Chapter 120 Chapter 120
Ruan Shiqing examines Sally, who has completely transformed into a worm, in the laboratory, while outside the spaceship, the war is in full swing.
Hector, Garland, Mellaire and the cubs drove fighter planes and led the soldiers to surround the black battleship, while Rong Heng operated the gunboat and continuously fired at the black hole, blocking the opponent's quick escape route.
After the hangar of the black battleship was bombed unexpectedly, it opened its defense and launched a counterattack.
The battleship's lower cabin door opened, and countless Zergs came out from the cabin door. These huge Zergs fought with the fighters, while the black battleship and the blue battleship faced each other, neither of them making a rash move.
The fight was a bit stalemate for a while, but Rong Heng still had the upper hand.
Both the soldiers and the cubs were good at killing Zergs. They cooperated well with each other and with the help of fierce artillery fire, they quickly cleared out the influx of Zergs.
But the other side brought more than just this batch of Zerg soldiers. After cleaning them out, they released another batch.
After repeating this three times, Rong Heng realized the problem: "No. They are stalling for time."
In the operations room, he kept abreast of the battle situation through the data sent back by the central control system. When he saw three batches of Zerg being released in succession, he realized the problem - if the enemy spaceship carried so many Zerg combat forces, they should all have been released at the beginning of the battle, rather than releasing them in batches as they were doing now, thereby dividing their own strength.
Moreover, the number of the released Zerg increased each time, but their size and fighting power became weaker each time. The difference was not obvious, but Rong Heng found the difference after several comparisons.
"These insects... seem to be bred temporarily." Rong Heng narrowed his eyes slightly. After knowing that the insects were already capable of anthropomorphism, his guesses became much bolder when he looked at these insects.
Hector's startled voice came over the communication channel: "No way? Did these insects take growth hormones to grow so fast?"
"You'll know once you take them down. Don't get entangled with those Zerg. Concentrate your firepower on attacking the enemy warships." Rong Heng said.
If he guessed correctly, if they continued to tangle with those Zerg, they would only fall into their trap and waste their own strength in repeated car battles.
In that case, we won't give them the opportunity to create Zerg soldiers.
All fighters immediately adjusted their formation and strategy, no longer entangled with the Zerg, but took advantage of the high flexibility of the fighters and began to besiege the black battleship.
The IQ of these low-level Zerg soldiers was obviously not very high. The cubs operated the fighter planes and deliberately followed the black battleship to avoid the Zerg attack. At the same time, they deliberately led these stupid Zerg to attack the black battleship's shield.
This tactic of using one's own spear to attack another's shield was both labor-saving and effective. After the war lasted for three hours, these Zergs knocked a hole in the black battleship's protective shield.
Rong Heng seized the opportunity and fired a double-spin high-energy ion cannon at the gap.
Amid the fierce artillery fire, metal fragments scattered like meteors, and the huge black battleship was almost broken into two pieces.
"Prepare for a forced landing."
In the communication channel, Rong Heng's voice was still steady.
The boys driving fighter planes were at the front and had already rushed into the spaceship through the gap to carry out a forced landing.
In the laboratory, Ruan Shiqing was recording Sally's physical data.
The testing equipment showed that her vital signs were gradually weakening, but strangely, the ten eggs in her body were still developing.
"These insect eggs seem to be absorbing her as nutrients." Ruan Shiqing muttered to himself as he looked at the pile of recorded data at hand.
According to known data, Zerg do not reproduce in this way.
The Zerg tribe has a clear hierarchy. Normally, the queen insect lays eggs, which are then hatched and raised by the workers. However, it has never been heard of that the eggs absorb nutrients from the mother to feed themselves. This is completely contrary to the current social structure of the Zerg tribe - the only Zerg tribe that has the ability to reproduce is the queen insect.
The Queen of Insects is a unique existence, located at the top of the insect clan, and it is impossible for her to raise eggs by herself. Only at the end of her life will she use all her vitality to lay a king egg, which will be the next Queen of Insects.
But now everything is inconsistent with the records.
Some unknown and huge changes must have taken place within the Zerg.
Ruan Shiqing looked at Ruan Jiao beside him: "Jiao Jiao, how do you feel?"
The cub sat on a chair beside him, which was a bit high, so his two short legs could only hang in the air. The tentacles on his forehead stood straight, and his dark red eyes stared at Sally in the isolation chamber, with the black pupil in the center shrinking.
He pursed his lips and frowned in confusion.
There's still a kind of inexplicable anxiety in my heart.
The aura emanating from Sally's abdomen also made him feel uncomfortable.
"Disgusting." Ruan Jiao frowned and continued to stare at Sally's bulging belly.
Ruan Shiqing frowned slightly. He could not get any useful information from the cub's words, so he could only continue to observe. The anthropomorphic Zerg were too shocking. What he could do now was to record Sally's situation as much as possible and publish it in the future, so as to increase the Empire's understanding of the Zerg and not be helpless.
At this moment, the monitoring device emitted a beeping sound, and then the weakly struggling black insects in the experimental chamber completely lost their vitality. Their limbs drooped powerlessly, and their entire bodies seemed to be hollowed out, leaving only their abdomens protruding exceptionally high and loud.
Ruan Shiqing switched the monitoring target to the eggs in the insect abdomen.
What surprised him was that the number of eggs in the abdomen was decreasing, one, two, three...
As the number of insects dwindled, the protruding abdomen gradually shrunk, and finally, only the last egg was left. That egg, which had absorbed all the nutrients, was shrinking and beating like a heart, as if the thing inside was about to break out.
Ruan Jiao stood up nervously, with the whiskers on his forehead standing straight up. He subconsciously grabbed the corner of Ruan Shiqing's clothes, and a gentle spiritual wave spread out from his body.
Ruan Shiqing also realized that this insect egg was unusual. He did not take it lightly and immediately lowered the sturdy special transparent baffles around the experimental chamber to strengthen the defense. At the same time, he called in a team of experimental auxiliary robots just in case.
The shrinking egg was only the size of two basketballs. The yellow-white egg was torn apart by black limbs, and a pure black insect emerged from it.
It is not big in size and looks similar to ordinary insects, so it does not seem to pose any threat.
Ruan Shiqing saw it struggling to get out of the egg, stumbling to its feet, turning its head, and its red compound eyes quickly locked onto them. The long tentacles on its head swayed, and it opened its mouth to let out a silent scream—
It is indeed silent because the decibel level is too high, beyond the range that human ears can detect.
Ruan Shiqing didn't notice anything unusual at first until he felt pain in his ear. He subconsciously reached out and touched it, and his fingertips felt wet, which was blood.
Afterwards, the strange whooshing sound gradually became clearer.
It was an indescribable sound, like countless tiny needles piercing his ears and head. Ruan Shi was unconscious for a moment, until he felt the corner of his clothes being pulled. He lowered his head slowly and saw Ruan Jiao's anxious face.
The whiskers on the cub's forehead kept shaking and its mouth opened and closed, as if it was saying something, but Ruan Shiqing couldn't hear it.
With his confused eyes he saw that cracks had appeared on the solid transparent baffle. The larva was still screaming. All the sounds in his mind faded away, leaving only that sound, like fine needles, constantly pricking inside.
At the last moment before falling, he issued a clearing command to the robot on standby.
The robot on standby activated the cleaning program and cleaned up the newborn insect.
It was indeed a very fragile newborn Zerg. It died quickly under the attack of the robot, leaving only a corpse trapped in the experimental chamber.
The communication signal that was briefly disrupted by the high-decibel scream returned to normal, and Rong Heng's voice finally came through: "What happened in the laboratory?"
——Just a moment ago, something abnormal appeared in the laboratory area.
"Dad, Dad!" However, what rang out in the communication channel was not Ruan Shiqing's gentle voice, but the cub's panicked cry.
Something happened.
Rong Heng's heartbeat stopped for a moment. Before leaving, he handed over the control to Noah and asked the little mermaid to withdraw the battleship command immediately.
He himself rushed to the laboratory.
The door of the laboratory was pushed open suddenly, and Rong Heng strode in and saw Ruan Shiqing fainted on the ground. He half-lifted the man up and quickly scanned the laboratory, finding that everything was normal except for slight cracks on the experimental cabin and the baffle.
He looked at the panicked Ruan Jiao and asked in a heavy voice: "What happened?"
Ruan Jiao's eyes widened and he shook his head vigorously.
He doesn't know.
He and his father had been observing the larva that had just hatched from the egg. He could sense that the larva's mental fluctuations were very strong, and it carried an aura that made him dislike and feel uneasy. So he raised his tentacles alertly, confronted the other party, and separated his father from the other party.
But for some reason, Dad's ears suddenly started bleeding and his expression became dull. He tried to call out for a long time before Dad came to his senses, but it was too late.
The cub followed Rong Heng closely, watching him quickly pick up Ruan Shiqing and send him to the treatment cabin for treatment, tears falling from his eyes.
He failed to protect his father.