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

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As soon as the Bee Family and Orion's starships approached the Hive Gate, the alarms from the deep space radar blared throughout the interiors of all the starships.

Before the energy vortex of the Hive Gate could even get close, and before they could figure out what was going on, the massive firepower output directly engulfed them.

But none of us are all just empty shells.

Needless to say, the wealthy Bee family uses only the finest hull materials for their cruisers.

The battle-hardened Orion is no less impressive. As a star pirate flagship, the Orion would not have been able to sail the stars for so many years if it were not sturdy enough.

Both sides knew perfectly well that the artillery barrage was just an appetizer; the Zerg war would ultimately be decided by hand-to-hand combat between the Void Protoss.

Bishen transformed into a half-insect form.

His semi-insect form has a mantis-like triangular head, compound eyes, mandibles, blade-like arms, two pairs of wings, and four insect-like legs.

His original color was a jade-like emerald green. For some reason, even his mantis-shaped head looked cooler than other insects.

The praying mantis is one of the insects most similar to humans.

Suddenly, a video screen appeared in the command center, displaying soldiers from various fleets in four video windows.

They all transformed into half-insect forms, becoming mantis species of various colors.

The Blade Fleet was originally the private army of the Mantis family.

"Mantises." Bishon raised his knife-wielding arm.

The mantis soldiers lowered their bodies and waited for his order.

Bi Shen swung his sword down, laughing loudly, "Time for a fight!"

"oh--!!!"

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The moment the Blade Fleet, marked with two swords on its bow, appeared not far from the stargate, the cruisers of the Beauty Bee family wanted to flee.

Amidst the gunfire, Orion crashed into the edge of the communications station, causing the holographic screen to flicker erratically.

The cruiser of the Beauty Bee family is retreating on the holographic star map, the ion streams ejected from its hexagonal stern leaving an escape trail on the star map screen.

"Connect to the Queen Bee's private frequency." He made a throat-slitting gesture to his deputy.

After the encrypted channel was connected, he laughed loudly at the golden screen of the hexagonal honeycomb: "My dear queen bee, guess what the military will do after capturing me alive? Will they interrogate the cloned drones in your breeding hive first, or investigate why a space pirate with a male bee is here?!"

The hexagonal, golden honeycomb patterned screen transformed into a dense array of raised hexagonal spikes, with gold dust falling in showers: "You filthy hyena, what did you think...!"

Orion pressed the red button, and the screen recording of the lower cabin monitoring footage suddenly switched to the main screen.

The male insect was curled up in the iron cage, while Orion talked eloquently to the hexagonal honeycomb screen. They quickly agreed on a price, and Orion even received an inspection-free pass for the Cygnus sector.

"Two days ago, I had a conversation with your council." He zoomed in on the golden honeycomb pattern on the screen. "You don't think I do business without leaving any evidence, do you? Should I send this video report to the military's communications channel?"

The retreat speed of the Beauty Bee cruiser slowed down significantly.

Orion's second-in-command suddenly shouted, "Boss, they've opened the missile pods!"

"Don't be nervous, that's just a little toy the Queen Bee wants to give us." Orion propped his legs up on the control panel, his sharp Zerg limbs scraping off large shards of metal. "You have one minute, dear Queen Bee. Either turn around and fight the military warships to the death, or wait to see the entire Beauties Bee family appear on the guillotine."

As the first volley of railgun shells grazed the lower compartment, Orion initiated the compartment separation procedure. The hibernation chamber moved along the dark, rusty rails toward the hatch and stopped in front of it, ready for ejection.

He only brought twenty-three men with him, facing a mantis of four warships. It's easy to imagine what the outcome of a head-on confrontation would be.

Beauty Bee?

The entire bee family is a bunch of useless trash.

Lu Jianan was completely unaware of what was happening and remained asleep amidst the continuous gunfire.

Orion looked at Lu Jianan's quiet face reflected on the monitor screen in the hibernation pod.

This item is truly beautiful and valuable.

It's a pity, at this point we have no choice but to throw it out.

Only something truly precious can attract the attention of a murderous dragon.

"You have thirty seconds left," Orion said to the queen bee, picking up a nutrient bar.

His shark teeth were gnawing on the hardened, crunchy nutrition bar as a way to grind his teeth, with crumbs falling onto the fire control panel.

"By the way, I also bought some dirt on you from the Black Market Lord—did you think you could hide the fact that you were mixing the native dominant genes of other male insect races into drone clones? Have you created some kind of hybrid? The Parliament and the Royal Family would probably be interested."

The engines of the Beauty Bee cruiser suddenly reversed direction, and the red and blue plasma stream trails stretched a long beam of light outside the porthole.

The Bee Cruiser, which had originally intended to escape, has returned.

Orion's second-in-command covered his ears, pierced by the screeching warning of being targeted, while Orion laughed and pressed the starship's broadcast button: "You little bug bastards! Pour all the electromagnetic shield energy into the port side armor plate!"

When the Queen Bee Fleet's first wave of shells struck the shield, Orion's Orion spun like a top in the shockwave.

He gripped the fixed handle, watching the monitor show the metal bulkhead near the lower deck being eroded with honeycomb-like holes by the infamous acid spray bombs of the Bee family.

With the vacuum exposed, the universe exerted a tremendous suction force, and the male insect's hibernation pod got stuck at the end of the track. The pod and the metal door sparked with indigo blue as they vibrated.

However, he was not angry, knowing that this was the queen bee's compromise and that he was only venting his anger a little.

Orion smiled and blew a kiss towards the screen: "Happy now? I understand, big bosses always have their little tempers. Boss is magnanimous, thank you, boss."

The cannons on the belly of the Beauty Bee cruiser began to explode, then towards both ends, and finally the entire warship exploded into a huge ball of sparks.

The immense energy transformed into a blinding flame on camera, the massive yield igniting the acid bomb and corroding the ship's hull and reactor in the high-temperature flames, forming an ionizing cloud with enormous radiation that enveloped the front of the military fleet's formation.

The Bee Family's cruisers acted like madmen, firing on Orion's Orion and then self-destructing a space cruiser to block the military fleet's path.

The Bee Family did have some brains; after all, they didn't fire on the military. They only caused explosions while fighting space pirates, and the explosions were even on their own starships.

What does the starship explosion prove, right? They were just unlucky.

As for why the explosion happened to block the military fleet's path, well, that was really unfortunate.

Even if anyone with eyes can see what's going on, the court can't convict them unless there's concrete evidence.