"Hey, what's that up ahead?"
While on the patrol ship, Lu Xiaoyao and her group, who had not received timely updates from the rear, saw a white mecha flying towards them.
"Hey! That's the boss's mecha!" Lu Xiaoyao recognized it immediately. "Hey, what's Mu Chen doing here?"
Lu Xiaoyao's shouts drew the attention of everyone else, including Lu Gui.
"Yeah, didn't that kid Mu Chen say he went to Hua Lan Star?"
Among those present were seniors who had worked with Mu Chen on missions, and naturally recognized Mu Chen's mecha.
"Idiot! Wasn't Hualan Star already destroyed?" someone else chimed in. "Isn't it coming back to fight for revenge?"
It's easy to understand why they went back to Hualan Star to fight for their home planet.
Currently, Hualan Star has been destroyed. General Meiqiu led them in a fierce counterattack and forced the Zerg to retreat. Otherwise, these people wouldn't be here guarding the planet.
Who knows, Mu Chen might have received the news and rushed over to join the battle!
Listening to the seniors' analysis, Lu Xiaoyao scratched her head, somewhat puzzled: "But... the big boss is fighting on Hua Lan Star, and the Zerg are defeated and retreat. How come Mu Chen is able to take revenge faster than the Zerg?"
They hadn't seen a single insect all day, so how come Mu Chen arrived first?
Lu Gui immediately sensed something was off about what Lu Xiaoyao said.
"Something is definitely not right here."
Lu Gui frowned. It was possible that Mu Chen had received a message and came ahead of time to carry out the mission, but he couldn't have come alone.
Besides, judging from their understanding of Mu Chen, shouldn't he always be clinging to Ming Mei?
"Could it be that Mu Chen is coming to give us a heads-up?"
"That's silly. But if we're going to send a message, why would the person in the mech have to pilot it themselves instead of transmitting it via a computer?"
Seeing everyone discussing it animatedly, Lu Xiaoyao was quite practical and asked, "Should we open the communication and ask him?"
"Forget it, we haven't detected the Zerg yet, it wouldn't be good to expose ourselves first."
"Let's wait and see. This wasn't our mission to begin with."
Lu Xiaoyao was about to turn on her personal terminal and contact Mu Chen to ask him what he was doing, but after hearing what everyone said, she silently turned it off.
Just as they watched the white mecha disappear past them in an instant, Lu Xiaoyao casually remarked, "The boss is always so fast and agile."
As a result, when they turned around, they were almost scared out of their wits.
Shortly after the white mech flew past, a large swarm of Zerg appeared behind it.
"Holy crap, no way? Is he being hunted down by the Zerg?!"
Everyone was baffled as to why a large group of insectoids followed Mu Chen after he flew over.
"Oh, wasn't the plan to make the Zerg fly into our encirclement along a predetermined trajectory? Judging from this, Mu Chen is probably being used as bait to wipe out these Zerg in one fell swoop."
"Oh, what you said might be true."
Lu Xiaoyao turned to look at her older brother, and then said, "Now that the Zerg army has appeared, shouldn't it be our turn to send a message back? There are so many Zerg!"
Hu Mingli soon received the news that Lu Xiaoyao and the others had returned.
"Everything is proceeding as planned, with a large number of Zerg appearing?"
Hu Mingli was taken aback at first, then his expression changed, and he said, "Who sent the message! Quick! Be careful! Where are they?!"
When Lu Gui and the others received the message from the command center again, they never expected that Hu Mingli would want to connect with them directly.
"It seems like something terrible has happened..."
When Lu Xiaoyao and the others saw Hu Mingli's face, which was so gloomy it looked like it was about to drip water, they felt something was wrong.
"Where are you now? A large number of Zerg? And what kind of bait are you using? Explain clearly."
"Huh?"
Among the group, a slightly older soldier clearly reported all the information the other party needed to Hu Mingli. Then, as if sensing something was amiss, he asked, "Major General, is there a problem?"
"Didn't you receive the previous message?"
Good grief, they thought Mu Chen was one of them, and that the other party was bait?
Hu Mingli felt like he was about to be scared to death by these people.
"During our previous patrols, we shut down the signal reception channel to avoid alerting the enemy..."
Lu Gui offered this explanation from the side, and seeing Hu Mingli's expression darken even more, they realized that they seemed to have missed some important information.
"Mu Chen has been controlled by the Queen Insect Mother. The one you saw was not a decoy to lure the Zerg into pursuit. The Zerg have already broken through several lines of defense with Mu Chen's mech during their retreat."
Hearing Hu Mingli's words, everyone turned pale with fright. They had just been trying to contact him!
What if we had accidentally exposed ourselves just now...
The thought sent chills down their spines!
"My grandfather!!!"
Just as everyone was feeling worried, Lu Xiaoyao suddenly let out a piercing scream.
Just as the others were about to question her about what she was yelling about at such a time, they followed Lu Xiaoyao's horrified gaze and looked outside the patrol ship.
Holy crap!
Everyone was dumbfounded, as was Lu Xiaoyao's reaction to calling him "Master".
They didn't know when, but the white mecha appeared in front of them once again.
Incidentally, there was also a group of Zerg, whose names Xiaoyao couldn't quite identify but whose faces told her they were difficult to fight, eyeing the lone patrol ship whose position had been exposed...
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