"All right, that's basically the situation. I've also told you what I plan to do next. Any objections? Speak up."
Everyone fell silent, looking at one another.
"I support the young lady's decision. This is a demand that completely exceeds our production capacity. Even if we could manage it, we can't abandon everything else we're doing just to raise livestock for the bugs, can we?"
Hao Zhong spoke first. Juanjuan and the others nodded, and Ling Yun's group also voted in favor. Then Ling Yun looked at me and asked,
"Yuxuan, if we went to war with the insect race now, what do you think our chances would be?"
Our chances?
Heh... Not even one in ten thousand.
I waved my hand and looked at everyone.
"To be honest, I have no confidence. In a head-on fight, our military region couldn't withstand a single attack from a swarm of tens of millions."
I smiled.
"But... just as they can threaten us, we can threaten them too."
"Miss, do you have a plan?"
Hao Zhong asked.
"You might not know this, but I've had Hao Zhong investigate it several times, and we've repaired some of our radar equipment. Hao Zhong... have we pinpointed the Insect Queen's location?"
A few months ago, Hao Zhong had given me a report on whether repairing the radar was feasible. I'd approved it and even gone out myself to find some of the parts we needed. It had been repaired two months ago, and its coverage...
A radius of five hundred kilometers!
The construction of the massive radar had been kept quiet. It wasn't deliberate; I just hadn't had a chance to tell anyone.
"We haven't detected the Insect Queen yet. According to the radar, there's no sign of any creature resembling a mother insect. Based