Chapter 27
Qi Heng's voice was not loud, but the Zerg's hearing was very sensitive.
As soon as he said this, the Zerg watching around him couldn't help but gasp, and for a moment all the Zerg's attention was focused on them.
The female insect's eyes were dull, while the male insect looked shocked.
——A female insect actually rejected a male insect's invitation! !
——It’s incredible!!
In front of Qi Heng.
The smile on the face of the male insect who called himself Carlos froze. It was obvious that he did not expect to be rejected, and rejected mercilessly.
Qi Heng was a little impatient. He had no interest in being treated like a monkey.
If this male insect doesn't get out of the way, can't I just leave?
Qi Heng thought of this, frowned, took a step to the side and was about to leave.
Carlos, who was rejected for the first time, stood there in a daze for a long time, his face turning pale and blue, and he was a little angry and embarrassed, thinking that this female insect actually dared to reject him.
Not only did he reject me, he also told me to get lost. Now he is leaving without even looking at me. He doesn't take me seriously at all.
Carlos was filled with anger and grabbed the arm of the black-haired female insect without thinking.
"Wait, who allowed you to leave?"
Qi Heng's face suddenly turned gloomy when his arm was grabbed. He raised his arm and shook Carlos' hand away.
He didn't like close contact with other people and kept his distance from everyone. Even with Yan Ning, with whom he had a good relationship, she had never approached him without permission.
This was definitely the moment when Qi Heng had the ugliest expression since he came to this world.
Carlos didn't expect that a female insect would dare to attack him. He was caught off guard and felt a huge force hitting him. His body fell backwards uncontrollably and he couldn't maintain his balance and fell heavily to the ground.
"ah--!"
Qi Heng looked down at Carlos, who had fallen to the ground in a mess, and said expressionlessly, "If you do it again, I'll break your hand."
Carlos, who fell to the ground, opened his eyes wide. He couldn't believe what he heard. He swallowed subconsciously at the other party's cold gaze. The eyes were scary but the face looked even better.
Ah, she is indeed the female insect I like, she is different.
Carlos felt that the anger in his heart was frozen by this glance.
Things happened so fast that the surrounding Zerg were stunned by the development of the situation.
——There was actually a female insect that not only rejected the male insect's advances but also pushed the male insect to the ground. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, no insect would believe it if you told them.
——Hiss, this female insect actually dares to threaten the male insect.
After Qi Heng finished speaking, he glanced at the Zerg around him who were watching the fun, then walked around Carlos and passed by.
He never says useless words.
Perhaps this sentence sounds like a threat to other Zergs, but to Qi Heng it is just a statement of fact. He always does what he says.
…
After Qi Heng left, the other Zergs left one after another when they saw that there was nothing exciting to watch.
Carlos sat there for a long time without moving. A male insect walked up to Carlos and kicked him, feeling speechless at Carlos's stupid look.
"What are you looking at? The female insect has left."
"Are you going to continue sitting here if you don't get up?"
"Of course not." Carlos got up from the ground, smiled at his friend and said, "Xiao Wei, don't you think he is special?"
"I don't think so."
"That female insect just attacked you, weren't you quite angry?" Carlos's friend Xiao Wei looked him up and down several times, and said in disbelief, "I've known you for so long, and I didn't know you had a mental illness."
"You're the one who's sick," Carlos retorted.
"That female insect not only rejected you, but also pushed you."
"You think this female insect is special? Are you sick?" Xiao Wei said with some dissatisfaction: "This unruly female insect must be caught by the patrol team and punished severely."
"I can't explain it to you," Carlos said, "but you're right about one thing. We should go find the patrol."
"Also, you can arrest him, but you can't hurt him."
Xiao Wei: "? What do you mean?"
Carlos dusted himself off and said, "I finally found a female insect that suits my taste. I don't want him to die too soon."
"Hurry up, I've waited so long for him to show up again. If he runs away, I'll never let you go."
There is a patrol team’s female insect garrison in the trading area, not far from where they are.
Xiao Wei and Carlos went to the garrison point one after another.
The other side.
Qi Heng looked a little better after leaving, but he didn't really feel relaxed.
He thought about what had just happened.
It was nothing that the male insect named Carlos mistook himself for a female insect, but it was really disgusting that he shamelessly came up to invite me just because he believed that I was a female insect, especially the tone that made him sure that I would agree.
The reactions of the other Zerg were also problematic.
He realized that his previous behavior seemed to have caused him trouble.
But Qi Heng did not regret it.
Haha, he had no choice in the situation just now - if he didn't say anything and told the other party to get out, would he have to agree to it?
He originally came to the central trading area to exchange star stones for some salt, but he didn't expect it to develop like this.
The status of male insects in Area 49 is obviously different from that of female insects. Having offended the male insects just now, I will inevitably get into trouble. In order to avoid them coming to my door, I'd better leave quickly.
Qi Heng thought about it and turned around, leaving the trading area from another direction.
There were many female insects coming and going in the trading area, including some with black hair. Qi Heng hid among them and soon disappeared without a trace.
By the time Carlos and Xiao Wei brought the patrol team of female insects to look for them, it was too late. By the time they found the black-haired female insect, she had already run away.
"It's all your fault for being slow, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten away." Carlos had a grim expression.
Xiao Wei sneered: "Can you blame me for this? It's obviously your own problem. If you hadn't let him go, how could we not find him now?"
"Who told you not to hug him just now?"
Male insects are inferior to female insects in all aspects, and the gap in physical fitness is even weaker than that of female insects from birth, and this will further increase as they grow older.
If there is a conflict between a male and a female insect, all male insects know that for their own safety they should never try to confront the female insect head-on.
Carlos's mouth twitched, and he kicked him and said, "You want me to die."
The black-haired female insect looked like someone who was not easy to deal with. She just grabbed my wrist and threw me to the ground, and then threatened to break my hand next time.
If I really hugged him and didn't let him leave, I'm afraid I'd be dead now.
"At most he'll beat you up, but he won't dare to kill you."
"The female insects who tried to resist us all met a bad end. They didn't dare to do that."
Xiao Wei said as he glanced at the female insect in patrol uniform who was called over by them: "You can go now. There's no need to look for her anymore. She should have left."
The female insect in the gray uniform left silently, accustomed to the male insect's arrogant and willful tone of issuing orders.
"He got away this time. I don't know if I'll have another chance next time." Carlos felt a little regretful.
"We'll talk about it next time."
Xiao Wei looked around the trading area and said meaningfully, "He can't never come."
…
Qi Heng didn't know that he was being targeted, so he changed his route and left.
However, given his personality, he wouldn't take it to heart even if he knew. After all, the trading area is not a place he must go to.
So far, although Qi Heng knew that male insects had a higher status and a much better living standard than female insects, he was not very clear about the specific reasons. He just thought it was because the number of male insects was small.
Although I had some guesses in my mind, I had no intention of further verifying or exploring them.
He never takes things that have nothing to do with him to heart, as long as they don't provoke him.
After leaving the trading area, he walked out of Area 49.
At this time, there were not many Zergs in the wilderness outside Area 49. As Qi Heng walked further and further away, he was gradually the only one left.
When a huge sinkhole appeared in his sight, he arrived at his destination.
Dead egg pit.
The night he traveled to this world, he had nowhere to go, so he ended up sitting by the pit all night. It was not until he met Yan Ning after dawn that he finally had a place to stay.
He never came here again after leaving that day.
Qi Heng called up the blueprints of some special buildings on the Tianyun Xinglan Continent. Soon, a three-dimensional perspective image of a special building appeared on the system interface.
He reached out and turned the building, then compared it with the hole in front of him.
The superstructure of this pit was once a nursery. In other words, this pit is the remaining part of the nursery, which is where the commander-in-chief was reincarnated for the second time.
For Qi Heng, only a few months had passed since he had the commander reincarnate for the second time. After thinking for a while, he could still remember where he had arranged the commander.
However, if A0 had not performed the oath awakening and then expended energy to locate the nearest spiritual imprint, it would have been difficult for him to associate this pit with the nursery where the commander was reincarnated for the second time.
The nursery, originally intended to increase the hatching rate of insect eggs, has now become the final destination for dead insect eggs.
From the complete destruction of the nursery's upper structure, which exposed a deep pit, it is not difficult to see what happened here in the past.
If A0 hadn't assured him that the commander's breath was still there, it would have been hard for him to believe in such a tragic situation... that the commander was still alive.
Qi Heng had just received the information from A0 this morning, and only now had time to study it carefully.
When the nursery was first built, they dug five hundred meters underground, dividing it into two parts, above and below the ground, with the commander at the lowest level underground.
In order to awaken the commander, one needs to use his mental power to directly contact the commander's body, but the gap between himself and the master is too big. The distance that the mental power can be projected is barely one hundred meters. If it needs to penetrate matter, the distance will be reduced by two-thirds.
With this level of mental strength, there is absolutely no way I can wake up the commander just by standing here.
You have to go down.
This is also the reason why Qi Heng studied the drawings when the nursery was built.
Although the superstructures have been destroyed, and there are only a few layers of substructures left in this deep pit, the underground passages are not necessarily all collapsed and buried. As long as an entrance can be found, one can enter the underground along the passage marked on the drawing.
Qi Heng looked at the steep pit, attached the star power to his feet and walked down step by step. This method saves star power.
After walking for a while, we approached the insect eggs abandoned at the edge of the pit. Some were new, some were old, and the color could tell when they were thrown here.
As he glanced at the insect eggs, he felt a little uncomfortable.
Qi Heng couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his chest. The dream had a greater impact on him than he thought. The emotion that came to his mind was heartache.
I am heartbroken over the death of these insect eggs and the disappearance of each living life... Whenever I think about how many insect eggs have been buried in this pit over the past ten thousand years, my brows can't help but furrow.
He took a deep breath to adjust his mood and suppress those emotions.
"A1, let's get started."
[Yes, Your Excellency.]
[Terrain scanning is enabled, and the task of searching for accessible passages by comparing existing buildings has been successfully established.]
"Um."
Qi Heng did not walk towards the center of the egg pit. He walked along the arc of the pit wall, taking as big strides as possible. The system would compare the area he walked through with the channels on the drawing and calculate the location coordinates of the entrance.
It’s not that he can’t find it himself, it’s just that there’s no need to.
It would be faster to let the system find the entrance. He accumulated system energy just for use at times like this.
As expected.
Fifteen minutes later, a topographic map was drawn by the system.
[Your Excellency, the coordinates of the passageway have been calculated to be as follows...]
Qi Heng tried them one by one.
He was lucky and found an entrance buried by rocks as soon as he tried the second one.
This entrance was about sixty meters away from the edge of the pit. At this depth, he could step on dead insect eggs with just one foot.
"A1, scan this entrance carefully and calculate the energy required to open this passage."
[Calculation completed, 100 energy points required.]
When the system has sufficient energy, it is basically omnipotent.
"Blow it up."
【Please place your hand on the marked point.】
A red dot appeared in his field of vision.
Qi Heng pointed his finger at that spot, somewhat curious about what would happen next.
The next second, the stone in front of him shattered silently into pieces of stone less than five centimeters in size accompanied by the calm sound of the system.
There was no loud explosion, only slight vibration, because most of it turned into dust and fell at the entrance.
【The mission has been completed.】
[Consume 90 energy points to clear obstacles and 10 energy points to form a protective shield, for a total of 100 energy points.]
Under the protection of the protective cover, all the smoke and dust generated by the explosion are blocked outside the protective cover.
The upgraded protective shield is well worth its price, as it is more expensive than the previous protective shield. While protecting him from all dirt, it can also perform aerobic circulation, which is very suitable for what he is going to do next.
Qi Heng waited until the smoke and dust had completely dissipated, then squinted his eyes and looked inside, and then walked in without much hesitation.
It was pitch black in the depths. Even with good night vision, it was impossible to see accurately in such darkness, not to mention that he encountered new obstacles not long after he went deeper.
Not only the outside of the passage is buried, but the inside as well.
He held a star stone in his hand. After activating the star power contained in it in some way, the star stone became a luminous object.
Although the light was not bright, it was more than enough for Qi Heng.
"A1, consume energy to create a Devourer larva."
Relying on the isolation of the protective shield, he was not worried at all that he would be burned by the leaked star power.
[Production completed, consuming 1000 energy points.]
A fat white larva no bigger than a fist appeared at his feet. It looked no different from a miner larva, but the energy required to create it was thousands of times greater.
Qi Heng released his mental power and asked the Devourer to clear away the obstacles ahead.
The Devourer, as the name suggests, has the ability to devour.
It devours everything it can, including minerals, plants, sand, gravel, soil, etc. Even living organisms are on its diet. Everything it devours will be converted into energy for growth.
After the Devourer leaves its infancy and growth stages and enters the mature stage, it will only retain the basic energy needs, and then convert most of the excess energy in the body into a high-energy concentrated crystal. This energy crystal was named "Tian Jing" by Qi Heng.
Sky crystal is diamond-shaped, the crystal is pure and transparent with only a hint of light blue on the top, which looks like the sky after the rain.
The energy contained in a standard unit of Sky Crystal is 80% higher than that of the same energy crystal. It can be said to be one of the most useful original Zerg. The only disadvantage is that the Devourer must eat all the time to maintain life activities.
Once it cannot obtain enough energy, it will fall into hibernation. Unless it is awakened, it will gradually deplete its basic life-sustaining energy during hibernation and eventually die.
With the help of the Devourer and the system, Qi Heng explored downwards very quickly.
It ate as it walked, and by the time it passed the passage leading to the lowest level, the Devourer's size had grown several times larger.
The color of its body also began to change due to swallowing too much metal, from the original white to silver.
After Qi Heng reached the bottom level of the Devourer and ate through the last obstacle, an empty and dark space appeared in front of him.
In order to get a glimpse of the entire space, he fully activated the Star Stone in his hand and threw it out. The Star Stone exploded in mid-air, lighting up for several seconds like a flash bomb.
The underground space was very spacious, and looking around there were rows and rows of shelves, but there was no sign of the commander.
...It's too dark, the star stone isn't bright enough, we have to think of other ways.
Qi Heng thought for a moment and took two steps forward, then turned right and walked forward about ten meters, finally stopping in front of a wall.
There was already a Devourer as tall as his thigh following behind him, taking three steps at a time. Without the orders of the Lord and Commander, the Devourer would not take the initiative to eat a single bite even if it was hungry and urgently needed to devour matter and convert it into energy to supply itself.
Even if it goes against instinct for the Devourer.
"I don't know if it can still be started." Qi Heng muttered to himself and reached out to knock on the wall.
Just now when I was looking at the drawings of the interior of the building, I saw some information about the bottom floor. The bottom floor is equipped with a separate energy system, which can be started as a backup in the event of an accident in the outside world.
He pressed it.
Perhaps because it had been kept underground, the mechanical device inside was not corroded by the air. After waiting for a few seconds, the wall successfully caved in, revealing an operating panel with several buttons on it.
Next to the operating panel is an embedded cylindrical crystal, about the thickness of an adult's arm and about forty centimeters long.
Using energy crystals as backup energy, this is the foundation of Tianjia civilization during its peak period.
In fact, if you think about it, there is nothing strange about it. To support the normal operation of such a huge space with special functions as the last floor, only energy crystals are most suitable.
Qi Heng sighed and pressed the blue button.
A ray of light lit up on the cylindrical crystal, followed by the display screen on the operating panel, and then the entire space he was in.
The dark environment suddenly became bright, which made him feel uncomfortable. It took him a while to adapt to the current brightness.
Qi Heng was operating on the display screen. The text on it was from the past of the Tianjia civilization, probably integrating part of the Lord's memory. He had no difficulty browsing it.
A light sound was extremely obvious in the quiet space, and a piece of the metal wall at his feet popped out. Looking down, he saw that there were energy crystals exactly the same as the columnar crystals on the upper layer neatly arranged inside, six in a row, a total of twelve in a group.
Since it is a backup energy source, of course there will not be only one.
He had guessed about the existence of backup energy when he learned about it, and now it only confirmed his idea.
——The war on Tianyun Star must have broken out very quickly. After the nursery on the upper level was bombed, no one thought of searching below. Otherwise, let alone these energy crystals, the commander would have been discovered long ago.
Qi Heng closed the metal plate. Now, is this considered a bargain for himself?
He didn't pay attention to these energy crystals for too long. His goal had not been completed yet, and finding the commander was more important than using the energy crystals.
Qi Heng turned around and walked in this space that had been closed for ten thousand years.
He passed through one tall empty shelf after another. The shelves were supposed to hold the insect eggs that were sent here to sense the commander's aura, but now those positions were empty.
If the position in the game is the same as in reality, then the commander should be in the center of this space. He thought about walking towards the center of this space.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide, because the scene before him was completely different from what he had imagined.
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Author's words: Update completed√ far exceeds the agreed word count_(:з」∠)_
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