Chapter 168: Mutual Suspicion

Position No. 10.

A pungent odor wafted from a tent in one corner of the position, and the surrounding Human Alliance soldiers stayed as far away from that location as possible at their posts.

Yingzhou, however, turned a deaf ear to this pungent odor at this moment. Upon hearing that the Zerg actually possessed such long-range attack bugs, Yingzhou already had a premonition that the next Zerg offensive would certainly be even more ferocious, and that more Zerg not recorded in the data would appear.

The Krieg Commissar at his side, after hearing the description from these Attila warriors, said respectfully to Yingzhou, "Respected Emperor, these Zerg will definitely deploy these Aliens next time. Through today's battle, those Aliens retreated under your wrath, but those despicable Aliens will certainly come to attack here again."

After hearing the Krieg Commissar's words, Yingzhou nodded, "That makes sense. You all wait here; I will go out for a while."

After Yingzhou walked out of the tent, he found Cai Kun, who was taking inventory of ammunition.

"Cai Kun, have Armand and Chen An come down; there are some situations that need to be discussed today."

Just a short while ago, communication from the 78th Legion Command Camp had arrived, asking Yingzhou to temporarily serve as the Commander of Position No. 10. This also made Cai Kun completely convinced, as Yingzhou's strength was something he had witnessed with his own eyes.

Upon hearing Yingzhou's words, Cai Kun immediately arranged for several soldiers to go find Chen An and Armand.

"What happened?" After arranging for people to leave, Cai Kun walked in front of Yingzhou and looked up to ask.

"Wait until they arrive to talk about it."

Yingzhou did not answer Cai Kun's question, but instead walked into Cai Kun's tent.

Seeing this, Cai Kun had no choice but to follow behind Yingzhou and sit in his own tent to wait for the arrival of Chen An and Armand.

After more than ten minutes, two sets of footsteps were heard outside the tent.

A young man with black hair and brown eyes and a middle-aged man with blonde hair and blue eyes walked into the tent. They had not seen Yingzhou before, and upon seeing him, their figures visibly stiffened.

Good grief, is this the new Commander? Even sitting down, he was almost as tall as they were standing up.

"You two are Chen An and Armand? I am Yingzhou, temporarily serving as the Commander of Position No. 10."

Seeing the two enter the tent, Yingzhou directly gestured for them to sit down, while he himself gave a simple self-introduction.

"So, Commander Yingzhou, why did you call us over at this time? Is there some new arrangement or deployment?"

After Chen An sat down, he tilted his head and looked at Yingzhou's robust body as he asked.

"Deployment is not quite the word, but there is some intelligence and speculation I need to tell you." Seeing all three looking at him, Yingzhou continued, "The troops I previously sent out to scout the Zerg Incubation Nest have already gathered some intelligence on the Zerg side. First, the next Zerg offensive will definitely be even more ferocious than today's; this is basically certain. Also, next time the Zerg will deploy a new unit type, a type of long-range attack Zerg, and its attack range is very wide, between 40km and 42km; it is an area-of-effect attack. Moreover, due to the limited time of the engagement, this is not necessarily the standard range for that type of Zerg; it only attacked once, so it is normal for the intelligence to be inaccurate."

When Yingzhou said this, he saw that the expressions of the three were already very grave, but he continued nonetheless.

"According to the intelligence, there are certainly many of this type of unit within the Hatchery, but it is not certain that only this one type has been added. Our defense mainly relies on artillery support to be effective, but if the Zerg have these types of bugs this time, then as soon as they enter their attack range, our position will be attacked by the Zerg, which will cause heavy casualties to our defense."

"Then what should we do now? If these Zerg have this means of attack, then Cai Kun's position will become the primary target of the Zerg offensive."

After listening to Yingzhou's words, Armand spoke up to analyze.

"Hmm, that is why I have decided that you will remain here to hold the line and report this newly appeared Zerg to the rear."

Yingzhou tapped his knee lightly and spoke slowly.

"And you? What do you plan to do?"

Chen An immediately sensed that Yingzhou's tone was a bit off and asked.

"Me? I plan to go to the Zerg Incubation Nest."

Yingzhou did not hide it and stated his purpose directly.

"Commander Yingzhou, you might not know this, but a Commander does not need to personally perform reconnaissance tasks."

Upon hearing this, Yingzhou smiled and pacified the group, "Don't worry, who said I am going to perform a reconnaissance task? You only need to obey orders; there can be no mistakes here!"

Seeing that the three had no further objections, Yingzhou stood up and left the tent.

"This is too willful, isn't it?" Armand watched Yingzhou's figure after he walked out of the tent and muttered to himself.

"No, he must have a plan for doing this. Let's hurry up and prepare a way to deal with that Zerg long-range attack."

What Cai Kun was more worried about now was the next Zerg offensive; facing the newly appeared Zerg, Cai Kun felt there was more than just this one type.

On the other side, after Yingzhou gathered the Death Korps of Krieg and Catachan Jungle Fighters summoned with Faith Value, he had the 10 Attila warriors return to report that he would head toward the vicinity of the Zerg Incubation Nest tomorrow.

Ninth Defense Zone Inner City, in a residential secret room.

Pu Lie looked at the children who had been captured and nodded with satisfaction, praising Lu Wang beside him.

"Well done. The Master will be very happy. Once that Yingzhou is captured, we can welcome the descent of our Master into the Ninth Defense Zone and open the gates of hell!"

Lu Wang stood to one side and replied respectfully, "My lord is wise. It is just that those survivors in the Settlement Area suddenly erupted with astonishing willpower when we were about to kill them, holding us back. To prevent any accidents with those children, this subordinate had no choice but to abandon the plan to silence them."

Pu Lie waved his hand and said indifferently, "What are you panicking about? Perhaps that was just the final flare of those commoners. The most important thing is that you brought these children back."

Seeing that Pu Lie did not care much, Lu Wang did not say more on this issue.

Pu Lie's small eyes rolled around, and the smile on his face grew wider.

"I was wondering why Pake and Ji Bu's relationship didn't seem very harmonious during the last meeting; so it's because of this issue."

Seeing this, Lu Wang immediately said, "Reporting to my lord, the news this subordinate gathered is that Ji Bu refused to let Pake take those commoner survivors to the research institute for study and drove Pake's men away. This subordinate believes that Ji Bu likely suspects Pake of attacking the Settlement Area and wants to take both benefits for himself."

"Hahaha, who would have thought they would be suspicious of each other? Wouldn't that just allow me to pick the apple?"

After hearing this, Pu Lie laughed heartily and, after telling Lu Wang to settle these children, left the secret room.