Chapter 115 Chapter 115

Before finding Rong Heng and his group, the little mermaid met Ruan Shiqing first.

Ruan Shiqing jumped off the aircraft and was about to go inside when he saw the little mermaid and Ruan Jiao coming towards him.

Ruan Jiao, who was waving his tentacles angrily, immediately stood up straight when he saw his father's tentacles waving. His pupils dilated slightly. Then he pulled the little mermaid and ran towards Ruan Shiqing and hugged Ruan Shiqing.

He was not tall, and had not grown much after being raised for such a long time. After hugging Ruan Shiqing's legs, he could only look up at him, his big dark red eyes curved in happiness.

Ruan Shiqing bent down, picked him up and weighed him, and Ruan Jiao immediately hugged his neck and rubbed him affectionately.

Holding the coquettish cub in his arms, Ruan Shiqing looked at the little mermaid.

Maybe I shouldn't call her a little mermaid. Ruan Yuebai, who maintained a completely human form, was already a handsome young man. He was wearing the clothes that Ruan Shiqing bought for him. His long blue hair, as fluffy as seaweed, was neatly braided behind his head, and decorated with exquisite hair accessories. He also wore a pair of half-frame gold-rimmed glasses on his nose. His sapphire blue eyes were hidden behind the lenses, making him look less youthful and more dignified and stable.

Ruan Shiqing looked at him carefully. He had never had the chance to look at Ruan Yuebai carefully before.

On the contrary, Ruan Yuebai felt embarrassed by his gaze, his cheeks flushed with embarrassment, and he was at a loss. He was used to being with his father as a cub, and he could always act coquettishly and intimately with his father without restraint, but once he turned into a complete human form, he would always have some inexplicable burdens in his mind, just like now, after calling him dad, he was even embarrassed to throw himself into the other's arms like Ruan Jiao did.

Instead, Ruan Shiqing took a step forward and raised his hand to rub his head as he did before: "I said Yuebai would be very beautiful when she grows up."

The little mermaid grew into an adult mermaid, still delicate and beautiful, the most meticulous creation of the Creator.

Ruan Yuebai's eyes lit up, and she rubbed her head subconsciously in his palm, her blue eyes full of joy.

After the father and his two sons reunited and talked about the past, they got down to business. Ruan Shiqing didn't see Rong Heng and the others after arriving at the space station, so he naturally felt strange.

Ruan Yuebai then told Sally what happened in the main control room and her suspicions about her.

Ruan Jiao couldn't wait to complain to his father: "Sally! Bad bug!"

The words of the two cubs made Ruan Shiqing fall into deep thought. He had just arrived at the space station and had not come into contact with the two surviving staff members. He was less likely to be affected by emotional factors when looking at things.

"It's really strange that the whole planet was destroyed and there were only two hostages left."

And according to the little mermaid, until the last moment of destruction, the people of Driftwood did not give up resistance. Whether they were soldiers, researchers or ordinary civilians, they put aside their own lives and left a gap for the rescue troops that might arrive later.

Although not everyone can face death calmly, the behavior of Sally and the other two is indeed too abnormal.

The person who knows the key to the control center must not be an ordinary research assistant, but at least a major person in charge. With such an identity, he should have been aware of it long ago. Even if he did not choose to die together with the Zerg, he should never surrender and wait for death.

Even if the Zerg were monitoring them, the two researchers who had access to the system had too many ways to ask for help. But in the week after the destruction of Driftwood, the outside world did not receive any abnormal information.

This shows that these two people are most likely on the side of the Zerg, but the blood feud between humans and Zerg has lasted for thousands of years. Ruan Shiqing really can't think of any benefits that can make these two people willingly work for the Zerg.

Unless... they're not human at all.

This imagination was so bold that Ruan Shiqing himself was shocked.

He turned his head to look at Ruan Jiao and flicked the cub's dangling whiskers: "Did Jiao Jiao find something?"

Ruan Jiao nodded, frowned and thought for a long time, but didn't know what to say, and his little face wrinkled into a ball.

After a long while, he was really at a loss for words, so he simply moved closer to Ruan Shiqing and put his forehead against his.

There was a strange wave spreading. The cub clearly didn't speak, but Ruan Shiqing heard his voice. He seemed to be thinking while speaking, and his voice was somewhat intermittent and childish.

"Mental fluctuations are different."

"Sally and the Bug Tribe, same thing."

“How strange.”

"don't know."

When the cub stood up, Ruan Shiqing looked dazed for a moment, and it took him a while to come back to his senses. He stared at the cub with complicated eyes: "Why didn't Jiaojiao use this before?"

Ruan Jiao lowered his head and pinched his fingers, whispering, "Only Dad can do it."

No one else can do that.

This was probably the cub's special ability. Ruan Shiqing did not delve into it further and his thoughts turned back to the identities of Sally and the other person.

According to Ruan Jiao, Sally and the others were closely related to the Zerg, but over the years, they had never heard of the Zerg being able to transform into human form. Even the Empire still considered the Zerg to be a low-level race without intelligence. It didn't make sense for the Zerg to suddenly mutate...

He was unable to come to a conclusion for the moment, so he decided not to act rashly for the time being and to discuss it with Rong Heng first.

Rong Heng and 09 took the kids to scout the place. Ruan Shiqing waited for a while before they came back.

As soon as the two cubs got off the aircraft, they saw a figure not far away. They shouted with joy and rushed towards Ruan Shiqing.

Unfortunately, they all forgot that they were now in human form.

The little dragon was as tall as Ruan Shiqing, and the little fox was not much shorter. The slender boy and girl fought for their father's arms, but in the end neither of them won, and they bumped into each other and kowtowed.

Covering his painful head, the little fox took the initiative and said, "Why did you hit me?!"

The little dragon's head was also buzzing, but he refused to give in: "It was you who bumped into me!"

After saying that, the two kids looked at Ruan Shiqing at the same time, with aggrieved expressions on their faces as if to say "Dad, come and judge whether it was him/her who hit me".

“…”

Ruan Shiqing coughed and did not answer the question. He rubbed the heads of the two immature cubs very fairly.

The two cubs finally calmed down, each occupying one side and rolling their eyes at each other.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was last in line, rolled his eyes in his heart.

Tsk, childish.

He looked at Ruan Shiqing, his dark golden eyes slightly lit up, and the eagerness in his eyes was well hidden: "Why are you waiting here?"

Ruan Shiqing smiled at him and briefly told him about Sally and the Zerg.

Rong Heng's expression was indeed serious after hearing this: "Before the spaceship left Driftwood Planet, I suggested that they leave with the spaceship, but they refused." He thought for a moment and said: "If they are really related to the Zerg, or if they are the anthropomorphic form of the Zerg, then they must have some intention to stay. It's better to go with the flow and see what they want to do."

He paused, then leaned closer to Ruan Shiqing and told him about today's discovery: "And we also found some things this time..."

Even though they have been fighting for thousands of years, they still don't know much about the internal situation of the Zerg.

If the other party is really a Zerg, perhaps we can take this opportunity to obtain more information that is beneficial to us.

Ruan Shiqing thought so too and agreed with him.

After that, the group stopped talking about the matter and returned to the space station.

Sally and another staff member, Jason, were repairing the damaged equipment on the space station. When they saw them coming back, they put down their work and came over. When they saw the unfamiliar Ruan Shiqing, they showed just the right amount of doubt.

Ruan Shiqing took the initiative to shake her hand with a friendly attitude. Because they were both technical workers and had more topics to talk about, he quickly became familiar with the two of them.

During the chat, he found that Sally was more talkative and had a very comprehensive understanding of the space station, while Jason was less talkative and looked very dull. However, Ruan Shiqing had a tentative mind, and always casually threw the topic to Jason during the chat, showing that he was very caring for his introverted companion.

But Jason didn't respond to his topic several times and just stared at him blankly.

Although Sally helped to smooth things over, Ruan Shiqing felt that his behavior was not so much that he was introverted and not good at speaking, but more like he had not been fully socialized - many of his subtle behaviors were similar to those of Ruan Jiao who had just arrived home.

It also made Ruan Shiqing more certain of his guess.

Ruan Shiqing closed his eyes and hid his shock. He followed Sally's questioning and said, "The reinforcements will arrive in a few hours. We have just roughly surveyed the ground. The insect eggs underground are still hatching. When the reinforcements arrive, we will launch a large-scale bombing. This will destroy the insect nest as quickly as possible."

Sally frowned: "But this means that Driftwood Star..." She seemed to be holding back something and didn't finish her words.

"I understand how you feel." Ruan Shiqing soothed him softly, "But Floating Wood is now a dead planet. We can only consider the overall situation. A large-scale bombing may completely destroy the ecology of Floating Wood in a short period of time, but it can also completely eliminate the Zerg."

"Moreover, through the last message left by Driftwood, we discovered that there are still things hidden underground..." He deliberately spoke ambiguously, observing the subtle expressions on Sally's face.

Sally's expression really changed, but it was only for a moment. If Ruan Shiqing hadn't been staring at her, she might have missed it.

Soon Sally looked puzzled: "Besides the insect nest, what else is there?"

Ruan Shiqing smiled but said nothing, with an unfathomable look on his face: "I'm not too sure, but it's something that's bad for the Zerg."

Looking at Sally's unconsciously clenched fists and Jason's raised face, Ruan Shiqing smiled and left, making an excuse that he had something to do.

Rong Heng did tell him just now that they found something underground this time. But it had nothing to do with the Zerg, but was about the continuation of the Driftwood Planet. Rong Heng told him that their fighter planes had detected a very subtle distress signal deep underground, which was an encrypted distress signal that the army would only use during special periods.

Rong Heng suspected that life on Driftwood might not have been completely destroyed. Perhaps when the disaster struck, some people moved deep underground and survived.

But this is just his guess. Whether it is true or not, they have to wait for the arrival of subsequent reinforcements before making further confirmation.

He deliberately said that the ground insect nests would be bombed on a large scale after the arrival of the reinforcements, just to deceive the other party and see if he could find out something. Unexpectedly, as he continued talking, he actually discovered the flaw.

Judging from Sally's reaction, the purpose of these two people staying here is most likely related to the insect nest underground.