Although Su Yingxue's original research report proposed the hypothesis that female worms can only reproduce male worms, this is not entirely correct.
This is a probabilistic question. Although the probability is as low as almost 1 in 100 million, female worms can give birth to female worms.
However, according to the habits of the starry sky worms, after the mother worm is born and raised to a certain level, it will find a suitable celestial body and let it be self-reliant.
Thus, a new worm mound was born.
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In orbit around Blue Valley Star.
"Attention everyone!"
"After completing the orbital space, Team Qian Duoduo is responsible for controlling the besieged female insect, as long as it cannot escape!"
"Teams Ye Yunzhou, Shen Lang, and Leng Lingtian each lead a team of new pilots and are responsible for establishing a triangular defense line with the mother insect as the center!"
"The two teams on the Qingluan are in the middle to provide support. If any line of defense is in danger, support immediately!"
"Finally, Qian Duoduo, you have to control the rhythm and give the female insect enough pressure to make it feel like it will be doomed if it doesn't recall the fighting insect immediately!"
"But at the same time, you can't let it completely despair. You must always give it some hope of escape!"
"Only in this way, those more than 1,800 war insects will return to the rescue at all costs, instead of gathering into a sea of insects first and then returning to the rescue!"
"You are allowed to injure the female insect if necessary!"
"Do you understand everything?"
In the combat channel, Jiang Xingchen was explaining the key points of tactics.
"clear!"
"Very good, orbital airborne operations begin!"
The next moment, the mecha troops and assault ships that were still in orbit started their engines one after another and pushed themselves towards the planet. They were quickly captured by the planet's gravity and began airborne operations.
In the bridge of the Qingluan, Fu Wanting was sitting on Jiang Xingchen's command chair, looking at the observation screen displayed on the main screen ahead.
And he spoke softly at a volume that no one else could hear.
"Xingchen, be careful!"
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The war bugs hunting everywhere, one after another, piled the Cole beasts on the food rockery, and then flew into the distance again.
Just like hard-working bees, they work hard without complaining.
After releasing dozens of eggs again, the female worm twisted its fat body and pounced on the hill made of kodo beasts, starting a new round of feeding.
Oh no, it should be said that it is more appropriate to replenish energy.
However, this time it stopped before it officially started, then raised its ugly head and looked into the sky.
Yes, he has already felt that a large number of creatures are approaching it. This kind of creature is very delicious, and the biological energy level contained in its body is also very high.
only...
Why do these creatures feel so familiar to me?
Soon, it understood why it felt this familiar.
Looking at the group of mechas that were descending rapidly in the sky, it remembered, weren't these the same guys who had killed the female insect that gave birth to it, so that it had not been able to own the insect mound so far?
Recognizing the intruder and sensing that the incoming person was not good, the mother insect immediately summoned all the war insects through the spirit sharing network.
But it is a pity that today's hunting range has expanded to 5,000 kilometers, and most of the war bugs are not that fast even if they want to return for reinforcements.
Only those who are right next to the mother insect, or very close to it, can arrive here before the mecha swarm descends.
As a result, when all the mechas landed one after another, the number of war worms beside the mother worm was only over a hundred, not even as many as the number of raider mechas.
However, although the Starry Sky Zerg is a little chaotic, the human side is also a little chaotic.
Not to mention falling when they landed, more than half of the six mecha teams from Bi Fang and other three ships fell to the ground because they couldn't stand firm when they landed.
The key is that there are also many people who stand motionless while watching the insects rushing towards them.
This operation was so eye-catching that the pilots of the 101st Mecha Squadron were extremely speechless.
"Stand up for me, why are you so dazed?"
"Didn't you see those bugs are already rushing over? Pick up the gun and shoot!"
"Let me go, you didn't even turn on the safety of your beam rifle!"
Ye Yunzhou, Shen Lang, and Leng Lingtian were scolding each other in their own team channels.
They were really convinced. Are they here to fight, or are they working as a nanny?
Fortunately, the pilots of the 101st Mecha Squadron were powerful enough, and after a lot of hard work, they finally killed all the war bugs.
Except for one man who was too late to save and had his mecha head chopped off by a war bug, there were no casualties.
At this moment, several people finally understood why Jiang Xingchen asked each of their teams to lead two teams in a frigate.
At this level, if there are no veterans to bring along, the only thing to do is to deliver food!
On the other side, the twelve mechas of Qian Duoduo's team have successfully used the net made of that special material to cover the female insect.
No matter how noisy it is, it can never break free.
This made the mother worm even more anxious, and she kept urging all the war worms through the spirit sharing network.
At this time, the war bugs scattered all over the planet were trying their best to rush back, not even caring about any physical problems, let alone the problem of gathering.
And this is the situation Jiang Xingchen wants.
You know, a single war worm is not scary, what is really scary is the war worms that form a sea of worms!
If these more than 1,800 war bugs form a sea of bugs and rush towards them, even if the defense line can be held, they will inevitably cause considerable casualties.
Therefore, forcing them to rush back and arrive one after another is the best situation.
Through the satellite monitoring network deployed in orbit, Jiang Xingchen knew the movements of the war bugs clearly.
In fact, even without monitoring, you can already see with the naked eye at this moment that there are many war bugs in the distance, flying over from all directions.
"Attention, at 3 o'clock, 11 o'clock, 17 o'clock and 22 o'clock, a large number of war bugs are attacking, everyone..."
"Start shooting!"
The next moment, the pilots who had been waiting for a long time on the defense lines pulled the triggers one after another, and a large number of blue beams were shot out, spanning a distance of more than ten or twenty kilometers in an instant, and piercing through the war bugs one after another.
At this distance, as long as the bug is not out of sight at the moment you pull the trigger, you will definitely hit. This is not the case with gunpowder weapons from the home star era. Even if the range is sufficient, the bullet will take a long time to fly.
Although the new recruits who were used as fixed turrets performed better than before. After all, they did not need to control the movement of the mecha and only had to concentrate on shooting, but the hit rate was still a bit low.
At least they can't even perform half as well as they did in the academy training room.
And inside the defense line, the pilots of the Qingluan as a reserve team...
"I asked, are their standards too low? Did they really graduate from the same class as us? It's really embarrassing."
"Who says it's not the case? You don't even need to control the movement of the mecha. You just shoot. This accuracy is too bad, right?"
"Tsk, tsk, do you want us to show them our skills?"
Listening to the conversation coming from the channels of the two teams on the Qingluan, Jiang Xingchen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
These guys...
Have you forgotten what kind of virtue you were a month ago?
It seems like...we're on par with them, right?
Will Versailles be in trouble now?
I wanted to open my mouth to educate these brats, but before Jiang Xingchen could open his mouth, Qian Duoduo's voice came over the communication.
"Commander, those insect eggs have hatched!"
"The eggs hatch?"
"Yes, although it is only a larvae with a body length of twenty to thirty centimeters, and the pair of front legs are also very small, it is no less sharp than an adult war insect. We suffered a little loss!"
"Hold on for a while, and I'll arrange for support right away!"
"Yes, Commander!"
Good guy, the larvae that just crawled out of the eggs are already capable of splitting the shell of a mecha?
That's outrageous...
"Su Jin, Xiao Feng, have you two guys bragged enough?"
"Ah, Captain, no, we..."
"Stop talking nonsense to me. Once you've had enough, lead your respective teams immediately to the mother worm to clean up the larvae. Don't let them interfere with Qian Duoduo's mission!"