The swarm came very suddenly, and when the flames of war spread on the eastern front, the western coalition forces that received information and planned to replenish the defense still had more than an hour's trip.

According to the arrangement of the reconnaissance network, the Eastern Front should have detected the movement of the swarm in the right-wing sector earlier, but unfortunately things are not so simple.

The biggest difference between the Eastern Front and the Western Front is the lack of a strange creature called a "player".

Although in theory mercenaries can work for anyone, even the command headquarters of the Eastern Front has to rely on people for relief, and hundreds of millions of refugees have to be settled, where is the money for mercenaries! What is even more tragic is that with the country overrun by bugs, there are no assets on the Eastern Front to borrow, and only a tiny fraction of the relief money and the debt guaranteed by other countries can be used to "buy" intelligence.

There is no money, in fact, there are other ways to provide compensation, but unfortunately the Eastern Front has not established enough credit at the moment, and other methods other than money are not very acceptable, such as the so-called honorary positions and other false titles can not provide any convenience, can only be displayed in front of refugees, and most people are certainly worthless in the eyes of most people.

Occasionally, a few vagabond-like characters come to the Eastern Front to do some tasks, which can't help much.

The military, on the other hand, is no longer able to maintain an effective investigation in the buffer zone due to internal factional wrestling.

Therefore, there are many omissions in the entire alert system on the Eastern Front.

In short, reconnaissance activities outside the K12 are almost entirely dependent on a class of reconnaissance ships resold by the coalition forces. The low level of activity of NPCs and players, as well as the lack of attendance of a type of recon ship to reduce costs, resulted in an inability to accurately assess the swarm that infiltrated the buffer zone, and when the bugs deliberately channeled this error, it was of course possible to hide a swarm large enough to complete a frontal raid throughout the buffer area!

Could it be that this is a well-planned plan by the swarm to divert the tiger from the mountain?

No, the flames of war have reached the eastern front of K11, and thirty hours have passed since humans received long-range communications in the rear of K14 through a class of reconnaissance ships. If this was a predetermined outcome, it should have happened a little earlier.

Compared with the less mature system on the Eastern Front, the Western Front reacted much more appropriately after receiving feedback on the war situation.

The first response of the Western Front Command was not to add additional reinforcements, but to activate the standby high-speed unmanned warning ship after determining the situation on the Eastern Front, and complete the emergency warning action of MR243 as soon as possible.

High-speed unmanned warning ships are also non-civilian ships, in fact, as long as you understand how they work, no civilian people will dare to use this thing.

It is not a small difference from the conventional high-speed liaison ship, and the acceleration is faster is the standard configuration of the unmanned ship, and it will be equipped with four to eight high-power warning transmitters for the delivery action, and the shape of the top surface is similar to the "work" after the projection. For more than 10 minutes in a row, these high-power alert transmitters will issue war alerts that can be received by civilian communication equipment on the other side of the star, and the process of breaking through stellar and atmospheric interference does not even require the help of any relay station or orbital station. This ship is a special tool ship that only has a large land area like the Empire and the Federation, and is used to activate a state of total war.

High-speed unmanned warning ships will be used, instead of a type of reconnaissance ship to send messages to the rear, which happened to be the start of the anti-occupation war in the left wing star sector, so that the various tool ships of the K11 entered a state of full combat readiness. In the state of full combat readiness, the tool ships of all purposes will enter a high-speed cruising state, and the unmanned ships in them complete the communication of adjacent galaxies, which is not much slower than the operation of the first class of reconnaissance ships to change their missions, and the more important reason is that the first class of reconnaissance ships has other tasks.

In the absence of reinforcements, the Western Front Command was worried that the Eastern Front would not be able to withstand it, so it temporarily called in some of the first-class reconnaissance ships that transmitted intelligence from the left flank star sector to help first, mainly responsible for the vigilance of the K12-K17 area. However, due to the large-scale war on the Eastern Front of K11, these first-class reconnaissance ships returning to K11 may involve the troops of the Eastern Front and the bugs together in annihilation, so a fleet originally used to reinforce the Eastern Front was also transferred to K12 to control the operation.

The fleet that controls the actions of a class of reconnaissance ships, the main fleet is only responsible for the safety of the K11 corresponding jump circle in the K12 area, and after completing the jump, a communication ship will complete the jump every ten minutes on average, reporting the battle situation on the Eastern Front, if there is a suitable opportunity, or confirming that the bugs have new troops into K11, the commander will not be stingy to send a few first-class reconnaissance ships from the rear of the bugs to them "happy".

The fleet used to reinforce the Eastern Front, which had already reached a high cruising speed in operation, switched to the jump maneuver and completed the jump, which could be completed in about an hour. However, there are logistics ships in this fleet that use traditional external corridor components and jump ships, and they have not all been replaced, and in fact, they can immediately complete the jump, dock with the work of a class of reconnaissance ships, and start intelligence preparations.

And at this moment, the Eastern Front is already in chaos.

The bright light that can be seen in the space at any time is okay, and the Eastern Front troops with home field advantage and range advantage will not cross in an instant, maybe the battle continues, and there is a risk of collapse as the losses increase, but what needs to be concerned now is that with the increase in the scope of the swarm conflict, something has gone wrong within the control agency of the Eastern Front.

Riot, mutation!

Less than 30 minutes into the start of the war, there were already three refugee shelters, all of which had riots of a greater or lesser kind, and according to the surveillance footage that flowed out, there were actually bugs inside!

This situation also reflects the continuous development of the swarm after the confrontation stage, and the erosive force of non-military facilities has been much higher than previously estimated.

This time, the erosion mission is a new kind of bug, considering that it evolved from the phantom worm, and it is called the phantom infiltrator for the time being.

The Phantom Infiltrator has canceled the attack organs, and it does not need to be responsible for space attacks, and there are no external organs such as heat dissipation and plasma restraint organs, but there is an extra tail, which can be said to have no similarities with the Phantom Worm in terms of appearance, and the only thing that is the same is that it still retains the superpower-type sudden speed change ability.

The Phantom Infiltrator has a singular job - find the target, pounce on it, and plunge its tail into the target's shell.

All of its penetration abilities come from the same tail, which concentrates the derivative powers of several demon kings.

Although the space swarm is very powerful, the strength of the carapace is not very outrageous, after all, in the face of high-energy weapon combat, what is needed is the composite buffering, heat dissipation and even folding/reflection capabilities, and in this case, the swarm does not need to emphasize the strength of the shell.

At the very end of the Phantom Permeabilizer's tail is a very complex alloy structure, which is a low-frequency serration facing six directions from the microscopic layer, which can penetrate almost any type of paint.

…… It's paint, not the armor itself, space-age crash coatings are a big category, they are the first layer of protection against uninterceptable miniature celestial bodies, and with a human knife and a small drill, they can't cause any damage at all.

In addition, the infiltrator is also used to cooperate with the breakthrough biological means, after the tail tip is fixed, it will warm the contact point, release strong corrosives, and will also spray pure oxygen in the contact area of strong corrosives. By composing, the metal structure at the tip of the tail and the surface armor of the target will disintegrate.

This is followed by the second phase of infiltration and the construction of the Invasion Nest.

The stalemate between the demon kings and humans is not only to accumulate strength, but also to never stop collecting and using information.

What's underneath the paint, the outermost armor of a human space facility? It is often the containment zone and the buffer zone, where the difference is that the containment zone is an inert gas and the buffer zone is filled with liquid. There is also a strong structure from the interior of the facility.

The second stage of the infiltration is to build a biological wall in the quarantine area, lay oocysts, inject the nutrient solution that has been stored for this purpose, and then leave it alone.

The next thing is the life of the little bugs, and the type 2 air touch enzyme needed to release the No. 3 parasite is naturally one of them.

In fact, from the technology brought by a certain demon king from the left wing, the infiltrator worm also gained the ability to stealth.

Unfortunately, when they act alone, they cannot carry more complex combinations of abilities due to their size, and it is difficult to capture the movement of the warship at a distance of more than 200,000 kilometers. When the speed is switched, the heat generated by itself will make the stealth temporarily ineffective, and it is difficult to avoid the interception system to complete the contact action of the warship in the movement operation.

On the whole, it is difficult for the infiltrators to pose a real threat to the battleship force because they are only a small number of infiltrators for the first time, but if the demon kings form other ideas due to the destruction of the rear system by the infiltrators, it may increase the cost of building a defensive line again.

Back to the battles on the Eastern Front.

The raid of the bugs showed the momentum of directly crushing the entire Eastern Front system, so that the chaotic Eastern Front Command had to give up the illusion that it had always wanted to maintain its strength and compete with the coalition forces on the Western Front, and took out all the available reserves and weapons to fight the bugs.

In this context, this defensive battle on the Eastern Front has set a new record for the largest number of support weapons continuously delivered!

Maybe there are internal contradictions, or maybe the troops are not elite enough, but the result of digging out the money is that the Eastern Front actually controlled the battle loss rate at less than 11% before the Western Front completed the alert deployment to areas other than K12, far from the minimum value of 18% required for the collapse of the front.

When the reconnaissance ships of the alert fleet returned to K11 and caused several devastation to the reinforcement group of the swarm, the first fleet of the Western Front joined the defense, and the situation was finally gradually controlled.

However, before the fighting had completely subsided, the alert fleet that had just gone out had even worse news, and countless insect swarms of different sizes had appeared all over the buffer zone, which seemed to be the troops that had been mobilized slowly, and the preliminary estimate was that the total mass of the entire buffer zone had been three times that of the previous wave!

Thrice! And counting!

If the Eastern Front destroys the previous waves, it consumes more than seventy percent of the support weapons stockpile, and if the support weapons are not counted, the Eastern Front troops will be able to barely eliminate twice as many as the previous attacks in a decisive battle.

Class 1 Scout Ships can help destroy a small number of bugs by rushing back in reverse when the swarm is massively clustered, but based on the experience of many battles, the Swarm will not put all its strength into it at once, giving Class 1 Scout Ship too good a chance. Seriously, the entire K11, in addition to the part that performs the mission, has less than ten reconnaissance ships of the class on standby!

The only thing that can be called good news is that the buffer zone is large enough. It is so big that half of it can't jump to K11 at once, and the swarm will need at least two or three hours to adjust before it can start the jump action required to enter the battlefield, and even if the swarm really intends to take K11, at least it will leave more than five hours of space for the defenders, which is enough for the Western Front coalition forces to rush to the Eastern Front to complete the arrangement, and even mobilize a small number of first-class reconnaissance ships from the mainland through intergalactic communication.

But, is it enough? Won't the size of the bug continue to grow?