This is an asteroid that was discovered by the sector military a long time ago. It was confirmed that there are Thorn Zerg inside and it has rare mineral deposits.

Although it is an asteroid, its diameter is close to one kilometer.

Although the military had the ability to mine it, it did not. Instead, it found a way to drag the asteroid to the galaxy where the mining space station was located and deliberately let the space station scan it.

The mining space station is indeed doing things according to the military's ideas.

When searching for asteroids and scanning for rare minerals on them.

The space station proactively dispatched a tugboat to tow the asteroid to the mining area of ​​the mining space station.

Use the large mining lasers and mining equipment here to develop asteroids.

The day when the pre-mine preparations were completed, the first special metal ore was collected, and more high-value minerals were scanned.

A celebration party was held at the space station.

Then someone took advantage of the celebration party and the mining operators who were still working between shifts to manually adjust the mining plan.

Originally, if the space station mined the asteroid according to normal safety procedures.

Then after a few days, the outer wall of the asteroid will become thinner, and the Zerg secretions from the internal hive will interfere less with the civilian-grade scanning detectors here in the space station.

This means that the mining space station has a high probability of discovering anomalies inside the asteroid and taking countermeasures in advance.

However, this revised mining plan did not comply with mining safety regulations at all, which resulted in the internal bugs being released ahead of anyone's expectations.

And because of the noise from the previous mining, the Zerg inside had woken up. The crazy bugs that had been knocked around by the noise for two days instantly swarmed into the space station.

The person who changed the plan was definitely a spy planted by the military and had a certain status, otherwise he would not have been able to change the mining plan under such circumstances.

As for this person's final outcome, the Queen of Insects saw it clearly.

Because after releasing the bugs, he hid in a corner of the mining area.

Operating several industrial robots, he entered the asteroid after almost all the Zerg had left.

He stole a Thorn Zerg egg from the hive and immediately used the potion he had prepared to put the egg into hibernation.

The Thorn Zerg were a rare creature thirty years ago, just as they are now, and their eggs did have a good value.

The man then stored the insect eggs and placed them in a hidden corner of the warehouse, preparing to find an opportunity to leave with the eggs.

Then he was killed by the Queen Insect who had been targeting him.

However, even if the Queen of Zerg didn't kill him, he would most likely be killed by the guns of his own people from the star zone military who were waiting outside the space station.

On the other side, the Zerg that poured into the space station did cause great damage to the space station.

This is not right.

The mining space station is located in the fringe star field, so it definitely has basic defensive capabilities.

This is true even if the attack comes from within.

What's more, people who can survive in the fringe star field, unless they are pure technicians like Chen Ming who voluntarily come here for promotion, have nothing else to do except sleep and work.

The others have all experienced combat to some degree.

The sudden appearance of the Zerg would definitely cause brief chaos inside the space station, but after some people died, the space station management would definitely be able to resist.

After all, this is just a bug inside an asteroid, not a fully developed Zerg army.

But in the Queen's memory.

The space station did not organize any decent resistance at all, only a few scattered people made futile counterattacks against the Zerg attack.

There were some autonomous defense measures on the space station that barely stopped the Zerg, but there was no other resistance at all.

It’s as if this isn’t a space station located in a fringe star field with a tough folk character.

As for the reason for this situation, Chen Ming also learned it from the Queen Insect's memory.

And he learned this from the scene in this memory that left the deepest impression on him.

It was the scene when the Queen's insects arrived at the living area of ​​the space station and found the hall where the celebration banquet was held.

When the bugs broke open the door to the hall.

In front of him were tables filled with luxurious dishes compared to those in the edge star region, and blue-faced corpses lying on the ground beside them.

All the management of the space station and the leaders of various working groups were killed.

Many employees who were unable to attend the banquet due to work requirements, but who were also given some leftovers of the delicious banquet dishes distributed by the kitchen, also collapsed at their workstations.

Even some people who happened to be temporarily staying at the mining space station and were just passing by on individual mining ships or caravans died here because they were invited to the banquet.

This indiscriminate large-scale attack caused the space station to completely lose its leader.

The remaining ordinary employees and other ordinary people who were still alive had no way to organize a decent resistance and could only flee on their own.

But outside, there were spaceships from the star sector military waiting.

This is a dead end.

The galaxy where the mining space station was located was thus blocked.

The Queen of Insects occupied the space station, emptied almost all the food in the space station warehouse, and then lay dormant for more than 30 years.

Until the day Chen Ming woke up from the cryogenic hibernation chamber.

What happened next is what Chen Ming knew. He was very clear about what had happened during this period of time.

Especially when he saw from the Queen's perspective that it took only two days to breed hundreds of cystic worms, Chen Ming once again confirmed how strong the Zerg's evolutionary ability is.

However, after discovering that the Zerg had cystic worms, he never approached the space station again.

Therefore, what happens next still depends on the Queen Insect’s memory.

After Chen Ming left, the Queen of Insects ordered a large number of insects to stare at the direction where Chen Ming's spaceship last left for more than half a month.

The result was naturally nothing.

During these few days, the bugs began to go to the dock frequently, going in and out of the several spaceships that were basically damaged but not completely destroyed in the dock.

Then one day, the Queen of Insects took action herself.

The fat and bloated object was carried by the bugs on the space station and transported to the most intact civilian spacecraft.

Within a few days, the insect growth completely covered the spacecraft and assimilated it into their nest.

Soon after, the Queen of Insects learned how to start the spaceship.

Although the operation of civilian spacecraft has been simplified to the point where it does not require much professional knowledge to fly, Chen Ming was still a little surprised that the Queen of Insects learned it so easily.

But if you think about it carefully, with the hive mindset of the clustered race, it seems that there is nothing wrong with the IQ increasing as the number of Zerg increases.

In short, the queen insect lived inside the spacecraft and stayed there for a week.

Along the way, insects kept delivering spacecraft fuel, various growths, and a lot of bright green gel-like substances to the spacecraft. They should be the Thorn Zerg shellac he had discovered before, a kind of Zerg food.

At the same time, other insects gradually dismantled several other spaceships that were more seriously damaged, and many of the materials and equipment on them were gradually moved to the spaceship where the Queen of Insects was.

After a few more days, the growths on the exterior of the spaceship that the Queen Insect was inhabiting gradually faded away.

A spaceship appeared on the space station, although it had many flaws, but almost all the damage had been repaired by the Zerg in their own way.

Chen Ming remembered that he originally did this because the other spaceships except the Iron Ore were too old and too fragile to be repaired.

Therefore, the Iron Ore, the most intact spacecraft, was chosen at the beginning.

He didn't expect that the spaceships that he thought were beyond repair were actually being maintained in good condition by these bugs.

Even after those growths outside fade away.

The Queen of Insects spent several days sending all the insects on the space station into this civilian spacecraft which was only more than 30 meters long.

There should be thousands of bugs in the entire space station, all crammed into one spacecraft.

Of course this is physically impossible, so the Queen of Insects used a special method.

It re-digested and absorbed all of these insects, turning them into highly concentrated nutrients that were stored on the spacecraft.

Only some insects that could fly short distances in space and evolved during the two days after Chen Ming came to harass them in his spaceship were left on standby.

Relying on the nutrients fed back by a large number of insects and the biomass converted from the spacecraft fuel brought to the space station in advance.

The Queen of Worms controlled the spaceship very clumsily and slowly flew it out of the galaxy, and began to accelerate with the engine that was barely running.

Just like Chen Ming had done before, the Queen of Worms relied on 99% of the speed of light, which could be reached by civilian spacecraft, to reach another barren and undeveloped galaxy closer to the interior of the empire and away from Chen Ming.

Before entering the galaxy, the spacecraft began to send distress signals to the outside world under the control of the Queen of Worms.

And this actually attracted a spaceship.

Coincidentally, the people on this spaceship are also pirates.

The pirates immediately took control of this strange and unscannable spaceship and sent people boarding it.

Then, they experienced what a horror movie was like.

In short, the Queen of Worms spent a few more days in space changing the spacecraft.

Then they directly activated the hyperspace channel system and entered hyperspace.

Chen Ming didn’t know how the Queen Insect did it, but it just went in.

The Queen of Worms drove her new spaceship into hyperspace, and like a novice flying a spaceship for the first time, she staggered through countless galaxies towards the outside of the empire.

The Queen's speed is not fast because it still needs to adapt.

And something needs to be done.

In the process, it gradually became proficient in controlling the spacecraft.

In addition, the parts of the spacecraft were constantly and actively discarded into hyperspace.

As for those parts that were actively discarded, the Queen of Insects herself evolved biological tissues that could replace them.

The replacement started with the most basic armor, then the weapons, and then gradually shifted to the various internal infrastructure and facilities.

From some equipment that didn't matter if lost, to the most important spacecraft control center of the entire spacecraft, they were gradually replaced by the Queen herself, the "brain" of the Zerg.

Along with the spacecraft's control center, the lines for transmitting data within the spacecraft were also eliminated and were replaced by nerve bundles extending from the queen insect's body.

At this point, the entire spacecraft has almost completely become a part of the Queen of Worms.

In addition to the engine equipped with a hyperspace channel system.

But this engine was also thrown away by the Queen of Insects about half a month later.

He knew that bugs must be a huge trouble to humans.

At the same time, for him, it is also a treasure waiting to be developed.

However, there is one thing on the spaceship that the Zerg have not been able to evolve: the spaceship shield.

In the Queen's memory, the pirate ship it robbed later did have a less suitable ship shield module.

But when it tried to evolve the spacecraft shield, it found that it could only evolve a pile of messy proliferating flesh and blood, and was completely unable to construct a biological tissue that was as effective as the spacecraft shield module.

So in the end it chose to give up, moved the heart to a new position, and placed it on the shield, and it also lived in the heart again.

After the shield evolution failed, the Queen continued to thicken and strengthen the Zerg shells on the outside of the biological spacecraft.

At this point, the biomass spacecraft truly appeared in the universe.

This is how the queen of the Thorn Zerg develops in space.

After this the Queen continued to slowly wander through hyperspace.

It chose the relatively safe direction outside the territory of Yuhui and the mechanical race that it found on the star map that it could understand in the original spacecraft computer.

Every time the Queen passes through a galaxy, she will leave hyperspace for a while to search for valuable planets inside the galaxy and collect some supplies.

The Zerg can eat anything, and the rigid digestive sac of the biomass spacecraft also allows it to digest many strange things, so obtaining supplies is not difficult for the Queen.

But its route did not include the valuable galaxies that Chen Ming had found before, so it could only search for supplies along the way.

Until it reaches the galaxy where Chen Ming is now.

In this galaxy, the Queen of Worms finally found a valuable planet, that is, a planet where a mechanical city exists.

However, at this time, the Queen of Insects unexpectedly discovered that in the orbit of this planet.

There exists another race of Thorn Zerg.

On an asteroid similar to the one the Queen once inhabited, lies a dormant Thorn hive.

Then the Queen of Insects attacked the group.

The biomass spacecraft gained an advantage in range by relying on its evolved frigate-level weapons and small acid spray sacs.

Although Chen Ming didn't think this thing was very good before.

But with the Queen's memories, I learned more details about this biological weapon.

It is learned that this small acid spray sac relies on the strong muscles twisted under the Zerg shell to accurately kill with a range of up to four kilometers.

The range of its weapons is higher than that of ordinary civilian ships used to defend against small meteorites and small pirate ships, and it is even stronger than civilian weapons.

Chen Mingcai discovered that the Zerg's biological weapons were not as bad as he thought.

As long as there is a suitable environment, it can always produce good results.

However, the nature of the Zerg itself tends to be melee, and the use of Zerg "fighters" has not changed.

Therefore, the small-scale battle that broke out between the two groups ended quickly under the suppression of acid firepower and the subsequent offensive of Zerg "fighters" that broke into the nest.

On the spaceship... No, it should be the Queen Insect that has become a biological spaceship, after it devoured the other Queen Insect.

Some strange reactions occurred between the genes of the two queen insects.

It has an effect similar to gene catalysis.

Let the Queen of Insects evolve again.

This evolution is very special.

The biomass spacecraft first attached itself to the asteroid and began to eat continuously.

The queen consumes nutrients from dead insects, metal ores, and a gel-like food called shellac that is transformed by specialized nutritional insects of the Zerg.

After almost eating up the asteroid, a large number of growth organisms overflowed from between the shells of the biomass spacecraft, completely wrapping the biomass spacecraft like a cocoon.

During this process, the size of the cocoon continues to grow.

It was not until half a month later that the biomass spacecraft broke out of its cocoon, and the original frigate suddenly grew in size to the level of a destroyer.

This time the evolution is completely complete.

After this.

The Queen laid a special egg, leaving behind a portion of the Zerg in the asteroid it occupied.

Then it left the galaxy and continued to travel deep into the starry sky.

The egg left here hatched soon after and inherited most of the queen's memory.

After hatching, it became the new queen insect that stayed on the asteroid.

It evolved again into a destroyer-class biomass spacecraft by devouring the cocoons and some residual nutrients left by its mother, and landed on the planet below.

It wants to reproduce, it wants to make this planet a part of itself.

Although the mechanical race reacted quickly when the new queen insect just landed, they made full preparations for battle at the first time and eliminated many mechanical races to track it down.

But the Queen Worm escaped from the mechanical race faster than the mechanical race could catch her, even after the mechanical race had lost track of the Queen Worm and she had gone back into hibernation.

The Queen of Worms also quietly parasitized the mechanical city, causing it to develop faster than its mother, which originally had only an abandoned space station.

But even faster takes time.

Although the size of the Zerg nest is close to that of a city, it is still not enough to engage in a head-on battle with the mechanical race and achieve a suitable exchange ratio. He still needs to continue to survive and develop.

But the accident happened again.

When Chen Ming's robot also landed on the planet and entered the city of the mechanical clan, the Queen of Insects suddenly chose to expose herself and attacked the city of the mechanical clan.

The reason for this lies in Chen Ming.

The reason why the queen insect suddenly stopped developing and died was that it sensed Chen Ming's presence.

The smell left by Chen Ming on the gamma core and the robot is the pheromone for these Zerg.

Although for the Zerg, there is not much deep hatred in many things, some are just life and death struggles on the road to survival.

Therefore, even if there was a conflict with the Zerg, the Zerg would not come to retaliate without thinking.

Of course this is the general situation, but Chen Ming is obviously not the general situation.

Because he had left a deep impression on the Queen who was still hiding in the power generation area on the space station.

This is the first non-Zerg creature I have encountered after hibernating on the space station for more than 30 years.

As a result, they harassed it every few days and stole things from the space station that they had regarded as their territory.

Kill large numbers of Zerg and larvae to test weapons.

Destroy the space stations that serve as their nests.

In the end, it even made it wait in vain for half a month just like the Husband-Waiting Rock.

No matter which one of them is picked out individually, the Queen Zerg will never let Chen Ming go. Even when the Zerg come into conflict with other creatures, they will not generate hatred, but simply compete for life and death for survival.

Given the trouble Chen Ming is causing, it is impossible not to hate Chen Ming.

Therefore, the descendants of the queen insect on the space station are obviously the same after inheriting their mother's memories.

When it sensed Chen Ming, it instinctively and angrily sent out a group of Zerg to hunt down clues about Chen Ming.

And then there’s what happened before.

At this point, Chen Ming finally understood the whole picture of the matter.

He loosened his grip on the ganglion.

He lowered his head slightly in thought.

The queen worm he controls now is not the one on the space station, but its offspring.

This means that he may still encounter the Queen of Insects on the space station in the future, and the Queen of Insects will still hold complete hatred towards Chen Ming.

Um……

It's not a big problem.

Chen Ming is not afraid of any enemy now.

Moreover, the universe is so vast that the probability of him encountering the descendants of the Queen of Insects is extremely small.

The probability of encountering that queen insect again in the future is almost zero.

Wait a minute, when Chen Ming was thinking about this low-probability event, he suddenly realized something.

Although there are differences between biological spaceships and ordinary spaceships, they are similar in many ways.

For example, they can all rely on Chen Ming's spiritual power to perform some special operations.

For example, transformation.

However, transforming the spacecraft requires Chen Ming to master the relevant technologies.

And the biological spacecraft...

"hiss……"

"Didn't I just think yesterday that I would never need to study biotechnology in my life..."

At this moment, Chen Ming remembered what Old Wu said some time ago about him being a bad-mouthed person.

Then he remembered what he had just said, that he would never meet the queen of the Thorn Zerg in his lifetime.

Chen Ming was silent for a moment and decided that it would be better to talk less and do more in the future.

Start now.

Chen Ming then opened the creature's panel.

Although he knew that biological spacecraft could also be transformed, he had just discovered it.

The modification panels of biological spacecraft seem to be a little different from those of ordinary spacecraft.

The column for modification options of ordinary spaceship parts or the spaceship itself is [Available operations: repair/modify/disassemble]

The column for the biomass spacecraft is [Available operations: Repair/Evolve/Decompose/Gene Backtracking]

(End of this chapter)