Time rewinds to just before the Kellant sends a distress signal.

"Commander, we've succeeded in uprooting all the alien nests on the surface. And there are many more insect nests lurking under the ground. ”

The crew of the bridge struggled to cooperate. It took half a day for the Kelrant to destroy all visible hatcheries with naval guns and nuclear bombs from high altitude in orbit. But where the naked eye can't see it, the sensors show that the insects have also built quite a few nests underground.

Do you want to send a team to end one nest after another, and then catch the mother of insects, Kashta?

The only way to enter the Worm's underground hive is to send troops through the passage dug by the Worm. And Zhao Yi also imagined using the Kelant to bomb from a high-altitude orbit and directly blow up the underground insect nest. But under the persuasion of Farien, who is an expert in this regard, Zhao Yi dispelled this idea.

Naval artillery strikes are not invincible, and the deep rock formations are good at protecting the insect nest from the threat of the fleet high in orbit. And the results of Fcallo's presentation on the computer also confirmed Farryn's claim.

But sending 6 fighters or some other soldier along the cave that can accommodate worker bees will definitely be blocked by insects. There, the Rangers don't know where the hoppers will emerge from the cave's passages, or if they will be trapped in place by a landslide. To make matters worse, the Rangers were unable to get artillery or intelligence support from high up in the tunnels.

Forget about artillery support, if it is difficult to even do intelligence support, it will be embarrassing.

Small caves are not suitable for human invasion. Where is the world of insects, it is also the hell of human beings.

Zhao Yi's bold ideas on the planet Haiwen successfully allowed them to lock on to the one where the mother worm was located in the vast sea of stars, but he didn't know if his bold idea was worth the lives of countless rangers - if the rangers were to fill in the Kashtar of the mother worm, the people of Haiwen would naturally be happy.

For the people of Haiwen, they can solve a big problem once and for all without paying for their own lives.

And what about the Rangers? What about the dead rangers themselves? And what about the families of the dead rangers? What about Zhao Yi himself?

"Zhao, give the order." Fucalo finally returned to the previous name for Zhao Yi. Zhao Yi, who was obviously in deep thought, couldn't extricate himself, and Fucalo, who was watching him tangled, was a little distressed.

"I'm wondering if we should retreat."

Zhao Yi, who spoke amazingly, managed to attract the attention of Fcallo, Farryn, and even everyone on the bridge.

"I don't know how many hives there are beneath the surface, and I don't know where the one that hides the mother is there. The only way to destroy this mother worm is to send a vast sea of people to fill it - the underground passage is the home of the insects. And we will pay a lot of lives. And because the mother worm doesn't know where to hide in the nest. If we're lucky, we might be able to kill the first nest when we're going to kill it, but if we're unlucky, we'll be the last one to kill her. I'm wondering if we should sacrifice so many lives to save the people of Haven. ”

"There's too much uncertainty about killing this mother worm, and we're likely to kill all of them."

Life is equivalent, but "ours" is very different from "someone else's life". In the eyes of the great sages, sacrificing oneself to save others is a supreme feat. But the people present were ordinary people. If it weren't for the Empire's never-ending oppression and plunder, they would not be willing to risk death at any time to confront the Empire.

Of course, it's okay to die to overthrow the Empire, but it's not necessarily worth dying for a planet that is being targeted by a bottomless worm mother.

And heroic sacrifice does not necessarily lead to the death of the mother worm, which is the worst.

Everyone fell silent, and they couldn't come up with any good ideas.

Do you want to collect troops? Come with a rage, and then go back in disgrace? Of course, Zhao Yi didn't want to do this. But sending ground troops into the underground hive of the insects to fight the insects is simply a stupid move to send troops. Moreover, Zhao Yi didn't know how many insect units there were underground, and it was difficult for the Kelant to show all this. What if there is a sea of insects underneath the ground? Not to mention the more than a thousand people on board the Kelant. A thousand BB at the same time may not be filled in the sea.

The risks and benefits are completely unequal. Under the circumstance that it is possible that the troops will not be able to pick up a single hair of the worm mother, under the domination of reason, Zhao Yi naturally thinks about withdrawing the troops.

"Sir, the sensor is now fluctuating abnormally! Wave Lock Comparison! Farion said suddenly.

Hey? Just want to leave and come to the opportunity? There is an air of intrigue.

"Farryn, how's it going?"

"According to the comparison, that spiritual energy fluctuation came from the worm mother. The content is unknown, but she exposes herself! ”

As soon as she tried to run away, the worm mother almost lured them up and beat her up, and there was a wave of psionic energy. In an instant, the Worm Mother Kashgarta became synonymous with cunning and conspiracy in Zhao Yi's eyes.

"Maybe the mother worm is hesitant and wants us to enter their nest. so that they can use the Worm Sea tactics to drag us down. Of course, it is also possible to call for reinforcements. Either way, we can't defeat that one Worm Mother with a single battlecruiser...... Enough, gather our troops. Let's go back. ”

"But she's exposed herself, and the Kelrant has locked on to where she is....... As long as we send troops, we can accomplish this task. ”

Unable to tolerate the end of the mission, Farrion said, still holding back the idea of calling for the help of the Hyperion.

"We have too few troops to afford to be besieged in a wormhole by ground troops." Zhao Yi didn't know how many times he explained, but in order to convince Farien, and also to convince himself, he explained again.

Farion was hard to accept. But in the end, he chose to obey the order - the captain focused on the sensors in a negative manner, and Fucalo silently collected the data in the computer.

The data was collected after arriving on the planet Cirilla. Originally, it was to prepare for the battle of Deng 6 and even to enter the wormhole. And now it seems that it is no longer needed.

And Zhao Yi naturally couldn't be idle. He had a lot to do, either recovering the troops or organizing a line of defense to avoid being attacked by insects before the personnel were evacuated.

(End of chapter)