The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3697

Chapter 3697 Toying With Insects

The final glow the Everchanger imitated was that of the Ferocious Piranha.

The Ferocious Piranha's glow was quite complex because it consisted of a compound between the glows of Zeiga, Lufa and Qilanxo.

While Ves was easily able to engineer a stable balance when he designed the original Ferocious Piranha model, It was a bit more challenging for the Everchanger to replicate this scheme.

Still, this wasn't the first time the Everchanger replicated the glow of the Ferocious Piranha. Venerable Joshua and his expert mech had utilized it before in previous live practice sessions.

Once it learned the knack to balancing the glows of three design spirits at once, it only needed a few seconds to formulate the compound glow.

Everyone who had been paying attention to this experiment looked closely in order to see how the Everchanger was able to affect the voribugs this time.

By now, the insects were incredibly annoyed at being subjected to all of these inexplicable mental influences. They had attempted to move away multiple times. If the Larkinsons hadn't reinforced the bulkheads and stationed foot soldiers to prevent the bugs from slipping out of their cages, the alien creatures would have bugged out by this time!

"The voribugs are behaving in a nearly identical fashion to the glow of the Ferocious Piranha. They are showing signs of debilitation."

"I can see that." Ves said as he rubbed his smooth-shaven chin. "The point of this particular exercise is not to see whether the Everchanger can do a better job than the Ferocious Piranha. This time, we need to engulf all of the alien ships with this glow. Let's disorient them all at once so we can quickly sweep them with ease!"

The Everchanger repositioned to the center of the ship formation. After a moment of preparation, Venerable Joshua resonated with the Iridescent Mercury integrated in his expert mech.

The resonating exotic reacted to his force of will and quickly caused the Everchanger's glow field to balloon by many times!

Many Larkinsons gasped and gazed in wonder as the glowing expert mech managed to affect an enormous volume with its glow.

By being able to stretch across kilometers in each direction, the glow field centered around the Everchanger was comfortably able to affect all of the alien starships without omission!

Just as expected, the insects soon reacted similar to how they were affected by the Ferocious Piranha. The individual glows themselves did not affect them too strongly, but the constant switch from calm to aggression and back again produced a lot of upheaval that the voribugs weren't able to cope against!

A lot of insects twitched and stopped in place. Many of them uttered pained hisses as they drunkenly moved around without direction.

A few of the older and more savage voribugs were able to maintain a bit of their wits. While they couldn't shrug off the disorientation effect entirely, they could still attempt to run away from the source!

A dozen small drunken-like voribugs crawled towards an exit, only for it to open up and reveal a bunch of Crosser heavy assault troops.

Each of the soldiers were armed with heavy shotguns and other equipment that were useful against voribugs!

"Fire!"

The fleeing voribugs stood no chance and got shot to pieces!

"Damn! The noise has startled some of the other bugs. They're starting to regain control of themselves!"

"They're still too slow. Sweep them all before they can run!"

The cluster of voribugs stood no chance! While the threat of death shocked the older and stronger voribugs into action, they still weren't able to fight as well as before due to the constant mental interference they were suffering from. It was as if they were sitting in the middle of a staring match between an angel and a devil!

As Ves and the others observed the efficiency of the extermination operation, they were satisfied with what they observed.

The voribugs became a lot easier to kill.

The younger ones were too underdeveloped to maintain their wits and became lambs to the slaughter.

The older ones were barely any better. They were able to run away but their lack of numbers along with the need to resist the Everchanger's glow caused them to be trivially easy to defeat.

"We've detected hundreds of hidden voribugs!"

"Kill them as quickly as possible!"

Since the Everchanger's glow affected such a large area, not a single corner of the alien ship was left out. The small voribugs that instinctively tried to hide themselves by lowering their activity levels and trying to use other powerful energy emissions as camouflage suddenly stood out now that they couldn't concentrate on hiding themselves anymore!

By the time Venerable Joshua became too worn out to sustain the enlarged glow field, the alien vessels had grown a lot calmer!

The results were pretty clear to Ves. Without reviewing the data, he estimated that over 80 percent of the voribugs on the ships had been dealt with in quick succession.

The lack of resistance and the inability for most of them to run away meant that it took much less manpower to wipe out an insect cluster!

Though there were still a fair amount of bugs that had managed to avoid the major sweep, the steep drop in numbers meant that the foot soldiers could hunt them down a lot more effectively than before.

"The duration is too short." Ketis concluded as she studied the data. "My husband isn't strong enough to resonate for so long. In the future, he'll be able to maintain this field a lot longer than before."

Ves did not look too disappointed. "I am aware of that. This is just a trial. The Everchanger's performance today has provided me with plenty of insights and also helped me confirm a few theories. From what I have observed, I think there is great commercial potential in fabricating an anti-voribug mech in the future."

"A mech like that can do more than incapacitate voribugs. They can mess up other weak creatures as well. That can be both good and bad."

Ah. She was right. Ves recalled that the MTA had announced a directive about how his products shouldn't be used to terrorize ordinary people.

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