"She’s coming... she’s coming!"
Within the borders of the Luofeng Empire, at the Dark Star Base No. 2.
With a soft ’ping,’ the petri dish containing precious microorganism samples fell to the ground.
The mechanical guard nearby hurried to pick it up.
The thin figure that had knocked over the petri dish staggered back in a daze.
Lyu’s projection appeared nearby.
Hera turned and tried to catch Lyu’s projection, her hand passing directly through the light screen.
Hera took a deep breath, leaned against the lab cabinet beside her, and worked hard to organize her words before looking up at Lyu.
"The Insect Swarm queen at the Milky Way border, who previously sent a batch of insects to rescue me from Ming’s clutches, it’s her, she’s coming!"
Lyu frowned, "Where is she? I mean, where is this queen now?"
Hera pointed obliquely upwards.
That was the direction of the Sherman Empire.
"She should be far away from me now, but I’m sure she knows of my existence, though she’s currently busy handling something else.
"Quick, let me board the ship and leave here! She will come looking for me!
"Maybe the Insect Swarm has already come to find me!"
Hera suddenly became agitated.
"Miss Hera, I must consult with the boss..."
In the Thought Space, Lyu glanced at Yang Ming, who was sleeping in the medical cabin, and after a brief thought, activated the ’little boss’ permissions.
"Miss Hera, please immediately put on the spacesuit, the starship can be activated in three minutes."
Hera immediately turned and rushed towards the rest area.
Those robot assistants cast concerned glances at her, all possessing complete cognitive awareness, as Dark Star had already formed a biological research team around Hera.
Three minutes later, a light Star Patrol Ship, which had maintained a state of readiness for a long time, swiftly departed the Dark Star Base No. 2, charging towards the Luofeng Empire border.
Lyu activated the full territory defense system of Wind, liberating most of her computational power and using the reserve computational resources of Ilando Star.
If it was to guard such vast territory as the Empire, Lyu was far from being able to achieve that at the moment.
Yet the entire Wind Alliance was fully within Lyu’s grasp, wherever the network and electronic information covered, her presence could be there.
After arranging Hera’s departure, Lyu’s attention turned towards the Empire’s interior.
Heading in the direction Hera pointed, Lyu searched all the way and soon witnessed a scene that made even her mechanical thought body shiver.
A Mother Worm towering thirty thousand meters high;
Thousands of insect battleships formed by adult insects.
Furthermore, near this Mother Worm, Lyu discovered a large batch of Sixth-Rank tunnel-digging worms with black scales all over their six-hundred-meter-long bodies.
This meant that if this Insect Fleet reached its destination, these high-rank tunneling worms would open long-distance jump wormholes, summoning an incalculable high-rank Insect Swarm!
The direction they were heading...
They must be going to the Empire’s Emperor Star!
’Has the Insect Race allied with the New Federation?’
The first thought that popped into Lyu’s mind was this.
Following that, Lyu thought of several individuals.
Hera’s father, Dr. Nardo, and Professor Pat, who had spent most of his life researching the Insect Race and successfully completed the queen individual induction production.
Could Professor Pat and his team calculate the conclusions Hera deduced?
The possibility was quite high.
Was the New Federation engaging in a gamble?
As of now, over thirty Fourth-Rank Insect Swarms remained within the Empire’s territory, unexterminated, and the imperial fleet couldn’t fully return to defend the Emperor Star. It seemed unlikely to defeat the Sixth-Rank Peak Insect Race queen with minimal loss.
Unless the Empire had hidden forces.
If the imperial Invincible Fleet suffered huge losses, it would inevitably require some time to recover, a period that might trigger significant realignments within the Milky Way’s powers.
The opportunity for the boss to rise!
The East Wind continued to jump sequentially towards the designated Third Battlefield, traveling at high speed.
It wasn’t that Lyu didn’t want to wake her boss up at this moment, but based on all data deductions, letting the boss continue his rest was the optimal choice.
Moreover, even if she informed her boss of a complete Sixth-Rank Insect Swarm’s appearance, what difference would it make?
The boss at this stage couldn’t possibly contend with such a Great Queen.
A Fifth-Rank Mother Worm could already crush the boss, let alone such a Sixth-Rank Peak Super Mother Worm, just half a step away from dimensional ascension.
The best plan was to let the boss continue hunting Fourth-Rank Mother Worms in other areas until he was exhausted, then control the East Wind to join the Empire’s fleet in stopping the Sixth-Rank Insect Swarm so that the boss could absorb some of the strange biological energy released by the demise of high-rank insects at close-quarter.
It would take this massive Sixth-Rank Insect Swarm about two or three Galaxy Times to reach the vicinity of the Emperor Star Circle, even with continuous jumping.
That was entirely sufficient for Yang Ming to complete the current support plan.
Lyu glanced at the direction in which the Imperial Military Department was now maneuvering the fleet.
Fleets within the Emperor Star Circle were converging in a certain airspace on the outskirts of the Emperor Star Circle, which would become a fierce battlefield determining the Empire’s rise and fall over the next century.
Admiral Thomas frowned as he stood beside the floor-to-ceiling window on the bridge.
His fleet had already rushed to the first line of defense, ready to strike at that large queen mother worm.
Admiral Thomas’s tasks were exceedingly arduous, for he had to both organize the first layer of defense on the outskirts of the Emperor Star Circle and integrate the supporting fleets.
Of course, every endeavor had teams and supercomputers to handle, leaving him responsible only for overall strategic control.
The defense of the Emperor Star Circle had always been central to imperial national defense, with the Emperor Star being the most crucial element of all.