Cen Yu really didn't expect Chi Jiazhen to suddenly self-destruct.
In his view, it was normal for the other party to keep the secret until the very end... He recalled the plot of the novel, in which Chi Jiazhen made a great contribution after the appearance of half-human, half-insect creatures on Planet Nott ten years later.
Now that he heard that the lab was actually his lair, Cen Yu's expression became subtle. He had a feeling that Chi Jiazhen was orchestrating this whole thing.
Thinking about it this way, Chi Jiazhen was quite ruthless. Cen Yu pondered for a moment, "Who are Adam and Eve?"
He actually wanted to ask what the relationship was between him and the things on the fifth basement level.
Chi Jiazhen looked around and finally found a clean stone step to sit down. He looked down at the seat next to him, then looked up at Cen Yu, gesturing for him to sit next to him.
Cen Yu remained motionless.
Chi Jiazhen simply looked up at him, indicating that she wouldn't say anything unless Cen Yu sat down.
Cen Yu walked over and sat on the stone steps. He turned his head to look at him and said, "Go ahead and tell me, I'll listen."
“I don’t know anything about this,” Chi Jiazhen said.
Cen Yu immediately stood up.
Chi Jiazhen reached out and grabbed his wrist. "However, I can guess some of the truth from the experimental records."
Cen Yu then sat down again.
Chi Jiazhen simply and slowly recounted the part of the story she knew—
Just as they had guessed, Adam and Eve were the "father" and "mother" respectively. Chi Jiazhen pondered how to describe this. In his opinion, Cen Yu, as a fully human being, especially an Alpha, would most likely be unable to accept such a story.
“My mother,” Chi Jiazhen said, “is a male Alpha.”
Once you understand what the Zerg are all about, it's no secret that "humans cannot give birth to Zerg through normal childbirth."
To Chi Jiazhen, a half-human, the fact that the Zerg could impregnate a human was incomprehensible—but that's how it happened, so it could only be an Alpha.
"Theoretically, Omegas can give birth to Zerg because the gestation sac helps them give birth to Zerg in a slightly more normal way. However, Zerg and Omega pheromones are mutually repulsive." Therefore, they can only be Alphas.
As for Betas, they are not within the Zerg's considerations; Alphas' physical and mental abilities can serve as nourishment for Zerg larvae.
From some perspectives, this is parasitism.
They kill the host at birth.
“The person who gave birth to me was also an Alpha,” Chi Jiazhen said.
Cen Yu knew he had more to say, so he didn't interrupt and just waited quietly for Chi Jiazhen to continue.
"His mate is a Queen Insect; higher-level insects are more likely to drain the mother's spiritual energy."
Chi Jiazhen looked at the burn marks that had just appeared on his palm. "If things had gone according to plan, I would have been born six months later after breaking open his belly." He turned to look at Cen Yu. "But an accident happened."
"Accident?"
"He became an Omega."
A look of surprise immediately appeared on Cen Yu's face. "But an Omega...?"
“Yes,” Chi Jiazhen said, “but because the transformation was sudden, his mental energy can still be supplied, in addition to the help of the gestational sac.”
“I don’t know what happened after that,” Chi Jiazhen suddenly said. “Perhaps it was an accident, or perhaps it was for some other reason.”
"He and the Queen Insect were found by the people at the Nott Planet Laboratory."
“That queen insect is dying, so it can’t do anything, not even maintain its human-like appearance,” Chi Jiazhen said.
"He's doing a little better, but those people have never seen an Omega pregnant with Zerg before, so they want to figure out what's going on."
Chi Jiazhen said to Cen Yu, "I don't know anything about the past. I know all this from the experimental records." He thought for a moment, "I was artificially removed so that he could live."
The experimental records that Chi Jiazhen saw contained various experiments, both large and small, conducted on them.
“That King Insect’s spiritual power was almost completely exhausted, which is why it’s about to die,” Chi Jiazhen said.
Cen Yu still remembered the King Worm he saw in the simulator... Thinking that Chi Jiazhen was from this lineage, an idea suddenly popped into his mind.
Could it be that the king insect he saw in the simulator was Chi Jiazhen's father?
"Can the King Worm's spiritual power also be depleted?" Cen Yu asked.
In all the information about Ohmu, their spiritual power seems to be inexhaustible, completely different from that of humans.
Therefore, Cen Yu found it hard to imagine what had happened to completely deplete the spiritual power of a King Insect, and how it had been captured by people in the underground laboratory and become a research target.
“Yes,” Chi Jiazhen said.
“It’s just a guess,” he told Cen Yu. “They have a guess about why the King Worm’s spiritual energy is depleted.”
Cen Yu gave him a look that said, "I'd like to hear more details."
"To prevent the larvae from draining the mother's spiritual energy," Chi Jiazhen said, looking at Cen Yu. "The larvae feed on the spiritual energy of Alphas, and the spiritual energy of fellow Zerg is obviously a better thing for them."
Cen Yu was about to subconsciously ask, "If that's the case, then why did all the previous mothers die?" But the next second he realized it was a stupid question.
Because they don't care.
Human Alphas serve as nourishment and resources for the larvae, and this method is clearly more acceptable to the Zerg than sacrificing their mental energy to the point of exhaustion.
“The Zerg have no concept of offspring,” Chi Jiazhen said. “An extra larva is less like an extra child and more like an extra warrior in the family.”
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