Another ocean appeared in the sky, different from the blue ocean on the ground, red like a tempered iron, and the scream of thunder and air was the sound of the sea.

Standing on the ground at this time, you can see those gradually falling 'rain of fire', which are the ground combat bodies delivered by the Fourth Fleet.

Breaking through the stratosphere, the body is surrounded by crimson flames, and the streamlined object in the shape of a cannonball approaches the ground at an extremely high speed, bringing with it a violent wind.

Boom——!

The scream turned into a loud roar that shattered glass for more than a dozen miles, accompanied by a terrifying shockwave that spread rapidly and a cloud of mushroom-shaped dust that was thrown up.

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

[Introduction of nanomachinery to repair damaged metal structures]

[Damage 67%, report uploaded]

【Repair time... 4… 3… 2… 1… Done]

[Reading environmental information to assess risks: safety]

[This Mission: Destroy Hostile Air Defense Units]

The shell in the center of the crater gradually changes shape.

The shell of the shell disintegrated into several parts, and a fluid substance that looked like a liquid and a colloidal substance emerged inside, glowing with a metallic glow and the same color as mercury.

Eight metal bones stretched out of the fluid, similar to the gatherer's fangs, supporting the entire body, and then all of them were completely encased in the fluid.

Moments later, a spider-like structure that resembled more of a creature than a machine stood in the center of the crater.

[Structure assembly completed]

【Start Mission】

The ground body does not act like the Gatherer, its eight metal feet zigzag horizontally to form a wheel, with the body acting as the center of the wheel.

Hundreds of times faster than the Gatherers, the alien's ground combat body broke away from the crater it had created when it landed and headed for the hive.

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

Naturally, it was impossible for Huo Gu to let the ground combat body act arbitrarily and gallop all the way, and the ground combat body would soon encounter obstacles in its mission.

With the combat body as the center, in an area of several kilometers, countless rhizomes broke through the soil and launched a surprise attack on the combat body without pause.

Huo Gu doesn't have any thoughts of underestimating the enemy, the technology of the aliens completely crushes the earth civilization, it doesn't have the capital to underestimate the enemy, even if it is just as these ground combat bodies of the death squad, Huo Gu is also fighting with twelve points.

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

Facts have proved that Hogu's caution is not wrong, and the ground combat body developed by the alien civilization after the technological explosion has shown that even if Hogu has been very overestimated, it is still underestimated in the end.

Countless rhizomes turned into terrifying pythons under Huogu's domination, ready to strangle those ground combat bodies besieged in the 'Rhizome Forest' at once.

However, to Hogu's surprise, this kind of strangulation organized by large groups not only failed to destroy them, but also failed to slow down the other party's movement.

These ground combat bodies exhibit the effectiveness of Hogu's gathering of individuals known as 'Si' when they are in the Vault and face off against the enemy soldier Wang Fan.

No, it's more than that.

With the help of the rhizome that pounces on them and its extremely high inertial velocity, the combat body is like a small ball in a three-dimensional marble in a classic game, repeatedly catapulting in the mid-air of the rhizome jungle, continuously moving at high speed, and the speed not only does not slow down, but has a tendency to increase.

And the general direction remains the same, and the distance between the hive and the target of destruction is drastically decreasing.

In just a few hours, more than 1,000 beehives on the surface were destroyed.

"This ...... It should be regarded as feng shui in turn, right? ”

Huo Gu muttered to himself with some self-deprecation.

The situation he is facing now coincides with what happened in the last space battle with the aliens, which gives Huo Gu a strong sense of déjà vu.

And this time, Hogu is the one who was landed, which is also in line with the location of the alien starport last time.

Hogu didn't panic, and not only that, but instead of focusing on the alien ground combat body, it focused instead on the Fourth Fleet, which was still closing in on the twilight.

"Is this distance enough?"

[No, it's too far. 】

"Really?"

"I see."

Hearing this, Hogu shifted his gaze to the surface battlefield again.

Judging from the battlefield performance, these alien ground combat bodies are far more effective than the soldiers encountered in the shelter.

The nanomachinery that wraps around the whole body of the combat body is like a real biological tissue, the muscular part can increase the strength, and the joint part can reduce friction, enhance the resistance to cushioning, and can also provide a certain degree of protection.

Even if the metal bones inside them are destroyed, they will only be temporarily incapacitated, and the nanomachinery will repair the metal bones.

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

However, this is very difficult, the aliens don't know what materials are used, the strength of the energy core of the combat body, even Huo Gu, who has built a giant sub-light speed railgun, can't help but be amazed.

There is also an attack ability.,Melee combat has a plasma blade flame similar to that of the King of Soldiers.,Long-range kinetic weapons with a rate of fire stronger than the metal storm on Earth.。

With the cooperation of these weapons, even a cage with densely tangled rhizomes cannot even slow down the movement of the combat body.

However, does this mean that Hogu has no choice?

No, the answer is no.

"Awesome is awesome, but if you're only at this level, it's not enough."

Murmuring like this, the rhizomes under the control of Huo Gu's thinking stirred, and every inch of tissue, every cell, acted in accordance with the will of their sovereign.

A large amount of nitroglycerin was produced, and when sufficient quantities were reached, Hogu immediately detonated the chemical explosives without hesitation, and the rhizomes that were fighting the ground combat bodies exploded without warning.

Along with the explosion, there was also a large amount of unknown white liquid, none of the ground combat bodies in the 'Rhizome Forest' were spared, and letting them dodge these liquids was like dodging every drop of rain in the pouring rain, maybe it was really possible, but that was definitely not something that the alien technology could do now.

The white liquid covered the bodies of those ground combat bodies and quickly condensed, forming a colloid with extremely strong toughness.

If there is only this step, these combat bodies cannot be trapped, and the high-temperature plasma gas blade is released by the combat body, and it can only trap these combat bodies for a minute or two at most.

Of course, Huo Gu is very aware of this, and it wants exactly this minute or two.

The tip of the rhizome that can penetrate the intermolecular crevices easily breaks through the defenses of the combat body, destroying its metal bones, including the heavily protected energy core, as easily as poking into a tofu block.

Destroying all the combat bodies, Hogu pondered, it knew very well that the aliens must have learned of the destruction of all the combat units they had sent to the surface at this time.

"What are you going to do next?"

"Do you continue to attack in other ways, or do you ......?"

Hogu's gaze was fixed on the mothership-class of the Fourth Fleet, who were part-time 'starport' duties.