Chapter 125 Chapter 125

Rong Heng left B3024 with five warships, and the three cubs accompanied him. Ruan Jiao was left behind and went to the helipad with Garland to see him off.

The cyan battleship parked in the first row was huge, with the three words "Dongfang" spray-painted on its side in white paint, making it particularly conspicuous among the several battleships ready to go - this was the main battleship driven by Rong Heng and his cubs. It was originally snatched back by Rong Heng from a group of interstellar pirates. Later, after being modified by Ruan Shiqing, its performance was superior to many new battleships, and Rong Heng never replaced the battleship again.

And named the battleship "Orient".

Dong Fang Wei Qing, Ruan Shiqing could not go to the battlefield with them, but the battleship he modified by himself always fought alongside them.

The battleship was too tall, and Ruan Jiao couldn't see the whole picture even when he stood on tiptoe. He could only look at the cockpit and wave his hands vigorously.

A moment later, the fully assembled fleet set out.

Only when the fleet was no longer visible did Ruan Jiao dejectedly follow Garland back to the laboratory.

After the battle on Driftwood, they brought back many Zerg samples. Garland is studying the characteristics of the Zerg in depth and trying to find their weaknesses. Ruan Jiao undoubtedly knows a lot about the Zerg, so he stays to help him.

The cub spends half a day in the laboratory every day. When Garland doesn't need his assistance, he stays aside and reads and studies quietly. When the time comes, 09 will drive the landspeeder to pick him up and take him home.

At this time, the cubs will go upstairs to report the day's events to their father, and then go to have dinner.

At night, he would post messages in the common chat group. If Rong Heng and the kids were not busy, they would chat with him for a while. Sometimes, if no one replied, it meant that they were busy, but he didn't care. He would run to the bedroom with his little pillow and sleep obediently next to his father.

Time passed quietly like this.

Ruan Shiqing was like a newborn baby, floating quietly in the water with a peaceful look on his face.

The clear water wrapped him gently, making him feel warm and as safe and comfortable as if he were in his mother's womb.

It was unknown how long it floated like this, but the sleeping young man finally moved and struggled to open his eyes.

His eyes were very dark, and deep in them there was a little light, pure, clean, without a trace of impurities. When he was fully awake, the light in his eyes flickered, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and the calm water around him was rippled.

Amid the rippling water, he saw a scene he had never seen before.

The earth is cracked, the rivers are black, garbage is floating on the sea, and there are no living things as far as the eye can see, only abandoned buildings standing silently, scorched plants, rotting animal corpses, and spaceships departing in the sky.

After the hustle and bustle, the earth was left with only dead silence.

There was a tingling pain coming from the heart. Ruan Shiqing covered his chest with his hands. As he moved, the water rippled slightly, and another picture appeared.

He saw a few insects crawling out from the cracked soil, the roots of dead plants, and even the corpses of animals. They hibernated during the day and came out at night, eating garbage and quenching their thirst with sewage, and thus survived tenaciously from generation to generation. Perhaps it was because of the garbage and sewage, or perhaps it was because of the leaking nuclear power plant in the distance, these tenacious insects had undergone tremendous changes over time.

Its size became larger and larger, until it was as big as a car; its mouthparts, claws, and limbs became sharper and sharper, and it could easily tear any object into pieces and turn them into edible food.

They survived and multiplied on this abandoned planet, year after year, eating up all the garbage and waste that once covered the land, rivers, and oceans. Over a long period of time, the once devastated land gradually returned to its original appearance.

These insects naturally regard it as their home.

The gradually restored ecology has provided them with a better living environment. With sufficient food and no natural enemies, their population has multiplied more and more. Led by the queen insect who holds the right to reproduce, other members work together through division of labor, and gradually form a stable population structure.

After being abandoned for many years, this dead planet has come to life again.

The queen insect is fed by the entire colony. After generations of selection, during a meteorite fall, a queen insect of a certain generation gained wisdom and evolved.

The first queen insect to evolve realized that this meteorite was beneficial to the tribe, so she began to mobilize the entire tribe to collect this meteorite. All the meteorites that were found were used as the cornerstones for building nests. Under the influence of the meteorites over time, the newly born insects became stronger than before.

They finally mastered the ability to fly.

The scope of meteorite collection is no longer limited to their former homes. Batches of insects leave their homes to search for meteorites that are beneficial to the entire species in the vast universe.

Only one tenth of the first batch of insects came back; one fifth of the second batch came back, and they also brought back the meteorites they were looking for...

Such searches were carried out day after day, with their old homeland as the center, and they continued to expand the search scope outwards, until one day, they found another planet——

That planet was different from the planets they had encountered before. It had plenty of the stones they needed, but it was inhabited by other creatures.

When the two sides met, one side attacked and the other side defended, and the war was about to break out.

Ruan Shiqing's eyes trembled slightly. This scene reminded him of the first war with the Zerg mentioned in the war history of the Galaxy Empire...

He suddenly understood what those images he had seen before meant - that was the evolutionary history of the Zerg.

The shock in his heart made him move subconsciously, the water ripples slowly spread out, and the scene in front of him changed again.

This time it was in a spacious cave. In the center of the cave stood a huge white egg. Countless insects were crouching around the egg in awe.

The white egg went from still to trembling, as if a newborn insect was about to break out. However, what finally tore the eggshell apart was not a black limb, but a pair of white arms.

What emerged from the egg was an adult female.

Black hair, red eyes, a pair of tentacles on the forehead, a naked body covered with mucus, long hair hanging down to the ankles, but she walked up to the highest throne without a care in the world, making the unique "hissing" sound of the Zerg from her throat.

At this time, Ruan Shiqing strangely understood what she said.

She was saying: The memory passed down by our ancestors is correct, and the "Heavenly Stone" can help us evolve.

The insects crouching under the throne stood up, waved their limbs, and kept making "hissing" sounds.

They swore allegiance to the Queen and were excited about the coming war.

However, the insect queen who had just completed her metamorphosis did not agree to fight.

She selected several strong male Zergs and guided them to complete their evolution. She also first proposed the idea of ​​"truce talks".

For thousands of years, the Zerg have been at war with the Empire in an attempt to find the "Heavenly Stone" that would allow them to evolve.

As long as they break through the defense line, the planet behind the defense line will be within their reach, and the "sky stones" on the planet will also belong to them. The Queen's proposal was not approved by other higher insects.

But no one can question the Queen's position in the tribe. Even if they disagree, no one in the tribe dares to resist.

So the peace talks went on as planned, and the Queen of Zerg brought two fully evolved male Zergs, bypassed the front-line defenses, and sneaked into the Imperial Star Territory.

After several dives, she learned about the culture and technology of the Empire, and also learned that the "Heavenly Stone" that helped the evolution of the tribe actually had the "H2H element" contained in the stone. In the Empire star region, the soil of many planets contained this element. Because of the presence of the H2H element, plants could not survive, and even if they barely survived, they were toxic. However, this element played a vital role in the reproduction of her tribe.

After several twists and turns, the Queen of Insects finally contacted the Queen of the Empire, Farah. After proving her identity, she proposed the idea of ​​truce and negotiation.

But thousands of years of hatred is not so easy to resolve. No one can really trust each other, and constant testing and negotiation took more than a year. During this period, although the war between the two sides was temporarily suspended, it did not stop completely.

It was not until the last meeting that the two sides reached a consensus.

The Queen of the Empire and the Queen of the Zerg Tribe officially shook hands and made peace after signing a lengthy and complicated truce agreement.

After that, all that is needed is to announce the truce agreement to the outside world, withdraw troops from the front lines, and then send diplomatic envoys to communicate the details of subsequent exchanges, and this racial war that has lasted for thousands of years can come to an end.

Ruan Shiqing seemed to have sensed the Queen Insect's relaxed and happy mood, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up slightly.

But something unexpected happened at this moment——

An unknown gas suddenly spurted out of the central air conditioner in the conference room, and then the entire conference room exploded and collapsed. Fierce gunfire was heard outside, and faint voices of "insect tide is coming" and "prepare for battle immediately" could be heard coming in.

The two men realized what had happened and rushed out of the collapsed conference room, calling for their respective guards, but unexpectedly the guards who arrived suddenly attacked each other.

The unknown gas inhaled makes people feel confused, their limbs weak and their strength is greatly reduced.

Queen Farah was besieged by a dozen powerful insect tribes and soon fell into a disadvantage. The situation on the Insect Queen's side was not good either. She was surrounded by a dozen powerful Biss people and Evolved People. In the fierce resistance, she transformed into an insect form and tried to escape from the battlefield. Unexpectedly, the opponent was well prepared and dispatched several gunboats to bombard her with full firepower.

The queen insect escaped from the encirclement despite being seriously injured. When she was about to die, she used her last bit of strength to lay two royal eggs.

She hid the two eggs separately, but when hiding the second egg, she accidentally exposed her whereabouts and died of exhaustion.

The insect egg that had not been hidden in time was left on the front battlefield and was finally taken back by the Zerg who followed the smell.

The water waves were still shaking, but Ruan Shiqing's mind was immersed in the brutal battle and he was unable to come back to his senses.

Queen Farah, the Queen of Insects, the armistice agreement, and the two royal eggs...all these things were connected together, forming a vague circle in Ruan Shiqing's mind. But when he tried to sort everything out, it was like a tangled mess of threads, and he couldn't find the clue.

The shaking water waves gradually calmed down, but Ruan Shiqing suddenly felt a suffocating feeling in his heart.

He tried to move his limbs and swim upwards to the surface, but the water surrounding him seemed to have no boundaries, and he was unable to reach the surface until he was exhausted.

Finally, I could only stop panting, let my tense body relax, float quietly with the waves, and wait for my strength to recover.

Ruan Shiqing looked at the rippling water above his head and thought that he was trapped here. Rong Heng and the kids must be very worried about him, and he didn't know if they would cry.

He should go back as soon as possible.

After resting for a while, he struggled to move again, but suddenly there was an itchy sensation above his forehead. He subconsciously reached out to grab it, but grabbed a black tentacle.

The tentacles were thick, long and flexible, swaying in his palm.