While the Hive Insect Lord was attacking from the sky towards the rear of the Star Spirit Hub, the ground forces of the Swarm also attacked the defenses here at the only entrance and exit of the crater where the Star Spirit Base was located.

The first to appear is not the destroyer of ultra-long-range artillery fire, but the new unit that the Zerg has just unlocked, the Swarm Host.

Outwardly, the host of the swarm resembles a strangely menial crab with a large mushroom on its back, except that instead of pincers, their front paws are a pair of huge digging feet that allow it to quickly escape into the ground.

Once the host of the swarm has escaped underground, its skeletal stabilizing organs come into play, and when it is ready to hatch locusts to attack, this elastic skeleton structure of different thicknesses anchors the host.

Like the mounts of the Human Siege Tank, this special skeletal system allows the swarm host to remain stable and balanced when spraying locusts or being attacked.

The hosts of the swarm themselves are not capable of attack, and they rely on mushroom-shaped incubators on their backs to quickly hatch millions of parasite larvae in their bodies, which are stimulated by special hormones injected into the incubator by the host's glands and accelerate their growth.

When they are formed, the incubator on the host's back will eject them from the host's body and attack the enemy as a short-lived biological weapon.

Xue Hua has stuffed about four hundred swarm hosts into the belly sac of the king worm, and they will show their combat effectiveness in the first battle between the swarm and the star spirits, and expose some shortcomings that need to be improved.

The four hundred swarm hosts slowly moved to the periphery of the crater pass under the command of a mother worm, and prepared to dig into the sand on the surface of the asteroid at the edge of the range of the photon turret.

With a quick and efficient excavation, soon all that remained was a soft and slightly messy piece of star sand.

A few seconds later, thousands of transparent eggs burst out of the sand and burst open in midair, hatching a swarm of terrifying-looking locusts.

The locusts did not feel any discomfort from being exposed to the vacuum, and they quickly formed an army and swooped down towards the defensive front of the Star Spirit Base not far away.

This time, the remaining mechanical sentinels in the Star Spirit Base reacted much faster, and they appeared at the rear of the Photon Battery defense almost instantly, and began to use a force field to block the locusts' attack.

At first, this move was indeed very effective, the locusts did not attack far away, and the mechanical sentinels quickly used the force field to trap them in the fence, and then cooperated with the photon turret to destroy many locusts with their own disintegrating ray weapons.

However, as soon as the saboteurs began to join in the feast of destruction, the mechanic sentinels' tactics began to crumble rapidly.

The scorching bile cannonballs fired by the saboteurs can easily destroy the force fields created by the mechanical sentinels, and the dense artillery fire can help the locusts that break through the fence clear a path to attack.

With the help of the saboteurs and the second wave of locusts who arrived to help, the swarm forces finally tore a hole in the defense line of the Starling's Photon Battery before the first wave of locusts came to an end.

After this, Exterminators and Hoppers begin to appear, expanding to the sides along the gaps torn open by the locusts, followed by stinging snakes and cockroach troops, and the Explosive Needles and Cockroach Jumps soon become the nemesis of the few remaining mechanical sentinels.

As for the photon battery defense?

These immovable defensive weapons have become the best targets for saboteurs, and every third Burning Bile cannonball turns a Photon Turret into a sea of twisted scrap metal.

Flanked by the swarm fleet and ground forces, the Astral Spirit's defenses were rapidly falling apart, with a large number of probes pouring out of the pivotal defenses, turning over the Keldarin Crystal and Photon Turrets in the heart of the base in an attempt to make a final stand.

This senseless act was quickly crushed by the lightning-fast rush of jumping insect troops, and a large number of hopping coordinates were turned into quantum fragments in one place before they could be canceled.

The swarm forces quickly destroyed the portal, the production facility for all the mechanical sentinels.

However, the building necessary to control the Astral Drone unit was not found in the base, the Control Core.

Stokov examined the mission log recorded in the Star Spirit Nexus, but found no valuable clues.

Obviously, this base is just a "mining site" that provides resources.

The real Astral Facility should still be in that mysterious main base.

Just as it was about to give the order for the swarm to begin an attack on another Astral base.

The unexpected happened.

The King Worms suddenly detected a large number of Star Spirit troops with strong psionic disturbances coming out of the base located on a cliff and attacking in the direction of the swarm troops.

From the monitoring field of the king worm, it was found that this astral spirit unit not only had a large number of mechanical sentinels and a small number of probes, but also six huge colossas in it!

In addition, some of the Surveillance King Bugs also found some Star Spirit Air Force units in the airspace not far from the vicinity of the Swarm Fleet, which had never been entered into the Swarm Information Database.

This air unit appears to be some kind of unmanned fighter, about the size of an allosaurus, and looks a bit like a hexagonal prism with four wings, up, down, left, and right.

The astral attack came quite suddenly, especially the astral air force, which seemed to have gone around a long distance before suddenly coming out of the rear of the swarm fleet.

Stokoff instantly understood how they did it, in addition to the king worm of the swarm, there must be a star spirit detector nearby!

Only this invisible gadget can avoid the detection of the king insects, and only the anti-stealth detection of the king insects can be found.

However, at this point, it is futile to search for the Detector all over the world, and it must now quickly adjust its strategy to deal with the counterattack of the Star Spirit Force!

"Worker bees! Hatch the hive in place! King worms, bring all our troops into the crater, and then lay a fungus blanket at the entrance of the crater! Mother worms! Incubate the sponge tumor on the blanket at the entrance! Except for the worker bee that transformed into the hatchery, the other worker bees were divided into two groups, one group went to the entrance of the crater to mutate into a spinal needle crawler, and the other group went to the back of the crater and mutated into a spore crawler! ”

Stokoff quickly chose a tactic and began to build a hive on the site of the Star Spirit base, which was used as a base to defend against the counterattack of the Star Spirit forces.

"All saboteurs! Stand by in the left rear of the defensive line! All biter hosts! Camp directly behind the defensive line! Disperse the lurkers! Spread to both sides of the line! Our opponent has a Colossus! They can't be allowed to burn our army in droves! ”

"All the Stingers are divided into two parts, one is on standby in the frontal line, and the other group goes to the back of the crater, ready to support our fleet! Jumping insects and cockroaches are on standby! All exterminators are on standby behind the needle crawlers! ”

"100 dragons will patrol the front line of defense with the Guardian King Worm and destroy all detectors that try to get close!"

"The fleet is concentrating on the Central Hive Lord! The Corruptor Strikes! Allosaurus responds from both wings! Get ready to meet the enemy! ”

"Attention! They're coming! ”