Chapter 78 Bug Tower Date

Sun-swallowing shuttle. 'Nuclear crystal cabin'.

It was an extremely beautiful spiritual body crystal, with soft blue light changing and illuminating the entire cabin.

Everyone held their breath in front of the surveillance screen.

After the door of the 'nuclear crystal cabin' was opened, Mary and Rambo, fully armed, approached the locked position very cautiously. After a quick search, Mary made a gesture in the direction of the surveillance camera.

That's what 'nothing to gain' means.

Inside the command cabin, Allen, who was sitting in front of the console, was showing an energy consumption report. He said with certainty, "Although some of the data is difficult to verify due to the engine's repair, I am very sure that the Sun Devourer's nuclear energy output was abnormal around 20 minutes ago."

Chris carefully checked the energy consumption report and frowned: "Although the fluctuation loss is less than one thousandth, it is still very huge for the operating efficiency of the entire Sun-Swallowing Shuttle..."

"Check it more carefully!"

Then Chris looked at Su Xi, and she said, "As the person in charge of this mission, I have issued a 'special conscription order' to the citizen Naya of the Empire. Please assist us in our operation."

This was the first time she had asked Su Xi for a task, and it was done in a very formal manner.

Su Xi was slightly stunned, then smiled: "No problem, I will comply with your request."

"Please try to search for the 'escaped' queen again? Or -" Chris paused, "the other creatures that were bent over?"

"I'll try."

After a moment, Su Xi shook her head, "It's hidden."

At this time, Mary and Rambo returned from the 'nuclear crystal cabin' and reported more details to Chris.

Su Xi's attention was attracted by Mary. Mary sensed it, turned her head and saw her, and smiled a little awkwardly.

Apparently, she also heard Chris's 'special call' on her personal communicator, and Su Xi's personal terminal message appeared on her mission communicator.

Currently, this group of alphas have very complicated attitudes towards Su Xi, so much so that there is an extra layer of alienation compared to the first time they met.

Su Xi took the initiative to walk over, smiled at Mary, and said, "Can I use your 'special mental recovery agent' again?"

"Oh! No problem." Mary secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out a few bags of special packaging with little bear hearts printed on them from the space button. Su Xi took them on her own initiative. When they parted and passed each other, she suddenly patted Mary's shoulder.

Mary turned her head in surprise, and Su Xi smiled at her again: "Thank you! Can I pay you with star coins?"

"No, no! Aaron will definitely be happy that you can support this taste!" Mary laughed. After returning from the 'Nuclear Crystal Cabin', the inexplicable feeling of pressure on her body suddenly disappeared.

Su Xi sat back in the seat closer to the 'cargo hold'.

When Gary turned his eyes to her, Su Xi was playing with a hollow black iron ball on the table, spinning it around in boredom.

Everything is normal.

However, the situation in the specially isolated "forbidden room" in the lower cargo hold on the surveillance camera became increasingly serious.

According to Chris's deployment, the 'disruption pheromones' applied to these newborn Zerg did have a certain effect, but it only lasted for a very short time.

Outside the 'forbidden room', the five newborn insects seemed to have reached some kind of unified agreement. They no longer killed each other, but as if under the command of some unified signal, they launched an attack in a fixed direction!

The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle's heavily guarded 'Forbidden Room' became their final target!

In the 'forbidden room' there is a 'mother worm' to whom their loyalty is engraved in their genetic instructions when they are first hatched!

The outer force field shielding film was shaking under the attack of these five new insect generals and was about to break through.

Chris also gave the order to prepare for battle. Mary, Rambo and Mo were already fully armed and at the entrance of the lower level, waiting for orders.

Fortunately, the efforts of the engineers of the First Fortress were not in vain, and the last line of defense of the entire 'Forbidden Room', the 'Zerg Imprisonment Device', is still functioning steadily!

No matter how furiously the mysterious 'Mother Insect' roared, or how hard the 'companion insects' tried, they were temporarily powerless to break through that last line of defense.

The humans on the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle and the accidentally hatched 'Mother Worm' were stuck in a stalemate.

"This is really bad news," Chris muttered, "It has even more bizarre abilities than the previous generations of 'Mother Worm'. Whether it's 'possession' or 'deformed twins', we have no trace of 'it'."

"This is also good news," Su Xi stroked the dark hollow ball in his hand and said thoughtfully, "Since its companion insects are still attacking the 'Imprisoner', it means that the main body of this 'Mother Worm' is still trapped in the force field shielding film."

"Even though we can't find it, neither 'it' nor 'they' can escape."

"We just need to keep everyone safe at this time."

"Yes." Chris took a deep breath and said, "The key to the current mission is to maintain this balance as much as possible and bring this living 'Mother Worm' back to the First Fortress as soon as possible."

After learning from the tragedy on the Sun Devourer last time, Chris did not rashly send people down to strangle the Zerg, but instead activated the most stringent blockade strategy.

The entire lower level was designated as a restricted area.

Su Xi agreed to Chris, cooperated with the war preparations and consolidated the "mental defense" against the Zerg.

"Next, we have to clear the siege of those bugs outside!" The soldiers who had experienced countless life and death were still calm and composed. "Since we can't use high-energy thermal weapons, then we will clear the place manually!"

Chris made the final decision, "Allen stays in the command room, and everyone else puts on their mechas and prepares for battle."

Then she turned to Su Xi and saluted. "Ms. Naya, please take care of the defense line against the 'Mother Worm' mental wave on the lower level!"

"I will definitely live up to your expectations!" Su Xi also replied formally in a very serious manner.

Gary and the others saluted her, which was the imperial soldiers' salute to express apology and respect to the civilians involved in the fighting.

After the ceremony——

"Oh wow!" Rambo and others finally got excited!

"I've been holding it in for long enough!"

"A real man would kill it swiftly!"

"Let's go! See my latest karate skills!"

Then, outside the Sun Swallowing Shuttle, the "real men" alphas drove their own mechas and jumped out of the mecha cabin that had exploded!

Due to strategic limitations, these special forces mechas only carry low-frequency thermal weapons, so they can only kill one by one! Of course, there is a lack of the pleasure of high-frequency thermal weapons sweeping across the land, but the tough and bloody like Rambo and Lao Mo directly use cold weapons. This kind of killing that saves energy but wastes physical strength is also extremely satisfying!

However, although the number of surviving Zergs has decreased sharply compared to before, the remaining Zergs seem to be more resilient, and compared to this team of eight, they are definitely the majority...

The power of insects is endless, but human physical and mental strength is limited.

They were locked in a war of attrition with no end in sight.

The remains of chopped insects piled up high on the ground, forming an endless tower of corpses.

On the planetary plateau, the sky is always dark.

And where the gloomy sky and earth met, thick clouds slowly piled up.

The geocentric shock wave caused by magnetic pole adjustment is about to come again.

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The other side of the confrontation between Zerg and humans.

Hera Black Hole. The inner nest of the Zerg Queen, hollowed out from a massive mineral planet.

In stark contrast to the desolate and indifferent scene on the surface of the mineral planet, the inner nest's sentry signal towers are densely packed throughout the interior of this nest-shaped planet, creating a very busy scene with insects coming and going.

Teams of Zerg patrolmen flew past in neat rows, spun and twisted in a very regular pattern.

After calculating the last number in his mind, Fitzgerald had already figured out the patrol pattern of the insect soldiers. After the last insect soldier passed by, he tore off the "force field shielding film" covering the "Dragon Crystal Core" in his hand.

Then he considerately placed a medium-sized micro-nuclear bomb on the crystal core, set the countdown, and left quickly.

In just a moment, the Zerg troops that had come to chase the invading aliens because of the commotion on the ground arrived at the location that Fitzgerald had just left.

Not surprisingly, there was a loud explosion! This not only destroyed the unlucky Zerg unit, but also destroyed the information that the patrolling "brainworm" had just learned!

The weak signal wave of the 'invading aliens' has been completely cut off!

The 'brainworm' responsible for this matter screamed in extreme anger -

At this moment, the "invading alien race" was moving rapidly along the winding "worm tunnel" towards the darker underground. He changed a newly obtained "leap migration insect crystal core" in his hand and effortlessly entered the "thinking LAN" of the entire "nest heart" insect race again.

Then all the information of the entire hive rushed towards him. The imperial alpha snorted slightly and silently endured the extreme dizziness when he just entered.

It was a strange perspective, with human cognition on one side and the entire Zerg information network on the other. Not all 6S human psychics could maintain their cognition and perform their tasks clearly in this situation.

Then the whole situation of the worm nest was revealed to him -

The deeper we go underground, along the winding wormholes, the bright light of microorganisms dimly illuminates this originally dark underground.

Until Fitzgerald passed through the boiling river of lava and came to a deep and vast underground world.

On this flat and vast land, the tall and deformed spires deep in the earth's core can be noticed at a glance from a distance.

The tall spire serves the purpose of transmitting Internet signals, but what is more eye-catching is the "special base" piled at the bottom of the spire. It is a very special existence that is hard to describe.

Fitzgerald knew what it was, but seeing it with his own eyes still made him feel a little moved.

The pieces of hanging insect cocoon debris outside the 'nest', as well as the empty shells of other species' life forms, swayed in the windless state under the disturbance of the warning information waves.

The unique warning language of the 'insect tribe' is conveyed in a terrifying and precise manner.

Here too, there was an endless tower of corpses and wreckage. The closer you got to the 'center of the nest', the denser it became.

However, the corpses piled up into a tower here are no longer the remains of the Zerg, but the piled-up corpses looted after the Zerg defeated other intelligent life species.

The pyramid-like "debris towers" are not only monuments to the Zerg's harvest of intelligent life from past generations, but also their reserve for integrating the genes of various races.

Here.

Are all the various life forms on those 'wreckage towers' truly dead?

It seems hard to judge——

Just when Fitzgerald was feeling sympathy for the humans, the 'human mental waves' that were originally disguised behind the 'leap insect crystal core' were discovered by the entire insect race's thought network!

He was forcibly squeezed out of the 'worm net', and then the originally peaceful entrance to the 'nest' was filled with waves of warning signals.

'Enemy attack!'

'Enemy attack!'

'Enemy attack!'

Where the signal waves were disturbed, the mouths of living creatures on the 'Wreckage Tower' opened silently! The corpses with slightly intact vocal cords could still make sounds -

"Enemy attack——"

This is the interstellar common language with a slight frontier accent.

Therefore, Fitzgerald, who had been calculating the rhythm of the invasion precisely, involuntarily stopped abruptly under the 'wreckage tower' after hearing this accent.

After a little identification, he recognized the armor on the human remains wearing a dilapidated and old model of mobile armor. It was the combat mecha from the "Death Vanguard" a thousand years ago.

Fitzgerald saluted, a salute of great respect as the heir to the empire.

Then he drew out his light blade and deliberately attached 60% of his own spiritual power to it.

The dazzling ice-blue spiritual power materialized into a sharp blade, sweeping across! Wherever it passed, the "insect tribe" signals built with human remains collapsed.

Such a movement completely alarmed the last line of defense of the inner nest.

"Unknown alien species——"

'Requesting reinforcements from the main nest!'

The last line of defense of the insect nest, which was composed of heavily armored beetles as big as tanks, was ruthlessly broken by a certain "alien" who was obsessed with killing. In the sea of ​​insects, the ice-blue sharp blade pierced into the soft butter like a high-energy laser.

In the extreme situation where he did not need to conceal his own ability level, Fitzgerald felt a kind of pleasure that he had not enjoyed for a long time.

The half-gray hair gradually turned into flame-colored hair tips. If Su Xi was here, she probably would not think that the alpha who was enjoying killing at this moment was the first heir of the empire who treated her with restraint and courtesy, but more like the man she saw for the first time in the genetic modification pool on the UFO planet when she first landed in this world.

"Unknown alien species——"

'Requesting reinforcements from the main nest!'

A unique frequency reverberated wave after wave throughout the entire insect nest, that ingeniously constructed, huge egg-shaped space.

That was the highest alert signal wave.

'What race?'

'Signalman!'

"That is..."

"Human." Under the helmet of the mobile exoskeleton, only the hard and resolute chin was exposed, and he uttered two words lightly. On behalf of the last fallen long-winged information insect soldier, he delivered the clearest message in human language.

He only had time to deliver this last word before the Zerg signal tower, the first of the many towers, collapsed.

Fitzgerald retracted the light blade that was activated by his mental power.

He is an outlier among humans because of his love for cold weapons.