Wen Xihe went to the fourth floor to explore.

There are quite a few things on the fourth floor. This may have been their dormitory. Even if they left in a hurry, there are still some things left here that can be explored.

Wen Xihe saw a document that had fallen into the crevice of the bedside table—

It is roughly an observation report.

Project Eden: 456 days

Adam has lost vital signs, Eve remains in a coma, but the good news is...

Project Eden: 627 Days

Eve is confirmed dead; ■■■■ is in good condition; we have found ■■■■ from her.

Project Eden: 723 Days

[Bad news, those bugs seem to have found this place...]

Wen Xihe looked at the observation report with some important information crossed out... He recalled the Zerg attack on Nott Planet 10 years ago. This was definitely not a baseless guess, Wen Xihe thought.

The attack on Planet Nott was indeed related to this secret underground structure.

He suddenly wanted to find Li Chonghe and ask him if he knew that Planet Nott had such a secret.

Even during the competition, they had to find Cen Yu before leaving and reporting the incident to their instructor!

Thinking of this, he prepared to go to the fifth underground floor. He remembered that Chi Jiazhen said that the underground building had a total of five floors.

...

1 hour ago.

“I must leave here,” Chi Jiazhen suddenly said.

"Huh?" Jiang Yan looked at Chi Jiazhen. "You're leaving here? To die?"

He also learned that Cen Yu and the others' messages were temporarily blocked, but he wasn't worried—he guessed that they had probably arrived at a place where the signal was blocked.

“That place is a bit strange,” Chi Jiazhen said.

He was deeply worried, as if he always felt that the underground structures beneath the desert concealed other dangers.

Lou Miao'an hadn't expected that the underground building would have absolutely no signal...

Unfortunately, before they could reach a conclusion, the blue team was ambushed, and their hiding place seemed to have been discovered.

Chi Jiazhen glanced at Jiang Yan and Lou Miao'an, "You two go to other places first."

"I'm going to the desert region."

Although they are from the command department, each of them has a standard mech provided by the academy to deal with combat terrain—however, compared to those from the combat department, these mechs can only handle some basic combat.

Jiang Yan sensed movement above where they were hiding. Fortunately, there was another passage in the area. Considering that Cen Yu and the others had not yet returned, he could only agree to split up for the time being.

They immediately ran to other parts of the secret passage.

Once they had moved slightly away from the passage, they saw that the attackers were the red forces led by Lan Yao and Sang Huaizhou.

Under Jiang Yan's gaze, Chi Jiazhen left from other places and ran towards the desert area where the green camp was located.

Only after piloting the mecha far from the city did Chi Jiazhen, sitting inside, crush the recorder on his chest. He removed the earpiece, looked at the small device that communicated with Cen Yu, and then tossed it aside. He closed his eyes briefly and called out to Cen Yu in his mind—

"Xiao Yu".

Are you still in the underground space?

Cen Yu's voice entered his mind, and when he closed his eyes, he could see Cen Yu groping for something on the third basement level.

Chi Jiazhen remained unhurried, "...Go to the fifth basement level..."

He naturally saw Li Chonghe and Wen Xihe as well.

He knew that Li Chonghe's body couldn't hold on any longer. The closer they got to the underground nest, the more the insect part of his body wanted to break free.

He clearly "saw" Li Chonghe and Wen Xihe make an excuse and then hurriedly leave.

He probably wanted to stay away from Wen Xihe, but he didn't expect that the closer he got to the fifth underground level, the faster that thing would burst out of his body...

Inside the mecha, Chi Jiazhen even hummed the little tune he had hummed on the spaceship in a good mood.

He watched as Li Chonghe arrived at the fifth underground floor, knelt on the ground, and finally his elytra could no longer hold back and burst out of his body.

They also saw Cen Yu follow the other side to the fifth underground level. He seemed to smell something and slowly moved towards where Li Chonghe was hiding.

He anticipated Cen Yu's reaction when he saw the elytra on Li Chonghe's back—would it be disbelief or an immediate decision to kill this "Zerg"? He considered many possibilities, but he never expected Cen Yu to simply ask Li Chonghe one question—

Is it worth it?

...

When Wen Xihe arrived at the fifth underground level, all she could smell was a strong stench of blood.

He realized something was wrong and immediately drew his weapon, remaining on high alert... The glass jars standing around him made him realize that a secret experiment was indeed being conducted here.

Whether it was the Eden Project in the documents or Adam and Eve, they only made Wen Xi feel a sense of unease.

The exhibition space on the third floor, with its broken glass and artificial trees and grass, now seems like a laboratory clumsily imitating the "Garden of Eden."

As Wen Xi descended the stairs, she moved closer to the area with the strongest stench of blood...

When he saw the blood-stained elytra on the ground, his body tensed up instinctively, alert to the appearance of the insectoids. A moment later, he found Li Chonghe, who was wrapped in bandages and covered in wounds, and Cen Yu, who also had some blood on his body, on the other side.

"What happened?" Wen Xihe kicked away the elytra and went over to ask.

He could smell the lingering pheromones in the air; besides the unfamiliar ones, the rest was sultry.

He glanced at Cen Yu, "Cover up the smell."

He knew that Alphas might leak pheromones when they were under mental stress or fighting... Li Chonghe's face was pale, and he looked somewhat weak.

The bandages on his neck were still seeping blood, and his back was wrapped in several layers of bandages. Considering the blood-stained elytra, Wen Xi guessed, "Have you encountered the Zerg?"

“Yes,” Cen Yu said.

"I encountered a bug."

“Li Chonghe is having a bit of bad luck,” he said.

Wen Xihe looked at the severed elytra and asked, "Where's the insect?"

"They ran away?"

"I didn't see it."

He was about to head towards other areas on the fifth basement level when he said that. "Did you run off to another place?"

“Yes.” Cen Yu pointed in a direction. “I guess it’s hidden in some underground space.”

Li Chonghe remained silent, seemingly exhausted from the attack... Wen Xihe pulled out the Eden Project report he had found from his pocket, "I found this on the fourth floor."

He said to Cen Yu and Li Chonghe.

Then he looked at Li Chonghe with a probing gaze, "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Why do I feel like the smell of blood on you is coming from the glands at the back of your neck?"