Wen Xihe had blood on his face, and he was covering one eye, a bloodstain from his recent battle with the Zerg.
Although his mech had been enhanced, it was no match for these Zerg—these Zerg were not mere foot soldiers, but rather elite troops.
If it weren't for his sudden burst of mental power at the crucial moment, which tore that Zerg creature to pieces, he would probably be the one lying on the battlefield right now.
“Yes.” Wen Xi wiped the blood from one of his eyes and looked up at Sang Huaizhou. “Cen Yu has been captured by the King Insect.”
He stood up and prepared to walk out of the base.
Sang Huaizhou immediately followed.
"Where is Lan Yao?" Wen Xi asked.
Lan Yao also rushed over. He looked at Wen Xihe, wanting to ask him what his plans were.
"We need the Legion's help." This was obvious. They had never actually encountered the Zerg, let alone their elite forces. More importantly, they had to rescue Cen Yu.
Lan Yao's relationship with the Second Legion was intricate, so he naturally understood Wen Xihe's meaning.
There was blood on his face, left from injuries sustained in the battle against the Zerg.
"Huo Shen has arrived."
He looked at Wen Xihe and said, "The Fifth Legion will come to Planet Nott. The Major General will go and hunt down the Queen Worm."
...
"Is it planning to lead us to its lair and eat us?" Cen Yu wondered.
He discovered that the Queen Worm was simply leading them away from Nott, and five hours had passed since they were captured... The worms showed no signs of stopping.
The wound on Li Chonghe's back has almost completely healed.
He felt no pain, while Chi Jiazhen remained unconscious on the ground.
Cen Yu's face was flushed, and his body was still in a state of high fever... He looked at the results the mecha had calculated for him, "Where is it taking us?"
Li Chonghe glanced at the projection inside the mecha. "That place looks like a Zerg settlement."
"Did the mountain king go hunting for the children?" Cen Yu wondered. "There aren't enough for the three of us to eat."
"..." Li Chonghe hesitated for a moment, then looked at Cen Yu, "You should have heard of that saying."
"What?"
“The Zerg like to capture Alphas,” he told Cen Yu. “They don’t capture Omegas, they eat Betas, but they do capture Alphas.”
"Then you need to be careful," Cen Yu subconsciously agreed, then thought—
Wait a minute! Why are these Zerg specifically targeting Alphas?!
Li Chonghe gave a wry smile. "Am I still a Beta?"
"Cen Yu, I may not be able to go back."
“The Empire might tolerate a Beta emperor, but it cannot tolerate a half-hybrid Zerg emperor.” Li Chonghe touched the back of his neck and unwrapped the bandage.
There was still blood on the bandage from not long ago.
He could even remember the pain he felt back then… He removed the bandage and threw it aside, then touched the back of his neck where a piece of flesh should have been missing. “My wound has healed.”
Even the missing piece of meat was replaced.
Humans don't have that kind of recovery speed.
Moreover, when those insectoid creatures appeared, he also understood another meaning in their chirping—
"bride."
All the things he didn't understand before, or rather the speculations within the Empire, became clear to him as he gradually learned to understand the Zerg language.
He remembered being told in class that the Zerg are monosex creatures and theoretically cannot reproduce.
Therefore, humans have always suspected that if they don't harbor "queen ant"-like creatures, then it means they need other methods.
The Zerg captured the Alpha not for any other reason than to reproduce.
Thinking of this, Li Chonghe felt a wave of nausea... High-level insectoids can transform into humanoid forms, while low-level insectoids can only maintain their insectoid appearance. He subconsciously looked at Cen Yu, hesitating whether he should tell him about this.
In the end, he decided to tell Cen Yu—
"The Zerg captured the Alpha... possibly for reproduction."
“…?” Cen Yu didn’t understand what Li Chonghe meant at first.
After a three-second pause, he pointed at himself, then at the large insect flying outside, "...The two of us???"
“…High-ranking Zerg will have human-like forms,” Li Chonghe said dryly, trying to comfort him.
However, he felt that the king insect that captured them was more like a puppet shell, but this guess was too unfounded, and he didn't know how to tell Cen Yu.
“…That’s not right.” Cen Yu looked at Li Chonghe. “Then where did these ‘mothers’ go?”
Logically speaking, given that so many Alphas have been captured, why do both the Empire and the Federation appear to be completely unaware of it?
Li Chonghe pondered how to explain this to Cen Yu.
He only understood the meaning of capturing Alpha after listening to the insects' words.
In theory, insects are not sentient beings.
The fact that they capture Alphas does not mean that they consider these Alphas as mates, and the human body cannot withstand the process of the Zerg leaving the body.
Alphas have completely degenerated reproductive cavities and lack gestation sacs, so these Zerg choose a simple and brutal method to leave the mother.
—Breaking through the body is their method.
“…It’s an alien.” Cen Yu muttered to himself.
“So we should leave as soon as possible,” Li Chonghe said.
Cen Yu then had the AI inside the mech calculate the probability of them winning by attacking the Queen Worm at this moment, as well as the ammunition reserves inside the mech.
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