Chapter 671, Rescue Tribunal

Chapter 671, Rescue Tribunal
The Zerg swarms that were hunting down Qin Zhiping and his Anti-Foreign Inquisition came in small numbers from the sky, but more came from the Zerg forces that already existed on the 'Taiyuan Star' where they had made an emergency landing.

The original Taiyuan Star should have been an ordinary industrial world. The data showed that it had a population of 3.8 billion, with various primary industries as its main industries.

But now, there is no one living here.

All that was left on the planet was devastation.

The insect flesh carpets all over the ground absorbed nutrients from the earth and acted as primary decomposers and digesters. Countless worker insects put large numbers of organisms into the digestion pool. Not only humans, but also various insects, rodents and other things that lived with humans on the planet.

The digester transforms these corpses or living things into pure biomass, and a small part is sent to the hatching pool to generate more worker insects and soldier insects. The former is responsible for transporting and devouring the biomass outside and bringing it back; the latter is responsible for hunting.

Maybe there are still some infected people, or even non-infected living people, on the planet, but a dozen survivors here or dozens there are no different from not existing.

Oh, the difference is that the Zerg can conduct another carpet search and find more biomass.

In addition to the biomass that was transported to the hatchery to generate new insects, the remaining biomass, which also accounted for the largest proportion of the total, was transported to the warehouse and stored, waiting for the arrival of the Zerg transport ship.

These warehouses for storing biomass are equipped with tall 'capillary spires'.

These capillary spires seem to be useless now, but once the Zerg transport ships arrive, they will stay in orbit, extend the huge biological pipeline from top to bottom, and connect with the tall capillary spires. Then, the biomass, which has been greatly reduced in volume after processing, will be sucked away by tons by the Zerg's biological ships and transported to the core area to be used to build the army and catalyze biological ships.

However, when the remaining troops of the Anti-Foreign Order led by Qin Zhiping arrived at Taiyuan Star, the Zerg's strategy changed.

They no longer store most of the biomass, but take it out to hatch insects; the proportion of decomposition is no longer dominated by worker insects, but by soldier insects.

Of course, there is a certain time lag between the change in strategy and the emergence of a large number of insect swarms that threaten Qin Zhiping and his troops. The troops of the Inquisition certainly cannot eliminate all threats on the entire planet during this period of time, but as long as they clear the hatching nests and biomass warehouses near the forced landing site first, the pressure they will bear later will be much less.

But at this stage, Qin Zhiping's judgment was wrong.

His views are more pessimistic and his actions are more conservative.

Although several elite teams of the Silver Watch were dispatched to destroy several key points, they were not able to destroy enough. The main focus of the remaining troops was to find ways to rescue supplies from the forced-landing starships and to find ways to obtain some food reserves from the surrounding city ruins or wilderness - the latter was not very effective, and it was good enough to have some leftovers in places that the bugs had roughly eaten.

But then again, if we wait for the bugs to lick the ground thoroughly a second time, there would be nothing left.

Another part of the troops was given the task of building defensive fortifications on the spot.

To put it bluntly, Qin Zhiping felt that it was impossible to solve the current problems by relying on the power at hand. He knew that after the starship crashed, although most of them survived, they only extended their lives for dozens of days or months. Without the starship escape, the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 people in his hands, no matter how elite they were, would not survive.

To put it bluntly, all we are doing now is to try to survive as long as possible while knowing that we will die.

Even killing the enemy is not a critical matter. If the final result is the victory of the Zerg, then the Zerg killed in the battle is of little significance. They will recycle the corpses, and although some biomass will be lost in the process, as long as they are not burned to ashes, the big heads can still be recycled into biomass, and will eventually be hatched into new Zerg.

However, the final result proved that Qin Zhiping was lucky.

In other words, no matter what the circumstances, it makes sense to persevere.

He armed all his men, women, young and old, whether they were professional soldiers or sailors operating the starship, and even the auntie who was in charge of cooking in the cafeteria on the starship, and fought a bloody battle with the endless sea of ​​insects evolved on Taiyuan Star for more than two months, killing one third of the population.

No one ran away. They all knew that running was meaningless in the current situation, and it would be better to stick together and die more slowly.

And two months later, the turning point actually came.

They received an unexpected message from the Alliance.

They claimed to be the Alliance's exploration team, and also said that the Alliance's army was outside the four star systems. They hoped that Qin Zhiping and others could hold on, and the Alliance would come to rescue them.

The survivors' morale was boosted!

Although they don’t know when the alliance will arrive and whether they can hold on until then, at least there is hope!
They began to defend more aggressively.

The speed at which the alliance came to support them was even faster than they expected!
A month later, they observed a human fleet appearing in the orbit of Taiyuan Star.

Not strong, led by just one destroyer, with two frigates and four patrol ships.

However, this configuration is enough.

In orbit, the Zerg biological ships that were chasing them and posed a great threat to their ground fortifications in orbit over the past three months were driven away.

Then, the starship dropped several heavy artillery shells onto the ground.

The destroyer's ground support capability is not very strong, but it is enough to temporarily rescue Qin Zhiping's troops.

The transport ship landed on the ground and picked up the remaining troops of the Anti-Foreign Inquisition in batches.

At this point, Qin Zhiping and his subordinates were saved.

……

For the Alliance, sending a fleet of ships four star systems away to rescue the remnants of a northern legion certainly involves risks.

But it’s not too big.

The biggest trouble is on the way back and forth, but the Alliance is now on the defensive on the planet 'Nokras'. It's not that they can't win, but they are just waiting for progress on the western front and just trying to attract and consume the Zerg's power.

If he really took the initiative to attack, Gu Hang was confident that he could repel the enemy forces besieging Nokras.

Not to mention sending out a fleet and then meeting them when they come back.

Not much pressure.

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Being able to update one chapter at this point means there will definitely be another chapter in the evening!
(End of this chapter)