Chapter 10: "Desert Exercise" (3)
KMC-101 Planetary Surface, B71 Mining Site.
"Bang bang bang!" The shotgun let out several roars, and Black Rose ducked behind the wall, dodging a few stinging snake spines.
"Wolf's den! Wolf's Lair! The head wolf calls the wolf's den! I've been attacked by insects, I ask for help! Black Rose called to the bridge urgently, but there was no contact at all.
"Damn! This is Natasha Habsburg, call any unit that can be heard nearby! I'm a member of the 'Black Rose' pirate group, and I'm here to support the planet KMC-101, codenamed 'Head Wolf', and I need urgent support! Repeating ......" Before he could finish speaking, several more spinal needles passed through the wall.
Black Rose hurriedly got up, put on the tactical goggles, and found that the entrance to the crypt had been blocked by the biological signals of the insects. It's just that these insects haven't rushed in for a long time, but a group of ranged units are constantly spitting long-range attacks into the crypt.
“…… Looks like some guy wants to meet me......" Black Rose lifted the tactical eyepiece and exhaled softly. Then he slowly felt deep into the crypt with his gun.
And just above the crypt, an eyeworm was quietly hovering there.
The interior of the crypt extends in all directions, and from time to time Black Rose can see some worker bees coming and going with crystal ore or high-energy gas, but as if they don't see her, they come and go freely around her. Some newly hatched jumping insects and cockroaches are also pouring out of the burrows, but they all have one thing in common - they are completely invisible to the black roses that are completely unconnected next to them.
"What the hell is that worm mother trying to do?" Black Rose couldn't help but worry, she thought of the transformation of the Blade Queen that Yang Yi had mentioned before. Kerrigan, who originally possessed level 10 psionic power, was captured by the master and transformed into the current Queen of Blades, and her psionic power was marked as level 12 because it far exceeded the standard that humans could judge. Could it be that this worm mother wants to do the same thing?
Thinking of this, she had already secretly started to warm up the self-destruct program of this costume. As soon as the mother worm dares to do something to herself, she immediately initiates the self-destruct procedure. For the ship's mother, although the destruction of this body will have quite bad consequences for the battleship, it is still better than becoming the next blade queen. At least after self-destruction, with enough resources and time, the ship mother can be reborn inside the ship. On the contrary, if the hull is destroyed, give the ship's mother enough resources and time, and they will be able to take out a hull from the four-dimensional chrysanthemum. But if the hull and the mother of the ship are gone, it will be a real battle sinking.
Eventually, Black Rose finally made it to the main nest chamber deep in the crypt. As she expected, it was a large underground space, and a hive of worms visibly wriggled inside the cave, producing more larvae. Just in front of the hive, a mother is trying to stimulate the hive to hatch more larvae.
Black Rose held her gun, aimed at the mother worm, and slowly walked forward step by step. Next to it are the Alienation Pool and the Cockroach Greenhouse, both of which are standard buildings for Alien insects that are clearly marked in the War Manual. Luckily, there were no spinal reptiles or spore reptiles, otherwise these two defenses alone would have been enough for Black Rose to drink a pot.
"Human, you're here." The mother worm seemed to sense the arrival of the black rose, and slowly stopped the action of giving birth to larvae, and slowly moved her body to turn to the black rose.
Seeing this, Black Rose immediately stopped and aimed the shotgun in her hand at the mother worm. But the worm mother said with some annoyance, "Don't point your weapon at me, you know it's useless." ”
Black Rose hesitated when she heard this. Indeed, if they could slaughter the mother worm with a shotgun alone, they wouldn't be called the mother worm. But......
"I'm not going to argue with you. Since I let you in, it was naturally not for the sake of fighting. If you insist on going to war, I will not back down. ”
Mother Worm's words made Black Rose stunned: "...... Not planning to fight? What exactly are you going to do? ”
"You lay down your weapon first, I won't hurt you."
Hearing this, Black Rose slowly lowered the muzzle of the gun, pointed it to the ground, and then asked, "...... What exactly are you going to do? ”
"Good." Mother Worm nodded, "The reason why I let you in is to cooperate with you, or rather, the human forces you represent. ”
“…… Cooperate?! Black Rose digged her ears in disbelief, showing her bewilderment.
"Yes. I want to leave this planet, but I don't have any way to get out of here, so I need to borrow your human ...... Battleship. ”
"I don't know your name, but Your Excellency Mother Worm ......"
"My name is Agnes."
"Okay, Lord Agnes, even if you don't have Leviathan and Behemoth, aren't your king worms also interstellar alien lifeforms? Why do we have to leave the planet in our vehicles? ”
"The king worm does not have the function of faster-than-light jump, if I leave this planet with the king worm, the time it takes to leave the galaxy is enough for the swarm to rule the sector."
“…… So where are you going to go? ”
"At least get out of this galaxy. Destination...... I'll follow you first. ”
"Wait, you haven't said why you're leaving here?" Black Rose reached out to stop Mother Worm's words and asked, "It stands to reason that you should be able to take this planet right away......
"Human, are you kidding? We insects don't have the so-called ...... 'humor' function. ”
"I'm not kidding, I'm serious......"
"I'm just an ordinary worm mother with a small army of worm nests. As long as your human warships appear, we will have nowhere to escape. I don't have the hatching privileges of a high-level hive force, and I can't stand up to your human large warships...... Battlecruisers. ”
Black Rose was stunned when she heard this, and then reacted.
Although the Mother of Worms has been cultivated by the Queen of Blades to be cunning and treacherous, their knowledge is still lacking. In their opinion, as long as the human planet is attacked, there will definitely be a fleet to come to the rescue.
In fact, it is generally true that each planet in the Empire, whether it is the local fleet of the system or the Imperial fleet that is fighting fires everywhere, will appear as quickly as possible after the planet is attacked. But this is the KMC, the Kemorian Consortium, not to mention that the industry of this planet is not a clean industry, and it will not see the light. If this boss dares to ask for the aid of the fleet, KMC will be able to swallow him the next day.
Since the intelligence of the two sides was not on the same level, Black Rose relaxed a little.
"In that case, then, I have one condition."