I Am the Swarm
Chapter 571

A Reminder

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Throughout his growth and with the passage of time, Rowan has come to understand a principle: the fastest way to solve trouble is to eliminate the person who created it.

Now, Rowan is able to apply this principle skillfully, just as skillfully as he can when switching between Intellect.

After Conrads became "one of us," the game's difficulty level plummeted from hard to normal. The lack of surprise, astonishment, or bewilderment from the Coalition Army commanders left Rowan feeling utterly bored.

Given this situation, Rowan decided to end the war as soon as possible.

"Sir, the Zerg Megastructure's energy level has suddenly spiked!" a crew member shouted from the command center. Just moments ago, the instruments under his command had started alarming wildly, the red lights nearly blinding him. This meant that a highly threatening energy source had appeared nearby.

"What's going on?" Conrads didn't seem nervous at all, not because he had become "one of us." Even though he had been transformed into Intellect, he would still have to work in the Alliance, so he couldn't do anything too unusual.

Moreover, the Lashudia Clan requested assistance from the Epoch Clan AI for this expedition. This AI might inadvertently collect some data, and if it's found to be abnormal, that would be disastrous.

Therefore, in order to play his role well, he will not show mercy to the Zerg when commanding the battle. The decisions he makes are all reactions he would make under normal circumstances.

The flagship's alarm was not wrong, but its scope was too narrow; it failed to consider the surrounding environment. The energy source was indeed a threat to a single flagship, but it was still a bit lacking in the ability to harm a flagship situated within a fleet of billions.

Moreover, Conrads' flagship, along with over a hundred million other warships, was the only force currently positioned at the rear, while the Outer-Ring Civilizations had all rushed to the front lines. Even if the Zerg wanted to do anything to his flagship, they would have to overcome numerous obstacles.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, this would be Conrads' reaction. Moreover, as the commander-in-chief of the Coalition Army, even if he was panicking inside, he had to appear strong and calm on the surface and not do anything to disrupt morale.

In fact, not only Conrads, but all the Zerg "one of their own" in the Star Sea Alliance are diligently playing their original roles.

These "insiders" usually do their best to stand on the side of the Star Sea Alliance and offer advice on how to deal with the Swarm. Only on special occasions, within a reasonable framework, do they push for things that seem to benefit the Star Sea Alliance.

For example, Mowei and Humins. Mowei appears first, using the background of the Lashudia Clan to try to win the first victory against the insects and delay the start of the battle.

After the foreign races on the front lines were given a rude awakening by the Zerg, combined with the unique racial attributes of the Lashudia Clan, all of this seemed natural and left no room for doubt.

Finally, it was perfectly reasonable for Humins, as an elder of the Epoch Clan, to agree to the matter.

Of course, this is only their secondary role; the Swarm usually doesn't need them to do anything special. Their greatest role is to collect all the intelligence they can gather within their position and share it with the Swarm.

This intelligence is often more helpful to the Swarm than anything they do themselves. This understanding of both themselves and their enemy is the greatest value of these "insiders."

At this moment, Conrads was earnestly playing his role. Hearing his question, the crew member hurriedly repeated the previous report, "Sir, the Zerg Megastructure's energy level response has suddenly spiked."

Conrads nodded. Although he was one of their own, in order to allow them to play their roles better and more naturally, these "insiders" could mostly only share intelligence with the Swarm unilaterally, but could not share information about the Swarm.

Therefore, at this moment, Conrads genuinely had no idea what the Swarm was planning to do.

"Any matching information?" Conrads asked.

The crew member operating the equipment had just shared the relevant data parameters of the Zerg Megastructure with another crew member beside him. After operating the equipment for a while, this crew member said, "Sir, there is no matching data in the database."

What is the closest match in the database?

"Sir, the closest match is electromagnetic catapults, with a similarity of only 62%," the crew member hurriedly reported. However, in his opinion, a 62% match was far too low.

Moreover, the electromagnetic catapult of the Zerg Megastructure was only used to accelerate the flight speed of combat units in the early days when the Zerg did not know warp drive and even Sub-light Engine were very primitive.

This kind of functionality, given how the Zerg are performing now, should have been obsolete long ago.

Conrads had considered what the crew had thought of, but without Zerg sharing with the Zerg, he didn't know what Zerg planned to do. Therefore, after a moment's thought, he could only order, "Send messages to those other races, warning them to be careful!"

Although the members of the Coalition Army were not as technologically advanced Lashudia Clan, even the lowest-level Outer-Ring Civilizations, if taken individually and placed in other star systems, would be powerful civilizations capable of interstellar colonization. It's just that they had little presence in this Star Sea Alliance, which was full of experts.

As an intergalactic civilization, monitoring various energies is a fundamental skill. Therefore, shortly after the Lashudia Clan instruments sounded the alarm, the Coalition Army members noticed the anomaly in the Zerg Megastructure.

However, while they themselves were aware of it, Conrads, as the commander of the Coalition Army, also had the obligation and necessity to remind his temporary subordinates of this matter.

Meanwhile, the Lashudia Clan's own fleet of one hundred million at the front lines had all its living members evacuated, relying entirely on the artificial intelligence supported by the Epoch Clan to hold the line. Given the reaction speed of the artificial intelligence, it probably noticed the matter as soon as the instruments detected abnormal data, before the alarms even sounded.

The Epoch Clan's artificial intelligence has extremely high authority over this matter, so Conrads doesn't need to worry too much about the Lashudia Clan's own fleet.

Because of their enormous size and proximity to a star, the Zerg Megastructure naturally have larger calibers and higher output power for their main cannons, and their range is also superior to that of the Ancient Class main cannons.

Therefore, the Zerg Megastructure were located at the rear of the Swarm's front line. Even if the Coalition Army forces noticed something amiss, it would be impossible for them to stop the Zerg Megastructure's actions.

Furthermore, due to a lack of specific information about the Zerg Megastructure, it's impossible to accurately assess the potential harm to Zerg Coalition Army after their Megastructure level upgrades. Therefore, even if it could be stopped, the amount of force required to stop it is uncertain. Thus, the Coalition Army Forces can only choose to wait and see for now.

Thank you Tianliu for the 100 Qidian coins reward.

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