Chapter 102 Taming Date
"The turning power loss rate is 35%. Should we increase the intensity of the counterattack?"
The AI's mechanical voice sounded.
The red-haired alpha protected the omega in his arms and gave an order in a calm tone: "No. Continue to defend conservatively."
The core module continued to tremble violently, and after a moment, waves of destructive sound waves came with an even more ferocious attack that exceeded the upper limit that carbon-based life could withstand.
Fitzgerald immediately recognized the characteristics of the attacking 'golden egg', which should have evolved a sonic resonance capability that was more suitable for the mineral nest.
As this powerful attack came, he opened his mental shield to protect Su Xi, but Su Xi grabbed his hand, closed her eyes slightly, and quickly adjusted to the wave frequency of the attack from the half-hatched 'golden egg', and directly bounced it back more fiercely.
Fitzgerald was speechless for a moment.
Hearing it from Chris, seeing it in the video, and experiencing it in person, the fierce temper of my own omega, the feeling is completely different.
The person he fell in love with would not tolerate any injustice. But at the same time, she was not willing to accept any favors for nothing.
As the core capsule sinks, the closer it gets to the outer core interface, the more red dots appear on the monitoring screen.
Su Xi said: "It's too much energy to waste it all, why not——"
She looked at the hollow ball in her hand and said, "Get rid of it. It's useless and will only cause trouble."
Fitzgerald: "Okay."
As soon as the words fell, the originally invisible 'worm mother' suddenly appeared, poking a head out from the hollow hole. At this moment, it looked exactly like the kind of look that Su Xi would like.
The plump white body was shaking with fear, but the two black compound eyes on its silkworm-like head were still looking at her bravely.
The wave of prayer almost materialized in the air.
Su Xi looked at it expressionlessly for a second, then handed the hollow ball in her hand to Fitzgerald and said, "You do it. Although it's cute, I don't like the greasy feeling of pinching a bug."
"Wow—" The tiny insect raised its head, and liquid dripped from its black bean-like eyes. "I'm very useful, don't kill me."
Clear pronunciation, standard interstellar language, or an extremely cute baby voice?
If you ignore the rows of sharp teeth in the open mouth.
There was a moment of silence.
After swallowing the golden liquid spiritual power that Su Xi fed it, this 'Mother Worm' fell into a restorative sleep and evolution. It woke up with a strong sense of crisis and detected the strong pressure. As for a natural preference for a state called 'cuteness', it had the talent of 'insight' and could only desperately mimic the form of a silkworm baby, trying to survive in front of a race that was naturally hostile to it.
It only whispered to Su Xi: "I voluntarily give up the competition for the queen! I won't cause any more trouble! Please don't, don't kill me!"
As it expressed its intention, the 'green dot' representing the core module on the surveillance screen burst into several violent flashes, and then the fluctuations related to the 'Mother Worm' completely disappeared.
After losing their target, the other 'golden eggs' that were besieging slowly dispersed and continued to move towards the interface of the earth's core layer.
At this moment, it is still 300 meters away from reaching the outer core interface.
The core module's crisis was resolved, and the automatic defense system retracted all weapons. The core module's appearance returned to its dark and dull appearance.
"Fitz," Su Xi turned and asked, "What kind of insect is this? How come it can speak Interstellar Common?"
"The Zerg's language and various talents and abilities are inherited from their genes."
Fitzgerald explained carefully: "Not all Zerg can inherit the human language. That is an ability only the high-level ones have."
"When high-level Zerg enter the final hatching stage in the 'egg', they already have the intelligence of an adult human. As they hatch and grow, they will acquire more and more abilities from the inheritance."
Fitzgerald wrapped his hands with a layer of defensive mental power and took the hollow ball that bound the "Mother Worm" from Su Xi's hand. The dark insect armor only squirmed a few times before stopping the unnecessary defense.
"This one's talents are probably 'invisibility' and 'mimicry'. For a high-level 'worm queen', these are indeed a bit useless."
Su Xi asked, "Is it dangerous to stay?"
"At present, there is no such situation. However, just as humans have a second sexual differentiation and determine the direction of development and evolution, high-level 'worm mothers' will also have a second development and determine the 'core inheritance'. "
“Whether there is a threat or not needs to wait until that state is reached before we can see.”
Su Xi thought about the efforts Chris and his friends made just for a live 'specimen', so she asked, "If it is used as a specimen, will it be useful to humans?"
Fitzgerald looked down at her and said, "Yes."
"Then stay."
After a little probing, he asked, "What did you feed it?"
"A little bit of mental strength."
"Not opposed?"
The 'worm mother' standing by immediately expressed her opinion: "It's delicious! I don't mind it! I want more!"
"I want to eat golden beans!"
The soft and soft childish voice added with the reduplicated words made the expression even more silly and cute, but Su Xi said, "No."
"That's fine." Fitzgerald was amused by her vigilant look: "If you are interested, you can try to tame it."
"At the first hatching stage, the insect you feed and tame will depend on your limits in future advancement. When you reach the First Fortress, there will be a professional 'worker insect trainer' and a mature set of methods. You once asked me for a job..."
With a look of reminiscence in his eyes, he said gently, "Take it back, and you can participate in the project that Korot is developing."
"how?"
This is Fitzgerald's usual style, foresight and the ability to exploit any available factors.
He remembered every word she said and was happy to grant any reasonable wish she had.
Thus, the fate of this 'mother worm' that had disguised itself as a baby silkworm was decided in just a few words.
Outside the core capsule. They were already close to the outer core interface. The last remaining 'golden eggs' really passed by the 'core capsule' as if they were not seeing it, and flew directly to the outer core interface. During this process, less than one tenth of the 'golden eggs' were able to continue to penetrate the outer core interface and continue to go deeper.
In the core module, the quantum clock's countdown alarm began to sound.
There is only one and a half star hours left before the second wave of "stellar explosion" planned by mankind.
Under Su Xi's careful control, the defensive black insect armor transformed into a three-layer hollow ball. The 'Mother Worm' lived inside, and after being fed a liquefied spiritual substance, it fell into hibernation again.
In the small core cabin, the surveillance screen flashed a faint blue light. Although the survival rate was less than 13%, the two figures who were leaning very close to each other were extremely calm. They held hands and whispered from time to time, exchanging their respective situations since they separated.
They even talked about how he wanted to take her to see the city behind the First Fortress.
On the majestic artificial satellite city, you can watch the magnificent sunrise of three stars in a row; on the planet of almost pure liquid water, you can see the molten springs erupting in the deep ocean and the magnificent bioluminescent bacteria migrating thousands of miles along the ocean currents...
The only thing that was not discussed was the "if" with the highest probability.
The progress bar on the surveillance screen was jumping, and the atmosphere between the two was calm and warm, waiting for the best time to make the leap.
However, Su Xi, who was leaning against Fitzgerald, felt an indescribable palpitation, and the increasingly strong vibrations were pulling her. She thought to herself that the sequelae of what had just happened might not have gone away.
But despite her efforts to restrain herself, she was still discovered by the observant alpha beside her. His warm fingers reached towards her brow, and when Su Xi raised her head, she met Fitzgerald's sullen expression.
I can't let him worry, nor can I let him waste his energy when he hasn't fully recovered. Su Xi thought so in her heart, then she pulled his hair, tiptoed and kissed him.
"Nothing. I just suddenly wanted to kiss you."
She smiled and whispered softly against his lips.
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On the other hand, the current queen of the Zerg clan, hovering in the entire 'nest', is in a state of emotional fluctuation ranging from excitement to trembling!
It is closely following everything that is happening beneath the outer core interface of planet BV32-II in the 'worm web'.
It is also waiting.
But what it was waiting for was a disaster for humans, but a wonderful moment for the Zerg. In its blurred 'vision', as the eggs 'completely hatched' one by one, more and more 'thinking points' could be connected to the 'worm network', and the vision of the Zerg Queen became clearer and more three-dimensional.
So, at the interface where the outer core approaches the inner core, it "sees" it!
Deep in the center of this somewhat barren rocky planet, the material is not composed of dense mineral elements, but another kind of existence between hollow and solid.
A huge and active energy body sometimes flows, sometimes solidifies, and changes its shape deep in the center of the planet. The inner core interface that surrounds it is dense enough to effectively isolate it from all "non-planetary" fluctuation exploration.
It is a kind of beauty that is so dazzling that it is difficult to describe, and it is an existence that will shock any "life consciousness".
It is a part of the 'planetary life form', or more precisely, one of the thousands of forms in which the 'planetary life form' exists.
The ball of pure energy located at the center of this "life form" beats like a heart, and the waves generated by each beat are transmitted upward in waves along the layers of the planet's geology.
This was the first time that the Zerg Queen had come into contact with fluctuations in this rare frequency band, which was different from any life form she had ever come into contact with.
Far in the Hera Black Hole, the queen who was patrolling the Nest Heart stopped, curled up into a ball, and quickly pursued the memory inheritance of millions of years in the depths of genetic memory. Finally! When it first landed in this universe, it found some broken memories.
'The language of the planet?'
It thought about it, then raised its head slightly and opened its mouth into a smiling arc.
It understands.
This 'planetary life form' is not a complete entity, nor is it a 'newborn' and ignorant life consciousness as it thinks, but rather a residual 'planetary consciousness' that has survived after being destroyed thousands of times.
At this moment, the special frequency fluctuations emitted by this remaining "planetary consciousness" are nothing more than the panic and unwillingness emitted by all living things when facing the threat of death.
Tick, tick, tick——
The Zerg Queen knocked the stone wall with its short forelimbs. It tried to interpret the fluctuations of this special frequency band from its inherited memory. However, as soon as it understood it, it was surprised!
The long waves emitted by this 'planetary life form' at this moment are sending out a distress signal seeking resonance to a certain 'existence'?
The Zerg Queen was stunned for a moment, then sneered.
What a pity! No matter what kind of 'existence' it is, it can't stop my race from devouring you!
When the Queen of the Zerg thought of this, she immediately issued an order in the 'Bug Net' to 'accelerate the competition' to the golden eggs that were still in a stalemate in the group battle in the outer core layer!
Since it is a remnant consciousness, it is more suitable for consumption by the newborn 'next queen'. It is very much looking forward to the birth of the greatest queen under its arrangement!
No matter how dense the inner core interface is, it cannot withstand the erosion of countless mature larvae.
Soon! Once the teamfight is over, it's time for that wonderful moment.
As for the threat of the rekindled white dwarf outside? The Queen turned the view in the 'worm net' and clearly saw the current weakness of mankind from the perspective of the front-line brain worms.
The blocking energy of the five flying dragons can withstand the impact of all stellar energy except for "supernova explosions". Now it is just a re-ignition of a medium-mass white dwarf, which is nothing to worry about.
Now no 'existence' can stop it!