After learning about the situation in Beihai Town from Qin Hu, Lin Feng brought Shen Jie, Liu Yi, and a few commanders from the Battle Group to Qin Hu’s command center to discuss the specific raiding strategy.
The exit of Beihai Town directly faced the western side of the Capital City.
Therefore, the Zerg Race Mother Empresses they were facing this time were the Mid-stage Mother Empress previously stationed in the west, along with two Early-stage Mother Empresses nearby.
He had heard from Ling Yi before that this Mid-stage Mother Empress had only recently advanced to the Middle Stage.
Even if it had gotten a piece of the pie from the fall of the Capital City, its strength wouldn’t have increased by much.
It was probably around Level 35.
There was still a huge gap between it and the Mid-stage Perfection Mother Empresses in the south and east.
Its strength was, however, similar to the Hai City Mother Empress that Lin Feng had been fighting all this time.
It now seemed to be the best target for Lin Feng’s breakthrough to the Tier Three Middle Stage.
And unlike the Underground Mother Empress Cluster outside Yunxia Ridge, these three Mother Empresses—serving as a diversionary force—did not have to face an underground counterattack from the Salvation Army, so they weren’t operating together.
The sole Mid-stage Mother Empress was still holed up twenty kilometers outside the Beihai Town exit, inside its original Underground Hive.
It was right on the outermost edge of the Capital City.
Currently, the main focus of the Zerg Race under its command was still on plundering the fallen Capital City and coordinating with the northern Mid-stage Mother Empress to hunt down the military groups that had escaped to the northwest.
In short, it had little interest in launching a frontal assault westward on the heavily defended Beihai Town and Yunxia Ridge.
’It made sense, really. Why bother trying to crack the Salvation Army, a nut so tough it could break your teeth, when you could pick on a soft target like the Federation defenders?’
Therefore, the Swarm offensive against Beihai Town was just a feint. The number of Zergs sent out was only about twenty to thirty thousand, and most of them were Tier One Early Stage Black Spine Zergs.
Furthermore, the ones responsible for commanding the front lines were the other two Early-stage Mother Empresses.
As a result, the intensity of the Swarm’s attack was less than a quarter of what Yunxia Ridge was facing.
This situation was exactly what Lin Feng had hoped for.
If the three Mother Empresses remained separate, then killing the two Early-stage Mother Empresses would be child’s play for the current Lin Feng—as easy as lifting a finger.
Lin Feng then had Qin Hu bring out the intelligence gathered by the reconnaissance teams he had dispatched.
On a map, they marked the gathering points of the Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs and the suspected locations of the Hives where the Mother Empresses resided.
Besides the confirmed location of the Mid-stage Mother Empress in the west, there were five likely locations for the other two Early-stage Mother Empresses.
Lin Feng glanced at the composition of their forces.
The twenty Peak Genetic Warriors of the Salvation Army no longer needed the protection of the Mother Empress’s Shield to withstand the Spiritual Attacks of an Early-stage Mother Empress, so they could operate independently.
So, the twenty of them were formed into one team to explore one of the cave entrances, led by the Tier Three Shen Jie.
Meanwhile, the other twenty members of the Guard Battle Group would follow Lin Feng and the Mother Empress to investigate the remaining, most distant cave entrance.
Qin Hu’s thirty-six Genetic Warriors were responsible for scouting the other three locations. Their only objective was to find any trace of a Mother Empress, then retreat and contact the Salvation Army. They were not to engage in a direct assault.
After all, their strength was limited, and being spread out, they would have difficulty fighting a Mother Empress and the Tier Two Zerg Race under its command.
With the arrangements made, Lin Feng immediately gave the order to move out.
Leading his subordinate Liu Yi and the twenty members of the Guard Battle Group, he moved stealthily along the edge of the battlefield near the river outlet...
...and entered a Hive entrance five kilometers away, a place suspected of being a Nest!
As he activated his Mind Sensing Skill...
a dazzling, pale golden point of light,
appeared in Lin Feng’s mind.
"We’re in luck!"
"Liu Yi, Liu Yueqi, keep up!"