Chapter 683, ‘Tentacle’

The development of the war situation in the future was actually quite similar to what the Queen of Zerg had estimated.

Gu Hang, who led the main fleet of the alliance, eventually completely destroyed the Zerg reinforcement fleet that came south from the two star regions of Lefo and Jianmen.

In the end, only two biological battleships escaped with a small number of fast-running warships, and the rest all died in this starry sky.

After the victory, in order to avoid those bugs, they could come back and use the wreckage of these ships to transform biomass. The alliance even spent more time here to clean up the battlefield.

Those small ship fragments were burned; the larger biological ship corpses, especially those transport ship corpses filled with biomass, were directly powered and launched into the stars of this galaxy to ensure that they would be completely and irreusably destroyed.

At the same time, Gu Hang also led the main fleet to intercept the Zerg fleet drawn from the Dantao battle.

They had received orders to escape, but they were still intercepted and destroyed.

Marshal Xi Rui also sent a victory report from Dantao Star.

After the Zerg fleet evacuated, he ended the offensive.

Since the mission has been completed, there is no need to waste lives.

After Gu Hang sent a report on the victory of the battle, he was more decisive and gradually withdrew the troops from the single peach.

The withdrawal process was also smooth. Although the enemy still had a lot of troops on the ground, without space support, as long as there was a stable base to ensure that the orbit in this direction would not be hit by the anti-orbital biological cannon on the ground, there would be no big problem.

While continuously evacuating the troops, he also transported a precious "Fen Tian Torpedo" on hand to the ground.

This Burning Sky Torpedo exploded when there were not many people left on the planet.

In the end, nearly 10,000 people died on the planet. After all, it is unrealistic to evacuate all and then detonate the Burning Sky Torpedo, otherwise it would be a real accident if something unexpected happened.

It is not glorious to blow up one's own people, but compared with destroying this planet that once had 90 billion people and has now been digested into a huge amount of biomass, the blow to the Zerg is extremely heavy, and the exchange ratio is also cost-effective.

As for why not evacuate all the people before bombing... the core reason is that they are worried that after the people are evacuated, there will be no ground support. When the Zerg swarm on the surface is still very strong, if the Burning Sky Torpedo is intercepted by the biological cannon or the flying insect demon, it will be a big loss.

The lives of 10,000 soldiers are worth more than the Burning Sky Torpedo... well, there is no doubt that the Burning Sky Torpedo is much more valuable.

This is the cold calculation.

But in any case, Dan Tao was destroyed. To be honest, if all the biomass of 90 billion people were taken away by the Queen of Zerg, it would probably be equivalent to half of the biomass brought by the fleet that went south before.

Another wave of heavy losses.

Gu Hang and Xi Rui reunited again.

They rested for about a week before setting off again.

The original plan was to go west and establish contact with Salisius and Martins.

But soon, they found that it was not necessary to do so.

The swarm evacuated on its own.

The Queen of Insects took back almost all the power she could control and gather now.

Those that could hatch transport ships were hatched, filled with biomass, soldier insects, and worker insects, and ran back; those that could not be taken away were left on the spot and fully hatched into soldier insects, trying to prepare to cause some trouble for humans.

She was shrinking her forces to the extreme, almost all of them were shrinking to the Rheaduches galaxy.

This was obviously to fight a protracted war with humans on Rheaduches, the former iron armored mother planet.

Fight a protracted war.

But what was she relying on to drag it on?

At first, Gu Hang only had a guess, without clear evidence. When he came to the Rheaduches galaxy in person, he soon realized what it was.

He tried his best to look through the shadow of the subspace and look at the far distance of the physical universe. He saw a huge hive fleet approaching.

It was not through the subspace, not through the astral tunnel, but at normal sublight speed, from a very far place, "slowly" sailing to Rhea Duchess.

That hive fleet was quite large, even larger than the swarm controlled by the queen.

Is that the so-called "Duchess Tentacles"?

Humans call the structure above the hive fleet "tentacles". This is an extremely large level, and it is also the largest scale of Zerg structure encountered by the human empire. When the main force of a "Zerg tentacle" comes to the empire, it will often cause a super-large disaster across multiple universes, and the empire needs to gather a very large force to put an end to it.

In the entire history of the empire, there have been only two times when "tentacles" appeared and were successfully resisted. Each time, it left a very deep and painful memory for the empire.

There may be many queens in one "tentacle". They are generally equal to each other, but in fact they have different statuses according to the size of the swarms they control. The most powerful, and probably the oldest, is called the "mother" - in fact, the queens are likely to be related by blood, although the insects don't care about this.

In the past few hundred years, there was a 'void wormhole' in Rhea Duchess. When the Hive Fleet kept emerging, the Zerg scholars of the Empire believed that there might be a 'tentacle' that was sailing in this direction from the physical universe level and gradually approaching the territory of the Empire. What always emerged was just the vanguard fleet.

This possible 'tentacle' was named 'Duchess Tentacle' after the place name.

However, after observation, Gu Hang believed that it should not be the main force of the tentacle.

The number was a bit inconsistent.

It should be just another vanguard force that set out from the tentacle. The main force of the 'tentacle' is still unobservable and very far behind.

But even so, the arrival of this Zerg fleet will bring great changes to the war situation.

Gu Hang continued to observe this Hive Fleet for two days and basically confirmed that his idea was correct.

In addition, he also analyzed a piece of news: this Hive Fleet, at the current speed, will take about thirteen standard Terra months to reach the Rhea Duchess galaxy.

This means that the human side had better solve the problem of Reyaduches in a little more than a year to avoid the two sides from joining together.

It is not enough. After all, the Queen of Insects has withdrawn so many troops. If you want to take it down, it may take a long time.

But it still gives a certain amount of time, and you can fight for it.

An idea gradually formed in Gu Hang's mind.

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The previous chapter makes up for yesterday's, and this chapter is today's.