[The Weather Weapon is fully charged and can be attacked.] 】

With a pleasant prompt sound from the battleship's auxiliary system, Mu Chen, who had been waiting for a long time, pressed the launch button in front of him without hesitation.

Two pillars of turquoise light shot towards the blood-red asteroid in an instant.

This meteorological weapon needs to be fired continuously until the freezing light completely freezes the entire asteroid.

The Reaper's energy reserves were rapidly decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye, soon dropping to less than 50%.

"Your Excellency, the main energy pool of the Grim Reaper is insufficient, do you want to activate the backup energy pool?" The weapons officer asked.

Mu Chen frowned and said, "With spare energy, can you completely freeze the target?" ”

"It's basically enough, but we may not have enough energy to return home, so we can only return at a low speed, which will take longer."

"Don't care about it so much, activate the backup energy pool!"

Now is not the time to consider whether the energy is enough or not, only by completely destroying the planetary base of this Zerg can it be regarded as stopping the Zerg from invading the solar system, and it is a big deal to go back and notify the Earth Federation to send some energy to the Reaper fleet.

After the freezing light hit the blood-colored planet, it immediately froze the red slime on the surface of the planet and spread to the surroundings at an extremely high speed, and the insects in the red slime were frozen into vivid ice sculptures before they had time to escape, and it was believed that it would not take long to freeze the entire outer layer of the asteroid.

Just when everyone thought that the tactic had succeeded, the blood-colored planet cracked open again, and countless small flying insects flew out of the crack.

"These reptiles are going to fight hard. On my orders, the flight unit must stop these bugs at all costs and drop all the hive drones......"

The size of these small flying insects is very small, only one thousandth the size of the giant horned flying insects, and at most they are about the size of a basin, but the Earth Federation does not have information about such insects, and they don't even know how they fight.

The bug resembles a locust on Earth, with a pair of chelates on its head, which looks a little sharp, but it doesn't feel like it's enough to do any damage to the Hurricane.

It's just that with the characteristics of small size and fast speed, it is not easy to kill these locusts, and it is difficult for Hurricane fighters to complete the lock on to the target, often only one hit in more than ten attacks, or by luck.

The number of locusts is very large, overwhelmingly rushing towards the flight troops, the scene is extremely spectacular, but the drone swarm used to assist flight operations is not vegetarian, each hive can release tens of thousands of small attack drones, this kind of drone is only the size of an adult's arm, and the weapons carried are also relatively low-level kinetic weapons, but the group operation is still very interesting.

Mu Chen threw out all the drone hives in the fleet in one go, there were more than 10,000 drone hives, and the drones released by each hive together were enough to match the number of locusts.

Soon the locust swarm and the drone swarm were engaged, and the drone swarm used their long-range weapons to fire at the same time when they were several kilometers away from the swarm, forming an impermeable fire network with the ammunition from the cannons.

But after all, the number of locusts is too large, and it is impossible to kill all the locusts in a while

The ministry was wiped out, and there were still many locusts approaching under the attack of the drone swarm.

The flying troops in the distance were not idle, the laser weapons were fired non-stop, and everyone understood that it was now the height of the battle, and if these bugs were allowed to affect the Reaper, all efforts would be in vain.

The Intrepid space carrier is also attacking the insect swarm regardless of energy consumption, and the missiles in the ammunition depot are almost exhausted, but the effect is not good, this is like anti-aircraft guns fighting mosquitoes, after a missile explodes, it can only destroy hundreds of locusts, which is obviously a loss-making business.

But now when he didn't care about these details at all, Mu Chen gave them a death order, no matter what, they couldn't let a reptile go.

It's a pity that the efficiency of this attack is still too low, and the dense swarm of insects is not so easy to stop.

These locusts were not stupid, and when they found that there were a large number of enemies blocking this route, they divided into several groups and advanced from different directions, and their ultimate goal was still the Grim Reaper, which was hiding in the rear.

"The Marines enter the firing position, open all the individual firing holes, and do not allow these locusts to interfere with the guided attack of the meteorological weapons." Mu Chen used the last power of the Grim Reaper, and success or failure was here.

The Reaper's energy pool had dropped below 15%, and even though it was replenished by a spare energy pool, it was only enough for the use of meteorological weapons, Mu Chen didn't dare to use his precious energy on the shield at all, and if the ice failed to freeze, his plan would be all in vain.

Now we can only grit our teeth and die, and it depends on whether these locusts have the ability to break through the Grim Reaper's alloy armor.

In a short time, a large number of locusts spared the fire network of the drone swarm and surrounded the Grim Reaper from both sides.

The locusts never launched an attack, and they only saw the Death as a target, turning a blind eye to the drone swarms and hurricanes that intercepted them, and pounced on the Grim Reaper regardless of casualties.

Mu Chen always felt that something was wrong, and the premonition of crisis on his body became strong again.

"Could it be that these vulnerable locusts really have the power to destroy the Reaper?" For the first time in his heart, Mu Chen had a trace of doubt about the instinct of danger warning.

You must know that even if these locusts directly hit the alloy armor of the Reaper, it would be a broken end at best, and it was almost impossible for the Earth Federation to cut corners in the production of warships.

This Reaper was personally accepted by Mu Chen, and he was still very confident in the defensive ability of the external alloy armor.

But his instinct to foresee danger has never been missed, and in line with the principle of being cautious and not making a big mistake, Mu Chen still ordered the marines to try their best to stop the swarm and not let a locust approach.

Mu Chen himself knew that this order was almost impossible to do, even if the marines were all sharpshooters, it would be difficult to kill all the locusts from a distance, this was just a luxury in his heart.

The nearly 10 marines on the Reaper defended the last line of defense with their laser weapons, but there were still many locusts close to the battleship.

The moment the locusts climbed onto the battleship, they opened their heads one after another, desperately biting at the anti-corrosion coating on the outside of the armor.

When Mu Chen saw this scene, he suddenly reacted.

"Not good!"

These bugs are trying to destroy the anti-corrosion coating of the battleship, however

Later, the corrosive slime in the body was used to corrode the alloy armor away.

"USS Intrepid Space Mothership, fire solid incendiary bombs at the Reaper, make sure to set all corners of the Reaper battleship on fire!" Mu Chen hurriedly issued an order to the Dreadnought in the distance.

As long as the Grim Reaper can be ignited with incendiary bombs, it is possible to organize the approach of these locusts, although the high temperature generated by the incendiary bombs will also cause some damage to the Grim Reaper, but the lesser of the two loves, so let these locusts corrode the armor of the battleship into holes, it is better to set the battleship on fire and kill these reptiles with high temperature as much as possible.

It's a pity that Mu Chen's order came a little late, these locusts didn't give him much time, the Intrepid space carrier had just launched two incendiary bombs, and many locusts chose to explode after destroying a small piece of anti-corrosion coating in front of them.

[The Reaper is corrosively attacked, and the exterior armor of the ship's hull is damaged. 】

[Port side is damaged, to activate the automatic repair function.] 】

[The ship's belly is broken to activate the auto-repair function.] 】

[The ship's tail thruster is damaged, and the No. 1 thruster fails]

【……】

Bad news came one after another, and Mu Chen knew that if this continued, the Grim Reaper space carrier would disintegrate.

No one expected that these locusts, who looked weak, would actually inflict the deadliest damage on the battleship since the beginning of the war.

Fortunately, at this time, the incendiary bomb fired by the Dreadnought finally hit the Grim Reaper, and this incendiary bomb could still burn in a vacuum environment, and soon covered every corner of the Death.

The current Reaper seemed to have come out of the magma of hell, and the heat of the incendiary bombs burned the alloy armor on the outside red, and the hull was on fire everywhere.

The firing holes of the marines had to be closed to protect the crews inside from the heat.

The Reaper is a space battleship, and the thermal insulation of the entire space material is extremely good, and the crew inside can hardly feel much temperature change, and even the central air conditioner that regulates the internal temperature does not start the cooling program.

But the kind of locusts crawling on the battleship were not so good at this time, and they bore the brunt of the high temperature caused by the incendiary bombs, countless locusts turned into ashes in the flames that rose into the sky, and the corrosive slime they made was instantly vaporized by the high temperature of thousands of degrees.

It's just that the high temperature still has a lot of impact on the Grim Reaper, and even the lights in the command room are flickering, presumably because there is a problem with the wiring.

"Start the battleship self-inspection system and troubleshoot the fault." Mu Chen said solemnly.

[The main power line is seriously damaged, the backup line has been activated, the Reaper's navigation system is abnormal, and the No. 1 main thruster is out of order......]

"The maintenance team hurried to repair the line problem as soon as possible. Troubleshoot the navigation system now, I want to know how serious the anomaly is. ”

Mu Chen's heart sank, the navigation system of the battleship is the key to determining the navigation of the fleet, once there is a problem with this part, they are very likely to lose the positioning function, which means that the possibility of getting lost is greatly improved.

The maintenance team quickly had the results of the inspection: "Captain, the long-range exploration radar has been completely scrapped, the interstellar signal transmitter has also been damaged, and we have lost contact with the Earth. ”

"Whew, the house leak happened to rain overnight......" Mu Chen knew that this was really troublesome.