Walk alone in the abyss

Seeing Peterson and this group of young people from Saka, Yang Ming swallowed his prepared words again.

In fact, there is no need to say anything.

Since they choose to stand up, they have to bear the risks and costs of being heroes.

Peterson's eyes became calm and heavy, his young face had a sense of vicissitudes, and his expression was as calm as possible.

"well done."

Yang Ming patted Peterson's arm, and sighed slowly:

"You can do it. I'll use my relationship to arrange you in the rear area. You will find a hard job to fight the bugs."

"Sorry, my lord, I know these ships are worth a lot..."

"Why are ships so valuable? Aren't they all man-made?"

Yang Ming interrupted Peterson's words, and said in a low voice:

"A general must not only learn how to let soldiers die, but also how to keep soldiers alive, and how to give their death a heroic meaning.

"This is fighting against natural disasters. The pensions for soldiers who died in battle will be paid three times according to our standard, so that Governor Godoy can take care of their families.

"The loss rate is 60%... Can you fight this battle like this?"

Peterson bowed his head and dared not speak.

"Okay, don't feel any pressure on yourself, you rushed to the front, I saw it.

"Take their share and continue to fight. This is the best consolation for the sacrificed soldiers, remember?"

"Well," Peterson pulled an ugly smile, "I understand."

Yang Ming clicked his tongue, glanced at these young people, frowned and said: "Go back to work, Po Huan and I will rest on this ship for a while, and form a battle formation to harvest as many insects as possible. Absorb nourishment from your body."

"yes!"

This group of soldiers from Saka star saluted at the same time, and quickly returned to their respective posts.

They obviously have a temperament that they didn't have before.

But as soon as Yang Ming thought that these soldiers were his personal followers, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart for no reason.

There were only 10 million aborigines left in Saka;

These young people who joined his personal guard had suffered a lot when they were young, suffered from the economic recession, suffered from the plague of insects, and finally had a better life now, and lost their lives here in the starry sky.

Of course, soldiers of other armies are also soldiers, and the value of the two is the same. Although Yang Ming is a bit protective, he doesn't feel that his soldiers are more valuable than other soldiers.

But he just felt a little depressed.

'My structure may be this big. '

Yang Ming did a chest-expanding exercise, and called Posuo to rest in the corner of the cabin.

There is still a fierce battle ahead, and they must adjust their status as soon as possible.

The Great Queen also has a 'battle song' that lures the life forms of the ancient gods, this thing has to be guarded against.

...

This is war.

Revell moved a chair and sat in front of the porthole, staring at the shells of a dozen ships that were dragged back in the starry sky.

It was a ship that was attacked by bugs and did not have time to detonate itself.

He could vaguely see that the corpses piled up into hills swelled into a somewhat terrifying appearance in the cold universe, densely packed, with hundreds to thousands of people on each ship.

Revell suddenly felt that the use of various semi-automatic machines and detained artificial intelligence was indeed a very good thing.

Otherwise, a thousand-meter-class warship would require thousands of soldiers and technicians to operate and maintain it. In such a battle, casualties would increase several times.

In less than half an hour, 293,000 soldiers died.

Revell couldn't imagine how horrific it would be if there was a constant battle ahead, and even a battlefield where the 'Main Bug Swarm' broke out.

This is the second disaster.

Insects do not have human emotions, they should not feel grief, they are more like indifferent biological machines, accurately executing the instructions given by the mother insect, and plundering the starry sky for the advancement and dimension of the mother insect everything of.

But humans can't.

Revel was unable to speak a word for a long time.

At this moment, when he went to read the official frontline battle report, what he saw was no longer the cold text, but the mountains of corpses piled up, the horrifying corpses, and the almost endless swarms of insects. .

"Lord Earl," the staff officer walked quickly and said seriously, "The military department has issued a commendation order to you. Your outstanding performance in this battle has won positive comments from all the generals."

Revell frowned and looked at the staff officer.

He was a little disgusted with these bureaucratic styles.

"I didn't do anything," Revel said calmly. "The orders were all issued by the Imperial Guard system. I just stood up to cheer everyone up, and then I ended my mission."

The staff officer said slowly: "The Imperial Guard system is always just an auxiliary."

"I didn't do anything!"

Revel stood up suddenly.

The chair was thrown backwards, Reville grabbed the staff officer by the collar, and glared at the staff officer with his eyes:

"We didn't do anything! That's what the generals and officers of the empire do, right! We didn't give a single meaningful order! We just watched the imperial guard system let so many humans die!

"We didn't even try to save lives!

"Answer me! Are all the generals of the empire such waste! They will only hide behind the Imperial Guard system!"

"Earl Revell," the staff officer frowned slightly, with a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth, "You are under too much pressure, relax, everyone will be afraid of bugs, all we have to do is face up to our own fear."

"Fuck the fear!"

Revell growled, pushed the staff officer away, and took two steps back, squeezed his eyes hard, and his voice trembled a little.

"Sorry...sorry, I have some..."

"It's normal and taking a deep breath can help you feel better."

The staff officer said softly:

"You also performed very well in the bug disasters when the New Federal Bug Burying Program was detonated, but there are many differences between these two bug disasters.

"During the last insect plague, our biggest trouble was that dozens of insect swarms were simultaneously activated by the new federation. We could only temporarily use conventional troops and could not use the real power of the empire.

"The insect swarm we faced that time were all insects with a relatively short development time, barely reaching the fourth stage.

"Now, the swarms on the fringes of the Milky Way are attacking human civilization with an extermination strike. More than a dozen small governments have failed to fight against the swarms of insects and have disappeared permanently in the Milky Way. Relying on their own background, the empire barely suppressed the swarms of insects. Resist.

"It will have to be done at great sacrifices... In fact, we have embellished the numbers we publish to avoid public panic..."

Revel covered his head with his hands, leaned against the porthole, and slowly sat on the ground: "What can we do?"

"We are all insignificant, and we are all just cogs in this battlefield," the staff officer said softly, "Even Major General Hanton, our hero, is just a cog one size bigger. If we want to resist the swarm, we need to rely on enough Soldiers, enough ships, enough firepower, and efficient control of all firepower points."

"My idol is nearby, right?"

"He is already maneuvering towards the frontal battlefield," the staff officer said. "About five minutes ago, he arrived at the Saka planet escort fleet. While harvesting scattered bugs, he was moving towards the main battlefield. We also got some interesting orders. .”

Revell's mood eased a lot, and he asked softly, "What order?"

"Drive these mindless bugs that have lost their command centers towards Hanton's ship, and kill the bugs near him and Valkyrie Whirling, so as to recharge the two ancient gods' modified bodies."

Two question marks appeared on Revell's forehead.

"That's it," the staff officer shrugged, "this is a force we cannot understand."

"Did I lose my temper just now?" Revell grinned, "It suddenly occurred to me that my idol, he has been fighting life forms like bugs from the very beginning..."

The staff officer smiled and said, "The first time I faced a high-casualty battle, I was even more emotionally broken. You are already very good among young people."

"No, no, no, I'm just an ordinary person," Revell shook his head, and took out his network access terminal, "If you have any problems in the future, let the Emperor Guard system directly, and I'll get some gifts for my idol. "

Staff Officer: ...

There is no doubt that this is the basic quality of an excellent commander.

...

A formation composed of more than 200 miscellaneous ships escorted Yang Ming and Po Suo all the way 'to the north'.

After more than half an hour of rest, and a steady stream of strange creatures to replenish, Yang Ming and Po Huan had already filled in the previous gaps.

When Li reappeared, Yang Ming was dozing off with his eyes closed, and his mother-in-law was dismantling two laser pistols.

The latter belongs to the type of disassembly regardless of installation.

"Major General Hunton," Li called softly.

Her projection attracted the attention of many young people on Saka, but after they watched for a while, the "Imperial Security Confidentiality Clause" automatically popped up on their respective network access terminals or various screens in front of them.

Yang Ming didn't open his eyes, and said, "It's good to talk about the next battle plan."

"Allow me first to summarize the current situation."

Li's voice and tone became more polite to the naked eye.

She said slowly:

"According to the data we detected, the 'express' you threw out severely injured the fake queen, and directly exposed the coordinates where the big queen is hiding.

"To a certain extent, we have taken some initiative.

"However, the current situation is not optimistic. From the perspective of the Milky Way, the Zerg continues to attack. Apart from the Sherman Empire, the New Federation, the United States of Freedom, and the Guell Union, most of the Chinese people who have been attacked by insects Small polities are in trouble at the moment.

"The fifth-order adult insects and sixth-order adult insects are powerful enemies that cannot be defeated by the fleets of small countries.

"In the past two galactic times, the entire territory of six regimes has fallen..."

Yang Ming opened his eyes and looked at Li: "Is it so serious?"

Po Sua also looked up.

Li nodded slightly: "Although things outside the empire's territory have nothing to do with me, this is the rule I was written into, but from a humanitarian perspective, as well as the Sherman Empire's mission and responsibility in the galaxy, we should Let's do our best to end this infestation as soon as possible."

Yang Ming captured some information in her words.

However, now is not the time to delve into these details.

Yang Ming asked, "How do you want to solve it?"

Li quickly said: "According to our previous thinking, we can directly lead the Queen out, destroy her or repel her."

"The specific steps," Yang Ming said directly, "I want to know the trump card of the empire."

"The specific steps require me to adjust the changes in the battlefield environment, and I can demonstrate some plans for you."

Li raised his hand and drew a square box, inside which was an overview of the environment of the star field on the main battlefield.

"The instigator of this insect swarm is the big queen. If the big queen dies, her direct sixth-order swarm will collapse, and the pseudo-mother worms split from her body will also die.

"Now, we have three weapons that can defeat the Grand Queen."

A 'final stage' female worm thousands of kilometers high appeared in the corner of the battlefield.

"She's probably in this position," Li said softly.

The mother-in-law asked, "Which three kinds?"

"The first type, the strange matter bomb."

A slight arc appeared at the corner of Li's mouth:

"This is a weapon that can be carried by an individual soldier. Because of the particularity of the strange matter, we only need one cubic centimeter of the strange matter to touch the queen's body to defeat the queen in a very short time.

"This seems to be a very feasible plan, but in fact, I have gone through 120,000 deduction, and none of them succeeded.

"So, the two carrying the strange substance bomb can be used as the first feint."

Feint?

Yang Ming nodded: "I like this kind of work, and I also like your words. At least, you don't have superstitious belief in the power of Faya."

Li said calmly: "Faya people are not reliable."

"Go on," Yang Ming and Po Suo folded their arms at the same time, their movements, postures and expressions were somewhat similar.

Li continued: "Your feint attack is just a superficial feint attack. I will arrange the whole army to cooperate with you in this play. The only thing you have to do is to determine the exact location of the Queen, and then hand it over to our conventional Terminator weapon." .”

A giant fortress with a diameter of thousands of kilometers appeared on Li's right hand side.

Imperial Skyfury Fortress.

Without waiting for Yang Ming to speak, Li continued: "This star cannon is stuffed, and it is hoped that it can seriously injure the queen, but it is not 100% able to injure the queen."

Yang Ming asked: "Can't even the stellar cannon?"

"Have you noticed? The queen is like a planet now."

Li said softly:

"She actually has a three-layer structure. The outermost layer is formed by the special material of high-dimensional space, which is similar to a kind of armor. The middle layer is her old slough, which is the original body. It has been connected with the outer layer. The last layer The inner layer is the real high-dimensional life form.

"After repeated calculations, the stellar cannon can only break her outer shell and cause trauma to the middle layer.

"The most ideal state is that under the bombardment of the stellar cannon, she has to release her thinking network and get rid of the old slough. This also declares that she has lost control of the bug swarm in our current dimension, and the pseudo-mother will also self-destruct. collapse.

"It's like a master brain, forcing its central processing unit to leave the main machine."

Yang Ming asked: "What if the Stellar Cannon fails to meet expectations?"

"I will directly activate the empire's unconventional ultimate force."

"What?"

"Before it showed up, it was the top secret of the empire," Li's eyes were a little playful, "You should be able to guess it."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "I hate the Riddler."

"Do you need to make any preparations?" Li calmly changed the topic, "Out of consideration for the overall civilization of the Milky Way, we need to launch a crusade against the Queen as soon as possible."

Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.

The few thoughts circling in his heart have begun to come alive.

Yang Ming said: "The Bligh I was going to transfer before, that asexual angel, the super-alterer who is good at mind control, why hasn't he come here?"

"He is a dangerous person to me," Li said calmly, "I can't use him."

"So that's how it is," Yang Ming asked again, "Then I have three conditions. The first is to keep my assistant by my side all the time. I don't think you will refuse to cooperate with her."

Li nodded lightly: "If she doesn't reject it, I can agree."

"Second, you have to ensure the safety of me and Po Huan."

"Please rest assured that you have won my respect in this series of battles," Li said quickly, "and, before I achieve my strategic goals, you are my most important helper. "

"It has two meanings, right?"

"Sorry, I don't understand your hint."

"Alright, third," Yang Ming took a deep breath, "I hope you can promise that the people of the empire have the right to know the details of the bug swarm."

Li thought for a while, then nodded lightly: "Please get ready to attack, the Dongfeng and the escort fleet will arrive soon."

Her figure is about to dissipate.

"Emperor Guard!"

Yang Ming suddenly stopped her.

"Huh?" Li expressed her doubts appropriately.

Yang Ming asked: "Are you using me to fight against the queen?"

Li watched Yang Ming calmly, his body turned into light spots and dissipated.

Yang Ming seemed to see her smile, but only in a daze.