Volume 3 Chapter 215: Experiments on "Humanity"
The muzzle of the Zerg battleship is also full of Zerg characteristics.
Three probe-like spikes protruded, and high-energy radioactive materials were generated inside them. Then huge amounts of energy shot toward the port of the town below.
At the port, some people were running around trying to escape, while others were standing there with pale faces, obviously accepting their fate.
Someone was muttering to himself.
"I knew that the Zerg would never let us go. They would never let us go."
"It's over. It's over this time."
The scene was in chaos, and Arisa's intimidating power was no longer able to control the situation.
After all, in people's eyes, even if you are a little girl with good skills, you can never compare with a battleship.
Now that the warships are approaching, who will listen to you?
Until Arisa jumped up and directly erected a shield in mid-air.
With a loud bang, the high-energy radioactive material projected by the Zerg warship was completely blocked by this shield.
Colorful lights were flying all over the sky. That was high-energy radioactive material bombarding the shield, creating a light that was even brighter than the rainbow.
The light reflected on the faces of everyone below.
No matter if they were just standing there in a daze or running away, now they all looked up at the sky with a dazed expression. No one expected that they actually survived.
When the battleship's attack ended, Arisa, who was standing in mid-air, also put away her shield.
Everyone looked at the girl with twin ponytails in the air again, especially the girl who glanced downwards with an unhappy look.
Everyone was suddenly startled.
Then the next moment, the girl looked up at the sky, and instantly her figure rushed towards the warship in the sky at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, it passed through the warship and then fell back to the ground.
A loud bang exploded in the sky, and the ten-thousand-meter-long Zerg battleship instantly exploded into a ball of burning wreckage, falling not far away in the sky.
Against this backdrop, Arisa stood in the harbor, scanning everyone in the harbor.
It made everyone swallow hard.
"Everyone, come here and stand still." Arisa's voice reached the ears of everyone in the port.
So everyone took action immediately, afraid that they would be a step slow and stand in front of Arisa.
"Very good. Now report to me the identities and origins of all of you. The more detailed the better. Once you're done, upload it to this terminal." Arisa said, casually taking out a terminal that she had obtained on the fake human capital planet.
It is a relatively common terminal in this galaxy, which can connect to the personal electronic devices of most intelligent life forms in the galaxy.
These people in front of me wrote down their origins on their respective electronic devices. It doesn't matter whether it is on a personal terminal, a holographic tablet or other device , just write it and send it over.
Then you see a bunch of members of a small group who usually show off in the town, standing there obediently, writing their resumes in front of their electronic devices.
Under the pressure of force, everyone worked very quickly and after writing, they transmitted the work to the terminal next to Arisa.
So Lin Xu and others naturally also obtained this information.
The consciousness browsed through the various information of these people, and saw that these people came from all over the river system and from various civilizations. Many of these civilizations were sheltering from false humans and were considered followers of those false humans.
Even Lin Xu had to sigh that these fake humans created by the Zerg had developed quite well after breaking away from the Zerg.
"These people usually live a normal life in the town. Apart from being forbidden to leave, there are no restrictions. And the longest time they have stayed here is already ten years. What do the Zerg want to do? Do they really just want to master the way to contact other intelligent life forms? That won't take that long, right?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"The purpose of this Zerg experiment may exceed our initial expectations." Lu Yao thought, holding his chin with one hand.
"Who cares what their purpose is? Just capture the leader here and ask him, and you'll find out." Arisa said more simply and bluntly.
"The question is, where do we catch it?" Lin Xu shrugged.
"We can catch them all if we kill them all. Set up an encirclement and don't let any of them escape." Arisa stretched out her hand and slowly clenched her fist, her eyes full of confidence.
While Lin Xu and a few others, including Arisa, gathered together to discuss the Zerg's purpose.
The group of people who were still standing there obediently were gradually becoming a little restless.
Because they saw more and more Zerg warships gradually taking off in the distance.
After all, this is in the Zerg's lair. It looks very impressive that you can blow up a Zerg battleship like this.
But wouldn't that be like stirring up a hornet's nest?
Everyone thought that the next moment would be the Zerg's overwhelming revenge.
But the strange thing is that the warships in the distance were taking off and leaving, but no warship was coming towards this side.
It was as if the battleship that had just been destroyed did not exist.
It's like nothing happened here.
"Interesting, it seems that our every move is being watched." Lin Xu naturally noticed this as well.
The next moment, as if to confirm Lin Xu's words, a holographic projection lit up not far away.
The holographic projection shows a man who looks very young, and his height is also comparable to that of a normal person.
He walked slowly towards where Lin Xu and the others were. Apart from the flickering light on his body proving that he was actually a holographic projection, he looked like an ordinary man.
The appearance of this holographic projection naturally alarmed the crowd who were standing quietly, and everyone looked at the projection with surprise.
We are not fools, so we naturally understand that the one who can project this holographic projection here is most likely the Zerg.
"You finally showed up, but why not in your original form?" Lin Xu looked at the other party and asked.
"We just think that using this image to talk to you will make it easier for you to accept it. Please believe us, we have no ill intentions, we just want to do an experiment." The man said with a smile.
"I believe you have no ill intentions, just like when you use mice for experiments, you have no ill intentions towards them. Some people even think that mice are cute. But does that mean the mice don't have to die?" Lin Xu said with a smile.
"It seems that you are very resistant to us, human." There was some helplessness in the man's voice.
Just his voice caused a commotion among the crowd that was originally standing there.
"Human? Is that the human who has been fighting against the Zerg?"
"Humans have always been at the forefront of the fight against the Zerg, but are my idols humans?"
"No wonder it's so powerful, able to shoot down Zerg warships."
The crowd was filled with exclamations, until Arisa's gaze fell over, and everyone suddenly became quiet again.
But this time, when he looked at Arisa, his gaze was filled with not only awe but also respect.
"Do you know that I am a human?" Lin Xu looked at the human-like image of the Zerg shown in the holographic projection.
"Of course. I even dare to say that we Zerg know our selves better than you humans do." The Zerg said with a smile, his smile full of calmness and confidence.
After all, "human beings" were created by them. They created these "human beings" five thousand years ago, so naturally they know them very well.
"No, you don't know." Lin Xu sighed and shook his head slowly.
Because the human being standing in front of you is a real human being, not the fake human being that you created as you thought.
But it was obvious that the Zerg did not understand the implicit meaning of his words.
"Really? Then just pretend I don't know. I have no intention of arguing with you." The Zerg smiled as if he was confident.
But when Lin Xu looked at him, he only felt pity.
Suddenly, Lin Xu looked at the town next to the port, and an idea came to his mind.
The idea was so strong that he asked directly.
"Five thousand years ago, you deliberately let humans go. Was that also an experiment?"
Suddenly, the Zerg holographic projection, which had been calm, finally changed its expression.
“Who are you? This is not a secret that ordinary humans should know. No, even the high-ranking humans think that they escaped. No one thinks that we let them go on purpose.”
"Experiment? Has the war between you and those creations you let go over the past five thousand years been an experiment?" Nanzhu was extremely surprised. He didn't expect these Zerg to play such a big game.
"Yes, this is a great experiment." The Zerg holographic projection paused, but nodded.
"Does this experiment have anything to do with humans? I mean real humans, not the creations you made." Lin Xu asked directly.
In an instant, the body in the Zerg's holographic projection flickered violently, as if it had suffered some major impact.
The flashing stopped only after several seconds, but the look in the holographic projection's gaze towards Lin Xu was already filled with solemnity and disbelief.
"You mean real humans? I don't understand what you mean."
"You understand." Lin Xu affirmed.
"Who are you?" The Zerg's voice was no longer as calm as before, but became a little hoarse, like a bug roaring.
"As you said at the beginning, I am a human being." Lin Xu said with a smile.
"Impossible, you can't be them, you can't be them, you fake." The bug's voice finally became completely hoarse.
At the same time, the holographic projection seemed unable to maintain its human form due to the overly intense emotions, and some insect images appeared between the flickers.
"Don't want to answer my question? It doesn't matter, I've found you." Lin Xu smiled at the Zerg in the holographic projection.
In an instant, the Zerg in the holographic projection seemed to realize something, and the holographic projection disappeared instantly.
But it was too late.
Lin Xu has used the nanorobots and followed the signal just transmitted by the holographic projection to find the other party's location.
In the huge laboratory hall, various facilities are operating as usual.
This is a laboratory that combines mechanical technology and biotechnology.
In the clean and bright hall, in addition to various machines, there are also dense biological tissues throughout, which converge into a peculiar texture of bio-technological civilization.
It doesn’t mean that biotechnological civilization cannot create mechanical creatures.
It doesn’t mean that mechanical technological civilization does not understand biotechnology.
Just like the genetic technology that extends lifespan that almost all technological civilizations are using, isn’t it also a kind of biotechnology?
It's just that the two sides have different focuses and are better at one thing.
At this moment, in this laboratory, several small Zergs huddled up into a normal-sized ball, with external neural signal cables extending from their bodies, connected to various instruments, constantly gathering information to the central biological intelligent host.
Suddenly, one of the small insects began to struggle violently, and a sharp sound came from its mouthparts.
The chirping carries the pheromones used by the Zerg to communicate, which is the Zerg's language.
"Humans, humans, humans."
The Zerg's voice was full of fear, which made the other intelligent Zerg full of confusion.
"Calm down. We know that it was a human. Didn't you go and communicate with that human? What happened? Did he reject our proposal?"
"If it doesn't work, we can only restart the experiment."
The Zerg obviously didn't understand what their colleagues meant by "humans".
And the next moment, a holographic projection appeared in this huge laboratory hall.
Lin Xu looked at the various novel things in the hall through the holographic projection projected by the nanorobot, including the Zerg that were still chirping to each other.
The nanorobots translated the Zerg language and fed it back into Lin Xu's consciousness.
However, these Zergs were shocked by the sudden appearance of Lin Xu's holographic projection.
Only the Zerg that had just communicated with Lin Xu was still shouting "Human, human."
He was obviously frightened by the fact that Lin Xu was a real human being.
Now that they were in the same situation, the Zerg became even more terrified.
Speaking of which, just now it appeared in front of Lin Xu and others in the form of a holographic projection, with a calm demeanor, but now Lin Xu appeared in front of it in the form of a holographic projection.
It can only be said that this is retribution in this life.
"Human, how did you do it? Has your technology developed again while we were unaware?"
"You were able to track us back to where we are. I'm beginning to be interested in the technology you have."
The Zerg obviously have not realized the seriousness of the matter and still regard Lin Xu as the descendant of the fake human they created.
"Okay, Sama, stop screaming. They're just humans. How long are you going to embarrass yourself forever?" Some Zerg were dissatisfied with their companions and continued to scream.
"No, he is a human, he is a human." The Zerg named Sama randomly used his arthropod limbs to pull out the external neural signal cables connected to his body, even if it hurt himself.
Then it used all six legs to run outside, as if Lin Xu was some kind of monster that could kill it on the spot just by looking at him.
"Sama!"
"It's really embarrassing for the Zerg."
"Do you know what you are doing? The experiment is not finished yet."
The rest of the Zerg were immediately furious at their colleagues' behavior.
Over the past five thousand years, since the creation of false humans, thinking inertia has been formed in their consciousness.
Whenever humans are mentioned, they must be the false humans they created, so no one connects the humans mentioned by Sama with real humans.
Because real humans are a legend that has existed for too long.
Until finally a Zerg noticed something was wrong, so he chose to quietly and quickly look at the record of the previous conversation between Sama and Lin Xu.
Then, more and more Zergs became angry.
Well, they're hairless though.
"Human? You are human? That's impossible."
"Liar, you liar, what evidence do you have to prove that you are human?"
"Everyone calm down, don't be fooled by him like Sama was. He can't prove that he is a real human being. He is just trying to scare us."
A Zerg who seemed to be of a higher status stopped the chaotic behavior of many Zergs.
Finally, the Zerg gradually regained their composure.
Each human-sized Zerg was in its respective position, observing Lin Xu with the compound eyes on its head.
"So, how did you get to know some real things about humans? So you want to use it to escape from here?" The Zerg with a higher status said to Lin Xu calmly.
"Escape? This is something you should consider. I just have some questions." Lin Xu didn't care that the other party did not recognize that he was a human being.
The facts are here and they will not change just because you deny them.
"Tell me, what are your questions?" The Zergs still couldn't believe that Lin Xu was a human, but they became cautious and solemn when facing Lin Xu.
"You are very brave to create fake humans for experiments. I am just curious, what kind of experiment are you doing? What is the purpose of this experiment that has lasted for five thousand years? And your recent raids on the capital planets of those humans are because the experiments are over and you want to completely clean up the experimental subjects? So what exactly did you verify with this experiment?" Lin Xu expressed his doubts in one breath.
"Is this what you want to know?" The Zerg's compound eyes were still observing him.
"Yes." Lin Xu nodded.
"Very well, then go to death with your questions." The Zerg finished speaking.
In an instant, a powerful electromagnetic pulse hit Lin Xu's holographic projection.
Under the electromagnetic pulse, the holographic projection flickered violently, and then Lin Xu's figure disappeared on the spot.
"It looks like you don't want to answer my questions normally. But it doesn't matter, I already know where you are, wait for me to find you." Lin Xu's voice finally came.
Then everything was calm.
However, the Zergs in the laboratory hall fell into silence for a moment.
"Mobilize all the warships that can be mobilized and destroy them ." The higher-ranking Zerg gave the order.
"What if he is really a human?" A Zerg cautiously raised the question that no other Zerg present dared to raise.
"It's impossible. Humans have disappeared for too long. How could they suddenly appear?"
"But his technical level is definitely not what those defective products should have."
"That could be that he accidentally acquired some advanced technology, but it doesn't mean he is human."
"What if?"
"Then report the news to the Insect King. This is the limit of what we can do."
The Zerg were discussing how to eliminate Lin Xu.
All over the planet, the Zerg warships that were originally rising into the air and gathering towards space gradually stopped during the rise and turned towards the dock.
At the same time, countless warships in space are converging towards this planet, and their target is also this seemingly tiny dock.
On the dock, members of various small groups stood together at Arisa's request.
Looking at the warships that were constantly gathering in the sky, he seemed to understand something.
One by one, their legs began to tremble.
"Here it comes, the big one is coming."
"I'm dead. This time I'm really dead."
"I don't want to die." Finally someone turned around and ran away.
As if it was a chain reaction, the rest of the people also began to run away.
Under the pressure of the battleship fleet, this mob that was united by Arisa's military force collapsed once again.
However, Arisa no longer had the heart to care about them this time.
The endless fleet of warships covering the sky had aroused Arisa's interest and made her blood boil.
Moreover, we have already understood everything that we should know about this mob. You are asking for trouble, so who cares about you?
Only a small number of people, perhaps because they accepted their fate or because they were weak, remained where they were.
Arisa put a shield on them to protect them.
It can be considered a reward for being honest and obedient.
"Don't let them run away." Lin Xu said lightly.
It is not an order, but it is better than an order.
"Understood." Arisa agreed happily.
She likes this kind of excitement the most.
Not only her, Nanzhu is also ready to go this time, and Mu Xiyue has already silently taken out the fairy sword Penglai.
The Zerg used fake humans for experiments, and they, as a clan, were able to endure until now because of Lin Xu's suppression.
Now that Lin Xu has given the order, what else is there to say? Just go for it.
So the next moment, Arisa's personal space opened first in the space.
The Sixth Fleet and the Seventh Fleet belonging to Arisa sailed out from there.
Two huge planet-sized warships, accompanied by mechanical deformation, decomposed and transformed into countless tens of thousands of meters long warships, rushing towards the massive swarm of insects.
At the same time, at the edge of the galaxy farther away, five huge planetary battleships, namely the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Third Fleet, the Fourth Fleet and the Fifth Fleet, also sailed out from the portable space and divided into five directions, locking down the entire galaxy to ensure that no Zerg battleship would escape.
And it was not just Arisa who took action. Lin Xu also opened his personal space, and a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates poured out of the personal space, combining into countless temporary warships, and also joined the battle to hunt the insect swarm.
