Chapter 67

In the end, no one knew who bit whom.

Fu Qing felt that his whole body was turning red. He suppressed his shivers and held Yu Xie's shoulder: "...that's enough...I don't know what's going on in the camp..."

Oh... okay.

Who makes his wife an admiral who cares about the empire?

Yuxie licked the corner of his lips and pointed at his pants with a teasing look: "That's what I said, the lieutenant general just left me alone after he got comfortable... you got your pants wet..."

Fu Qing covered his mouth with a red face: "Don't say it...Don't say it..."

"Okay, I won't tell you."

After a pause, he smiled and kissed the other person's palm: "Your red puffs are so cute."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Xie suddenly frowned and straightened his upper body.

Fu Qing was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Fu Qing's hearing was not as good as Yu Xie's. Yu Xie did not reply. He closed his eyes and listened, then whispered, "There is a sound in the distance, it is not a mutant."

In order to prevent the mutant beasts from continuing to attack the camp, Yu Xie had already covered the entire rainforest with his consciousness and pressure. Because of this, Fu Qing did not encounter the attack of the mutant beasts after entering the rainforest.

Unfortunately, the rainforest is too large, and Yu Xie has already tried his best to control these mutants, so he didn't notice the abnormal noise in the rainforest until just now.

A gurgling sound came——

Yu Xie looked at him in surprise: "Is it a bug monster?"

Yu Xie transformed into a beast and wrapped around Fu Qing, using his thick hair to completely protect the female insect. He stretched out his long claws and jumped out of the cave, running wildly towards the location where the insect monster was.

The beast that was roaring towards them looked down.

Cluck! Cluck!

“You—you—!”

The insect monster was obviously frightened when it saw the rest of the beast. Its legs, which were already broken to the bone, collapsed to the ground, and it crawled backwards two steps using the only remaining giant sickle to support its body.

“Afraid—! Afraid—!”

The insect monster's disgusting dark green head shook, and it stared at the dark golden beast eyes and stammered, as if it was about to pee its pants out of fear.

Fu Qing jumped off Yu Xie's back and drew out his saber to inspect it: "This insect monster... doesn't look very evolved."

The Noliflan Empire has been attacked by insect monsters many times, including the insect monsters at the prayer banquet, the insect monsters that attacked the Empire's research institute, and the insect monsters in the pirate base...

With these insect monsters as captives and research materials, the Empire roughly understood some clues and information about the insect monsters.

For example, the embryo of a bug monster is a female bug, and the higher the level of the female bug, the higher the intelligence after it transforms into a bug.

The degree of mutation of insectoid limbs is related to the embryo's tolerance to the energy of mutation. The stronger the tolerance, the more insectoid limbs will be mutated.

As for the origins of the bug monsters... most of them couldn't explain it clearly. They only remembered that they were kept in glass jars for a long time and were only released when they were needed to perform tasks.

The insect monster in front of him only had two limbs and lacked language ability. It looked like it had a low IQ.

Yu Xie used his claws to scratch the other person: "You're seriously injured..."

The insect monster growled in fear and kept digging the ground with its giant sickle, trying to escape underground. The fresh wounds on its arms were bleeding more and more.

Oops!

Yu Xie and Fu Qing suddenly looked at each other: camp.

He crushed the struggling insect monster with one claw, then carried Fu Qing to the camp...

Approaching the edge of the rain forest, Yu Xiu withdrew his consciousness and transformed his body.

The giant mutant beast in the rainforest has already behaved itself, and there is no need for the other mutant beasts to escape. The rest can be left to the military and the research institute to handle.

…

Once in the camp.

The ground was full of new recruits being bandaged. Winston stood in the insect swarm with a serious look on his face. This was the first time Yu Xie saw him make such an expression.

"Lieutenant General Fu!" "Take a rest, Instructor!" "Great! Lieutenant General, they are back!" "They are back!"...

Winston was very worried. He turned around and looked the couple up and down. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You are all fine. That's great."

Fu Qing patted Winston on the shoulder: "Another insect monster attack?"

"How can I stop..."

Winston pinched his brows and sighed: "Not long after you entered the rain forest, the mutants stopped being restless and became very quiet. Until the early morning, I thought everything was fine, so I opened the underground bunker to let everyone out. Unexpectedly, more than a dozen insect monsters suddenly jumped out from the camp..."

The camp's protective barrier was not closed, proving that these insect monsters had already hidden inside the camp.

Then, Winston leaned in and whispered, "An Imperial supply officer and a federal representative died on the spot. Jiang Zhiming... Jiang Zhiming was killed and taken away by the insect monster. His whereabouts are unknown now."

What? Killed?

Yu Xie and Fu Qing were both stunned.

Yu Xie was puzzled: "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Winston sighed and nodded: "There is something strange about the changes in the rainforest this time. The more I think about it, the more I feel something is wrong. I am afraid it is related to the organization that created the insect monster. In addition, Jiang Zhiming doesn't like you, and I am afraid that he will do something, so I have been sending adjutants to keep an eye on him, but I didn't expect the insect monster to attack..."

He tried to recall: "At first, the insect monster captured Jiang Zhiming as hostage and threatened us to open the shield. After we opened the shield, the insect monster took Jiang Zhiming and fled into the rainforest. When they retreated to the edge of the rainforest, the entire giant sickle was stabbed into Jiang Zhiming's stomach... With that amount of bleeding, he was just a male insect and could not survive..."

Logically speaking, Jiang Zhiming shouldn't have made any mistakes with so many female soldiers following him, but the bad thing was that the insect monster appeared at too coincidental a time, and the whole scene was really too chaotic.

The three insects looked at each other in silence for a moment.

Yu Xie frowned and thought. The insect monsters attacked the camp before the protective shield was closed, which proved that the insect monsters had already hidden in the camp before the protective shield was opened.

He had suspected Jiang Zhiming in the rainforest and guessed that the mutation was caused by the other party. After all, apart from Jiang Zhiming, no other insect was capable of avoiding the eyes and ears of the military.

But now that he came out, he was actually dead? Or did Winston see it with his own eyes?

Could he have guessed wrong?

Yu Xie frowned and said, "Why take him away if we've already killed him? I'm afraid there's something wrong here."

In any case, both the evolution of insect monsters and the mutation of mutants rely on mutation energy, so the same organization is definitely behind this.

But is Jiang Zhiming related to this organization? How were the insect monsters and the black crystal brought in? How did the insect monsters escape?

Fu Qing frowned: "...Yes, we still have to find the body. After all, we have to find the insects alive or the body dead. Yu Xie and I also encountered insect monsters in the rainforest. Maybe their escape route is related to the rainforest..."

Yuxiu said slowly: "It shouldn't be a rain forest, otherwise I would feel it."

His spiritual awareness covered the entire rainforest area, but he only found a bug monster. Now it seems that this bug monster was more like a cover for his tracks.

The insect monsters that Winston mentioned escaped into the rainforest area, which was probably just a trick put on for them.

Fu Qing immediately understood what Yu Xie meant: "If they don't have an escape spaceship in the rainforest area, then it can only be the anchorage area near the Gobi Desert. They must have hidden the escape spaceship with the other spaceships."

Winston was puzzled: "Escape ship? But... the camp is very strict in checking and registering the insects coming and going. It's strange that there are insect monsters sneaking in. How could we not notice something as obvious as an escape ship?"

Fu Qing shook his head slightly, becoming more certain of his guess: "Because the other party used a small concealed spaceship attached to the large spaceship."

As soon as these words came out, Winston understood instantly.

Small stealth spacecraft, this is the latest technology.

If the other party really uses this kind of spaceship, it can attach itself to other large spaceships like a parasite without being discovered, and can freely enter and exit the training planet to cause trouble.

In short, it is a new and rare thing that is expensive. If Your Majesty had not mentioned it before, even they might not have known about it.

Yu Xie heard this and whispered, "According to what the mutant monster said, the black crystal came in on the day of training. It was the most chaotic time when there were many insects and eyes. It is very likely that they brought the crystal and the insect monster in on that day."

The insect monsters were extremely fast, and were indeed more suitable for dropping black crystals than ordinary insects. In the eyes of the mutant giant beast, insects were just insects, and it was probably difficult to tell the difference between insect monsters and ordinary insects.

Winston was stunned: "A giant mutant beast? A black crystal?"

Fu Qing nodded slightly: "We have obtained other information, but there are too many people around right now, I will tell you in detail later."

What is certain now is that the enemy deployed insect monsters and black crystals via a small concealed spacecraft, causing changes in the rainforest area, and then caused a commotion in the camp and killed or took Jiang Zhiming away.

In any case, the disappearance of the son of the Federation leader on the training planet of Nolifran is definitely not good news for the Imperial military women.

The federal representatives came for the joint military exercise, but now that the head of the delegation is missing, can Nolifranc still participate in the joint military exercise smoothly?

If they fail to do so, it would be equivalent to handing over the command of the Winter Beast Tide for the next three years to the Bugs, and they would not even be qualified to participate in the competition.

It seems that the mysterious insect has never given up on preventing Fu Qing from participating in the joint military exercise, or preventing Nolifranc from gaining command of the Winter Beast Tide.

Yu Xu sighed and said, "I will go find Jiang Zhiming's body myself. If even I can't find it, I'm afraid I will really not be on the training planet anymore."

Fu Qing nodded and thought, this is the only way.

"Lieutenant General Fu!"

Federal representative Dean Ram looked at Fu Qing with anger on his face: "Supervisor Jiang now... now... no matter what, Nolifland needs to give an explanation to the Federation! I will report this matter to the chief immediately!"

He continued, "...This is Nolifran's training planet, but now such an oversight has occurred! Lieutenant General Fu once swore to refute my military management theory, but now it seems that your military management level is just like this! With such a level of defense, in my opinion, there is no need to laugh at the Winter Beast Tide, right? It is simply treating the lives of the Federation insects as a joke!"

Fu Qing frowned when he heard this.

Yu Xie sneered, "This Federation representative, Nolifran has indeed encountered some unprovoked disasters recently. I don't know who has been blocked. But as far as I know, Nolifran is the strongest empire in the Star Federation. If even Nolifran's military governance and defense level is not up to standard, which empire do you think is more suitable to lead the next Winter Beast Tide? Or do you think the Federation Guard is more suitable?"

Unforeseen disaster? Whose way was blocked?

Better to lead? The Confederation Guard?

"What do you mean?!" Dean Ram's eyes widened: "Are you doubting me? Or are you doubting the Federation? Or even doubting the head of the Federation? Do you mean that the head murdered his own child?!"

"Don't be so sensitive, sir."

Yu Xiu took two steps forward in surprise, stared at the other party and said, "Nolifranc has been very unlucky this year. As the joint military exercise approaches, more troubles occur. I want to discuss this with you and see if you have any good suggestions."

Dean Ram was shaking with anger. He pointed at Yu Xie and said, "No matter what you say! This happened on the territory of Nolifranc. You failed to supervise! You failed to do your duty! You have to take full responsibility! Just wait and see!"

He threw up his sleeves and strode away, eager to report to the federal chief.

Yu Xie frowned as he watched, thinking that not all federal officials would be like this?

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In the Safshir Star Federation, each empire has its own tourist planet, some are beach islands, some are insect-made rainforests...

There are also some planets with climates suitable for insects but with extremely small areas, which are bought by wealthy insects and used as their own private vacation planets.

The chirping bird landed on a big tree and pecked at the branches excitedly.

The whole area around here is made up of natural trees that have been transplanted. The pecking is naturally different from the ordinary insect-planted trees. The bird jumped around excitedly, as if to say that this is much cooler than the insect-planted trees.

Right next to the woods is a five-story villa. Just from its exterior, one can guess that the interior of the villa must be quite magnificent.

At this time, Federal Chief Jiang Xian was standing in the study on the third floor of the villa. The room was filled with dark velvet and gemstone decorations, which made his skin look somewhat pale.

"Sir, isn't the plan to arrange for the insect monster to drop the crystals? Why would the insect monster..."

Faced with the other party's meaningful look, Jiang Xian gradually fell silent and lowered his head. This frightened look was somewhat similar to Jiang Zhiming's.

The bug across from him suddenly laughed. He stood up and patted Jiang Xian on the shoulder: "See, you are always so soft-hearted, that's why you were bullied by bugs in the past."

"grown ups……"

"Tsk..." The other person put his finger on Jiang Xian's lips: "The hat of safety negligence is really too painless. For Nolifranc today, it really doesn't matter."

"Jiang Xian, don't you understand me? I want them to be doomed to not get the command of the Winter Beast Tide. This will help our next plan."

"The secret of the bug monster has been discovered. As long as they continue to study it, there will be a possibility of confrontation and counterattack, so we can't make the same mistake again..."

At this point, the other party looked at Jiang Xian's expression and laughed again: "You see, you just look stern, but you actually love your son very much. As soon as you heard that your son was in trouble, you rushed to question me..."

Jiang Xian woke up from a dream and hurriedly responded, "No, sir, how dare I question you? Jiang Zhiming is too childish and easily makes mistakes. I am afraid that he will cause trouble for you, so I came to ask, I..."

"Really? It turns out I misunderstood."

The other party nodded, seemingly moved. "Don't worry, he won't die for a while. He has changed a lot in the past two years. You may not know it yet, but he is no longer that fragile male insect."

Jiang Zhiming is still alive.

Jiang Xian heaved a sigh of relief and looked grateful: "Now your new plan is going smoothly. I will keep a close eye on him when he comes back."

"But... I'm jealous..." The other party sighed and sat back on the sofa. "I thought about it and two years might still be too short for him to grow up. Since he's too young and prone to making mistakes, I shouldn't keep him by my side every day...

"Although he is not a female insect, since he has a female father like you, he should be sent out to gain more experience. Otherwise, I will not feel comfortable handing over the power of the Federation to him in the future. Ah Envy, I will let him return to the deserted planet for the time being. When this is over, I will definitely return you a capable general, okay?"

"Yes, sir..."

Jiang Xian lowered his eyes and lay on the other's knees.