Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 638 Super Mushrooms Are So Delicious

My battle fortress... has been taken!
This was probably the first thought that popped into the mind of the Root of Mars when it faced the charged annihilation cannon.

Not long ago, the Root of Mars did indeed sense that the machine spirit it left in the battle fortress had malfunctioned and had completely lost contact with it. The Root of Mars originally thought that its battle fortress had completely disintegrated in the universe, so the backdoor it left behind (which it did not know belonged to the category of machine spirits) was destroyed along with it.

But it never expected that the spaceship would not only not disintegrate, but would also fall into the hands of others.

Even without its own core energy source, it's astonishing that someone could recharge it and, while aborting the spaceship's self-destruct sequence, possess sufficient mental power to control such a massive entity...

Although there is no evidence yet pointing to any specific target, Cheng Tian, ​​the human who revealed the true nature of Martians as refugees, has emerged from the brain exposed by the broken glass dome of the Martian Root.

Freed from its fixed spaceship core state, the Martian Root regained its freedom, and its agility attribute increased from 0 to 40 points. It can also achieve telekinetic flight with its powerful mental strength. For this huge body, 40 points of agility is enough for now, at least enough to engage in less intense ace air combat.

However, it would be asking the impossible to compete with a battle fortress that can travel freely between Earth and the universe using pure telekinetic flight speed.

Thinking of this, the huge brain flower of the Root of Mars, exposed to the air, began to exhibit extremely violent mental fluctuations. At the same time, the four metal pipes that remained halfway around the brain also resonated with the brain flower like Tesla coils.

This is a powerful finishing move in the second stage of the Root of Mars' form, an ability that can directly convert mental energy into the purest destructive wave, capable of destroying all units within a 360-degree radius of the surrounding area in one fell swoop without any blind spots.

Telekinetic shockwave.

Based on the game's mechanics alone, this move is virtually impossible to defend against. Given the Metal Slug character's tendency to die instantly upon contact, if Martian Root were to unleash this attack, death would be certain.

The only way to break the spell is to use a special mechanism in the game itself, where players and vehicles gain a brief period of invincibility when entering or exiting a vehicle, thus forcibly offsetting the telekinetic shockwave of the Root of Mars.

In the normal process, when players are thrown from the mothership, they will receive a Metal Slug as a vehicle. There is one for single players and two for two players. During the fall, the Martian Root, which is freed from the core restraint, will actively attack and grab the two Metal Slugs firmly. The developers' intention was to let players use these two immobile tanks, which can only be used as fixed turrets, to complete the final boss battle.

Whether players can discover the true purpose of these two Metal Slugs that the developers deliberately left behind is entirely up to them.

Anyway, Cheng Tian didn't know this tactic back then. He just crouched inside the car and kept firing in circles until the vehicle was destroyed by the shockwave. Then he was forced to switch to the pay-to-win mode, using the 10 grenades that came with each respawn and the heavy machine gun that was given as a bonus for each coin to slowly whittle down the BOSS to death.

Of course, it's possible to exploit a bug in the game to avoid being hit by the psychic shockwave, but in the current situation, the screen-clearing damage from the psychic shockwave is real. If you follow the normal strategy, the players will be the ones facing the Root of Mars.

Speed ​​and firepower are the biggest challenges in the second phase of the battle at the Root of Mars!
Without the original game mechanics, the rules for exploiting vehicle bugs are basically out of the question. All players need to do is use maximum firepower to destroy the brain of the Root of Mars in a short period of time, while having enough health or defense to withstand the cyclic release of telekinetic shockwaves.

Furthermore, entering the BOSS battle requires a hidden qualification: possessing the ability to fly, a flying vehicle, or the ability to stay atop the head of the Martian Root without being thrown off...

The overall difficulty is self-evident.

However, while the Martian Root's telekinetic shockwave can easily destroy almost all projectiles and inflict indiscriminate damage on vehicles and living beings, it's estimated that against an entire space-class battle fortress, the shockwave wouldn't even be able to penetrate the mothership's outer armor. Even the thinnest part of the hull is a full 100 meters thick.

The difference between being able to control a mothership and being able to destroy a mothership is quite significant.

The Root of Mars naturally knew that its telekinetic shockwave couldn't cause much damage to the spaceship, even in its damaged state... but it couldn't just let it die.

The Roots of Mars are not lacking in courage, as they were able to successfully lead their people to escape when faced with the invasion of the Venusians and always protect them.

However, just as it released a telekinetic shockwave to resist the output of the annihilation laser cannon, it discovered that what was being emitted from the cannon's muzzle was not a high-energy laser, but a projection.

It's a projection of a certain Cheng, dressed like Professor X, wearing a helmet with tubing and having his buttocks embedded in a "toilet".

"Surrender, your people need your protection."

Without a word, Cheng shifted the projection angle to his side and saw a group of Martian units huddled together with their tentacles, trembling under the threat of guns from the puppet troops and Modern Army soldiers.

These units were found by Cheng Tian from a corner after he synchronized with the mothership. With his intervention, these Martians could no longer escape using the vehicle projection device.

Moreover, as units that participated in the mental power confrontation, they had also seen the Venusians modeled by Cheng Tian in the mental power space, so their fear was at its peak and they had completely lost the will to resist.

...Who exactly is the villain?

This was the thought that popped into the minds of a group of players when they saw Cheng Tian use hostages to threaten the BOSS without hesitation.

Faced with a threat from someone like Cheng, who is even more villainous than the villain himself, this is how the Root of Mars responded.

It rummaged through the stitches on its body with one paw, then pulled out a mushroom covered in some unknown slime. The mushroom was about the size of a human head, with a red base and white spots, quite plump and thick, giving off an aura of vitality. Without hesitation, it stuffed it into its mouth.

The next second, the body of the Root of Mars visibly expanded at a rapid speed!
Red-based, white-spotted "poisonous" mushrooms, growing larger...

"It's the Super Mushroom from the Mario dungeon! There's a sixth boss in the Martian faction!"

As Cheng spoke, he activated his mental energy scan of the ship's interior with all his might.

(End of this chapter)