Chapter 87: Bug Catching Team, Departure!

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  Xia Xingxiao was stunned again, and then felt a bit depressed. What's wrong with just wanting to go home? Why is it so troublesome? This rotten military base doesn't even have communication tools or contact with the outside world, it's simply too abnormal. In the ancient Earth era, at least you could make a phone call home once a week. What kind of joke is this?

  Li Yuzhi changed the subject and said: "You wait here for a while, I'll go back to find a few more people to enrich our team."

  Xia Xing said gloomily: "Can't we five make it?"

  Li Yuzi said cautiously: "For safety, it's best to have more than ten people."

  After that, he hastily left. About two hours later, he hurried back again. He brought back five people, who should be temporary helpers. Two privates and three corporals, plus the five people who were begging for Buddha, made a total of ten people. Originally, he wanted to find a few more powerful helpers, but unfortunately, time was limited, and they couldn't be found temporarily.

  Considering Xia Xingxiao's powerful strength and his mastery of the Dao Xin Demon Great Technique, Xia Xingxiao is naturally the Bug Catcher Team's first choice as their main force. Next is Li Yuzi. He has just been promoted to Lower Officer. Further down are Fotou, Fozu, and Foguan. Their Ren Du Er Mai have all shown signs of loosening, their powers surging forward rapidly, stronger than the two new First-Class Soldiers by a bit.

  Li Yuzi also brought back some bad news, which was the casualty situation of the Myanmar military base. As the battle gradually came to an end, various statistics gradually became more accurate, including the cruel casualty numbers. This time, the sand bandit's attack on Aiyuewei brought great losses to each component of the federal troops stationed in Baihe Star.

  The 112th Division alone lost four escort ships and one destroyer. The number of fighter losses exceeded five hundred. Personnel losses exceeded four thousand people. The loss of the 114th Division was slightly less, but not much less. They lost more than three hundred tanks. In total, the two divisions lost more than seven thousand officers and soldiers.

  The Federation forces stationed on Aylee Star suffered even greater losses. The Kubba mechanized corps base on Aylee Star was almost completely destroyed, with all the mechs reduced to smoldering wreckage. Now, a large number of Sha ethnic creatures are gathering there and using it as a base to try to counterattack the Marno military base. The battle is expected to last for several more days before it can be thoroughly concluded.

  The casualties of the Myanmar military base are also very serious. According to incomplete statistics, more than 1,800 soldiers were killed and over 300 were injured. This is also a basic feature of fighting against sand bandits: many deaths and few injuries. Because basically, as long as you are hit by the sand bandits, the chances of survival are slim.

  Li Yuzi and the others, if it weren't for Xia Xingxiao's abnormal existence, could have replenished their true energy, could have continuously healed their wounds, could have continuously frozen the Sand Thieves, and could have continuously ambushed the Sand Thieves' eyes. I estimate that they would have already been exhausted to death. Nine cultivators of such a low level, facing hundreds of Sand Thieves, simply had no way to survive.

  Apart from Byakuren and Aizou, the nearby human-inhabited planets also suffered attacks by the Sand Worms. This includes Byakushin, where the 41st Legion's headquarters is located. The entire Byakushin star cluster surrounding Byakushin has almost fallen into battle. Even the 29th Legion of the Federation Army stationed in Kan'u Star has a considerable portion participating in the battle.

  As of Li Yuze's received message, the sand thieves' all-out attack has basically come to an end. The sand thieves attacking other planets are also steadily withdrawing. However, this absolutely does not mean that the war is over. On the contrary, it means that the war has just begun. For example, the battle at the Kuban military base on Planet Aylee has yet to end.

  In fact, the battle at the Kuban military base was just a small matter. The stubbornly resistant Sha tribe had no sufficient reinforcements and what awaited them was definitely a dead end. What the Federation was most worried about were actually the Molechians and the Samoans, with more concern for the former than the latter.

  From the star map, Capricorn is actually quite far from Sirius. However, what's deadly is that near Sirius, there just so happens to be a wormhole. Through the wormhole, Capricorn doesn't need to make a space jump and can directly get close to Sirius. Therefore, Capricorn's threat to Sirius is even greater than Samoa's.

  Everyone knows that the Sand Thieves won't attack Aylee Star for no reason. Their purpose must be to open up a path of advancement for the Capricans. The Capricans need this path because when they pass through the wormhole, they can't carry too many supplies with them. They need a planet as a logistical base. This planet is White Egret Star. However, the Capricans are also unwilling to pay too great a price, so they drive the Sand Thieves to fight at the forefront.

  It's no problem for the federal troops to deal with the desert thieves. Every time the desert thieves attacked White Egret Star, they were repelled by the federal troops. However, when it comes to dealing with the Mocha people, they are not confident in their ability. If the Samoans come to join in on the fun, the entire White Egret Star region will be extremely lively. I estimate that at this moment, the big shots of the National Defense Committee are holding an emergency meeting to discuss how to respond.

  "Let's go!"

  Li Yuzhi waved his hand and led the team to set off quickly.

  The Bug Catchers' actions have always been swift. They must seize the time, because delaying even an hour may cause changes in the sandworm larvae. The sandworm larvae grow by absorbing the power of the stars, and once they meet the conditions, they will advance to the next level. Each time a sandworm advances to the next level, its combat strength increases by several points, making it naturally more difficult to capture.

  Leaving the military base in Myanmar, one must endure five times the gravity. This is not good for the bug-catching team that needs to act quickly. The sandworm larvae take advantage of this and try their best to gain time and grow as much as possible. Fortunately, all ten members of the bug-catching team can withstand such gravity and will not be slow-moving.

  Of course, the speed of flight is not possible to be very fast, at most only less than 30 meters per second, which is about 100 kilometers per second, equivalent to a car on the highway in ancient Earth times. If you are moving between towns, the speed is naturally very fast. However, facing the vast planet of Ailuoyi, this speed is like a snail.

  The surface distance of Ai Yexing is calculated in units of thousands of kilometers. A speed of 100 kilometers per hour is indeed a bit slow. Moreover, they need to search for sandworm larvae everywhere, and must run around all over the place, with many detours in between, which are actually unnecessary routes. Sometimes, in the mountains and valleys, they can't even move forward ten kilometers in an hour.

  All the way, they still have to keep fighting. Because, there are always scattered sand thieves who don't know where they come from and launch a surprise attack on them. Occasionally, some lone desert creatures will also cooperate. I guess the sand thieves think that this insect-catching team has only ten people, with an average level that is not high, easy to bully, just right to jump out and kill them to vent their anger.

  For the incoming sand thieves, there is only one word: kill! If you don't kill them, they will kill you. At this time, no one will have any merciful thoughts. With Xia Xing's help, the battle ended quickly. However, the delayed time can never be made up for.

  More than thirty hours have passed unknowingly. The self-rotation and public rotation of Aiyexing itself are also quite special. In the starry sky world, different planets have different self-rotations and public rotations, so they also have completely different days and nights. In order to unify standards, the starry sky world stipulates that the time on Earth be used as a standard, using units such as days, hours, minutes, and seconds to calculate time. Day and night can only be called colloquially.

  For example, the self-rotation speed of Ailuoxing is very slow. Its day exceeds 100 hours, and its night also exceeds 100 hours. How many standard days have passed can only be calculated through a special watch. Anyway, the entire starry sky adopts Earth's standard time. One year is 365 days, one day is 24 hours, one hour is 60 minutes, and one minute is 60 seconds. There is a leap year every four years. Of course, each planet can also internally stipulate its own time.

  Later, in order to regulate the biological clock of human beings in the starry sky world, humans artificially created day and night in all inhabited areas, imitating the changes of the four seasons, trying their best to be close to Earth. However, outside the inhabited areas, in the vast starry sky, these imitations do not exist. Xia Xingxiao and others still rely on standard time.

  Fortunately, for cultivators, the impact of day and night is not significant. As long as there is a watch, the general time can be determined. However, for space demons, the difference between day and night is still quite large. Some demons have explosive combat power during the day, but their combat power decreases at night. On the other hand, some demons have increased combat power in the dark of night, while their combat power declines during the day.

  Cultivators must grasp these basic situations beforehand. Otherwise, if they encounter a demon beast with explosive combat power in the dark of night and take the initiative to fight it, they will really be looking for death. The demon beasts that can't be beaten during the day may have a chance at night. The creatures of the desert tribe are generally stronger in combat power during the day and weaker at night.

  "Let me put it this way..."

  On the road, Li Yuzi detailedly told Xia Xingxiao about the role of Da Xin's magic.

  In ancient times, the Da Xin Zhong Mo Great Method was a very mysterious martial art. Its basic principle is to exchange one's life for another. If the practitioner's lifespan is exhausted, they can switch bodies and start anew. From the perspective of its effects, it seems similar to the legendary Cultivation of Truth, with talk of furnaces and tripods, looking very mystical indeed.

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