Interstellar World: Arc 7.19

Bai Lixin lowered his body and hurriedly moved through the battlefield with his form concealed.

A zerg rushed up, and Bai Lixin was about to slice it up when an even faster black figure rushed up and a huge bolt of lightning fell, burning the disruptive zerg directly into powder.

Nodding to Mo Shaojun, Bai Lixin kept moving and headed straight for the airship.

The ship's craft had long since been damaged by the previous laser attack. Although the hatch of the craft was shut tight, there was a hole about half a metre in diameter where the craft's systems had been damaged.

Bai Lixin quickly reached this hole under Mo Shaojun's cover. With a single leap, he firmly grasped the sides of the hole and lifted himself inside.

Mo Shaojun wanted to follow him in, but the hole was so small that it was impossible for him to get in with his beastly body. If he turned back to human form, the slightest mistake on the battlefield would change the outcome. With the attacking zerg all around him at the moment, there was no chance for him to transform.

On the whole battlefield, only Bai Lixin's size could pass through the hole.

As he watched Bai Lixin enter the ship, Mo Shaojun prayed in his heart: "Brother Mo Ye, make sure you come back alive."

Once Bai Lixin entered the airship, he was a little uncomfortable with the surroundings.

There was no light inside the airship, and it was all dark. Bai Lixin closed his eyes for a while to adjust to the darkness, and when he opened them again, he had adjusted and could vaguely see.

[S419M], he called out in his mind, [Scan for the location of the mother zerg].[Yes,

Lord Host! Scanning for the location of the mother zerg. Ding! The scanning begins.]

[Ding, scan finished. The topographical map will be transmitted to the host.]

As soon as S419M's prompt fell, a three-dimensional map appeared in Bai Lixin's mind. Inside the map, there was a red dot that kept flashing. [The red dot is the location of the mother zerg. Calculating the best route to reach the mother zerg. The calculation is over.]

A thin blue line from his own location on the map began to spread continuously, finally connecting to the mother worm, [Lord host, this is the fastest route to the mother zerg's location.]

Bai Lixin nodded. Focusing his energy to his eyes, his surroundings were then as clear as in daylight.

This ship was more of a huge ecosystem chain than a ship.

Looking around from his current position, there are potholes extending everywhere. The surrounding air was humid, some places cold, while some places even had rain.

Without delay, Bai Lixin began to follow the route map in his mind.

Just after the first fork in the road, a voice suddenly came to his mind: [Xiao Ye.]

[Lei Yao?] Bai Lixin stopped and asked in his mind.

[It's me, I'm temporarily connected to you. I just used my mental power to do a scan of the interior of the ship and found the location of the mother bug. I'll provide you with the route, so just follow the directions.]

Bai Lixin thought about it and said, [Okay, you lead the way.]

[There are five forks in front of you; you take the second left-hand fork.]

Bai Lixin looked to the second left hand fork, the same route S419M had provided to him, and walked straight in.

Bai Lixin was now on a deserted ship since the worker zerg had all walked off. After taking a few forks in the road, he found that the route Lei Yao had provided was exactly the same as what S419M had said. Bai Lixin simply stopped hesitating and began to run wildly through the airship after channeling some power to his legs.

Outside the airship, Lei Yao's head was hurting more and more.

He endured the headache and continued to direct Mo Ye. But one detail surprised him. His command and Mo Ye's choices were almost simultaneous. Sometimes Mo Ye made a judgement before he even could, and his judgement was exactly what he intended.

Although Lei Yao was surprised, he did not say anything.

The mother zerg was indeed laying eggs, just as Mo Ye had said. Because the ship had a shielding system outside, and because the life force of the newly laid eggs was extremely low, the life detectors did not detect them.

More than 10,000 eggs surrounded the mother zerg.

What was the point of laying more eggs in this situation today?

They have captured newly hatched zerg before, and no matter how powerful they may be as adults, a newborn is as fragile as a ten-year-old human.

Instead of coming out to fight the battle, the mother zerg was giving birth to so many eggs at the cost of reducing its own life force.

Why? What is the purpose?

The mother zerg was not such a stupid creature, so it must have a purpose.

Lei Yao could not think of the purpose of the female zerg.

Bai Lixin was getting closer to the mother zerg's position and was only a few minutes away from reaching the mother worm's nest.

Lei Yao's mental energy suddenly sensed a difference. The life forces of the eggs were decreasing rapidly!

Lei Yao was startled, and a terrifying thought suddenly came to his mind. An unprecedented sense of crisis hit him, and without hesitation, Lei Yao said, [Little Ye, leave quickly!]

However, Mo Ye continued to advance as if he had not heard his voice.

Lei Yao gritted his teeth. His connection had been cut off by some special spiritual power.

After a few more attempts, he was still unable to connect with his spiritual power, and Mo Ye kept advancing.

Just as he tried again, Lei Yao found that his spiritual energy was being attracted by something, forcing it to go in one direction.

Lei Yao wanted to pull his spiritual energy away, but he could not get it out of this powerful vortex.

When the pull stopped, the next scene left him completely shocked, and he finally understood what the mother zerg was up to now.

The extremely large female zerg had a huge abdominal sac from its chest cavity downwards. It was a hundred metres long, but this abdominal sac took up a ninth of its entire length, and inside it was the mother zerg's most precious ovary.

Because of the pressure of the ovary, the mother zerg could not easily move.

By the time Mo Ye had reached there, the male zerg was already hiding far away.

Surrounded by eggs, the female zerg stretched out a dark, strong, barbed tongue, continuously sweeping the eggs it had just laid into its mouth.

With every bit eaten, it regains some of its strength. The chest injury from the new queen's scratch slowly began to heal at a rate visible to the naked eye.

It wasn't trying to breed worker zergs for the battle, it was planning to eat them as a tonic to recover its strength!!!

Lei Yao was horrified.

Xiao Ye! He couldn't let Xiao Ye get any closer!

The female swept all the eggs into its mouth in a few seconds and let out a sharp cry as it glared towards the sky with its reticulated pupils.

Lei Yao's consciousness was ejected from the airship by the mother zerg's mental power.

Outside the airship, Lei Yao fiercely clenched his fist and pressed his aching head. He once again pushed his spiritual power through the airship and poked into its interior, hoping to connect with Mo Ye.

But this time, no matter how he tried, he could no longer penetrate the ship.

The zerg spaceship had re-opened its barrier, isolating the entire ship from the outside.

Lei Yao hammered his fist fiercely and burned the already limited spiritual power once again.

That spiritual power was like an incomparably fierce arrow that finally pierced through the isolation barrier opened by the mother zerg and rushed inside the spaceship.

[Little Ye! Hurry up and leave the airship!]

Bai Lixin had already reached in front of the mother zerg when he heard Lei Yao's warning.

The female zerg stared at Bai Lixin with two reticulated pupils and snorted, "Welcome, lovely human."

Bai Lixin let out a laugh and said to Lei Yao, [I'm afraid… it's too late, my love].

A powerful mental squeeze approached Bai Lixin from all sides. The female laughed delightedly as it dragged its body outwards, its abdominal sac gradually detaching itself from its body. Beneath its thorax, a new abdominal capsule was attached.

By swallowing the eggs, the female zerg has successfully evolved.

It broke away from the old abdominal sac and liberated its body from the huge ovary.

Freed from its cumbersome abdominal sac, the female was now only 10 metres in length. It shook its nimble body and walked towards Bai Lixin.

In that short time, the female had repaired the damage done by the new queen.

There was a constant warning in Bai Lixin's mind from S419M, but it was too late.

[S419M], Bai Lixin interrupted the system's warnings, [Is there anything the exchange window can do to help me?]

[Lord host, time stasis is only an S-rank ability, and has zero effect on the female zerg, which is good at using mental attacks. As for the rest, Lord Host…] S419M paused and said with difficulty, [In front of its great strength, all means are useless. I'm sorry, Lord Host. I can't think of anything to use in the exchange window, and this mission may fail.]

[What will be the consequences after failure?] A drop of cold sweat ran down Bai Lixin's forehead as he looked at the mother zerg warily. Even after travelling through so many dimensions, this was the first time he felt such a powerful spiritual power. It was even much higher than what Lei Yao was given.

Bai Lixin bit his lip. Even though he was very comfortable in the supergravity chamber, he couldn't even move his fingers in front of the female zerg. Its spiritual force was like countless invisible walls squeezing him in, leaving him immobile.

[ Lord Host, I really don't want you to receive punishment from the system. However, because the system is a heaven-defying existence, it will be in danger of being discovered by the false gods once you fail.]

[In order to protect itself from being discovered by the false gods, the system will extract the host's power and points to reverse time to the point before we ventured into this world] S419M said, [Your soul attributes will be reduced to A-rank 0% and your points will be reset.]

[Will I still be able to visit this world?] Bai Lixin asked.

[Indeed, Lord Host.]

A look of determination flashed in Bai Lixin's eyes, [I know that even if time is reset, what has happened will still happen, but I will never let the mother zerg destroy what Lei Yao has now.]

With those words, he slowly compressed all the energy around him. The power was like a blazing flame, and Bai Lixin's body began to brighten and was dazzling.

Thinking of the short time he had spent with Lei Yao, Bai Lixin gave a bitter smile and said, [Lei Yao, I love you and I will see you in the next life].

Lei Yao's eyes fluttered open, [Xiao Ye! Don't you do anything stupid, we still have time! You.…]He was about to say something else when he heard a violent explosion from within the airship, followed by his spiritual energy being ejected once again.

A huge mushroom cloud rose up from the airship, and a huge roar vibrated through the ears of everyone present.

Lei Yao stared at the blasted spaceship and yelled out in despair, "Mo Ye—-!"