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Unknown creatures, although they are called Zerg by the UN Starfleet and the UN Planetary Defense Force for the time being, are actually fundamentally different from the two Zerg that were once extinct by the UN.

It's not about technology or quantity, it's about the way of acting.

In the known universe, there are thousands of species of Zerg, and there are many more races, and some large races have evolved their own civilization forms and even established their own countries.

Some Zerg have chosen the path of self-evolution and collective consciousness, and of course, the vast majority of these Zerg spend their time in long hibernation interstellar travel all year round. The most powerful of them, the former Magellanic Nebula overlord Catalon Zerg, who unconsciously evolved the ability to move faster than light, was completely wiped out by the UN Starfleet in 2476.

There are some Zerg who choose to self-evolve and embark on the path of science at the same time, and there are quite a few individuals of this type of Zerg who have their own personalities and relatively high intelligence, but the number is still very large. Most of these groups will be strangled by the surrounding civilizations, but some have survived - in the latter part of the Cyber War, around 2508, the most powerful of these zergs, the Jena Zerg, was destroyed by the UN army due to a border dispute, and the home planet and the leader creature retreated to the Confederacy's control and became an important member of the Confederacy.

But, in any case, these Zerg act in accordance with the most basic survival instincts of living beings, and have always maintained a very reasonable state when it comes to the issue of resources and symbiosis with the environment, and in fact they are not destructive and unreasonably aggressive.

But the unknown creatures are different, they are very aggressive and destructive, which can be seen from the completely meaningless building that was destroyed, as if they were venting their attacks**. On the other hand, they don't look like Zerg at all for the exploitation and waste of resources. Normal Zerg, whether Catalan or Jena, will build production and gathering buildings such as broods nearby, and even human multiplication drone legions will generally build similar intraplanetary buildings, but unknown creatures have not found this kind of rooting so far. Moreover, judging from the immovable ruins and the corpses of the insect swarms that were wiped out by the humans themselves, the unknown creatures did not do as much as possible not to waste resources, a path that almost all other zergs would choose.

In the end, they chose to take a large number of human captives as hostages despite being unreasonably destructive and aggressive, which is completely different from other Zerg. (Note 1)

If I had to say, the behavior of unknown creatures is unexpectedly very similar to that of humans.

But what bothers everyone is that this one creature has never been discovered.

The prided planetary defense stance of mankind is easily ignored by this creature, but the combat effectiveness of this creature is unexpectedly weak, and this series of incongruities seems to have been forcibly blended together.

"God, is this a heavenly punishment!" With his hands together, a middle-aged man with a cross fell to his knees with his eyes closed, muttering words in his mouth.

Beside him, around him, were seated human survivors with different expressions, and at this moment, they were waiting on the large transport plane to land and then head to the transport ship McRoss II.

"Haha, Heavenly Punishment, do you still believe in God when you are, do you remember the bird-man race that was slaughtered decades ago, it is said that everyone has the ability to travel in hyperspace. I would say that it was a simple alien invasion. A young man sitting in the middle-aged Christian said with a nonchalant expression.

"Then how did they break through the planetary defense stance and appear in one fell swoop?" A person next to him immediately crooked the building.

"God knows, I guess there must have been someone who embezzled when the planetary defense position was erected, and then the follow-up update must have been yellow for some reason, resulting in today's situation, tsk, there must be a group of people who have to step down." It was still the first young man to speak out.

"Yes! It's all the government's fault! My husband, my children, all... Suck... All killed by those monsters... Finish! All killed, killed, whea, aaaa

The young man's words seemed to resonate with many people at once, and an emotional middle-aged woman began to cry again and again, and the entire people on the transport plane suddenly became excited, or loudly condemned the government or howled.

There were even quite a few people who wanted to stand up and didn't know what they were going to do, but at this time, several culverted aircraft flew in from outside the door and were quietly suspended in the air, and the whole boiling situation seemed to settle down all of a sudden, and those who had stood up also sat down again at once, leaving only some choked and low crying voices.

In the short turmoil just now, in fact, there were some people who shook their heads and did not follow the trend, most of this kind of people just calmed the people or relatives around them, and then searched around for people who felt the same way as him, and then gradually gathered together to form a small circle that was not very far away.

The transport plane suddenly jolted, causing some of the people who were half-crouched down and had not yet fully sat down to lose their center of gravity for a moment.

Dodo...

But the claws that flew out of the culverted aircraft that had just flown in straightened those who were about to fall off guard.

"It turns out that these ducted drones are just here to prevent someone from falling."

Some of the people in the crowd looked at this scene and were speechless at the thought.

The second transport plane landed safely on the runway, and the four dozen ducted aircraft flew over to complete the task of constructing the protective ring and maintaining order.

In the seemingly slow, but in fact orderly boarding procession, a little girl seemed to be looking around, which could not help but arouse the curiosity and concern of the people in her vicinity, and they hurriedly asked her what was the matter.

"I..."

Suddenly being cared for by so many people made the little girl a little confused, although there were indeed some people who helped her in the transport plane and civil defense facilities before, but there was no such circle of people who cared about her situation, so it was inevitable that she didn't know what to do.

But suddenly, she seemed to notice something, and rushed out of the group before anyone around her could react.

When the little girl rushed out, several enthusiastic people also tried to rush out and bring the little girl back into the queue, but they were suddenly stopped by the drones that maintained order.

When the queue was slightly unstable because the little girl ran out, the culvert drone that maintained order also immediately sent a drone to follow the little girl.

"Citizens, please return to the queue immediately. Again, citizens, please return to the queue immediately, or coercion may be used. ”

At this time, Ankang, who heard the news, also arrived at the scene of the incident, and then saw a little girl running over, followed by an inducted aircraft.

An Kang squatted down slightly and spread his hands and shouted, "Little girl, go back to the team, it's very dangerous." Be obedient, or my uncle will..."

"Big brother!"

The little girl threw herself into Ankang's arms....

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Note 1: Unidentified creatures capture humans in large numbers at the beginning, but will kill when resisted. And sometimes it seems like killing purely for venting.