Chapter 1

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"You have been hit by the Zerg Queen's special ability: Entrap."

"Your movement speed and attack speed will be reduced by 50%."

"If you are in stealth, you will be immediately revealed."

Both of them were immediately covered in a light green slime. Their movements felt as though they were bound by elastic ropes, making everything exceptionally difficult. Even taking a single step required a great deal of effort. Mogansha gnashed his teeth, wanting to raise his gun and let this monster taste his power, but Fang Senyan held his gun down. On the nearby high ground, nearly a dozen hideous black crawling monsters appeared. Acid was brewing inside them, and they were taking aim, posing to fire—the Hydralisks, the most troublesome type of unit for Fang Senyan and Mogansha.

"If they wanted to attack us, they would have done so already," Fang Senyan said calmly.

Mogansha nodded slightly. At this moment, a voice suddenly echoed in his ear. The voice was like the Nightmare Imprint's prompts, directly in his mind, bypassing the air and the eardrum. It sounded as if an elderly woman was speaking.

"Hiss… Humans, gah, do not make any dangerous moves, hiss, or I will have difficulty controlling my children's instinct to tear you to pieces."

"This ability, is it telepathy?" The word flashed through Fang Senyan's mind. He began to try to send a message using the Nightmare Imprint: "Who are you?"

The voice immediately responded:

"I am the Blackthorn Mother, Shen Gong, and am now communicating with you through my children."

Mogansha said in disbelief:

"Children? Are your children those monsters in the sky?"

"I do not approve of your statement," the Blackthorn Mother said calmly. "In our eyes, Jiani's skin is full of sex appeal, her lines are perfect and seductive. On the contrary, humans are the monsters, but I still respect you, although I can kill and eat you at any time."

Mogansha spread his hands and said:

"Okay, okay, esteemed lady, we have no intention of being your enemy. Our real purpose in coming here is not to occupy or plunder anything, but to find our companions, that's all."

The Blackthorn Mother gave a concise and clear response:

"Follow my children, humans, you will see them soon, but please do not mistake our kindness for weakness."

Soon, Fang Senyan and Mogansha were escorted and monitored by a group of Hydralisks and Zerglings as they walked to the side. Gradually, a thick layer of light purple organic matter appeared under their feet, like a carpet. Stepping on it was like walking on a soft river beach.

The information Fang Senyan had collected also involved these organic substances. Their name is Creep. They can digest all nutrients to provide the Zerg with the necessary nutrition and provide Zerg larvae and drones with organs to assist them in transforming and evolving into other large forms. Under normal circumstances, Creep is difficult to eradicate. For the Zerg, these things can also provide them with additional recovery capabilities.

In addition, the appearance of Creep already represents one thing: that this place has been regarded by the Zerg as a core area that must be guarded. Once not recognized by the Zerg, they will suffer an exceptionally fierce and crazy attack! Fang Senyan and the others could see dense swarms of Zerg creatures everywhere. In the sky, there were also clusters of brown jellyfish-like things floating, which looked very much like human brain tissue connected to tree trunk-like nerves.

According to the information, this thing is called a Host, which should be another biological form of the Zerg. It does not have any attack ability, but it is similar to an organic matter synthesis factory, which can provide the necessary nutrition for the hatched Zerg creatures. The size of a Zerg group only needs to look at the number of Hosts. In addition, because the Host detects the surrounding environment through biological perception and does not have eyes in the usual sense, it can detect invisible creatures within a certain range.

Fang Senyan and the others hadn't walked long in the Zerg nest when they saw a few military tents not far away in a ravine, scattered on the edge of a rocky mountain. A soldier sitting on a dry rock smoking a cigar saw Fang Senyan and the others and immediately stood up in surprise:

"Wow, guys! Please don't tell me you're also survivors of the plane crash."

Because Mogansha's charm was not high, but still maintained at a normal level, he usually handled the negotiations.

"On the contrary, Private, we are here specifically to confirm whether you are still alive and to find a way to take you home."

The soldier laughed:

"Guys, seriously, this is the funniest joke I've heard in the last forty-eight hours."

Mogansha sighed and said:

"If I were you, I wouldn't talk to my saviors like that."

"Saviors?" the soldier asked in surprise.

Mogansha took out the harmonica made by the pilot Kit from his arms:

"If Lieutenant Colonel Dundee is still alive, then he will know whether what I'm saying is true or false."

The soldier immediately said in surprise:

"Are you the officer who drove away the Predator Spore Flyers? The expert who can use a Camille machine gun to fire adhesive tracking rounds?"

Of course, Mogansha, this black buddy, would not show the Eastern way of modesty. He immediately waved his golden AK triumphantly and shouted:

"Of course! If the feel of that machine gun wasn't as bad as a sixty-year-old grandma's breasts! I could have shot that damn fool's poop out of his mouth!"

The soldier immediately looked at Lao Mo with admiring eyes, and then ran to the tent. In a few minutes, more than a dozen soldiers crawled out of the tent, neatly arranged in two rows, and straightened their bodies to salute! At the same time, they shouted with all their strength:

"Salute to you! Sergeant!" (Sergeant is Mogansha's space rank, which is common in all worlds)

Mogansha saluted back, and then a lieutenant colonel with a white bandage wrapped around his left arm stood out and extended his hand to Mogansha with a serious expression:

"I am Lieutenant Colonel Dundee, captain of the Gravel Special Forces. Thank you for your previous heroic actions, and thank you for your brave actions to rescue us, but to be honest, I really don't want to see you here. Because the situation here... I'm afraid it's worse than you think."

Mogansha shook hands with him:

"Oh, Lieutenant Colonel Dundee, when I set off, I knew this would definitely be a difficult journey, so please don't worry too much and tell us the current situation as it is."

Lieutenant Colonel Dundee turned his head and looked at Fang Senyan, who was fully armed:

"He is?"

Fang Senyan took a step forward, stood at attention, and shouted:

"Special Forces Ensign Seaman reporting to you, sir."

"Seaman." Dundee recalled and his eyes lit up: "I seem to have heard people praise your courage before!"

This is the benefit of +1 Legend, Fang Senyan’s charm is very low, but with this preconceived impression, he can naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort in communication. Then he watched Lieutenant Colonel Dundee walk back and forth in place with his hands behind his back with great difficulty, then he raised his head and said firmly:

"Okay, I will tell you everything about the current situation. First of all, I have to tell you that the root cause of the battle between humans and the Zerg... is not like those politicians' nonsense about environmental conquest and racial conflicts, but because of a kind of ore! A resource that is very rare even in the universe! Unobtanium!"

As he said that, Lieutenant Colonel Dundee took out a crystal that looked crystal clear from his arms. The crystal was silver-blue, and the surface even had a metallic luster. What was amazing was that it could automatically float in the air two centimeters away from the palm of his hand!

"This is the unobtanium named Pandora by those copper-smelling guys. Its performance surpasses all superconductors ever made by humans. It can maintain superconductivity at a high temperature of 1516 degrees Celsius (2761 degrees Fahrenheit). Superconducting minerals also have super-strong anti-magnetic properties, and can maintain their superconducting properties even when placed in a magnetic field with a strength of 1 billion Gauss (100,000 Tesla). This is 1,000 times stronger than any substance on earth... Even when the Interstellar Alliance's economy was at its most sluggish, the price of unobtanium ore per kilogram has never been lower than 40 million US dollars, please note that it is unrefined ore!"

Mogansha shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Wow, Lieutenant Colonel, I am numb to this number, it sounds like these money can be piled up and crush me alive. This is another kind of happy death being suffocated to death in the breasts of big-breasted girls."

Lieutenant Colonel Dundee sighed and continued:

"Pandora crystals are the most perfect energy known to mankind. Compared with it, uranium ore and petroleum are not worth mentioning! So it is worth all the people in the entire universe to find it and are willing to pay any price for it. The only drawback of Pandora crystals is that: in addition to humans, there are many other alien races that also need the energy contained in it, including the Zerg. This is the only reason why we are fighting these damn bugs. This is also the only reason why there are gaps between human bases and friction between bugs!"