At the bottom of the planet Coruscant's crust of more than 5,000 layers, in the bottomless and dayless subternals, further down in the slum of crime and violence, two Coruscant vigilantes are directing a group of spherical levitation machines to investigate in this sewer.

They inspected the traces left at the scene, and directed the suspended spherical machines to scan and record footprints, liquid remaining on the dirty steel walls, and some fresh scratches, and chatted and cursed:

'This way! ’

'Come here, scan this side, see these tracks and footprints, look like some kind of beast or insect left behind?' ’

Maybe! ’

'I don't understand what kind of creatures would attack those sewer cleaners here, and they eat so cleanly, that even the patrol robots have been attacked......

'Don't worry so much, it's terrible here, hurry up and investigate and go back and report!' ’

'Okay man, you're right, the air here is really bad, I can smell it with the mask......

'Is it because you Toguta people have a very sensitive sense of smell, and it doesn't actually stink very much here, at least not more than a few layers below?' Later, we may have to go down, we have to investigate clearly, if you don't want to run a second time? ’

'That's bad news......

'Hey! Let them come and scan here, and here! You see, the marks left on the walls, the metal is all scratched! ’

I saw it, what the hell is that? ’

'I don't know, it looks like some creature with sharp horns ran by, I hope they don't show up in front of us, it must not be ......easy to mess with'

'Don't worry, we have blasters, and we're even harder to mess with!' ’

'Also ......'

'Man, haven't they reconstructed the true colors of those attackers from the footprints and the traces they left behind?' ’

Not yet, as if those things are different from the creatures in the database that live in such places, so they may have to collect some DNA information. ’

'Then hurry up, I've had enough, we shouldn't have come down just now!' ’

‘……’

That's what Anakin found out about driving to this level and just getting off and walking for a short time.

Ahead, he saw the two Coruscant vigilantes surveying impatiently, using the survey robots to scan the walls and pipes for footprints and tracks, and groping their way to the entrance to the next floor.

Seeing this, Anakin, who was secretly in a bad situation, hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth, deliberately made a burst of obvious footsteps and walked forward.

‘！！ ’

'Who's there?' ’

'Come out! Otherwise we would have shot!! ’

The two vigilantes soon heard footsteps behind them, and turned their blasters in unison and aimed nervously behind them, while the hovering spherical machines that were scanning their way turned around and shone a visible beam of light on Anakin as he emerged from the darkness.

'Ahh ’

'It's a Jedi ......'

‘！！ ’

'It's that Jedi, Skywalker!' ’

'What?! ’

Soon, as those police scanning robots holographically projected Anakin's information for the first time, the two security employees who read the information and recognized who it was quickly put away the blaster guns in their hands and exclaimed.

"Humph!"

"Who are you and why are you here?!"

Relying on his status and authority as a Jedi Knight to be countless ranks higher than these employees in charge of law and order, Anakin walked over with a straight face and asked the two of them directly.

'Ahh ’

'Report to the sir! ’

"That's right, we just went to the upper level to investigate a case, and then the reconnaissance robot we carried seemed to have noticed that there was something wrong with the ecosystem under this negative layer of the planet Coruscant, and many of the creatures on the bottom had disappeared, so we came down to see what was going on." ’

'But sir, why are you here?' ’

The Toguta security employee explained nervously, and asked Anakin curiously.

After all, it's really strange to have a Jedi in such a dirty place, and under normal circumstances, these high-ranking Jedi are rarely in such a bottomless and unseen lower area...... In fact, no one with any power or position would come here, and only employees at the bottom of the hierarchy would have to come to such a dangerous place to deal with the equally dangerous poor.

"I got a pet a few years ago and left it here, just to see if it's still alive......"

"How's your investigation going, and what did you find?"

Anakin said without changing his face, without concealing it, and began to think urgently of various ways in his heart.

Because he knew that the other party's investigation must have destroyed some of the creatures and ecology of this negative layer for the sake of energy and food, so that those spherical reconnaissance robots in Coruscant discovered the anomaly?

'Report sir! ’

We haven't found anything yet, but from the evidence we have so far, it must have been done by some kind of powerful predator, and maybe a large group? ’

Didn't the Toguta security employee dare to hide anything from a Jedi, especially in front of a terrifying Jedi with a legend? That's why he just explained it honestly.

"Hmm!"

"I see, but where are you going next?"

Nodding, Anakin was noncommittal, and walked directly in front of a floating spherical reconnaissance robot, clicked directly on the operating system on it, and looked at the information on it as if no one was there.

He was secretly relieved when he realized that the two men didn't seem to have investigated any more valuable information.

'Report sir! ’

We're going to continue to investigate and find out that based on the existing traces, those guys should be moving down, so we're going to go to the negative N layer first. ’

Although it was not known why a Jedi Knight would be so concerned about such a trivial matter, since the other party asked, the two security employees had no choice but to continue to answer.

"Negative N layer ......"

"Did you notice anything unusual down there? The negative N level is not a good place, it is said that no one has been there for many years, not only is the environment terrible, but there are also many fierce and huge creatures? ”

To be honest, hearing the other party say that he was going to the negative N layer, Anakin almost couldn't help but exclaim.

Because, the lower N layer is the base of his zero swarm, and it has now spread to any place below, and if these two really go down, then they will definitely find out!

'That's exactly what it is......'

We didn't want to go, but you see, there's something really strange about it, like some creature has preyed on all the animals that keep the sewers in balance, and there's nothing left...... Look here, it's a lot cleaner. ’

'It can't go on like this!' ’

In fact, these things should not have been investigated by these two security employees in the first place, but since they found out, they felt that it might be of a lot of benefit to the two of them to report it after the investigation was clear, and they could even be promoted by virtue of their merits, and it was not necessary to completely get rid of the unfortunate errand of patrolling in this bottomless and dangerous lower area?

Anyway, they've had enough of the crime and violence in the upper floors, and they're not going to miss any chance to get them out of that unfortunate job!

"Strange!"

"Isn't it nice to be clean here?"

Anakin knew about the things here, and he was also a little disgusted with seeing those disgusting giant maggots and sticky dark creatures every time he came, so he acquiesced to the practice of the insect swarm occasionally killing them as bioenergy, but even he didn't expect that they had only not come back for nearly a month, and they had done it to this extent, and they had also attracted the attention of these two guys?

'It's not bad......

'But sir, this situation could lead to chaos in the sewer ecology, which in turn would affect the balance of the entire planet...... However, this is a very complicated matter, we are only responsible for coming here to investigate the situation briefly, and the specific details will not be known until the municipal department sends a professional environmental evaluation robot to evaluate it after it is reported. ’

Seeing that the Jedi Knight who had appeared here for no reason was asking endless questions, as if they were both prisoners, the other vigilante explained with some impatience.

“！！”

"Your superiors didn't know about this? Didn't you report it? ”

Stunned for a moment, Anakin suddenly squinted and asked, and at the same time, he also pretended to be casual and glanced towards the dark passage in the distance.

Not yet. ’

"Sir, you probably don't know, I don't know what's going on here, the signal is blocked, we just tried, but failed, so we're going to go down to investigate for a while and then go back and report." ’

"Really?"

"In that case, I'll be relieved......"

Finally, hearing the other party say this, Anakin, who had been entangled for a long time, suddenly became relaxed, and at the same time, a strange smile appeared on his face.

“？？”

'Sir, what are you ...... about?'

The Toguta and another security employee of unknown race were a little baffled, and they didn't know what was going on with Anakin, a Jedi, but they subconsciously felt that the other party seemed to be uneasy and kind, and they had just had time to take a step back and touch the grip of the blaster pistol on their waists with their hands, when the mutation happened!

Sou~! Sou~!

Without waiting for the two security employees of Planet Coruscant and the suspended spherical patrol robots to react, one after another was shot out of the darkness in the distance at a rapid speed!

Then, in addition to Anakin, the spherical levitating robots were smashed to the ground and collapsed to the ground, and the two vigilantes were pierced through their heads and bodies by two spines at the moment when the huge underground drainage channel plunged into darkness, and then fell directly to the ground of the minus N+1 sewer under the action of highly toxic toxins.

"Enosa ......"

"You've disappointed me so much, didn't I warn you not to make too many moves?"

Staring at the two innocent vigilantes on the ground in a daze, Anakin didn't speak, and after a long while, he looked up and reprimanded a certain insect queen who was slowly crawling with a few stinging snakes in the darkness in front of him.

Although, even if these two people go down to the minus N layer to investigate, it will not necessarily expose his huge secret to the public of Coruscant...... But, in Anakin's view, this situation is indeed a very bad sign, it will happen once and it can happen a second, and it is contrary to his imperfect plan, he will not allow things to happen that are beyond his plan, especially when it can be avoided and prevented?

'Sorry host, we'll take care of it later......'

'Just ......'

The children are so hungry that they can barely maintain our minimum consumption by relying on the energy provided by the fungus blanket, but the hunger is constantly tormenting us...... We thought that no one would come to this level, so we ......

Hearing Anakin's reprimand, the queen named 'Enosha' slowly crawled in front of Anakin, and then hurriedly bowed her head and defended aggrievedly.

"I know that you have endured it very hard, and I know that you don't have enough resources, but this is the only time, and I won't take it as an example!"

"Now, let them come out and clean up the scene!"

Seeing the other party's appearance, Anakin, who had wanted to reprimand for a while, thought about it and endured it, and turned to the corpses that fell to the ground in the darkness and the scout robots that were still braving the slightest sparks and lightning.

'Yes......'

With Anakin's order and Enosa's response, countless hoppers and worker bees soon poured out of the darkness behind, quickly packing up the bodies of the fallen robots and the two hapless vigilantes.

Every twenty seconds, there's nothing left, as if nothing had just happened.

"Let's go!"

"Take me to the base down there......"

Anakin didn't take the death of the vigilante to heart, and he wasn't too worried.

After all, Coruscant is too big, and they came down through the ghetto, even if they disappear, it won't cause much movement, at most it's just a case study, and when the inefficient Coruscant bureaucracy remembers and investigates, it's probably a matter of years.

Of course, it is more likely that they were directly shelved, and then those bureaucrats directly handled the disappearance of those two people as a case of being attacked by a mob? Anyway, no one would have the friendship to come to such a bottomless, low-level area to investigate the two missing people, and Anakin was not in a hurry at all, he was sure that his swarm would not be discovered because of that incident.

"That's right!"

"Does your genetic information explain how the swarm solves the problem of hunger and resources in that Kproru sector?"

As he walked, suddenly, Anakin, who was on a whim, asked with a frown.

That is, these swarms will find resources and develop on their own, if it were his own, I am afraid that he will not be able to find enough resources and energy to supply their extremely rapid development of the race! Think about it, when he and Obi-Wan raised a larva, it took a lot of effort.

'Yes! ’

To her surprise, the queen of worms, Enosa, replied with determination.

"What is it?"

'War!.'

“……”

"But what if the problem is not solved after the war?"

Hearing the other party's answer, Anakin was slightly surprised, but he was quickly relieved, after all, he had known for a long time, his swarm was indeed a terrifying, self-responsible and infinitely multiplying terrifying war machine!

'Hum ......'

'Then go on waging war, expanding endlessly, spreading fear to every corner of the universe and threatening to devour anything that dares to hinder us......

With a penetrating and dangerous red glow in her eyes, Enosa, the hero unit of the swarm, turned around and said in a gloomy tone.

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