Chapter 412 Tavel’s Research Results

What does it feel like to be surrounded by 100 million bugs?

Disgusting, quite disgusting, extremely disgusting in all kinds of ways!

Sure enough, as I said before, surrounded by all kinds of worms, reptiles, armyworms, arthropods... ugh... every day, when you open any holographic projection, all you can see besides the worms is them. With the internal organs flying everywhere with blood and flesh, it’s really hard for me to imagine how Pandora and Viska can happily go to outer space to charge into battle every day and still eat half a bowl of rice when they come back...

Under the influence of shallow time acceleration, all our defense forts have finally entered normal operation. The entire Black Egg Planet has been armed to the rear with tens of thousands of orbital defense cannons and more ground-based anti-aircraft cannons, and 100 million bugs. We arrived as promised. Just seeing the endless sea of ​​insects on the holographic projection gave us goosebumps, even though they were taken care of by low-Earth orbit laser cannons when they were still one day away from us. There were heavy casualties in the laser beam, but for the total number of 100 million insect waves, the battle damage of several million was not even one tenth. Those dead bugs were even simply pushed to the front to serve as reactive armor. Cannon fodder, I bet the cost of making such a bug is even cheaper than the plate Sandora eats every morning - why did I suddenly think of such a curious metaphor?

After paying not too much losses, more than 100 million Zerg of all kinds finally flew to the synchronous orbit of the Black Egg Star, and then encountered a truly powerful blockage here. They could no longer move forward. The defense led by Sicaro The legion formed a powerful psionic energy shield, covering the entire planet. The strong energy floating on it can not only firmly resist the impact of the insects, but also allow the latter to be burned to ashes during the impact. After millions of melee reptiles were lost in the battle, the Zerg commanders clearly realized that this mysterious shield was more dangerous than any defensive device they had ever seen, so they decisively gave up using suicide attacks to destroy it. The planetary shield's attempt pushed the reptiles (perhaps I should call them puppies?) back to the rear of the position, revealing densely packed ugly flying dragons numbering tens of millions.

But after actually seeing these things called flying dragons, I couldn't help but burst into laughter on the spot: How dare these things have the word dragon?

You're basically a dried grasshopper with a toad's head and two bat wings stuck on its back, you bastard! This thing is simply several times more disgusting than the aliens created by Blizzard’s designers! Not only are their bodies covered with dark brown flesh bumps and carapace full of thorns, their faces are so ugly that you would like to mosaic your own eyes, but what's even more disgusting - these guys are actually attacking our beautiful sky blue shield. Spit!

When did the dragons in StarCraft become spitting trolls? Isn't this different from the settings? By the way, shouldn't these guys spit out a bunch of bugs... Well, that one seems to be more disgusting...

Okay, it’s decided, this operation is tentatively named “For Clear and Beautiful Blue Skies.”

That's it for the rants, now we still have to face the situation of being surrounded by 100 million bugs. The flying dragon - although I really don't agree with this name - is the most effective flying unit of the Zerg race and is indeed worthy of its role in the StarCraft plot. According to our measurements, the corrosive acid they spit out has a kinetic energy no less than that of conventional physical artillery and an acidity sufficient to corrode titanium alloy armor. Such attack power is emitted by a carbon-based creature, which is really shocking. I don’t lament the Zerg’s exaggerated DNA mutation ability, but facing the Xiling units with psionic energy shields, these saliva dragons will definitely fail. The corrosive attacks they are most proud of have no effect on psionic energy, and I want to rely on the kinetic energy of a drop of saliva to penetrate the planet's shield... I am confident that I can make these saliva dragons spit out stomach bleeding!

On our side, when the laser cannons known for their range lost their biggest advantage, the psionic storm obelisks ushered in their spring. These huge towers that require five minutes of charging every time they are launched are worthy of their reputation. The name "King of AOE" (bubble language), every time the obelisk arranged on the orbital platform below the shield is surrounded by blue-purple electric light, a psionic storm ball with a radius of dozens of kilometers will appear in the Zerg army. In the center, these rampaging and dangerous ball lightnings can turn thousands of Zerg into carbide without any pressure. Of course, I am referring to those regular Zerg units, some of which I have never seen before. They should be the high-level flying dragons. The advanced version of flying units seems to have the ability to control special energy. Even if they are enveloped by a psionic storm, they can often escape from the lightning with a disability. Such survivability makes me have to re-evaluate the strength of the Zerg. If not If we set up a certain level of planetary defense system in advance, perhaps we will suffer a lot of losses if we directly face the impact of a 100 million insect wave...

And in the process of strangling these Zerg, I also saw how efficient and cruel the real war race is: because of the existence of the astral-level psionic shield, those melee-type basic Zerg units that I call "puppies" seem to It was abandoned. When the Zerg commander discovered that it was impossible to break through this shield in a short period of time, the Zerg cannon fodder that was used as consumables was actually used as... food!

A large number of basic Zerg that have been confirmed to be useless were ruthlessly torn into pieces by their kin, and then sent to the rear of the battlefield, where a large number of Zerg tissues and cosmic materials (such as meteorites or broken spacecraft wreckage) were fused. The weird things, maybe their portable hatching tanks and various nests, the torn "puppies" and the remains of the Zerg killed in the battle were thrown into these crawling disgusting organs, and then they turned into the most disgusting organs. Useful units: Flying dragon, and...well, I don't know what that is...

And I also found a very concerning phenomenon: many of the Zerg units responsible for the frontal attack were temporarily created at the back of the battlefield. These bugs, including some samples of "Regenerative Wyverns", were brought back by the assault ship, and passed through After dissection, we found that they had no digestive organs or eating tools, and their lifespan was only a few days, just like the bug we initially found in the sniper cannon, which meant a huge reduction in their production costs and production speed. Great improvement, the newly discovered Zerg attack method gives us a bit of a headache - where the hell is family planning put, bastard!

"If we don't eliminate those hatching ponds, I'm afraid this battle will drag on for a long time."

After discovering that the number of bugs was declining far slower than the speed at which we could destroy them, Sandora released a large number of invisible detectors and headed towards the battlefield that had been completely filled with bugs. These hatching sites were discovered at the location. It is obvious that these disgusting space insect nests allowed the Zerg to maintain an extremely strong reproductive capacity during the war. Although the disposable Zerg they created had a short lifespan, their combat effectiveness was no better than that of human hosts. The standing tank is poor.

"But to attack these hatching sites, we must break through the super defense line formed by at least 40 million bugs, and there are many high-level bugs with special abilities among them. Hyperspace strikes cannot lock targets at such close range. If we attack directly , Our troops are not enough, and until the number of bugs is reduced to a certain level, we have nothing to do with these hatching ponds far behind the enemy's base."

This is really a depressing situation. Do you think these Zerg can't come back a few days later? At least let us develop with peace of mind for a while! Now that we have just finished building the base, we are running out of troops and ships, and the powerful warships are still lying on the ground busy with infrastructure construction, and suddenly we have to face this overwhelming enemy... Isn't this a scam! ? Do you really want me to endure the pain and demolish the General City, which is just on the right track, and drive the Imperial Admiral to kill cockroaches?

Forget it, I don’t want those things to disappear.

The current battlefield situation is very complex. Although the Zerg have a terrifying numerical advantage of 100 million, Xiling Technology has an absolute quality advantage, and the opponent lacks a sufficient number of top units. We are not at a disadvantage, but the enemy This bizarre method of warfare is really disgusting - in fact, due to the infinite suicide attacks of the Zerg, several Imperial warships near the weak points of the planet's shield have been buried under the sea of ​​​​worms.

But generally speaking, we are still invincible with our powerful Xiling fleet.

Pandora and Viska are now leading their respective main legions to take on the important task of wiping out the Zerg's active forces. It is obvious that these two little lunatics are very happy with such a task. They rely on the foul combat power of the elite troops to run rampant surrounded by the flying dragons. , tearing apart the dense formation of insects one after another with huge scars, but even Pandora would have difficulty extending its killing range to a thousand kilometers outside the planet's shield - the insect swarms there are too dense .

"I never expected that such a thoroughgoing war species still exists in the world," even Shandora sighed with a headache, "tearing low-value members of the same species into pieces and using them as nutrients to produce warriors more suitable for the battlefield, even Collect all the flesh and blood scattered on the battlefield and use them as materials for the next batch of soldiers... Even our Xiling apostles have not reached this level of war."

I have reservations about Sandora's words - aren't the Xiling Apostles enough of a war species?

"Hey! Jun, don't show that questioning expression! We do have such a thing as art!"

Seeing the completely unconcealable expression on my face, Shandora, who was calmly directing the oncoming troops to attack the enemy just a second ago, immediately pouted in grievance. When in front of me, this iron-blooded queen was even more beautiful than Qian Qian. Still like a hairy girl.

"The art of Xiling people?" I was speechless and looked away. Are you referring to those emperors who are free to use laser micro-carvings of the entire imperial code on their bullets?

The battle with the Zerg unsurprisingly fell into a war of attrition. We tried to drop eop-03 outside the atmosphere to eliminate the opponent. The first drop achieved good results. Although the vacuum environment is not suitable for chain reactions, this kind of The powerful nether energy bomb still successfully used the density of the Zerg itself to eliminate more than 10 million of the opponent's living forces, but the bugs clearly learned better the second time they were dropped. They chose the moment they sensed the terrifying power. Escape far away, maybe they are not smart enough to discover the principle of eop-03, but they are so unlucky that they encounter the fatal flaw of the nether energy bomb: without contact with enough matter, eop-03 will not be able to Producing a chain deflagration reaction, in this way, the damage caused by a simple explosion of a piece of psionic crystal to 100 million Zerg is meaningless.

In addition to the area-of-effect weapons outside this specification, various ground anti-aircraft firepower and battleship main guns are powerful, but in the face of the bugs' astonishing base and their curious recruitment methods, the effects of point-kill and line-kill are really impressive. Not a compliment.

Is this a case of quantity over quality?

"If we continue fighting like this, it won't be a problem to destroy the enemy, but it will consume too much."

Sivis looked at today's battle report with a depressed face.

"Don't we have more effective swarm weapons?"

I frowned. The war technology of Xiling Apostle is so advanced, why is it so troublesome to deal with these low-level creatures?

"The most effective weapon is naturally the eop-03, but its weakness has been discovered by bugs by chance. The psionic storm obelisk is still not strong enough to face 100 million enemies. The adaptability and evolutionary capabilities of these bugs are amazing. The several immature biochemical weapons and conventional radiation weapons we tried only took effect a few times, and all the bugs evolved antibodies - we don't know how they share their DNA information with the same species, but if There is no way to solve the sharp decline in the effectiveness of our weapons caused by the rapid evolution of the Zerg. To exterminate these huge numbers, I am afraid we will have to fight a protracted war."

Qian Qian was lying on the table counting her hair out of boredom, and then she suddenly raised her head: "By the way, don't you have the ultimate laser that can sweep across the entire sky? Ultraman's rays don't move and the photosensitive waves don't count!"

Faced with this girl's remarks, which were purely confusing, I decisively gave her a knife.

At this time, Viska, who had just come off the synchronous orbit, ran into the command room and jumped happily. As soon as he saw me, he rushed up to me happily and asked for credit: "Brother, brother! Ten million! Ten million! Today!" My troops have wiped out ten million Zerg!"

Although I don’t want to offend my baby sister, you know what? Nearly 7 million of the 10 million bugs you eliminated will become vibrant enemies again the next day!

We were troubled by the number of bugs and their tenacity, when the automatic door of the command room suddenly slid open gently, and Tavel walked in.

Strictly speaking, it was Tavel's mass *** that walked in. The edges of "her" were shaking with an unstable spectrum, and her body was almost translucent. It was obvious that what was here was not her true body.

"Tavel, are there any new research results?"

I nod to this dedicated female scientist. She uses quality assurance to conduct research in several fields at the same time in several research laboratories, and all of her achievements are quite impressive. I am amazed. If one of those miserable commanders If someone can work half as hard as she does, I will thank my Lord Dingdang.

"I have good news to bring you, my Majesty," Tavel's voice sounded a little distorted by interference, "We have finally made a breakthrough in the analysis of Sylvia's soul. A person exists in the shared database. The changes in the Imperial Emperor's files after simulating abyss radiation are more than 80% similar to Sylvia's soul. We believe that the former Imperial Emperor is Sylvia's true identity - theory That’s how it goes.”

Could you please stop adding that uneasy "in theory" at the end of every conversation?

This is indeed good news that can relieve our depressed mood at this time. It successfully diverted my attention: "Sylvia's true identity is indeed the former emperor? Which one?"

Although I asked this question, I guess I wouldn’t recognize it even if Tavel told me. There are as many as 135 people in the Xiling Emperor’s Council, and they are far apart from each other. Except for the occasional exchange of information in the entire empire’s communication link. They haven't even interacted with each other for a long time, and even Shandora didn't remember half of her colleagues...

Tavel took out an information screen and read the words on it word by word: "Bellawela, the horror shaper, was gradually promoted from an ordinary officer and succeeded the head of the Xiling after the death of the previous emperor. The mysterious Xiling Apostle, her branch race is called 'Raven'. She is also the most powerful raven in the empire. Her combat power was once praised by a certain Lord God in the Star Territory. This is why she got the title of Terror Shaper - that was originally a high-ranking Raven in the Star Territory. She is a title of the Dark God Clan. She uses unprecedentedly powerful arcane magic, fire, and shadow power to fight. She once destroyed the entire planet with a thunderstorm in ten minutes. Now Sylvia occasionally bursts out of an energy vacuum. 'Maybe it's Raven's soul talent that's causing trouble. She doesn't destroy the energy, but converts it into arcane power and draws it away - but since she has forgotten how to control the energy, the energy will eventually be released. Into the void.”

A mysterious apostle? Is this really a coincidence? Alaya, the leader of the mysterious department, is already an idiot, and now another apostle of the mysterious department is also an idiot? Should we say, cherish your IQ and stay away from magic?

"Terror Shaper?" Sandora murmured to herself thoughtfully, "I seem to have heard of this name. He is a relatively low-key emperor. His territory is far away from mine, so I don't know much about it. ——Tavel, you must have other achievements, right? Simply discovering Sylvia’s true identity should not be enough to satisfy your research interests.”

What Sandora said was indeed true. Tavel immediately showed a happy expression, and then said to us with pride: "I hope your two majesties will like my gift. They are already standing in front of the portal of the Time and Space Management Center. This A small force may have unexpected effects in the coming battle."

A few minutes later, the troops mentioned by Tavel completed the transmission and gathered in the square in front of the Crystal Tower.

"In fact, we discovered the secret deep in Sylvia's soul a few days ago, and then I prepared this surprise," Tavel's mass *** station said as more than a hundred new units were transmitted In front of him, with a proud light on his face, "The former Imperial Emperor Bellavera is a very special existence. She gradually advanced from an ordinary heroic combat soldier. This makes our research possible. Through inverse calculation With Sylvia’s soul, we analyzed the key technology of the raven, and then copied these Xiling apostles who are masters in group strikes - mass-produced raven."

Tavel said, stepping aside and letting me personally inspect these... great magicians from the Xiling Empire.

Because they were copied from Sylvia's soul, these ravens were all female without exception, and had very similar looks and long silver-white hair to the cute king. One hundred of them stood neatly in slow motion. In front of me, the faces of Xiling recruits who had just come off the production line were full of resolute and courageous expressions. But it doesn't matter. After hanging out with those veterans, especially some commanders, sooner or later these glorious recruits will Becoming a virtuous person - Vega's scorpion soldiers are now starting to learn mahjong...

Ahem...I've definitely gone off topic.

What they were wearing was not the silver-white alloy light armor and metal combat boots commonly used by imperial soldiers, but long black trench coat-like waisted shirts and long boots of the same color. After observing them for a long time, I suddenly felt The ravens in front of me look like female versions of Sephiroth from the back...