Chapter 142 Chapter 142 There are five nests in total.

The sudden attack disrupted the Zerg formation, the battle was temporarily stopped, and the friendly side finally had some breathing space, and the wounded were transported to the starship for emergency treatment.

But the good times didn't last long.

Soon the Zerg gathered again in groups.

Their tentacles touch slightly, like a crowded swarm of bees, conveying information that humans cannot understand through a hidden network.

After only a brief pause, the swarm of insects attacked again.

Tao Ying still stood in the back, constantly operating the starship's shipborne guns to disrupt the enemy's formation.

With one shot, more than a dozen insect bodies were pierced.

A large amount of yellowish insect fluid splashed, and even through the mecha, one could seem to smell the damp fishy odor.

Ji Yi was dumbfounded: "You controlled the starship's onboard defense system..."

Tao Ying stared at the screen intently.

"In this emergency, you're not going to hold me responsible, are you?"

"No." Ji Yi shook his head imperceptibly. "That's not what I meant."

Ji Yi initially thought that Tao Ying was just fooling around with the starship's main gun. If he continued in this situation, it would only make the battle more complicated.

So Ji Yi spoke up to stop it and planned to ask Adjutant Bai to help with the operation, but he didn't expect that Tao Ying's artillery shells actually worked.

The speed of the front line's retreat was slowed down, and it actually held on.

Ji Yi whispered, "She used to be an artilleryman?"

Adjutant Bai shook his head: "I didn't find that."

Fan Dong: "I don't quite understand, but didn't you say her skills were exceptional? It should be through system calculations, right?"

Given her level, it's possible. Ji Yi didn't dwell on this question anymore. Now was not the time to think about it: "Tao Ying..."

Tao Ying: "Well, the information from the front has been sorted out and shared."

"By the way, I'd like to remind you that you're all in the resonance network, so I can hear you talking."

Everyone: “…”

Is there any privacy at all?

Tao Ying just received a call that a rift had appeared on the other side of Chester Star. Most of the troops of the Reval Empire had gone there. The elite team sent there had lost contact on the way and their whereabouts were currently unknown.

"For many years, the Zerg have only appeared in the Second Star System. The Reval Empire lacks Zerg-related defenses. In addition, this attack was too sudden. The capital planet is probably too busy to take care of itself, and it will be difficult for troops to reach us."

Tao Ying suddenly thought of the opening scene of "Spark" when the mecha base was attacked due to insufficient manpower and was forced to do something.

That planet is still based on Chester.

It was clearly something the people at Huozhan Studio came up with while drinking, but they didn't expect the prediction to come true in such an unfortunate place. Tao Ying couldn't help but smile with a sense of misery.

There were more than a hundred A-level Zergs, but only four people, including Ji Yi, had combat experience.

If the space ghost team goes up, it would be no different from committing suicide.

In addition, Tao Ying's physical strength is limited, so a head-on confrontation is not a good idea for her.

Tao Ying then followed his teammates and retreated to a safe area near the starship, acting as a high-frequency information transmission center.

[Current number of people online: 122.]

【The pilot's mental strength is in a state of fatigue.】

Sylvia's head popped up on the screen: "You'd better stop increasing the number of people online. The mental damage is irreversible."

Tao Ying looked at the dancing military cap in the center of the screen with surprise on his face. He turned around and found that the tentacle monster beside him had disappeared. It seemed that it had re-entered Hengwo's system for assisted driving.

No wonder her mental strength suddenly felt a little lighter just now. It turned out that the tentacle monster helped her share the burden.

Tao Ying hummed: "I don't want to either, but it seems I have no choice."

Their current location is near Chester and the second galaxy route. Once this is broken through, Chester will be sandwiched from front and back, and its fall will be a matter of minutes.

Chester is the capital planet of the Reval Empire and the core planet of the first galaxy.

If it can't withstand the Zerg's attack, let alone the surrounding planets.

It's exactly as Mobius said.

At that point, the destruction of human civilization is indeed not far away.

Tao Ying crossed her legs.

"The end of the world is coming."

"Save him or not?"

"What do you think?"

It’s not that Tao Ying wants to save the world, but her home is still in Leimen City. How can she give up the property she worked so hard to earn to the Zerg as a nest?

Tao Ying firmly disagreed.

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"We've sent a global call for assistance, and the only one who responded is the Ark Federation. We must hold out until their support arrives."

"receive!"

Ji Yi said simply: "Number, how long will it take?"

"The 057th and 165th Mobile Regiments, two hours."

"Two hours."

Ji Yi paused. This amount of time was enough for the Zerg to digest all the corpses. It was almost impossible for them to survive.

We can only take one step at a time.

…

After Tao Yingqun sent the message, her nerves were tense from the high-intensity work, and her forehead twitched. She pressed her temples hard, then sat up and continued to observe the situation on the battlefield carefully, thinking that she might discover some new information that would be helpful in the battle.

She actually discovered it.

Some Zergs were attacked by artillery shells, and there were traces of gunpowder on their wings or bodies, but the trajectories of the scratches were strange, not like wounds directly caused by the artillery shells, but more like secondary damage.

"Hmm?" Tao Ying rubbed his eyebrows.

Why does the timing feel wrong?

She had clearly had a headache and hadn't operated the starship's main gun for a long time. If this wave of Zerg had been attacked earlier, based on their speed, they should have been near them long ago. Why had they only just emerged from the rift?

Tao Ying blinked and enlarged the image to look at it carefully.

After seeing the marks on the Zerg, Tao Ying pondered for a moment, and a guess came to her mind. She decided to test it. She slowly turned the muzzle of the starship's gun.

"Bang--"

The shell hit the crack accurately.

Tao Ying lay on the operating table, gritting her teeth as she read information from the visual module of the mecha in front of her.

Sylvia: "Didn't I tell you to rest first? You're still doing such intense work."

"This matter is very important. I will rest after I confirm it."

Tao Ying looked unusually serious.

Thirty minutes later, when the Zerg emerged from the rift again, they all had traces of being hit or scratched by shells, and some were missing body parts such as legs and tentacles.

They were all caused by artillery shells.

It was just as she expected.

After performing the operation several times in succession, Tao Ying called Ji Dahan for final confirmation.

"Senior Dahua, you need to shoot ten bullets into the rift. You need cloud needles."

"Ah?" Ji Dahua counted and found that she had very few bullets left. She couldn't waste them carelessly and had to use them effectively. She asked cautiously, "What do you want to do?"

Tao Ying seemed to be looking elsewhere, muttering, "Another round is about to start..."

"ah?"

"It's too late. Anyway, you should do it first."

"Why am I..."

Ji Dahan swallowed her words halfway through, remembering what Sister Ji Yi had just said, "Do as Tao Ying says." She also remembered that although Tao Ying's behavior was outrageous, she had never done anything meaningless. Ji Dahan hesitated, but not for too long.

She nodded and put the gun against her shoulder.

"I trust you again."

"Thank you, Dahua-senpai."

Ji Dahua snorted coldly: "Who is your senior sister? Director Laiji Institute, stop pretending to be a junior sister."

As soon as she finished speaking, white conical bullets crossed the entire battlefield and quickly shot towards the target point.

Because it wasn't a cannonball, it didn't have much of an impact, and the Zerg continued to pour out of the rift. Tao Ying operated the live camera, capturing the next Zerg that appeared.

There were a few specific Zergs whose movements were crooked, as if they had just been attacked.

"one two three……"

Tao Ying counted.

Soon, the number stopped at three.

There were exactly three cloud needles remaining on the Zerg, broken off from the shell.

The Yunzhen bullets are very special and are very conspicuous when used as marking bullets.

It can be confirmed that these Zergs were just hit.

But only these three were found, and the remaining seven bullets were nowhere to be found.

Tao Ying confirmed the marking situation and then contacted other snipers in the resonance network.

"Bo Mo, it's your turn this time. In eight minutes, shoot ten bullets into the fissure, with one minute between each shot. I'll start the timer."

"Marshal Ji, ten minutes later."

"Zhai Feizhou, ten minutes later..."

Tao Ying gave several more instructions in succession, and even received shells from the starship in the middle.

The snipers whose names she called looked puzzled, but they had no choice but to do as she said.

And forty minutes later, after the last bullet was fired, nothing happened.

Tao Ying looked at the time.

“…”

I don’t know if it was because the attacks were too intensive, but this time the Zerg stopped for twice as long before emerging from the rift again.

Seeing Tao Ying giving the order to shoot again, Fan Dong couldn't bear it anymore.

"The other side of the rift is most likely directly connected to a large insect nest. Judging from the markings, a shell exploded over there, which probably caused these scars. What's there to confirm?"

"Xiao Huan, you don't have to listen to her. Stop wasting bullets. Save them for later."

"It's not a waste of bullets."

Tao Ying smiled and tapped her fingers rhythmically on the operating table, one, two, three, ten.

With the final knock, the marked Zerg appeared in the camera.

It was a C-level dragonfly with a short white needle on its abdomen.

Fan Dong was a little puzzled. Cloud Needle bullets? The last bullet had been fired forty minutes ago. How could this Zerg only appear now?

After being hit, the previous Zerg came out directly from the rift.

But Fan Dong thought again, maybe the insect stopped moving before reaching the crack and lingered inside for a while?

Tao Ying shook her head: "Let's see."

Ten minutes later, another C-level scythe appeared, with obvious marks of Bai Mo's bullets on its body.

Ten minutes later, it was Ji Yi's bullet, the eight-legged spider.

Each time, there was a ten-minute interval and a new mark appeared.

Fan Dong paused.

“…”

"This, could it be..."

"It seems you've discovered it too."

Tao Ying packaged the previous data and sent it over.

"That's right. The rift seems to connect to more than one dimension. It changes every ten minutes, connecting to a different insect nest each time."

"There are five nests in total, and we just completed a circle."

"So the long interval just now was because one of the hives was hit by a starship's shells, causing it to be damaged?"

"Um."

They didn't notice this pattern because they were too panicked before and the number and types of Zergs were too large.

Now, maybe it can be used.

Tao Ying quickly analyzed the distribution characteristics of the Zerg in different waves, discussed with the four people, and set up different tactics.

The battle gradually went smoothly, and just when everyone thought that they might be able to hold on until reinforcements arrived, and hope was rising in their hearts, a worm queen suddenly appeared in the rift.

Eight-legged spider, S-level insect queen.

Its head and abdomen were strangely swollen, and something seemed to be wriggling inside.

At a certain moment, the thing broke through the hard shell of the eight-legged spider, revealing a head.

The worm has a long, muscle-less body and cannot stand well. It keeps flowing out like a tapeworm in the human intestine.

Getting longer and longer.

After a moment of silence, everyone shouted, "Gall!"

"How can there be galls? Aren't they extinct?"

"Isn't that bulge behind it an egg case?"

The first page of the Interstellar Zerg Disaster Prevention Guide has two sentences.

First, if you see an S-class queen, flee immediately. Second, if you see a gall, no matter what form, report it to the Insect Pest Management Office immediately.

So what if you encounter two at the same time?

Everyone soon knew the answer.

The eight eyes of the eight-legged spider parasitized by gall worms turned from black to red. It became extremely manic and kept destroying everything around it. The entire swarm of insects it led seemed to be affected as well, and its attack power increased significantly.

The moment they noticed the presence of everyone, they quickly attacked this side.

Everyone's faces turned pale in an instant, and their eyes were filled with despair.

At the same time, Tao Ying received a message.

Not from the Lemen Monitoring Center, nor anyone in the Resonance Network.