#688 - Chapter 688 Tasman Attacks Southeast Asia

These silicon-based giant grasshoppers were indeed quite difficult to deal with.

Like Earth's grasshoppers, they had exoskeletons. The silicon-based exoskeletons were much harder than carbon-based ones, so the soldiers had to use their abilities to successfully break them.

Using abilities to attack consumed a lot of stamina. This made continuous combat impossible, requiring them to fight in bursts with breaks in between.

"Warning, anomaly detected in area 0066, please address it as soon as possible."

Before they had eliminated many of the giant grasshoppers in area 1017, another area became abnormal.

"0066 calling Tian Sha. Unidentified creatures are attacking fiercely, the protective shield is about to fail."

Only a few seconds passed before 0066 started calling for help.

This indicated that they might be doing it on purpose.

It was a feint.

"Tian Sha received, detachment is authorized when necessary. Repeat, detachment is authorized when necessary."

"0066 received."

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

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

However, the situation was different when people were inside.

The base could withstand any amount of attacks if it was unoccupied. But with people inside, any residual sound waves penetrating the mecha could potentially harm the occupants.

Therefore, detaching the mecha was undoubtedly a good choice.

0066 quickly detached and launched guerrilla attacks on the ground.

Teams 1 and 2 were still concentrating on eliminating the giant grasshoppers in area 1017, and had only eliminated less than one-thousandth of them so far.

"Teams 1 and 2, please be advised, you can retreat while fighting, leading them to the assembly area."

The assembly area was their landing site, where the Queen was building a base.

As long as they lured those giant grasshoppers over, they could be eliminated using nanomachines. The corpses and remains could also be decomposed and used as raw materials for building the base.

Area 1017 was more than a thousand kilometers away from the assembly area. At the speed these creatures crawled, it would take at least a day and a half to lure them over.

After receiving the order, the soldiers fought and retreated. The two teams took turns resting, so the speed was not affected.

After watching the battle footage, Dongfang Chen felt it was necessary to equip the soldiers with new weapons.

As things stood, the combat effectiveness of laser weapons was greatly reduced once they became ineffective.

Fighting like this was really too awkward.

After thinking it over, he felt that manufacturing retractable Tang swords would be most suitable.

The material would naturally be pseudo-vibranium.

3,000 soldiers, 3,000 Tang swords, it would take a day to produce them.

After completing the design, the Mars base began mass production.

Blue Star.

April 1, 2061 AD, 4:00 AM.

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

Now that global temperatures had dropped below zero, the entire Australian continent was completely covered by ice and snow. Dongfang Chen thought those insects had already hibernated, but he didn't expect them to still be able to cause trouble.

Now that the reconnaissance base in Australia had developed to a considerable scale, Dongfang Chen decided to strike at the root of the problem.

"Xiao Lin, issue an order to the Queen in Australia to attack Melbourne, the main city in the south."

"Okay, the order has been issued."

Over the years, the Queen had built a dense network of underground transportation, allowing miniature robots to travel freely.

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

Dongfang Chen had already investigated clearly that they had built a huge underground nest in Melbourne, shaped like a super-giant ant nest.

At the very center was a giant Queen with a body length of over 30 meters.

The core group of the Tasman civilization was a creature similar to ants. However, they were highly intelligent and had two ways of moving: crawling and walking upright.

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

Depending on the division of labor, their appearances varied considerably.

One type was the predator. They were reddish-brown in color, had no wings, had a broad forehead, and were relatively large.

One type was the pathfinder. They were bright black in color, had no wings, had a small forehead, and were slender and petite.

One type was the construction worker. Their task was to build nests and not go outside. They were milky white in color, had no wings. They were small, but relatively strong. They could not stand upright and could only crawl.

One type was the production worker. Their body shape was relatively strange, small in size, with a large butt. This was because they had a cavity in their tail that secreted organic polymer materials, which were used to build various equipment and instruments.

One type was the knowledge worker. They were obese, but their limbs were very weak. Such limbs could not support them to stand up at all, so they could not move at all. The food they needed could only be fed by their own kind.