Chapter 65: Grasping Fate by the Throat
Qu Tong managed to sleep for more than three hours in Si Yuting's aircraft. Since he had been maintaining the same posture, when he got off the spacecraft, he felt like his bones were about to fall apart.
After stretching and moving his arms and legs, Qu Tong glanced at Si Yuting with a somewhat resentful look.
The latter remained calm and stern.
Qu Tong began to look around. There were plants growing on the Insect Star, but they were all heavily polluted. Qu Tong even felt that the air here had changed.
It makes people feel depressed, and their mental strength also shows signs of being restless.
Even Si Yuting, who usually had a blank expression on his face, frowned slightly, his expression cold.
He pulled up the satellite map from his computer and turned it on.
The map is annotated and not difficult to understand.
It can be seen that they are in a relatively safe area covered by green.
Si Yuting pointed his bony fingers at the edge of a red area, and the map immediately showed the best route from that point to where they were.
"The area where Kagura is located is outside the safe area that has been explored. It is located deep in the forest and is a place where the Zerg like to stay."
Si Yuting's voice was low but powerful, as if he was born with the aura of a commander. He pointed his finger at a spot not far from the route and said:
"We have a mission this time. We need to collect samples of the fir tree. If we pass by here, we can come back before dark."
After Si Yuting finished speaking, he looked at Qu Tong.
Qu Tong had no objection, and the other two naturally would not have any objection either.
After determining the route, several people began to move towards the target.
We encountered a lot of low-level Zerg along the way.
Lower-level Zerg are just a little bigger than regular insects, have more disgusting mucus, harder shells, and are more numerous.
It was not stressful for several people to deal with it. Even Jiang Zhou could shoot people in the head with one shot with the ion gun.
Qu Tong walked behind Si Yuting, observing Jiang Zhou's technique of using the ion gun. He didn't notice a stone blocking his feet, so he kicked it. The pain made Qu Tong's face twisted.
She lost her balance and fell forward. Just as she was about to use her special power to use the big tree next to her to stabilize her body, Si Yuting, who had been standing in front of her at some point, extended his hand in advance.
"Thanks……"
Before he could finish saying thank you, Qu Tong felt as if fate was strangling his outstretched hand.
Si Yuting grabbed her collar from behind and lifted her up, and Qu Tong stabilized her body.
Qu Tong: “…”
The forward inertia plus Si Yuting's strong pull backwards made Qu Tong almost roll his eyes on the spot.
"Cough cough!" Qu Tong covered his neck and coughed twice. After breathing smoothly, he looked at Si Yuting coldly:
"Admiral, has anyone ever told you that you are inhumane?"
Si Yuting heard the dissatisfaction in Qu Tong's words and replied coldly: "It's more convenient this way."
Qu Tong: “…”
At this moment, there was a little person in Qu Tong's heart scratching his head.
To be honest, if she had a bad temper and didn't know what was good for her, she would have punched me.
However, the person involved does not think there is anything wrong with what he did, which is very confusing...
After Xiong Lieshan finished speaking, he came over with Jiang Zhou, wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Is this the mutant spruce tree?"
"Um."
Si Yuting nodded and made way for Jiang Zhou.
Qu Tong was also pulled back to his senses and turned back to look at the fir tree to which he had almost bowed just now.
She saw that the tree in front of her was obviously larger and more lush than the surrounding trees. Most importantly, she could feel that its pollution index was lower than that of the surrounding trees, but it was also approaching the critical value.
Jiang Zhou stepped forward, took out his tools, and very professionally took a little bit of bark, branches and leaves from different parts of the tree and put them into the bag. Even some of the surrounding vegetation and soil were sampled and placed in specific containers.
"Why not just dig it back?" Qu Tong asked puzzledly.
Reaching out and placing his hand on the trunk, his supernatural power probed out to check the veins of this naturally purified plant.
"It's useless. We've tried it before, but once the mutant plants are transplanted, they will soon become the same as the surrounding ones. It's better to leave them where they are. Maybe they can last longer." Jiang Zhou explained.
Qu Tong withdrew his hand and nodded to show that he understood.
After all, they don’t have their own special powers, so it’s difficult for them to grow pollution-free plants.
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After completing the mission here, they continued on their way to Qi Ye Xin's location.
With the remaining half of the journey, Qu Tong clearly felt that the Zerg behind him were more difficult to deal with.
Not only is its size getting bigger and bigger, its defense is also strengthened, its speed has more than doubled, and some of its body fluids are even highly poisonous.
However, Jiang Zhou said that he brought the antidote serum, so there was no need to worry about that.
Qu Tong also took out the ion gun that he had snatched from the star pirates from the space, and imitated Jiang Zhou to input a trace of mental power into the energy compartment and pulled the trigger.
No response.
Qu Tong didn't think there was anything wrong with his technique. He tried to add a little more mental strength and pulled the trigger again.
It works this time.
But the shot was in vain.
Qu Tong fired again according to the mental strength he had just used.
The ion beam was accurately shot at a Zerg with hard mantis claws and many sharp and disgusting fangs, but it was dodged and only pierced one of its wings.
Qu Tong fired another shot without hesitation, and this time he hit the bull's eye. A big hole was burned in the mantis-like Zerg's head by the ion beam, and it died completely.
"Miss Ali is a great marksman!" Xiong Lie, who happened to see this scene, couldn't help but praise her.
Qu Tong raised his eyebrows and accepted the compliment.
With experience, except for the initial stage when you need two shots to kill one, later on you can just predict the outcome and kill it with one shot.
The frequency of shooting was even higher than Jiang Zhou.
Needless to say, Si Yuting didn't use the ion gun at all. He directly used lightning mental power to split into pieces.
Xiong Lie, on the other hand, prefers to focus his mental power on his fists.
Qu Tong guessed that the faint layer of yellow mental power was some kind of defensive attribute, such as gold or earth.
As they got closer to their destination, Jiang Zhou retreated behind Si Yuting and walked with Qu Tong.
"Miss Junli, do you still have mental strength?"
This question made Qu Tong stunned. How could this be possible? The ion gun didn't require much mental power.
But seeing Si Yuting also looking over, Qu Tong turned back to look at the fatigue on Jiang Zhou's face.
"A little more."
"Let's follow the admiral. The admiral has strong mental strength, so protecting us will not be a problem." Deputy Jiang Zhou seemed to have guessed it long ago and said considerately.
"Okay." Qu Tong nodded in response.
"Doctor Zhou, what's your physical condition?" Qu Tong asked again.
Jiang Zhou: “…”
"A." Jiang Zhou was silent for a while and finally uttered a word.
Then he turned his head and stopped talking.
Qu Tong nodded.
After killing a few more intermediate Zergs, Qu Tong put away his gun and walked with Jiang Zhou behind Si Yuting, waiting for him to lead the way.
Sorry, I'm late!
Because I don't have a computer at home, I type on my phone. Not only is the speed slow, but it also can't automatically check for typos. There may be omissions when I check myself, so please forgive me.
If there are any typos that I haven't noticed, please point them out and I'll fix them. I won't have them when I go back in a few days o(╥﹏╥)o
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