StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 23 Klein Blue

[Beep - Communication interrupted]

The light on the stone tablet quickly dimmed. Not understanding what had happened, Shen Qingqing tried to contact it again, but to no avail.

Every time a successful connection is about to be established, a message pops up saying that the other party is offline.

It's a bit like blocking or deleting in Earth.

But if Shen Qingqing were on the warship, she wouldn't think that way.

Inside the warship—

The general, whose communications were forced to be cut off, also looked grave. He then received news that the warship's communication system had been severely damaged.

"You few come with me to meet the wolf clan," the general ordered.

"But the commander didn't give any orders, he just told us to hold the warships. Wouldn't that..."

The general interrupted him, then spoke in a deep, authoritative voice.

"The commander is busy with the Holy Egg and has no time to attend to anything else. For the Zerg and for the Zerg Queen, we must break through the Wolf Clan's encirclement this time!"

The warship's electrical system is still under repair, and the entire cabin is shrouded in darkness.

This severed even the last remaining contact with the outside world.

However, the central command room of the warship was brightly lit.

Inside the steam-filled sterile chamber, the commander-in-chief listened quietly as the Zerg outside reported the extent of the warship's damage.

The gist of it is that if the warships are not repaired soon, they can only hold out for a month at most.

The Zerg foes on the warship had already suffered heavy casualties.

Only after all the insects had retreated did the commander-in-chief stand up.

In the center of the semi-transparent sterile chamber lies a sacred egg, one of which was lost during the exile, and the other was pierced on the spot during the coup.

Slender fingers stroked the thin eggshell, and amidst the swirling mist, long, snow-white hair trailed across the cool floor as its owner moved.

He touched the sacred egg inch by inch, little by little, leaving no corner untouched.

However, the fingers stopped when they touched the edge.

Her silvery-white eyelashes trembled, then closed again as if unwilling to give up, as if they could be ignored if they were not seen.

The sacred egg he guarded for nearly two hundred years was empty!

Unable to suppress the pain in her heart, she lay on the broken eggshell and sobbed silently.

No one knows the extent of the torment that Klein Blue, the usually wise and calm Zerg commander-in-chief, was enduring.

Klein's eyes were a pure, deep blue, just like his name.

But that proud surname wouldn't allow him to abandon his mother.

As the most steadfast guardian of the old school, Wang Xing is a strategist and commander who has never made a mistake in his hundreds of years of political career. He has spent his entire life following in the footsteps of the Insect Queen.

But now, the sacred egg is empty; how could he not grieve?

But in front of the insects, he had to disguise himself and tell them that the insect queen had not yet awakened.

This lie lasted for two hundred years.

Now, the lies are about to burst open.

"Queen Insect, if you have truly descended, why can't I sense your presence?"

……

The communication core can only be used once, and it will be automatically scrapped after use.

This is to prevent other factions from using the device to decipher Zerg intelligence.

The person who had been blocked sat still, pondered for a moment, and then pried the small ball off the stone tablet.

"Consider it a memento."

Another untimely fellow has appeared.

【Host~】

Hearing this, Shen Qingqing was in a real bind.

[If you want to contact the Commander-in-Chief, you can also look for me~]

Lao Ba started his deception.

[You can apply for advance mission points in exchange for communication opportunities! Why not give it a try?]

"I'm not coming," Shen Qingqing coldly refused.

Old Eight persisted, asking, "Can you really bear to do this? Can you really be so heartless?"

"..."

Seeing that she didn't speak, Lao Ba emphasized the consequences again.

If you don't become the true Queen of Insects, the whole world will descend into chaos, and Tharnst and your friends will not be spared...

"What did you say?" Shen Qingqing asked, puzzled. "Does this have anything to do with whether or not I become the Insect Queen?"

Why do they say that if she isn't crowned, they will disappear?

Old Eight coughed and said solemnly, "Because the world is not operating according to the normal procedure, the result of a program error can only be destruction."

Worried that she wouldn't be able to empathize, he even showed her a simulated scene.

The world depicted in the scene is ravaged by war, littered with severed limbs and broken bodies, and almost no insectoid creatures have escaped unscathed.

Suddenly the screen zoomed in, eventually focusing on a few corners, displaying several insects she was familiar with.

“That’s…Vina XIV, and…Sarnst?!”

Shen Qingqing was incredulous. She would rather believe it was a lie than believe that this was their final fate.

"You're not lying to me?"

"Of course not," the system retracted the screen. "I'm temporarily overseeing this plane, but there's a traitor within the Zerg. They're attempting to change the Zerg's survival strategy, and this will be the direct cause of their annihilation."

You must stop them and get the Zerg development back on track.

"You mean the so-called coronation?"

She seemed to understand why the system was so obsessed with the coronation.

If she is not crowned, she will not be able to gain direct control of the Zerg, and traitors will take advantage of the situation to replace the Zerg Queen and push the Zerg to its demise.

Vina, Fourteen, and Saenster.

Shen Qingqing was conflicted, but she prioritized the greater good.

Finally, he made up his mind, "Okay, connect to the commander's internal line."

His eyes were filled with determination. "I want to speak with the Commander-in-Chief in person."

Okay, privileges have been applied for for you.

"After the coronation, I'll be out of the picture, right?"

She still remembered that she wanted to travel the world with Vina and the others.

Of course, the system was busy pleading with its superiors, saying, "At that time, you can choose to return to your original world, or stay here."

The Zerg have long lifespans, so you can have plenty of fun.

Because it involves external intrusion into the brainwave pathways, the process can be somewhat lengthy.

Klein had just dressed and was ready to personally enter the fray and fight the werewolves to the death.

The tiny antennae on its head suddenly curled up, and a sizzling sound came from its head.

An external enemy has invaded the mental zone?!

Klein's pupils constricted. How could this be?

The Zerg's mental link can only be used to communicate with other Zerg and cannot be compromised.

As the electrical noise subsided, the female's voice gradually became clearer.

"Commander-in-Chief, are you there?"

"Can you hear me?" Shen Qingqing called out anxiously.

Due to system privileges, and because this opportunity was obtained by overdrawing task points, the call duration was only one minute.

"can you hear me?"

"Hey?"

On the other hand, Klein stopped in his tracks.

The voice that suddenly appeared in my mind flowed through my body like a spring, sweeping away the fatigue that had accumulated over the past few months. My whole body felt as if I was bathed in comfortable sunlight, feeling a long-lost warmth.

He hasn't seen the sunlight for over a hundred years.

Even without seeing her face, one can deduce that the owner of the voice is no ordinary person.

"Yes, Queen Insect?"

The sound was soft, like a trembling soap bubble that could burst at any moment.

Shen Qingqing finally received a response and hummed in agreement.

"Are you ok?"