Then Huo Li and the mantis chattered for a while, which made Xiao Yi confused. Then the tall insect turned around and made a gesture to lead the way. The surrounding insects bowed and made way for them. The two followed the mantis through the gaps between the large area of ​​ferns more than half a meter high, and walked towards a forest of dark green trees several tens of meters high in the distance.

The insects watched the few people leave before continuing to work on the land. The tall mantis insect walked in the first place, while the black-haired boy deliberately slowed down his pace to keep himself 10 meters behind. While watching the insect's cyan tail swaying rhythmically with its steps, he called the system in a low voice:

"2d14, is there an insect language in your local vocabulary?"

System 2d14 quickly replied: "Yes, host... um, sir."

The black-haired boy: "Play it for me now, I need to learn it quickly! Also, don't call me sir."

System 2d14: "Okay, host! But the insects have 27 different languages... Host, which one do you want to learn?"

The black-haired boy took a deep breath, He whispered, "Just learn whatever species those Zergs mentioned just now."

System 2d14 was a little hesitant: "But, they seem to belong to different Zergs, and they are talking to each other in a mixed way?"

The black-haired boy: "Then put all 27 species! Eh? Why 27 species? Didn't the news on the starship say that there are 28 branches of the Zerg?" At

this time, Huo Li also joined the conversation with his consciousness: "Xiaoyi, in fact, there are only 27 branches of the Zerg, and each branch has a pair of Zerg King and Queen, Including me, the Insect King... there are exactly 28."

The black-haired boy asked angrily with consciousness: "Didn't you swear that you are on the side of humans and have no relationship with the insects?"

Huo Li: "What I promised at that time was that I had no 'blood relationship' with the insects."

The black-haired boy resisted the urge to roll his eyes and followed them into the forest. At this time, because of the dense tree canopy, the originally sunny weather immediately darkened, as if a storm was about to come.

The black-haired boy responded concisely and coldly with his consciousness: "Don't quibble, explain it."

Then as the group walked through the forest, Huo Li slowly told the story of the past with his consciousness: "700 years ago, there were not so many colonized planets by humans. Under the leadership of the entire Interstellar Alliance, all mankind was in a state of crazy expansion. Almost all habitable planets in nearby galaxies were hastily developed and utilized by humans. The population was already saturated until some exploration spacecraft discovered this vast Zerg territory in the galaxy.

And humans took all habitable planets. Unlike the human race, which only lives and reproduces on the planets with the best natural conditions in the galaxy, the Zerg only survive and reproduce on the planets with the best natural conditions in the galaxy. So even though the Zerg only have tens of thousands of planets, the star fields they occupy are almost the same size as those of humans at the time, and the ecological environment is far better than that of humans. So the Interstellar Alliance came up with the idea of ​​attacking the land occupied by the Zerg. "

Then humans failed, which aroused the anger of the Zerg, causing hundreds of human planets to be conquered by the Zerg and the end of the world? At that time, in order to save the human world, you took the opportunity to sneak into the Zerg Did the Zerg King City control the Zerg King and Zerg Queens, stop the Zerg's offensive steps, and save all mankind?"

Huo Li hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth: "No. When the attack started, humans won again and again, and were about to break through the Zerg's outer defense line and drive straight into the Zerg's hinterland. With the tacit consent of the main system, I sneaked into the Zerg King City and changed some of the memories of the Zerg King and Zerg Queens, making them think that I was the 28th Zerg King. "

Black-haired boy: "And then?"

Huo Li: "I commanded the Zerg army to defeat the human attack."

Black-haired boy: "..."

Huo Li: "Xiaoyi, I really stand on the side of humans!"

Black-haired boy: "Ha!"

At this time, a modern manor that was out of tune with the surroundings appeared in front of them under the shade of trees. The conversation came to a temporary end. Several people walked around a nearly 50-meter-high fir tree and entered the gate of the manor. Without the cover of the wall, the black-haired boy saw that there were at least dozens of insects in the manor who were working hard to clear the weeds on the blue-green lawn and trim the bushes. What was even more exaggerated was that there was a team of insects carrying large buckets back and forth to add water to the small fountain pond.

Seeing Huo Li coming, the leading insect shouted something, and the other insects quickly sped up their progress. When they arrived at the door of the villa, most of the insects working in the house had finished their work and quickly withdrew. Only two or three insects who were clumsily carrying buckets and rags with their forelimbs had not finished their work. Seeing the arrival of the "Lord Insect King", these insects hurriedly tried to minimize their presence as much as possible, while quickly wiping the glass.

There was another team of insects, led by their leader, carefully holding rows of colorful fruits and foods with their sharp forelimbs, and placed them in rows on the long and huge white dining table. After the group of people and horses emerged, the leading insect bowed deeply at the door, closed the door respectfully and left.

Huo Li glanced at the insects who were still cleaning the glass, and one of them was so scared that he accidentally used too much force and cut the rag into two pieces. Then he hurriedly picked up the half piece with his forelimbs and wiped it on the glass quickly.

Huo Li continued to explain carefully with his mental power: "Xiao Yi, you have to understand that if the Interstellar Alliance had been allowed to send heavy troops deep into the heartland of the Zerg under the circumstances 700 years ago, it would definitely have turned into an extremely brutal and protracted war! The reason why the Zerg were losing ground at that time was that humans only occupied the territories of two of the Zerg branches, and the Zerg's troops were only 2/27 of their manpower. But if humans continue to advance, it will provoke the Zerg to counterattack with all their strength. An all-out war between two evenly matched races, the consequences..."

Hei While listening to Huo Li's explanation in his mind, the young man walked casually to the long table and curiously touched the strange-looking food served by the Zerg: "So you kindly helped the Zerg to resist the attack of humans, and established a considerable prestige in the Zerg. But later, when the Zerg counterattacked humans and caused hundreds of doomsday events, you could have directly ordered to stop the attack, but you didn't."

At this time, the three insects finally finished wiping the windows in fear, picked up the small bucket, and quickly climbed out of the villa using all six limbs.

Huo Li looked at the boy, hesitated for a long time before nodding and admitting, "At that time, the power of the Interstellar Alliance was too great, and the entire human race fell into a dangerous state of militarism. Therefore, the Interstellar Alliance must pay a price for their recklessness in order to reverse the situation and calm down the human race from their arrogance. As for the Zerg, the planet they attacked was originally their territory. The Zerg was just trying to recover their lost homeland, and I had no reason to stop them. As egg-laying creatures, the Zerg have a short lifespan, and they don't care about their own lives. Just like ants, they care about the number of species and territory."

The black-haired boy picked up a cup of spring water from the Zerg planet and took a sip, then he chuckled, put down the cup and said, "That sounds very high-sounding, but after you let these things go, which led to hundreds of "small frictions" in the end of the world, the status of the Interstellar Alliance plummeted, and the Savior Alliance finally gained a foothold in the human galaxy because of the needs of the end of the world. At that time, its prestige once surpassed that of the Interstellar Alliance. And you, the savior who turned the tide, also became famous for a while, and people temporarily put aside their suspicion of you. This kills two birds with one stone. I wonder which bird you really care about in your heart?"

Huo Li, who was completely exposed, fell silent, and seemed to be trapped in the torture of his own heart.

Black-haired boy: "For such a vicious plan of yours... I can only say: well done! The Interstellar Alliance should have been punished long ago! It's a pity that I was not born then!"

Huo Li looked at the boy with excitement in his eyes, and was a little unresponsive for a while.

Black-haired boy: "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm an alien, not one of those adolescent girls who feel sad because she thinks she has killed an innocent life when eating an egg... But you have killed many insects and insect kings when you were on a mission, don't they recognize you?"

Huo Li: "I only gave mental hints to the 27 pairs of insect kings and queens in the royal city, making them think that I am also a member of the insect race. At present, only they and the ones around them The guards know my specific appearance. The Zerg and low-level Zerg Kings on the border battlefield don't know that the 28th Zerg King looks like a human... Besides, the Zerg is an independent race, and they have their own civilization. I don't want to control them, and I don't control them. "Huo Li looked around the villa, "I just want to leave myself a way out."

The black-haired boy nodded: "The Zerg is indeed different from what I imagined, simple and hardworking, and basically a vegetarian. I used to think that the Zerg Why... Never mind, it's too silly to talk about it."

Huo Li: "Are all Zerg eating steel on a barren planet? Biting other weak animals?"

Black-haired boy: "Hehe." Then he pretended to be nonchalant and said seriously: "Okay, don't worry about these little things, let's get to work! First we have to find a way to distinguish between parasitic beasts and humans on a large scale. Anyway, I can't tell them apart unless I dissect them."

Huo Li: "I can't tell them apart either." We can't control all 1,200 planets one by one and then read their memories one by one, because except for the moment when they break out of the body, the memories of parasitic beasts are no different from those of humans. It's easy to control them, but it takes too much time to identify them, and... "

The black-haired boy: "You are afraid that your true strength will be exposed, and you don't want to control and invade so many people."

Huo Li was a little surprised at the boy's understanding of him, and nodded silently.

Black-haired boy: "Then there is only one way: viral infection! If there is a chronic virus that can cause completely different symptoms in parasites and humans..."

Huo Li: "What about direct death?"

Black-haired boy: "The parasitic tissue dies, and then those half-human husks are left behind? No, I don't want to do good deeds silently this time. I want to catch all those parasitic beasts and put them in front of the big screen for all humans in the universe to see!"

So the two of them transformed the back house of the manor into a medium-sized biological laboratory with the hard work of the Zerg. Xiaoyi restored dozens of humanoid parasitic beast samples according to the samples he collected on the Happy Planet, and injected the virus synthesized by Hei Si into their bodies for observation. However, since this was a study of chronic viruses, the changes in the experimental subjects were very slow. The usually idle black-haired boy was taken by the "Insect King" Huo Li to tour the scenery of the Insect King City Planet.

Then, after 2d14 of persistently playing the insect language vocabulary, the black-haired boy finally mastered the 27 languages ​​after two weeks. This day, Huo Li was taking the black-haired boy to the bottom of a cliff, watching the insects with small frames hanging on their bodies collecting a kind of white berry on the cliff.

Huo Li: "Because the dozens of planets nearby belong to the territory of the royal city, the other 27 pairs of insect kings and queens have built their nests on these planets, and their subjects have finally formed a mixed state of race because they live close to each other."

The black-haired boy looked at the insects crawling on the cliffs as if they were walking on flat ground and felt very novel: "Did they weave those small baskets themselves?"

Huo Li: "I gave them to them, so even though the war has been over for 700 years, my status as the 28th insect king is still the leader of all kings."

The black-haired boy chuckled: "Relying on weaving baskets to make a living! " "Quan, so domineering!"

Huo Li blushed slightly: "Not entirely, I originally wanted to teach them more advanced farming techniques, but I was afraid that this would lead to a surge in their population and threaten humans, and I was also afraid of destroying the good natural environment they originally had, so I didn't teach them."

At this time, an insect picked a small basket full of white berries, flapped its wings and flew down, and while passing by Huo Li, he did not forget to stop and bowed in the insect language and said: "Hello, my respected king."

Then he turned to the black-haired boy: "Hello, my respected queen."

Then he spread his wings again and flew away.

Black-haired boy: "!!!"

The black-haired boy pretended to be puzzled and looked at Huo Li: "What did it just say to me?"

Huo Li remained calm: "It just said: Hello, distinguished guest."

The black-haired boy was also calm: "Oh." Ahhh! What should I do if I am implicitly confessed to by a human who is 1,000 times older than me for the second time? Waiting online, urgent!

After a moment, the black-haired boy decided to skip this small question: "Tomorrow I am going to go to the border of the insect domain alone, which is the doomsday planet for mankind. We are almost isolated here, and we have no idea how the Star Alliance and the main system are playing. I am going to find the taskers who are saving the world there and get some information from them."

Huo Li said quickly: "I will go with you."

The black-haired boy supported his forehead and said: "I am a law-abiding citizen now, why are you, a wanted criminal, joining in the fun? Besides, if you leave, those experimental subjects will be in trouble. Who will take care of it?"

Huo Li: "Law-abiding citizens? The three most wanted criminals now: Alien, 0193, 099, two of them are you! And you can't change your memory. If I'm not by your side, it will be irreversible if you are exposed! As for the experimental subject, you can use black silk to synthesize an experimenter and I will control it remotely."

So, two days later, the black-haired boy who originally wanted to find an excuse to go out and relax alone had no choice but to drive a small starship with Huo Li to the sky above a gray planet that looked like it had been grilled by charcoal.

The black-haired boy looked down at the dark planet through the glass window of the starship: "Is this it? It looks abnormal."

Huo Li nodded in agreement and controlled the starship to land in a city square. The two walked out of the cabin and put away the starship. The black-haired boy turned around and looked around. The high-rise buildings in the city were only ruins. The pervasive black fog condensed into a thick black cloud layer that was extremely low, making the whole world look like a stormy evening, full of death and oppression.

"Can you feel the humans around you?" The black-haired boy turned around and asked.

"There is no one within 10 kilometers." Huo Li replied, his face looked not good, "But there are other life forms moving around, not insects. How many teleportation charms do you have left, Xiaoyi?"

"40."

"Let's learn about the situation of this world along the way. We have to save teleportation charms." Huo Li said, and walked towards the dark road between the high-rise buildings.

The black-haired boy followed behind him, and because he didn't understand the basic situation of the world, he didn't dare to let the black silk extend easily. The street was covered with a thick layer of dust. The two people stepped on it and made a creaking sound, which echoed in the silent dead city. The black-haired boy seemed to hear some noise coming from the office building on the right. He slowed down his pace and looked through the dirty translucent French windows into the shadowy building. But Huo Li in front of him suddenly stopped and bent over with a painful look.

The black-haired boy hurriedly took two steps to his side: "What's wrong!"

Huo Li wanted to speak, but he was choked by something as soon as he uttered the first syllable. He coughed twice and then spat out a mouthful of blood! However, his coughing did not stop, but continued to make a series of choking coughs as if his trachea was blocked by blood...