Whether in the Alpha Empire or the Star Alliance, no matter who it is, the two things they most avoid being associated with are space pirates and the Zerg.
As a major supplier of talent to the legion, the Imperial Military Academy has strict screening requirements for its students. As a result, a heated debate ensued among the school's high-ranking officials regarding whether Mark was qualified for admission.
While still on the starship, Di Xiu saw the news on the StarNet that Duke Noah was requesting an audience with the King. Not long after returning to the satellite base, he learned that Mark had entered the Military Academy with the highest overall score in the exam, which caused quite a stir in the Legion.
001 followed Di Xiu all the way there, overheard a bit, and asked in confusion, "Duke Noah only faced suspicion, but his son has to endure such malice. How come Xavier was proven to be dead, yet the king is still the king? This doesn't seem right."
Soldiers patrolled the legion from time to time, and surveillance cameras were also monitoring the area. After a moment of thought, Emperor Xiu replied in his mind: "To put it another way, Duke Noah and his son are like father, like son, while the king's treatment of Xavier is a case of putting righteousness before family."
Di Xiu went straight to the military department and volunteered to go to the front line where humans were fighting against the Zerg, so as to avoid any more missions that might interrupt him.
He preferred fighting to the occasional missions on the capital planet that he didn't know what to do with. A marshal couldn't be promoted through these small missions; he had to earn real combat achievements.
The soldiers in the military department recognized him and were a little surprised, but he couldn't handle the transfer order of a major general, so he went to his superiors, and only then was the matter settled.
In addition, rather than using his divine sense to control the mech, he felt that it would be more convenient and faster to crush the Zerg into mincemeat directly, and it wouldn't prevent him from doing it himself. For this reason, he specially applied for two alloy swords.
Nowadays, almost no one uses alloy swords anymore; most people use laser swords, which slice through the Zerg like cutting tofu. They're a bit dazzling, though, and they rely heavily on energy.
When he went to the ordnance department to apply, they thought he had made a mistake and checked twice before reluctantly finding him a pair of alloy swords, which were taken from a small, outdated mech.
After testing the effects, and encouraged by the enthusiastic soldier, Di Xiu applied for a lightsaber.
...
Long before humanity ventured into interstellar space, the Zerg had already begun to run rampant, wantonly devouring the life force of the planets they inhabited. Once a planet could no longer meet their survival needs, they would go to find new targets led by advanced Zerg or the queen.
They were born in unknown places, and their lifespan is unknown. They appeared out of nowhere when humans were recklessly expanding and thought they were the overlords of the universe, causing them to suffer a heavy blow and becoming their greatest and most troublesome enemy.
Humans have become the biggest obstacle for the Zerg in their search for a suitable planet to thrive and multiply.
Humans rely on technology, superpowers, and enhancements, while the Zerg rely on characteristics, numbers, and evolution. The two sides have fought to this day and are no longer comparable, but it is still just a tug-of-war. It seems that neither side has lost, but neither has won.
When planets occupied by the Zerg are reclaimed, they are often unrecognizable. Some planets that are determined to be irretrievable or worthless will be destroyed by interstellar missiles, just like the desolate planet that Emperor Xiu visited.
The eldest prince's missile strike received more praise than criticism on the StarNet. Trading dozens of mech soldiers and a desolate planet for hundreds of billions of Zerg was a decisive move that even the second prince, Xavier, secretly admired.
At the time, what was most criticized about him was that he used his position for personal gain and that he was ambushed by space pirates but managed to let them escape.
The Zerg will give birth to a Queen every three to five hundred years—only one Queen can exist at a time.
They possess extraordinary reproductive capabilities, selecting high-level insectoids from birth to produce an endless stream of soldier insects. Furthermore, she possesses immense mental strength, naturally comparable to a level ten superhuman.
But what is most frightening is her control over the Zerg.
The advanced Zerg can control a certain number of Zerg within a certain range, but they are not on the same level as the Queen. They do not cooperate with each other; each occupies a territory and is essentially a disorganized group.
But once the queen is born, all the insectoids, whether they are advanced insectoids with self-awareness or low-level insectoids with only instincts, will obey her commands 100%, and they will not hesitate for a moment even if she asks them to commit suicide immediately.
This is known as the Zerg's swarm consciousness.
This terrifying collective consciousness unites all the Zerg, causing enormous losses and casualties to humanity time and again.
The conditions for the appearance of the Queen Insect are still unclear. After all, there has never been a chance to capture her alive. Each time, killing them requires a huge price to pay. Based on the experience of the first nine times, we can figure out the general pattern of her appearance.
Counting the time, it has been 231 years since the last queen was born, and 205 years since she died.
So... in the original timeline, the Zerg suddenly launched a large-scale attack a hundred years later, and the female protagonist had to bring up the birth of the Zerg Queen, which felt like a forced drop in intelligence.
Di Xiu awoke from his hibernation pod and was sent to the front lines along with tens of thousands of other soldiers. He refused the mecha and, along with most of the enhanced individuals, fought against the Zerg.
It's worth mentioning that during the four months he searched for space pirates, he tried to cultivate using the unique energy of this world, but it had little effect. Even though his body had now reached level thirteen, it still couldn't withstand the energy that was far more violent than spiritual energy.
Emperor Xiu had naturally accepted that the rules of different worlds were different, and he did not insist on it.
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The battle against the Zerg is endless. The mindless, low-level Zerg have no concept of fatigue, so the army uses a rotation system to ensure continuous combat capability to the greatest extent.
From space, this planet appears as a pure white expanse, its stark whiteness a testament to its extreme cold. But aside from this extreme environment, its atmosphere is well-suited for human habitation, so much so that nearly 100 million people lived here before the arrival of the insectoid race.
Now, these people have either been killed by the Zerg, found a way to leave, or are crammed into unoccupied lands behind the army.
Di Xiu stepped out of the spaceship, looked at the boundless snowfield, and exhaled a puff of white mist.
With his current physical condition and wearing extreme climate combat gear, he didn't feel very cold, but some people next to him couldn't help but stomp their feet and cover their mouths and noses to block the cold wind from entering through their mouths and noses and freezing their internal organs.
Emperor Xiu had already gained a general understanding of the situation here when he arrived.
The extreme weather here is unfriendly to the Zerg, and even more so to humans.
After invading the planet, the Zerg gradually evolved to be more resistant to cold within seven months, adapting better than the native inhabitants of the planet. However, most of the soldiers from the Empire had never experienced long-term combat in such weather and did not have the same evolutionary speed as the Zerg, making the war extremely difficult.
The Zerg, which had already been mostly frozen to death, actually multiplied as the battle progressed.
"Reinforcements? Don't just stand there, get moving, get moving, or you'll all freeze to death in no time... It's rotation time, come on, grab your weapons and come with me to kill the Zerg."
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