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Chapter 19 The Scrap Metal Actually Stands Up?
However, while the green-skinned creatures are excellent food providers, they also possess a certain level of combat ability, a fact that Zhou Qing discovered after some practical experience.
Among the Greenskins were some giant creatures. When dealing with these giant creatures, the civilian robot army he had created by combining gold actually suffered losses.
In an effort to capture the Greenskin for research purposes, his robot army has been reduced from 400 to only 398, with two robot soldiers destroyed by the Greenskin.
Even though these robot soldiers were handcrafted and not regular civilian robot soldiers of the Federation, the combat capabilities of the Greenskins are still evident.
The materials required for the Federation's conventional civilian combat pioneering robots are too expensive.
Conventional combat pioneering robots require at least Level 3 alloys for production, and generally require Level 4 alloys.
Although these materials weren't expensive in the federal government, they are expensive in this region now.
He didn't know where he could get these materials unless he could first establish basic industries.
Although he still had some materials in his empty backpack, he couldn't afford to waste them.
These materials are also useful for building warships.
Therefore, the legions Zhou Qing is currently using are generally the worst of the worst legions, forged from rare materials he has pieced together from the garbage dump.
Zhou Qing needs a larger robot army to completely turn those green-skinned creatures into his food source.
Zhou Qing glanced at the number of green skins marked on the 3D map.
A full 200 million.
Moreover, this number is increasing rapidly, with an increase of 20,000 to 50,000 every day.
In order to suppress these greenskins, he needs to maintain at least a machine army of around 5 people.
Only in this way can these green leaves be completely turned into food without causing unnecessary losses.
So after confirming his location, Zhou Qing began his hand-rubbing journey again.
He wants to create more combat robots.
At the same time, he also pulled out a batch of industrial robots from his small backpack and began to handcraft these simple combat robots with him.
Ideally, the combat robots could also incorporate some liquid metal, but unfortunately, Zhou Qing's liquid metal reserves are limited, making it somewhat unwise to use it to manufacture such items.
"If only I could find a deposit of liquid metal, I would be so happy..."
Looking at his hand-made, low-quality civilian combat robots, Zhou Qing began to miss liquid metal.
Time passed slowly as he kneaded the dough.
During the time he was building his combat robot, many things happened on his planet.
The first thing was that the Krieg Death Legion had launched an attack on the Greenskins, but the Empire clearly underestimated them.
30 greens are a huge threat to a planet, because greens can be replenished indefinitely. Moreover, this is just a small area. According to Zhou Qing's reconnaissance, there are already 200 million greens.
This is just a small area; there are many more green-skinned people in other areas combined, which is enough to carry out a huge Waaahg.
The Creek Death Legion's attack failed without a doubt...
The Kreece Death Legion is no longer considering offensive operations; they are holding their fortress and awaiting Imperial reinforcements.
The crackdown on gangs and cults in the Xiachao region intensified, and the Empire's PDF troops began to enter Xiachao to carry out the crackdown, but this inevitably led to a direct clash with Zhou Qing.
Zhou Qing provided a large amount of weapons and equipment, while the gangs received a large number of healthy personnel from Zhou Qing, which meant that the gangs' firepower was greatly increased.
The Planetary Defense Forces were surprisingly at a disadvantage in their battles against the gangs.
For a moment, even the planet's governor felt that something terrible was about to happen; he felt that his planet was probably doomed.
He urgently requested support from the Ministry of Government, but everyone knows how inefficient the Human Empire is.
The Empire's reinforcements are still a long way from arriving.
Now, the people on this planet can only continue to persevere on their own.
However, none of this mattered much to Zhou Qing, who was still diligently working on his mechanical army.
Soon, on the 10th day, he had handcrafted his entire army of 8 machines.
8 is more than enough for him to wipe out those green-skinned people.
Although these civilian combat robots are inferior versions and not very powerful, they are theoretically sufficient to fight the Greenskins.
After completing the formation of the troops, Zhou Qing left only 400 mechanical soldiers to continue protecting the children, while he himself led more mechanical soldiers to advance towards the Green Skin.
Adhering to the concept of concealment, Zhou Qing specifically added optical camouflage to his mechanical legion.
In addition to Zhou Qing's own strong physical abilities and spiritual power, an army left the Lower Nest without the Astral Army's knowledge and then marched straight toward a mushroom wasteland of green skins.
This army was not equipped with any heavy weapons.
If you ask why, it's because there aren't suitable metal materials to manufacture suitable weapons, whether they are weapons that the Federation has long since phased out or weapons currently in service with the Federation.
In short, even after dismantling all the garbage stored up by the entire gang and turning it into materials, Zhou Qing still hadn't found any suitable materials to manufacture federal heavy weapons.
He couldn't even find the simple defective product.
Therefore, this entire army could only be equipped with light weapons for combat, which was the biggest problem for Zhou Qing's troops—they lacked heavy weapons.
Although those light spears were just as powerful as heavy weapons, they were indeed not as bulky as heavy weapons.
By the time Zhou Qing's mechanical legion reached the edge of the mushroom wasteland where the green-skinned creatures were entrenched, it was already nearly dusk.
The crimson sunset dyed the entire wasteland blood red, and the air was filled with the strange smell of spore plants mixed with the metallic rust.
"Optical scanning indicates abnormal energy readings in the target area," a reconnaissance robot suddenly warned.
Zhou Qing squinted, his psionic vision piercing through the gradually darkening sky—deep within the mushroom thicket, dozens of enormous devices pieced together from scrap metal could be vaguely seen humming and operating, and a massive mechanical construct rose from the ground.
Warboys, twice the size of ordinary green-skinned soldiers, were gathered around.
"What the hell is going on with these things? Every single one of these jumbled, scrap metal-looking things can actually move?!"
Zhou Qing felt that his worldview had been challenged in a strange way. He had never seen such bizarre things when he captured the green-skinned people before.
Zhou Qing had dealt with the Greenskins before when he was eliminating them and capturing them for cooking.
While those green-skinned weapons do look quite outrageous, they're not this outrageous.
But what he was seeing now truly shocked his worldview; such a huge, messy thing that looked like scrap metal was actually moving.
"All troops, launch an attack! Preserve that massive mechanical construct! I need to study how this thing actually moves!"
Undoubtedly, this was excellent research material. Zhou Qing excitedly issued the order for a general offensive. He was now eager to study how that peculiar mechanical creation stood up.
After all, in his eyes, that thing was simply a lump of scrap metal.
Chapter 20: Limitations of the Hunting Gauss Rifle in Eliminating the Greenskins
With Zhou Qing's order, the 80,000-strong mechanical legion surged toward the Mushroom Wasteland like a silver tide.
The blue beams of the light spears wove into a net in the twilight, precisely targeting the green-skinned boys wielding their crude weapons.
This familiar attack struck the Greenskins once again, and the Greenskins naturally realized what was happening; they had encountered similar attacks quite often in the past few days.
In order to feed so many people in his camp, Zhou Qing had no shortage of trouble with these greenskins, and many of them had been captured and turned into food by him.
That is why these greens organized such a huge war machine.
"Boom—"
The ground trembled violently, and the enormous thing that Zhou Qing regarded as a "scrap metal pile" suddenly stretched out six rusty mechanical legs, and dozens of cannons with clearly visible welding marks on their torso simultaneously lit up red.
Even more shockingly, its power core was actually secured with wire to three still-operating Imperial generators—
These energy devices, which should be incompatible with each other, are now working together in a strange way.
"WAAAGH! You human shrimps, taste my big bang bang!" A green-skinned technician covered in red paint stood on top of the mechanical creation, frantically pulling the control lever.
The next second, dozens of shells forged from molten scrap metal roared out. These warheads, which should have been unable to fly steadily due to their irregular shapes, instead drew perfect parabolic arcs in the air, accurately hitting the vanguard of the mechanical legion.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
In the flames of the explosion, more than thirty robots were instantly blown to pieces.
The loss report immediately appeared on Zhou Qing's tactics panel—
Well, limited by the materials used, the combat capabilities of these battle robots made from first-grade alloys are indeed underwhelming.
Zhou Qing sighed heavily, then resumed directing his battle.
The robots surrounded the green-skinned creatures.
The light spear guns continued to fire, used as heavy firepower, but all weapon attacks avoided the huge green-skinned facility.
After all, he really wanted to study how these things moved and how they could have such great power.
Although this was merely a mechanical legion he had created using first-grade alloy, its combat power still impressed him.
To Zhou Qing, what he was seeing was no different from a primitive man poking down his own Federation's space observation station with a spear.
After the first successful attack, the greenskins cheered excitedly.
"Waaahg, we did it!"
Seeing the massive casualties suffered by the mechanical legions, the green-skinned boys, who had been constantly capturing their comrades, became excited and roared loudly.
The orc Warboss was shouting loudly at the mechanical legion that was attacking Zhou Qing.
"My little ones! Let's have a fun Waaagh!"
As his battle cry fell, a large number of green-skinned boys picked up their weapons and charged toward the mechanical legion.
The atmosphere on the battlefield instantly became frenzied. Driven by Warboss's roar, the green-skinned lads surged towards the mechanical legion like a tidal wave.
They brandished crude machetes, rusty guns, and even rocket launchers welded from scrap metal, shouting deafening "WAAAGH!" battle cries.
Zhou Qing stood at the rear of the battlefield, calmly observing the situation. His tactics panel continuously flashed dynamic data of both sides.
The number of green-skinned people is increasing dramatically, no longer the original 200 million.
A large number of Greenskins are continuously entering this battlefield from other places.
As the number of these things increased, Zhou Qing could even sense a very strange spiritual energy appearing and protecting all the greenskins.
Although the mechanical legion is still powerful, there are simply too many greens, and continuing the attack does not seem like a wise choice.