Chapter 224: 230. Chapter 230: Running is the best policy

230. Chapter 230: Running is the best policy

"Ugh!"

Lanny, Tiffany, and Fried improved quickly after treatment.

What was unpleasant was the parasites vomited out from their mouths.

Long, curved, and covered with red fluff, giving people an ominous feeling.

It looked very nauseating.

The Tower Spirit commanded the medical puppets in time to take the three parasites for testing.

Lanny, Tiffany, and Fried also lay in the transparent cabin one after another, just without taking off their clothes, soaking in nutrient solution, receiving detoxification treatment and real-time monitoring, so as not to have any sequelae.

At the same time, at Lin Ke's request and with Sandra's consent, the Tower Spirit gave the remaining five people a comprehensive physical examination.

Including blood tests and full-body scans.

Facts have proved that caution is very necessary.

Parasites were also detected on the four wounded.

And the parasites on them had received a large amount of life force nourishment and had grown extremely large.

Their body size was almost twice the size of the parasites vomited by Lanny, Tiffany, and Fried.

In such a situation, obviously, the method of inducing vomiting could no longer be used.

Only by anesthetizing the four wounded and performing surgery to cut and remove the bugs.

In this way, the recovery time would have to be lengthened.

Sandra helplessly agreed to this approach.

In order to ensure the life safety of the four little friends, she could only accept the fact of a significant non-combat reduction.

Lanny, Tiffany, and Fried needed time to recover, and the four little friends needed more time to recover.

Now, including Sandra herself, only five people in the micro-legion had combat power and could deal with the Zerg.

"Go, go to the cockpit."

Confirming that the little friends were no longer in life danger, Sandra took the lead in leaving the medical cabin.

Understanding the enemy situation through holographic projection was not as intuitive as being in the cockpit/command hall.

And many times, manual operation is better than relying solely on the Tower Spirit.

Lin Ke and the other three children of the Academy Headquarters family followed Sandra into the cockpit.

A female wizard who had never had any communication with Lin Ke specially walked to Lin Ke's side.

The female wizard had long golden wavy hair, draped casually on her shoulders, with three-dimensional features, emerald green eyes that seemed to speak, and slightly larger lips, painted with flame-like lipstick, resembling Angelina Jolie.

Before entering the cockpit, she specially turned her head and whispered to Lin Ke: "Thank you for your two timely discoveries, saving my brother."

After speaking, she didn't tell Lin Ke who her brother was, blinked, gave a wink, and walked into the cockpit.

However, Lin Ke guessed from her face that her brother was the thin youth with a cold face, the leader of the combat team.

The two looked quite similar, and the slightly cold and hard temperament was even more similar.

Not taking this small episode, especially that wink, to heart, Lin Ke followed into the cockpit.

"Warp engine repair completed!"

As soon as he entered, he heard the Tower Spirit report a good news.

The interstellar warship's power is full, which is always a better situation.

Fight if you want, go if you want, come and go freely.

Sandra was sitting in the captain's seat at this time, looking at the Zerg figures specially enlarged on the screen, observing their various performances, and

Under Sandra's instructions, the offensive firepower of the "Cloud Neon" decreased in intensity again, and it was no longer a blanket attack.

It only focused on those Zerg that had broken through to a certain distance.

Picking them off one by one, rather than just spraying fire.

Lin Ke found a seat and, through the smart brain screen, began to observe the shuttle abandoned by Sandra.

He switched between several different observation angles, rotating and zooming in.

An idea popped into his mind.

He did it as soon as he thought of it; in any case, the command of the "Cloud Neon" had nothing to do with him.

Then he would just do what he wanted to do and could do.

Being a member of the micro-legion, he had to contribute at least a little effort.

After Lin Ke reported to Sandra and obtained permission from the Tower Spirit, he linked to the shuttle's control system.

Operating the smart brain, he initiated the shuttle's self-check and sterilization procedures.

"Bzzt... bzzt..."

Not long after, the smart brain, having fully taken over all the shuttle's systems, emitted a sound like chaotic electrical current.

The results of the self-check and sterilization procedures were out.

No bugs were found inside or outside the shuttle, but an unidentified shadow was discovered at the engine.

Lin Ke immediately switched perspectives to find the real-time surveillance footage of the unidentified shadow at the engine.

After looking carefully for a while, the more he looked at the shadow, the more it resembled a mantis.

Recalling the classification of the Zerg, Lin Ke recognized the group the unidentified shadow belonged to; translated, it was the Shadow Mantis.

This was a Zerg group specialized in lurking, intelligence gathering, assassination, and surprise attacks.

So far, three groups had already appeared on the battlefield.

This situation had to be taken seriously.

Moreover, the Shadow Mantis group was quite special.

"Report, Shadow Mantis discovered."

Lin Ke did not delay and immediately transferred the surveillance footage and the retrieved introduction of the Shadow Mantis group to Captain Sandra and the other three comrades.

"Hiss..."

The sound of gasping in cold air rose.

The "Flat-Head Brother," who had a buzz cut and a face so ordinary it left no impression, exclaimed: "Holy crap, Shadow Mantis? How could this thing possibly appear here?"

According to the arrangements of the Wizard World, the Shadow Mantis clan was under the strictest surveillance.

No matter how negligent the agencies under the Supreme Council were, it was impossible for them to let Shadow Mantises run wild throughout the myriad worlds.

There must be some hidden story behind the Shadow Mantis being able to appear here.

It was this hidden story that shocked the Flat-Head Brother.

As everyone knew, although Zerg reproduction was sexual, they could completely store Zerg eggs in advance and induce them to hatch when needed.

If the vague guess in the Flat-Head Brother's heart was correct, the trouble they were facing was getting bigger and bigger.

"Let's retreat."

Thinking of a terrifying possibility, the Flat-Head Brother couldn't help but want to back out, "This matter is no longer something we can handle."

Sandra remained silent, neither saying retreat nor not retreat.

She knew exactly what the Flat-Head Brother was thinking.

It was nothing more than the fact that such a mistake had occurred in this mission, and the responsibility did not lie with the micro-legion at all.

It was a huge blunder by the agencies under the Supreme Council.

The Zerg were playing tricks right under their noses, and they hadn't even made many valuable discoveries.

The mission details provided were even full of errors and highly misleading.

Otherwise, if the micro-legion hadn't reacted in time, responded appropriately, and possessed strong financial resources and advanced equipment,

if any other ordinary team had come to execute this mission, they would have been wiped out long ago!

Moreover, the Zerg that could possess Zerg eggs to cultivate the Shadow Mantis group must have a not-so-simple identity.

Combined with the mission background that the Zerg in the mission world were a branch of the Royal Family that once ruled the Zerg world of a super civilization,

anyone with a discerning eye could guess that it was very likely a direct descendant of the Zerg Royal Family, attempting a comeback and currently accumulating strength.

A direct descendant of the Zerg Royal Family started at Level 5 Transcendent life.

This identity and level were very "well-matched" with the Level 5 Brood Mother.

The "Cloud Neon" was not afraid of just a Level 5 target.

However, a Level 5 direct descendant of the Zerg Royal Family was not something the micro-legion could deal with.

Look, they hadn't even met face-to-face, and they had already lost 7 people.

In terms of individual strength alone, the micro-legion had no power to fight back in front of a Level 5 Zerg! While Sandra was contemplating countermeasures, Lin Ke had already controlled the shuttle to adjust its heading and was advancing at full speed toward the Level 5 Brood Mother.

He wanted to observe the Brood Mother that he found very strange at close range.

Except for its abrupt appearance, which gave everyone a fright, the Brood Mother remained motionless and made no further moves.

It neither launched an attack on the "Cloud Neon" nor released a new Zerg army.

This performance was quite similar to those Zerg puppets that had been gnawed into empty shells.

The Shadow Mantis at the shuttle's engine discovered something was wrong and began to attack the engine frantically.

However, the Shadow Mantis's advantage lay in its concealment ability, not its breakthrough ability, and for a time, it actually had no way to deal with the shuttle engine's protective shield.

In space, the Zerg guarding the Brood Mother discovered the shuttle's unusual movement.

Hmm...

The shuttle was still in a stealth state, but it was useless.

The Brood Mother's Scorpion Zerg could not see the stealthy shuttle with the naked eye, but they could sense the special fluctuations emitted by the Shadow Mantis.

One Scorpion Zerg after another appeared on the shuttle's path, forming a thick defensive line, preparing to intercept the shuttle.

Lin Ke directly switched the operation mode from automatic to manual.

After slightly adapting to the shuttle's various operations, Lin Ke began "space racing."

Thanks to his previous practice with the "Sky Shuttle" Hummingbird-class starship, Lin Ke's "driving skills" were quite good.

Controlling the shuttle to weave left and right, he successfully dodged the attacks and interceptions of one Scorpion Zerg after another.

This process was very thrilling; a slight carelessness would result in the destruction of the vehicle and the death of the Shadow Mantis.

Fortunately, it was thrilling but safe; the shuttle didn't fire a single shot throughout the whole process, and it miraculously passed through the Scorpion Zerg's interception line, relying on its speed to shake off a large number of Scorpion Zerg, and approached the Level 5 Brood Mother.

In this matter, Flandre contributed a lot, with more than half of the credit.

It was she who, in the "Small World," mobilized the Source Power to provide support, enhanced the computing power, and shared the computing power with Lin Ke for use.

Only then could Lin Ke perform a series of almost irreproducible cool operations in the blink of an eye.

After Sandra and her three little partners captured this scene through the Tower Spirit, they specifically moved it to the largest screen for real-time imaging, watching Lin Ke's heaven-defying operation from beginning to end.

A single shuttle actually managed to penetrate the interception of several thousand Scorpion Zerg!

How cool, how "holy crap" was that!

This visual effect was simply explosive.

For a moment, the Flat-Head Brother didn't even dare to look directly at Lin Ke, directly regarding him as a god among men.

Lin Ke was not distracted, fully focused, controlling the shuttle to continue advancing at full speed.

The Shadow Mantis had long been unable to attack the engine with peace of mind; the combat puppet Lin Ke sent out had already entangled it.

To settle the outside, one must first settle the inside.

Having discovered a hidden danger, how could he ignore it?

If, at the most critical moment, the Shadow Mantis broke the engine's protective shield and destroyed the shuttle's power system, that would be very screwed up.

As the shuttle approached the Brood Mother, advancing became difficult.

The speed dropped uncontrollably.

This was the distortion field inherent to the Level 5 Brood Mother taking effect.

Anyway, the shuttle had already been abandoned, so how could Lin Ke feel sorry for it?

If there wasn't enough power for full-speed travel, then increase the load; even at the cost of damaging all power systems, he had to squeeze out a little more power.

The frontal battlefield had almost stagnated at this time.

Those Zerg with clear minds and flexible actions returned to support the Brood Mother one after another, leaving only Zerg puppets like empty shells.

Out of instructions to save "ammunition," the "Cloud Neon" only fired to kill when Zerg puppets crossed the red line, and it didn't even bother with other motionless Zerg puppets.

A strange stalemate scene was thus formed.

If the enemy doesn't move, I don't move. If the enemy moves, then Boom.

This was the "Cloud Neon's" current strategy against the enemy.

After a difficult journey, the shuttle controlled by Lin Ke finally broke through the distortion field before the large-scale return of the Scorpion Zerg, preparing to have an intimate "cuddle" with the Brood Mother.

However, before the cuddle, the shuttle had to circle around the Brood Mother.

The Brood Mother, which had withstood three Annihilation Cannon shots without damage, was obviously not something that could be harmed by the self-detonation of a single shuttle.

Having gone through so much trouble, breaking through layers of obstacles to come to the Brood Mother's side, could it be just to set off a firework?

Lin Ke wasn't that poetic, nor that literary.

From the very beginning, he wanted to conduct close-range reconnaissance of the Brood Mother's situation.

The shuttle was like a diligent bee, circling around the flower that was the Brood Mother, constantly spinning to find a delicious and tasty spot to bite.

This turn yielded a harvest.

The Brood Mother actually only had the front half; the back half didn't know where it had gone.

Through the real-time footage sent back by the shuttle, it could be clearly seen that there was no large-scale damage on the surface of the Brood Mother.

This indicated that the Brood Mother had separated voluntarily, rather than having half of it destroyed.

No wonder Lin Ke always felt that the Brood Mother was not right.

It turned out that it was only half, with incomplete functions, unable to respond.

It wasn't that the Brood Mother didn't want to respond to the "Cloud Neon's" fierce attacks.

So, the question arose: where did the other half of the Brood Mother go?

Sandra suddenly turned her head, looking through the porthole, her eyes looking gloomily at the mission world.

She finally understood why a Level 3 world could launch a beam of Annihilation Light.

She understood even more why her tracks were exposed as soon as she landed, why four team members were quietly cursed, and why 7 team members were parasitized silently.

The other half of the Brood Mother was in the mission world!

The one who caused all this was the other half of the Brood Mother and the direct descendant of the Zerg Royal Family controlling the Brood Mother.

"Main cannon, full power, five rapid shots, target: the place in the mission world most likely to contain the other half of the Brood Mother."

Sandra ordered decisively.

The Tower Spirit controlled the "Cloud Neon" to execute the order, first fully reconnoitering the mission world to calculate the position, and then firing five Annihilation Cannon shots in succession at the calculated coordinates and orientation with the fully charged main cannon.

If the half of the Brood Mother in space could withstand three Annihilation Cannon shots, there was no reason the other half of the Brood Mother in the mission world couldn't withstand them.

After five Annihilation Cannon shots, a giant crater the size of West Lake appeared in the mission world.

The other half of the Level 5 Brood Mother appeared, unscathed.

Not far from it was the Level 3 Brood Mother, which had a corner shattered by the Annihilation Cannon.

Through surveillance, it could be clearly seen that the number of Zerg inside the Level 3 Brood Mother was sparse, but every one of them was an evolved individual with a size far larger and stronger than ordinary arthropod Zerg.

Underneath the Level 3 Brood Mother were ordinary arthropod Zerg that had suffered almost total casualties.

The "Cloud Neon" locked onto the target, one shot to the soul, two shots to the sky, three shots to ashes, four shots to send off, five shots to celebrate.

"Good!"

Seeing such fruitful results, Sandra couldn't help but stand up and shout.

This shot, fired in conjunction with Lin Ke, truly vented the pent-up anger in her heart.

Instantly refreshed.

No longer stuck in the middle, feeling uncomfortable.

"They are going to run."

The Flat-Head Brother noticed that the Zerg puppets surrounding the "Cloud Neon," as if having received an order, began to frantically pounce on the starship, launching suicide attacks in an attempt to attract the firepower here.

In the mission world, the half of the Level 5 Brood Mother and the Level 3 Brood Mother had activated interstellar navigation mode and were trying to lift off.

"Take them down."

Sandra was unforgiving.

She intended to take advantage of the fact that the Level 5 Brood Mother's Annihilation Light was still cooling down to continue expanding the results.

Lin Ke initiated the shuttle's self-destruction program and then poured a bucket of cold water:

"It should be us who need to run!"

Through the shuttle's perspective, he saw a vague outline behind the Level 5 Brood Mother.

It was like a behemoth patiently lurking.

Waiting for the opportunity to devour people!