I Am the Swarm

Although these smart mines have a friend-or-foe identification system, they only activate automatic tracking devices when friendly forces pass by. But if the friendly side is blind and hits them on its own initiative, there is a high probability that these mines will not swallow their anger.

Therefore, between the minefields, fast passages for their own people will be reserved.

"What are those?" Sarah asked, looking at the image in front of her.

The Rickens speculate that the optical observation technology of the swarm is not good enough to feel good about themselves.

When the radar technology of the swarm was backward, it mainly relied on the development of optical observation systems related to the naked eye. The observation organs built into the earliest swarm meteorites were all of this kind.

The giant eye worm that was once on the Red Moon base can even see the scene from light years away, and can also scan tens of thousands of kilometers at close range. Now after several rounds of upgrades, the technology of the swarm has become more advanced in this area. Large units such as the ancient class will be equipped with relevant enemy detection organs in the later stage.

Therefore, the stealth coating of the Rickens basically has no effect on the swarm. These small things scattered in space were discovered by the swarm as soon as they appeared.

"Your Majesty, according to the information provided by the intelligent body over there, it is a self-destruct device that can automatically find the enemy." Terra connected to the swarm network, communicated some information, and then reported.

At the same time, she also recounted the relevant conjectures of the Rickens about the swarm.

"..." This thing is somewhat similar to the function of a bug in the bug swarm back then. If you don't know it, it will indeed cause some trouble, but now that you know it, then their threat is not so great.

However, Sarah was a little speechless about the Rikens' speculation about the swarm technology. It seemed that the crisis of genocide had made some of them mentally paralyzed.

Is that the only way to build confidence?

"Since they gave us such a setting, let's cooperate, pretend not to see, and continue to play with them." Sarah said slowly, and the majesty of the former queen began to reappear.

Little did they know that the Riken tribe, whose interior had been sifted through, thought they had a plan, and watched the minefield gradually take shape, but the swarms did not respond to it, and their hearts were filled with joy.

A few days later, Lazer Star was already in sight, and the anomalies on the planet's surface could no longer be effectively concealed. No matter how poor the technology of the swarm, there was already some reaction at this time.

"Let the bugs retreat a certain distance, avoiding the route of Lazer Star." Sarah ordered.

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The swarm fleet that received the order immediately began to adjust its formation, and the Riken fleet, which had been paying attention to the movement of the swarm, immediately discovered an abnormality.

According to the adjustment angle of the Taigu class, the mainframe of the fleet was overloaded with work, and quickly calculated the next possible actions of the swarm, and the 96.5% probability pointed to the adjustment of the swarm to avoid Lazer Star.

"They want to run! Notify the second and third fleets, and cut off their retreat routes with all their strength!" Khamis, who received the data, ordered urgently.

Then the fleet under its jurisdiction rushed forward first.

Over the past few days, as the firepower of the swarm bombardments continued to weaken, Khamis took the opportunity to command the fleet to suddenly accelerate several times, approaching the swarm fleet, but the swarm fleet could only fire with all its strength, and 8,000 electromagnetic guns were fired at once. Ming, and drove the Riken fleet to a "safe distance".

Although this increased the battle damage of the First Fleet, Khamis, who consciously consumed a large amount of ammunition from the swarm, felt that it was worth it. This can be seen from the drop in firepower of the subsequent swarm bombardment to less than two achievements.

This kind of shelling density, as long as it is not too bad luck, even if it does not escape the area covered by the artillery fire, the sparse shell density will hardly pose a threat to the fleet.

At the same time, a large number of minefields were arranged around the swarm fleet, so now they only need to block the retreat path of the swarm fleet.

Although their first fleet had been fighting fiercely with the opponent for more than ten days, and they were exhausted, but the other two armies that surrounded them from the side were vigorous new forces.

When they arrive, they will make each other look good!

Because this situation was predicted before, this path was taken care of by the air mine ship. Under the blockade of a large number of minefields, Khamis and the others only need to block a small part of the area.

After "accidentally" entering the minefield and detonating a few mines, the swarm fleet showed caution "at the right time", and the evacuation speed had to be slowed down.

At the same time, send some small space octopuses to detect the coverage of minefields around.

"Hmph! These guys really can't find landmines from a long distance."

"Of course, even our own battleship suffered a lot from these landmines when we simulated the battlefield environment."

Seeing the performance of the Swarm Fleet, the communication channel of the First Fleet of the Ricken Tribe, some captains taunted them from time to time. It seems that they all suffered from these little guys in the virtual exercise.

"However, the opponent was very cautious. They retreated as soon as they touched the minefield. It seems that the mines cannot destroy more of their units."

"That's good. Our task is not to kill them. Now they have slowed down their speed. When the other two fleets come over, these guys will be the turtles in the urn!"

"That's right, this piece of fat meat has been cooked for so long, it should be cooked. I don't want to be forced to withdraw from the battlefield before eating the meat."

Many captains nodded one after another. This is also the common thought of everyone. After persisting for such a long time, the stage of encirclement and suppression is about to come. If the battleship is damaged due to aggressive advance and cannot continue to participate in the battle, it will be too wronged.

Now the First Fleet still has less than 700 warships in battle order, and more than a hundred warships have withdrawn from the battlefield, and even two of them were completely destroyed because they were damaged and unable to evacuate quickly after being damaged.

As for the functional ships such as the empty mine ship, they withdrew from the battlefield long ago after their own reserves of mines were exhausted. The firepower of this kind of functional ship is too poor. In a real fight, apart from being a target, the support it can provide is dispensable.

The First Fleet of the Rickon tribe swam back and forth at the furthest range of the swarm fleet, and made dashing movements from time to time, further slowing down the speed of the swarm fleet, and at the same time driving them towards the minefield.

The Taikoo class were struggling.

At this time, Star Lazer was less than 100,000 kilometers away from the battlefield, and two new forces of the Riken tribe also flashed out from the back of the planet. With the engine fully activated, it was estimated that it would only take an hour to reach the designated location on the battlefield.

The energy fluctuations of the engine cannot be hidden at such a short distance.

The ancient swarms "immediately" discovered them, and "quickly understood" the strategic intentions of the Riken tribe, and the speed of evacuation suddenly accelerated. A large number of adults and larvae were released, even if their bodies were thrown into thunder.