The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Why aren't you reporting your results to Adun? What are you doing here?" Izusa, who was being used as a mount by Xiao Xu, asked with a slight narrowing of her eyes when Xiao Xu appeared.

"There's a bug infestation up there, so I'll linger with you for a bit." After using Death Sentence once, Xiao Xu's power seemed to have weakened considerably, as evidenced by her current petite figure, less than 1.5 meters tall, instead of the 2.5-meter-tall mature woman she once was.

"Didn't you kill her?" Izusa adjusted her body to make it more comfortable for Xiaoxu to sit.

“I only killed one of her clones, and maybe several clones number one, two, and three at the same time, but I can’t kill all the things she created with one strike.” Little Xu shifted his position and continued, “Maybe Adun can.”

"Adon can do that?" Izusa asked, somewhat surprised.

"Of course, otherwise what did you think..." Xiao Xu said with a smile.

"Your Ark can do this much?" This level of capability has exceeded Izusa's imagination.

“No, no, no, it’s not the Protoss’s Ark that can do this, but Adun’s, if she wanted to…” Little Void spread his hands as if to say something that made the ship feel very emotional, “It’s just a pity that Adun is not willing to do it.”

"What do you mean?" Izusa paused slightly.

"Hmm... In terms you can understand, what you perceive as the Ark is merely Adun's limiter," Little Void said with a smile.

"..." It took Izusa several seconds to realize what Xiaoxu was talking about.

What the hell is this limiter? So Adun was just messing with everyone all along.

"Actually, there's a secret that's not exactly a secret." After Izusa recovered from her revelation, Xiao Xu said, "If I hadn't come to this world, Adun might have waited until many years after the Protoss were wiped out before he opened his eyes."

"What?" Xiao Xu's words once again exceeded Izusa's expectations.

“We can never understand a star’s concept of time, can we…” Little Void said.

"Is Adon really a star?" Izsa shook her head, trying to clear her mind of all the distracting thoughts.

"Yes, it really is a star, it just wasn't aware of it in its home world, but it inexplicably became aware of it after coming to this world." Xiao Xu sighed for some reason and said, "So do you know how much pressure I'm under?"

“You could have chosen not to tell me,” Izusa said.

"No, I think it's better to share the pressure at a time like this." Xiao Xu didn't feel guilty at all about letting Izusa share the pressure.

"What is Yaton planning to do?" Izusa vaguely sensed something from Xiao Xu's words.

“What else can we do…” Xiao Xu sighed and said, “Although Adun has never said what he thinks, it’s too easy to guess what a sun is thinking.”

"..." Izusa didn't think it was so easy to guess what a sun was thinking, and why should she try to guess what a sun was thinking?

After Xiaoxu whispered her deduction of Adon's thoughts to Izusa, Izusa stopped abruptly, stiffly turned to Xiaoxu, and asked:

Are you telling the truth?

His tone was clearly saying, "You're not kidding me."

“The probability is over thirty percent… Don’t show that look in your eyes, the chances are already very high,” Xiao Xu said.

"..." Izusa hesitated for about ten seconds before speaking, "Does Hyperion know?"

Seemingly surprised by Izusa's words, Xiaoxu asked curiously, "Huh? Your first reaction was that? Isn't your relationship supposed to be terrible?"

Xiao Xu had heard Hyperion mention more than once that Izusa had poked her with her tentacles, and Xiao Xu still remembered the irreconcilable hatred in Hyperion's tone when he talked about these things.

“One thing at a time…” It seemed Izusa didn’t want to talk about this topic any further.

"Hehehe, of course she doesn't know." Xiao Xu said with a smile in response to Izusa's attitude.

"So, are you planning to tell her?" Izsa asked.

"No." Xiao Xu's answer was crisp and decisive, sounding without any hesitation.

"You really aren't going to tell her?" Izusa asked curiously.

“Telling her won’t do any good, and besides, if we did, the whole world would probably know by the next day,” Xiao Xu said.

"Then why did you tell me? Aren't you worried I'll tell the Hyperion?" Izusa's tone became even stranger.

"I believe you won't tell her." As Xiao Xu said this, he raised his hand and glanced at the somewhat worn gold arm armor on his arm.

"..." Izusa felt that anyone who wasn't blind could see what Xiaoxu's action meant.

Especially after that death declaration from Xiao Xu just now, Izusa didn't dare to gamble that Xiao Xu wouldn't stab her in the back.

Izusa, who could only secretly tell Hyperion about her plans, asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Not for now," Xiao Xu said. "I'll let you know when I think of something. Your current task is to focus on cleaning up the bugs."

"This is a tough task." Izsa, whose own Zerg warship was also a Zerg warship, knew very well that in addition to their numbers, another characteristic of her civilization was that it was very difficult to completely wipe them out.

“It’s not serious. After I kill the main body, the existence of these insects will gradually be erased from the world. As long as you focus on cleaning them up, you will be able to clean them up sooner or later,” Xiao Xu said to Izusa.

“Alright, I’ll take on this task,” Izusa said.

It's better to let Izsa handle the cleanup than to let those Protoss ships do it. The Protoss ships are just burning glass balls the whole time they're cleaning up the Zerg.

Chapter 1445 Body...Soul Examination

Compared to other types of civilizations, the most distinctive feature of predatory civilizations like the Zerg, to which Izsa belongs, which specialize in biological genes, is that they are inexhaustible.

To be precise, it is very difficult to completely eradicate it from the biosphere.

After all, compared to other civilizations that use various methods to adapt to their environment, this type of civilization has always been about adapting itself to its environment.

Completely eradicating this type of creature to prevent its resurgence is extremely difficult.

This is why, when the Protoss still considered the Zerg a cosmic pest, their first reaction upon seeing a life-bearing planet contaminated by the Zerg was to burn glass spheres.

Perhaps a single wisp of surviving biomass would be enough to revive these insects after a certain period of time. Without carrying out a planet-wide deactivation effort, any amount of killing beforehand would be a waste.

Because of this setting, even if Xiao Xu kills the Zerg warship that comes from the same universe as the Purifying Flame with a single strike, the remaining Zerg will not perish along with it.

However, a period of temporary chaos is certainly unavoidable.

Upon noticing the chaos among the mantis shrimps, Commander Sarah Waga exclaimed in surprise, "They're quite capable; they destroyed the insect hive on the other side so quickly."

"What are you talking about, boss?" asked the adjutant of Commander Sarah Waga.

“I’m saying…” Commander Sarah Waga took a deep breath, and then a “waaaagh” battle cry ignited the state of this group of trashy deep-sea beings.

The ship girl alliance also noticed the unusual movements of those mantis shrimps, and also saw the group of deep-sea creatures next to them directly entering the fray to finish them off.

Although they also wanted to rush in, without orders from their superiors, they could only wait silently.

Especially with the chaos caused by the widespread abyssalization of ship girls still ongoing, the ship girls who were worried about being killed by the group of gray-uniformed girls who also showed abyssalization characteristics were all obediently staying at their posts and waiting for orders.

"Damn it... what on earth is going on?!" For ship girls... especially warship ship girls, not being able to go to the battlefield is the greatest torment.

"Stay put." The engineering ship girl warned, seeing the cruiser who was being inspected pounding on the repair bench in an unbearable state, having added several mechanical arms to her ship's equipment.

"I've had enough! Ugh..." Before the cruiser could even roar out, the engineering ship girl beside her calmly turned on the power switch.

Even ship girls would experience a brief period of numbness and a certain sense of pleasure if tens of thousands of volts of electricity were swept through their bodies.

The cruiser, instinctively squeezing her legs together, said to the engineering ship, "What are you doing? So sudden..."

"Want more?" The engineering vessel raised the power switch to indicate.

"No, no, once is enough." This isn't their home or any secret place, and the cruiser doesn't want to make a fool of itself in front of these engineering ships and their subordinates.

"Then stand still and be careful," the engineering vessel said.

"What's the point of standing still? I've said it so many times, apart from the physical changes, I don't feel any other kind of pollution from the deep sea." The only other thing this ship girl was referring to was her mind.

Aside from the fact that the innate hostility between them and the deep-sea ship girls is so weak as to be almost imperceptible, there is no change in their self-perception.

She is still a ship girl who treats humans as her masters, not an abyssal ship girl who wants to kill humans on sight.

"What you say is useless; we need to check." The engineering ship's tone was icy. Judging from how naturally and skillfully she switched on the power just now, it was clear that there were quite a few ship girls who shared similar thoughts with this cruiser.

"Would an inspection be of any use? Besides, you also have traces of deep-sea contamination on you!" the cruiser retorted.

"So what?" the engineering ship said to the cruiser as it pierced the other ship's chest with two nearly foot-long needles.

"Gently..." A hint of pain appeared on the cruiser girl's face. Fortunately, she was a cruiser, and she had a certain figure. If it were a destroyer, this needle would have been penetrating.

Of course, if it's a destroyer, the engineering vessel would naturally use a shorter sensor.

"If you feel pain now, then remember to bite on something when you use it later." As the engineering ship spoke, it took out two more and inserted them into the cruiser girl's lower body.

This time it didn't hurt as much, but the cruiser girl, with sweat beading on her forehead, asked, "Does it hurt a lot?"

"Ugh, that hurts," the engineering ship girl said.

"...How painful is it?" Sweat began to drip from the cruiser girl's forehead.

“…If you’d like to try it, I can let you experience it beforehand,” the engineering ship girl said.

"Have you ever experienced that?" The cruiser girl, not wanting to suffer again, quickly shook her head.

"I've experienced it, and because my ship equipment is always external, I've had even more injections than you." After giving the injections, the engineering ship girl plugged the wires into a device that the cruiser ship girl had never seen before.

"How did you feel at the time?" The cruiser girl felt she needed to prepare herself mentally.

"..." The engineering ship girl paused for a moment, then said, "It's roughly like taking a live fish out of the water and putting it on a salt pan to make live salted fish."

"..." Because the engineering ship girl spoke a little too fast, it took the cruiser ship girl several seconds to realize what the other party was saying.

"Oh, right... we made a few cuts before we sprinkled the salt," the engineering ship girl added.

"Can I...can I apply for retirement now?" The cruiser girl instantly broke out in a sweat.

"Too late..." The engineering ship girl turned the switch of the soul detection device, which was kindly provided by the interstellar warship, to its maximum.

"Ahhhhh..." The intense stimulation caused this veteran cruiser girl, who had served for decades and was already on the verge of becoming a hero-class ship, to let out a shrill scream.

When the team members waiting in line for inspection saw what happened to their captain, they all covered their eyes, looking as if they couldn't bear to watch.

"I already told you to bite on something." The engineering ship girl saw that the cruiser being inspected had started to twitch. To avoid having to spend time sewing up the other's tongue after the inspection, she took out a gag from her pocket and stuffed it into the other's mouth, keeping the cruiser's mouth open and unable to close.

Because of the gag, she could only make "whoosh whoosh" sounds for at least a minute. The engineering ship girl breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't see any warning from the equipment.

The lack of warning means that her soul has not been contaminated by the aura of the deep sea, only her ship equipment has been contaminated; in essence, she is still a ship girl.

Just as the engineering vessel was about to shut down its equipment, a one-eyed ship girl wearing a close-fitting suit of armor, with the hull number 7903 tattooed on her face and a black eyepatch over her left eye walked in.

"Attention!" Except for the cruiser girl who was still being inspected, all the other ship girls present stood up straight and saluted this interstellar warship that came from another world but was as down-to-earth as the Normandy.

"At ease." The one-eyed starship nodded and asked, "Is the inspection complete?"

"The inspection has just begun," the engineering ship girl said.

"Stop the inspection, assemble and prepare for action," the starship said directly.