StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 160 Abandoned Elevator

Andorra was extremely unwilling but had no choice but to do it himself.

Of course, he would never touch the body of a strange male creature.

So he taught him how to take a bath in the room.

Hearing the sounds coming from the room, Shen Qingqing and Liya, who were eavesdropping outside the door, both showed expressions of appreciation.

"I didn't expect Andor to be so good at teaching kids. I might consider having him as a teacher when we form a new Zerg team in the future."

"I think it's a good idea. We should make full use of our strengths. Besides being a teacher, he can also be an engineer and a lab technician... Ah, Andor is truly an all-around male insect!"

"Right, right, Qingqing? I told you Andor was the most capable bug on the planet."

Hearing the undisguised praise outside, Andor's lips curled up slightly in the room, a hint of barely suppressed laughter appearing on his usually stern face.

They directly lured him into begging for a cichlid.

The two female insects outside the door exchanged a glance and silently gave each other a thumbs up.

When you want someone to do something willingly, don't be stingy with your praise; shower them with compliments!

Andorra falls for this.

After washing him clean, Andor led him out. His shiny paint job and fair face dazzled the two of them.

Is this the legendary handsome young man who keeps his true abilities hidden?

"She's quite good-looking," Shen Qingqing remarked.

“I think so too,” Leah praised sincerely.

Andorra: =_=

Seeing Andorra's lips twitch slightly, Shen Qingqing quickly changed her tune, "But he's still a bit inferior to Andorra."

Andorra: (?˙▽˙?)

Leah: ?_?｀

“I spoke with him before, and he gestured that he knew where the exit was.” Shen Qingqing didn’t forget their main purpose; they still needed to get out of here and back to the capital.

Having escaped being overshadowed, Andorra brought up the child and said succinctly, "Lead the way."

After passing through the complex underground laboratory, we arrived at another stairwell.

"Weren't we supposed to go up? Why are we going down?" Leah had just finished dressing herself and was now thinking about how to fix her broken manicure.

Upon hearing this, Andorra looked at him with a hint of suspicion.

The little boy quickly waved his hand, indicating that the way out was right below.

The two insects stared at each other for a moment, and Andor placed his index finger on his temple before speaking.

He said there was an elevator downstairs that could take us up.

"Can you understand what he's saying?" Leah indicated that she couldn't understand the language between the cyborgs.

“Yes,” Andor said casually, putting down his finger. “The modified insects can communicate with each other using built-in frequency transducers, but Little Vi doesn’t have any components that can transmit signals outward, so it can only communicate through external contact.”

“He used to have a name,” Shen Qingqing said, becoming curious after hearing Andor mention his name. “Is Xiao Wei a modified bug like you?”

They look somewhat alike and both require energy fluid input.

Earlier, when they passed by the energy supply room, Xiao Wei found a few energy stones in a hidden compartment, which solved their immediate problem.

"Similar, but not quite the same."

The four insects walked and talked.

“Xiao Wei is quite special. He said he has lived here since he opened his eyes, relying on the liquid in the jar to survive. He also said he has never seen any other insects. We are the first living creatures he has ever seen.”

Unbeknownst to them, they had already reached the bottom floor of the laboratory.

Xiao Wei ran to a dark place and searched around for a while, finally managing to pry open a crack.

Looking down through the crack, one could see an abandoned elevator suspended in the middle of the shaft, creaking and swaying with the wind blowing from above.

"Is this the way up that you were talking about?" Leah looked down from the broken bottom of the elevator and saw only bottomless darkness, as if there was no end in sight.

Xiao Wei nodded emphatically and pointed to the top of the well, indicating that as long as they kept going up, they could leave this place.

"Why don't you leave here?" Shen Qingqing was also quite curious.

Xiao Wei's body doesn't appear to lack strength; the fact that he can easily lift Andorra shows that his physical functions are still quite good.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Wei seemed to have thought of something upon hearing this, and suddenly started gesturing wildly, opening her mouth wide as if to say something, but could only make a hissing sound.

"He said there was a section at the top that was broken, and the elevator couldn't be moved. He had tried to climb up there before, but each time he returned empty-handed."

Andor, who was standing nearby, translated his meaning, earning a envious look from Xiao Wei.

Xiao Wei nodded repeatedly, and then, to Shen Qingqing's surprise, jumped through the gap onto the elevator to show them that the elevator was not working.

"Damaged wiring, lack of power supply, and lack of maintenance make it difficult to restart the elevator." Andorl's inspection revealed that the internal wiring of the elevator had been deliberately cut.

Moreover, the cut surface is very neat, and all the lines have been cut off without exception.

What exactly happened here back then that made them so wary, even to the point of cutting off all the power lines before leaving?

Andorra felt it was necessary to record and preserve this.

Turning around, he found that Shen Qingqing and Liya were gone. "Where did they go?" Andor asked Xiaowei.

Xiao Wei shook his head; he didn't know either.

Turning back to check the elevator himself, he met a pair of obsidian-like eyes.

Andor felt his heart skip a beat, and a fluttering emotion spread from his chest throughout his body.

Shen Qingqing said with a smile, "Lia and I went upstairs and brought over the things from before."

Then he picked up the welding torch and several pieces of wire, saying, "Want to take a look?"

Andor lowered his head slightly, his blue eyes filled with gentleness. "Well, I'm afraid I'll need the Queen's help to fix it."

"Just call me Qingqing. There's no need to keep calling me 'Master' or 'Master.' Aren't you tired of calling me that long?"

"I'm not tired, I like it."

"Whatever you want... Leah, we're here!"

After saying that, he ran off to help Leah carry the parts. Taking the parts wrapped in a tarpaulin from her arms, Leah reminded him, "Be careful, there's still machine oil on these parts."

"It's okay," Shen Qingqing smiled sweetly, "We can just wash it again."

Intense white sparks emanated from the welding torch, flashing and illuminating the dimly lit, abandoned laboratory floor.

There are no extra lights here, and it would be too much trouble to rewire and reinstall them now, so we might as well just repair the wiring by the sparks.

After more than an hour of repairs, they finally boarded the elevator, which slowly rose as Andorra turned on the switch.

Accompanied by creaking, vertically arranged rusty tracks, a makeshift elevator, supported only by its bottom and four corners, slowly ascended with four insects.