Chapter 608, busy saving the world
After killing the insect nest tyrant as a node creature, the remaining insects are still besieging Martins and others.
But for a beast that fights solely on instinct, no matter how powerful it is, its threat level is greatly reduced.
After the Space Marines cleared out the nearest enemy, no more monsters even came back.
Isn't that what it is without orders and without the ability to think of one's own?
Two transport ships soon appeared in the sky and picked up the Space Marines.
In another moment, the firepower pouring down from the orbit covered this large area.
Not only are they killing the insect swarm that has lost its leader, but they are also clearing out the large-scale hatching nests here.
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Martins returned to the starship. On the one hand, he asked someone to write a battle report and send it to Governor Gu. On the other hand, he contacted Alma Ewing.
Of course, Martins is now the general person in charge of the entire Nepeta Star Territory war zone, including an Alliance fleet, hundreds of millions of Alliance armies, and defense forces from various worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory, as well as the Blood Shark Chapter. In theory, they are all under his command. Down. However, forget about other troops. Regarding Ewing, he still has to be more cautious and not really regard the other party as his subordinate.
This is actually true.
The blood shark is a relatively independent fighting force. The main force led by Ewing was not even nearby, but was on its way to another planet where the situation was also very critical.
After the two briefly talked about the situation on his side and exchanged the overall battle situation, Ewing raised a question: "Did the one hundred new blood sharks perform well?"
"Of course, very good, they are all very good fighters."
Ewing was silent for a moment and then asked: "Are all the new blood provided by the alliance of this quality?"
After thinking about it, Martins didn't lie: "Yes."
"It's... incredible." Ewing said, "No wonder the Phoenix Chapter recovered so quickly."
"Blood sharks can do it too," Martins said. "Replenishing three hundred recruits in one breath not only allows you to make up for your losses in the war, but also solves the problem of dissatisfaction with the recruitment in the past."
"Yes, I never thought that recruits would be so easy to supplement." Ewing said, "They are all good boys, brave, tough, loyal, and full of faith..."
At this point, he swallowed back the "too confident" statement he originally wanted to say later.
"It is a good thing after all. As long as you maintain cooperation with the alliance, the blood sharks will always be strong."
Ewing still couldn't hold back: "Then the blood shark will still be a blood shark by then?"
Martins chuckled and asked: "Then do you think the current phoenix is a phoenix?"
Without waiting for Ewing to answer, Martins continued: "In my opinion, yes. Our gene seeds are being passed on, our chapter culture is being passed on, and we are still fighting for humanity and the Emperor. What is the difference between this and the Phoenix of the past? ”
Ewing was speechless.
He changed the topic and didn't want to discuss it anymore: "Now, where is Commander Gu's fleet?"
"The latest news should be coming to Wuqi soon." At this point, Martins made a request: "We still have to speed up some progress. In fact, you don't need to worry about some worlds. The most important task of the blood shark is still The entrance and exit to the Princess must be blocked as soon as possible. The vanguard fleet has discovered signs of an enemy entering the Nepeta from the Princess Starfield, but it may be a traitor battle group.”
"The Governor has taken away the main force, leaving us with not much power. We have to be restrained by many worlds in bad situations. We are still under great pressure. If there is a traitor war group entering the Nepeta Star Territory, we need to find a suitable one. intercept them, otherwise a lot of work will be wasted.”
Ewing listened silently and responded: "I understand, don't worry. But blood sharks alone may not be enough. You have to solve the problem as soon as possible and catch up as soon as possible."
"I will."
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After ending the call, Martins once again set his sights on the battlefield in front of him.
Ting Zhen IV.
Ting Zhen IV is one of the worst conditions among the more than two hundred worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory that have been captured by the Alliance.
A simple estimate is that the total number of insect beasts on the entire planet has exceeded one billion; cult organizations composed of parasite-infected people have almost replaced the rulers of the planet, and more than 70% of cities and large settlements have become Their world. They manage the order of the city and constantly hold various rituals with strong religious significance, claiming that only by believing in their 'gods' can they be saved.
Some of these so-called gods were simply made up by them, and many more were created in the image of the emperor.
The latter will be somewhat deceptive.
And these religious rituals, to put it bluntly, are meant to infect more people.
The infection pattern of parasites is different from that of conventional viruses. The essence is to control people's thoughts, rather than simply making people sick. According to the empire's research on Zerg parasitism, some of the Zerg's special psychic methods are involved.
Only through the infection of spiritual creatures, which is called religion but is actually a group, can humans be better infected, and then make them 'sincerely' believe in the so-called god.
Regardless of whether it is a fabricated thing or simply the four-armed God Emperor, they will begin to believe in it wholeheartedly. At the same time, their bodies will gradually begin to change, including skin color, teeth, skull shape, more limbs... As for The so-called redemption? The so-called Kingdom of Heaven?
Oh, there are some too.
The digester of the Zerg.
But before entering the digester, they still have to preach and 'revolution', and they are busy.
The total population of Tingzhen IV as a whole before the war should have been around 4.5 billion, which was considered a civilized world in the industrial age. Today, about 40% of the world's population is controlled by cults, which is about one billion.
There is a difference in this number because in just six months of the outbreak, the entire world has lost about 2 billion people.
The remaining approximately 1.5 billion people are scattered throughout the planet in various scattered ways. Among them, there is barely a resistance organization, but there is also the problem of cult corruption within it. If they hadn't connected with the Alliance, under the triple blow of the insect swarm, the cult, and internal corruption, I'm afraid those resistance bases wouldn't have been able to hold on for long.
For this world, alliances are still needed.
The surviving 2.5 billion people are the biggest reason. Including those 1 billion people under the rule of cults, not all are hopeless. The actual number of infections is only about 10% to 20%. If left alone, they will eventually be corrupted, but at least it hasn't happened yet.
The second reason is that if this industrialized planet can be saved, a sufficient industrial population and a good industrial base will be able to be integrated and play a significant role in the subsequent war.
This is why extermination orders are not considered based on local circumstances.
Another, larger reason is that using an extermination order will have very bad political effects.
Accusations from the central level of the empire and trouble from the Inquisition are secondary. After the Extermination Order destroys the world, what will other worlds in the Nepeta Star Territory think? Once the pest problem expands, an extermination order will be used. Those cult organizations that get the news will have a perfect excuse to expand more quickly. If the Alliance then wants to take over other worlds easily, it will not be so easy depending on the message.
However, Martins is the commander-in-chief of the entire Star Territory war after all, and he cannot stay in Tingzhen IV for too long.
But the problem here can be considered initially solved.
The largest node organism on the planet has been wiped out, which means that the insect swarm has lost the ability to integrate and coordinate.
Of course, there are still some lower-level node creatures, but they do not have enough authority and "brain". They can only control the insect swarm. That means that when the human forces launch a counterattack and attack one part of them, other insect swarms neither know nor know about it and will not reinforce it. Those lower-level node creatures can only integrate the insect swarm units they belong to, and will only act according to the set goals. It will neither expand the scale of the war nor have any subjective initiative.
Until a new, global node creature hatches out among them, which can reunite all the divided insect swarms again.
What humans have to do is to prevent the emergence of new global node organisms and continue to eliminate the number of insect swarms until they are completely eliminated.
In addition to eradicating the insect swarms, the more important goal is to attack areas controlled by corrupt cults and liberate the population. While preventing further infections, the liberated population can restore productivity and form a local army.
All in all, the problem of Ting Zhen IV is far from being completely solved.
But Martins has no time to stay here.
Fifty Phoenixes will stay here and continue to do this work.
At the same time, cooperating with them are three army groups of the Alliance Army, with 60 million soldiers.
The overall leader will be an alliance lieutenant general.
And Martins himself has to rush to the next dangerous world.
In his schedule, there are still four worlds where he must personally lead the team and solve the problems as soon as possible.
After taking care of these, the rest was left to the Alliance Army and Navy Squadrons to resist by mobilizing the world's local forces.
At most four companies were left to put out fires everywhere.
As for himself, he would lead the other six companies to quickly join the blood sharks.
The enemies coming from the Queen's Star Domain should not be underestimated. If they want to preserve their achievements in the Nepeta Star Territory, they must not let the group of traitors who have taken refuge in the insect swarm come in and cause trouble.
There is still a big battle waiting for him.
A month later, the information about this enemy was also determined.
The bad news is that those who came are indeed a traitor warband.
The good news is, it's not iron armor.
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(End of chapter)