It's unclear when these monstrous red worms began preparing, but they appeared mysteriously from high altitudes across almost the entire planet, focusing their primary targets on the Phoenix Fighter, which, while extremely fast, was clearly less agile than the Colossus.

Nearly 10,000 Phoenix fighters were positioned at high altitude, with their weapon systems firing in bursts and strafing almost continuously. The firepower output of a Phoenix fighter flying comfortably was definitely not inferior to that of an ordinary ground-based Colossus.

The fighter jets' altitude meant that the Colossi could not immediately reach them, and the total number of Colossi was less than half that of the fighter jets.

This sneak attack was undoubtedly successful. A significant number of Phoenix fighters were swarmed by a large number of insects in a way that would make anyone with trypophobia scream.

The Phoenix Fighter is not a Colossus, and its internal biomass content is not high, resulting in the pilot's perception being less acute than that of the Colossus. Combined with the biomass uniform, it is only equivalent to an ordinary source infantryman.

The Phoenix fighter has neither a biological field nor hands and feet, and once it is caught in close combat, it is completely powerless to eliminate itself.

If the structure and flight propulsion principle of the fighter jet are extraordinary, an ordinary aircraft would only crash instantly in this situation within the atmosphere.

...

Inside the bridge of the Protoss Space Fleet flagship.

The statistics officer's adjutant clenched his fist as he reported.

"General, in that sneak attack just now, a total of 300 Phoenix fighters were destroyed, of which 278 pilots were confirmed dead, 22 were rescued, and another 212 Phoenix fighters were damaged to varying degrees."

A staff officer next to him slammed his fist on the tactical table and growled, "Bastard."

Li Shengyao's expression remained cold, his face revealing no emotion.

"Did the one-sided massacres of the past give most of us the illusion that the abominations were livestock under our blades?"

"But please don't forget that the abominations are beings capable of bringing down Earth from its pedestal during its heyday, and are at least one of the main culprits."

After saying this to his staff and adjutant behind him, Li Shengyao directly used the warship's psionic amplification to link with the soldiers at the front.

"Combat priority changed: Locate intelligent abominations and eliminate them immediately upon discovery."

Through their own contact and research with reference to the Civilization Alliance's data, they discovered that although intelligent individuals in the aberrant civilization can deploy a large number of aberrant beasts in group battles, they do not possess the means to accurately command these beasts.

The monsters released are at most cannon fodder.

While many of the monstrous offspring possess a certain level of intelligence, they are not subordinate to each other, resulting in a rather chaotic existence.

This attack was a planned, tactical, premeditated, and targeted sneak attack, and there must be someone behind it who can influence and manipulate the spawning red worms.

This is the first time humanity has encountered a large number of monstrous offspring of a single species, and also the first time a monster has been able to command the other monstrous offspring.

The Phoenix fighter squadron leader, who was temporarily in command at the front, was also one of the targets in the sneak attack, but his superb skills allowed him to avoid the dense swarm of red worms and use his psionic cannon to create an opening to escape the ink-splattered encirclement.

"clear!"

"All units, change your attack depth. Phoenix fighters, adjust your psionic beams to penetrating mode and launch them into obscure and difficult locations."

"Psionic Warrior Squadron, descend into the ground!"

"receive!"

"receive!"

"receive!"

...

All formations immediately changed, and the Phoenix fighters no longer flew in a straight line alone. While paying attention to the high altitude and the surroundings, they began to circle and twist, and their speed increased so much that only a few golden lines could be seen.

The more than one hundred psionic warriors, being the most elite and highest-evolved aces, swooped down without regard for the presence of spawning red worms or whether the ground was rock or a lake, slamming into the ground with golden, high-speed trails as they brandished their weapons.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

In an instant, it created more than a hundred deep craters in various parts of the ground.

The psionic warrior's biofield has been activated, and the underground environment, apart from slightly affecting its speed, cannot hinder its progress at all.

Polly's Crimson Queen Psionic Warrior's eyes glowed slightly with a white light, and the depth of its human-machine integrated spiritual perception spread far beyond that when it was outside the ground.

Vast areas of the underground environment became transparent, like the bottom of a body of water. Wherever the Crimson Queen passed, everything underground was severed, and the spawning red worms hiding underground along the way were also eliminated.

Polly deliberately charged towards areas with many underground monsters, diving into wherever they were most concentrated.

She believes that, like cooperative organisms in nature, important internal hierarchies are always under dense protection.

Feldman stayed close behind her, patching up any gaps in her path.

The planet is so vast, and there are only a little over a hundred Psionic Warriors. It seems like finding a needle in a haystack, but don't forget that there are many Psionic Warriors who are so exceptional that even Wu You has praised them, saying that their strength is no less than that of a Silver-ranked warrior with a biological field.

Aside from a large number of gold-level beings, they can be considered the backbone of the current alchemical biological hierarchy.

If the goal is not killing, but simply searching, each psionic warrior can be responsible for a vast area of ​​perception.

Above the ground, numerous Phoenix fighter jets spun and swooped down from high altitudes, their ray-like attacks seemingly tangible, piercing the ground.

These compressed attack beams, a blend of mental and physical attacks, are thinner than a hair, yet their penetration depth is terrifying.

Once the underground psionic warriors are like super underground radars, they continuously break through in the direction of their senses, and if they find anything suspicious in other locations, they will immediately call for "air support".

Then, often within seconds, dense and terrifying rays would pierce down from the sky. These rays were not fleeting, but rather a continuous attack lasting about a second.

As the Phoenix fighter jet made subtle adjustments and swayed, it shattered a large area of ​​underground space.

These actions clearly angered the swarming red worms on the ground, or rather, provoked the intelligent monster lurking in the shadows.

These insects swarmed into the air like madmen to attack the Phoenix fighter formation, while a large number of surface red worms burrowed into the ground.

The Colossus soldiers left on the ground became the main caretakers of the Phoenix fighters, providing timely rescue when the Phoenix fighters failed to evade.

Some of these monstrous red worms leap, while the stronger ones burrow into a spatial fragment on the ground and suddenly appear above the fighter jet.

The battle reached a fever pitch, with dense, dark red blood mixed with the fragments of insects and the ever-burning golden flames falling like rain.

Occasionally, some unlucky Phoenix fighters, or those unable to dodge in time, will get damaged or even destroyed.

The number of insects on this planet was so great that the soldiers even wondered if the planet's interior had been hollowed out by the insects.

The parasitic condition that the alien civilization alliance feared most had little impact on the warriors.

The Phoenix fighter jets darted back and forth at high speed, dodging the pools of blood and corpses, and a few quick-fire machine gun shots would ignite them into golden flames.

The giants paid no heed, not only because of the biological field, but also because some warriors who had exhausted a lot of field mental energy due to high-intensity combat and defense were entangled by a pool of strange living blood and immediately infiltrated it.

But these tiny red worms, small enough to be seen only under a microscope, quickly realized their fatal mistake. Entering the giant's muscular interior, they were suddenly confronted with a dense array of swarms of ravenous, toothless "cellular monsters" weakened by the battle.