Chapter 26: Song of the Zerg
The "Fun Hunting Group" and a group of five people took the starship Luena 1 to arrive at Europa, the home of the Zerg, Jupiter-2 moon. Beneath the ice crust of this smooth star is a relatively warm ocean, and the rocky bottom of the ocean is filled with hexagonal structures that stretch for thousands of kilometers. The Zerg are powered by a few tiny nucleon suns, as well as Europa's warm iron core. Large areas of Zerg gardens and hexagonal ceilings in the cultivation area are hung with miniature nuclear suns, and they also use the heat energy in the earth's crust to regulate the temperature of different areas of the hive. Because the Zerg have strict requirements for the humidity and temperature of the living environment, they are meticulous in regulating the number and types of microorganisms and bacteria, especially in the nursery room and the living room of the mother. In order not to interfere with the normal life of the Zerg, the group of the "Fun Hunting Group" was arranged by the Prime Minister of the Zerg, the Male Insect Pavilion Yati, and could only enter and live in one of the largest gardens of the Zerg. The garden is called "Paradise", and the flowers are in full bloom among the bushes, and the herbaceous plants are planted in clusters, and the flowers are in full bloom. The branches of the trees are full of fragrant flowers, and tiny bees and butterflies are busy collecting pollen and nectar. The garden is surrounded by a stream with crystal clear water, in which an unknown insect floats, and in the distance of the garden is a very large plantation with a dark brown chubby insect tribe tending to the crops. If you don't look up and see the small nuclear sun, hanging high above the ceiling of a hexagonal structure, you would be mistaken for thinking that you are in the biosphere of the Ark Earth.
In the paradise garden by the Zerg's designated location, the "Fun Hunting Group" set up a simple and self-sufficient tent, the Zerg Prime Minister Ge Yati received them, only to see a scarab full of red and golden spots, slowly walking, Li Xinying and him telepathically connected, only to hear his deep voice, whispered: "Friends from afar, let our Zerg receive you with the most beautiful garden, the Queen Mother and I both understand your purpose of going to the Zerg homeland, but it may disappoint you, the Zerg has no musical heritage, There are no songs, we only have insects. Each of the insects has its own unique rhythm, so our Mother ordered that the guests who live in our garden listen carefully to our hundreds of different insect songs. And our Drow will entertain you well, he will show you around our Zerg's newest tofu factory, and then if the Mother Emperor is free, he will summon you, please be patient and wait for the summons."
Li Xinying asked curiously, "Thank you for the careful arrangement made for us, but why did you visit your newly established tofu factory?" Is there a deeper meaning to it?"
The Zerg Prime Minister Ge Ge Ya was a little embarrassed and said, "This is the order of the Mother Emperor, and the deep meaning of the Mother Emperor is something that we ordinary Zerg cannot speculate. So there's no comment!"
Zerg Zhuoer said happily, "I introduced tofu production from the humans of the Earth Ark for the Zerg, and the entire Zerg Tofu Workshop was designed and operated by me and other male sapient insects, which is a major initiative of the Zerg recently, and it is worth visiting!" Witnessed the friendship between the Zerg and the Earth Ark humans. Let's listen to the insects these days! I will visit the tofu factory later."
In the next 10 days, the "Fun Group" met with hundreds of songworms in the paradise garden, patiently listened to all kinds of insects, hoping to find songs that could represent the Zerg, but after all, the insects are not music, and the blue gems representing the songs of the Zerg on the golden poetry are still dull. Everyone is a little discouraged, how can the Zerg who has no song find the song of the Zerg that can trigger the oracle?
Zerg Drow proposed: "Everyone has listened to all the insects, and it's been hard work. Why don't you relax, tomorrow I will take you on a tour of our newly established tofu factory. You must know that we Zerg are vegetarians, and in very extreme situations, such as when there is a large shortage of vegetarian food, or when necessary, we will be forced to switch to meat. Therefore, the recipe of tofu is very precious to us, and the nutrients in it are very helpful for the growth of our larvae. We are grateful to the humans of Ark Earth, who selflessly taught us how to make tofu. The Mother has ordered that after your visit to the tofu factory, you will be greeted by the representatives of the human race, Li Xinying and Angel, to express your gratitude."
The next day, Drow summoned 5 giant beetles, each with a hanging basket at its right foot. He had Li Xinying and Angel, Govia of the Virgin Giants, and Peter the Robot each sit in the basket of another giant beetle, while he sat in the rest of the giant beetle's basket, and then set off together to fly to the entrance of a hive made of hexagonal plates. Standing at the entrance of the hive, the Zerg Drow asked the giant beetles to blow a solid bubble at them, so that the bubbles wrapped around their bodies, and they could breathe and move freely inside the bubbles, and the Zerg Drow explained, "This is a protective bubble that prevents foreign bacteria or microorganisms from spreading to our hive, and also protects you from unknown diseases caused by the bacteria and microorganisms in our Zerg."
Led by the Zerg Drow, they entered a cylindrical space, surrounded by a spiral staircase, with a cylindrical chamber at the center, with a ring of hexagonal glass windows on each floor of the chamber for viewing. The first floor of the cylindrical chamber is a large pool of soybeans soaked in clean water. Walk down to the second floor, the ceiling of the second floor under the pool is full of holes, and then a large group of Zerg with straw mouths, round abdomen, and a body length of about 20 cm crawled out of the left gap in the wall, instantly crawling all over the ceiling, and probing into the holes with their mouths to suck out a steady stream of soybeans, and then making a habit sound, a large amount of ground soybean milk fell from the Zerg's chest like rain, collected from the large pool on the floor, and the Zerg's round abdomen stored okara. After a while, the Zerg, whose belly was swollen and full of bean dregs, retreated through the gap on the right. After a while, another batch of Zerg crawled out of the gap on the left, grinding the soybeans with their bodies again. Walking down to the third floor, I saw that the ceiling was full of Zerg with holes in their mouths and big bellies, they inhaled the soy milk collected by the upper pool, squeezed and filtered the raw soy milk with their bodies, and discharged more pure soy milk from the tail, and these squeezed soy milk fell into the large pool of water on the floor. Heat the soy milk with electricity in the pool and bring the soy milk to a boil. When the soy milk boils for a few minutes, the bottom of the pool rises upwards and the hot soy milk flows into the round holes around the wall and is piped into the next layer of containers. Walking down to the fourth floor, I saw hundreds of zergs like ants, filling hundreds of round containers with hot soybean milk with water pipes connected to the upper pipes, and then using the water pipe on the other side to flush in the gypsum slurry and gently stir it with a large wooden spoon. The giant beetle then transports the container containing the condensed tofu flowers, and another batch of giant beetles carries empty round containers to contain hot soy milk and make the soy milk into tofu flowers. This is the tofu production workshop that the Zerg has just established.
Li Xinying couldn't help but wonder why these Zerg bodies seemed to be tailor-made for every process of tofu production, as if they were born to engage in this position and serve this job, could it be that the mother of the Zerg could design a Zerg body that adapts to different environments and engages in different types of work, and the Zerg takes the transformation of the flesh as the direction of evolution.
After Li Xinying and An Qi left the Zerg's tofu making workshop, they were led by the Zerg Prime Minister Ge Yati and sat on the giant beetle to the most sacred place of the Zerg, the fertility room and living room of the Zerg Mother, to meet the Mother. In the open space, on a boulder covered with soft wheat stalks, a huge white fat flesh worm is lying down, she is the current mother of the Zerg, she has a small head, a pair of round eyes, a straw-shaped mouth, and her body is connected to large and small pipes flowing with golden liquid, providing her with an endless stream of nutrients. Her tail is constantly producing eggs of various sizes, and hundreds of workers are diligently collecting and moving these newborn eggs. She was surrounded by dozens of males. She connected with Li Xinying and An Qi telepathically, only to hear her say: "I am the mother queen of the Zerg, all the Zerg are produced by me, and my brain domain is connected with various Zerg individuals all the time. Don't think that I'm trapped in this lair, I must be lonely, in fact, I can sense every place and every activity that the Zerg is doing. And all the Zerg can also gain the experience and knowledge of other Zerg by connecting with my brain domain. And the evolutionary path that our Zerg have taken is based on the evolution of the body and instinct. Every time they go to a new place, or get a new technology, the intelligent male insect will change itself to adapt to the new environment or realize new skills, design new body organs or body instincts from practice, and after repeated verification, determine the new Zerg form, and the male will produce new varieties of Zerg genes. When the male mates with me, a new breed of Zerg will be born that can adapt to a new environment or have new skills. That's how we survive."
Li Xinying said curiously, "Is the Zerg working in the newly built tofu production workshop of the Zerg a new variety of Zerg?"
The Mother Empress sighed and said, "Yes, the genes of the new species of Zerg working there were all designed by the male Insect Drow, and after he mated with me, he produced a worker worm with specific skills in the tofu production workshop. In fact, we Zerg only have self-awareness and male intelligent insects, so we absorb more "Yuan Shui" to maintain life, while other worker insects who obey orders only have a little self-awareness and need limited "Yuan Water". Like the Aqua Atlantis of your Earth Ark, we use the "Yuan Water" to promote the evolution of our own flesh and instincts. The only difference is that they evolved to adapt to life in the ocean, and eventually developed tails and gills on the human body that can live in water. In fact, before ancient times, we were a human race like you, but due to the shortage of "Yuan Shui" and the drastic changes in the living environment, we abandoned the human form and used the only "Yuan Shui" to target the extreme environment of the universe and evolve a more vigorous Zerg body. We mainly use "meta water" to develop new bodily functions and adapt to the external objective world."
After Li Xinying and An Qi heard this, they looked sluggish, and suddenly felt that the Zerg world was incredible, and they couldn't accept this amazing fact. Angel said, "You... You were originally human? It's incredible!"
Li Xinying was more calm, and she asked, "Since the ancestors of the Zerg evolved from humans, there should be a song of the Zerg that has been handed down from ancient times and can represent your Zerg?"
The Queen was a little excited, "Yes, there is such a song. I want to tell you that one is the song of the Zerg, and I have one condition. I hope to meet your angel Gabriel, who guided the dead, and I hope that after death, I can go to your heart lake and the underworld to reincarnate and become an ordinary human in your ark of the earth. After our Zerg die, we also have reincarnation, that is, we are reincarnated as plants and microorganisms in our garden or plantation, and after these plants and microorganisms die, they reincarnate into different varieties of Zerg, and live a single and miserable life. I want to seek a breakthrough, starting with me, trying to be reborn as a human being with the joys and sorrows. I really envy the creatures of the Ark of Earth who can be reincarnated into a variety of different life forms and enjoy a colorful life. Li Xinying, can you promise me?"
Li Xinying said blankly, "How can I help you connect with the angel Gabriel?"
The Empress said, "You should be able to dream about it, have you forgotten the little orange cat that looks like Li Xinjian with clear eyes? There is a dream purple flower here, Li Xinying please take it, think about it, and you can have a good dream!"
Li Xinying said excitedly, "Could it be that the little orange cat is the reincarnation of his younger brother Li Xinjian?"
The Empress sighed, "Please help, I'm sorry for you!"
Returning to the camp tent in the paradise garden, Li Xinying made up her mind one night, ate the dream purple flower, lay on the sleeping bed and tossed and turned, and failed to fall asleep for a long time, and when it was close to dawn, she finally fell asleep. She sent a dream, in the dream she incarnated into a little orange cat, that is, the little orange cat with clear eyes that looked like Li Xinjian, she wandered on the country road in the land of bamboo forests, and then walked into the house of the village chief, Aunt Wang, she jumped on the rocking chair on Aunt Wang's lap, sat down, Aunt Wang lovingly caressed her short hair, she meowed the request of the mother, Aunt Wang said: "Angel Gabriel will go to see the mother queen of the Zerg, thank you for the message!" Then, when it was dawn, Li Xinying also woke up.
The "Fun Hunting Group" stayed in Europa for half a year, and heard tens of thousands of different combinations of insect songs, but they couldn't find the song of the Zerg. Until the Zerg Prime Minister Ge Yati informed him that tomorrow at noon, the Zerg would hold a grand ceremony to pass on the throne of the Mother Emperor, and the current Mother Emperor ordered the heart messengers Li Xinying and Anqi, as well as the Virgil Clan's Govia and Robot Peter to attend, and asked them to prepare for the live recording. Everyone thought to themselves: "At the succession ceremony of the Mother Emperor, you will find a song representing the Zerg."
They let the bubbles of the Zerg wrap their whole bodies, and followed the Zerg Prime Ministers, Ge Yati and Drow, to the living worm nest of the current Mother Emperor, and all the way was surprisingly quiet, all the Zerg stopped all their work, stood by in place, and quietly waited for the important moment to come. They stood not far from the wormhole and the current mother, only to see the current mother's body glow with a pale golden light, and she lay quietly, sticking a pale golden tentacle from her mouth, touching the other mother-elect beside her. The mother-elect also stretched out a pale golden tentacle from her mouth and intertwined with the current mother's touch, and slowly the current mother stopped moving, the pale golden light of her body gradually faded, and the current mother officially died. At this time, on the zenith of the wormhole, Li Xinying saw the angel Gabriel smiling at her, and she took the soul of the mother emperor and drifted away, but the current Zerg and others turned a blind eye to this.
Suddenly, all the insects in the whole hive moved, their insect feet stepped up and down rhythmically, one deep and one shallow, the insects chirped with the beat, one after another made a melodious chirping sound, high and low, the sound was not harsh, not a majestic tone and beat, but like a song, quiet and soft, they played together attentively and rigorously, the scene was solemn and touching. At this time, the blue gem of Shiqin, which represents the song of the Zerg, is shining. Angel seized the opportunity to record this rare Zerg song with an instrument. After the death, the body of the former mother queen shrank, and the successor mother emperor was devouring the body of the former mother emperor in small bites, and the song of the Zerg played by the whole Zerg ensemble in the ears was continuous, until the successor mother emperor ate all the body of the previous mother emperor, and the Zerg stopped playing.
Angel listened to the recorded Zerg song repeatedly, and finally she recognized this Zerg song as the "Liang Zhu Concerto" that was popular in the Chinese civilization of the Earth Ark and sang the moving legend of turning butterflies.