So, while we were asleep, the entire crew of the starship was evacuated? And the starship's energy stones were taken along with them?

Gui Gui: [Yes, host.]

You didn't even call out to me?

They added a sleeping potion to the air circulation system. I wanted to shout, "You haven't left me, have you?"

Gui Gui sounded aggrieved, but Ming Mei felt even more aggrieved.

She really did close her eyes, and the whole world changed; she didn't hear a thing!

At this moment, it was dark outside the starship, and there were no more energy stones inside. The starship looked like a huge iron box in the wilderness, abrupt and cumbersome.

Because the energy stone was taken away and the ventilation system was no longer in operation, everyone's personal computers scanned the outside air and were surprised to find that the composition of the outside air was still within their breathing range.

In that case, wouldn't you say this was a place they carefully chose to trick them?

They thoughtfully considered whether the starship would be able to adapt to life here once it ran out of power.

"Wow, it's so cold here at night!"

Nearly a hundred students sat around the main control room of the starship, looking at the minus twenty degrees Celsius warning on their personal computers.

Despite the fact that their specially made clothing protected them from the cold, they couldn't help but marvel at it.

"Nonsense, don't you even look at how barren the outside of this planet is? Places unsuitable for plant growth are simply those where the conditions for sunlight, temperature, water, or soil are not met."

Some students raised this point, but Mingmei seemed to have a different opinion. She rested her chin on her hand and asked, "This place isn't suitable for vegetation, but the air is suitable for life. Why hasn't it been modified? Even though those veterans deceived us by pretending there was a starport here as a transit point for starship supplies, there are actually suitable conditions here, aren't there?"

"This is not a suitable place."

Hu Yue shook her head. The others turned to look at Hu Yue, their eyes full of questions. However, some students present also realized what Hu Yue meant.

"This planet is dead."

"Dead?"

Mingmei asked in surprise, and seeing the look of understanding and sadness in the eyes of those around her, she realized that this was a blind spot in her knowledge.

[Host, according to the other party, this place should have been inhabited by humans in the past, or at least by intelligent life forms.]

Gui Gui heard Ming Mei asking her in her mind what Hu Yue meant, so she told Ming Mei.

When the Zerg invade a planet, their first step is to slaughter all intelligent life on it. Then, they directly seize all the planet's resources, just as they did to ancient Earth.

Ancient Blue Star, the true home of the Hua Lan Star people, was destroyed after being invaded by the Zerg.

Even now, the ancient blue star remains forever sealed in that distant galaxy. Although it is called the ancient blue star, in current star charts, it appears as a small, gray sphere from the outside.

The Zerg will choose a vibrant planet to invade, slaughtering all intelligent life on that planet, and then draining all the planet's most vital energy. A planet without stellar energy will wither away from its core. Countless lives on that planet will gradually disappear, the climate will worsen and even become uncontrollable…

"Snap!"

Just as Gui Gui and Ming Mei were mentioning the harsh weather, a bolt of lightning suddenly illuminated the entire sky outside the starship. Everyone couldn't help but look out the window at the sky, where dark clouds were rolling in.

"This is going to happen..."

Some wanted to say rain, but as they watched the large, feathery snowflakes fall onto the starship's windows, they remembered the temperature outside.

Thunder on a snowy day is considered very strange.

"This place was once occupied by the Zerg."

Hu Yue, who had been interrupted by the thunder, resumed her speech.

"Although my father led his men to eventually reclaim this place, there was hardly any star energy left; it was all drained away by a queen insect."

Hu Yue was only just beginning to remember things about this planet at the time, and it seems that this event greatly shocked her father.

The destruction of a planet and the loss of countless lives cannot be imagined by just one person's imagination.

"I once heard that if you kill the queen insect and put her crystal core into this destroyed planet, the planet will regain its life."

Some classmates mentioned legends they had heard since childhood, which made Mingmei unable to resist glancing at the classmate who spoke.

Is this true?

Even Mingmei, who was carrying multiple insect queen crystal cores, couldn't help but think about the value of her mecha upon hearing this.

...

"Of course it's fake~"

In the virtual space, a refined-looking man sat at a table, looking at the cold-looking young man who was giving him a lesson, and he mentioned the destruction of the planet.

Qiao Xiyu lowered her eyes and recalled the legends circulating in the interstellar space, mentioning that the core of the insect queen could restore the entire vitality of a planet.

Mo Wenshu, who was giving him a lesson, chuckled and said that the legend was not very true.

"There are many different Zerg races, and not every Zerg Queen exists. Each Zerg race has its own Queen. You don't think all Queens are equally powerful or equally weak, do you?"

"I didn't think that way." Qiao Xiyu shook her head, and then she heard the other person say, "That's right, some insect queens are still very easy to kill."

Having never killed a queen insect before, and even facing a general insect would be a bit of a struggle for Qiao Xiyu, all she could do at this moment was to offer an awkward yet polite smile.

He knew that the other party had killed the insect queen, although it seemed to have been a mutual destruction, it was still something he could learn from.

Otherwise, the president wouldn't have recommended that he meet this former federal legend.

Mo Wenshu didn't seem to notice Qiao Xiyu's gaze. Back then, after he killed the Insect Queen, he was indeed on his last breath. If the mainframe hadn't found him and made a deal with him, he might have died there.

"However, it is true that the core of a queen insect can revive the life of an entire destroyed planet..."

Mo Wenshu changed the subject, a hint of envy flashing in his eyes. The insect core he had been pursuing had ultimately allowed a planet ravaged by the zombie virus to be purified and revitalized.

He once felt immense envy, and he had fantasized countless times about returning to his hometown, which had been destroyed in his youth.

He once dreamed that he was standing in his hometown under the blue sky and clear water, and that he was the only one standing there...

The hometown he wanted to return to was deserted.

"What kind of insect mother is that?"

Qiao Xiyu looked at this temporary teacher, who, though without a physical body, lived in this virtual world, with great curiosity.

"Their true emperor, the ruler of the entire Zerg, the core of the Queen Zerg."