Chapter 124
The inside of the wormhole is intricate, with winding roads one after another, which makes people dizzy.
Because the insects are all large in size, the roads inside have to be dug very hollow, so that even if a mecha goes in, it will not seem cramped. Under the persistent impact of the insects, Xia Yan noticed that Ludwig's mecha was damaged, while his own mecha only suffered a little "skin injury".
Xia Yan: "..."
Very good, he has already felt the protagonist's ability to withstand.
The internal signal is weak, sometimes there and sometimes not. Only the two messages sent to Huo Ruihe and Gong Changyong before Xia Yan jumped in were successfully sent, and the rest of the messages are currently "sending".
He let the mecha's intelligent brain remember the route map by itself and send it to the outside world unremittingly.
As for whether it can be sent successfully? It all depends on luck.
Ludwig in front seemed to have given up resistance, allowing the Zerg to carry the huge mecha and stretch out underground. Xia Yan looked around and thought about the decision.
Relying on only the two of them, defeating all the Zerg and rushing out is undoubtedly a fool's dream.
So...
In an instant, Xia Yan understood Ludwig's idea.
As everyone knows, the Zerg is a typical matriarchal society, and the mother insect is the absolute center. As long as the mother insect is killed, the rest of the Zerg will be leaderless and will be invincible.
The Zerg caught them to feed the mother insect.
As long as they follow the other side, they will definitely be able to get close to the core area where the mother insect is.
Xia Yan clicked on the map given by the system. The location of the mother worm was emitting an ominous red light, quietly telling of its danger. Along with the smell of damp soil underground, the distance between the two sides gradually shortened.
He guessed correctly.
Xia Yan just breathed a sigh of relief, and then he remembered another thing and asked: [System, is the pain shield still on? ]
[Of course it is on. ] 999 whispered, [Although the mother worm did not launch a mental attack, this is the enemy's base camp. If the worm tribe comes to bite you, it will hurt. ]
As a good system that cares for the host, how can it let the host endure pain.
Xia Yan couldn't help but smile: [Okay, thank you system. 】
The most difficult part for the army to encircle and suppress the Zerg is the mental attack of the Zerg Queen. Under the impact of the direct attack on the soul, the actions of the warriors will be delayed for up to several minutes.
In the Zerg war, this delay is very fatal.
A mecha that does not resist is just a hard toy.
However, the system owned by Xia Yan allows him to ignore the mental attack of the Zerg Queen. The opponent's greatest weapon has been ineffective.
As if sensing the host's thoughts, the system warned: [Don't mess around! I can only block the pain here, and the damage I deserve will not be reduced at all. ]
[I know, don't worry. ] Xia Yan confidently made an OK gesture.
System: [……]
I don't know why, I feel even more uneasy! ! !
I don't know how long I walked, and the young man's task panel suddenly lit up.
[Mission 7: Enter the hidden area of the mother worm. Attached: Map. (Completed)]
[Congratulations, you have completed all the main missions.]
?
For the first time in my life, I have completed all the missions! ! ! Thinking of the points that will be obtained at the final settlement, even at the critical moment, Xia Yan couldn't help laughing out loud.
This trip is worth it.
At this time, they are infinitely close to the mother worm.
The mother worm has fragile skin and thin flesh, high attack and low defense. The high-level worm tribe will naturally not let them get close to the mother worm in mecha.
Before reaching the destination, the Zerg will try their best to use their claws to open the mecha, find the vulnerable humans among them, spit out spider silk, and entangle them into a big cocoon. When they are cocooned and melted into a ball of thick liquid like jam, they will be properly sent to the mouth of the insect mother. With just a light suck, they can enjoy the sweetness of humans.
When the mecha was attacked again, Xia Yan knew that the time had come.
*
The empire was in chaos at this time.
When the Zerg appeared, Clarence immediately sent troops to rescue, but even at the fastest speed, it was difficult to rescue the people trapped in the insect nest.
There was little hope.
Since the lost children were found, laughter and joy have once again been welcomed in the palace. They have already touched the outline of happiness, how can they accept losing it again?
Although the emperor did not say it explicitly recently, he has been giving hints.
Many people speculate that the king may have found his child, but they are not sure who the child is. Now that Xia Yan and Ludwig are in trouble, his rare anxious look can't help but make people speculate.
Could it be... that person is...
The man looked at his colleague and hid the last four words in his heart without saying them out loud.
At the critical moment, a tall mother ship suddenly arrived at the trial planet with a group of mercenaries. The leader of the team was the captain who had protected Xia Yan on Planet X29 before.
The addition of a group of top mercenaries greatly increased the success rate of the rescue.
That's right, Xia Jiuqian is a shrewd man. Under the emperor's inexplicable suppression and support, he is inevitably cautious. Facing the interstellar league full of imperial soldiers, he will naturally hold back.
After a quick and efficient discussion, the mercenaries and the garrison reached an agreement.
The warriors below S-level bombed the energy stone to force the Zerg to rush out of the Zerg tide, while the S-level warriors went deep underground and tried their best to bring Xia Yan and Ludwig out.
Ten minutes later.
The mercenary leader drove a mecha and rushed into the insect nest first. He killed the insect tribe that was coming towards him with a knife, and said in an internal voice that only his own people could hear: "First rescue the young master, and withdraw directly after finding him."
"Yes, boss."
They are the mercenaries of the Xia family, not belonging to the empire, and have no mission to save Ludwig.
The leader thought grimly.
Ian is also an S-level warrior, so he naturally followed the main force in this operation. He walked at the front, opening up a path forward, and his mind was working rapidly.
In the previous competition, they had accumulated a lot of energy, half of which he had stuffed into Xia Yan. It can be said that he was biased to the extreme.
Going forward in time, Xia Yan's mecha had already been armed to the teeth.
The expensive liquid self-repairing shell was enough to resist the bites of the Zerg, and with the more convenient Ludwig as an "appetizer", if nothing unexpected happened, Xia Yan should be able to hold on for twenty hours, enough for them to rescue the people.
He is safe and will be fine.
Ian could only feel at ease by constantly giving himself hints.
In this anxious and slow time, the huge mental power of the Zerg Queen suddenly erupted, like a surging wave, slapping everyone with momentum, and then quickly dissipated in just a dozen seconds.
Deep underground, there was a blinding flash of fire. The ground shook and the insect nest quickly collapsed from the bottom, and countless insects cried out in grief. A
huge bomb exploded in the ears, and the people who had not yet recovered from the mental attack were buried in the soil. Fortunately, the mecha had its own ventilation system inside, and the sturdy shell was enough to withstand the strong pressure from the outside.
Most of the insects live underground, and even if they are buried in the soil, they can quickly dig tunnels. But at this time, the insects, who should have taken advantage of the victory, were spinning around like headless flies.
Someone killed the mother insect and attacked with a self-destruction.
Everyone's heart sank suddenly.
"Speed up the excavation."
"Yes."
*
Three months later, Imperial Capital Hospital.
Xia Yan looked at the familiar people and environment around him in a daze, holding the bed sheet tightly with his fingers, letting the doctor do various examinations around him, and asked incredulous questions in his mind: [I am not dead? ? ]
At that time, he and Ludwig fell into the worm nest and were transported back to the underground. When they were about to be wrapped up as food, the two of them tacitly counterattacked.
Relying on his ability to shield the worm mother's mental attack, Xia Yan asked Ludwig to hold back the worm tribe, and he used the system map to rush straight towards the worm mother. There
was no buffer, facing the worm mother directly.
It seemed that the impact was going to shatter the soul. Even though there was no pain, Xia Yan's body couldn't bear it and vomited a few mouthfuls of blood.
There were three high-level insects guarding around the mother worm. It was really difficult to rush over and kill it. Anyway, the mission was completed, so Xia Yan decided to go all out and exploded.
This was a mecha that had been modified by the protagonist. It had an explosive power value, and with sufficient energy, it directly blew up the fragile mother worm.
After another look, Xia Yan thought he would return to the system space, but he didn't expect to be still in the small world.
[Host, you finally woke up!!!] The system cried out for the first time, [You scared me to death, wuwuwuwu, I told you that the system can only block pain, and the damage is real, and you are still messing around, wuwuwu.]
?
The young man blinked, and his subconscious body followed the doctor's fist to draw blood. He wanted to comfort the system several times, but he didn't know where to start.
In a daze, he realized... he probably, possibly... did something wrong.
The system cried but didn't forget the business: [The soul determines the upper limit of mental power, so the original owner was A-level, but the host was detected as SSS-level. The worm mother's mental attack is directly aimed at the soul. ]
[And I... only blocked the host's pain. ] It said faintly.
Xia Yan suddenly realized: [So my soul was injured. ]
666 nodded: [After the host self-destructed, the protective cabin inside the mecha quickly popped out and protected your body-oh! Thanks to Ian Hyde, the most solid and solid part of the entire mecha modification is the protective cabin, otherwise I can only see a pile of minced meat now. ]
[…I thought I could leave.]
The young man whispered in his heart, his thick eyelashes trembling lightly like butterfly wings, looking extremely innocent.
The system was suddenly blocked from questioning, unable to speak. It was a little awkward for a moment, and its tone softened a lot, and it said sullenly: [Don’t do this next time.]
[Yeah.]
[If we don’t have points, we can do a few more jobs, and we can always fulfill your wish of resurrection.] 666, [You are the most important, you shouldn’t get hurt for a small world.]
Its attitude was too cautious, and the young man’s heart skipped a beat: [Am I seriously injured?]
[That’s not the case.]
[?]
[It’s just that we can’t go back to the system space for the time being, you need to recuperate in this world. 】The system counted on its fingers, [It will take about three or four years.]
That's it?
System: [Don't take it lightly! When you passed out, your soul couldn't be pulled out, I, I, I...] It stuttered for a long time, too embarrassed to say the second half of the sentence, and hastily changed the subject, [I reported to the Lord God, and then I realized that your soul was damaged, and it was not suitable for traveling through the space-time tunnel between the small world and the system space, which could easily cause secondary damage. You can only rest here until you recover.]
As a new system, 666's first host was Xia Yan, so naturally they had deep feelings for it.
Xia Yan was also naturally the same. He comforted the system for a while, vowed that he would never take risks again, and then coaxed 666.
While he was talking to the system, the doctor finally finished the examination: "Mr. Xia has recovered very well, with no sequelae, but it's best not to use mental power for half a year."
"I see, thank you, doctor."
"You're welcome."
The doctor walked around and saw that these big names who were often seen on TV all looked happy. He breathed a sigh of relief. Xia Yan Gardner finally woke up, otherwise he was afraid that the hospital would be razed to the ground one day.
He left the ward very tactfully, leaving the space for them.
"Xiao Yan."
Along with the mother's call, a warm hug followed.
Xia Yan came back to his senses, as if a warm drop of water fell on his neck. His heart trembled, and after a moment of hesitation, he gently patted the woman's back with his palm and comforted her: "I'm fine, Mom."
"Mom and Dad are very worried about you. Don't take such risks next time."
He raised his eyes, and his bright golden eyes met a gloomy and quiet black, which was full of fatherly love. "I will pay attention, Dad."
The high-level ward was arranged like a large flat, about 100 square meters, with a huge transparent French window next to it. The sunset dyed the sky into a rich orange-red.
Huo Ruihe and Ludwig stood by, quietly watching their family of three.
Until Lina calmed down, she secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and when she stood up, she was an elegant and decent young lady again. She looked at Ludwig, with a subtle vigilance in her eyes, but her words were very intimate: "I'm sorry, I made you embarrassed, Your Highness."
As soon as the voice fell, Ludwig immediately turned his head and looked at Xia Yan nervously.
Xia Yan tilted his head.
Your Highness?
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized.
Yes, in the original plot, after the end of the Mecha League, Ludwig was found by the emperor and declared the crown prince. Although there is a little deviation in the middle, the overall result has not changed.
But how can an unconscious person know these things?
He pretended to be confused and called his mother: "Mom?"
"Xiao Yan." Lina Carter winked at her husband. Xia Jiuqian put his hands on his son's shoulders, lowered his head slightly, and whispered to the child affectionately: "Ludwig is the child of His Majesty and the Queen."
The young man widened his eyes in shock. His pale face, which had been bedridden for a long time, was now even whiter and more transparent, like a fragile item, making him look pitiful.
"How could it be..."
The man's fingers rubbed the young man's shoulders soothingly, and his voice was further lowered. He said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Calm down, Xiao Yan."
"..."
The atmosphere collapsed like a taut bow.
Everyone was looking at the young man.
The young man's jaw was tense, and his eyes stared at the blond man fiercely, with malicious speculation. As if to say - a mere commoner, what kind of conspiracy and trickery could he use to fly over my head?
Ludwig was not surprised at all.
Xia Yan valued interests the most and was ambitious to become the king. His existence itself ruined his good fortune, so he would naturally hate him.
"Baby, this is really happy, right?"
Lina interrupted the eye contact between the two at the right time and said in a slightly exaggerated voice: "Your Highness and you are actually roommates. You are very predestined."
No matter what you think in your heart, you can't offend the royal family on the surface.
The young man smiled and said, "Yes, mother."
The conflict was eased, and Lina relaxed a lot. She was actually a little annoyed in her heart. Ludwig had to stay in the ward and wait for her child to wake up, leaving her no free time to explain everything to Xia Yan in advance in a more gentle way.
Xia Yan looked lost and upset, but in his heart he was already shouting "Nice". He
had to stay here for a few years anyway, so instead of fighting for the throne, he might as well be a happy salted fish. After he was discharged from the hospital, he would take a leave of absence from school on the grounds of being unwell, and travel around to enjoy life.
The wonderful vacation time, he is here!!!
*
Recent events in the Empire are more outrageous than the last.
First, a worm nest appeared in such an important event as the Mecha League, causing students to be in danger. Fortunately, someone killed the worm mother at the last minute and no tragedy occurred.
After this incident, Grover's reputation has fallen to the bottom.
Oh, by the way.
The second thing is the worm mother.
Xia Yan Gardner, a sophomore student, actually killed the worm mother single-handedly. Although the mecha's self-destruction was to blame, the fact that he could withstand the worm mother's mental attack was enough to show how powerful he was.
Anyone who dared to say that he cheated in the exam would probably be scolded by all netizens.
The third thing was about the royal family.
The emperor's long-lost child was found, Ludwig, an SSS-level warrior. In three months, the institute's new machine was finally completed.
He was also the man who was trapped in a worm nest and whom Xia Yan risked his life to save.
The people of the empire were feeling depressed, and they were upset that the future king they decided to be loyal to fell into a coma, and they didn't know when he would wake up, but then a new heir appeared.
On the one hand, the people felt relieved that the empire had a successor; on the other hand, they felt uncomfortable.
Xia Yan was still lying there, and the official announcement was made.
Although they knew that the king's approach was to stabilize people's hearts and avoid internal strife, some people still felt chilled.
The fourth thing was even more outrageous.
There were star thieves in the Imperial Military Academy.
At the beginning, after the cleaning of the insect nest was completed, Xia Yan's disintegrated mecha was recovered, and it was found that its performance and hardness far exceeded the level of the Empire. Following the clues, they found a new type of fusion metal that had only recently begun to circulate on the black market.
Seeing that his identity was about to be exposed, Ian decided to go all out and prepared to steal Xia Yan away.
Of course, due to the strict defense, he failed and was wanted by the entire empire with photos.
Ian: "..." Just a little bit!!!
At the same time, Xia Yan and Ian's romantic news also became the focus of everyone's discussion.
Xia Yan: "..." Everything will only hurt you.
The person with the most complicated mood right now is undoubtedly Grover. He was severely punished for the worm nest incident, and all the good reputation he had accumulated in the past was gone. Xia Yan, on the other hand, was rising rapidly. Seeing that he was doomed to fail in the fight for the throne, he was ready to run away, but who knew that Ludwig became the crown prince in a sudden turn of events.
Unlike him and Xia Yan, they are of genuine imperial blood.
The orthodox status is unshakable, so there is naturally no need to kill them to ensure that he will not rebel.
When Grover heard that Xia Yan woke up, he thought about it and bought a bouquet of flowers and went to visit. The handsome young man with delicate and gorgeous eyebrows and eyes was as beautiful as a painting, fascinating.
Without the conflict of interests, he could finally look at each other with appreciation.
Grover: "Congratulations on your recovery."
Xia Yan took the flowers, put them aside, and nodded perfunctorily with a sluggish expression: "Yeah."
Grover made small talk: "I heard that you will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow."
"Yeah."
"..."
"…………"
"The matter of the throne is really unexpected." Grover sighed, "It seems that we can get along well in the future."
"?" The young man seemed to have heard something surprising and suddenly raised his eyebrows, "Hey! You don't think you can be friends with me, right? People like you..."
He looked around with contempt. Silence
speaks louder than words here.
Grover himself was a proud person. He took the initiative to show goodwill and was ridiculed. He couldn't help but retort sarcastically: "Then what are you? A loser who wants to be king but is destined not to be."
"How much effort did you put in for the throne? You trained day and night, but what's the result?"
"The commoner you looked down on in the past has transformed into a crown prince now, and will be a high and mighty king in the future. You have to kneel in front of him, kiss his fingertips, and swear allegiance to him."
"Everything you do is meaningless."
"..."
The young man's face turned extremely ugly in an instant: "Ludwig is just a dog I raised." No wonder, this kind of drama is played out every minute.
When will Grover leave? It's so annoying, disturbing him to slack off.
Xia Yan was calculating the time when he suddenly heard the door being opened. He looked up suddenly and saw a tall blond man standing behind the door with a gloomy expression. He didn't know how long he had been listening.
"!!!"
What should I do if I get caught saying bad things about someone? Waiting online, very urgent.
Grover was also stunned. He didn't expect Ludwig to be here.
Of the three people present, Ludwig was the calmest. He also held a bouquet of flowers in his hand. The edge of the milky white bell lace was stained with light purple, fresh and elegant.
The man's military boots collided with the floor with a thumping sound. He walked to the bed and threw Grover's bouquet into the trash can in a very natural manner, and then put his own flowers next to the young man.
Facing the young man's vigilant and puzzled eyes, he suddenly laughed.
"Of course I can be your dog."
He said.