Chapter 139: Infection (I)
Among the swarms.
One of them is a first-class brood located at the very edge of the brood group.
A minute ago, this brood received the recovery signal of two ship insects, although the ship insects have been alienated to the same as the starship, but after all, they are still insects, and because they are too alienated, the biggest difference between them and ordinary insects is that ship insects can eat them. Ordinary space bugs or land bugs can be managed for a year after eating one meal. But ship insects have to eat every day. Although it does not mean that it will starve to death if it does not eat, it will affect its combat effectiveness.
After all, the nutrition of the dormant land insects inside the ship insects is provided by the ship insects, and the attack and defense of the ship insects can be compared with the small starships of humans, so it is normal for people to eat a little more. Therefore, the brood did not pay much attention to the recovery requests of the two ship insects, because it received the same requests all the time. 700 million ship insects, completely powered by thirty first-level broods, can be imagined to be exchanged frequently.
However, after these two ship insects entered the mother nest and were connected, they were a little different from other ship insects.
In fact, the Zerg's brood is also divided into two parts: inside and outside. The outer part is incomparably large, and it is all an additional organizational structure. These additional organizations are responsible for combat, defense, fertility, and the starport of ship insects, etc., but their core is not large, and in the case of a first-level brood, the core in the fully deployed state is only one or two hundred meters in diameter. If it was completely shrunk, it would be as big as the one Team Zero saw under Zhubu Island.
The core can be thought of as the brain, heart, and soul center of the brood. It's this core that really matters. No matter how badly the additional organizations on the outside are destroyed. As long as the core is not damaged. With enough energy, it will grow again very quickly, and it will not have much effect at all.
In general, at the core of the brood, there will be a worm emperor guarding it.
The Bug Emperor is a position, a rank, not a special breed of bugs. Depending on the brood, the Worm Emperor has completely different forms and abilities. When Team Zero captured the Klocks, the pit and the Bug Emperor were a special Bug Emperor, and even had a human form.
But some of the brood bug emperors don't even have much intelligence. It's just a tough fight. Even the core of some broods will absorb the insect emperor level and become the insect emperor themselves.
The insect emperor has two roles, one is to serve as the last guard of the brood core, so it has a very strong combat power. The second is as a backup machine for the brood core, when it is unacceptable, the brood core can inject its most important essence into the body of the Worm Emperor, as long as the Worm Emperor can escape, then the Worm Emperor will become the new Brood core.
The Insect Emperor guarding the core of this first-level brood is a very strange existence - it has a high level of intelligence, but it is not in human form, but in demonic form.
Yes. It is among the various myths and stories of mankind, the sheep's head. The image of fangs, claws, bat wings. However, the body is a humanoid in the upper body, and the lower body is a cow body, and the tail of the ox has tiger claws, which is not a mixture at all.
This is another ability of Poraf worms, which is that they can parasitize at the genographic level. Once they find a life form useful to them, they will carry out genetic parasitism, and after this parasitism is completed, the life form will completely become a bug, even if its offspring will be bugs.
Apparently this insect emperor is like that. Thousands of years ago, in the era of star beasts, human beings created all kinds of life in the form of star beasts, all kinds of life that they could think of, myths, legends, and so on. Housi's Divine Dragon, Demon Dragon, Phoenix, which of them were not created by humans themselves, but the end result is that humans create these lives, but they cannot control them.
Star beasts such as Divine Dragons, Demon Dragons, and Phoenixes are at most not in contact with humans, and they will help humans when they are in trouble. For example, the Bolaf worm is completely hostile to humans.
The greatest enemy of mankind today is the creation of mankind itself.
After all, they were created by humans, and it is not surprising that there will be some human habits in the depths of the genes, so all the broods and insect emperors actually have their own names - in the structure of human thinking, having their own names is an important sign of personality independence.
The name of this first-class brood is "Hama Kuba", and the name of the insect emperor is "Nukawuka".
Nukawuka had been semi-dormant when it suddenly opened two pairs of scarlet eyes on its head.
"What did you find out about the anomaly?" said Nukawuka to Hama Kuma in the bug's own language.
In fact, the insect has a thinking network, and it only needs to be connected to the thinking network to directly understand everything about the other party, but the superior insect prefers to use this "backward" communication method of humans when it is not necessary. This is also the reason why it is influenced by the sense of independent personality. Once the personality is independent, there will be a private mentality. Even if it's a bug, an independent personality doesn't like to have other beings who know everything they have.
"There were some questions, but I didn't understand what they were. Need to do a check!" Hama Kuba was affected by the soul virus and felt that something was wrong with his body, but the soul virus was only infecting additional tissues now, and had not yet completely invaded the core, so Hama Kuba just felt that there was something wrong, and he was not really sure.
"Do you need to report to the king?" "The king is the name of the fourth-level brood, the internal hierarchy of the insect is very strict, and the loyalty of the lower to the superior is absolute, even if the brood and the insect emperor have their own independent personality and careful existence, they also maintain the highest loyalty, but at their level, they no longer let the superior insect examine themselves casually like a corpse on the dissecting table.
Because of this, after hesitating for a moment, Hama Kupa rejected Nukawuka's proposal: "I don't think you should disturb the king at such a critical moment because of these little things. Let's check it out for ourselves. What if it's just my delusion?"
Polaff insects hate humans very much, but they also have to admit with depression that once they reach the upper level, they will have a striking resemblance to humans in some ways of thinking, and the lower insects will not have the idea of "illusion", but the superior insects do.
Perhaps this is one of the other reasons why the bugs want to exterminate humans, because they hate humans and are very similar to humans, which makes them even more angry and want to destroy humans. This is the same as human beings wanting to eliminate their own black history, which is completely a subconscious act of denying their own flaws.
Nukawuka thought for a moment, and then said, "How about I send the children below to check everywhere once, and you yourself do it at the same time?"
Hama Kuba did not hesitate to respond: "Okay!"
The detection of the brood began, and a part of the land bugs and space bugs were awakened, and a large number of feeding bugs (a kind of bug that has no combat power, mainly serves the brood, is responsible for cleaning the body of the brood, provides the ability to move the nucleus of the brood when critical, and even becomes the food of the nucleus when needed) to cover every corner of the brood.
But whether it is a space bug, a land bug, or an innumerable number of feeding bugs, it seems that they have all been affected in a way, forgetting an area.
And this area is exactly where the two virus ships docked.
In fact, Hama Kuba made an empirical mistake by keeping the connection control of the bugs below when it checked them, which would make the inspection more efficient, and at the same time not pass the news out, so as not to move the heart to the higher brood.
This is also a typical human thought, when the people below make mistakes, they often remedy them first, rather than thinking about reporting them immediately.
From the perspective of efficiency and other aspects, there is nothing wrong with Hama Kuba, but from the perspective of inspection, this is a big mistake. You must know that Hama Kuba is facing a soul virus, this thing is the same as the light brain virus, the first step at the beginning is to conceal the light brain's own self-test ability, once poisoned, no matter how the light brain self-examine, it is impossible to find the existence of the virus. Unless it is a super light brain like Jelly with multi-level self-test capabilities, it is impossible to find the virus by itself after being poisoned.
The soul virus is more terrifying than the light brain virus in that no matter how powerful the light brain virus is, it is also an outsider, such as jelly, a super light brain with multi-level self-examination ability can still be found after poisoning, but as long as the soul virus is not discovered before poisoning, it will never find a problem after poisoning. Because at the moment of poisoning, the soul virus has completely merged with its own soul.
It's like if a person suddenly grows an extra hand, and then just erases this part of his cognitive memory that "human beings only have two hands, and one more is abnormal". And if they don't come into contact with other normal humans, then this person will definitely not feel that there is anything wrong with growing an extra hand.
And the soul virus is the same, the first step of infection is to modify the soul cognition first, so that it does not think that there is anything wrong with this extra part of itself. And the soul is not like a body, you can intuitively find out what is more and what is missing, so even if Hama Kuba is still in the sea of souls of the Zerg, he has not found his own problem.
And under the connection control of Hama Kuba, all the feeding insects, space insects, and land insects will naturally ignore the location of the virus ship. For them, it is completely normal and does not need to be checked at all.
This is actually a fake command from the soul virus, but the bugs didn't notice it. (To be continued......)