Chapter 1 With Excellent Raw Materials, the Mecha Repair Was Quick

With the support of excellent raw materials, Mingmei's mecha repair was indeed very fast.

Receiving her mecha, now repaired again, Mingmei didn't hesitate. She immediately piloted the mecha into the sky.

As she flew, she shared the news of her imminent return to the team with her seniors on the flight team communication channel.

"Seniors, are you all okay? I, I'll be back soon!"

Mingmei happily shared the news of her return with her seniors.

"Yo, of course, we're fine! Everyone is still in pretty good shape."

Listening to her seniors' tone, it seemed the battle on the front lines was going smoothly.

In fact, just as Mingmei thought, during that time, hardly any stray bugs had managed to break through.

The words of her seniors relieved Mingmei's worries. After all, she didn't want to hear about any major incidents occurring in her absence.

Afterward, Mingmei also spoke with Mu Chen. Upon learning that everything was also fine on Mu Chen's end, Mingmei completely calmed down and flew toward her assigned mission area.

Arriving back there, Mingmei saw that the positions of several of her seniors' mechas and battle starships were arranged the same as when she had left.

It seemed that there had been no losses or injuries.

Everything was developing very well, almost unrealistically so.

"What are you staring at? Aren't you going back to your position?"

The others watched as Mingmei piloted her mecha up and stood there dumbfounded, and couldn't help but remind her.

"Ah, I'll go right now."

Coming back to her senses, Mingmei returned to her position and curiously asked her seniors a few more questions, "Is the fighting going very well in the front? It feels like things are getting better and better. Nothing major has happened since then, right?"

"Well, what else would it be? You didn't think we ran into some kind of trap up ahead, did you?"

Being called out on her negative guess by her senior, Mingmei felt a little embarrassed. It wasn't that she wanted to jinx them, but the appearance of Liuying (Flowing Firefly) had indeed created tremendous psychological pressure for them.

Her seniors' words made Mingmei feel a sense of shame. At the same time, she hoped that she was just overthinking things.

But the more she looked, the more she felt that she was being a bit of a worrywart.

Seeing Mingmei silent, the older, more thoughtful veterans began to talk to Mingmei, "Hey, I can understand it. When you guys were in school, you always heard how terrible the Zerg were, how difficult they were to defeat, how you had to be extra vigilant and not be careless."

"That's right. Everyone knows these things. Our professors used to tell us the same thing when we were in school. But let me tell you, after fighting a few battles, you'll find that the Zerg are even more afraid of death than we are!"

"Is that so?"

Mingmei didn't think the Zerg were more afraid of death than they were.

Although she had only encountered them a few times, they were always extremely ferocious.

Just take the last battle, for example. The Zerg mother detonated herself, and none of the other Zerg were willing to retreat. Could that be considered fear of death?

Mingmei didn't hide her doubts and asked directly. Her question left the seniors speechless.

"That, that was probably an accident, right?"

Mingmei: ??

Did she have too many "accidents"?

"How should I put it? Anyway, the situation in the last battle was the first time we'd ever seen anything like it. Really, let me tell you, according to reason, given the Zerg mother's status, even if it meant sacrificing one Zerg mother to wipe out the entire Qilan Star, they wouldn't necessarily be reluctant, let alone the entire star system."

The seniors spoke with conviction, but reality was just so...real.

Mingmei: "But the Zerg mother detonated herself."

Seniors: ...

"Although it detonated itself last time, the truth is that in the past, the Zerg would retreat as soon as they suffered a little bit of heavy losses. There was no such thing as not retreating even unto death."

In the end, everyone simply stopped including the last battle in the conversation.

"Then—my brother, didn't a lot of Zerg die at the Sigma Fortress back then?"

Mingmei brought up another example. Although she hadn't participated in the battle at Sigma Fortress, there were movies and games about it. "A lot of Zerg died there, and it didn't seem like the Zerg retreated."

"Hey, can that be the same? Don't you see in the movies that so many Zerg died but didn't retreat? In reality, unless they're being held back by something, they wouldn't possibly not leave."

"That's right, and if you think about it carefully, that number is a drop in the bucket compared to Qilan Star. It wasn't as many as you imagine."

Mingmei felt like she was getting dizzy from their explanations. Why couldn't she understand what they were saying?

"Hey, let me put it this way. Movies are still somewhat exaggerated. General Mei Qiu did kill a lot of Zerg, but the scale was different from this attack. It's true that General Mei Qiu killed the Zerg mother, but the premise was that the Zerg mother didn't detonate itself. If it had detonated itself, General Mei Qiu..."

"Hiss, but now that you mention it, General Mei Qiu was really lucky! The Zerg mother died without detonating itself. It must have been beaten into submission! General Mei Qiu is so awesome!"

They were supposed to be explaining things to Mingmei, but somehow it turned into a fan meeting for her second brother.

Mingmei really didn't expect that there would be so many fans of her second brother in the Sixth Legion.

"Cough! We're getting off-topic... In most cases, if a Zerg mother wants to run, it can definitely run away, unless it meets someone like General Mei Qiu."

"The Zerg cherish their lives far more than we do. Let me tell you, except for that Zerg mother detonating itself in the last battle, there are really few cases of Zerg detonating themselves. No Zerg is willing to detonate itself."

"Why?" Mingmei's eyes widened at their words, and she was so curious that she wished she could jump out of the Kigali and run over to her seniors to ask them clearly!

"Why? How would we know why you're asking us? This is just the experience we've gained from observing them. Otherwise, if the Zerg liked to detonate themselves, let alone a Zerg mother, any high-level Zerg detonating itself would be enough to give everyone a headache!"

The seniors shared that even when they defeated the Zerg, those Zerg who were forced into a corner rarely detonated themselves.

But the more they said, the more Mingmei wanted to get to the bottom of it, and the conversation circled back to the last battle.

She was now like a child pestering her parents with a hundred thousand "why" questions, driving them crazy.

"We really don't know about that either. If you have a way, you can ask someone else and come back and tell us."

The seniors were thick-skinned and not afraid of losing face.

...

Sixth Legion Border, in the Outer Star Sea.

"The Zerg cherish their lives very much. Don't worry, their main force in this sudden large-scale attack is actually on Hua Lan Star, not here with you. Don't worry."

Feng Li was speechless. She had just spoken to Hu Mingli yesterday, and now the other party had sent someone to drag her out of the Outer Star Sea.

She didn't want to go anywhere. She just wanted to stay quietly in the Outer Star Sea.

Sitting in her mecha, Feng Li glanced at the charming secretary An Rui beside her, and then looked at Hu Mingli, who had already gone to Qilan Star but hadn't forgotten to video call her to ask about the Zerg.

"I didn't want to ask either, but you people from the Outer Star Sea have extended your reach to the military. Since you're helping, you might as well help to the end."

"Huh? When did I extend my reach to the Imperial Military Department? Don't scare me!"

The last time she provoked the Sixth Legion and the Third Legion, she had taken the risk only after repeatedly considering the timeline. It wasn't that she felt like she had lived enough and dared to touch anything!

"I hope it's not you either, but traces have been found of hackers from the Outer Star Sea. However, I've already erased those traces."

Hu Mingli thought Feng Li was pretending to be stupid, so she said something that she thought would reassure the other party. However, these words sounded even more frightening, okay?

"Who?!"

"Tell me the reasons for your judgment that the Zerg won't launch a major attack on Qilan Star, and I'll give you all the military information to deal with."

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Hu Mingli directly offered an equivalent exchange.

"Don't think that the Zerg sent Liuying (Flowing Firefly) to the scene, and that it looks like they want to destroy Qilan Star. If Liuying (Flowing Firefly) had wanted to do that a long time ago, it wouldn't have needed to come here with such fanfare. It could have completed this feat on its own. Believe me, Liuying (Flowing Firefly) has the strength to stand against a billion."

Feng Li had stayed with the Zerg and learned a lot about Liuying's (Flowing Firefly) status in the Zerg and the inheritance matters of their clan.

"They are usually the Queen's Guard Knights."

"Queen?"

"Ugh, it's the Queen Zerg Mother. The Zerg call them 'King' or 'Queen', don't get hung up on that." Feng Li frowned at the interruption. Seeing that Hu Mingli was no longer speaking, she slowly opened her mouth again, "Their appearance outside is basically because they have received the King's order. If the King wanted it to destroy Qilan Star, why would other Zerg take revenge? It doesn't need this kind of fighting method at all."

"Besides, as far as I know, the King—is now on Hua Lan Star. This action here should be more of a containment strategy, right?"