Chapter Ninety-Four: Unpredictable Bugs
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Fat Worm King's command center within Donia grew for a while.
New information indicates that a large human fleet has emerged in the system before the number K32, and the Fat Worm-Lord is having a headache for this.
If the Three Demon Kings only have a small disadvantage with humans in terms of information transmission speed and command system, then the Fat Worm King who acts alone is undoubtedly more passive in these two aspects, and the only subordinate who can rely on is the only Flying Bug Queen Natasha.
Even Natasha, who is in the state of life of a spirit body, does not have an "amplifier" like Donia, and her direct command radius is only 0.5 AU, and when the space radiation is very good, it can barely reach one AU. With the star system as a tactical unit, Natasha's command is also a bit under-sighted, and unless it is a direct conflict, it will not be able to take any advantage at the command level. And the word "only level" also made Fat Worm Jun reluctant to let Natasha fight with the newly emerging fleet alone.
The new fleet's actions are disgusting, it seems that the boundary of K32 has been identified, and it has not crossed the thunder pool for three days, which is also the most painful place for the fat worm at this time.
In war, strategic depth is a very interesting thing.
When the difference in strength between the warring sides is not too outrageous, fighting near the border and fighting at a location that requires additional supply lines is hardly in the same dimension. The Fat Worm King's swarm was on the defensive side at this time, and the deeper the enemy went, the more means and troops he could use.
To make a numerical setting, his current swarm can only accept and initiate tactical commands and actions with difficulty level 2 independently. Once the enemy fleet crosses any point, he is sure to force the enemy back to the K41-K42 line with a tactical command of Difficulty 2, or even destroy the enemy. However, in the galaxy before K32, even if he activated the tactics of difficulty 3 and difficulty 4, he was not sure that he would be able to destroy the fleet, and at most he could force it back.
The K41-K42 defense line is a new defense line that has only begun to be built after the defeat of humanity, and there is no infrastructure before, and the fixed defense, mobile garrison, and counterattack force are all predictable. This line of defense and the areas that may be exploited after it require industrial cost and time, internal power struggles need to consume strength and even cause internal conflicts, and the growth of architectural strength cannot be faster than the self-appreciation of the swarm.
Unlike the galaxies that have not been infected by the swarm before K29, they have a complete population, industry, and technology system, and can erupt at any time with unpredictable resistance. This is also the most important reason why the Fat Worm King would rather spend nearly two months infecting and destroying the resident stars in various places since it was launched, and he led the swarm to fight guerrillas, instead of choosing to attack.
There aren't many options left for Fat Worm Jun now.
The first is to endure it.
For the sake of the bigger picture, his most important task now is to develop enough to crush everything - at least to push through the next line of defense and get closer to K11 by using the planets that were initially infected and not destroyed by the previous Combined Fleet.
The disadvantage is that after enduring once, there will be a second and third time, and it seems that it is a problem that will have to be cleaned up sooner or later.
The second is that evil is born on the side of the guts, and directly fights with this new fleet.
Dispatching all the existing forces, he is fifty percent sure that he will destroy the other party, the success rate is so low, there is flour from the K35's industrial star database to get the data as a support, human beings have an ultra-long-distance reconnaissance method in the galaxy, and his swarm cannot be stealth, it is difficult to approach silently. The new fleet has no clear purpose and cannot be threatened with the security of the planet, and the first batch must be disguised as a slightly weaker state and wait for the entry of a large force for the purpose of delay.
It's a pity that this tactic is simply impossible, and Fat Worm Jun still remembers his ultimate goal, and he must not open his hometown to the group of guys in the K41-K42 defense line unsuspectingly.
The last option, to start the camouflage fleet of flour in advance.
Flour parasites have collected hundreds of ships that can be used for combat in the K35 galaxy, but some of them are mixed, and only one or two hundred of them can still play a role in the first line, and half of them are patrol ships that do not pose much threat.
The scale is much worse than the newcomer's fleet, but if you cooperate with a swarm of the right size to be the villain, it is still very promising to let the camouflage fleet mix in. This tactic has the highest success rate, and Flour personally brings the camouflage fleet, even if the other party asks for video communication, he can fool the past.
The only difficulty is that once the camouflage fleet is activated, no information can be taken off the battlefield, which seems to be an impossible task anyway.
The most effective moment for the camouflage fleet to play a role must be when it finally storms the K42 defense line, if the news is leaked, the human defense line will only reduce a little garrison strength due to strict investigation, and the swarm will still have to pay an incalculable price if it wants to storm the defense line.
The three options are not very good, and Fat Worm Jun has a headache for a long time, so he still decides to let go of the small and keep the big one.
Flour must not be lost now, he not only has to digest the population of the industrial star, but also absorb the human technological reserves, trying to restore the production of warships of the industrial star, after the completion of the follow-up population will have a steady stream of camouflage fleets to cause chaos to the human race.
Population in K35 is not a problem, K35's developed planets are concentrated around the gas star G1, the defense forces in the unit area are more concentrated, and the resident stars belong to the last group to be infected in the current swarm control area, and the surface has not been destroyed before the camouflage fleet plan is activated, and most of the population reduction so far is caused by violence within society, and the population in billions of units can be sent into space as long as one unit, excluding those who cannot adapt to the space environment, it is still an extremely large number.
However, even if he let go of the small and the big, the Fat Worm King is not willing to let the new human fleet be too arrogant, and must let them know that the territory of the insect swarm is not for cats and dogs.
A flurry of orders is given to Natasha, who will pass them on to the swarm in front of her.
Natasha was an extremely special individual throughout the Galactic Era, and she was also responsible for some experimental data collection tasks from Europa's underwater base.
Things in the outside world don't have much to do with her own will, and she is not in a good mood when she gets a new task, and I don't know when she will always have the idea of "the master is so weak". It's a pity that the spirit body is good at reconnaissance and command, and it doesn't help to change the physical status quo.
Natasha is a highly intelligent AI, and like all highly intelligent beings, she can be affected by negative cognition, and this time she made a mistake that was not considered wrong - when passing by the swarm of insects in each target area, she sent a command that directly mutated into a diffuse aerial minefield.
The order does not conflict with the order given by the Fat Worm King, but it only changes "the right time" to "now".
In the original intention of the Fat Worm King, the "right time" needs to be judged by the insect swarms in each place, although the branch insect swarm can only carry out the instructions of difficulty two, as long as there is a battle, it is still no problem to judge whether the other party can completely destroy their own side. During the approach, the insect swarm maintains a certain inertia speed and suddenly changes into an empty minefield, which can make the opponent suffer a big loss if you are lucky, and can cause some trouble on the route at the worst.
"Now" has changed, the enemy has no chance to destroy the swarm and fill his confidence, and it is impossible to guess the overall strength of the Fat Worm King based on the swarm of insects in various places. However, after a long period of diffusion, the density of air mines is not enough to inflict continuous strikes on the same fleet, and even if they are stepped on, they will not be painful. The advantage is that the dispersion area of the air mine will be very large, causing long-term distress to various objects passing by.
Then again, Natasha changed the order, it wasn't that she became stupid because of some strange thoughts, she was still the highest AI spirit bug.
Mutation into an empty minefield is not the natural ability of bugs, it needs to be recycled and reused by the space worm mother, Natasha thinks that the master is already weak enough, the space worm mother should not stay in the danger area and wait for the opportunity, and it is the right way to directly complete the mutation mission and gather in the K35 area.
It is not Natasha's only task to turn the scattered insect swarms into empty minefields, if it is just this one task, just transfer an ordinary flying insect and let the shuttle insect bring it over to pass the order, her most important task is to change the ground insect swarm command of each infected planet.
According to the new directives she relayed, several of the resident star swarms in the target area have changed their mode of operation.
On the planets that were infected before, the ground insect swarm received instructions to collect as much essence as possible on the premise of preserving themselves, and if the counterattack power of the ground humans weakened, the humans were exterminated and increased their collection efforts. A certain amount of Essence will be stored during this process, which can be used to adjust the social structure of the swarm in an emergency or to supply the Low Orbit.
The new order is to reduce control over the ground, retain as many humans as possible, and strengthen orbital defenses, using the bugs used earlier in the MR251 system, the Hive.
The insects produced by the hive are very small close-range self-detonating insects, and the range of action naturally cannot make up for the difference in range, but they have entities, forming a certain density under the command of the ground, coupled with the resistance of the atmosphere itself to energy weapons, it can well limit the enemy's high-precision bombing of the ground with energy weapons, and at the same time, it can also forcibly detonate some missiles.
Natasha's relay of the mission is no problem, but within the reasonable range of the order, the final essence input of the atmospheric defense system has been increased: anyway, the master will not come here to collect the essence for a while and a half, so don't take advantage of humans.
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The group of player ships led by Pan Wen did not react to Natasha's orders everywhere under her nose.
However, a very faint wave reaction and metal reaction were detected from a distance, but the size of Natasha's shell is not in the human "weapon" cognition at all, if its characteristics must be defined, it is like an artificial satellite that has been de-orbited after being uncontrolled! So that reconnaissance was not even completed, let alone fantasized about catching the important assistant of the swarm on the spot.
Pan Wen didn't do his own work, and led the player ship group around several infected fringe galaxies. Responding to the evacuation of civil society organizations in the area, eliminating insect swarms that can be located, and carrying out surface orbital strikes on bugs of a certain size that happen to be doing bad things on the surface, etc.
Over the course of several days, there was no rebellion within the fleet, and there were no special circumstances such as quarantine of the ships, and all the parties that made up the fleet gradually settled down. It seems that the K30 swarm is really a little hurt, as long as it doesn't cross the boundary, there won't be much risk.
In the seemingly unhindered environment, players began to want to test the bottom line of the swarm, and earlier, they asked Pan Wen for a planetary strike through their staff officers.
Planetary strikes and orbital bombardments are completely different things, the minimum that constitutes the standard of planetary strikes is also a land plate strike, and there are countless populations on the inhabitants of several galaxies on the edge of the swarm control zone.
If Pan Wen and the player fleet use the K41-K42 defense line as a supply area, and carry out a plate strike on the populated area or the past that can be said, you can think of how messy the knee is now, no one cares at all, even if a new joint agency is established, it will not retroactively commit past crimes. However, it is really unreliable to get a stable supply in this chaos, and it is a good thing not to be destroyed by other humans.
This is obviously an act of looking for someone to take the blame, of course Pan Wen did not agree, but he did not explicitly object, implying that they could act on their own, but they would not lead the team.
It's a pity that the player seems to have just proposed it, and seeing that he refuses to take the blame, he hasn't mentioned it again.
Not having a chance to watch dog-eat-dog made Pan Wen feel sorry for a while, so he could only continue to wander around the area, and then he ran into hell.
In the following days, 26 warships of the fleet were hit by air mines, and according to the results of scans and reconnaissance in various places, in addition to them, at least several hundred aircraft of various circles were hit by air mines in the past few days. The evidence collected during the inspection showed that it was actually an empty mine of bugs!
No one has ever doubted that bugs can lay empty minefields, and there is no technical level at all, and any technician student can get some raw materials to knock them out, not to mention bugs that can make hyperspace jumps. But the circumstances and motives of Bug Bray are really unclear.
Generally speaking, the purpose of minelaying is to blockade/protect the area, and judging by the spread of the ship, it seems that the bugs want to block several galaxies!
It's sick! Both the staff officers and Pan Wen thought so when they saw the data.
Blocking the entire star system, even if it is only the area within the jump circle, requires an outrageous amount of materials. The material needs of a complete blockade of a star system, the player fleet led by Pan Wen will not necessarily lose, obviously the swarm does not have so many resources, so the blockade density is the same as nothing, this blockade density does not need to be deliberately demining, and the stars can be fully recovered in ten months.