Sheng Nian spread his wings without a word and flew back to the Zerg nest.
After the smoke and dust at the bottom of the basin cleared, a translucent crystal appeared.
Everyone squinted at it for a while before asking uncertainly, "The Energy Core?"
Inside the nest, the loss of the Zerg Queen had left the Zerg somewhat unsettled as a whole. Sheng Nian poured out his higher Zerg mental power, suppressing all their unease.
Sheng Nian looked at the crystal in the basin. Everyone thought it was the Energy Core, but only he, as a Zerg, knew that it was no Energy Core. It was the Insect Core left behind by the Zerg mother.
He looked at the people itching to make their move, but he was puzzled himself. Had even the Quantum Collapse Missile, which could kill the Zerg Queen and cause space to collapse, failed to unearth the Energy Core?
Was there actually an Energy Core here?
Sheng Nian recalled the natives' backstory that Tang Jiang had once told him.
He murmured, "The Godforsaken..."
He looked at the members of the Kaike Tribe among the Space Pirates. They were a tribe that could never awaken abilities in the backstory, so why did they look almost excited as they gazed at the bottom of the basin?
While Sheng Nian was thinking, the others could no longer resist going after the crystal.
He could not work out the connection, but he inexplicably felt that something was wrong.
Watching everyone rush toward the basin, Sheng Nian had no time to think it through. He flew out of the nest. "Something's wrong! Don't go over there!"
Yan Feizhuo, Mo Yuanyuan, Qi Xiao, and Chu Yue stopped when they heard Sheng Nian. Even Jiang Shu and He Gu instinctively paused for a