Chapter 116 Chapter 116

Ruan Shiqing immediately told Rong Heng about his new discovery. The two conspired and waited for several hours. When Hector and Mellor arrived with the rescue team, they informed Sally and Jason that they were about to launch a bombing on the ground insect nest.

When they chose the bombing site, they deliberately avoided the location where the distress signal appeared. The firepower looked scary and serious at first glance, but in fact it only destroyed the surface of the earth. Because there might be survivors underground, they did not dare to use too much firepower even if it was just a show.

But Sally and Jason didn't know that.

Although the two hid well, Ruan Shiqing kept an eye on them and still discovered their abnormality.

He sat in the main control room, staring at the images sent back from the ground, while adding fuel to the fire with a slightly excited tone: "The nearby reinforcements are not powerful enough, and the bombing efficiency is a bit low. But once the main force arrives, the speed will be faster. It is estimated that it will take one or two days to clear everything."

Sally was anxious and angry, but she didn't dare show it on her face: "When will the main force arrive?"

"Probably tomorrow morning." Ruan Shiqing thought for a while and said, "Fortunately, the Zerg on Driftwood Planet don't have much combat power. We can just use artillery fire to clear the way, and it will be quick to clean up. This will save the trouble of the large troops behind us."

Upon hearing that the main force would arrive tomorrow, Sally's face turned visibly uglier.

She chatted with Ruan Shiqing for a few more sentences, and when she found that she could not get any other information, she left the main control room with Jason.

Ruan Shiqing glanced at 09, and 09 understood and immediately released an ultra-micro tracker.

The tracker followed the two people from a distance. It was tiny, only one millimeter in length, width and height. When it moved along the ceiling, it was almost silent.

Sally and Jason were completely unaware. They left the main control room together, circled the space station halfway, and found a secluded corner to talk.

"We can't wait any longer," said Sally.

Her eyes were not completely black in the darkness, but had a faint red glow.

Jason didn't answer, but made a strange hissing sound in his throat.

"We must take them away today," Sally said again.

Still, Jason only hissed in response.

In the main control room, Ruan Shiqing was listening with high-magnification headphones. When he heard the unique hissing sound of the Zerg, his face darkened - the situation they least wanted had happened. It could be basically confirmed that Sally and Jason were Zerg in anthropomorphic form.

He did not make any alarm, but only informed Rong Heng of the news, reminding them to leave some space for the two to facilitate their actions.

In the evening, Sally hurried to look for Ruan Shiqing.

Ruan Shiqing was still guarding the computer. In the real-time images transmitted back from the ground, a small part of the insect nest that was breeding insect eggs had turned into scorched earth, and it was covered with the corpses of countless insects.

——The number of Zerg existing on Driftwood is much smaller than they imagined.

A group of them had been cleared out when they conquered the space station. Although there seemed to be quite a few remaining Zerg, they were not as strong as those on the frontline. Moreover, after discovering that the nest had been bombed, the remaining Zerg desperately covered the nest with their bodies in an attempt to protect it, which made it easier for Rong Heng and his men to act. After a few artillery bombardments, the Zerg and the nest were blown up.

Ruan Shiqing admired the scene full of insect corpses with great interest.

Sally looked at the computer screen for a moment, her pupils slightly contracted, and the next moment, she showed an excited and nervous expression: "Mr. Ruan, we have a new discovery!"

Ruan Shiqing turned off the screen and asked in surprise: "What did you find?"

Sally looked hesitant: "We caught a distress signal,"

Ruan Shiqing was startled and subconsciously thought that they had also discovered the distress signal deep underground, but he quickly realized that this might just be Sally's excuse for leaving the space station.

But he still followed the other party's words and asked with a look of extreme shock: "How could there be a distress signal?"

"Although I can't believe it, it's true." Sally called up the coordinates of the signal from her brain: "The signal was captured here, sometimes it appears and sometimes it disappears. We suspect there may be survivors on the ground."

"How is that possible?" Ruan Shiqing showed an expression of disbelief.

Seeing his face full of shock, Sally knew that the plan was already halfway accomplished. She tentatively asked, "Can you contact the army and temporarily stop the bombing? If there are really survivors on the ground, there might be accidental injuries."

"If there are survivors, of course we have to stop the bombing. But a distress signal doesn't mean there are survivors." Ruan Shiqing frowned and followed Sally's line of thought and said, "This area is not within the bombing range yet. It's best to send someone to confirm it first."

As he said this, he was about to call Rong Heng: "I will contact the army first and ask them to rush over to confirm the situation immediately."

"We don't have enough manpower right now, why don't we let Jason and I go?" Sally stopped him in time and put on an expression that showed she was eager to help: "Jason and I grew up on Driftwood, so we are more familiar with the terrain."

Ruan Shiqing was a little hesitant: "But is it too dangerous to let you go? Professional soldiers are more suitable for this kind of thing."

Sally looked at him pleadingly: "I want to do what I can for my home planet."

Ruan Shiqing seemed to be moved by him. After a moment's hesitation, he finally said, "Then you must pay attention to safety. If you can't hold on, return immediately."

After getting permission, Sally smiled gratefully at Ruan Shiqing, and after patiently listening to his instructions, she turned and left.

She and Jason immediately went to the hangar, selected a shuttle, and left the space station.

Ruan Shiqing called Rong Heng and said, "They're gone."

Rong Heng hummed, "I'll bring someone to keep an eye on them."

Ruan Shiqing told him not to make a fuss and to see why they were in such a hurry to go to the ground. The anthropomorphic Zerg had only seen these two so far, and their status in the Zerg must be extraordinary. The things they valued so much must be very important to the Zerg.

He fiddled with the computer for a while, secretly hacked into the shuttle's audio system, and tried to eavesdrop.

However, the two of them did not communicate much along the way, and Ruan Shiqing did not get any useful information. He could only wait patiently for feedback from Rong Heng.

After receiving the message, Rong Heng led his men to the destination coordinates.

He did not bring the cubs this time, fearing that they would be too reckless and startle the enemy. After thinking for a while, he only brought Meilaier and Ruan Jiao.

Mellor drove the fighter, turned on the stealth mode and quickly moved towards the destination. In order to prevent the fighter from being discovered, they landed on the ground when they were still some distance away from the coordinates.

After hiding the fighter plane, he sneaked over.

Mellaire was wearing a specially made stealth leather jacket, the color of which changed constantly with the color of the external environment. Rong Heng held his breath, tucked Ruan Jiao under his armpit, and kept a safe distance from Mellaire.

The two were both good at stealth. After quietly approaching the coordinate location, they searched for the shuttle separately. They made no sound during the whole process and only communicated with sign language.

Finally they found the shuttle in front of a cave.

Mellaire cautiously leaned her head to take a look inside and shook her head at Rong Heng - the cave was too deep and too dark, she couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.

Rong Heng did not approach rashly, but put the cub under his arm on the ground: "Can you avoid being discovered by them?"

Ruan Jiao frowned and thought for a while, then nodded seriously.

Rong Heng was relieved, and picked up the cub again and threw it on his back: "Hold me tight, don't move or make any noise."

The cub lay obediently on his broad back and hugged his neck tightly.

Rong Heng was satisfied and carried him closer to the cave.

Jumir has very strong night vision, and the pitch-black cave cannot prevent him from seeing. He explores the way ahead, while Mellaire follows behind to prepare for emergencies.

The cave passage is not very wide, and the walls on both sides are rough, obviously having been freshly dug.

Rong Heng walked forward, observing the surrounding environment all the way.

When he reached the end, he found four forks in the road. He stopped, frowned and thought, and finally chose to ask the cub on his back.

He pointed to four forked roads and asked silently: Which way?

Ruan Jiao scanned the four forks in the road one by one, the tentacles on his forehead swaying slightly, and after a moment, he pointed to the middle one on the right. Rong Heng followed his instructions without hesitation and continued forward.

This underground cave was larger than he had imagined, with many forks in the road, crisscrossing and leading in all directions, but apart from the winding maze-like passages, there was nothing else.

But this further confirmed Rong Heng's guess that the things hidden inside must be extraordinary.

Following Ruan Jiao's instructions, he successfully found Sally and Jason.

At the end of the maze is a narrow stone chamber.

Countless strong silk threads hang down from the ceiling of the stone chamber. These white silk threads are intertwined to form a net, which is filled with white insect eggs, each of which is the size of a basketball.

Rong Heng roughly counted and found that there were ten eggs like this. He had a feeling that these eggs were not simple.

Sally and Jason were standing in the middle of the wire mesh.

The two of them kept making hissing sounds, and it was unclear what they were saying.

Rong Heng didn't understand and could only use gestures to signal Ruan Jiao to translate for him.

The cub wrinkled his face in confusion. He couldn't communicate with Rong Heng directly through his mind, and he couldn't speak. Finally, after thinking for a while, he took Rong Heng's hand and wrote on his palm.

The cub wrote very slowly, stroke by stroke, but Rong Heng could still make out his words.

[Sally, take the eggs away.]

[Eggs are important.]

The cub wrote while tilting his head to listen attentively.

Sally and Jason were talking back and forth, very fast and emotionally. Ruan Jiao listened carefully for a long time, then his expression became a little strange, and he wrote on Rong Heng's palm: [They are, arguing.]

The two had a disagreement. Sally insisted on taking the eggs away, while Jason wanted to abandon the eggs and leave Driftwood immediately.

Rong Heng also discovered that although the two insects still maintained their human form, their expressions were very ferocious, and there were even limbs breaking out of their bodies from behind. It didn't seem like they were arguing, but more like they were about to fight.

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Sally's hands instantly transformed into a pair of claws, which hit Jason hard, while making an angry hissing sound.

Ruan Jiao immediately translated: [Idiot!]

Rong Heng: ???

He was stunned for a moment before he realized that the cub was not taking the opportunity to scold him, but was translating.

Several pairs of limbs stretched out from behind the beaten and scolded Jason, and the velvety limbs waved angrily, but he never dared to fight back from beginning to end.

The dispute ended with Sally's unilateral suppression. Jason was obviously unwilling to accept it, but he dared not speak out.

It seems that Sally is in a dominant position between the two of them.

After reaching a consensus through violence, Sally took off her troublesome clothes, revealing her twisted and deformed body. Rong Heng subconsciously covered the cub's eyes.

When he let go, Sally had turned into a giant insect.

Unlike ordinary insects, she is larger, with a narrow and long body, a slightly larger abdomen, and dense red hairs on her carapace. Obviously, this is a female insect. Her features are somewhat similar to those of the queen insect in the records, but there are also many differences.

As far as Rong Heng knew, except for the queen and the male insects chosen by the queen for mating, the rest of the insects had no sexual characteristics and were infertile.

Ordinary insects do not undertake reproduction work. The purpose of their existence is to feed the queen insect and the larvae bred by the queen insect.

He originally thought that the eggs on the Driftwood Planet were laid by the Queen, but now it seems that his guess was wrong. In addition to the Queen, the Zerg tribe actually has females that can lay eggs.

Sally, who turned back into the insect form, stretched her limbs. She seemed to enjoy the feeling of turning back into an insect very much. After stretching her limbs for a while, she began to use her limbs to harvest the silk web.

The web peels away, revealing the basketball-ball-sized eggs inside.

She opened her huge mouth and swallowed the eggs, then repeated the same action over and over again until she swallowed all ten eggs. Her belly, which was only slightly large at first, became full and swollen.

She hissed again.

Ruan Jiao wrote: [They want to go back.]

Rong Heng thought for a moment, then made a gesture to Mellaire who was lying in ambush not far away, and quietly retreated.

At this time, inside the cave, Sally, who had swallowed ten eggs, turned back into her anthropomorphic form. She picked up her clothes from the ground and put them on. She touched her slightly bulging belly and said with satisfaction, "Let's go. Next, you pretend to be injured, and we can follow the rescue boat and leave."

These ten children are her most satisfying works.

As long as they hatch successfully, the power of the Zerg will be taken to a new level, and they will once again have an endless supply of warriors.