What is the situation on the battlefield?
After a moment of silence, Lü Yongchang asked again, "What I mean is, what are the chances of human civilization winning?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zijie couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile.
"It's not very big."
"Model simulations show that even if the five-dimensional being from the pastoral faction doesn't intervene, the chances of victory for human civilization and the neutral faction will gradually decrease to 40% within thirty years."
"Unless a breakthrough is achieved in tachyon computing technology with a range of hundreds of light-years."
"How could this be?" Lu Yongchang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Zhao Zijie with a surprised expression. "Hasn't the size of the human fleet been constantly increasing?"
Zhao Zijie shrugged and said with some helplessness, "Yes, our strength is indeed constantly growing, but you seem to have forgotten that the neutral faction suffered the greatest losses in this war."
"According to incomplete statistics, since the start of the war, the neutral faction has lost 50 billion warships."
"Although we have shared the technologies of dimensional ascension and dimensional reduction with all neutral civilizations, but..."
"Few civilizations can 'digest' these two cutting-edge technologies during a war."
Lü Yongchang sighed softly.
Yes, not all civilizations are like human civilization.
"And what about thirty years from now?"
A faint smile finally appeared on Zhao Zijie's somewhat stiff face: "Then it will be different."
"Thanks to the increase in the size of the fleet, the chances of human civilization winning will continue to rise until they approach 80%."
"The remaining 20% mainly takes into account the variable of the pastoral five-dimensional organism."
"Since the power of five-dimensional beings is unknown, this estimate is definitely inaccurate."
"On the other hand..." Zhao Zijie hesitated for a moment before saying hesitantly, "The Cleaners are deploying fleets from across the universe to support the Shapley Supercluster, and we may not be able to hold out for another thirty years."
Lu Yongchang reached out thoughtfully and opened a holographic projection.
The projection displays a real-time image of the cosmic bubble—the cosmic bubble observation device is installed on the Earth.
Looking at the huge shadow still at the bottom of the cosmic bubble, Lü Yongchang frowned.
Risk is not scary.
What's frightening is the unknown risk.
The deterrent power of five-dimensional beings hiding at the bottom of the cosmic bubble is far greater than that of five-dimensional beings on the front lines!
He muttered to himself, "It seems the Pastoral Faction's annihilation plan has reached a critical stage."
Zhao Zijie didn't say anything, but just stood aside and waited quietly.
After a brief moment of contemplation, Lü Yongchang withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhao Zijie beside him again: "So, the most urgent task now is to delay the war?"
"yes."
Zhao Zijie nodded in response with a serious expression.
Lu Yongchang didn't speak, but silently looked at the star map in front of him, as if he was thinking about something.
"What if...we send a fleet to harass the Cleaners civilization's ring-space acceleration device?"
“This plan was proposed a long time ago,” Zhao Zijie sighed wearily, “but that’s where the problem lies.”
"Currently, the neutral faction has begun to decline, and they no longer have the strength to complete this arduous task."
"Let alone a sneak attack, the neutral faction is already struggling on the front lines."
"In order to ensure the stability of the main battlefield, we have no choice but to deploy all newly produced warships."
"This also led to a slowdown in the growth rate of our fleet."
"It's like a vicious cycle, a death spiral. Without a lot of reinforcements, this death spiral will drag us into the abyss sooner or later."
Zhao Zijie raised his hand and gently rubbed his temples: "Just like I said before, the Cleaners' continuous reinforcements are enough to crush our allies within thirty years, and then it might be us next."
"Who says we don't have reinforcements?"
After a brief silence, Lü Yongchang's voice broke the stillness of the command center.
Zhao Zijie cast an extremely surprised look at Lü Yongchang.
"reinforce?"
"Who can send reinforcements to us now?!"
Lü Yongchang smiled meaningfully.
"Have you forgotten the lost Zerg we sent out earlier?"
...
Supercluster of galaxies surrounding the Boötes Void.
On the edge of these superclusters, vast numbers of lost insectoids are swarming and foraging among the galaxies.
Compared to the original Lost Giants, the current Lost Zerg have undergone considerable changes.
Under the modification of the Insect Genetic Engineering Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the average size of the Insects has increased from five meters to more than twenty meters.
Its arthropod-like body, resembling a centipede, is covered with a sturdy mechanical exoskeleton armor.
The armor was equipped with powerful weapons—dark matter cannons, gravity bombs, plasma cannons…
Driven by instinct and commands from their mother hive, they wander toward resource-rich star systems.
Stars will become their energy source.
Planets will be transformed into their siblings by the mother hive!
Behind them, a planet resembling a planetary fortress was flying rapidly.
A vast number of abandoned giant insects flew around the planet, much like shipborne drones orbiting a warship.
This is the mother hive of the lost Zerg.
Although it's called a mother hive, it's actually completely different from the traditional Zerg mother hive.
The abandoned giant insect's breeding and modification base; this is the full name of the mother nest.
Just as its name suggests, the mother hive can not only hatch lost giant insects at an extremely fast speed, but also equip them with mechanical exoskeleton armor using its internal automated mechanical devices.
It even integrates the functions of an arsenal to some extent!
It is no exaggeration to say that a mother hive is essentially a mobile, fully functional space factory!
Because their manufacturing precision requirements are not high, these mother nests even have the ability to self-replicate.
What's even more remarkable is that these lost giant insects possess a certain degree of intelligence.
It doesn't even require zero computing power to operate!
Over the past hundred years, these lost giant insects, under the command of [Nus], have been quietly expanding their territory into more than a dozen superclusters!
The size of the swarm reached an astonishing astronomical figure!
Despite their large numbers, their combat strength is actually not that high—with the help of mechanical exoskeletons, they can at most bully level seven and level six civilizations.
Let alone top-tier level eight civilizations, even the most ordinary level eight civilizations that haven't yet mastered dimensional technology could easily deal with these artificially created Zerg.
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