Chapter 1 So, While We Were Sleeping, the Entire Starship Crew Evacuated? Even the Starship's Energy Stones Were Taken Away?

Gui Gui: Yes, Host.

You Didn't Even Wake Me Up?

They added a sleeping agent to the air circulation system. I wanted to, but you were right next to me, weren't you?

Gui Gui sounded aggrieved, and Mingmei felt even more wronged.

She really closed her eyes, and the whole world changed! She didn't hear a thing!

At this moment, it was dark outside the starship, and without the energy stones inside, the starship was like a huge iron box in the wilderness, abrupt and cumbersome.

Because the energy stones were taken away, there was no continuous supply from the ventilation system. However, after scanning the outside air, everyone's optical brains unexpectedly discovered that the air composition outside was still within the range they could breathe.

In this regard, wasn't this place carefully chosen to trick them?

They even thoughtfully considered whether they could adapt to the place after the starship ran out of energy.

"Damn, is it this cold at night?"

Nearly a hundred students sat around the main control room of the starship, looking at the minus twenty degrees Celsius reminder on their optical brains.

Although the special clothes they wore could resist the cold, they couldn't help but marvel.

"Of course, you should take a look at the barren state of this planet. Places unsuitable for plant growth are simply because the conditions for sunlight, temperature, water, and soil are not met."

Some students mentioned this point, but Mingmei had a different opinion. Propping her chin, she asked, "This place isn't suitable for vegetation, but the air is suitable for life. Why hasn't it been transformed? Although those old soldiers deceived us, pretending there was a starport here as a starship material transfer station, there are actually suitable conditions here, right?"

"This place isn't suitable."

Hu Yue shook her head. The others turned to look at her, their eyes full of questions. However, some students present also realized what Hu Yue meant.

"This planet is already dead."

"Dead?"

Mingmei asked in surprise. Seeing the understanding and sadness flashing in the eyes of the people around her, she realized that this was a blind spot in her knowledge.

[Host, according to what she means, humans should have lived here before, or at least intelligent life forms.]

Gui Gui told Mingmei after hearing her ask about the meaning of Hu Yue's statement in her mind.

[When the Zerg occupy a planet, they first slaughter the intelligent life on the planet, and then they directly seize the resources of the entire planet, just like they did to the ancient Blue Star back then.]

The ancient Blue Star, the former true home of the Hua Lan Star people, was destroyed after being invaded by the Zerg.

Even now, the ancient Blue Star is forever sealed in that distant galaxy. Although they are both called the ancient Blue Star, the current star chart image shows the ancient Blue Star as a gray little ball from the outside.

[The Zerg will choose vibrant planets to invade, slaughter the intelligent life on that planet, and then drain all the core energy of the entire planet. A planet without the power of the star source will wither from the inside out. Countless lives on the planet will gradually disappear, the climate will become increasingly harsh and even uncontrollable...]

"Crack!"

Just as Gui Gui and Mingmei mentioned the harsh climate, a bolt of lightning suddenly lit up the entire sky outside the starship. Everyone couldn't help but look out the windows at the sky. At some point, dark clouds were rolling in the sky.

"It's going to..."

Someone wanted to say rain, but when snowflakes as big as goose feathers fell on the glass windows of the starship, they remembered the outside temperature.

Thunder on a snowy day was also a bit strange.

"This place was once occupied by the Zerg."

Hu Yue, whose words had been interrupted by the thunder, continued to speak.

"Although my father led people to eventually recapture this place, there was almost no star source left. It was all drained by a Zerg mother."

Hu Yue was just starting to remember things when this happened on this planet. The events seemed to have given her father a great shock.

The destruction of a planet, the disappearance of so many lives, was beyond what one person's imagination could comprehend.

"I once heard that as long as you kill the Zerg mother and put its crystal core into a destroyed planet, it will revive the planet."

Some students mentioned a legend they had heard since childhood. Mingmei couldn't help but look up at the student who spoke.

"Is that true?"

Mingmei, carrying multiple Zerg mother crystal cores on her body, couldn't help but think about the value of her mecha after hearing these words.

……

"Of course, it's fake~"

In the virtual space, a refined-looking man sat at a table, listening to the cold-faced young man who was teaching him about the destruction of planets.

Qiao Xiyu lowered his eyes and thought of the legends circulating in the interstellar space, and then mentioned the story about the Zerg mother's crystal core being able to restore the full vitality of a planet.

However, Mo Wenshu, who was teaching him, chuckled lightly, indicating that the credibility of this legend was not high.

"The Zerg race is divided into many races, and not every race has a Zerg mother. Each race of Zerg has its own Zerg mother. You don't think all Zerg mothers are equally powerful or equally weak, do you?"

"I didn't think that way." Qiao Xiyu shook his head, and then heard the other party say, "That is to say, some Zerg mothers are very easy to kill."

Qiao Xiyu, who had never killed a Zerg mother and might even have some difficulty facing a Zerg general, had no other way but to show an awkward but polite smile at this moment.

He knew that the other party had killed a Zerg mother, although it seemed to be a mutual destruction, it was also worth learning from.

Otherwise, President Teacher would not have recommended that he meet this former Federation legend.

Mo Wenshu didn't feel anything about Qiao Xiyu's gaze. After he killed the Zerg mother back then, he only had one breath left. If the main brain hadn't found him and made a deal with him at that time, he might have died there.

"However, there are indeed Zerg mother insect cores that can revive the vitality of an entire destroyed planet..."

Mo Wenshu changed the subject, and a trace of envy flashed in his eyes. That insect core he had been pursuing had finally allowed a planet swept by the zombie virus to be purified and rejuvenated.

He was once extremely envious, and he had fantasized countless times about returning to his hometown that had been destroyed when he was young.

He had dreamed, dreamed of himself standing in his hometown under the blue sky and clear water, dreaming that only he was standing there...

There was no one left in the hometown he wanted to return to.

"What Zerg mother is that?"

Qiao Xiyu was full of curiosity, looking at this temporary teacher who had been living in this virtual world without a body.

"Their true emperor, the ruler of the entire Zerg race, the insect core of the Emperor Zerg Mother."