Volume 3 Chapter 222 Behind-the-scenes Existence and Shipbuilding Plan
A Zerg that looked no different from an ordinary upper-level Zerg was carried over by an Eldar warrior wearing power armor.
Then the Eldar warrior saluted Lin Xu with an excited expression, and then left the Zerg behind.
With a plop, the Zerg curled up into a ball, and its arthropod-like limbs looked much smaller than the unusual Zerg.
It's obviously degraded due to long-term disuse.
This is the Insect King who has been sleeping in the life support device for a thousand years.
Now the entire insect body has degenerated due to disuse for a long time, and it can't even stand. It can only lie on the ground, raise its head, and stare at Lin Xu.
"We meet again. Let's see if you will tell the truth this time. Tell me quickly, is it the Apocalypse Clan who did it?" Nanzhu squatted down and looked at the Insect King. He took out a small stick from somewhere and asked while poking the Insect King.
"What do you mean it was done by the Apocalypse Tribe? The Apocalypse Tribe are not villains." Arisa muttered softly on the side.
"Okay, okay, then tell me quickly who did it." Nanzhu thought about it and changed his words for the sake of internal harmony.
"I won't tell you, just kill me." The Insect King said in a somewhat stiff voice.
"Kill you? Do you think we won't punish you or what? I tell you, you'd better tell the truth quickly, otherwise I'll make you wish you were in trouble." Nanzhu said with a villain's face.
"Okay, come on." The Insect King still sneered, completely unmoved.
"You, you don't believe it, right? I'm serious. I will really punish you." Nanzhu said weakly.
"Okay, stop asking." Unexpectedly, Lin Xu on the side stopped Nanzhu from asking further questions.
Nanzhu immediately raised his head, blinked his eyes and looked at Lin Xu pitifully, as if to say I can do it, I can definitely find out.
"It's impossible to tell. He is not the Insect King." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
Suddenly, Nanzhu's eyes widened, and the others also showed surprised expressions.
Only the Insect King on the ground suddenly began to struggle excitedly.
"I am the Insect King. I am the great Insect King. Kill me. You kill me."
"Not the Insect Emperor? That's impossible. All the authentication systems of the Zerg clearly show that he is the Insect Emperor. Could he be the legendary stand-in? What a cunning Insect Emperor." Nanzhu sighed, completely ignoring the Insect Emperor's attempts to prove himself.
After all, compared to this fake Insect King, of course we have to trust our own Lord Lin Xu.
"It's not a substitute. To be precise, this body does belong to the Insect King, but the real Insect King's consciousness has long been separated from this body . Now I don't know whose consciousness is in this body. It may be some superior insect body." Lin Xu said lightly.
From a high-dimensional perspective, he could clearly see that the consciousness currently residing in this body was not the consciousness of the Insect King that he had seen in the virtual universe.
Naturally, he saw through the Insect King's plan to escape at once.
"Who is the real Insect King now?" Mu Xiyue couldn't help but ask.
"It should be hosted in that high-dimensional object called the Crown by the Zerg. Where is that thing?" Lin Xu asked the Eldar power armored warrior next to him.
"The captain said that thing is nothing and has been thrown into the warehouse. I will go and get it back right away." The Eldar warrior saluted, then turned around and ran to find the crown.
A high-dimensional item is really nothing to Lin Xu, a high-dimensional creature. He already has quite a few in his warehouse, and he can even make one if he is in a good mood.
The elves naturally knew that high-dimensional items were not precious in Lin Xu's eyes, so after getting them, they did not treat them as treasures and present them to Lin Xu, but put them directly in the warehouse.
On the contrary, Lin Xu still has a use for this Insect King, so he brought him to see Lin Xu.
"Well, this Zerg King was just so passionate in the virtual universe, saying that he would fight for the Zerg for the last time and kill us in there no matter what, so that the Zerg can have a future. It turns out that he had secretly prepared a way out for himself. If Lord Lin Xu hadn't discovered that he was hiding in that crown, he probably wouldn't have died even if the Zerg was destroyed." Nanzhu suddenly realized and expressed his strong contempt for the Zerg King's behavior.
"He may be serious about wanting to fight for the future of the Zerg, but he is also serious about leaving a way out for himself after his last fight failed. The two are not contradictory and there is nothing to blame him for." Lin Xu said with an open mind.
Soon, the high-dimensional object called the Zerg Crown was brought to Lin Xu and others.
The crown was made of a circle of unknown metal, and within the circle formed by the metal, there was a thin, hazy layer that looked like fog.
But if you want to reach out and grab it, you will definitely not be able to do so.
The mist will only drift away gently, but when you take your hand away, the mist will return to its original state.
"Just from the appearance, this is indeed the most high-dimensional item I have ever seen." Nanzhu recalled the high-dimensional items made by humans that he had seen along the way, whether they were light bulbs or game controllers, and said with some emotion.
But compared to Nanzhu's emotion, Arisa's expression was not so good.
Because the moment she saw this thing, she saw many traces of apocalypse elements on it.
"No need to study it. This thing is made with the help of apocalypse elements and high-dimensional power." Arisa thought about it and confessed honestly.
After all, if you don't tell others about this kind of thing, it will be discovered sooner or later, so it's better to tell them yourself.
"No way, so it was really you, the Apocalypse Clan, who did it?" Nanzhu looked at Arisa.
Arisa couldn't refute and was dejected.
"It's okay. Even if it was really done by your people, it wasn't you. Every member of the Apocalypse tribe is an individual. It's normal to have different thoughts and ideas, just like different humans are weird." Lin Xu thought for a while and comforted.
After all, this matter really cannot be blamed on Arisa.
If one human being is a murderer, does that mean all humans are murderers? No, that is not the case.
"Let me do it. Since it is a high-dimensional object made of the Apocalypse element, I will use the Apocalypse element to pull out the Insect King and see where he is hiding." Arisa said, reaching out and gently touching the crown in front of her.
Suddenly, ripples flashed across the thin layer of mist in the middle of the crown.
A huge amount of apocalypse elements, already under Arisa's control, have poured into this crown.
As a high-dimensional object, this crown has the ability to host consciousness and build a consciousness network with consciousness.
It is extremely difficult for intelligent creatures to transfer consciousness.
Consciousness resides in the brain which is made of matter. If we simply convert the signals in the brain into electrical signals and transfer them to another container.
Is it really your consciousness that is transferred?
It is more like copying your consciousness and creating a new you, but your consciousness is still in the original physical brain, and you and the new you exist at the same time.
Therefore, some civilizations copy the thinking signals in one brain to another brain, and then destroy the original brain, which is called consciousness transfer.
But this is actually more like copying yourself, killing the real you, and then letting the copied self survive in place of the real you.
Therefore, true consciousness transfer is extremely difficult, and the easiest way to achieve consciousness transfer is to achieve it through a higher dimension.
Only when it comes to higher dimensions does the transfer of consciousness become easy and simple.
It’s just like the elves under Lin Xu, who were resurrected by transferring their consciousness through high-dimensional channels.
And this crown can host consciousness and even transfer consciousness, which is also an ability that only higher dimensions have.
The ability of this crown also reminded Lin Xu of the Mechanical Emperor who once established the Mechanical Empire. It itself is also a high-dimensional object with the ability to upload consciousness.
The abilities of the two can even be considered similar.
The only difference is that the Crown was created by the Apocalypse, while the Mechanical Emperor was a children's toy discarded by humans that upgraded itself due to humans' dimensional upgrading.
In short, through Arisa's search of the apocalypse elements, she quickly found the consciousness of the Insect King hiding inside the crown.
Along with a wave, a shadow was cast upwards from the hazy mist .
The figure of the Insect King, who no longer had a body, projected out from the phantom.
As soon as he appeared in reality, the Insect King looked around in a daze, until he saw Lin Xu and others, his expression changed.
The body of the Insect King lying on the ground saw the real Insect King appear, and the whole insect was suddenly filled with inexplicable grief and anger.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! It is my subordinates who are incompetent. It is my subordinates who are incompetent." The Zerg screamed miserably.
Lin Xu gestured, and the Eldar warrior next to him picked him up and took him away.
He waited until he was some distance away from Lin Xu, ensuring that the blood would not splash on him, then he raised his knife and stabbed him without any hesitation.
The shadow of the Insect King watched this scene with his eyes widened instantly, and it was unclear whether he was excited or something else.
Then Lin Xu spoke.
"Your consciousness is already in my hands. Now I ask you questions and you answer them. If you don't want to answer, I will directly read your memory." Lin Xu informed him in the form of a notification.
His patience has been completely worn out now and he doesn't want to delay any longer.
"Okay, ask." The Insect King replied in a dry voice.
Obviously, he didn't want to die yet. When he really faced death, he couldn't be as calm as his subordinates.
"Who gave you this crown? What do you know about him?" Lin Xu asked.
When thinking of that person, the Insect King's eyes suddenly became a little dazed.
"It's an experiment, an experiment, an experiment of that great being, and I am the subject, but I volunteered to be the subject." The Insect King's dazed eyes were full of reverence.
"Experiment? What experiment?" Lin Xu asked.
"It's an experiment on the dimensional upgrading of ordinary races. I know the hope of success of this experiment is slim, but at least he gave the Zerg a chance, didn't he?" The Insect King's current appearance is obviously just a bug, but it looks full of tragic meaning.
"The Zerg was originally just an ordinary race. When that being found me, the Zerg didn't even have the qualifications to stand above the starry sky. But now, the Zerg has dominated the entire galaxy. We play with the starry sky at our fingertips. Even if the dimensional upgrade fails, at least the Zerg was once great and glorious. So, even though that being clearly told me that the Zerg was just his experimental subject, I am still grateful to him." The voice of the Zerg King was filled with a high-pitched emotion.
"Be grateful to him? You are all going to be extinct now!" Nanzhu complained on the side.
Although they have not yet become extinct and there are still countless mother nests in the galaxy, the fact that they casually create false humans, even attribute human history to those false humans, and wantonly play with humans is enough for Lin Xu to exterminate them.
"It doesn't matter. If it weren't for that existence, we would have been extinct thousands of years ago. Now at least we are still glorious, right?" The Insect King laughed loudly, as if he was beginning to get over his initial fear of death.
As he reviewed the history of the Zerg, he seemed to have found his former self again, when he was the young and powerful king of the Zerg, and had just signed a contract with that existence and agreed to become a test subject.
At that time, he was willing to die for the Zerg without regrets.
But since when did I start to fear death?
Thinking of this, the Insect King suddenly smiled with relief.
At the same time, his figure began to slowly dissipate in the shadows.
"Hey? What's going on?" Nanzhu looked at Arisa in confusion.
"He's going to commit suicide," Arisa replied.
"Ah, what should we do then?" Nanzhu asked anxiously, and hadn't finished asking the question.
"It's okay, just read the consciousness directly, but!" Arisa looked at Lin Xu.
The entire crown is under her control, and she can completely prevent the Insect King from committing suicide.
Once your consciousness is in the crown, you can no longer control yourself, or in other words, whether you live or die is no longer under your control.
Even if Arisa wanted to, it would be completely possible to torture the Insect King's consciousness for billions of years.
"Since he still has the courage to die, let's fulfill his wish." Lin Xu nodded.
So, Arisa released the restrictions on the Insect King's consciousness.
The Insect King gave Lin Xu a last grateful look before his consciousness completely disappeared.
But the memories in her consciousness were still retained in the crown and were directly passed on to Yinghuo by Arisa.
So after a while, several people received the report on the reading of the Insect King's consciousness from Yinghuo.
"Sure enough, it's the Apocalypse Clan." Lin Xu looked at the memory of that existence in the Insect King's consciousness.
After thousands of years, the Insect King's memory has become a lot more blurred, so the appearance of that existence has become vague, but he still clearly remembers the eye on the forehead of that existence.
Combined with all the evidence, it is definitely the Apocalypse Clan.
This is followed by some additional details about this experiment.
But there is no more information.
Especially when it comes to the information about the Apocalypse himself, the other party has not revealed anything.
So even after reading the Insect King's memory, Lin Xu and his companions could only confirm that the man was from the Apocalypse Clan, but they still knew nothing about the other party's purpose.
"Forget it, let's not think about it. Lord Lin Xu, what should we do with the remaining Zerg? Do we do it ourselves? Or do we delegate one of the races here to do it?" Nanzhu decided to change his mind and stopped thinking about this. Instead, he asked another question.
"The situation is different this time, so let's do it ourselves. Even if it takes more time, we must clean it up before we can get going." Lin Xu thought about it and decided.
Indeed, this matter involves the creation of false humans after all, so it must be taken seriously.
"That's right, this kind of vile behavior must not be tolerated. However, there are so many Zerg nests. It will take forever to wipe them out one by one." Nanzhu agreed, but also had a headache.
In the past, finishing work like this was usually left to the local races to complete slowly.
This was probably the first time she had to do it herself . When she thought of the huge number of Zerg, Nanzhu felt very nervous, even though she actually had no eggs.
"Is that a lot? I checked, and there are only about one million mother nests in the galaxy." Arisa said lightly.
“More than one million isn’t enough? How long will it take to wipe them all out?” Nanzhu felt a headache just thinking about it.
If we rush to destroy each nest one by one, even if we kill one nest a day, it will take more than two thousand years, almost three thousand years!
Even if the speed is faster, one seat every half a day, it will take more than a thousand years.
"Isn't this easy? You, me, Mu Xiyue, and Lu Yao, each responsible for a direction, 250,000 mother nests each, it will take about ten years to complete." Arisa said, counting on her fingers.
"More than ten years? How did you calculate?" Nanzhu's eyes widened.
"I have thirteen fleets under my command. It doesn't take a whole fleet to destroy a hive. Half is enough. If the speed is faster, half a fleet can destroy two hives a day. In this way, fifty-two hives can be destroyed in one day. Theoretically, it will only take thirteen years. If I build more fleets, the speed can be even faster." Arisa calculated clearly.
"This seems to be the case, but we don't have our own fleet." Nanzhu said speechlessly.
"If you don't have one, just build it. Usually, there are so many autonomous mechanical aggregates sitting there idle. Let them all take action. They are just a few fleets and they will be built quickly. And as a clan, you should have your own fleet a long time ago." Arisa said as if it was a matter of course.
Suddenly, Nanzhu looked at Lin Xu.
"Indeed, you should have your own fleet. I neglected this." Lin Xu nodded, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "What do you think of your own fleet?"
"Can we build anything you want?" Nanzhu's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Whatever, as long as you don't feel embarrassed." Lin Xu replied.
Mu Xiyue and Lu Yao on the side also started thinking about it.
My own fleet, it’s exciting just thinking about it.
