A is in StarCraft, just disembarked from the Zerg Prince spaceship.

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Rose Nebula, Federation of Humans, Star 65.

Night falls on the 65 stars.

Lu Jianan watched as the beautiful rose nebula gradually appeared against the dark sky.

These couple flowers look rather ominous. I wonder what that bastard Gao Tian is doing right now. Is he perhaps cuddling with the beautiful Crown Prince and being all lovey-dovey?

Lu Jianan later found several of Gao Tian's former campsites in the abandoned city. These sites have now been fenced off by the military and are said to be opened as heroic relics for exhibition.

Well, that's hard to say.

When Lu Jianan saw those places, all she could think of was how Gao Tian had been fawning over the beautiful woman like a lapdog.

It's fortunate there's no surveillance on Planet 65, otherwise all the heroic filters would be shattered.

You bastard! I told you, being in a relationship is really that busy, you don't even have time to send a message?

Lu Jianan sent a message to his assistant, informing him to go with him to the crash site of the Crown Prince's small starship the next day for a protective excavation, in order to transport the wreckage of the small starship back to Earth.

That's unbelievable! Someone actually said that the wreckage of a spaceship from an advanced civilization has no research value? No research value? Putting aside the destroyed weapon systems, the starship's hull alone, with its new alloys, is enough to fill several Science papers.

If the weapons and materials experts left on Earth were to see the remains of this small ship, they would be overjoyed, as if they had found a treasure.

Some researchers, driven by a sense of superiority, are unwilling to imagine that human technology might be at the very bottom of the universe's civilization hierarchy.

If extraterrestrial civilizations have already been discovered, why would they still consider this place as Earth?

The spaceship wreckage has no research value? Ha, even a grain of soil on an alien planet has research value.

Lu Jianan's terminal beeped with a new message.

"Okay, Professor Lu. Should we notify the military to go directly there tomorrow?" the assistant replied in a message.

Lu Jianan typed back: "No need, let's go and demarcate an area first. There might be fragments of the starship that broke off when it crashed in the soil. Let's demarcate an area so that the military can send large warships to completely excavate all the soil from the entire crater area."

Not a single bit can be missed.

The assistant confirmed, "Okay, Professor Lu. I'll pick you up at the researcher camp area at 8:00 AM tomorrow."

Lu Jianan replied, "Okay."

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In the vast and boundless universe, a massive fleet of warships is slowly sailing among the stars.

The halo of the Orion Nebula flowed across the surface of the metal behemoth, as seven battered warships sliced ​​through dark matter dust in a wedge formation.

Each ship's hull is branded with the Orion constellation motif. The star trails, forged from meteorite iron, are riddled with bullet holes and claw marks, resembling the mangled remains of a dragon stripped of its scales.

The spaceship is controlled not by humans, but by a monster that is half-human and half-insect.

Inside the flagship Orion's cabins, inhuman silhouettes floated in the green light.

The sound of the six legs striking the alloy floor mingled with the sound of their mouthparts rubbing together.

Inside the transport cabin, a three-meter-tall humanoid creature is using its chelicerae to sort energy blocks.

Their compound eyes refract hexagonal light spots, their insect-like heads are covered by humanoid bodies, and their human hand-like appendages end in insect-like claw-like structures.

These monsters are strong and combine features of both humanoid and insectoid races.

Its head resembles that of an insect, with compound eyes and sharp mouthparts that open and close. Its body combines six human-like limbs with the carapace-like wings of an insectoid race. It has long hands and feet, bulging muscles, sharp claws, and is full of power.

More monster shadows flashed through the shadows of the passage.

One pirate had a leech-like head, no eyes, only enormous mouthparts—a truly horrifying and bizarre sight. Another navigator's limbs were translucent, pulsating membranes, soft and curled, resembling worms, hardly even humanoid...

This pirate crew has almost gathered the ugliest insect-like creatures.

The half-insect pirates had hideous faces and would never revert to human form, making them look like an eyesore.

The high-level Zerg are all quite good-looking, I don't know what was wrong with the leader to make him look like this.

Busy people moved about inside the warship, maintaining the starship's navigation.

In the command room, a gigantic monster sat in the central command position.

Its head is that of a huge moth, and its compound eyes are gray, like the black eyes of a corpse covered with a white film.

The cabin was filled with a strange smell of insect shells mixed with acid, and the large, feathery antennae of the moth species trembled and spun amidst various pheromones.

The enormous moth-like body was embedded in a fixed alloy command chair, its gray-black compound eyes reflecting the cold blue light of the star map screen.

The moth stared coldly at the screen in front of it, which displayed the flight path of the warship fleet and the surrounding star map.

They, or rather they, are members of the Orion Pirates.

Although they may look a bit out of place now, they are not half-insects, but rather a group of pure high-level insectoid female space pirates who have transformed into half-insect forms to deliberately disgust people.

That dark gray, insect-shaped white-winged moth was Orion, the former second prince of the Zerg, who defected and became a space pirate after failing to seize the throne from the previous queen.

This former second prince of the Zerg, in order to sever ties with his brother and become a Zerg, abandoned the dignity that should have been his due as a superior Zerg, led his subordinates to become a group of space pirates, and chose to maintain his half-Zerg form forever, never to return to human form.

To remember the humiliation and hatred he suffered during the defeat, he still deliberately preserves the wounds left by the failed coup.

The piercing wound on the left side of the abdomen still bears half a claw tip belonging to the former Queen of the Zerg Empire.

Orinn, the notorious pirate leader who committed countless evil deeds, shares the same name as the constellation Orion, and the warships on the Orion star map are the symbol of his infamous Orion Pirates.

Traces of battle are scattered across the hull of the starships, lying haphazardly, telling tales of the fierce battles they once endured.

On the outer armor of the main ship, the Orion constellation map was deliberately etched into fragments with acid.

The lines connecting the stars on the star map were transformed into the shape of chains. When the starships traveled faster than light, those star chain markings would emit a ghostly blue phosphorescence, like countless imprisoned souls struggling on the cosmic curtain.

Orion sat in his chair, staring grimly at the star map on the screen, his sharp claws tapping lightly on the armrests of the command chair.

Anger and resentment writhed and thrashed within him like two venomous snakes. He was furious if he couldn't find the little rat that had attacked his starship.

Last time, they encountered a very small civilian starship. They tried to hunt geese all day, but ended up getting pecked in the eye by the goose. Not only did they fail to destroy that ant-like little starship, they also suffered huge losses.

The most outrageous thing is that after destroying two of their warships, the small starship disappeared amidst the attack of three warships.

It's unbelievable that a small starship could escape from the attack of three flagships of warship class.

Enraged, he went on a rampage and slaughtered an entire planet before calming down.

Suddenly, a half-insect-like space pirate rushed in to report: "Chief, we've found traces of that small starship!"

Orion's eyes lit up instantly, and he sat up abruptly: "What? You found that little starship? Are you sure?"

"We've attached a tracker to the hull of that little starship! We've confirmed the signal; it's our tracker."

"Where?"

"On the southern border of Liernia!"

Zerg, indeed Zerg. I doubt any other faction in this Zerg Empire would possess such weaponry.

Orion immediately gave the order: "Find him! Prepare to attack!"

The moth emitted a deep buzzing sound from its enormous mouthparts, commanding the warship group to accelerate forward.

The pirate starships responded to the order one by one, and as the fleet accelerated, the stars in the universe rushed past behind them.

No one can get away with offending him without paying the price.

He was determined to tear that little mouse to pieces.

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Lu Jianan got into his assistant's car at the camp entrance, and the car slowly drove out of the camp. He leaned back in his seat, closed his eyes, and rested.

This excavation is crucial for human technological development and must be preserved intact.

Others may not know, but he certainly does. This is not just the wreckage of a small starship, but the abandoned vehicle of the crown prince of a level-five civilization, the Zerg.

Although it is now so badly damaged that it is impossible to tell, one can still tell that the Crown Prince's carriage must have been something extraordinary.

Outside the car window, the scenery rushed past.

Lu Jianan began to think about the next steps, repeatedly going over every detail in his mind.

There can be no mistakes in this excavation work.

The Zerg crown prince doesn't fall from the sky every day; if you miss this opportunity, you might not get another chance like it.

The starship crash site wasn't far from the camp, and the car stopped shortly afterward.

Lu Jianan opened his eyes and found that they had arrived at their destination. He took a deep breath, opened the car door, and got out.

Lu Jianan glanced at the terminal. Time was of the essence; the area needed to be demarcated as soon as possible so that the military could transport the remains of the starship back to Earth. Every day that research on this precious artifact from an alien civilization was delayed was a loss.

Lu Jianan checked the surveying pen in her hand and walked towards the crater.

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The space pirates detected the signal emitted by the small starship.

Following this faint signal, they groped their way forward in the boundless universe, eventually finding a planet on the border of the Zerg Liernia Empire.

An ordinary, habitable planet in the Migratory Sky, which looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. The city ruins on it have been covered by plants, and at first glance it is all green.

"What planet is this?" Orion asked his men.

The pirate's second-in-command replied, "I don't know, boss."

"It looks like some kind of planet on the southernmost border of Lehrnia."

"There haven't been any insects living on the border for a long time, so I'm not sure."

"It's bound to be a useless planet, right?"

The other space pirates answered in a cacophony of voices.

"Boss, I actually have an idea. Do you think that little starship might have been... might have been shot down by us?"

"Yeah, boss, how could a small starship possibly escape a warship... Was it just blasted away by us because it was too small?"

The signal remained unchanged, which did not resemble a normal landing; it looked more like a crash.

Orion pondered for a moment.

That little starship made him lose face terribly. If he doesn't get his face back, all his fellow space pirates will laugh at him, and he'll have no prestige left.

Never mind, let's go check if this signal is from that little starship, and whether the pilot inside is dead. He must blast them, insects and ship, into pieces.

"Full speed ahead!" he roared again in a low, rumbling voice. "Find that little starship and wipe it out!"

"yes!"

The entire ship was filled with half-human, half-insect space pirates, who responded with roars and hissing laughter like terrifying monsters.

We've already driven him to the planet, surely we won't let him escape this time?