A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 861 - 603: Flying Dragon Tail Whip

For players, fighting against the alien bugs was far from easy; it could even be described as extremely tricky.

The reason lay in one of the alien bugs’ particularly sneaky and enduring unit types—the Suicide Bats.

They were completely black and had wings like bats, capable of flying both in space and within atmospheres. Their method of combat was very straightforward: they charged and self-destructed upon impact.

Moreover, Suicide Bats were very small, so small that they barely showed up on radar. This was normal, just as regular radars could detect passenger planes and fighters, but not drones—the latter were simply too tiny.

Some might ask, aren’t suicide units easy to deal with? Just shoot them and they’ll blow up en masse.

That’s the thinking of someone who’s played too many games.

The alien bugs weren’t stupid!

Their most common tactic involved dispersing millions of Suicide Bats. Due to their protective coloring, small size, and the radar’s inability to accurately identify them, the bats were almost impossible to detect. Even if some were discovered and eliminated, since they were spread out, a chain explosion was unlikely to occur.

As for the Void Shield—well, Suicide Bats could pass through the Void Shield since it could only block high-speed attacks, and the slow-moving Suicide Bats were fundamentally unable to be stopped by it.

In the game, the alien bugs’ Suicide Bats typically operated this way—first, they dispersed and then charged toward the player’s warships, slipping through the Void Shield. After passing through, the originally scattered bats would actively regroup, target a specific spot, and initiate a suicide attack.

If enough Suicide Bats made it through, a single explosion could directly blow up a player’s warship!

On the ground, attacks from Suicide Bats were manageable, but in space, they were truly terrifying—after all, they could launch an attack from 360 degrees with no blind spots. Once the enemy had any vulnerability, what awaited them was a horrific onslaught from the Suicide Bats.

In fact, as soon as he saw the alien bugs warp over, Duanmu Huai knew that the convoy was likely in trouble.

After all, the convoy was too large, and their defensive net too weak; facing the assault of the Suicide Bats, they only had one way to go: death!

"—————"

A flash of light burst forth, and Duanmu Huai turned to look, only to see a warship of the convoy nearby already blasted in two. Then, flames erupted, and the entire ship seemed to undergo a chain reaction of explosions, quickly turning into a pile of scrap metal. Needless to say, it had fallen victim to the Suicide Bats.

"Order the Night Guards to prepare, and Ann, stop messing around; get ready for ground combat!"

While piloting his fighter jet and swooping through the battlefield, Duanmu Huai rapidly issued his commands.

"Fa Zi, Yaz, Jiezi, Amari, pay attention to protecting the Main Island, and try to block the alien bugs’ attacks as much as possible! Use large-area AOE! I’ll lead the Night Guards...."

"—————!"

However, before Duanmu Huai could finish speaking, he saw sparks suddenly bursting on the barrier of the Main Ship Island.

"Damn!"

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai couldn’t help but curse under his breath.

Things had really gone south!

The alien bugs didn’t need a large army; their most terrifying aspect was that if larvae managed to infiltrate somewhere, they could quickly produce a colossal Insect Race base, devour everything around, and spawn soldiers on site. Now that the main ship had been bombed, larvae had likely already slipped in!

However, just as Duanmu Huai was about to rush into the main ship, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart. Almost instinctively, he rolled to the side. At the same moment, a dark shadow grazed past the wing. When he turned to look, he saw a strange bug hovering not far behind him, staring at him.

It had a rather peculiar appearance. The entire body was shaped like the letter C, with a pair of wings on the back. Not only that, as the bug moved, a series of afterimages flashed by.

"Dragon Folding Tail Whip Technique, all the troublesome creatures have gathered," he muttered.

Looking at the bug before him, Duanmu Huai furrowed his brow. This one was another of the alien bugs’ aerial units, the Flying Dragon. It was agile, fast, and its attacks weren’t weak, but it had poor defense—a typical air unit. That wouldn’t have been too scary in itself.

But the alien bugs knew this too, so they had devised a particularly troublesome combat technique.

They used Psychic Powers to compress hundreds, or even more, Flying Dragons together, and then unleashed an attack on their target.

In this way, the agility of the Flying Dragon wasn’t affected, and their attack power was greatly increased (after all, one attack was equivalent to hundreds of Flying Dragons attacking at once), and even their originally fragile bodies became toughened. Of course, this didn’t come without weaknesses. If you treated it like a single Flying Dragon and attacked, you’d feel like it was indestructible no matter what. But on the flip side, a single AOE could wipe out hundreds or thousands at once.

Then came the tail whip.

Flying Dragons attacked their enemies by whipping their tails, launching bug-like projectiles. Under normal circumstances, after a Flying Dragon launched its attack, there was a need for a pause.

But that wasn’t necessary for the clustered Flying Dragons—they went from semi-automatic to fully automatic, continuously launching powerful attacks.

It was precisely for this reason that the Dragon Folding Tail Whip Technique was one of the most troublesome tactics players encountered in combat against the alien bugs; it looked like just one Flying Dragon. Only when it moved did the Psychic Powers cause a series of afterimages, so if you didn’t look closely and just shot at it, you’d barely scratch it. But if it counterattacked, you’d be blown up on the spot.

The same damage dealt by you would be just 100, but the enemy’s counterattack would be 100 x 10,000, clearly no match at all.

As for why players are so familiar with the tactics of alien bugs, there is a reason. That is — because among the players, many have become part of the Insect Race.

That’s right, because alien bugs connect with each other via psychic powers and the hive network. However, they don’t have an extensive consciousness network that spans stars like the Tyran Swarms; rather, their networks are basically interconnected like the internet. The stronger the psychic powers of an Insect Race leader, the more bugs they can command.

Therefore, under these circumstances, some players thought of a method, which is ... humans have limits, so I won’t be human anymore!

Then they would just dive into the Insect Race’s incubation pool and transform into something like a Blade Prince ... Because players’ psychic powers are relatively strong, they can directly control the swarms, and then gradually expand ... This is actually a strategy against the Subspace Evil God, and as long as their skulls don’t change, then Judges are still considered human and can still obtain the power to command swarms ... This is also why players can have biological battleships in the game.

But this was an approach favored by the Radical Faction; Duanmu Huai wasn’t interested in this kind of hobby. Moreover, this is not a game, this is reality; he wouldn’t bathe himself in an alien bug’s incubation pool like those players ... After all, even if their skulls were still human after the transformation, their appearance would change, right? Many players after the transformation have their lush hair turn into tentacle-like strands ... My Charm is low enough, what if it decreases even more?

So now, Duanmu Huai was driving a fighter jet, engaged in a fierce chase with the Flying Dragon behind him.

"Ogis, release the funnel!"

"Understood, master."

Hearing Duanmu Huai’s command, Ogis, who sat behind him, nodded, then with a slight movement of her fingers, funnels under the wings of the fighter jet were suddenly launched like missiles, then swiftly made a 180-degree turn, aimed at the Flying Dragon behind them, and then, beams crisscrossed, forming an impenetrable net that swept towards the Flying Dragon.

Faced with the counter-attack, the Flying Dragon also suddenly stopped, and at the same time, Duanmu Huai driving the fighter jet swiftly flipped, aiming at the Flying Dragon.

"Die —!"

Quickly, a green plasma beam shot out, straight at the Flying Dragon — however, at that moment, the dragon suddenly split into hundreds of dragons that scattered, the flashing plasma beam passing through the swarm of dragons and then disappearing into the depths of the universe. After dodging Duanmu Huai’s attack, the dispersed dragons merged back together.

"This damn thing!"

Seeing this, Duanmu Huai exploded with rage.

This means you won’t let me hit you, huh!

If that’s how it is, then don’t blame me for getting rough!

Thinking this, Duanmu Huai accelerated once again, turning and charging towards the Flying Dragon.

"———————!"

Seeing Duanmu Huai driving the fighter jet charging towards it, the Flying Dragon hurriedly launched another attack, but all were easily dodged by Duanmu Huai. With the jet’s incredible speed, in the blink of an eye, Duanmu Huai’s fighter jet was already in front of the Flying Dragon.

At this moment, the Flying Dragon tried to flee, but Ogis’s controlled funnels formed a net that firmly restricted its movement. Seeing the situation turning dire, the Flying Dragon suddenly swelled up, attempting to use the same tactic again to split itself!

However ...

"Could it be that easy?!"

Watching the Flying Dragon try the same trick, Duanmu Huai roared, and the Fearful Aura instantly erupted, engulfing everything around him.

Even the Flying Dragon, which primarily had a collective hive mind, instinctively felt fear at this moment, its body tensing up and becoming extremely hard. Meanwhile, Duanmu Huai’s fighter jet suddenly transformed, turning into Giant Mecha Armor, then, with overwhelming might, he raised the Chainsaw Sword that sprang from his arm, burning with Black Flame, and swung down at the Flying Dragon!

The spinning Chainsaw Sword cut directly into the Flying Dragon’s body, slicing it in two, and the overlapping dragons instantly exploded on the spot, turning into a sky full of flesh and remnants.

"Whew ... indeed, this suits me best."

Duanmu Huai gripped the control stick, looking at the remains of the Flying Dragon before him.

Indeed, close combat is the most loyal, most effective method of fighting ... As for long-range, forget it, I guess I’ll never become a Sharpshooter in this lifetime.

"Report for Uncle Judge, the Great President of the fleet has sent a distress signal, swarms have broken into the Main Ship Island!"

Just then, Aikute’s voice rang out again.

"This quickly?"

Hearing Aikute’s report, Duanmu Huai was somewhat surprised, but not shocked. After all, it was expected.

"What about the Night Guards?"

"They are about to arrive at the main ship!"

"Leave this to me, you take care of quickly dealing with that big one!" novelbuddy.cσ๓

Once the swarms enter the main ship island, they can spawn troops on the spot, thus we must accelerate the pace. If the swarms manage to wipe out the fleet, that would be a real problem!