In order to play this instance a little longer with his new friend, Huo Shen felt it was his duty to become his new friend's bodyguard and prevent him from suddenly leaving the instance.
We entered this underground space through the opening.
Cen Yu discovered more graffiti on the wall—
"Help us!! Someone please help us!!"
"There's no food left! Damn it!! There's absolutely nothing left to eat!"
"StarNet connection down... When will anyone finally arrive?"
Next to these graffiti characters are tally marks... Just one glance is enough to convey the despair of those trapped in this third space.
“The Zerg launched a surprise attack on Nott,” Huo Shen suddenly said.
“And they deliberately interfered with the StarNet.” He looked at the graffiti on the wall and said, “Although there have been occasional Zerg attacks before, we have never encountered such a large-scale Zerg invasion.”
Cen Yu knew that some remote planets, such as Wen Xihe's hometown, were occasionally invaded by the Zerg.
However, these are mostly scattered insectoids, which Alpha can easily fight off with his high mental strength. Moreover, each planet has local garrison soldiers and dedicated teams to eliminate the insectoids.
The planet Nott was the same way before, so when the Zerg invaded, almost no one had time to react.
The simulator's dungeon settings simply faithfully reproduce this point.
"Didn't the military investigate?" Cen Yu asked, looking at the graffiti on the wall. "The Zerg have always planned their conquests of planets."
This may sound unbelievable, but it is true—the Zerg are intelligent beings, especially the higher-ranking Zerg, and every planet they conquer has resources they need.
Before entering this instance again, Cen Yu specifically searched for information from back then on the StarNet.
The biggest question surrounding this matter is why the Zerg chose Nott.
This planet has a variable climate and a unique location, but it doesn't have any mineral deposits that the Zerg prefer. Logically, it shouldn't be a target for the Zerg to occupy. Therefore, after Nott was cut off from the Star Network and unable to seek help, Star Capital only discovered the Zerg's movements half a month late.
However, Cen Yu had a suspicion in his heart.
He then recalled the secret experiments on the planet Nott mentioned in the original work; perhaps the Zerg attacked Nott because they discovered this.
"The military investigated," Huo Shen said, "but found nothing."
"Humans cannot understand what insects are thinking."
A perfunctory answer, Cen Yu thought.
But now is not the time to dwell on these things... He and Huo Shen continued deeper into the third space.
The lighting equipment here was almost completely destroyed, so Cen Yu and the others had to turn on their own equipment... At this moment, Cen Yu turned on the communicator—
"Sizzle sizzle".
The communicator started making static noises again in Cen Yu's hands—
"This is the Third Space! Are there any survivors?"
The woman's voice came from the other end of the communicator again... Cen Yu looked up and saw the communicator echoing in the empty third space.
"This is the Third Space... a survivor..."
Cen Yu threw the communicator on the ground and stomped on it.
Huo Shen followed behind him.
After the communicator was destroyed... the sounds in the distance gradually became clearer. Cen Yu and Huo Shen headed directly in that direction, until they arrived at a broken door.
Then I saw the tape recorder in the room.
In front of the tape recorder was a very familiar-looking communicator.
Along with the tape recorder, what appeared before Cen Yu and Huo Shen was a creature that defied description.
The thing seemed to be soft, with a milky white color, and its eyes were only the size of a washbasin—in front of its enormous body that almost occupied the entire room, the washbasin-sized eyeballs looked as tiny as mung beans.
It has hairy, segmented limbs, one end of which is pressing the tape recorder—
"This is the Third Space. Are there any survivors here?"
The moment the limbs separated, the tape recorder emitted a crackling electrical sound again, which seemed to be the sound that had appeared on the tape from the beginning.
Seemingly realizing that its prey had once again been attracted by its clumsy trick, the monster emitted a sharp, explosive sound from its mouthparts—
In that instant, Cen Yu felt as if his eardrums were about to rupture.
He guessed that this was the monster's attack method.
He and Huo Shen immediately scattered. Since the underground space couldn't conjure up mechs, Cen Yu immediately raised the high-powered device in his hand and aimed it at the monster.
However, the moment the bullets hit it, its milky-white skin instantly transformed into a black, hard shell, blocking all the attacks.
Huo Shen jumped onto the monster's body, raised his long knife, and was about to stab its basin-sized eyes.
The next second, a black hard shell appeared on the creature's eyes, blocking Huo Shen's attack. Then it screamed, causing Cen Yu to feel dizzy for a moment.
Your health is decreasing...
The system then displayed a notification.
Cen Yu clicked his tongue and gestured for Huo Shen to step back immediately.
Huo Shen didn't linger and nimbly jumped off the monster—the two of them ran out of the room together, while the monster, seemingly unwilling to let its prey escape, wriggled its body and flowed outwards.
It was at this moment that Cen Yu discovered that there were countless tiny hands beneath the monster.
—It's a real hand.
Countless tiny, milky-white hands lifted up the monster's enormous body.
He had never seen such a bug before. Rather than a bug, it was a bizarre creature that had been thrown into a blender, mixed with bugs, humans, and all sorts of disgusting things you could imagine, and then solidified.
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