"Everyone, return to your posts. Hehe, thank you Lou family for your generosity!" Feng Xingchen roared, and listening to the sound, he was really happy.

The Lou family is really interesting. They even dispatched sixty Machu-class ships at once. Judging from their menacing appearance, they must be confident that they want to take down the red caterpillar swarm.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that the red caterpillar swarm was indeed here, but it had a wretched commander.

In the past few days, all preparations have been made, and the only "dongfeng" missing is the Lou family's fleet.

This thought also appeared in Lou Duke's mind.

To become the commander-in-chief of sixty Machu-class exploration ships, one can imagine Lou Duke's pride and ambition.

The red caterpillars developed in the wreckage area must have amazing rare elements. Not taking into account the value of the wreckage and chaotic stardust, the rare elements that can be extracted alone are already worthy of the family to concentrate a certain amount of strength to launch a serious attack.

He clearly recorded the route he took to the parking area last time. Although he was not sure of the specific location of the insect nest, he could find an attackable and defendable stronghold, which guaranteed the fleet's final victory!

Gradually, we came to the last debris clearing area. Once here, all the warships formed a battle formation and hovered, and multi-functional radar nodes were launched one after another. After a while, a clear mapping of about two hundred light seconds was established.

District, at this point, we can only wait for a while.

Yes, if we immediately dispatch fighter groups to separate and search for targets, it will obviously be a fool's errand to split up our forces. It would be better to wait dozens of hours to see what happens.

His luck seemed to be good. Less than half an hour after the node was established, the radar showed that dozens of red dots appeared on their lower left side. Judging from the energy wave readings, it was certain that they were junior insect soldiers. With their long-term experience in the starry sky,

, it was immediately clear that this was the red caterpillar patrol team.

Lou Duke was overjoyed. From the direction in which the patrol team appeared, he could be 100% sure that in that general direction was the insect nest.

He pointed with one hand: "Fleet, reciprocating array, 0.4 times speed, let's go over!"

The fleet faithfully carried out his order and drove in this direction for 200 light seconds. During the journey, hundreds of high-speed detectors were released, keeping a distance of nearly 100 light seconds in this direction on the radar screen.

Sure enough, the number of patrols that appeared in this direction had increased from a few dozen to hundreds. We even saw a team of six to seven hundred.

Lou Duke became more and more happy and said softly: "Everyone, stay still and don't alert the bugs in advance."

Any captain who has the ability to upgrade the Blazing Crystal Level to the Machu Level will not alert the patrols. At least, he must find the lair and then look at the specific situation to determine the tactics.

Both sides seemed to be in peace, allowing the fleet to advance forty or fifty miles. At this point, almost everyone, let alone Lou Duke, felt that something was not right.

Yes, something is wrong. Why haven't we seen the insect nest at such a long distance? This is obviously not a distance that insects can patrol.

In fact, half an hour ago, they already felt that something was not right. However, it was a dark nebula that was difficult to identify the direction. Perhaps the bugs patrolled differently.

It is precisely driven by this concept that they have moved forward to their current position.

However, at this point, no one dared to trespass.

The only thing that reassured them was that the nodes they set up along the way were working normally and no insect swarms were detected behind them.

All the warships stopped in place. An hour later, Lou Duke drove the fleet forward again. However, starting from this place, the communication nodes were wider and denser.

When they moved forward to Wuguang, Lou Duke became completely suspicious. He suspected that the insects were leading them to an unknown and dangerous area, so he came to encircle and annihilate them.

He slowly raised his hand, already planning to stop the fleet from advancing.

However, before the hand that hung high could wave down, a group of intermediate insect soldiers suddenly appeared more than ten light seconds away.

The group was not large, numbering at most seven to eight thousand. However, it seemed that due to the appearance of intermediate bugs, the patrol finally discovered the quietly approaching fleet. They all turned around and rushed towards their fleet crazily.

Lou Duke's mind raced for several times, and he finally shouted: "Charge and destroy these insects! But remember, a charge should not exceed a distance of fifty light seconds."

The entire fleet was already very frustrated. At this time, it increased its speed to 0.8 times and flew towards the swarm of insects.

When they met, the three leading battleships showed their fangs at the same time. Their main and secondary guns, which had long been charged, roared angrily, and the pale cannon light crashed into the swarm of insects.

This is the Machu class after all. A battleship that has evolved to this level is by no means simply mixed with rare metals, but has an overall strength improvement. Each cannon is more powerful than the strongest shipborne main gun of the ninth-level civilization.

How could those bugs survive this?

Of the seven or eight thousand insects, there were still only a few hundred remaining 60,000 kilometers away. Perhaps they were frightened, so all the hundreds of insects turned around, scattered in all directions, and fled into the distance.

It seems that the bugs did disperse and escape, but they were able to leave a directional direction on the radar screen.

At this moment, Lou Duke suddenly shouted excitedly: "I thought bugs were so smart. It turns out that in the last war, they also suffered heavy losses and had to change places to build nests again, leaving many small ones behind."

Patroller, inquire about various information along the way!"

Everyone thought, yes, otherwise, according to the habits of the insects, it would be impossible to send the patrol team to patrol at a distance close to Shiguang. It is not that they cannot fly that far, but the communication method of the insects determines this defense.

The mode is not acceptable.

A captain said excitedly: "Commander, should we speed up?"

"No, just keep the 0.5 speed like this and gradually get closer. I want to see how the insect swarm will react under increasing pressure."

The fleet finally regained its energy. Each one drove the fleet with stern eyes, chasing for twenty or thirty light seconds, and met a group of people again.

The number of this ethnic group was no longer a few thousand, but more than 80,000, but it surprised them.

The bugs did not twist and charge in a single line as usual, but instead pushed dozens of pieces of warship wreckage that were several hundred meters long, hiding behind the wreckage as much as possible to launch the charge.

This action caught the eyes of the captains and gave rise to several thoughts.

"Big wreck! Make a fortune!"

"The insect swarm is weak and has to use obstacles!"

"Hey, the bugs seem to be getting smarter!"
Chapter completed!