Chapter 608, Busy Saving the World

After killing the Hive Tyrant, the node creature, the remaining insects were still besieging Martins and others.

But the beasts fighting on instinct alone, no matter how powerful they are, are much less threatening.

When the Space Marines cleared the nearest enemies, no more monsters came.

No orders, no thinking ability, isn't that the case?

Two transport ships soon appeared in the sky and took the Space Marines away.

After another moment, the firepower pouring down from the orbit covered the entire area.

Not only did they kill the Zerg that had lost its commander, but they also cleared the large-scale hatching nests here.

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Martins returned to the starship. On the one hand, he asked someone to write a battle report and send it to Governor Gu. On the other hand, he contacted Alma Ewing.

Of course, Martins is now the general manager of the entire Nepeta Star Region war zone, including an alliance fleet, hundreds of millions of alliance armies, and the defense forces of various worlds in the Nepeta Star Region, as well as the Blood Shark War Group, all of which are theoretically under his command. However, other troops are fine, but he still has to be cautious about Ewing and can't really treat him as his subordinate.

In fact, this is also true.

The Blood Shark is a relatively independent fighting force. The main force led by Ewing is not even nearby, but on the way to another planet where the situation is also very critical.

After the two briefly talked about the situation on their side and exchanged some ideas about the overall battle situation, Ewing asked a question: "Did the 100 new blood sharks perform well?"

"Of course, very well, they are all excellent warriors."

Ewing was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Are the new blood provided by the Alliance of this quality?"

After thinking for a while, Martins did not lie: "Yes."

"It's really... incredible." Ewing said, "No wonder the Phoenix Regiment recovered so quickly."

"The blood sharks will do the same." Martins said, "Three hundred new recruits in one go not only make up for the losses of participating in the war, but also solve the problem of insufficient staffing in the past."

"Yes, I never thought that new recruits would be so easy to recruit." Ewing said, "They are all good guys, brave, tough, loyal, and full of faith..."

At this point, he swallowed back the word "too confident" that he wanted to say later.

"It's a good thing after all. As long as you keep cooperating with the Alliance, the Blood Shark will always be strong."

Ewing couldn't help but said, "Will the Blood Shark still be a Blood Shark?"

Martins chuckled and asked, "Do you think the Phoenix is ​​still a Phoenix?"

Without waiting for Ewing to answer, Martins continued, "In my opinion, yes. Our gene seeds are being passed down, our war group culture is being passed down, and we are still fighting for humanity and the Emperor. What's the difference between this and the Phoenix in the past?"

Ewing was speechless.

He changed the subject and didn't want to discuss it anymore: "Now, where is Commander-in-Chief Gu's fleet?"

"The latest news is that it should be arriving in Wuqi soon." At this point, Martins made a request: "We still have to speed up some progress. You don't have to worry about some worlds. The most important task of Blood Shark is to block the entrance and exit to the Princess as soon as possible. The Vanguard Fleet has found signs that the enemy has entered the Nepeta from the Princess Star Region. The intelligence is still being confirmed, but it may be a traitor war group."

"The Governor took the main force away, leaving us with not much power, and we have to be restrained by many worlds in bad situations. We are still under great pressure. If there is really a traitor war group entering the Nepeta Star Region, we need to find a suitable place to intercept them, otherwise a lot of work will be wasted."

Ewing listened silently and responded: "I know, don't worry. But Blood Shark alone may not be enough. You have to solve the problem as soon as possible and catch up as soon as possible."

"I will."

...

After ending the call, Martins once again focused on the battlefield at hand.

Tingzhen IV

Tingzhen IV is one of the worst-off worlds in the Jingjie star field among the more than 200 worlds that have been captured by the Alliance.

According to a simple estimate, the total number of insect beasts on the surface of the entire planet has exceeded one billion; the cult organization composed of parasites has almost replaced the rulers of the planet, and more than 70% of cities and large settlements have become their world. They manage the order of the city and constantly hold various religious rituals, claiming that only by believing in their "gods" can they be saved.

Some of these so-called gods are purely made up by them, and more are made up in the image of the emperor.

The latter will be somewhat deceptive.

And these religious rituals, to put it bluntly, are to infect more people.

The infection mode of parasites is not quite the same as that of conventional viruses. In essence, it is to control people's thoughts, rather than simply make people sick. According to the Empire's research on Zerg parasitism, some special psychic means of the Zerg are involved.

Only through the infection of so-called religion, which is actually a mass infection of psychic creatures, can humans be better infected and then make them "truly" believe in the so-called God.

Regardless of whether it is a fabricated thing or simply the four-armed God Emperor, they will begin to believe in it wholeheartedly. At the same time, their bodies will gradually begin to change, including skin color, teeth, skull shape, more limbs...

As for the so-called redemption? The so-called Kingdom of Heaven?

Oh, there are some too.

The digester of the Zerg.

But before entering the digester, they still have to preach and 'revolution', and they are busy.

The total population of Tingzhen IV as a whole before the war should have been about 4.5 billion, which was considered a civilized world in the industrial age. Today, about 40% of the world's population is controlled by cults, which is about one billion.

There is a difference in this number because in just six months of the outbreak, the entire world has lost about 2 billion people.

The remaining approximately 1.5 billion people are scattered throughout the planet in various scattered ways. Among them, there is barely a resistance organization, but there is also the problem of cult corruption within it. If they hadn't connected with the Alliance, under the triple blow of the insect swarm, the cult, and internal corruption, I'm afraid those resistance bases wouldn't have been able to hold on for long.

For this world, alliances are still needed.

The surviving 2.5 billion people are the biggest reason. Including those 1 billion people under the rule of cults, not all are hopeless. The actual number of infections is only about 10% to 20%. If left alone, they will eventually be corrupted, but at least it hasn't happened yet.

The second reason is that if this industrialized planet can be saved, a sufficient industrial population and a good industrial base will be able to be integrated and play a significant role in the subsequent war.

This is why extermination orders are not considered based on local circumstances.

Another, larger reason is that using an extermination order will have a very bad political impact.

Accusations from the central level of the empire and trouble from the Inquisition are secondary. After the Extinction Order destroys the world, what will other worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory think? Once the pest problem expands, an extermination order will be used. Those cult organizations that get the news will have a perfect excuse to expand more quickly. If the Alliance then wants to take over other worlds easily, it will not be so easy depending on the message.

However, Martins is the commander-in-chief of the entire Star Territory war after all, and he cannot stay in Tingzhen IV for too long.

But the problem here can be considered initially solved.

The largest node organism on the planet has been wiped out, which means that the insect swarm has lost the ability to integrate and coordinate.

Of course, there are still some lower-level node creatures, but they do not have enough authority and "brain". The only ones they can control are their own insect swarms. That means that when the human forces launch a counterattack and attack one part of them, other insect swarms neither know nor know about it and will not reinforce it. Those lower-level node creatures can only integrate the insect swarm units to which they belong, and will only act according to the set goals. It will neither expand the scale of the war nor have any subjective initiative.

Until a new, global node creature hatches out among them, which can reunite all the divided insect swarms again.

What humans have to do is to prevent the emergence of new global node organisms and continue to eliminate the number of insect swarms until they are completely eliminated.

In addition to eradicating the insect swarms, the more important goal is to attack areas controlled by corrupt cults and liberate the population. While preventing further infections, the liberated population can restore productivity and form a local army.

All in all, the problem of Ting Zhen IV is far from being completely solved.

But Martins has no time to stay here.

Fifty Phoenixes will stay here and continue to do this work.

At the same time, cooperating with them are three army groups of the Alliance Army, with 60 million soldiers.

The overall leader will be an alliance lieutenant general.

And Martins himself has to rush to the next dangerous world.

In his schedule, there are still four worlds where he must personally lead the team and solve the problems as soon as possible.

After taking care of these, the rest was left to the Alliance Army and Navy Squadrons to resist by mobilizing the world's local forces.

At most four companies were left to put out fires everywhere.

As for himself, he would lead the other six companies to quickly join the blood sharks.

The enemies coming from the Queen's Star Domain should not be underestimated. If they want to preserve their achievements in the Nepeta Star Territory, they must not let the group of traitors who have taken refuge in the insect swarm come in and cause trouble.

There is still a big battle waiting for him.

A month later, the information about this enemy was also determined.

The bad news is that those who came are indeed a traitor warband.

The good news is, it's not iron armor.

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