Chapter 77 Hatching Date
Chris didn't listen to Su Xi this time. She said, "As the person in charge of the operation, I must pursue the path with the highest probability of winning."
Su Xi was not too surprised by her decision.
The situation was different from the last time when she reminded them to "be careful of insect eggs and biomass" during their underground work. This time, she was unable to provide convincing evidence of the so-called "planetary language".
She also couldn't force them to enter the 'Thought Network' to experience it for themselves again. After all, the vibration of the 'Planetary Language' was far beyond the limit of what human brain waves could currently withstand.
She herself is a special case and doesn't care about life or death.
But they are different.
Su Xi nodded to Chris silently.
After Chris made the decision, Mary and the others quickly followed the plan.
The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle's shield force field instantly expanded to its maximum! The brown beetles that had been sucked into the shield force field and had been "ripened" to the size of large hunting dogs were suddenly catapulted into the air by the surging shield force field!
It was a densely packed scene that gave one the skin crawling.
then--
Four rows of gun ports suddenly opened up on the belly of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, and the high-energy particle cannons were activated! They fired at the dense swarm of insects shooting in the air!
Two-thirds of the insect swarm was instantly annihilated.
Sure enough, under the panoramic surveillance camera, the remaining one-third of the beetles that escaped seemed to be... bigger!
What was even more disturbing was that in the magnified image, they had grown thin wings for flying! Those were thin wings with a metallic luster, extending from under the carapace, reflecting a dirty metallic light, shining on the mirror surface of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, as if it had been stained with a stain that was difficult to wash off.
This is an incredible speed of evolution!
While everyone was shocked by this sudden change, the golden insect eggs in the lower storage compartment of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, which had been vibrating strangely, suddenly became completely quiet.
After a slight "click" sound——
A crack quietly appeared on the originally hard golden eggshell...
Su Xi sighed.
She now wanted to actively capture that 'sharp cry', but she could no longer capture it. This strange silence seemed very abnormal.
Su Xi stood up from her original seat and sat closer to the area where the cargo hold was connected.
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"Sir!" Mary turned around and asked for instructions: "Only one-third of the target has been destroyed, but they have now re-encircled and attacked——"
"Keep going. Increase the power! Destroy."
"yes!"
There is no doubt that although the Sun Devourer Shuttle is only a small warship, it is equipped with the most advanced weapon system of the human empire. Almost as soon as Chris finished the last word of the order, the destructive weapon system was instantly activated, bombarding——
Countless red laser beams scattered! The strikes were precise and effective! Two-fifths of the insect swarm were instantly wiped out!
At the same time, in the heavily guarded storage compartment below the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, a slight sound was heard again.
Crack, crack—the cracks in the egg's golden shell are getting bigger and bigger—
By the time Allen and the others noticed something wrong on the surveillance screen, it was too late.
The main monitor screen shook for a while, and there was no trace of the 'golden eggs' at all...
"How is it possible? It disappeared?!"
Infected by the tense atmosphere, Su Xi had to remind him: "Maybe it just hatched? Changed its form?"
"Naya is right!" Allen was the first to speak out in affirmation. He quickly called up the last image displayed on the thermal imaging tracker. The blurry image recorded a series of energy changes. He said with great certainty: "This 'golden insect egg' has hatched. But the form is unknown! Special abilities are unknown!"
"The main reason is that our current instruments cannot capture the wavelengths after it hatches, so we cannot use the instruments to lock onto its specific location."
"Sir! Requesting manual search!" Mary asked Chris.
Chris groaned.
And at this time.
Beep—beep—
A rapid alarm sounded inside the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle.
Everyone turned their eyes to the location where the surveillance camera alarm was issued. It was clearly shown that the cargo box on the bottom floor used to imprison the 'companion insect eggs' had been torn from the inside out!
Most of the 'companion insect eggs' that were originally sealed and strictly isolated from the 'golden insect mother' were dead iron-gray in color and had long lost the activity of hatching. However, under the sacrificial energy transfer of the 'cannon fodder' of the same species outside the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, they have the possibility of hatching!
At the same time as sensing the hatching of the 'mother insect', the ferocious newborn beetles fearlessly broke out of their shells one after another, devouring everything they could see!
The demand for energy of these newly hatched 'companion insects' overwhelms everything. They devour all the energy-containing substances they see, including the containers that bind them and even the power gates that imprison them... until they are bounced back by the special 'force field shielding film'!
They had no choice but to turn around and devour the other 'companion eggs' of their kind that were piled together and had not yet hatched...
Until finally there were five equally matched 'companion insects' left, the smallest of which was as big as an adult alpha.
At first, they each occupied a corner of the room, ready to "devour" or guard against being "devoured"——
Compared to the insects flying outside, they have more confusing dorsal patterns and sharper mouthparts.
Behind the surveillance camera, Chris, who was observing everything closely, issued the order:
"Check the level of the Zerg."
"Three level two, two level five... Soldier 'General' level 'Companion Bugs'!"
Ellen's scans gave a definite answer.
"Send scramble waves until only one of them is left. Then kill it!"
"yes!"
What Chris executed was a very mature tactical deduction from the millennium-long confrontation between humans and Zerg. This was a response method that every alpha in the command system was very skilled at.
Chris did nothing wrong.
However, there are always some unexpected situations -
'Woo woo'
'So hungry! So hungry!'
'I'm so hungry!'
A familiar, sharp cry suddenly rang in Su Xi's mind again, but this time Su Xi did not drive it away. She suppressed the urge to smash things and called out to Chris!
"Chris, I want you to feel a 'sound'. Is that okay?" The pale-faced omega, holding his forehead, begged with a trembling voice.
If we ignore the violent and destructive pheromones that she suddenly emits, the alphas present will probably feel pity for her immediately. But the people who have seen her powerful strength, combined with the violent pheromone suppressor, cannot completely eliminate the pressure from the higher level?
The only thing it brought to the alphas was a cool and tight feeling on their backs.
As a beta, Chris was obviously the least affected. In her eyes, he was still a well-behaved omega. She immediately asked with concern: "Naya? What's wrong with you?"
"Can I, Chris?" Su Xi continued to beg, she took a deep breath to control her emotions.
The alphas breathed a sigh of relief with an odd feeling.
"That's ridiculous. How can I feel pressure from an omeg scent? It must be an illusion because I didn't sleep well." Rambo found an excuse for his strange reaction just now, and then he felt much better.
As for Su Xi, it was obvious that she had a very deep impression of the "humiliation" that Gary felt after she silently invaded his mind last time!
'Be polite' was the admonition from her adoptive mother in her previous life. Even though the experiences before she traveled through time had faded into monochrome flat photos and could be recalled without emotion, the upbringing she received since childhood had always left her with a behavioral pattern that could be considered polite.
"Can."
As soon as Chris finished speaking, the sharp cry seemed to fill everyone's mind as if it were real.
Su Xi once again let everyone enter that mysterious "thinking network".
'Damn! Who's crying!'
'It's so noisy!'
'What's that noise?'
"I guess - that's it."
'Mother worm?'
The chaotic thoughts seemed to echo in an extremely empty stone drum. The sharp and monotonous cries echoed in this space like an alarm...
Those with higher mental strength levels, such as Gary and Mary, were in good condition, except that their faces were a little pale.
Allen, whose mental strength had just been advanced to level 2S, stroked his forehead as if he was in great pain.
Until a cool wave passed by.
The noise faded away, and the sharp crying seemed to be tuned to a level that was acceptable to everyone, similar to background noise.
"Sorry, I'm also trying to figure out this method of manipulating mental waves. It seems to be getting better now?"
The real Su Xi smiled at them.
What else could this group of alphas say? They could only nod.
"When I connect to it, it can also find me." Su Xi in reality said quickly in voice: "But 'it' has not had the opportunity to learn human language yet, so for everything that comes next, everyone should try to close their brains and communicate directly with language."
"No problem," Chris said.
Then, in a period of time that seemed both long and short, the people in the "mind network" gradually...saw each other after a period of extremely distorted physical sensations?
And the faint spiritual thread that connects them...
If everyone at this moment is an isolated island, then Su Xi's spiritual realm is the vast ocean that supports these isolated islands...
In Su Xi's vast spiritual realm, everyone looked at each other in surprise for a moment, and then the image of everyone facing each other disappeared...
She actually! Without anyone noticing, she captured everyone's 'spiritual core'! And copied it into her own brain!
Gary suddenly reacted. Being very good at both theory and practice, he immediately understood the principle!
But this is simply impossible! First of all, to accommodate ten 2S or even 3S psychics, the level of their own abilities is not a simple addition, but a multiplication of their abilities!
And 'replication' means that the spiritual frequency band itself... must be broad enough to accommodate all currently known spectrums!
This is impossible! Combined with the 'planetary band' she mentioned earlier.
That means...almost omnipotent?!
Absolutely not!
Gary's emotions were so surprised that they surged like a tidal wave! He was always calm, and in his overexcited emotions, he accidentally leaked his thoughts to this "intranet". Then, those "surprising" messages, at a speed faster than "light" or "electricity", started from his own "isolated island" and quickly "transmitted" among the crowd!
When Gary returned to himself, he was already filled with all the noise, fear, and... many other indescribable complexities from the other alphas.
In reality, Su Xi blinked and said dryly, "Don't worry, I won't intrude into your privacy without the master's permission."
"I don't want to do this. Because what we will face is another 'network'——"
As he spoke, Su Xi closed his eyes slightly.
After everyone felt the familiar sense of distortion, they found themselves in another picture.
In reality, Gary has a blank face.
In the spiritual world, Gary was even more numb, looking at another "light net" coming towards him. It was the newly hatched "mother worm" and its "companion worms".
He felt that he was no longer able to exclaim.
When Gary was still a cadet, the theory class thesis that caused him to fail was "a concrete exploration of the networking model of the Zerg's thinking", but he did not expect that his idea would be confirmed in this way.
In reality, Gary rubbed his face.
then--
The picture in the spiritual world turned upside down, and they collectively entered a narrower perspective...
Su Xi said: "Please try to keep your movements stable. This is the perspective of the worm. It is not easy to find it, and it is even more difficult to attach to it silently."
Allen was the first to speak out: "This is the 'power module' of the Sun Devourer Core!"
Before she finished speaking, the 'worm mother's' perspective instantly turned, and the layout in front of her became more familiar to everyone. That was the 'cargo hold' that sealed the 'worm eggs'!
Gary asked, "How could the same queen be in two different places?"
"There are only two explanations for this," Su Xi said. "The first explanation is that the creature in the 'power module' just now should be just a part of this 'mother worm', or another creature that it possessed."
"Its true form should still be trapped in the 'prison cell'."
"Second explanation: This is a 'developmentally deformed' queen worm. One can escape, but the other can't. Just like twins, they share a 'mental network'."
Chris said, "Mary, take your guys and go check the 'power compartment' first!"
"Whatever it is!"
“It’s all very troublesome!”