Otherwise, given the nature of the Imperial Terran, even if the protagonist destroys the insect planet and himself, he will still leave the mother hive for research. In that case, the insect race will eventually make a comeback.
When you calculate it that way, he is the real hero who saved humanity and solved the insect plague!
While pondering general countermeasures, Yu Ling strolled around the enormous warship, and Lyme readily opened any access gates.
Soon, the two men, each with their own thoughts but both of whom unanimously considered the other their possession, met in the cockpit.
Facing him, Lyme looked much more energetic than when Yu Ling's divine soul swept over him. His ability to endure such pain was truly remarkable.
"Hey, let's have a fight, and the winner gets to take everything." Yu Ling tried to act like a roguish pirate.
But no matter how he looked at it, he just couldn't bring himself to be fierce.
Lyme appeared expressionless, but inwardly he was thinking: Wow, he's even more handsome than he looks on screen.
Good-looking people are either the weakest or the strongest in terms of fighting ability. This is a common impression in everyone's mind. The former do not need to suffer and are therefore weak, while the latter, because they are good-looking and do not want to be bullied, will put in more effort than ordinary people to become stronger.
Yu Ling, on the other hand, has no muscles, no height, and fair skin. She doesn't even have any wounds or scars on her body. She's the kind of person who relies entirely on her beauty to seduce others. Lyme is clearly heading in the wrong direction and there's no going back.
Wow, he really did come to flirt with me!
However, no matter how confident Lyme was in his looks, fighting skills, and professional advantages that he would win the other person's heart, as a well-educated citizen, he did not go up and make a move on her just because he misunderstood that she liked him.
"There's no need for a fight. I'm injured. How about we renegotiate the terms for taking me out?"
Look at what he said! He wasn't afraid of accidentally hurting the beauty, but rather he used his own injury as an excuse to refuse this meaningless and physically exhausting activity. Lyme's emotional intelligence is really quite high.
"......All right."
Yu Ling was somewhat disappointed; he had wanted to experience what it was like forcibly taking a man from the countryside like the pirates. He said dejectedly,
"I don't have much fuel left. If I give it all to you, I won't have enough for myself. And there's absolutely no way I'm going to abandon my spaceship. If you want to live, you'll have to come with me."
Lem scoffed at this excuse. "Your old, worthless spaceship is nothing. Just say you're afraid I'll leave it behind in my warship."
"Okay, I'll go with you. I can notify others to come and retrieve the warship."
Hehe, once I'm on the spaceship, this old-fashioned pirate ship will be mine, right? Who will be whose prisoner is still uncertain!
"Then come with me, Mr. Prisoner."
Unaware that she was someone's captive, Yu Ling readily agreed, saying,
"By the way, that main control system chip of that warship must be very important to you, right? You should carry it with you at all times, otherwise it might get damaged by a meteorite or swallowed by a random wormhole."
Hmph, once you're on my spaceship, this super battleship will be mine!
The two tacitly concealed their true intentions, and Lyme obediently took the main control system chip, leaving an opportunity for the system bugs still in the midst of the war.
[Host, I've hacked in. And then what?]
Since the last communication, the system bug has been paying close attention to Yu Ling's situation, and whenever it had the chance, it immediately sent over a portion of its data.
Unfortunately, it's too busy fighting to think about its next move.
However, Yu Ling was used to the system's mindless style. He was heading towards the pirate spaceship he had picked up with Lyme, who had finished packing his luggage and was following him.
At this moment, he ignored those around him and walked on, silently instructing the system in his heart:
"Once we're far enough away, you can pilot a few insects to push the warship into the insectoid mothership. It doesn't matter if it gets bumped or damaged. After the corrosive fluid from the mothership destroys the hull and signal, just leave the empty shell and the usable internal parts and mechanical arms."
【receive!】
The system worm didn't care what Yu Ling's instructions were for; it just had to carry them out.
Operating equipment to do work is completely different from using your brain to do work; it's incredibly easy. Controlling other mindless insects to do work is no different either—a piece of cake; you can handle it while they're fighting.
Yu Ling's move was to find an opportunity to transport some parts back to the insect planet in preparation for manufacturing a planetary migration device. There's a saying that you should plan ahead, and there's nothing more functional than a warship.
The key point is that this guy was left behind because he came to fight the original owner. Just like the rabbit in the story of waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump, who knows when the next time will come? We have to seize this opportunity.
"Cough cough......."
Lym, seeing Yu Ling still chuckling even after entering the pirate ship, couldn't help but pat him on the shoulder.
"The warship is already in automatic mode. If you don't close the door soon, the oxygen in your spaceship will run out as the passageway equipment is withdrawn."
"......."
Overjoyed at finding a warship for free, Yu Ling forgot that the human beside her still needed oxygen. She calmed herself down, nodded perfunctorily, and closed the old-fashioned spaceship door, which only had a manual switch.
Once the door closed, only the two of them remained in the spaceship, which was only one-fifth the size of a warship.
"What should we do now?"
Lem, acting like a big shot, stepped into the open cockpit, followed closely by Yu Ling. Looking at the vast cosmic scenery on the ordinary glass-like display screen in the center, and the long-abandoned antique buttons on his control panel, he... gave in.
Even if I steal this thing, I won't be able to open it. I'll wait until we're in a populated area before turning against it.
"What should we do?"
He wanted to start a fight, but someone was either uncooperative or too cooperative, leaving him no excuse to fight.
On Yu Ling's otherwise harmless and beautiful face, a mischievous and frivolous expression appeared. He sat on the large chair in the center of the driver's seat, put his arm around Lem's waist, and made him sit down as well.
At the same time, he skillfully maneuvered the antique spaceship aimlessly forward, replying, "Of course I'm taking you for a ride. You can't just stay in this godforsaken place forever. By the way, how did you end up here? Doesn't the army never abandon or give up on any soldier?"
".......you're right."
Lyme didn't mind revealing privacy; in his eyes, Yu Ling posed no threat, was a controllable person, and besides, there were no secrets that couldn't be discussed.
"However, they will abandon a lieutenant who made a mistake."
Deputy General? Who? Him?
Yu Ling only knew that this person was so handsome that he couldn't be an ordinary cannon fodder, but she never thought of him as the most capable supporting character by the protagonist's side, the deputy general in the army.
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