Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1201: Chapter 650_2

Currently, the battle situation has become relatively stable.

Although the number of infected is estimated to be at least three hundred million, the liberated survivors have also armed themselves into an army of tens of millions. The infected individuals do not possess strength either in equipment or mutation intensity. Mere numbers don’t hold much significance; their fate is inevitably to be slaughtered entirely by the Alliance Army and the Protection Army together.

There are still more than two hundred million survivors, and besides recruiting a large army, the remaining people have started to restart various energy factories, gradually reconstructing, and producing anew on the planet.

As long as things progress according to this momentum, the threat will diminish, and Planet Kirtr IV will eventually return to peace.

Sidorov has personally experienced all of this over the past two years.

He is filled with a sense of pride about it.

Since his change of perspective due to training at the Alliance Military and Political Department, he feels he’s now adhering to his ideals. This brings him satisfaction and more of a conviction and devotion to all of it.

But since this morning, he has been feeling uneasy, as if something particularly significant is about to happen.

He’s somewhat paranoid.

He and his troops are currently executing a mission to enter an occupied industrial area and clear out all local infected.

Such missions have been carried out many times in the past two years. There are risks and difficulties, often dealing with enemies numbering many times higher than their own… However, in terms of equipment and training level, they are untouchable by the infected. They always manage to accomplish the few against the many.

It’s not even a victory worthy of boasting.

Could there be an accident this time?

Is there an error in the intelligence? Are there more than ’no more than one hundred fifty thousand’ enemies mentioned in the data? Or are there numerous high-level infected among them? Or do they possess equipment levels beyond the norm?

Beating the drum internally, naturally, requires caution when executing the mission.

He slows the advancement of the troops and actively deploys several reconnaissance companies, either by scout vehicle or covert foot patrol, spreading out far to ensure there are no ambushes along the way; simultaneously, to scout the target area’s status and continuously report back. Once a formidable enemy unexpectedly appears, they must prepare in advance.

However, nothing happens.

The quietness is a little frightening.

On the route of the main troop’s advance, not even scattered infected can be seen.

Reports constantly coming back from the reconnaissance companies also state that they see nothing.

Incredibly unusual.

Logically speaking, in a gathering area of around one hundred fifty thousand infected, there should definitely be scattered infected encountered halfway to the proximity, it shouldn’t be so quietly continuous.

What’s the problem?

He further slows the troops down and even requests two infantry regiments to establish a line of defense in place, ensuring stability at the rear.

And at this moment, the frontline reconnaissance company reports an intelligence that makes Sidorov’s hair stand on end.

The scouts say they finally saw the enemies at the target factory area.

Their numbers are surprisingly many, yet surprisingly few.

The so-called few refers to the surrounding sentry-role infected, only numbering around ten to twenty thousand.

The scouts managed to bypass them and saw at least two hundred thousand infected gathered together. They were densely packed, orderly jumping into one after another temporary ’pond’ constructed.

These ponds have murky colors, with thick green and red liquids mixed together. Those who jumped in bobbed for a while before silently being dissolved and disappeared. The dissolved biological fluid was transported through wriggling pipes to an undetermined area. That direction is toward a Nest Capital District with the highest, most concentrated number of infected on Planet Kirtr IV.

What are these infected doing?

Sidorov is not inexperienced, as a Mechanical Priest, he possesses considerable knowledge. In the era of the Alfonso sect, the knowledge most popular throughout the sect was related to the Void Insect Species.

He was not very interested in it, but he had nonetheless absorbed quite a bit.

The phenomenon now is clear: the infected are responding to a genetic call, actively being digested. Those thick liquids like that should be what’s referred to as biomass.

Biomass is being concentrated, centralized to the core area of the central Nest Capital.

As for what these infected intend to do with such large amounts of biomass?

Sidorov truly cannot figure out the answer.

What use is biomass? As far as he knows, the infected cannot directly utilize biomass, they can only transform themselves into biomass. Only those with the ability to hatch from the Insect Race can utilize biomass to construct biological weapons.

Yet, in fighting on Planet Kirtr IV for two years, Sidorov has not seen legitimate Void Insect Species. According to the intelligence, this planet shouldn’t have Void Insect Species.

In this situation, what are the infected transforming into biomass for?

While reporting the scouted intelligence to higher authorities, he pondered briefly and made a decision.

Whatever the enemy intends to do, they’ll just have to be stopped.

Biomass is easier to deal with than infected. No matter how weak the latter are, it takes a bullet, and the opponent might have some broken guns in hand; there’s always a chance our side suffers some casualties. As for biomass? It’s just an amorphous liquid organism, burning it with fire at high temperatures will deactivate large areas.

While the enemy is densely gathered, with fewer guard forces, bomb them, cut off the biomass transmission channels.

The artillery deploys, launching fierce bombardment on the factory area. Artillery regiment, artillery companies of different battalions are all mobilized, over a thousand various caliber cannons opening fire crazily toward the factory area.

Those massive structures made of steel and concrete are very solid, but under intensive shelling, there will naturally be some damages and collapses.

Once a structure collapses, a digestion pool is destroyed.

Simultaneously, infantry riding armored vehicles make rapid advances, under the cover of the artillery fire, aim to eliminate the guards and ultimately blow up those structures one by one, or enter the buildings to kill all the defenseless, awaiting digestion infected inside, and then destroy the digestion pool.

Furthermore, the first-arriving reconnaissance company proposes to take action as well.

In the heat of battle, when it becomes intense, these hidden scouts cut the buried pipelines transmitting biomass to the distant central Nest Capital.

The entire battle proceeds rather smoothly. Not particularly challenging, they eliminate the enemy group.

However, Sidorov does not rejoice.

Instead, he feels a bit anxious.

New orders from superiors soon arrive.

His troops are canceled from the originally planned break time after the mission ends; the superiors demand they immediately continue onwards with the target still being a digestion pool.

Over the next seventy-two hours, Sidorov’s 301 Mechanics Division hardly had any breaks. Various battalions, companies, at most had only a few hours of rotation, while several logistics camps were overwhelmed, constantly transporting ammunition, battlefield food supplies to support combat on the front lines.

By now, they have taken down many digestion pools, large and small of various categories.

Moreover, they met some other friendly forces along the way, realizing they’re engaging in similar operations.

The battle is easy, but urgent, tiring, some unnecessary casualties occurred within the troops. Some command officers expressed dissatisfaction, not understanding why this is necessary, suggesting the troops should rest.

Yet, on one hand, the orders from the superiors are incredibly urgent, on the other, Sidorov himself also

The battle is easy, but urgent, tiring, some unnecessary casualties occurred within the troops. Some command officers expressed dissatisfaction, not understanding why this is necessary, suggesting the troops should rest.

Yet, on one hand, the orders from the superiors are incredibly urgent, on the other, Sidorov himself also