I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 273: All-pervasive Desperate Dilemma

After ordering the soldiers to burn the mushrooms that were rampant in the base, Spartacus personally led people to check the malfunctioning water purification system.

The person in charge of the base's logistics and mechanical equipment is a technical officer who escaped from the city-state.

He was barely able to tinker with the ancient machines in the base, which were like incomprehensible books to others.

"what happened?"

Spartacus asked directly, looking at the screen flashing red.

"Many water pipes were blocked for unknown reasons and the water purification system stopped working. We cleared the blockages."

The white-haired technical officer explained.

"Then why don't you arrange for someone to clear the blockage?"

"It has been arranged. But the two groups of workers who entered the pipeline have lost contact..."

It goes without saying that there are dangers inside the pipes.

After thinking for a while, Spartacus said decisively: "I will lead the people down myself. Adjutant, you lead the people to maintain order."

"Yes, leader!"

Spartacus, with more than a dozen fully armed elite warriors, escorted technicians into the water purification system pipeline.

The pipe was wide enough to accommodate a horse-drawn carriage, but it stank to high heaven, with the smell of fermented sewers.

And it's as complicated as a maze.

If they hadn't had a map and a technician to lead the way, they would have quickly gotten lost.

Ten minutes later, Spartacus and his team arrived at the first blockage point.

The scene before them shocked them.

The inside of the pipe, which was supposed to be empty and open, was actually filled with a large number of colorful mushrooms, some of which were even taller than adults.

Dense colonies of bacteria and mushrooms have blocked the water pipe system.

When Spartacus saw these mushrooms for the first time, he instinctively felt a strong sense of uneasiness.

I immediately thought of the report that mentioned that a large number of mushrooms of unknown origin and growing abnormally fast have appeared in many places in the base recently.

He immediately gave the order without hesitation.

"Burn these mushrooms!"

Soldiers with flamethrowers stepped forward.

Before the soldier could pull the trigger, there was a crackling sound, and a large number of mushrooms exploded in front of everyone.

Under the astonished gaze of the crowd, monsters with bared fangs and claws, covered in sticky mucus, jumped out of the mushrooms and pounced towards everyone ferociously without saying a word.

"Defensive formation!"

Spartacus shouted, and the soldiers quickly responded by forming a circular formation to protect the technicians.

The warriors holding swords are in front, and the warriors using guns are behind, fighting against the enemies that suddenly burst out from the mushroom bushes.

Puff puff!

As if in a chain reaction, more mushrooms exploded.

Squiggles, fart monsters, orc boys... they swarmed out, just born from the mushrooms and rushed up with bare hands to fight with Spartacus and the others.

Spartacus was horrified when he saw orcs being born from mushroom seeds.

[It turns out that those green monsters grew out of mushrooms! ]

Thinking of the mushrooms that had recently grown wildly all over the base, Spartacus felt a chill to his bones.

【Oops! 】

"Retreat! Follow me to break through!"

Spartacus led his soldiers to retreat along the same route without hesitation.

He was furious and killed the greenskins who were approaching him without knowing the danger, and he was extremely anxious.

They thought they could rest easy once they entered the shelter, but they didn't expect these green monsters to linger like a thorn in their flesh and follow them into the shelter.

He was careless!

Five days later.

Somewhere in the shelter, Spartacus, covered in coagulated blood, and a group of soldiers were hiding in the control room of the base, barely surviving.

The original team of more than 5,000 people was reduced to more than 1,000 people in just a few days.

They were forced to fight the greenskins that kept coming out from all directions in the cramped shelter.

The enemy's numbers grew stronger and their sizes grew larger, and their weapons changed from simple iron rods and blades to muskets and explosives.

I really don't know where these green monsters get their weapons. It seems like they can create something out of nothing, and can even make explosives out of shit.

Although Spartacus and his men had advanced weapons such as power armor and laser guns left over from ancient humans, they were still unable to resist the endless orcs due to their lack of manpower.

The key is that those mushrooms grow so fast.

It can grow on steel ground. As long as there is a little air, water and light, it can grow rapidly.

There is no way to curb the growth of orc mushrooms except to burn them thoroughly with fire.

After two or three days, when the mushrooms mature, a large number of green-skinned creatures will hatch. It seems like they don't need to eat or drink water. It's weird.

The orcs even dismantled the furniture, various items and equipment in the shelter, and after tinkering with them, those civilian items became deadly weapons in their hands.

If the rampant greenskins had not triggered the self-defense mechanism of the base, a large number of iron lumps would have poured out from the depths of the base, and defensive facilities such as closed doors, poison gas, laser nets, and machine guns would have drilled out from the cracked ceiling and walls to clear out the "illegal invaders."

Spartacus and others had already been submerged by the green tide.

The survivors hid in the control room in the central area of ​​the base. With the help of the control room's disinfection system and the burning of clothing and supplies, they temporarily contained the invasion of orc fungal spores into the area.

The base's self-defense system temporarily separated them from the greenskins.

But as the orcs completely occupied the periphery, they also lost the possibility of escaping from the refuge.

Unless they find another escape route.

But at this time, the outside world is full of greenskins, where can they escape to?

Many people have this desperate thought.

Some people with poor mental qualities even committed suicide out of despair. When they woke up the next day, many survivors found that their companions had turned into cold corpses.

A sense of despair permeates among the survivors.

"Everyone listen to me."

At the critical moment, their leader stood up to boost morale.

Spartacus' eyes were shining with a light that never went out, and he said seriously: "We still have a chance to survive. The technical officer discovered that there is an ancient holy object called [Spaceship] in this ancient ruins. It can carry us like a ship and fly to the sea of ​​stars."

"According to the information left by the ancients, there are many human worlds in the sea of ​​stars. We can take a spaceship to escape to those worlds and continue to survive!"

The survivors were silent, and some of them showed hope in their eyes.

But some people remain pessimistic.

"What if the greenskin follows us onto the spaceship?"

"No. As long as you pay attention to disinfection, the greenskins can't get in. This has been proven in the past few days."

With Spartacus's persuasion, everyone regained their morale.

Act under his command.

Some people held their battle posts and were on alert 24 hours a day, while others collected supplies and prepared to escape.

Spartacus led the remaining technicians to work day and night to take turns on decryption, trying to gain control of the base.

Spartacus did not lie.

There are indeed spaceships left behind by the ancients in the base.

But no one knows whether it can still take off.

He could only crack the base control system first and gain permission to fly the spacecraft.

A dead horse is treated as a living horse doctor.

boom!

"The greenskins are coming!"

However, luck was no longer on the human side.

Before Spartacus and his men could crack the system, the steel door of the central control room was split open by a giant axe that was flashing blue light and surrounded by thunder.

An orc boss wearing heavy power armor and nearly four meters tall took the lead in tearing through the base's defense system and killing his way in.