Was that the commander of the enemy fleet?
At that moment, the Dulu who saw her all shared a similar thought.
Beneath the Leviathan, countless insects were already racing across the land, swiftly swallowing the enemy's battle lines.
Countless individuals were consumed by the terrifying Swarm.
The earth trembled, making it impossible for many Dulu to even look up at the situation above their heads.
Xia Jin gave a light leap, relying on her psionic power to descend to the ground at extreme speed.
The enemy high command had long since retreated to the city bases ahead through underground tunnels.
But now, the Swarm had attacked through the earth to reach them here. These people already had nowhere left to hide.
Xia Jin walked slowly toward the enemy lines, then used energy to release a message directly to the Dulu ahead, demanding their high ranking officials come out.
The moment the message was released, all the insects ceased their attacks.
The Dulu also subconsciously stopped firing.
With the war reaching this point, continued resistance led only to destruction. Seeing this alien woman's intent to communicate, many Dulu felt a flicker of hope.
By now, the number of Dulu casualties had exceeded thirty billion, most of whom had died in the last two days.
The remainder could be considered the last individuals on the home planet.
After Xia Jin conveyed her message, a group of high ranking officials finally walked out slowly.
“Hello,” the Dulu in front said in their language upon seeing Ye Qian, this exceptionally beautiful alien.
“I am giving you a final chance. Accept surrender and transmit the surrender message to all other planets, and this war can end.”
As Xia Jin spoke, fireballs descended from the sky once more.
Clearly, the Zerg were still steadily deploying troops to the surface.
Due to the use of countless nuclear bombs during the war, the environment of the entire planet had been severely affected.
Faced with Xia Jin's demand, the high ranking Dulu appeared hesitant.
But ultimately, they agreed.
“Please, do not attack before we provide our final answer,” the Dulu in front said.
“I will give you three hours. If there is no clear answer within three hours, it will be considered a refusal to surrender.”
After Xia Jin finished speaking, her body floated up, and she returned to her ship.
A power like psionic energy was likely beyond this civilization's understanding.
They probably thought it was some kind of special technology.
...
The Zerg did indeed grant them the time.
Half an hour later, the Dulu high command unanimously passed the decision to surrender and sent surrender demands to the other three planets.
However...
The result they received left them speechless.
Because...
All three planets refused to surrender.
They were even prepared to resist with everything they had, starting up various factories in an attempt to use their global production capacity to rapidly manufacture ships.
If they were facing a civilization of similar strength, this might actually be feasible.
Even at current speeds, it would take at least over a year to reach the nearest star system.
In the interstellar era, if one disregarded everything, sacrificed living conditions, and poured all resources and manpower into military industry, it was indeed possible to build multiple starships in a short time.
By dragging it out for several waves, they might even win a defensive war.
Unfortunately, they were facing the Zerg.
“Fine then.”
Standing in the control room, looking at the group of anxious Dulu officials, Xia Jin thought for a moment and decided to temporarily halt the offensive.
The Dulu civilization certainly did not fit her aesthetic standards.
As for whether they had any value to keep around, that would depend on whether these fellows could provide more energy through something similar to cultivation.
Essentially, a farming mode.
From an average strength perspective, the Dulu army had combat power roughly at Tier 9.
The strongest were Tier 12, though they had no cultivation system of their own, relying mainly on drugs to boost their strength.
After sending out some drones to recover the corpses, it was found that the energy content was still quite high.
“They aren't as good as the humans of the home planet. If I'm really going to farm them, they only become worthwhile at Tier 11.”
Xia Jin felt she could use technological means to have the entire population use genetic modification serums in large quantities to achieve rapid cultivation.
Of course, if Tier 11 was still insufficient to provide resources that Xia Jin found worthwhile, then the future of the Dulu was doomed.
After all, to the Zerg, a subordinate species that could not provide benefits had no significant value.
...
“Let's handle this for now and prepare to send fleets to launch simultaneous attacks on the other three planets later.”
Queens had already begun landing on the Dulu home planet, preparing to spread creep.
There were still new planets in this system where it could be spread.
The Zerg's resource acquisition rate was skyrocketing.
This meant that Small Leviathans could also be built relatively quickly.
The basic design for the large transport ships was also out.
They were 800 meters long, shaped like a teardrop, with a diameter of 400 meters at the widest point.
Given current fusion thrust capabilities, designing them any wider would lower the cost effectiveness. Furthermore, if one were destroyed while fully loaded, the Zerg would suffer heavy losses, so this size was ultimately settled upon.
The transport capacity of such a volume was terrifying, especially when the interior was completely hollowed out to house the Swarm. By building just a few, they could deploy hundreds of millions of insects in a short time.
In this way, the speed of the subsequent offensive against the other three planets would be further accelerated.
However, at this moment, an overseer located in deep space suddenly detected a strange signal.
From the vacuum between star systems, an even more intense hyperspace navigation trajectory appeared.
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