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Chapter 608, Busy Saving the World
After killing the Hive Tyrant, which was the node creature, the remaining insects were still besieging Martins and others.

However, a beast that fights solely on instinct, no matter how powerful it is, will pose a much lower threat.

Once the Space Marines had cleared out the nearest enemies, no more monsters came even close.

There are no orders, and no ability to think on one's own, isn't that the case?
Two transport ships soon appeared in the sky and took the Space Marines away.

After another moment, the firepower pouring down from orbit covered the entire area.

Not only will it kill the swarm of insects that have lost their leader, but it will also clear out the large-scale hatching nests here.

……

After returning to the starship, Martins asked someone to write a battle report to be sent to Governor Gu, and at the same time, he contacted Alma Ewing.

Of course, Martins is now the general manager of the entire Nepeta Star Region war zone, including a coalition fleet, hundreds of millions of coalition armies, and the defense forces of various worlds in the Nepeta Star Region, as well as the Blood Shark War Group, all of which are theoretically under his command. However, other troops are fine, but he still has to be cautious with Ewing and can't really treat him as his subordinate.

This is actually true.

The Blood Shark was a relatively independent fighting force. The main force led by Ewing was not even nearby, but on the way to another planet with an equally critical situation.

The two briefly talked about the situation on their side and exchanged some ideas about the overall battle situation. Then Ewing asked a question: "Did the 100 new blood sharks perform well?"

"Of course, very good, they are all very good fighters."

Ewing was silent for a moment, then asked, "Are all the new blood provided by the alliance of this quality?"

After thinking for a while, Martins did not lie: "Yes."

"It's... incredible." Ewing said, "No wonder the Phoenix Regiment recovered so quickly."

"Blood Shark will do the same." Martins said, "We recruited 300 new soldiers at once, which not only makes up for the losses in the war, but also solves the problem of insufficient staffing in the past."

"Yeah, I never thought it would be so easy to recruit new soldiers," Ewing said. "They are all good guys, brave, tough, loyal, and full of faith..."

Having said that, he swallowed back the words "too confident" that he was about to say.

"It's a good thing after all. As long as you maintain cooperation with the alliance, Blood Shark will always be strong."

Ewing couldn't help but ask: "Will the blood shark still be a blood shark at that time?"

Martins chuckled and asked, "So do you think the Phoenix now is the Phoenix?"

Without waiting for Ewing to answer, Martins continued: "In my opinion, yes. Our gene seeds are being passed down, our chapter culture is being passed down, we are still fighting for humanity, fighting for the Emperor, what is the difference between this and the Phoenix in the past?"

Ewing was speechless.

He changed the subject, not wanting to discuss it any further: "Now, where is Commander-in-Chief Gu's fleet?"

"The latest news is that they should be arriving in Wuqi soon." Having said this, Martins made a request: "We still need to speed up the progress. You don't have to worry about some worlds. The most important task of Blood Shark is to block the entrance and exit to the Princess as soon as possible. The Vanguard Fleet has found signs that the enemy has entered Nepeta from the Princess Star Region. The intelligence is still being confirmed, but it is possible that it is a traitor regiment."

"The Governor took the main force away, leaving us with not much strength. We are also being held back by many worlds in dire situations, so we are under great pressure. If a traitor regiment really enters the Thorn Star Region, we need to find a suitable place to intercept them, otherwise a lot of our work will be wasted."

Ewing listened silently and responded, "I understand, don't worry. But relying on the blood shark alone may not be enough. You have to solve the problem as soon as possible and catch up as soon as possible."

"I will."

……

After ending the call, Martins once again turned his attention to the battlefield in front of him.

Tingzhen IV.

Tingzhen IV is one of the worst-off worlds in the Jingjie star field among the more than 200 worlds that have been captured by the Alliance.

A simple estimate shows that the total number of insect beasts on the surface of the entire planet has exceeded one billion; the cult organization composed of parasites has almost replaced the rulers of the planet, and more than 70% of the cities and large settlements have become their world. They manage the order of the city and constantly hold various religious ceremonies, claiming that only by believing in their "god" can you be saved.

Some of these so-called gods were purely made up by them, but more of them were created in the image of emperors.

The latter can be somewhat deceptive.

To put it bluntly, these religious rituals are meant to infect more people.

The infection mode of parasites is different from that of regular viruses. In essence, they want to control people's thoughts rather than simply make people sick. According to the Empire's research on Zerg parasitism, some special psychic means of the Zerg are involved.

Only through the so-called religion, which is actually a mass infection of psychic creatures, can humans be better infected and then make them "truly" believe in the so-called God.

Regardless of whether it was a fabricated thing or simply the Four-Armed God Emperor, they would begin to believe in it with all their heart and soul. At the same time, their bodies would gradually change, with their skin color, teeth, skull shape, more limbs... As for the so-called salvation? The so-called heaven?

Oh, there are some too.

The Zerg's digestion pool.

But before entering the digester, they still have to preach and "revolutionize", so they are busy.

The total population of the entire Tingzhen IV before the war should be about 45 billion, which is considered a civilized world in the industrial age. But now, the population of the entire world under the control of the cult is about 40%, which is about billion.

The difference in this number is that the world has lost about 20 billion people during the outbreak period of just six months.

The remaining 15 billion people were scattered all over the planet in various ways. Among them, there was a resistance organization, but there were also problems of cult corruption within it. If it hadn't been for the alliance, under the triple attack of the Zerg, the cult, and the internal corruption, I'm afraid those resistance bases wouldn't have lasted long.

For this world, the alliance is still necessary.

The 25 billion people who survived are the biggest reason. Including the 10 billion people under the rule of the cult, not all of them are hopeless. The number of people who are actually infected is only about 10% to 20%. If left alone, they will eventually be corrupted, but at least it hasn't happened yet.

The second reason is that if this industrialized planet can be saved, the sufficient industrial population and good industrial base will be able to be integrated and play a significant role in the next war.

This is why, based on local circumstances, the use of extermination orders is not considered.

Another, larger reason is that using an extermination order would have very bad political consequences.

The accusations from the central level of the empire and the troubles from the Inquisition are secondary. What will the other worlds in the Nepeta Star Region think after the extermination order destroys the world? Once the insect pest problem expands, the extermination order will be used. Those cult organizations that get the news will have a perfect excuse and can expand more rapidly. If the alliance wants to easily take over other worlds later, it will not be so easy to pass on the order.

However, Martins is the commander-in-chief of the entire star domain war after all, and he cannot stay in Tingzhen IV for too long.

But the problem here has been preliminarily solved.

The largest node organism on the planet was destroyed, which means that the Zerg lost the ability to integrate and coordinate.

Of course, there are some lower-level node creatures, but they don't have enough authority and "brains" to control only their own swarm. That means that when the human army launches a counterattack and attacks a part of it, the other swarms will not know, and even if they know, they will not reinforce. Those lower-level node creatures can only integrate the swarm units they belong to and will only act according to the established goals. They will not expand the scale of the war, and they have no subjective initiative.

Until a new, global node creature hatches among them, it will be able to reunite all the divided swarms again.

What humans need to do is to prevent the emergence of new global node organisms and continuously eliminate the number of insect swarms until they are completely eradicated.

In addition to destroying the Zerg, the more important goal is to attack the areas controlled by the corrupt cult and liberate the population. While preventing more infections, the liberated population can restore productivity and form a local army.

All in all, the problems of Tingzhen IV are far from being completely solved.

But Martins no longer had time to stay here.

Fifty Phoenixes will stay here and continue to do this work.

At the same time, they were cooperated by three Allied Army Groups, with 60 million soldiers.

The overall person in charge will be a lieutenant general of the alliance.

And Martins himself had to rush to the next dangerous world.

In his schedule, there are four worlds where he must lead the team personally and solve the problems as soon as possible.

After dealing with these, the rest will be left to the Alliance Army and Navy Squadron to resist by mobilizing the power of the world's homeland.

At most four companies will be left behind to put out fires everywhere.

He himself had to take the other six companies and quickly meet up with the Blood Sharks.

The enemies coming from the Princess Star Region should not be underestimated. If they want to preserve their achievements in the Nepeta Star Region, they must not allow the traitors who defected to the Zerg to come in and cause trouble.

There is still a big battle waiting for him.

A month later, intelligence about this enemy was also confirmed.

The bad news is that the newcomers are indeed a traitor chapter.

The good news is, it’s not iron armor.

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