I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

Su Mo: "..."

She was startled when she felt the small tower thud. Had she gone too far? How did it explode?

Recalling those water arrows from earlier, it seemed that they were still stirring inside the wound after piercing the mother nest, probably because they had touched the energy storage cavity inside the mother nest.

She clicked her tongue. It's no wonder she didn't notice; after all, the other party was really courting death, and yet they had the nerve to say it was beneficial to both sides?

I don't know what's so good about her or about them, the humans of Blue Star.

The Zerg have launched a powerful invasion of Earth, intending to plunder all the precious resources that Earth has only recently acquired. Even if the Zerg ultimately do not exterminate the humans of Earth, and they simply leave, leaving the remaining humans with a dilapidated home, should we be grateful?

Taking a deep breath, Su Mo didn't return to her spatial dimension this time. Instead, she raised the water sphere and began recording the situation here.

She didn't know if the other mother hives had the same personality as this one, but since it had been confirmed that mother hives could communicate, the death of this one didn't matter. She could still capture other mother hives to learn more about the situation.

After the massive mother nest disappears, the fungal carpet left on the seabed will gradually wither. This is not something Su Mo needs to worry about; the operations command will naturally arrange for people to handle it.

She only checked the four barely discernible secret passages once, recording them from various angles and organizing them along with the location data, which she would send back later.

However, there was nothing she could do about the conversation between the mother hive and herself. The telepathic technique was not something that any device could monitor or record. After recalling the conversation, she compiled a summary of the dialogue, but she did not intend to send this summary back to the operations command.

Send it separately to Jiang Qizhang. The chairman can decide how to handle this conversation data afterwards.

The water sphere rose again, now several hundred meters above the seabed.

Su Mo glanced back at the spore density below, which had been diluted considerably, and at the four secret realm passages that resembled ruins, then turned and left.

The water sphere continued to rise, and soon a faint light appeared.

This time, Su Mo did not go to the sea. After she reached the range where the StarNet was usable, she sent out the two sets of data separately.

Back in Xia Country, after receiving Su Mo's message, the operations command immediately forwarded it to the various leaders, then organized and archived it, and handed over the task of going to the seabed to handle the follow-up matters to the association's operations department.

Su Mo had already dealt with the three locations the association had discovered, and the operations command had not given her any updated information. She would have to search for other hidden mother nests beneath the Blue Ocean herself.

After all, the last mother hive's last words before it died made it very clear that there must be other mother hives on the seabed, and it had most likely already sent warning messages to those other mother hives.

Besides the Blue Sea, there is also the Star Sea and several relatively independent small patches of ocean, which is several times larger than the land area. Su Mo needs to thoroughly check them all before he can feel at ease.

This will take some time.

However, she's still in the Blue Ocean project, so she'll naturally focus on this area first.

Just as Su Mo sent the message and was preparing to turn back and re-enter the deep sea to begin exploration, Jiang Qizhang called.

Seeing the name flashing on the screen, Su Mo guessed that the president had seen the information he had sent and was contacting him to inquire about the details.

She connected the call.

"Xiao Su, I have some breaking news to share with you." Jiang Qizhang's voice came through as soon as the call connected.

But what was said was not what Su Mo thought.

The heavy and anxious tone in the other person's voice made Su Mo raise an eyebrow slightly. Is there anything more important on Blue Star right now than the pest control operation?

"President, please speak."

Su Mo's calm tone seemed to reassure Jiang Qizhang. He sighed before saying, "The official reconnaissance system deployed in the solar system has sent back a message that traces of Zerg activity have been found on several celestial bodies near the outermost planets."

Jiang Qizhang, who was originally handling affairs in Laurel City, was also preparing to end his work in Laurel City early and return to Blue Star because of this news.

Professor Wang Xuewen, who was at the academy, also had to end his exchange early and return with him.

Su Mo: "..."

"Are you sure? When did this happen?" she asked instinctively.

"I received the news yesterday. The photos and videos sent back contain many details that are enough to confirm it," Jiang Qizhang said.

Those places had been explored many times before, and no signs of life had been found. But in the data we received this time, there were even images of creatures themselves. Although they were strange in appearance, they were things that shouldn't exist on those planets.

In the solar system today, besides humans from Earth, there are only insectoids.

"Could it be a monster or something else that came out of a secret realm?" Su Mo suggested another possibility.

Back then, didn't the Fire Spirit Clan and the sword cultivator Xiao Yu also accidentally stumble into the interdimensional passage, emerge from the secret realm, and arrive on Blue Star?

Jiang Qizhang denied it, saying, "I sent you the information. You can take a look. That kind of creature definitely doesn't resemble a human, nor does it look like a demon beast."

The information he sent to Su Mo had been discussed and verified at different meetings within a day, and everyone unanimously agreed that it was undoubtedly Zerg.

Furthermore, it was concluded that after the Zerg failed to send insect egg meteorites to them for the second time, they changed their strategy and began targeting celestial bodies that were closer to them.

Originally, this matter would not have been told to Su Mo so quickly, but just at this time, Jiang Qizhang received an important message from Su Mo.

After reading the information about that conversation, Jiang Qizhang felt a heavy weight in his heart and decided to contact Su Mo immediately to inform him that the Zerg were likely already taking action.

Su Mo was reviewing the received data; several images recording unknown creatures were quite clear.

The images show that the object has an odd shape, with no obvious torso or limbs. It looks more like a swollen mass of mud, and although it is uneven, it has a metallic sheen.

Jiang Qizhang's voice could still be heard in my ear as he said, "From the very beginning of our investigation into the Zerg, we have been very suspicious that they are not native to the solar system. After reading the information you sent me, I am almost certain of this."

"The Zerg, this alien species, was likely attracted by the psionic energy that has mysteriously appeared here. There must be secret realms on those small planets where traces of Zerg activity have been discovered."

After explaining his own thoughts, he also informed Su Mo of some of the conclusions reached at the meeting.

"After their successful invasion of Earth, they attempted to invade the Moon but failed. So they changed course and are now targeting regions closer to the Kuiper Belt."