Chapter 21: The Game
The news that the training ground of the Insecticidal Church in Green Screen City was destroyed by the insect swarm quickly spread, which was personally instructed by the Insect Mother Aranoda, who hoped to force the Insecticidal Church to reveal greater flaws in this way.
While passing on the news to the outside world, the insect swarm also stepped up the interrogation of the core personnel of the captured Insecticidal Sect, and under the neuroparasitic skills of the infestation, no matter how hard the Insecticidal Cultists were, they could not hide the secrets they knew.
The swarm is also monitoring the exact locations of several other exterminator training sites that have been obtained from these exterminators, and the infected are working with Abbather to research and decrypt the seized so-called "Charismatic Crystal" in the hope of finding a way to circumvent the defenses and vigilance measures at these training sites.
However, until this solution is found, the swarm will not move those training points for the time being.
Assault is not advisable, as once the swarm touches the protection measures of these training sites, there is a high chance that the personnel in the training sites will destroy all valuable materials in the training sites and evacuate through the secret escape routes of the training sites.
The advantage of the swarm is that none of the members of the training points of the Extermination Sect have been found by the swarm, and these training points are not established by the Extermination Sect itself, but are the result of the will of the world.
So the training points at their disposal are not only limited in number, but almost non-renewable.
Therefore, until the exact direction of the swarm's actions is obtained, it is impossible for the upper echelons of the Sect of Insect Exterminators to simply abandon all training points, and they very much need the psionic users who have been transformed from these training points as their own armed forces.
To put it simply, the Insecticide's training points are now like their barracks, and as long as these training points still exist, they can continue to supply them with a steady stream of available elite troops.
However, the location of these "barracks" is fixed and cannot be easily demolished and rebuilt, which forces the upper echelons of the Sect to act at an opportune point and decide which training points have been detected by the swarm by observing the movement of the swarm.
In this way, the swarm is able to oppress the opponent's psyche by monitoring the training points that have already acquired a specific location, leaving them in a state of high vigilance but unable to make decisive decisions.
Aranoda's tactics are actually a psychological intimidation, like when you're playing cards, your opponent has told you that he only has two cards left in his hand, but you don't know what they are.
In the case of not being able to count the cards, you have no idea whether he is holding two kings or a pair of threes, which makes you have to cross the river by feeling the stones, using a series of temptations and guesses to probe the opponent's hole cards.
In the midst of this constant trial and error, your margin for error will be reduced to an outrageous level, and any wrong move or wrong card can end the whole game.
For the Exterminator Sect, which was already under the pressure of the swarm in all directions, if they lost the Sect Exterminator's armed force because of a mistake, then the blow they would probably suffer would be devastating.
As such, the Cult's hierarchy will definitely do whatever it takes to try to stop the swarm from finding other training sites, and doing so will undoubtedly greatly increase the frequency of their recent operations.
The more actions there are, the more flaws will increase, and the insect swarm will be able to rely on these flaws to find out where the core members of the Sect of Extermination gather.
There is even a high possibility that the "Pope" will be forced out of his state of seclusion.
Moreover, the swarm now holds the core component of the Exterminator's training point, the "Divine Grace Crystal".
Once Abbathhar and the infected decipher a way to circumvent the training point's defenses from the crystal, the game will be a complete "GAME OVER" for the Exterminator.
So for the Extermination Sect, not only have they been taken by the swarm now, but they don't have much time left.
They must perfectly avoid all the monitoring of the swarm in the shortest and most limited time, and accurately pick up all the personnel in the training ground that have been mastered by the swarm, in order to completely solve this dead end.
But with the current power and discourse power of the swarm in the giant land world, this is basically an impossible task.
If Aranoda, as a colonial commander, really let them do all this, then it would probably be the colonial commander who would be the end.
Therefore, when the news of Green Screen City was transmitted, the top management of the Exterminator Sect immediately fell into extreme tension when they learned of this information.
Some of the higher-ranking members of the Church in the northern border of the Makatata Kingdom began to find ways to transfer their "base areas", and just as Aranoda expected, they began to plan frequent actions in order to divert the attention of the swarm on those training grounds.
The "Pope" of the Extermination Sect also ended his stealth and began to personally plan some very radical attacks directly against the insect swarm and insect hives under the cover of a group of core disciples.
In this way, they tried to shrink the swarm and give them a buffer time to react perfectly.
Moreover, this "Pope" also very cunningly focused his attacks on the prisons and hives where the insect swarm held the exterminators, and he dispatched the most core and elite psionic users of the Insecticidal Sect to carry out high-intensity attacks on those who held the Exterminators in the Makatata Kingdom.
On the night of the fourth day when the news of Green Screen City spread, the "Cult Prison of Hilapun" outside the capital of the Makatata Kingdom was raided by elite psionic users with a number of about two hundred.
Using a prison cart hijacked in the middle of the road as a cover, they successfully tricked open the heavy gate of the prison, and then killed the prison guards and guards, and rescued all the believers in the prison.
However, this blatant attack of the Insecticidal Sect was also obviously underestimating the high-altitude surveillance network of the insect swarm, and less than half an hour after this group of people and the rescued cultists stepped out of the prison gate, they were surrounded and suppressed by a large army of insect swarms that had already been ambushed in a valley.
The battle lasted from late that night until the early hours of the next morning, and the cultists of the Sect of Exterminators tried almost every means to break out of the encirclement of the insect swarm.
However, how could the Worm Mother Commander, who had already anticipated this situation, let them go unharmed?
In the end, the 200 exterminators who came to rob the prison were almost wiped out, and the exterminators they rescued were also killed and wounded, and only two exterminators were lucky enough to get out of the encirclement net of the insect swarm by virtue of their special psionic attributes.