Because of inherent cognitive problems, they still retain their original views on insects even after knowing that the insect swarm is no longer what it used to be. This situation is not unique within the empire.
They once fought against swarms of insects. For them, although the number of insects at that time was huge, their combat effectiveness was very weak.
Fighting against creatures of this level was not a challenge at all for the empire at that time. The biggest difficulty was simply dealing with the insect sea tactics.
But this so-called sea of insects tactic is also very simple to deal with. The gap in technology makes them just want to kill these bugs as a joke.
Although there are powerful individuals among the swarm, the number of these individuals is very rare, and these are the strongest combatants among the zerg, but compared with their civilization flagships and even some super flagships, their strength is still to a certain extent. gap.
This also makes them instinctively compare the insect swarm with some other civilizations with low technological levels.
And this kind of understanding has continued to the present. The inherent understanding brought to them by the insect swarm makes it possible that even now, the insect swarm has undergone earth-shaking changes, but their understanding has not changed.
In other words, they think that they have changed their views on the swarms long ago, but in fact, deep down in their hearts, their views on the swarms are still the same as before.
This is like a person with a prominent life experience. When he meets a beggar for the first time, he may look down on the beggar, but when he meets him again one day, the beggar will be on an equal footing with him.
He most likely cannot believe this kind of thing, and he will not agree with it from the bottom of his heart. This is also the truest thought in the hearts of many commanders in the empire.
It takes time to change this perception, and now it is obvious that the empire does not have so much time to change these things, because their overall situation is not as good as you think.
At this time, inside the empire's home star.
A group of high-level officials from the empire were gathering together to discuss the next plan.
"What's the situation outside now?" An old man asked at this time.
"So far we have discovered a total of 10 civilizations, and the total number of battleships is about 80 million."
Hearing this, the old man raised his eyebrows, "Eighty million battleships, these civilizations are willing to spend money."
The old man, who seemed to have thought of something when he said this, then asked: "Have you noticed that the other party has sent a civilized flagship-level battleship?"
"Not so far, but we can't rule out that they park these warships in a certain area and jump over when necessary."
Hearing this, the old man nodded, "It seems that they are quite careful, but that's normal. After all, they have no idea how many cards we have. Under such circumstances, they will definitely not put all their money on it." .”
Just as the old man finished speaking, another person asked: "According to the current situation, even if we use all our defensive forces, it is still a little difficult to resist their attack."
"After all, they have so many known warships, and there are also some deeper civilizations that are hidden. It is unknown how many warships they have brought, so we need to face more warships than what we see in front of us. ”
"And the most important thing is the strange creatures. Their production speed is extremely exaggerated. Although their strength is not that strong, it is undeniable that they will be a big obstacle in subsequent battles."< br>
At this point, the man sighed and then added, "Actually, the main reason is because our number of conventional warships and cannon fodder warships is too small."
To this, the old man just replied calmly, "We actually don't have many battleships. The main reason is that we suffered heavy losses in these battles, which led to us not being able to think of a better response to the current situation. ”
"But this incident is not all bad. After all, the message we are sending to the outside world is that our condition is not good. This is their best opportunity to attack us."
"I'm thinking that most civilizations will definitely not be able to let go of this opportunity. Of course, this is exactly what we want to do, just take advantage of this opportunity and see how many people jump out."
Having said this, a trace of worry flashed in the old man's eyes, "But I have to admit that after so many battles with the Zerg, we can see that the biggest uncertainty now is the Zerg."< br>
"Their evolution speed far exceeds our imagination, and we still don't know where the upper limit of this race is."
At this point, the old man suddenly changed the subject and continued: "Although we can take advantage of the current situation, it is undeniable that we also made too many mistakes in our decision-making in the battle.
The main reason is that the commanders below do not pay attention to the insect swarm, but it would be better if these losses can make them clearly realize that there are still many beings in this universe who can defeat us. ”
At this point, the commander's eyes flashed with depth, "But the only thing I'm worried about now is that if the battle comes to the end and our remaining warships and defense facilities cannot resist these civilizations, then we may have to expose our strength in advance. ”
"Although all our resources have been invested in that matter over the years, and after so many years of preparation, we have also developed certain capabilities, but it is undeniable that our preparations so far are still not that complete. After all, our The enemy is that group of people.”
Everyone nodded after hearing what the old man said.
Indeed, although the current situation has advantages, there are also many hidden dangers.
The most critical thing is that there are too many enemies surrounding them. It would be very difficult to wipe out such a huge number of them all based on their current layout.
In other words, they are very likely to reveal their trump card at a critical moment, and once this trump card is exposed, the consequences will be very serious.
After all, they are also very aware that there are countless pairs of big bosses on their side who are staring at themselves. The reason why they are staring at themselves so closely is simply because they don't want their side to develop and become a new big boss.
So once what they come up with exceeds their plans for their side, there is a high probability that they will take action to eliminate them.
This is also a hidden danger that the empire needs to face now. In fact, according to normal circumstances, if there were not those few waves of mistakes, they would basically be in trouble now.
So at this time, they can be regarded as hating the insect swarm.
"Let's just wait and see what happens. When the enemy attacks later, we will make a decision based on the situation." For a long time, I only heard the old man say slowly.
After hearing what the old man said, a younger commander echoed: "Yes, the current situation can only be like this. It would be best if you can not expose your strength, but if you have to expose your strength in the end, , then we have no choice but to be exposed.”
At this point, just when the younger commander was about to say something, he suddenly received a message. And when he saw the content of the message, his expression changed involuntarily.
"What's wrong?" The old man asked curiously after noticing his sudden change of expression.
"Half of the fleet on the other side of the ruins was wiped out by the swarm of insects, and now the remaining half is rushing towards the ruins."
"After destroying half of the fleet, there are still about 500,000 troops left in the swarm, which means that they are very likely to be wiped out along with the other half."
Hearing the commander's words at this moment, the old man couldn't help but change his expression.
"It seems that things are in trouble. I didn't expect the insect swarm to have such strength."
"What should we do next? Send warships to support or just say?"
"Don't worry, after that battle, although the insect swarm has suffered relatively few losses, there is a high probability that their condition will not be very good, so under such circumstances, they will not directly engage our second fleet. ”
"There is a high probability that they will choose to avoid the edge temporarily, and then wait until their condition is almost restored before coming back to fight. In this way, we will have enough time to respond, and now that the exploration team has entered the ruins, there will be one soon. The result.”
"Of course, just in case, we will first send a civilization flagship to that star field to prepare for emergencies."
Hearing what the old man said, his subordinates nodded.
"This is the only solution for now. But if we send a civilization flagship and are discovered by other civilizations, it will be a big problem. After all, what we claim to the outside world is that we only have one civilization flagship."
"This is no longer important. After all, the moment they decided to launch an attack, they were already ready. For them now, it is no longer so important that we have several civilized flagships."
While everyone in the empire was still discussing these matters, the players also sent a team into the ruins.
“Old Tie, what’s going on inside that ruins?”
"We just came in and studied it for a few minutes, but we figured it out. However, this place is not an open space as we thought before. It is composed of multiple passages. These passages are crisscrossed and complicated."
"And the size of this passage is very exaggerated, with a height and width of at least one or two thousand kilometers. For this size, we can basically give up the idea of fighting street battles."
"Then we are now looking for the exploration troops from the empire. Otherwise, you should retreat first. If nothing else happens, another formation from the empire will be coming."
At this time, after hearing the suggestions from the internal exploration players, everyone thought that if they fought with that group of fleets in their current state, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties.
Considering that the group of people exploring inside would definitely have no results in a short period of time, the large group of players chose to retreat after repeated discussions.
At this time, after the players' large forces retreated, the empire's fleet also rushed over, and the first thing they did when they came here was to enter the ruins to clean out the bugs inside the ruins.
However, due to the special environment here, they could only divide their forces into multiple groups and search slowly.
At this time, for the exploration team players who have entered the interior, although the enemy cannot find them through conventional detection methods, if they are unlucky and happen to meet the enemy, they will be doomed.
So at this time, the players inside are carefully avoiding the enemy's search while reporting the current situation to the players outside.
"Brothers, according to the empire's attitude, they will not give up until they find us." At this time, internal exploration players who had gone through waves of searches complained in the chat channel.
"I guess they must have found a big deal, otherwise they would never be so cautious." At this point, the player thought for a while and then added.
"By the way, I'm curious. I see you have been going around in this passage these past few days. Have you still not found the way to the inside after struggling for so long?"
After hearing this player's question, those players couldn't help but complain, "Don't mention it. During this time, we feel like we have been circling the outermost corridor."
"I seriously doubt that there is no road leading inside this ruins."
"Holy shit, are you stupid? If there is no way, you don't know how to just destroy the corridor and find one."
"Upstairs, we have thought of your method a long time ago, but unfortunately this method is not feasible at all, because the hardness of the material used in this ruins is beyond your imagination. We sprayed on a wall for a long time, It turned out that there was nothing wrong with that wall.”
"The final result of the hard work was that nothing happened to the wall. We were almost discovered by the empire's search fleet. To be honest, judging from the hardness of the wall of this ruin, I felt that there must be something very important in it."< br>
At this time, I heard what this player said, and another exploring player was a little worried about the situation inside, "Well, I feel that there is always something wrong in here. I remember that when I first entered here, I suddenly felt something in my heart. A sense of fear.”
"Usually, when a bug feels this way, it's usually because there is potential danger that may threaten his life. That's why he feels this way. A second-stage corruptor like me is even facing the imperial civilization flagship. I didn’t feel this way before.”
“But I had this feeling when I first entered here.”
At this time, as the player's voice fell, other exploring players also discovered that something was wrong.
"Damn, do you feel this way too?"
"Here I go, I felt the same way when I first came in, but I thought it might be a system bug, so I didn't pay much attention to it."
"I also thought it was a system BUG at the time, but now it seems it is not."
"If this is the case, wouldn't the area we are in be dangerous?"
"It's hard to say. Anyway, let's be careful. If we feel this way, there is a high probability that there are very powerful weapons in this ruins."