EROS [Zerg]

Eros carefully examined the fork in the road; he didn't want to lead the swarm of insects behind him into the vent and be turned into a pulp by the giant rotating leaf-shaped fan inside.

The closer Eros got to the exit, the heavier his heart became: as a military mechanic, he knew very well that the rescue space of this ordinary passenger spaceship was extremely small, with only five seats for each insect, and at most ten insects could be squeezed in.

The two rescue aircraft can only hold a maximum of twenty insects.

But there were more than twenty insects on this ship.

How to do?

Deep down, Eros wanted to take all of these insects back with him.

After breaking through the last protective barrier, Eros was the first to jump out of the vent.

As he looked at the launch button so close to him, an evil thought popped into his head.

Now, as long as he gets to the rescue ship first, he can drive the entire spaceship away and escape on his own.

Since there are two rescue aircraft, we can leave one behind and let them choose for themselves who stays and who goes.

Eros thought to himself that he didn't owe them anything; on the contrary, he had brought them here, which was more than enough. He didn't want to die.

As Eros was thinking this, he was about to turn around and walk towards the rescue aircraft when he heard a whimpering voice from behind him: "I'm scared, it's too high."

Eros turned his head and saw that it was a female cub, with half of its body sticking out of the vent but not daring to jump to the ground.

Five meters was still too high for a sub-female cub that was less than half a meter tall. In this critical situation, the insects behind him could not stay calm and kept urging him on, and even began to push and shove, trying to push the cub off.

The house bugs that followed the baby insects were completely unaware of this.

The narrow and cramped ventilation duct was not a comfortable place for the insects. The little female was pushed down the ventilation duct by the insect behind her in a fright.

The little female fell heavily to the ground, landing on her knees with a loud "crack" sound.

Seeing this, Eros quickly went over and hugged the little female to his arms. Watching some older insects jump out of the ventilation shaft one after another, Eros immediately stuffed the terrified little female into the nearest rescue aircraft.

As if some kind of "saintly" switch had been turned on, Eros, holding a gun, stood in front of a rescue aircraft, preventing the strong and healthy female insects from getting on, and instead stuffed the weak and small ones into the aircraft.

He crammed fifteen insects into a rescue aircraft that could hold a maximum of ten insects.

With no more room to fit the insects, Eros set the spacecraft to autopilot, and the spacecraft would carry the fifteen insects to the nearest fifth star system to seek rescue.

The other aircraft had already been snatched away by the strong female insects, and now the insect that didn't get to board the escape aircraft was himself.

Eros stood behind the activated aircraft, watching the silver light reflected from the top of the aircraft disappear before his eyes. He suddenly felt that he was very stupid and ridiculous.

However, I don't feel any regret.

Eros sniffed, suppressing his frustration, and turned around to see a group of female insects surrounding him.

"The aircraft are all gone, what are we going to do?!"

"You brought us here, you can't just abandon us, can you?!"

Eros pursed his lips, then shook his head: "Everyone, hide now and wait for rescue."

"Rescue? What rescue?" Youchong shouted angrily, "The Imperial military doesn't even know we've been kidnapped by space pirates, who can save us now?"

Eros remained silent, looked around, and suddenly asked, "Do any of you have guns?"

"How could that be? Those female insects who just grabbed the guns have already escaped on the rescue aircraft..." Before the female insect could finish retorting, a bug behind her coughed twice, took a step forward, and said, "I have another one here... I just picked it up."

Eros looked at the female insect that came out and realized that she was the same female insect that had been telling the surrounding insects about the mercenary group.

"It's you?" Eros narrowed his eyes.

“My name is Kenny, we were sitting together just now,” Kenny said, trying to get closer to Eros as soon as he realized Eros remembered him.

Eros watched as the female insect tried to approach him and immediately drew his laser gun, pointing it at her: "Don't come near me."

"Ah, calm down, calm down." The female insect, whose gun was pointed at her by Eros, quickly took a few steps back.

"Put your gun on the ground."

“Okay…” Kenny threw the gun on the ground and took a few steps back in a show of weakness.

Eros's gun remained still: "In this situation, we can only hide, split up, and wait for the group of insects that just left to go and find the army to rescue us."

"What?...Where can we hide? We're not familiar with this spaceship."

“Heh…” Eros chuckled at the question. “At this point, it’s one thing if you can’t even get on the rescue aircraft, since there are limited spaces, but now you can’t even hide?”

"If you can dodge, you live; if you can't, you die." With that, Eros took a few steps toward the vent, fired a few shots haphazardly at the feet of the swarm to force them to retreat, and then pushed off with both legs, his entire body climbing up the vent at an extremely fast speed.

As he expected, just as Eros's leg rolled into the ventilation shaft, he heard the sound of bullets hitting metal.

Ignoring everything else, based on his understanding of the structure of such ordinary passenger ships, Eros knew that there must be space pirates gathered in the main control room, which was now the most dangerous and safest place, as well as the safest place.

Eros suspected that there must be space pirates among the group of female insects who didn't board the ship earlier. Maybe it was Kenny, or maybe it was another insect. After all, if they were ordinary female insects, how could they not get a spot on the rescue aircraft if they had guns?

Anyway, on this passenger ship, apart from himself, Eros doesn't believe that if his eyes could be sold on the black market, they would be enough to support several space pirate groups. They would never let him go.

After climbing for a while, Eros suddenly heard a jumble of noises coming from the ventilation duct behind him.

The sound came from near and far. Because the ventilation duct was extremely narrow, Eros had no room to turn around and look back. He could only blindly point his gun at his back and fire a few shots before continuing to crawl forward.

It was impossible not to panic. Eros recalled reading in a book that before the Zerg developed a way to use mental power, they were at the very bottom of the cosmic food chain.

The earliest ancestors of the Zerg lived in interconnected caves.

There is a type of star beast called the Lizardmen who loves to eat insects. One of their methods of catching insects is to block the entrances to the insects' burrows and use their long tongues to make various noises that scare the insects, leaving only one exit. Once the insects run out of that exit, they swallow them whole.

"Do you want to treat me like this too?"

Eros let out a cold laugh: "Ha..."