The Tyranid Fleet's swarm consciousness felt its offensive had been fairly successful. Its swarm had suppressed almost all the Mushroom Farms on Euronia IV. Without their Mushroom Farms, the Orks' capacity for war would plummet, and a war of attrition would favor the swarm.
To extend its advantage, vast numbers of spore sacs carried another hundred million combat organisms into a second wave of attacks. A war against the Orks could not be allowed to drag on.
The first wave had also exposed the powerful individuals among the Orks, allowing the second wave to focus on decapitation strikes. Orks were always like this. Unlike the Tyranid Swarm, they never accumulated experience, learned, or improved, the Tyranid Fleet's swarm consciousness thought with some contempt.
On Octarius, the Tyranids had won their campaign through decapitation strikes. The same tactics would work here.
Before the Tyranid Fleet set out, the hive mind had already made the preliminary preparations. Elite swarm organisms specialized for close combat were ready and were now being awakened.
The Orks in the Mushroom Farms were either newly born Ork Boyz or Snotlings and Squigs that liked living there. Their fighting strength was indeed pitiful; they could do little but provide biomass for the Tyranids.
But the Orks in the tunnels were different. The Ork tribe Cheng Mingrui had led out possessed terrifying combat strength, and they were about to give the Tyranid Fleet's swarm consciousness a little Screw Clan shock.
As the second wave of spore sacs began landing in the Orks' Mushroom Farms, eighty percent of the farms fell to the Tyranids.
Three ten-meter-tall Tyranid Haruspexes charged out of a Mushroom Farm with a mass of Tyranid Warriors. Their target was Cheng Mingrui, standing on the ridge.
The three Haruspexes even moved to encircle him, as though afraid