A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 55 The Alliance Strategist is Too Confident

A massive horde of Behemoths enveloped the Scout Nebula and approached the Star Alliance fleet, continuously launching invisible black hole-induced attacks. Warships were destroyed one after another by these induced microscopic black holes.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed violently in the Scout Nebula. A large group of scout creatures near the flash point died instantly. Several Behemoth behemoths that were also close to the flash point were also half-crippled, with the genes of a large number of their somatic cells destroyed by the sudden high-energy ray.

If it weren't for the smog blocking the rays and weakening their energy level, the several Behemoths that approached the flash point would have died instantly.

The Behemoths quickly identified the type of attack: a gamma-ray burst!

Immediately afterwards, another flashing dot appeared.

Although the Behemoths were able to use their psionic energy to deflect the surrounding spacetime and deflect the high-energy gamma, thanks to the faster-than-light perception achieved by the Scout Nebula, and thus suffered no damage, the Scout Nebula lost a large portion of its area.

This resulted in the Behemoth horde being unable to deflect these high-energy gamma rays with psionic energy in time for the subsequent flashing points.

At first, only flashing points appeared intermittently, but as time went on, multiple areas began to show flashing points. They were like old-fashioned cameras, flashing and disappearing in an instant. Each flash took away a large number of life forms from the Behemoth behemoth horde.

It could be a swarm of scout bees, a symbiote within a Behemoth, or even just a Behemoth itself.

Finally, the beams of light released by the flashing point engulfed the area where the Behemoth horde was located, completely engulfing it in a ball of light, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.

Those Behemoths that had broken away from the horde during the battle and happened to be outside the range of the attack were eliminated one by one by the Star Alliance fleet.

The entire Behemoth horde is wiped out!

……

"It failed."

"Fortunately, it only turned one planetary creature into a Behemoth herd, so the loss wasn't too severe."

"The Hive provided a failed suggestion."

"I knew from the beginning that this suggestion wouldn't work."

The news of the destruction of the Behemoth horde was immediately relayed to the mainframes via psionic energy. The mainframes reacted differently; some were disappointed, some were relieved, and some even blamed the Hive for coming up with the idea, believing that the Hive's bad idea had caused the horde to waste another batch of strategic resources.

Of course, there are also masterminds who agree with the strategic thinking of Behemoth's behemoth pack.

Kasha said, "I don't agree with your idea. Compared to planetary creatures, the Behemoth behemoth horde can obviously survive on the battlefield for a longer period of time."

"What's the use of existing for a long time? In the end, they're all wiped out before they can even inflict serious damage on the enemy," Moston retorted.

Kasha said, "At least it will buy Lu Shang more time."

"In this situation, wouldn't things be better if Lu Shang came back to take command?" Moston retorted, dissatisfied. "What methods could he possibly have to deal with the Star Alliance's wormhole attack?"

Moston argues that the most problematic issue was Lu Shang's misjudgment of the situation, which severely underestimated the threat posed by wormhole attacks to the swarm.

If the swarm had launched a full-scale attack when the Star Alliance relied heavily on stars to build wormhole generation devices, the current situation wouldn't be so difficult.

Moston believes that the best option right now is to escape.

Neither planetary creatures nor a swarm of Behemoths can give the bee swarm an advantage on the battlefield.

Rather than believing that Lu Shang could bring back some possibility of a comeback, it would be better to lead the bee swarm to scatter and escape. That way, even if the enemy wanted to hunt down the bee swarm, they would not be able to wipe out the entire swarm.

"...If you're discussing strategy, then discuss strategy. Why are you bringing up the topic with me?"

"Could it be that you miss me? Surely not? You haven't experienced five hundred years like I have."

Several familiar psionic messages quickly spread across the Hive Network, and the Masterminds, who had previously seemed to lack a central figure, were suddenly both surprised and delighted.

"Lu Shang?!"

……

Star Alliance General Staff, Virtual Space.

A projected battlefield star map, connected to all the alliance's warship mainframes, updates the map content based on real-time battlefield information.

A group of intelligent beings of various forms are planning their own strategic ideas on the battlefield star map.

"Next, we should launch a surprise attack on the Fanbu Nebula and the Baimu Nebula to create a gap in the strategic front of the Bee Swarm Bio-organisms, and then we can complete the encirclement strategy of the Bogu Nebula."

"The source of the mutant bee swarm is the Bogu Nebula, and their main force is likely concentrated in this region."

Opponents argue, "But bee swarms can move, and it's hard to say whether the main force of a mutated bee swarm exists in the Bogu Nebula."

In the decision-making process, the staff were generally divided into two factions. One faction believed that a more aggressive strategy and tactics could be adopted to eliminate the Babel bee swarm more quickly.

The other faction believes that they should proceed cautiously and steadily, as this interstellar war has already dragged on for too long, and they do not want any mistake to cause the hard-won opportunity for victory to slip away from the alliance.

The Babel swarm must be wiped out, not only completely but also utterly, leaving no room for future troubles. Otherwise, this interstellar war will continue indefinitely.

After much discussion, the staff finally made a decision.

"A probing attack on the Bogu Nebula is necessary, but it should only be a probing attack. Before identifying the main force of the mutant bee swarm, a step-by-step strategy is the best solution."

"Judging from previous battle reports, the mutated bee swarm may mutate again. They are trying to counter the wormhole attack by breaking up into smaller groups," the strategist, who resembles a slime, analyzed.

Even though the Behemoth horde could be easily wiped out by wormhole attacks, their combat methods were still taken very seriously.

The reason is simple: this is an anomaly that occurred in the Babel bee colony.

Any information about bee colony mutations, regardless of their effects, must be reported immediately; this has become a strict order from the General Staff.

The starfish-like strategist shook its soft tentacles and said disdainfully, "That's useless. A saturation gamma bombardment will wipe out the massive Behemoth horde."

"The Behemoths don't have the thick geological protection of planetary bee swarms. Their biological carapaces can be easily penetrated and killed by simply generating gamma rays."

Even the most composed strategists, after witnessing so many victories following wormhole strikes, inevitably became tainted with overconfidence.

Almost 99% of the Alliance strategists, including Strategist Haixing, did not believe that the Babel Swarm had any chance of turning the tide. After all, wormhole attacks were so terrifying that knowing just one location of the enemy was enough to quickly and immediately kill them.

The key point is that the Alliance possesses more than one of these wormhole weapons.

(End of this chapter)