The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

It seems that I will have to stand in a half-spirited posture in the future. (meditation)

"Wow... trough...?" He hugged the half-ling floating next to him in his arms, and asked, "Why is it so special?"

"The reason is still being investigated." Jonas spread her hands and said, "At first we thought this thing was still alive, but after several careful scans, we found that it was indeed dead, and the only thing left was the terminal nerve reflex."

The death of a dark worm is usually judged according to the energy flow inside the body. After all, not every battle can accurately crush the dark worm's core. Judging by the energy flow is the most stable and reliable.After the damage caused exceeds a certain stage, the energy response in the dark worm's body will drop significantly, and disappear within a few minutes or even hours, leaving only the extremely weak aftermath, and the aftermath will also disappear within a week at most. disappear.

In this case, the dark worm will be judged as 'dead'.

But this one is different, the core is penetrated, the main energy reaction disappears on the spot, the energy flow stops, and the aftermath...

It still exists until now.

"The core organs have already grown out of the terminal nerve reflex?!" Behind Lingting's face was a confused look, "I'm afraid you're kidding me?"

"Although it's hard to believe, it's actually true..." Just as Jonas finished speaking, something was stuck on her forehead "?!"

Behind Ling held an instrument reminiscent of a pistol and pressed it on Jonas's forehead. He looked at the data on it, showing a relieved expression:

"Not infected..."

"Well... if there is contamination in the laboratory, the safety valve will blow up." Jonas flipped the flower rope expressionlessly, and the spider silk took on the shape of a top view of the Forbidden City in her hand, which can be called a magical skill "Although it's good to be cautious..."

Spiders are easily frightened. (nod)

"Sorry, if there is something beyond common sense in the matter of the dark worm, my first reaction is infection." Behind Ling put away the detector, and said with apology on his face, "Thinking inertia..."

"Phew...necessary caution. Give me a half-spirit to cuddle me and it's over?" ("No way!") Jonas pursed her lips, rotated the image scanned by the detector a few times, and explained "It is true that some parts of the former corpses still regrow after the death of the main body, but the growth process finally stops due to the depletion of energy and matter. After the core dies, all energy leaks out, and the material transfer is stuck, and it is impossible to proceed. energy extraction."

It's like a snake or something else—the nerve centers of lower animals are distributed in various organs, and with biological evolution, the higher nerve centers of animals are concentrated in the brain.So for high-level animals like humans, once the brain is dead, all action instructions will stop. If someone walks over and presses A, it will prompt [No response, just a corpse].

It's hard to say whether the dark worm is considered advanced or not, but because it is too large, it must use a distributed nerve center, so even if it is dead, it will be nailed to... Even if it is dead, as long as the nerve center is not dead and the energy is not exhausted, You can still jump around for a while.

"It reminds me of cockroaches..."

When mentioning cockroaches, Jonas couldn't help but think about it, it seemed that she had never seen the lotus seeds of cockroaches before... Do they exist?

"It's kind of like that. In the past, the dark worms did die like this. If they lost their cores, they would 'starve' to death. But now this one. It is using the last remaining energy flow to regenerate the thinking core."

Behind the spirit frowned——What is the use of rebirth thinking core?Although the last blow was aimed at the core, before that, the body parts that depend on it for survival have already been smashed, even if you have so many cores, how can you...

So many cores...?

At this moment, the expression of Youmu when hearing Yuyuko call you hungry appeared on the face of the back spirit:

"Immediately add a large number of turrets near the corpse, mainly missile towers, equipped with heavy-duty graviton missiles. Don't let any organic organisms enter the theoretical infection circle of the dark worm. And call the reconnaissance ship and aircraft carrier over."

"Eh? Why..."

Obviously, Jonas's level of introduction to dark worm behavior is not high enough.

"Don't you understand?" Behind Ling smacked his lips and asked, "Why do you need to regenerate the core? Why do you need to regenerate so many cores at once?"

"Of course it's because I plan to return to the original place... huh?!" Halfway through the answer, Jonas also noticed the problem.What's the use of repairing the core of thinking if you want to be resurrected in place?It's like you have a ship that is too broken to move, and you start to repair the ship's computer first. This is not a problem of the ship's movement. I'm afraid you can't supply the ship's computer with energy, right?

"Resurrection in situ? What does it use to resurrect in situ? The psionic system is gone, there is only a little energy left, the remaining material is basically zero, and the outer shell is completely blown up. The in situ resurrection must also follow the basic law! The remains of the master of 76 I can still move because Juggernaut just lost his mind, but this one’s body has collapsed.”

It is absolutely impossible to activate this broken body, but if you think of those mental cores that are being repaired as 'escape hatches', then it all makes sense.

Perform a major operation on yourself at the last moment, separate your knowledge and memory into small pieces, store them in different distributed neural nodes, and then let these neural nodes separate after the main body is annihilated-according to common sense, no People will be wary of corpses, and they can develop slowly. After the nerve nodes develop into 'starships', they will immediately break away and run away. Even if they only slip away one, they can continue to hang on.

To be honest, it's already a bit unbelievable to have such a strong sense of survival...

It has already been reminded for this sake, of course the floating lotus has understood.But unlike the nervousness behind Ling Ling, her face was filled with ecstasy.

If Tartarus didn't have the habit of touching corpses, the huge and difficult to handle corpses might be left where they are, and it might explode like a cockroach's egg case in a short time.However, Tartarus has never given up on the wreckage since the day he started!

Not only the cargo inside the wreckage, but also the wreckage itself must be salvaged, and the unintelligible wreckage will be dragged back for careful study, and an extremely powerful security system has been set up in the research place.

As soon as I said this, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded, and several nodes on the detection map began to issue red alarms indicating that the energy intensity had increased.However, optical detection showed that near the hole in the middle of the worm body, a large piece of carapace was continuously hit by something from the inside, and cracks appeared in just a few hits.

Behind the spirit shouted loudly:

"Fire controller! Aim there and hit that thing..."

"No, Denor, Shanna! Open the fixed tractors No. 17 to 44, grab it!! Then put the jump disruptor down! Don't let the one that comes out behind you!"

Facing the somewhat surprised eyes of Ling Ling behind her, Jonas showed a narrow smile:

"This is a rare sample! A total of 220 five, I want them all!"

Chapter 557 Chapter 504: In short, turn the flower rope first (nod)

Most of the thinking ability collapsed, and the knowledge was fragmented, leaving only the lowest level of consciousness.

Almost everything accumulated in those long years has disappeared in this disaster, and in order to survive, I was forced to separate everything from myself.Just to continue with my own life.

Dormant in the remnant body, carefully using the last strength to develop the nerve nodes carrying the consciousness into a "shuttle machine" that can fly independently in space. The huge body blocks the perception of the outside world by the new thinking nodes, and each nerve cluster Blocks have no perception of the outside world, and it is also difficult for the outside world to inspect the inside.

Many civilizations have the habit of smashing the corpses of their enemies to vent their anger, but their own shells are not so easy to smash.When he realizes that this kind of behavior is meaningless, the body will either be thrown to the stars and burned, or it will be dragged to a place that does not affect the flight path, right?

No matter which method you choose, you can live by yourself.This is the same way of survival as corrosive lower creatures, but as long as they can survive, it doesn't matter.As long as he can live and live long enough, he can get everything.As for honor, dignity?Those are all things invented by weak creatures to deceive themselves.

If you persist in surviving, you will become stronger, and then make a comeback, devour the powerful enemies of the past, stand on their backs to climb higher and go further.

After breaking away from the shell, it uses the light and heat of the star to replenish the lost energy, and feeds on the original body.When it accumulates enough energy to be able to jump, it will immediately rush to the nearest planet - then nothing can stop itself.Each nerve mass flies to a different planet, and after a period of time, he can control the three-digit body with one consciousness.

see it?Even if he suffered such a tragic failure, he still won't die...

Gathering strength, the nerve mass wrapped in the carapace cut through the inactivated tissue body with its appendages, and crawled along the pipeline in the body to the surface of the body.Passing through the main armor area and buffer zone formed by multiple layers of carapace, after an unknown amount of time, the solid back has touched the outermost layer of carapace.The function of this layer of carapace was to maintain the spiritual energy field to protect the water body. It is full of nerve tissue, and its defense performance against impact or heat energy is poor. Now that the energy supply has been lost, and the tissue body is necrotic in a large area. , it becomes more fragile.

So weak that even with such a weak body, he could make a hole in it.

The auxiliary limbs slowly cut through the damaged tissues, the sickle-like limbs cut a gap in the inner wall of the shell, and threw the cut pieces deep into the passage.If someone looks at this scene at a close distance, I am afraid it will be quite shocking——

The dark tunnel is illuminated by the energy fire that emits from time to time, the black sky is full of hateful growths like sarcoma, the dark red flesh condenses into ice in the vacuum, and a few kilometers directly below is a purple sharp The mountain peak, the needle-like peak looming ghostly under the light brought by the flickering energy sparks.If this creature is still alive, there are a large number of predatory creatures living in those mountain peaks, they are like macrophages, devouring the reckless intruders who dare to enter the worm body.From the beginning of those mountainous internal immune systems, the shriveled tube stretched across the vast space like an irregular dark ribbon.

Here, the line between biomass and inorganic matter blurs, and mountains, hills, boulders, and dry caves are actually decaying organs.

And in the hideous gut of this giant beast, there are long tentacles and hard claws around the body, reminiscent of flatworms, fixed themselves on the black sky, and the light from the claws illuminated the surroundings, The sky was shredded, and the melted semi-solidified tissue dripped onto the carapace of the monster from above, or fell from the side into the bottomless abyss below...

When it thought it had dug deep enough, its huge body slowly bent—its carapace held up against the crumbling black sky, and the molten carapace flowed along its back, lowering along the sides of its body, toward Extending down to form bright orange dotted lines.Suddenly, the back armor and the sky dome collided violently, the strong impact tore a crack in the sky dome, and the second blow immediately caused the sky dome to be completely smashed open.

The Evil Nightmare wriggles out of its dark lair for a new madness.The light of the stars sprinkled on the burnt carapace, reflecting strange colors, it raised its upper body high on the endless dark brown land, and let out a silent roar to praise its new life.At that moment, the long-disappeared sea responded to the fragments of its master with false waves, and the last psionic reverberation of the marine biome before death oscillated on the dry seabed-all this made me feel so happy.

The new body soared into the air, and flew to the nearest protrusion on the ground—that was originally the eye-stalk base that broke through the ice layer to observe the outside world, but now there is only a protruding fragment left, but from its current perspective, that It is like a raised plateau, or a mountain range cut off halfway.It flew over the last few glaciers that condensed on the surface, and finally stood firmly on the raised pedestal.

The light of the stars is extremely bright, and the light and heat give all things new life and vitality, and the new body is naturally included in it. The carapace behind it slowly opens, and it unfolds into a black 'umbrella' with a diameter of more than 600 meters.It is true that solar energy is an ancient energy collection method with low efficiency, and the charging speed is really hard to compliment, but this is indeed the only way to charge energy now-if there is a hot fluid planetary core to warm itself, of course it is It would be best, but there is no such condition now...

It lay there, the carapace gradually absorbed the heat, and the new body felt that the energy was slowly recovering.This energy is so weak, but it is enough to support this individual to carry out the minimum level of activities - after a while, I can find a new star...

Ok?

Denor held a chocolate cake in her mouth, shaking it from side to side boredly—she was not sitting in the hydrostatic cabin. As far as the work is concerned, it is enough to sit in the captain's seat on the bridge and rely on the joystick and handle.

On the wide-area screen in front of him, a black flower unfolded on a brown platform. It was so black that it didn't seem to reflect light at all—is it a special coating and material specially made to absorb solar energy?

Whatever it is... That's the job of the researcher, De Noel said that I just came to work temporarily in the salvage army.

Denor put several front sights on the center of the flower and the 'umbrella' of the unfolded black disc, and the traction devices under the hull were opened one by one:

"Did it not notice us at all?"

Ten kilometers away on the starboard side, another night-class ship did the same thing, and the pilot Shanna Grando made a nasty guess:

[Or did the full ability drop after the fine score...]

Maybe what she guessed was very close to the truth... The bug didn't care about the radar that locked it, ignored the nearby radar waves, and couldn't even detect the control tower on the other side of the corpse.It just lay there quietly, like a slug lying on the concrete road.

[Like catching butterflies when I was a child? 】

"Be careful." Hearing what she said, Denor showed a troubled expression on his face. As a cursed child, he couldn't control his strength when he was emotional, so activities such as catching butterflies would end up It has evolved into the painting style of Dragon Ball and Beidou Shenquan. It is not easy to catch a complete butterfly. "Don't drive too hard at the beginning, and be careful not to break it."

[Well, I see. 】

The lock box locking the newborn body turned red, and she pulled the trigger:

"Close the net."

[Understood, close the net! 】

Evil Nightmare wriggles out of its dark lair to embark on a new crazy journey. Look up and see two night-class salvage ships staring at you.

What did you say you want to welcome?

My Uncle Hei Ye will tell you what a new crazy journey is. (mocking face)

The bug that was still absorbing solar energy seemed to be caught in an invisible net, and was suddenly pulled up from the dark brown ground. Its dull sensory organs searched for traces of the enemy, and the tentacles and limbs around the body were futile and flustered. The gesture is reminiscent of a centipede being caught by chopsticks.The open carapace on the back was irradiated by a total of eight tractor beams, which forced it to be unable to retract the carapace. It looked like a constantly shaking black sail stretched between two salvage ships.

The two salvage ships were dragging the prey to the control tower on the other side of the corpse, as if they were dragging the prisoner through the street. Several industrial ships passed by them. On the control panel, a large number of construction machinery with traction devices were also deployed in this area——

If bugs continue to crawl out, there will also be a net of heaven and earth waiting for it.

"Emmmm...you've grown a lot recently, I'm whispering to you." Looking at the series of operations, Back Ling wryly smiled and shook his head, "The tractor is doing well."

"I've always remembered the CQC method of the industrial ship." Jonas showed a proud expression, "As long as you divert your thinking, you can find other usages."

"Where is the Netherworld's Suffering Wheel and Maze Cihang... It's time to send you a sign that is not allowed to be passed on." Back Ling paused and asked, "By the way, do you have any idea of ​​learning swordsmanship from me again?"

When he was in school, Backling opened a course to teach swordsmanship, which was included in the subject of close combat CQC.According to regulations, every child has to learn at least one close combat to get credits, but unexpectedly, there are surprisingly few people who come to learn swordsmanship with him—compared to the slender Knife, there are more people who like the roaring chainsword, and for the cursed son who is generally strong in physical fitness, there is no pressure to hold the chainsword, and even Xiao Bao, who is recognized as the weakest in physical strength, can use light Quantified chainsword and plasma pistol combat.

As for the swordsmanship of Backling, which seems to focus on one-on-one duels, although it will become very strong after practice, the training process is very hard and takes a long time. Unless there are special hobbies, people basically don't pay much attention to it.

This year's students advocate doing miracles vigorously while ignoring technology. This makes Ling Ling a little frustrated. He often complains to other instructors after drinking, "This year's students can't do it" or something like that.

As a result, it has been so long, and there is only one Mibu Asaka who has been trained in swordsmanship.However, in terms of naval tactics, the world is already full of peaches and plums...

How can I say...

It must be that this year's students can't do it. (convinced)

"Not at all." Jonas shook her head and made an X with her hands in front of her body. "Please forgive me for refusing. It's too scary to cut people with a knife in front of you."

Once again, spiders are easily frightened, and CQC learned the "Wo Liu" from Huoling - there is no specific way of fighting, and it is more about relying on one's own ability and teaching according to one's aptitude.And the way the spider's lotus seed finally passed the assessment was to be driven around, laying a silk net with extremely low visibility to induce the opponent to bump into it and stick to it, and then call his teammates...

Super cowardly. (nod)

"Eh~"

In short, this year's students can't do it. (convinced) Behind Ling shook his head, with an unteachable expression:

"Let's leave it at that for now. Where are you going to keep this thing?"

Obviously, it is impossible to make a super-large cricket cage that can hold a 200-meter-long bug, and even a cricket Bismarck can fit in it. It is not safe.