S.H.I.E.L.D.

Triple Wing Building.

"The results of the inspection are not very promising, sir." Nick, who had rushed back with the wounded and men, and had been monitoring the parasitic agents as they entered the testing room, heard news that was not unexpected.

"Tell me about it." Nick's mood has stabilized now, and the biggest threat, the mountain-like octopus monster, has disappeared, and it may be difficult to see him in the future. The effects of the crisis were nipped in the bud before they could spread. It's just a few people who are missing.

That's acceptable to Nick! Even if the sacrifice is greater, he is still willing to accept it. What's not to like? If they were unprepared to encounter such a monster, it would not be unthinkable that they would be wiped out by that monster in one wave without Hyperion's super equipment. No matter how many means he had to save his life, he could not guarantee that he would actually survive a disaster of the same level of destructiveness as a small disaster.

"There's a powerful consciousness in their bodies." Maria Hill handed over the test report.

"Mental pollution?" Nick looked at Agent Hill standing in front of him with one eye.

"Psychic parasitism." Agent Hill said with a serious face: "They still have all their memories, their own experience and knowledge, but if you simply communicate with the other party, you can't even notice any suspicious abnormalities in the other party's speech and behavior unless they are extremely familiar with them and extremely sensitive themselves."

They're still the same agents, but they're not the same agents they once were. ”

At the end of the sentence, Agent Hill gave his conclusion like a tongue twister. And Nick didn't have any misunderstanding of her conclusions.

"In other words, is it a parasitism similar to a symbiote? But more seriously. Nick immediately thought of another cosmic alien creature - symbiotes!

The symbiote is also through the parasitizing host, which can obtain the host's memories and abilities, and can even affect the host's will and control his actions to some extent.

However, symbiotes have weaknesses, they are afraid of fire and sound waves, and can exploit these weaknesses to expel them from the host's body. In the absence of a host and in place of isolation from any living organism, the threat of symbionts will be greatly reduced!

And according to Luke's symbiote, most of the symbiote groups are more friendly, they prefer to choose some hosts with good character and a sense of justice to parasitize, and they also have a set of parasitic rules, which they need to abide by as parasitic laws. This includes not being able to influence and control the host's actions, and doing what he is not willing to do against his own will.

As for the problematic symbiotes who came here?

It was just a bunch of exiles who had broken the law of parasitism. After all, no matter which ethnic group, there is always a group of relatively difficult to control existence.

The parasitism of the hive is clearly highly invasive and controlling from the current point of view. This is a parasitism that is clearly different from symbionts. Nick didn't even know if these hive parasites really needed their hosts to live.

"Yes, it's more insidious and harder to detect. If it weren't for the fact that our equipment has been kept up to date over the years, and the technology provided by Hebolen and the Mage, it would have been difficult for us to detect anomalies. Agent Hill's eyes revealed a hint of heart.

If they are not detected, will these parasitized people also turn others around them into parasites? Is it possible that the parasites who have been transformed into parasites can parasitize more people?

At that time, is S.H.I.E.L.D. still the original S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Are they still normal human beings?

Just imagining it, Agent Hill can imagine that suffocating sense of panic. If it is extended to the whole of society, then people and people's trust may cease to exist, and order will be shaky.

"How are they doing now?" Nick rubbed his forehead and asked suddenly.

"Calm and honest, we quarantined them." Agent Hill understood who they were when Nick was asking, and what the alleged status meant.

"Is there any way? I'm referring to the method of isolating them from parasites. Nick didn't report much hope: "What are the weaknesses of those parasites?" ”

"Surgical separation can be performed, but the surgery is very demanding and the success rate is not high. The accompanying surgical equipment needs to be specially customized and cannot be guaranteed to be 100% eradicated. Agent Hill reports. As for weaknesses, we don't find them yet. The reversal crystallization only made the parasites a little inert, and they couldn't control the agents. ”

"What about the other agents? Everyone involved in the mission will also be tested, including me. Nick asked again. Those who didn't get hit were almost all elite agents wearing psychic rings, and that layer of energy clothing served as an amplification while also insulating all kinds of dangers from the outside. In Luke's words, you're wearing an energy suit, and you can even do nothing to protect yourself from the vacuum for a while.

But out of caution, Nick is also willing to come for peace of mind.

"Yes, sir!" Agent Hill understood Nick's caution, and would even be eager to check out the entire Triquillus Wing working on the entire Triplex Building today.

……

"I smell something familiar from you." Luke, who returned to Hyperion Labs from the Silent City of Data Dimension, was immediately attracted to a foodie symbiote who came to ask for rations at a fixed time.

The quiet head poked out from Gwen's shoulder, pulled long, and sniffed around Luke up and down, left and right, his eyes suspicious.

"What does it smell like?" Luke was a little dazed by the suspicious silence. He just went to his own Silent City.

"The smell of a bug I've ever eaten." Quiet retracted his head and looked at Luke's eyes full of some kind of eagerness: "You must have secretly made something delicious, didn't you?" Let me come, let me come! I'd like to be your gold tastier forever. ”

"Hive?" Luke thought for a moment and gave a name. In his mind, it seemed that only the beehive could still touch the insects he had recently come into contact with.

"Hive?" Quiet looked dazed, "Is this the name of the new food you made?" I don't care about that, I just care about whether it's good or not. ”

"What's the name of that bug you're eating?" Without getting an accurate answer from Quiet, Luke realized that the two of them might not be talking about the same kind of bugs.

"Brude! A species of zerg in the universe known as a natural disaster. This race was first discovered by the Cree Empire's biological science team while exploring the collapsed stream of dark matter, and they named it "Brud", and they found that it is an extremely aggressive and highly adaptable insect race.

These bugs love to nest in the ruins of the universe that have been destroyed. This kind of environment that is fatal to other creatures is very comfortable for them, and the ability of the Bruder Zerg has parasitic properties, and we parasites are the two major races with parasitic characteristics in the universe. They are also able to absorb the host's memories and experiences, and gain a huge amount of knowledge from the host's mind, which can be used as food for evolution! Quiet gave an answer without hesitation.

This is not a secretive in the planet Klintar, where the symbiote is located, or a symbiote with a hive consciousness, where all knowledge and important information are almost shared.

"Have you eaten?" Luke looked at the quiet eyes for a moment, really, this strange symbiote could always give him a grimace when he thought he knew her well enough. And if you ask her some information about the creatures in the universe or the planets, she will also tell you the truth, of course, the mixed ones are mixed when introducing the creatures in the universe: I think this is delicious, this is not delicious or something, it is also a very normal thing. Because she's really sharing with you what she thinks is the food and ingredients. At most, add a few more [cooks] who cook deliciously.

"I've eaten it with one of my hosts, rounding it up, it should be equal to what I've eaten, right?" Quiet blinked his big gray white eyes, and said with some uncertainty.

"That host was my first host, a professional gourmet. Well, these are his own words. He took me through several galaxies, and in the end, we had to flee to a dangerous place because we had provoked some enemies.

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It was there that I first met the Bruder Zerg. They slept in an abandoned laboratory. My host recognized this legendary Zerg. Quiet recalled with a nostalgic face.

"You've got a good appetite." Although Quiet didn't continue, thinking about her current personality and the fact that the symbiote would be greatly influenced by the first host, Luke could already make up the next picture. As for the so-called professional foodie who said that Quiet claimed, Luke also automatically replaced himself with a crazy foodie.

"It's a pity, my host probably didn't have the skills to properly cook the Bruder Zerg at that time, so he felt a little unwell after eating it, and those bugs fought with me in his body." Quiet with a look of regret.

"Dead?" Luke and Gwen, who listened to the story, were stunned.

"Of course I died of eating a bad stomach! He and I still have a lot of things that I haven't eaten. Quiet was clearly very fond of his first host, "and then I parasitized one of the cosmic agents who came to track us. I controlled her to do something she didn't want to do, but she couldn't resist me. So it's schizophrenic. One is the original consciousness, and the other is to become a crazy girl who is crazier than me, forcing me to become a cosmic wanted criminal from a cosmic gourmet, which is really unlucky! ”

Luke and Gwen were left speechless by the sudden turn of silence.

"Symbiotes can indeed control the human body, but in the case of host resistance, it has the power to resist, right?" Gwen was skeptical. Silence also rarely forcibly controls what she does when she's conscious, unless it's time to replenish her rations.

"yes." Quietly nodded in acknowledgement.

"What about the other party?" Gwen was puzzled.

"I ate Bruder! It has the property of forcibly controlling and assimilating the host with some kind of obsession. Quiet cracked her mouth and smiled.

There was a faint thread in Luke's head that seemed to be connected.

After a part of the research on the hive, it can be seen from the extracted fragmented mental memories that the other party was also the experimental product of the Kree people at the beginning, and it was only after being abandoned by the Kree that he was feared and feared by his own kind, and managed to teleport him to a remote planet.

At that time, the technology was not as advanced as it is now, how did they manage to teleport the hive away?

What is the black stone door technology that can be used to teleport people?

Cree!

The only possibility is that the Kree who left at that time did not take all the items with them, and these remaining technological products were in the hands of the Inhumans. And the far star that the hive teleports to should also be the experimental star of a Kree person.

In Hive's memory, at some point in his imprisonment, some terrible disaster happened to the far planet where he was!

"What's the name of the planet you're on?" Luke asked quietly with a frown.

"Which planet?" Quiet mouth quick rhetorical question.

"The one who saw the Brude."

"I don't know. It's just a remote planet. The creatures on it were dying. "Quiet and nonchalant way.

"So, you've seen creatures up there?" Luke keenly grasped an important point in his quiet words.

"I guess I've seen it, right? A species similar to your octopus. Not much. Quietly tilted her head and thought about it seriously, because time was too far away, and her memory was already a little blurry. It's not important. The reason why she can remember it now is simply because when she left, she was a little sorry that she couldn't taste what those octopus-headed thoughts tasted like.

Okay, Luke shrugged.

The natural disaster in the Hive's memory is most likely caused by Tranquility and her host, as well as the tracker. It may have also disrupted the lab's dormant system, causing some of the Bruder Zerg to slowly wake up from their slumber.

After the Silent Parasitist left with the tracker, the awakened Bruder Zerg chose to parasitize on the surviving octopus head, combining with the original abilities of the hive, and forming an even more powerful hive evolution.

This also explains why reverse crystallization works well on other inhumans with Inhuman genes, but not on the hive. Because the other party is not a pure Inhuman at all, the other party is a new Inhuman with the characteristics of the Bruder Zerg!