Falling into despair
"The number of mutant insects far exceeds our expectations," said Guluo, standing in front of a screen displaying a dynamic video feed from the surveillance camera. In the video, countless hideous, bizarre mutant insects lined up neatly, swarming towards Mantu Star. "And their formation is tight and orderly. There must be an intelligent Zerg commanding them!"
"How much of the Mantu Star has been occupied so far?" Yu Sheng frowned. He thought that mutant insects were rare, but he didn't expect that so many had been bred. How much blue beast flesh and blood did Queen Qiu En give them!
Gu Luo clicked the button with his finger, and the video switched to a map of the Mantu Star planet. Almost the entire planet turned red, with only a small area still showing green - H City.
This is the city where the Mousse Military Academy is located.
"Except for H City, which has the Mousse Military Academy and has complete military reserves and the academy students are resisting in an organized manner, so it has not fallen, other areas have all been occupied by the Zerg." Guluo said solemnly.
The entire conference room suddenly fell silent.
Mantu, once one of the most prosperous and open planets, was unable to unite to resist the enemy because of its mixed forces. When facing the Zerg attack, each planet acted independently and even guarded against each other, resulting in a chaotic battle situation and eventual total fall.
Humans claim to be intelligent and advanced creatures, while the Zerg are mostly inferior creatures without intelligence and emotions. But precisely because they are inferior, they will unconditionally and absolutely obey the orders of the intelligent Zerg, thus achieving absolute unity in a sense.
Ironically, at the critical moment of life and death, human beings still waste time fighting for the interests of their compatriots. Their short-sightedness ultimately leads to tragedy. Who can we blame?
"Can we still contact City H? How long can they hold on?" After a long silence, Yu Sheng asked.
Gu Luo shook his head, "Unable to contact."
"In other words, we can't lose a moment." Yu Sheng stood up suddenly and made a quick decision. "I will lead the special forces to airdrop into H City and break out. Gu Luo will lead the remaining troops. We will use long-range weapons to clear out the low-level Zerg in the surrounding areas of H City and then land after clearing them out of the safe zone."
The reason why he didn't lead the entire army to attack from the outside was because he was afraid that by the time they reached H City, H City would have already fallen. Yu Sheng could airdrop in with the special forces to support the people in H City and let them hold out for a few more days until the army led by Guluo wiped out the Zerg in the periphery and cleared the way for escape.
As for why only one legion was brought for airdrop, it was naturally because of insufficient energy and limited technological level.
The QH-type battleships developed and produced by Master Miller and Caesar were only able to be produced by the entire Wenxue Empire with all its efforts, enough for only a thousand people to ride.
The strength of these ten QH warships lies in the fact that they are equipped with a unique sound wave device on their hulls. The devices of the ten warships vibrate at the same time, which can simulate a certain sound wave of the intelligent Zerg, so that the mutant Zerg will stay away after receiving it, allowing Yu Sheng and the special forces to land smoothly.
However, the energy required to activate the device is unique and rare, coming from a rare underground ore. And until now, Caesar and Master Miller have not found a way to convert the commonly used nuclear ore into the energy body of this ore.
Currently, the Wenxue Empire's ore reserves are only enough to provide energy for these ten warships to land in H City once.
"Any objections?" Yu Sheng asked after formulating the battle plan.
No one had any objection, because this was the only and best way to deal with the problem at the moment. However, Yu Sheng and the special forces would be in great danger. If they could not hold out for the rescue of the Guluo army, they would have lost not only H City but also soldiers, and the one they would lose was their great general and the most elite legion in the entire Wenxue Empire.
"The meeting is adjourned."
As soon as they walked out of the conference room, and even before the generals in the conference room had dispersed, Frey suddenly stretched out his arms and hugged Yu Sheng tightly.
Yu Sheng was startled, looked around guiltily, and said with a hot face, "Stop it, be serious, there are other people here!"
"I'm hugging my queen, who am I bothering?" Frey's voice was a little hoarse, and he said it in a rare willful manner.
The emperor had always been aloof and had always maintained an extremely businesslike attitude towards all matters. He had never acted capriciously on such occasions. The generals were surprised but also understood in their hearts.
Queens of all dynasties were protected in the palace, and there had never been a situation where a queen was also a general.
Not long after the Empress's coronation ceremony, the interstellar world was in turmoil. General Yu Sheng had hardly rested, fighting everywhere, his life and death uncertain. They asked themselves, if their loved ones had to risk their lives on the battlefield every day, they would probably have gone crazy with anxiety.
But His Majesty Frey cannot do that. Besides being General Yu Sheng's lover, he is also the king of the Wenxue Empire. Anyone can be selfish, except him.
Without the big family, there would be no small family.
"You're leaving again." Frey held Yu Sheng tightly, "But I can't accompany you."
Seeing that he couldn't break free, Yu Sheng let himself lean on Frey's broad and solid chest. "Don't worry, I will return safely."
"I know." Frey immediately responded, but refused to say anything more.
Because apart from the four words "return safely", Frey would not allow any other possibility to appear.
In order to save time, Yu Sheng will set off with the special forces tonight, and he won't even have the chance to spend some time with Fredo.
What surprised Yu Sheng was that before leaving, several people came to his door and asked him to take them to Mantu Star.
The first one is naturally Caesar.
The reason given by Xize made Yu Sheng unable to refuse, "The QH sound wave device was invented by me, and I can't make mistakes when operating it. Although you have strong mental power, you don't have my precision." The QH sound wave device requires mental power to operate, and the operation method is very complicated. Although Yu Sheng has practiced it tens of thousands of times, he is still not as confident as Xize, the manufacturer.
"I'll think about it and give you an answer." Although Caesar's reasons were sufficient, Caesar was, after all, the Wenxue Empire's top manufacturing master and the empire's most precious asset. Yu Sheng didn't dare to put him in danger.
Before he could figure it out, Master Miller showed up right after Caesar left.
"Xiao Yu," Master Miller said angrily, his slightly bulging belly protruding, "Add my name to the military roster. I want to operate the QH sonic device myself!"
Yu Sheng: "..." Please don't do it! If anything happens to you, I will really have no choice but to commit suicide to apologize!
After finally coaxing Master Miller away, before they could even catch their breath, Moss arrived. As soon as he opened the door, he anxiously asked, "Is Caesar going with you? I'm going too! Add me in!"
Yu Sheng: "..." Did you guys make an appointment to mess with me?!
——Moose Military Academy——
"Teacher Julie, we're back!" A young man rushed into the office like the wind and said to the only female teacher left in the office, "The food is almost gone, please go to the cafeteria!"
The female teacher sitting at the desk darkened her eyes and asked, "How was the resource team's harvest today?"
The young man's voice suddenly dropped, the light in his eyes dimmed, and he shook his head, "It's getting fewer and fewer. The Zerg are pressing our defenses tighter and tighter, and the range the resource team can gather resources is shrinking. If this continues..."
The young man suddenly couldn't say the following words. His voice choked with sobs, and deep in his heart was a deep fear. "Teacher, are we the only ones left on the entire Mantu Star? How many days can our small city of H last? Why hasn't the United Star sent anyone yet? Is the entire star system..."
"Don't be afraid." Teacher Julie interrupted the young man's incoherent speech, "It won't happen."
The young man was slightly startled, still on the verge of collapse. Looking at Teacher Julie's determined eyes, his mind was in a mess.
"you……"
"Humanity will never perish so easily." Julie stood up and rubbed the young man's head. "Even if I die, I must kill one more mutant insect and contribute my last bit of strength to this land."
The young man shook his head, tears in his eyes, and said, "But I don't want to die. I want to go home. My home is on Liuer Star. I miss my parents..."
"We all miss home." Julie placed the young man's head on her chest with rare tenderness. "This day will come."
After calming the young man down, Julie finally put down the documents and headed for the cafeteria. Compared to the past, the current Mousse Military Academy was even more bustling, to the point where you could bump into people almost anywhere you turned. This was because not only students and teachers, but also survivors from all over Mantu had gathered here. On this devastated planet, the Mousse Military Academy had become a veritable refuge.
Under the school's direction, teachers and students worked together to accommodate more and more refugees and arranged suitable jobs for them.
Nowadays in Mousse Military Academy, whether you join the resource team, the combat team, or stay in the school to clean and cook, everything is done according to the rules to accumulate contribution points. Only contribution points can be exchanged for food, weapons and other personal items. As for the original currency, it has long become waste paper.
The survivor base has begun to show its order and rules.
But the situation has been getting worse recently. The combat team is being pressed step by step by the Zerg army, and the defense line is retreating again and again. The resources they can find are getting fewer and fewer. Now even if you have contribution points, the food in the cafeteria is limited, and you can't exchange it if you go too late.
Julie naturally understood this. As a teacher, she preferred to leave the limited food for the combat team and the resource team. They risked their lives every day for the benefit of the collective. It would be too ironic if they couldn't even get enough to eat.
Therefore, Julie went to the cafeteria just to count the current food and distribution as usual. For staff like her who just needed to stay safely at the base, it was enough to eat only one meal a day.
Julie didn't expect that as soon as she walked into the cafeteria, she witnessed a farce.
"There's clearly food left, why aren't you giving it to me?" A short, blond, delicate-looking boy pointed at the cafeteria staff, his eyes red. "My master has contribution points! Give them to me!"
The staff member stood there straight like a stick, letting the young man curse without any expression on his face. "The food is reserved for the combat team. You have already had a meal this morning, so we will not sell you more food if there is no extra food." The food is limited. Except for those who go to the safe zone for life and death, the rest of the people can only eat one meal a day.
"Layer, stop messing around." Standing next to the young man was the once powerful Duke of Nanso. His expression was indifferent. After calling back the aggrieved Layer, he said to the staff, "I have troops in the combat team too. I'll give Layer some of the food from there."
"But..." The staff member's expression suddenly became tense. He was about to say something when he was stopped by the person next to him and whispered something. The staff member left with a sad and angry expression, and soon he brought a piece of food and threw it on the table in front of Lyle.
Duke Nanso waved his hand, and someone under his command used a de-worming instrument to prepare the food and handed it to Lyle.
Lyle proudly ate the food while complaining, "Master, when can Lyle eat the noble food? This is so disgusting..."
Nan Suo pinched Lyle's face and said, "Be content. Others can't even eat what they want."
"Moti," Julie said anxiously after watching the farce, stopping the staff member who had just clashed with Lyle. "What's going on? The combat team hasn't returned yet? Shouldn't they be back long ago?"
Moti shook his head. "I don't know. There's no way to contact them. Principal Qiu Ji has already sent a team to the defense line to check on the situation." He gritted his teeth and said, "That little bastard, he can't do anything except act like a spoiled brat every day. He even wants to eat an extra meal and steal food from the combat team. I really don't know what Duke Nansuo keeps him for!"
A hint of sarcasm flashed across Julie's eyes. "He is the only blue beast in the entire galaxy. He is very precious." In Julie's heart, Xi Ze Yusheng and the others are all blue star people. However, for someone like Lyle who is willing to treat himself as a rare pet, she is too lazy to classify him as a "human".
Not wanting to discuss Lyle anymore, Julie looked at the distant horizon worriedly, praying for the combat team to return safely.
——H City Defense Line——
"Captain! Our mechas are running out of energy!" On the screen, the team members were panting, their faces flushed. "If this continues, our entire team will be wiped out!"
Captain Chao Te looked stern as he controlled the mecha to swing and slash. The photon knife stabbed into the mouthparts of a mutant insect. The mutant insect was invulnerable to swords and guns, and its only weakness was its mouthparts. After fighting for such a long time, the captain was already familiar with their weaknesses.
However, even if you know their weaknesses, killing them is not an easy task. In the entire combat team, only Chao Te can kill each mutant insect with one sword.
"Retreat!" Finally, Chaote issued an order, and immediately all the mechas on the defense line began to retreat. They converted the remaining energy into artillery fire, repelled the mutant insects, and then flew away.
The newly built defense shield on the defense line was broken again by the mutant insects. This time, the mutant insect army traveled for thousands of meters, further tightening the survivors' defense line.
The rows of mechas had not yet flown five thousand meters when suddenly, an abnormal fluctuation startled the depressed group of people. Mud scattered into the sky, and the ground beneath their feet trembled, making a rumbling sound.
Chao Te's expression suddenly changed. "Oh no! Don't waste time, run!"
But it was too late.
From the ground emerged a giant beetle so huge that it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as blocking out the sky and the sun.
A mutant beetle that spends most of its time dormant to accumulate energy, but causes a river of blood the moment it comes out.
It seems that the commander behind the Zerg army of Mantu Star finally lost his patience to gradually devour these stubborn survivors.
It directly sent out the Zerg's trump card.
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