By the time the fortress rose seven or eight kilometers into the sky, the Locusts were already swarming toward it in a dense mass.
Wu Zhen could not help asking, "First One?"
"Wait a little longer," Qu Jianlei said calmly, though his gaze remained fixed on the space above.
No one knew that before the sixteen starships took off, the twenty-two starships in outer space had already launched their attack.
They still operated in pairs, but two pairs formed a larger group, making five large groups in total.
There was also one small group of starships serving as mobile support.
The twenty-two starships attacked in waves while charging straight toward the dense encirclement.
This seemingly suicidal behavior enraged the Alien Race Forest of Trees.
When the first large group's four starships were about to make contact with the Forest Sea, they turned and fled, drawing countless Alien Races after them.
Then another large group attacked, peeling away layer after layer like bamboo shoots.
After three layers had been peeled away, the area ahead had become relatively empty. The fourth large group pushed more than eight million kilometers inward before beginning its escape.
The fifth large group... continued for over ten million kilometers before escaping as well.
By then, a passage had been carved through the thirty-million-kilometer-thick encirclement.
The nearby Alien Races showed signs of coming to reinforce the gap—after all, an opening had appeared here.
However, they were not moving very quickly. Though they were all Alien Races, they still possessed a strong sense of territory.
Moreover, they had already entered the "slow digestion" stage with this planet, so there was no need to pay too great a price.
Even so, the passage was gradually beginning to narrow.
Just then, Qu Jianlei spoke from inside the fortress. "Activate the Electromagnetic