Chapter 508: Finding the Zerg Nest

*Whoosh! *

Ye Nan let out a light breath and looked at the escape pod on the mountain peak, his gaze complex.

After receiving the distress signal just now, he immediately made contact with her. As a result, the next moment, he saw the escape pod with blue smoke coming out of its rear, crashing toward the mountain peak. At that time, without even thinking, he wrapped the escape pod with his mental power and then crashed toward the mountain peak together.

And this action caused a slight pain in his head. He could be said to have brought this on himself.

His mental power was like cotton, not only bearing the impact of the escape pod, but also bearing the force of the mountain peak's rebound. Under the pincer attack of the two forces, even he felt very uncomfortable.

"Forget it, just consider it me doing a good deed." Ye Nan shook his head lightly, shaking off those slight feelings of pain. He had also been in an emergency at the time and hadn't thought too much before saving her. Now, regretting it was useless, because time simply wouldn't flow back to the past.

"Truly peculiar." Rick looked at the escape pod stuck in the mountain peak, clicking his tongue in wonder.

Generally speaking, when an escape pod crashes into a hard mountain peak, aside from an explosion, there's only an explosion. An escape pod like this one, crashing in headfirst without the slightest explosion, was truly unheard of.

"Still not going to rescue them?" Ye Nan urged. He didn't want Rick to dwell too much on this; perhaps if he dwelled on it, he would dwell on the matter of that bug from before as well.

"That's right." Rick, having reacted, remembered that the most important thing at this time was to save the people inside. For this reason, he slapped his forehead: "Almost forgot, brothers, go save the other brothers."

With that, Rick took the soldiers and climbed up the mountain peak to rescue the survivors of the B63 escape pod.

"Just an ordinary human, is it worth it for you to do this?" Others couldn't see the secret inside, but the Grim Reaper saw it clearly. When the escape pod was about to crash into the mountain peak, a burst of mental power wrapped around the escape pod. Needless to say, this was done by Ye Nan.

"Ordinary or not, it has nothing to do with you. Remember, I do things, I don't need you to point fingers. You just need to listen to my orders. This is a transaction." Ye Nan emphasized the last sentence. Yes, his transaction with the Grim Reaper was just that: he would take the Grim Reaper away from this planet, and the Grim Reaper would put in a good word before the existence in the Heart of the Galaxy, hoping he could release Ripley.

But Ye Nan understood that this opportunity was slim to none. So Ye Nan's attitude toward the Grim Reaper wasn't good either; he was just doing his human duty and leaving the rest to fate.

"I just think it's strange." The Grim Reaper laughed sheepishly, but never approached again. At this time, he also understood Ye Nan's attitude toward him—it was a kind of resistance, a kind of disgust, just forced by the transaction, and he had to be kept by his side.

He naturally understood where the resistance and disgust came from, but he didn't care much about this kind of resistance and disgust.

"After the Master completely walks out of the Heart of the Galaxy, you chosen ones will all become the Master's food. No one can escape this fate, because this is what destiny has already arranged."

Tara was very fortunate, fortunate that she was still alive. Just now, she thought she would die, her head hitting the glass or the mountain peak, her head suddenly cracking like a watermelon, white brain matter and red blood mixing together and flowing onto the control stick.

But soon, this thought vanished, because she discovered with joy that she was still alive, and alive and well.

*Thump! Thump! Thump! *

A hand was knocking on the tempered glass of the escape pod. Rick's mouth moved, but no words came out.

Tara was stunned, then opened the tempered glass, and the sound followed.

"..."

"Uh." Tara smiled awkwardly and said, "Sorry, this glass is soundproof. I didn't hear what you said just now."

Tara's ears turned red. It was truly too awkward just now, just like a silent comedy.

"Cough, cough." Rick was choked by Tara's words and coughed a few times, repeating what he had just said. "I am Rick, the captain of the search detachment. Are you okay?"

The search detachment was a temporary name they had given themselves, and the meaning of this name was to search for the Brain Bug, find it, kill it, and end the war here.

"I am Tara, the pilot of the B63 escape pod. Thank you for your rescue." Tara reached out her hand and shook hands with Rick. "I thought I was going to die at the time. I didn't expect to survive in the end."

"Yeah." Rick was also fortunate. "Crashing into a mountain peak, yet the escape pod didn't have anything happen to it. It's simply a miracle."

"Didn't have anything happen to it?" Tara's brow furrowed, her gaze falling on the front of the escape pod, looking at the lack of even a trace of impact on it, then she smiled and said, "God bless me."

"It is indeed God's blessing." When Rick said this, he looked at Ye Nan by some strange coincidence, just in time to see Ye Nan coming over with the Grim Reaper, and immediately blamed him: "Why did you only come over now?"

"Because this mountain peak is very peculiar." Ye Nan pointed at the mountain peak. "There are some strange places under this mountain peak. If you don't believe me, look."

Ye Nan walked to the front of the escape pod, squeezed in along a small crack, and then pushed lightly, pushing a stone away to reveal a dark, gloomy cave entrance inside.

"The inside of this mountain peak is hollow. I suspect it's where the Zerg Brain Bug is."

When he wrapped the escape pod to crash into the mountain peak, his mental power keenly sensed the situation inside. He knew that the Brain Bug was inside here.

"Originally, the chance of finding the Brain Bug on the planet was very slim. I didn't expect this escape pod to crash like this and open the Brain Bug's nest." Ye Nan sighed in his heart. Who could have thought that a mountain peak without a cave entrance would be the location of the Zerg nest? It had to be said that the Zerg Brain Bug's ability to hide itself was truly powerful, even thinking of such a method.

"It's actually the location of the Zerg nest." After experiencing the initial astonishment, Rick began to rejoice.

Finding the Zerg Brain Bug was easy to say, but it was actually quite difficult. Without the help of modern instruments, they could only search place by place. However, God was on their side. The escape pod crashed like this, not exploding, but instead crashing out a Zerg nest.

At this time, Rick didn't care about coincidences or not. He immediately called out to everyone and joined forces to lift the escape pod out.

Everyone exerted force together, and soon they placed the escape pod aside. Rick looked at the dark, gloomy cave entrance inside and said, "Everyone, be careful."

"Mm."

Everyone responded one after another. Actually, there was no need for Rick to say it; everyone would be cautious. After all, this was the Zerg's lair, and there must be many defenses inside.

*Thump! *

Inside the pitch-black mountain cave, a stone fell below, making a crisp sound. At the same time, a bug was startled awake from its sleep.

"Careful, it's a Warrior." After Ye Nan's mental power sensed the Warrior, he immediately reminded them, and at the same time, the machine gun in his hand aimed at the Warrior, making a *da-da-da* sound.

"What are you doing?" Rick was startled by Ye Nan and hurriedly pressed down on Ye Nan's gun barrel, saying urgently, "This is the Zerg's lair. Be quiet, don't attract the Zerg's main force."

"So what if it's attracted?" Ye Nan pouted. "The bugs' sensing of humans is quite sensitive. Don't say you're already in the bug's lair; even if you were outside the mountain peak, it would sense you."

Ye Nan had seen the Zerg's sensing; even survivors hiding underground could be found one by one. He didn't believe these bugs wouldn't know he had arrived. The only explanation was that they were guarding the Brain Bug here.

"But since they sensed us, why..." Rick's words were only half-spoken when he closed his mouth. While speaking, he had already thought of the answer, and this answer happened to supplement Ye Nan's previous guess.

"If the Brain Bug is here, it can explain why they didn't come out. The duty of guarding the Brain Bug is more important than going out to hunt humans."

"If that's the case, we will face the Brain Bug's guardian bugs. Instead of falling into a desperate battle at that time, it's better to clear these bugs step by step. It just so happens that our arrival will make those bugs come over to check."

Rick spoke of the thoughts in his heart and formulated a combat plan. "Through the segmentation of the bugs, eliminate the bugs inside step by step, as long as the Zerg main force outside cannot return."

At this moment, Rick substituted himself into the role of the Brain Bug and began to deduce the reactions the Brain Bug might have after knowing they had arrived, and he, in turn, made his own plans against these reactions.

"And the premise for this is to be fast, to compete with the bugs for time." Ye Nan supplemented Rick's plan.

"That's right." Rick smiled freely. "Just now, I blamed Ye Nan wrongly. It seems Ye Nan's reasoning ability is quite excellent."

"Alright, don't flatter each other at this time. Go catch the Brain Bug first." Tara said impatiently. "For the future of humanity."

Ever since hearing Rick's plan, Tara had been very supportive. As a pilot, she understood the losses of the Human Federation in this war better than ordinary soldiers—that was a loss of hundreds of thousands. If this war failed, then humans wouldn't be able to launch an offensive against the Zerg for the next month.

So when she heard Rick's plan, she requested to join in.

"Get the micro-nuclear bomb ready." Rick instructed a soldier beside him, then carried his gun and rushed forward rapidly, while his gaze scanned all around, searching for bugs hidden in the dark, avoiding any more bug ambushes. (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 509 =====