Chapter 178: Li Hua's hesitation
In the depths of the universe lies a starfield of darkness and evil, where almost every planet is shrouded in scorching dark red flames. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes ravage a scorched land, with a huge temperature difference between day and night, and a lack of fresh water and food. In a word, this star field is like the Nine Hells, not suitable for any life to survive at all.
However, it is such a star field that represents death that has given birth to a race with extremely strong survival adaptability. Insects have lived here for an unknown number of thousands of years, and since their ancestors were born in the Char system, they have evolved to adapt to the extremely perverted climate here. Until one day, the Lord of the Insects found that his population had completely defeated the perverted living environment here, and as their birthplace, the Charr Galaxy, which had lost its challenge, could no longer continue to stimulate the Insects to carry out a higher level of evolution.
As a result, the insects began to cast their blood-red gaze on other living galaxies. In order to meet the needs of the growing population, and to be able to find the impetus for their continued evolution, the insects began to migrate like locusts and invade the territory of other highly intelligent creatures.
The Astral Clan was probably the first target the insects discovered. Humans, on the other hand, are another target that the insects have discovered after losing both with the Star Spirit Clan.
Within the Charr system, there is one of the largest planets called Amosca. It is the main star of the Charr system and the birthplace of the ancestor of the insects. During that great battle with the Astral Clan, Amosca was attacked by the elite fleet of the Astral Spirits, and was almost turned into a scorched earth. However, with its strong ability to survive and reproduce, it didn't take long for the main star to be full of live insects.
At this moment, on the planet Amosca, a fleet of alien insects composed of king worms, eyeworms, corruptors, and even nest lords are constantly soaring into the sky, slowly flying towards a giant space-time wormhole in space not far away.
The space-time around the wormhole was seriously distorted, and the colorful streamers that kept rotating and changing inside could be vaguely seen, and the bodies of those giant high-level flying insects penetrated into the wormhole, as if they were grabbed by a big hand and thrown directly into the wormhole, and suddenly disappeared.
In the depths of a huge natural cave on the planet Amosca, wisps of black gas were slowly swirling, and the religiously creeping figures of half-human and half-beast insect queens loomed in the black mist. The queen heads toward an irregular circular stone platform in the center of the cave, on which a strange-looking diamond-shaped dark red crystal floats silently. On the shiny sides of the crystal, groups of pictures are constantly changing.
Those images are like what the Second Corps of the Sunflame Imperial Army did on Ricktown III!
"Snort......"
I don't know how long it took for the insect queens who were lying on the ground to make a low, slightly trembling hiss, as if something was about to appear that frightened them. The next moment, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed out of thin air, and the wisps of black qi that were slowly floating suddenly accelerated and rotated, as if they were sucked by a powerful suction, and quickly swept towards the direction of the stone platform, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed into a black shadow with a human shape on the stone platform.
"Humble humans, do you think these little tricks will escape the glasses of this master? Haha, that's stupid! The humanoid shadow leaned over as if tilting its head to look at the clusters of images on the dark red crystal, and suddenly let out a jerky and piercing sound like metal grinding. It is the master of the accident that was hit hard by Haoyi in Mutus.
"Hmph, if it weren't for the fact that this Juggernaut was seriously injured by that bastard little bastard, would it be useful to use the things you self-righteous little bedbugs had planted as psionic coordinates?" After a daxiao, the master's voice suddenly became gloomy, and the big hand formed by the condensation of black mist waved across the stone platform, and the dark red crystal suddenly disappeared.
"Pass my order, the swarms of all departments will temporarily stop increasing troops on Ricktown III! Since those lowly humans think their shiyan has succeeded, let's play with them! Hmph, I believe it won't be long before this kind of ghost thing they created will appear on other human planets! When the time comes, our army of insects will conquer that cowardly and lowly population one by one! ”
After another loud voice to the crawling insect queens, the humanoid black shadow transformed into wisps of ethereal black qi again, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"Whew......"
One by one, the insect queens suddenly straightened up their half-human, half-beast bodies, and raised their heads in unison and roared loudly......
"This is our latest development, the Enhanced Psionic Lure!"
In Wuji Palace, the emperor's imperial study, Roberson was pointing to a virtual hologram and said to Lin Bin: "Its volume is only thirty percent larger than the early prototype, but the psionic signal it can emit is five to ten times that of the prototype!" In other words, a mission that would have required five to ten Psionic Decoy Prototypes to be completed now requires only one Enhanced Bait Machine! ”
"Doctor, interrupt! Do you mean that, in this way, only one-fifth to one-tenth of the original soldiers will be required to carry out the mission? In the study, in addition to Lin Bin, who was sitting on the dragon chair and listening intently to Roberson's explanation, there were Shangguan Xinyi, who had just been promoted by Lin Bin to the five-star general in front of the emperor, and Li Hua, the commander of the guard department. Hearing Roberson's explanation, Shangguan Shinichi couldn't wait to interrupt out loud.
"You can understand the general like this! However, this is just a theory! Because we have limited data on insects, we haven't been able to validate the scope of work of psionic bait, well, how much of a swarm it can affect. Therefore, everything can only be tested by putting the enhanced psionic bait into actual combat! ”
Although he was quite disdainful of this ambitious general, out of professional habits, Robertson still explained truthfully.
"Well, that sounds pretty good, Doctor!" Lin Bin tapped lightly on the generous and luxurious bookcase in front of him, and said with a satisfied smile: "However, if you can combine the psionic decoy with those long-range missiles, wouldn't it be more perfect?" That way, the soldiers of our Imperial Army would not need to risk their lives to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy planet. Of course, the premise is that we must develop a new long-range missile capable of burrowing into the ground! ”
"Bixia is wise, and his subordinates will instruct the relevant departments to conduct a feasibility study on this plan! However, the Imperial Weapons R&D Center does not belong to the subordinate control ......"
"That's easy, wouldn't it be okay to go back and make a holy decree and merge the Weapons Research and Development Center under your Alien Research Center?" Seeing Robertson's embarrassed face, Lin Bin smiled and waved his hand and said.
"Thank you Bixia! The subordinates will do their best to complete the mission assigned by Bixia! Robertson hurriedly bent down at Lin Bin in fear.
"Okay, I'll leave the specific things to you and General Shangguan to complete together! The two of you must cooperate sincerely and work hard for the hegemony of our empire! Lin Bin nodded reservedly and explained to Robertson and the two with a straight face.
"Yes, Bixia!" Robertson and the two understood, bowed in unison, and slowly exited the imperial study.
"Bixia, that's nothing, my subordinates have retired first!" Seeing Lin Bin leaning on the dragon chair and breathing a sigh of relief, Li Hua hurriedly said respectfully.
"Wait for General Li!" Lin Bin raised his hand and rubbed it lightly on his temples a few times, as if inadvertently said to Li Hua: "Two days ago, the commander of the information center in charge of external liaison reported to me that someone seemed to have contacted the government department of St. Prory with an ultra-long-range communicator, and the other party also sent back an automatic reply letter, saying something like a suggestion!" Do you know this? ”
"Ahh This, this...... Back to Bixia, my subordinates really didn't know that there was such a thing! Lin Bin's words shocked Li Hua's heart suddenly, his face changed slightly, and he stammered back. He never dreamed that the automatic reply system of the mailbox of the government department of St. Prory would actually expose his actions, and he did not expect that the commander of the information center who was supposed to be responsible for him would actually bypass him and report this matter directly to Emperor Bixia without authorization.
Could it be that the officer on duty at that time found something? It shouldn't be!
Thinking back to the situation at that time, Li Hua was a mess in his heart, and he couldn't figure it out.
"Oh?" Lin Bin looked at Li Hua's face with cold eyes, and said in a tone that made Li Hua's heart tremble: "Okay, I hope there won't be anything like St. Prory's secret talk in my palace!" General Li, you have to investigate this matter! I don't want to die in a daze when I go to bed one day! Do you understand? ”
"Yes, yes! Please rest assured that Bixia's subordinates will find out about this matter in the shortest possible time and give Bixia a satisfactory explanation! Holding back the cold sweat that kept gurgling on his forehead, Li Hua hurriedly responded.
"It's not to give me a satisfactory explanation, it's to let me sleep more peacefully!" Lin Bin smiled meaningfully, waved his hand and said, "Let's go on!" You've worked hard, too, General Lee! ”
"That subordinate has retired, Bixia!" Li Hua bowed down, endured the chill in his heart, and slowly withdrew from the imperial study.
After leaving the imperial study, a wisp of cold wind in the middle of the night suddenly blew, which made Li Hua shiver uncontrollably, and then realized that his back was completely soaked.
"Damn it, the Commander of the Damn Information Center!" His fists were subconsciously clenched tightly, making a sound of bone rubbing, and Li Hua strode away from the palace area where the imperial study was located, while greeting all the immediate female relatives of the information center commander viciously in his heart.
"What to do? Looks like we're going to have to find a substitute for the dead! Thinking about the meaningful smile that Lin Bin showed to himself before leaving, an uneasy premonition made Li Hua's heart inexplicably irritable. After thinking about it, Li Hua couldn't find a good way to clear himself of suspicion.
"Xueqing Palace?" Unconsciously, his feet took Li Hua subconsciously to the gate of Xueqing Palace, and a strange and warm feeling faintly surfaced again.
Li Hua liked it very much, just quietly looking at the feeling of the stunning beauty who had a crush in the bedroom of Xueqing Palace. can't say weishenme, probably that kind of unforgettable crush made Li Hua fall a little too deep, and even couldn't extricate himself.
The next moment, without much hesitation, Li Hua raised his feet and stepped into the Xueqing Palace again.