Chapter 12 I Became a Zerg 12
Over the past year, S7 has been nothing but a beast of burden, fighting, mecha, commanding, battle planning...
Tang Han's bone wings shone coldly in the sunlight, and his compound eyes swept over the sixteen insect cubs standing upright.
"The rules are simple." His voice was like ice-hardened metal. "Class S7, 16 people, versus Class S1-S6, 120 people."
"If you dare to lose, we will all sweep the garbage out of the universe for three years."
The antennae of the sixteen insect cubs straightened instantly.
This isn't a drill! This is murder!
Zhang Xiaojia stood in front of the sixteen insect cubs, his bone blade clanging into the ground, his compound eyes scanning every nervous face.
"Listen, we're just 120 rookies." She grinned, her elytra arrogantly spread out. "What are we, S7?"
"Monster Class!" The insect cubs roared reflexively.
"Wrong!" Zhang Xiaojia kicked over the training dummy next to him, "We are the monster class that specializes in bullying weaklings!"
She called up the holographic sandbox, and the heads of sixteen insect cubs were gathered in a circle.
"He Shishi, take your people and pretend to be dead."
"ah?"
Zhang Xiaojia pointed his bone blade at the canyon exit: "S1 class loves to pick up leaks, you lie there and pretend to surrender, wait for them to get close and kill them."
She made a gesture of wiping her neck.
"Tang Mo, you are responsible for crying."
“???”
"Take your group of dramatic actors and surrender. The more you cry, the better. Wait until they let their guard down—"
She made another explosion gesture.
"Lori, your hacker team hacked into the training system and changed the 'death in action' checkpoint to 'kill by touch'."
"Is this considered cheating?!"
Zhang Xiaojia chuckled and said, "The other classes in S think we are royalty. They send us to the medical bay for even the slightest injury. They secretly grumble about us. We use the tactics they despise to make quick decisions."
Zhang Xiaojia's compound eyes flashed red. "My dad only said we can't lose, he didn't say we can't cheat, right?"
He Shishi's team "fell seriously injured" and S1 class really rushed over excitedly to pick up the heads——
“Puff!”
The "killed" insect cubs suddenly jumped up and knocked down twenty people in an instant.
S1 squad leader: "You have no moral principles!!!"
He Shishi wiped off the fake blood gracefully: "Thank you for the compliment."
Tang Mo's group cried and raised their hands in surrender: "Don't hit us! We are afraid of pain!"
Class S2 sneered: "The most powerful Class 7 is just..."
“Swish!”
Five bone blades were placed on their necks at the same time.
Tang Mo wiped away his tears in an instant: "I was just kidding~"
Lori successfully hacked into the system, and all the members of Class S7 received the abnormal buff of "whoever is touched is out".
Zhang Xiaojia charged directly into the enemy camp, like a lawnmower out of control:
"Die!"
S3's squad leader collapsed and yelled, "Referee! She's cheating!!!"
Tang Han, sitting in the referee's seat, calmly drank his tea: "Where's the evidence?"
When only Zhang Xiaojia and twenty elite soldiers were left on the battlefield, she shook the energy liquid off the bone blade.
"Come together?" She hooked her finger.
Twenty people rushed over roaring—
Three minutes later.
Zhang Xiaojia stepped on the "pile of corpses" and raised two tentacles towards the sky:
"That's it?"
Tang Han looked at the students of classes S1-S6 with bruised faces and noses, then looked at class S7 whose elytra were not even scratched, and remained silent for a long time.
Sixteen insect cubs stood in front of a small hill of "dead" opponents, their antennae trembling happily.
Zhang Xiaojia jumped to the highest point and pointed his bone blade at the viewing platform: "Commander Tang Han! We won! Are there any rewards?!"
"The tactics used... are as despicable as those of humans, but effective."
"Tomorrow we'll have an extra exercise—"
"How to defend against even more despicable tactics."
Zhang Xiaojia: “???”
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Sixteen insect cubs from Class S7 stood in the square of the human campus, their elytra gleaming metallically in the sunlight, their compound eyes scanning the surroundings vigilantly.
This was the first joint training between underage Zerg and underage humans, and they were the first group of Zerg students to set foot in the human military academy.
Zhang Xiaojia led the team. Tang Han and He Fei were not there this time because he went to the military headquarters for a meeting.
At 7:00 in the morning, the light of the rising star shone on the military academy square, and two rows of troops stood clearly separated in the center.
The little guys on the human side, 16 human trainees, all wearing neat dark blue uniforms, stood in a straight line as if copied and pasted, even their breathing rates were synchronized, and even their hair exuded the aura of "obeying orders is the first duty."
The little bugs had no concept of queuing, especially since Tang Han was not there and Zhang Xiaojia was in mid-air. The rest of them were arm in arm, looking at their nails. Human manicures were really good.
The youngsters from the Human Elite Class gathered in a circle. The boy in the lead, the son of a certain Federation Admiral, was provocatively poking Tang Mo's carapace with his finger:
"I heard you Zerg have terrible discipline? You can't even learn to line up?"
Tang Mo's tentacles stretched dangerously, but he didn't move.
Zhang Xiaojia walked over from behind, his bone wings slightly spread out, his voice calm but with an undeniable sense of oppression:
"Tang Mo, beat him up."
Three seconds later——
The human elite lay on the ground, holding their stomachs, their faces full of disbelief.
Zhang Xiaojia's compound eyes swept across the entire room, and his tone was cold:
"Few humans can fight the Zerg individually. I don't understand what you're bragging about."
She ejected her bone blade and pointed it at the disciplinary scoreboard beside the training ground:
"Strict discipline is a virtue, but it's not a reason for you to attack us."
"We respect your rules, but if you don't respect our power, then there's no need for cooperation."
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He Fei's tactical eyepiece flashed with data streams, while Tang Han's bone wings glowed coldly in the dark nest.
They stood deep within the mother nest, surrounded by countless old worms that had fallen into deep sleep—their shells were thicker than before, sharp barbs grew on their joints, and their compound eyes occasionally flashed a hint of scarlet in the darkness.
They did not attack, but evolved into overlord insects.
He Fei pulled up the holographic star map: "If these new types of old bugs are deployed on the battlefield..."
Tang Han's bone wings fully extended: "The human border outpost will not last more than 72 hours."
The two were silent.
He Fei watched the data stream scrolling across the screen. He then stared at the genetic sequence flickering on the scanner and suddenly smiled.
"One year."
He tapped the fleshy wall of the mother's nest with his fingers, and the echo was dull.
"It takes at most a year for these 'kings' to emerge from their cocoons."
Tang Han's bone wings trembled slightly in the shadow, and murderous intent seeped out from the cracks in his shell.
"Are your human weapons in time?"
He Fei didn't answer, but threw out a holographic chip.
The chip unfolded, projecting dense red marks - the coordinates of all military fortresses on the human border.
"If the old Zerg continue to evolve at their current rate..." He Fei's golden pupils turned towards Tang Han, "in a year, they will first tear through the Zerg's defenses, then flatten the human territory. Zerg and humans will perish together."
"The hive is now only 10% of its peak strength." His voice was low, as if squeezed from deep within his shell. "But if we attack, it will awaken all the old insects before its death—including the evolving 'kings'."
He Fei, who was standing beside him, did not answer immediately.
The human commander's black pupils reflected the blood-veined veins of the hive, and the data stream on the tactical eyepiece scrolled rapidly.
Three seconds later, he chuckled and pulled out a pitch-black dagger from his waist—a dark blue light flowed from the blade.
"Do you know why humans have survived to this day?"
He flipped the dagger and said, "Gamblers always live longer than madmen."
"The plan is simple." He Fei projected the holographic map into the air, the blue light illuminating his angular profile. "You attack head-on and draw the fire; I'll infiltrate the core and detonate the genetic resonance bomb."
Tang Han's bone blade snapped out, and his compound eyes contracted slightly. "The hive's defensive mucus will dissolve human bones. You only have a 17-minute window."
"That's enough." He Fei grinned. "What humans are best at is completing tasks before the deadline."
Tang Han was silent for a moment and finally nodded.
"If you fail," he said, his voice cold and hard, "I will have the Zerg fleet bomb this place flat."
"Seventeen minutes." He Fei adjusted his breathing mask. "If I exceed that time, I will become nutrients for the mother nest."
Tang Han's bone blade snapped out: "If you die, we Zerg will lower our flag to half-mast."
Tang Han spread out his bone wings, and the violent mental impact caused the surface shell of the mother nest to crack, and the old insect swarms poured out like a tide.
He Fei rushed into the inner cavity of the mother nest amidst the mucus corrosion. The left arm of his protective suit had been dissolved, and horrible blood blisters appeared on his skin.
The dormancy agent was injected into the main blood vessels, the mother nest emitted a low-frequency scream, and the entire nest began to spasm and contract.
He Fei was trapped by the mucus, and the tactical eyepiece showed that the remaining oxygen was 3%——
A black shadow split the slime. Tang Han's bone wings were broken, but they still managed to create a passage for him.
"run!"
As they rushed out of the hive, a thunderous roar echoed behind them. The hive's surface quickly hardened, its vascular network condensing into icy blue crystals.
The detector beeps sharply:
[The activity of the mother nest has dropped to 0.7%, entering forced dormancy]
[Estimated awakening time: 97 years ± 12 years]
He Fei collapsed on the ground, his right leg bloody and mangled, but he laughed wantonly: "See, I told you you can survive, right?"
Tang Han's bone wing slapped him on the head: "Shut up, human. You're 11 seconds over time."
Three days later, humans and Zerg jointly established a laboratory.
"Hibernation isn't a permanent solution." He Fei pointed at the hive scan. "Its evolutionary process is still running in the background."
Tang Han's antennae trembled slightly: "97 years is enough for us to develop weapons to completely destroy it."
Human and Zerg Military Academy Holographic News Hall
Zhang Xiaojia's bone blade pierced through the alloy table in front of him with a "click".
In the holographic projection, the news anchor announced in an excited tone:
"Historic collaboration! Zerg Commander Tang Han and Human Marshal He Fei have successfully put the hive into hibernation! It's expected to pose no threat for a hundred years!"
The scene switches - Tang Han's bone wings are broken but still stern, He Fei's black pupils have a familiar rogue smile, the two stand in front of the crystallized wreckage of the mother nest, surrounded by the media.
He was not seriously injured, not on the verge of death, and even seemed to be in good condition.
But she knew that this was definitely a life-or-death mission.
And she was completely excluded.
Zhang Xiaojia was very unhappy. Tang Han had clearly said that she was the main force of the operation and he would take her with him.
Zhang Xiaojia drove her shabby little starship to the front-line military base.
Zhang Xiaojia's bone blade pierced through the protective shield of the medical cabin with a "click", and his compound eyes glowed coldly scarlet with anger.
They went to the hive without telling her?
She had prepared a lot of questions and even thought about how to use the bone blade to carve the word "bastard" on Tang Han's shell.
But when she actually broke in, she suddenly froze in place.
Tang Han lay in the repair fluid, his carapace covered in unhealed cracks, and even the pale nerve bundles exposed at the joints of his bony wings. His compound eyes appeared particularly tired under the dim blue medical light, but still stern.
"Coming?" His voice was lower than usual, as if squeezed out from deep within his shell.
Zhang Xiaojia's anger suddenly got stuck in his throat.
She opened her mouth, but finally managed only one sentence: "You...are not dead?"
Tang Han's tentacles trembled slightly, as if he wanted to laugh, but he held it back. He raised his hand, took out a holographic file from the storage slot of the medical cabin, and projected it directly into the air.
[Gene Matching Report·Top Secret]
Test Subject A: Tang Han (Zerg Commander, Pureblood, Perfect Mimic, SSSS)
Test Subject B: Zhang Xiaojia (Perfect Mimic, SSS-level)
Matching result: 99.7% kinship
Zhang Xiaojia's compound eyes suddenly contracted.
Tang Han's voice was calm, as if he was recounting someone else's story: "Eighteen years ago, the Mother Hive launched a campaign, and the old Zerg swarm raided the Zerg's home planet."
The holographic image unfolded, showing a Zerg hive in flames of war, with countless soldiers falling in droves under the attacks of the old Zerg.
"Your mother stuffed you into the escape pod at the last moment and stayed behind to cover our retreat." Tang Han's compound eyes flashed a dark light. "When I arrived, I only found her bone blade... and an empty pod."
The image switches, and the wreckage of a small escape pod floats in the universe, the hatch violently broken open, revealing nothing inside.
"I've been looking for you for eighteen years." Tang Han's bone wings trembled slightly in the repair fluid. "Until a year ago, you showed up at the academy. The moment I saw you, I knew you were my daughter."
The monitor in the medical cabin was beeping, and the repair fluid leaked slightly due to the penetration of Zhang Xiaojia's bone blade.
She stared at the genetic report, the scarlet in her compound eyes gradually fading away.
"So... you already knew that I was your biological daughter?"
Tang Han smiled and said, "Don't you know that? Otherwise, why would you be so happy to call me dad?"
"I dare not tell you that I am your biological father, because if I tell you, I will definitely not be willing to train you." Tang Han's voice was rarely filled with fatigue. "You just need an instructor who can make you stronger."
"As a father, I've already lost you for eighteen years. I absolutely will not allow the nest to separate you and me again in a year."
Zhang Xiaojia stammered, "Don't think I'll forgive you just because you said that. Before you left, you promised me you were only going to a meeting. Now you're sitting here."
Tang Han: "It's Dad's fault. I will never lie to you next time."
"Listen, old man." Her voice was colder than the vacuum of space. "If you dare to lie to me again, I will really break off relations with you."
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