In the 108th year of the Holy Gu Calendar, the power struggle of the Golden Beetle Empire entered a climax.

All the factions in the empire that have the strength to compete for the center are divided into pro-emperor factions and rebels. Two camps.

The camp that supports the emperor is the sixth child, this product is the regent, and supporting the emperor is supporting himself. The righteousness of occupying imperial power, now there are very few forces in the world who can openly oppose their occupation of Giant Horn City. - Even though he's just a cat, rolling on tiger dung can make many herbivores shy away.

And the traitor faction is the fifth, third, and fourth. Three factions, these two finally united in the race for power in the center during the year.

They were in three directions, with a total of twenty-one princes' legions, approaching the three levels in the core area of the empire.

These three checkpoints are located at 133 km, 47 km and 78 km from the Holy Horn respectively.

These three factions seem to have learned the lesson of the emperor's plot, and none of them rushed forward. Because who can guarantee that the current teammates will not immediately become another two-five boy?

In this world, 'achieving great things without sticking to small things' and 'establishing great things without sticking to women's kindness' have become the basis for "going to success". Whoever fails to guard against the awareness of backstabbing is a stepping stone on the road to others' heroism.

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Therefore, now all sides are only confronting each other outside the customs and constantly setting up forward bases. Joining forces in one place? Impossible.

The Gu Nest bases popped up one after another on the land, and the territory outside the Holy Horn Capital was divided by three parties like a Go chessboard.

Each side has tens of thousands of beetles and thousands of artillery pieces to guard its own defense area. Of course, the Holy Horn is surrounded in the center.

The Holy Horn Capital, the main hall is still splendid. It's no longer the grandeur of a few years ago, only killing.

The young Emperor sat on the golden throne, and His Majesty the Regent sat at the lower right of the throne.

Now the position on the steps, he did not dare to take his place. However, his eldest brother's woman, his imperial sister-in-law, when he occupied the Holy Horn Capital, used his retractable "spike" to "penetrate". Now his species already exists in the name of his eldest brother's posthumous son. In the future, as long as the young emperor on the steps is poisoned to death, and then support his son to come to power. However, in order to realize such a dream, it is necessary to overcome the current military crisis.

The sixth looked gloomily at the imperial officers in gold and white military uniforms in the main hall under the steps.

"Now on the southwestern defense line, there are signs of abnormal movement of the enemy,...... "Judging from reconnaissance intelligence, the enemy has a large number of heavy firepower in Area 23......" "The Burning Locust family is holding the high ground in our east," ......

At the moment, the area of the capital of Saint-Point has been completely besieged, and the people in the city are panicking. With the enemy's flying troops, frequent attacks on traffic points near the capital city have greatly affected the transportation of commercial materials. This caused an increasing shortage of basic materials in the Holy Horn Capital, which in turn caused panic in the entire imperial capital in the last days. It shakes the morale of the army.

The Imperial officers pointed to the sand table ten meters long and eight meters wide on the main hall, constantly analyzing the current situation, but few constructive suggestions.

The regent knocked his foot on the steps, and the spikes on his feet knocked down the marble steps.

The discussion in the main hall stopped all of a sudden, and even the young emperor sitting on the throne stiffened, and looked at the uncle under his right hand a little timidly, obviously with a big shadow in his heart. - The uncle of the sixth prince 'bullied' his mother in front of his nephew a few months ago.

The regent looked at his officer with a wolf's eye and asked a question: "Now, how to break the blockade." ”

The officers looked at each other, and at this time, one of the lords on his right stood up cautiously and said, "Your Highness." ”

The regent glared angrily: "Report to Your Majesty." The unlucky child sitting on the throne shuddered and stopped looking at the sky in a daze.

The lord turned to face the emperor, of course, he still looked at the regent: "Today, the rebel party is pressing step by step, and we need to find foreign help." ...... today"

Regent: "Don't talk nonsense, Your Majesty knows the current situation of all parties in the world, and directly said, where do you want to help?" ”

Indeed, there are only a handful of forces that still have strong combat power today.

Since the Battle of the Purple Heart River, the second prince of the south has been nailed there by the Uehara Imperial Corps on the land bridge. Genghe and many other generals are now grabbing land there in the name of receiving the last orders of the first emperor.

The previous generals originally wanted to withdraw, but as soon as the second prince was defeated, these goods were very active. And the burning wheel is even more in it to sell arms.

The regent of the Holy Horn didn't dare to think that any other external force would come to his aid.

And on the main hall, the lord pointed to the north of the map.

The Regent's eyes narrowed.

The lord said slowly: "The mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Haode is too deserted. ”

The regent fell into deep thought.

A few days later, the Holy Horn posthumously bestowed a large number of titles on Hotaru's mother, the first empress of the founding emperor of the Golden Beetle Empire.

And this series of actions allowed the Northern Army to act. Perhaps, the north has always been waiting for the name of absolute legitimacy.

When the name allows you to intervene, there is a lot less resistance, and then it is easy to enter the early stage. The so-called 'strength is enough to ignore all falsehood', that is only in the later stage.

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In the north, on the shore of a turquoise lake, a large jungle of purple-black mushrooms with a diameter of fifty meters covers the shore. The veins and pipes run deep into the lake, pumping like pumps.

On these vains, tumors expand and contract with life, yes, just like when you puff out your cheeks and suck milk tea. It's just that there is a string of tumors on this vasculature that shrink like this, which is very cult.

Black mushrooms absorb this water from underground vasculatures and produce nutrients through photosynthesis. It then passed through the veins and poured into a fortress that stood there.

This fortress is a Gu nest with the shell of a building.

The walls stacked with square bricks seemed to put on a layer of armor for the Gu Nest.

Behind the gates of the fortress, there is no passage, but a radiating folded exit. Uh, this - a large chrysanthemum. As soon as the thing was retracted, a huge golden beetle egg was discharged. The eggs are dragged away by workers with large spoon-like chelates and transported to the warehouse.

Under the Gu Nest, Jue Ying was flipping through the invitation letter from his sixth brother in the south. (Ju Hotaru is very young, but she was born early, but in the harem's treacherous environment, she had to be forced to sleep for nearly forty years.) ）

What is the appearance of Her Royal Highness the Princely Prince...... The golden beetle family is highly insectized. Ninety percent of the body has no human skin, and its whole body is already a chitin shell. Her head protruded a curved spike backwards, like a single golden ponytail that was solidified and could not swing. The face is a human face, and the nose and blue pupils are visible, making her an image of a beauty after being insectized. The lips and teeth are still normal, which is better than Yu Tan.

At the bottom of the neck is a large, regular carapace that does not affect movement, but the chest has no female characteristics, after all, insects have no lactating properties. The golden armor on his body was polished and covered in silk clothes. The arms and long legs of the human golden ratio have been metallized, as if they were wearing gloves and boots.

Her hands have turned into palm-sized crows. Above are several white exits, which are finger ,—— but have no bones, and are very soft and white tentacles. Like a fluttering sea anemone.

There is no such 'finger' on the feet, and there are four subarthropods on the heels to assist in gripping, as if wearing a pair of golden high boots. Of course, you can't take off these tall boots. The thighs, on the other hand, are still human thighs. As for what the position of the upper point is, this is obscured by the steel armor skirt, no one knows at the moment.

The boneless fingers of the absolute firefly put down the letter, and the white, soft fingers were as quickly as tongues retracted into their chelated palms.

Ju Hotaru sneered: "My poor brother can't hold on." ”

Next to Jue Hotaru was a thirty-centimeter beetle. The large beetle's tentacle-like eyes flickered. At his signal, Ju Hotaru opened the second box on the side, and the photos on the façade were lined up. Here are the images of rows of mechanized tanks, and of the chimneys of the city.

Of course, the young man who always has a vibrant smile. Ju Hotaru has seen the person in this photo many times, and now he can't help but look at it a few more times.

The beetle beside her was now the one the old emperor accosted when he asked before he died. In his own words, this is a spiritual consciousness born from a Gu worm. Immortal and immortal.

If the old emperor had promised to change his body at that time, he would not have died of old age, but this consciousness would have changed from auxiliary to further fusion. However, the old emperor denied the complete insect transformation at the last moment, and had no nostalgia for everything in the world, and threw off this insect swarm consciousness.

Let's call this consciousness the will of the swarm. The purpose is to find a native individual on a smart planet to fuse. The old emperor had always been a little wary of the will of this swarm. So much so that for a long time, the will of the swarm has not established perfect information on the language system in this world, so that the dialogue has stumbled.

But in fact, the swarm consciousness will not be betrayed, because its purpose is to merge. The so-called integration is to minimize contradictions.

It is difficult for humans in sub-civilizations to understand this, and it is much easier to let the universe understand it.

In the history of the space-time zone where the universe was born, before the stellar bell rang, the carbon star appeared on the path of mind gathering.

In the case of frequent communication and sharing of experience in the minds of all people, there is no such thing as you and me, but as you continue to grow, regenerate, and forget, this collective will eventually become dominated by a few wills.

The situation is similar to that of the swarm consciousness, as long as the merging person preserves his body and mind, time will allow the host and the swarm will to merge.

On the contrary, the old emperor finally gave up immortality, which was the greatest betrayal of the will of the swarm. The will of the swarm had to find another person with the same thinking and will to fuse, that is, Jue Firefly.

When Jue Hotaru looked at the photo in a daze, the will of the swarm had already informed her of the possible identity of the celestial tour - that is, the investigator of the Star Civilization.

Of course, it is narrated in a way that is easier to understand: the true immortals and divine envoys of the lower mortals.

Will of the Swarm: "Absolute Firefly, according to the latest intelligence, the Burning Wheel in the south is carrying out the mechanized operation of the Gu Nest. ”

The bugs project a picture of the latest hexapod assembly in the factory.

Ju Hotaru looked at the insect and leaned back in his chair lazily: "The messenger sent by the gods to the human world is a little different from what I imagined. Well. It seems to be ......", people in sub-civilization always feel that the gods who come down from the stars should have the power to shake the mountains and rivers.

Will of the Swarm: "He does have divine powers in him, but he is now more inclined to technological change in your planet with his knowledge. ”

The swarm consciousness once again transmitted some other information about the starry sky civilization. Of course, there are many technological breakthroughs that she doesn't know much about; As for the humanities, it's a cognitive barrier.

But her perception of the sea tour is relaxed. Zeuyou is full of whimsical ideas in creation, and can get along with the excellent disciples of the commoners and the nobles as well, without any barriers. Of course, good looks, physical beauty is also very important.

She just likes this kind of excellence and beauty, and further liking can evolve into possessiveness. As for creating good? She hadn't thought about it, and since she was born, it seemed that the world wouldn't allow her to think about it.

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After Ju Hotaru put down the information book, her forehead flashed with slender lines, like the mark of a god's tattoo.

Well, if Zeyou sees it, then this investigation mission will be considered a successful one. The following is the Bell Civilization that mobilized the Starmark Armament and destroyed it.

Because of the absolute fluoresce, this is the characteristic of controllable information particles with high information density. This is a technology that is simply impossible for this planet to produce at the current level of civilization.

Appears here, there is only one explanation: optical bridge abuse.

When Zhou You arrived, he was told that the variability of Gu worms in this world does not come from the information storage of normal genes, but from the controllable particles that store information.

The amount of information from the internal controllable particles in the high-level Gu worms that you have been exposed to in the current investigation cannot be the source of the information particles in the world.

This information particle also conforms to the entropy increase principle - particles with high information will lose the upper limit of information to create particles with low information content. Under normal circumstances, it will decay rapidly within a few decades like the Stability Island element, and the Gu worms on the rock crystal star will also lose their ability to mutate highly.

And the phenomenon of high mutation of Gu worms in this world continues, indicating that there is a light bridge located on this planet, which continues to provide high information flow for some particles.

Now the information switch of 'mutation' on this planet is partly on this beetle, and the other part is on the firefly.

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On May 5, 108, near the Jeho Mountains. On the continuous mountain, small rivers "rolled down" appeared. If you look closer, it is a column of Gu worms that synchronize with the color of the rock.

The firefly set off from the north. Under his command, the Gu nest, which had been buried deep in the ground for natural dormancy, began to wake up.

There were many Gu worms of three or four hundred kilograms on the earth. Their bodies were like glass, rubbing their hands like flies, shaking off the dust from their bodies, and their bellies flashed with a blue halo.

In terms of internal power, these Gu worms were stronger than all the Gu worms in the south. These black beetles are superior to the Imperial Royal Golden Beetles in terms of explosiveness.

The only shortcoming of the Northern Legion is the lack of military equipment such as artillery. After all, the north is a bitter cold land, and those who have the slightest ability tend to make a living on the warm Mediterranean coast. And it is only in the areas where humans gather that handicrafts appear.

Today, the regent allowed Hotaru to enter the Gyeonggi region, and the Northern Legion was still in the posture of a savior. Once this Gu insect corps, which has a large amount of genetic reserves, occupies a prosperous area, the shortcomings will be filled.

The twenty-kilometer-long Gu Worm Corps flowed out of the mountain pass like a rushing river, heading towards the south. At an altitude of 10,000 meters, flying eyeworms with a diameter of three to four hundred meters and like balloons moved from one cloud to another, observing the earth with lensed eyes.

Standing on a forty-meter-tall war beast, the giant beast raised its twenty-meter-high tentacles like an elephant, and the tip of the tentacle spread out the petal surface of twenty meters of square meters, completing the information docking with the sky eye worm.

At this time, one by one wasp-like Gu worms with a wingspan of twelve meters swooped down from behind them, approached the ground and then climbed rapidly, such a disturbed air current, raising a large number of snowflakes behind the fireflies. These swarms were like shepherd dogs, driving away the Gu worms and stabilizing the line of the march for the empress.