Blue Star, Viking assembly plant.

At this time, layers of anti-chemical curtains have been erected in a corner of the factory, isolating this corner from the rest of the factory.

In the center of the corner is a set of maintenance racks specially developed for Viking drones, on which the drone that Chen Zheng piloted before is parked, and the outer armor has been almost dismantled, revealing a simple core.

Engines, energy systems, zero-power conversion devices...... There is no trace of wear and tear on these core equipment, and this is the reason why Chen Zheng can drive it back completely.

But that doesn't mean it hasn't been harmed...... At the "dragon's tail" of this drone, a black lightning-like crack extends from the tip of the tail to the root of the "dragon's tail", almost breaking through the tail nozzle of the electric jet engine!

At this time, the man with glasses was wearing a three-proof suit, holding a strange instrument in his hand to detect and detect the strange scar around it, so as to prevent any dangerous substances from insects from remaining on it.

"How? What did you find? Chen Zheng's holographic projection stood beside the man with glasses, communicating with him while following the man with glasses to check the strange scars on his tail.

"I don't know, I need to take a sample for testing." The man with glasses said without raising his head...... At this time, he had already entered the state of research, all his thoughts were already on the strange scar in front of him, and his tone of voice was slightly hardened unconsciously.

"Strange...... There are no residues of any substances...... There are no other compounds either...... Isn't it corroded? The man with glasses manipulated the instrument in his hand, muttering unconsciously in his mouth.

Isn't it corrosion?

Chen Zheng also frowned...... But although he was very strange about the phenomenon in front of him, and wanted to ask what happened, he forcibly resisted his curiosity - it was not a good habit to disturb professional personnel at such a time.

Generally speaking, in addition to using strong force to directly dismantle the steel legion created by the base, the most important means for insects to deal with the steel army created by the base is to use biological strong acid for corrosion.

The corrosion of metals by strong acids is a chemical reaction, which is essentially to replace the less reactive elements in the strong acid with more reactive elements, and generally speaking, the elements that are ranked in front of hydrogen replace hydrogen.

Therefore, no matter what kind of corrosion effect, there will inevitably be acidic substances that come into contact with the metal surface...... That's why the man with glasses thinks it's strange that there is no element left on that strange scar.

So maybe the acid was carried away by the wind?

It's not out of the question.

However, if it was really acid corrosion, then there must have been something else left on the strange wound...... For example, iron sulfate or iron with other acid groups.

But the strange scar was so clean that it seemed to be born that way, and there was nothing other than the original alloy!

If it weren't for watching the "black lightning" touch his car, Chen Zheng would have begun to wonder if he had made a mistake......

However, the high-definition video can't be faked, and Chen Zheng's memory will never be wrong.

So...... What the hell is going on?

"Strange...... These alloys ...... How did it get so fluffy? The man in glasses was about to take some samples from the strange wound, but as soon as his little tweezers touched the wound on the "dragon's tail", a large piece of once incomparably hard alloy peeled off from the wound......

"Huh!? How so!? The man with glasses was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered to pick up the piece that had fallen on the ground...... However, his tweezers easily clamped the peeling pieces into powder!

"This!?" Chen Zheng was also stunned.

The armor on the Viking fighter uses a special alloy of alien formulation, the main material is high-purity iron plus some other elements, which is not only strong and durable, but also has excellent yield performance.

Chen Zheng still remembers testing the physical properties of this metal and making it into iron wire...... Before being bent, it is like a steel needle, and after dozens of consecutive bends, there are only some microscopic cracks, and its body still maintains extremely high strength.

Such armor is not to mention knocking, hitting, and striking...... Even at very high temperatures, it still exhibits very good physical properties.

However, such excellent metal armor, after being licked by the black lightning, is as crispy as a cookie, and can be crushed into powder with a light hand!

“…… I need to do a little further testing. After finally collecting the test materials, the man with glasses looked up and said to Chen Zheng that he was going to go back to the laboratory to study why this situation occurred.

"Hey."

Suddenly, Chen Zheng's projection stopped him.

"Huh?" The man with glasses was stunned and looked back at Chen Zheng.

“…… It's okay, go get busy, it's just to tell you to be careful. Chen Zheng said.

"Oh...... Okay, I'll be careful. The man in glasses said, holding the material and walking out, "I have set up a robotic system in the sealing laboratory, and I will operate it through thick glass, don't worry." ”

"Hmm." Chen Zheng nodded and watched the man with glasses leave.

"Alas......"

When the man in glasses closed the door, a heavy sigh rang out in the empty factory where there was no one left.

With the construction of 100 Viking fighters, the once bustling Viking assembly workshop has become lifeless...... In the case of insufficient pilots, even the number of Viking fighters built will not be able to immediately exert their combat effectiveness, but will waste resources and manpower.

The people in the assembly workshop are now gathered on the production line of unmanned combat vehicles and Guardian robots, and this place is naturally idle.

Chen Zheng did not leave in a hurry, strolling through the once lively assembly workshop, and first felt that his strength was so small...... Will they really be able to win?

On Earth, a large number of guild organizations have emerged in the game "Extermination War", and with the emergence of large raider groups, planets have been saved by players, and large swaths of bugs have been slaughtered by players......

On the Desert Star, a large number of tactics and troop configurations researched by players have been improved and borrowed, the control range of the base has been continuously expanded, and the ground war has also won again and again under the wings of Viking fighters!

Both in-game and in reality, those bugs seem to have become powerless, and with a little more effort, they can completely destroy these horrible and evil disgusting things!

However, reality is not a game, and bugs are not rigid AI.

It is extremely intelligent in every way...... In Chen Zheng's constant battle, the tactics of the insects are also constantly changing, and the types of insects tend to be diversified.

In such a situation, Chen Zheng and the others did not despair, but took advantage of the fact that the insect's high-level flying units must contain zero crystals, and stood on the corpse of the boss species to accumulate and develop.

All along, in Chen Zheng's conception, these bugs were monsters that followed their instincts, and that nothing of their own interest could be aroused except to devour.

But the facts told Chen Zheng that their judgment was wrong.

Bugs are extremely intelligent! You can even actively evolve defenses that can pose a huge threat to Viking fighters! This is no longer explained by simple instinct...... It's wisdom.

It must contain wisdom.

It is also unknown how the current bugs relate to other bugs, but it is undeniable that these bugs do work together amazingly when they are very close.

However, this is not the case with the "black lightning".

There is no cooperation, and even those dragons that act as guardians are used as springboards, and at least a dozen dragons will be lost in their lives, whether they hit the Viking fighter or not......

…… This is no longer cooperation, not active sacrifice, but domineering! Ruthless and domineering!

If it's just like that, it's nothing, but combined with the legend that the glasses man told Chen Zheng before...... This can be complicated.

Legend has it that there is a kind of monster that feeds on civilization and does not know when it will appear or how it will spread...... Originally, no one would believe such nonsense, but on this long road of stars, there will always be some civilizations that suddenly disappear without a trace, not even a single heir remains, and the entire planet is only a lifeless ruin.

Whenever such a strange phenomenon happens, that terrible legend is brought up. And every few hundred years, this phenomenon is accidentally discovered...... Therefore, the legend of the "Devourer of Civilization" has not disappeared.

The man with glasses had heard from his mentor about this while he was still an apprentice on his home planet, and many civilizations had invested in this strange phenomenon...... The end result was unsatisfactory, but most people agreed that it was caused by some kind of mysterious civilization that was ruthless and tech-tree-based in physical evolution.

And some speculate that this mysterious existence that devours civilization may be an independent and powerful entity.

At first, the sky was full of insects that made the man with glasses not think about this at all...... But are bugs really made up of countless individuals? Is it possible that they are ruled by an independent spirit?

As for the reason...... Mainly because of the "black balls" that secrete strange hyphae. If analyzed from the perspective of individual evolution, the appearance of this black ball is simply unscientific! There is no explanation for this highly targeted and deliberate mutation.

But is it really an individual?

What if it were understood as an antibody? The "antibodies" secreted by the main body of the "swarm"?

Just like the division of labor in the human body, it usually relies mainly on lymph, white blood cells, conventional antibodies, etc. to resist the invasion of various diseases and bacteria. But once it encounters germs, toxins, or other things that it has never seen before, the body will begin to synthesize antibodies in a targeted manner.

It's just that some people have a strong ability to synthesize antibodies, and some people are weak, but no matter how strong or weak everyone is, everyone has this ability!

So then again...... What if the alienated black ball was not an "individual", but an "antibody" secreted by the entire swarm?

Then everything becomes reasonable. It conforms to science and the laws of nature, but it does not conform to people's common sense.

After the glasses man said this possibility, he didn't even dare to believe it...... also persuaded Chen Zheng that he was just delusional. However, Chen Zheng did not think so.

The Viking fighter has strange scars on the "dragon's tail", which are traces of electron deprivation and atomic tearing.

New "Sky Eye" satellites are constantly being launched. The control of the situation of the blue star is gradually getting deeper and deeper.

High-definition satellite photos are still being sent from the sky

It is rumored that the professional players who were absorbed by Blue Star eventually disappeared, and I don't know where they went. And there are still a large number of professional players who choose to sign with Blue Star in reverse.

Legend has it that there is a kind of monster that feeds on civilization and does not know when it will appear or how it will spread...... Originally, no one would believe such nonsense, but on this long road of stars, there will always be some civilizations that suddenly disappear without a trace, not even a single heir remains, and the entire planet is only a lifeless ruin.

Whenever such a strange phenomenon happens, that terrible legend is brought up. And every few hundred years, this phenomenon is accidentally discovered...... Therefore, the legend of the "Devourer of Civilization" has not disappeared.

The man with glasses had heard from his mentor about this while he was still an apprentice on his home planet, and many civilizations had invested in this strange phenomenon...... The end result was unsatisfactory, but most people agreed that it was caused by some kind of mysterious civilization that was ruthless and tech-tree-based in physical evolution.

And some speculate that this mysterious existence that devours civilization may be an independent and powerful entity.

At first, the sky was full of insects that made the man with glasses not think about this at all...... But are bugs really made up of countless individuals? Is it possible that they are ruled by an independent spirit?

As for the reason...... Mainly because of the "black balls" that secrete strange hyphae. If analyzed from the perspective of individual evolution, the appearance of this black ball is simply unscientific! There is no explanation for this highly targeted and deliberate mutation.

But is it really an individual?

What if it were understood as an antibody? The "antibodies" secreted by the main body of the "swarm"?

Just like the division of labor in the human body, it usually relies mainly on lymph, white blood cells, conventional antibodies, etc. to resist the invasion of various diseases and bacteria. But once it encounters germs, toxins, or other things that it has never seen before, the body will begin to synthesize antibodies in a targeted manner.

It's just that some people have a strong ability to synthesize antibodies, and some people are weak, but no matter how strong or weak everyone is, everyone has this ability!

So then again...... What if the alienated black ball was not an "individual", but an "antibody" secreted by the entire swarm?

Then everything becomes reasonable. It conforms to science and the laws of nature, but it does not conform to people's common sense.

After the glasses man said this possibility, he didn't even dare to believe it...... also persuaded Chen Zheng that he was just delusional. However, Chen Zheng did not think so.