The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 344 Reinforcements Arrive
After a signal was sent, the entire star system fell silent again. The enemy did not seem to stop attacking the reconnaissance star scorpion. The dense directed energy focused on the reconnaissance star scorpion, occasionally burning a charred area on the shield scale reactive armor layer.

At the same time, the surviving escort ships spread out their formation, one of them even headed towards the direction of the star, while the rest continued to fight fiercely with the reconnaissance star scorpions in front, or to be more precise, it was a one-sided beating.

Even if there were only a few escort ships and they were not within its advantageous attack range, the Reconnaissance Star Scorpion, which had no ability to fight back and could only passively perform probability cloud maneuvers to evade, would not be able to hold out for long.

Now, the artillery structures on the asteroids on both sides have not opened fire for the time being, but are waiting for the other party's response. The radio transmitting organs on the body of the reconnaissance star scorpion are sending signals again and again.

This action will make the probabilistic cloud maneuver of the Reconnaissance Star Scorpion no longer effective, and the opponent can easily locate it through continuous signals. However, now, Lin Yi no longer cares about these, and even no longer controls the maneuver of the Reconnaissance Star Scorpion, but quietly faces the opponent's concentrated fire.

However, at this point, the life or death of this reconnaissance star scorpion is no longer important - if there is detection equipment for the hyperspace channel in operation, it can be clearly found that waves are beginning to appear at the exit of the hyperspace channel at the rear.

Those were warships equipped with hyperspace engines that were traveling through the hyperspace channel. The fluctuations projected into the space at the edge of the star system meant that warships were about to arrive from the other end of the hyperspace channel, from other star systems.

The special waveform that was invisible to any optical frequency band dissipated, and then, dazzling infrared thermal radiation suddenly appeared. It was the tail flame formed by the gushing out of the fiery plasma propulsion fluid.

And then, the same shield-scale reactive armor layer surged and flashed, making the huge individual below appear with dazzling colors in the visible light band. A pair of sickle limbs that retained an offensive appearance, two pairs of special appendages with secondary weapons installed and a pair of paddling foot-shaped heat sinks were clearly visible.

Their appearance, which resembles that of a fifty-oared horseshoe crab, explains their identity: combat-type star scorpions. They are of the same lineage as the earliest large predatory horseshoe crab, the fifty-oared horseshoe crab, and the once strongest grade in the water, the fearless soldier scorpion. Their appearance is sharp at first sight.

Most of these combat-type star scorpions are escort star scorpions. Some of them come directly from the star field near the solar system, and some pupate on the spot. However, there are still two main star scorpions mixed in among them, and both pupated in this star field.

The moment they entered the star system, the two main Star Scorpions began the probability cloud maneuver, while the escort Star Scorpion quickly turned on the afterburner, and directly ejected a large amount of fusion fuel as the working fluid after heating it in the reactor, sailing forward.

On the side of the body, the scaly openings at the ends of the vertical launch unit structures opened, and a large number of warheads were ejected with the assistance of the electromagnetic acceleration track, and the chemical rocket engines inside the body were activated in mid-air, ejecting a blazing propulsion fluid tail flame to both sides.

Part of their warheads have been replaced with fungal spores and nutrients, and their function is to proliferate rather than kill. At this time, the targets are also the asteroids on both sides where preliminary structures have been established, in order to further strengthen the defense.

At the same time, there are some improved active radar detector structures mixed in, sailing forward - their electromagnetic wave transmitting structures have been improved into large radio transmitting organs, and at this time, they also emit orderly bursts of radio signals.

"We really have no intention of being enemies. What we just said was indeed said by the members of the Fifth Exploration Fleet. If you don't believe us, we can help you convey any questions you have, and you will get an answer right away!" The signal quickly crossed the star system and entered the opponent's receiving system, and this time, they finally got a response - the shooting did not stop, but another round of radio signals came from the other side.

"No need to explain. We already know your parasitic methods. You can obtain the memories of the controlled people before they died, right? You have obtained all the memories of the Fifth Exploration Fleet, which is why we found this place."

There was another string of ellipsis in Lin Yi's mind. After all, although he had indeed parasitized the Eziki people, he had only stolen sensory nerve signals to share the other party's senses, control, or even steal memories. He had never done that.

After all, given the complexity of brain nerves, one could easily end in death if one is not careful. And now, the personnel on the Fifth Exploration Fleet are all valuable strong talents, and it will not be good for Lin Yi to torture them to death.

If he had to say it, he did indirectly obtain some memories, and as a result, he got a small amount of information about the Ascension Church and was able to speculate on the internal situation of the Ezki civilization. But it was also indirectly achieved through that unknown chip.

"Those were done by an organization within your civilization called the Ascension Cult. Their true identity is a strong artificial intelligence that may have awakened and launched a rebellion. They developed a method to infiltrate the real world. It has nothing to do with us!"

Lin Yi really couldn't hold it anymore, and there was inevitably a hint of excitement in his signal. Moreover, more signals followed, telling the other party the most obvious evidence to prove it all.

"You concluded that it was us who did it because we used structures similar to organic organisms, similar to the opponents you have encountered before, and they have similar methods? Have you forgotten about brain-computer interfaces?"

"On those mutinous ships, the controlled individuals were all implanted with brain-computer interfaces, right? Those who didn't have interfaces implanted, weren't they killed long ago? Did the nerves of many of them encounter unknown shocks?"

"If it was us, why did we only target those with brain-computer interfaces? If we really have such means, why don't we just take control of the entire ship? Besides, do you have so little confidence in your own three-defense system that you think it can be breached by the traditional diffusion means used by your former opponents?"

"That Repsolin you encountered, if you, the people of the Fifth Fleet, are not mistaken, we have seen it now, and it came up to fight us, but now you still don't recognize it when it comes here?"

A series of signals even made Lin Yi vent some negative emotions caused by all the failed attempts to break through the three-defense system on the Fifth Fleet's research vessels and the armed personnel's exoskeletons, the strange structures in the underground world, and even the pressure caused by the shadow of unknown interveners.

After this series of signals were sent out, the other side seemed to finally begin to waver.

(End of this chapter)