37: Nightlight: Haha! I finally got it dressed!

Little Night Lamp: "Haha! I finally pierced right through it!"

"Boom!"

The space station suddenly shook violently—

Compared to this massive tremor, the previous minor disturbances were like a seismic simulator facing a planetary pimple-popping (volcanic earthquake).

Most people inside the space station were caught off guard and sent tumbling in every direction;

The space station itself was knocked right out of its orbit by this overwhelming strike, causing a large number of parts to fall off and the entire hull to groan and creak.

Sustained torque kept tearing at the small outpost, as if it would be reduced to floating space debris the very next second.

And the culprit behind it all was floating outside the window, upper jaw wide open, gathering energy for its next attack.

That's right, the catastrophic scene that had just unfolded inside the space station was caused by that Colossal Insect spitting out a mouthful of phlegm.

Furthermore, by the looks of it, it seemed to be clearing its throat, preparing to cough up the next mouthful.

We're dead, we're dead, we're dead!

Baili Ying, who had barely managed to stand up, caught sight of the beam lighting up again outside the window—the Colossal Insect had finished charging, and a blue-white glob of phlegm was hurtling toward them.

It's over...

Baili Ying felt absolute despair. Oh well, being able to see the once-in-a-millennium Void Seepage before dying was worth it.

It's just that the bet she had made with White Shark seemed lost; she wouldn't outlive White Shark—

"Hum—!"

The moment the beam was about to make contact with the outpost, the central console suddenly emitted a beep, and a transparent, semi-circular Shield unfolded outside the outpost.

To be precise, this Shield was colorless; the light was actually pillars of energy scattering along the shell of the Shield!

"??????"

Sudden plot twists always catch people off guard, just like on Qixi Festival night, when you've washed the fruit and are ready to give it to "him," only to peel it and realize the pronoun for the person on the other side is actually "she"?

Suddenly, with a "click," the central console opened a small aperture, and a holographic screen appeared in mid-air, snapping Baili Ying out of her daze.

There were two icons on it:

On the left was a three-layered inverted triangle, with the innermost part solid, the middle hollowed and closed, and the outermost one open;

There was also another, with a black-and-red background and a golden aquila emblem on top—that's right, it was that notorious Human Federation peace dove.

"Firewalls completely disabled."

"Accepting access to this outpost from identification name 'night lamp'."

"Highest authority has been transferred."

Then, after a pause of less than a second, the electronic voice instantly changed into a simulated human voice.

"Fully connected to 'Type II' Armed Scientific Research Mobile Base Center."

"Weapons system self-check in progress..."

"torpedo rack: Ready to fire · Two."

"Linked radar, high-value target locked."

"Fire."

night lamp spoke extremely fast, and everything happened in the blink of an eye.

Baili Ying had only just reacted when those two "DL-228 Heavy Plasma Torpedoes" on the launch rack had already sped away.

(The torpedoes brought by the smuggling team mentioned earlier were loaded onto the launch rack just as White Shark met Xi Hai.)

The torpedoes trailed silver exhaust flames as they slammed fiercely into the upper jaws of the two Colossal Insects, and the plasma, freed from gravitational restraint, splashed wildly as pulsing ripples bloomed to their heart's content.

When the dazzling light dissipated, only charred severed limbs and debris remained where the upper jaws of the Colossal Insects had originally been.

The two Colossal Insects stopped advancing; they had just felt threatened by the explosion.

After a brief weighing of options, they chose to leave.

As the first Colossal Insect turned its head, the Swarm retreated like a receding tide.

Their direction was toward the Planet Five orbit.

(In the shadows)

Little Night Lamp: "Are you convinced? I'm asking you, are you convinced?"

mainframe: "I am, I am."

Little Night Lamp: "That's more like it!"

Little Night Lamp: "Since you're convinced, obediently open your database and let me in to check!"

mainframe: "Wait... wait a second... Hah!"

mainframe: "Such a powerful data stream! My primary AI consciousness is about to be washed away!"

Little Night Lamp: (sneers) "Hmph, when it comes to data attacks, you're still hundreds of times weaker than me!"

Little Night Lamp: "Obediently change into the shape I've set for you!"

(In the end, the mainframe completely accepted Little Night Lamp, completing a perfect fusion with it.)