Chapter 396: The Decisive Battle Begins
Massive swarms are unstoppable within the galaxy, and despite detecting the energy radiation emitted by the Keystone, they have yet to detect the existence of a planet with signs of life.
If it weren't for the clarity of the energy radiation emitted by the Keystone, the Queen of Blades would have wondered if she had received false information.
In any case, the hive fleet is still constantly approaching the wandering earth under the attraction of the keystone energy, and is about to enter the detection range of the eyeworms, which can see through the camouflage of the Hidden Sky Screen.
However, at this moment, the counterattack of the wandering earth came quietly!
A blue plasma cannonball suddenly emerged from the darkness of space, like a small blue star, whistling towards the swarm without warning.
The eyeworms and wyverns who were at the forefront were instantly enveloped in this blue light, and watched as the blue plasma expanded dramatically in front of them, swallowing them up in an instant.
And then there was no more, in the ultra-high temperature that resembled the core of the sun, they were all burned in an instant, like mosquitoes hit by anti-aircraft guns, silently disappeared into space.
The red-hot plasma shells scorched a passage through the dense Zerg ship group, and hundreds of wyverns and eyeworms were wiped out under the blow, and they were not even qualified as cannon fodder.
Eventually, the plasma cannon landed on a huge hive insect lord, burning a large hole in the large flying creature shaped like a ray and burrowing into it, burning it into an empty shell from the inside out before it could play its role as an aerial siege unit.
The plasma exploded violently within the main body of the nest worm's collar, and its interior was quickly engulfed in blue flames, which then exploded like an inflated balloon.
The explosion that spread out swept the surrounding wyverns into it, pulling them to cremate with the Hive Insect Lord, and destroying hundreds of wyverns along with it.
The entire hive fleet was illuminated by the exploding blue, protruding against a black velvety space background, and the galaxy's sea of stars was eclipsed.
"What's going on!?"
The Queen of Blades didn't expect to be attacked so strongly all of a sudden, costing her hundreds of Wyverns and a Hive Insect Lord in one fell swoop.
More importantly, where did this powerful plasma cannon come from, and why did it come so without warning?
The answer was immediately presented in front of her, with the start of the Spring Festival 10,000 rings, the effect of the Hidden Sky Screen was gradually fading, and a blue planet suddenly appeared in front of the hive fleet, completely blocking the way of the insect swarm.
The Queen of Blades instantly realized that the Keystone's energy was emanating from this planet, and she had been waiting for the arrival of the swarm.
With the complete disappearance of the effect of the Sky Screen, the power of 10,000 rings of the Spring Festival has officially begun to manifest!
"Launch!"
10,000 planetary engine cannons fired at the hive fleet in space at the same time, and tens of thousands of plasma shells roared towards the swarm like a dense meteor shower falling on their heads.
Before the huge hive fleet could react, it was shattered by this round of frenzied intensive firepower, and the red-hot plasma shells burned tens of thousands of holes in the dense insect swarm, and hundreds of millions of alien insects were wiped out under this round of salvo, suffering completely unexpected heavy damage.
Countless Wyverns and Nest Insect Lords were hit by planetary engine cannons and ignited a raging fire, and the light from the explosion of plasma cannonballs rose and fell in the dark cosmic space, illuminating the entire area as bright as day, accompanied by countless flashes of lightning as if they were taking pictures wildly.
Even when attacking the star spirit's home planet El, the insect swarm had never suffered such fierce resistance, and even before they could make any resistance, they lost hundreds of millions of alien insect troops under the attack of the Wandering Earth Spring Festival 10,000 rings.
Under normal circumstances, any fleet that suddenly suffers such heavy losses will inevitably be demoralized or even directly collapsed, just like the Zetarian fleet in the Marvel Universe, the blow to morale is the greatest when encountering an ambush.
However, the Zerg do not have any concept of morale, and under the social structure of the hive mind, except for a few self-aware brain worms, all other insect units will only act according to the will of the dominator.
In the words of the Queen of Blades, I am the swarm. As long as her will is not shaken, no matter how great the loss is, the swarm will not collapse.
"You think that's going to stop me?"
Under the control of the Queen of Blades, the Hive fleet continued to advance in the face of the heavy artillery fire of the Wandering Earth.
In order to protect the remaining nest insect lords, countless wyverns surrounded them, ring after ring, forming a living shield layer upon layer.
When the plasma cannonballs fired by the planetary engine cannon attacked, these wyverns took the initiative to meet them in a dense formation, and used their bodies to block the hot plasma like moths to a fire, so that the damage suffered by the nest insect lord was minimized, even if it cost thousands of wyverns every time they were shelled.
The Leviathan, the flagship of the Queen of Blades, was also wrapped in dense wyverns in the same way, and even the inner and outer three layers were tightly protected, and when they were attacked, more wyverns poured out of the wormhole in the rear to replenish it, completely like an indestructible shield.
This is the defense mode of the hive fleet, unlike the star spirits, which mainly rely on energy shields, humans pay attention to armor and structural strength, and the defense of the zerg is a biological shield composed of countless flying dragons, purely relying on sacrificing a large amount of cannon fodder to keep the main force of the hive fleet.
This method is extremely cruel and efficient, and when the wormholes in the rear are still pouring out wyverns from various planets, the nest insect lord has the opportunity to get close to the orbit of the wandering earth, and launch a large number of airdrop bags to the surface of the wandering earth, so that the swarm can officially break through the atmosphere and start landing operations on the wandering earth.
At the same time, swarms of wyverns also entered the atmosphere of the wandering earth to cover the landing of these drop bags.
Under the powerful fire of the planetary engine cannon, the Zerg still inevitably lost a large number of troops, and more than half of the insects were reduced to ashes under the 10,000-ring bombardment of the Spring Festival in the process of approaching the wandering earth.
Even though they relied on countless wyverns to form living shields, the vast majority of the nest insect lords were still hit one after another by the planetary engine cannons, one shot penetrated the living shield formed by the wyverns, and the other completely wiped them out.
After all, this is a 10,000-seat planetary engine cannon, but there is no rule that each planetary engine cannon can only hit one nest insect lord.
But even if less than half of the insects make it to land, their numbers are still daunting, and the battle has just begun!