“My Queen, the fleet has already dispersed. We currently have 18 small leviathans, 100 Floating Escorts, 320 Floating Transport Ships, and 10 medium transport ships. Additionally, another 100 Floating Escorts and 40 medium transport ships are on their way, expected to arrive in one day.”
The information from Brain Bug No. 1 was transmitted into Xia Jin's mind.
“Another day, then. I’ll use this opportunity to make the final preparations.”
The Swarm's invasion would be divided into two main phases.
The first phase would be a three-hour deployment of locusts and broodlings.
Massive numbers of inexpensive locusts and brood lords would be launched directly toward the ground via drop pods. Their primary targets were the major cities, along with several smaller cities designated as key offensive zones.
Participating in this deployment were 200 Floating Escorts, 320 Floating Transport Ships, and 50 medium transport ships.
With every ship packed to the gills, the 200 Floating Escorts could hold 300,000 bugs, the 320 Floating Transport Ships could hold roughly 1.44 million, and the 50 medium transport ships could be crammed with as many as 7.5 million.
On average, each bug occupied only one cubic meter of space.
They were truly crammed in like sardines.
In the first wave alone, 9.24 million bugs would be dropped to the surface.
Immediately after the airdrop, the ships would leave the airspace and quickly reach the moon orbiting Planet Dulu. There, they would take on new bugs and return to the atmosphere to continue the second wave of deployment.
Accounting for the time needed for acceleration, deceleration, and loading, one round trip was expected to take 30 minutes. This meant 18.48 million bugs would be deployed per hour, theoretically totaling 55.44 million landings within three hours.
Ultimately, the actual number deployed would be 50 million.
This was because the final wave would drop 2,000 brood lords.
After landing, these 2,000 brood lords would not take to the skies. Instead, they would burrow into underground dens excavated by the insects to steadily produce broodlings.
At their current rate, they would steadily provide 1.2 million broodlings per hour to launch attacks against the enemies on the surface.
This was the landing plan for the first batch within the first three hours.
Following that, the second phase would begin. All transport ships and small escort ships would once again travel back and forth between the moon and Planet Dulu.
The first batch of this phase would include 10,000 swarm hosts and a large number of combat bugs. Every subsequent batch would consist entirely of main combat bugs.
Simultaneously, the 18 small leviathans would immediately release the countless drop pods packed within them toward the ground.
These drop pods contained 100,000 drones, 500,000 zerglings, 20,000 hydralisks, 1,000 queens, 1,000 ultralisks, and 80,000 other combat bugs.
Once the airdrop was finished, the small leviathans would obviously be empty.
However, they would not leave the planet's orbit. Instead, they would continuously produce mutalisks and brood lords.
An average of 20,000 mutalisks per hour would enter the planet's atmosphere to seize air superiority. Brood lords would be dropped at a rate of about 100 per hour.
Meanwhile, the transport ships and escorts traveling between the moon and Planet Dulu would continue to deliver airdrops at a rate of 3 million combat bugs every 30 minutes until the entire planet was conquered.
This entire strategy also included many finer details.
For instance, while the leviathans sent mutalisks to seize air superiority, they would also release dozens of overseers to slowly fly to different regions for global surveillance.
Furthermore, the drones and some larvae dropped to the surface would quickly transform into hives across the globe. They would hide underground to upgrade until they could produce queens. From there, they would continuously increase the number of low tier queens, using them to spread creep, increase larvae, and breed a massive number of scourges to bomb the enemy forces.
The process of invasion was also the process of production.
...
Xia Jin sat leisurely inside the relatively safe Dulu Space Observation Center, waiting calmly.
By now, the entire Dulu civilization had fallen into a state of extreme panic.
That night, a million-ton yield hydrogen bomb fell from the sky, striking the weapon distribution center located near the capital city.
This explosion directly destroyed the equipment meant for 20 million people.
Xia Jin's strategy was a massive success.
And this single hydrogen bomb directly shattered the Dulu civilization's psychological defenses.
Public order, which had been under strict control, collapsed once more.
The network was even flooded with collaborators who thought not of resistance, but of how to welcome the arrival of the extraterrestrial civilization.
After waiting like this for another day...
The Zerg fleet had all arrived above the target planet, roughly 300 kilometers from the surface.
The entire fleet was split into 20 groups, which would respectively launch attacks on 12 large cities and 8 small cities.
Within three hours, an average of 2.5 million bugs would land in each city.
“Countdown prepared. 3, 2, 1... Start.”
As the countdown concluded, all transport ships and escorts opened their side hatches simultaneously.
Swathes of drop pods were vomited out in rapid succession.
They looked like countless jellyfish, their heads pointed toward the ground as they drifted slowly.
To minimize the gap between the first and second waves of bugs, this batch of drop pods would float in space for ten minutes before officially entering the atmosphere.
In fact, within just two minutes, the number of drop pods ejected from the sides of the transport ships had already reached hundreds of thousands.
By the third minute, all 400,000 drop pods destined for the 20 cities had been released.
All ships immediately turned around, ignited their fusion engines, and flew toward the moon.
At this moment, a Hive Carrier was already stationed on Dulu 1.
Xia Jin had concentrated the largest number of queens in history—a total of 200,000—to spread creep and continuously produce larvae.
This alone ensured the hatching of 1 million combat bugs per hour.
Moreover, there were already over 50 million combat bugs on this moon, all of which had been transported and produced recently.
After flying for seven or eight minutes, the transport ships arrived above Dulu 1.
The hulls landed one after another into docking bays.
The covers above then opened, and massive amounts of drop pods tumbled or were tossed inside. In less than ten minutes, all ships had finished reloading and were flying back toward Planet Dulu.
...
At the same time, the tens of thousands of drop pods that had been drifting in space began to slowly accelerate, gradually generating intense friction with the atmosphere.
Their surface temperatures rose higher and higher, eventually producing glowing flames.
At this moment, the ground observation stations clearly captured this scene.
“What exactly are those?”
“They’ve begun their descent.”
Standing beneath the telescopes, several astronomical researchers craned their necks, their expressions solemn.
The Zerg invasion had finally begun.
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