Chen Mo was not surprised at all that the crazy old man was sitting at his desk and complaining.

Why bother with this person, although serious, but easy to get along with.

"You kid didn't have a good meeting, so you ran out to inquire about Lute." Why bother laughing and throwing Chen Mo a cigarette.

"Didn't you go to the meeting either?"

"Me?" Why bother pointed to his nose: "I was dispatched, and now I am in charge of communications." ”

"I heard you're the head of the regiment."

"The head of the communications regiment, responsible for laying the telephone line." Why bother lighting a cigarette, Erlang's leg knocked on the desk: "Wei Weili is okay?" ”

"You know?"

"Nonsense, I was her instructor when she first joined the corps." Why bother to spit out a smoke ring: "It's all the old yellow calendar." ”

Chen Mo seemed to understand why he was dispatched.

Why bother throwing a lighter at Chen Mo: "Okay, don't talk nonsense, listen to what the old gentleman told us about Lute." ”

Chen Mo nodded.

In fact, why don't you know the crazy old man, arrange the work of laying the telephone line for such an idle person as him, and if he can't go to the front line, he is about to go crazy.

The old man was brought back by him under the pretext of interrogation to relieve his boredom...

"Rutter are intelligent beings, and I'm pretty sure they must be wise." The crazy old man rummaged through the papers and found an anatomical drawing: "Look! Root's head is nearly three-quarters the size of a human, and although the neurotransmitters are different, the composition of neurons is also different, and we can't decode it now, but in terms of relative brain size, the brain of this creature is not even smaller than that of humans! ”

"That doesn't mean that Rout is wise." Chen Mo took a puff of smoke.

"Nonsense!" The crazy old man called: "I have studied the exhaust holes of Root!" I'm sure this creature has a language-like sound system! It can be compared to the extinct orca of the parent planet! Even if they are not as advanced as human language systems, they are able to communicate at the most basic level. ”

Chen Mo and He Bi looked at each other, but neither of them spoke.

The crazy old man rummaged through the autopsy materials.

"Root's exhaust hole has a special friction quality on it, and through the friction frequency, infrasound waves can be emitted that cannot be heard by the human ear, and this is how they communicate with each other! Just give me three months... No, in two months, I will be able to roughly decipher Root's language system! But! My experiment was stopped! The crazy old man nervously muttered, "This is definitely a huge loss of biology!" Absolute! ”

"How can you be sure that's how they communicate?"

"You don't need to know why for science, you can trust the results of my experiments!" The crazy old man lost his soul: "This time the Kote Corps is finished. ”

"How?" Chen Mo frowned.

"Fungus blanket! The fungus blanket is the transmitter transmitted by the Straker survival substance, have you ever wondered where the energy source of the fungus blanket comes from? The fungus blanket is not a plant, nor is it a fungal life, it does not have the ability to survive on its own, let alone reproduce on its own, and you have never thought about why most of the land of this planet was covered by the fungus blanket before humans arrived on Ross. The crazy old man shook his head and sighed: "The brood is the original overlord here." ”

Chen Mo seemed to have grasped the key point.

"Moving on to the energy source, what is the energy source of the fungus blanket?"

"A lot of things are theoretical, and there is no experimental basis..."

"It's okay, you just say it, I'm not listening to the experiment report." Why bother.

The crazy old man looked at Chen Mo, then at He Bi, and nodded heavily.

"I think the fungus blanket is the skin of the brood."

"Huh?" Chen Mo frowned: "To be clear." ”

"I've been in the North Central Academy of Sciences before, and I've seen some of the Eridium Energy Experiments from a long time ago, and humans have never obtained a complete sample of the brood since the colonization of Ross, do you know why?"

"Why?"

"Root and Sexon seem to be the overlords of the planet, but in fact, they seem to me to be nothing more than companions of the brood. The brood makes a fungus blanket, and collects energy through the fungus blanket... While it is not yet known how it collects energy, we can make a bold guess! Why does the stomach have no digestive function, and why does the Sexon need a sac to absorb energy from the bacterial blanket? ”

Chen Mo narrowed his eyes.

"Root is a brood hunter! Sexon is the sapper of the brood! They will divide the prey, bring it back to the nest in a pouch, and then throw it to the nest in the form of rumination. In this way, the brood does not need to move to collect energy, ensuring its metabolism to the greatest extent, and at the same time using the extended fungus blanket to supply energy to the Syxon, we can imagine the brood as the lord of the Syxon. And if the brood dies, then Sexson will definitely die. So the reason why no complete sample of the brood has been obtained is because Xexen has been protecting the brood! And Root, it is also difficult to survive without the brood! ”

Chen Mo remembered the xenomorph Lut who was struggling to survive on the transport ship.

"Is this your guess?"

"That's right! It was my guess, but my gut tells me that this guess is most likely true! ”

"Science can't be guessworked." Why bother interrupting the mad old man's words: "If it's really like you said, why hasn't anyone found the brood now?" ”

"I think the brood is probably underground, and it looks like a normal fungus blanket on the surface, but Straker creatures can know the specific location of the brood based on the pheromones transmitted by the blanket... In other words, the brood itself is immovable, and they remember the coordinates of the brood. ”

"OKOK, even if what you said is true, what does it have to do with what you said when you broke into the conference room earlier?"

"Of course it does!" The mad old man became excited: "The brood is the lord of the Straker biome, and the Strak creatures die like untouchables, but now we are likely to offend the lord here!" Or maybe human development has seriously affected the survival of this brood, so it is calling its companions through the fungus blanket! ”

"Through the fungus blanket?"

"At least forty percent of the continent where Ross is still covered by a fungus blanket, and this forty percent is of course made up of countless broods secreted by the brood. Since the brood has neurotransmitters in it that can transmit messages to Root and Xexens, why can't messages be transmitted between the brood and the brood? The link of the mushroom blanket is the way the brood communicates with each other! The mad old man called, "The brood in our area has called for countless reinforcements!" If these reinforcements lose, there are many more! You think this is our war with the Straker protists! No! Wrong! This is our war with the brood! This is the war of the Kote Corps and hundreds of broods! ”

Chen Mo and why bother looked at each other.

"They don't care about humans now, they care about their fellow citizens! If we could have given them enough time to pick up their compatriots, this war could have been avoided! Otherwise, it's a fight between people and the brood for unnecessary things! The victims are innocent! Whether it's humans or broods! ”

Why bother to ponder for a moment and ask, "How sure are you of what you say?" ”

"Ninety percent."

"Ninety percent of speculation alone?"

"It's not just speculation! When I was at the North Central Academy of Sciences, I was a member of the Ross Star Biobehavior Specialist, and based on the research of the project team supervisors, coupled with the recent research on Root and Sexson, my speculation is even more credible than that. ”

"The Corps' actions cannot be relied on speculation, and even if you believe you, the two of us alone will not be decisive." Why bother shaking his head: "Just talk to the two of us, if you say it, you will probably go to the corps court." ”

The mad old man let out a long sigh.

"Wait, can you find the location of the brood?" Chen Mo suddenly had an idea.

"We don't even know what the brood looks like, how big it is above ground and underground, where to find it?"

"Is there no way to determine the location of the brood?"

The crazy old man shook his head, and as if he remembered something, he stared at Chen Mo.

"Yes! There's a way! ”

"Tell me about it."

"There's still a Syxon alive in the lab, so if you fill his bag with organic matter and mark it, you might be able to find the brood."

Why bother to look at Chen Mo.

"Boy, you'd better just ask."

"I'm going to escalate this idea and wait for the above to deal with it."

"Nonsense."

"It's not nonsense at all." Chen Mo grinned: "If you can carry out special operations tasks, don't start a full-scale war, isn't this the reason for the existence of the advance team?" ”

"10,000 percent of your request will be denied."

"If it is dismissed, it will be dismissed, I am just trying, if the current problem can really be solved by special operations, the mining of eridium ore can be put on the agenda."

Why step on the cigarette butt.

"Whatever you want, if you really plan to make a proposal, remember to bring my name with you."

"Okay."

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Mo, as the actual person in charge of the task force, formally proposed a special operation to the First Corps.

As soon as possible, Chen Mo's proposal was put on the desks of Xu Rushi and the commander of the Donghuang Corps.

The Donghuang Corps held an emergency meeting, and after an hour and a half of debate, Chen Mo's proposal was officially adopted.

The first detachment of the Donghuang advance team cooperated with Chen Mo's operation, so why should it be included in it.

When the notice came down, Chen Mo led the team to sort out the weapons, why did he think that Chen Mo was joking with him.

It wasn't until he saw the red-headed document that he became serious with gray hair.

"Are you kidding me? Can you pass the review of these three no-proposals? Is the corps commander your father? ”

"The fighter plane is fleeting, either facing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of beast tides, or Bo Yi, if you are the leader, which one do you choose?"

"Problem you..."

"He sir, let's go, say on the way."

In this way, an advance party of fifty with heavy firepower and ten plasma shields officially set off.

On the other side, the mad old man also received the highest authorization, and the last surviving Syxon was released from the lab after filling his sac with syrup.

Because of the extremely strong electromagnetic interference, ordinary tracking equipment could not work, and this Syxon was nailed with an isotope nail in the carapace, marked by a long nail, and everyone only needed to track the isotope.

Just in case, the team was equipped with a pheromone tracker, and Chen Mo was placed at the front of the team as a special operations consultant.

Although he is at the same level as the battle captain, he does not have the right to transfer command on the battlefield.

The above estimate also recognized the fact that Chen Mo and his puppet could only be used as a big soldier.

At half past three in the afternoon, the team opened the safe zone and followed the isotope marker towards the depths of the ecosphere.

The leader of the advance team was a steady man in his early thirties, with a large soldier's oily head and two scars on his face.

Listen to why bother, this person is a ruthless man who has participated in the Kurt Wilderness Search Team and has rich experience in actual combat.

The leader of the advance team, holding an isotope tracker in his hand, hung unhurriedly behind the fleeing Sexon, never exceeding the distance of two kilometers.

After nearly an hour of marching, Sexson stopped moving on the isotope tracker, and the telescope could not observe the position through many umbrella trees, and Chen Mo, as a special operations adviser, finally came to use.

"Chen Mo Zhonglang, I need a scout, only you can do it."

The advance captain signaled all the staff to be armed, and said to Chen Mo alone.

"No problem."

"Don't shoot unless you have to."

Chen Mo smiled: "I don't have a gun at all." ”

"I'll wait where I am for thirty minutes, and if you don't come back, the advance team will move closer to your position."

"Understood."

After saying hello to He Bi, Chen Mo disappeared from everyone's sight with an alloy blade behind him in a few flashes.

The advance captain looked at He Bi, and then at Chen Mo, who had disappeared.

"Level 3 Adept?"

"I don't know, but I've heard that he defeated the lioness."

The corners of the captain's mouth twitched twice, but there was no response.

In less than ten minutes, Chen Mo returned, followed by a carapace fragment with an isotope nail.

The captain wiped the blood from the carapace fragments.

"You killed it?"

"No, all I had when I arrived was a carapace fragment, which I suspect was done by other Straker creatures, of course, not sure."

The captain motioned for the team to move on, reaching the site where the carapace fragments had been found, and the pheromone trackers left the team and began to search for the vanished Sexson.

"Thirty-seven degrees northeast, I found a total of four pheromones, and as the Special Counsel said, there were other creatures that responded to it, and knocked out the carapace."

The captain adjusted his compass and looked up at the sun.

"With less than two hours to go until dark, it was difficult to catch up with the fleeing Sexon before dark. Do you have any experience marching at night in the biosphere? The captain asked Chen Mo.

"Nope."

He groaned for a moment.

The captain still let the pheromone tracker take the lead and began tracking down the escaped Sexson.

The advance party advanced in a rapid and orderly manner.

Another march of nearly half an hour of silence.

Even Chen Mo felt depressed.

Finally, the pheromone tracker raised his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.

"The pheromone division is getting denser and fresher, and we should be almost at the target location."

"Intensity?"

"Level three."

"Freshness?"

"Level 1."

The captain motioned for the team to stop and sort out their equipment.

"Check the weapons, He sir, you lead a team of four people to find a commanding height for fire support, equipped with night vision devices. Chang Nuo, your team is the vanguard..."

After the captain made all the tactical arrangements, he turned his head to look at Chen Mo.

"All my arrangements are for Straker's creatures, no one knows the combat power of the brood, if the brood has self-protection or even combat ability, it will have to be left to you to solve."

"No problem."

Chen Mo pulled out the alloy giant blade he was carrying.

The captain glanced at Chen Mo and then at his teammates.

Made a tactical push gesture.

"Let's go!"