And Lin Feng had anticipated this, which was why he had flown over at top speed to provide support.

With his abilities, he was more than capable of resolving the crisis.

Now that the long-range threat of the Pulse War Scorpions was dealt with, the remaining obstacles were the blockades set by two Tank Flame Armors ahead and one behind—a total of three.

And over a dozen Samurai Hunter Zergs waiting for a chance to ambush.

"Leave them all to me! Get your troops together, provide covering fire for the bombardment of the Tank Flame Armor ahead, and break a path for the other tanks to escape the city encirclement!"

Lin Feng shouted, the Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon in his left hand spitting fire. Armor-Piercing Bullet after Armor-Piercing Bullet slammed into the Tank Flame Beetle.

Through the clouds of yellow-gray dust swirling in the air, the Identification data finally appeared in Lin Feng’s eyes:

[Tank Flame Beetle, Lv. 26/29]

[Life Value: 680, Physique: 650, Spirit: 60]

[Evaluation: A heavily armored land-based Zerg Race cultivated using the genes of Blue Star Beetles. It possesses immense Defense Power equivalent to double its Physique Attribute Value, comparable to a High-tier Mother Empress. However, its movement speed is quite slow at only fifty kilometers per hour. At the same time, its mental capacity and intelligence are extremely low, far beneath other Tier Two Zerg Race.]

[Note: Beware the Tank Flame Beetle’s Corrosive Magma. Its extreme corrosiveness and temperature of several hundred degrees will melt all organic matter. Contact will result in a burning poison debuff that inflicts continuous Damage!]

After reading the detailed description in the Evaluation, Lin Feng’s brow furrowed slightly.

The Tank Flame Beetles were the exact opposite of the Pulse War Scorpions. One focused solely on Attack Power, while the other prioritized Defense Power. They perfectly complemented the well-rounded Attributes of the Tiger Spine Zergs in terms of combat function.

To kill one, he first had to break through its hard Armor, which was meters thick.

Lin Feng first tried to use his Eye of the Death God to land a headshot.

Unfortunately, after he aimed and fired, the initial Broken Armor effect of the Armor-Piercing Bullet was not ideal.

Its head was like that of a rhinoceros beetle; the top was covered in a thick, hard shell that was seamlessly integrated with its protruding antennae.

A single Armor-Piercing Bullet could hardly kill it outright.

It only broke through a few layers of its Defense, ultimately dealing just over 100 points of Damage. This did, however, make the Tank Flame Armor roar in pain and quicken its pace, charging toward the fleet.

Its speed was slow, but only in comparison to other Tier Two Zerg Race. At fifty kilometers per hour, it was already as fast as a Ninth-level Enhanced Person and much faster than a High-tier Mother Empress burdened with its brood.

Moreover, with the advantage of its enormous size and solid Outer Armor Defense, the Tank Flame Armor could completely ignore heavy fire, charging recklessly like ancient heavy cavalry.

The huge hole torn in the northern wall of the second defensive line was its handiwork. Back then, the Tank Flame Armor was only at the Tier Two Early Stage, merely an early prototype from the Hai City Mother Empress.

If Lin Feng hadn’t led the fleet to save the day back then, the Thirteenth Division wouldn’t even exist now.

And now, the upgraded Tank Flame Armor was once again challenging humanity’s elite forces...

Lin Feng, of course, would not underestimate it.

Especially since he had just fought a life-or-death battle against a Level 29 Tiger Spine Zerg with the Solid as a Rock attribute.

So, the next moment, he raised his weapon’s muzzle and continued to aim and fire.

Previously, when incubating the Nest Underground, he had been worried that continuous fire would cause the cavern to collapse. Now that they were on the surface, he no longer had such concerns...

Besides, the Tank Flame Beetle only had layered armor on its back. Just like how the Pulse War Scorpion stored its electro-plasma, its abdomen, which contained corrosive chemical fuel, was still vulnerable.

It didn’t have the Solid as a Rock attribute. If one shot wasn’t enough, he would just use a few more.

Lin Feng wasn’t about to risk another close-quarters fight.

There were still over a dozen Samurai Hunter Zergs nearby, waiting for the humans to reveal a weakness.

Combining Eye of the Death God and Bullet Time, he fired several Armor-Piercing Bullets in succession. They struck the Tank Flame Armor’s swaying head, directly shattering its protruding antennae and then destroying the brain beneath its Armor.

The creature’s entire head segment exploded from the inside out. The blast traveled down a Hose, igniting the magma fuel in its tail section and triggering an even more violent chemical explosion within the confined space.

With a massive BOOM, a powerful shockwave erupted downward from its abdomen. A heatwave of fire, accompanied by splattering magma, ignited buildings within a radius of several hundred meters and blew away all the smoke and dust that had been blanketing the city district!

And the terrifying explosive shockwave struck its Indestructible back armor,

sending it flying over a thousand meters into the sky!

It became a black dot before plummeting back down.

Lin Feng and everyone in the fleet stood frozen in place by the rolling heatwave that washed over them, all of them utterly stunned by the violent self-detonation.

"Fuck, that’s more badass than the Mother of All Bombs or the Father of All Bombs. It wiped out everything within a five-hundred-meter radius..."

"The power of that blast was comparable to a hundred tons of TNT!"

"Second only to a mini-nuke..."

"No wonder we didn’t see any Tank Flame Beetles during the last battle in the Hive under the first line of defense. If one of these had been detonated underground, it could have destroyed nearly half the Hive."

Lin Feng let out a long breath, still shaken. The image of the Tank Flame Beetle charging recklessly at them kept replaying in his mind.

Thankfully, he had reacted quickly and decisively, firing a continuous stream of Armor-Piercing Bullets from two kilometers away to finish it off early.

At that thought, Lin Feng whipped his head around. He saw the two remaining Tank Flame Beetles blocking the fleet’s path suddenly begin to charge as well.

’Dammit!’

’These bugs are trying to use suicide-bomber tactics to destroy humanity’s Invincible Fleet!’

Lin Feng immediately roared at the ship’s bow: