688: Chapter 688 Tasman Attacks Southeast Asia

The silicon-based giant grasshoppers this time were truly difficult to deal with.

Like Earth's grasshoppers, they had an exoskeleton. A silicon-based exoskeleton was much harder than a carbon-based one, so the warriors had to activate their abilities to successfully shatter it.

Using abilities for attack consumed a lot of stamina. This meant continuous combat was impossible; they had to fight in bursts, then rest.

"Warning, anomaly detected in Area 0066. Please address it promptly."

They hadn't eliminated many giant grasshoppers in Area 1017 before another area reported an anomaly.

"Area 0066 calling Celestial Fiend. Unknown creatures are attacking fiercely; the shield is about to fail."

Just a few seconds later, Area 0066 began calling.

This suggested they might be doing it on purpose.

This was called feinting.

"Celestial Fiend received. You may disengage if necessary. Repeat, you may disengage if necessary."

"Area 0066 received."

Sonic pulse weapons had almost no effect on pseudo-vibranium.

This was because one of vibranium's inherent properties was energy absorption.

However, it was different when occupied.

If the base was unoccupied, they could attack it however they wanted. But if there were people inside, residual sound waves penetrating the mecha could potentially cause harm to the human body.

Therefore, disengaging the mecha was undoubtedly a good choice.

Area 0066 quickly disengaged and launched guerrilla-style attacks on the ground.

Team 1 and Team 2 were still concentrating their efforts on eliminating the giant grasshoppers in Area 1017, having only eliminated less than one-thousandth so far.

"Team 1 and Team 2, please note: you can fight while retreating, leading them into the assembly area."

The assembly area was where they had landed, and Bee Queen was building a base there.

As long as those giant grasshoppers were lured over, they could be eliminated using nanobots. Their remains could also be decomposed and used as raw materials for base construction.

Area 1017 was over a thousand kilometers from the assembly area; given the crawling speed of these creatures, it would take at least a day and a half to lure them over.

After receiving the order, the warriors fought and retreated. The two teams took turns resting, so their speed was unaffected.

After seeing the battle footage, Oriental Chen felt it was necessary to equip the warriors with new weapons.

The current situation was that once laser weapons became ineffective, combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Fighting like this was simply too clumsy.

He thought long and hard and decided that manufacturing a retractable Tang Dao was most suitable.

The material, of course, would be pseudo-vibranium.

3,000 Tang Daos for 3,000 warriors would take one day to produce.

After the design was finalized, Mars Base began production in full swing.

Blue Star.

April 1, 2061, 4:00 AM.

Ling Luo suddenly sent a message, stating that a large number of unidentified flying objects had appeared in the northern waters of Australia and were rapidly approaching the Southeast Asia region.

Global temperatures had now dropped below freezing, and the entire Australian continent was completely covered in ice and snow. Oriental Chen had thought those bugs had hibernated, but he hadn't expected them to still be capable of causing trouble.

The reconnaissance base in Australia had now developed to a considerable scale, and Oriental Chen decided to pull the rug out from under them.

"Xiao Lin, issue an order to the Bee Queen on the Australian continent to attack Melbourne, a major southern city."

"Understood, order issued."

Over several years, the Bee Queen had constructed a dense network of underground tunnels, allowing miniature robots to move freely.

Just as the Tasman fleet arrived at the Southeast Asian islands, the battle in Melbourne had already begun.

Oriental Chen had long since ascertained that they had built a massive underground nest in Melbourne, shaped like a super-sized Ants hill.

At its very center was a giant Queen, over 30 meters long.

The core species of the Tasman Civilization was a creature similar to an Ants. However, they were highly intelligent, capable of both crawling and walking upright.

Their average body length was about 1.3 meters, and when standing upright, their height was approximately 1.5 meters. This height did not include the two antennae on their heads.

Based on their different roles, their appearances varied significantly.

One type was the Predator; they were reddish-brown, wingless, had broad foreheads, and were relatively large.

Another type was the Pathfinder; they were glossy black, wingless, had smaller foreheads, and were slender and delicate.

A third type was the Builder; their task was to construct nests, and they did not go outside. They were milky white, wingless, smaller in size but quite robust. They could not stand upright and could only crawl.

A fourth type was the Producer; their bodies were peculiar, small with very large abdomens. This was because their tails contained a sac that secreted organic polymer materials, used for building various equipment and instruments.

A fifth type was the Knowledge Worker; they were corpulent, but their limbs were very weak. Such limbs could not support them standing up, so they were completely immobile. The food their bodies needed could only be fed to them by their own kind.