centimeters in diameter, typically used against small warships, were now employed here.

While Sarah’s bio-armor boasted strong resistance to purely physical attacks, everything had its limits. When an attack far exceeded these limits, resistance became irrelevant.

“You’ll kill her!” A roar erupted in the Ji race’s command room.

“Relax. Though this attack far surpasses the target’s endurance limit, based on the bodily data the target has displayed so far, she can completely avoid vital areas.”

“But she will still be severely injured!”

“Enough! I’m tired of this cat-and-mouse game. We only need a living Swarm Empress, not necessarily a fully intact one!”

“But what if she can’t dodge it?”

“She will. This attack has already been simulated over a hundred thousand times by Selina. In every instance, the target avoided the vital areas without exception.”

“I hope you’re right.”

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“Send our people to check the target’s condition immediately.”

Indeed, the Swarm Empress was gravely injured. At the critical moment, despite her best efforts to dodge the direct impact, the shell fired by the sub-cannon level electromagnetic gun was simply too fast. Sarah managed to evade with only half of her body.

“Hurry! She’s there! She’s alive but severely wounded!” Only ten seconds after the bombardment, new Ji soldiers rushed out from the tunnel.

“My goodness, we must get her to the battleship quickly, or she won’t survive such injuries!” Upon seeing the current state of the Swarm Empress, the Ji soldiers were secretly astounded.

Initially, when their electromagnetic cannon fired, they didn’t believe any individual could survive such an attack. Yet reality harshly taught them a lesson—though the surviving creature looked pitiful.

The Swarm Empress was embedded in the wall. Her right hand, right leg, and a portion of her body had vanished, making her appear extremely emaciated.

“Strange, with such severe injuries, she hasn’t lost much blood!”

“Never mind that, quick, get the cryo-spray!”

The miraculous cryo-spray effectively froze the damaged areas of a living organism, reducing cellular activity and even inducing dormancy without causing cell death. It was a commonly used medical tool on battlefields of advanced civilizations.

“Let’s hope she survives; otherwise, this mission would have been for nothing.”

“Damn, her armor is so hard! Someone help!” One Ji soldier attempted to remove the Swarm Empress’s helmet, but unfortunately, the helmet was seamlessly integrated with her armor.

“We need to remove her helmet to prevent blood from blocking her respiratory tract!”

After several attempts, they ultimately failed.

“Damn it!”

“Don’t worry; the Swarm’s anatomy differs from ours. She’s lost half her body and hasn’t bled much, so she won’t choke herself.”

“Never mind that. K2N9 will arrive soon. Let’s get her down first.”

Carefully, several soldiers pried Sarah off the wall. This operation was successful. One soldier pulled out a metal module about thirty centimeters in length, width, and height from his backpack. After pressing the switch, the module quickly unfolded into a stretcher-like form.

“Be careful!” Just as they were about to lift Sarah onto the stretcher, the ground suddenly shook violently. The unstable soldiers fell to the ground along with Sarah.

“Selina, what’s happening?!” The soldiers asked anxiously. Soon, information appeared on their helmet displays.

During the time Sarah was incapacitated and unable to move, though she was subdued, other Swarm units never ceased their actions. For example, the Burrowing Worms below the battlefield.

After the Burrowing Worms detonated a minefield, causing large-scale detachment in the battlefield area, the Ji race had confined the Swarm Empress within the gelatinous region, so they weren’t overly concerned.

Moreover, near the battlefield, a ring of radiation blocked the Burrowing Worms, causing their attention on them to wane.

Who would have thought that among hundreds of normal Burrowing Worms, the Swarm had concealed more than ten space-based enhanced Burrowing Worms. Under the cover of their kin, they quietly approached the gelatinous soil layer. To achieve this, they even self-decomposed their skin to mimic radiation contamination.

Due to time constraints, the Ji race hadn’t deployed weapons capable of effectively striking the giant units underground. The sudden eruption of the space-based Burrowing Worms caught the Ji race off guard.

Although for the sake of disguise, the two versions of Burrowing Worms looked identical, those now wrapped in blue electric arcs were clearly the high-end versions. They were faster, stronger, more resilient, and immune to radiation contamination.

“Stop them!” The Ji commanders roared, but with frontline soldiers’ individual weapons, facing monsters hundreds of meters long and tens of meters wide felt utterly powerless.

“Take the target away!” The Ji commanders seemed to realize this too. They immediately changed their orders. The Swarm Empress was already in their hands, and they held the initiative. There was no need to confront these giant units head-on.

On Sarah’s side, the fallen Ji soldiers quickly rose and placed Sarah on the stretcher. Unfortunately, the K2N9 arrived late. They had just lifted Sarah onto the vehicle when a giant burst past them.

“Move!” The agile soldiers quickly jumped onto the vehicle, while the wise ones stepped back. But the next second, the ground shook violently. A huge body surged up beneath them, opening a maw like an abyss, swallowing all the soldiers along with the K2N9.