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Chapter 102 Ruthless Difficulty
Zhou Ning took his soldiers and ran to the insect soil to have close contact with the insect swarm.

Soon he discovered that the opponent's war intelligence was a little higher than he thought, and his mobility was also leveraged.

The eight trigrams lock golden array is still completing the detailed construction, and the swarm dug a hole in the dome and started playing the magic weapon.

'Om... chug chug! '

The bugs dropped by the divine soldiers were torn to pieces by Goliath's cannon while still in the air.

At this time, Zhou Ning was still in the mood to point Jiang Shan: "If I were a bug, I would open a few more holes, and the tactic of refueling is to give it away."

Turning his head, he ordered: "Speed ​​up the hardening of the ground to prevent the bugs from digging up the tunnel, Tu Xingsun, closely monitor the underground movement."

As a result, not long after, the second, third, and fourth holes appeared on the dome.

It gives the impression that a circular passage is dug horizontally at the height of the roof of a six-story residential building, and facing the dome terrace, there is a tendency to turn the dome into an arena.

Zhou Ning was surprised by the burrowing ability of the swarm, which seemed to be faster than his construction speed, and he didn't know if it was because of the large number.

To be honest, at this time, Zhou Ning was already a little worried.

Fighting for population, economy, and production in war, if the mobilization ability of the insect swarm far surpasses him, and the production efficiency is much higher than him, then even if he has some technical and tactical advantages, he may not be able to support the later stage, and he will be defeated. The swarm's uninterrupted production and attacks were overwhelmed.

Afterwards, the facts are indeed developing in the direction that Zhou Ning is worried about.

First, Tu Xingsun discovered the digger.

This kind of worm is not a digging worm, but an engineering worm bred by the swarm for non-combat purposes.

Its size is comparable to those of chariots, and its only specialty is digging holes.

And this kind of engineered bug is quite logical. There are two long whiskers on the back of its buttocks. These long whiskers are like the air refueling pipes of fighter jets. They can be connected to the bug pipes, one for energy input and one for water. .

With water and energy, engineered bugs can continuously produce secretions.

Then, in the process of digging the hole, while squeezing the earth and rocks in all directions, the secretions are used to turn the earth into insect soil.

In addition, it will continue to swallow earth and rocks, and excrete lumps of insect soil from its tail from time to time.

Behind him, the worker insects are like dung beetles rolling dung balls, transporting these insect soil clods away in an orderly and efficient manner.

Tu Xingsun used the method of surprise blasting to make the engineering bugs lie in their nests.

But the information he fed back still worried Zhou Ning.

The insect-soil cavity made by engineering insects has the characteristics of ceramic pipes, which are hard, tough, and anti-corrosion.

It is still taking shape, and it has already made it difficult for Tu Xingsun. When the secretions continue to spread and infect, the thickness of the insect soil wall will further increase, and it will be more difficult to break through.

Taking precautions, Zhou Ning recalled Tu Xingsun, and then gave him a few psionic incendiary bombs to try.

Tu Xingsun quickly sent back good news that the burning of psionic energy can indeed make the insect soil deteriorate, just like hot iron can melt holes in rubber tires.

But while psionic energy is effective, it will also cause consumption.

This is obviously different from the previous dealing with dead Taoists, turning the creations of dead Taoists into firewood, not to mention burning more and more prosperous, and getting more psionic energy crystals later, the more you fight, the more you have.

The production of ghost energy is not so easy.

The magic tools and facilities of the dead Taoists are basically old objects that have been built for hundreds of years and thousands of years. They condense the essence of evil power, so that they give people the illusion that it is not difficult to generate ghost energy, and it is enough to fight to support war.

However, during the previous trip to Thorn Prison, especially the night of the blood moon, Youneng was consumed a lot.

Zhou Ning doesn't have much on hand now, and there is also a need for a guarantee to maintain the hibernation-like hibernation of the insect soldiers.This underground desert is barren, and he still expects that after the base develops and grows, it will occupy a certain energy mine that continuously produces psionic energy.

As a result, the hemp rope always picks the thinnest place and breaks, so I start asking him for 'money'.

It's really 'money', system money, energy coins.

Energy currency is not a credit currency, but a valuable currency. What Zhou Ning has discovered so far is that it is a kind of panacea energy.From refining to casting spells, from the five elements to gangsha, everything is fine.

It is indeed better to use it after conversion, but the conversion has power consumption.

It can be used directly, but it will affect the effect to some extent.

Therefore, if he can earn more energy coins from other means, this problem can also be solved.This has also become the main reason why he has always been able to hold his breath.

After spending seventeen hours, the construction of the Golden Bagua Locking Formation was finally completed.

It can be enhanced in the future, but that is the icing on the cake at the cost of burning money, and the cost performance is not high.

Considering the current income and expenditure situation of his own foundation, Zhou Ning felt that it was better to take it easy because there were too many places to spend money.Fighting against the swarm is costly, and he has no idea what to do now.

The current battlefield situation is not very good.

The Golden Bagua Locking Formation was indeed a thorn inserted into the worm soil, but it was also surrounded by worms.

The bug has cost a lot of strength and the lives of the soldiers, but it has also made his team stagnate. Now it is a barrier against a barrier, and the opportunity to expand the results of the battle like before has been lost.

Zhou Ning organized a wave of assaults, but encountered a series of primitive but effective obstructions such as pits, wall spears, and rolling stones.

Traps and spears are okay, but quality weapons like rolling stones are really painful.

In the lumen tunnel, there is no place to hide, the only way is to use the corpse brake method to let Goliath go up to the dead corner skillfully, otherwise the whole team will have to be run over.

If, in order to fight against the rolling stones, dig holes for hiding soldiers on both sides of the tunnel, it will cause a lot of consumption and seriously slow down the marching speed.

Once the Swarm discovered that Rolling Stones worked, they stepped up their efforts to make and use them.

A kind of bug is also allowed to drill into the interior, so that it can roll on flat ground and speed up on slopes.

In the end, the operation failed and could not afford it.

The offensive turned into a defensive one, and Zhou Ning's mind also changed. He wanted to keep the existing achievements, put enough pressure on the swarm, and restrain enough energy and troops of the opponent.

In this way, the rear can farm with peace of mind.

To put it simply, since quick victory has become a luxury, it depends on who will crush who first.

A few hours later, Tu Xingsun's investigation proved that Zhou Ning's worries were not superfluous.

The insect swarm was indeed playing a roundabout outflank, trying to cut off the retreat of the Eight Diagrams Locking Gold Formation.

After Zhou Ning thought for a while, he called Tu Xingsun to teach him the opportunity.

Therefore, Tu Xingsun changed his tactics in the next actions, no longer blocking hard, but focusing on effectively killing the insect swarm, and destroying whichever is more expensive.

Like engineering bugs, it looks expensive, and instead of killing them directly, they will be ravaged and miserable.

The swarm chose to drag such a seriously wounded person to the second line to recuperate, and Tu Xingsun's goal was achieved.

In addition, those worker insects who roll dung eggs chase and kill them, but they kill them with all their strength, but they turn a blind eye to those war insects, especially the heavy armored units, which can hide when they can.

At the same time, Zhou Ning returned to the bridgehead at the first fork, and with an order, the bridgehead continued to be strengthened, enlarged, and castled.

He himself also rolled up his sleeves and turned himself into a big animal, using his expertise in digging soil to do earthworks with one as a hundred.

In addition, a Bagua lock golden formation is also created here.

This time, the insect swarm exposed their upper limit of group strength. There were not a large number of worker insects coming to participate in the fortification construction competition, but only dispatched war insects to engage in harassment wars.

When Zhou Ning saw the situation, he was not polite, formed four teams of Goliaths, and directly chose A on the small map to go there.

The two teams start fighting at the same time, one team is the main team, and the other is the backup team. When the consumption is a little serious, the front and rear teams will switch and continue to advance the mopping up.

Without the position bonus, the losses of both sides are a bit big.

But at least Zhou Ning feels that the victory lies with me. Goliath's firepower is strong enough, and he has the advantage of long-range shooting. If he cooperates with some bombing strikes from time to time, he can often quickly destroy the long-range combat power of the swarm, and then he can Kite tactics are used.

Goliath is not faster than War Bug.

But the problem is that Goliath can easily retreat back to the formation of a firepower encirclement. At this time, it is inappropriate for melee combat insects to chase, or not to chase.

Zhou Ning saw that his own Goliath had the upper hand, and the swarm didn't come up with any tricks, so he reduced his attention to the front line and focused more on fortification construction.

Under the effect of time compression, seven days passed easily.

Looking at it at this time, the three major war fortifications, the rock pillar barrier, the fork road castle, and the Zongtu base, have all stabilized their positions.

Among them, the railway line from the main base to the rock pillar barrier started three days ago and is currently under rapid construction, advancing more than 500 meters every day.

The passage from the rock pillar barrier to the fork road castle has been expanded and turned into a pseudo-worm.

The system's copying ability is still very strong. Later on the second day of the war, the secret of the worm soil was cracked, and the extraordinary colloidal concrete similar to the worm soil was launched, called super clay for short.

Therefore, Zhou Ning used super clay to ensure the safety of the logistics route.

He also set up a monitoring device, which is managed by a special console, so that he can detect the destructive behavior of the insect swarm in time.

But it must be said that the super-clay channel is currently expensive for him.

He is also experimental, he made the passage between the rock pillar barrier and the fork road castle into clay, and asked him to completely promote the clay passage, but he couldn't do it.

Under such a background, the safety between the Fork Road Castle and the Zerg Earth was lost under the infiltration of the Zerg Swarm.

In other words, now, a week after the start of the war, the main battlefield is in this area.

At the beginning, Tu Xingsun was ordered by Zhou Ning to carry out a blocking war with the killing and killing of living forces as the core.

Later, despite the casualties, the swarm managed to dig out the effect that all roads lead to Rome. Tu Xingsun was too busy, so he teamed up with Goliath to fight.

And then, the bug swarm still didn't relax their troop input in this area, and it turned into a tunnel battle.

Zhou Ni's troops aimed at killing and destroying caves.

The bug swarm did everything possible to dig this area to extend in all directions like a honeycomb.

During this period, Zhou Ning tried to send troops from the Zongtu base to see if he could penetrate deeper into the Zongtu and truly fight in the enemy's belly.

It turned out that the center of gravity of the swarm's fortification construction during this period seemed to be here, and it insisted on building this side into the Maginot Line, which was both strong and strategically deep. It is really difficult to advance.

In particular, the swarm began to try to focus on Goliath's bipedal characteristics and make a fuss on the road.

For example, they use a kind of worm wire trip wire. Once Goliath's legs and feet are entangled, it is very difficult to break open, even if you can't do it yourself, you need a special engineering vehicle to help burn or cut it.

In addition, the swarm also made shellac pits. If this substance is in the pits, it is like glue in a sealed jar, which is as viscous as pitch.

As soon as Goliath's big feet stepped on it, the effect was as if the dough was wrapped in syrup, sticking to his feet and legs.

After a while, the shellac will harden, and at this point, stretching and contracting Goliath's ankles and toes will become a problem, and it will become much heavier.

Another point is disgusting, that is, ordinary flames will only soften the shellac again, and it is difficult to burn it off. High-temperature flames can easily change the properties of Goliath's material.

Cut and scratch with a knife?
Sorry, this kind of work is much more complicated than repairing the hooves of large animals. Even if it can be done, it will consume too much maintenance ability, and the repair conditions are often not available on the battlefield.

Even so, Zhou Ning still struggled to lose his combat power and won the 'Ring Terrace' on the dome where the base of the insect soil was located.

This terrace is too abominable. The swarm has arranged heavy units of the chariot worm level here, and is trying to break the formation by throwing ammunition.

Although so far, no effective measures have been come up with, but the Zongtu base has been passively beaten because of this.

As a means of counterattack, it is blocked by thick insect-like rocks, and the effect is greatly reduced.

Zhou Ning spent hundreds of Goliaths before taking down the semi-ring area.

Zhou Ning called it the 'Bagua Outer Ring'.

Take down the outer ring of the Eight Diagrams, and set up watchtowers, turrets, and bunkers at key nodes, and establish a connection with the Eight Diagrams Array to supply energy to it, making it the outer layer of the array.

This is the main result of the Zongtu base this week.

In comparison, the external expansion of Fork Road Castle is much more eye-catching.

But Zhou Ning suspects that this is intentional by the swarm. The numerous fork roads, one by one with turret bunkers and outposts stationed in Goliath, the troops are virtually dispersed, and they will like a lot of engineering power and resources.

These outposts do have obvious advantages in dealing with small swarms of insects, but if there is a large group of people, plus short passages to detour, or holes to destroy from the ground, or powerful insects to lead the team, then the outpost is just a nail. It is not difficult to pull out thick nails that go into logs.

Speaking of this, Zhou Ning had to express his depression. For such a long time, he has never seen a general like General Zhuo. This kind of situation where the enemy's fatal knife is always in the scabbard does not come out. It's a very annoying mentality.

The key point is that, at least at the current stage, his hero unit is too important for the entire force.

It is the number one high-end combat power, otherwise it can withstand the enemy's hero units, lest one's own side be killed by the enemy hero units, and it is also the number one production force.

The placement of important production facilities, such as the second arsenal, must be done by him, and engineering bugs cannot do this business.

But once he starts casting spells, he can't stop. What if the real-life insect generals lead troops to attack at this time?
It is precisely because of this concern that he can only be a big animal this week, doing low-level work such as earthwork construction, trying to strengthen the stronghold, but failing to highlight the role of his high-end productivity, which is very embarrassing!

After thinking about it, it is impossible to use such grass and trees as soldiers.

Anyone who has played {Red Alert} knows that if you play Fengfeng mine map, if you don’t build more than [-] mines and more than [-] arsenals, you will definitely fall into the quagmire of a war of attrition and a war of fueling in the middle and late stages. One or two cold computers can teach you to be a human being.

So on this day, Zhou Ning gritted his teeth and ran to the main base to place a second arsenal.As a result, not long after the beginning, something happened...

(End of this chapter)