I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

Chapter 510: Zerg Threat Reaches Peak

It's not that Su Mo deliberately concealed her whereabouts. It's just that her current location is too far away from Blue Star. She can't interfere with what happens on Blue Star. She can only provide some resources to help Xia Country resist the Zerg.

Fang Wanfu returned empty-handed.

He felt very complicated on the way back to the headquarters from the old campus.

The Psychic Academy had never been able to produce so many beast-repelling woods before. How could they suddenly appear out of nowhere? Fang Wanfu had also been to the moon to investigate the secret realm of the moon, right? Not only had he visited the secret realm under the name of the association, he had also visited the secret realm under the name of the Psychic Academy. There was no ocean secret realm at all.

The reasons Liu Moxi gave were totally untenable to him.

There is also a miscellaneous pile of rare minerals, all of which are urgently needed. Although the quantity of such resources provided by the academy this time is not large, the types are complete. How could such different types of rare minerals be collected from one or several secret realms in such a short time?

The association has scattered so many action team members in various secret realms. If these rare minerals were so easy to obtain, there would not be such an urgent shortage.

Fang Wanfu returned to the headquarters and gathered managers at all levels of the operations department to hold a deployment meeting. Jiang Qizhang did not return from the city until dawn the next day.

When the two met, they had a conversation.

Fang Wanfu told him about his efforts to gather information, and finally said with certainty, "Teacher Liu and the others must have contacted Xiao Su."

"What on earth is Xiao Su doing? Doesn't she know the situation on Blue Star? How can she, a Blue Star native, still stay out there when things are like this?"

According to Jiang Qi Zhang's idea, no matter what Su Mo was doing before and why she lost contact with them for so long, now that she has contacted the academy, she must know the situation on Blue Star. Now Blue Star is no longer simply invaded by aliens, but is about to be occupied by aliens. It is a pity for her, who is so strong, not to come back to support them.

Fang Wanfu understood what Jiang Qi Zhang meant, but he shook his head at this time.

"Xiao Su is not that kind of person. I thought about it carefully after I came back. If she has already come back, there is really no need to hide it."

"I think it should be Mr. Liu and the others who have contacted Xiao Su. The resources sent by the academy should also be provided by Xiao Su. Although I don't know how they did it, the things have returned, and Xiao Su himself is probably not here."

"She may not be completely out of the woods."

Fang Wanfu's words made Jiang Qi Zhang silent for a moment, and he did not refute.

They both knew that it was useless to continue talking about Su Mo's situation, so they tacitly ended the topic and turned to plan how the association should respond to the upcoming third insect plague.

After the third wave of insect plague broke out, the situation on Blue Star took a sharp turn for the worse.

In the early days, the Xia Kingdom could still rely on high walls and a large number of psychic weapons to deal with the harassing insect swarms, but as the days passed, the frequency of insect swarm attacks increased instead of decreased.

Although the Zerg swarm is large in scale, they do not have the ability to attack 50 major cities in Xia at the same time. As for who will be chosen, it is all random and the Zerg's attack targets are almost unpredictable.

Some big cities were attacked only every few days, but others were attacked again and again, as if they were targeted by the Zerg.

Other situations could still be controlled, but the big city that was frequently attacked was finally beginning to fall.

Although the insect swarm failed to destroy the entire city’s high walls in one fell swoop, as long as they were able to break a hole in the walls, they would be able to swarm in through the gap.

The Zerg swarm that entered the city caused enormous damage to the people inside, because there were few large cities and the population of each city was huge. After entering the city, the Zerg could easily kill into the areas where people lived and start massacres and destruction.

Also because of the large population in the big city, the Zerg have no intention of destroying the entire city in one go. After finding a suitable area and enjoying enough food, they will not stay for long.

As long as the garrison arrives in time, the Zerg will choose to retreat without even too much resistance.

But no one knew these rules in the early stages, and even after they knew them, no one was willing to bet on whether they would be the unlucky one after the Zerg entered the city.

Therefore, whenever a swarm of insects attacks a big city, the people in the city will look for a place to hide. Temporary underground shelters are built everywhere in the big city. These shelters are of course the first choice, but the number of people that the shelters can accommodate is relatively limited, and there are many reasons for who can enter and who cannot.

Even those people who were lucky enough to hide in the shelter had a hard time. In order to allow more people to enter the underground shelters, each shelter was crowded with people. It was not easy to sit down. But there was no other way at this time. They could only pray that the insect tide would be quickly resolved by the garrison troops.

After an insect swarm, the population loss in a big city can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands. The situation is highly random, and people are terrified as to whether they will be the next one.

Even if I wasn't chosen this time, I would still be worried. Who knows if it would be my turn next time?

Moreover, once a big city has been conquered once, it can easily be conquered a second time.

Among the 50 big cities, City No. 37, located in Jianjiang City, Yunnei Province, was completely destroyed by the impact of these waves of insect tides.

Over the course of three months, only a limited number of people were able to find ways to escape to other cities. The rest were either eaten by the Zerg or driven to some places and raised by the Zerg as backup food.

There are many reasons why a big city would be breached. In short, the current Big City No. 37 has been occupied by the Zerg.

The death of City No. 37 also served as a warning to other cities.

Afterwards, the defenses of every major city were pushed outward, and various defense zones were strengthened and built ten or twenty kilometers away.

When the insect swarm hit, they at least made sure they could hold on until support arrived. No one wanted to follow in the footsteps of City No. 37.

The third insect plague was a period of fear and suffering for all the Xia people.

This kind of days has lasted for four months.

At this point, the Zerg have already penetrated into various regions of the Blue Star Continent. As the area of ​​Zerg activities expands, the number of mother nests is also increasing.

Those secret passages on the continent that were not protected or had lost their original protection were occupied one by one by powerful mother nests.

Those weaker mother nests that could not grab the secret passages did not become discouraged. They also found places with inferior conditions to take root and reproduce.

Take the Xia Kingdom for example. The number of mother nests in the country increased from four in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest during the first insect plague to hundreds in the three coastal provinces and the Yangtze River basin during the second insect plague. Now, during the third insect plague, the number of mother nests distributed across the country has exceeded a thousand.

These mother nests continued to reproduce, adding fuel to the insect swarms that attacked the major cities, allowing wave after wave of insect swarms that had been cleared out by the Xia State to revive again and gather troops to restore the scale of the insect swarms.