Song Jinhong said, "Apart from Shen Zhou, the world’s most elite talents are basically gathered in the Noah Science Society. If we can absorb the talents from the Noah Science Society, our technological strength will be greatly enhanced!"
"By then, it would be equivalent to having the top human talents all concentrated here with us!"
Lv Mei agreed and said, "Even though these people are pessimistic about the future of humanity, it doesn’t mean we should deny their capabilities because of that."
He Xingzhou also agreed with this viewpoint; it is quite normal for scientists from other regions to feel pessimistic about the future of humanity. After all, the nations they live in rapidly collapsed in the face of Zerg attacks, with no power to retaliate.
If we can absorb these people and have them work for Shen Zhou, it certainly would be a wise choice.
"Since their perspective is already loosening!" He Xingzhou said, "Let’s play big this time and show the world that the Zerg are not invincible!"
"That’s good too!" Cui Weimin said, "Use the attack on the insect hive to draw their attention, and we send a secret team to rescue these scientists. It’s a win-win!"
Ganges River Plain, Camp 03.
Huang Sheng was still descending. After dropping 300 meters, various tunnels had started to appear underground. If a person were to explore alone, they would definitely lose direction within ten minutes.
Fortunately, he has AI to record the terrain, so even if there were ten billion branches, the AI system could still discern details to document his path.
"The signal is getting weaker!" Huang Sheng noticed that after delving deeper underground, his mecha was unable to contact his teammates above. The soil and rocks were blocking the signal, combined with strong nuclear radiation and electromagnetic interference.
"One thousand meters!" Huang Sheng saw that the display showed his descent depth had reached one thousand meters, and the tunnel was getting wider, even revealing quite a few Zerg.
Some insects had already noticed him, and others were attempting to capture him using slime, acid, or spider web-like materials. Because he was descending quickly, these insects did not manage to hold him.
"I need to be faster; the insects have discovered me!" Huang Sheng thought, "Meteor, accelerate downwards!"
Head down, legs up, he activated the acceleration mode directly, speeding up to supersonic ten times!
At this speed, traversing the tunnel, his personal reaction speed could no longer keep up, requiring reliance on the AI system for operation.
"Depth five thousand meters!" Huang Sheng looked at the screen’s number, feeling quiet inside. Underground, five thousand meters deep, how was this dug so profoundly?
Judging by the number of tunnels, at least billions of insects live here!
"Depth twelve thousand meters! Thin air, temperature at 400 degrees Celsius!" At an underground depth of twelve thousand meters, the armor showed hardly any air presence, and the temperature surged dramatically.
But the space here was getting larger, with the cave filled with densely packed Zerg and insect eggs everywhere!
"This is the insect nest, over ten thousand meters underground!" Huang Sheng had confirmed the position of the insect nest, yet regrettably, signals couldn’t be sent out from here.
"Back in the days, the Soviet Union’s plan to drill through the Earth only reached this depth, right?" he thought to himself while the armor continued to descend steeply.
The surrounding temperature was gradually rising, and upon reaching around twenty thousand meters underground, he could even feel the heat waves from the magma!
Beneath thirty thousand meters of continental depth lies basically the magma layer, whereas, below six thousand meters of oceanic crust, magma can be found.
This continental region was somewhat thinner, so when reaching beyond twenty thousand meters underground, Huang Sheng had already seen the flowing magma.
A massive underground space appeared here, where secretions from some Zerg formed pillar-like structures that supported the underground space.
Various insects were in and out of this place, either constructing caves or transporting materials.
Huang Sheng had started to decelerate; he couldn’t just dash into the magma!
This was already nearing the lowest layer of the insect nest.
Huang Sheng saw a heap of gigantic eggs here.
"I’m familiar with these; back in the volcanic insect nest, they were the same kind of gigantic eggs!" Huang Sheng thought to himself, "But there are more gigantic eggs here!"
Taking a glance, there were at least ten thousand gigantic eggs in this underground space, "Are there over ten thousand nuclear giant beasts?"
"Sweet mercy, if they all hatch, even ten thousand plasma cannons wouldn’t be enough!"
Huang Sheng documented this scene and also saw a gigantic egg hatching, with a juvenile version of the thousand-legged worm emerging.
"Little one, Uncle’s giving you a birthday gift!" Without saying a word, Huang Sheng fired an Electromagnetic Gun, piercing its head.
Meanwhile, he used a laser to sweep over the other gigantic eggs, destroying them.
This action immediately alerted the Zerg, and from all directions, through numerous tunnels, insects swarmed.
Huang Sheng also saw a colossal thousand-legged worm emerge from the underground, with pupae-like hard shells forming on its body, seemingly undergoing evolution.
"Oh man, so many, not sticking around!" Huang Sheng accelerated fiercely, charging into the tunnel!
The passage he arrived through had already been blocked off, but fortunately, the armor could seek direction based on temperature and humidity changes, with supersonic speed constantly traversing and ascending!
On the ground, the insects’ signal had spread, causing the entire city to be in turmoil.
Those who initially seemed human-like insect men began revealing their true selves!
Some had their heads split open directly into giant mouths; others stripped off disguised clothing, using hands and feet crawling on the ground; some even divided into four parts, transforming into quadruple worms searching everywhere...
They were hunting for intruders!