136: Chapter 136 The Trial Planet is Blockaded by the Zerg Mothership

"It's already being arranged." Bishop Albert pulled up the evacuation plan, "All human and Covenant race cadets have priority for evacuation; as for the other races... it's up to luck."

The words were cruel, but no one refuted them. In war, resources are always limited, and the transport capacity of the evacuation channels cannot accommodate everyone.

Silence filled the command center.

A few seconds later, Major General Zhao Yu was the first to react: "Understood. All Blazing Dragon Federation support ships are to depart immediately, prioritizing the extraction of North Star Academy and Blazing Dragon Federation cadets."

"The Holy Alliance's evacuation fleet is already in position," Bishop Albert also quickly ordered.

"The Olympia Empire..." Prince Krol paused, "Our extraction fleet will establish a temporary landing zone on the far side of the planet. Notify all Empire cadets to assemble at those coordinates."

The orders spread rapidly like ripples.

...

However, just as the Allied Forces of ten thousand races were busily preparing for the evacuation, a more precise tactical adjustment was quietly taking place deep within the Zerg camp.

Inside the largest leviathan mothership, the "Star-Devourer," Queen Oriana lay on her biological throne. This ancient being, who had ruled the Fourth Mother Nest for thousands of years, was indeed in a bad state, just as Prince Krol had surmised.

Her once flawless skin was covered in charred patterns left by lightning strikes, and four of her six magnificent bat wings were broken, with tiny electric arcs occasionally sparking from the remaining wing membranes.

The most severe injury was on her right leg—the entire portion below the calf was missing, and the stump was wreathed in a pale green bio-energy halo. That was high-concentration life energy struggling to regenerate tissue, but the regeneration speed was clearly being suppressed by lightning-attribute energy.

"Humans... Krol..." Queen Oriana's golden pupils flashed with a cold light, "Four hundred years ago, your great-grandfather left similar scars on me as well. Your lineage... is truly a persistent trouble passed down through generations."

Below the throne, dozens of Cerebrates crawled on the ground, their neural tentacles connected to the creep network on the floor, processing the massive amount of information from the entire battlefield in real-time.

One of the Cerebrates raised its head—it was a tumor-like organ covered in folds and grooves, with fluorescent neural fluid flowing across its surface.

[Your Majesty, based on the unique psionic fluctuations emitted by Queen Olivia, we have precisely located her position—the fourth planet in the star system ahead, codenamed Planet G-77-3. Currently, the Allied Forces' front line is retreating, creating a firepower blind spot in the 15 to 27-degree sector. Analysis indicates that this blind spot is sufficient to support two leviathan motherships in breaking through to the planetary landing orbit.]

Queen Oriana slowly sat up, her broken bat wings hanging limply behind her.

"Two... are not enough." Her voice echoed directly within the mental network of all the Cerebrates; it was a pure stream of information, efficient and cold.

"Olivia is the only perfect fusion born in our Fourth Mother Nest in three hundred years; she has not only inherited the Zerg's evolutionary potential but is also perfectly compatible with the Mother Goddess's divine power characteristics. Her value... exceeds ten Zerg hives."

She raised her only remaining left hand, her fingertips tracing a purple trajectory in the void. The trajectory rapidly expanded, turning into a three-dimensional star map, which was a holographic projection of the current theater of war.

"Pass on my order—" the Queen's voice suddenly turned sharp, "'Star-Devourer,' push forward and draw the main human firepower. All leviathan motherships, according to their sequence numbers, are to execute tactical jumps to Planet G-77-3 in order. I want a maximum-scale landing transport; cover the entire surface of the planet with our warriors."

She paused, a glint of near-greed flashing in her golden pupils: "Find Olivia and bring her back unharmed. As for the other creatures on the planet... eliminate them all."

The moment the order was given, the movement patterns of the entire Zerg camp underwent a dramatic change.

The "Star-Devourer," the largest of the seven super motherships, began to move forward slowly, its surface opening tens of thousands of emission ports, spewing out streams of dark green high-energy particles.

These particle streams intertwined in space to form a giant net covering tens of thousands of kilometers, actively meeting the main firepower of the Blazing Dragon Federation and the Olympia Empire.

Meanwhile, at the rear of the Zerg fleet formation, over forty leviathan motherships began to adjust their posture. Their biological warp organs began to charge, and the surrounding space produced obvious rippling distortions.

"Large-scale spatial disturbance detected!" The Allied monitoring center issued a piercing alarm, "The Zerg Leviathan swarm is preparing for a directional jump, target coordinates—Planet G-77-3 orbit!"

Major General Zhao Yu stood up abruptly from his command chair: "What are they doing?! Jumping directly into planetary orbit? That's where our—"

His words came to an abrupt halt.

Because at that very moment, the Holy Alliance's evacuation operation had already begun. A support ship painted with the Holy Alliance insignia had just detached from the atmosphere of Planet G-77-3 and was returning to the mothership in space.

And the Zerg's reaction speed was astonishingly fast.

Two leviathan motherships that had finished charging locked onto their target almost the instant the support ship appeared. Their massive bodies twisted violently in space, and then they "flashed" to the vicinity of the planetary orbit, precisely blocking the path between the support ship and the mothership.

The main cannons of those two giant ships, which were biological plasma cannons—a dangerous dark green beam generator, fired simultaneously.

Two dark green beams, each over five hundred meters in diameter, pierced through the void, shooting toward the tiny support ship.

The Holy Alliance captain reacted extremely quickly, initiating the emergency warp procedure 0.3 seconds before the beams hit. The space around the support ship fluctuated violently, and the entire ship turned into a stream of light, narrowly jumping out of the death zone, appearing in the next second within the shield range of the Allied main fleet.

But the crisis was not resolved.

Because those two Leviathans did not continue the pursuit, but instead sat steadily in the orbit of Planet G-77-3. Their hull surfaces began to squirm, and countless landing pods, drop spores, and transport hive nests poured down like a waterfall, surging toward the planet's surface.

More Leviathans were jumping in from the rear, the third, the fourth, the fifth... with every jump, another giant ship joined the orbital blockade formation.

Within just ten minutes, a full twelve leviathan motherships had completed the orbital blockade of Planet G-77-3. Their main cannons pointed toward outer space, blocking all possible evacuation routes; their bellies were aimed at the planet's surface, air-dropping an endless stream of Zerg troops to the ground.

The lanes... were completely blockaded.

Major General Zhao Yu watched the blue planet on the star map, now completely surrounded by red markers, and slammed his fist heavily onto the console.

"These damn bugs... their goal from the very beginning was not to defeat us."

His voice was filled with a sense of powerlessness.

"Their goal... is something on the planet."

Meanwhile, on the planet's surface, Li Yuan had just commanded the Light Guardian to take down another Thunder Beast. He suddenly felt something and looked up at the sky.

Although separated by the thick atmosphere and tens of thousands of kilometers, he truly "felt" it—above the sky, something vast and terrifying was descending.