Ruan Xinqing turned around and told Rong Heng about his discovery. The two conspired and waited for several hours. When Hector and Mellor arrived with the rescue troops, they informed Sally and Jason that they were about to launch a bombing on the ground insect nest.
They chose the bombing location so as to avoid the place where the distress signal appeared. The firepower looked scary and serious at first glance, but in fact it only destroyed the surface of the ground. Because they were concerned that there might be survivors underground, they did not dare to use too much firepower even if it was just a show.
But Sally and Jason didn't know that.
Although the two of them hid well, Ruan Xinqing kept an eye on them and still discovered something unusual about them.
He sat in the main control room, staring at the images sent back from the ground, and added fuel to the fire with a slightly excited tone: "The firepower of the nearby reinforcements is insufficient, and the bombing efficiency is a bit low. But when the large forces arrive, the speed will be faster. It is estimated that it will take one or two days to clear everything."
Sally was anxious and angry, but she didn't dare to show it on her face: "When will the main force arrive?"
"Probably tomorrow morning." Ruan Qing thought for a while and said, "Fortunately, there aren't many Zerg fighters on Driftwood. We can just use artillery fire to clear the way, and it will be quick to clean up. This will save the trouble of the large army behind us."
Upon hearing that the main force would arrive tomorrow, Sally's face became visibly uglier.
She chatted with Ruan Qing for a few more sentences, and when she found that she could not get any other information, she left the main control room with Jason.
Ruan Xiqing glanced at 09, and 09 reacted and immediately released an ultra-micro tracker.
The tracker followed the two people from a distance. It was tiny, only one millimeter in length, width and height. It was attached to the ceiling and moved slowly, almost silently.
Sally and Jason were unaware of this. They left the main control room together, circled the air station halfway, and found a secluded corner to talk.
"We can't wait any longer," said Sally.
Her eyes were not completely black in the darkness, but had a faint red glow.
Jason didn't answer, but a strange hissing sound came from his throat.
"We must take them away today," Sally said again.
Jason still only hissed in response.
In the main control room, Ruan Xiqing was monitoring with a high-magnification headset. When he heard the unique hissing sound of the Zerg, his face darkened - the situation they least expected had finally occurred. It could be basically confirmed that Sally and Jason were Zerg in anthropomorphic form.
He did not alert the enemy, but only informed Rong Heng of the news, reminding them to leave loopholes for the two to facilitate their actions.
At 12 o'clock in the evening, Sally hurried to look for Ruan Xiaoqing.
Ruan Xinqing was still guarding the computer. In the images transmitted back from the ground, a small part of the insect nest that bred insect eggs had been turned into scorched earth, and it was covered with countless Zerg corpses.
—The number of Zerg currently existing on Driftwood is much smaller than they imagined.
A batch of them had been cleared out before they conquered the air base. Although the remaining Zergs looked quite a lot, they were really vulnerable compared to the frontline battlefield. Moreover, after these remaining Zergs found that the Zerg nest had been bombed, they desperately covered the top of the Zerg nest with their bodies in an attempt to protect the Zerg nest, which made it easier for Rong Heng and his men to act. After a few shells, they blew up the Zerg and the Zerg nest together.
Ruan Xiqing enjoyed the scene filled with insect corpses with great gusto.
Sally's eyes stayed on the computer screen for a moment, her pupils slightly constricted, and the next moment, she showed an excited and nervous expression: "Mr. Ruan, we have made a discovery!"
Ruan Xinqing turned off the screen and looked surprised: "What did you find?"
Sally hesitated and said, "We received a distress signal."
Ruan Xinqing was shocked, and subconsciously thought that they had also discovered the distress signal deep underground, but he quickly realized that this might just be Sally's excuse for leaving the air station.
But he still followed the other party's question and asked with a look of extreme surprise: "Why is there a distress signal?"
"Although I can't believe it, it really exists." Sally called up the coordinates of the signal from the intelligent brain: "The signal was captured here. Whether it exists or not, we suspect that there may be survivors on the ground."
"How is that possible?" Ruan Qing showed an expression of disbelief.
Seeing his shocked expression, Sally knew that the plan was halfway done. She tentatively asked, "Can you contact the army and ask them to temporarily stop the bombing? If there are really survivors on the ground, there might be accidental casualties."
"If there are really survivors, we should stop the bombing. But the presence of a distress signal does not mean there are definitely survivors." Ruan Xinqing frowned and followed Sally's line of thought and said, "This area is not within the bombing range at the moment. It's best to send someone to confirm it first."
Having said that, he was about to call Rong Heng: "I will contact the army first and ask them to rush over to confirm the situation immediately."
"We don't have enough manpower right now, so why not let Jason and I go?" Sally stopped him and put on an expression that looked eager to help: "Jason and I grew up on Driftwood, so we are more familiar with the terrain."
Ruan Xinqing hesitated a little: "But is it too dangerous to let you go? Professional soldiers are more suitable for this matter."
Sally looked at him pleadingly: "I want to do what I can for my home planet."
Ruan Xinqing seemed to be fooled by him. After hesitating for a while, he finally gave in: "Then you must pay attention to safety. If you can't hold on, return immediately."
After getting permission, Sally smiled gratefully at Ruan Xiqing, and only turned and left after patiently listening to his instructions.
She and Jason immediately went to the hangar to pick a shuttle, and then left the space station.
Ruan Xinqing called Rong Heng and said, "They are gone."
Rong Heng hummed: "I'll bring someone to keep an eye on it."
Ruan Xinqing told him not to alert the enemy and to see why they were in such a hurry to go to the ground. The anthropomorphic Zerg had only seen these two so far, and their status in the Zerg must be extraordinary. The things they valued so much must be very important to the Zerg.
He tinkered with the computer for a while and secretly hacked into the shuttle's audio system in an attempt to eavesdrop.
However, the two of them didn't communicate much along the way, and Ruan Xinqing didn't get any useful information. He could only wait patiently for feedback from Rong Heng.
After receiving the message, Rong Heng led his men to the destination coordinates.
He did not bring the cubs this time, fearing that they would be too reckless and alert the enemy. After thinking for a while, he only brought Melaier and Ruan Jiao.
Melel drove the fighter jet, turned on the stealth mode and quickly headed for the destination. In order to prevent the fighter jet from being discovered, they landed on the ground when they were still some distance away from the coordinates.
After hiding the fighter jet, he sneaked over.
Meleil was wearing a specially made stealth leather jacket, the color of which changed constantly with the color of the external environment. Rong Heng restrained his breath, tucked Ruan Jiao under his armpit, and walked at a safe distance from Meleil.
The two were both good at stealth. After quietly approaching the coordinate location, they searched for the shuttle separately. They made no sound during the whole process and only communicated with sign language.
Finally they found the shuttle in front of a cave.
Melaire cautiously peeked inside and shook her head at Rong Heng—the cave was too deep and too dark, and she couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.
Rong Heng didn't dare to approach, but put the cub under his arm on the ground: "Can you prevent them from finding you?"
Ruan Jiao frowned and thought for a while, then nodded seriously.
Rong Heng then let go, picked up the cub again and threw it on his back: "Hold me tight, don't mess around and don't go out."
The cub lay obediently on his broad back and hugged his neck tightly.
Rong Heng was satisfied and carried him closer to the cave.
Ymir has a very strong night vision, and the dark cave cannot block his vision. He explores the way ahead, while Mellaire follows behind to prepare for emergencies.
The passage of the cave is not very spacious, and the walls on both sides are rough, obviously having been recently excavated.
Rong Heng walked forward, observing the surrounding environment all the way.
When he reached the end, he found four forks in the road. He stopped, frowned and thought, and finally chose to ask the cub on his back.
He pointed to four forked roads and asked without hesitation: Which way
Ruan Jiao scanned the four forks in the road one by one, and the tentacles on his forehead swayed slightly. After a moment, he pointed to the middle one on the right. Rong Heng followed his instructions without hesitation and continued forward.
This underground cave was even bigger than he had imagined, with many forks in the road, crisscrossing and leading in all directions. But apart from the winding maze-like passages, there was nothing else.
But this further confirmed Rong Heng's guess that the things hidden inside must be extraordinary.
Following Ruan Jiao's instructions, he successfully found Sally and Jason.
At the end of the maze is a narrow stone chamber.
Countless tough threads hung from the ceiling of the stone chamber. These white threads intertwined together to form a net, which was filled with white insect eggs, each as big as a basketball.
Rong Heng roughly counted and found that there were ten such eggs in total. He had a hunch that these insect eggs were not simple.
Sally and Jason were standing in the wire mesh.
The two of them kept making hissing sounds, and no one knew what they were saying.
Rong Heng didn't understand what was said, so he could only ask Ruan Jiao to translate for him.
The cub frowned in confusion. He couldn't communicate with Rong Heng directly through his mind, and he couldn't go out. After thinking for a while, he finally pulled Rong Heng's hand and wrote on it.
The cub wrote very slowly, stroke by stroke, but Rong Heng could still make it out.
[Sally, bring your eggs.]
[Eggs are important.]
The cub wrote while tilting his head to listen carefully.
Sally and Jason were talking back and forth, very fast and emotionally. Ruan Jiao listened carefully for a long time, then his expression became a little strange, and he wrote on Rong Heng's palm: [They are, arguing.]
The two had a disagreement. Sally insisted on taking the eggs with her, while Jason wanted to give up the eggs and leave Driftwood immediately.
Rong Heng also discovered that although the two Zergs still maintained their human form, their expressions were very ferocious, and there were even limbs breaking out of their bodies from behind. They didn't look like they were arguing, but more like they were about to fight.
Just as he was thinking this, he saw Sally's hands instantly transformed into a pair of claws, which hit Jason hard, while making an angry hiss.
Ruan Jiao immediately translated: [Idiot!]
Rong Heng:
He was stunned for a moment before realizing that the cub was not taking the opportunity to scold him, but was translating.
Jason, who was being scolded, had several pairs of limbs extending from his back. The velvety limbs waved angrily, but he never dared to fight back.
The dispute ended with Sally's unilateral suppression. Jason was obviously unwilling but dared not speak out.
It seems that between the two, Sally is the dominant one.
After reaching a consensus through violence, Sally took off the clothes that were in the way, revealing her twisted and deformed body. Rong Heng subconsciously covered the cub's eyes.
When he let go, Sally had turned into a giant Zerg.
Unlike ordinary Zerg, she was larger, narrower and longer, with a slightly larger abdomen and dense red hairs on her carapace. Obviously, she was a female. Her features were somewhat similar to those of the Queen Zerg in the records, but there were also many differences.
As far as Rong Heng knew, except for the queen and the males chosen by the queen for mating, the rest of the Zerg had no sexual characteristics and were not capable of reproduction.
Ordinary Zerg do not undertake reproduction work. The purpose of their existence is to feed the Queen and the larvae bred by her.
He originally thought that the eggs on the Driftwood Planet were laid by the Queen, but now it seems that his guess was wrong. In addition to the Queen, the Zerg actually has female Zerg that can lay eggs.
Sally, who turned back into the Zerg form, stretched her limbs. She seemed to enjoy the feeling of turning back into a Zerg very much. After stretching her limbs for a while, she began to use her limbs to harvest the silk web.
The screen peeled away, revealing the basketball-sized eggs inside.
She opened her huge mouthparts and swallowed the eggs, then repeated the same steps over and over again until she swallowed all ten eggs. Her abdomen, which was only slightly larger, became fuller and swollen.
She hissed again.
Ruan Jiao wrote: [They want to go back.]
Rong Heng thought for a moment, then made a gesture to Mellor who was lying in ambush not far away, and quietly retreated.
In this cave, Sally, who had swallowed ten insect eggs, turned back into her anthropomorphic form. She picked up her clothes from the ground, put them on, touched her slightly bulging belly, and said with a smile: "Okay, next, you pretend to be injured, and we can follow the rescue boat to leave."
These ten children are her greatest satisfaction.
As long as they hatch successfully, the Zerg's power will be further enhanced, and they will once again have an endless supply of warriors.