Chapter 497: Forced Landing

Footsteps stepped on the metal floor, making a "pa-pa" sound. Countless "pa-pa" sounds gathered into a special symphony, although this symphony didn't sound so beautiful.

There were many soldiers in the warship, most of them were white, but there were still a small number of yellow people. However, Ye Nan didn't contact other yellow people, so he seemed somewhat out of place.

Yellow people always liked to huddle together in a strange environment, and those who refused to huddle together would inevitably be excluded by them, unless this person was above others. At this time, they would come to seek help.

Walking to the window for food with Mara, Ye Nan ordered a portion of ordinary dishes and found a seat that someone had just left. On the meal, there was still a trace of vegetable leaves and rice grains.

"Sitting here?" Mara picked up the food, looked at the vegetable leaves and rice grains on the dining table, and a look of hesitation flashed on her face. "It's a bit dirty on it."

"But the other dining tables are the same." Ye Nan said casually.

Mara's gaze turned to other dining tables. Just as Ye Nan said, there were more or less leftovers on them. She even saw a dining table with a mountain of rice piled up. It looked like the owner of the rice had accidentally spilled the rice on it.

"Alright, but I still have to wipe it." Mara took out a tissue from her pocket and swept the rice on the dining table to the side. From the disgust on her face, it could be seen that she was not very used to doing this kind of work.

"Do you have mysophobia?" Ye Nan suddenly asked.

"No." Mara replied, "Why would you think so?"

"I see your appearance, it seems like you are in pain." Ye Nan pointed to Mara's face and said, "You clearly hate doing the work of wiping the table, but you still did it. Except for you having mysophobia, I can't think of any possibility. I also remember the last time Rick dissected the bug, you and Kaman both vomited."

"Saying these things while eating, aren't you disgusting?" Mara fanned in front of her nose with disgust, as if she wanted to fan away all the disgusting words.

Just now, when Ye Nan mentioned Rick dissecting the bug, she remembered the scene at that time. Suddenly, she felt uncomfortable in her heart, as if something was about to come out of her stomach.

She tried her best not to vomit, and at the same time, she didn't want to think about or have others mention that matter.

"I don't care." Ye Nan spread his hands. "In fact, the last experiment, I gained a lot."

What he meant by "gained a lot" was understanding the essence of the "sea of bugs" tactic.

"Stop talking." Mara slammed the table, and the surroundings immediately became quiet.

In the originally noisy restaurant, it was so quiet that even a needle falling on the ground could be heard. Everyone looked at Mara with a strange gaze.

"Uh." Mara saw this situation, her small face immediately turned red, and at the same time, she explained: "Sorry, comrades, I was talking about Ye Nan just now, not about you."

As she spoke, Mara glared at Ye Nan fiercely, revealing the meaning in her eyes: It's all your fault, it's all your fault.

Ye Nan spread his hands, indicating that he was innocently shot.

"Eh, Mara, Ye Nan, you are here." Kaman pulled Rick's hand, walked to the dining table, and sat down.

Under Ye Nan's reminder, Rick resolutely joined the fleet and became a soldier on the same warship as Kaman.

"Yes, we just ate. Do you want to eat a bite?" Mara pulled Kaman's hand and said intimately.

"Alright, Rick and I haven't eaten yet. It's all Rick's fault, he insisted on training, saying that training can make us live longer in the war, saying that 'sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime,' talking as if we are about to die." Although Kaman was complaining about Rick, the happy tone revealed in her words showed that she wasn't really complaining.

"What Rick said is right." Ye Nan's expression became serious. "Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime, this is correct."

"Relax, relax." Mara pulled Kaman and said disdainfully, "You men just like to say some big principles, where are we having fun?"

"And our opponents are just some bugs, they don't have wisdom."

"You are wrong about that." Rick's expression also became serious, like Ye Nan's. "Bugs don't have wisdom, but not having wisdom means they are ferocious, not afraid of death, and when they act, there won't be any hesitation."

"And among the bugs, there should be a commander. This commander should have considerable wisdom."

"How do you know?" Ye Nan became interested in Rick. Even in the Human Federation, only a small number of people knew that the Zerg had wisdom. These people were senators. They knew that the Zerg were a race with high wisdom through contact with other civilizations.

As for other military bigwigs, they guessed this conjecture during the process of fighting the Zerg, but this conjecture was not announced, but hidden, because a group of ferocious bugs without brains and ferocious bugs with brains were two completely different concepts. In order to avoid panic in the Human Federation, they chose to propagate on television that bugs were lowly and only acted on instinct.

"Bugs have wisdom, don't scare me." Mara heard Rick's words and immediately fell into panic.

Ferocious bugs with wisdom were much more terrifying than ferocious bugs without wisdom. Humans relied on wisdom to stand firm among the beasts step by step and achieve a ruling position. Now that bugs had wisdom, plus their terrifying power, Mara simply couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.

"Rick, don't scare us." Kaman was also scared by Rick's words. Like Mara, she also saw the threat of bugs with wisdom to the Human Federation.

"Although I don't want to admit it, bugs do have wisdom." Rick said helplessly, "For this point, look at the military's attitude, and you can see it."

"They used to need to earn merit to become citizens, but now, as long as you enlist, you can obtain the qualification of a citizen. This point is enough to prove that the front line is tight."

"But the front line being tight doesn't mean bugs have wisdom." Kaman interrupted Rick's words. "Maybe it's just that the bugs are too ferocious, and those waste people can't resist."

Kaman used the word "waste" to increase her confidence. She told herself that those people were waste, and she was not, so she could resist the bugs, and even earn merit.

"But have you ever seen bugs that use meteorites to attack Earth?" Rick said helplessly. He understood that whether it was Kaman or Mara, they didn't want to believe his words. They wanted to deceive themselves and give themselves confidence.

However, for Ye Nan, he became curious. Although he had the conclusion that "bugs have wisdom" a long time ago, that was just a vague idea. It wasn't until he saw many battle reports from the front line recently that he confirmed that bugs had wisdom.

And Ye Nan, looking at his appearance, seemed to have known it already.

In fact, he was very curious about Ye Nan's identity. He saw Ye Nan conflict with a citizen on TV last time. Although it was just a glimpse, he remembered it. After the incident, he wanted to help Ye Nan, but when he went to check Ye Nan's identity, he found that there was "no such person." Suddenly, he became suspicious.

"No such person." The Human Federation's network had already covered every corner of the Earth. Anyone's identity information was recorded in the Federation's file library from birth. Even if they were missing, there would be a file. It would absolutely not be "no such person."

Unless this person was an alien.

Thinking of aliens, Rick had ideas. He used his relationship with Mara to quietly approach Ye Nan, but he found that Ye Nan behaved the same as ordinary humans and didn't look like an alien at all.

However, he didn't give up because of this, but chose to continue observing, while remaining calm on the surface, approaching him.

"If Ye Nan is really an alien, then what relationship does he have with those bugs? Does he know that bugs have wisdom? Could it be that he has dealt with bugs?" Rick guessed in his heart, but remained calm on the surface.

"Maybe that's just the instinct of bugs." Mara interrupted. "Just like spiders spin webs, bees make beehives, maybe using meteorites to attack is just the skill of bugs."

"Uh." Rick was interrupted by Mara, and immediately didn't know how to answer. He couldn't tell Mara that he had seen internal data of bugs fighting humans.

"Forget it, just be careful." Rick said somewhat depressed.

"Definitely." Mara and Kaman said in unison. After speaking, they looked at each other, their eyes full of smiles, as if they were happy for their mutual understanding.

"Please all soldiers assemble, please all soldiers assemble."

The broadcast suddenly sounded. The soldiers who were eating left the dining table one after another.

"Damn, why do we have to assemble so quickly? Didn't they say it would take another day to reach Big K Star?" Mara put down the tableware in her hand and said depressedly.

"Perhaps the headquarters changed the order." Mara said, "I'm going to the control room, you go assemble first."

"Oh, I'm leaving." Mara said, and followed out.

"Shall we go together?" Rick invited.

"No." Ye Nan shook his head and refused Rick's kindness.

"What a pity." Rick said regretfully and turned to leave.

In the entire restaurant, only Ye Nan was left.

"Forced landing? It seems that even the Arachnid Zerg, which are not valued, have these bugs with amazing power." Ye Nan's divine sense swept slightly, and he perceived that the warship was under attack, and at the same time, he knew the reason for the spaceship's forced landing.

"Are these blue lights plasma?" (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 498 =====