The faces of the two insects changed.
"Your Excellency Gu Lian, Lieutenant General Xiu, the signal reception is very good and unstable. It may not last long." The female of the communications army reminded nervously.
"Where is your current position?" Gu Lian said no more and went straight to the topic.
He noticed that the background behind Qixiu was old and dilapidated. The surroundings are tightly sealed, and the special walls exude a metallic luster. Some are similar to the inner cabin of a ship, and some are like an abandoned military base.
Is there a military base on Ghat?
Gu Lian narrowed his eyes slightly.
The projection flickered more and more fiercely, Xiu opened his mouth, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind him. He looked back nervously and said in a lowered voice, "In the west... the subworm... laboratory..."
The stuck projection swallows up the complete words,
Gu Lian could only hear these few words clearly, and the projection flashed out instantly.
Worm, laboratory.
Vague but crazy thoughts ran through Gu Lian's mind. He didn't have time to think about it. The little insect cub he was carrying stared blankly for a while at the place where the female father appeared and disappeared. After a moment, he immediately started whimpering and struggling.
"Eat, father..."
The little insect's speech was unclear, and its solitary baby tooth was shaking in the wind. After whimpering twice in grievance, he pursed his lips and his eyes were instantly filled with tears.
"father……"
The pitiful appearance attracted Gu Lian's attention. Gu Lian picked up the little insect cub and carried it to eye level. When their eyes met, the little insect cub immediately timidly silenced his cry.
"Can you call the female father?"
Gu Lian's eyes were neither cold nor indifferent, and he flicked the insect's forehead casually. The little bug cub that was being fiddled with curled up its two fleshy paws and stared at it for a while. With an expression of wanting to cry but not crying, he suddenly stretched out his claws and grabbed Gu Lian's index finger.
He twitched his nose to please, "Father!"
The characters are straight and round.
Gu Lian looked at the energetic cub and said in a deep voice, "Your father-in-law will be fine."
That bug was able to use communication equipment in this space state, which at least meant that he was safe for the time being. Even judging from his actions, if he was kidnapped by an unknown enemy insect, at least Xio would be valuable to the other party.
"Your Excellency Gu Lian, we can no longer receive any signals." A military female reported anxiously, "But we have recorded the received projection of Lieutenant General Xiu. Do we need to send it back to the military headquarters immediately?"
About Wurm.
The information transmitted by Xio alarmed the women in the communications army. Wurm appears on Gart? Not one or two, but most likely a group of sub-insects that wiped out more than two thousand military females in an instant?
Anyone who knows a little bit about the history of the Zerg race knows that the Zerg race and the sub-Zerg race have a great hatred for genocide. Once the sub-Zerg are still alive, it will be a disaster for the Zerg.
Looking at the male insect that looked like a subworm in front of her, the military female cautiously said, "...or should we give the information to Lieutenant General Via?"
The news delivered by Xiu could not be concealed, and Gu Lian did not care about the life or death of the Zerg or sub-Zerg. The most important thing right now was to find Xiu.
Gu Lian's eyes darkened, "Inform Wea and Michelle first."
As for that idiot Pierce, it was completely out of his consideration.
Although Gu Lian did not consider Pierce, the awakened Pierce still refused to invite him.
Since.
"Worm?!" Pierce was shocked, and what immediately came to mind was Gu Lian. He glanced at Gu Lian, who was identified by Devin as a worm himself, and was horrified.
Could it be that Gu Lian is really a spy lurking in the Zerg, as Master Diwen said? The intention is to cooperate with the sub-Zerg inside and outside to destroy the Zerg in one fell swoop?
Pierce turned pale with fright at his own thoughts. You must know that although the sub-Zerg males are not as scary as SS level as Gu Lian, they are basically A level.
If it hadn't been for the Insect King's move to kill the Insects with a borrowed sword, and tricked the Sub-Insects into going to the Exile Star and killing them all, the Insects would be the ones who are perishing now!
"Of course this kind of news must be sent back to the military headquarters!" Pierce instinctively looked at the only military female here who was loyal to the empire. "Lieutenant General Via, this matter is not trivial. Maybe there are sub-Zerg people around us. The bugs are lurking!”
Pierce meant something, and Via's eyes flashed slightly.
"Reported to the military headquarters? Whether Lieutenant General Xiu's information is true has not yet been determined. Once the news is transmitted back to the military headquarters and causes panic in the empire, will you be responsible for such security crimes, Chief of Staff?" Michel sneered, "How about Chief of Staff? Think about my fate?"
"I just sent back the news of the defeat, and I was skinned and half-dead. This is the news that the sub-Zerg tribe came for revenge ..." Michelle's eyes were gloomy, "Chief of Staff, this body has to be stripped off. How many floors?"
Michelle's words made Pierce shudder.
He turned to Via for help, "Lieutenant General Via, it would be better for you to report this matter directly to the Marshal."
The cowardly and vicious look on Pierce's face as he pushed Via out made Michelle sneer again.
Via frowned and glanced at Pierce indifferently, seeming displeased with Pierce's behavior of pushing him out to save his life.
But in the meeting, the only male insect related to the sub-zerg race remained indifferent. Via frowned and said coldly, "Lieutenant General Xiu's few words alone can't confirm anything. It's not too late to report it to the empire after we get reliable sources."
Pierce, who was as timid as a mouse, stopped saying anything. Wea looked at Gu Lian and said, "Your Excellency Gu Lian, do you have any opinions?"
Gu Lian, who was named, looked directly at Wea and said, "Send a team to search the west tomorrow, and I will lead the team myself."
Wea had no objection and added, "I'm with you."
Pierce immediately jumped up and said, "Lieutenant General Via, such a small search does not require you to go there in person!"
He doesn't want to talk to Michelle
Stay with this madman who hates the entire Zerg race.
Via ignored his unreasonable request and even said, "Chief of Staff Pierce, tomorrow you and Lieutenant General Michel will maintain order in the camp."
Michelle had no objection to this and smiled solemnly at Pierce, "Chief of Staff, let's just get along for the day."
Pierce turned pale.
The meeting came to an end with Pierce's pale expression, and Gu Lian got up and left the tent first. As soon as he took off with his front foot, Michelle followed him with his back foot.
"Your Excellency Gu Leng." Michelle stopped him.
The smiling military female approached and whispered, "Lieutenant General Via is attracted to you?"
Michelle's tone was teasing, but there was no teasing smile in her eyes.
"Lieutenant General Via is so interested in your insect cubs. He didn't follow you to Gart and lead the team with you. Instead of falling in love with you, could it be that he wants to give birth to a more powerful insect cub with you?" Michelle's intuition was very keen, "It really doesn't make sense..."
His expression instantly turned cold, "Are you following your identity as a sub-worm?"
Gu Lian did not respond to Michelle's speculation, but coldly ordered, "Watch Wea closely."
He left and Michelle followed.
"Your Excellency Gu Lian, are you a Zerg or a Sub-Zerg? Which side do you prefer?" The military female smiled, "Since we are on the same boat, why don't you at least reveal your true identity frankly?"
Gu Lian glanced at him and said coldly, "I disdain both of them."
*
The insect cub was handed over to Michelle's care. The next day, Gu Lian and Wea led a team to the western part of the Gart star to search for traces of the missing army.
In Xio's last phone call before losing contact, the military female who came to report mentioned the word "laboratory". In the brief projection last night, Xio also mentioned the key information point of "laboratory".
Gu Lian speculated that it was very likely that Xiu and Nolin's team encountered an attack when they were exploring the so-called "laboratory" to the west.
The army explored westward and found no buildings similar to military bases or laboratories except for scattered carrion corpses.
But the only thing that was certain was that Xio and Nolin's team was heading in this direction.
"The clothes on the corpse are materials unique to the military." Military Female reported.
Gu Lian nodded, and Wea issued the order, "Continue the detection and focus on searching for the remaining buildings."
The army searched for the stumps for two days, and the search area continued to expand, but the laboratory that Xio mentioned was still there.
Not found.
"Did Lieutenant General Xio get the information wrong? Maybe it's not a laboratory?" Wea raised doubts.
Maybe their search was in the wrong direction.
Gu Lian pondered, "The laboratory does not have to be on the ground."
Wea's eyes flashed slightly and she glanced at Gu Lian.
Continue to issue orders, "Military females, listen to the order and search underground to detect underground buildings!"
After exploring four kilometers back, we finally made a new discovery.
A military female came to report, "Lieutenant General Via, Your Excellency Gu Lian, we found an underground building ahead!"
"Lead the way." Gu Lian's expression changed slightly, he stood up and followed the military female out.
It was a ruin.
The military woman leading the way stopped at a place in the ruins. Another military woman waiting at the entrance saw Weiya and Gu Lian, and then she picked up the mark left on the ground and handed it over, "This is the second search. The epaulette was found at the entrance."
Wea took it, looked at it, and handed it to Gu Lian.
Two gold medals.
This is at the level of lieutenant general.
This was almost certainly the mark left by Xio. The epaulette was held tightly in his hand. Gu Lian looked gloomy and said, "Go and search."
Wea turned around and said, "Three military females, I and Your Excellency Gu Lian will go down to explore the way. The other military females will stay outside."
The military female cleared the way and opened the hidden entrance.
The moment the entrance was opened, an unbearable stench came out. Gu Lian frowned slightly, looked at the dark hole, and climbed down the stairs with Wea and the three military females without hesitation.
As soon as his feet hit the ground, he stepped on some thick liquid. The feeling of mucus sticking to the soles of shoes was so disgusting that a military female resisted nausea and turned on the lighting equipment. Although I was mentally prepared, when I saw what was on the ground clearly, my stomach juices instantly surged.
All that was seen was rotten flesh, foul-smelling organs, and an unknown green liquid mixed together to form disgusting mucus. If you look carefully, you can even distinguish a little bit of limb structure that has not completely melted.
Under this intuitive impact, the lighting instrument instantly fell to the ground, and the military female directly supported the wall and vomited crazily.
Via glanced at the military female and calmly ordered, "Lighting."
Another military female turned on the lighting equipment again, illuminating the room. Only then was this hidden underground building completely exposed to the eyes of Gu Lian and the military females.
Humid and cold environment, metal walls made of special materials.
There were various broken and messy reagent tubes on the experimental table, and insect corpses were piled around the dissecting table on one side. And there are still residues on the stage
There was a relatively complete, shriveled insect corpse with a severed arm.
It was obvious that the insect had been disemboweled and disemboweled before it was alive. His face was ferocious, his eye sockets were severely sunken, and his eyes were completely split.
Gu Lian lowered his eyes and caught a glimpse of a withered and ferocious arm at his feet. There were dense pinpricks on the arms, and dense abscesses had even appeared in some of the pinpricks. Not just this one, other limbs also have the same pinprick marks.
The thick green liquid is the pus in these abscesses.
The stench filled the sky, and such a horrific and disgusting sight made a military female unable to hold on any longer.
"Lieutenant General Via..." He looked like he was about to vomit.
Wea looked around and said calmly, "Those who can't stand it get out first."
The military female obeyed the order and quickly climbed out of the laboratory.
"There are many battles on the resource star?"
"The psychological quality is good." Gu Lian, who was looking down at a broken arm, suddenly said.
Wea moved her eyes to Gu Lian and replied coldly, "Innate."
"What did you find?" he asked.
"There have been mutations."
After studying the broken arm, Gu Lian stood up and walked to the test bench.
If he guessed correctly, the mutant bugs were born here. As for the experimental base that had not yet had time to be destroyed, either those organized researchers were too aggressive or they were interrupted midway.
His eyes searched for the test tubes on the test table, and finally landed on a broken reagent tube half hanging on the table. There were still faint traces of dark green dried liquid on the wall of the glass tube, which made Gu Lian's mind flash back to the tube of reagent that Saiin had taken out.
If it is accidentally broken, there will definitely be traces flowing down the corner of the table. Gu Lian came closer and half-crouched in front of the test bench to observe the traces of liquid.
"Get a test tube and take a sample."
After a while, he ordered, but no one in the laboratory responded. An insect shadow slid down from the wall and enveloped it silently.
Wea stood behind Gu Lian.
A small amount of energy fluctuated in the air, and the atmosphere gradually became silent and strange. Gu Lian didn't look back, and Wea didn't move away either. But as long as the other party reacts, the other party will follow suit.
This default stalemate was suddenly broken by the military female guarding the entrance.
"Lieutenant General Via, Your Excellency Gu Lian!" the military female shouted in panic, "There are... medium-sized insects, insect tides!"
The trace amount of energy was instantly recovered. Via stared at the military female and quickly issued an order, "Send a signal! Let Lieutenant General Michel come over for support!"
Gu Lian stood up and focused his energy
The tentacles retract. The auburn-haired military female looked back, staring at his distant brown pupils, "Your Excellency Gu Lian, it seems we can only take samples later."
When Gu Lian and Wea came out of the laboratory, they immediately saw the incoming wave of medium-sized mutated insects. The military females quickly entered combat mode, spreading their bone wings to fight against the mutated insects.
The number of mutant bugs was far greater than that of the military females in the team, and Gu Liang had just detected four or five S-class mutant bugs.
The roar shook the sky, and the terrifying spiritual tentacles penetrated from the back of the military female's head and straight out from the eye sockets. Bright red blood and clear cerebrospinal fluid splashed onto the face of Via, who was fighting an S-class mutant bug.
The brown eyes didn't even blink, and the bone wings were so flexible that they avoided the attacks of the mutated bugs. Via swung the blade and slashed at the mutated insect's neck. It is much more difficult to kill an S-class mutant bug than an A-class one, but such a vicious knife was intercepted by the mutant bug's mental tentacles.
But this was enough, the mutated bug's body sluggished for a moment.
Gu Lian, who had just unscrewed the head of an S-class mutant insect, saw the right moment and suddenly attacked the slow-moving mutant insect. The high-level tentacles, which were more terrifying and sharp than the S-class, directly pierced the mutant insect's neck with a "snap".
It turned into a blade and cut off the mutated insect's head together with its tendons, veins and flesh. The huge monster fell to the ground with a crash, and the escaped Via flew in the air.
However, before he could inspect the battle situation, the mental tentacles of another mutated bug suddenly attacked his back.
With cold brown eyes, relying on keen intuition, Via suddenly dodged and avoided by wiping the terrifying mental tentacles. But even though he escaped, his military uniform was pierced by the tentacles, and the blood-stained tear was printed on his skin from the surface of the uniform.
Anger flashed in Via's eyes, and a brief burst of energy burst out. He suddenly increased his speed, nimbly dodged the attack, and drew his blade to cut off the mutated insect's neck. His head rolled to the ground, and Via's military uniform cracked even more.
The bloody female pattern was exposed to the air.
It was a cyan female line.
There is another terrifying and hideous scar below the female pattern.
Gu Lian narrowed his eyes slightly.
Then I heard Wea say coldly, "Trash with no IQ."
Camp.
The moment she received the support signal, Michelle immediately gathered the females. Leng Su issued the order, "The exploration team encountered a medium-sized insect swarm, leaving twenty military females to guard the camp. The rest will follow me to support!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the frightened Pierre beside him
Si then opened his mouth and said, "Twenty is too few... The camp is such an important place, so there are only twenty military females left! What if mutant insects come to recruit Hu Lishan?"
Then isn't his life in danger?
"No, no!" Pierce stepped forward, "Twenty is not enough, at least... at least a hundred. Leave a hundred military females behind!"
Michelle glanced at him gloomily, "Get out!"
Ignoring Pierce's order, the military females got ready to go. Before leaving, Michelle appointed the person in charge of the camp, called him over and told him, "Keep an eye on your Excellency Gu Lian's insect cubs."
The person in charge nodded, and Pierce beside him rolled his eyes with hatred. It wasn't until Michelle led the team away that Pierce cursed viciously, "You bitch, you deserve to be bitten by a mutant bug."
Both generals were gone, and the SS-level male insect had also left. While Pierce viciously cursed these lowly bugs for being killed by mutant bugs, he was worried about his own safety. He was thinking about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up. The damn bugs aren't here, is this his chance?
A lonely insect cub?
Pierce sneered, straightened his back and walked to Gu Lian's tent. The female military guard whom Michelle had ordered was in front of the camp. She saw Pierce and gave him a military salute, "Chief of Staff Pierce."
Pierce nodded helpfully and was about to lift his feet to go in, but as soon as he raised his feet, he was blocked by the military female. The military female said coldly, "Chief of Staff Pierce, you can't go in."
What kind of bitch dares to stop him? Pierce was furious, "Is there some treasure hidden inside or something? How dare you stop me?"
"I'm sorry." The military female did not give in at all, "Lieutenant General Michelle ordered that no one can enter."
"Who is that sinner Michelle?" Pierce was furious, "Do you believe that I will punish you now!"
The military female did not accept this trick, "I'm sorry, I only obey the orders of the lieutenant general."
Looking at the unwilling military female, Pierce was furious but had no choice. He gritted his teeth and left, thinking about ways to get the general female away.
More than ten minutes later, there was a sudden commotion in the camp.
I don't know which insect shouted, "Mutated insects are attacking the camp!"
Immediately afterwards, Pierce stumbled over. He looked at the military females guarding the camp in a panic and cursed, "Hurry up and stop the mutant bugs, the mutant bugs are coming to the camp entrance! Do you damn military females want me dead? Hurry up and send the signal. to Via
Lieutenant General! "
The military girl was suspicious, but Pierce's fear didn't look fake. Looking around, the camp was also in panic. Faced with priorities, the military female glanced at the unarmed Pierce and turned away.
Pierce was secretly happy when he saw this and quickly slipped into the camp.
The little bug cub was sleeping soundly on the bed.
Pierce knew that his lie would soon be discovered by the military female. He did not dare to relax, quickly approached the insect cub, and then took out the lancet from his pocket. Grabbing Chong Zai's white and tender arm, the little Chong Zai was woken up instantly.
Staring at Pierce sleepily, his wet eyes blinked again and again.
Pierce smiled sinisterly and said, "Little one, don't move around and draw blood. Don't blame me, I'm also doing things for the insects."
The bug cub blinked, watching the sharp needle approach.
Suddenly, he showed his baby teeth and smiled sweetly at Pierce. In the joy of Pierce's success, he suddenly waved his spiritual tentacles and slapped Pierce against the wall.
A loud "bang" sound.
After a while, the little insect cub yawned and looked around in confusion.
"Xiong, Xiong father..."
It opened its bone wings and flew out quickly.
It flew straight over the heads of the panicked military females and flew outside. The military female who felt the movement raised her head and her expression suddenly changed, "Come back quickly, little bug cub, it's dangerous outside!"
The military female who was the first to react opened her bone wings and chased after her, but she couldn't even catch up with the insect cub, which didn't even have all its teeth.