Chapter 328: The Bug that Doesn’t Play by the Rules

New calendar year 10.

The New Federation has successively completed the first phase of colony construction in the three star systems selected in its first external expansion.

These three directions are the three directions where the new federal government believes that insect swarms are most likely to appear, so more than 90% of the projects in the first phase of the three colonies are related to local defense.

The initial completion of the defense systems of these three galaxies means that mankind has pushed the defense line out of the Nirvana galaxy and completely eliminated the threat of the insect swarm to the Nirvana galaxy.

At this time, the New Federation's stargate voyage has advanced to three thousand light-years away.

In fact, without the help of long-range projection from the battle stars, the construction of the Stargate route was not as slow as imagined.

Qi Yiming sent a total of three fleets to lay the star gate. The three fleets worked alternately, always keeping the construction speed at a thousand light-years forward every year.

Now, the defense problem of the Nirvana Galaxy has been initially solved, and Qi Yiming can safely leave the Nirvana Galaxy with the Battle Star.

With the help of the battle stars, the three engineering fleets were able to speed up the construction of the stargate route again.

However, what puzzles Qi Yiming is that even if the insect swarm army suffered heavy losses during the battle with the insect swarm encirclement and suppression army in the Nirvana system, under normal circumstances, the harassment of small groups of insect swarm troops should be indispensable.

However, it was more than forty years ago that the construction plan of the new federation was successfully implemented. Let alone a small swarm of insects, Qi Yiming had not even seen a single insect hair.

This is very intriguing.

Looking at the initial momentum of the insect swarm that seemed to eat humans all at once, how could the insect swarm master watch humans calmly regain their strength.

But this is the fact. Even when Qi Yiming commanded the battle star to help the engineering fleet lay the stargate route and turned the detection power on the battle star to the maximum, no trace of insect swarm activity was found.

Qi Yiming's state once made Zhang Lei, who was traveling with him, depressed.

"You said...do you have masochistic tendencies?" Zhang Lei joked during a chat with Qi Yiming: "Although you won't cry and complain when the bugs come, your face is not much better either. Go. It’s okay now. Even if the bugs don’t come, you still have a straight face, and you still feel like others owe you something.”

Qi Yiming smiled awkwardly: "It's not that I'm unfounded, the main reason is that the current situation is too weird."

"Weird? Why didn't I see what was weird?" Zhang Lei raised her hand and touched the data interface behind her head and complained softly: "This thing is really hard to get used to."

"The bugs can chase us to the Nirvana galaxy and gather heavy troops there to encircle and suppress us. It is obvious that they want to wipe out mankind in one fell swoop. If it weren't for the battle stars, we would have become nourishment for the bugs."

"Perhaps the insects are scared. You also saw how strong the battle star was against the insect swarm at that time."

Qi Yiming shook his head: "I always feel that the bug is brewing a big conspiracy."

After all, with the long-range projection support of the battle stars, the three engineering fleets moved forward rapidly at the speed of completing a pair of star gates every half a month.

And the human sphere of influence has gradually expanded outward along with the Stargate route.

In the 33rd year of the New Calendar, the total population of the New Federation has reached an astonishing 43.1 billion.

But compared to humanity's current territory spanning 13 million light-years, the population is still sparse.

Fortunately, the construction of a large number of automated production lines has liberated most of the labor force from heavy work.

More people have invested in the military and scientific research fields.

The New Federation's fleet also expanded from the original seven to more than twenty in a short period of time.

The total number of warships is close to 10 million, and the total number of special fleet warships in Qi Yiming's hands has increased from 300,000 to 430,000.

In short, the human condition is developing in a direction that makes Qi Yiming ecstatic.

At 10:23 on September 9, 33 New Calendar, the Third Engineering Fleet suddenly lost contact with the battle star while assembling the 1802nd pair of star gates.

The escort fleet accompanying them also lost contact. When the news was transmitted back to the Nirvana Galaxy, the entire human society suddenly became nervous.

The originally noisy nightlife suddenly fell silent.

Qi Yiming immediately raised the combat readiness level of the new federation as soon as he learned the news. All military personnel canceled their vacations and returned to their respective posts within three days.

At the same time, heavy troops were deployed near the stargate route to prevent the insect swarms from destroying the transportation lines.

In several colonial systems located on the borders of the New Federation, except for military personnel, all civilians began an orderly evacuation under the organization of the New Federation.

A full fleet was quickly deployed to the border system along the stargate route.

As soon as these fleets arrived at their target location, they deployed their jump blocking positions along the stargate route.

But strangely, when the New Federation completed all defensive deployments, the battle stars commanded by Qi Yiming were attacked by a large number of insect swarms.

Although the insect swarm that besieged the battle star did not change much compared to the previous insect swarm, this attack was much crazier than before.

As Qi Yiming, who has rich experience in fighting against insect swarms, he shuddered when he saw the aura of death-defying behavior displayed by the insect swarms besieging the battle star.

It's not that the insect swarms that attacked humans before were cowardly. Individual insects have no emotions. They don't know what death is at all. They just instinctively attack humans based on the tendency of the mother insect.

Zerg individuals have no emotions, but queens do. When they attack humans, they will subconsciously preserve their strength. The reason is simple. The position of queens in the Zerg swarm is determined by the strength they have.

And what determines the strength of queens is their Leviathans, so in previous battles, the seemingly large number of Leviathan warships in the Zerg swarm did not rush to the front.

But this time the situation is different. It can be said that the Zerg swarmed in.

Whether it is the Zerg's cannon fodder troops or elite troops, or Leviathan warships, they will launch an attack on the War Star without reservation as soon as they find the War Star.

This forced Qi Yiming to let the War Star launch a high-frequency particle shock wave stand and continue to suppress the Zerg at the DNA level.

Until the New Federation's 6th and 9th fleets supporting the War Star rushed to the battlefield along the stargate route to assist the War Star in stabilizing the defense line, Qi Yiming even thought that the War Star would fall in this battle.

When the support fleet arrived at the battlefield, the Zerg troops that entered the stand were quickly cleared by the human fleet.

Then the two fleets formed a new line of defense at a distance of 0.2 light seconds from the boundary of the position, waiting for the insects to come up and die.

But what surprised Qi Yiming was that the insect swarm that had just attacked the war star like crazy suddenly withdrew from the battlefield like a tide.

The commander of the fleet that came to support was also stunned.

Most of the commanders of the 6th and 9th fleets had participated in the Nirvana Galaxy Defense War, and they knew that the insect swarm would not retreat so easily.

After a brief loss of consciousness, the two fleets formed two lines of defense around the war star, and the Guardian's newly formed engineering fleet continued to carry out the task of laying the stargate route.