Chapter 73 Team Date

In the drought-stricken wasteland, the magnetic storm is getting stronger.

The red, dry ground gradually began to crack into tiny gaps, with gravel rolling into them.

The mosquitoes, ants and flying insects in the sky were migrating and hiding like a dark cloud.

What an unsettling, doomsday scene!

In such a gloomy sky, in the east of the wasteland, a tiny light suddenly flashed across the horizon where the dark and dancing aurora intersected!

Then, in the blink of an eye, the teardrop-shaped Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, with an extremely smooth force field cushion, landed in front of them in an instant from fifty kilometers away.

After the ripples in the air subsided, the smooth mirrored exterior reflected the busy Chris people breaking camp.

This well-trained and well-coordinated team returned to the inner cabin of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle with their packed equipment and Su Xi within eight minutes.

Under the operation of Allen and Mary, the nuclear crystal force field engine of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle started up. After a flash of sapphire light flashed across its mirror-smooth surface, it silently floated in the air and disappeared above the wasteland.

Under the ground covered by the invisible force field of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, Rambo and Lao Mo were driving the engineer mecha and quietly opening up a very secret passage, looking for the weakest link in the earth's crust, and exploring the location of the 'golden insect eggs'.

Everyone was busy, but Su Xi followed Allen's request and connected to the mental interface. The mental long waves penetrated deep into the ground, indicating the direction for Rambo and Lao Mo's exploration.

Chris walked over to check on their progress, and seeing the short-haired omega with a pale face and slightly closed eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

Chris thought, no matter how strong she was, she was an omega who needed to be cared for. And these tasks should have been their responsibility as soldiers.

"Ellen, how long will it take?" Chris urged with a frown, "Have the AI ​​replicate and simulate Naya's long-wave frequency as soon as possible. It's time for her to rest."

Curly Ellen adjusted her glasses and answered confidently and straightforwardly, "Almost there! Commander, our previous detection band was too crude. It is impossible to completely analyze and simulate the long-wave frequency of this omega lady in such a short time. But if you give me another ten minutes, it will be no problem to simulate the detection band of the 'golden egg'!"

"Very good! Keep going!"

"yes!"

The holographic image showed the dark and overwhelming shadows of the Zerg army in the deep sky, and on the three-dimensional cross-section of the planet, the two-man-operated mecha driven by Rambo and Lao Mo were approaching the location of one of the locked 'golden eggs' little by little.

Although it seems that the Zerg are already at the gates of the city, everything has been going smoothly so far. In this game that has not yet come to a direct confrontation, they have a slight advantage.

but--

"I feel something is wrong." Chris muttered to himself.

Su Xi heard the words, looked up at the solemn and tense profile of the black-haired beta, her lips moved slightly, but she said nothing in the end.

She lowered her eyes slightly, her long eyelashes covering the expression in her eyes. Su Xi recalled the vague bloody fragments and the tragic scenes of the annihilation of the whole army that she had intuitively predicted when she went deep into the center of the earth.

Gary's eyes moved slightly. As the chief mental interrogator and ace spy, he always had unexpectedly sharp intuition and... the most professional situational assessment in this regard.

He also chose to remain silent, and simply placed the graffiti of his young son on his chest into the space button for hanging the military badge.

"The sinking passage has been opened!" Mary reported in a deep voice.

"Let's go! Gary," Chris, who had already finished dressing, entered the mecha docking cabin and put on a three-meter-tall field mechanical skeleton.

Gary, Chris and his group jumped down from the dark entrance and entered the deep underground.

Beep beep——

In the main control room of the Sun Swallowing Shuttle, it was very quiet at the moment, with only the occasional prompt from the monitoring Ray Da and some subtle operating sounds.

Now only Allen, Mary and Su Xi were left. Su Xi released the handle of the spirit relay, and Allen completed the simulation editing of his 'spiritual long wave'. The 'Naya long wave' simulated by the Sun-Swallowing Nuclear Crystal took over Su Xi's own spiritual energy output.

After the data synchronization was completed, Allen restarted the scanner and conducted a comprehensive scan of the planet.

Instantly! On the holographic projection, a wider and more detailed image of the planet was displayed in three dimensions and reality.

Su Xi blinked, and her empty eyes returned to normal. She fell back from that strange multi-perspective experience to the single sense of reality.

Allen stared at the data on the screen and muttered to himself, "Too incredible" and "I've never seen humans have fluctuations in this frequency band." This technician was obviously caught up in a frenzy of discovering a new continent...

Seeing this, Mary smiled and shook her head.

She said to Su Xi, "Thank you for your hard work. Don't mind it. He is just like that."

After she finished speaking, she took out a few bags of nutritional supplements from her space button and handed them to Su Xi. "This is a special mental recovery agent. Sorry, I didn't prepare the flavor that omegas like. It might taste a bit unpalatable."

"Thank you." Su Xi took it and looked at the little bear heart logo on the nutrition bag. She said in surprise, "This logo is very cute."

Mary shook her head sheepishly and said, "Although Aaron is an omega, he is an excellent psychiatric pharmacist."

"I can see that you are very proud of him." Su Xi smiled and said, "He must love you very much, and he is a very considerate and considerate person."

Mary's eyes lit up and a smile immediately appeared on her wheat-colored face. She was about to say something as if she had found a soulmate.

But Chris's instructions over the commuter interrupted her next words.

"Arrived at destination."

"Got it!" Mary immediately entered a state of focused work, "The holographic synchronization frequency band has been opened."

"The magnetic field on the ground has entered a Class C storm, and the first round of shock waves caused by the adjustment of the Earth's magnetic poles will reach your location in thirteen minutes. Please pay attention to the countdown display."

"receive."

Su Xi, who had some free time, tore open the seal of the straw and drank very slowly. The clear and smooth liquid had a slightly spicy taste.

This is probably what Mary meant by 'unpalatable'.

*

The suspended hologram shows Chris and his team's progress underground.

The light screens around were displaying various jumping data. Chris and his companions had already passed through the winding underground tunnel and entered the dug-out "worm ovary cave".

From the holographic stereoscopic images sent back, they stopped in front of a large solid rock. Under the flashing spotlight, the rough surface of the rock was extremely wet, and brown sticky liquid kept oozing out, flowing to the ground at an extremely slow speed as if crawling.

Old Mo, wearing an alloy exoskeleton armor, walked into the rock carefully and took samples of the rock and the leaking liquid. After the sample was placed in the portable material analyzer, it took only about fifteen seconds for the analysis results of the sample to appear on the screen in front of Allen.

"Sir," Allen reported solemnly on the public channel, "The sampling is confirmed to be correct. The activity of this 'egg' is as high as 89%."

At the same time, the thermal image monitored by Mary also clearly showed the panoramic view of the target location.

In the solid silicate rock, there is a clearly visible elliptical object about two and a half meters long, surrounded by some holes and potholes.

It looks like a large egg is placed in an empty wasp nest.

Su Xi frowned slightly, and a picture flashed through her mind.

At this moment, the thermal image screen trembled slightly. It was the image interference caused by the warning wave of the first geomagnetic storm of this planet.

This indicates that the magnetic storm caused by the adjustment of the planet's magnetic poles will soon rise to a Class B disaster with stronger fluctuations and greater destructive power!

Sizzle

Under the interference of this round of warning waves, after a burst of noise, Chris's instructions came from the external communicator, "Allen, adjust the band scan and check the hatching level of this 'egg'."

"receive."

As Allen quickly operated, the reply just fell.

Another screen of light flashed in front of Su Xi and the others' eyes. The 'egg in the honeycomb' in the picture was glowing with golden energy light, flickering on and off, showing extremely stable energy fluctuations with a very regular frequency of three long and five short.

"Confirm unhatched eggs, confirm 'mother' level."

Su Xi's long eyelashes moved slightly, and golden light was reflected in her amber eyes. She was about to catch the picture that flashed through her mind!

"Rambo, responsible for digging. Lao Mo, responsible for clearing the rocks."

Chris gave instructions in a calm and methodical voice. With the sound of digging, the true appearance of the oval object in the rock gradually emerged.

If observed with the naked eye, this substance is no different from ordinary rock, but the energy level displayed in the "energy scanner" has reached the gold mark.

Underground operation site.

As Lao Mo and Rambo were driving the engineering mecha to dig and clean, Chris and the others slowly approached the extremely special substance.

At this time, except for the breathing sound when asking questions on the communicator and the slight noise of operation, everything was eerily quiet.

"Sir, the full-band scan is complete, no abnormalities found."

"Very good!" Chris' voice was still tense. She did not let her guard down. An inexplicable sense of crisis made her speak faster.

"Gary! Put a 'force field concealing film' on this 'egg' and put it into the carrier armor. Let's take it away!"

And at this moment——

A quick reminder from Ellen came over the public communication channel: "The planetary magnetic pole alignment storm is accelerating! It will take seven minutes for the core shock wave to reach the eggs."

"Quick!" Chris said decisively, "Let's go!"

The people on the underground mission worked in unison and sped up their work.

At this time, in the command room of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, Su Xi was feeling uneasy. She reached out and increased the scale of the holographic image, carefully examining the shredded materials on the ground. When the scale was adjusted to 300%, Su Xi saw it clearly!

Her pupils suddenly shrank! A sharp pain like a needle piercing her brain sounded, and Su Xi groaned slightly and covered her head.

She returned to the feeling she had when she experienced the 'aftereffects of advancement' before, the feeling of being dragged and lost deep in the center of the planet!

"Chris! Wait a minute!" Su Xi endured the severe pain and almost threw herself towards the mental connector in a flying posture, and then entered the human-machine link state very roughly!

Instantly! Su Xi's mental power invaded the entire command system at a speed faster than light. Her personal will, in a domineering and irresistible manner, used the communication band... and the earphone of the communicator... to directly resound in everyone's brain!

Having never experienced anything like this before, Chris and the others wearing headsets could not help but freeze up, and the familiar yet unfamiliar voice of the omega echoed silently in their minds:

'I'm sorry for disturbing you so rudely!'

"There is something else around the eggs. Please take it all away! The eggs and the biomass that accompanies them..."

'Absolutely inseparable!'

Chris stopped three thousand meters below the earth's core, and the people on the underground mission looked at each other.

Not to mention that the lowest psychic level among them is 2S. Even the highest level 3S psychic Gary, in comparison with the omega's powerful psychic power, his own psychic barrier is so weak that it is even more vulnerable than the most fragile cicada wing!

If she hadn't intentionally reminded me, I probably wouldn't have noticed it the first time...

All of this happened in a very short time. Before these elite alphas had time to process their emotions, Chris's calm reaction brought their attention back to the issue that required an immediate decision.

"Please explain." Chris said briefly, but at the same time she was surprised to find that she could ask questions directly in her mind without using words! ? !

This is the most direct communication of "mental power"!

"Please explain, Miss Suxi." Chris quickly adapted to this new way of communication, which was obviously faster and more direct than voice communication.

Chris ignored the thoughts of other colleagues that he received in his mind. The background noise that sounded like private whispers in a serious meeting could be completely ignored.

But it was obvious that after Su Xi noticed Chris's thoughts, she quickly adjusted her brain frequency band.

At this moment, Chris felt strangely that he seemed to be in a thought LAN stored in his brain and built by mental power.

"Oh my god!" "What's going on——"

'This ability is amazing'

'Never heard of it!'

"Oh my god! As an alpha, I was beaten to pieces by a beta in seconds. I already don't want to live anymore. Now there's another omega alien who is so strong..."

'Shut up! Rambo!'

"Shut up!"

Chris was shocked just after he finished scolding! This, this is such a strange experience!

However, amidst all this noise and confusion, one thought stood out very firmly. Chris glanced over and saw Gary.

"If we follow your instructions, then we will not have enough time to retreat." Before Gary realized it, he used the honorific "you" to address this awe-inspiring omega.

'Okay, my next detailed explanation may have some side effects...'

Su Xi only gave a brief reminder, and then she closed her eyes. A huge amount of information immediately flooded into everyone's brain, those bloody clips, those beyond intuitive predictions... those tragic endings of annihilation... and the bloody battle between her and the 'vulture' in the competition of 'crisis prediction' that she quickly demonstrated!

Everyone was silent! Not even a trace of thought noise was heard in this "Thought LAN" built by mental power.

That was the moment when I was so shocked that my mind went blank.

At this time, technician Allen said quickly in the communication channel, "Everyone, please pay attention! There are still three minutes and thirty-nine seconds before the earthquake wave reaches the eggs."

'What Su Xi described might be 'companion worm eggs'. Although only 8% of 'worm mothers' may produce companions, this kind of worm mother with a companion will become a quasi-king worm mother once hatched!'

'But thousands of years ago, the batch of 'insect eggs' that the Queen of the Zerg Clan hid in the Great Wilderness Star Region were the ones with the most abundant egg-laying resources...

'How can the eggs of the companion insect be so small? It doesn't conform to common knowledge!'

'These nests are clearly empty!'

In this "thinking LAN", communication can be carried out on multiple lines at the same time. When Su Xi displayed a large amount of screen information, everyone had already completed the communication. This process hardly took more than three seconds.

Yes. Companion eggs.

After thousands of years of repeated research on the Zerg, humans have discovered that when the queen lays the eggs of the Zerg, the strict hierarchy within the tribe is already determined.

During the growth process of the egg's fetus, part of the substance differentiates into golden eggs, and the other part becomes companion.

And if the current queen lays multiple "golden eggs" at the same time, then competition will arise between the eggs during the ovum stage.

Generally speaking, the more 'companion' 'quasi-queen' eggs there are, the more hope there is that in the final 'breaking the shell' stage, they will actually hatch and become the 'next queen of the insect race'!

When the 'next queen' is hatched, even if the previous queen is still alive, her genes will instantly activate the 'death gene lock' of decay;

Other 'golden eggs' that failed in the competition during the same period will stop developing their energy levels and lose their 'golden' qualifications. In subsequent growth, depending on the needs of the group, they will develop into one of the five types of insect species: 'engineer', 'soldier', 'military', 'general', and 'king', or they will become ordinary female 'queen insects' used for breeding low-level consumable 'engineers'.

In addition, a common sense about the 'Queen-to-be' and her 'companion' is -

Before the Queen hatches, the 'companion' that serves as her guard cannot leave the 'golden egg' more than two hundred meters away, otherwise the 'companion' will activate the self-destruct mode in advance!

That is almost the power of a miniature nuclear bomb's self-detonation!

In this case, what should we choose?

The answer is obvious!

Under the highly efficient communication, Su Xi didn't need to say a single word, or even use a single punctuation mark.

Ellen and Mary, who were in charge of monitoring and command on the ground, and Chris and the alphas who were working underground, worked in perfect harmony to speed up the work.

Until they returned to the ground, until the 'golden egg' was loaded into the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle cargo box, until layers of 'force field cloaking shields' covered the cargo box...

Until the shock waves originating from the center of this planet reach the surface!

The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle was suspended in the air, and its stable force field defense easily survived the first wave of magnetic field shock attacks!

There was a scene of flying sand and rocks and shaking mountains and the earth in the wilderness.

However, the interior of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle could hardly feel the shock. Everyone who returned to the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle looked at each other in disbelief. Although there were some minor setbacks, it was so smooth that it was simply unbelievable!

"Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, prepare for interstellar migration!"

"Return to the First Fortress immediately."

Chris gave the order calmly.