Quick Wear: Love still depends on two love brains

"A queen insect appeared in the middle!" The team members suddenly exclaimed in the communicator.

Quan Jiuxi was slightly stunned. He saw a mother insect that was a hundred meters long slowly wriggling in the shadows deep in the canyon. Its carapace was a darker dark green, and its back was covered with dense egg sacs. Every second, more than a dozen larvae emerged from the egg sacs.

The queen is the Zerg's mobile reproductive device and must be destroyed as soon as possible.

"I'll handle it." Pei Jin's voice remained steady.

The "Powang" suddenly accelerated, and the particle knife drew a dazzling light track in the sunlight, instantly cutting through several soldier insects blocking the way.

Quan Jiuxi saw the queen insect's tail suddenly lift up and spurt out a ball of dark yellow mucus. The mucus turned into countless tiny acid droplets in the air and splashed towards the "Powang".

"Admiral! Be careful of the acid!" the adjutant couldn't help but whisper.

He knew that the outer armor of the "Powang" could resist corrosion from strong acids, but continued exposure to acid would definitely cause problems.

Pei Jin had obviously thought of this as well. The mecha suddenly performed a difficult rotation, avoiding most of the acid. Only the armor on his left arm was splashed by a few drops of acid, making a "sizzling" corrosion sound and emitting bursts of white smoke.

"The left arm armor is 30% damaged." The mecha's intelligent system issued a prompt sound.

Pei Jin seemed not to hear it, and continued to control the mecha to advance, and the particle knife pierced into the queen insect's egg sac fiercely.

Dark green slurry gushed out, accompanied by the hissing of countless larvae. The mother insect let out a painful howl, and her huge body began to twitch violently.

At this moment, Quan Jiuxi noticed that the tentacles on the queen insect's head suddenly trembled rapidly, as if sending some kind of signal.

A sense of uneasiness suddenly rose in her heart. She glanced across the battlefield and suddenly discovered that the originally scattered soldier insects were gathering around the queen insect, forming an impenetrable encirclement.

What's even more bizarre is that the rhythm of their movements has become unusually uniform, as if they are controlled by some force.

"Something's wrong." Quan Jiuxi's eyes darkened. She knew that the Zerg had a collective consciousness, but she had never seen the soldier-bugs cooperate to this extent.

The "Powang" obviously also realized the danger and began to retreat, swinging its particle knife continuously in an attempt to tear open the encirclement.

But those soldier bugs were like crazy, rushing forward one after another, blocking the mecha's retreat with their bodies.

The pincers of a soldier insect broke through the defense and slammed hard into the back of the "Powang". The mecha staggered and the light of its thrusters dimmed significantly.

"Thruster damaged, power reduced by 15%."

Quan Jiuxi hesitated when he wanted to open the mecha.

Just as she hesitated, something unexpected happened on the battlefield.

An elite insect, a size larger than an ordinary soldier insect, had circled around to the side and rear of the "Powang" at some point. Its claws were flashing with a faint blue light, and it was obvious that it was carrying energy fluctuations.

Quan Jiuxi watched helplessly as the elite insect suddenly leaped up, its claws piercing the side of the cockpit of the "Powang" with a sound of breaking through the air - that was where the energy circuit of the mecha was located, and it was also Pei Jin's only blind spot in defense.

"careful!"

Pei Jin obviously also sensed the danger, and his mecha rolled suddenly to the left, trying to avoid the attack.

But the elite bug was too fast, and its claws still brushed past the side of the cockpit, making a loud explosion.

The energy shield of the "Powang" was shattered in an instant, a hole was torn in the side armor of the cockpit, and dark purple energy sparks gushed out from the gap.

"Pei Jin!" Quan Jiuxi's heart seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand. She saw that the movement of the "Dawn" was obviously delayed for a moment, and it was obvious that the pilot had been shocked.

But the next second, the "Dawn" suddenly burst out with stronger power, and the particle knife pierced the elite insect's head with its backhand.

Pei Jin didn't pause at all, and continued to control the mecha to break through the encirclement. He fired the shoulder cannon continuously, and blasted a path through the swarm of insects.

It was not until the "Powang" broke out of the encirclement and landed in a relatively safe area that Quan Jiuxi felt relieved.

A suppressed cough came from the communicator. Pei Jin's voice was a little hoarse, but still steady: "The queen has been destroyed. All echelons are counting casualties and preparing to evacuate."

"Yes!"

Everyone in the Dawn Team responded quickly, and the logistics personnel came to check Pei Jin's injuries.

At this moment, an earthquake suddenly occurred on the surface.

Pei Jin's expression changed.

The members of the Dawn Team were all very capable and sensed the danger immediately.

Quan Jiuxi narrowed his eyes slightly and looked behind him.

Quan Jiuxi's mecha sensor suddenly made a rapid beeping sound, and the geological monitoring data on the screen jumped like crazy.

The ground of Red Sand Star continued to tremble, not the dense vibrations caused by the Zerg charge, but a deeper and more penetrating low-frequency resonance, as if some behemoth was awakening from deep within the earth.

She suddenly turned the mecha's perspective and looked at the Black Rock Mountains behind the battlefield that had never been explored.

The originally silent mountains seemed to come alive at this moment. The gray-black rock layers were cracking, and sticky dark purple juice was oozing out of the cracks. The smell of sulfur in the air was suddenly replaced by a stronger fishy and sweet smell - it was a smell more overbearing than the queen insect's body fluids, with a disgusting sense of life decay.

"What's going on?" the team members' voices rang out in surprise over the communicator. The Dawnbreakers had just gathered their formation, the smoke and dust from their mecha hulls still barely clearing when the sudden earthquake jolted everyone back into high alert.

Pei Jin's voice followed closely behind, its hoarseness now sharper: "Everyone on alert, maximize the energy shield!"

Quan Jiuxi saw that the "Powang" was struggling to adjust its posture, and sparks were still coming out of the damaged part of the left arm armor. It was obvious that the injury was more serious than it looked.

But Pei Jin controlled the mecha without any hesitation. The shoulder cannon had been recharged and the muzzle was aimed towards the Black Rock Mountains.

At that moment, the massive rock in the center of the mountain suddenly crumbled, sending debris raining down like a torrential rain. A shadow, obscuring the sky and the sun, rose from the crack. Quan Jiuxi looked over—it was a Zerg creature he had never seen before, three times the size of the queen. Its dark purple carapace was covered in layers of bony plates, each edge gleaming with a cold metallic luster, as if forged from the ore of the planet's core.

It has no compound eyes, only a huge mouth full of fangs on its head. The bottomless throat can be seen when the mouth opens and closes. Dozens of pairs of winged limbs spread out from both sides of the body. The strong wind caused by flapping its wings can make the mecha several kilometers away shake.

"It's... the Insect King!" a team member exclaimed in surprise.

The database of the Interstellar Alliance contains only scattered legends about the Zerg King. It is said that he is the ultimate evolution of the Zerg Queen, possessing the ability to control the entire planet's Zerg population, a rare sight in a century.

No one expected that such an ultimate hunter would be hidden in the Zerg community of Red Sand Star.

The Insect King let out a deafening roar, and the sound waves formed visible ripples in the air. The communicators of several mechas in the front row of the Dawn Breaking Team suddenly exploded, and the screens were filled with snowflakes.

What was even more terrifying was that the soldier insects that had already been scattered suddenly seemed to be injected with a stimulant. Their orange-red compound eyes turned scarlet, and they turned around and rushed towards the mecha group like crazy. Even death could not stop their charge.

The engine of "Powang" made a muffled sound, and Pei Jin was obviously forcibly increasing the power.

Quan Jiuxi saw that he did not choose to fight head-on, but instead controlled the mecha to detour to the side. The particle knife drew a precise arc and cut off the limbs of three soldier insects - he was trying to buy time for his teammates to adjust their formation.

But the Insect King's attack was faster than expected.

The mouthparts on its head suddenly opened, spraying out a dark purple beam of light, which fell on the mecha closest to it. The energy shield of that mecha shattered like paper, and the outer armor was instantly corroded with honeycomb-shaped holes.

The driver had already prepared himself for death, but suddenly he felt his body floating in the air and wrapped in warmth.