This battle had only lasted for slightly more than an hour. For both sides, it was still a probing battle.
To be more precise, it was a further probing.
After the failure of the Hidden Blade Insect, Aliya no longer had the desire to continue attacking.
Even if the attacking arachnids were nothing but cannon fodder to Aliya, she wouldn't waste such a move.
Since that was the case, a full retreat was obviously the right choice.
It could be said that the current Aliya, from a logical point of view, was no longer like an Zerg, but more like a human.
Perhaps, even she herself did not realize that after falling into the racial restriction, in the past 100,000 years, she had adjusted the direction of her evolution to become more and more like a human.
Moreover, over the years, Aliya increasingly realized that the evolutionary path she was trying now was really the right one.
He was beginning to feel the shackles that the upper limit of his race had placed on him.
It was beginning to loosen!
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"The Zergs have retreated?"
"Yes, Commander!"
Perhaps, if it were anyone else, they would be excited to hear this report and win another war against the Zergs.
However, Lin Tian's face was solemn.
All this time, the Zergs' combat style could only be described with one word, and that was "reckless"!
Even with the command of a King Zerg, or even an Imperial Zerg (referring to Alba), the results were only different in the degree of recklessness. There was not much difference in essence!
Just like the original Rank 5 King Zerg, Socrates, his commanding method was completely without tactics. He purely relied on numbers to pile up the battle. This was the embodiment of the word reckless.
Even Alba, as an Imperial Zerg, may have paid more attention to methods, but fundamentally speaking, it was still reckless.
However, Aliya was different. Using the Hidden Blade Insect's sneak attack as an example, it was like building a plank road while secretly building a canal.
If his niece had not discovered it, he might have fallen for it and even lost the entire Vita Defensive Line.
Moreover, after realizing that things were not going well, without hesitation, she immediately took advantage of the chaos in the dimension to order all the Zergs to retreat.
She was like a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time. She was completely different from the Zergs he had encountered before.
If it were the King Zergs or Alba, Lin Tian would not have cared as he had absolute confidence in defeating them easily.
But for Aliya …
To be honest, Lin Tian had no confidence at all.
Not to mention defeating him, if it wasn't for the fact that he still had the Zero Particle Equipment in his hands, Lin Tian wouldn't even have the confidence to defend Vita's defensive line.
When a group of insects that only knew how to rely on numbers suddenly became like humans, arranging troops and paying attention to tactics …
What's more, Aliya clearly has a lot of trump cards. Lin Tian isn't naive enough to think that this Stealth Blade Insect is Aliya's last trump card.
In this exchange of probing, Lin Tian had not revealed the existence of the Neutron Warstar, but had Aliya revealed all her trump cards?
The answer was obviously no!
Just like what Lin Fan said in the previous meeting, if Aliya launched an all-out attack, then the only way for humans to stop her would be to use the Null Particle Weapon like what the Saint Wei Empire did 100,000 years ago.
Furthermore, he had merely blocked it.
It must be known that the human race did not have the huge territory and population of the Saint Viper Empire. Even if the human race used the Null Particle Armament without limit, it would be impossible for them to defeat the Zerg like the Saint Viper Empire.
It would be good enough if they were able to maintain their defensive line and survive!
As such, humans needed time, a lot of time, to break through their current level of civilization and master more advanced technology. Only then would they be able to achieve victory in this war between humans and insects.
Lin Tian opened his terminal and began writing a report as he thought about all that.
However, he didn't know that Aliya needed time as well.
Yes, Aliya has a huge number of insects under her command, so much so that a single mouthful of water from one insect could drown the entire Milky Way.
However, such a huge number of insects would not be able to be mobilized from the Wales Supercluster to the Lanikaia Supercluster or even the Myers Galaxy Group in a short amount of time.
Even if Aliya was able to open up a huge tunnel in the hive, it would take at least a dozen years to move all of her main forces over.
Furthermore, that was only referring to the main forces of the insects. If she wanted to gather the entire race, the time required would be even more terrifying. It would take at least 100 to 200 years!
Otherwise, why would the first Holy War last for twenty thousand years?
When the number of soldiers was too large, it would take at least a hundred years just to move the army once.
As such, Aliya's need for time was no less than that of humans.
It was fortunate that Aliya lacked sufficient information about humans and didn't know what kind of civilization they were.
She could only use the Saint Vader Empire, which was once a level-7 civilization as a reference!
That was a powerful civilization that owned an entire Supercluster. No matter how weak humans were, they should at least have a Supercluster.
That was Aliya's logic.
It was also because of that logic that Aliya used the small number of troops that had just arrived in the Myers Galaxy Group to attack the Vita Defense Line.
From her perspective, the ten billion warships on the Vita Defense Line were just a small fleet of humans. The small number of troops that she had just arrived was equivalent to them. It was the most suitable to use them to test the waters!
If Aliya knew that the Fearless Fleet was already 30% of the Federation's military strength, and it was also the most powerful fleet.
'I'm afraid Aliya won't think that I need time …'
Instead, she would act like the other King Bugs and just go all out!
This was also why Lin Fan insisted on having a fight with Aliya in the Jar Galaxy first before talking, and why he insisted on having the Fearless Fleet join the fray.
To the humans, they had to let Aliya feel that they weren't any weaker than the Saint Vader Empire in order to make her wary. Only then would they achieve their strategic goal of buying time for the Federation.
The Fearless Fleet was different from the Federation's regular fleet. The technology used by the warships in the Fearless Fleet was more than one grade higher than the Federation's regular fleet.
It was important to note that the Federation's regular fleet was only built with peak level-6 technology. Only their energy source had reached the level of a level-7 civilization.
The Fearless Fleet, on the other hand, was built entirely with the technology of a level-7 civilization, or even a civilization in the later stages of the Miracle Era.
Therefore, it was more than suitable for the Fearless Fleet to act as a deterrent!