In the plains of Tel Ave, about a hundred kilometers southeast of the small town of Maine, a large army is rumbling into a mountainous field not far away.

In mid-air, the Behemoth-class battleship Hope slowly moved forward with a muffled thunderous sound through the rolling clouds. Under its huge figure, all kinds of warplanes like hornets kept flying up and down. On the dark red ground where the Wuzi still emitted a fishy smell, a torrent of steel composed of countless chariot mechs rolled up a red haze and roared forward.

The state of Tel Avi is quite large in terms of its proximity to the capital of the Republic, the city of Tico. The town of Maine, to the southeast, has long since been turned into a ruined dead city by the Aliens. In the mountains to the west of the town near the direction of Tico City, among the dead trees and yellow leaves, you can vaguely see the strange insect buildings that have also become ruins. A low, strange hiss came from time to time from this chilling mountain forest.

The army, which had a total strength of 120,000 troops, was the First Task Force of the New Army, which had just been established three days earlier, and had assembled almost all the elite main forces of the Eighth and Twelfth Army Groups. The mountainous area west of Maine Town had just been swept away by the New Army's clearance forces not long ago, and seven or eight worm nest bases had been wiped out by the powerful firepower of the Sweepers.

It stands to reason that there is no need for the Forces nouvelles to send such elite troops to sweep the mountain again. But everything changed after Haoyi and Radar made a "deal".

Lei, who was originally greedy for life and afraid of death, was forced by Haoyi to die, and it was rare to reveal his Zheng Zheng insect bones. Even though there was still a trace of doubt in his heart, Haoyi still chose to believe in this brain worm whose life was in his hands.

Haoyi's "deal" is very simple, as long as Ray personally comes out to help the new army exterminate the remaining swarm on the planet Tikru in the shortest possible time, he will return the heart of the swarm to Ray. However, Ray proposes that it must first retrieve its Swarm Heart in order to regain its powerful psionic control over the Swarm, otherwise, it will not be able to complete the task given by Haoyi.

Without much hesitation, Haoyi returned the Heart of the Swarm to Lei, and made an exception to order the removal of a microcontroller transplanted into Lei's body. The controller was developed by those white coats at the Longtan base, which can accurately locate the location of the mine, and can receive self-detonation instructions at any time, turning it into a powerful small bomb, whose explosive power is enough to shatter the thunder.

Probably because of Haoyi's trust in him, Lei immediately used his recovered psionic perception ability to provide Haoyi with the approximate location coordinates of all the existing insect swarms on the planet Tikru.

Ray said that during the period of time when it was brought back to the Longtan base by Haoyi, although the insect swarms on the planet Tikru experienced the initial chaos, and suffered heavy losses under the strong encirclement and suppression of the new troops in various places. However, in less than half a month, the number of insect swarms has increased rapidly.

According to Lei's analysis, it is because in order to evolve a new generation of brain worms, in addition to withstanding the constant suppression and siege of the new army, they must also do their best to restore their own strength, which is used as the basis for the strength of the new brain worms. After getting rid of the control of thunder, some hive consciousness bodies with a high degree of evolution will use their psionic control ability to devour or control other hive consciousness bodies with a slightly lower degree of evolution, and then control a larger number of insect swarms.

To put it simply, the insect swarm on the planet Tikru has also seen a melee of warlords similar to humans, and the purpose of the melee is to evolve and give birth to a new brain worm. Because of this, the number of insect swarms has rebounded so abnormally.

The day after retrieving the heart of the swarm, Lei, who had basically completely recovered his psionic control ability, said another news that shocked Haoyi.

Ray said the Tikru swarm has evolved new brain worms far faster than it expected. Not too far from Tico City, there was a hive consciousness body that had become extremely powerful after devouring nearly a hundred of its kind. Although the psionic control ability of this hive consciousness body is only about 30% of that of thunder, with this 30% psionic control ability, it is enough to command an army of alien insects with a force size of more than one million.

In other words, the army of insects that took advantage of the emptiness of the new army's strength to raid Tico City last time was most likely commanded by the hive consciousness. In the entire planet Tikru, only this hive consciousness body has the closest degree of evolution to the state of the brain worm. Although other hive consciousness bodies have also obtained a certain degree of evolution through devouring and other means, their evolution speed is far inferior to that of this hive consciousness body.

Ray named the hive consciousness Worm and designated him as the most threatening potential adversary.

After learning this news, Haoyi naturally listed this so-called brain-like worm as the number one target to be eliminated. After a heated discussion, Hao Yi decided to take the brain worm Lei to the battlefield in person, trying to use Lei's ability to minimize the casualties of the elite of the new army, which was already small.

Three days later, Task Force 1, consisting of eight new armoured divisions and two Viking battle groups, as well as the only battleship in the Forces nouvelles' possession, the USS Hope, departed from Tico. After a day and a night of non-stop forced marching, the task force reached the mountainous area where the brainworms were hiding.

"Uncle, according to the report of the outer space reconnaissance system, there are only a small number of low-level insects in the target area, and no large-scale, intact insect hive base group has been found! This is a real-time holographic picture of the target area transmitted back by the reconnaissance satellite! Guo Ruo, the beautiful staff officer who dared to admonish Hao Yi directly, was named by Hao Yi this time and was directly transferred to the battleship Hope and participated in the battle with him. Her mission remains to coordinate outer space reconnaissance systems and provide vital real-time battlefield information to Forces nouvelles units.

"Hmm!" Hao Yi, who was sitting on the command platform of the battleship, was holding his hands and frowning at the holographic image transmitted by the outer space reconnaissance system, his sword frowned, and he asked the colonel staff officer beside him without looking back: "Has the reconnaissance detachment sent by the ground forces found anything?" ”

"Back to my uncle, several reconnaissance detachments sent by the task force have all penetrated about ten kilometers deep into the target area, but none of them have made any big discoveries. Except for the occasional low-level insects that roamed the mountains and forests, they only found some abandoned insect nest bases that had been razed to the ground. ”

"Ya, could it be that the two of them are confused and have made a mistake in the location coordinates?" Haoyi rubbed his chin, as if talking to himself thoughtfully.

"Master, I was right! Those hive bases must be hidden deep in the underground of this mountain, and I can already clearly feel the presence of those unscrupulous bugs and grandchildren, as well as the bastard brainworm. Trust me, master, they are here! ”

Hao Yi's voice fell, and Lei's characteristic childish tone suddenly came to his mind, which scared Hao Yi firmly.

"I said you're a second-class brute, can you say hello before you talk to Lao Tzu next time? Damn it, dare you eavesdrop on your master anytime, anywhere! Hao Yi complained with black lines, but the colonel staff officer beside him was stunned.

"Uncle, are you—are you talking to your subordinates?" The colonel's staff officer asked with a blushing face.

"Ah, nothing, nothing, not talking to you! You go down first, let the reconnaissance detachments keep in touch with the command center anytime and anywhere, and notify the commanders of the various departments to assemble in this area and stand by! Hao Yi smiled embarrassedly at the colonel's staff officer, and then ordered: "Also, you are temporarily nailed here, I will come when I go!" ”

After that, Haoyi threw down the colonel's staff officer, who was still a little confused, and hurriedly walked out of the bridge command center and went straight to a special cabin in the middle of the ship. Brain worm Lei was in that cabin at this time, leisurely enjoying the delicious food of pork brain marrow.

In the entire New Army, except for Guo Ling and a few other high-ranking members of the New Army who knew Lei's true identity, all the officers and soldiers only knew that it was a special insect that Haoyi had dug out of the insect hive base. After all, Lei can be regarded as a secret killer weapon used by Haoyi to deal with alien insects, and its existence itself is a core military secret.

Lei was able to communicate directly with Haoyi through his thoughts, and this secret was naturally a secret among secrets. Therefore, even Hao Yi's adjutant staff officer didn't know who Hao Yi was talking to just now. Of course, the ideological communication between Lei and Haoyi is not unlimited, and its range is probably less than one kilometer, which is much smaller than the distance of the individual squad intercom system equipped by the marines.

"Buzz!" As soon as the door of the cabin where Lei was located cracked a thin crack, Haoyi quickly flashed in, brought out a phantom, rushed to Lei's nose, jumped and punched Lei's fat chin, and shouted and scolded: "Eat and eat, you second goods, hurry up and work!" Don't fuck it, it's lazy to eat all day long, be careful that Lao Tzu fires your squid! ”

Lei, who was enjoying the food comfortably with his eyes closed, was probably smashed by Haoyi's sudden punch and flew up and down with tongue worms, coughing again and again and complaining pitifully: "Master, please say hello to me before you beat me next time, you see that I choked, Lang spent so much food!" ”

"You are a second-class beast, what do you know besides eating all day long? How the hell is a virtue with two fat! Hao Yi kicked angrily, and the disgusting white pig brain marrow scattered on the ground from Lei's tongue worm's mouth, scolded: "If you don't hurry up and work, Lao Tzu will punish you for not eating for three months!" ”

"Huh? Don't, don't, master, you're not kind like this! How do you know I'm not working? Lei was so frightened that he begged for mercy again and again, and explained to Haoyi with a face full of grievances: "Although I have been eating, I have not been idle!" No, I just captured the approximate location coordinates of that damn brainworm! Hehe, do you want me to pass it to you right away? ”

"What nonsense! Upload it right away! Also, get ready, it's time to summon the bugs and grandchildren who do your bidding, and let them take the lead, you know? Haoyi glared at Lei angrily, and shouted loudly with bared teeth.

"Good, good! Hey, what am I doing here, I want my own bugs and grandchildren to fight each other? If the ancestors know, then where should I put my insect face! Lei actually sighed and complained decently, and his tone was exactly the same as that of a human being, and when he heard Hao Yideng, his face was full of black lines......