"To be honest, I'm not surprised in the least."
When he received Odel's communication, Duanmu Huai was standing in the underground command center beneath GOTT. The place was already a complete mess, with Genestealer corpses strewn everywhere. Duanmu Huai had never doubted that the Tyranid Swarm fleet would arrive, because this was the Tyranids' usual strategy—the Genestealers would instinctively use their power to summon the Tyranids from outer space, and once the latter received the signal, they would head for the destination and devour the Genestealers on the target planet along with everything else.
So after seeing that this planet had been almost entirely occupied by Genestealers, Duanmu Huai knew that the hive fleet's arrival was only a matter of time.
"How are things with the Chaos Warband?"
"They're fighting the hive fleet..."
"Well, the Chaos Warband has been starving for far too long..."
Hearing Echote's report, Duanmu Huai could not help sighing with emotion. The Chaos Warband had been cooped up in the Eye of Terror for so many years that they were already ravenous. Now that they had finally gotten out and encountered such a sumptuous feast, they naturally did not want anyone else taking it from them. So from that perspective, the Chaos Warband could be considered to have protected the humans in this star system from being devoured by the bugs.
Well, although in a certain sense, being eaten by the bugs might have been a better fate for the humans in this star system.
"We haven't gained anything here. It was nothing but a trap. Withdraw immediately, then issue an Extermination Order against the entire star system!"
Duanmu Huai issued the order without hesitation, and Eclair was shocked when she heard it.
"Wait, are you really going to do this? Completely destroy this star system?"