Chapter 147 Chapter 147 There is a rift in front, and a swarm of insects behind.
The capital planet of the Ark Federation, Sosela.
The first extraterrestrial monitoring station.
This is the Ark Federation's central command center for observing and responding to anomalies in the universe.
The monitoring station looks like a celestial sphere.
The hollow sphere hovers in the planet's orbit, with more than a dozen concentric rings of different sizes rotating regularly on the outside, collecting extraterrestrial information.
The ring is wrapped with light strips and silver reflective strips, and the reflected light illuminates the surrounding area.
The internal monitoring center is a silver-gray circular star disk.
Huge deterrent cannon barrels are embedded around the star disk, ready for action at any time.
The Zerg on the screen are like chess pieces scattered like stars.
Keep moving.
The personnel at the monitoring station were silent but their fingertips moved quickly - they were busy detecting the movements of the Zerg, and the digital information on the screen passed by quickly before they could even read it clearly.
The direction of the chess game changes in the blink of an eye.
But there is one place where the changes are particularly strange.
Monitor No. 2 frowned, feeling that something was not right.
"Why are all the mechas from the Seventeen Beacons retreating? Didn't their commander just get the situation under control?"
"That's right. The Zerg nearby have stopped advancing and are even showing signs of retreating back to their hive."
Monitor No. 3 scratched his head. "Rather than saying the workers retreated to the hive, it's more accurate to say they retreated to the mother hive, protecting her with all their might. After the swarm coalesced, they descended along (A43, B5, C-80) to the channel near the nameless star..."
Monitor No. 1 interrupted, "Nameless Star?"
Monitor No. 3 nodded. "That S-class Zerg Queen was moving through the nearby rifts. The Zerg swarm it led even accidentally destroyed a small Zerg swarm..."
"And he also knocked the mechas of our 671st Legion flying."
"Gift crab."
"I don't understand what it's doing."
"Didn't the Reval Empire give any news? Where are their commanders?"
"The commander, codenamed S, hasn't responded in over ten minutes. Our commander is also very anxious about the situation and just got into an argument with the people over there over the comms."
"What's the fuss?"
"I don't know, but I heard words like 'amateur,' 'director,' and 'reckless indeed.' Ah, it looks like the argument is over. Let me listen to the recording."
Monitor No. 3 put on his headphones and started fiddling with the monitor.
While everyone was working in multiple threads and manipulating the data in their hands, they glanced at their monitoring king, wanting to know what was going on with the insect queen that was behaving strangely, but after waiting for a long time, No. 3 still couldn't explain it.
Someone couldn't help but ask, "So, did the Ruler and Litiana come to any conclusion in their argument?"
"I didn't hear it clearly. The recording failed. I'll go ask Reval's support team."
Another member waved his hand. "Ah, I just asked about that, and the support team doesn't know anything."
"As soon as they arrived at the Empire, they were notified by the commander to retreat. They are now responsible for guarding the first line of defense."
"What about the abnormal state of the insect swarm? Did the support team say anything?"
"Yes... yes." The man hesitated, as if he didn't know how to start. Under the siege of the crowd, he finally spoke slowly.
"I heard from them that Commander S's mecha rushed into the center of the Zerg swarm and single-handedly killed the S-class Octopod..."
"Commander, are you alone? Are you sure?"
It was obvious that everyone didn't believe it.
"A mecha killed an S-class insect queen. Do you believe those scoundrels' boast?"
"I'm even dismantling a mecha with my bare hands. What a sci-fi movie plot! I must have taken too many painkillers and am hallucinating."
Monitor No. 2 snorted coldly. There was not a single truth in the mouths of these ruffians. He decisively found a reliable person - Ji Yi.
But after hearing Ji Yi's description, which was almost the same as that of the group of soldiers, Monitor No. 1, the monitoring team leader behind him, and Qingxuan, who had just stepped into the operating room, all fell silent in unison.
The monitors on the scene looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
"What's wrong? What did Marshal Ji say?"
It actually silenced their monitoring team leader and Commander Qingxuan?
The monitoring team leader wanted to say something but hesitated. Finally, after Commander Qingxuan nodded slightly, he spoke.
"Marshal Ji said that if a mecha comes over dragging something strange, we should hold off firing for now."
"What do you mean by strange things? It's not like Lao Ji to be so vague."
"Uh, it seems to have arrived."
The monitoring team leader's finger pointed towards the universe.
At the same time, red warning lights flashed in the monitoring station, and the dazzling light constantly reminded people of the coming crisis.
The system's electronic voice sounded.
[Warning, warning, S-class worm queen is approaching at a speed of 30 kilometers per second and is about to collide with this station. The protective shield has automatically deployed.]
[Identifying the mother insect's information... The form does not match any data in the database, identification failed.]
[The S-class worm queen has entered our range, prepare to fire.]
[Main gun recharging——]
The extremely black mecha spewed gas and passed over the top of the monitoring station like a meteor.
The black meteor held a cable in her hand, and behind her was a strange creature.
It was like a burnt lump of meat, black and half-dead.
There seems to be a faint fragrance across the screen.
"This unrecognizable creature couldn't be..."
Everyone swallowed their saliva.
No wonder the system didn’t identify the species just now. The shell was so damaged, how could it be seen as an eight-legged spider?
Looking again, behind this insect queen, a huge group of insects were surging forward as if they were free.
The number is in tens of millions.
People with trypophobia would faint immediately after seeing this.
"Could this commander have attracted all the Zerg that just passed by..."
Everyone looked like they were about to die.
Now their lives are in Tao Ying's hands.
If Tao Ying wants to take someone with him, the entire Sosela planet will be buried with him.
"How did she do it, with so many Zerg following her?"
"Worker insects only follow their own queens, but now they're all following her. It's a complete mess."
"If you didn't know, you'd think the mecha contained a 3S-level mind-controlled insect mother."
[Main gun reload complete, ready to fire. To cancel, please press the emergency button within ten seconds...]
"What should I do?"
The monitoring officer was struggling over whether to stop the automatic firing of the cannon, and turned to look at the commander-in-chief Qingxuan.
Qingxuan stared at the porthole, was silent for a moment, and signaled to open the protective wall to the maximum. She canceled the system control of the main gun, operated the secondary gun herself, and shot at several lone worker insects.
The worker insects were injured by the shells. They turned their heads in anger, flapped their wings rapidly, and let out ferocious roars.
The monitoring officer didn't know what Qingxuan was trying to do, so he quickly asked, "Commander Qingxuan, what are you doing?"
Qingxuan didn't answer, but took a step forward in her military boots, swinging her high ponytail vigorously.
She observed the two Zergs intently for a while.
Sure enough, there was something strange.
The Zerg, which had just been fired upon and was roaring at them and trying to rush over to fight them, seemed to have lost its memory three seconds later and turned around to catch up with the main force.
The Zerg's brains seemed to be occupied by other things, and they had no energy to think about their own affairs.
These Zerg had no interest in them.
There was a hint of speculation in Qingxuan's expression.
Qingxuan: "These Zerg... seem to be attracted by something on that S-class Zerg Queen."
The moment Qingxuan finished speaking, the monitoring station screen flashed.
A forced transmission penetrated their systems.
The picture appeared in front of me.
The black-haired and black-eyed pilot was panting, his hair on the sides of his face soaked with sweat and sticking to his ears.
Her face was pale, and her body had obviously reached its limit after the long tug-of-war, but she relied on her spirit to persevere, with an unusually excited glow in her eyes.
Her pupils had a depth that was unbecoming of her age, as if she had once fallen into an abyss.
Or it was as if she were the abyss itself.
Everyone felt a chill down their spine, a feeling they couldn't resist.
The powerful and oppressive mental force made them want to bow their heads and kneel down.
Tao Ying seemed to realize that his mental power was being released too much, so he coughed lightly and restrained it.
Then the eyes curved and the lips curved too.
Said in a harmless voice.
"Hello everyone, it's our first time meeting. I'm busy and need your help. Are you interested in saving the world?"
Everyone: “…”
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Tao Ying arranged things here, glanced at the neatly arranged cannon barrels, and nodded with satisfaction.
She refueled and left quickly without stopping.
The black mecha flew past the largest outpost of the Ark Federation and sped forward.
The people who were left behind breathed a sigh of relief as they watched Hengwo's gradually receding figure and the tens of millions of Zergs roaring past.
"What a terrifying woman! No wonder Marshal Ji is willing to vouch for her."
"I can pack up and retire."
The monitoring team leader paused. "I wanted to call her crazy at first... but for some reason I just started to think she was a nice person. What's going on?"
"The team leader's mental strength is A, right? He's easily affected. We're all S-level, so the impact is less. Commander Qingxuan has the highest, S++, so we weren't drawn away by her amazing leadership the whole time. Commander Qingxuan, what's wrong? You look so pale."
Commander Qingxuan shook his head stiffly when he heard this.
"No, I'm affected by it too."
From the moment Qingxuan started shooting the worker insects, she vaguely felt that something in the queen insect's body was attracting the insect swarm, and halfway through, she even came up with the idea that it was the "pheromone of gall insects."
But this information was a secret kept by the Reval Empire for many years, and even the ruler of the Yak Federation did not know it.
And she shouldn't even know!
The judgment Qingxuan just thought she had made was actually guided by Tao Ying in advance.
"Spiritual power injection...?"
"What? You mean controlling other people's minds?"
"Then how high is her mental strength? Could it be the same as Sylvia's, 3S level?!"
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At the same time, good news came from other outposts of the Yak Federation.
"The Zerg have left with Commander S. This star field has been cleared of Zerg. The danger level has been reduced and it has been reclassified as the fourth danger zone."
It's not just the Ark Federation. Behind Chester Star, there are more than a dozen newly created rifts near the waterway. After Tao Ying drove the mecha around, all the Zerg that were originally there were led to the same area.
Thirteenth Beacon Rift.
A strange area where unexplained disappearances of starships often occur.
Rumor has it that once you enter, you can never get out. It's like a crack in the universe, with the inside leading to another dimension.
I stopped quickly nearby, and Tao Ying instinctively looked up. Even after looking up until her head was sore, she still couldn't see the end of the crack.
The height of the crack is hundreds or thousands of times that of the mecha, and I seem small in front of it.
No one has ever dared to get so close to the rift.
Tao Ying's hands trembled uncontrollably and she took a deep breath.
"Too nervous?" Sylvia's voice came from inside the body.
"nervous?"
Tao Ying pushed back the hair beside her ear and shook the cable in her hand twice.
There is a rift in front and a swarm of insects behind.
Tao Ying lowered his head and shook it, then sneered.
"How could that be? It's too exciting."
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