StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 161 The Crisis of the Zerg

The elevator was moving rather slowly, based on the distance Xiaowei mentioned and the estimates made by Andorra.

"It looks like it will take at least two hours to reach the broken track."

Andor observed the exposed, rusty walls around the heavy-duty elevator and said.

"We can rest for a while. We'll probably have to figure out how to get up there ourselves later."

Lia, who had been sitting in the corner doing something, caught Shen Qingqing's attention. Shen Qingqing squatted down beside her and saw that Lia was holding several wires and a lock. "What are you doing?"

"Of course, it's for our safety two hours from now, you see."

As he spoke, he showed Shen Qingqing the safety rope he had just made.

"Although it's not long enough, it's still much better than climbing up by hand. If we get tired, we can just hang up there and rest for a while."

After comparing the lengths, the extra wires, when connected together, amounted to a full three meters in length. Shen Qingqing also helped install the latches on top.

"You're right, I'll help too."

The four insects chatted casually, their hands never stopping.

Before long, the two ropes were braided.

“It’s a pity that these materials are only enough to make two,” Leah said, folding the rope in half several times and testing it on both sides. “But it’s still quite sturdy.”

“Once we get up there, you two can tie yourselves up first,” Andor said. “Little Vi and I will climb up the tracks first to check the situation.”

“But that’s dangerous,” Shen Qingqing disagreed with his suggestion. “Have you considered that your arm was just reattached and you’re already engaging in strenuous activity? That could easily lead to injury.”

Standing up, Andor didn't reply, but turned to fiddle with the elevator's switches.

It's as if they're deliberately avoiding the issue.

Shen Qingqing also stood up and walked to his side, bracing her arms on the horizontal levers around the elevator. "You don't care about your own body at all."

"There's no need for that... Qingqing."

After thinking for a long time, Andor decided to change the way he addressed her, calling her Qingqing would be more affectionate.

"This is the best way so far, and Xiao Wei can climb to that height by hand with his physical abilities alone. I am even stronger than him. The two of us can go up and take a look first, and then we can make a decision if it doesn't work out."

"Fine." Shen Qingqing couldn't argue with him, so she could only sit down and lean against a pillar.

"You should rest for a while too. We haven't slept much at all, ah..."

As he spoke, he yawned, "I'm a little sleepy."

Her eyes welled up with tears; Shen Qingqing looked extremely sleepy. She hugged her knees, buried her head in her lap, and closed her eyes.

Lia was also sitting by the pile of ropes, dozing off. Xiao Wei looked at the two of them, then at Andor, and finally followed their example, breathing out a breath and patting his mouth with his hand.

"Sleepy?"

Upon hearing Andorra's words, Xiao Wei instantly snapped out of his daze.

He nodded and then shook his head.

He didn't feel anything, he just thought their postures were the same, so he copied them.

In Andorra, "If you're not tired, you stand guard."

Xiao Wei: ~(?????)~

No, from now on, he's sleepy.

I found a place to curl up into a ball.

Andor was speechless as he looked at Vi, who was pretending to be asleep even though he wasn't sleepy.

As the elevator slowly ascended, the creaking sound of the rails rubbing together seemed to become the most pleasant lullaby, lingering in the ears of every insect, lulling them into sleep.

*

Wang Xing Research Institute Central Laboratory.

Ge Yuan had a communicator clipped to her ear, and her wrist-mounted personal terminal was open, displaying thousands of unread messages waiting for her to process.

"How many times have I told you not to report those frontline information to me? I know the Zerg are gone!"

"Also, this is not my responsibility!"

"Where did the Zerg's internal energy storage go?! What?!"

"Get the hell out of here! Get back to your job!!"

The angry roar sent chills down the spines of all the insects, who quickly grabbed their materials and returned to their workstations to continue processing their work.

"You must restore Wang Xing's highest communication device within two days! Where are the technical staff? Send double, triple the manpower!"

After the Zerg were sprayed with reagents by the Lycans, the Zerg have been reduced to a living hell.

The Zerg warriors who were transferred away had died on the front lines, leaving only a small number of Zerg remaining on Wangxing. With its defenses weakened, Wangxing was easily breached by the Wolf Clan. First, their communication devices were jammed, leaving the Zerg leaderless. Then, they used artificial precipitation to infuse reagents into the clouds, which then fell to the ground as raindrops.

The week-long rainfall inevitably contaminated almost all insectoids with this reagent, causing them to degenerate in a very short time.

It was at this moment that the wolf clan sent troops to pierce the cocoons one by one, thus ending the insect race's next generation.

The remaining Zerg in the capital all went underground to avoid being contaminated by the reagents.

Now, Gatana, the actual ruler of Wangxing, has disappeared without a trace, and the members of the Elder Council have also left Wangxing on a specially supplied spaceship, leaving only the technical Zerg, who number less than thirty in total, still holding their posts.

An attempt was made to reconnect the communication equipment in the capital city using technical means.

"Reporting to Commander Ge Yuan, we have received a signal from the Zerg sent from outer space of Wang Xing!"

Soon after, insects transmitted the newly obtained signals to the GeYuan optical computer.

Should we make contact?

"Make contact! Whether they are alive or dead, gather all the Zerg together!"

Ge Yuan's pink eyes were filled with determination. "Now that bastard Gatana is gone, I will take command of Wang Xing!"

"If you're not happy, beat me up first!"

Not a single Zerg member dared to utter a word of dissent.

They were all pulled out by Ge Yuan from various defensive structures.

Having undergone genetic modification, Ge Yuan was naturally unafraid of those reagents. In her view, the reagents that were sprayed on her were no different from ordinary rainwater, except that the smell and color had changed.

So when she was soaked in the rain, pulling the insects out of each small room in the capital, she had already decided their fate.

Which of the insects present hasn't been attacked by Ge Yuan?

No!

They were eventually won over by Ge Yuan's martial prowess and followed her to the underground laboratory to establish communication.

"Do everything possible to crack their location signals, and at the same time increase manpower to contact the queen insect!"

Ge Yuan tightly clutched the pearl brooch she hadn't had time to give to Shen Qingqing when she saw her off.

Of the Zerg, fewer than two thousand remain uncorrupted.

Meanwhile, aboard a wolf-race warship thousands of light-years away from Wang Xing, a man with long gray hair sat upright in a chair, discussing with the Wolf King the plan for the subsequent extermination of the insectoid race.