I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

The woman who had called for help was so frightened by what she saw that she sat motionless on the ground, clearly terrified by the sudden turn of events.

After Renault and the others reacted, they rushed forward to comfort the woman. Theresa, meanwhile, looked around at the dangling insect corpses that had been cut in half. The cut surfaces of the insects looked as if they had been severed by a weapon with extremely high temperatures.

"Youyou? Did you do that just now?"

No sooner had Theresa finished asking her question than Yuhaka's voice shouted loudly in her ear:

"It's Youyouda OwO!"

“Wow!?”

Theresa was startled by Yuhaka's sudden shout, and in anger, she clenched her fists as if to hit him, saying:

"Youyou! Don't suddenly shout loudly and scare people!"

Oh = w = ~

Hearing Theresa's words, Yuhaka replied with an indifferent expression. Fortunately, Theresa couldn't see Yuhaka's expression while he was invisible, otherwise Theresa might have been so angry that she wanted to spank Yuhaka.

After Reno and his team rescued the woman who had begged them for help, Reno felt that bringing Youyou down with him was the right decision; otherwise, a life would have been lost from the Zerg's claws.

After a while, Raynor and his team finally arrived at the checkpoint on the eastern highway. There, they saw the people being attacked by the swarm of insects. Upon seeing this, Raynor ordered his troops to provide support to the settlers. The settlers' marines breathed a sigh of relief when Raynor's Rangers arrived to help.

After dealing with the attacking Zerg, Raynor and his team arrived at the defensive base at the eastern highway checkpoint. Dr. Ariel was also at this base. Wearing a white lab coat, Ariel felt much more relaxed when she saw Raynor and his team arrive.

“You’ve finally arrived, Commander Jim.”

Renault opened his mask and looked at the bespectacled female scholar in front of him, saying:

"We're here, Doctor. How's the situation?"

In response to Renault's question, Dr. Ariel looked very serious and said with concern:

"To be honest, we are in a bad situation right now. We don't have enough defensive capabilities to fight off the swarm's attack."

Upon hearing Dr. Ariel's words, Renault also looked very distressed. Clearly, the situation here was worse than he had believed. With a lack of personnel, the escort mission would have to be reinforced with more guards.

After learning about these circumstances, Renault asked Dr. Ariel if there was anything else. Dr. Ariel thought for a moment and then said that the Imperial Army had left in such a hurry that some of their equipment and facilities were left behind. At the same time, there were also a lot of crystal mines and high-energy gas in the vicinity that they hadn't taken with them in their haste. These resources could provide some help to Renault and his team.

After hearing the information provided by Dr. Ariel, Raynor breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that some things had been left behind, at least they could be used. However, before looking for those things, Raynor needed to reinforce the defenses of this base, otherwise the swarm would destroy the place before the convoy arrived.

"Alright, it seems we should reinforce the foundation first, and then send some troops to recover those resources."

Dr. Ariel nodded after hearing Raynor's words and said:

"Okay, let's do as you say. We'll hand over the main control of the buildings and facilities here to you."

With that, Dr. Ariel handed over control of the buildings and facilities to Reno and his team. After receiving control from Dr. Ariel, Reno and his team began to take action. First, they strengthened the defenses of the base. Second, they investigated the surrounding terrain and the size of the swarm. Although it seemed that there were only Zerglings at the moment, that was only for now. It was uncertain what would happen later; perhaps even Ultralisks might appear.

Chapter 1045 [Sword Grabbed by Esther]

While preparing the base's defenses, Reno also sent Yhaka to find a strange, pupa-like Zerg creature. According to Stetman, he felt that these things might bring some improvements to his research.

Upon hearing Stetmann's words, Reynolds naturally had no objections. After all, Stetmann's research would bring significant improvements to the Rangers' technology, and the previous improvements to the bunker were also Stetmann's work.

When Theresa heard Renault ask Yohaka to collect samples from the pupae, she looked at Renault with a worried expression and asked:

"Um, Mr. Reno, is it alright to let Youyou go find that Zerg sample by herself?"

Before Reno could answer Theresa's question, Dr. Ariel, standing nearby, looked at the diminutive Theresa with a puzzled expression and asked Reno:

"Um, Commander Renault, I've been wanting to ask you this since earlier, who is this little boy?"

Although Theresa's outfit gave off a feeling of being a legendary ghost agent, Dr. Ariel felt that Theresa was unlikely to be such a ghost agent because of her height.

Upon hearing Dr. Ariel's words, Reno broke out in a cold sweat. He knew very well that Theresa hated being called "little girl" or "child." And just as Reno had expected, upon hearing Dr. Ariel's words, Theresa's expression suddenly turned sour, and she stared wide-eyed at Dr. Ariel, saying:

"Does being tall make you superior?!"

Dr. Ariel was completely bewildered by Theresa's outburst and didn't immediately understand what was going on. Reno, standing nearby, explained Theresa's age to Dr. Ariel. Upon hearing that Theresa was older than her, Dr. Ariel covered her mouth with a look of utter disbelief and said to Theresa:

"Oh my god, really?!"

Looking at Theresa, who is less than 150cm tall and has a youthful appearance, Dr. Ariel honestly found it hard to believe that Theresa looked to be over forty years old. Of course, this wasn't the time to discuss Theresa's age. After asking Dr. Ariel if they had any tools for collecting biological samples, Dr. Ariel gave him a few. After handing them over, Reno looked around and said to Yuhaka:

"Youyou, could you please help me collect some samples? If you see any of those alien insects with many eyes, black shells, and flying in the air, remember to stay away. They can detect cloaked units."

Upon hearing Renault's words, Yhaka took the item from Renault's hand, indicating his understanding, and said:

"Youyou understands OwO~"

Dr. Ariel, who was standing nearby, was also startled when she heard Yuhaka's voice and saw the tool in Reno's hand disappear into thin air. She said:

"Wait, is there someone else here?!"

Upon hearing Dr. Ariel's question, Reno nodded, looking somewhat embarrassed, and said:

"Uh...yes."

Seeing that Renault didn't say much, Dr. Ariel didn't ask any more questions either. She knew that some organizations had their own secrets, and Dr. Ariel wouldn't ask too many questions about these things. After all, the more you know, the more dangerous it is. Dr. Ariel was still counting on Renault and the others to help escort her convoy to the starport.

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After receiving the biological sample collection tools from Reno, Yuhaka set off. Stetman sent the coordinates of the insect-like pupae to Yuhaka, who then followed the location on the map on the tablet to find them.

Because of his invisibility, Yuhaka was able to walk past the soldiers with ease. After slipping out of the defense base, Yuhaka searched for the Zerg pupa while looking at his tablet.

After about ten minutes, Yhaka saw a Zerg pupa. The pupa was beating like a heart, and a sticky fungal carpet was constantly secreting from the ground. There were also many Zerg hidden underground. So Yhaka stomped his foot without hesitation and used the Geo element to squeeze the Zerg inside to death like squeezing pimples.

After dealing with the Zerg, Yuhaka, with an "OwO~" look on his face, walked towards the Zerg pupa, which had no means of defense or attack. Yuhaka first took out a syringe used to extract blood from organisms, then plunged it into the Zerg pupa and drew out a vial of blood.

After collecting the blood sample, Yuhaka put away the syringe, made a hand chop gesture, and revealed the crimson-black light blade at his fingertips. Just as Yuhaka was about to split the pupa in two, he suddenly felt someone staring at him from behind. Yuhaka turned around and saw Ester staring at him with a dead fish-like expression, looking sullen.

"Master, we agreed not to use any other swords..."

Hearing Esther's words, Yuhaka began to break out in a cold sweat. He was doomed; his sword spirit wife had seen him farming other swords. What was he going to do now?!

Seeing this, Zelus couldn't help but show a look of anticipation, since it was rare to see Yuhaka in such an embarrassing state.

Ehaka quickly realized something and spread his fingers, instantly transforming the psionic blade that had resembled a light blade into something like a claw (similar to Thor's electric melting sword from A Certain Magical Index). Ehaka waved his arm and explained to Esther:

"This is a claw, not a sword!"

Hearing Yuhaka's words, Esther looked at the psionic blade in Yuhaka's hand, which had turned into a claw, with some confusion. She obviously didn't understand what the psionic blade in Yuhaka's hand was. But since it was a claw, Esther didn't think it mattered.

Zelus, who was all set to watch the drama unfold, was stunned by what she saw. "Where's my melon? My huge melon!" she thought. She had prepared her watermelon, just waiting to see the show. But Zelus hadn't expected Yuhaka to resolve this chaotic situation so quickly.

This made Zelus feel that Yuhaka's intelligence had improved.

Chapter 1046 [The Arrival of the Civilian Caravan]

After Esther confirmed that the psionic blade in Yuhaka's hand was not a sword, she was relieved. After kissing Yuhaka on the cheek, Esther returned to Yuhaka's contract space.

Seeing Esther return, Yhaka seemed relieved. He then unleashed his psionic claws and sliced ​​open the Zerg pupa in front of him, turning it into several pieces. After cutting open the pupa, Yhaka took out a small pair of clips and a sealed container. He extracted some tissue from the cocoon and stored it in the container, intending to deliver it to Stetman and the others later.

Afterwards, Yuhaka also processed the next few alien larvae. While Yuhaka was processing the collected alien samples, Yuhaka received a message from Laiswan in the communication system.

"Hey kid, there's an Imperial heavy factory facility that wasn't moved over there. Could you go over and see if there's anything left behind?"

Upon hearing Swan's words, Yhaka climbed to a high place and looked at the location of the heavy factory that Swan had mentioned. From there, Yhaka could see the heavy factory and the Zerg swarm wandering around, but this posed no challenge for Yhaka.

...Youyou is moving forward...

In just a few minutes, Yhaka arrived at the location of the heavy factory. Through Yhaka's observation, he noticed that it looked like a military base, but it had already been occupied by the Zerg.

A number of Zerg were setting something up in this military base. Yuhaka could see that a human building had Zerg tentacles and claws growing on it. To be honest, Yuhaka was a little dumbfounded when she saw this. It was the first time she had ever seen a building with flesh growing on it. Yuhaka took pictures of these things and showed them to Raynor and the others, probably because they knew something about them.

Yuhaka quietly bypassed the patrolling Zerg and entered the heavy factory. Because there were no humans around, the buildings posed no threat and were spared by the Zerg swarm. However, the Zerg did make use of the buildings.

Upon arriving at the heavy factory, Yuhaka also contacted Swan and asked:

"Uncle with the big beard, Youyou is here, but what should Youyou do?"

Upon hearing Yohaka's question, Swann gave Yohaka instructions on what to get from the heavy factory. Soon, Yohaka arrived at a control panel that resembled a data center. Yohaka retrieved some data from it and uploaded it to the Hyperion's armory.

Swann smiled happily as he looked at the blueprints for the Hellfire Chariot and the Goliath Armed Robot that Yuhaka had sent him.

"Sure enough, the databases of those imperial heavy factories do contain the blueprints for those behemoths. We've really struck it rich this time."

Swann also shared the good news with Raynor, who was delighted to hear it. It seemed that acquiring the Empire's new vehicles for free in this operation would have a significant impact on the Rangers' future strategy. Take the Hellfire Chariot, for example; Raynor had long coveted such a highly mobile flamethrower vehicle. If he hadn't been unable to obtain the blueprints and the vehicle itself, he would have already trained a Hellfire squad.

Moreover, these high-speed vehicles are even better at dealing with Zerglings, since the Hellfire can spray flames over a much longer distance than the Firebat, and its faster speed prevents it from getting surrounded by Zergs like the Firebat due to its slower movement.

The Goliath armed robot is an old friend. These mechanical vehicles with two big feet are equipped with two 30mm smoothbore howitzers and two Hellfire anti-aircraft missile launchers. They also have a large-caliber defensive machine gun underneath, which is specially prepared for those guys who like to trim feet and crawl between legs.

It was at this time that news came from outside that the immigrants had arrived.

Upon hearing the news, Renault left the base and saw a long convoy parked on the road. The immigrants looked terrible; everyone seemed terrified. It seemed the arrival of the Zerg swarm had greatly frightened them.

Of course, even seasoned veterans with extensive combat experience feel fear when facing swarms of insects, and Raynor also loathes those insects.

Although there are many civilians to be escorted this time, these people won't have too much of an impact. Reno turned to Dr. Ariel and asked:

"Doctor, are these people all of you?"

Regarding Renault's question, Dr. Ariel shook her head and denied it, saying:

"No, these people are only a part of it; the rest are on their way."

Upon hearing this news, Renault nodded and said:

"Alright, it seems we have a lot to do now... Assemble the troops now, we're ready to begin escorting this convoy."

Theresa, who was standing nearby, looked at Renault and said after hearing his words:

"Then let me escort those convoys."

Theresa's volunteering prompted Renault to nod in agreement.

"Okay, Miss Theresa, I'm leaving the convoy to you. By the way, is Youyou back yet?"

Regarding Renault's question, Theresa also tried contacting Yohaka to ask:

"Youyou, are you back?"

Hearing Theresa's voice through the earphones, Yuhaka looked at Theresa in front of him with an "OwO" expression. Without hesitation, Yuhaka reached out and poked Theresa's face. Theresa was naturally startled by the poke. After regaining her senses, Theresa angrily shouted in the direction Yuhaka had poked her face:

"Youyou! You've played another prank!!"

Although to outsiders it seemed as if Theresa was talking to thin air, Yuhaka's clear, bell-like laughter made it clear that there was someone standing in front of Theresa. Renault, seeing this, scratched his forehead in exasperation and said:

"Alright, ladies, time is of the essence. We still need to escort this convoy of civilians to the northern starport."

Hearing Renault's words, Theresa quickly regained her composure, coughed slightly to compose herself, and said:

"Ahem, that's right. We have to race against time now, not play around, Youyou."

"Oh, Youyou understands~"