Chapter 652, only five percent?
Sidov and his troops were not close to the infection center at the moment. But those biological ships were things that could sail in the starry sky, and they were so large that they could clearly see this shocking scene with their naked eyes from such a long distance.
Seedorf himself is even worse.
His mechanical eyes, after optical zoom, can see the situation in the distance more clearly.
"Biological ship..."
He muttered to himself.
The huge biological structure, although not clearly visible in its entirety, at least he could see clearly what it was.
It was like a giant monster, with a huge head and a long, whisker-like tentacle tail. Its entire body was covered in a thick carapace.
And there are dozens of such biological ships at a glance!
It was the first time he had seen something like this, but that didn't mean he didn't understand what it was.
Biotic ship, the emphasis is on the 'organism' rather than the ship. Calling it a ship is just a more consistent definition of its function by humans. In essence, it is a living organism, but it is too large, even able to travel in space, with a complete environment for the Tyranids to survive inside, and different organs will evolve inside it according to different uses, which is equivalent to different facilities of a starship?
But why?
Logically speaking, shouldn't it be that only the existence of a hive mothership and a queen can evolve powerful Zerg creatures through biomass?
On Strange Road VI, not even the shadow of a real Void Zerg was seen. Even if the biomass was abundant, how could such a horrible thing be produced?
With his limited knowledge, Seedorf couldn't figure this out.
It seems to be flying slowly in the sky, but in fact, it has flown quite high and far in a short while.
Of course, it is impossible for humans not to react during this process.
There were no large-scale orbital artillery groups on the planet Qitulu, but there were still a lot of basic anti-aircraft guns. When these guns began to fire fiercely into the sky, although the firepower was not very effective against its hard shell, under the concentrated fire, two were still shot down.
At the same time, Sidov also saw fire coming down from the outer orbit, bombarding these biological ships.
That should be the Alliance destroyer that had recently stayed in the orbit of Qitulu VI and arrived in a hurry.
The M-class firepower it possesses is ideal for killing biological ships.
After the initial shock, Sidov could see that these biological ships were not as big as he had imagined. Each of them was only about one thousand meters long, and in terms of specifications, they were even smaller than human frigates.
Although, in general, the carapace of the Zerg's biological ships is much harder than the armor of human ships, and the internal structure is a complete organism, it is not as easy to be destroyed as a ship. However, it also has a weakness, that is, it does not have additional protection such as void shields/energy shields. If it is hit, it can only resist.
These kilometer-long biological ships we see now can still withstand S-level firepower, but it is not a problem for them to be taken down with two shots from the destroyer's M-level firepower.
According to what Sidov knew, the 'Wind Treader' - the name of the Shark-class destroyer - had two Heat Hammer Macrocannons, a Sky-Splitting Axe Missile Launcher, and a Melting Light Spear.
Before the bio-ships broke through the atmosphere and left orbit, the Wind Treader had destroyed seven of them.
After entering space, these biological ships had no intention of engaging in a fight with the Summit Treader.
They scattered and ran away at an accelerated speed.
The Fenghui Treader, a Crazy Shark-class ship, was accompanied by a Silver Sword-class frigate and four patrol ships, so there was no way it could catch up with them all.
A few days later, Sidov, who was cleaning up the battlefield on the ground, learned that there were more than 20 biological ships destroyed in the end, but nearly 10 of them escaped and are missing.
At this time, after entering the original core infected area with many friendly troops, Seedorf and his soldiers found that there was no one here. It stands to reason that there were only a few scattered and rare individuals left in this area of hundreds of millions of infected people.
In this sense, the war in Chitral VI is over.
They achieved their initial strategic goal and the threat on the planet was eliminated.
There was no need to deploy so many army troops here, and the defense forces recruited from the local area, which accounted for almost 20% of the population, could also be dismissed on a large scale and returned to production. The remaining things were to eliminate the scattered infected people who were not dead, and burn all the mucus groups, meat blankets, digestion pools, etc. left by the infected people... To put it bluntly, it was to clean up the ruins step by step and rebuild the home.
These have nothing to do with Seedorf.
His mission is over.
I originally thought that I would have to struggle on this planet for ten years, but I didn't expect that it would end so cleanly in just two years.
However, after witnessing more than 30 biological ships rising from the ground, although most of them were destroyed, a dozen or so still escaped. Sidov didn't know whether it could be considered a victory.
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Gu Hang believed that this special battle that took place on Qitu Road and many similar planets could be considered a victory.
What happened on Qi Te Road is certainly not an isolated case.
Gu Hang has received reports of similar incidents in the Alfonzo Star Region and even in the Nepeta Star Region.
Those worlds with a large number of infected people seemed to have received the same order at the same time, and they absorbed all the biomass that could be absorbed without hesitation. The infected people jumped into the digestion tank themselves; plants, animals, and even a large amount of ordinary organic matter were also carried in by the infected people.
Of course, their losses in this process were very heavy, just like what happened on the strange road, the infected people who began to transform biomass recklessly handed the situation completely to the Alliance.
Many of them were eliminated before the transformation. During the transformation process, many digestion tanks were destroyed, pipelines were cut off, and even the core infection areas were conquered.
However, there are too many of them. In those worlds with severe infections and extremely large numbers of infected people, it is inevitable that biological ships will be transformed and then fly into the sky.
They will suffer a large number of losses due to anti-aircraft fire, orbital interception, and pursuit by alliance ships.
Although quite a few bio-ships did escape in the end, according to the estimates of Gu Hang's experts, scholars, and Mechanicus researchers, the amount of biomass that these bio-ships actually managed to take away was no more than 5% of the total number they infected and controlled.
Those biological ships looked quite intimidating, but each of them was about a kilometer in size, about the same size as a patrol ship. Moreover, they had almost no combat capabilities, and they only knew how to run away with a belly full of biological matter.
Even if they find a new place to gather together, relying on these biomass to re-evolve the fleet and the army, they will not be a very powerful force and can be dealt with completely.
However, this is the situation in the Alfonzo and Nepeta star regions.
In the Spider Web Universe, what about those other star regions that were once controlled by Iron Armor and were infected with large amounts of pests?
The Western Front and the Northern Front seemed unimportant, and we only focused on advancing. What about those worlds that we left behind and ignored?
Just thinking about it makes Gu Hang shudder!
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I have made up for my broken promise!
It’s not dawn yet!
(End of this chapter)
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