I Am the Swarm

It was three drones that were blown up, and the Riken pilot exclaimed. If his arms, feet and tentacles were not long enough, his car would probably turn into a fireball.

There are ten fighters in a standard formation, and he directs the rest of the fighters to lock on the target and prepare to attack.

This is a medium-sized space octopus, with a body length of more than 80 meters, and the length of its arms and legs is also 50 meters, so that it can destroy three fighters with one blow.

After being locked, it didn't panic. Instead, it swung its arms and legs and crawled quickly on the rock wall. Its flexible body was like a tumbling jelly.

Most of the fighter plane's attacks were dodged, and only a small part hit it. However, the fighter plane's energy weapons, compared to the 80-meter body size of this space octopus, are already considered small-caliber.

Relying on these fighter planes, they must attack for a longer time to paralyze this space octopus.

But now obviously there is not so much time. When the fighter plane locked onto the space octopus and focused on attacking, three adults suddenly jumped out from the rock wall on their way forward.

These three adults are small in size, only more than 20 meters long, and they have just been classified from juveniles to adults, and they don't even have electromagnetic guns installed.

But it also makes them more flexible in stature.

The fighter planes couldn't dodge this sudden attack, and the three fighter planes were rushed, and under the control of the adults, they rammed into the friendly troops next to them.

Luckily, the Ricken pilot was not selected as the target again, and he hastened to raise the height of his car. Those drone wingmen are not as important as his own life.

But at this time, the 80-meter-level adult who was still running ahead just now had already returned to his body shape, and his 50-meter-long arms and legs were flashing with lightning, and with the utmost effort, he swept up and down from a very far away position.

The fighter plane that had just been lifted was hit on the head. It was stronger and larger than the drone, so it was not blown up on the spot, but the huge impact still deformed its shell, and it flew at a faster speed than before. Hit the ground.

"Boom!" The moment the fighter plane touched the ground, it was hit hard again, and it exploded into a fireball under the overwhelmed load.

The remaining three drones did not escape the poisonous hands. Two of them were directly destroyed by the friendly aircraft controlled by the adult, and the remaining one was volleyed and exploded by the 80-meter-level adult while pulling up the altitude.

After finishing off the opponent's adult team, they disappeared into the mountains again after fleeing far away, waiting for the next prey.

Such scenes can be seen everywhere in this complex terrain. The number of casualties of the fleet that was almost undamaged just now has risen sharply. By the time the relevant command of the Liken tribe was alarmed, more than 20,000 fighter planes had been lost.

However, the loss of the swarm adults was very small.

The rest of the fleet raised the altitude urgently, but they did not leave. Instead, they surrounded the large mountainous area to prevent the space octopus from escaping from here.

On the main battlefield, the swarm troops have completely lost their ability to counterattack, and all the electromagnetic guns have misfired, so they can only bear the baptism of artillery fire round after round unilaterally.

But the tenacity of the purple plaques is far beyond the imagination of the Rikens. No matter how they attack, they cannot completely curb the repair and growth of the purple plaques.

"Damn! What the hell is this!"

"Conventional firepower is useless!"

"There must be another way."

"Maybe that will work."

"You mean...?"

A few minutes later, several gunboats flew out of the battleship and headed towards the battlefield below.

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, two cylindrical metal objects with a diameter of 1.2 meters were thrown from the gunboat, and more than a hundred were thrown one after another.

The metal cylinder fell rapidly, and after a while, it exploded less than a hundred meters above the purple plaque.

This is the latest weapon developed by the Rickens. After it explodes, it is in airless space, and it can burn for more than thirty seconds with the help of the special advanced oxidizer inside.

During this period of time, it can rapidly heat an area to tens of thousands of degrees, causing terrifying burn damage in a short period of time. At the same time, the oxidant and other components after burning will also generate a chemical toxin, which is as powerful as high-intensity radiation. Not only is it extremely adhesive, but it also has non-degradable characteristics.

If it is used on a living planet, it is enough to make this area barren for a hundred years.

Therefore, although this weapon has been theorized for a long time, it has always been explicitly prohibited by the Ricken tribe to develop it.

It was not until the expedition fleet was defeated and fled back, facing the threat of alien races, that this kind of forbidden device was re-developed and gradually entered the practical stage.

The interception fleet this time carried some probationary weapons in order to observe their performance in actual combat.

The performance of the incendiary barrels was very eye-catching. Hundreds of incendiary barrels exploded one after another, as if hundreds of small suns were ignited, and then gradually extinguished after flickering for a while.

But the place they illuminated just now has left indelible scars.

The purple-gray plaques turned dark brown, and thick mucus like asphalt flowed out from them. These unknown toxins effectively inhibited the growth of the creeps.

"Look, those plaques are suppressed!"

"Looks like it's working fine."

"It's a pity that this is just an experimental weapon, we didn't bring too many."

"Throw them all out, destroy as many as you can, and we will think of other ways for the rest."

Seeing the effect, hundreds of gunboats flew out of the cabin one after another, and after a while, more shining little suns were lit up.

Even if it's just an experimental weapon, each warship doesn't carry too much, but there are currently two thousand warships on the scene, so the cumulative number is quite considerable.

If there is a living planet, the short-term concentrated blasting of this scale of burning barrels may cause the extinction of some creatures that are more demanding on the environment. But Lazer Star, an uninhabited planet located at the outermost edge of the star system, obviously doesn't need too many scruples.

The explosion of tens of thousands of burning barrels greatly delayed the repair and growth of the creep, but only delayed.

A few hours later, when the Rickens spent their energy on bombing those areas that were not taken care of by the burning barrels, those areas affected by the toxin were instead taking the opportunity to develop.

Creep is the condensed essence of all the gene fragments collected by Rowan. It is the pinnacle of Rowan's talent and skill. It is rich in genetic characteristics and can cope with various situations and crises. It can perform well no matter what time it is.

The high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees generated when the combustion barrel explodes is nothing to the creep. After all, the atomic furnace is also an external component of the creep. It can generate the inner wall cells with a strong magnetic field, which can resist hundreds of millions of degrees during the fusion reaction. high temperature.

This tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature burning, as long as the creeps slightly mutate the body surface cells, they can easily resist it.

What really inhibits the growth of creep is the chemical toxins left over from combustion. These things are as difficult to swallow as "shit" for creep, which is the main reason why they have been "hesitating".