How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 172 Ground Combat Body

Another ocean appeared in the sky. Different from the blue ocean on the ground, the red one was like a branding iron that had been tempered for thousands of years, and the scream of the friction between the thunder and the air was the sound of the sea.

Standing on the ground at this time, you can see the gradually falling rain of fire, which are the ground combat objects sent by the Fourth Fleet.

Breaking through the stratosphere, the whole body is wrapped in crimson flames, and the shell-shaped streamlined object approaches the ground at a very high speed, bringing with it a violent gust of wind.

Boom——!

The screeching sound turned into a loud bang that could shatter glass in a radius of tens of miles, accompanied by a rapidly spreading terrifying shock wave and a mushroom-shaped cloud of dust that was thrown up.

The smoke and dust cleared away, leaving behind a huge crater no less than a tactical nuclear bomb, and the remains of rhizomes that were torn apart by the collision of heaven and earth.

【Introduction of nanomachines to repair damaged metal structures】

[Injury 67%, report uploaded]

【Repair time...4...3...2...1...completed】

[Read environmental information to assess risk: safety]

[This task: Destroy enemy air defense units]

The shape of the cannonball located in the center of the giant crater gradually changes.

The shell of the shell disintegrated into multiple parts, and a fluid substance that seemed to be liquid or colloid emerged from the inside, glowing with metallic light, the same color as mercury.

Eight metal bones stretched out from these fluid substances, supporting the whole body similarly to the forager's fangs, and then they were completely wrapped by the fluid substances.

Not long after, a spider-like structure that looked more like a creature than a machine stood in the center of the huge pit.

[The structure is assembled]

【Start the task】

The ground combat body didn't act like a gatherer. Its eight metal feet connected horizontally and twisted to form a wheel, and the combat body served as the center of the wheel.

At hundreds of times the speed of crushing the collectors, the alien's ground combat body broke away from the giant pit it made when it landed, and headed towards the hive.

A similar situation plays out in various regions of the planet's surface.

It is naturally impossible for Huogu to allow the ground combat body to act arbitrarily, running all the way, the ground combat body will soon encounter obstacles in its mission execution.

With the combat body as the center, countless roots burst out of the ground within a radius of a few kilometers, launching surprise attacks on the combat body without stopping.

Huogu would not have the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy. The aliens' technology completely crushed the earth's civilization, and it didn't have the capital to underestimate the enemy. Even if it was just these ground combat bodies of the death squad, Huogu was still full of energy.

The number of rhizomes to deal with the combat body completely filled the field of vision-a forest of rhizomes.

Facts have proved that Huogu's caution is not wrong. After the alien civilization experienced the technological explosion, the effectiveness of the ground combat bodies developed by the alien civilization, even though Huogu had been very overestimated, was ultimately underestimated.

Under Huogu's control, countless rhizomes turned into terrifying giant pythons, ready to strangle and kill those ground combat bodies trapped in the 'rhizome forest' at once.

However, to Hogu's surprise, this strangling operation organized by a large group not only failed to destroy them, but even failed to slow down the opponent's speed.

These ground combat bodies showed the effectiveness of Hogu's control of the collectors named 'Thinking' individuals facing the enemy Wang Fan team when they were in the refuge.

No, it's more than that.

With the help of the rhizomes attacking them and their extremely high inertial speed, the combat body is like a small ball in a three-dimensional marble in a classic game. It bounces repeatedly in the midair of the rhizome jungle, and continues to walk at high speed without slowing down. , but there is an increasing trend.

And the general direction has always remained the same, and the distance from the honeycomb that is the target of destruction is rapidly shortening.

In just a few hours, more than a thousand hives on the surface were destroyed.

"This...should be regarded as a turn of events, right?"

Huo Gu muttered to himself somewhat self-deprecatingly.

Coincidentally, the situation we are facing now coincides with what happened in the space battle with the aliens last time, which gave Hogu a strong sense of déjà vu.

And this time, Huogu was the one who was landed, which also fits the location of the Alien Starport last time.

Huogu didn't panic, not only that, but he no longer paid attention to the aliens' ground combat bodies, and instead focused on the fourth fleet that was still approaching Xiangming.

"Is this distance enough?"

[No, it's too far away. 】

"Yeah?"

"I see."

Hearing this, Huo Gu turned his attention to the surface battlefield again.

Judging from the performance on the battlefield, the effectiveness of these aliens' ground combat units is far stronger than that of the soldiers encountered in the shelter.

The nanomachines wrapped around the body of the combat body are like real biological tissues. The muscle part can increase strength, and the joint part can reduce friction, enhance cushioning resistance, and provide protection to a certain extent.

Even if the metal skeleton inside them is destroyed, it will only make them temporarily incapacitated, and the nanomachines will repair the metal skeleton.

There is only one way to completely destroy them, and that is to destroy the energy core of the combat body.

However, this is very difficult. The aliens do not know what materials they use, and the strength of the energy core of the combat body, even Hogu, who has built a giant sublight speed rail gun, can't help but be amazed.

It also has the ability to attack. In close combat, it has a plasma blade flame similar to that of the Bing Wang Fan team, and in long-range, it has a kinetic energy weapon with a rate of fire that is stronger than the metal storm on the earth.

With the cooperation of these weapons, even a cage with densely entangled roots can't even slow down the speed of the combat body.

However, does this mean that Hogu has no choice?

No, the answer is no.

"It's great, but if you are only at this level, it's not enough."

Whispering like this, the rhizomes under the control of Huogu's thinking started to stir, every inch of tissue, every cell, was acting in accordance with the will of their sovereign.

A large amount of nitroglycerin was produced, and after reaching a sufficient amount, Hogu immediately detonated these chemical explosives, and the rhizomes that were fighting the ground combat bodies exploded without warning.

Accompanied by the explosion, there was also a large amount of unknown white liquid. None of the ground combat bodies in the 'rhizome forest' could be spared. Letting them avoid these liquids is like avoiding every drop of rain in a torrential rain. Maybe it is really possible It can be done, but that is definitely not something that aliens can do now.

The white liquid covered the combat bodies on the ground, and quickly condensed, turning into a colloid with extremely strong toughness.

If there is only this step, these combat bodies cannot be trapped, and the high-temperature plasma air blades are released by the combat bodies, and they can only trap these combat bodies for a minute or two at most.

Of course, Huo Gu knew this very well, and what it wanted was exactly one or two minutes.

The rhizome whose tip can penetrate into the gap between molecules can easily break through the defense of the combat body, destroying its metal skeleton, including the heavily protected energy core, as easy and simple as poking into a block of tofu.

After destroying all the combat units, Huogu fell into thinking. He knew very well that the aliens must have heard the news that all the combat units he sent to the surface were destroyed at this time.

"What are you going to do next?"

"Should we continue to attack in other ways, or..."

Huo Gu's gaze was fixed on those motherships of the Fourth Fleet who also took on the role of "Star Port".

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