The two chatted about the news, but neither of them paid attention to the news. Instead, their legs pressed together and they could feel each other's body temperature. It was just a little strange at first, but later it became a little hot and a little sweaty.
Even the air around seemed to be tinged with heat and became sticky.
No one spoke, and they remained silent. Rong Heng stared at the smart computer, pretending to read the news, while he kept glancing at Ruan Shiqing out of the corner of his eye.
The young man sitting next to him, with his back straight, seemed to be influenced by him and also lowered his head to look at the intelligent computer. However, from Rong Heng's perspective, he had no idea what he was looking at.
He felt he should say something to break this weird atmosphere.
The heat from his legs was constantly making its presence felt, making him feel dry-mouthed and at a loss. But people in the same situation as him could not see anything wrong, as if they were completely unaware of the ambiguity at the moment.
Or maybe, he noticed it... but condoned it silently.
The second guess made Rong Heng's heart beat out of control again. If he were connected to a monitor at this time, he would find that his heart rate was like that of a seriously ill person, with great ups and downs and no moment of calm.
Rong Heng glanced at his beautiful profile with his peripheral vision, his Adam's apple rolling repeatedly, before he finally mustered up the courage and moved a little closer.
Now, the thighs that were originally only partially touching were actually tightly pressed together.
It's impossible that such a deliberate action went unnoticed, right
Rong Heng glanced at him nervously, waiting for his next move to verify his guess.
In the silent atmosphere, time seemed to stretch very long. In just a few seconds, Rong Heng felt like he had been waiting for a long time. Jing Jing looked at the person in the intelligent computer, as if he had finally noticed something unusual. He raised his head and looked at him. There was a light in his black eyes, revealing emotions that he could not clearly see.
He opened his mouth, as if preparing to say something—
However, the next moment, 09, who was sitting next to him, made an excited voice, tearing the thick and ambiguous atmosphere.
He said, "Sally and Jason made their move!"
Ruan Shiqing was stunned, swallowed his previous words, stood up and walked to 09's side: "Are there any movements?"
—09 The network is connected to the spacecraft network and can receive information from the spacecraft as quickly as possible.
"Well, they stole a shuttle and left the rescue ship." After saying that, he played the sent-back footage for him to see.
Several light years away from them, the spaceship was still moving forward normally, but at the inconspicuous stern behind the spaceship, there was a small shuttle traveling in the opposite direction.
After waiting for so long, the other party finally took action. Ruan Shiqing was cheered up. He immediately notified others and strode to the operations room.
09 immediately followed him.
The Crown Prince looked unhappy after being left behind, and could only catch up with him in big strides. At the same time, he pushed aside the little robot and made a vicious look at him.
09:
How did Snowball become so fierce
Everyone who received the notice gathered in the operations room.
Ruan Shiqing set the shuttle driven by Sally and the other person as the key tracking target, and then displayed the virtual screen publicly so that everyone could see the current situation.
The shuttle was heading quickly towards the uninhabited star region, much earlier than the time and place they had predicted - according to their original guess, they should leave after arriving at the uninhabited star region in two hours.
At this time, they did not know that a warship had already caught up with them.
Inside the shuttle, Sally's body slumped in the passenger seat, with several pairs of limbs extending from her back, and she could barely maintain her human form.
"Faster, I can't hold on any longer."
Before the eggs hatched, they needed a lot of nutrients. In the past, these nutrients were provided by low-level insects. They had already cultivated a group of low-level insects on the floating wood planet to feed the queen insects, but they didn't expect that the arrangement was destroyed. She could only hurriedly hide the eggs that were about to hatch in her abdomen and escape with them.
But these insect eggs were obviously of a higher level than hers, and were probably close to being the real queen of insects. They actually regarded her as a lower-level insect to feed themselves, and wanted to absorb her as nutrients to hatch their eggs.
If not for this, she and Jason wouldn't have moved up their escape plan.
Now they had to contact their fellow tribesmen who were waiting for them in the uninhabited star area and ask them to change their destination and come and join them as soon as possible.
The shuttle was moving at high speed in the dark universe, while the cyan battleship behind it was moving at a leisurely pace, keeping a safe distance from it.
After traveling for about half an hour, when approaching the uninhabited star area, the shuttle that was moving at high speed suddenly slowed down and hovered. Immediately afterwards, a black hole appeared without warning on the side of the shuttle, and then a black warship slowly sailed out.
Everyone in the operations room was shocked by this scene.
The black hole appeared without warning, which meant that everyone present knew what it meant. Moreover, there was this strange-looking black warship - no wonder the Zerg could wreak havoc in the Imperial Star Region silently, the technology mastered by the Zerg was far more advanced than they imagined.
Everyone's expressions became more solemn than ever before.
Rong Heng narrowed his eyes, leaned forward slightly, and stared at the black battleship: "We must not let them leave today."
Everyone understood what he meant, and Melaire immediately contacted the other warships on standby in the rear; Hector and Garland took the cubs to the bottom engine room to prepare for battle. Everyone took their positions, and in a blink of an eye, only Ruan Shiqing and Rong Heng were left in the operations room.
Ruan Shiqing pointed at the black battleship projected on the virtual screen and said, "This battleship does not belong to any of the battleships produced in the empire. It should be secretly manufactured by the Zerg. Logically speaking, the Zerg do not have the technology to manufacture battleships. There must be a traitor in the empire who has been in contact with those anthropomorphic Zerg."
At the same time, he zoomed in and analyzed the image. After repeatedly watching the image of the moment the black hole appeared, he paused and pointed to a certain place and said, "The appearance of this black hole is also very strange. If I am not mistaken, this place should be the Zerg's limbs."
—That was the moment when the black hole appeared. Countless pairs of arthropod-like objects slowly tore apart the dark space, forming a black hole that warships could enter and exit.
If Ruan Shiqing's judgment is correct, this black hole was probably formed by the Zerg forcibly tearing apart the space.
He and Rong Heng looked at each other and asked hesitantly, "How is the front line doing recently?"
If the Zerg are able to tear apart the black hole and move freely in the Imperial star field, then the front-line defenses may be useless.
"Everything is fine."
But the more normal everything is, the more abnormal it seems.
According to the news from Yengeis, the Zerg that had been attacking fiercely in the past have now restrained their offensive. Although they are still fighting, the situation has obviously eased a lot.
These Zerg not only sneaked into the Imperial star field, but also learned to set up a sleight of hand on the front line. If we hadn't discovered their flaws by accident, we would probably still be kept in the dark.
Rong Heng looked gloomy.
Ruan Shiqing sighed, focused his attention on the battlefield in front of him, and tried his best not to think about what was happening on the front line.
He pointed at the battleship and said, "This battleship seems to be a little different from the current ones in the empire. I want to study it."
Rong Heng said "hmm", gathered all his thoughts, opened the communication channel, and began battle deployment.
At this moment, the cabin door of the black battleship has slowly opened, waiting for the shuttle to land—
Just as the shuttle approached the hangar, two ion cannons fired one after another. One accurately entered the bottom cabin of the black battleship from the hangar and exploded, while the other hit the stern of the shuttle.
The other side was caught off guard.
The shuttle rolled several times before it stabilized. Jason realized the danger and was about to speed up to leave, but the shuttle shook violently again, as if something extremely hard was nailed to the outside of the shuttle.
The system had already started to sound the alarm, and before he could react, he felt the shuttle moving backwards uncontrollably, getting farther and farther away from the supporting warship.
Sally in the passenger seat had already transformed into a complete insect form. Her originally slightly bulging abdomen kept shrinking and expanding. The intense pain made her constantly wave her limbs, making sharp and piercing whistles.
Seeing this, Jason gritted his teeth and simply abandoned the shuttle, changing into insect form, ready to take Sally away directly.
However, as soon as he left the shuttle, his way was blocked by two fighter jets.
The little fox was the first to aim his turret at him and opened fire without hesitation, with the ion cannon accurately hitting the Zerg's abdomen.
"Look at me!" Not willing to be outdone, the little dragon aimed at its chest and fired a shot.
Jason had no time to defend himself from the close-range bombardment, and his body exploded instantly, leaving only the huge head and a pair of limbs extending from the neck, still struggling to move.
"I'll drag him back." The little dragon manipulated the fighter jet to eject a mechanical arm and fixed the dying Zerg.
"Then I'll drag the other one." Seeing this, the little fox immediately operated the robotic arm to drag Sally in the shuttle.
Sally's abdomen was swollen at this time, and the worm eggs stored in her abdomen continued to suck her as nutrients. She had no power to resist.
The two cubs dragged their spoils and couldn't wait to report the battle situation on the communication channel.
"There are still ten insect eggs in Sally's body. Let's go and take a look." Rong Heng also received the news and took the elevator down with Ruan Shiqing.
Bottom hold.
The auxiliary robot had injected muscle relaxants into the two Zergs, completely rendering them unable to resist. The Zergs collapsed on the ground and could only allow the robots to put them into a sturdy transparent isolation cage.
Ruan Shiqing stared at Sally's abnormally swollen belly with a look of surprise.
Rong Heng had told Sally about her situation before. He knew that Sally had swallowed ten important insect eggs, but when Sally returned to the space station, her belly was not that big at all.
Thinking of the other party's hasty departure, Ruan Shiqing guessed that there must be something wrong with the insect eggs.
He thought for a while and asked the robot to transport it to the laboratory for temporary isolation and observation.
After the little dragon and the little fox returned the spoils, they immediately prepared to go out and continue fighting. However, Ruan Jiao, who was originally following the little fox, waved his tentacles to think for a while and then stayed.
He pulled on the corner of Ruan Shiqing's clothes and followed closely behind the robot transporting the Zerg, his brows tightly knitted.
Following him to the laboratory, he saw Ruan Shiqing put on a white coat and ordered the robot to move the two Zergs out for inspection. He followed his father nervously.
For some reason, Sally made him feel a little uneasy at this moment.
The tentacles were waving anxiously, but he couldn't tell where this uneasy feeling came from.
She could only follow her father nervously, staring at Sally's belly which was swelling like a balloon and looked like it would burst at any time.