Chapter 106: The shortcomings that have been made up
After a brief understanding of the abilities and characteristics of the new class of energy-absorbing insects, Xue Hua began to command his Zerg troops to go to the battlefield.
During the march, he discovered that the digging feet of the energy sucker were not fixed like the host of the swarm, but more like the sliding legs of the mother worm.
This type of worm foot allows it to move at a relatively high speed while on the blanket, but once out of the blanket's range, it moves at an unbearably slow speed.
This is also the characteristic of the worm mothers, and it is also an important reason why the worm mothers are all powerful troops with strong combat effectiveness, but they generally rarely appear at the forefront of the battle.
In addition, Xue Hua also found that although the micro-parasites released by the energy absorbers were able to fly at low altitudes, their survival time and vitality were significantly stronger when they were above the land covered by the fungus blanket than on ordinary ground.
The fungus mist released by the toadstool has a similar effect, but it is still inferior to the fungus blanket.
It seems that if you want to make the most of the various abilities of the energy absorber, it is better to keep it on the fungus blanket.
Fortunately, the insect colony now has an improved type of fungus blanket, and the spores secreted by this fungus blanket can be carried by the mother worm to other places for sowing, so that the energy absorbing insects do not have a good combat environment.
After learning more about the characteristics of the energy absorber, Xue Hua tried to make a way to combine the mother worm and the king worm in the army, and then arranged a large fungus blanket outside the stronghold to be captured, and then ordered the stinging snakes (the Zerg units used in the test battlefield are all primitive races that have not evolved and there are also no new troops) to launch the first round of attacks towards the demon stronghold.
The demons who were attacked quickly launched a defense and counterattack, and a large group of various demons mixed with a large number of Forgotten Mages appeared on the cracked walls, and several cracks in the walls of the city also saw groups of Forgotten Knights rushing out with swords in hand.
Seeing the stinging snake open its spray cavity, the oblivion mages at the head of the city immediately waved their skeletal arms and rained a large dark red curse on the stinging snakes.
A group of stinging snakes in the front row did not stop, and hundreds of sharp needles shot out with a sharp sound, slamming into the Forgotten Knights' brigade rushing through the cracks in the city wall.
However, the Forgotten Knights who were baptized by the needle rain were not knocked down by any of them, and the white bone armor on their bodies was a perfect defense against the stinging snake's needle attack, but the group of stinging snakes that took the initiative to attack suddenly screamed and fell to the ground.
"Sure enough, it's an attack on the Reverse Devouring Curse, it's really troublesome."
Xue Hua shook his head, and then immediately ordered the energy-suckers to advance to the rear of the front line under the protection of the cockroaches, and immediately began to use its ability to eliminate the cursed effects of the swarm.
Under his command, thousands of energy-sucking insects quickly arrived at the optimal location for skill coverage and immediately began hatching purifying parasites to cover the surrounding Zerg troops.
With the help of the Energizer's skills, the curse effect on the stinging snakes was quickly dispelled, and at the same time, the purifying parasites were also dispelled, along with the white bone shields on the Forgotten Knights.
At the command of the insect mothers in the rear, hundreds of thousands of stinging snakes erupted into sharp hisses, and sharp needles rained down from the sky, this time, the Forgotten Knights, who had lost the protection of their bone shields, could no longer resist such an attack, and they fell to the ground one after another under the blow of the needle rain, and the entire Forgotten Knights legion was completely wiped out in an instant.
After destroying the Forgotten Knights, the swarm immediately began to attack the cracks in the wall, and a large number of jumping insects rushed towards the city wall like a rising tide, and the cockroaches dived underground to bypass the sea of jumping insects above by digging into the ground.
The king insects were full of various Zerg units in their belly bags, flying towards the city like dark clouds, and a large number of allosaurs formed a black tornado like a meat grinder above the stronghold, and those bladed insects that formed a curtain were the sharp serrations of the meat grinder.
The energy-absorbing worm pierces the hollow spiny needle in its abdomen into the ground, continuously drawing energy from the forgotten mages on the city walls, and then using this energy to hatch a large number of purifying parasites, symbiotic parasites, and resistance parasites, which make the oblivion mages' previous invincible curse tactics completely ineffective, and without this hole card, the demon stronghold can no longer stop the attack of the swarm.
When the last group of sheep-headed demons were completely overwhelmed by the jumping insects, the demons' stronghold was completely lost, and at the same time, the picture in front of Xue Hua's eyes changed instantly, and he returned to the planet beyond the planet's atmosphere.
Then, the figures of Abbather and the energy-sucking insect sample reappeared before his eyes, and he returned to the evolutionary chamber of the Leviathan.
"Yes, it's very targeted, and it does just make up for the shortcomings of the swarm's ability to dispel negative states, so that the hole cards hidden by Mephisto in Trivank are completely useless."
Xue Hua nodded in satisfaction, and at the same time authorized Isha to let it immediately set up a parasitic nest in the Leviathan and begin to hatch a large number of energy-absorbing insects.
The price of this psionic unit is 100 gas more expensive than that of the infected, but it is fifty crystals cheaper, that is, 50 crystals and 250 gas each, and with the current resource reserves of the swarm, there is no problem at all in getting a sufficient number of energy-absorbing insects in a short period of time.
After Isha went to carry out the order, Xue Hua used the mind of the main nest to contact Dehaka, who he had appointed as the commander of the nest group in the Western Continent, and the genetic information in the hive had been re-encoded, and he asked the mother in charge of liaison to immediately tell Dehaka that the main nest group had also begun to develop energy-absorbing troops.
However, later the worm mother next to Dehaka came back to report that Dehaka took a group of guards composed of jumping insects, stinging snakes and shadow insects (Dehaka's second commander skill) to hunt the essence of the mysterious sand dunes, and the current worm nest is basically managed by the worm mothers.
“... Well, as long as there are no problems, leave it alone, and let it raise an elite Zerg squad is also a good thing. ”
Xue Hua rolled his eyes speechlessly, this guy really deserves to be a primordial insect, everything is based on the essence, but anyway, there is no movement on the Western Continent for the time being, and the only mysterious sand dunes that need to be paid attention to have been very calm recently.
However, since the Western Continent was mentioned, Xue Hua remembered one more thing, that is, the legendary assassin Greck who came to assassinate him before, this guy's genes obviously have traces of contamination, and it is said that he is from Westhorse in the Western Continent.
Since Xue Hua hasn't had time to take care of things over there recently, why don't you ask the insect mothers over there to send mimic chicks and shadow insects to the human kingdom over there to investigate?
It's better to get some information than to leave it here and don't ask.
After all, there was a question about a certain advanced civilization in this universe, so he couldn't help but be anxious.
So he explained this problem to the worm mothers in the hive, and asked them to use the network of tunnel insects that are now all over the Western Continent to send some mimic chicks and shadow insects to the Western Realm, and let them find out about the deeds of the "butcher butler" Greck.