Chapter 364: The World of Bugs (2)

The biggest difference between Johnny's Xingtian III captain and the ordinary Xingtian III mecha is the huge folding space inside. The technical requirement of the Xingtian 3 captain aircraft www.biquge.info is to be able to meet the combat needs of everyone in the entire squad, that is, the folding space of the captain aircraft includes everything such as supplies, medical care, rest, and food.

In another sense, the folded space of the captain's plane is a small portable barracks. Although the construction of this kind of captain machine consumes a huge amount of precious resources, it is very necessary to fight at the level of a seventh-level civilization.

It is impossible for an interstellar war to be airdropped from the rear at any time like a ground war, and there is no such thing as a rear at all in the battles of the interstellar era. All of this depends on whether your fleet has achieved absolute superiority in a given area. The vastness of the battlefield in the interstellar era determines that the battle time is very long, and sometimes it is not uncommon for a battle to last for months or even years.

The prolonged hours of intense fighting left the soldiers in need of a safe place to resupply and rest. And the captain aircraft is undoubtedly a good choice. In fact, the best way is to expand the space of each mech, but because the resource demand is too great, the military can only use such a compromise.

The world inside the swarm is not as chaotic as Johnny and Simon imagined, and it can even be said to be very orderly. The main body of the insect colony is a giant insect nest with a diameter of tens of thousands of kilometers to hundreds of thousands of kilometers. These large hives are flexible and mobile, and their mass is not as great as they might see. The hive is very similar to the beehive, with network channels extending in all directions, and 90% of the space of the entire hive is hollow, and countless small zergs inhabit it.

Around the hive, many much smaller Zerg form a basic Zerg unit around the giant nest in the center. In order to facilitate the distinction, the reconnaissance detachments are divided into air-space carrier-class, battleship-class, destroyer-class, frigate-class, and lower-level basic combat units according to the composition of the human fleet.

In fact, the Golden Crow Fleet has always done this. The basic composition of the military power of different civilizations is completely different. In order to better measure each other's combat strength, this classification method based on combat effectiveness has been used since the Golden Crow fleet left the solar system.

The giant hive is a kind of large war fortress in the Dozer classification. This kind of war fortress generally has three functions, one is to act as a breeding ground for larvae. The vast majority of the Zerg are hatched inside this large fortress worm. The second is to be used as a fortress-type main gun similar to the Canubis interstellar battery, and the third is to be used as a Zerg mothership during interstellar migration, similar to the nesting doll ship of the Golden Crow Fleet, collecting all the small Zergs and then sailing at the speed of light over long distances.

Thirty hours after Johnny and Simon entered the swarm, they came across one such war fortress. From a distance, the War Fortress looks like a pitch-black giant. However, upon closer inspection, you will find that the surface of the insect is wrapped in a sealing film composed of liquid mucus, and the surface of the plug insect is sparkling, looking like an ocean planet.

Underneath the sealing film are huge straight canals. The diameter of the passage was so huge that Johnny scanned one at random, and its diameter reached a terrifying 2,562 kilometers, and this was without Johnny calculating its depth.

If such a passage is tens of thousands of kilometers deep, the Zerg fleet stored in it is simply an astronomical amount. The giant starports of the Golden Crow fleet were nothing compared to these passages. As he got closer, Johnny noticed that huge Zerg combat units were coming in and out of the passage from time to time, and in just five hours, Johnny had seen no less than a dozen species of insects. All of them were over a hundred kilometers long, and the small Zerg were completely ignored by Johnny.

The first insect to be found was a giant pupae with a length of about 200 kilometers, with an oblate ellipsoidal body, like an American football that had been halved in half, with a small tip at the front and a thick and flat head at the back. The giant chrysalis is covered with countless "eyes", and those are the muzzles of countless small energy cannons in an active state.

There is also a long rigid spike in the abdomen of the giant chrysalis, which is more than 50 kilometers long and has a diameter of about 5 kilometers. This is not a cannon barrel, but a mouthpiece that resembles a supply pipe. The reason why Johnny was so sure was because Johnny found that the battleship-class giant chrysalis type battleship had stabbed the spike into another bug near the Stronghold Worm after flying out of the Stronghold Bug.

It was a strange bug, with a huge body, reaching 12,000 kilometers at its longest point, an abdomen like a fat sac of flesh, and no hard skeletal structure around its body except for its head and tail. With the exception of the ductile epidermis, the entire abdominal cavity is a liquid biochemical serous. The head and tail of the insect are pointy, and they have a large mouthpart that looks as if they can devour stars. There are also countless long tentacles around the mouthparts, which are very soft, like thick pipes.

"Is it possible for the swarm to kill each other? Or is this meat worm food for other bugs? Seeing such a terrifying scene, Simon asked in surprise.

"Who knows, bugs have to eat, too. They've eaten all the planets along the way, and now there's nothing to eat, and it's no big deal to eat the other bugs," Johnny replied nonchalantly as he set his sights on a fortress bug farther away.

During the time when the giant pupae were eating, many more insects flew out of the surrounding fortress insects, and then pierced the nearby meat worms with the same spiked mouthparts, sucking the slurry in the flesh worms' bodies, looking like they were enjoying a unique feast.

Some of these bugs are bacteriophage-like viruses, others are as soft as locusts, and more Johnny can't tell what form they are, but they are not very kind people in terms of their size.

These Zerg combatants look very different from naturally evolved lifeforms. Because a lot of bugs are all deformed, yes, very deformed. The bodies of these insects are almost asymmetrical, giving people a very strange feeling, as if they are holding the head of a mouse, the tail of a monkey, the ears of a rabbit, the mouth of a fish, the pincers of a crab, the body of a snake, and so on.

Maybe it's time for the swarm to eat, and the number of Zerg fighters near Johnny is growing, and the insects of all sizes are almost surrounding the meat worms for food. Countless sucking mouthparts pierced into the flesh worm's body like the needle of a syringe, constantly sucking the slurry inside, and correspondingly, the flesh worm was rapidly getting smaller, and finally even lost weight, like a cicada that was about to dry out.

"Drip ...... ...... the communication signal sounded, Johnson immediately checked, and began to control the mecha to retreat towards the edge of the sea of worms.

"What's the matter, keep going, we haven't reached the depths of the sea of worms yet," Simon exclaimed, who was recording the data.

"We have received a signal to retreat, and we are not the only ones who have come to reconnoitre......" (To be continued.) )