Chapter 278: The Hive
What would the buildings in the Sitneya base look like? According to the imagination of ordinary people, they should be some living organisms, and a few shells hit it, and it was not flames but blood, and it was very strange to squirm lightly all the time, and it was vaguely possible to see what was being born inside. When the gestation is over, a slimy monster will be [produced] from the building, struggling to stand up and shake off the liquid from its body before joining the ranks of the fight.
It's like this in science fiction movies and games, and it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with it. However, Nangong Rong knew that this was not the case at all, and the humans in the Razfield plane in his hometown also had the technology of biological weapons, so how did they make Warcraft? That's right, with machines.
So when Ceolis carried Nangong Rong into a camp made up of many strangely shaped machines assembled at random, the young man's heart did not have the slightest wave, but he didn't want to laugh. After all, as far as the sight of the boy was concerned, he really couldn't laugh.
The machines were rugged and rudimentary, seemingly improvised, by the Sitneys using alloy fragments from nearby local buildings as improvised materials, apparently not intended to be used for long, and that they could explode even in the next second. But considering the legendary goblin-like appearance of their maker, it doesn't seem like a surprise?
Ahem, that's not all, but the machines aren't the point, it's the raw materials they use to make something.
There was no doubt that the machines produced nothing more than consumables for the soldiers and creatures named Ceolis, but it was impossible to find any organic matter from the alloy fragments of the ruins, so the large insects carried a lot of organic matter that could be found nearby.
This includes a variety of man-made objects, uprooted plants, and numerous human corpses, all of which have been cleared of the abyssal energy to reveal a pale color.
Seeing that the human corpse was stuffed into some strange machine, and after a soft "boom" sound, a ball rolled out of the exit of the product, and the ball soon stretched out its four legs and turned into a big insect to join the work team, Nangong Rong and the others' faces suddenly became the same as the body surface color of the corpse.
Ceolis under him stopped advancing and prostrate on the ground, it was obvious that this was already the destination, Nangong Rongqiang resisted the urge to lift the table and shouted angrily in his heart and jumped down, but Octavier, who was about to say a word, suddenly bent down and vomited on the ground, successfully stopping the young man's movements.
"Are you okay?" Nangong Rong hurriedly walked to the eldest princess and gently patted her on the back to help the girl smooth out her breathing, and her tone was full of concern, so that the cheap sister nearby couldn't help but pout slightly when she saw this.
"Do I look like motion sickness?" Octavir said with a wry smile as she shook her head, straightened up and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, "I thought I was used to all kinds of bloody and horrific scenes, but now it doesn't seem to be the case at all." The goddess is above, and the corpse of a human being is transformed into that strange creature for work and battle, and there must be a degree of curiosity!"
Nangong Rong and Lin Weiyin were silent and did not answer, because the cheap brother and sister didn't know what to say at this moment, and they were as shocked as the eldest princess.
The answer was a voice coming from the other direction, sharp and distinctly vibrato, like the mournful sound of a frightened little animal curled up.
"I'm sorry if this upsets you. But in terms of actual efficiency, we don't think there's anything wrong with that. ”
When a few people followed the prestige, they found that the person who spoke was a wonderful humanoid creature with pale green skin that was only 1.2 meters tall, with a large head relative to the body, and a pair of shiny and almost cartoon-shaped eyes on the face...... Can you poke the cute point?
Anyway, Nangong Rong saw very clearly that his cheap sister's eyes immediately turned into the shape of a red heart, and even the eldest princess next to him couldn't calm down.
Girls really don't have any resistance to cute creatures...... Anyway, eldest princess, what are you going to do when you subconsciously raise your hand, hold each other in your arms and roll on the ground, or pinch Ya's cheeks and rub them wantonly?
After the hand placed behind Octavier's back quietly grabbed the girl's back collar and pulled her back, Nangong Rong Fang coughed and explained as if nothing had happened: "The method is understandable, but I can't accept it so quickly." ”
"Why is it unacceptable, strictly speaking you are not the same race as these humans, there are some subtle differences, and their affairs should have nothing to do with you. In addition, converting their corpses into Ceolis to replenish their combat power can also clear the influence of the abyss on the plane, and can also prevent them from turning into undead spirits and spreading abyssal energy everywhere, causing more erosion. ”
The cute feeling disappeared suddenly, and the boy found that the way of thinking and values of the guy in front of him was completely different from that of human beings, and he seemed to only think about efficiency, and didn't care about anything else. Not only the teenagers, Octavir and Lin Weiyin also returned to their usual normal state after hearing the little dwarf say this, and there was also a slight alienation in their eyes when they looked at each other.
In order to avoid being cold, Nangong Rong had no choice but to continue the conversation with the little dwarf: "What, haven't you considered the feelings of the locals? You must know that humans have the custom of burying the dead of their kind. ”
"It's nothing in the face of the danger of racial annihilation, and the dead would be glad to know that their bodies could be used against the abyss. In order for the race to continue to reproduce, some sacrifices are inevitable, and if they can't accept even this little thing, there is no need for them to survive. ”
"You guy......" Octavier frowned and stepped forward half a step forward and was about to say something, but was stopped by Nangong Rong next to him raising his hand in time, "Don't stand in my way, I have to correct his three views today!"
The young man pressed his hand twice to signal the eldest princess to be calm, and then stared at the eyes of the big-headed doll not far away and asked very seriously: "The topics that will cause disagreement between the two sides will be put aside for now, and let's introduce ourselves." My name is Nangong Rong, and I am the character in the team who is responsible for making soy sauce, what about you?"
"The population number YL106497 is the person in charge of this temporary advance base, and he thinks it is too long to be shortened to YL. ”
The little dwarf's words made Octavier and Lin Weiyin can't help but change their faces to bewildered expressions, and their big puzzlement is about to form a question mark on the top of their heads, even if the other party behaves very calmly and maintains a poker face as a matter of course, it can't change this situation.
Fortunately, Nangong Rong, who took the initiative to ask the question, didn't seem to be surprised by this answer at all, and immediately squinted his eyes and nodded lightly: "Sure enough." ”
The cheap sister immediately slapped the young man on the shoulder: "Bridge bean sack, don't be alone there to recognize something inexplicable, explain it to everyone." ”
"Well, since the beginning of the year, that guy has been the only one in front of us, and we haven't seen any other Sitneyla, and the machines in the base are simple but fully automatic, and there is a creature named Ceolis to help control them, so no matter how you look at it, there should be only one person here. Nangong Rong slapped his little sister's hand to the side casually when he said this, raised his index finger and said very seriously, "But he has always used the word [we] all the time, even if the object of discussion is the priority of human beings, it is still the interests of the entire race, completely ignoring the feelings of individuals, plus this strange name or number now, what do you think of?"
Although Octavier was still confused, Lin Weiyin, who had been trained in various science fiction works, suddenly realized something, and the whole person shook a few times in horror on the spot, and after barely standing firmly, his eyes widened and he said two words with a look of disbelief on his face: "Hive!?"
If the Sitneylahs were a hive-conscious race, it would not be surprising that they would resort to invading the natives to stop the abyss from expanding, after all, in the other side's opinion, no matter how many people died, as long as they survived, even a few hundred, this race would not be considered extinct. As for how the civilization of the natives will be affected, that is completely out of their consideration.
It's no wonder that the boy and the others always feel that the two sides don't have the same ideas when they talk to the little dwarf in front of them, and what dares to communicate with them is the collective consciousness of the entire Sitneyla people, and the perspective of looking at the problem is different from the beginning.
The big-headed doll referred to as YL nodded seriously when she heard this: "The beehive is indeed very suitable to describe a race like us in human language. Now that you know what kind of race Sitneyra is, you should know that talking to YL is like talking to all of us, so please tell us about your plan to clean up the abyss and your ability to harmlessly eradicate erosion. ”
It turned out that Nangong Rong thought that after arriving at the base, he would have to use some kind of communication device to talk to the high-level bosses of the Sitneyla people, and after explaining the situation, he would have to wait for the other party to slowly meet and discuss and reach a conclusion before taking the next step.
If his explanation was not enough to impress the other party, then it would be tantamount to being rejected on the spot, so the boy immediately cheered up.
However, it turns out that Nangong Rong is still a little worried, and politicians may think about how much resources they need to spend in order to carry out the operation, how much damage they may suffer in battle, and whether these losses will have some bad effects on themselves, etc., but in the hive consciousness, it is completely absent.
The other party only considered whether it would pose a threat to its own race, whether the price paid could be recovered, and whether it could effectively fight the abyss, and in Nangong Rong's plan, the hive did not see anything wrong at all, because in the final battle, the little gnomes did not even need to send troops to participate in the battle, and it was completely the responsibility of the people and horses they had gathered.
"Well, we agreed in principle to your plan. YL blinked his big shining eyes and looked at Nangong Rong carefully and said, the other party's gaze made the young man feel uncomfortable, "Next, let's talk about your ability to eliminate abyss energy, that's what we're most interested in." ”
"Actually, my ability is not to eliminate but to absorb and transform it, and it is not a certain technology, which is purely produced by my own special constitution, so I have no way to teach it to you. Under the gaze of the other party, Nangong Rong suddenly had an illusion of being completely looked at, he thought that the people of Sitneyla probably had some kind of detection method, and they had already seen his special physique, otherwise why would this thing in front of him stare at him with an expression of discovering a new continent, "Uh, draw blood, right, can you draw as little as possible?"
Lin Weiyin, who was next to her, couldn't help but hold her forehead with her hand and sighed deeply: "It's a good thing to go to the top, but you're inevitably too upright." ”
Octavier even put on a disgusted expression of "I don't know this person".
YL was even more shocked: "Originally, we only planned to take a few hairs from you, but since you are willing to donate blood, it would be great." Please wait a moment, the transformation of Ceolis will not take long. ”
Nangong Rong was embarrassed, and with tears streaming down, he stretched out his hand to his cheap sister and said, "Weiyin, can you lend me a brick to shoot yourself to death?"
"No, get out. The road on his own, with tears in his eyes, will be finished. ”
This sister is really not biological!
Then there's the boring waiting time.
Nangong Rong, who had already accepted his fate during the transformation of the big bug, took out the abyss crystal in a silent state for them to study at YL's request, but in the eyes of the people of Sitneyra, Ya was just an ordinary crystal, and nothing unusual was detected. However, as soon as the boy took it in his hand, there were many abyssal monsters around the base - you must know that this area has been roughly cleaned, and there are no monsters wandering around here, they are all attracted to it.
Of course, these monsters were not able to cause any trouble to the people, and they were dragged by the hordes of Ceolis to make raw materials for the production of machines without even seeing the face of the crystal.
Hive was also surprised by this result, and said to the boy very seriously: "It seems that your physique is indeed very special, we will study it carefully." But we'll have to hurry, though, because after you take out the crystals, the Abyss, which was attacking the local humans, has come in from all over the world, and this camp must be abandoned. ”
Nangong Rong heard that he had no other thoughts in his heart at this moment except for the groan.