Chapter Twenty-Three: An Invitation from the Queen

Even as they cautiously searched along a main passage that they hadn't passed before, He Xie was still thinking about what Mo Fei meant, and felt incomprehensible, but when he said the doubts in his heart, he was immediately ridiculed by Guo Bo.

"That bug has found enough secrets in your minds, and since we're all alive, it's one thing to change to Jenkins."

"You mean, Qin Lang's judgment is wrong?"

"Qin Lang is not a god and has no ability to predict, and he doesn't know the rules and bottom line of the main god." After Guo Bo finished speaking, he immediately made a gesture to make He Xie quiet: not far in front of them was a crossroads. All three of them knew that if they were lucky, the passages on both sides would hide bugs, so there were two preparations that had to be made.

Be quiet, and send someone up to explore the way.

This unwelcome and unfortunate errand unsurprisingly fell on He Xie's head. He moved cautiously, leaning against the wall on the right side and slowly slipped to the intersection, but instead of sticking his head out, he used a rifle instead, allowing the camera of the fire control system to do the work of his eyes, and at the same time opening his helmet and putting on special VR goggles - his power armor was not connected to the rifle's fire control system - the image was clear, the passage was empty, and there was no trace of bugs.

He used the same method to investigate the other side of the passage, and the result was the same, so he gestured with confidence and told Guo Bo that he could pass through the routine.

"Safety!"

Guo Bo and Conventional immediately stepped forward, but as soon as they stepped out of the intersection, they heard the roar of insects: swarms of soldier insects were pouring out of the passages on both sides, and there were several plasma insects behind them.

"Safe!" He screamed in anger, but rushed through the intersection at an accelerated pace, firing a barrage of bullets into the right passage, intent on slowing the advance of the swarm; Conventional followed him closely behind, and cooperated with tacit understanding to suppress the left passage with firepower. Several bugs fell, but the speed of the bugs did not change at all.

They quickly shortened the distance between themselves and the target to only a dozen meters, and He Xie had not yet passed the intersection.

He was furious: the current situation was undoubtedly a trap carefully designed by the queen worm. The damn bug had discovered more secrets in his mind than he could have imagined, and there was probably not much left, and he kept telepathically monitoring his movements, and finally decided the timing of the swarm himself.

It's wonderful, surprisingly good. He Xie thought wildly, switching the type of bullet to high-explosive bomb.

The queen still didn't use mind attacks to cooperate with its swarm, and although he didn't know why, it also gave him a chance to fight back at its "concern".

He rushed out of the intersection and recklessly fired all the grenades in his magazine at the already close swarm. The ensuing violent explosion completely flooded the entire junction, the decks and walls of the battleship shattered, and heat waves and flames erupted in all directions along the passages and breaches, igniting everything around.

It took him some time to realize that he was lying flat on his back not far from the intersection - the blast wave of the explosion pushed him here. He felt that a few bones might be broken, his whole body was in pain, and his hair and eyebrows were also emitting a burning stench, but he still struggled to stand up with the help of the routine, and heard Guo Bo's accusation in time: "Boss, if you still want to kill yourself, remember to remind me to stay away from you next time......"

The rest of his words were drowned out by the cries of the soldiers. These extremely tenacious creatures cut through the flames and smoke and continued to rush towards them, some of them still on fire.

All three men raised their guns at the same time and threw themselves into an endless battle.

Mo Fei and the motorized infantry who followed him were also fighting. The Queen of Worms has prepared a great gift for them, as many as countless soldiers and two dozen plasma worms, as well as a new tactic that it will control and complete. The motorized infantry had noticed that these bugs were unusual, and the traditional tidal attack of the Zerg had been replaced by a close coordination of the two bugs, and those inferior soldiers and insects that would have swarmed up at the sight of humans were now advancing at the same speed as the advancing plasma fire, neither fast nor slow, and their front line was only slightly behind the blue air mass, just avoiding friendly fire and leaving the motorized infantry with little chance to fire.

Both squads of motorized infantry were seasoned veterans, but in the face of a completely unfamiliar and unflawed attack, all they could do was quickly hide and dodge the artillery fire, and then retreat as quickly as possible.

They are running against the target.

"No, Lieutenant Colonel, we'll never get to the engine room." Varro is gradually losing his composure. It's unusual, but a lot of unusual things have happened today, and the people and the earth trapped on the battleship are on the verge of danger, so no one is alert.

Except for Mo Fei. He quickly sensed the effect of the Queen's psionic energy on Varro.

This big bug is getting smarter and smarter, and it's getting better at using the powerful power given to it by the main god, Varro is not the first and not the only one, it won't take too much time for him and his people to become an unstable factor, plus the swarm that is using the Xu Jin barrage tactics to move forward, Mo Fei is extremely reluctant to admit that in John. A. Worden was an impossible task to regain control before it crashed.

He didn't put Tia. Dürer is taken into account. Since her opponent is a terrifying psionic monster capable of invading the minds of humans without noticing, her end is predictable.

Mo Fei assessed the current situation as quickly as possible. The queen doesn't seem to be in a hurry to neutralize the threat, or has other plans, using psionic powers to affect the brains of motorized infantry but not directly attacking them, and the swarm is advancing at an equally slow pace that makes it seem that they are no longer interested in humans. He also has a chance to adopt Plan B - to destroy the battleship directly instead of recapturing her.

Until then, of course, he needs to adjust his deployment.

And Varro was urging him to do so.

"Lieutenant Colonel?"

No more wasting time thinking. "Everyone, spread out and see if you can lead the bugs into the fork in the road, and try to create a little chance to get close to the bug queen." He glanced at all the soldiers, and his gaze finally fell on Mike, the demolitionist. "Do you still have explosives, sergeant?"

"And some C4s, lieutenant colonels."

"Find a way to put them on the engine and blow it up."

Mike looked at him dumbfounded. "Lieutenant Colonel ......"

"You apes, do you want to live for the rest of your life?" Mo Fei sneered.

It's like a spell. He felt that the effects of the bug were fading—temporarily, but enough for every soldier present to carry out his orders. They continued to retreat, and at each intersection they would split some people into other passages, and in the end only Mo Fei was left.

He immediately connected to the communication with Qin Lang. "Qin Lang, bring Ibana and Jimmy. Xu, go to Jenkins' shuttle, remember, move fast. ”

"Wait, Lieutenant Colonel." Qin Lang's voice sounded a little surprised, "What's wrong?" ”

"I decided to just blow up the ship?"

"Blow her up?" Qin Lang's surprise increased further, "Why? ”

"It's hard for me to get close to the queen bug and take back control before the battleship crashes......"

"But Ibana has just taken control, and she's trying to pull the ship up."

Now it's your turn to be surprised. He paused to feel it and noticed that John. A. Worden is indeed moving from a dive to a climb, slow at first, like in a movie, avoiding Paris but still hitting the ground in the end, but after only a short while, her climb angle is big enough to get her back into space.

Tia. Dürer succeeded? He thought of a possibility, but immediately rejected it. There is no way she can succeed, unless the queen deliberately ......

Worm queen deliberately?

I feel that the situation is spiraling further out of control.

"Can you get in touch with Trigo?" He wanted to confirm some of the speculations.

"No, Ibana was completely out of touch with her before she took control."

Fears are becoming a reality. Mo Fei resumed his movement and told Qin Lang: "Be vigilant, it seems that the queen has other plans, not to finish according to the script." ”

"I see. Need me to notify anyone else? ”

Although he knew that Qin Lang couldn't see it, Mo Fei still shook his head lightly. "No, I'll inform the others personally."

He ended the communication and prepared to contact Guo Bo, but at this moment, he suddenly had a strange feeling that something cold and evil was entering his brain, and then forming a sentence.

An invitation.

Come to the engine compartment, we need to talk.

Mo Fei realized that he was communicating with the psionic monsters created by the Lord God. It's weird, especially the queen bug's request. "You want to see me?"

Yes.

"Why?"

We'll fix things here, together.

"Seems like I should accept your invitation?"

You have no choice, and I have shown my sincerity, and if you refuse, I will fulfill the mission given to me by the Creator.

As if to prove that its threat was not a joke, the queen made an interpretation of this with practical actions: Mo Fei felt that the battleship changed its attitude again and repositioned itself to a death course heading straight for the ground.

"In that case, I accept your invitation."

When necessary, Mo Fei lowered his posture - not entirely because of the threat of the insect queen, but also because he was curious about the psykeric monster's intentions.

The action is fast and we don't have much time.

With the last sentence, the consciousness of the insect queen disappeared from his mind, and Mo Fei changed the direction of his progress.

However, he still contacted Guo Bo. "My friend, I suggest you find Carl immediately. Jenkins. ”

Soon, he heard Guo Bo's reply: "This is exactly what I want to tell you, Lieutenant Colonel, Carl. Jenkins was right in front of me. ”

And it's a bouncing Carl. Jenkins.

Guo Bo put away his helmet and looked at the head of the occult department who was confronting He Xie. Just now, he suddenly broke into their sight with a few bugs with the FIB logo on their bodies, He Xie overreacted slightly, and lost his helmet in the explosion he made before, and beat them all into literal scum without seeing those letters, so he successfully aroused Jenkins's anger.

That's understandable: those FIB bugs were his research, and now they're all gone. The same thing, anyone will be angry.

Of course, he was a facial paralysis with no expression on his face, and there was no anger on his face at all.

Guo Bo gloated at the thought that neither Jenkins nor He Xie could be happy if he was unlucky—with a distinct smile, and then he couldn't laugh anymore.

Jenkins quickly showed the insight of a psyker: "You're not a maneuver...... No, you are not of this world. Who are you? ”