High-level martial arts: Contract cashback, invincible starting from the Zerg.

Upon seeing the operational orders issued by the military headquarters.

Li Yuanwei paused abruptly, then clicked his tongue.

"Alright, I was just talking to you about ancient ruins, and now this mission has landed right in my face. Rank A! That's impressive."

After Chen Feng tapped the screen to save the information, he took another bite of food.

"I think it should be easier than a Darkin sneak attack. At least on the outskirts of the hive, it won't be so easy to encounter Zerg Desolate-rank generals."

"You're right, at least it's not a tough nut to crack." Li Yuanwei pursed his lips and poked at the half-eaten meat pie on his plate with his chopsticks. "But I've been here for half a month, and I've heard a lot of people from the military talking about this place. I heard that quite a few people have died here."

Chen Feng raised his eyes and said, "The number and type of Zerg units stationed here are not mentioned either."

"The specific action briefing will be given an hour before the mission begins, but I've heard that there's a high probability that the Purple Cloud Commander will be patrolling this high ground. I don't know the exact level of the Desolate Rank, so we'll have to go and see for ourselves."

Chen Feng nodded slightly.

"Hmm... okay, then let's go back and rest after breakfast, and meet there at five o'clock tomorrow."

"Oh, right—"

Just as Li Yuanwei was about to leave the restaurant, he suddenly stopped, staring at Chen Feng with a fawning expression and a serious demeanor: "Brother Feng, you absolutely must remember that connection! Once we take this high ground, we'll have a good chat!"

Chen Feng looked at Li Yuanwei's impatient expression and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I won't forget."

"Brother Feng is indeed Brother Feng, hehe."

...

After returning to his apartment from the restaurant, Chen Feng took out the paper documents he had obtained from Su Beihai.

It was a Zerg databook crammed into a tactical backpack. The yellowed paper showed signs of age, but the history recorded on it with a typewriter made Chen Feng increasingly alarmed as he read it.

The Purple Insect Clan files collected by the Su family begin with a scarlet warning label.

The Purple Sky Insectoids are not native to the Ancient Ice Plains. They originated from a carbon-based species that descended from the void beyond the region. In the 198th year of the Qian Yuan Calendar, they emerged in large numbers from a spatial rift deep within the Northern Ice Sheet. In their first battle, they wiped out two large tribes of the Wind and Snow Tribe. To this day, millions of square kilometers of land on the permafrost ice plains have become the territory of the Purple Sky Insectoids.

Chen Feng picked up several yellowed battlefield photos tucked inside the file.

The photos have been worn down by time, and the original scenes have begun to blur.

The yellowed photo still bears the Su family's hasty and heavy annotations in the corner.

In the year 200 of the Qian Yuan calendar, one year and two months before the fortress was completed, the allied forces were attacked by the Zerg on August 17th, resulting in 2046 deaths that day.

At this moment, Chen Feng could clearly see from the photos how desperate and disheartened the allied defenders were under the overwhelming offensive of the Purple Insectoids.

In the year that followed, the two factions of humans and insects fought three large-scale battles and countless smaller skirmishes around the permafrost fortress.

In the most brutal "Siege of Winter," the Purple-Blue Zerg's war hive, along with ten Desolate-Rank Zerg generals, besieged the city and fought fiercely for seven days and seven nights.

In that most crucial battle, the two Martial God legions of the Great Xia suffered nearly half their losses, and twenty-one Martial Gods died on the city walls, forcing the insect swarm to retreat into the depths of the perpetually frozen ice plains.

Chen Feng sighed.

His fingertips traced the frayed edges of the photograph, and he remained silent for a long time.

As a former warrior commander of humanity on the Blue Star plane, this was not the first time Chen Feng had witnessed the terror of the Zerg.

The southern border of the Dragon Kingdom once waged war against the Zerg for more than a decade. Those alien Zerg that crawled out of the cracks in the ground, with their almost unlimited reproductive ability, devoured all the plants and animals in nearly half of the province and crushed the defense line composed of seventeen heavy armored divisions.

Under the overwhelming tide of Zerg warriors, ordinary firearms and bullets were utterly ineffective. Even large-caliber artillery shells that blasted into the Zerg swarm only created a small opening, which was quickly filled in by the subsequent swarms.

At that time, all the warriors of the Dragon Kingdom went into battle, fighting until their blades were dulled and their inner strength was exhausted.

Chen Feng still remembers the mountain of insect corpses that could be piled up like small hills during each post-battle cleanup, and the pungent, burnt smell that lingered in the air.

The ferocious Blue Star Insectoids of that time were the final fate of the Purple Insectoids in the files before us.

After scanning the photos with the Lucky Contract System, Chen Feng put them into the system's database and then took out the last file given to him by Su Beihai.

It was a well-preserved file folder.

However, the contents were only a few pages long, with very little information.

At the very top of all the materials was a photograph, showing only a slender figure standing on a hill.

Chen Feng paused slightly, his gaze falling on the text below the portrait. The footnote to the photo contained an extremely terrifying name—Queen Ziwei.

It was a graceful silhouette standing atop the fleshy hills of the insect hive.

Contrary to expectations, she was not the bloated and ugly insect queen. Instead, she possessed a body with curves resembling a human woman, her skin glowing with a cool, moist purple sheen. Several deep purple nerve tentacles rose from the insect hive, connecting to her shoulders and back, while her lower body was completely submerged in the flesh of the fungal carpet. Countless tentacles spread out in all directions, like roots, connecting her to the entire insect hive hill.

From a distance, she doesn't look like an insect, but rather like a noble commander standing atop an insect nest.

Chen Feng's gaze lingered on that tiny figure for a few seconds before he slowly turned to the textual information about Queen Ziwei...

At the very top of the page was a secret cloud-pattern seal exclusive to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, the ink deep and rich, marked with the words "Absolutely Sealed and Preserved," while above the document was the subject of this document.

In the 202nd year of the Qian Yuan calendar, the first decapitation operation in the Northern Border failed, and Prince Zhenbei Xiao Ce led three Hong-rank warriors to attack the Ziwei main nest again.

That was the fifth year since the Purple Insect Clan descended upon the Northern Territory.

At that time, Queen Ziwei had not yet retreated into the depths of the insect hive, but the hive's territory was expanding at an extremely rapid pace.

The human military leadership misjudged the Zerg's growth rate and underestimated the Queen's core talent. They planned to take advantage of her not yet becoming a Hong-rank expert and concentrate the power of three Hong-rank experts to decapitate her in one fell swoop and completely end the calamity in the northern frontier.

The one who carried out this mission was Xiao Ce, the third strongest person in the Great Xia Qian Yuan at that time.

He possesses mid-stage Hong-level cultivation and wields the divine weapon "Mountain and River Halberd," while the other two early-stage Hong-level deputy generals are veterans transferred from the army of Daye Upper City.

With such a military formation, annihilating a Desolate-rank Queen should be a piece of cake.

However, the truth is not so...

The document details the entire process of three powerful Hong-level experts battling Queen Ziwei.

On the main hive of the Purple Nest, a continuous stream of Zerg energy was converging on the Queen's core, and the wounds that should have burst open were scabbing over and healing at a visible speed.

Every time Xiao Ce's attack succeeded, he could sense the Zerg generals on the periphery desperately returning to reinforce him, while Queen Ziwei's injuries were healing at an astonishing speed.

This battle between top-tier experts lasted for a full day and night!

When Xiao Ce led his remaining troops back to the Eternal Frozen Fortress, the three Hong-rank experts were already nearly exhausted. They left only the words, "The king of the nest cannot be defeated by force," before returning to Qian Yuan Upper City to recuperate.

In the latter half of the file.

It then describes in detail the analysis of Queen Ziwei's combat strength that Tianji Pavilion and Xiao Ce spent half a year compiling afterward, with each point highlighted in red.

The final conclusion given by Tianji Pavilion was cold and heavy, which also made Chen Feng feel a little regretful.

[If the Queen is inside the main nest, there is no possibility of killing her without the combined efforts of peak Hong-level martial artists. If she breaks through to the Hong-level in the future, the northern border defense line will be in danger.]