The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 157 Ground Attack

A row of tall-winged divers flew past at low altitude, their broad wings casting large shadows. A pair of well-developed compound eyes scanned the earth, looking at the towering termite-like mounds.

Then, one by one, the long-winged divers turned around in mid-air, cut through the sky with a standard dive bombing attitude and screamed, rushing straight towards the towering mounds, and heard the sound of the mounds pouring out of them. A group of ancient web-winged cockroaches.

The rear abdomen is curved, and in the hole structure at the end, specially-made aerial bombs separate from it, and directly hit the center of the mound group under the position correction of the end missile wing structure.

Based on the structure of the mounds captured previously, Lin Yi learned that the mounds that are the tallest and usually closest to the water source are often the structures where the mother nest is located. Therefore, this round of air strikes went straight to these mounds. go.

The heavy aerial bomb fell from the sky amidst the whistling sound. The body of the long-winged diver was pulled up, and the screaming sound echoed over the group of ancient web-winged cockroaches. They all tried their best to flap their wings and rise higher into the sky, but it was still to no avail.

After the aerial bomb was thrown, the divers immediately activated the jet boost system in their bodies, accelerating and flapping their hind wings to continue climbing to high altitudes, leaving only a large group of ancient web-winged cockroaches messy in the wake.

With the flying ability of the ancient web-winged cockroach, it is no more than a dream to catch up with the long-winged diver with its wide hind wings and dual propulsion of jet power.

Below, the muffled sound of explosions also came from the mounds, accompanied by clods of soil and broken meat residues flying, and the body of a wingless cockroach was thrown into the sky, and then kicked down with its six limbs feebly.

The charge of the heavy aerial bomb is much higher than that of the Mortar Spider's anti-personnel grenade. One shot is enough to destroy targets such as mounds of enemy nests, and even has some overpowering power.

Therefore, Lin Yi's goal in this attack was not only to test the Kui-Wing Diver's ability to hit the ground, but also to test the various grades of ammunition produced by him from the Brood. Which one is more effective in destroying these mounds? good.

The first group of long-winged divers returned immediately after dropping their bombs, and the second group soon flew over with their broad hind wings flapped and assumed an attacking posture - but the difference was that their dive angles were larger than those of the first group. A lot of small batches come out.

The abdomen skillfully bent, and in the scream that resounded across the sky, several smaller black dots detached from the end of the abdomen, and then whizzed diagonally downward at a faster speed, while adjusting the direction, heading straight towards a building below. The mound shot away.

The end of the abdomen of each King-Winged Diver fired four such small black dots, and the salvos fired by several King-Winged Divers were also quite spectacular.

Compared with the previous biological aerial bombs, the new batch of Kuaiyi divers are closer to rockets, or air-to-surface missiles. They are equipped with the same jet boosting system, which can accelerate in a short time to obtain greater impact. of penetration.

The warhead of this biological rocket is not equipped with a compound eye, sacrificing a certain degree of accuracy in exchange for a semi-armor-piercing warhead with a thicker and harder exoskeleton, which can more efficiently and cost-effectively knock open the outer shell of giant horseshoe crab spiders. skeleton.

One round of strikes did not have a very good effect on the mound groups, but this was expected by Lin Yi. After all, this was not a weapon specially prepared for these mound groups.

In addition to these two kinds of ammunition, there is also an incendiary bomb in the imagination. The structure is also very simple. It is a bag filled with grease and two glands containing propellant and enzyme. It has no guidance function and directly covers a certain range.

However, just like the previous test of the Mortar Spider, because the incendiary bombs would destroy the lichens covering the enemy mounds and waste a lot of nutrients, Lin Yi did not try the incendiary bombs, but controlled the Kui-winged Divers to carry the organisms. High-explosive aerial bombs struck several rounds. On the ground, the fastest army of crazy-toothed saw ants has swarmed over, and in conjunction with the attacks of the aerial divers, they have killed the scattered mid-throat spiders and other combat-level creatures, and cleared an area.

Then, the Crazy-toothed Saw Ants carved a passage on the ground. In the air, a special long-winged diver began to slowly lower its height, aiming at this "runway". Its four wings began to deflect forward, driving the body to slow down. .

A protruding ridge-like structure under the chest cavity of the Big-Winged Diver scratched a mark on the ground composed of lichens and vascular plants, and the huge body landed on the ground.

But here, there are no cranes and no launch track structure. Losing the assistance of these levels and structures means that it has no chance of returning to the sky when it is unable to move on the ground.

However, Lin Yi had no intention of letting it fly again - with the load capacity of the Kuai-Wing Diver, it would be too wasteful to only carry biological bombs and other attack structures.

The bomb-mounted structure in the belly of this giant-winged diver is not a biological aerial bomb or rocket, but a gland filled with fatty tissue. Its function is also very simple - to provide nutrients when the swooper itself pupates into a mother nest!

Yes, because of the carrying capacity of the Kuai-Wing Diver, Lin Yi also used it as a guest transport aircraft to carry a large amount of nutrients and build a new mother nest in a distant place like a flying pioneer.

The new mother nest, excluding necessary maintenance land equipment and other levels, will fully convert all the resources obtained into crane equipment and hydraulic ejection launch tracks, becoming the frontline airport of the nest group.

At the rate of proliferation of structures such as nest nests, these frontline airfields will be established at an extremely fast rate, supplying another batch of swoopers to continue advancing and destroy more enemy mound groups.

In the subsequent battles, due to the addition of the Kuai-Wing Diver, the battle almost completely turned into a one-sided massacre, without any suspense.

To Lin Yi's expectation, the other party did not develop any more targeted grades, and did not even improve on the existing grades, but its tactics became more and more conservative. Relying on terrain defense, it seems to be delaying as much time as possible.

This once again reminded Lin Yi of the Straight Spiral Stone Nest Group - some time before the "Kraken" appeared, they were delaying as much time as possible, waiting for the development of the final decisive battle weapon.

From this point of view, it is very likely that the current nest group is also researching some decisive weapon to try to reverse the situation of the war.

But in later generations, the facts of the two world wars have proved that in a systematic battle, one or two so-called decisive weapons cannot completely reverse the defeat.

Nowadays, Lin Yi's various land combat levels can be said to have formed a primitive system. Even if the opponent really develops a decisive battle weapon like the land version of the "Kraken", Lin Yi will no longer be afraid.

(End of this chapter)