Chapter Eighty-Nine: For Humanity
After Qiao Shan repelled the second attack of the swarm ground forces, the mother worm changed her combat method again.
Leviathan stopped throwing empty barrels into the ground, and the entire swarm began to attack Qi Yiming's fleet with all its might.
The comprehensive pressure of the insect swarm made Qi Yiming, who was already at a disadvantage, feel the pressure multiply in an instant.
The elite swarms that originally guarded the Leviathan also quickly moved to the front of the battle line.
The Hive Insect Lord's massive, flattened body of more than 100 meters appeared on either side of the Leviathan.
Don't look at the size of the Nest Insect Lord compared to the Snow Peak, it is much smaller, but the condensed essence is not false at all when used on the insect swarm.
The Nest Worm Lord is evolved from the Corrupt Wyvern, but this evolution of the mother worm cannot be controlled, and it may be possible for tens of thousands of Corrupt Wyverns to evolve a Nest Worm Lord after several battles.
And in the process of evolution, the mother worm needs to provide it with a lot of biomass and energy. And this biomass and energy is enough for the mother worm to hatch hundreds of thousands of jumping worms.
The Hive Lord will quickly hatch parasites about one meter in length inside his body, and when attacking, these parasites will be sprayed at enemies by the Hive Lord with his mouthparts.
Due to their incredibly strong shells, these parasites will first inflict a severe kinetic shock on their enemies, and then use their sharp mouthparts to tear a large gap into the target's body.
The only pity is that the life cycle of this parasite is very short, and it only survives for about a few minutes after completing the kinetic impact.
But the Hive Worm Lord hatches this parasite incredibly quickly, and if it is given a few minutes, another batch of parasites will hatch inside it.
Fortunately, the number of nest insect lords is not large, otherwise Qi Yiming would definitely not hesitate to run away with everyone.
"Johnson, how's the excavation going?" Qi Yiming looked at the huge swarm of insects that had blocked the star and asked anxiously.
"In ten minutes, you'll be ready to lift!!"
"Ten minutes...... We don't even have five minutes now!! Let your people move faster!! ”
Hanging up the communication, Qi Yiming glanced at the battlefield situation map.
Wei Feng's battlecruisers could not hold on for long, and the rest of the battleships suffered heavy losses.
It was originally a huge fleet, but at this time there were only a dozen warships left.
But those nest insect lords who moved to the front of the battle line didn't care what Qi Yiming's current state was.
They received orders from the mother worm to destroy the human fleet in front of them.
The speed of the parasite spewed by the Hive Insect Lord was very high, and it had almost just left the Nest Insect Lord's mouthparts, and in the next second, it had already hit the battleship on Qi Yiming's side.
In just a dozen seconds, the only four destroyers left in the fleet were pierced through the outer armor by a dozen parasites, and they also tore through the destroyers' structural layers before the parasites could finish their short lives.
Qi Yiming watched as the parasites ejected by the nest insect lord from the destroyers were torn to pieces from the inside out like pieces of paper.
Qi Yiming gritted his teeth and shouted, "Snow Peak, activate the fortress system!!" ’
"Bastion System Startup ......"
I saw that the engine of the Snow Peak, which was originally spewing tail flames, suddenly dimmed, and the armor layer of the entire battleship was also covered with a light blue light curtain, which was the ionosphere circulating on the surface of the outer armor layer.
More than half of the energy that would have been supplied to the engines was transferred to the weapon system.
With the supply of excess energy, the attack intensity has long been raised to the highest naval gun, and with the blessing of the fortress system, the attack intensity has been increased by another 50%.
The super-heavy main gun, which was already a little weak in the face of the massive swarm, was once again the focus of the battlefield.
A thick purple beam of energy connected the swarm to the muzzle like a ribbon.
And the end that connected the swarm even broke through the formation in the front row of the swarm, and stretched the tentacles of death into the depths of the swarm troops.
Then the ribbon slowly crossed with the movement of the muzzle of the super heavy main gun, and the purple energy beam swept across a 110-degree fan, but all the insects in the fan were instantly vaporized by the furious energy.
The blast laser's attacks no longer looked so bad, and each round of shelling would inflict a lot of damage on the Hive Insect Lords who were in the front row of the battle line.
The crews of the ships, who were already desperate, once again ignited a raging anger in their hearts when they saw the mighty Snow Peak.
After this voyage, these crew members also knew that humanity might face this terrible enemy again in the near future, and they all shouted in unison: "For the sake of mankind......"
Qi Yiming was also deeply affected, shouting in the fleet channel: "For the sake of mankind, all ships attack freely." ”
Qi Yiming, who was at a disadvantage for a while, was much higher than the crowd that covered the sky and the sun.
It's a pity that the collective-conscious creatures of the swarm are inherently immune to the feeling of fear, and they have no intention of backing down in the face of a sudden increase in morale of the human fleet.
Under the frenzied urging of the mother, the swarm rushed towards the Snow Peak.
It seems that the mother worm also understands that as long as the Snow Peak is sunk, the human fleet in front of her will pose no threat to it.
For a moment, the Snow Peak withstood most of the attacks from the swarm.
But the outer armor of the Snow Peak has long been different from the blessing of the ionosphere.
The parasites ejected by the Hive Worm Lord often need to hit the same part a dozen times in order to penetrate the armor of the Snow Peak.
But even if you hit the same part more than a dozen times and finally break through the armor layer, the nanobots produced from the Guardian on the Snow Peak will repair the broken armor layer in just a few seconds.
Since then, the two sides have entered a brutal war of attrition.
It's just that Qi Yiming's side consumes a lot of energy blocks, while the insect swarm consumes a lot of biomass.
The giant Leviathan in the swarm is shrinking at a rate visible to the naked eye.
This is when the mother depletes the biomass stored in the Leviathan in order to provide a large swarm.
Seeing this scene, Qi Yiming's face looked a lot better.
The shrinking size of the Leviathan indicates that the number of swarms is no longer able to make ends meet.
In order to maintain numerical superiority, the female worm had to use the biomass stored in the Leviathan's body for a long time to temporarily hatch more combat units.
In fact, this is a loss-making deal for the female worm, although the Leviathan can also hatch combat units in its body, but it cannot carry out genetic mutations on those combat units, even if the female worm has countless powerful genes in her body, it cannot update the combat power of the swarm.
Unless the mother worm lands on the surface of the planet to establish a temporary nest.
Seeing the hope of victory, Qi Yiming became more cautious, knowing that victory was often lost in the last few minutes.
Sure enough, the Leviathan had a new twist again.
Hundreds of millions of mosquito blasters suddenly flew out from the sides of his massive body, and these insects were not large in size, less than a meter long.
But don't look at the small size of these mosquitoes, but they can't stop the large number of them.
After leaving the Leviathan, the tail sprayed white gas of unknown composition and flew frantically towards the Snow Peak.
The distance between the Leviathan and the Snow Peak was 300 kilometers, but it only took a dozen seconds for the mosquito blasters to rush in front of the Snow Peak.
Without the slightest hesitation, these mosquito blasters rushed headlong towards the Snow Peak.
Qi Yiming looked at the injury monitoring panel, and the integrity value of the outer armor dropped to 17% in just two seconds.
Qi Yiming, who once again comprehended the strength of the insect swarm, was already in a cold sweat at this time.
Fortunately, the Snow Peak has turned on the fortress mode, otherwise it would definitely be sunk in this round of attack by the swarm.