"A miniature nuclear warhead?"
Lin Feng’s eyes narrowed as he confirmed it again.
Ling Shuyan nodded.
"That’s right. It’s a nuclear warhead taken from an intercontinental ballistic missile. Each one can be detonated individually with a code and has the explosive power of fifty thousand tons of TNT, enough to wipe out any life within two kilometers of the epicenter!"
"Even a Zerg Race Mother Empress, whose entire body is forged from Tiger Spine Zerg Giant Mandibles, would struggle to withstand such a devastating blow!"
She knew very well that for someone like Lin Feng, who had already reached Tier Two Peak, to be willing to take over the battered remnants of the 13th Infantry Division, lead them in holding the front line, and even go so far as to expend precious Tier Two Zerg Eggs to help them advance to Tier Two, not to mention the current genetic modification surgeries—
all of it, every last bit, was for one thing...
To kill a High-tier Zerg Race Mother Empress and complete his Tier Three Awakening!
To become Blue Star’s first human Tier Three Awakener!
The appeal of a miniature nuclear warhead, combined with a Tier Two Awakener charging into an Underground Hive, was that even if it couldn’t kill the Zerg Race Mother Empress outright, it could at least drastically slow its expansion and offensive.
This was the last resort Qin Hu had decided on for his do-or-die gamble.
But in Ling Shuyan’s eyes, Lin Feng could absolutely make better use of humanity’s last superweapon than Qin Hu to accomplish the monumental feat of killing a Mother Empress for the first time.
And her job was to get the best possible trade-off in return.
So, naturally, the more Tier Two Zerg Eggs, the better.
Hearing her confirmation, Lin Feng furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought.
Just as Ling Shuyan had intentionally brought up, everything he was doing now was for the sake of killing a High-tier Mother Empress and becoming a Tier Three Life Form.
But a Zerg Race Mother Empress was not so easily dealt with. Aside from the hundreds of thousands of Zergs under its control, its own strength was not to be underestimated.
After all, it was a real, existing Tier Three Life Form.
It was completely different from the Tier Three King Spine Zerg in the Mental Realm World.
According to Ling Yi, that King Spine Zerg was just a manifestation of the Mental Realm’s Energy, exhibiting at most only a third of its real-world power.
And even then, for the three of them to kill it, they had to pull out all the stops, first using the cataclysm of the Mental Realm’s collapse to heavily wound it.
Only then did they get that sliver of a chance in the final few minutes.
But when facing a real Tier Three Mother Empress, with its mountain-like body and the immense Life Force it contained, it would be difficult for Lin Feng to kill it completely on his own, even if the Mother Empress was immobilized.
It was just like challenging the final boss in a video game.
In order to deal effective Damage to the Mother Empress, Lin Feng had chosen his third bound piece of equipment, locking in a high-burst Close Combat Weapon: the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword.
Otherwise, with just a ranged Electromagnetic Cannon, he would struggle to even break through the High-tier Mother Empress’s tough Outer Armor, let alone wound it.
Even a Level 29 Tier Two Peak Tiger Spine Zerg possessed the Solid as a Rock Attribute for its thick carapace, and the Mother Empress that could birth it would only be tougher to deal with.
By then, with his Level 29 Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword and its high Damage of 4.5k, he estimated the Damage would first be reduced to below two thousand. Add in the Mother Empress’s other buffs and its terrifying Life Value regeneration speed...
It would be difficult to kill a full-health Mother Empress in a short time relying on equipment Damage alone.
And in an Underground Hive, the longer a battle dragged on, the more dangerous it naturally became.
Delays breed unforeseen complications. Whether it was the large number of Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs from the Jiangbei Mother Empress’s forces rushing in as reinforcements, or the Mother Empress itself activating Divine Domain Descent at the cost of its own Level after sensing its life was in danger...
...all of these could have an unpredictable impact on what was supposed to be a decisive decapitation strike.
Therefore, he needed a powerful weapon that could instantly inflict heavy damage on the High-tier Mother Empress, reducing its Life Force by more than 50% and preventing it from summoning its Divine Realm. The finishing blow would be much easier after that.
Lin Feng’s previous plan had been to rely on Ling Yi.
He would use her Infinite Reproduction Realm to interfere with the Jiangbei Mother Empress, then coordinate with Shen Jie’s Slaughter Realm to focus fire and heavily wound it as quickly as possible.
However, the success rate of this battle plan was still less than sixty percent, with all hopes pinned on Ling Yi.
If Shen Jie couldn’t join the fight...
...he would have no choice but to spend more Upgrade Energy to activate his Genetic Radiation Skill, slowing the target Mother Empress’s recovery speed. Then, within a few short seconds, he would have to try and inflict as much damage as possible with his Electromagnetic Cannon and Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword.
Only if the enemy’s Life Value dropped below 50% would Lin Feng and the others have a chance of victory. Otherwise, if it used Divine Domain Descent, it would be a mutually destructive battle with no chance of survival!
But now, this exceptionally dangerous and uncontrollable preemptive strike plan could be accomplished directly with a miniature nuclear warhead.
It would raise the mission’s success rate to over eighty percent!
Compared to that, what were a few Tier Two Zerg Eggs?
At this thought, Lin Feng had already made his decision, but he still shook his head, his expression impassive.
"A Nuclear Bomb is too dangerous. It’s a double-edged sword."
"Just as you said, even a miniature nuclear warhead from a missile has a terrifying explosive yield of fifty thousand tons of TNT. A few kilograms of high explosives can level an entire building..."
"With such a dangerous weapon, am I supposed to sacrifice a suicide squad from my Tier Two Corps just to kill the High-tier Mother Empress?"
"Besides, my goal is to kill it myself and become a Tier Three Awakener, not to have it die in a nuclear explosion."
"And another thing, even if this Zerg Race Mother Empress is powerful enough to survive the nuke, how am I supposed to find it in a completely destroyed Underground Hive?"