"Beep beep," Yunqi's personal computer beeped; it was Simon calling.

"Yunqi, are you still on Planet L? The Federation has sent people over."

"Where do they want to be? I'm coming right now!"

"Yunqi?! Yunqi?! Is that you?" Kane's head came closer. "Yunqi, it's me, Kane. I couldn't contact you on the Imperial Star. So you've come to L Star."

"Kane? What are you doing here?"

“There may be insect hives in the Yuanjing mining area. The Federation is taking it very seriously, so I volunteered to come here. Vincent came too.”

"...How many people came in total?"

"Just Vincent and me."

"..."

“The situation of the Zerg on Planet L is unclear, so Vincent and I came here first. Vincent and I can handle most Zerg. It would be making a mountain out of a molehill to mobilize the army without knowing the situation.”

"Hmm. Do you want to rest first or come straight over? I'm near the insect hive right now."

"What?! You're near the insect hive?!" Vincent exclaimed urgently. "Nonsense! Come back right now!"

Yunqi said unhappily, "I'm not being unreasonable! I know what I'm doing! Vincent, I'm not your subordinate, you have no right to order me around!"

"..." I was clearly just concerned about him, so why did he think I was ordering him around?!

Kane looked at Vincent with sympathy and said to Yunqi, "We don't need to rest. Where are you? We'll come find you right away!"

Yunqi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send you the location right away."

Yunqi hung up the communication and sent Kane a topographical map of Planet L and her own location.

Kane was surprised when he received the topographic map of Planet L: "Vincent, Yunqi sent me the topographic map of Planet L... I remember that most of Planet L is undeveloped area, right?"

"Hmm... Let's go, we'll find out when we get there."

Simon looked at the two men and said respectfully, "Your Highness Kane, Major General Vincent, is Yunqi your friend? He has been on Planet L for more than ten days, staying in the undeveloped area. I told him it was dangerous there and advised him to come back, but he wouldn't listen."

Kane and Vincent nodded and said goodbye to Simon.

Kane imported the topographic map of Planet L that Yunqi had given him into the small spaceship, and using the location Yunqi sent, he piloted the spaceship to find Yunqi.

The spaceship made quite a racket...

Yunqi watched the two of them get off the spaceship. Fortunately, the location he provided was some distance from the insect hive.

Kane immediately tried to give Yunqi a hug, but Yunqi dodged it!

Kane feigned sadness: "Yunqi, we've been friends for a while now, won't you even give me a hug?"

A curvaceous, 1.9-meter-tall mature woman is now pretending to be heartbroken... Yunqi really can't accept it.

Yun Qi was speechless: "Your Highness Kane, there's a difference between men and women!"

"Then there's nothing more to it than men and women. Vincent, go give Yunqi a hug."

Vincent looked at Yunqi with a complicated expression, and smelled the fresh orange scent on him again...

"Kane!" Yunqi exclaimed angrily, "Can you stop joking?!"

"Alright, alright, I was just trying to lighten the mood." Kane raised his hands in surrender. "Tell me what you know now."

Yun Qi let out a long sigh: "I've been exploring Star L these past few days and discovered that this insectoid race is very special! These insectoids eat elemental crystals, and some functional insectoids can purify elemental crystals."

Kane and Vincent exchanged a glance: "Are you serious?!"

"Absolutely true!"

"Let's go back to the spaceship and talk about it; it's not safe outside."

The group boarded the spaceship. Kane projected the terrain map of Planet L that Yunqi had given him.

"Yunqi, is your topographic map accurate?"

"Accurate!" Just kidding, how could Xiaoqi's drawing not be accurate?!

"Then tell me what you know."

Yunqi operated the projector, zooming in on the area: "The Zerg hive is here, and here, here, and here are all elemental crystal mining areas, and they're all quite large. The Zerg always send worker Zerg to these four mining areas to collect elemental crystals. However, I've killed off quite a few of the worker Zerg that come out to collect them, so now there are fewer worker Zerg coming out to collect them."

After saying that, Yunqi felt a little proud. He must have killed over ten thousand insects in the past few days!

Yunqi continued to project using the quantum computer: "This is what I photographed inside the wormhole. The worker worms aren't very combat-effective, and the soldier worms aren't very strong either. The ones with strong combat power are the Zerg warriors. This is it! Its combat power should be above S-class mechs."

Kane asked, "How do you know its combat strength surpasses that of an S-class mech?"

"My mech is SS-class. I fought it in my mech and won by a narrow margin. The Zerg warrior's shell is rigid and cannot be penetrated by laser swords. Its weak point is its abdomen, which is relatively soft and can be attacked."

Kane nodded to indicate that he understood.

Yunqi continued, "This is a functional insectoid, let's call it Insect A for now. It is responsible for the crude purification of the collected elemental crystals."

Yunqi then pointed to another type of insect: "This is also a functional insect species, let's call it Insect B for now. It's essentially a refined product, and the quality of the elemental crystal fragments it produces is close to that of the elemental crystal core. This is it."

Yunqi took out two pieces of Yuan Crystal fragments and handed them to the two people respectively.

He continued, "This is the Queen Insect. Look at its body; it's completely different from the previous Insect races. Its translucent body contains elemental crystal energy."

Vincent's expression was grave: "Elemental crystals and elemental crystal cores are the energy source for our mechs. If the Zerg eat them, our mechs' energy source will be..."

"These Zerg must be wiped out!"

“But the Queen is protected by Zerg warriors. There are about ten Zerg warriors, so it will be difficult for the three of us to fight ten…” Yun Qi released another video clip, “There’s something strange about this. When the Queen gives birth to the functional Zerg, she doesn’t lay eggs, but gives birth to larvae directly. And after giving birth to the functional Zerg, the Queen is obviously much weaker.”

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