Chapter 128 What Are They Afraid of?
Damn!
The New Federation is raising bugs!
In the taxi that turned back the same way, Yang Ming held his stomach and groaned softly.
The driver kept looking at Yang Ming, fearing that the guest would not be able to resist and dirty his beloved car.
The driver smiled dryly, "Yeah, you can't go to the hot springs if you have diarrhea, even though there are men and women bathing together... Hang in there! You can do it, young man! I'll take you to the nearest toilet!"
Yang Ming forced a smile, but lines of text popped up on his glasses.
It was obvious that Lu was also frightened by the information sent back by Yang Ming.
[Bugs? Are they really Zerg, boss? Are they the space Zerg that have the ability to collectively evolve? ]
[Is the New Federation crazy? They are actually doing this secretly! ]
[I suddenly understood why they said that those things could consume the national strength of the Sherman Empire. As long as a queen worm began to reproduce on an uninhabited planet within the Sherman Empire, and reproduced for more than ten years without being discovered, a terrifying Zerg army would be produced! The Zerg feed on various types of radiation and minerals needed for the curvature engine, and they will actively attack the resource planets of the Sherman Empire! ]
[But aren't space bugs the mortal enemy of humanity? ]
【Well, that's what being human is.】
Although Yang Ming wanted to argue, there were surveillance devices in the taxi, so he could only watch Lu nagging and twisting around while holding his stomach.
Zerg, also commonly known as space Zerg, is a cosmic creature.
Yang Ming is very familiar with this thing.
The Zerg is the most common villain in "The Abyss". It is called the Second Disaster. It occurs frequently and is extremely destructive. Its degree of danger is second only to the sudden attack of higher-dimensional civilizations.
According to the introduction in "The Abyss":
The space Zerg have a strict social system similar to that of a bee colony, and the complete colony has a very high 'average' intelligence.
The size of a Zerg colony ranges from 300 million to 2 billion, and they can self-regulate their colony size.
A colony has only one female insect - the queen.
The male insects who are specifically responsible for mating with the female insects are like ministers of the tribe. They are responsible for dispatching the entire tribe and, when the queen needs it, they dedicate their bodies to provide the necessary materials for the queen's evolution.
Except for the queen and the ministers, the rest of the insects are asexual and have no ability to reproduce. Individuals can differentiate and evolve in different directions to meet the needs of the group.
The evolution of the Queen represents the sublimation of the Zerg. When the Queen evolves to the third stage, the Zerg will have the ability to cross space, and a large number of "mimicry warships" condensed from the bodies of the Zerg will appear.
When the queen evolves to the fifth level, special individuals that can dig space wormholes will appear in the Zerg, giving the Zerg the ability to easily cross star systems.
The Zerg's activity is cyclical, with each active period lasting about four to five hundred years.
They feed mainly on radiation and prefer hiding in the mantle of rocky planets.
When the queen evolves to the sixth level and determines that there is no threat in the nearby star field, the queen and the male insects will enter a crazy reproduction stage, giving birth to new queen larvae and spreading the population to different galaxies.
Yang Ming was deeply impressed by the introduction of several high-level Zerg copies.
for example:
"Space Zerg are a completely different biological civilization from us humans or humanoid life forms. They are truly cosmic life.
“Compared with their bodies that have infinite evolutionary capabilities, the tiny bodies of humans are really insignificant.
"But in our wars with them, we usually win more than we lose, because as long as humans fail once, the insect plague will spread to the entire galaxy."
Or:
"We still don't understand why the Zerg's method of opening wormholes is so similar to our starship jump."
"The Zerg may be guided by gravity to migrate across large galaxy clusters in the universe."
"We tried to communicate with the Zerg. After all, the greatest art of mankind is compromise and negotiation. But without exception, communication failed. We could not understand each other."
…
In short, the Zerg are the mortal enemy of the human race within the galaxy.
And the New Federation is actually raising insects under the planet Ram!
This...are you really not afraid of losing control? There are still millions of elderly people here!
As the taxi moved away from the small town, Yang Ming's restlessness gradually subsided.
But as long as he closed his eyes, he would see rows of insect eggs emitting faint light before his eyes.
These eggs are about two meters in size.
Yang Ming carefully recalled the information in "The Abyss". Only now did he realize how precious the "game information library" was that he could check at any time when playing the game.
It's like a galactic encyclopedia.
The presence of eggs indicates the presence of the mother worm.
The light green light seems to be the eggs laid by the first- and second-stage queen insects. The insects that hatch from them can grow to half a meter or twelve meters. After they are born, they will determine different evolutionary paths based on the biological signals sent by the queen insect, and they will supplement the types of jobs that are lacking.
Common combat Zergs are also the "monsters" that Yang Ming encounters most often when playing "Abyss". They are roughly divided into more than a dozen categories, including melee Zergs, long-range fire Zergs, suicide Zergs, ship-destroying Zergs, shield Zergs, etc.
As long as they are given enough radiation energy, they will continue to grow.
If these insects were able to move freely, they would find ways to find the energy source needed by the queen insect and the minerals needed for the queen insect's evolution, allowing the population to prosper rapidly.
But obviously, the insects here are strictly controlled by humans.
You need to add "temporary" to these adjectives.
Damn it.
The Sherman Empire used the genes of ancient gods to conduct human experiments, creating an uncontrollable monster called Valkyrie.
——Well, if things had gone 'normally', Valkyrie would have been trapped in that research ship by Kigrof, and she wouldn't have had any extra chance to learn and evolve.
The Valkyrie can now travel around the starry sky and continue to evolve, and Yang Ming has made an indispensable contribution to this.
The New Federation conducted sufficient cultivation experiments on the agricultural star and produced a lot of insect eggs, and they also wanted to stuff these things into the territory of the Sherman Empire.
No wonder!
Yang Ming suddenly reacted.
No wonder in the plot background of the game "Abyss", during the period from ten to twenty galactic years before the game was launched, the Sherman Empire suffered from insect plagues one after another, and its national strength declined significantly.
People from all walks of life suspected that the evil empire was conducting Zerg domestication experiments.
Unexpectedly, the Sherman Empire was tricked by the New Federation.
The source of these insect plagues lies in the New Federation, which then spreads all kinds of rumors saying that "this is God's gift to the hegemony of the Sherman Empire."
The hypocritical federation is, in a sense, more disgusting than the evil empire.
The problem is that the New Federation now wants to use Zerg to deal with Luo Feng.
It is indeed possible, and it is easy to implement.
All it takes is a dilapidated transport ship and a dozen crew members who can be eliminated afterwards to send a shipload of insect eggs and queen larvae to an uninhabited planet near an administrative star of the Luofeng Empire.
In a few years, the Luofeng Empire will suffer a devastating disaster.
Yang Ming really wanted to swear.
But now, there was a more immediate problem bothering him.
Are ancient god life forms and Zerg natural enemies?
'How about using Zerg against Valkyrie?'
Major Yang Ming, who never forgot his original intention, subconsciously thought about the feasibility of this matter.
…
at the same time.
"Professor! The riot of the experimental insect swarm has been temporarily quelled!"
Professor Pat walked hurriedly in the spacious passage of the underground base.
The base was in chaos, with fresh green blood on the walls.
In the corner ahead lay a dead insect with its head and half of its limbs missing, leaving only its trunk. It looked like a slender crab, with a hard shell and sharp limbs emitting a metallic luster.
Such corpses can be seen everywhere ahead.
The air was filled with a pungent fishy smell.
There were two staff members in biochemical suits in front of him, who brought a respiratory purification device to Professor Pat, but were pushed away by Professor Pat.
He rushed out of the corridor, reached the edge of the vast mountain space, and looked down while holding the railing.
There were dead insects everywhere.
Most of the insect corpses had their heads and their nerve centers - the hind limbs - blown off.
The bodies of these insects are all facing the same direction.
At the bottom of this mountain space with a diameter of nearly one thousand meters, a metal tank with a diameter of one hundred meters is suspended above the boiling magma lake.
At this moment, the tank was filled with an excessive amount of hypnotic gas, and the huge queen insect seemed to be hidden in the thick fog, falling backwards.
Its appearance was completely different from the surrounding insect corpses. The back half of its body was bloated, the middle half was slender, and the upper half had a vague human-like outline. Its head was covered by a mouthpart that overlapped dozens of layers.
Its bloated belly was now flickering with a faint light.
Professor Pat breathed a sigh of relief, staring at the chaotic scene below, and whispered, "Did the queen suddenly wake up just now?"
"Yes, Professor. It was very unexpected and sudden. She hasn't woken up for twelve consecutive years," the middle-aged man who came over said hurriedly, "She is close to the boundary of evolution. We suspect this is the reason."
"Is there any problem with the eggs we cultured?"
"Those female insect eggs showed varying degrees of rapid development."
The middle-aged man hesitated, then said:
“And I’m going to have to explain this to you in detail.
“We have been keeping the number of hatched insects at around 400, and keeping them in different testing grounds.
"Just now, about half a minute before the queen suddenly woke up, these insects lost control at the same time. They rushed here recklessly. The queen woke up at their call.
"According to my feeling...it's just a feeling, but I've been here for more than ten years, professor, and my intuition tells me that this riot is not like the previous ones, an attack on us to let the queen be free.
"They didn't attack us, but rushed towards the queen in a swarm, and their behavior was more like they were protecting the queen.
"Moreover, twelve basic insects evolved wings within a few minutes... They wanted to carry the queen away, and three male insects chose to sacrifice themselves in an attempt to make the queen evolve quickly.
"They were frightened, and it felt like, a very fatal fright."
Professor Pat frowned and looked at the technical backbone, and asked softly: "What scared them?"
"According to the data we have now, ordinary insect swarms rarely have emotions."
The middle-aged man whispered:
"They are cold and indifferent. Their nerve centers are only controlled by the queen. We can always find extraordinary computing capabilities in the queen, but ordinary bugs, especially basic bugs, have very few radiation waves and can only passively accept them.
“But just now, these ordinary bugs formed a huge radiation feedback, and it was their fear that awakened the queen bug.
"That's what I personally think."
Professor Pat frowned at the middle-aged man and whispered, "Don't trust your intuition, show us your observation data."
"Okay, Professor, I'll go right away!"
"How is your daughter doing lately?" Professor Pat asked suddenly.
"She's fine," the middle-aged man wondered, "Why are you asking that?"
"I'm worried that you're under too much pressure," Professor Pat whispered. "When you're under pressure, talk to your daughter. Fortunately, there weren't many casualties this time. However, if you encounter this situation next time, you can detonate the action center of these insects more quickly. These things have a strong reproductive capacity, so there's no need to worry about the loss of experimental samples."
"Okay professor, I understand."
…
Wow——
Restrooms near the check-in counters at Ram Star, Commercial Airport.
Yang Ming looked at the rushing water and was stunned for a moment.
Now that the secret of Ram Star has been figured out, the next step is to make a plan on how to prevent the New Federation from attacking Luo Feng.
The lowest-cost method is to attack the New Federation's transport ships carrying insect eggs, but that would be too passive.
Two lines of text flashed across the glasses:
[Boss, are we going to leave Ram Planet as planned? ]
[I can temporarily shut down the transportation system here. A little electronic virus can do it.]
Yang Ming's ears shook slightly, he lowered his head to wash his face, took out his bar-type Internet access terminal, and shot a short video for himself.
“This experience was quite good. Ram Planet is a great tourist planet, but it’s a pity that I missed the opportunity to bathe in the hot springs together.
“Next I will go to Aoxing to continue my travels. I am looking forward to the next trip.”
clatter.
Yang Ming closed the network access terminal, smiled and nodded to the two passengers who walked in from the door, and left with his backpack full of energy.
Let’s do the real work first and get the strengthening injection.
He had to think of a way to thwart the New Federation's conspiracy.
What kind of galactic superpower is this?
You don’t even care about your face anymore!
Inside the Feinan, Lu released several observation drones, and under the cover of the Ram star satellite, began to monitor the commonly used star routes and jump points nearby.
026 slowly closed the e-book over there, his face pale, and he was stunned for a long time before he spoke with lingering fear:
"Zerg, the Second Apocalypse, the New Federation is artificially controlling the Second Apocalypse, should we call the police? If a Zerg plague breaks out, I read in a book that hundreds of millions of humans will die and many planets will suffer disasters."
"Calm down, 026."
Lu rubbed his forehead with his fingers:
"You get along with the boss every day, why should you be afraid of those Zerg?"
"But Mr. Yang Ming is a gentle human being."
026 The image of Yang Ming appeared in his mind, and his nervousness eased a lot:
"He is knowledgeable, brave, and very powerful, which makes it easy for people to rely on him... But what is the connection between him and the terrible Zerg?"
Lu: "...As long as you are happy. Anyway, don't worry too much. We will have a super fleet that is not inferior to high-level Zerg in the future."
026 nodded immediately, then continued to open the e-book, looking for ways to prevent and control space Zerg.
What no one discovered is.
When the merchant ship that Yang Ming was on left the atmosphere of Ram Star, in the secret underground base, the queen insect was stored in a giant culture dish.
The queen insect, who should have been unconscious, had scarlet eyes hidden under her complex and terrifying mouthparts, which opened slightly and emitted a glimmer of light.
The surrounding buildings and facilities seemed to disappear;
At this moment, faint spots of light appeared at the bottom of the rows of insect eggs placed on the metal rack.
