Puppeteer [Interstellar]

"How? Where are the bugs?"

Two Union soldiers were lying on the high ground, looking into the distance with binoculars and other equipment, and talking for hours at the same time.

This is the "far star" where Lyle is located, and the earth in the solar system is hundreds of billions of light-years away. On the earth, a group of alliance troops left by Rain are stationed here.The main duties of the remaining soldiers were to wipe out the remaining Zerg races on the earth, and to monitor the movement of the refugees who had been released on the earth.

The soldiers who were left on the earth got enough resources and weapons and equipment.

After that, Lei Yina specially supported the soldiers stationed here with several mechas and the assistance of two puppet masters.It stands to reason that this group of soldiers is rich in military supplies and full of firepower, so they should be able to quickly wipe out the remnants of the earth. But for some reason, these soldiers have stayed on the earth for more than a month, but they still haven't wiped out the remnants of the earth. Bugs cleaned up completely.

There is only one reason, that is, the group of worms are elusive, hiding without a trace, and they are quite witty and cunning. Their IQ suddenly surpassed the high threshold and reached the same level as human beings.

The soldiers couldn't find any trace of the Zerg at all at first, and some soldiers even thought that this group of bugs might have left the earth long ago and leaped to other galaxies through the wormhole.

But this conjecture was later proved to be wrong, because some reconnaissance teams of the Alliance Army often lost contact in the wilderness of the earth, or sent out many distress signals before losing contact.

After receiving the distress signal, the Alliance Army sent a support team. After the team pursued the distress signal, they only saw human residues and mottled blood all over the ground, which were obviously left by the bugs after feasting.

All these traces prove that there are still bugs roaming around on this planet, but the Alliance Army can't find them.

This situation is unprecedented. You must know that although these Zergs are powerful and numerous, and can tear ordinary people into pieces in minutes, in the war between humans and Zergs, humans still occupy the long-term advantage. Except that humans are smarter than these bugs.

Although bugs are very capable of learning, their actions are relatively simple and single. As long as you understand their behavior patterns and habits, it is not that difficult to deal with them.

The soldiers that Lei Yin left behind were also experienced in fighting the Zerg. After fighting the Zerg for a long time, the soldiers would not feel afraid when they saw the ferocious and terrifying face of the Zerg.But at this moment, they felt the creepy taste again, because they found that the lingering bugs on the earth were really clever and cunning to a terrifying level.

These bugs clearly knew what was threatening to them. When encountering the mechas or puppet masters of the alliance army, they would avoid them, huddled in the corner and waited for the opportunity, and then specially selected those single reconnaissance teams or soldiers to attack.

In such a short period of one month, the number of soldiers stationed on the earth has decreased by one-third, and the commander-in-chief of the army is already thinking about whether to retreat.

The alliance army not only couldn't find the worms, unknowingly, even the group of refugees who were released back then, the alliance army inadvertently lost their tracking targets. Those refugees seemed to disappear from the earth completely.

In the end, the Alliance Army could only judge. They estimated that this group of refugees had entered the stomachs of the bugs, but no residue was found.

But at this moment, the refugees who were believed by the alliance army to have entered the belly of the Zerg had already been found and taken into another base of the lost army.

Interestingly, the Lost Army doesn't seem to be the main target of those bugs. As long as the Lost Army doesn't provoke the Zerg, the Zerg doesn't seem to be interested in them.

And these bugs, during this period of time, almost only attacked the alliance army frequently.

"You said you saw Alice among the worms?" When Aban was sitting in the lounge of the lost army, Gabriel, who had been spying outside all this time, came in to report to him.

"If that's Alice." Gabriel took out a mini camera from his pocket, called up the virtual screen of the camera, and showed Aban the video he shot on the screen.

Gabriel said: "I followed Axiao deep into the territory of the group of bugs. They have a very huge nest underground in the south, and Alice is there. She is surrounded by a group of bugs."

Aban reached out to take the video camera that Gabriel handed over, and looked at the video displayed on the virtual screen with a complex expression. Gabriel recorded it very clearly, and it was recorded with the night vision function turned on.

The general content of the video is the scene in the dim Zerg nest. The bugs will secrete mucus to "decorate" their nests, and open up roads extending in all directions in the nests, making the internal structure of the entire nest very intricate.

There is no light in the nest, it is very dim, and there are bugs everywhere, and ordinary people will definitely die if they enter it.

But Gabriel went in and managed to get out.

Because it was A Xiao who brought him in, although A Xiao in Zerg form was very different from ordinary bugs, he could still be recognized as the same kind by those bugs and would not be attacked.So A Xiao can carry Gabriel into the insect nest, these insects sometimes drag some living food back to the nest and store it, and the food brought back will not be attacked.

Probably the Gabriel brought by A Xiao was recognized as a food reserve, anyway, the two of them managed to sneak in like this, and found Alice in the nest.

In the video taken by Gabriel, Alice is sitting on a throne made of dead bones. The seat is covered with a layer of soft fur, and Alice is sitting there.

The surrounding environment was too dark, even if the camera turned on the night vision mode, the picture was not very clear, but it was still recognizable as Alice. Her golden hair stained with blood was very iconic, and she wore tattered clothes. The rotten hospital gown, the exposed hands and feet looked very skinny, but Alice's belly was protruding. Her belly was very big, like a pregnant woman who had been pregnant for several months.

Alice was sitting on the human bone chair, her body was slumped against the back of the chair, her head was hanging low, she was motionless, she looked as if she was dead.

The video Gabriel shot was not long and ended soon, but Aban still learned some things he wanted to understand from this video.

Aban said to Gabriel: "I have some ideas, can you go to the worm's nest again, and talk to Alice inside, you tell her that I want to see her, whether you let me go there, or she comes by herself ,It will be all right."

Gabriel frowned slightly after hearing what A-Ban said, and thought for a while: "Is this feasible?"

"I don't think they will attack you." Aban said to Gabriel, "Recently, even if the reconnaissance team of our Lost Army encountered those bugs outside, they have not been attacked. This may be Alice's intention. authorized……"

"You said it was authorized by Alice..." Gabriel was a little horrified when he heard this, "You mean, Alice has already controlled the swarm?"

Holding the camera in his hand, Aban sighed: "I don't know what stage the matter has reached, but it is indeed possible."

"At this stage, I don't know who is better to send, but if it's you and A Xiao, I think there should be no problem..." Aban raised his head and looked at Gabriel seriously, "But if you want to refuse, I I won't blame you either."

Gabriel thought for a while and replied: "I don't think I will refuse. After all, I have already entered that lair before, and it is not a big deal to go again."

"I'm sorry." Aban said solemnly, "I asked you to do such a dangerous thing...Gabriel, although this is very dangerous, there is a possibility of death at any time, and I can't help you, but I still hope you Be serious and cautious, and if you think you can't do it, run away immediately."

"Don't worry, I will definitely do it." When Gabriel said this, his face was expressionless, and he looked serious. Aban couldn't figure out his mind, but at this terrible stage, they had no other choice up.

And on the other hand.

Pfister, who was privately ordered by the President of the Alliance to return to Earth for investigation, also unknowingly landed on Earth under the eyes of the Alliance Army through some means.

Pfister came back this time to investigate the trail of the person who stole the experimental embryo of the queen's egg.

But the earth is now in a stage of multi-party melee, and several forces are lurking here, not to mention the alliance army on the surface, and the lurking leftover army. Just the elusive bugs can pose a huge threat .

Therefore, although Pfister came back to investigate, it is estimated that there is nothing to be taken for granted.

Pfister is a little concerned about the completely wormed experimental subject that was successfully completed... that is, A Xiao. A Xiao ran away after worming, but he is a precious experimental subject, and Pfister wants to find him a little bit. return.

But on such a big planet, there are still so many messy monsters and enemies on the planet, the chance of finding the experimental subject back is very slim, even slimmer than investigating Alice's traces on this planet.

So Pfister gave up this idea and concentrated on investigating the traces of Alice on the earth. After various intelligence investigations, Pfister already knew that the person who took the queen's egg embryo was someone from the Okan family.

It was a woman, and this woman directly implanted the embryo into the uterus, "taking away" the embryo in this way.

But unfortunately, during the woman's escape, it seemed that the red bird pirates hijacked the passenger ship by accident, and then the alliance army led by Rain forcibly intervened. Some passengers on the passenger ship landed on the escape ship to the earth. They chased after them and killed them all, so the clues were cut off like this.

After many days of investigation, Pfister only roughly investigated some processes, and did not get any substantive results at all. Afterwards, he gave the news back to the president of the alliance, and got a black face from the president of the alliance.

Pfister also felt helpless, and said: "I have no choice, half of Rain's First Legion is on the earth, and there are so many Zergs, my situation here is simply embattled, you can expect me to investigate What will happen? Unless you find a way to get Rain to withdraw his army!"

After hearing Pfister's words, the president thought for a while and said, "I think I have to take some remedial measures."