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Chapter 35 Dominating the Skies
At this time, all the hosts of the Blackthorn Tribe that were distributed on the periphery were recovered by the parasite. The spore flyers hatched by the Red Pattern Tribe were now distributed all over the Blackthorn base. Once the hosts could not enter the range protected by the anti-air hydralisks, they would be killed alive. As mentioned earlier, the hosts do not have any attack capabilities, but they can provide the necessary nutrients for the hatched Zerg creatures, so they cannot be sacrificed for nothing.
At this time, the Blackthorn Overmind Mojito had hatched many hydralisks with anti-air attack capabilities and began patrolling around the base. Strictly speaking, if the hydralisks reach a certain scale, they will not be afraid of spore flyers. Moreover, the cost of hydralisks... especially the amount of gac rare minerals consumed, is much lower than that of spore flyers. But it must be noted that the vision and mobility of spore flyers flying in the air are ten times that of hydralisks. Therefore, more than 90% of the hydralisks' patrols are fruitless. On the contrary, several teams of hydralisks were surrounded and annihilated by the spore flyers of the Red Pattern Tribe gathering superior forces.
The situation was temporarily in an extremely passive state.
At this moment, Fang Senyan found the Blackthorn Overmind Mojito. The two of them gathered together for ten minutes, not knowing what they were plotting, and then separated.
Not long after, at least forty hosts gathered together and rushed towards the west under the escort of two teams of hydralisks, seemingly heading to the original Thick Liquid Base for some action. If these forty hosts were killed, the entire Blackthorn base would experience a food shortage. Even the larvae would not be able to hatch due to sufficient energy but lack of food, and would only be able to concentrate on hatching a new batch of hosts! This would undoubtedly greatly delay the base's development speed!
Under such a huge temptation, the spore flyers belonging to the Red Pattern Tribe gathered together and launched a frantic attack. If they wanted to kill these forty hosts, they would have to kill the two escorting teams of hydralisks first. Otherwise, the hosts' defense and vitality are also very impressive. If they attacked the hosts with all their strength from the beginning, even if they could kill them all, the spore flyers would inevitably suffer heavy casualties under the simultaneous spray of the two teams of hydralisks. This was definitely not a scene that the Red Pattern Overmind wanted to see.
The situation developed as expected. The two teams of hydralisks were ultimately no match for the frantic attacks of the spore flyers surging from all directions! They suffered heavy casualties in a short few minutes, and the few remaining ones no longer posed any threat. The forty hosts hurriedly and embarrassedly retreated back to the main base. Hundreds of spore flyers chased after them frantically, killing at least half of the hosts before they had even flown two or three kilometers.
However, during the chase, the spore flyers of the Red Pattern Tribe also arrived at a wide open space not far from the main base of the Blackthorn Tribe. At this time, they did not notice that the hosts being chased were also constantly decreasing their altitude during flight, almost flying close to the ground. And these spore flyers had to fly lower in order to kill these hosts, so that it would be easier to attack.
The spore flyers of the Red Pattern Tribe continued to gather together and frantically chased after them, concentrating their firepower to kill the hosts one by one, seemingly determined not to stop until all the hosts were wiped out! But just as most of the spore flyers of the Red Pattern Tribe were gathered together to launch an attack, a figure suddenly jumped out from the sac of a particularly large black host tentacle. In his hand, he was holding an inconspicuous cylindrical object, which was the prototype electromagnetic cloud bomb that Fang Senyan had half-taken and half-robbed from the humans!!!
A dazzling blue light suddenly flashed! The spore flyers' combat habit was to gather in groups for concentrated fire attacks. And when Fang Senyan jumped out of the "deep tentacle" sac, he was actually in the core of the spore flyer gathering point! With this detonation, at least half of the spore flyers were stunned in the air! At the same time, at least six teams of hydralisks and five teams of zerglings suddenly drilled out from the ground in all directions of this spacious open space, and the hydralisks simultaneously sprayed venom frantically into the sky! Most of these hydralisks and zerglings still had the marks of the Thick Liquid Tribe that had not yet faded!
When Fang Senyan raided the Thick Liquid Tribe that day, he was ambushed by the elite zerglings ambushing at the door of the Thick Liquid Queen. If he didn't have the prototype electromagnetic cloud bomb, a great weapon against the Zerg, he might have died on the spot. This also shows that the Thick Liquid Tribe had specifically studied this Zerg technology and improved the gene ability of its troops. After the thirty hosts used as bait went out, the Blackthorn Overmind Mojito took advantage of the Red Pattern Zerg's reconnaissance gap to concentrate the hydralisks previously produced from the Thick Liquid Base, and then sent them to this open space not far from the base to let them burrow and ambush...
At least fifty or sixty spore flyers were stunned by Fang Senyan's electromagnetic cloud bomb.
They rely on flapping their wings to float in the air. After the auditory organs were severely damaged by the electromagnetic cloud bomb and they were in a state of dizziness, they naturally fell from the air very simply. The Zerg's strong physique would certainly not be killed by falling like this. At most, they would only suffer minor injuries. But after falling to the ground, the zerglings who had been sharpening their knives had already rushed up with a frantic roar!
Ten seconds was enough time for the zerglings to pounce on a spore flyer one-on-one, entangling it and preventing it from taking off! The hydralisk group concentrated on spraying those spore flyers that had not been stunned. Under the dense and rainy corrosive liquid, the remaining spore flyers that could move freely once again instinctively gathered into a group and flew high into the sky! In this way, even if the companions on the periphery were sacrificed, like an orange with only the outer skin peeled off, most of the same kind could be protected.
At this moment, behind the rocks in the distance, a strange figure flickered like a ghost. It was the elite mutated queen Jiani! Even though only one spore flyer could kill it directly, at this time, this powerful elite mutated queen Jiani could play a huge role!
It aimed at the large group of spore flyers that were gathered together and flapping their wings to fly high, and sprayed out a small clump of green mucus.
Then, the green mucus actually divided into two in the air, two into four, four into eight... When it flew in front of the group of spore flyers, it had formed a huge light green web with a fluorescent glow! It covered them overwhelmingly!
Entrapment!
It was the queen's powerful range deceleration ability, entrapment!!
If it previously only took five or six seconds for these spore flyers of the Red Pattern Tribe to get out of the hydralisk's range, then this time has now been extended by at least nearly two times! And this extra time is the boundary between life and death...
Three minutes later, the battle ended.
Losses on the Blackthorn Tribe side: thirty-one hydralisks, thirty-three hosts, six zerglings, plus an electromagnetic cloud bomb, totaling 37.75 million units of Pandora crystal ore and 775 units of rare associated mineral gas.
Losses on the Red Pattern Tribe side: one hundred and seven spore flyers, totaling 10,700 units of Pandora crystal ore and 10,700 units of rare associated mineral gas!
The ratio of such battle damage can be said to be a complete victory for the Blackthorn Tribe!
It should be known that losing Pandora crystal ore is fine, but the rare associated mineral gas is even rarer. On average, every 6-8 units of crystal ore mined can yield 1 unit of associated mineral gas. The Red Pattern Tribe's Overmind can be said to have made no mistakes in terms of strategy and tactics. Even if it had miscalculated the entrapment of the elite mutated queen Jiani, it would have only lost thirty spore flyers at most. What really caused its defeat was that it had completely miscalculated Fang Senyan, this pervert, who could instantly cause more than half of the spore flyers to lose their ability to fly and fall to the ground! This led to the tragedy of total annihilation!
At the same time as the ambush, the Blackthorn Tribe completed its transformation from a level 4 base to a level 4.4 base! The two major rival forces finally stood on the same starting line. And the first advanced organ building built by the Blackthorn Overmind Mojito was the Spore Spire! This building looks like a giant mushroom, but more than a dozen thick veins hang down from the umbrella cover next to the mushroom head, directly connected to the slime on the ground. The gene code it provides can allow larvae to develop into two types of units. The first is the spore flyer that previously plagued the entire Blackthorn Tribe, and the second is the suicide bat called the Explosive Mosquito.
The Blackthorn Overmind Mojito naturally took advantage of the enemy's sharply reduced air force and frantically operated the two mines, producing spore flyers and explosive mosquitoes with all its strength, using the enemy's methods against them. During this period, the two sides held multiple air battles. In the end, the Red Pattern Tribe was greatly injured by the more than one hundred spore flyers annihilated by Fang Senyan's layout, and ended in a disastrous defeat.
It can only abandon air superiority and transform into producing hydralisks, a cheap and versatile unit, to carry out contraction strategic defense. But it can be expected that the annihilation of those hundred spore flyers can only give the Red Pattern Tribe a big loss at most, far from hurting its bones! At this time, the military strength ratio between the two sides still maintains a terrifying data of at least 1:3. Blackthorn Tribe: Red Pattern Tribe 3. Once the Red Pattern Tribe accumulates enough troops to kill, it will inevitably be a crucial moment of life and death!