"Are You All Right?"

In low orbit over New Canaan, a Space Station hung like a forgotten metal coffin, its life-support functions failing one by one.

Inside the observation deck facing the sun, hundreds of stranded personnel huddled beneath the curved dome. Their breath condensed into white mist in the frigid air, intertwining with the flashing red warning lights to form an eerie halo.

Through the six-meter-high composite windows and panoramic dome, the entire colony's death unfolded with suffocating "clarity."

The purple-black Zerg Creep spread "slowly" across the planet's surface in radiating patterns, like a lethal toxin the universe had injected into New Canaan.

What the stranded personnel could not see was that translucent sacs continuously churned along the Creep's edges. Whenever those biological structures burst, swarms of Zerglings poured out like a black tide.

Furthermore, the Zerg bio-fleet formed a three-dimensional "web"—

Countless Overlords and bloated biological warships exhaled acidic mist. Flying creatures streaked through the vacuum, leaving trails of mucus behind them, while vast numbers of Leviathan Behemoths anchored themselves at key orbital nodes like living asteroids. The bioluminescence seeping from the gaps in their carapaces refracted sickly rainbows beneath the starlight.

Inside the Space Station, alarms "tore" through the air every thirty seconds—

"Bulkhead integrity in Zone C has been lost. Immediate evacuation is recommended."

"Warning! Hostile biological intrusion detected aboard this station!"

The electronic female voice and the shriek of twisting metal formed a horrifying "duet."

The ventilation system suddenly spewed smoke carrying a corrosive stench. The crowd watched the filter screens over the vents corrode into rust-colored foam at a visible rate under some acidic secretion.

Then came bone-chilling scraping from within the ventilation ducts. The metal pipe walls seemed to tremble faintly as the Zerg moved through them.

An officer in a Terran Dominion uniform stared fixedly out