Chapter 250 Natural Enemies
"She's coming... She's coming!"
Dark Star Base No. 2 within the Luofeng Empire.
With a soft 'ping' sound, the culture dish containing the precious microbial samples fell to the ground.
The mechanical guard on the side hurried to pick it up.
The thin figure who knocked over the petri dish was backing away in a daze.
"Who's coming?"
Lu's projection appeared on the side.
Hera turned around and tried to grab Lu's projection, but her hand went straight through the light curtain.
Hera took a deep breath, leaned against the experimental cabinet beside her, tried to organize her words, and then looked up at Lu.
"The queen of the Zerg at the border of the Milky Way has sent a group of Zerg to rescue me from Ming's clutches. It's her. She's here!"
Lu frowned and asked, "Where is she? I mean, where is this queen now?"
"there."
Hera pointed diagonally upwards.
That was the direction of Sherman's empire.
“She should be far away from me now, but I am sure that she knows of my existence, but she is busy dealing with another matter now.
"Let me get on the boat and get out of here! She'll be coming for me!
"Maybe there's already a swarm of insects coming for me!"
Hera suddenly became excited.
"Ms. Hera, I have to ask my boss..."
In the thinking space, Lu glanced at Yang Ming who was sleeping in the medical cabin, and after a little thought, he activated the "little boss" authority.
"Ms. Hera, please put on your space suit immediately. The spacecraft will be ready for use in three minutes."
Hera immediately turned around and rushed to the rest area.
The robot assistants cast concerned glances at her. They all had complete thinking consciousness, and Dark Star had formed a biological research team around Hera.
Three minutes later, a light cruiser that had been on constant combat readiness quickly left the Dark Star II base and rushed towards the border of the Luofeng Empire.
Lu activated Luofeng's full-territory defense system, freed up most of his own computing power, and activated the reserve computing power resources of Yilanduo Star.
If the goal is to protect a territory as large as that of the empire, Lu is far from being able to do it at the moment.
But the entire Luofeng Alliance is completely under Lu's control. She can be found in any area covered by the Internet and electronic information.
After arranging Hera, Lu turned his attention to the territory of the empire.
Following the direction pointed out by Hera , Lu searched all the way and soon saw a scene that made even her mechanical thinking body's scalp tingle.
A queen individual 30,000 meters high;
Thousands of Zerg warships composed of adult Zerg.
Lu even discovered a large number of sixth-order burrowing worms with a body length of more than 600 meters and covered with black scales near this queen worm.
This means that if this Zerg fleet is allowed to reach their destination, these high-level burrowing worms will open up long-distance jump wormholes and summon countless high-level Zerg swarms!
The direction they are heading...
Emperor Star Circle!
It should be the Imperial Star of the Empire!
'Have the Zerg joined forces with the New Federation?'
This was the first thought that came to Lu's mind.
Then, Lu thought of several characters.
Hera's father, Dr. Naldo, and Professor Pat, who has spent most of his life studying the Zerg and successfully completed the induced production of the queen individual.
Can Professor Pat and his team also deduce the conclusions that Hera can deduce?
This possibility is still very high.
Is the New Federation playing a game?
From the current perspective, there are still more than 30 fourth-order Zerg swarms in the entire empire that have not been eliminated. The Imperial Fleet cannot completely return to defend the Imperial Star, and it is unlikely to defeat the sixth-order peak Zerg Queen in front of them with minor losses.
Unless the empire still has hidden power.
If the Empire's invincible fleet suffered huge losses, it would inevitably take a certain amount of time to recover, and this period of time is likely to cause huge changes in the power of the Milky Way.
Law saw...
Chance.
Opportunity for the boss to rise!
The Dongfeng continued to make continuous jumps and travel at high speed towards the designated battlefield No. 3.
It’s not that Lu doesn’t want to wake up his boss at this moment, but judging from the data, letting the boss continue to rest is the best option.
Moreover, even if we tell the boss that a complete sixth-order swarm of insects has appeared, what will happen?
At this stage, the boss can't be a match for this kind of queen.
A fifth-order queen is already able to crush the boss, let alone this sixth-order peak super queen, which is only half a step away from upgrading its dimension.
The best plan is to let the boss continue to kill the fourth-level queen insects in other areas. When the boss is tired, Lu will control the Dongfeng to join the Empire's fleet to block the sixth-level insect swarm, and let the boss get close to the strange biological energy released when the high-level insects die.
This huge sixth-order insect swarm would need about two or three galactic hours to reach the vicinity of the Imperial Star Circle even with continuous jumps.
This is more than enough for Yang Ming to complete the current support plan.
Lu glanced at the direction in which the Imperial Military was mobilizing its fleet.
The fleets within the Imperial Star Circle are converging towards a certain airspace outside the Imperial Star Circle, which will become a tragic battlefield that determines the rise and fall of the empire in the next hundred years.
…
Vice Admiral Thomas stood in front of the French window of the bridge with a frown.
His fleet had already arrived at the first line of defense in advance, ready to snipe the large queen mother insect.
Vice Admiral Thomas had an arduous task on his shoulders. He was responsible for both forming the first layer of defense outside the Imperial Star Circle and assembling the supporting fleet.
Of course, all these tasks are handled by teams and supercomputers, and he only needs to control the overall situation.
The defense of the Imperial Star Circle has always been the focus of the empire's national defense, and the Imperial Star is the top priority.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the bridge, warships flew in from deep space, and in the distance more space ripples caused by the warships' jumps could be seen.
If we say that the Imperial Army still had some reservations in its military strength in the face of the sudden outbreak of the global insect plague, the elite fleet forces of the Imperial Star Circle were slowly moving outward.
Now, the Imperial Military has mobilized all types of warships they can, and are converging towards the first line of defense as quickly as possible.
To be on the safe side, they will set up three lines of defense.
The first line of defense is responsible for guarding the gate to the Imperial Star Circle.
The Imperial Star Circle refers to the dozens of administrative stars closest to the Imperial Star. It is the economic and cultural center of the empire. It accommodates 40% of the empire’s population with 10% of the living area and owns more than 75% of the empire’s wealth.
After a long period of construction, a tight defense line has been constructed around the Imperial Star Circle.
The universe is vast, but in the airspace where star systems are relatively close, there are few vast gravitational balance zones suitable for large-scale jumps of fleets. The large gravitational balance zones outside the Imperial Star Circle are all equipped with gravitational deflection devices.
Although the principle of Zerg jump is different from that of human ship jump, the large-scale Zerg jump has more stringent requirements for the gravitational balance zone.
The location of the first line of defense is stuck on the path that the Zerg must take in this direction.
What if the swarm changes direction?
With the Emperor Star as the center, the speed of the defense fleet's transfer in the "inner circle" must be higher than the speed of the Zerg swarm circling the "outer circle".
Moreover, the Imperial Military's supercomputer cluster has analyzed data from tens of thousands of years of war between the Empire and the Zerg, and the precise route prediction given by the machine is also in this direction.
The second line of defense is mainly composed of the protective forces of all administrative stars within the Imperial Star Circle. The administrative stars in the Imperial Star Circle themselves are the natural barriers of the Imperial Stars.
If the first line of defense is lost, the second line of defense is responsible for delaying the Zerg's advance so that the Empire can gather all its forces at the third line of defense.
The second line of defense also has some big killer weapons that may not be used - the defense satellite system. Although these natural satellites cannot move freely, they are all equipped with hyper-orbital cannons. As long as the Zerg passes near them, they will inevitably be hit by a few shots.
If the first line of defense suppresses the Zerg, the ships of the second line of defense will rush forward to support and destroy the Zerg as quickly as possible.
Later, the imperial fleets that have successively eliminated the Zerg swarms in various places will go to support the first or second line of defense depending on the battle situation.
The third line of defense was set up outside the Imperial Star.
To be honest, even Lieutenant General Thomas, who has reached the core of the military, does not know what kind of defensive power the Imperial Star possesses.
Thomas heard a few years ago that Emperor Star had begun to study how to resist high-intensity wars in the high-dimensional world...
The flagship bridge was broadcasting the location of the sixth-order Zerg swarm in real time.
It had only been a dozen minutes since Thomas led his fleet here, and the number of warships flying in from the Imperial Star Circle had reached an astonishing 600.
Lieutenant General Thomas sighed inwardly.
If these ships could be directly used by Your Majesty and the military in the previous Zerg encirclement and suppression campaign, the six administrative stars would not have become victims at all.
But there is no way. The core area of the empire cannot lack defensive forces. This is political and strategic.
Fortunately, after several battleship groups dealt with the queens of the Zerg that they had targeted, they handed over the battle to eliminate the remaining Zerg to the local defense forces, and each of them went to support the six planets that lacked defense.
He had just received news that a fleet had made contact with White Ghost's strange warships, and White Ghost would attack and complete a triple kill on the fourth-order queen.
For an individual, for a transformed person, this is bound to be an epoch-making achievement.
Originally, the entire empire should have cheered for this hero.
But now...
Lieutenant General Thomas turned his head and looked at the surveillance screen on the side.
The gigantic sixth-order queen floated in the universe. She had a face and facial features that were extremely similar to those of a human female. Even her appearance was in line with the aesthetics of most humans. She no longer had a terrifying giant mouth under her chest, but a flat belly.
No one knows what the relationship is between the sixth-level queen who is about to enter the higher-dimensional world and humans.
But what is certain is that the Queen's evolutionary path was fixed before the existence of the current civilization in the Milky Way.
There are many sub-races in the Guel Alliance that are the result of genetic mutations.
The queen of the high-level Zerg, if you only look at the upper body, is closer to humans than most sub-races.
"General! Our command system has reached its limit!"
"Well, my troops will serve as the center, and the command fleets of the two wings will arrive soon. Now, arrange for the fleets that come to report to gather on the left and right wings. Everything must be allocated strictly according to the marked airspace, leaving enough space for the main fleet to deploy. If anyone disobeys orders, the guards are allowed to shoot them on the spot."
"yes!"
A signalman shouted with a trembling voice: "General! His Majesty has sent a message!"
"What?" Lieutenant General Thomas was stunned for a moment, then immediately turned around and rushed to the command desk.
"Everyone, stand up! Stand up! Connect the phone quickly."
"yes!"
Several projection light balls flew over, interweaving to form a three-dimensional projection in front of Lieutenant General Thomas.
The bridge was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The soldiers and technicians could not help but take a look at the projection, then saluted and bowed their heads in unison.
In the stereoscopic projection, the old man in light gold pajamas was frowning tightly as he listened to the old general next to him reporting military intelligence.
This is His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire.
Obviously, the Emperor was also shocked by the sudden appearance of the sixth-order insect swarm. He lost his usual smile and even asked, "Has the Empire ever fought against a sixth-order insect swarm in history?"
"There have been more than a dozen head-on collisions."
The military boss, Lieutenant General Thomas' former superior, was standing aside with his legs together, reporting meticulously.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured that our military strength is sufficient to repel this swarm of insects! According to data comparison, this swarm of insects also attacked the Imperial Star thousands of years ago, and was eventually repelled by the brave soldiers of the Empire!"
"repel?"
His Majesty the Emperor was obviously dissatisfied: "Can't we just kill this queen? Oh, this queen has a good figure."
"Uh, your majesty, her lower body still looks like a bug."
"Wow, is this a new aesthetic? Isn't it more exciting?" the emperor asked with narrowed eyes.
A minister standing nearby laughed and said, "Your Majesty wants to use this joke to reduce our tension."
"That's true," the emperor laughed, and then said, "I believe our soldiers can resolutely resist the second disaster."
A minister said, "Your Majesty, the current situation is not optimistic. The New Federation has detonated all the insect burial sites, seemingly intending to attract this high-level insect swarm. If we lose too much military strength in this battle, we will most likely be besieged by the combined forces of the Federation."
The emperor asked, "How dare they challenge us directly?"
A group of ministers suddenly didn't know how to answer.
An old woman in a long robe and a long white hat in the corner suddenly spoke:
“Your Majesty, we have to admit one thing. In the past three thousand years, the Empire’s technological level has not improved qualitatively, and its population has dropped by 20%. Although its military technology has maintained a certain degree of leadership, all countries in the galaxy are also striving to catch up.
“In addition, due to the inefficiency of certain military departments, a large amount of military technology has been stolen by spies. The combined military strength of the New Federation and many emerging countries has put a strong pressure on the Empire.
"They will most likely declare war on us if we lose sufficient deterrence."
The emperor frowned tightly.
He propped his temples with his fingers, as if imitating the mural in front of him that depicted 'Levi Sherman Thinking'.
"Go and pray." The emperor suddenly looked towards the corner. "In this situation, we must use a little bit of the empire's resources, Archbishop."
"As you command, Your Majesty."
The archbishop slowly stood up, bowed deeply to the Emperor, and walked away slowly.
The chief general of the military department whispered, "Your Majesty, this is the situation of the front-line defense. General Thomas is on high alert. The most elite forces of the empire will gather here."
"Okay, no need to worry about the swarm."
The emperor stretched himself:
"Let's discuss how to teach the New Federation a lesson. I like this country very much, and their movies are pretty good.
“But this guy took it a bit too far.
"I originally wanted to be a benevolent ruler. I didn't want to start a large-scale foreign war. My ideal was peace in the galaxy..."
Lieutenant General Thomas listened to the Emperor's chatter and sighed softly in his heart.
He had long doubted His Majesty's mental state.
Of course, he didn't dare say this out loud, not to anyone.
…
bite--
It was like the noise made by a coin tumbling in a metal bowl.
Yang Ming opened his eyes and found a peaceful starry sky in front of him. Under the starry sky, he saw a huge and terrifying figure, which was releasing powerful mental pressure.
He could only see the other person's side.
What 's this ?
The queen of a high-level swarm?
The Empire wiped out dozens of Zerg swarms at the same time, causing the Zerg swarms on the edge of the galaxy to finally be unable to hold back and begin to take action?
Soon, Yang Ming's gaze moved to another direction.
He saw a ball of light, and inside the ball of light was a figure that looked like a young girl.
Her curled up body was slowly unfolding, the laurel wreath on her head was faintly shining, and a faint singing voice floated through the space and into Yang Ming's ears.
Yang Ming tried to understand the message contained in the song.
Yes, he could understand it directly, as if this was the only means of communication between him and Posa.
The message seemed to be...
Natural enemies have appeared.
