You tell me, this is called daily youth?

He didn't know what to do. Even if he deployed the Hope, he would have to put all his troops into it. But now he couldn't find the queen, so if he went all in, he would be ready to die together.

"Mr. Yuki, what do you think?" the commander-in-chief asked subconsciously, with gratitude in his tone.

If it weren't for the changes just now, he wouldn't even have a choice.

The noisy discussion did not disturb his thoughts. Yuki raised his head, his face expressionless but not confused. His red eyes were bright and he still looked confident.

"I think we should wait and see what happens, and then contact the commandos as quickly as possible."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was in an uproar, and many people even looked at him with contempt.

The commandos couldn't hold out for long. This was because they were cowards and afraid of fighting. They didn't care about their dignity in order to survive. They would rather rush down and live and die with their comrades.

"You want to gather intelligence and plan before taking action?" The commander-in-chief raised his hand to calm everyone down, then pondered, "This will take time. By then, it might be too late to make a decision."

Johnny Silverhand has released his detectors, but they need to penetrate the incredibly tough cap so that he can receive a signal.

"It's too late. The question now is whether we watch them die or die together. It doesn't matter if it's later." Yuki was as cold as a machine, forgetting that besides his comrades, there were also his closest people below.

He stepped forward quickly, his military boots tapping the ground. His tone was as cold as ice: "But I don't want to choose death, I just want to win!"

You still want to win at this time?

Everyone looked at it together as if they were looking at a madman, trying to find traces of the coward's excuses for himself.

To be frustrating, the raid failed and the fate of mankind is already half doomed. Now all we have to do is inflict the greatest damage to the Zerg and then die with dignity and honor.

"Don't forget, the Zerg's goal has never been to destroy humans. They just want to reproduce and evolve, and that's why they want to seize the fire." Yuki paced back and forth, as if trying to convince himself:

"There's no need to set a trap just to eliminate the commandos, and there's no reason to let us in this deep. If they simply wanted to exterminate humanity, the Queen could have just stayed in hiding and focused on capturing the fortress. Why resort to all this nonsense?"

His words were thought-provoking. He was right. The queen really didn't need to stay so close to the front line. She only needed to hide, and humans would have no choice but to die in frustration.

"You mean, it still wants fire?" the commander-in-chief asked tentatively.

"Of course, and did you notice the details? Those swarms of insects all came from the periphery to provide support, which means that the Queen did not expect the commandos to land directly in the core area." Yuki waved his hand, and the picture on the screen began to play in reverse.

After calming down and observing carefully, it was found that the swarms of insects were indeed rushing in from the outside to reinforce, and there was always a sense of panic.

"Theoretically, the defense forces only know that the Queen is in the city, so they should start from the periphery and search inward, which is essentially a blitz. They will create resistance, allowing the warship to charge inward, and then gather elite forces to launch a counterattack. This is the surest way to obtain the Spark."

It is equivalent to a replica of the last sneak attack, because humans are not fools. There is really no other way. Of course, they have to destroy the "fire" so that no one can get it.

From the commander-in-chief to the lowest-level staff officers, everyone put themselves in the Queen's shoes and stood on her side of the equation. This was indeed the safest tactic.

"But you've seen the Queen. Wouldn't she take advantage of her own trick?"

"I did see it, but it didn't know who I was." Yuki answered firmly. Since the Blood Demon had chosen to play it badly, this matter would not be exposed. "This is not a fantasy. I have other intelligence to prove it."

Some images were played out separately, showing nearly a hundred bat dragons divided into ten teams, flying towards the sky in a spiral. Now that they had calmed down, the staff immediately found that this behavior was abnormal.

"Are they searching for the Hope?"

"Well, no matter how fierce the fighting is down there, the Zerg's real goal is still to find this ship." The commander-in-chief also thought of this, but still shook his head: "This won't solve any problems. At most, the Zerg won't destroy the commandos immediately, but will try to lure us out."

This was an open conspiracy. Unless they ran away like cowards, they would eventually show up. But the commander-in-chief also agreed to wait. At least he understood that the commandos would not be so easily wiped out.

"If they are really finished, I will destroy the fire immediately!" The commander-in-chief made up his mind and was willing to drag everyone to be buried with him.

Yuki remained silent, he was thinking further and deeper, in order to lure out the Hope, the commandos had to stay, but was this idea active or passive?

He looked at the light spots on the map. Even if he was caught in an illusion, the coordinates sent back by his senior sister were already much deeper than the land of bones. It was not difficult to kill them. He only needed to entangle some of the insects and then cover them with anti-starworm fire.

"Play the last image sent back by the commandos." Yuki shouted suddenly. A staff officer took the order and quickly called up the image.

Yuki was too flustered just now and didn't have time to observe carefully. Now that he calmed down, he scanned every detail.

Caves inlaid with emerald stones, large holes blasted open by railguns, stalactite-like insect eggs, piles of white bones on the ground, and rock walls covered with blood vessels.

This doesn't look like a dug hole, but more like the body of a giant creature?

The detector found the Queen's energy response, but why can't it be seen visually and why is the pointer spinning wildly?

Interference, or...

Yuki's pupils shrank slightly, and he asked, "What on earth is a queen?"

This question made everyone ask, the queen's various characteristics are recorded in detail in the data. Johnny Silver snapped his fingers and retrieved dozens of papers from the database, as well as the top-secret information of the "Thunder Plan".

It was a shadow with long hair and strong psychic reaction. Its appearance was unknown, but it had killed a psychic warrior in seconds in front of the commander-in-chief, and there was even a video of it that lasted for several minutes.

A purple afterimage flashed by, and powerful soul energy burst out, knocking dozens of psychic warriors against the wall, and then killing them one by one like killing chickens.

When the commander-in-chief saw this video, he clenched his fists and his veins bulged. It was the first and only time he felt fear.

Monsters with strength above III are worthy of the title of BOSS.

Yuki watched from a bystander's perspective and saw the thick laser hit his body, but it went straight through him, and the restraining force field couldn't trap him for even a second.

Like a ghost, the battle took place hundreds of kilometers away, while the defense forces were still maintaining their stronghold outside the wall.

From the video, Yuki could see the wreckage of buildings and vehicles, and the ground was not covered with fungal mats, but the video was still dark, the umbrella cover blocked the view, and countless insects emerged from the darkness.

"Are you also raiding the hive?"

"No, it was an encounter. We ran into the Queen head-on. If she hadn't leaked the plan in advance, we would have succeeded." As an eyewitness, the commander-in-chief was full of murderous intent when he spoke about it.

"If it's an encounter, why does the battlefield look like this?"

The man opened his mouth, a look of reminiscence on his face. The Thunder Plan was different from the Fire Chaser Plan. At that time, the defense forces still had some advantages. They concentrated large-scale mechanized forces and launched integrated air-ground attacks to fight back to the newly fallen capital, which is now the Green Star City.

The Zerg were killed and corpses were everywhere. There was a huge amount of jade in the Green Star City, which was a strategic resource that the Zerg could not give up at all, so the queen had to come to support.

Afterwards, a thousand psychic warriors cooperated with a dozen players to intercept the insects halfway, killing several of them. The human side also suffered heavy losses. The last warriors, led by the former commander-in-chief, faced the queen directly.

"I remember that at first, we didn't have any cover on the battlefield. We followed the energy reaction and kept moving forward. I don't know when we rushed into the mushroom umbrella. Then he backstabbed the commander-in-chief, forcing us to retreat in a hurry."

"Is the mushroom cap the same as it is now?"

"Almost. It can also block communications, but the Hope's long-range fire support didn't play a big role that time."

The Thunderbolt Plan was a one-time deal, so severing communications wouldn't make much sense. Yuuki watched the footage for a few minutes and suddenly had a bold guess:

Perhaps, the mushroom cap is not used to create a geographical advantage, but to cover something.

The queen is like a ghost, neither to be killed nor trapped, which is abnormal in itself. The Thunder Plan also fails to see what is in the depths of darkness, and the insects try their best to stop them, preventing them from advancing.

According to common sense, there is no need to fight so hard. If you want to destroy all human beings, you should lead them into the depths of darkness. The deeper you attack, the more difficult it will be to retreat.

"Unless, they don't dare to let you go any deeper and would rather let you retreat."

"What do you mean?" Johnny Silverhand seemed to have grasped some key words.

"What is the Zerg hiding? Using conventional methods, let alone entering such a core coordinate, we can't even get into that red wall." Yuki drew a circle on the map. The second ring of Cuixing City is huge, covering an area of ​​nearly 60 square kilometers.

"If it's the Hidden Queen, it's the size of a normal human. There's no need for such a large area of ​​cap to cover it. And the speed in the video is so fast, there's no need to hide at all."

The Queen's sprint can exceed the speed of sound, and she cannot be hit by lasers or trapped by force fields. Even if she is surrounded by a large number of troops, she can easily break through.

"From a biological perspective, since the Queen used split souls to create the insect swarm, it shouldn't be just human-sized. In the last scene, aren't there insect eggs in the tunnel?"

"Also, do you remember the information the detector gave us? The needle was spinning wildly, but it did capture a strong energy response."

Yuki almost had the answer on his lips. From the commander-in-chief to Johnny Silverhand, from Ms. Smile to Captain Chris, a crazy hypothesis was brewing.

Perhaps what Thunder Plan saw was not the real queen. As the mother of the Zerg, it is impossible for her to lay eggs in the void to give birth.

"Commander-in-Chief, all the insect swarms are coming towards us!"

Just at this moment, a report that was like a bolt from the blue came. Everyone turned their heads and saw that the red light spot on the giant map began to retreat.

The swarm retreated in all directions, abandoning the victory that was within their grasp. Johnny Silverhand only took two seconds to calculate, and red lines were marked on the map.

Like thousands of arrows piercing one's heart, hundreds of thousands of insects are heading towards Cuixing City. Once they arrive, it will be a sea of ​​insects with no end in sight.

"Tell Mota to activate the 'burning plan'. Even if all the people are killed, you must catch them!" The commander-in-chief gave the order without thinking, his voice full of pain.

The defending army could not even hold the fortress, and leaving the fortifications to counterattack would be tantamount to suicide, and suicide would not delay the attack for long.

His expression changed rapidly, as if his heart was burning with fire. Thousands of soldiers were lining up to sacrifice, and he was just watching. As a soldier, it was an extremely humiliating feeling.

As the commander-in-chief, he also understood that once the Zerg swarm retreated, they would not even have a chance to fight.

"Silver Hand, how many more minutes will the detector take?"

"Ten minutes. I can't be discovered by those bat dragons, and then I can establish a quantum communication circuit." Johnny Silverhand replied. This is his chaos prop, which completely bypasses the human technology tree.

Not to mention how precious it is, the key point is that there is only one of it. If it is destroyed too quickly, there will be no way to save it.

Ten minutes or so is enough for some of the insects to come back.

The commander-in-chief gritted his teeth and shouted sternly: "Follow my orders, Hope..."

Before he could finish his words, Yuuki was already blocking the way, his voice as decisive as a hammer.

"Hope, don't move."

Chapter 5: Hold Hope in Your Own Hands (K)

The gambling game is coming to an end, and now is the time to test patience. Yuki is unwilling to play these last few cards in a fit of passion.

The last ray of hope must be held in your own hands.

He was betting that his two guesses were correct. If he couldn't help but play the Hope card now, the Zerg that wanted to seize the Spark would put all its hidden combat power into it, and this powerful battleship would not be able to hold out for long.

He was betting that the commandos had already found the queen and were currently fighting within her. This way, the Zerg wouldn't be able to use their firepower to cover their wounds, and it wouldn't be that easy to consume the elite commandos like Levi and the others with mere hand-to-hand combat.

He wants to bet on who is more important, the Spark or the Queen. Since the Hope hasn't appeared yet, is the Queen going to die with her reserve troops?

Then the troops will be divided. As long as this battleship does not fall quickly, it can form a horn with the commandos on the ground, like two iron pliers, strangling the queen.

As for the main force of the Zerg that was fleeing back? Yuki pinned his hopes on those mortals. If that didn't work, he still had one last card to play.

The huge red dot was getting closer and closer, and the tense atmosphere in the bridge made the air freeze. Everyone was looking at the commander-in-chief and Yuki, hoping that the two people in the stalemate could come up with a solution, but they just stared at each other and no one spoke.

Their eyes were equally determined, with no doubt about each other's positions. They were all aiming for victory, but one wrong step would lead to a bottomless abyss.

Yuki had no intention of backing down. He trusted his own judgment and had been practicing a principle since joining the Samsara Game:

Destiny can only be firmly held in your own hands.

Just when the stalemate reached a point and the Smiling Lady was quietly grasping her sword, Johnny Silverhand suddenly stood between the two of them.

"The detector penetrated the mushroom cap and identified the signal. I have already sent it to the map via the data link."

The two turned around at the same time and saw dense blue light spots. The defense army's communication system was still severely interfered with, but the "Mechanical Believer"'s system had been connected.

With Johnny Silverhand as the bridge, this information was fed back onto the electronic map.

The commander-in-chief held his breath and looked at Yuki in horror.

It was almost the same as what he said.

The blue light spots gathered into two groups, one blocking the entrance to the cave and the other going deep into the tunnel. Judging from the number, the number of casualties was less than 8%.

The troops blocking the cave entrance were led by General Reingold, while the rest were led by the captain, and they were constantly drilling in.

"As I expected, the Zerg are really being cautious. Such casualties are normal in such a narrow terrain and hand-to-hand combat."

Yuki breathed a sigh of relief visibly. He was afraid that after the signal was connected, the commandos would have been killed, which would mean that his guess was completely wrong.

But the situation now is just the opposite. The psychic warriors are guarding the cave entrance in a dense formation. They will not be afraid to use all their weapons and will use all kinds of firepower to kill the insects that are swarming up one by one.

Levi did not disappoint him. After discovering that something was wrong, he immediately led the elite troops to counterattack, and then found that the insects in the cave were relatively weak.

They were like newborn babies, some of them had not even fully developed when they fell down to block the attack, and the thin membrane of flesh and blood on their bodies had not yet faded.

"You are right." The commander-in-chief readily admitted his mistake. He almost made a big mistake because he was too anxious.

There is no need to think about it. If the Hope is allowed to participate in the battle, it may really encounter the Zerg's hidden reserves, and then each will fight on its own.

"Don't rush to admit your mistake. I'm not sure whether the commandos are inside the Queen's body." Yuki was not at all complacent. He quickly glanced at the battlefield situation and made sure that the Zerg had not used its full strength.

This is a chain of tactics. The commandos are more like bait to lure out the Hope. They are very good at countering each move.

Fortunately, we had the senior students with us, so we took the initiative in the first step of the decisive battle and were able to hide in the dark like hunters.

Yuki smiled. Now the Zerg was the one that was dealing with the problem passively, and he had to endure the ruthless move of sending the main force back for reinforcements.

"Quantum communication with Rebecca has been established. Who of you will tell her?" Johnny Silvershou walked over silently, holding a thing like a recorder in his hand.

After the spiritual communicator was interfered with, these gadgets of the mechanical believers came in handy. The commander-in-chief took a glance at them and took a half step back.

This retreat was like handing over the command authority, leaving the defense forces looking at each other in bewilderment.

Yuki didn't have time for any humble excuses and took the recorder and put it to his lips.