A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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The Zerg Empire, Lyrnia.

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As the Zerg imperial star and a transportation hub for the four major star sectors, the Liernia Starport sees over 100,000 ships of various types enter and leave daily. The starport covers a total area of ​​over 40,000 hectares, including above-ground sign-off and clearance areas, as well as underground hangars and aprons with over sixteen levels.

Bishen's private collection of insects occupied a hangar on the sixth basement level. This hangar was 20,000 hectares in size and housed more than 2,000 of his private vessels of various sizes.

"~" Blue whistled and clapped his hands in praise: "As expected of Bishenmantis."

How arrogant!

The Starport has a limited area, with sixteen floors in total, housing over a million races. The land that a private insect can apply for is extremely rare, more so than a single insect occupying half a floor.

It's so long you can't see the end of it!

"Don't touch me." Bishen raised one hand to indicate his refusal.

Actually, Blue has a much larger collection of private insects.

Over the years, he led his fleet to expand territory, racing on the front lines of various space developments, acquiring countless resource planets, and accumulating so many zeros in his personal account that they were countless. As the crown prince, he enjoyed the best of everything, with money to burn and being incredibly wealthy.

They had so much money they were burning it out, and they used it all to maintain the fleet.

They were all stuffed under the Crown Prince's Palace, but the Insect Emperor sealed them all away.

Tears welled up and I couldn't hold them back.

Bi Shen laughed in a despicable manner.

Bishen: "I've been the little prince's dog since I was five years old. I never thought that after I grew up, the little prince would have no rivals. I became the crown prince's dog. I thought I could rest easy from then on, but I never expected this day to come."

Lan: "Say one more thing."

Bishen remained unfazed and continued to laugh. He was still working at the Ninth Army Headquarters building, and his image was being projected holographically here.

Lan immediately disconnected the communication.

Bi Shen hit again.

Blue hangs up.

Bi Shen hit again.

Lan hung up again.

Bi Shen laughed uncontrollably.

It's been so many years since I last saw the little prince, who was so incompetent and furious that he hung up the phone in anger.

He directly used his AI access to open the lobby broadcast of his private hangar: "Go and deploy the starship you've chosen, my Crown Prince. I'm granting you authorization!"

Blue: "Get out!"

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Human Federation, Desolate Planet.

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Gao Tian and his group arrived at the entrance to the cave in the canyon a little earlier than expected.

The journey was smooth, following the dry riverbed. We captured a herbivorous insectoid creature for transportation and encountered no obstacles along the way.

After two days of exhausting searching, they discovered a large insect species resembling stick insects roaming in the river. This large insect species was over twenty meters long, with six long legs almost level with its body, but its head and mouthparts were only a tiny size, suggesting it was a purely herbivorous species.

The assault team immediately dragged a plank over the insect's body, freeing its legs.

The herbivorous insects were pitifully timid; with ropes around their bodies, all they knew was to run away. A single slap from behind would send them scurrying far. The sand layers, deposited and weathered in the riverbed, had excellent fluidity, turning the dried-up riverbed into a natural ski slope. The assault team was like a rocket, arriving at their happy home in less than half a day.

No more forced marches! Little Sniper, gripping his sniper rifle, sat happily on the front of the trailer, watching the Zerg rumble ahead. He felt as confident as if he had regained control of the world.

The scouts deployed small drones to probe the surrounding environment along the way, but they didn't see any Zerg.

"Good thing it went smoothly," he muttered.

Gao Tian, ​​however, felt somewhat uneasy.

He patted the burly man on the shoulder: "We haven't seen many Zerg along the way, there are so few of them, I'm getting a little uneasy. Something's not right."

The burly man said, "To be honest, I have a bad feeling about this, but I haven't dared to say it to avoid your wrath. With surface resources depleted, have the Zerg all gone underground?"

Gao Tian indeed said, "You jinx, shut your mouth."

Gao Tian touched his face again: "Damn it, no way!"

When they arrived at their destination and were about to kill the stick insect, the sniper was reluctant and said to the captain, "Why don't we keep it? It's such a good animal; if we don't find water this time, we can still use it in other places."

Gao Tian thought about it and realized it made sense. He used a military steel cable to tie the stick insect around its neck and bound it behind a rocky outcrop to avoid the light.

Stick insect: ?

Woman A clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Awesome! Even capitalists would say that you Yama, the King of Hell, have descended to earth to deal with the Zerg!"

Gao Tian: "Then you can run by yourself next time."

Woman A calmly changed her tune, clapping her hands in praise: "Truly thrifty and economical, making the most of everything."

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The ominous thought became a reality.

While the Zerg are not particularly demanding in terms of water, they cannot survive without it. Most Zerg can produce water through their metabolism after consuming organic matter, but they will also become dehydrated when food is scarce and water is unavailable.

The scouts opened the small drone hive and released a swarm of hummingbirds the size of dandelions.

The hummingbirds flew away smoothly and silently.

The new generation of Hummingbird small drones relies on the Earth's magnetic field to levitate and fly. After discarding the rotor and adding camouflage paint, their flight is even gentler than air currents.

The Zerg primarily rely on four methods to detect prey: hearing (sound waves), vision (infrared sensing), smell (biological pheromones), and touch (vibration). From a certain distance, the magnetically levitated hummingbird drone can perfectly evade their detection.

"Damn it..." Gao Tian looked at the image the hummingbird was sending back on the screen, held his head, and felt dizzy.

Zerg, swarms of Zerg.

From the entrance of the cave, layer upon layer of insectoids filled the huge cave, making it impossible to pass through. The densely packed insect bodies and legs created an extremely impactful scene that would make anyone with trypophobia faint at first glance.

The swarm occasionally erupted into small conflicts, causing a commotion and buzzing.

Further inside, large insectoids appeared. Even before entering the cave entrance, there were several stag beetles and carnivorous grasshoppers in sight, and even dragonflies and mantises on the mountain wall.

They're all large, carnivorous worms; even with mechs, you might not be able to beat them.

Small insectoids kept scurrying out of the cave, collecting food, and then running back in.

Good news, there is water in the cave.

Bad news: the entrance is full of Zerg.

The sniper licked his dry lips. His constitution was weak, so he consumed water exceptionally quickly. The captain, on the other hand, seemed fine even after two days without water; his lips were chapped.

The sniper asked, "Shall we go, captain?"

Fortunately, they caught stick insects, so it's not too late to change locations.

Gao Tian was still holding his head; he had a headache now.

Gao Tian: "I'm afraid we can't leave now. These Zerg are acting strangely."

When food is scarce, it's fine for different Zerg races to gather together and not kill each other. However, it's problematic for smaller Zerg to collect food and take it back.

Most Zerg do not hoard food; the Zerg that do collect food to bring back to their nests generally only do so when feeding the queen.

Oh dear, could a new queen insect be conceiving in this cave?

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