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Chapter 101 First Contact

Time came in a blink of an eye in the first ten days of October.

The system gave a reminder that with the current scale of mining, the iron ore will be exhausted within half a year at most.

Well, playing real-time strategy games often faces problems like this, forcing you to find new mines.

So on this day, Zhou Ning started an armed prospecting trip.

Hundreds of Goliaths, a dozen construction vehicles, and three supply vehicles.

Once a new mineral source is discovered, it will be occupied directly.

This is a non-standard trip at all, it's almost like pointing a destination on a big map, and then A goes there.

As a result, the next day, there was a situation at the base, and insects were found in a sentry tower outside.

Zhou Ning was shocked when he heard the news.

He remembered the earth saying: When you find a cockroach, it means that there is at least a nest of cockroaches, not too far away from you.

Zhou Ning knew that he had won the lottery, and there was a swarm of insects nearby.

There is nothing to say, the armed prospecting is directly interrupted, and the troops are pulled back, ready to fight.

And he himself teleported back to the base directly, and then pulled a new team towards the sentry tower where the bugman was found.

Due to the distorted sense of time, this series of new operations, which originally took more than an hour, was only a few tens of seconds to Zhou Ning.

Leading the team to the sentry tower, the worms are naturally gone long ago, but the watchtower is usually guarded by ghosts, and now they have chased them down.

Zhou Ning let the troops station temporarily, and at the same time sent more than 20 ghosts to conduct a detailed exploration of this area.

Facts proved that his approach was correct. More than half an hour later, a ghost discovered an abnormality. There was a relatively hidden cave at the base of a huge pillar.

This cave was dug out, in line with the concept of 'Bing Road', regardless of the slope, the main battle tanks can pass through freely.

It was not discovered by the ghost before, it should be that the entrance of the cave was blocked, but now it has been opened.

It was still a ghost exploration, and the insect soil was discovered not long after.

And then the ghost is gone.

The anti-reconnaissance level of the swarm is higher than Zhou Ning imagined.

Zhou Ning suspects that Zongtu may have problems. For example, it can make special energy waves echo in the space of the lumen state like a reflector, and then detect enemies, including invisible units, by distinguishing energy waves.

It's really annoying that there is no way to make a surprise attack, but after Zhou Ning thought about it, he still planned to start fighting immediately to gain the first-hand advantage.

So, while sending Goliath into the passage, he ordered the engineers to build a barrier by relying on this giant pillar.

The convoy set off from the base and began to deliver supplies to this side.

Zhou Ning led the team to go deep. First of all, at the fork in the other end of the Bingdao, he put down the magic weapon watchtower.

His strategic thinking this time is to take the initiative to attack and fight dumbly.

This area was unfamiliar to him and his troops.

A lone army goes deep, and it is easy to be outflanked and surrounded by insects.

In addition, the insects can rely on their geographical advantages to play tactics such as luring the enemy to go deep and blocking them layer by layer.

Against such a background, his thinking is naturally anti-guerrilla warfare. Anyway, judging from the current situation of the insect land, a large force cannot be deployed. There are bound to be heavy casualties.

The bridgehead was still under construction, so Zhou Ning arranged for a patrol post, and then led people to continue advancing.

This time, when encountering a fork in the road, Zhou Ning directly ordered it to be blown up, and then advanced further towards the area where the ghost was killed.

Not long after setting foot on the insect soil, he ordered the construction of a second barrier in a huge space comparable to a dome.

For this construction, he even sacrificed the Eight Diagrams Lock Golden Formation.

Different from before, now he already has the energy source of 'Gang Sha Annihilation', and uses it as an energy production device to continuously supply energy to the energy pool of the magic circle. This 'gold' is locked in front of him.

Baguasuo Golden Formation had just been laid, and the details were still being completed, when the insects arrived.

There are many melee units with large bodies and thick armor, but there are also many units that can shoot from a distance.

The most important thing is that, just as Zhou Ning expected, the insects can dominate the three or four places, and they will cause disasters to the surface every few years, so they have heavy weapons.

They are also bugs, but not in human form, but somewhat like lobsters.

In fact, if you look closely at it, it doesn't look like a human, but more like a standing cockroach.Seen from the back, it looks like a human being in a coat.

Looking at it from the front, neither the face nor the layout of the body is a human being.

But they do walk upright, which frees up their four upper limbs.

Goliath opened fire, and the projectiles sprayed by the machine gun, like pouring rain, formed a barrage, and the flesh and blood of the buggers who rushed into it were scattered, and their bodies were covered with holes.

In the watchtower, the special war insects use anti-material weapons to deal with tank-level heavy insect units.

The target is huge, and there is no room to accelerate or turn around, so it is easy to aim.

'Boom! With two shots, two fist-sized holes appeared on the front of the chariot worm, a vital blow, and a chariot worm lay down on the spot.

The other chariot worm did not die immediately. Like an out-of-control excavator, it rushed from left to right, its limbs danced wildly, and brought a wave of bloody blows to the surrounding worms.

'Boom boom boom! 'When the worms reached a certain distance, the high-speed grenade launchers in the watchtower began to roar, and every grenade falling into the worm group would explode like a fragmentation grenade.

Zhou Ning currently has a production line of 'explosive bombs', a type of grenade on hand.

Judging from this battle, it is enough.

A large number of insects died on the way to the charge, and only a small part were strangled by the backup firepower while they were advancing.

As for the long-range strikes of bugmen, there is a kind of bug that can launch evil crossbow thorns, like an activated version of a scorpion crossbow. It can indeed pose a threat to a certain extent. Inserted in the wall of the watchtower.

But there are too few scorpion crossbows, and their range is average. They are within the anti-material strike range of advanced sniper insects, and they will be cleaned up first.

All the attacking war insects died in battle, and none of them chose to retreat.

Zhou Ning didn't know whether this was due to tradition or something else.

However, some subsequent situations have proved that their unrelenting fight to the death has the intention of delaying time.

Zhou Ning's side had almost just completed a simple cleaning of the battlefield when new war worms appeared.

This time, they did not launch a strong attack, but probed their brains to observe the barriers that were still under construction.

Zhou Ning ordered a cold attack, so the swarm's snooping stopped for a while.

When Zhou Ning planned to organize a team and launch more actions, they appeared again.

And this time, the long-range power has increased significantly, and the melee is no longer reckless, but has become a shield for long-range units.

Zhou Ning frowned secretly: "Is it growing so fast? Has it changed the structure of combat power and tactics in just one battle? This battle wisdom is a bit high!"

(End of this chapter)