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

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The snow leopard looked around, seemingly hesitant.

Seeing that it hadn't moved for a long time, Gao Tian maneuvered his skateboard down from the sky and gently scratched its chin: "What are you looking for?"

The snow leopard lay down and remained motionless.

"Hmm?" A sense of doubt welled up in Gao Tian's mind. He quickly stood up and looked around. Before him was a vast, empty wasteland of rocks, with snow-capped peaks and jagged rocks visible in the distance. There was nothing else.

This was an open area, with nothing around it.

He looked down at the snow leopard again, wondering why it had stopped there.

The snow leopard, which had been lying quietly, suddenly became restless. It opened its sharp claws and frantically dug at the hard ground beneath it.

But it quickly discovered that the ground was made of solid rock, which it couldn't dig through. After thinking for a moment, the snow leopard decisively abandoned its attempt to dig and instead turned and ran down the mountain.

Gao Tian followed on his skateboard.

They were now on a gentle slope halfway up the mountain. The snow leopard had been running for a long time, speeding along without showing any sign of stopping. Gao Tian noticed that it was running towards the side they had come up from yesterday, not in the direction of the vertical mountain wall.

No wonder they didn't find anything yesterday.

Judging from the snow leopard's behavior, there might be something over there.

This time, the snow leopard didn't stop. It ran straight to a gray-white rock wall and started digging at the foot of it.

Gao Tian stepped forward and gently touched the rock face. The surface displayed obvious vein-like textures, and the texture was rough and hard, indicating that it was likely a type of tuff belonging to the main part of the mountain.

"Roar!" The snow leopard dug a hole along the rock wall below and roared at him.

As the sky descended, it discovered a thin crack on the rock wall hidden beneath the mound of earth it had dug up.

Gao Tian reached out and touched it.

The crack wasn't large, but it was very deep.

There might be a dormant volcano or something underground, from which relatively hot air is being blown out.

Alpha's senses are heightened, and in the warm breeze blowing up from the crack, Gao Tian smelled a familiar fishy odor.

It's that awful smell I remember from the training grounds on that desolate planet, in the newborn insect queen's cave...

The scent of insect eggs.

Gao Tian took a breath.

Could it be what he's thinking?

Surely not? Surely he can't be that lucky? He's only been down here for a few days, and he's already running into an insect hive?

No wonder the 65-star campaign has been going on for years and they still don't know where the Zerg hive is. It turns out the hive is hidden underground on 65-star, inside the mountain range!

The snow leopard was still scratching at the crevice.

Gao Tian pulled up its ear and asked, "Can we go in? Is there a cave we can go into? Cave—"

He suddenly gave up: "Sigh, forget it, I won't bother asking you."

If there were a cave, the snow leopard wouldn't have brought him to rummage through this crevice.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Gao Tian chased the snow leopard out of the pit and pulled out his energy gun from the mountain wall: "I'm going to start digging into the mountain."

The particle collisions of the light gun can silently cut rocks off, but it's unclear whether there's enough energy.

Dig a little deeper, but not too thick, not too thick, not too thick... May the world's consciousness protect us!!!

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A faint blue light permeated the enormous underground cavity, making it seem like another mysterious world.

The hollow was filled with countless glowing, fluorescent blue flowers, which dotted the darkness like stars, or like blue gems, emitting a faint light.

Countless tiny flowers together formed a glowing blue sea of ​​flowers, illuminating this vast underground space.

In the center of this blue sea of ​​flowers, countless enormous insects crouch in a huge underground cave. They are densely packed together, as if waiting for something, their compound eyes flashing with an eerie light that sends chills down one's spine.

Suddenly, a giant insect crawled out from the depths of the cave. Its body was several times larger than the other insects, and it had two huge antennae on its head, which kept swaying as if it were probing its surroundings.

It sprayed a stream of green liquid from its mouth, which made a "sizzling" sound as it hit the ground.

When the other insects saw the giant insect appear, they all moved closer to it.

The giant insect let out a sharp hiss, and the other insects followed suit, their cries echoing throughout the cave, creating an incredibly bizarre and eerie atmosphere.

After confirming the information, the giant insect opened its mandibles wide, almost tearing its face apart, and then began to spew out white insect eggs.

As it expels one insect egg after another, its enormous body slowly shrivels up, as if it were merely a container for the eggs.

The egg-carrying worm of the worm mother.

It is only responsible for transporting insect eggs once in its lifetime, and dies immediately afterward.

Finally, the ovipositor regurgitated all the eggs, and the worker worms dragged away the remains of the ovipositor. Then, they placed the eggs one by one on the geothermal surface of the dormant volcano, arranging them neatly, waiting for them to hatch.

Under the blue light, the insect eggs appeared translucent, with tiny black dots faintly visible inside, indicating that the embryos inside had begun to hatch.

The worker insects crouched down, guarding the eggs, and fell silent.

In the empty underground cave, the small blue flower quietly glowed, and then fell into silence once again.

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Outside the gentle slope cave.

After Lan left Gaotian, she listened to Gaotian's heartbeat.

The female Noctua moth has a keen sense of hearing. Whether it's Gao Tian's heartbeat, the words he whispers to Ruby, or the gentle sound of his fingers touching the fur, everything is clearly audible, as if right next to his ear.

Then they ran beyond the three-kilometer range of his hearing limit and couldn't hear anymore.

Blue silently rubbed the little snow leopard.

Tap its chubby little body, which looks like a ball: "So much meat, I'll eat you up."

The little snow leopard whimpered, grabbing his beautiful fingers with its short, chubby paws, its small eyes, still showing signs of blue tinge, reflecting his image.

Blue mischievously scratched at its paws with its fingers, making a fuss with them.

The little snow leopard's five fingers are spread out, like a small plum blossom.

Unable to catch Blue's fingers, it kicked twice with its hind legs and then tried to grab Blue's hanging silver hair.

"Don't you dare pull my hair, you motherfucker!!"

Lan quickly freed her hair from the snow leopard cub's claws.

"I'm going to braise you." He lifted the little snow leopard with one hand and looked at it.

The little snow leopard lay leisurely on his hand, licking its paws, its two hind legs dangling without struggling; it was no longer afraid of him.

Lan put it down and suddenly looked towards the other side of the cave.

The wind carried the scent of other wild beasts, not Ruby, but something else that smelled terrible.

He squinted, put down the snow leopard cub, and walked in that direction.

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A moment later, he returned, the blood on one hand still steaming.

He unscrewed the water bottle with one hand and washed the blood off his other hand.

Bright red blood slid down her slender, fair fingers, falling into the black embers of the campfire, seeping in, and disappearing without a trace.

Unseen in the distance behind him, a wolf, its belly ripped open and intestines dragged out, was hanging menacingly on a gentle slope, its limbs outstretched.

Lan sat down again, petted the little snow leopard, and started playing with it.