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

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Bishen lowered his head to look at their Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince's bright, jewel-like eyes showed no sadness, only deep disgust.

Their crown prince is the quintessential slender Zerg. His silver hair cascades down his back, his eyes shine like bright stars, and his handsome, youthful face is flawless—absolutely beautiful.

But he didn't have an obedient appearance; his beautiful eyes always carried an arrogant air of "I'm the best in the world," and his beauty revealed a sharp, fierce edge.

The Crown Prince remained silent.

He had given up on the Insect Emperor for eight hundred years, but he had to admit that the Insect Emperor's relentless pressure to get him married over the past two years had thoroughly disgusted him.

The Crown Prince breathed a sigh of relief.

Tired? Let's destroy it all. I need to go out and clear my head for a while. If I keep looking at the Insect King's stupid old face in Liernia, the Insects will really have to commit patricide.

The Crown Prince extended his hand to Shen: "Lend me a warship. I don't want to use my private stash; it's too much trouble, and they'll find out."

Bishen said, "It's not like you can't survive in the universe. You're a lepidopteran. You can transform into your original form and fly on your own."

Crown Prince: "I can survive in space for sixty hours, but what if I take the wrong route or don't reach a habitable planet within sixty hours? Do you want me dead?"

Bishammantis retorted, "Couldn't you just hang an oxygen tank behind your wing?"

Crown Prince: "You're sick."

Lan sank deeper into his large office chair, then lifted his noble eyelids and gave him a disapproving glare.

"I'm too lazy to argue with you. Are you going to lend it to me or not? If not, I'm going to rob someone."

The insect is the crown prince of the insect race. It doesn't sound good to talk about him going out to rob.

Frustrated, Bishon flicked his hair, which was pressed down by his military cap, and began rummaging through his access card to the hangar at the starport, cursing under his breath.

Okay, okay, I'll borrow it. I've been loyal to an ancestor, but all I do all day is stab him in the back.

While Bishen was searching for his access card, the Crown Prince stood up, turned on Bishen's personal computer, and projected the Starship onto the office wall.

Bi Shen's? What Bi Shen's? Bi Shen's are all insects.

Wow, Bi Shen has quite a lot of treasures.

After a discerning look through Bishon's private collection, he spotted a small, modified starship among the smaller vessels.

It's very small, really small, only 40 meters long, just a little bigger than a large aircraft.

There are two rooms, including the cockpit: a bedroom and a cockpit. These two rooms are located in the center of the starship, and the surrounding areas are entirely armories.

This starship was so heavily modified by Beeshin, the Zerg's top war chief, that it was unrecognizable. The 40-meter-long starship was equipped with military-grade AI and a star-matrix phased array radar, sixteen high-power electromagnetic gun barrels, twelve phased gun barrels, four light-powered cannons, and two cosmic gravity projectiles.

They could blow up a few asteroids if they wanted to, but that's just too outrageous.

The Crown Prince reached out his noble fingers to pry open Bishen's face.

Check Bishen's mental state; is he trying to become antisocial?

Bishen cursed and slapped his hand away, "Take it or leave."

"Yes, why wouldn't I want to?"

This starship is practically tailor-made for the Zerg. Perfect for the Zerg.

Lan sat back behind Bishon's desk, propping her chin on her hand, waiting for Bishon to find the access card to the secret vault.

As Bishen searched, he suddenly became worried: "If you go out alone, what will you eat? Won't you starve to death?"

Blue: "Nutrient solution".

Lan looked up: "What? Aren't you taking nutrient solution?"

You're being a jerk by not including me in the delicious food?

Bishen: Oh, that's alright then. I was just being unreasonable :).

Bishen found the access card and gave it to him.

The Crown Prince threw off his cloak and onto Bishen's office desk, eager to leave as if he were about to embrace a new world.

Bishen was finally able to sit back behind his desk.

Bishen: "My private ships are all on the sixth basement level of the starport. Your ID card is frozen, can you go there alone? Do you need me to open it for you?"

Lan: "No need."

The insect is a nocturnal moth species, adept at lurking, skilled at stealthy reconnaissance and camouflage, and very fast. It can infiltrate a starport with its eyes closed.

With an access card, it's a piece of cake.

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Human Federation, Desolate Planet.

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When Gao Tian woke up, his teammates were already awake. The sniper was organizing the usable guns, while the strong man was looking up the terrain projection of the asteroid on his tablet. Under the 3D perspective, he marked all the naturally formed or man-made underground caves and waterways in red.

The burly guy is a technical soldier who looks like a combat soldier. He's very capable and is nicknamed "Political Commissar." He can debug equipment, analyze data, handle logistics, work part-time as a military doctor, and even do ideological work with new recruits... He can do everything.

The scouts and Sister A are not here; they've probably gone out to survey the nearby terrain.

Female A is an assault soldier who will accompany and protect the technical soldiers when they are deployed. Gao Tian is also an assault soldier, and their squad consists of two assault soldiers who also serve as commanders.

As the team leader, he was awake for most of the night while on watch, and only managed to get some sleep around 5 a.m.

S-class alphas have exceptional physical attributes; two hours of sleep is enough for them.

Gao Tian opened the cleaning kit and carefully cleaned the trash and odor off his body.

Alphas' bodily fluids contain pheromones, and most Zerg are highly sensitive to these biological pheromones, detecting them from tens of meters away. Thorough cleaning is essential. Cleaning kits are a necessity, and the instructors didn't skimp on their supplies in this regard.

"Captain." The burly man came over with the projector and gestured for him to look at this.

The desolate planet was once a world abundant in water resources, with no oceans but only freshwater. Waterways dotted the continental plates, and rivers originated from the mountains, eventually converging to form vast, scattered freshwater lakes, like jewels on a verdant planet.

Now that surface water resources have dried up, they have no deep-penetration tools and the groundwater level is unknown. But even a fool would know that if groundwater still exists, it must be at a very, very low level, otherwise no water could possibly seep to the surface.

Underground river entrances cannot be found in dried-up surface river channels. Most surface river channels originate from high mountain swamps and flow into lakes and seas. High mountain swamps are infiltrated water and do not have specific outlets.

The real underground rivers are buried deep underground, and the underground water outlets are usually springs. They don't have time to dig thousands of meters underground, so it is easier to find underground rivers by entering some underground caves that are more than a thousand meters deep.

Some underground caves may contain toxic gases or lack oxygen, so they must be carefully identified.

Given that karst caves are also a unique natural landscape, they are very likely to be developed into tourism projects on tourist destinations.

The burly man spent the whole morning looking through the previous promotional materials for the tourist destination and, based on their current location, decided on the location of a canyon and karst cave scenic area that used to be next to a major river.

"I feel that this cave is most likely connected to an underground river," the burly man said, pointing to the projector.

Indeed. When this cave was used as a tourist attraction, the latter half was submerged in water. There are aquatic organisms in the cave, the water level is stable and it never dries up, and it is very likely that it is connected to underground waterways.

Gao Tian asked, "How far are we from this location now?"

The burly man estimated: "The straight-line distance is about 500 kilometers."

Five hundred kilometers is not a short distance, and with various terrain features and interference from the Zerg, even if they were all high-level A-rank, it would probably take them four to five days to travel on foot.

High-level A can go about three days without water, but it becomes more troublesome after three days.

Each person in their ration pack only had one bottle of water, enough to last about five days. If they couldn't find water in the underground cave after five days... well, if they couldn't find it, they'd die.

Gao Tian clapped his hands: "Okay, this is fine."

The sniper next to him was stunned when he heard the number 500 kilometers. After estimating the number of kilometers he would have to run every day, he sat down on the ground with a blank look in his eyes.

Damn it, he got it! The instructors put them down because they wanted him dead!

We marched 500 kilometers in five days without food or water, including through mountainous terrain!

The sniper cried out in despair, "I don't want to do this anymore! What kind of damn mission is this?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Tian turned his head with practiced ease: "Where's the political commissar? Where's the political commissar? Help!"

The burly man squeezed in to offer his motherly concern, trying to help the young comrade through his inner struggle: "Hey, young comrade, look at us. We are an elite team. An elite team must have an iron will, the courage to face difficulties head-on, to forge ahead through wind and rain, and to fight bravely in the face of adversity; we are not afraid of difficulties, we are tenacious in the face of difficulties, and we bravely shoulder our mission..."

Gao Tian walked out the door.

Why is the political commissar still using the same old tactics to mobilize people in interstellar space? It's so annoying, I'm sick of hearing it.

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