However!
Alger Nong was not the director of this war, so the battle did not unfold according to his expectations! The main cannon struck the endless swarm of locusts, yet a ring of blue energy waves spread out from the point of impact!
The energy wave expanded from the impact point like electronic ripples spreading across an LED wall. Wherever the blue energy wave passed, the locusts' bodies rapidly swelled, then split into two, two into four... until they burst apart with a roar, turning into countless specks of dust!
The gray wall of giant locusts continuously exploded with thunderous booms, huge craters widening across the locust wall. In less than two seconds, nearly a hundred million locusts had been completely wiped out!
But this was hardly worth celebrating. Although the locusts had been destroyed, they had completely absorbed the main cannon's attack energy, leaving the Zerg army behind the locust wall utterly unharmed!!!
"How is that possible?!" Alger Nong braced both hands against the control console, his eyes filled with shock!
Harvey Le's firearm flashed and vanished. Leaning against the side of the command chair, he wore a faintly mocking expression. "It seems the Zerg didn't use their full strength in their previous clashes with the military either. Never mind how many of these bugs there are—even if there were only one wave of them, used properly, they could turn the tide on a disadvantaged battlefield!"
Alger Nong frowned slightly. "Harvey Le, whether you approve of the military's upper ranks or not, you have joined the military and our fleet. You must conduct yourself with a soldier's discipline..."
Harvey Le shrugged. "I feel like I've been behaving quite properly lately..."
Alger Nong gazed at the battlefield. "Only your body has been behaving properly. Your thoughts are still dangerous. Child,