Chapter 170 The Butterfly Effect 2
Somewhere in the vast space, countless Zergs were quietly dormant. These Zergs were silent and seemed to be in a deep sleep. Among the Zergs, there was a golden Zerg that was as big as a battleship. This Zerg was the only moving object in the entire void. It was eating. In front of it was a cyan Zerg corpse, which it was gnawing at bite by bite.
The golden Zerg's eating manner was very "elegant". It would stop after a few bites, and then narrow its eyes slightly, as if it was tasting some delicious food in the world. It ate a whole cyan Zerg bite after bite for a whole day. After eating, its pupils became clearer, and its eyes looked into the depths of the vast Milky Way, as if it wanted to see something clearly through the sea of stars, but it retracted its gaze in an instant and fell on the countless dormant Zergs around it. The clear eyes suddenly became complicated, as if it was thinking, thinking with endless loneliness, and finally slowly closed, becoming dormant like the surrounding Zergs.
This is a short hibernation, and it has experienced this kind of short hibernation seven times. This time is the eighth time, and it will not last too long, only one day.
Ares Legion, Maintenance Department No. 1.
Yan Hao and Diya were standing in the corner watching the two major generals test-driving the newly repaired mecha. The test-driving process was very simple, they just fought with each other. Originally they had agreed to just try their hands, but the fight became more and more intense, with the wind of fists whirring, forcing the two men to retreat directly to the corner.
The mecha didn't stop until the two of them decided the winner. The cockpit opened and two middle-aged men with very different looks but both wearing major general uniforms jumped out. They were major generals before they retired and now they have returned to the army, still wearing the uniforms of major generals, but they have no real power.
“It’s such a pleasure to fight!”
"Are you a masochist? Why do you feel so refreshed when being beaten?" another person scolded with a smile.
"Get lost! If you have the guts, don't use a level nine mecha."
"If you have the ability, go get yourself a level nine mecha."
The two of them started arguing with each other, and their quarrel was as loud as that of third graders.
"Tsk, what's so great about a level nine mecha like you? I want to drive a mimic mecha in the future." As he said that, the man turned his head and looked at Yan Hao fiercely, "Master Yan Hao, you repaired this mecha of mine. Strictly speaking, you are also my mecha maker. When can you help me make a mimic mecha? I'm not picky, I just want one like Sheng Heng's."
"Ah?" Yan Hao was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"Can it be calculated this way?" The owner of the ninth-level mecha was shocked. Anyone who had repaired a mecha could be considered his own mecha maker. He immediately looked at Dia with resentment and said disdainfully, "Who asked you to repair it for me?"
"Xin Changwei, believe it or not, I will restore your mecha to its original state right now." Dia was angry. He was a ninth-level mecha manufacturer and had received countless requests from people to repair their mechas. He had never been treated with such disdain before.
"Ahem." The man called Xin Changwei looked away awkwardly, pretending that he had never said that.
"Master Yanhao, you are so young, I will call you Little Master." Without waiting for Yanhao's consent, the other party called out, "Little Master Yanhao, when Shengheng was little, he called me uncle. So we are a family. This matter of the mimicry mecha..."
"If that's the case, Sheng Heng has called me uncle before, so I also want a camouflage mecha." Xin Changwei said.
"Uncles, to be honest, there are at least eight hundred people in the God of War Corps who I called uncle when I was a child. Do you want to tire my boyfriend to death?" The door was opened at some point, and Sheng Heng stood at the door, looking at the two people who were arguing in the room with a smile on his face.
When Yan Hao saw Sheng Heng, he felt relieved. He walked over and stood beside Sheng Heng. Only then did he feel a little safer. He was so scared just now and really didn't know how to deal with these two familiar uncles.
Sheng Heng held Yan Hao's hand, squeezed it soothingly, and gave him a reassuring look.
"You are such a dishonest boy. You forgot your uncle now that you have a wife. When we were little, I secretly took you to the battlefield. Because of this, your father put me in solitary confinement for seven days."
It seems that the senior has not been to the base since he was five years old. This uncle deserves to be put in solitary confinement for taking a five-year-old child to the battlefield. "Of course I remember Uncle Yang's care for me, but in front of my wife, my father has to stand back, let alone the two uncles." Sheng Heng said.
"You kid, you're good at talking." The man called Uncle Yang by Sheng Heng scolded with a smile.
Xin Changwei also laughed. The two of them had just proposed to ask Yan Hao to help make a mimic mecha. Although they were sincere, they were just teasing. They were sincere because they really wanted a mimic mecha, but at the same time they knew that even if Yan Hao made another mimic mecha, it would not be their turn to drive it.
"Okay, you two, that's enough. You've been trying the mecha for a while. Is there anything else that needs to be adjusted? If not, just take the mecha and get out of here." Diya was in a bad mood because of Xin Changwei's disgust just now.
When it comes to mecha, the two of them immediately become serious.
"There is a delay of about 0.1 seconds when the mecha's right arm is raised." Xin Changwei said.
"I'll go take a look." Dia walked towards the level nine mecha carrying a toolbox.
"My, the energy supply seems to be a bit slow." Uncle Yang looked at Yan Hao and told him the problem he noticed when he was test driving just now.
"The slow energy supply may be due to insufficient energy inside the energy block. I'll go get a few level eight energy blocks and replace them with yours and try again." Yan Hao said, letting go of Sheng Heng's hand and going out to get the energy blocks.
"You've been very arrogant recently. I heard that you can even fight mutant insects by yourself." Uncle Yang raised his hand and punched Sheng Heng, but his expression was full of pride.
"I just took advantage of the mecha. If we really talk about combat experience, I am far behind others." Sheng Heng said modestly.
"Don't be so modest, kid. Do you think we don't know that mimicry mecha requires mental strength?" Xin Changwei said.
Sheng Heng grinned: "Thanks to Xiao Hao."
"You kid, don't you just have a girlfriend? You've mentioned it several times since you came in. Everyone in the federation knows that you're a gigolo." Xin Changwei said unhappily.
Sheng Heng chuckled.
"But you are not on the front line preparing for war, how do you have time to come and accompany Yan Hao?" The current Federation seems to be stable, and most of the soldiers stationed in the military are recuperating, but as a veteran, it is not difficult to see from some clues that these are just surface phenomena. The current situation of the military is more like preparing for a war that is about to happen. And Sheng Heng is one of the top combat forces in the current Federation. A man like him should not have the leisure to accompany his wife at this time.
"Yes, can you tell us what is going on with this insect swarm?" Uncle Yang also asked.
"The specific reason is still unclear, but there is a guess at present. This Zerg tide should be related to the previous counterattack launched by the Federation against the Zerg." Sheng Heng said.
"The Zerg are taking revenge?" Xin Changwei frowned.
"It's not revenge, it's advance."
"in advance?"
"A long time ago, biologists proposed that the Zerg devouring is not simply for reproduction, but for evolution. However, because the Zerg's IQ has always been low, not many people in the Federation believe this. Even if some people believe it, they think that the evolution will not be too fast. After all, the evolution of a high-level intelligence takes a long time. But the emergence of mutant insects has broken the human understanding of evolution." Sheng Heng said, "Biologists suspect that these Zerg auras outside are not the main body of the Zerg evolution. Their role is probably just to provide nutrition for the evolving Zerg."
"Oh, could you please speak more simply? I don't understand." Uncle Yang scratched his hair irritably, indicating that he was becoming more and more confused.
Sheng Heng smiled and said, "To put it simply, the Zerg had planned to launch a Zerg tide a long time ago, but the time is not now, it may be a few years later, or even decades later. It is our Zerg raid plan that brought the Zerg tide forward."
“Bang!”
The sudden sound of the door closing made everyone look back, and they saw Yan Hao standing at the door with a grim face, holding three energy blocks in his hands.
"Xiao Hao, what's wrong with you?" Sheng Heng saw that Yan Hao looked unhappy, so he walked over and took the things.
"You just said that the Zerg raid plan a year ago brought forward the Zerg tide? Why?" Yan Hao asked.
"These are just speculations." Sheng Heng said.
"The guess should be based on facts."
"After the Zerg raid plan was successful, we recaptured eight planets. In that month, we killed more Zerg than in the past two years. Afterwards, in order to clean up the battlefield, except for some Zerg corpses that were worth studying, all other corpses were thrown into the black hole." Sheng Heng said slowly.
"Black hole?!" Yan Hao had seen a black hole created by the Zerg before on Planet Z. In fact, it is better to say that it is a wormhole hidden in a black hole. The mutant worms that suddenly appeared in the Federation this time also appeared through a wormhole. So when it comes to black holes, Yan Hao can't help but think of the Zerg.
"Yes, the Federation won a great victory at that time, and no one would link the black hole with the Zerg. Now that I think about it, the black hole was most likely opened by the Zerg King." Sheng Heng said.
"You just said that these Zergs outside are providing nutrients for the evolving Zergs. Could it be that these dead Zergs can also provide nutrients for the Zerg King?" Xin Changwei said in a lost voice. He was even scared by his own guess.
"The Zerg can devour all living things, but aren't they also living things?" Sheng Heng said calmly, "The IQ of low-level Zerg is not high. They only have the instincts of devouring and fighting. Moreover, devouring each other is a way of evolution and reproduction."
"In other words, because of the Zerg raid plan, we delivered enough food to the Zerg King in advance, so the Zerg tide that was supposed to come a few years later came earlier." Uncle Yang finally understood.
"Not bad." Sheng Heng nodded.
"It's all my fault." Yan Hao clenched his fists tightly, his face full of regret.
"What does this have to do with you?" Sheng Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "If it weren't for you during this insect swarm, the Federation's casualties would be far more than this."
"But if it weren't for me, the insect tide wouldn't have come earlier."
Yes, it's all his fault.
Just two days ago, he swore to Master Diya that the Insect King would not appear and that the crisis would soon be over. He even secretly encouraged himself to use the remaining five years to build a level nine mimic mecha so that Sheng Heng would not be afraid even if he faced the Insect King, because the real crisis would come five years later. But until just now, he realized that there was no crisis five years later. The crisis had already appeared. And the reason why the Federation encountered the Insect Tide five years earlier was all his fault.
If he hadn't discovered the Phantom Stone and created the Bright Moon, the Federation wouldn't have launched that raid.
It turned out that I was the culprit and it was I who caused the deaths of so many people.
Yan Hao's face was pale and his whole body was cold. He wished he had never been reborn.
"Xiaohao, Xiaohao, look at me." Sheng Heng had never seen Yan Hao like this. He threw away the energy block in his hand and used his free hand to hold Yan Hao's shoulder tightly.
Yan Hao's brain was buzzing and he raised his head instinctively. His eyes were lifeless and filled with tears of regret.
Sheng Heng looked at the tears in Yan Hao's eyes and felt as if someone had hit him hard in the heart. He felt extremely uncomfortable.
"This is not your fault. It has nothing to do with you." Sheng Heng said loudly.
"I was the one who brought the insect tide forward, five years in advance."
"No, it has nothing to do with you. If there were no Phantom Stone, no Bright Moon, and no Mimic Mecha, the Federation's military might might not reach its current level in ten or twenty years, let alone five years. If an insect swarm appeared by then, the casualties would surely be even heavier than they are now." Sheng Heng was so worried about Yan Hao's condition that he didn't even bother to think about how Yan Hao came up with the number of five years.
"Really?" Yan Hao was a little shaken.
"Of course it's true. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to go to the battlefield." Sheng Heng continued, "In this battle, I killed several level nine Zergs and a mutant Zerg. This is all thanks to you."
"Yes, Sheng Heng is right."
"Master Yan Hao, this matter has nothing to do with you."
The two major general uncles also followed suit to persuade.
Dia, who was repairing the mecha in the distance, heard it and couldn't help but run over: "Yan Hao, what are you thinking about? The contribution you have made to mecha manufacturing in the past few years has at least advanced the Federation's research on mecha manufacturing by more than 50 years?"
After being persuaded by everyone, Yan Hao finally calmed down slowly, but he still held Sheng Heng's arm with lingering fear.
"It's not my fault?"
"No!" Sheng Heng's eyes were full of heartache.
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