Chapter 57 Intuitive Date

Hiss——

The pressure relief valve was activated. The mist of nanosilver ions quickly dissipated, and the invisible nano-microscopic robots quickly cleaned up the radiation residue on Fitzgerald.

He lifted his legs and stepped through the first decompression door. With a slight "click" sound, five silver-white mechanical arms smoothly and silently followed his quick steps, and took over the outer space maintenance operating suit he had taken off, as well as the maintenance tools he carried with him, one by one.

Of course, the most important thing is the handling of the 'spoils'.

Hiss—the second decompression door started, and Fitzgerald stood in front of the "cleaning scanner" waiting for three green lights to scan his entire body in an alternating manner.

After all, he had just dealt with the insect with his bare hands, and whether it was physical attachments or the remnants of mental fluctuations that were accidentally stained, it was very necessary to do such a thorough and careful cleaning.

During this brief process, through the small window of the last transparent shielding cabin, he glanced at the real-time picture transmitted on the inner cabin light screen. The space button loaded with the insect core shell material and the newly acquired King General-level "insect core" crystal were being scanned, tested and preliminarily processed through another special channel inside the Dark Flame Mecha, and finally transported to a "special item" safe deposit box in the inner cabin for observation and analysis.

Then, he crossed the last shielding door and returned to the Dark Flame mecha's cabin.

He stood in the mecha cabin that had felt small before but now seemed inexplicably overly empty. He quickly activated the intelligent computer program to analyze the acquired materials.

The quantum clock ticked, and the four time zones displayed were silently rotating at different speeds.

He remembered that in this slow timeline inside the mecha cabin, on this mentally connected operating chair in front of him, not long ago, there was a petite figure curled up on it...

She raised her head slightly and looked at him, her eyes still seemed to be lingering before her eyes...

Beep, beep—the reminder sound interrupted his moment of distraction.

A cold mechanical voice rang out from the mecha's interior: "The material inspection report has been completed. Would you like to check it?"

"Check."

The lift opened silently, and through the transparent isolation cover, the processed 'worm core' crystal lay quietly inside.

It was a strange and sad color.

Fitzgerald reached into the transparent operating box and checked it through the operating gloves. The three-dimensional test report was displayed in the air one by one as he moved his hands.

Looking at this preliminary test report, the alpha's eyes became serious. The dark blue light outlined the red-haired alpha's tough profile, making his expression even more solemn.

It was a very beautiful crystal substance that contained a lot of energy. Under the light of the matter scanner, it seemed that there was a bright red liquid flowing inside it.

The information on the light screen quickly passed by his eyes, and the intelligent computer was quickly presenting the information of this "Zerg Crystal Core".

'Insects' is actually a broad concept. It is not a general term for the six-limbed animals in the class Insecta under the phylum Arthropoda as defined in human biology. It cannot even be simply classified as 'carbon-based life'.

However, the 'insect tribe' that first appeared in the public eye was called 'insects' by the first human discoverers because of its appearance that was very similar to an enlarged version of insects, and its attacking and predatory characteristics and honeycomb-like nest structure were very similar to ants and bees in the human biosphere.

Therefore, the name "Zerg" was inherited in the interstellar human society.

As interstellar human beings' conquest of the universe progressed, the demand for resources created an irreconcilable conflict with this cosmic race from the depths of darkness. During the long confrontation, humans got to know their enemy, the "Zerg", better and better.

Fortunately, the genetic map of the 'Zeng Tribe' can be completely deconstructed, analyzed and speculated in human ways.

However, although the insects are very similar to the carbon-based life in terms of macroscopic DNA molecular structure, they have a fundamental difference in the chemical structure chain composed of carbon atoms from the microscopic particle structure. That is -

Although the composition of the "Zerg" gene molecules, when observed at the microscopic particle scale, is still based on carbon atoms as the core of the chain, in addition to the four chemical chains of the carbon atoms themselves, there is another non-particle existence!

This non-particle existence cannot be physically divided or measured. However, after they form a "pure polymer" under a strict laboratory environment, the overall mass of the pure aggregate cannot be measured, but its energy value can be accurately observed.

This substance was named "Element U" by its first discoverer, and its artificial derivatives were widely used in the spiritual connection between humans and machines, so that the first generation of interstellar humans, on top of their fragile carbon-based bodies, put on the outer garments of silicon-based creatures when they first stepped into the interstellar space. Military mechas were also gradually popularized into civilian mechas for planetary mining, stellar energy extraction, etc., making the first step of interstellar humans before this era to dominate the universe extremely solid.

The sallow blue semi-liquid and semi-solid substance extracted from the Psychic Link Pod with a content of over 80% of "U Element" is called "U Medium". The so-called "Insect Shell Material" which is closely related to it is actually a derivative extracted from "U Element" after being purified in different proportions and combined with the outer shell of "Insect Core Crystal".

So far, in the current vast universe, except for the remains of the 'insect race' and some rare 'space beasts', the non-particle existence of this 'U element' has not been found in any other living or non-living things.

Therefore, in the last quantum conference communication, the hypothesis that "worm nucleus matter is the degradation product of higher-dimensional organisms" mentioned by the old alpha scientist Sir 'Clark' is just one of the most widely circulated hypotheses in the exploration of cutting-edge theories by interstellar humans.

As for why the U element only exists in the insects and some space beasts, people have too many guesses and doubts.

However, this doubt has not affected interstellar humans' application and research on it.

Fitzgerald manipulated the nano-robotic arm delicately, and through the operating gloves, he initially separated a small sample of the 'U medium' from the 'worm core', and then used his mental power to wrap the small sample to prevent the sample from becoming escaping energy and being impossible to capture the moment the substance was separated.

He moved quickly, skillfully and easily, completing the separation and capture tasks and placing them into a special container that had been prepared in advance.

Finally, Fitzgerald turned on the quantum transmitter and sent the extracted samples and his own preliminary verification data to 'Colotburn' and his research team who were anxiously waiting at the First Fortress.

Although this 'worm core crystal' has temporarily fallen into mental hibernation, as a carrier of the spiritual body during the quantum transmission process, the crystal core cannot be stably restored after quantum separation. He does not want to take the risk of losing this sample. Only after An Yan returns and sends it to the laboratory for a complete inspection can it be confirmed that this 'worm core crystal' belongs to the companion worm soldier of that generation of worm queen.

He then stored the insect core and headed for the next monitoring location without delay.

Dark Flame, which was in stealth mode again, started up silently.

The red-haired alpha in the cabin directly entered the human-machine link state. He stood in front of the operating table and did not bind the U-mass link. Instead, he casually scanned various detection data while distractedly looking up at the quantum clock. On his timeline, only about seven minutes had passed from returning to the inner cabin to completing this series of tasks.

On the far left is Chris's timeline. The gray progress bar currently shows that he is still in a time-space jump that is invalid for observation.

Obviously, there is a high probability that something unexpected happened on Chris's side.

However, the quantum clock tied to Su Xi showed that it had synchronously entered the time flow of the 'delivery point B' - that is, the 'life circle' wasteland of the planet BV-32II.

He compared the time flow rate with his own side and found it was 11:1. Then he looked at his personal communicator again. The quantum text message was sent successfully and he also received a reply that it had been read.

'Drop Point B' is located in the life zone of the planet, which is a rare place of life in this vast star field. Even if there is an error in the landing time, at least a day and a night should have passed since she landed.

But there was no response with specific situation.

The red-haired alpha lowered his eyes indifferently, but tightened his grip on the joystick.

But he had no choice, especially since he had just fought with the King General-level insect soldier. Although he deliberately isolated himself from the fluctuations, the insect nest would send a signal wave every three star intervals to return to the nest, and his infiltration would soon be detected.

He could only make a time difference, as there were at least two more monitoring locations that he needed to rush to. At least within two star hours on his timeline, before he completed his mission, neither Chris nor Su Xi could turn around and go there.

Outside the wide window of the Dark Flame Mecha's spiritual connection cabin, the entire universe was dark and empty, with only the brilliant starlight from the direction of the central galaxy faintly visible behind the dark matter nebula.

The red-haired alpha frowned and pressed his chest. He did not ignore the slight "pulled" wave that came when the Leaping Zerg Core was torn apart. It should be that the soul crystal fragment he donated was activated.

If it wasn't the energy attraction caused by her active advancement, then it was the automatic defense of the soul crystal fragments when encountering a huge crisis.

Which one would it be?

He actually had the answer in his heart, and his heart was like a piece of lead, slowly sinking into the deepest abyss of darkness.

*

The Great Wilderness. Planet BV-32II. 'Life Sphere' 97.12 east longitude, 21.35 north latitude.

At this moment, the arid wasteland where Su Xi was standing had changed its appearance.

The "Life Circle" wasteland, with the explosion where they were located as the center of the one kilometer circle, the originally slightly undulating hilly terrain was completely flattened.

The ground was full of charred pits, and the sparse vegetation not far away was burning sparsely. This unexpected wildfire was slowly extending along the horizon.

In the special atmosphere of the planet BV-32II, the sulfur content in the air on the ground is always slightly higher due to the special composition of the soil in this wasteland. At this moment, the burning plants are mixed with the special components in the soil, and the light blue flames continue to rise with the heat and float in the air. When they float to a certain height, the light blue flames burn rapidly and turn red, and then turn into ashes and fall down.

Flakes of white ash fell, covering the ground like snow.

On the ground, the unpleasant smell of carbon disulfide strongly stimulated Su Xi's sense of smell.

Cough, cough——

Su Xi tore off a piece of cloth and covered her mouth and nose with it, dragging the tightly tied up 'prisoner of war' behind her, and moving forward while searching for usable parts scattered along the way.

In this ever-dark light of the wilderness, which is like dusk and evening, the beautiful auroras that used to be used as direction indicators on the horizon have long disappeared due to the diffuse smoke from the burning of sulfides.

"Who are you anyway? An intermediate 'initializer' cannot possibly have such abilities!" On the most primitive and crude flatbed cart, the tightly tied 'prisoner of war' finally couldn't stand the doubts in his heart anymore and asked loudly and rudely.

He was asking about the previous duel between the two of them, in which Su Xi avoided the hunting illusion created by him as a 3S-level mental inducer through "intuitive prediction", and used an "illusion within an illusion" to lure him out, and then used the liquid silver curved knife to "quickly, fiercely and accurately" remove his metal prosthesis, and when he intended to fight back at the last moment, she dispersed the dark insect armor and tied him up tightly!

"You can't be an omega! They were all fooled!" He looked up at the sky with his one eye and roared unwillingly, "I was fooled too! You must be an alpha who used a genetically fake drug!"

This time he roared out the most unwilling part. After tying him up, Su Xi manipulated the dark insect armor to decompose another extremely fine black particle, which completely corroded the metal parts of his body's joints under the guidance of the mental thread. Thus, the head of the sixth group of the Eagle Department, who was known for his cold and cruel killing, fell into the hands of a seemingly weak omega and became a useless person who had completely lost his ability to move.

Although for him, before he became famous, this kind of situation of being suppressed by the strong and unable to move was not uncommon, and the metal bones of the limbs can be easily replaced. 60% of the body's biochemical parts are not only more resistant to damage than real flesh and blood, but the cost of replacement is much smaller than the time cost of recovery.

But after being famous for so long, this is the first time he has suffered such a terrible defeat. As the chief executive of the sixth group of the Eagle Department, Snow refused to believe that he was defeated by an omega.

At this moment, he was absolutely certain that the other party was an alpha with a special mission, who used genetic drugs to disguise himself and lie dormant.

Thinking of this, his humiliation and injustice gradually subsided, and his mind quickly filled in a lot of special missions or purposes of this alpha disguised as a petite omega.

He is not dead yet! Since he is alive, it is possible to complete the mission.

Snow calmed down and thought quickly. He glanced at the funny alpha pretending to be an omega in front of him with his one eye. According to his habitual thinking, the other party must have important information to extract from him if he spared his life.

Ha, he sneered in his heart. As a hidden spiritual power seduction instructor, he knew very well that she defeated him in the previous round because of his lack of information and carelessness.

And if it is an interrogation, then 'counter-interrogation' is his area of ​​expertise.

He forced a laugh.

Su Xi ignored him. She drove the dark insect armor to release energy to generate auxiliary propulsion, and dragged the simple and primitive flatbed cart slowly towards the original location of the safe house.

The wilderness was silent. A breeze blew away the white smoke that spread over the charred land.

Only then did Su Xi feel that her throat felt much better.

There was less than a kilometer left to the original location of the safe house. Su Xi passed by the place where the primitive land turtle was rescued. She saw from afar that the safe house that Xiguang had carefully arranged was completely destroyed.

I just wonder if there are any spare supplies left. Or... components that can restart Xiguang?

However, when she finally stood at the original address of the safe house that had been reduced to a flat ground, holding tightly in her hand the chip of Xiguang that she had picked up, she felt a little confused.

Is it possible that all we can do now is wait? Wait for Chris and the others to rescue us.

Intellectually, this is not a bad idea, but Su Xi, who has made breakthroughs and advanced to the next level many times, has already realized the importance of "intuitive" reminders.

Explained in understandable language, the so-called "intuition" is actually a vague decision-making algorithm developed by genes in the long evolution. The higher the level of spiritual ability, the more clearly they can distinguish which intuitions are unfounded emotional fluctuations and which "intuitions" are real and important information reminders.

And for Su Xi, at this moment! There was an extremely strong and inexplicable feeling reminding her——

'No! Don't stop here.'

'Go explore!'

'What you expect, what you want, is not here.'