Chapter 1649: Chapter 935: Not Without Solutions
Gu Hang has always been able to keep an eye on the situation of the Expeditionary Force.
He has indeed been closely observing it.
From his perspective, the Alliance is undoubtedly the core of saving the entire Human Empire. He does not believe anyone else can accomplish as much as he can.
However, if there can be a strong ally, that is also a good thing.
Gu Hang holds Robert in high regard and has high hopes for him.
Of course, according to Gu Hangās idea, it would be best for Robert to stay put in the Infinite Starfield, using the home base of the Infinite Corps as the center to launch a military action akin to the Allianceās Dark Side Expedition focusing on the Spiderweb Domain and the Eastern Cosmos Domain, expanding territory within the Holy Territory of the Empire.
Instead of rushing to Holy Terra, itās better to steadily manage one world after another.
By then, even if Holy Terra is truly finished, destroyed, and the Human Empire ceases to exist, the Alliance would still have preserved half of the Empireās Dark Side, then see how much territory Robert can secure in the Empireās Holy Territory.
Worst case scenario, they can work together, step by step, to reclaim the Human Ancestral Star on Holy Terra.
Of course, losing Holy Terra would be particularly significant and could trigger an even greater crisis, which Gu Hang also agrees with. Therefore, when Robert decided to launch this highly risky Terra Expedition, he ultimately did not oppose too severely.
And since the expedition has already begun, it contains not only Gu Hangās expectations for the situation in the Empireās Holy Territory to improve, but also his own son is involved, so naturally, he cannot ignore it completely.
The Expeditionary Force departing from the Infinite Starfield managed not to get lost in Subspace, not only due to the Emperorās blessing, but also with a little help from Gu Hang.
But overall, Gu Hangās ability to help was not sufficient.
At least, itās very difficult for him to directly dispatch troops or deliver supplies to the Expeditionary Forceās ships.
The costs would be too high, even Gu Hang isnāt willing to do that.
However, there is other assistance that can be provided through Gu Jingās presence to the Expeditionary Force.
Especially in terms of information.
Robert possesses a highly intelligent mind, but he requires a lot of information as a basis for decision-making.
And Gu Hang can provide much information about Subspace, the Evil God, Demons, Spiritual Energy... these clues and knowledge. As soon as something happens, Gu Hang can usually understand what is going on by looking through Gu Jingās perspective.
Gu Jing understands it himself, and he told Robert; but there are many things Gu Jing doesnāt comprehend, despite his years of study and practice. The ceiling of his power is there; without reaching a certain level, heās just not aware.
Then Gu Hang would often inform him of the information, and he would convey it to Robert.
Many pieces of information provided by Gu Hang helped Robert avoid many pitfalls and indirectly saved the entire Expeditionary Force multiple times.
Including this incident with the dark elves, it was the same.
However, even Gu Hang misjudged a little this time.
Only a little.
After all, the Spirit Raceās foundation is still terrifying; they were the dominant force in the universe countless thousands of years ago. Even after their downfall, they managed to survive under Slaaneshās pursuit until today. They truly have some cards up their sleeves.
Gu Hang did not realize the dark Spirit Raceās intentions when they first appeared. It wasnāt until after the array unfolded that he took some time to analyze the purpose of this array.
He predicted the array would take effect in eight hours, but it actually took effect after seven hours. This reduction was due to numerous array nodes being destroyed, delaying the activation time.
However, thereās one point Gu Hang had already analyzed earlier but didnāt share with Gu Jing and Robert.
To disrupt the Subspace slicing array of the dark Spirit Race, the critical point of node destruction is half.
The reason for not sharing this with the two is that after Gu Hang analyzed it, he observed the onsite situation and knew that the Human Expeditionary Army could never achieve this goal.
In other words, being drawn into the curtain was inevitable.
There was absolutely no way they could destroy half the nodes within eight hours.
Which means being dragged into the curtain was a foregone conclusion for the entire Expeditionary Force.
Whatās the point of saying anything?
Do we inform the Expeditionary Force, leaving them disheartened?
Itās better to let them maintain high morale and strive to destroy those nodes.
Destroying each node means another Spirit Race army, Spirit Race ship is destroyed.
Since they must hold the nodes, delaying node destruction, they canāt leverage their best flexibility and elusive actions. So itās best to kill as many Spirit Race individuals as possible.
Once the Spirit Race individuals are killed, although their souls will return to Comoros and be reborn, the process of growing a physical body takes time, and the newly reborn Spirit Race will endure a long period of weakness and will require significant time and effort to rediscover their peak state.
For the relatively scarce Spirit Race population, the losses are considerable.
As for the Spirit Race, despite such significant losses, pursuing their grand strategy... in Gu Hangās view, itās not entirely insoluble.