Chapter 137: Zerg explodes!

The hover taxi raced along the farm road, speeding towards the corresponding position on the edge of the underground base.

The commotion in the base did not last long. When Naldo stuffed the backpack into Hera's hands, the light in Hera's eyes quickly faded, and she lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

Naldo immediately wanted to step forward to support Hera.

Professor Pat suddenly attacked and pressed Naldo against the wall, his sharp eyes seemed to be able to pierce Naldo's face.

"What the hell is going on!?"

"If I knew what was going on, I wouldn't let this backpack leave her body!" Naldo growled.

Pat stared at Nardo.

More figures in protective suits appeared in the corridor , looking here in silence.

"It was the Queen who influenced me."

Hera suddenly spoke up.

Her petite body looked very weak under the pressure of the mechanical guard's iron arms.

Hera said: "This is another reason why I came here, Professor. Do you remember the experimental sample that I swallowed when we were in conflict?"

Pat let go of Naldo, glanced left and right, then stared down at Hera.

"Everyone leave, send a team of mechanical guards here," Pat said immediately, "Hera, I have to isolate you now."

"I understand. I will lie here and not move. Don't let my backpack leave me," Hera said calmly. "This is a backpack that I soaked with information interferon. It can affect the microorganisms in my body."

"Microorganisms?" Pat frowned. "Is it really clustered biological information?"

"The bugs we see may not be the real bodies of bugs, or they may just be part of the concept of space bugs."

Hera closed her eyes and said quickly:

“I haven’t figured out what happened to me, how it happened.

"But it's obvious that I had similar symptoms on Ao Star. The queen was able to directly control my body, which means that I had achieved cross-space communication with the queen.

"I am now equivalent to a disabled Zerg larva. It is a wise choice to isolate me, but before that, I want to take a look at the queen."

She slowly raised her head and looked at Pat:

"I will carry my backpack over there, and from now on, I will cooperate with all your experiments."

"This is impossible." Pat took two steps back.

"professor!"

"No," Professor Pat shook his head decisively, "We can't make the same mistake over and over again. If there is a problem, we must stop the loss. I will place you in a separate space with strong magnetic isolation, where it has been confirmed that the larvae cannot communicate with the mother insect."

Naldo said quickly: "She may be right..."

“Shut up!”

Professor Pat yelled, "You've caused enough trouble! Dr. Naldo!"

"Yes," Naldo held his forehead, and there was a buzzing in his ears.

Two mechanical guards controlled remotely lifted Hera up.

Hera was clearly feeling anxious and kept shouting:

"Professor, I need to see that thing. I will definitely make some breakthroughs in this field."

"Father, Dad! I have to solve the mystery of me... If it can affect me, why did it affect me only recently!"

"You can't control the Zerg at all! This will lead to disaster! I am the evidence! I am the best evidence!"

A special anesthetic needle appeared at the back of Hera's neck and the injection was quickly pushed in.

Hera's eyes slowly closed, and she was carried by the mechanical guards and slowly moved towards the isolation room in the distance.

The backpack fell to the ground and was picked up by the mechanical guard at the rear.

Professor Pat raised his hand to his forehead and opened his mouth to say something, but he just stared in the direction of Hera.

Experimenters everywhere stared at the direction Hera left. The news that this little girl was 'infected by Zerg' had begun to spread, causing them to panic.

Dr. Naldo's legs seemed to go weak.

He held onto the wall for support, but his body slid uncontrollably and fell as if he had sunk to the bottom of the sea. He even had difficulty breathing.

The atmosphere in the corridor became increasingly depressing.

The experimenters began to return to their jobs one after another.

Professor Pat sighed slightly: "Naldo..."

boom!

The base suddenly shook.

Professor Pat's face turned a little pale, and the red warning light on the wall next to him began to flash rapidly.

"Professor Pat! The queen insect suddenly woke up and is attacking the petri dish!"

"This bastard bug!"

Professor Pat cursed, grabbed Naldo and pushed his shoulder hard.

"Get to work! It's the only way to save your daughter's life!"

"Okay, professor," Naldo said, his voice regaining its composure, "I'll be right back."

boom!

The base trembled slightly again, and the safety gates began to fall rapidly. A large number of mechanical guards rushed to the location of the queen insect culture dish.

But this time, what the human workers in the base did not notice was that although the queen insect reacted very violently, the ordinary insects were just trembling uneasily. They did not riot directly, nor did they trigger automatic firing of the laser cannon.

Tiny cracks had appeared on the huge metal lid of the mother insect culture dish, and the cracks were expanding rapidly.

Above the base.

Outside a fenced-off, charred farmland, the hover taxi hid in the shadow of a metal shed.

Yang Ming sat quietly in the back seat. Apart from his slightly heavy breathing, he looked normal.

In fact, Yang Ming could hardly hold back at this moment and kicked open the door, dug up the soil, and went to find those bugs to fight to the death!

Damn, did the space Zerg steal the cubs from the ancient god life form? No, the ancient god life form does not reproduce, so it is impossible for them to have cubs.

"Lv, how much have you collected?"

"Boss, the sensor element on that hairpin is relatively simple, so the data collected is not very much."

"Continue collecting."

"Okay boss...don't push yourself too hard."

Lu said worriedly, then fell silent.

Yang Ming tried hard to adjust his breathing and tried to focus his attention on the projection screen in front of him, observing the path that Hera was dragged along.

Hiss——

It was as if the sound of a snake spitting out its tongue appeared out of nowhere.

Yang Ming's vision was blurry, and he saw the starry sky background again. He saw a huge python from a distance, but when he got closer, he could see that it was an ugly and huge insect.

Queen mother insect!

Its upper body has a vague human-like outline, its head is covered with overlapping sharp spikes and fangs, and its bloated tail is the birthplace of the swarm.

Second stage queen!

The second-level queen insect is about to evolve!

The queen insect is struggling.

It was shaking and trembling, instinctively afraid.

Yang Ming's irritable mood suddenly turned cold.

When the desire to kill reaches a peak, what follows is incomparable rationality and calmness.

He gazed at the queen insect against the backdrop of the starry sky. Strange messages appeared in Yang Ming's perception. No one knew where this information came from, and it was not in human language, but Yang Ming could understand it.

Yang Ming seemed to be connected to the swarm’s communication network;

He even saw fragments of the queen insect's memories.

It was in an egg and was dug out from underground by some humans, right under the planet Ram, and then isolated and studied on the spot by a research institute.

The study of it lasted a long time, with six or seven generations of researchers replacing each other.

These experiments have gradually achieved breakthroughs. The researchers may not be able to understand the principles, but they are good at summarizing and can derive phenomena based on them.

It has not yet evolved to a high level, but it can already produce queen eggs.

Each queen egg symbolizes a population and is also the true "genetic heritage" of the queen insect.

These queen eggs were taken away from it and sent to distant star regions.

Yang Ming felt something and looked up suddenly.

In the starry sky above, hundreds of dim stars suddenly flashed brightly.

That seemed to foreshadow something.

Before Yang Ming could think about it, Lu's voice suddenly sounded:

"Boss! We have collected the key data. Hera has been locked in a strong magnetic isolation room and the transmission has been cut off."

Yang Ming shook his head violently, and when he looked down, he saw that the projection screen in front of him had stopped updating.

"Walk."

The taxi immediately turned around and quickly entered a fork in the road, speeding towards the Huanxing Drive in the distance.

After walking a considerable distance away, Yang Ming turned his head and looked towards the fenced fields as if he had sensed something.

"Lü, start reporting."

"Okay, boss...but I have some news to tell you first."

"speak."

"The riot is still going on," Lu said softly. "The Feinan detected a strong biological signal during the previous riot and has been marked as a queen. Now, the queen's spirit is unprecedentedly active. If it is not planning a great escape, it is about to begin evolving towards the third stage."

Yang Ming said: "First find a corner to get me out."

"Okay, boss. The defense satellites of Planet Ram are all gathering over this base. We have a lot of space to take advantage of."

Lu couldn't help but say a few more words:

"We misjudged Hera's value.

“This is not to say that she has scientific research capabilities. The human race in the galaxy is not short of geniuses.

"Rule means that she can communicate with the Zerg Queen."

"You're wrong, Lil."

Yang Ming said:

“The real anomaly does not come from Hera.

“If Hera’s theory is correct, and the space Zerg rely on the microorganisms living in their bodies to communicate across space, then these microorganisms must belong to the higher-dimensional life group.

“This ghost thing should be able to live in the human body. Even if the probability is low, it is not impossible.

"The abnormal thing is the queen insect. It has been trapped here for at least several decades, or even hundreds of years. The research team alone has changed seven or eight times. The number of mines that the New Federation has planted for Sherman is beyond our imagination.

"Humans study the queen worm, and the queen worm also observes humans. It is hard to say whether a dependent relationship has been formed. The fact that she can directly ask for help from Professor Pat and others is a manifestation of her understanding of the logic of human behavior.

“If we put aside the so-called interstellar political struggle, this queen insect secretly spread its population to a very wide range of airspace before it evolved to a high level.

"Damn it! These federal guys are really useless!"

Lu suddenly said, "Boss, according to the reaction of the bioenergy detector, it seems to have begun to evolve rapidly. The bioenergy reaction inside the base has suddenly increased... The exaggerated amount is a bit abnormal."

Yang Ming inexplicably thought of a word.

"Explosion of soldiers."

"What? Boss?"

"The queen insect has the ability to catalyze all insect eggs to hatch immediately. The hatched larvae will be very small and have a limited survival time, but they can appear in large numbers in a short period of time, and a small number of larvae may even hatch directly in the form of high-level insects."

The corners of Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.

If, he meant if.

The last time he appeared in this area, the queen insect began to prepare to explode her troops and escape.

During this period of time, the larvae have completed their differentiation in the egg...

"Boss, the current area is available for transmission. There is a huge gap in the other party's satellite monitoring network."

"transmission."

A beam of strong light flashed, and Yang Ming's figure suddenly disappeared.

Yang Ming had almost just left the surface.

A beam of fire suddenly erupted from the center of the enclosed area, the ground shook violently, and a mushroom cloud slowly rose.

In the underground base.

Professor Pat stared with eyes wide open, looking at the countless larvae on the screen in disbelief.

They pounced madly on the laser cannons, at the painful cost of sacrificing 50% of their numbers, only to have large areas of the laser cannons dismantled.

In the corner, there were a few larvae with silver-white light shining on their backs, gently flapping their wings, and the remote-controlled mechanical guards were disconnected at the same time.

The metal lid of the huge petri dish was blown off, and the huge , bloated and immobile queen insect used its horrible mouthparts to tear at the large piece of metal.

The larvae flew towards the mother insect and went straight into her mouth.

The scalp-numbing chewing sound echoed in Professor Pat's ears.

"Stop it...it's going to evolve...A third-order queen can cause a qualitative change in the swarm! Damn it! We didn't even notice that they were hatching in a suicide move!"

Professor Pat yelled:

"Notify the defense fleet to prepare! Implement the emergency evacuation plan for Base No. 1! Destroy all backup files!"

…

Flying South.

Yang Ming sat in the captain's chair, staring at the planets outside the porthole. He picked up the distilled water brought by 026 and took a few gulps.

"Boss," 026 reminded, "your body index is a little abnormal. Do you want to get an injection of gene stabilizing fluid?"

"Give me a shot."

"I'll get it right away!"

026 ran away in a hurry.

Lu, wearing a dark blue uniform, appeared beside Yang Ming. She put her hands behind her back and also looked at Ramxing.

The Feinan was moving away quickly, and in order to maintain secrecy, it did not directly initiate the jump.

"Boss, they haven't found any signs of us being exposed yet. They are only focusing on the bugs. However, we have left some traces. It's only a matter of time before we are discovered."

"It's good that no one has discovered it now," Yang Ming smiled, "How is it? The network of the New Federation is not that easy to invade, right?"

"I was almost discovered by their technical team several times," Lu snorted, "I am a mechanical thinking body, and I have no home advantage at all."

"Don't underestimate the galactic civilization."

Yang Ming rested his head on his arms and stared at Ram Star.

"Lv, how was our harvest this time?"

"We have achieved our expected goal," Lu said as he took inventory quickly. "We have obtained the formula for the strengthening injection. After preliminary analysis, you can use it, boss. However, the amplification effect is uncertain. The side effect is that it is easy to go berserk."

Yang Ming's eyes lit up: "Running away is a small matter, the key is to stay alive."

"That's right," Lu said with a smile, "The intelligence about the secret base on Ram Planet should be considered the biggest gain of this trip. We can implement the subsequent strategy of driving away the wolves and chasing away the tigers, and win enough development opportunities for ourselves."

"It's relatively satisfactory," Yang Ming said with satisfaction.

"Uh, boss, don't you have any regrets about Miss Hera?"

"We are using each other," Yang Ming shrugged . "I admire this woman, but it's a pity that it will be difficult for her to escape the clutches of the New Federation in the future. I also hope that she can keep Alex's secrets tightly... I can finally scrape off the dressing on my face..."

026 has already run back with the injection.

Just as Yang Ming was about to give the injection, his eyelids twitched slightly and he inexplicably felt that familiar feeling of irritation, but this time it was very mild.

What is...going on?

Yang Ming held the 'skin-breaking device' and looked in the direction of Ram Star.

There, a military transport ship took off at full speed without opening its protective shield, and a layer of fire appeared on the outside.

Lu quickly enlarged the image of the transport ship, and 026 beside him exclaimed softly.

The outside of the spacecraft was densely crawling with larvae.

"Lil, enlarge its porthole!"

"yes."

A somewhat blurry dynamic image appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes.

Inside the porthole, more than a dozen human crew members were standing trembling in front of the operating table. Behind them, the adult insects that Yang Ming had seen in pictures and were being studied raised their sharp knife-like limbs and pressed against the backs of these crew members.

Further back, larvae covered the floor.

I could vaguely see the queen insect that had changed its appearance, and the one with a tentacle piercing its shoulder blade, floating in the air, but with an extremely cold expression and green eyes...

Hera.

026 and Lu looked at each other, and Lu began to report quickly:

"Boss, a fleet of the New Federation is jumping here!"

"The transport ship ahead begins forced jump!"

"This queen is really going to escape! This transport ship may not be able to withstand the gravitational tearing during the forced jump, but the queen will definitely survive!"

"Follow him."

Yang Ming gave the order calmly.

"Boss?" Lu was a little puzzled.

Yang Ming narrowed his eyes slightly: "I want to try hunting Zerg and see what I can gain."

"But... OK, boss, I'll try my best to calculate a safe time," Lu looked worriedly at the injection put down by Yang Ming.

She knew that Yang Ming was not driven by the ancient god instinct now.

The boss is eager to become stronger.

At least, become stronger than Posa.

The transport ship made a forced jump and the rear half of the ship showed signs of disintegrating.

Lu accurately calculated the opponent's landing point, and the Feinan quickly jumped right after it.

"Boss, we don't have much time. The powerful fleet of the New Federation will appear at any time."

"Prepare for particle transmission."