I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Theresa, on Redstone Star, was also a little worried about the existence of that savage beast when she heard Raynor and the others' surprised tone. Beside Theresa, Yuhaka looked at the people on the projection screen with a curious expression and asked:

"Was that beast tasty?"

Upon hearing Yhaka's words, everyone looked like an old man on the subway staring at his phone. Even the Reaper captain standing to the side looked completely bewildered. Of course, because he was wearing a closed helmet that resembled an air force helmet, his expression was barely visible.

Stetman hesitated slightly before explaining his answer to Yuhaka's question:

"I'm not sure about this either. I've never eaten any alien insects. But if you can get me a sample of a savage beast, then my... cough cough, our alien insect research can get off to a great start."

Hearing Stetman's words, Theresa scratched her head, a little puzzled, and said:

"Do you have any more detailed information about that beast?"

"Uh... it's probably even bigger than the Ultralisk. It can use its claws to attack and shoot down high-flying fighter jets. It's arguably the most terrifying creature on the ground among the Zerg."

After hearing Stetman's words, Theresa suddenly felt that she should not go after that beast. It sounded very difficult to deal with. However, there should be some way to deal with it. Theresa herself is an S-class Valkyrie. She has even fought the Emperor-class Honkai Beast. That guy called the beast should not be too difficult to fight, right?

That's what Theresa was thinking, but before that, Theresa needed to rescue the Reaper Captain's comrades; having a highly mobile force was also very important.

Chapter 1022 [Youyou's trust in advertisements has decreased]

On Redstone, Theresa led the Reaper Squad north to those searching for them. Theresa also brought Eyhaka along. Eyhaka had previously tried to sneak out to find the Savage Beast, so Theresa quickly chained him up to prevent him from going off alone to find the Savage Beast.

Theresa stood on the Judah's Oath in flight mode, floating on the ground. The surface temperature in the low-lying areas of Redstone was quite high. Although Theresa's Valkyrie Armor could withstand the high temperature well, regulating the temperature on the Valkyrie Armor would also continuously consume energy. The continuous and large-scale consumption was quite a drain on Theresa's Valkyrie Armor, so it was better to fly.

Most importantly, his short legs couldn't keep up with the Reapers carrying jetpacks, while Yhwach stood on Judah, holding Theresa's slender waist and curiously looking around. It was the first time Yhwach had ever seen a cross that could fly. The Reapers around him were also very curious about the thing under Theresa's feet. After all, they had previously thought it was a weapon, but it seemed to double as a vehicle as well... It was truly a novelty.

After Theresa and her group arrived at a dilapidated base built on an artificial high ground, the Reaper captain and Theresa stopped. Theresa, carrying Judah on her back, looked at the appalling scene with some surprise and said:

"Is this the base that was destroyed by the Zerg? It feels so cruel..."

Looking at the remaining traces around her, Theresa could guess what had happened. However, the absence of any corpses surprised her. The Reaper captain, standing nearby, explained to Theresa:

"The swarm won't leave the corpses here; the insects will drag them back to their lair to become their food."

Hearing the Reaper captain's words, Theresa felt a chill. For some reason, Theresa couldn't help but think of the terrifying monsters in the science fiction horror movies of her own world.

Then Theresa patted her cheeks to clear her head a bit before speaking to the others:

"Alright, let's go search and see if we can find any survivors."

As Theresa was preparing to lead the team to find someone, Yuhaka suddenly stopped them. Theresa was a little confused when she saw Yuhaka blocking her way.

"Youyou, what's wrong?"

In response to Theresa's question, Yuhaka pointed to a spot not far away and said:

"There's something hidden underground over there, alive. What is it?"

Theresa was also confused by what Yhaka said, but the battle-hardened Reaper captain, who was standing to the side, immediately understood what Yhaka meant.

"I understand. The child was probably referring to the alien insects lurking underground."

"Huh?? Are there Zerg lurking in these artificial metal highlands?!"

Theresa looked surprised when she heard the Reaper captain's words. After all, they were in a huge artificial high ground made of alloy, right? How could the Zerg possibly get inside?

However, the Reaper Captain quickly showed Theresa through his actions. He took out a D-8 explosive from his waist, turned on the safety and switch, and threw it towards the location Yuhaka pointed to. The D-8 explosive arced through the air and landed where Yuhaka indicated. The moment the explosive hit the ground, a loud explosion rang out. Even Yuhaka and the others, who were not far away, could clearly feel the strong impact of the explosion.

With a thud, a broken section of a Hydralisk's crest fell from the sky and landed in front of Theresa and Yhaka. Theresa was momentarily stunned by the sight of the Hydralisk's shattered head, clearly not expecting a swarm of insects to be hiding underground in such a hard place. Yhaka, meanwhile, poked the Hydralisk corpse with a stick and asked curiously:

"This? Can Youyou eat this? O-O"

Hearing Yhaka's words, Theresa, who hadn't reacted yet, quickly came to her senses and looked at Yhaka somewhat flusteredly, saying:

"Don't eat it! This doesn't look like anything edible at all!"

When Yhaka heard Theresa's words, he had an "O-O?" look on his face. He thought of the advertisement he had seen on the Hyperion that said something about freshly baked alien dragon wings. Didn't that mean that this kind of species was edible?

"But on TV, Youyou saw someone making roasted dragon wings? Was that real?"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's answer, Theresa looked completely bewildered. Clearly, Theresa hadn't expected such an advertisement. Could it be that those alien insects were actually edible?

While Theresa looked completely bewildered, the Reaper captain beside her spoke up:

"I think that's just a marketing tactic used by businesses to attract customers. It's probably a scam, since I've never heard of anyone daring to eat insects."

Upon hearing the Reaper captain's words, Theresa quickly nodded and explained to Yhwach:

"That's right! That's exactly it. Those unscrupulous merchants always come up with things that sound very impressive and outrageous to attract people's attention, but they're actually impractical."

After hearing what the Reaper Captain and Theresa said, Yhaka nodded with a puzzled expression. To be honest, she couldn't understand why humans always liked to lie and exaggerate. However, if no one dared to try, she would find an opportunity to try making something delicious out of those creatures that were called Zerg but didn't look like insects.

Theresa, who was completely unaware of Yuhaka's thoughts, breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"You know that, Youyou... But those alien insects are hiding underground. How are the survivors? Are they alright?"

Regarding Theresa's concerns, the Reaper Captain reassured her that there was no need to worry:

"Please rest assured about this, young boss. My men aren't fools; they should be in high positions right now."

"High up?"

Upon hearing the Reaper captain's words, Theresa focused her gaze on several tall buildings on the high ground. Most importantly, she noticed a base floating in the air in the distance, indicating that there were people there as well.

Chapter 1023 [Theresa: OωO]

After Yohaka and her group arrived below a base floating in mid-air, the SCV engineers at the base above also noticed the distant explosion and saw Theresa and her group.

"Did Tosh send you here? Let's finish this quickly and get out of this godforsaken place. By the way, why did you bring a child with you?"

Hearing the SCV engineer's words, Theresa stomped her feet in anger and said:

"Who are you calling a child! I'm an adult! She's the child!"

Yuhaka, who was being pointed at by Theresa, looked at Theresa with an "OwO? ?" expression. For some reason, Yuhaka felt that there was something strange about Theresa's words. The people above did not pay much attention to it and regarded Theresa as a child who didn't like being treated like a child and liked to act like an adult.

Having obtained the location of Theresa and her group's base, the SCVs flew towards it. Watching the departing base, Theresa couldn't help but feel a little angry, saying:

"What?! You actually think I'm some little kid like Youyou? Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I'm anything special!"

Hearing Theresa's words, Yuhaka looked puzzled. He couldn't help but think, "Aren't you a child?" The Reaper Captain, following behind Yuhaka and Theresa, broke out in a cold sweat. He wondered if Theresa was some kind of Ghost Agent whose growth stunted due to some experiment. If that were the case, the Reaper Captain dared not think about it anymore, since Ghost Agents could hear what others were thinking.

After leaving the base, Theresa turned around and said to the Reapers:

"Alright, those guys are gone, let's go find the other survivors."

Hearing Theresa's words, Yhaka and the Reapers continued their operation. Thanks to Yhaka, the Zerg hiding in the ground were mostly destroyed by the Reapers using explosives. The surviving Reapers, seeing the rescue arrive, jumped down from their higher positions. The Reaper captain, looking at the remaining few Reapers with a puzzled expression, said:

"What happened? Are you the only ones left?"

The surviving Reapers also answered the Reaper Captain's question.

During the previous Zerg attack, their Reaper team was scattered. Some of them went to lure away a portion of the Zerg swarm, while others stayed behind to await rescue.

Listening to the surviving Reapers, Theresa roughly understood the situation. Although it wasn't terrible, the other Reapers could still contact each other via radio. While they didn't know their exact location, they knew they were currently at a high point inaccessible to the Zerg swarm, but their exact location after that was unknown. For now, they were all safe, but they were running low on ammunition. If the Zerg Overlords evolved the ability to carry things, then their demise would be imminent.

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After returning to the high ground of her own base, Theresa saw that the area was under attack by the Zerg swarm. However, the attack was well held off. After building two bunkers at the intersection, the Marines inside no longer needed to worry about the Zerglings tearing at the bunkers. After all, the bunkers now had a brand-new structure that could effectively withstand the Zerg's attacks. It would be impossible for the Zerglings to break through the bunkers' defenses in the short term.

After Theresa and her group returned, the supply depot that had been blocking the bunkers shrank underground. Then, after Theresa and her group passed by, the underground supply depot rose up again.

After Theresa and her team returned to the base, those who had flown in from other highlands also returned to await orders. Theresa then began to arrange for the SCVs to mine crystal ore. However, there was a problem: the other crystal ore veins were located in low-lying areas. To mine there, the base and SCVs had to go to the low-lying areas to mine. This raised another issue: without defenses or bunker protection, the Marines would be exposed to the Zerg swarm's attacks.

Regarding this question, the Stargazer on the Hyperion scanned the terrain around Theresa and her group. After seeing their terrain, the Stargazer provided the following answer:

"Theresa, there are several Zerg nests to the south and east of your area. They're not very large. If you can destroy a few of the Zerg hatcheries, you won't need to worry about Zerg attacks in the surrounding half of where you set up your base, provided they don't have hidden tunnels or overlords for transport units..."

Hearing what Guan Xing said, Theresa also looked at the map displayed on the projection screen and thought about it. If there were siege tanks, it would be quite good, but if there were no siege tanks, it would not be easy to fight, and the casualties might be very heavy.

Theresa then asked Renault for two siege tanks. It should be noted that Renault only had three siege tanks, which were captured from the Empire. Since these siege tanks were new models, much stronger than the old Federation siege tanks, Siwan spent time studying their structure so that these loud behemoths could be put into the production queue of the heavy factory as soon as possible.

Raynor agreed to Theresa's request, since it would be a waste not to use siege tanks, and having siege tanks would make it easier for Theresa to deal with Zerg nests.

Transported by a transport plane, two siege tanks equipped with 90mm and 180mm cannons arrived here. Upon seeing the two siege tanks, Theresa immediately revealed an expression similar to Yuhaka's OωO, clearly feeling smug.

After the siege tanks were ready, Theresa began to prepare to attack the swarm's nest. The marines brought riot shields, not only to protect themselves from enemy attacks, but also to be careful of being hit by stray bullets from their own siege tanks' shells.

After preparing her team, Theresa also began to prepare to attack the Zerg hive.

Chapter 1024 [Youyou has run away again]

After Theresa prepared to attack a Zerg hive, she began to lay out her plan. First, Theresa would lead her troops to attack the Zerg hive from the front, attracting the Zerg inside. Meanwhile, the Reaper troops would be responsible for flanking and attacking from behind to destroy the Zerg hatchery. If that didn't work, they would eliminate the Zerg eggs and larvae to prevent the enemy from hatching Zerg.

The Reaper Captain did not object to Theresa's plan. As Reapers, their operations involved using their jetpacks to bypass difficult terrain and launch attacks and sabotage operations from behind the enemy lines—a routine task for them.

The current distribution of the surrounding Zerg hives is such that there is a smaller hive to the south, but there is a savage nearby that is very difficult to deal with. The remaining hives are larger and contain alien dragons and hive lords. It is good news that these flying creatures are guarding those large hives and have not left. However, there is some bad news, because these hives only have one road leading down from the high ground. In theory, Theresa only needs to set up her position there to block all the hive forces except for those to the south.

But here's the problem: those few hives send out a lot of Zerg forces each time, so the defense line here will be under a lot of pressure. If the enemy sends out hive lords and Xenomorphs, it will be a very troublesome problem. Moreover, it will require a lot of resources to maintain the defense line. If things go wrong, the defense line will fall.

"In that case, we'll have to deal with the insect nest in the south first. Let's pick the easy target first. But how do we deal with the savage beasts?"

Because the beast was located very close to the insect nest, Theresa was worried that when they fought the insect nest below, the beast would rush up from behind them and they would be sandwiched between two cheese-filled buns, which would be bad.

"Should we lure that beast away? Although it's huge, it's not as fast as us Reapers. We can fly over the high ground and get around to the back of the Zerg hive to avoid the high places there. The beast can't climb, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

Hearing the Harvester captain's words, Theresa looked at the map and pondered the possibility of the plan. Such a plan was indeed feasible, but it depended on the fact that the Beasts would not make any unexpected moves. After all, the Beasts were a new species of alien insect that had recently appeared, and it was hard to predict whether they would do anything unexpected.

But just as Theresa was pondering this matter, she suddenly realized that Yhaka had vanished. After discovering Yhaka's disappearance, Theresa looked around but couldn't find any trace of him, and she became somewhat flustered, saying:

"Youyou! Youyou! Where did that child go?!"

Upon hearing Theresa's question, everyone present looked around for Yhaka, but unfortunately, they couldn't find him. Seeing this, Theresa quickly ran out of the base. Around the base, Theresa still couldn't see Yhaka. Then, Theresa went to two intersections on the high ground of the base and asked if Yhaka had come over. Soon, Theresa learned that Yhaka had come over.

However, the Marines guarding the area refused to let Yhaka leave whenever they saw him trying to go out, and Yhaka left naturally after being refused. Hearing the Marines' words, Theresa had a bad feeling.

Theresa then had the base's radar scan the surrounding area, and soon, they spotted Yuhaka. Theresa saw Yuhaka running towards the location of the Savage Beast, and seeing this, Theresa felt a headache coming on.

"What is that idiot kid doing?!"

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Located south of Theresa's base, Yhaka was jogging towards the location of the Savage Beast. Yhaka was going to cause trouble for the Savage Beast because of Theresa. When he was with Theresa, Yhaka always heard Theresa talking about how troubled she was about the insect hive and the Savage Beast. Yhaka was also curious about whether the Savage Beast's meat would taste good.

As for whether the meat of the savage beast is edible, Yuhaka will also do some research to see. After all, when it comes to meat, you should first grill it and then taste it to see if it tastes good.

And why is Theresa so troubled by that beast? Why not just kill it?

Thinking this, Yhaka quickened his pace and ran towards the beast. Theresa, noticing Yhaka's escape, also gave chase. Theresa stood on her Judah as if on a hoverboard. Behind Theresa followed a squad of Reapers, the only ones who could keep up with her. Of course, there were also Vultures who could keep up with Theresa and her companions, but the Reapers were more mobile, as they could leap over cliffs.

While Theresa was chasing Ehaka, Ehaka had already arrived at a high point. There, Ehaka saw several Zerg hiding motionless on the ground, probably waiting to scare her when she got there.

Thinking about all this, Yuhaka showed an "OwO~" expression. Obviously, Yuhaka wanted to play with those Zerg. Yuhaka gathered his Kamui in his hand and slammed it to the ground. Instantly, sharp spikes formed from rocks pierced the Zerg lurking in the ground. Because the Zerg were quite resilient, they were still lively and energetic even after being pierced, and they roared at Yuhaka. One of them, a giant python-like hydra with clawed forelimbs, sprayed venomous spines at Yuhaka.

However, for the quick-reacting and agile Yhwach, it was basically no big deal. After Yhwach dodged the Hydralisk's spines, he drew the Demonbane Sword and swung it at the Hydralisk that was spitting spines, cleaving it in two. The Hydralisk that was cleaved in two naturally died.

Esther, who had been taken out of the contract space by Yuhaka, also woke up from her sleep. Finding herself no longer in the metal building she had been in before, Esther looked around Redstone Star with a puzzled expression and said: