193: Chapter 197 Aerial Raid, New Zerg Unit

"Explosive Arrows, prepare."

Su Yang gave the order, and the electromagnetic guns in the hands of the Crossbowmen began to charge.

The electromagnetic barrels gradually turned blue from tail to tip, completing their charge amidst a humming sound.

"Fire!"

Hum, hum, hum—

The sound of metal arrows accelerating inside the electromagnetic barrels rang out, and streaks of black shadows shot out rapidly, leaving only pale blue electromagnetic trails behind.

Just like the shell upgrades for the Skyfire Guard, the Crossbowmen's ammunition had also undergone a comprehensive upgrade.

The explosive stones inside the explosive arrows were concentrated into a cylindrical metal container behind the arrowhead.

Once an arrow hit a target, the impact would detonate the explosive stones, causing a violent, small-range explosion.

Bang, bang, bang—

A series of flashes erupted within the Insect Swarm, accompanied by bursts of muffled thuds.

Although the explosions from the explosive arrows were contained, their power was immense.

The unarmored Xenomorphs of the Nature Race had absolutely no room to resist in the face of the area-of-effect explosions.

The flames swallowed them, and the shockwaves tore them apart.

Bang, bang, bang—

The Crossbowmen fired continuously, releasing one deadly arrow after another.

Their circling path was like a cage of death, imprisoning this batch of Xenomorphs within.

Death descended in an instant, ruthlessly reaping their lives like mowing grass.

On Su Yang's panel, kill notifications flashed continuously, and his command points rose crazily.

[Killed Level 13 Taran Vesicle Stinger (Variant), command points +130 (30% bonus)]

[Killed Level 13 Taran Vesicle Stinger (Variant), command points +130 (30% bonus)]

[Killed Level 14 Taran Vesicle Stinger (Variant), command points +140 (30% bonus)]

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Blood sprayed, severed limbs flew, and clouds of toxic mist produced by the dying Xenomorphs gathered in the center.

Although the toxic mist was tricky, it could never catch up to the Crossbowmen riding their Blazing Steeds.

The Ranger Troops were not circling in place; each lap, they moved further away from the trajectory of the previous one.

This allowed them to avoid the effects of the toxic mist while gathering the Insect Swarm to farm command points.

The Xenomorphs fell in batches, without even a chance to fight back.

Su Yang's eyes flickered; even he hadn't expected the kiting tactic to be this successful.

At this rate, he could annihilate an entire fifth-generation Insect Swarm without taking any damage using just a 50-man unit!

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"Holy shit! God bless, this Insect Swarm seems incredibly weak!"

"I can't tell anymore; is the Insect Swarm weak, or is Dragon Country strong!"

"Regardless, this is so cool! Su Yang's troops have too much firepower!"

"Are those rocket launchers in their hands? They can actually fire rockets!"

"These foreigners actually think the Insect Swarm is weak! I really want to drag their troops over and have them get abused by the Xenomorphs."

"Can't help it, this scene is just too much of a stomp! The firepower of the new Rangers' electromagnetic crossbow guns is too fierce!"

"If I were a foreigner, I'd think the Xenomorphs were trash too. The combination of Blazing Steeds and electromagnetic crossbow guns is too brutal; these Xenomorphs can't fight back or catch up!"

"Su Yang is truly a Genius to be able to combine such a mobile unit!"

"If Crossbowmen can be combined with Blazing Steeds, what about other unit types?"

"If paired with spearmen, couldn't we form a Great Qin Iron Cavalry!?"

"As long as Rangers aren't a fixed unit type, but rather combined through mechanics, then it's really possible in the future!"

"That would be so cool! A frontal gunfight is a man's romance!"

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Load magazine, fire, eject magazine.

Load magazine, fire, eject magazine.

The Crossbowmen repeated this operation continuously while riding their speeding Blazing Steeds.

The Insect Swarm following behind their tails became fewer and fewer.

This was a one-sided battle without any suspense; the Expeditionary Ranger Army was basically invincible in low-armor areas.

The number of the Insect Swarm was less than half of what it had been, and just as Su Yang was planning to shrink the encirclement and increase firepower to end the battle in one go...

Intelligence came in from the Scouts; they discovered that some white dots were moving generally faster than ordinary Stinger Bugs.

They were able to catch up to the circling Crossbowmen, but they had not launched an attack yet.

Su Yang opened the detector again and indeed discovered a group of drifting white dots outside the dense cluster of white dots.

They moved very fast, constantly weaving between the white dots representing the troops.

These were clearly units not on the same plane as the Rangers, otherwise they would have already died under the muzzles of the crossbow guns.

Were they units inside the ground?

Su Yang's eyes flickered, but how could the speed of movement inside the ground be this fast!

This speed didn't look like burrowing through the ground; it was more like flying in the air!

Wait! Su Yang's eyes froze, and it felt as if an electric current had shot through his mind.

The air!!?

Just at the moment his thoughts flashed, the white dots on the detector had already gathered on the path the Ranger Army was traveling.

They hadn't attacked before because they were predicting the Rangers' trajectory!?

Su Yang quickly switched perspectives, and through the soldiers' vision, he only saw a large patch of basketball-sized transparent spores falling from the grey mist.

They landed precisely on the path the Rangers were traveling and were detonated accurately the moment the Rangers entered.

A large mass of hissing, smoking, thick green liquid spilled down in an instant.

"Evade!!"

Su Yang's thoughts flashed, and he forcibly entered the minds of the soldiers in the attack landing zone to issue commands.

Under Su Yang's control, the Rangers in the middle zone crashed directly into their teammates on both sides.

The formation was broken from the middle and instantly scattered, but this also allowed the unit to directly avoid the aerial attack.

Hiss—

Those smoking liquids spilled onto the ground, corroding everything they came into contact with.

The ground mixed with sand and soil instantly disappeared into the solution, turning into gas and drifting away.

Su Yang did not doubt for a second that the liquid would have the same effect on steel armor!

The Scout units had no armor reinforcement and no energy shields; if they were drenched, the consequences would be unimaginable!

"Fire into the air!"

Su Yang immediately changed his strategy, resetting the targets for the two units that had just separated to avoid the attack.

One unit continued to fire at the ground Stinger Bug units, while the other unit fired at the Insect Swarm's aerial units under the guidance of the Scouts!

The Crossbowmen firing into the sky no longer used explosive arrows, but switched to magnetic storm arrows.

With the grey mist obstructing them, the Crossbowmen could not fire directly at the targets and had to be guided.

Because it wasn't real-time firing, and coupled with the fact that the targets were moving very fast, it would greatly reduce the hit rate.

However, once the magnetic storm arrows were fired, they would continuously generate currents with paralyzing effects in the surrounding area.

In the mist composed of small liquid particles, this current would diffuse over an even larger area.

This way, even if they couldn't hit the targets directly, the area-of-effect current had a high probability of paralyzing the Xenomorphs.

For ground units, paralysis would just mean a slight pause, which wouldn't be a big problem.

But for aerial units, this brief pause would cause them to lose momentum and fall!

Zzzzt—

Magnetic storm arrows wreathed in electric currents pierced into the grey mist!

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