StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 148 Chewing

This time, Shen Qingqing did not hesitate at all. Ignoring Lao Ba's advice, she insisted on following the footprints to start searching.

Since the owner of the footprints could take all the energy liquid away in a short time, if she could persuade the other party, she might be able to get some information out of them.

Moreover, since the other party wants the energy liquid, they must have other special mechanical equipment they need to use. If they're lucky, they might even be able to take the opportunity to repair Andorra.

[Host, don't be silly. Anyone who can move hundreds of cubic meters of energy liquid is definitely not an ordinary person.]

Old Eight earnestly advised, "Let's go back and discuss this further, shall we?"

"This is bad," Shen Qingqing had made up her mind to repair Andorra. "I have a feeling that I can repair Andorra's machine this time."

He quickened his pace, following the footprints through several long corridors, and arrived at another part of the experimental base.

The footprints also become lighter here.

Even after losing all clues, Shen Qingqing did not lose heart but chose to continue forward.

She didn't know where she got the courage, but now Shen Qingqing's mind was full of ideas about how to repair Andorra.

Old Eight couldn't bear to see anything happen to its host, and since it couldn't offer Shen Qingqing any help at the moment, it simply switched to flight mode and stopped watching the tragedy unfold.

It was at this moment that Cecilia logged back in.

"What are you doing?"

Cecilia's voice suddenly echoed in Shen Qingqing's mind, startling her. "I'm tracking footprints."

He then turned his gaze to the faint footprints behind him, "Maybe we can find other Zerg and help repair Andorra."

“You’re pretty bold,” Cecilia raised an eyebrow, feeling that her inherited worm was quite different from the one she had seen before. “Didn’t you think that if something happened, Andorra’s efforts would be in vain?”

Shen Qingqing found a place to squat down, her words filled with indescribable desolation, "But if Andor doesn't wake up, Lia and I probably won't be able to get out of here either. We can't just stay trapped here forever, can we?"

Cecilia laughed out loud after hearing this, her pink eyes full of admiration. "But you are very courageous and qualified to be my successor."

"Thank you so much, Ancestor," Shen Qingqing said weakly.

She hadn't had a single good thing since landing, and now she was trapped underground. Only after she stopped walking did she feel physically exhausted and mentally disoriented.

"And now I can't see either..."

Being unable to see means she has to figure things out on her own to continue with the next step of the plan, putting her in a passive and disadvantageous position.

"Tell me earlier."

"Do you have any idea?"

"No."

Cecilia stated that although she couldn't grant Shen Qingqing night vision, however...

"You can temporarily hand over control of your body to me so I can use my night vision to see where I'm going, and you can also take a break."

Shen Qingqing thought it made sense, and since Cecilia wasn't interested in the bodies of other insectoids, she confidently handed over control of her body to her.

However, thinking about the mental energy she had expended earlier, Shen Qingqing asked worriedly, "Ancestor Cecilia, how is your mental energy?"

After Cecilia regained control, she stretched her legs and stomped her feet. "I've recovered long ago, and the closer I get to the capital of Wangxing, the stronger my mental power becomes. It must be my body calling me."

Satisfied with her fingers, Cecilia fully utilized her advantage, sharing her night vision with Shen Qingqing.

Shen Qingqing saw the whole scene through her perspective.

I also noticed that what I was leaning on for support was not a wall, but rows of petri dishes that were more than two meters high.

However, these petri dishes were completely empty.

Some were just broken jars, but others contained mechanical prosthetics.

It has arms, chest cavity, lower legs, and brain.

There are no body parts that you can't imagine that don't exist here.

The dense network of wires extending from the interface unconsciously reminded her of the origins of silicon-based life forms.

“It seems to be a base where our race previously conducted experiments on modified insects,” Cecilia said with interest, looking at the lifeless larvae in the petri dish. “Your assistant should be the only successful product.”

Shen Qingqing was taken aback, unable to believe that Andorra could have been transformed here.

“But even if he wakes up, he won’t remember where he is.” Cecilia’s fingers touched the glass wall, and Shen Qingqing could feel the coolness from her fingertips.

“He had no memory of the process, so there was no possibility of leaking information.”

Shen Qingqing told her what Lao Ba had said, "Andor is currently offline, I can't wake him up, and we can't contact the Zerg information network in Wangxing space either..."

Cecilia waved her hand, her eyes seeming to have found the answer. "It must have triggered the brain's information blocking mechanism to force him offline. However, according to what you said, his body was damaged, which should be because the energy fluid in his body was insufficient to supply his bodily functions."

The energy stone, tossed high into the air and caught, spun in her hand. "But you're quite clever. The energy stone you got is the raw ore for synthesizing energy liquid. I'll teach you how to use it after we leave."

The two women were having a conversation when a sound suddenly came from behind them.

Shen Qingqing wanted to remind Cecilia to be careful, but Cecilia walked straight to the corner behind the petri dish.

As she got closer, Shen Qingqing also saw what was in the corner.

Curled up among the scattered mechanical prosthetics, with its head drooping and looking lifeless, anyone who saw it would mistake it for a piece of scrap metal.

Without hesitation, Cecilia kicked the unidentified object awake.

"Stop playing dead, get up now."

Cecilia, as always, commanded in her condescending and arrogant tone.

However, since she was using Shen Qingqing's body, these words didn't sound like she was ordering someone around, but rather like she was being coquettish and sulking.

Under the watchful eyes of the two insects, the thing moved.

Cecilia was about to punch the thing to show it what obedience was.

The humanoid object in the pile of scrap metal moved, then slammed into Cecilia's abdomen!

Both male and female Zerg have extremely soft abdomens.

Cecilia was caught off guard by the sudden impact to her abdomen. The intense pain made her flinch, and the energy stone in her hand fell to the ground with her movement.

Shen Qingqing, who shared a body with her, also felt the pain.

Upon seeing the azure energy stones scatter, the thing rushed out like an arrow, then picked up the energy stones and began to crunch them.