The goal of the gatherers is to quickly occupy the planet's surface, so they can't expand by just roots.

No matter how the rhizome grows, is it possible that it can still grow and expand at supersonic speed? This is obviously not a no-go.

In order to solve this problem, and to complete the global occupation mission as quickly as possible, the gatherers have dropped biological rockets that carry the resources of their own family and development.

Like ICBMs, these rockets will fly high into the air and then fall back to the ground, setting up camp in new places and expanding their rhizomes.

Gatherers dig deep wells, use water to press solid helium, and use it to cool the surface environment they occupy.

From an onlooker's point of view, the Gatherers are very similar to the Zerg, with the only difference being that the Gatherers don't have the various low-IQ organisms running on the ground.

Because the gatherers don't need those things, for them, it's a waste of resources.

When the rhizomes of inland gatherers were connected to their counterparts on the other side of the ocean, a planetary water channel was completed, and they erected tall water towers to transport liquid water inland, taking advantage of the connectivity of liquid water.

At the same time, the Zerg side was also moving, and a large long, strip-shaped organism emerged from the ground in large numbers.

This is a Zerg organism that can stretch its body and undertake the task of transporting troops underground from the Zerg.

Organisms that live in a nest-like structure underground all year round, after receiving orders from the Zerg command class, will stretch their bodies to an astonishing length, thus forming passages with their own flesh and blood.

All Zerg organisms can enter the ground through the head of any long strip of organisms, and travel underground at a rapid speed of the long organism itself.

Since the long organism can be connected to each other plurally, all Zerg organisms can rush out of the head of any of the long organisms to launch a surprise attack on the enemy area after entering the inside of the long organism.

The reason why the Zerg were able to hide underground in time during the antimatter cleaning of the gatherers can be said to be a long organism that contributed to it.

According to the plan made by the Zerg at the emergency moment in the early stage of the baptism of antimatter, they first retreated to the underground, temporarily avoided the edge, and then poured out of the underground after the bombardment, relying on the planet and the gatherers to engage in a tug-of-war.

Hiding underground went well, but getting back to the surface went wrong, as the rhizome also expanded underground, and according to the habits of the gatherers, the rhizome extended to the core of the planet.

The rhizomes of the Gatherers are combat-capable, and in order to expand underground, their head is a single-molecule tip that can penetrate almost anything, as long as the object is still in the category of molecular material.

Due to the relationship between rhizomes, many long organisms of the Zerg are ruthlessly slaughtered before they can poke out of the surface.

However, there were a few lucky Zerg creatures that weren't killed by the rhizomes, as the gatherers hadn't yet expanded their rhizome coverage to a global scale.

The long creature burrowed out of the ground, squirming through its cavities, and vomiting out a large number of Zerg creatures from its petal-shaped bloody mouth.

In the Zerg group, a flattened species with a pair of large clamps at the tip and flanked by tissues resembling membranous wings and fins.

The creature cocooned on the spot not far from the long creature, and it didn't take long for it to swell to a very large size.

When the swollen and wriggling cocoon is broken, what is exposed is the hive of the Zerg, and with the birth of the hive, a fungus blanket begins to spread around the hive. TXT Book House

After the larvae are produced, they begin to cocoon and transform into other organisms of the Zerg as soon as they are produced.

Zerg organisms on the ground guard the nest, while Zerg organisms in the air spread out in all directions, expanding their field of vision and searching for possible enemy targets in the vicinity.

After searching for about two or three hundred kilometers, the Zerg's flying organisms met the rhizomes that were expanding their coverage.

The Zerg creatures in the sky noticed the Zerg creatures in the sky, but they didn't pay attention to it, and the rhizomes continued to expand, but the Zerg side was not as calm as the Gatherers.

The Zerg command immediately ordered the organisms in the air that were originally responsible for reconnaissance to spit acid cannonballs and attack the rhizomes surging like a tide on the ground.

The acid cannonballs corroded some rhizomes, and seeing this result, the air units of the Zerg became more and more unscrupulous in spitting acid cannonballs, but they could continue to spit acid cannonballs There were not many rounds, and the Zerg command class was stunned to find that the lethality of acid cannonballs on rhizomes was plummeting.

It was supposed to be able to kill a few rhizomes and sputter to corrode and kill the surrounding rhizomes, but it only took a few seconds for it to become impossible to kill even a single rhizome.

If the Zerg command class can access the life field of the gatherer, they will definitely know the reason for it at the first time.

After the first acid cannonball killed several rhizomes, the collectors began to work on countermeasures, and the rhizomes began to secrete a layer of mucus with a high alkaline content in their outer layer.

As we all know, salt and water will be formed when acid and alkali come into contact, even if the acid of the Zerg is a biological acid, which is specially blended, it cannot jump out of this chemical framework.

As for where the alkali of the rhizome comes from, of course, it is taken locally, and there are both acidic and alkaline substances in the soil.

After some tossing, the insect acid in the body of the Zerg creatures has been sprayed out, and the Zerg command class is unwilling but has no other way to let the Zerg creatures in the air retreat.

But on the collector's side, where is the place where you can just come and go, in the words of the earth, it is - you still want to run after pretending?

The rhizome group used the material scraped temporarily to piece together a biological version of the large heat-ray cannon, and after notifying the rear to turn on a strong current, it directly roasted the Zerg creatures flying in the air.

At the same time, following the route of the Zerg, an aerial scout, and using the perspective of the leaping creatures in the orbit, the gatherers locked on the expanding Zerg group.

A large number of rhizomes began to rush towards the expanding position of the Zerg.

The Zerg side is also aware of this situation, and in the face of such a grim situation, one by one the hives are actively producing an army of organisms, on the ground, in the air, and all kinds of troops.

There are a large number of immovable organisms on the ground, which are divided into two types, one is the organism that has previously attacked the leaping creatures in outer space and can spit acid and ion slurry, and the other is the one with a very long and thick tentacle, the tentacle has a very heavy and sharp spike, which attacks the enemy by ejecting the spike into the air and then falling.

The swarm is on the lookout!

Through the eyes of the Zerg creatures, and as a curtain of dust from the raised dust appeared on the horizon, the Zerg command knew that the enemy's army was not far from them.

The entire Zerg army began to move, and the Zerg command class did not plan to wait for the enemy to attack close before passively defending, they had to take the initiative to attack!

The advantage of taking the initiative is that even if they lose, they have a certain buffer area to buy time to think about countermeasures, and the Zerg command class has its own abacus.

It's a pity that the idea of the Zerg command is too naïve, and the problems it faces next cannot be made up by strategy and tactics.