I Am the Swarm

"All that should be shown has been shown, and now it's our turn to play the cards."

Every battlefield is either balanced or inferior, and there is no dominant battle situation. If this continues, the second wave of war launched by the swarm may end without a problem.

Faced with various unfavorable situations, Sarah, who was authorized as the supreme commander, did not panic because she had her own confidence.

On Lazer, the land-based cannons were damaged due to the lack of laser defense arrays. But these damaged cannons are all outside the protection range of the laser array. With their damage, the number of laser defense arrays is enough to protect all the remaining land-based cannons.

Therefore, in the last few rounds of the swarm's long-range Taikoo-class shelling, the land-based cannons suffered little damage. Later, after the Orbital Defense Cannon appeared, it successfully attracted the long-range firepower of the swarm.

In this kind of non-interference situation, the land-based cannon can tilt the energy beam as much as possible, which is very enjoyable.

But after Sarah gave the order, the swarm forces that had been secretly developed for more than ten years in the underground depths of Lazer Star finally showed their glory.

Back then, there were more than 30 land-based cannon bases of the Liken tribe. After being attacked by the swarm, they turned into purple spots on the map. After trying various methods and failing, the Liken tribe had no choice but to use nuclear bombs to wipe out the land.

The huge power of the new nuclear bombs vaporized the base and the swarm units within it, and even the area several kilometers below the surface, into semicircular potholes.

Even after the encirclement and suppression of the remaining insect swarm forces in the mountainous area failed many times, the complex mountainous area was blown into a pit.

Afterwards, the Rickon tribe checked carefully and confirmed that no remnants of the swarm units were found, and only then did the rebuilding of Lazer start.

But to be honest, some of them lied to themselves. Those areas that were washed by nuclear bombs, because the time was short, the creep did not pierce too deep, and was directly evaporated by the high temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees.

However, many of the larvae and adults fighting in the mountainous area at that time ran away after being optically invisible. The Riken tribe, who lacked the means to effectively detect these small and medium-sized units, did not find them at all.

Not to mention that when the bug swarm was attacking the scattered cannon bases on Lazer Star, at least tens of thousands of larvae left the army halfway and hid halfway.

After they drilled into the ground, they did not develop to the surface, but continued downward.

If the Rickon tribe wanted to completely wipe them out, they would probably have to blow up the entire layer of Lazer Planet. But for such a huge project, the number of nuclear bombs needed would probably fill in all the stocks of the Riken tribe, which would be only a drop in the bucket.

There are at least a hundred strains on the larvae, and each strain can mutate into a creeper seed, and the creeper can mutate part of the body tissue after a period of development to give birth to a queen.

As a result, thousands of swarm bases took root on Lazer Planet. But it only took root and didn't germinate. In order not to attract the attention of the Riken people, all the bases were hidden extremely deep underground, mainly relying on geothermal and radiation materials to maintain the needs of development.

But, now is the time for those bases to sprout.

A large new species of bug has been revealed to the world for the first time.

The body length of this worm is more than fifty meters, and the diameter is more than three meters, like a giant earthworm magnified hundreds of times. Its mouthparts are densely packed with tens of thousands of sharp teeth, which are arranged in a parallel spiral, extending to the invisible depths of the body like a dark abyss.

While the mouthparts were opening and closing, no matter whether it was soft and dense soil or unusually strong ore metal in front of him, they were all chopped up by sharp teeth like tofu, and then swallowed into his stomach.

There are more than ten huge grinding organs in its body, like a giant blender, it can grind all swallowed objects into fine powder.

These fines will then enter a special transportation pipeline, and a special secretion will be produced inside the pipe, and they will fuse with the fines when they pass through to form a paste-like viscous liquid.

Their body surface is covered with a layer of hard horny armor. These armors do not have ferocious thorn horns, but are very smooth, allowing them to travel freely underground without worrying about unnecessary damage.

These horny armors are densely covered with holes about five centimeters in diameter. These holes are connected to the delivery pipes of the viscous liquid, which can excrete the liquid from the body.

When the bug starts to work, it will devour all the earth and rocks in front of it, and then these earth and rocks will be converted into viscous liquid in the body and transported to the body surface.

Between the worm's fleshy structure and the outer horny armor, there is a layer of air sac tissue. When these air sac tissues are inflated, the worm's body is no longer soft, but will expand into a round shape, like a long stick.

After the worm swells, it forcibly squeezes the soil around the body tightly. At the same time, the viscous liquid will be excreted through the holes all over the body, and when the insects pass through the channel, they will be spread on the compacted channel wall.

After these liquids are excreted from the body and combined with earth and stone, they will quickly penetrate into it and solidify the bond after one minute to reinforce the channel for the second time.

This new bug called tunnel worm can dig a solid tunnel hundreds of kilometers long and three meters in diameter every hour. With it, the swarm has increased by N levels in terms of assault ability compared to the previous use of worker bees to dig and reinforce the passage.

"Team leader! Come and look here, the instrument has detected some abnormal data." In a cabin of the underground nuclear power plant, a Riken suddenly shouted.

The other Rickons in the cabin ran over after hearing the cry.

There are only a dozen Rickens in this cabin, and they are some engineering and security personnel. At this time, the two races were fighting in space. Since the beginning of the war, the laser defense array and land-based cannons have not stopped outputting.

And the underground nuclear power plant that supplies them with energy is naturally the top priority in this kind of high-intensity war. However, because Lazer Star is the territory of the Ricken tribe, and during the war, the troops were concentrated on the main battlefield, so there were not many guards, but the engineers who maintained the nuclear power plant accounted for the majority.

After all, no one wants to have weapons cease fire due to problems with their own equipment in a war.

However, although there are fewer guards, the necessary early warning equipment is still available. Because it is hidden hundreds of meters underground, the main monitoring is the passage to come here and the monitoring of the surrounding geological environment.

At the beginning of the war, the laser defense array and land-based cannons were all operating at full power, especially the energy-hungry laser defense array. At that time, there were repeated alarms in the nuclear power plant, and maintenance engineers jumped up and down to check and maintain parts and equipment everywhere, which kept the nuclear power plant running smoothly.

But if that output power continues for another hour or so, maybe the nuclear power plant will shut down.

Fortunately, the swarm's artillery fire shifted its target later, and the laser defense array no longer needed to work. Based on the energy consumption of the land-based cannons alone, the nuclear power plant only needed to reach the 50% success rate when it was fully operating to maintain its supply.

All the idle people gathered in the duty room.

They are deep underground, and it is forbidden to go to the surface of the planet during the war, so they cannot directly observe the battlefield situation, and can only learn some war information through the video played by the functional ship accompanying the army.

However, because the battlefield environment is too intense, there is not a good camera position to take pictures of the battlefield situation, and the computing power needs to be prioritized in the front battlefield, so they only have some voice signals to access.