The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Me too……"

"Why do you have to think about it, it sounds wrong, okay?"

"Radar officer, scan all the other planets in the galaxy, and send out the probe to scan all the surrounding galaxies." Not caring about her companion's complaints, Oregana called up the star map and looked at it, and said to the radar officer, "Look and see Is there anything else related to the bugs?"

"learn."

She'd rather find a few gnawed out galaxies, or planets with an egg inside each, than find all the surrounding galaxies intact.

The behavior style of the dark worm that laid this egg seems to be a little different from what I have seen before - generally speaking, the dark worm swarms act together under the guidance of the queen, although because of their stupid brains, during the march Individuals often fall behind, but that only happens during the march. If they just stop in the galaxy, no matter how stupid their brains are, they will not get lost. This is a dark worm, not an interstellar husky.

Then it seems a little strange to leave in batches from thirty to 1000 two hundred years ago.

What's even more strange is that the legion leader has seen galaxies that were spawned by dark worms. They adhered to the principle of no waste and injected eggs into each planet. Once they hatched, all the planets were instantly shattered into slag, but There is only one egg in the entire galaxy here.

Could it be that 'huge' swarms can only lay a total of one egg?Impossible, even cats can have three or four in a litter, it doesn't make sense that a fleet of bugs can only lay one egg in total.

There is only one egg on the only planet with life, and the size of the egg is not right. If there is nothing in it, no one will believe it.

Oregana has a feeling that is getting worse and worse. This is not the nervousness before the battle, but the worry about the more distant future.

"Spawn eggs on living planets, lay eggs on planets...wait..." she muttered softly, something in her mind kept reminding herself "wait...we remember that we encountered it once before. "

Only laying eggs on living planets, without breaking anything nearby... It seems that such a thing has happened before?

"Is... the habitat of Tankara?" The Tin Woodman also remembered, and she said loudly, "It's the polluted planet that was cut off with the Kinetic Harvester last time!"

The habitat of Tankara, the hometown of the Wing Wingers, there is a bug egg buried in that planet. The egg grows with the growth of civilization, and eventually corrupts the intelligent life on the planet, and finally leads them all the way to extinction.A small group of uncorrupted individuals who survived hiding in the asteroid belt by cutting off the connection and leaving the group, finally became the successors of civilization, and are now carrying out land reclamation activities on a new planet.

"That's right, it was also at that time. There was only one egg in a galaxy, and it was laid on a living planet." Oregana recalled the time at that time, and she still remembered that she signed an extinction order at that time, "But then The battle was fierce at that time, and the Star Destroyer Order had already been issued, so there was no time to collect any useful data.”

The last planet was destroyed by the Kinetic Energy Harvester of the Final World, and the prosperity and filth of civilization finally disappeared under the washing of gravity, and the ruins were silenced together with the bug that was still in hibernation.

"Didn't you think of collecting them at all?"

"emmmm... well, that's true, we were thinking about how to look at the big bang bang at the time. If I don't think about it now, I probably forgot about it. In other words, I really didn't notice the number of eggs at all. Problem!"

"Although it's true that ordinary people can't think of it...but you just admit it so decisively?!"

"We always have something to say!"

Such words are said with such a candid attitude, but there is a sense of openness and freedom... Although it is not a good thing to admit.

If I had known about the last time, I would have collected as much information as I could—though that’s what I said, but no one has the ability to predict the future. In this regard, it is better to focus on the things in front of you than to regret the past.

"What should I do next? Do you want to conduct a field investigation?" Dark Rock asked, "MS can be dispatched at any time, and if possible, it can also contact the aborigines."

The difficulty of relocation in this world is not low from a certain point of view. The problem with MUV is that there are too many people, but there is basic organizational discipline; there are quite a few people here, but according to the contemporary earth Presumably, they lived widely and hadn't even heard the phrase 'organizational discipline'.Get in touch as early as possible, and you can have as few troubles as possible during the relocation.

"The brain scanner is also well carried, and there is no language problem." 76 patted the small bag hanging on the waist, and the serval bobbed its head up and down with her movements, as if it wanted to stretch out its paws to scratch.The brain scanner, which is one of the black technologies inside, can scan biological structures similar to humans, so that it can read the language data in the memory of the scanned person in a short time to analyze the language.

As long as the two parties can understand the words, the difficulty of communicating will be reduced by more than a little bit.

"No, before we actually go down, let's scan the planet first, we need detailed information to make a judgment in the next step." But Oregana did not immediately agree to this request, "I want detailed information, especially about the planet. Aboriginal."

"Understood." A technical kid asked, "What about the observation mode? Which one to choose?"

"Time is not very abundant, and the other party's civilization level is low..." The lower the civilization level, the worse people's ability to monitor their own home planet. With the planets currently facing, the probability of kidnapping being discovered is very low. , and even if it is discovered, there will be no troublesome problems.Since it was possible to stun a general on the home planet of Katari and run away without being noticed, it should not be difficult to grab a few people on this ball and scan them. "Choose radical."

"Understood." The technical boy opened the menu, and pressed a button on a certain button with a picture of a UFO catching a cow. "The design of the radical observation mode is completed. It will take about three hours to complete the scan. During this period, everyone should take a good rest." Bar."

"Then leave it to you."

Chapter 377 Chapter 343: Jump, jump, blue dot collection

For the convenience of calling and recording, the headquarters tentatively named this planet 'Hiju I'.The speed of the civilization survey probe is very fast. In less than two hours, a clear map has been drawn on the control panel of the test bed, and various attached materials are displayed in front of everyone one by one.

If the map of this planet is spread out, the three continents are distributed in a zigzag shape. Except for the continent in the lower right corner—that is, the one where the eggs landed—which is inaccessible, the other two continents have a large number of intelligent life forms. , the total number is about [-] million. Just looking at the number of people is not many, but the intricate relationship between forces and population distribution makes the actual rescue difficulty may be higher than that of MUV.

The appearance of these intelligent creatures is basically the shape of humans, but they have six limbs, and according to the different living areas, the condition of one pair of limbs is also different, some degenerate into a small point, and some take the form of wings.At first, the legion leader thought that they had been infected by the dark worm and began to change shape, or found something like a gene stealer, but after scanning, they found that there was no dark worm factor at all, and even found many The traces left by evolution...

And, cats in this world have six legs... Are you afraid of six-legged cats!Cat bug! (stare)

Will Cardinal Miao like these six-legged cats... I doubt it, and it may scare the serval and caracal cats, so it's better to go back without the local products. (nod)

emmmmm... In the future, I will tell people [what kind of intelligent creature in the universe have we never seen? ], I can be a little more confident...

"60.00% is the ocean, there are three continents, the country and the political system are complicated, and there are six major forces... the city-state level is everywhere, and there are more than 140 languages?!" Oregana looked at Looking at the map and the chessboard-like distribution map, there was an expression of phantom limb pain on his face, "Wow...we hate this kind of thing the most."

The humans of the MUV can line up to board the ship honestly, and most of them obey the command and obey the arrangement, but don’t think about such things here-if there is no strong government organization to take refuge, then you have to search the entire continent to play Grabbing the claw machine, after catching it, there are still various struggles, lack of cooperation, hysteria... Just thinking about that picture makes my face flatten.

"Compared with those, I think the difficulty of rescue is a trivial matter." Dark Rock pointed to a video file, "Look at this, does it look like it?"

"Like something?"

Oregana looked in the direction of his finger. It was the picture taken by No.14 probe 5 minutes ago——

First of all, the picture presents a picture that is very suitable for "alien plants". There are red or green spots on the purple or blue distorted plants, and some small eyes appear at the ends of the branches from time to time, just like elementary school Chinese. As described in the textbook - like eyes, like stars, blinking and blinking.

"Emmmm... Hell Star?" The legion leader thought for a while, then slammed his right fist on the palm of his left hand, "Hell Star, right!"

"Well, it's very similar..." Dark Rock's eyes twitched a little, he felt that he seemed to have underestimated the associative ability of the legion leader.The young man pushed his glasses, then paused the video, zoomed in and asked, "I don't mean those eyes, look at the shape of these plants, pay attention to the connection between the branches and the trunk, do you see the wood tumor? Don't you think it looks familiar?"

Oregana scratched her hair, she seemed to have seen that thing somewhere, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

"Wait? I seem to know!" Liu Lizi uttered a voice while the head of the army was still in a daze. She walked a few steps closer and stared at the wood tumors, and replied, "There are also such things on the trees infected by the original enterovirus. , I saw it outside the enchantment of the Tokyo Monument before."

"That's right, this thing was also discovered during the investigation of Tankara's habitat," Dark Rock nodded in satisfaction, this is the answer he wanted to hear "Similar things also appeared on the plants on that planet The results of the autopsy showed that there was a deactivated nerve structure inside, which was judged to be a mutation that failed after infection."

"Will the failed mutation appear three times on completely different planets? The plant species are completely different."

"So this is probably not a failed mutation," Dark Rock leaned back on the chair with a deep dark worm infection branch alienation research theory point to at least III, with a somewhat unconfident expression on his face. There are too many mysteries in it, and there are not enough This example can be used for analysis, which often makes him feel at a loss. "Maybe it is something that has been compiled in the original gene. At present, I don't know what it does. In short, it can be used as a marker—this thing The appearance of it can represent that the power of the dark worm is already eroding the local ecosystem."

"Tsk..." The legion leader's eyes became sharper, she glanced at the blue planet outside the porthole, and her tone became a little cold, "Didn't you say that you are still in the developmental stage, and you have already started?"

"I guess the egg hasn't been touched formally yet, maybe it's just an infection caused by physical contact." 76 took over the conversation, and her fingers ticked a circle along the cracked area on the map, "The area where the plants mutate is only It's limited to the periphery of the crack, and the plants in other areas are normal, without any signs of infection..."

"But the animals..."

As soon as Dark Rock opened his mouth, he saw an alien monster running over in a panic on the screen. Its body is red and black. Just looking at the painting, I thought it was something from Khorne's house. The shape is very avant-garde—a dog The same body, with half-drawn wings on the back, three legs on one side of the body, two legs on the other side, and sharp claws at the end of each leg, but no matter which leg it is, the number of claws is different. Of course there are mouths and eyes, but the number and distribution of the eyes is like a guy who just learned PS for two weeks deliberately made disgusting ones, putting them all over his head.

"Where's the red head... I don't know if that one will like it..."

"Don't do this, there are not enough things that look like heads on the MUV side! You should think about him a little bit!"

"Hey~ wait?"

Behind it, a few heavily armed locals were chasing menacingly. They wore metal armor, held spears in their hands and carried bows on their backs, and chased them while shouting some incomprehensible words.The one who rushed to the front saw the opportunity and stabbed as hard as he could, but the monster turned around and escaped from under his crotch.

The air was suddenly quiet.

Although the monster looked terrifying, it was small in size - judging by the scale on the screen, it could reach Oregana's knees.

"..."

"..."

"...It seems that the locals are fighting the mutants, and they are fighting very easily. Iron swords and spears are fighting the dark worm bravely, admiration."

"Is Temiao fighting with mutant alien monsters or stabbing him?!"

"Don't look at this small one, the big one has also found a lot! Look at the original intestine, isn't it smaller than the cursed son? Don't treat it as harmless just because it's small!"

Of course, jokes are jokes.As long as this kind of thing appears, it means that the matter has become serious.

That monster looked like it was infected and mutated. Most of the naturally evolved creatures in the natural world—including alien planets—have the characteristics of 'symmetry'.Because for any animal with bilateral symmetry, its body can be clearly separated into front, back, left, and right.Back and abdomen, the back of the body develops the function of protection, and the ventral side develops the function of movement. The forward end is always the first to come into contact with new external conditions, which promotes the nervous system and sensory organs to be more and more concentrated in the front of the body, and the head gradually appears. The part makes the animal change from non-directional movement to directional movement, making the animal's induction more accurate, rapid and effective, and allowing it to adapt to a wider range.

Symmetrical obviously has a lot of advantages over asymmetrical.That is to say, this is the result of natural selection. If you look crooked and don't know the so-called, you may not even be able to survive, and you will be eliminated from the beginning.But that's why twisted aliens feel weird and scary because they're not supposed to exist.

"I recalled something bad..." Liu Lizi looked at the deep dark cockroach that was finally stuck on the ground by the alien brave group, with a stiff expression on his face, "It's something original."

"Probably because this is something similar..."

There are large and small relics scattered on this continent. Although most of them are buried in the jungle, you can still see the grand scene of the past.Once upon a time, this continent, like the other two, had prosperous cities and a large number of residents, but in the face of the terrible disaster of the dark insect eggs falling to the ground, people finally gave up their homes and left here - at this time, they did not stick to their homeland Options like this, the dust brought by the impact of celestial bodies is likely to cover the sky for several years, without sunlight, then crops cannot be planted, and the harsh climate will only lead to severe famine in the end. This level of civilization is devastating.

Mutated monsters crawled out of the cracks in the earth and gradually spread to the entire continent, which made it even more difficult to survive on this continent. A few years after the disaster, the most powerful empire on the continent was reduced to ruins, and the residents were not To die is to flee, and in the end no one will continue to live here.However, people never gave up their plans to take back the continent.Four important frontier towns have been successively established on the edge of the continent over hundreds of years. Supplies and soldiers arrived here by boats. They repelled the monsters, gained a firm foothold here, and are gradually moving towards the interior of the mainland.

But here, the infected monsters don't seem to have the ability to cross the sea, so the alienation is limited to this continent.

Four heavily fortified towns have been discovered by probes, which were built and used according to the standard of fortresses. There are also large and small pioneer villages (or the remains of pioneer villages) around the towns. Obviously, they have been trying to regain lost ground .

"In general, they are very brave," Dark Rock unconsciously turned the crystal staff in his hand to draw the pattern of an eight-pointed star in the air, and a little light seemed to spill from the tip of the staff, "but it's bad, they thought they were Taking back the homeland is actually sending people to the mouth of monsters."

Although it will take quite a long time, the advancement of human beings in this world can indeed be seen, which means that they can really regain this continent-it is hard to say what will happen when they advance to the big rift or the crater. What happens, maybe after one night, everyone will become loyal servants of the dark worm in their dreams.

"You have to establish communication. Let's get online with the locals of this planet first." Oregana pressed a few buttons on her wrist, and then entered a series of passwords. The red power armor is automatically disarmed.The legion commander jumped out of the opened power armor wearing the airborne suit, picked up the helmet on the equipment rack, and ordered while putting it on his head, "Contact Veneto, we need the assistance of the Ansador family, tell her not to forget Bring the ore. Before the reinforcements arrive, let's go down to check the situation, Dark Rock, Liu Lizi will follow us, and the others should stay here and support us at any time."

"clear."

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"There are still 3 minutes to enter the atmosphere, it may be a little shaking."

The pilot of the landing ship reminded that the pilot from the Blood Ravens easily manipulated the small landing craft, allowing her to enter the upper atmosphere smoothly and stably in an elegant posture——as a Blood Raven, the first thing she could come into contact with The space vehicle is this kind of landing craft, and the blood crows have unique insights into flight, so in small-scale landing battles, the blood crow pilot is the most trustworthy.

The Angry Brigade is another count, they're more inclined to jump directly than use the landing craft...  

"Where should I choose the landing site... How about landing directly at the city lord's house?"

When in contact with lower-level civilizations, the appearance of the [Thing from the Sky] is so effective. If the other party still has some beliefs, I’m afraid I’ll just accept the head and worship. Afterwards, the conversation will be much easier. There is no need to explain the problem very clearly, they will use their rich imagination to explain it all in their minds—[I... I understand, I really deserve to be a god, so powerful! 】←Basically, it will end up like this.

"Hey! That's not good," he didn't object to this, but 76 still put forward different opinions, "If the city lord is not at home, wouldn't there be no shocking effect? ​​It doesn't make sense to scare a group of girls."

"That's also..."

"How about, let's jump to the place where the army is stationed," Liu Lizi was checking the six blades equipped on the arm armor, she popped out the blade claws, looked at the black metal reflecting the cold light, satisfied He nodded——this kind of weapon is needed to fight against the dark worm derivatives. "Choose a position where the infected monsters are attacking. Let's jump down and clean up all the monsters. This way the shock will be doubled!"

"How can there be such a good thing as monsters attacking the city." The pitch-black bullets have been filled into the grenade pistol, and the blade of the chainsaw sword is also black metal. Infested monsters with no souls and fake heads don't need this battle axe.

"Not necessarily, the environment here is actually very close to Liulizi's hometown. Monsters are always preparing to attack the city, and their nature is like this," but 76 agrees with Liulizi's opinion, "Brother driver, scan around, See if there is..."

"Don't look for it, we've found it!" The screen inside the helmet was showing the picture read by the external viewfinder. The Blood Raven pilot pushed the joystick, and the landing craft tilted and began to approach that side. "The number of enemies is within More than forty, all of them are large in size, and flying units have been observed. Do you need to carry out a fire suppression?"

"No need, just cast us down, and we can solve the rest."

"So, everyone, have a good journey," the driver turned his head and saluted. This is not a dangerous illegal operation-even if he turned his head, the screen inside the helmet still allowed him to see the outside screen "already in the The location mark is marked on the map, the blue coordinate point is, and the airborne will start in 30 seconds. Remember, jump to the blue point."

Just like what he said, on the thumbnail map in the lower right corner of the three people's field of vision, a coordinate point was flashing blue light.

"We know!"

PS3: At first I thought that the cat at home looked fat because winter came and the fur was fluffy, but I picked it up and weighed it...