Chapter 1366: Wings of Freedom (15)

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Mysterious galaxy, planet Zerus.
"Where is this planet? The star chart can't locate itself from the star's position and brightness contrast."
"Fortunately, we have retrieved dozens of nearby galaxies through gravitational lensing. All of them have ‘Gaia’s planet’, but none of them gave birth to civilization."
"Damn it, although I have a bad history, it's too obvious."
"Yes, it is exactly the same as our ancestors came to the current star area under the influence of the'subspace storm'."
"I don't want to start from scratch!"
"Thinking about it better, maybe this side is closer to our origin-the earth"
"..."
After confirming the itinerary, Kerrigan continued to lean against the wall at the corner of the bridge, closing his eyes and resting, and unconsciously, many crew members whispered in their ears.
Kerrigan still understands their concerns, after all, they are not "Queens of Blades".
"Feeling" is difficult to explain. Just as the Federation planned to standardize the training of "ghosts" and counted the ways in which all psionicists use psionics, the results were described in various ways, and eventually they had to be given up and inspired instead. Style "instructor teaching."
But now, Kerrigan can clearly feel the effect of using psionic energy every time he uses it. As long as he collects something on the planet Zerus, he can directly send the Bucefalos back to Kremlin. Sulu Star District.
In general, the identity of "Queen of Blades" is like a precision machine with additional instructions. "Users" know what it can do and how to do it, but if you want to talk about the principle, you have to look for it. Maker".
Kerrigan tilted his head and glanced at Emil.
The little princess Keha was holding a bag of potato chips made by Tarsonis, eating it again and again while watching Arcturus' work. After sensing Kerrigan's gaze, she blinked and tilted her head back.
Angela, who was standing next to her, smiled here.
I always feel that the two of them seem a little...guilty?
After giving yourself such a powerful force?
First of all, exclude the "finding that you are too strong may pose a threat to them". The two of them have been jumping between "vulnerable" and "like a god" in their own evaluation. Kerrigan has decided to give up Explore their true strength.
So, referring to Emil’s not going to go to the surface with him, a more reasonable guess is:
The previous "illusion" was created by their "adversary", his or her strength is likely to be evenly matched with them, this failed to prevent the other party from invading their own consciousness and creating a subspace storm, and the "adversary" sent themselves" Zerus" has a certain purpose, but Emil cannot stop it for some reason.
Heh... the current situation is no different from when you were a "ghost", and it has become a in a game between different forces. The difference is that your own strength can already crush the "ghost" period.
However, since the little chess player here is quite cute, forgive her.

Three hours later, Zerus surfaced.
Phoo-touch!
Kerrigan landed on the ground with a mass of psychic energy, and the resulting shock wave blew the surrounding tropical rain forest out of a radial circle of wheat fields.
"[...Zerus.]" She got up from a squat position and scanned the surroundings with a condescending attitude.
According to her own idea, she didn't have to wait so long and just jumped off the Bucefalos, but Siwan claimed to equip her with a tropical rain forest special support turret, which wasted a lot of time.
Although it had just arrived on the surface, Kerrigan could already be sure that the equipment of the bearded little old man was of little use, because there was diazepam everywhere.
It is not a gaseous eruption, but a rare liquid. They gush out from the ground and flow directly on the surface. After mixing with ordinary rainwater, they form a series of "diazine rivers".
This also explains the reason why those "primitive alien worms" built their nests by the river without drinking water.
And because they have been surrounded by diazine, their strength and degree of variation are not comparable to those of the new species of Tarsonis, Siwang's fort... can only be said to be better than nothing.
However, the diazepam here is so abundant, it is unnecessary to continue the previous plan of "smashing into a primitive Zerg camp and grabbing their resources."
After looking at the terrain left and right, Kerrigan strolled to a barely wide forest clearing, and raised his hand to summon the worker bees.
Om-hoo!
With a scream that cut through the sky, a bulging sporangia, like a plant and an animal, fell from the sky and hit not far in front of Kerrigan.
With a crash, the spore sac burst outwards, and several bees and two hynixes were at a loss, and a large blanket of bacteria jumped out.
This is of course not something Kerrigan summoned out of thin air with psychic energy. Queen Blade doesn’t have that kind of ability. She just used psychic energy to make the specific sporangia prepared in advance on the Busefalos glow, and the crew on the battleship would It "delivers" to its location.
"[You guys, build the nest, you guys, come with me.]" Kerrigan gave orders to the bugs.
Of course, she can direct them to do so without speaking, but given that Bucerfalos has been observing herself, in order to prevent the suspicion of the Prince Keha from increasing, and for the "sense of ritual", it doesn't matter to say a few more words.
Grumbling~ Grumbling~ A few worker bees turned around in the same place a few times, each scattered, and then leaned forward to the ground, turned into a translucent cocoon, and quickly began to mutate in the constant beating.
The underground nest where the "master" was originally evolved in this way, but such a big brood doesn't know how much resources it will consume.
Kerrigan looked at the well-evolved "worker bee" and walked to the nearest primitive zerg nest with the Hydralisk.
When you first arrive, you have to...show the means.

Splash ~ Wow~
With Kerrigan's last foot knife, this primitive Zerg's nest was bombarded into a pool of blood and washed away by the rain almost instantly.
"[Heh, it's interesting.]" Kerrigan landed again, looking at the worm's nest that was cleaned up by herself, leaving only pieces of tissue structure.
These worms are different from those of Tarsonis. In addition to their stranger appearance, they also ignored Kerrigan’s suppression of the lower races as the Queen of Blades. Not only did they not accept control, but they also had no idea of ​​running away. In this Zerg’s nest All units, including the worker bees, attacked Kerrigan endlessly—and then all died.
If it is not that they are inherently aggressive, there is a stronger will to control them.
After making this conclusion, Kerrigan had a new guess as to why he came to Zerus. Perhaps, that "will" that he was completely unaware of was the purpose of this trip.
I should return for now—wait, what is that?
Before Kerrigan turned her mind back to her base, she suddenly noticed that there was a faint light flickering in the center of the main nest that she had just trampled on, and she could feel obvious psionic energy from it.
This is very interesting. Generally speaking, destroying a worm's nest can get some biomass resources at most, and psionic stuff can't be spit out in the mouth of a Zerg.
Kai Rui looked at the light for two seconds, and moved closer without hesitation. Even if there were any adverse effects, it would be meaningless to the Queen of Blades.
call out--
Without any traps or special reactions, the faint beam of light approached Kerrigan as if iron powder was attracted by a magnet at the same time, and directly submerged into her body.
[Skin hardening], this is the message Kerrigan got after touching the light ball, without any explanation or explanation.
Obviously, this thing does not belong to the "Queen of Blades", at least it did not belong to it before, and how to apply it can only be explored by yourself.
However, this kind of simple reasoning is still not difficult for Kerrigan.
She thought for a moment for two seconds, then stretched out her arm, letting the tip of the bone wing on the back stroke lightly on the skin.
Ding.
The bone-wing attack that killed insects was like cutting melons and vegetables. This time it struck Kerrigan's arm with only a short metal rubbing sound, and then it was bounced away.
"[Very good.]" Kerrigan nodded, "[If the purpose of coming to Zerus is for this, I can wipe out all the Zergs on the entire planet.]"
Next, Kerrigan swept across Zerus.
Relying on the Zerg base built by herself, she constantly collects resources and hatches new arms. By the way, she drops the elite units on the Bucefalos one by one, and calls for the support of the turret of Siwang on the battleship under suitable conditions.
Although this may cause Arcturus to become more and more jealous, but...whatever.
The aborigines on Zerus were naturally unwilling to be outdone. They attacked this outsider one after another, but because they didn’t know how to unite, they would fight on their own when they encountered each other on the road, so they did not cause Kerrigan during the whole process. How much trouble, and sent a batch of "light balls" by the way.
In addition to [skin hardening], there are [extremely fast] that causes her to move so fast that she can cause shadows, [toxin enhancement] that causes her claws to be poisoned only by herself, and the attack on the bones and wings completely ignores the defense [Ghost Strike], and [Specially Strong] that allows her to wrestle with Thunder Beast head-on.
At the end of the fight, Kerrigan can already become an army alone, no matter how large the lair is, she can’t stop her from entering and exiting. Those elite Zergs who need to leverage at the beginning will become spectators completely. If they can play cards If it is, it may already be a table.
This may be called "sharpening a knife without cutting wood by mistake"? Kerrigan thought boredly after kicking another zerg nest.
However, even though she had beaten Pian Zerus' invincible hand, she still did not relax her vigilance, because this improvement was completely unreasonable. The
tentacles eyes
in the green ocean did not seem to be a charity. She deliberately threw herself over. What purpose
Ok? Why is it suddenly dark?

At the same moment.
Busefalos, the bridge.
"Report the situation, adjutant." Arcturus sat in the captain's seat, resting his chin with one hand.
Although the crew members were talking about completely undisciplined, but there was a reason for the matter, and he did not intend to care about it for the time being.
"Yes, sir, Ms. Kerrigan's psionic level cannot be calculated, and two analysis devices have been burned out," the adjutant shivered while holding the record board. "According to her combat power, she should be able to destroy it in one blow. The shield of the Bucerfalos."
"Don't be nervous, ten thousand apocalypses can break our shield in one blow." Arcturus glanced sideways at him.
"Uh...Yes." The adjutant apparently understood Arcturus' implication, glanced at Emil, and calmed down a little.
Although the crew may not know how well Amir can fight, since she can protect Keha, she can protect the Bucerfalos.
"Continue to monitor and be ready to provide support to her at any time." Arcturus continued.
"What? Provide support?" The adjutant probably suspected that he had heard it wrong, and repeated it stupidly?
"There is no free lunch in the world," Arcturus glanced at the adjutant: "The subspace storm left us in this strange galaxy, and this planet happens to have something that allows Kerrigan to grow. Could it be you Want to say this is a coincidence?"
"Uh..." The adjutant said nothing, swiping on the record board a few times to forward Arcturus' order.
"It seems almost~" At this moment, Emil, who had been squeaking and eating like a hamster, said without beginning and ending.
"She should be able to survive." Angela answered naturally as if she knew exactly what she meant.
Arcturus thought about it a little, and then they made sure they were talking about Kerrigan.
According to common sense, Kerrigan's strength has grown to such a level, there should be nothing that can actually threaten her life, but since this is what Amir said...
Arcturus straightened up and snapped a few snaps to switch the broadcast screen on the front of Captain Xi to a bird's-eye view of the "Queen of Blades".
"I can't see it like that~" Emile floated straight out of the wheelchair, pulling Arcturus' sleeves and leading him to the porthole.
"Wait?" Although Arcturus was puzzled, he hurriedly got up and followed his sister to the window.
Since Zerus is always raining, when looking down from the orbit of the satellite, the entire planet is obscured by the changing clouds, which is totally unattractive.
After waiting for about a minute, nothing strange appeared on the planet.
"Amy—"
Before Arcturus could finish speaking, a huge snake face with a mouthful of blood appeared on the surface of Zerus' planet. It looked even more than one-fifth of the visible area of ​​the planet at this angle. When she appeared, she suddenly closed her mouth and swallowed Kerrigan and a large piece of land where she was.
Although no sound can be heard in outer space, everyone can make up for that crisp "click".
"..." Arcturus was speechless for a while, and the other crew members were basically dumbfounded. Except for the electronic sound prompt, the needle fell on the entire bridge.
When Keha's "Planetary Defense Network" was activated, if someone was watching from space, it should be the shocking and inexplicable feeling now.
"Betting on two bags of potato chips, she will be out in seven days."
"With two burgers, three days."
In the silence, only Amir and Angela were whispering unknown to each other.