I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

As for why he didn't attack Zagara, the reason was that Kerrigan said she would deal with Zagara herself, and Yhwaka agreed. After all, Zagara didn't look appetizing, so Yhwaka wasn't very interested.

After seeing Yhaka's instructions, the Primal Ricards understood. Led by Yhaka, they arrived at the section of road between Zagara's gathering forces and Zagara's hive, where Yhaka and the Primal Ricards launched an ambush.

The Zergling guard squad was basically no match for the attacks of Yuhaka and Primal Licat. They quickly eliminated the Zerglings and the worker bees transporting the eggs. Primal Licat's spiked rifle had a strong penetrating effect, which made it very easy for Primal Licat to hunt down enemies lined up in a row.

After Yuhaka and her team dealt with the swarm of worker bees, they began to leave. Zagara, who had just received a signal that her worker bees were under attack, rushed to the scene. However, apart from the corpses of her own troops, Zagara found no enemies. The only remaining trace was a serrated spine.

At this point, Zagara realized that someone was attacking her worker bees to affect her efficiency in collecting insect eggs.

P.S.: Miniature models are super difficult to paint, especially assembled ones. There are some parts that can't be painted on, and if your hand shakes, you'll accidentally paint over other areas, which is a real pain. It seems I need to buy a white base coat to repaint the areas I accidentally smudged.

Volume 2 [StarCraft II: Back to Home]: Chapter 1816 [The Powerful Parasitic Fungus]

"These little tricks won't stop me. I'll send out even more troops to protect the worker bees!"

Upon hearing Zagara's voice in her mind, Kerrigan knew that Yhaka and the others had succeeded in their operation, and it seemed they had caused the enemy some trouble.

Kerrigan then used her psionic powers to contact Yhwach and said, "Yhwach, your actions have caused some trouble for Zagara, but she will be sending out more troops, so be careful."

Upon hearing Kerrigan's psionic communication, Yhaka responded with two "uh-huhs" to indicate that he understood.

After Jhwaka and his Primal Ricard forces eliminated Zagara's egg-collecting squad, Jhwaka led the Primal Ricard squad to another location. Based on the map information provided by Kerrigan, Jhwaka and his team arrived at an infected human stronghold.

Here in Yuhaka, a large number of infected people were seen wandering around. In addition to the infected marines, mechanical units such as Banshee fighters and siege tanks were also infected. These infected mechanical units are still usable, but they have been significantly altered in some ways.

For example, infected siege tanks fire infected self-destructing zombies, and they move by growing legs. They have basically lost most of their functionality, but the only thing that hasn't changed is their metal armor, right?

However, Yuhaka brought the original Licats here not to eliminate these infected beings, but to control them.

Yhaka took out a mushroom from the dimensional portal. This mushroom was a fungus that lived in the Rotten Vale beneath Yhaka's Guiding Island. The spores of this fungus could parasitize the brain and nerves of organisms, thereby controlling their actions. Usually, this fungus was controlled by the fungal priests under Yhaka's command. Yhaka took this out now in order to control those infected.

After Yuhaka blew on the parasitic fungus on his hand, a large number of spores spread towards the creatures. Then, Yuhaka cast a life-enhancing spell on the spores, and the number of spores immediately doubled. These spores drifted to the infected creatures with the airflow, and immediately a large number of fungal spores grew at an alarming rate. The infected creatures seemed indifferent to the mushrooms growing on their bodies, clearly not intelligent enough to understand what was going on.

By the time they realize what's happening, it's too late. When a large number of spores are parasitizing the infected organisms, those organisms become hosts controlled by the parasitic fungus.

Yuhaka controlled the infected creatures parasitized by the fungus and launched an attack towards the Zargara's hive.

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On Kerrigan's side, the collection work on Zagara was greatly affected by Yhwach's interference, so there were no troops to interfere with Kerrigan's work process, making Kerrigan's collection of insect eggs very easy.

Observing how Yhaka was causing trouble for Zagara through the eyeworm, Kerrigan realized that Yhaka and her group's actions were quite helpful, making her work much easier. This made her wonder if Raynor and his crew's work had become so easy.

Thinking of this, Kerrigan recalled hearing the news of Raynor's death sentence on the transport ship. This thought made her eyes even more determined. Once she reclaimed Char, her next step would be to head straight for Korhal.

Just as Kerrigan was pondering these matters, Izsa's voice rang in her mind: "Your Majesty, Zagara and the others have sent out an air force of dragons. It seems they intend to launch a surprise attack on us with their air power."

Hearing Izsa's words, Kerrigan also snapped out of her reverie and looked at the small black dots flying in the distance. Kerrigan then told Yhaka about the situation, saying, "Yhaka, the enemy has sent out alien dragons. Do you have any way to intercept them?"

Upon hearing Kerrigan's words, Yhaka, who was directing the spore-infected creatures to attack Zagara in the acidic swamp, nodded in understanding. He then activated an imaginary portal to teleport to the location the Zagara dragons were bound to pass through. Yhaka and the Primal Ricards then entered stealth mode. Once the dragons entered their attack range, Yhaka had the Primal Ricards use psionic shockwaves. Instantly, the Zerg in the sky fell to the ground as if struck by a blunt object. Immediately afterward, Yhaka's Primal Ricards took down the incapacitated dragons with a single shot.

After finishing off the enemy, Yuhaka and her Primal Ricards quickly left, leaving Zagara completely bewildered. After all, the Alien Dragons hadn't transmitted any information about their deaths back to Zagara, leaving her clueless about how her Alien Dragon unit had perished, just like the previous insect egg collection team.

This left Zagara completely baffled, but he didn't think too much about it. Since the Xenomorphs weren't working, he could simply send other Zerg units to attack the enemy's hive. That way, he would know what tricks the enemy was using.

Of course, Zagara underestimated Yhaka and Kerrigan. Just as Zagara was preparing to send troops to attack Kerrigan's hive, the spore infected controlled by Yhaka arrived at the doorstep of Zagara's hive and began to attack.

Zagara was completely bewildered by the sudden attack of the spore-infected creatures. She clearly hadn't expected them to attack her hive so actively. After all, Zagara had tried to bring these creatures under her control before, but unfortunately, they were practically impossible for her to manage.

Furthermore, if Zagara's Zerg swarm forces approach, the Infestors will also attack the approaching Zagara's Zerg swarm forces. Although the Infestors are not a great threat to Zagara, Zagara does not like to waste his precious forces here. In addition, since the Infestors will not attack those who leave the vicinity of their infected base, Zagara is too lazy to pay attention to them. Most importantly, they can also play a security role in protecting the Zerg eggs. Therefore, Zagara has not completely eliminated these Infestors.

Thus, cause and effect came into being.

Zagara was initially bewildered by the attack from the infected. Once she realized that the infected were there to cause trouble, she immediately launched a counterattack against those infected that dared to attack her hive. Of course, the spore infected were quickly eliminated, but... it didn't end there.

After Zagara eliminated the spore-infected, she led her swarm to continue her other tasks. However, she did not dispose of the corpses of the spore-infected, which led to a large number of parasitic fungi emerging around the corpses and spreading outwards along the creep tumors.

Meanwhile, Zerg units in the Zagara swarm that had come into contact with the spore-infected were also beginning to be parasitized. Generally, Zerg are less susceptible to the effects of toxins and viruses, but the parasitic spores that Yhwach produced were no ordinary thing. These parasitic spores were modified by Yhwach using Tiamat's "Sea of ​​Life" and the authority of the Elemental Spirit King. Units without divinity or magic resistance would generally find it difficult to resist this thing.

Yhaka, watching from a distance, gave an "OwO" look and then made a thumbs-up gesture as if pressing a bomb. Immediately afterward, the infected Zerg in the distance began to convulse. Zagara, seeing the abnormal behavior of some units in her Zerg swarm, looked on with a puzzled expression, clearly unaware of what was happening to her units.

After a large number of parasitic fungi grew from the infected alien insects, Zagara saw those familiar parasitic fungi. Seeing those fungi reminded Zagara of the infected creatures before, who also had such strange things on them. At first, he hadn't paid any attention to them, but now Zagara suddenly realized that those things were very problematic.

After the Zerg parasites lost contact with them, the parasitized Zerg began to attack the surrounding Zerg. The primitive Zerg seemed unsure of what to do when their own kind suddenly attacked them. Fortunately, Zagara reacted quickly and immediately ordered his Zerg swarm to attack the "traitors."

In no time, the infected Zerg were dealt with by Zagara's Zerg swarm. After eliminating the traitors, Zagara looked puzzled, as she didn't quite understand why her Zerg troops had been infected with such a strange substance. This was because Zagara knew about the Zerg's strong resistance; it was practically impossible for Zerg to be infected with strange viruses or bacteria. So what was going on with these things?

Zagara was also very puzzled by this.

However, after discovering the strange fungus that could infect the Zerg, Zagara ordered the infected Zerg to commit suicide. As for why she didn't send them to attack the enemy, it was because Zagara believed that the fungus was something Kerrigan and her team had created, and what difference would it make if she sent these Zerg troops to the enemy or to their hands?

Zagara dealt with these Zerglings.

After Zagara ordered the Zerg troops, who might be infected with the parasitic fungus, to kill each other, she left. Unbeknownst to her, after Zagara left, the Zerg corpses that had been fighting each other also became infected with the parasitic fungus. Subsequently, the Zerg corpses began to gather and form a huge mountain of corpses. This mountain of corpses, composed of dozens of Zerg corpses, moved its own torso made of Zerg corpses and headed towards Zagara's Zerg hive.

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Meanwhile, Kerrigan, who was collecting Zerg eggs at a distance, also witnessed Zagara's ordeal and the strange fungus released by Yhhaka through the Eye Bugs. To be honest, Kerrigan was quite surprised to see that the fungus released by Yhhaka could actually parasitize the Zerg. After all, based on Kerrigan's experience, the Terran Empire had used a lot of chemical warfare to deal with the Zerg swarm, but they had all failed. The reason was also due to Abathur. Just when the Terran Empire's forces thought that their biological weapons could work against the Zerg.

Little did they know that Abathur had already upgraded the Zerg's resistance countless times, and the bioweapons that were effective one second might be useless the next.

Kerrigan, somewhat puzzled, asked Abathur, "Abathur, do you know what those things are?"

Upon hearing Kerrigan's question, Abathur said he didn't know what those things were, but he roughly knew they were a kind of parasitic fungus. After receiving Abathur's answer, Kerrigan asked Abathur if there was any way to defend against it. After all, knowing that Yhwach had this terrible and highly contagious parasitic fungus, Kerrigan was very worried that someone might use this to attack the Zerg swarm.

Abathur expressed his concern about Kerrigan and said he would conduct relevant research. After all, if there were any attacks that could be used against the Zerg swarm, Abathur would conduct relevant research and find ways to counter them, or turn them into the Zerg swarm's attack methods.

After confirming that Abathur would resolve this issue, Kerrigan contacted Yhwach via psionic communication and asked, "Yhwach, are those things you've raised controllable?"

While Yhwaka was leading the Primal Licartas in a distant operation, he received Kerrigan's question and replied, "Yes, Yhwaka can control those mushrooms! OwO~"

Upon hearing Yhaka's reply, Kerrigan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the horrible thing was controllable. At least if it was controllable, she wouldn't have to worry about her Zerg swarm getting infected by those terrible fungi and losing a lot of units.

Soon, with the help of Kerrigan's worker bees, Kerrigan had collected all the eggs. After Abathur injected the catalyst, a large number of swarm units hatched from the eggs. Looking at the sea of ​​swarms before her, Kerrigan smiled slightly and said, "Alright, it's time to go play with Zagara."

Volume 2 [StarCraft II: Back to Your Hometown - Youyou]: Chapter 1817 [Abathur Also Wants to Be Cute]

As a large number of Leaping Zerg and Baneling units hatched from the hatchery, Kerrigan led a swarm of Zerg forces straight to Zagara's lair. Zagara, having been attacked by the Spore Infestors sent by Yhwach, was busy clearing out the infected Zerg units and neglected to monitor Kerrigan's movements. Thus, by the time Kerrigan and her swarm of Zerg forces arrived, Zagara realized that the enemy had already collected all the Zerg eggs.

Although the reaction was slow, Zagara still managed to send out her own forces to launch a counterattack. Unfortunately, Zagara's forces were outnumbered by Kerrigan's. In addition, the large number of Banelings easily breached the entire defensive line, and a massive swarm of Leviathans swept past the cannon fodder units in front and headed straight for the Hydralisks attacking from a distance.

Although Hydralisks are much stronger than Zerglings in combat, they are still unable to resist swarms of Leaping Zerglings. As the saying goes, "one fist can't fight four hands." Unless the Hydralisk is a bald guy or a Slayer (an evolved version of the Hydralisk), it's basically doomed.

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In less than 10 minutes, Kerrigan led her swarm of Zerg to destroy Zagara's hive. Just as Kerrigan was about to kill Zagara, Zagara suddenly said that she hadn't listened to Kerrigan because of her. This piqued Kerrigan's curiosity, and upon asking, she learned that her words had led some powerful Zerg Queens to mistakenly believe that strength meant becoming the leader of the swarm. Kerrigan was at a loss for words; had she brought this upon herself?

Regardless, Kerrigan didn't kill Zagara. After all, having a Zerg Queen to share some of the workload would help in retaking Char's main hive, so Kerrigan wasn't too concerned about it.

Before attacking the Terran Empire's fortress on Char, Kerrigan began upgrading her forces. According to intelligence from Zagara, the Terran Empire's military fortress was located in a remote and difficult-to-attack area. The only suitable route to enter the fortress was through an anomaly called "Dead Bone Trench," as it was the only place where they could avoid the attacks of the Empire's new battlecruiser "Gorgon" fleet.

As a new type of warship force, its capabilities are quite strong, at least much stronger than the ordinary Minotaur-class battlecruisers. If Kerrigan were to lead her Zerg forces to confront the enemy head-on, she would suffer heavy losses. Kerrigan wouldn't be foolish enough to do such a thing. If she were to get entangled with those Gorgon-class battlecruisers, it would not only be a waste of time but also deplete a large number of her Zerg forces. If the Imperial fleet arrived, she would have no choice but to flee.

The best way is to cross through the Bone Trench, because the narrow terrain and winding roads allow the swarm to avoid most of the air attacks. If they are lucky, they can reach the enemy's military fortress directly and avoid air power.

According to Zagara's intelligence, the enemy is also able to send Gorgon-class battlecruisers into the Deadbone Trench. However, due to the narrowness of the trench, they can only send one Gorgon-class battlecruiser into the Deadbone Trench. This is a good thing, because if all goes well, Kerrigan can use the Mosquito Nest in the Deadbone Trench to wipe out all the Gorgon-class battlecruisers.

Meanwhile, while Kerrigan was contemplating the operation, Abathur approached Yhwach. Abathur rubbed his hands together and looked at Yhwach with an "O~O" expression on his face, saying, "Organic Yhwach, requesting permission to use spore fungi in the last operation."

Upon hearing Abathur's words, Yhaka looked at him with a puzzled expression. Although he didn't know what Abathur wanted his parasitic fungus for, Yhaka knew that the parasitic fungus was a byproduct of his research on carnivorous fungi, and most importantly, it didn't taste good.

Yuhaka reached out and took out a parasitic fungus from the imaginary space and handed it to Abathur. Abathur then took out a viscous liquid ball that looked like slime and wrapped it around the parasitic fungus. After doing all this, Abathur asked Yuhaka, "Organic Yuhaka, there is something I don't understand."

When Abathur asked him a question, Ehaka looked at him with a blank expression. Abathur then asked why Ehaka maintained his human form instead of the second form that appeared in the battle against Char. Why create such a weak form?

When Yhaka heard Abathur's question, he had a blank look on his face, clearly not understanding why Abathur asked that. Yhaka pondered how to answer Abathur's question, and soon, a little lightbulb appeared on Yhaka's head, and he figured out how to explain it to Abathur.

...Youyou is eating (O~O)...

After Kerrigan devised a plan, she went to the evolution pit to ask Abathur about strengthening the Zerg Queen. However, when Kerrigan entered the evolution pit, she saw a little girl with green hair sitting on a creature that looked like a biological experimental table. Kerrigan was dumbfounded when she saw this. If it weren't for the large number of Zerg evolution samples placed around her, she would have wondered if she had gone to the wrong place.

No, there shouldn't be any humans on her side. After all, both Kerrigan's side and Leviathan's side are Zerg, so where would humans come from? However, just as Kerrigan was about to make her move, she suddenly noticed that the little girl in front of her had a psionic link with her, which meant that the other party was a Zerg, not a human in disguise.

Frowning, Kerrigan looked at the green-haired little girl before her and couldn't help but ask, "You are... Abathur???"

Upon hearing Kerrigan's question, the green-haired little girl in front of her turned to look at Kerrigan and said, "It is indeed the organism Abathur." Hmm... perhaps it should be called Abathur.

Image: "【Abathar】", Location: "Images/1662825673-100130655-109331633.jpg"

After receiving Abathur's reply, Kerrigan looked at Abathur with a twitching expression. To be honest, she never expected that the green-haired little girl in front of her was actually Abathur. This made Kerrigan a little incredulous.

Looking at the green-haired loli with long bangs and wavy hair in front of her, Kerrigan didn't know what to say. She rubbed her temples slightly and looked at Abathur, saying, "Abathur, why... why did you turn into a human?"

In response to Kerrigan's question, Abathur turned her head and looked at the liquid in front of her with a blank, innocent expression, explaining, "From the organisms, we gain experience, experiment, and conduct research."

Upon hearing Abathur's explanation, Kerrigan realized that it was Yhwach who had spoken to Abathur. Kerrigan then inquired about what Yhwach had said to Abathur that caused Abathur to transform her into a human-like form.

When Abathur heard Kerrigan's question about why she had turned into a human, she told Kerrigan her story. After hearing Abathur's explanation, Kerrigan seemed at a loss for words. According to Abathur, after receiving Yhaka's answer, she understood one thing: it wasn't that she had turned into a human form, but that she was very strong in this form, not weak at all. Combined with the weapon she used, she had single-handedly shattered the entire Leviathan.

After hearing Yuhaka's explanation, Abathur understood one thing: the physical form is not important; what matters is the form of power.

Abathur suddenly felt enlightened, as if she had thought of something.

What followed was that Abathur asked Yuhakati some questions in order to improve her body, which resulted in her current appearance as a green-haired, emotionless loli.

After hearing Abathur's explanation, Kerrigan also looked puzzled. Pointing at Abathur's body, Kerrigan said, "Uh...excuse my bluntness, Abathur, what can you do looking like that?"

Regarding Kerrigan's situation, Abathur stated that she can do what she has done before, while also providing necessary support to most of the battlefield and, if necessary, engaging the enemy herself.

Hearing Abathur's words, Kerrigan became interested. She nodded and said to Abathur, "Alright, it seems you've learned something from Youyou. Let me see how well you've put what you've learned into practice."

Upon hearing Kerrigan's words, Abathur nodded in understanding. As Kerrigan was about to leave, she suddenly turned back to Abathur, saying, "Although the suggestion is a bit redundant, I think you'd better get some kind of clothing to wear. Don't go to the battlefield naked."

"?" Upon hearing Kerrigan's suggestion, Abathur, who was completely naked, tilted her head and looked at Kerrigan with a "?" expression. She clearly did not understand what Kerrigan meant, since Abathur also did not know why Yhaka was wearing a completely defenseless piece of cloth.

Does this even make any sense?

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Located at the Bone Trench, Jhaka, Kerrigan, and Zagara arrived. Looking at the scene, which resembled a hellish river, they could tell how high the temperature was. However, this was nothing to Jhaka and Kerrigan's Zerg swarm.

Zagara approached Kerrigan and explained the location and her previous battle experience. Upon hearing Zagara's words, Kerrigan learned that Zagara had attempted to cross from here to the Terran Empire's defensive fortress on Dreadnought Hills, but unfortunately, Zagara failed. With the Gorgon-class battlecruisers launching aerial bombardment, Zagara's Zerg swarm was completely wiped out by the Gorgon-class battlecruisers' gunfire.

Of course, Zagara did send air force to deal with the Gorgon-class battlecruisers, but unfortunately the Gorgon-class battlecruisers were far more capable than the ordinary Minotaur-class battlecruisers. Not only were their ground firepower strong, but their air defense was also very strong. Moreover, their stronger energy shields and thicker battleship armor plates made the Gorgon-class battlecruisers very difficult to capture.

Hearing Zagara's words, Kerrigan didn't pay much attention to them. Through the Eyebug's observation, Kerrigan also knew why this place was called "Dead Bone Trench." A large number of Zerg corpses were scattered throughout the trench, like a scene from hell. Then, under Kerrigan's observation, she also found what she was looking for.

In a place littered with insect corpses, a Zerg structure resembling a gigantic creature lay dormant. At the same time, Kerrigan sensed numerous Zerg lurking among the corpses. Clearly, they knew they couldn't defeat the humans and were hiding, waiting for their chance. After observing them, Kerrigan couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips and say:

"It seems the Imperial soldiers didn't clean it up very well. It looks like some of the Zerg are hiding here, and the Mosquito Nests weren't cleared out either. It seems the Imperial soldiers mistook those Mosquito Nests for harmless Zerg structures. All we have to do is awaken those Mosquito Nests and then blow the Gorgon-class battlecruiser to pieces."