Chapter 671, Rescue Tribunal
A small number of the insect swarms that chased Qin Zhiping and his men who were fighting against the Tribunal came from the sky, and more came from the own insect troops on the 'Taiyuan Star' where they made an emergency landing.
The original Taiyuan Planet should be an ordinary industrial world. According to the data, it has a population of 3.8 billion, with various primary industries as its main industry.
But now, there is no human habitation here.
All that is left on the planet is devastation.
The Zerg meat carpets everywhere absorb the nutrients of the earth and act as primary decomposers and digesters. Countless worker insects put a large number of organisms into the digestion tank. Not just humans, but also all kinds of insects, rodents and other things that accompany humans on the planet.
The digester converts these corpses or living creatures into pure biomass, and a small part is transported to the incubation tank to generate more worker insects and soldier insects. The former is responsible for transporting and devouring the biomass outside and then bringing it back; the latter is responsible for hunting.
Maybe there are still some infected people scattered around the planet, or even living non-infected people, but the dozens or dozens of survivors here are no different as if they no longer exist.
Oh, the difference is that the Zerg can also hunt around in a blanket manner and collect more biomass.
Except for the biomass that was transported to the incubation pool to generate new bugs, the remaining biomass, which accounted for the largest amount of the total, was transported to the warehouse and stored, waiting for the arrival of the Zerg transport ship.
These biomass storage warehouses are equipped with tall 'capillary spiers'.
These capillary spiers seem to be of no use now, but once the Zerg transport ships arrive, they will stay directly on the track, extending huge biological pipes from top to bottom and connecting them to the tall capillary spiers. Immediately afterwards, tons of biomass that has been greatly reduced in volume after processing will be sucked away by the insect swarm's biological ships and transported to the core area to be used to build armies and catalyze biological ships.
But when the remaining troops of the Anti-Foreign Order led by Qin Zhiping arrived at Taiyuan Planet, the swarm's strategy changed.
They no longer store most of the biomass, but take it out to hatch bugs; the proportion of corruption is no longer that of worker bugs, but of soldier bugs.
Of course, there was actually a certain time lag between the change of strategy and the actual hatching of a large number of insect swarms that threatened Qin Zhiping and others' troops. The Tribunal's troops will certainly not be able to eliminate all threats on the entire planet during this period of time, but as long as they clear out the hatching nests and biomass warehouses near the emergency landing site, the pressure they will bear subsequently will be It will be much smaller.
But at this stage, Qin Zhiping's judgment was wrong.
His views were more pessimistic and his actions more conservative.
Although several elite Silver Watch teams were dispatched and several key points were destroyed, not enough were eliminated. With more troops, the main focus is still on trying to find ways to rescue supplies from the crash-landed starships, and to find ways to obtain some food reserves from the surrounding city ruins or wilderness - the latter is not very effective, and the insects have eaten them roughly. It’s good to have some scraps left over after going through the process.
But then again, if you wait until the insect licks the ground carefully for the second time, nothing will be left at all.
Another part of the troops was given the task of building fortifications on the spot.
To put it bluntly, Qin Zhiping just felt that it was impossible to solve the current problems with his own strength. He knew that after the starship crashed, although most of them survived, it was nothing more than delaying their lives for dozens of days or months. Without the starship to escape, the remaining 60 to 70 thousand people in his hands, no matter how elite they are, would not be able to survive.
All the current practices, to put it bluntly, are to survive for a few more days, knowing that death is inevitable.
Even killing the enemy is not a critical thing anymore. If the final result is that the insect swarm wins, then the insects killed in the battle are of little significance. They will recycle the corpses. Although some biomass will be lost in the process, as long as they are not burned to ashes, most of them will still be able to survive. Recycled into biomass, and eventually hatched into new bugs.
However, the final result proved that Qin Zhiping was unlucky.
In other words, no matter what the circumstances, it makes sense to stick to it.
He armed his men, men and women, young and old, whether they were originally professional soldiers or sailors who controlled the starship, or even the aunt who was responsible for cooking in the canteen on the starship, and fought a bloody battle with the endless sea of insects that evolved on the Taiyuan planet. In more than two months, one-third of the population died.
No one ran away. We all know that there is no point in running away in the current situation. It is better to stick together and die more slowly.
And after these two months, a turning point actually came.
They received an unexpected message from the Alliance.
It claims to be the Alliance's exploration team, also known as the Alliance's army four galaxies away. They hope that Qin Zhiping and others can hold on and the alliance will come to rescue them.
The morale of the survivors is boosted!
Although I don’t know when the alliance will come and whether they can persist until then, at least there is hope!
They began to defend more aggressively.
And the alliance came to support faster than they expected!
A month later, they observed a human fleet appearing in the orbit of Taiyuan Star.
Not strong, just a destroyer leading the team, two frigates, and four patrol ships.
However, this configuration is enough.
In orbit, the Zerg biological ships that were chasing them and posing a great threat to their ground fortifications in orbit in the past three months were driven away.
Then, the starship hit the ground with several more heavy cannons.
The destroyer's ground support capability is not too strong, but it is enough to temporarily relieve Qin Zhiping's troops.
The transport ship landed on the ground and picked up the remaining troops of the Tribunal in batches.
At this point, Qin Zhiping and his men were saved.
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For the Alliance, there is definitely a risk in sending a fleet of ships to a place four galaxies away to rescue the remnants of a northern army.
But it's really not too big.
The biggest trouble is on the way back and forth, but the Alliance is on the defensive on the planet 'Nocras' at the moment. It is not that it cannot be defeated, it is just waiting for the progress on the Western Front, and it is just attracting and consuming the power of the insect swarm.
If he really wanted to take the initiative, Gu Hang was sure that he would be able to repel the enemy forces besieging Nocras.
Not to mention sending out a fleet and picking them up when they come back.
Not much pressure.
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One more chapter can be added at this point, which means there will definitely be another chapter tonight!
(End of chapter)