Chapter 1339: Huge Dragon Zerg Fleet
Zhao Chen could sense the undisguised emotions of the Insect Princess.
She knew that she was indeed very anxious about Zhao Chen's whereabouts being unknown for the past six months.
He had heard Lilith say that the Insect Queen had traveled to that region of the universe, which had become a two-dimensional space, countless times, trying every possible way to search for Zhao Chen's whereabouts, and had even sacrificed many Insect Nest Motherships in the process.
To prevent this, Lilith provided several rounds of psychological counseling to the Insect Princess, thus preventing her from engaging in any excessive behavior.
Fortunately, Zhao Chen returned in time.
If Zhao Chen doesn't return in time.
Lilith admitted that the Insect Princess would eventually do something crazy.
Although she is now rational and can communicate, her genes are still those of the Zerg.
"I've come to see you today because I need to trouble you and your Zerg fleet with something," Zhao Chen said directly.
"What is it?" The Insect Princess remained hanging on Zhao Chen's head, showing no intention of coming down.
"We just detected an extraterrestrial force attempting to enter our universe."
This spatial anomaly was detected at five locations.
Our current military fleet strength in the Dragon Empire is only sufficient to deploy at four of these locations.
"So I hope your Zerg fleet can take charge of one of them." Zhao Chen said this idea, which was also the suggestion he had given Charlotte before.
Although the Xiaolong Zerg fleet is now under the jurisdiction of the Xiaolong Empire.
However, this special force can only be mobilized by the emperor.
Even Charlotte had to discuss with the Insect Princess before she could assign tasks to this Falcon Dragon Zerg fleet.
"Is it order?" Insect Princess's eyes immediately lit up.
"It's highly likely that it's about order."
The Insect Princess immediately raised her right hand and gave a military salute: "The Wyvern Insect Clan Fleet accepts the mission."
However, she was currently hanging upside down on Zhao Chen's head, and the salute was also upside down, making it look somewhat comical.
"How large is the size of your current Dragonflight fleet?" Zhao Chen asked.
Given the Zerg's reproduction rate, after six months of rest and recuperation, they must have already grown to a terrifying scale.
According to Lilith.
Previously, Insect Princess had applied multiple times for more star system habitats to be granted.
Fortunately, Zhao Chen had considered this point beforehand and arranged for the Insect Queen's Dragon Clan to have a habitat in a vast, desolate star field, surrounded by many star systems that were resource-poor and sparsely populated.
The few remaining inhabitants of a planet that are considered backward are naturally willing to migrate to a more habitable planet with a better environment, provided they are given sufficient relocation benefits.
Of course, some of the native inhabitants were unwilling, but they were willing to accept the arrival of the Zerg on their planet.
They all agreed under duress and inducement.
After all, this group only numbers in the millions. Considering the bigger picture, it's unavoidable to sacrifice their feelings for their hometown a little.
Currently, the Xiaolong insectoid star system has gradually expanded to a Xiaolong insectoid star field.
This is sufficient for the survival and development of the Owl Dragon Zerg within this range.
The Insect Princess poked her lip with her finger, a thoughtful expression on her face, and said, "If you include the lowest-level Zerg units, it's measured in 'trillions,' so it's hard to say."
"Just say military combat unit."
"T3 level and above," Zhao Chen said.
There are currently tens of trillions of Zerg units on a single Zerg planet; when all of them are calculated, it is indeed an astronomical number.
Individuals vary in size, so there's no need to worry too much about these things.
"Let's start from the highest to the lowest."
Currently, our Xiaolong Zerg race has three thousand T6 Taotie-class Zerg motherships.
As if showing off her achievements, the Insect Princess said, "In addition, based on the advantages of multiple unit types on the battlefield, I have also genetically modified the Taotie-class insect hive mothership."
Different T6 Gluttonous-class Zerg Hive Motherships were developed to meet the different battlefield requirements.
For example, the largest of these is the T6 Leviathan-class Zerg hive mothership.
The T6 Predator-class Gluttonous Hive Mothership is small in size but extremely fast.
There is also the T6 heavy artillery-type Taotie-class insect hive mothership, which excels at medium and long range and uses dark matter bio-plasma cannons.
The T6 Guardian-type Gluttonous-class insect hive mothership excels at defending against enemy attacks.
And the T6 Infected Type Gluttonous-class Hive Mothership, which is specially equipped with T5 biological infectors, etc.
"So amazing?" Zhao Chen looked at the Insect Princess with surprise, offering his encouragement without reservation.
The tails on the back of the Insect Princess swayed like tiny fans.
"This is all thanks to the blood plasma my brother left me, which increased the variability and plasticity of the Zerg genes," the Insect Princess said happily.
Zhao Chen recalled that he had discovered his blood seemed to have a magical effect on the Zerg.
This left a large amount of blood plasma for the Insect Princess.
"Are those enough? How effective are they?" Zhao Chen asked.
Insect Princess said, "The effect gradually weakens with each consumption."
Knowing that my brother's whereabouts were unknown, I used my money sparingly.
So there's still some left.
"I'll prepare some more for you after that," Zhao Chen said, scratching the Insect Princess's cheek.
Mushihime quite likes this pose.
This is very similar to Charlotte.
The Insect Princess continued, "Apart from the T6 Gluttonous-class Insect Nest Mothership."
There are also 200,000 T5 Leviathan Monarch-class Zerg motherships, as well as a certain number of T5 Leviathan Shaman-class Zerg motherships, T5 Starlight Glowbugs, and T5 Dimensional Ghost Bugs.
I've also trained some Zerg units capable of stealthy reconnaissance missions.
The Insect Queen was very excited when she talked about the Zerg units she had trained.
It seems she really enjoys training these new Zerg units.
"One hundred million T4 Leviathan-class Zerg motherships."
"How many?"
"One hundred million ships."
Zhao Chen looked at the innocent-looking Insect Princess with great surprise.
"In addition, the number of T3 Zergling motherships is around 10 billion."
"There are so many T2 and T1 that it's impossible to count them all," Mushihime added.
What is meant by a "sea of insects"?
This is what you call a true sea of insects!
One hundred billion T3 Zergling Motherships.
Back then, when Zhao Chen faced a massive Zerg crisis, his maximum number of Zerg motherships was only a few billion.
That also includes a large number of T2 and T1 Zergling Motherships.
As a result, the number of T3 Zerg motherships alone in the self-raised Xiaolong Zerg fleet has reached an astonishing ten billion.
Two hundred thousand T5 Zergling Motherships.
One hundred million T4 Zergling Motherships.
A T3 Zergling Mothership worth 10 billion.
This is a truly terrifying force.
It's important to know that the Dragon Empire currently only has 200,000 T5-class interstellar warships and just over 2 million T4-class interstellar warships.
Although, in terms of individual combat power, the JF-17 starships are far superior to these Zerg motherships.
However, in a large-scale battlefield, these Wyvern Zerg fleets can not only employ swarm tactics, but now also multi-unit coordinated tactics, making them extremely troublesome on the battlefield.
Who will win and who will lose is really uncertain.
It must be said that the Zerg truly live up to their reputation as a race for interstellar warfare; given enough time to develop, they can grow at an exponential rate.
Of course, Zhao Chen's blood plasma also played a significant role in this.
"So many Zerg motherships."
"Will there be any problems with the food supply?" Zhao Chen asked with some concern.
The fear people have always had of the Zerg stems from their insane hunting instincts.
Insect Princess said frankly, "Brother, you don't need to worry about this."
After genetic modification.
Our individual Xiaolong insectoids require at least a hundred times less food than their original genes.
It can also control appetite, preventing it from triggering excessive aggression.
Although this has an impact on combat power, it is far less than the combat power boosted by genetic modification.
In addition, these Zerg motherships have all been given the ability to hibernate.
During non-combat periods, they can enter a low-energy hibernation state, requiring only one ten-thousandth of the food they need when not in hibernation.
That's why I was able to cultivate such a massive Zerg fleet.
It's perfect!
This is absolutely perfect.
When not in use, the maintenance cost is extremely low; when needed, it can be activated for combat.
It's practically the pinnacle of talent for a war-loving race, greatly raising the ceiling for the Owl Dragon Zerg in terms of combat attributes.
No longer limited by food, they can pursue a greater number of Zerg motherships.
"Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to develop a T7-level Zergling Mothership," the Zergling said with some disappointment.
Take your time.
T7 technology level is a hurdle for many interstellar races.
"Even our Dragon Empire hasn't broken through to T7 technology yet." Zhao Chen could tell that the Insect Queen was so eager to cultivate a T7 insect hive mothership in order to deal with Order.
Order belongs to the T7 technological civilization.
To defeat the established order, one must first become a T7 technological civilization.
In fact, this is also a hurdle for Zhao Chen right now.
I lost the system.
Furthermore, the civilization of the original creators of the system had not yet broken through to the T7 technological civilization.
Although that might have happened many years ago.
But since order still exists, it means that those cosmic civilizations have not yet broken through to T7 technological civilization.
However, Zhao Chen already had his own research and development direction for the T7 technological civilization in mind.
All that's left is to wait for the next round of research and testing.
This made Zhao Chen think of Zhao Chengcheng, who was like a'sibling' to him.
She received all the knowledge training from the system, and it was all in her 'past' at this point in time.
I wonder what the current technological level of her civilization is.
However, since order is still maintained, it must not be proceeding very smoothly.
Although Zhao Chen's existence, under the arrangement of the system's behind-the-scenes manipulators, became a stepping stone for others.
But Zhao Chen didn't care much, because Zhao Chengcheng wasn't an enemy.
And we all share a common enemy: order!
If it can overthrow the established order, being an accomplice is not out of the question.
Next, the Insect Queen began preparing to deploy the Wyvern Insectoid fleet to the designated battlefield to meet what might be a force from Order.
Zhao Chen saw the dormant Zerg motherships.
Their bodies were shriveled, hundreds of times smaller than their normal size.
It is floating in a certain asteroid belt.
Once awakened, they expand like inflated balloons and begin to reproduce, producing eggs or spores to replenish their Zerg units.
Of course, other Zerg units will also enter the Zerg mothership at this time, accelerating this process.
It takes some time to awaken a Zerg mothership.
Fortunately, the Insect Queen herself had arranged for a fleet of Owl Dragon Zerg that was always on standby.
Although the scale and quantity are only 300 million.
However, it is more than capable of handling this war.
"Then, brother, I'm off." Insect Princess waved goodbye to Zhao Chen reluctantly.
Zhao Chen waved back.
Then, the Insect Princess entered the 'emergency escape hatch' on the side of the bridge and was thrown out like an escape pod.
Then we saw the Insect Princess unfold her brown insect-bone wings in the outer space environment.
Immediately afterwards, a huge insect dragon flew by, and the Insect Princess leaped onto its head and flew towards the enormous T6 Leviathan-class Gluttonous Insect Hive Mothership in the distance.
The whole process was incredibly cool.
The Insect Princess's body structure and strength are sufficient for her to move freely in outer space, and she can even fly, although her speed is not as fast as that of such large insectoid creatures.
Even though Zhao Chen's body has been modified by a super soldier, it can only survive in outer space for a limited time and will still be affected.
This is the ceiling for an individual.
That's the limit of human genetics.
Unless he accepts physical modifications, but Zhao Chen is disgusted by that kind of thing. Can a person who has been modified like that still be considered human?
Furthermore, the advantage of humans lies not in their bodies, but in their brains.
Zhao Chen had noticed this long ago.
The Super Soldier Potion appears to turn the user into a super soldier.
But in reality, it also involves the development of the brain.
You have to understand, this was during the planetary era.
Humans have only developed about 10% of their brain capacity.
Later, in the interstellar era, humans had developed up to 20% of their brain capacity.
Subsequently, the level of development of this type gradually increased.
However, in the civilization where the system designed by Zhao Chen was located, it had only developed to 50% of its potential.
Just thinking about how 50% of the brain could be used to develop time-traveling technology makes one realize how terrifyingly powerful it is.
Let's get back to the main topic.
Therefore, Zhao Chen has always firmly believed that the direction of human development is not the body, but the brain.
Through the development of the brain, we can research and create more powerful technologies.
That is the true direction for development.
After all, the human body is arguably the worst among most interstellar races.
Too weak.
With such a short lifespan, they require external equipment to enter the space environment.
However, these are things that Zhao Chen will need to study later.
The most important thing right now is to deal with this first war that Zhao Chen will face upon returning to this universe.
"Your Majesty, where do we go next?" Lilith asked from the side.
Zhao Chen thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the battlefield in the Holy Radiance Kingdom."
It's close to densely populated areas, so my presence there can help reassure the people.
"yes."
Subsequently, the T6 Dragon Emperor interplanetary command ship and the Imperial Guard fleet headed to the Holy Kingdom of Radiant Light.
The Dragon Empire, six months later.
Another test has arrived!