Another ocean appeared in the sky. It was different from the blue ocean on the ground. It was red like a hammered iron, and the screams of thunder and air friction were the sounds of the ocean.

Standing on the ground at this time, you can see the "rain of fire" gradually falling. They are the ground combat bodies sent by the Fourth Fleet.

Breaking through the stratosphere, the whole body was wrapped in red flames, and the cannon-shaped streamlined object approached the ground at an extremely high speed, bringing with it fierce winds.

Boom——!

The scream turned into a roar that could shatter glass dozens of miles away, followed by a terrifying shock wave that spread rapidly and a mushroom-shaped dust cloud that was thrown up.

When the smoke and dust dissipated, what was left was a huge crater no less than a tactical nuclear bomb, as well as the remains of roots that were torn apart by this great collision between heaven and earth.

[Introducing nanomachines to repair damaged metal structures]

[Damage 67%, report uploaded]

[Repair time…4…3…2…1…completed]

[Read environmental information to assess risks: Security]

[This mission: Destroy enemy air defense units]

The shape of the cannonball located in the center of the giant crater gradually changes.

The shell of the shell disintegrated into multiple parts, and a fluid substance that looked like a liquid or a colloid emerged from the inside, glowing with a metallic light and the same color as mercury.

Eight metal skeletons stretched out from the fluid material, supporting the entire body similar to the collector's limbs, and then were completely wrapped in the fluid material.

Not long after, a spider-shaped structure that looked more like a living thing than a machine stood in the center of the giant pit.

[Structure assembly completed]

[Start executing the task]

The ground combat body does not move like a collector. Its eight metal legs are connected laterally and zigzag to form a wheel, with the combat body serving as the center of the wheel.

At a speed hundreds of times crushing the gatherers, the alien's ground combat body escaped from the giant crater created when it landed and headed towards the hive.

Similar situations occur in various areas of the planet's surface.

It was naturally impossible for Huo Gu to let the ground combat body move as it pleased and run along. The ground combat body would soon encounter obstacles in the execution of its mission.

With the combat body as the center, countless roots sprouted out of the ground within an area of ​​several kilometers, launching surprise attacks on the combat body without any pause.

Huogu would not have any idea of ​​underestimating the enemy. The aliens' technology completely crushed the earth's civilization. It did not have the capital to underestimate the enemy. Even if they were just these ground combatants as death squads, Huogu was still very energetic.

In order to deal with the combat body, the number of roots completely filled the field of vision - a forest composed of roots.

Facts have proved that Huogu's caution was not wrong. After experiencing the technological explosion, the alien civilization developed a ground combat system whose effectiveness was underestimated even though Huogu had greatly overestimated it.

Countless roots turned into terrifying giant pythons under the control of Huogu, preparing to strangle the ground combatants trapped in the "Rhizome Forest" at once.

However, what surprised Huo Gu was that the strangulation operation organized by such a large group not only failed to destroy them, but also failed to even slow down the opponent's progress.

When these ground combat entities showed up in the shelter, Hogu controlled the collectors named "Si" individuals to face the enemy's Wang Squadron's effectiveness.

No, it needs to be more than that.

With the help of the roots that attack them and their extremely high inertial speed, the combat bodies are like small balls in the three-dimensional marbles in a classic game. They are repeatedly ejected in the mid-air of the root jungle and continue to swim at high speed without slowing down.

, on the contrary, there is an upward trend.

And the general direction remains unchanged, and the distance to the hive that is the target of destruction is shortening sharply.

In just a few hours, more than a thousand hives on the surface were destroyed.

"This...should be considered a change of fortune, right?"

Huo Gu murmured somewhat self-deprecatingly.

The situation he was facing now coincided with what happened during the last space battle with the aliens, which gave Hogu a strong sense of déjà vu.

And this time, Huo Gu was the one who was landed, which fits the location of the last alien star port.

Huogu did not panic. Not only that, it stopped paying attention to the aliens' ground combat units and instead focused on the fourth fleet, which was still approaching Ming.

"Is this distance enough?"

【No, it’s too far.】

"Yeah?"

"I see."

Hearing this, Huo Gu turned his attention to the surface battlefield again.

Judging from the performance on the battlefield, these alien ground combat units are far more powerful in effectiveness than the King of Soldiers squadron encountered in the shelter.

The nanomachines wrapped around the combat body are like real biological tissues. The muscle parts can increase strength, and the joint parts can reduce friction, enhance buffer resistance, and provide protection to a certain extent.

Even if the metal skeleton inside them is destroyed, it will only make them temporarily incapacitated, and the nanomachines will repair the metal skeleton.

There is only one way to completely destroy them, and that is to destroy the energy core of the combat body.

However, this is very difficult. The aliens don't know what materials they use and the strength of the energy core of the combat body. Even Hogu, who built a giant sublight speed rail gun, can't help but be amazed by it.

It also has attack capabilities. In close combat, it has plasma blade flames similar to those of the Soldier King Division, and in long range, it has kinetic energy weapons with a rate of fire that is more powerful than the Metal Storm on Earth.

With the cooperation of these weapons, even a cage with densely tangled roots and stems cannot even slow down the movement of the combatant.

However, does this mean that Huogu has no choice?

No, the answer is no.

"It's awesome, but if you're only at this level, it's not enough."

With such murmurs, the roots under the control of Huogu's thoughts began to stir, and every inch of tissue and every cell acted in accordance with the will of their monarch.

A large amount of nitroglycerin was produced. After reaching a sufficient amount, Hogu immediately detonated these chemical explosives without hesitation. The roots that were fighting the ground combatants exploded without warning.

Along with the explosion, there was also a large amount of unknown white liquid. None of the ground combatants in the "rhizome forest" could be spared. Let them avoid these liquids, just like avoiding every drop of rain in the torrential rain. Maybe it is really possible.

It can be done, but that is definitely not something that current alien technology can do.

The white liquid covered the ground combatants and quickly condensed into a colloid with extremely strong toughness.

If this is the only step that can't trap these combatants, the high-temperature plasma air blade will be released by the combatants, which can only trap these combatants for a minute or two at most.

Of course Huogu knew this very well, and what he wanted was exactly one or two minutes.

The rhizomes with tips that can penetrate into the gaps between molecules can easily break through the combat body's defense and destroy its metal skeleton, including the heavily protected energy core, as easily as poking into a block of tofu.

After destroying all the combat units, Huogu fell into thinking. He knew very well that the aliens must have learned that all the combat units they sent to the surface were destroyed.

"What are you going to do next?"

"Should we continue to attack in other ways, or..."
Chapter completed!