There was no doubt that they were Zerg outlaws. But why on earth would they appear in the heartland of humanity?
Through the telephoto lens, Su Mi gazed at the neat row of gun muzzles on its surface, and a vague sense of unease crept into her heart.
Su Mi's clear voice rang out in the ears of all the observers: "Ten kilometers ahead, a Zerg outlaw spaceship has been detected. Preliminary judgment is that the other side has made a superluminal jump. Request permission to fire."
"Permission granted to fire. Snow Peak, get ready to take off and provide support."
Hardly had the words fallen when Ling Zheng, who had been flying outside the debris belt, immediately said, "Xiao Mi, follow behind me."
"Yes!" The fighter jet piloted by Su Mi made a side roll, deviating from the flight path and traversing the debris belt horizontally. She could almost see with the naked eye that Ling Zheng's Snow Peak, like a gleaming sharp knife, plunged into the vast expanse of the debris belt.
However, at that moment, to Su Mi's astonishment, a huge ball of light emitted a dazzling twinkle in the place where Ling Zheng's plane had left. It was like a gigantic firework exploding in space, as if it were going to illuminate the entire universe.
But Su Mi knew that the more beautiful something was, the more dangerous it was.
The light quickly faded away, and a dark outline emerged – it was another Zerg spaceship that had just completed a spatial jump.
"Watch out!" Su Mi shouted and simultaneously locked onto the enemy plane and launched a missile.
Two streaks of fire shot out almost simultaneously, drawing parallel straight lines in the debris belt. Behind the smoke and light, Ling Zheng, who was caught off guard, and the Zerg spaceship that had attempted to launch a sneak attack were both hit.
Under the huge impact of the missiles, the two planes plummeted straight towards the Windsor satellite on the outside of the planet.
Almost at the same instant, Su Mi's Snow Peak instantly turned around and charged towards the Zerg spaceship.
This move by Su Mi seemed extremely brave yet rather reckless at that time. After all, the reinforcements from the War Phoenix would arrive in three minutes, and she was still a novice. How could she match up to the fierce Zerg outlaws?
The two spaceships charged head-on, with missiles and rocket launchers firing all at once, like two meteors, carrying countless streams of light, colliding in the debris belt.
Two minutes later, the victor was clear.
The Zerg spaceship had only been hit by one shot, while the Snow Peak had taken three solid hits and was instantly torn apart. A petite figure shot out like a cannonball from the wreckage of the Snow Peak.
"Su Mi!"
"Oh no!"
The people on the War Phoenix exclaimed.
"Success!" Lian Duo, however, let out a distinctive voice. The vice-captain and the others turned to look in surprise and saw their captain showing a devilishly smug smile. "Su Mi has damaged their superluminal engine. They can't escape!"
Everyone suddenly realized. Sure enough, watching the five Snow Peak fighter jets that had finally arrived surround the smoking and fleeing Zerg spaceship.
At the same time, the rescue ship also arrived and quickly fished Su Mi out and then headed towards the Windsor satellite.
Meanwhile, Lian Duo stood in the combat command center, laughing heartily and said to everyone, "Don't you think it's brilliant?"
Everyone remained silent, pondering.
The vice-captain, who understood what he meant, explained, "Launching a rapid attack so that the enemy plane didn't have time to initiate a superluminal jump; bravely charging head-on so that the enemy plane was afraid of being hit from behind and didn't dare to turn around and flee; and at the same time, taking advantage of the other side's desire for revenge, using oneself as bait to successfully trap this spaceship. In such a short period of time, so much was accomplished. Although we lost in a one-on-one fight against the Zerg spaceship, overall, we won."
Lian Duo swept his stern gaze around. "What if this spaceship had escaped and then reappeared inside the atmosphere of the Hope Planet after the next jump?"
Everyone remained silent.
After a moment of silence, Lian Duo started to roar again: "Get me connected to the Zerg border guard! Ask them what's going on. Are they going to start a war?!"
The operator quickly replied, "Sir, the Zerg queen has sent an apology statement. They were lax in their defenses and are asking us to assist in eliminating the outlaws."
Lian Duo fell into a thoughtful silence and finally muttered under his breath, "Damn it. I thought there would be a war, but it was just a near miss."
The officers were collectively speechless.
On the rescue ship, the people didn't hear Lian Duo's ranting. Su Mi was sitting in the cabin, and the doctor sighed as he was doing a basic check-up. "You usually seem so calm. Why were you so impulsive this time? You lost, right? Fortunately, you didn't lose your life."
Su Mi smiled silently.
After a violent jolt, the rescue ship successfully penetrated the Windsor atmosphere and descended to an altitude of a few hundred meters.
Windsor was famous throughout the galaxy, not as a satellite, but as a paradise for tourists.
As the rescue ship flew at a low altitude, the beautiful scenery of the first satellite in the galaxy came into full view – the sky was like flawless jade, spotless. The azure ocean was like soft satin, undulating with a pleasant sheen. The beach was formed by piles of fine, snow-like white sand.
After flying low along the ground for more than ten minutes, they soon spotted the wreckage of the Snow Peak on a long and narrow beach. It was still emitting some smoke, but there was no sign of the wreckage of the Zerg spaceship.
The beach was already in chaos. Naked men and women were screaming and running in all directions. Clothes, shoes, and bags were scattered all over the ground. Several young people wearing shorts and sun hats, holding long guns and hunching over, looked extremely stiff and nervous as they approached the wreckage of the Snow Peak step by step – it seemed they were the coast guard.
The source of all this chaos was undoubtedly the conspicuous Ling Zheng standing upright beside the wreckage and the three worker bugs that surrounded him.
The firepower of the rescue ship couldn't accurately target such small targets on the ground. Two officers on the ship immediately roared, "Let us down!" One of them glanced at Su Mi. "Still not going? Go and help!"
"I..." Su Mi was a person who knew how to repay kindness, but it was obviously not a good idea to engage in close combat with the worker bugs. However, at this moment, her comrades had obviously forgotten that she was a woman.
The three of them landed on the ground, and the scene before their eyes was undoubtedly extremely shocking.
In the midst of the panicked encirclement by the young guards, the worker bugs actually stood on their tail ends like humans, with the barbs and multiple legs on their pitch-black bodies waving rapidly, able to easily pierce through flesh and blood. However, Ling Zheng stood in the middle with a cold face. There were two dead worker bugs lying at his feet, full of bloody holes, obviously killed by him.
He then gave a fierce kick to the soft abdomen of one of the worker bugs, and that bug fell to the ground as if its internal organs had been kicked and injured by Ling Zheng.
Ling Zheng's foot was immediately bleeding profusely. The other two worker bugs immediately pounced on him, and he was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the bugs.
Su Mi and the other two were stunned for a moment and almost immediately rushed forward.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" One of the worker bugs was shot and fell to the ground. Ling Zheng turned to see them and immediately showed a proud smile. "Damn it, you're so slow. I was almost bitten to death."
However, the worker bugs weren't stupid. The remaining two almost immediately pounced on the seemingly easy targets, the young guards on the periphery. These young people had never seen the Zerg before, and the ordinary guns in their hands couldn't penetrate the hard shells of the worker bugs. In an instant, two guards were screaming in pain and fell to the ground!
This scene was undoubtedly extremely bloody and disgusting. The worker bugs with black shells, multiple legs, and purple compound eyes were almost completely sprawled on the young people, wriggling and making a "hissing" sound as they bit, instantly leaving the faces and bodies of the young people a bloody mess. The screams came to an abrupt halt – their throats had been bitten off.
Under such circumstances, Su Mi and the others couldn't fire their guns. The two soldiers, their eyes red with rage, directly pounced on the worker bugs.
Ling Zheng, injured and sitting on the ground, saw Su Mi, who had been holding a gun and constantly moving, trying to aim, and roared, "What are you doing here? Go back!"
Just then, a scream came. One of the comrades was pinned down by a worker bug and was being brutally bitten. And the young guard was being protected by the comrade beneath him.
Ling Zheng almost immediately roared and, dragging his injured body, pounced forward.
Su Mi's original judgment was to keep her distance and never let the worker bugs get close – she had no advantage in hand-to-hand combat, and going up would be a pointless sacrifice. However, in the face of this scene, she suddenly completely forgot about rationality.
She also pounced forward.
Later, her comrades defined this behavior of hers as – having guts.
A scuffle ensued, a repeated scuffle. One worker bug, two seriously injured air force pilots, a female pilot with extremely low combat skills, and a bottom-ranked guard were all tangled up in a chaotic mess.
Ling Zheng's gun was out of bullets. Having suffered many bites and losing too much blood, even this master of combat was fighting haphazardly. The comrade who had been seriously injured while trying to save the guard couldn't move, and his pistol had disappeared in the melee. And Su Mi was fighting the most messily, stabbing randomly at the bug's body with a dagger, only to have the dagger bent by the hard shell. Her face and body had also been scratched in many places by the multiple legs.
"Bang –"
The melee ended with a muffled gunshot. Everyone remained in a rigid posture because the worker bug beneath them, in their arms, or above their heads no longer moved.
A small figure, her face smeared with purple, stinking blood, crawled out from under the belly of the worker bug, holding a grenade launcher, looking a bit dazed. Only her petite body, after being completely pinned down by the long and stout worker bug, had managed to make the bug see but not be able to bite.
"Good job! Xiao Mi!" Ling Zheng sighed and then closed his eyes and fell to the ground. On the other side, a comrade finally managed to kill the other worker bug with the other guards and sat on the ground, panting heavily.
Su Mi looked at the half-dead comrades lying on the ground and felt as if she were in a dream, weak all over and in a daze.
"War Phoenix! War Phoenix!" She called into the communicator on her wrist. "Suspect that there are other worker bugs that have escaped. Please search the entire Windsor immediately."
Su Mi was right. There were indeed other worker bugs, and the number exceeded twenty.
From the beach where the Zerg spaceship crashed, they had fled all the way to the land one kilometer away. Ling Zheng had only managed to snipe five of the ones that had strayed. And before Su Mi had arrived on the ground, those worker bugs had already been crawling rapidly like a tide, attacking the tourists.
On the coastline stretching for one kilometer, there were human corpses or body parts every few steps, and blood had spattered the clean beach. The space forces hadn't arrived yet, and the ground defense forces were simply no match for the fierce worker bugs. At this rate, they would be able to cause quite a disaster on the ground.
However, their invasion ended on the highway outside the Windsor government mansion.
More than twenty worker bug corpses were neatly piled up beside the highway, with purple-red blood soaking the gray highway. Fifty black military police, armed with grenade launchers, were looking coldly at the alien enemies who had just perished under their guns.
The head of the Windsor Municipal Hall was almost following the high-ranking official in front of him obsequiously, still with a lingering fear. "The director was truly prescient. Equipping the military police with powerful firepower saved the officials from disaster. This feat is truly meritorious..."
Shang Zheng didn't pay much attention to the officials who were deliberately currying favor. He was dressed in a pitch-black uniform, standing on the second floor of the municipal hall, holding a delicate telescope and looking off into the distance, not knowing exactly where.
Mu Xiting waved away the officials and walked forward and whispered, "Sir, is there anything unusual?"
Shang Zheng put down the telescope, and a carefree smile emerged on his handsome and tough face. "Ho, suddenly remembered that we still have a little kitten left in space."