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Chapter 1242: Chapter 698, Star Explosion

A month later, Reiaductus had cooled down.

Although the surface temperature was still very high and no one could go down without full heat and radiation-resistant equipment.

However, Gu Hang’s spiritual energy probe could now reach down without major interference.

He hadn’t left, and neither had the main human fleet.

In fact, many people wanted to leave a long time ago.

Reiaductus was burned into a fireball, the queen was dead, the Insect Nest Fleet was out of control, the subspace shadow had dissipated… what was the point of staying here?

A part of the army would proceed to the various worlds in the Princess Star Domain still controlled by the Insect Swarm, clearing them one by one. If there were no humans, just a lot of insects, a single Extinction Order would be used to clean it up; if the insects weren’t too many, the planet’s resources were plentiful and not overly consumed, or if the location was significant, they’d go down and fight, since with the queen dead, the Insect Race would be disabled for a long time and not difficult to handle.

Aside from this, the majority of the army should return in triumph.

How specifically to return would depend on Holy Terra’s arrangements.

If the lords on Terra wished, the army would collectively first go to the Sun Star Domain to hold a grand victory parade before the nobility, making a grand spectacle. Then, officers and commanders would receive their deserved honors and promotions, and soldiers would be rewarded. After this, all troops could return to their respective homes.

If Holy Terra didn’t want a grand ceremony, they would directly return home, but what they were owed would not be lessened.

After all, everyone had risked their lives to fight a great war for the Empire.

Shouldn’t those in the Star Realm Army and Navy get promoted?

The support troops from various Cosmos and Star Domains, the dispatchers and leaders, also have their demands. Shouldn’t they be facilitated?

Each Battle Group should also be allowed to expand its influence around their original home planets, and shouldn’t additional resources be allocated?

These are all reasonable matters.

Now, the war was over, they had won, and everyone was eager to return and turn the spoils of war into gains. Why was Mr. Gu holding everyone at Reiaductus for an extra month?

Oh, they still had to deal with the Insect Race reinforcements sailing from the ’Void Black Hole.’

It’s said to be a massive army.

When the subspace shadow was still covering, only Gu Hang, with his formidable spiritual energy, could discern this army coming, and everyone else was skeptical. If only you could see it and no one else could, aren’t you just calling the shots?

But now, with the queen dead and the subspace shadow over the galaxy dissipated, even ordinary psychics could, with the help of some equipment, observe this Insect Race army in action.

Similarly, since the queen was dead, this Insect Swarm army had also gone quiet.

From this perspective, there was no other queen among this reinforcements; it was just a ’tentacle’ handing over a unit, under the authority of the Reiaductus queen. Once she died, the reinforcements were also disabled.

A disabled Insect Race army was easy to handle; they had fought them before.

Sending out a unit to eliminate them while they were at a standstill would suffice.

Yet Mr. Gu made no such move, simply staying near Reiaductus.

No one knew what he was waiting for.

There were gradually some murmurs of complaint from the army.

However, these complaints were kept to themselves, at most shared as a word or two of grievance with comrades, and never did they dare say anything disrespectful about Mr. Gu himself.

It was not different for the Alliance’s own troops, and other forces followed the same pattern.

The reason was nothing but the fact that after such a united battle, Mr. Gu’s reputation had become exceedingly prestigious.

The soldiers would revere and be fond of the person who led them to victory;

The commanders would feel grateful for Gu Hang’s support on the North Line and West Line;

From a power perspective, everyone had to admit that the Alliance’s military was the greatest contributor to this war, whether navy or army.

In terms of individual strength, Gu Hang’s ability to wield spiritual power even under subspace shadow was the foundation of winning the war.

He had established a grand reputation; none dared to be disrespectful.

They tended to believe that Mr. Gu had some other plan.

…

Gu Hang indeed did.

After a month, he used spiritual energy to continuously probe the surface of Reiaductus.

He suspected that the queen might not be completely dead.

The Skyburn Torpedoes could annihilate most surface life forms, but those deep underground?

Generally, they could be incinerated. After all, the surface endured thousands of degrees of high temperature for a month, burning far below.

But if something was deep enough, had good insulation, and ample resource reserves, it could survive.

Forget the queen; there are records of humans surviving in mountain fortifications after a Skyburn Torpedo explosion.

As for the queen’s death’s manifestations, whether it was the Insect Nest Fleet’s inactivity or the subspace shadow’s dissipation, all were intentionally eliminated influences by the cunning queen. The goal was to make others drop their guard.

A queen in hiding would indeed have to lie dormant patiently for a long time afterward.

But that was still survival.

Better than dying.

Furthermore, this Reiaductus queen was different from all other queens; she had ample experience in dormancy.

When initially captured, she wasn’t strong, just a larva, and spent decades under the control and research of the Iron Armor Battle Group and the Alfonso Sect, gradually turning the tide.

Now, it was just a repeat.

Of course, this was merely Gu Hang’s assumption so far.

The fundamental way to resolve this anxiety was to use the ’Earth-Shattering Star’ weapon, a more advanced version of the Extinction Order.

He was always hesitant about whether to use it.

Initially not using it directly because the Alliance only had one after extracting technology, creating a product from a black box. Another wouldn’t be produced for a long time. Its production line was far from ready, and the Alliance hadn’t fully grasped the technology.

Using Earth-Shattering Star before the Skyburn Torpedo detonation, should it be intercepted, would be a huge loss.

Now, the interception issue wasn’t a concern, just that the cost of using this single shot was very high, and if the queen’s death could be confirmed, saving it…

“Save it for what!”

Gu Hang cursed with a dark face.

After meticulously inspecting Reiaductus with spiritual energy and finding nothing, Gu Hang should have been more at ease, but he couldn’t quite relax.

What if the queen was just hiding particularly well?

Why leave such a potential threat?

He figured it out.

No matter whether you’re dead or not, I’ll blast Reiaductus.

At worst, it’s wasting one Earth-Shattering Star.

If kept, it might not even be used or necessary in the future.

Might as well use it now.

For peace of mind.

Having made up his mind, he gave the order.

All ships began to move away from Reiaductus.

Then, from the Golden Pass, a gigantic missile was launched.

Gu Hang’s spiritual energy monitored the missile’s descent throughout.

As it neared the surface, a surge of despair-filled spiritual power suddenly rose from underground, attacking the missile.

Gu Hang was not shocked but pleased.

Turns out my guess was right!

Under constant observation, he immediately suppressed this spiritual energy, roughly equivalent to a Neuron Progeny, completely, protecting the warhead upon touchdown.