Walk alone in the abyss

"Boss! The military stopped a target ship, but the ship has self-destructed and there is no biological reaction on it. It is suspected that it is driven by mechanical soldiers.

"At present, more than a dozen similar ships have been discovered. Although the military has sent more mobile ships to chase them, they all failed.

"The military has footage of some enemy ships hitting the planet."

Yang Ming's network access terminal popped up the projection screen by itself.

Catherine on the side immediately came over and stared at the blurry video played on the projection screen.

——The blur is because the shooting distance is far away, and the target star and the ship where the shooting equipment is located are moving at high speed.

It can barely be seen that a silver-white shuttle warship sailed into the atmosphere, and a hot flame appeared outside the protective cover, crashing into the cloud layer of the planet like a fireball.

Suicide crash?

Catherine wondered, "What is this?"

"Natural disaster," Yang Ming said in a deep voice, "man-made disaster."

"What?" Catherine didn't understand.

Yang Ming patiently explained:

"The traces of a large number of ship jumps were detected on the border of the empire just now. Dozens of these spaceships passed through the blank area of ​​the empire's border defenses, and then dispersed and jumped across the empire.

"My assistant and I speculate that this is the new federation's attempt to mobilize all the insect burial sites and forcefully create a large-scale second disaster for the empire.

"The only ones who know the coordinates of all buried bugs are only a handful of senior officials of the New Federation and a scientific research team, and they can easily do this."

Catherine frowned slightly: "Can't the imperial military stop them?"

"The empire's territory is too large, and the universe is too vast. If the imperial army expands ten times, it is impossible to include all the airspace in the scope of real-time surveillance."

Yang Ming spread his hands and could only sigh:

"From the perspective of interstellar military affairs, it is all about regional defense around the administrative stars.

"The distribution of the empire's military power is also extremely uneven. I can come and go freely with a small broken ship, let alone the new federation that has infiltrated the empire for an unknown number of years.

"What I'm thinking now is that the New Federation dared to take this move, are they ready to go to war with the Empire?

"Or, so many times in the past, the empire only dared to fight border wars, let them confirm that the empire is already strong, and want to directly bring down the empire?"

Catherine fell silent, took out her communicator, and began to search the intranet of the overhauler.

Yang Ming patted his knees, got up and walked to the window, and also started to search for information.

However, what he retrieved was part of the information database of the new Federal CIA.

According to Li's quick investigation, none of the new federal agents she monitored knew about this operation, and the level of secrecy was extremely high.

The hidden earphones in the ears kept sending reports from Lil:

"Boss, the Dongfeng is about to arrive."

"Boss, three swarm riots have been found, and it has been determined that these ships are the keys to activate the swarm. They seem to have some way to make the swarm riot directly. The swarm is transporting the queen out of the crust where the swarm is hiding, and the three swarms The direction of movement is the nearest administrative star to them. There is a swarm hiding place in the same star system as the administrative star...It is predicted that in the next few hours, there will be at least thirty fourth-order stars The swarm riots, and the disaster level cannot be calculated."

"Boss, Lieutenant General Thomas sent a message."

Yang Ming pressed the virtual button, and a bust projection appeared in front of him immediately.

Lieutenant General Thomas was already standing on the podium of the flagship of the fleet, behind him he could see running figures everywhere, preparing nervously for battle.

"Hendon."

"General Thomas!"

Yang Ming immediately gave a military salute.

"Thank you for your timely reminder. It has been confirmed that the New Federation has launched an attack on us!" Lieutenant General Thomas said in a deep voice, "They tried to detonate all the remaining bug burial sites...Damn it! We should have thought that they would have This method!"

Yang Ming said: "General, I didn't foresee the crisis in this area in advance, and my focus is on the high-level insect swarm outside the domain."

"This is the work of the Military Intelligence Bureau," Lieutenant General Thomas said indifferently, "The Military Intelligence Bureau is the eyes of the military department, and now, these eyes have lost most of their functions."

Yang Ming asked, "Has the military started to respond?"

"The national emergency defense system has been activated, the border guards have assembled and returned to defense, and the local defense forces have launched a full-scale search for insect swarms."

Lieutenant General Thomas' complexion became more and more gloomy, and continued:

"We have captured a total of forty-two target ships, and now we have only intercepted one, and they precisely drilled into the gap in our local defense network.

"The empire has an invincible fleet, but there is no intelligence organization to match it.

"Fortunately, most of the activated swarms should be fourth-order. Although they have the ability to move at high speed within the star system, it is almost impossible to move across the star system.

"The next most important thing is the bug burial sites in the same star system of those administrative planets, and we will also give priority to dealing with these bug swarms.

"Captain Hunton!"

"Yes, General!"

"Now, the imperial military needs your strength, your ancient technology, and your ability to decapitate female insects!

"The military department gave you temporary privileges, allowing you to freely navigate in all star fields of the empire outside the emperor's star circle, and allowing you to access the local defense system where the insect plague broke out!

"Protecting the people is the mission of soldiers! Are you willing to accept this mission?"

"Yes! General!"

Yang Ming shouted at the top of his voice.

Lieutenant General Thomas nodded: "There will be an information team here to provide you with information about the pests. Go, white ghost, the empire will not forget your exploits... and neither will I."

Projection communication ends.

Law immediately said: "Boss, Dongfeng has reached the synchronous orbit and can start particle transmission at any time."

Yang Ming put his finger on the ear hole, and sucked out the hidden earphones.

He saw a few figures walking by, and didn't shy away from anything, and said directly:

"Use the name of the white ghost to prepare for the live broadcast on the entire network, try to collect information on insect disasters in various places, and spread it as widely as possible."

"yes."

"Hendon?"

Hanton's father frowned and called: "Are you going to be busy? You have only been back for less than two days..."

"This, sorry..."

"No, no, you don't have to apologize to us," Hanton's father hurriedly said, "You are going to take care of these big things, and your family can't be your hindrance, just go, just go...Want, do you want a hug?"

"Of course," Yang Ming took the initiative to move forward.

Hanton's father stretched out his hands somewhat unnaturally. He originally planned to hug his son lightly, but couldn't help but hugged his son's back tightly and patted him hard a few times.

Catherine hugged Handon's mother gently beside her.

"Go quickly," Hanton's father waved his hand.

Yang Ming nodded, and blinked at Catherine. Just as Catherine was about to leave with him, Yang Ming suddenly turned his head and pushed open the balcony window, and flew out with a brisk step.

"I'll send it back first, Catherine, wait for the Stinger to pick it up!"

A beam of strong light streaked across the daytime sky, and the end hit Yang Ming's body, and Yang Ming's figure disappeared without a trace.

Catherine's mouth twitched slightly.

All right, she hasn't had time to contact her squad's Stinger.

...

Dongfeng left the orbit at full speed and headed for the gravitationally stable zone.

When Yang Ming came back, there were already more than a dozen robots busy on the bridge, and the aft compartment was also in full swing. The crawler robots carried ammunition and energy for the mechs and small assault boats.

Ritsu's full body projection appeared on the side, and the tight combat suit on her body indicated that she had entered a state of full combat readiness.

"Boss, after calculation, the troops that the empire can temporarily mobilize are not enough to fight against all the insect swarms. They can only encircle and suppress seven to nine fourth-order insect swarms at the same time. If the defense is dispersed, half of the insect swarms can be resisted. The rest of the empire It will take some time for the troops to build up."

Yang Ming said: "As long as not all the bug burial sites are close to the administrative star, it should be able to handle it."

"But boss, ships also need supplies," Law reminded, "Unless the empire has more warships in reserve, it will take time to mobilize and deploy the fleet, and this time there will almost certainly be large-scale casualties."

"This is not what we should care about, Li, this is not Luofeng. Compared with the national strength of the Sherman Empire, our strength can only be described as meager."

Yang Ming sat on the captain's chair, staring at the data sliding at high speed on the dial in front of him.

The Dongfeng began to jump towards the airspace where the first batch of high-threat insect swarms were located.

Yang Ming frowned and asked, "The time when the burying point is detonated has also been calculated?"

"Yes," Li reminded, "The imperial military has detected that more than 30 enemy spaceships self-destructed within half an hour, and fourth-order insect swarms were found in the self-destruct area, and some enemy ships were Those not detected are expected to detonate the swarm within the same time period."

Yang Ming sank into the chair and cursed a few foul words in a low voice.

The Dongfeng completed the continuous jump, and the starry sky outside the porthole has returned to stability.

A huge projection screen appeared in front of it, and a simplified map of the empire's territory appeared on it; it was clearly visible on the map, and dozens of red halos spread outward from all corners of the empire.

"It's time to test the local army of the empire."

Yang Ming exhaled lightly, staring at the big screen in a daze.

"Is there any news from Hera?"

"Not yet," Lily reported quickly, "but I heard Miss Hera frowned and muttered something, as if she was saying that the swarm was angry, and they wanted to retaliate against humans desperately... Boss, a message from the military A picture of the swarm leaving the nest."

"Have a look."

"yes."

...

The video given by the military this time has finally become much clearer.

More than a dozen high-mobility star cruisers chased an enemy ship. After continuous jumps, only six star cruisers chased behind the enemy ship.

Before entering the effective firing range of the Imperial Star Cruiser, the silver-white battleship penetrated into the atmosphere, using its protective cover to resist atmospheric friction, without slowing down at all, and smashed straight to the surface.

The planet was struck with a heavy hammer.

In the aftermath of the explosion, adult insects with a body length of four to six meters drilled out of the cracks, as if they were looking at the starry sky.

Immediately afterwards, the ground began to tremble continuously, and more gaps appeared on the ground. It seemed that a cloud of black mist had risen from the ground, but when the picture was enlarged and looked carefully, it was found that it was adult insects moving at high speed.

From hitting the ground to the swarm rioting, within half an hour, dozens of black 'rain clouds' appeared in the atmosphere.

The arriving star cruisers tried to launch an attack, but more than a dozen ion beams blasted into the atmosphere, only opening some tiny holes in the rain clouds.

The swarm's counterattack became more ferocious. The light and rain poured into the outer space. Hundreds of battleship worms with a length of several hundred meters slowly lifted into the air, and the main cannon composed of giant cannon worms fired simultaneously.

The two star cruisers were destroyed almost instantly after being concentrated fire.

The rest of the ships quickly retreated and were driven out of the vicinity of the planet by the swarm.

Fortunately, they released some micro-probes in advance, which perfectly recorded what happened on the surface of the planet.

Those adult insects floating in the sky are just a means of defense and cover.

The earth became riddled with holes, countless adult insects crawled out of the ground, and various special insects lined up into the abdominal cavity of the battleship insect.

One hundred thousand, one million, several million...

The swarm of insects, who were angry for some reason, came out in full force at this moment.

The bloated female worms rarely appear directly on the surface, but now, the female worms were lifted out and drilled into the Zerg battleship composed of four battleship worms.

The swarm began to lift off collectively.

With the female insect as the core, a large number of adult insects flew up, using their bodies as materials, and laid out layers of 'encirclement circles' around the female insect...

When the swarms flew out of the atmosphere, they were no longer densely packed and overwhelming, but gathered into hundreds of Zerg warships of different sizes.

They manipulate the simulated gravity field, and use the simulated gravity to provide powerful acceleration for the bugships; their physique far exceeds that of ordinary humans, allowing them to withstand the oppression and tearing caused by extremely high acceleration.

Their purpose is clear.

Head towards the human settlements closest to them.

retaliation against humanity;

Occupy the human homeland!

Some swarms are lucky. They have discovered that the planet where humans gather is not far away from them.

But most of the swarms have to make a long leap across the star system, just like this video given by the military. Even if this swarm accelerates to sub-light speed, it needs to span a distance of several light-years. to reach the target planet they are going to.

Yes, the Zerg's name is Space Zerg.

They are cosmic creatures, and in the long years of evolution, they have already possessed the ability to conquer space.

The latest videos were continuously sent to Yang Ming.

The Zerg warships rushed to the gravitational balance area, and the two battleships in the front suddenly split apart, and a dozen strange insects with a body length of 100 meters and shaped like ladybugs jumped out of them.

The law gave the mark: the fifth-order special worm, the hole-boring worm, and the fourth-order worm swarm were born with a small probability of mutation.

Their name is simple enough, but they are the butcher knife handles that will cause huge civilian casualties in the empire.

A borer curled up, and the whole body suddenly collapsed inward, blasting out a black hole soundlessly.

A contiguous star field emerged within the void, seemingly at the edge of the star system.

More than a dozen borers quickly flew into the cavity, each curled up and completed self-destruct, and the edge of the cavity was expanding rapidly.

The Zerg battleship group drilled into the void and reached the edge of the star.

Another group of earth borers moved forward.

Continuous short-distance shuttle space!

This is the true strength of the fourth-order swarm after the space zerg left the ground.

"All the insect swarms have been confirmed. A total of thirty-nine insect swarms have been induced. Forty-two administrative planets are under the threat of insect disasters. The time for the insects to reach the target administrative planet ranges from one hour to twelve hours."

"Miss Hera reports: The Zerg will take bloody revenge on humans. If the Zerg is wiped out in a large area, there is a high probability that it will trigger the Zerg from outside the territory."

"The Empire is about to suffer the full blow of the Second Disaster."

"Lü, plan the route for killing insects," Yang Ming's voice was still calm, "The most important thing is to get rid of the most female insects."

"It has been planned. We will encounter the first wave of bugs in half an hour. You need to prepare for battle now."

Yang Ming nodded in response, sat on the chair and watched the big screen for a while, then got up and rushed to the tail cabin.