In order to explain Lei's food problem, Haoyi had a headache for a while.

Hao Yi knew very well that every "muscle" on a brain worm like Lei was actually a material body condensed by spiritual energy. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that there is an adequate source of psionic energy to maintain the survival of the brain worm. Otherwise, once the replenishment of fresh spiritual energy is lost for a long time, the brain worm will gradually wither due to the continuous loss of spiritual energy in the body, until it becomes an air-dried skin.

It can be said that without psionic power, there would be no such existence as brain worms. Although it is unknown if the Lord of the Insect also needs to constantly replenish his psionic energy to maintain his existence, in general, there is not much difference between them. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the brain worm will use the swarm controlled by it to frantically slaughter other highly intelligent species, and use the brains of other intelligent creatures as their own "food".

In the amount of time that Ray has been on Tikru, thousands of humans have become food for its mouth. Although Ray was not the executioner who killed those humans directly, the heinous crime still fell on his head.

Now, for the sake of the overall situation, Haoyi temporarily wrote down Lei's unspeakable crime, brought it back to the Longtan base, and acquiesced in the identity of Lei's owner. As the master, Haoyi naturally would not let Lei continue to mutilate other innocent humans in order to maintain its survival.

"As long as it is a highly intelligent creature, there are more or less so-called psionic abilities in the body!"

Pulling his hair and worrying for a while, Haoyi suddenly sounded what Lei had said to himself, and his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered the logistics department to collect all the live pigs in the base and immediately send them all to the place where Lei was held.

"Master, you, you, you don't want to tell me to absorb the spiritual energy of these pigs, do you?"

Looking at the entire hall, hundreds of live pigs humming and screaming, Lei swallowed hard, and a pair of locomotive-sized insect eyes were full of innocent looks.

"What? Are you still a picky eater? Haoyi stared at his little eyeballs, and said angrily to Lei Xing.

"Uh, that's not what I meant, master!" The folds of Ray's head twitched and squirmed, probably shrinking his neck like a human: "I mean, can you bear to be such a mighty brain worm of yours, because of absorbing the spiritual energy of these pigs, and become extremely stupid and extremely second-handed?" ”

"Hehe, it's good to eat some samples! How dare you bargain with your master? If you don't want to eat, Lao Tzu will let people take away these live pigs, and when the time comes, you will really starve to death, and don't hate your master and me when you get to the underworld! Hao Yi smiled coldly, turned around and made a gesture to order to pull away these "third junior brothers" who were humming and screaming.

"Oh, don't, don't, master!" Lei suddenly became nervous, and then the pair of insect eyes went up, and he actually said to Hao Yi in an extremely helpless tone: "Alas, no matter what, these live pigs can be regarded as highly intelligent creatures of the feeding class, how much can they squeeze some spiritual energy out, and make up for the deity!" ”

With that, Ray's big mouth full of fangs, and those long gray and white snakes with suction cups flew out in all directions, each looking for a "third junior brother" who thought he was the smartest, and then pounced with a roar.

"Alas, when can you not absorb psionic energy!" Listening to the heart-rending howls of those live pigs echoing in the hall, Hao Yi sighed a little unbearably, shook his head helplessly, and left Lei's exclusive cell.

Because of Lei's "contribution", the food at the Longtan base has been significantly improved, especially the meat food has doubled.

After placing this pet brain worm, Haoyi was able to free up his hands to deal with the squeezing military and political affairs.

Although Bob, the Prime Minister of the Republic, has woken up and is gradually recovering, his physical strength and energy are not as good as before. Seeing Haoyi, a powerful figure of the younger generation of the republic, growing up rapidly in the midst of one catastrophe after another, Bob quietly came up with the idea of retreating into the background. For this reason, although he did not retire from the position of prime minister, he secretly ordered that all military and political affairs of the republic be handed over to the new core decision-making level headed by Hao Yi. In addition, the new army of St. Prory only has a nominal commander, that is, Prime Minister Bob, but the military power has long been handed over to Haoyi. Therefore, at this moment, although the position on the surface is only Hao Yi, the chief of staff of the lieutenant general of the General Staff of the New Army, he has actually become the first person in the Republic of St. Prory.

Among the mountains of military and political affairs, the first priority is the need to immediately decide on the overall follow-up strategic course against the insects. To this end, Haoyi held a rare enlarged meeting of the whole army, allowing the commanders of the major army groups distributed on various planets such as Tikru and Mersa to participate in the expanded meeting through remote video.

At the meeting, Hao Yi first briefly explained to the generals and reviewed the strategic counterattack against the swarm, and listed Jihua, who was listed as the top secret, to "lure the snake out of the hole", and also explained it to the generals. When the generals heard Hao Yi say that the brain worm that commanded all the insect swarms in the entire St. Prory Star District had been subdued by the youngest chief of staff in the history of the republic, all kinds of glasses and jaws fell to the ground.

However, surprise to surprise, the generals realized from Haoyi's grim thin face that this was not an April Fool's joke. Therefore, the generals quickly calmed down and listened carefully to Haoyi's follow-up report, for fear of missing any wonderful words.

In this battle, more than 39,000 soldiers of the mixed regiment were honorably killed and more than 56,300 were wounded. The list of the dead includes nineteen senior commanders above the regimental level. In addition, in order to cover my execution of luring the snake out of the hole, Shen Hu, the first captain of the Hawkeye Special Operations Team, and the twenty-four special combat team members under his command all died heroically! In this battle, our army suffered heavy casualties, but the heavy damage to the insects was unprecedented! In addition to destroying a small hive base and killing tens of millions of insects, we also directly destroyed the supreme command organs of all the insect swarms in the entire St. Prory's Star Zone, and captured the dog-sun brain worm back to the base alive! This strategic counterattack against the insect not only completed the scheduled jihua, but also unexpectedly got a more ideal result.

To this end, in the name of the First Chief of Staff of the General Staff, I announce the following decision! First, all the soldiers who died in this battle were promoted to the rank of three ranks, the families of the martyrs were doubled in pensions, and the title of Heroes of the Republic was posthumously awarded; 2. All wounded officers and soldiers shall be promoted to the first rank, awarded the Order of Bauhinia of the Republic, and shall be paid corresponding disability compensation; 3. All soldiers participating in the war will be rewarded by the relevant departments of the General Headquarters according to the size of their military merits, and the Peace Medal of the Republic will be uniformly awarded; Fourth, posthumously awarded the rank of Major General Shen Hu, the first captain of the Hawkeye Special Operations Detachment, and specially awarded Shen Hu and the twenty-four special combat team members under his command the title of Republic Special Heroes! The rest of the unfinished matters will be supplemented and rewarded by General Guo Ling, deputy chief of staff of the General Staff, in coordination with relevant departments of the headquarters! ”

After reviewing the tragic strategic counterattack operation, Haoyi made the above summary with a solemn face. The sonorous and powerful words crashed into the hearts of the senior generals word by word, causing a buzzing echo.

Although most of the generals were no strangers to Hao Yi, they still vaguely felt from Hao Yi's series of rare rewards how the youngest chief of staff in the history of the Republic valued the results of this strategic counterattack operation. Of course, the old generals also felt that Hao Yi, the big soldier from the distant Poole Star Region, had become a qualified supreme commander.

"The rewards and punishments are clear, and the killing decisions are fierce!" This is the most basic requirement for a qualified commander for all veteran military leaders. Obviously, Haoyi, who has repeatedly fought life and death blood, has fully met the above words.

Next, General Guo Ling, deputy chief of staff, will report to you the latest battle situation in the theater where Tiko, the capital of the Republic, is located. Then, the commanders of each department made corresponding battle reports to the conference in turn according to the battle sequence of their departments! ”

After the report was summarized, Hao Yi said a solemn word, then turned around and let Guo Ling behind him, sit aside, close his eyes and listen carefully to the latest battle reports of Guo Ling and the commanders of various departments.

According to what Ray said, after it was taken away by Haoyi and brought back to the base for house arrest, all the swarms in the St. Proli Star Zone, including Planet Tikru, would lose Ray's control at the same time. After experiencing the initial chaos, in order to maintain the strong combat power of the Zerg, the swarm must first break out into an extremely chaotic civil war, so as to evolve a new brain worm.

And this will inevitably completely change the situation between humans and insects in the St. Prory Star Zone. The Alien Worm, which originally had an absolute advantage and almost completely controlled the entire battle situation, will inevitably be greatly weakened as a result, and will definitely not be able to continue to maintain strong offensive pressure on the remaining humans on the major planets, and it is even very likely that it will be forced to go on the defensive. And the new army of St. Prory, which was already weak and almost completely collapsed, was given a rather rare respite. As long as the action is fast enough, the new army can use this to quickly recover its strength, stabilize the situation of the battle, or even switch to offensive operations to drive the swarm out of its homeland.

For the battlefield within a radius of a thousand kilometers in the war zone where Tico City is located, Haoyi has already sent Tinker Bell to reconnoiter in advance. Hundreds of hive bases, large and small, were indeed in chaos as Ray said. The insects began to use the hive as the most basic unit, and frantically launched a fierce attack on the insects that did not belong to the same hive base, until they completely destroyed the opponent's base and devoured the consciousness in the opponent's hive base.

Although the battle situation has become extremely powerful for the new army, because the eighth and twelfth army groups stationed in Tico City have been severely damaged to varying degrees, and they urgently need time to recover, and the strength of the nearby insect swarm has not completely fallen into a trough, so Hao Yi ordered all units of the New Army in the theater where Tike City is located to temporarily stay put, seize the time to replenish the soldiers, equipment and material supplies, and prepare for the upcoming larger-scale counterattack operation.

Of course, this is only the situation in the war zone where the capital city of Tico is located. Regarding the battle situation in other war zones, Hao Yi was still unsure, and he didn't dare to fully believe the words of the goblin Lei. Therefore, he had to listen to the truthful reports of the commanders of the various ministries with his own ears.

What made Hao Yi breathe a long sigh of relief was that the reports of the commanders of various departments all confirmed Lei's statement one by one. In addition to the generals reporting on their own tragic battle conditions, Zuihou also reported on the abnormal movements of the insect swarms in their respective theaters.

To sum up, it is nothing more than that, although all the departments suffered heavy casualties, they all survived the most ferocious attack of the insects, and in the recent period, the insects seem to have stopped the fierce offensive momentum, and the defensive pressure of the various departments has been greatly reduced, and they are seizing the time to rest and prepare for more tragic battles.

"I will, immediately start preparing for an all-out counterattack against the insects! It's time to let those brutes know how good we humans are! After the generals finished reporting, Hao Yi suddenly got up, slammed the command platform with an iron fist, and said loudly!