Chapter 9 I Became a Zerg 9
The sixteen little royal cubs had their antennae twitching happily, their compound eyes gleaming with anticipation.
Tangka poked Tang Mo with his elytra: "Seven days of vacation! Seven days! I can finally sleep until I wake up naturally!"
Tang Mo was stuffing snacks into his space compressed bag: "I'm going to Blue Crystal Star for vacation. I heard that the energy hot springs there can repair shell damage!"
Zhang Xiaojia sat cross-legged on the alloy beam of the training ground, swinging his mecha arm lazily. "I'm going to max out my dad's credit card, buy that agricultural asteroid, and transform it into a Zerg-exclusive amusement park."
The insect cubs laughed: "Your father will kill you!"
Zhang Xiaojia was using his fingers to steal the interstellar lobster from the thangka plate, grinning wickedly, "I hacked into the military system and arranged a seven-day blind date for my dad. He didn't have time to beat me up."
Before he could finish his words, the gilded door of the restaurant was suddenly blown open by a huge force.
Tang Han's bone wings shone with a cold metallic luster under the light, and his military boots made a heart-pounding crisp sound as they stepped on the marble floor.
"After friendly consultations between this king and your guardian," he said, a holographic document popped up from his fingertips, and the golden Zerg emblem slowly rotated in the air. "During the National Day, I will serve as your temporary guardian."
Sixteen forks fell onto the plate simultaneously.
"We're going to the Beast Star planet for survival training." Tang Han's bone wings unfolded, projecting four lists of names. "Zhang Xiaojia will be in a solo group, and the other three will form five groups."
Zhang Xiaojia's claws snapped the lobster in half. "Dad, do you have any misunderstanding about the word 'holiday'?"
"Didn't my mother say that I've been in school for nearly half a year and she missed me very much and wanted to make up for me? She just sold me out like that," He Shishi said with tears in her eyes.
Luo Li snorted coldly: "My stepmother must be eager for me to go back..."
Tangka raised his elytra tremblingly. "Commander... did you see it wrong? National Day is a legal holiday..."
Tang Han's bone wings slightly spread out, projecting a training schedule: "That's right, statutory holidays, a week-long trip to the Star Beast Planet."
Tang Li: "Uncle! You are abusing a minor!"
Tang Han glanced at him and said, "The custody is temporarily transferred to me. As your uncle, I will take you to the Star Beast Planet to hunt. What's the problem?"
He Shishi hugged her head in despair: "I don't want you as my uncle..."
"Just ask your mother to break up with me." Tang Han said coldly.
Tangka collapsed on the ground, his whole body twitching: "...Is it too late for me to drop out of school now?"
Tang Han: "Yes, the little bug bastards from the royal family who drop out of school will be directly assigned to the border patrol team to clean up the garbage in the universe."
The insect cubs: "..."
The bug guys accepted their fate and started discussing it.
"Jia Jia is in a separate group?!" Tangka screamed, "Commander, the beasts on Beast Star may not be very strong, but there are many of them!"
He Shishi frowned, "Besides, they live in groups. Once surrounded, no matter how fast your tactical reaction is, you can easily be beaten half to death."
Zhang Xiaojia narrowed his eyes and suddenly smiled: "Dad, are you taking this opportunity to take revenge on me for arranging a blind date for you?"
Tang Han gave her a cold look and asked, "Did you arrange a blind date for me?"
Zhang Xiaojia smiled proudly, "Grandma said that your blind date was successful, and she gave me a galaxy."
Before Tang Han turned and left, he said one last thing: "Haha, congratulations, you guys, please prepare your own supplies for the next seven days, and you are not allowed to bring mechas."
Fifteen bugs turned their heads to look at Zhang Xiaojia, making her feel creepy.
"Cousin, you are a perfect mimic. You go to the restaurant to collect food. You don't need money."
Zhang Xiaojia thought for a moment and said, "Okay!"
Zhang Xiaojia and his fifteen followers swaggered through the automatic door, where the noble students were dining elegantly.
"Huh? Aren't you having a holiday?" A noble Zerg with golden elytra looked up and asked.
Zhang Xiaojia casually grabbed a plate of glowing crystal pudding from the table and said, "Oh, we've temporarily changed it to a seven-day trip to the Star Beast Planet."
"Wow! How pitiful!"
"Yes, yes." Zhang Xiaojia's mecha arm had already cleared three dining tables. "Remember to save some dessert for us. We'll need it when we get back."
Tangka was stuffing high-level energy blocks into a compressed bag, and several noble students nearby were watching curiously.
"Does your Highness need any help?"
"No, no." He Shishi skillfully packed the dried star beast meat. "The commander said he wanted to train our survival skills~"
The wooden basket behind her had swept away the entire drinks cabinet.
"Make way, make way, make way--" Zhang Xiaojia pushed the dining cart, and the civilian students consciously made way for him.
"Your Highness, what are you doing...?"
"Special training supplies." Zhang Xiaojia packed the last box of military energy bars without looking back. "Oh, by the way, don't wait for us to eat these few days."
When the food cart passed the corner, Lori took the "Star Beast Weakness Distribution Map" hanging on the wall.
Night dormitory area
In Zhang Xiaojia's room, the table was covered with various bottles and jars, and the air was filled with a strange aroma mixed with herbs and energy crystals. She was precisely grinding a piece of moonlight grass with her fingers, humming a tuneless little tune.
"Hemostatic powder...done!" She put the light blue powder into a small bottle with a crooked label on it: [Special effect in stopping bleeding. Just apply it on the wound and it will heal immediately].
Next up is the bone-setting paste—a gelatinous substance extracted from the bone marrow of asteroid beasts mixed with restorative nanoworms, resulting in a strange fluorescent green. [A must-have for broken bones, it works, and if it doesn't, you don't have to pay.]
The mental repair agent was the most difficult to make, so she had to secretly remove a piece of the energy core from her mecha to use as a catalyst. The liquid in the test tube appeared a flowing golden color, like a melting star. [One drop brings back consciousness, two drops excite, three drops bring down the ancestors]
Finally, she added a few more stimulants to the mental energy supplement pills. [SSS-level certification, one pill lasts three days, no responsibility for sudden death]
"Tsk, there's not enough material for the knockout bullet..." She rummaged through the medicine box and shook her head regretfully, "I can only make four batches."
The next morning, the tarmac
Sixteen insect cubs gathered with dark circles under their eyes, except for Zhang Xiaojia - she was pushing a food cart full of potions of suspicious colors with great energy.
"Don't miss it if you pass by!" She knocked on the food cart and shouted like a small vendor, "Star Beast Planet Special Life-saving Set Meal!"
Tangka came over and poked a bottle of fluorescent green bone-setting ointment suspiciously: "Sister Jia, does this stuff really work?"
Zhang Xiaojia slapped his paw away: "Buy it if you want, or not. A bottle is fifty thousand star coins, no cheating!"
"Fifty thousand?!" He Shishi's eyes widened. "Why don't you just go and rob?"
"How can we rob people so quickly?" Zhang Xiaojia grinned. "And—" she lowered her voice. "Have you prepared the medical kit?"
The antennae of the fifteen insect cubs drooped at the same time.
"I'll buy it!" Tang Li was the first to take out his card.
"I want two bottles of styptic powder!"
"Leave three spiritual energy replenishment pills for me!"
The scene was so chaotic that Zhang Xiaojia could hardly count them.
Zhang Xiaojia smiled and said, "By the way, just spray the hemostatic powder once. Remember, put a piece of cloth in your mouth before spraying."
Tang Han stood in the monitoring room, watching the campus card spending records frantically refresh on the screen:
[Zhang Xiaojia receives payment: 100,000]
[Zhang Xiaojia receives payment: 250,000 coins]
[Zhang Xiaojia receives payment: 100,000 Star Coins]
His antennae twitched, and he called up the communicator: "Finance Department, freeze Zhang Xiaojia's account."
Zhang Xiaojia was happily counting his money when suddenly, a notification sounded from the mecha: [Your account has been frozen]
"...Dad! I'm such a sellout!"
Zhang Xiaojia took out the drug and said, "Each group of you should take one. This is very valuable. Take the antidote first. Don't use it unless your life is in danger. I only have four."
Zhang Xiaojia took the antidote to the drug first, and the other little bugs followed suit.
Zhang Xiaojia, one person in a group
Captain Loli and his five members
Five Thangka Captains
Captain Tang Mo and five others.
The starship soon arrived above the Beast Star planet.
"Dad! At least give me a parachute..."
"No need." Tang Han's voice came from the communicator, "You are an SSS-level mimic. You have wings and you won't die from falling."
The next second, the bottom of the cabin suddenly opened and Zhang Xiaojia was kicked down.
"Tang Han, you're done! I'm going to tell my grandmother—Ahhhhhhhh—"
Zhang Xiaojia quickly calmed down during the rapid fall, and switched his compound eyes to high-altitude observation mode, scanning the terrain below.
"Tsk, the primitive jungle area." She curled her lips, "Dad really knows how to choose a place."
Three hundred meters from the ground, her wings spread out with a swish, the pale golden membranes gleaming in the sunlight. With a beautiful gliding turn, she landed steadily on a giant fern.
As soon as Zhang Xiaojia landed, he heard a familiar scream coming from not far away.
"Ahhh why don't we have parachutes!"
"Captain Tang Mo! Quickly use your mental power to cushion the blow!"
"I, I, I can't do it—"
"boom!"
Five insect cubs fell into the mud in a stacked posture.
Zhang Xiaojia squatted on the treetop and leisurely took out the recorder: "Excellent, this clip can sell for a good price."
Lori's landing was perfect, but unfortunately her teammates were not so lucky.
"Captain! Help!"
A star beast cub was chasing a team member, seemingly treating the other party as a toy.
Luo Li sighed and took out the drug bullet Zhang Xiaojia gave her from her waist: "Use this?"
"No, no, no!" The team members waved their hands frantically, "That's for saving lives!"
"Then you handle it yourself." Lori watched grimly with her arms folded.
"Hurry, hurry! Prepare the hemostatic powder!" Tangka frantically rummaged through his backpack.
"Captain...we are not hurt yet..."
"Precaution! This is a precaution!" Tangka looked around nervously. "I heard that the star beasts here only prey on those who are alone..."
Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen pairs of glowing eyes appeared in the bushes.
“…”
“Run!!!”
"So, being in a separate group has its advantages." Zhang Xiaojia hummed a song as he swaggered through the jungle. "At least I don't have to bring any burdens with me."
She suddenly stopped, her compound eyes narrowing slightly. Not far ahead, a gigantic adult star beast was munching on fruit with its back to her.
"Oh wow, I won the prize."
Zhang Xiaojia said loudly: "Hey! Big guys!"
The star beast slowly turned around, revealing a mouth full of fangs.
Zhang Xiaojia relied on his own supernatural power to fight against the Star Beast Bear with his bare hands and defeated it in no time.
Zhang Xiaojia shook his hands, looked at the Star Beast Bear lying limp on the ground, and nodded with satisfaction.
"It's okay, a little more durable than the sandbags in the training ground."
She squatted down and skillfully examined the trophy - the Star Beast Bear's fur was 90% intact, its fangs were intact, and its energy core was not damaged.
"qualified."
With a casual throw, the heavy animal carcass was sucked into the space compression bag Tang Han had given it. The counter on the bag ticked: [1/10000].
"...Ten thousand?" Zhang Xiaojia's compound eyes narrowed dangerously. "Dad, are you kidding me?"
The communicator chirped twice, and Tang Han's cold voice came: "If you think it's too much, you can quit and go pick up trash at the border yourself."
Zhang Xiaojia: "...Okay, you're ruthless."
She flexed her joints, her bony wings slightly unfolding, her compound eyes switching to hunting mode: "Let's make quick work of it."
Three hours later
【17/10000】
Zhang Xiaojia sat on a rhinoceros star beast that had just been knocked down, panting, his arms stained with fluorescent blue animal blood.
"Something's wrong..." She frowned and looked around, "Why are these star beasts getting stronger?"
The first one was just an ordinary adult, but the ones I encountered now are almost elite level.
She looked up at the sky and found several surveillance flying insects hiding stealthily in the clouds.
"Tang! Han!"
Starship Control Room
The officers' antennae trembled from trying so hard to suppress their laughter.
Tang Han operated the console calmly and sent the "star beast leader's nest coordinates" to Zhang Xiaojia's locator.
The adjutant asked cautiously, "Sir, is this... too much?"
Tang Han's bone wings spread slightly: "Doesn't she want a galaxy?"
"If she can take on the leader of the pack alone, I'll give her one."
Deep in the jungle
Zhang Xiaojia looked at the holographic map that suddenly popped up, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "...Dad, are you trying to murder your own daughter?"
The bright red coordinate point on the map is the most dangerous [Thunder Beast] lair in the entire area.
She weighed the space bag: [37/10000]
"Tsk, looks like we have to play something shady."
Zhang Xiaojia suddenly revealed a sly smile and took out a bottle of fluorescent green potion from the compressed bag - it was the [Super Attractant] specially made last night.
"Since we're going to do it... let's do it big."
She leaped onto the treetops and sprinted towards the area where the herd was gathering.
In the monitoring room, Tang Han suddenly had a bad feeling.
Ten minutes later, the monitor showed
The star beasts of the entire jungle suddenly erupted in a collective riot, rushing in the same direction. The ground shook, and trees fell, as if the end of the world had come.
Zhang Xiaojia stood on a high place, looking at the beast tide rushing down below, and whistled happily:
“Time to pack~”
She raised her whip and rushed down
【58/10000】
【72/10000】
【89/10000】…
Tang Han looked at the frantic harvesting figure on the surveillance screen and finally couldn't help but hold his forehead:
"...Do you think the Star Beast Protection Association on the human side will come back to cause trouble for me?"
[Seven days later, the Beast Planet Conservation Association lodged a strong protest with the military, accusing a certain commander of condoning the extermination-style hunting of cubs.]
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