Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1414 - 703: The Insect Mother Unleashes Her Power! (Part 3)

At this moment, Ji Chaoyang gave the order.

"Attack the tanks!"

Immediately, everyone sprang into action without delay.

Outside the World Tree, countless nuclear missiles were launched again in that direction.

The blinding light and mushroom clouds reappeared.

"Hahaha, a few tiny vehicles, how dare they attack us?"

"Destroy them!"

"Blast them apart!"

"It’s so easy, feels even less challenging than those drones earlier."

"Aren’t these tanks a bit too few?"

"Oh, the alien invaders’ giant ships have already cooled off, what more can they send?"

"True."

"We’ve already won!"

The crowd discussed casually.

But Ji Chaoyang and the others had somber expressions.

They knew things wouldn’t be that simple.

Sure enough, once the dust settled, everyone was shocked to find that the tanks emerged from the blasted ground!

They came out from the smoke and continued heading towards their World Tree.

"What the...!"

"Ah?!"

"What’s going on?!"

"Why do these tanks seem completely undamaged?!"

It truly was like this.

After confirming their suspicions, the expressions of Ji Chaoyang and his companions weren’t good.

Their most powerful weapons had no effect on these tanks!

"Not... not exactly without effect, right?"

Qin Yunlong swallowed nervously, looking at the others, "If we increase the intensity of the bombardment, we should be able to destroy them, right? It’s unlikely that they have zero damage, right?"

"That’s quite possible." Shi Wanyun said, "Don’t forget how intense our attacks on those wrecks were, do they look like they were damaged at all?"

"This..." Qin Yunlong was speechless.

"We can give it a try, we still have plenty of ammunition." Ji Chaoyang said.

Then, he ordered everyone to fire another three waves at the tanks.

But none could stop the tanks’ advance.

The tanks remained indifferent, steadily advancing towards the World Tree, as if the terrifying nuclear bombardment had no effect on them.

No, not as if.

It truly had no effect!

"This..."

Whether Ji Chaoyang and the others or those controlling the weapons below, all were speechless.

They truly hadn’t expected that these seemingly less sophisticated than previous drones tanks would possess such astonishing defense!

"Can’t... can’t be blown apart?"

"It’s not just can’t be blown apart; there’s literally... no harm at all!"

"What... what do we do now?"

"These are nuclear missiles! What kind of freakish things are those?!"

"We’re doomed, are we going to be..."

"Don’t be scared, we won’t die, remember we’ve already planned our escape route, worse comes to worse, we’ll flee!"

"Ah, makes sense!"

"So, our mission now should be to stall these tanks! We can’t let them leave either!"

"Right, they must not affect Xin God and Ying God’s plans again!"

"Fight for our gods!"

"For the gods!"

"Huh? How can these tanks return? Fly back like the giant ships?"

"Come on, they drive on the ground, of course, they’re driving back!"

"But the speed of these tanks..."

Indeed, the speed of the tanks was very slow.

You could say, extremely slow.

Especially for those inside the World Tree, used to the speed of the giant ships.

Too slow.

Only...

Fifty kilometers per hour.

Similar to cars driving in the city.

That was really slow.

"This should be the disadvantage of these tanks."

Ji Chaoyang stroked his chin thoughtfully, "The alien invaders didn’t deploy these unstoppable tanks early on but used drones instead, aiming for a swift victory."

Shi Wanyun chimed in, "And the drones didn’t defeat us in hours, we even destroyed more than half, which made the opponent furious, deploying their giant ships."

"But the giant ships were destroyed." Qi Xuefei said thoughtfully, "So, they deployed these... intact tanks from the wrecked giant ships."

"And with these tanks, we don’t have any means of coping." Ma Hongwei sighed, "We can’t destroy them at all. Even our current most powerful weapon can’t cause any harm, what can we do."

"Perhaps we can think of a way to slow them down?" Qin Yunlong suggested, "Delay their arrival!"

Not destroy, but stall their speed?

They’re already slow enough.

It’ll take at least two hours to reach.

But now, it’s still over three hours before Ji Chaoyang’s prophesied time.

"Once these tanks conquer the World Tree, they’ll surely return." Ji Chaoyang said gravely, "Perhaps by teleportation or some other form; in any case, we must not let these tanks return!"

His words were not only meant for those close to him but also for everyone below.

"Exactly! We can’t let them return!"

"Even if we can’t destroy them, we must stall them!"

"Stall them for as long as possible! It’s worth sacrificing the World Tree! It can grow again after all..."

"Then... what do we do now? Keep bombing them?"

"How about bombing the paths they need to take, creating extremely difficult terrain for them, that would make them slower!"

"Use the blast wind to blow them back!"

"Blow them back? You can’t blow them back! Didn’t you see the situation earlier? These things are unbelievably heavy!"

"Then... what do we..."

The explorers began to brainstorm solutions.

Creating deep crater terrain with nuclear missiles wasn’t impossible.

This could slightly slow their progress.

And when they get close, the World Tree can activate the laser weapon! It might have some effect.

Near the World Tree, there were the pre-arranged giant creature groups and petrified beast groups.

These giant beasts possessed super recovery abilities within Crystal City and unparalleled strength, they could resist to some extent!

Besides, there was an unstable element.

"Look!" Qi Xuefei exclaimed, "The giant insect surrounding our Crystal City seems to be awakening!"

Everyone looked together.

The massive body of the giant insect began to move!

Its enormous body wriggled.

But it didn’t move, just wriggled in place.

And with its body wriggling, everyone saw a shocking scene.

From beneath its body, large insects started crawling out!

Each was uniquely shaped, covered with mucus.

There were centipedes, beetles, millipedes, and even flying insects!

Most importantly, each insect was at least five meters long and three meters high!

These insects were also giant insects!

"What the...!"

"This insect birthed other insects!"

"Other insects? These could swallow you whole!"

"What’s going on? How is this huge caterpillar birthing so many types of insects? How can it birth anything?"

"It’s not scientific!"

"...It’s a bit gross."

"These insects are here to help us, right?"

"Then it’s not gross anymore!"

"This... this...!"

The crowd boiled again amidst the scene.

The explorers were also delighted.

"This is the Insect Mother Yingying mentioned, capable of birthing an insect army..." Qi Xuefei muttered.

"...Is the Insect Mother finally going to show its power?"