Chapter 54: Mother
This was the first time Shay piloted a mecha into space.
The Zerg have advanced technology and can conduct holographic battle simulations during training, with a restoration rate of up to 80%.
But when facing the vast expanse of space, Xia Yi realized how insignificant he was.
He took a deep breath and forced himself to exhale slowly and evenly.
No problem!
"Shay, can you hear me?"
With a slightly distorted sound, Xia Yi came back to his senses and quickly turned on the call button.
"Got it, I can hear you."
"The magnetic storm zone is ahead. Expand your mental field as much as possible. If you can expand it beyond 10 meters, the first team will follow you into the magnetic storm zone."
"Your mech is attached to a safety cable. You only need to advance 200 meters and then exit once the cable reaches the bottom."
"Shay received."
From a distance, the magnetic storm zone looks like a colorful smoke covering the planet Houston. When you get close, you will find that its color comes from the high-speed collision of meteorites.
Shay's palms were sweating. With his mental power highly concentrated, he could slowly sense the area of magnetic storm.
This feeling was very strange. Although he was sitting in the cockpit of the mecha, he seemed to be gradually connected with this magnetic storm area.
The mecha driven by Xia Yi gradually sank into the magnetic storm area. The scanning equipment of the technicians on the aircraft showed that a hollow area was gradually forming in the magnetic storm area.
"Open it!"
The marshal glanced at the scanner and ordered, "Team One, Team Two, follow up."
The hollow area that Shay opened up was larger than they expected. After many tests, it had reached a diameter that allowed small aircraft to pass through.
"Shay, this time the aircraft will follow you in, and we'll untie the safety cable from the main warship."
This means they are finally heading to the planet Houston.
"Shay received."
Xia Yi knew that the situation was urgent. No one knew what the current situation on the Houston planet was. The sooner he entered, the better his chances of winning.
With a slight click, Shay felt the safety cable that had been tied to the mecha being untied. He took a deep breath and opened his spiritual realm again.
The communication channel returned to silence after a few hissing sounds.
However, this calm did not last for a long time. Xia Yi felt that the resistance to the expansion of his spiritual domain was getting stronger and stronger, as if someone was outside squeezing the space he had opened up.
However, the female insect on the aircraft seemed unaware.
Xia Yi tried shouting a few times, but all fell on deaf ears.
To make matters worse, the surrounding magnetic storm intensified, and the meteorites flying down at high speeds became more and more dense, forcing Shay to operate the mecha to dodge.
In a short while, he was getting farther and farther away from the aircraft.
However, the aircraft was led away from its original orbit as if it had no idea.
Seeing that the aircraft was about to leave his spiritual realm, Xia Yi anxiously wanted to stop them. At this time, he actually discovered dozens of bright spots.
Could this be the female insect's spiritual sea? !
Shay extended his mental tentacles and cautiously tried to communicate with them.
【return! 】
Come back soon!
What's that sound?
[This voice? Shay?]
[You have already strayed from the hollow airspace I opened up! ]
In the chaos, Xia Yi's spiritual tentacles stretched out and tried desperately to hook onto the spiritual sea that was emitting faint light.
The spiritual sea was trembling, like fireflies in the dark night, flickering. Xia Yi had no choice but to use greater strength to chase them and pull them back to the right path.
A few of them were very disobedient and were even hit twice by Shay's tentacles.
Luckily, this actually works!
Murray suppressed his astonishment and followed the guidance of his spiritual tentacles to find Shay.
They didn't know how long they had been driving in the magnetic storm circle. Gradually, the magnetic storm subsided and they actually saw the shape of a building. They were almost there!
Just as he was leaving the magnetic storm circle, Shay suddenly turned back.
"What's wrong?" Murray's voice came from the communicator.
"Nothing..." Xia Yi paused for a moment, "I just thought I heard someone calling me."
The voice was ethereal and vague, and he couldn't hear it clearly.
"Teams One and Two have arrived. This is all thanks to you, Shay," Murray replied. "Let's get back to the aircraft. We're about to land."
Time was running out and Xia Yi had no time to think about it. He returned to the aircraft as he was told and found that everyone was looking at him strangely.
"You can actually use mental tentacles!"
"I just heard your voice!"
"So that voice was you! I thought it was just my imagination!"
"You can actually touch my spiritual sea directly..."
As we all know, mental tentacles are a skill that can only be used by high-level male insects. They act on the spiritual sea of female insects to brush away the dust for them. This is a very delicate job that often requires a specific treatment environment and has very strict requirements on time and place.
And Xia Yi was able to touch the spiritual seas of dozens of female insects at the same time in a magnetic storm environment and accurately convey information...
And it is said that he has just emerged from his cocoon!
The military's estimate of him was too conservative. He really was an S-class male insect!
"I'm sorry, I had no other choice in this emergency." Xia Yi had been a Zerg for some time. He knew that the spiritual sea was a very private place for female Zergs. He had just pulled and tugged at their spiritual seas, which was really a bit presumptuous.
"You are so kind, sir!"
"Sir Shay, my spiritual sea is open to you at any time!"
Faced with the shy male insect, the female insects all said they didn't care. "You're kidding! This is an S-rank male insect. How can he get his spiritual sea smacked twice by him? This uSP is not worth snapping away!"
"It feels so good to be beaten."
Amidst the many voices of thanks, a discordant voice emerged.
Murray's eye twitched as he looked at Shay who was surrounded, and then looked out the window.
Good luck to you, Enoch.
He cleared his throat: "We're about to land, get ready!"
"yes!"
The female insects that had not been in good shape just now returned to their positions. They looked at the ground and saw that large buildings had collapsed, the remains of star beasts were piled on the ground, and the blood had dyed the river red.
They all knew that what flowed in the river was not only the blood of the Star Beasts, but also the blood of their compatriots who fought desperately.
——
The situation is not optimistic.
After joining forces with the main force on the ground, they discovered that the troops here were less than 50% of their original strength.
"Where's Major General Webster?"
It was Ryan who answered him. His orange-red hair had turned a reddish-brown due to blood and sand. His face was heavy with sorrow. "The Major General encountered the Chimu a week ago and his whereabouts remain unknown."
Shay's face turned pale in an instant.
Ryan couldn't bear to continue. None of his teammates survived, and this information was obtained from the shattered mecha...
"He must still be alive!" Shay stood firm and said with certainty, "I've anchored him, he can't be dead!"
Ryan's hope was rekindled and he nodded vigorously.
"Murray, can the new information tower communicate with the outside world?"
"Okay, we've contacted the Seventh Legion."
"Then please tell them to send another team. I'll go pick them up!"
"You have been driving the mecha for four hours, which means eight hours round trip. Your body can't bear it." Murray has seen Shay's training at school. Male insects have poor physical strength, and four hours is already their limit.
"I can," Shay insisted.
"You have to be careful. Don't forget, if anything happens to you, Enoch will also be seriously hurt."
"I know. Thank you."
In the following time, Xia Yi crossed the magnetic storm zone several times, and the spiritual domain he could expand became larger and larger, and his speed became faster and faster.
In contrast, his face was rapidly becoming thinner and the dark circles under his eyes were dark.
Even the marshal forced him to stop.
"You must rest, Shay," the marshal said sternly. "Overdrawing your mental strength has a significant impact."
Shay came back to his senses. He nodded and thanked the marshal for his kindness. "I understand. I will rest after escorting this team."
The marshal patted him on the shoulder.
Xia Yi's direct contact with the female insect's spiritual sea had been reported to the Marshal early on, and the Insect Emperor and the Male Protection Association had also received word of it. A precious male insect with an S-level spiritual power, possessing both responsibility and a sense of fraternity, he was undoubtedly a treasure of the Empire.
Xia Yi skillfully stretched out his spiritual domain. This action became easier and easier for him. He no longer felt that someone was squeezing the domain he stretched out. These magnetic storms became unusually obedient in front of him.
I can dominate them.
I can fit into them.
So tired...
The body was extremely tired, but the spiritual realm was expanding.
Come to me...
Shay heard the ethereal and vague voice.
Come to me, Shay...
【come over……】
Xia Yi felt weak and heavy all over, but his mind became light.
It was like when his mother held him in her arms after completing rehabilitation, he was sweating all over and didn't want to move a finger.
It's like lying under the old paulownia tree in grandma's yard, with the wind, the sunshine, and the sound of old people chatting in the kitchen.
He couldn't help but walk towards the source of the sound.
【Shay! 】
The sudden male voice was like thunder in the afternoon, waking up the sleepy Xia Yi.
It was Enoch! Just like he had heard when he emerged from his cocoon!
He snapped back to his senses and realized he had strayed off course.
The ethereal voice suddenly became high-pitched and shrill, making a series of chilling creaking sounds, like... like gnashing of teeth!
It's the spiritual beast mother!
The female soldiers on the planet Houston searched for it for a long time but couldn't find any trace of it. It turned out that it was hiding in the magnetic storm circle!
The magnetic storm suddenly became intense, and Xia Yi's stretched-out spiritual domain was like a squeezed ball, and the aircraft in the middle was also affected.
not good!
In the darkness, Xia Yi saw a ball of dark green light approaching him rapidly. The mother beast was going to eat him!
He didn't have time to think about it, and tried his best to push the spiritual domain, whose surface had been shattered, along the route -
There were two teams of female insects resting on it.
【The mother beast is in the magnetic storm zone! 】
Xia Yi extended his mental tentacles and informed the female soldier on the aircraft of the news.
After receiving the news, the female soldier on the spaceship hurriedly wanted to bring the mecha back, but she saw a crack torn open in the chaos, and faint green light spots spread all over the crack, like a green mouth.
It swallows the male leopard whole.
The green mouth closed and the light disappeared.
The magnetic storm zone once again became chaos.
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