The closer you get to the front lines, the more Zerg you encounter, and the chase battles that happened before will frequently occur.
Starships are equipped with large weapons, which are often used to eliminate the main force first, and then mechs are used to annihilate or capture the remaining Zerg.
Emperor Xiu went through two battles before finally reaching his destination.
Reclaiming lost territory or seizing land from the Zerg is a process that can easily lead to frustration. Sometimes, after finally managing to reclaim a battered planet, you hear that the Zerg have their eyes on other territories, and your mentality can just explode.
The Zerg are like interstellar locusts, leaving nothing but desolation in their wake. Planets that have landed on are severely damaged, requiring at least a century to recover, not even counting the non-renewable resources lost in the process.
After arriving here, Di Xiu, like everyone else, entered into endless battles. Rather than piloting a mecha in space as a superhuman to intercept the escaping Zerg, he was more suited to fighting the Zerg head-on as an enhanced human, which was perhaps related to his consistent fighting style.
The previous planet, covered in ice and snow, was some distance from the front lines. Some of the Zerg somehow bypassed the defenses and got there. A small portion of them died from the cosmic rays, and half of them froze to death. In reality, not many actually landed on that planet.
The military intended to eliminate the Zerg before they evolved to adapt to the environment, but the soldiers initially sent out couldn't stand the awful weather, and some large-scale weapons were frozen and stopped working, making the situation seem particularly pathetic.
Here, all kinds of weapons are readily available, truly demonstrating the power of interstellar technology, a power worthy of a world-class standard.
A high-energy bomb can overturn mountains and seas; a single interstellar missile can annihilate a planet.
However, while high-energy bombs damage the Zerg, they inevitably also harm the planet. Each time, they must be dropped behind the Zerg lines, as far away from humans as possible, to minimize radiation damage to soldiers and native inhabitants.
Areas bombarded by high-energy bombs will have residual radiation. Enhanced individuals have a relatively strong resistance to it, but they are not completely immune.
When Di Xiu first entered this battlefield, he didn't feel any discomfort, but his divine sense could detect the unpleasant fluctuations in the air, which were eyeing every creature with predatory intent.
For those with lower strength, the energy in their bones and muscles gradually diminishes during combat, causing irreversible damage to their bodies. For those with higher strength, it only slows down this process.
However, it must be said that this method is indeed more efficient.
Emperor Xiu stayed at the border for a year, which is considered a year according to the time of the capital star, and his military rank was promoted again.
At his current level, it will be very difficult to advance further.
To become a marshal, military achievements, prestige, and strength are all indispensable.
While the front lines are engulfed in flames, they safeguard the peace behind them.
Within the tranquil Alpha Empire, the insect feast on the icy planet (too lazy to name it, let's just pretend it's called that) successfully won over the taste buds of several gourmets, and through their promotion, it gradually gained praise from many high-ranking officials.
Soon, this series of delicacies spread throughout the Star Alliance, and everyone who tried them raved about them.
However, the dead Zerg are all destroyed in a centralized manner, and most Zerg are radioactive, making them unsuitable as food—not that they are inedible, but long-term consumption would be harmful to the human body.
People then turned their attention to the icy planet, where the insectoids were basically untouched by radiation. Those insectoids born on the planet had not even been exposed to cosmic radiation, making them ideal as food.
Merchants who saw business opportunities came to the Ice and Snow Planet hoping to obtain supplies. If they hadn't encountered several competitors, they probably would have brought up the issue of monopoly.
Old William was elected as the new lord of the planet. Knowing this was an opportunity for the planet, he negotiated and signed a contract with two well-known merchants to sell the planet by weight.
He actually hoped to develop the tourism industry as well, but considering that the soldiers couldn't stand the climate, and that the gourmets and merchants who came before all looked like they could freeze to death at any moment, he gave up on the idea.
Ling Qiushui heard about this during her tour, and when she returned, she learned from the restaurant manager that many customers had asked her if she could add the Zerg to the menu, which made her feel embarrassed.
She didn't want to introduce that disgusting stuff into her restaurant.
One day, the eldest prince invited her to eat a plate of meat, tricking her into doing so...
It smells so good!
She struggled for a minute before deciding to create a food show, but the question arose: how could she make it interesting?
She wasn't worried about funding, and she had no shortage of connections.
When she heard about the Ice and Snow Planet, she had the idea of having the production team film there, and even thought it would be very romantic and beautiful.
But when the director heard this, his face turned pale, and he trembled from head to toe as if he had been electrocuted, as if he had experienced the biting cold there in advance, and even thought that his epitaph would be "This person froze to death on an icy planet while filming the xxxx program".
The director, carrying the high hopes of the entire production team, tactfully told her that the temperature there could drop to minus two hundred degrees Celsius, which would be unbearable for both people and equipment.
Ling Qiushui was dumbfounded after hearing this.
After she traveled to this era, she hadn't been to any particularly cold places. The capital planet was like spring all year round, and other planets also had constant temperature systems. She never expected that the ice and snow planet was truly a land of ice and snow.
Her memories of the cold were still from before she time-traveled. She had been afraid of the cold since she was a child, and she couldn't go out when the temperature was below minus ten degrees Celsius. Sometimes, even if she was sitting indoors and the air conditioning wasn't on, she would shiver like she had Parkinson's disease, even while wearing a down jacket and holding a hot water bottle.
She couldn't even imagine a temperature of minus two hundred degrees Celsius. It was truly unimaginable that humans could survive in such an environment.
Ling Qiushui put herself in others' shoes and abandoned the plan, which relieved everyone in the production team.
She then set her sights on Ralph Planet.
The number of Zerg on Ralph Star is kept within a safe range, their strength is weaker than that of wild Zerg, there is no radiation hazard, and they are close by. However, Ralph Star has always been the exclusive examination site for the Imperial Military Academy, and ordinary people cannot enter it at all.
Seeing how distressed she was, the eldest prince immediately patted his chest and said he would take care of it.
A year has passed, and despite his efforts to persuade the king and the principal of the imperial military academy, the eldest prince still hasn't received a formal title. However, this hasn't stopped him from running errands for his beloved goddess, helping to convince the king and the principal of the imperial military academy.
The program was broadcast live, and Ling Qiushui was tempted to participate, but she couldn't overcome her fear of insects.
The Zerg were all enlarged versions, and some even combined the disgusting features of several other insects she knew. Their visual impact was much greater than that of the smaller insects, and they were extremely lethal to her. She never wanted to see them a second time after seeing them once on the StarNet.
She chose mecha design because she was afraid of having to face insects in the future.
She was tricked by the eldest prince into eating insectoid meat, and when he let it slip, she almost vomited. However, it was so delicious that her stomach betrayed her brain.
With the filming location issue resolved, the food program titled "The Fourth Great Cuisine of the Interstellar Era" quickly attracted the attention of a wide range of netizens, especially after learning that it was invested in by the healing goddess Ling Qiushui, which further fueled their enthusiasm.
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