Chapter 82 Meet again
At this moment, the Great Wilderness Star Region is at the intersection of the polar day and polar night of the planet BV32-II.
The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, which had long deviated from the "circle of life" course, was now dangerously docked on the edge of a cliff with "one side facing the sea and the other side rolling with lava".
It is surrounded by a group of volcanic islands that are forming at an accelerating rate.
This change is more abrupt and intense than any other "periodic magnetic pole adjustment" in the history of planet BV32-II! The biological destruction caused is also the most extensive in the history of the planet's magnetic pole adjustment.
However, for the two most powerful races in the interstellar age, humans and Zerg, who are currently confronting each other, this is just a routine disaster that is a bit troublesome but can be dealt with with ease.
After several emergency repairs, the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle's engine damage rate was barely maintained at around 60% of the starting line.
Therefore, in this interception battle with the Zerg's "post-disaster egg-grabbing", Chris decided to dispatch all special service mechas and fifteen automatic mechas to form a temporary guerrilla team to intercept every Zerg that can be captured.
It must be said that this is entirely due to the existence of the 'Su Xi' plug-in.
After all, the research samples obtained by humans before were at most "insect mother crystal nuclei" with the potential for "queen" development, not complete "insect eggs". And compared with the current batch of "golden insect eggs" hidden by the queen of the insect race under special circumstances, they are far inferior in quality and strategic research value.
It's no wonder that after seeing the effectiveness of what Su Xi called the "safe zone", Chris had the ambition and idea to snatch the batch of "golden eggs" from the Zerg.
The frequency band of the 'golden worm eggs' is completely different from the hatching frequency of ordinary 'mother worm eggs', and it is difficult for humans to track them with existing technology. But now Chris and his team have the 'Su Xi' plug-in, and after regaining the 'golden worm eggs' simulation band, the traces of the 'golden worm eggs' on the planet BV32-II are almost public to them.
Facts have proved that in the first fifteen encounters, humans maintained a frequency of winning two out of three battles and captured six "golden eggs".
At this moment, six new "forbidden rooms" were opened in the lower cabin of the Sun Swallowing Flying Shuttle. The six "golden eggs" were lying quietly in them and were strictly isolated.
In the main control room on the upper floor, Allen was busy setting up a new 'Zerg Imprisoner' program with sweat all over his face.
Even in his busy schedule, he still did not forget to keep an eye on the situation in the 'forbidden room' where the insect eggs were hatched. To his surprise, the five companion king insects that suddenly started fighting were devoured and only one was left. However, the energy fluctuations were not as severe as before, and a 'transfer of the same species' did not occur.
Ellen frowned in confusion and highlighted this noteworthy phenomenon in the logbook.
Outside the Sun Swallowing Shuttle, the 16th guerrilla war was underway. Chris and his men, with three heavy mechas as cover and 1,300 micro combat robots as the vanguard, were slowly approaching a group of ground insect soldiers transporting the "golden insect eggs".
It was a group of insects guarded by a fifth-level 'general'-level 'golden centipede'. They slowly carried the 'golden egg' out from underground and were waiting for the 'three-legged flying thorn insect' circling in the sky to pick it up.
Chris's tactic is to wait for the moment when the two groups of Zerg meet and then start fighting -
Effective tactics have helped them obtain the first fifteen 'golden eggs'.
The current development seems to be the same as the previous fifteen times, nothing special.
But Su Xi in the control room suddenly changed her expression. The sharp pain flashed by, and the "annihilation" scene that had disappeared flashed before her eyes again. However, it was a "total destruction" scene with a different background.
She pulled up the weapons storage in the mecha cabin, glanced through it, and then pointed to a page and asked Allen, who was working hard, "Ellen, is there a model of this EXO powered exoskeleton that is suitable for me?"
Ellen, who had just finished setting the new program password, turned around and looked at her petite figure. She said in surprise: "Probably only the smallest size can be used, but why do you ask this?"
"Support Chris, they haven't refreshed in three minutes."
Allen paused for a breath. Su Xi's predictions had never been wrong in the previous fifteen times, so he believed her without hesitation.
The young curly-haired alpha quickly turned to the control panel and checked the remote signal of the micro-robot, but there was no response! He then sent a communication request to Chris and the others, but there was no response!
"Ailun," Su Xi said to him, "Please help me adjust the compatible size of this EXO model. I'll go down and take a look."
"No," the young alpha said very firmly, "I can't make this decision without a warrant from my superior!"
"Besides, I should be the one to go!"
"The coordinates of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle have been synchronized with the First Fortress. Please stay on the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle. Both the energy of the imprisonment device and the outer shell shield is sufficient..."
Bang——
Before Allen could finish his words, he was tied tightly to the seat by the liquid silver insect armor that instantly turned into energy. It looked like he was tightly wrapped in silver spider silk.
He struggled subconsciously twice, and the silver spider web, as if it were a living thing, loosened a little considerately, maintaining a tightness that was breathable but absolutely impossible to break free from.
Su Xi withdrew her hand and glanced at the flight recorder in the cabin.
The brown-haired omega tilted his head and smiled, saying, "That's in line with the rules, right?"
Ellen was speechless and choked: "..."
"Help me debug it," Su Xi asked again, then put her hand on the mental interface port and said, "I can read the manual myself, but it will be a little slower."
Ellen answered with difficulty: "Okay."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hole appeared in the silver spider web that was just big enough for his hands to pass through. Allen couldn't figure out how he felt. This mission gave him a new understanding of the omega gender in just a few days.
With his help, Suxi was quickly fully armed in the EXO equipment room.
Click - after the helmet was lowered, under the restraint of the powered exoskeleton that Allen had debugged, only the vague curves of the body could reveal that this was a warrior with a female secondary gender. Under that cold exoskeleton, no one would have thought that it would be an omega.
Finally, Allen asked hesitantly, "You also selected the maximum power handheld pulse cannon. Do you... know how to use it?"
"I don't know," Su Xi said honestly. Then she closed her eyes slightly and read the relevant data directly from the port of the mental interface on the helmet.
Seeing Ellen's speechless and worried expression, Su Xi couldn't help but explain a few more words, using that serious tone that only women have: "I'm looking up the instruction manual. It not only has a holographic holding demonstration, but also explains in detail the corresponding killing range of each power."
Ellen was speechless again: "..."
Su Xi comforted him dryly: "Trust me, I will be back soon. You are more familiar with everything on the Sun Swallowing Shuttle than I am. If anything unexpected happens, you are our last resort."
Su Xi was already standing at the open cabin door.
Leaning back slightly, she escaped from the invisible force field of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle and jumped off a thousand-foot cliff.
In the dizziness of falling, in the sense of being upside down in this world that is half mountain, half sea, and half lava——
She suddenly missed 'Xi Guang'.
The wind whistled outside the helmet, and inside the helmet she could only hear her own shallow breathing, the sound of her heartbeat quickening as her adrenaline surged, and—
Wearing a transparent air bubble on her collarbone, there was a beautiful substance that was like ice and flame, responding to her heartbeat.
At the moment when she was alone in this world, she suddenly thought of the man who gave her such a precious thing.
Hiss—Bang—
The booster was ignited, and Su Xi stopped while falling. After adjusting the direction, he headed straight for the coordinates where Chris and his team had last sent a signal.
*
Just as Su Xi expected, just two and a half minutes after losing contact, Chris's team on the ground was trapped in a large-scale hallucination fog created by the "brain worm".
Originally, the micro-robot forward could still rely on it to identify direction and truth, but the "thread-shaped rot worms" that swarmed out from the ground quickly entangled the micro-robot's joints and trapped it on the ground, unable to move.
Under the wrath of the Zerg Queen, the 'Brain Worm', which was originally only controlling the overall situation remotely in the outer space orbit of the planet BV32-II, quietly dived to the ground.
That 'golden egg' was originally a trap.
Chris and his friends, who were caught in an endless fight, had some doubts but found that they had lost their direction and the ability to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Until Chris found a breakthrough at the cost of losing a heavy mecha, and was about to destroy the "golden egg"!
At this moment——
'Stop!'
'Chris'
'That's Mary!'
Su Xi stopped in front of Chris, who was blinded by bloodshot. Her landing posture was not very graceful, and her manipulation of the pulse gun and the mecha exoskeleton was a bit excessive.
Su Xi stood up with great difficulty from the corpse of a heavily armored soldier that had been blown into a pile of mud. She did not have time to get rid of the sticky green slime. She struggled to climb over the "huge" mountain of corpses and came to Chris's mecha "Musician". Compared with the tall special service mecha, Su Xi, who was only wearing a light mecha skeleton, was only about the height of the "Musician's" calf.
Chris in the mecha cabin blinked and asked uncertainly in the communication channel: "Naya?"
"It's me." Su Xi lifted the outer protective cover of her helmet and stood on the palm of the 'musician' that was open to her.
"This is not an illusion."
The pair of amber eyes in the power helmet smiled at her, and Chris felt relieved. Like holding a delicate doll, the 'musician' lifted Su Xi high to the position of the mecha cabin.
Through two layers of transparent protective shields, Su Xi saw Chris's extremely tired face.
In the 'virtual time' created by the brain worm, they should have been fighting for a long time.
Su Xi said in the communication channel, "Chris, I need to link up with other people, and this time it must be quick! The other party's 'network' is very strong, hundreds of times stronger than the ones we encountered a dozen times before."
"Also," Su Xi said solemnly, "Deep connections like the last two times can only last for fifteen minutes at most, no more. Otherwise, your subsequent mental power upgrades will lose their freedom and will be completely dependent on my personal limits—"
“And my condition is not stable.”
"I understand." Chris, who had just woken up from the illusion, rubbed his face and said tiredly and calmly: "The mission comes first, and the lives of teammates are second. As for promotion, I will talk about it after I return alive."
This was their choice, Su Xi didn't say anything more.
This time she did not have time to enter the "Luminist's" mecha cabin, but instead sat on the right shoulder of this red mecha with complex and smooth lines.
Click - the magnetic buckle of the EXO mecha exoskeleton locked onto the side of the 'musician's' shoulder, and Su Xi stood on this tall mecha.
"I'm starting!" After Su Xi reminded him, she closed her eyes and immersed herself in the 'thinking network'.
Instant——
The people lost in the fog of the "brainworm" hallucination were like being completely awakened by a basin of ice on a hot summer day. They looked at each other and found that this was still the valley where they had ambushed before, and not the volcanic islands where they had fought for several days.
The zombies scattered all over the ground reminded them that after they launched the first round of attacks and achieved a small victory, they were trapped in a dilemma of being besieged and killing each other.
And the 'golden egg' that was snatched away was just an ordinary rock.
There was no time for small talk. Using the 'thinking network' built by Su Xi as a platform, Chris directly exchanged his thoughts, cognition and subsequent tactical arrangements with everyone.
It is a method of combat communication that is a thousand times more efficient than language.
A moment later, their 'network' collided head-on with another 'thinking network' with more nodes and a stronger core.
Although collective thinking and cooperation have already been carried out in this state, this method is still a magnificent and strange experience for everyone.
'That's a brainworm!'
Su Xi confidently shared this information with everyone in the 'human network'.
In the spiritual world, the two "networks" collided and separated instantly, and at the same time, the Zerg and the human team in reality also launched attacks almost at the same time.
If Chris is equivalent to a decision-making center in the "human network", then "Su Xi" is equivalent to a command center and the powerful "spiritual energy" backing of the entire network.
Among the current survivors of the human team, only Mary, Gary and Mo are 3S psychics, while others like Chris, Rambo and others have just reached the top 2S level.
At this moment, within what Su Xi called the 'fifteen-minute limit', the strong infusion of spiritual energy allowed everyone to improve their ability levels by at least three small steps. Rambo and Gary even directly jumped to the 4S level.
Although it was only temporary, this strong infusion still gave Lamborghini an extremely strong sense of pleasure. 'Damn! So this is what the awesome 4S feels like! I'm going to fight! Kill all those bugs!'
In the real world, the 'Brainworm' is still hiding in the strict protection of the heavy armored beetles. However, under its ground command, not only the 'Gold-Eating Bugs', which are the vanguard of the infantry, are constantly attacking, but the 'Mantis', which is good at killing in the middle, is also rushing forward with its limbs and sickle forelimbs.
The human team that has entered the 'Internet of Mind' is now fighting as an individual but also as a unified whole.
Everyone's perspective is connected, and everyone's special abilities can even be transferred and borrowed to some extent. Within this 'fifteen-minute limit', the ability of a team battle can no longer be simply measured by the accumulation of individual abilities, but rather one person can almost resist an entire army.
But this perfect state will soon exceed the limit of fifteen minutes. Su Xi counts down in the 'network' and suggests giving up the 'golden eggs' and retreating.
But Chris pleaded: 'Suxi, please continue.'
In the real world, the battle between the boundless Zerg and this weak but powerful human team has once again reached a stalemate.
Chris said: "There is no point in retreating. It will only expose the location of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle. As long as the fifteen golden eggs do not step out of the imprisonment device, we only need to wait for reinforcements and we will be completely victorious."
Su Xi smiled softly and said, "It's not that bad, Chris. You can come back alive."
"I promise."
Then she adjusted the frequency of the mental link, and everyone was forced to exit the extremely "deep" multi-point frequency state. However, the intermittent mental network link still allowed them to maintain the greatest combat intuition and sensitivity to the status of their companions.
There was no time to say more to Su Xi, as everyone was caught up in the battle of their own responsibilities.
The high morale caused the Zerg who took advantage of the chaos to launch an attack to be defeated again.
Chris's mecha 'Musician' placed Su Xi on a platform on a rock wall on the cliff. Then it drew out its weapon and used the mecha 'Musician' itself as a shield to block the rock wall.
Chris said, "Thank you, Suxi. Next is our military's battlefield. Your duty is to return to the First Fortress alive and well."
Su Xi pursed her lips slightly and agreed with a "OK".
But looking at the brutal killing field ahead, Su Xi closed her eyes slightly, her mind wavered, and she began to look for the cunningly hiding "brain worm".
Yes.
They will all return alive.
After coming to this world, in addition to Xiguang, Suxi once again had a small "target".
For her part, she had no fear of a sweet death.
*
At this moment, a vortex suddenly appeared in the distant sky. It was a special weather phenomenon caused by the Zerg tearing through space and transporting Zerg soldiers on a large scale!
As expected, a dark hole seemed to suddenly appear in the sky, and countless insect soldiers descended densely -
Everyone's heart sank.
The Zerg came to reinforce, and the originally barely tied situation was about to be broken.
At this moment, in addition to the endless ground forces, the Zerg's source of troops is now about to be completely suppressed in the air!
The human team's chances of survival are slim.
The overwhelming swarm of insects in the sky arrived above the battlefield in a few moments. Chris felt even more depressed. She obviously recognized them: "They are the troops of leaping insects, not just 'flying insects'."
Rambo licked the blood foam from his abdomen and chuckled, "I haven't killed the latest kingworm of this generation yet. This mission is really exciting."
Gary said nothing and straightened his collar.
Everyone was ready to fight to the death.
However, the following developments were beyond everyone's expectations.
And all the bugs expected.
The 'Leap Bug' troops that arrived above the battlefield instantly rushed towards the Brain Bug troops on the ground in a suicidal manner.
The two sides immediately started killing each other.
This bizarre development on the battlefield stunned the few remaining humans on the battlefield.
The queen worm hasn't even hatched yet, but the different species of worms on both sides have already started fighting each other?
After barely treating the wound on her abdomen that was completely pierced, Mary took several gulps of a force-enhancing agent. Her face turned pale and she exclaimed, "I've never seen anything like this before. It's too unscientific!"
until--
There was no need for humans to take action. The well-trained and well-fed 'jumping worm' troops temporarily killed or drove away the 'brain worm' infantry on the ground.
The place was cleared quickly.
The people standing in the center of the fight quickly communicated their own judgments of the situation. They were temporarily unable to detect the hostility of this newly appeared "leaping insect", so they watched the situation develop with secret vigilance.
Therefore, in the process of the winner of the insect race devouring the loser on the spot, the seventh-order king insect that was just hovering in the air and watching the battle indifferently but never moved seemed extremely abrupt and weird.
Only when the battlefield was almost cleared did the king insect slowly land in front of them.
But the next move has never happened in the long history of the struggle between man and insect, and it probably won't happen again.
Except for Su Xi, most of the people present were graduates of military academies. In the various rigorous training courses, they were required to memorize the known classifications and various habits of Zerg.
At this moment, the scales on the neck of this king insect were slightly raised, and the long whiskers on the tail were gently swaying in a strange rhythm... It was a seventh-level "jumping insect without a doubt", but that posture... was an involuntary "courtship" posture? ! And when it flew over, the insect pheromone had a strong sense of enclosure.
Everyone froze and dared not move. They secretly counted the remaining weapons.
Could it be that the 'golden eggs' they snatched were the 'queen' that was about to hatch? That was a seventh-level king insect. Except for the 'quasi-queen' of the same level, it was impossible for it to make a 'courtship' gesture that symbolized submission to a weaker level queen insect.
But in full view of the public.
The king bug suddenly made a strange leap and appeared out of nowhere on the cliff platform, only three meters away from Su Xi. Su Xi stopped Chris who was about to rush over, "Don't worry, let me communicate with it first, I promise I can protect myself."
Thinking of her performance in the wilderness, Chris and the others paused for a moment, and slowly stood in a position where they could respond at any time.
The seventh-level king insect standing in front of Su Xi obviously didn't care about the vigilance and attack preparations of other humans.
It simply lowered its tentacles and gently touched the soft palm of the brown-haired girl.
In the huge dark blue compound eyes, there are countless reflections of her, and now she looks like a wolf.
'It's me.'
'Come here.'
It was a powerful yet familiar mental fluctuation, carrying with it a sense of guilt and incomparable complexity.
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