A few dozen kilometers from the ruins, there was a camp where hundreds of fighters were stationed, stationed on the front line before the offensive began;

Its activity area reaches the edge of the fog area, and is responsible for approaching and detecting changes in its internal and external conditions.

The warriors in charge of the reconnaissance of the area have three pairs of arthropods that stretch out and grip the ground on both sides, with fine serrated stripes on the underside of the terminal segment that stretches diagonally below, and expandable foot appendages that open and close depending on the terrain on both sides;

With the light carapace structure, strong movement ability under the pressure of body fluids, and a special evolutionary configuration of the foot segments, they can adapt to most sports environments including mountains, plains, deserts, and water surfaces.

When needed, the three pairs of arthropods can also bounce violently with the support of body fluids and configurations, while giving the body an additional acceleration to move quickly.

The upper arm with the scythe is often in a state of arthropod contraction, which was used to occupy the niche advantage in ancient times, and is also an important carrier of the transcendent side attack power today.

The extraordinary characteristics of the race, such as sharpness, strength, rapidity, and quietness, can be found in this pair of scythes that are always tight, and they are in harmony with the whole body.

The lower arms, each with four fingers at the end, were one of the important factors that led to the development of civilization in the later years, allowing them to break away from the savage growth path of intelligent predators and become a civilized race with easy access to tools.

Its lingua franca is called 'Kolache', which is a direct translation of the special pheromone language of the race, which is their expression of their race and civilization from ancient times to the present.

The translation between different information expression systems is shackled, and the pronunciation cannot provide recognizable information for the first hearer, so that it cannot capture relatively clear population characteristics.

It may not hurt to have only one race, but when many sapient and unintelligent creatures are all named in this way, it will invisibly increase the energy and time consumption of learners;

Therefore, lingua franca appellations are only used for communication between different populations, in order to simplify the process and difficulty of information exchange, in fact, each civilization has its own narrative system, which can really meet its own needs in terms of education and other aspects.

For example, the Elven Realm, after obtaining the specific intelligence information of the relevant species, will describe it in its own consistent way, and promote it as a common standard for the Divine Alliance system.

For example, the definition of the 'Korache' race in the Divine Domain Classification can be extended to a long list, such as carbon-based, polycentric sapient beings, arthropods, thyropods, and so on.

The scientific name is 'oblique erect six-legged four-armed scythe', which is abbreviated as 'oblique erect scythe' and 'kolache frick arm'.

The name roughly expresses its morphological characteristics, and then attaches the rest of the body audio features, graphic information, video information and other concrete images, as well as various information related to civilization, language, jurisdiction, and ecology, which constitutes a separate entry in the list of civilizations and races, and is then used in various ways by literature, film and television, popular science education and other occasions.

Its territory is not small and by no means barren, it joined the Council after being discovered by adventurers tens of thousands of years ago, and then encountered and survived all kinds of hardships in the early stage, and began to steadily catch up in the direction of the field where advanced civilizations are located;

Today, the civilization that was already not shallow when it was discovered has been stabilized, and its strength is considered to be the third tier in the council, and it is adjacent to the second tier in the council, taking the lead in leading a weak country to the left and right, and jointly confronting the most powerful civilization in the star region in the economic and trade fields.

But beneath the essence of this current flourishing faction lurks an ugly scar that almost all civilizations are unwilling to bear, one of the manifestations of which is the Corache camp that has appeared here today.

In addition to the main ethnic branches that lived within its jurisdiction, there were many branches of the civilization scattered throughout the river system to form settlements, and they were by no means the result of voluntary migration for various purposes.

Known for their wide range of environmental adaptability and superb agility, they have the extraordinary potential of the body-side agility system above the level, as well as relatively excellent obedience, wisdom and learning ability;

Therefore, since the civilization appeared in the field of vision of the people of the river system, they have actually been secretly coveted by the black and white path parties;

Whether it is the biological and extraordinary research of the White Dao Fang, or the new slave classes and population needs of the Black Dao Fang in addition to them, their characteristic technologies, ecological data, endemic creatures, and intelligent living beings are all clearly marked in the shadow market as buying and selling items, and thus bring a painful memory to the Kolache civilization that has just entered the river system.

After the relevant population raiding and slave trade prevailed for thousands of years and continued slowly for about 10,000 years, although it gradually shrank under the action of various reasons;

However, the products left behind are the sub-populations that are independent of the main body of civilization, and are now living in large and small settlements under the command of many large and super-large forces, some of which can have tens of millions of people, and many of them have more than 100 million people.

The people of these settlements have almost no yearning for the mother civilization, and contribute their own strength to the forces they belong to at this moment in many aspects such as production, economy, military resources, science and technology, etc.

In the process, inferior individuals are deliberately selected at birth, properly cultivated and castrated, and then sold to other small and medium-sized societies, where they serve as cannon fodder or elite slaves.

Among the remaining relatively superior population, there are usually individuals who are selected from the best of the best and carefully cultivated to become full members of the organization;

These full members are often also the leaders of the population, helping the organization to take on some form of jurisdiction over the population, and also acting as breeders to improve their own Scythe branch.

For the main body of civilization, this kind of everything inside must be a kind of shame to the bone, so there are also mercenary groups from its main finger active in the interstellar;

On the surface, they only take it as their mission to rescue their compatriots trapped in the dark, but in reality, they mostly have the mentality that if they can, they will save or die, and under various restrictions, their missions mostly end in killing.

At the same time, these regular mercenaries will not only undertake tasks such as escort and special operations through regular platforms, but may also do some gray or even black work in unknown places, taking greater risks to earn more rewards, and can also take the opportunity to find branch populations in the black world and understand their status.

Of course, in order to avoid creating hatred for the main body of civilization behind them, the black work exposes its physical characteristics, and often pretends to be a branch group, blaming all the evil feelings on a certain force that serves the life of the branch compatriots;

It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, it's good to be able to get by and there is really room for confusion.

However, what appears here at this moment must be a genuine Dark Private Army, a transcendent army of warlords under one of the local controls.

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In addition to the features directly displayed in the title, most of the body except for the joints is covered with a grass-blue carapace, which is also dotted with many irregular dark green spots.

In the early stage of uncivilized archaeology, and even in the early primitive civilization era, there was actually a relatively soft long belly at the tail end of its body, which occupied about half of the total length of the body.

The abdomen is home to many internal structures, such as most of the digestive system, the entire reproductive system, and several branch brain regions, but it is only covered with a cricocarapace, which is much softer than the torso, and its protective power is far less solid than that of the head, torso, arms and feet.

Moreover, while this race has strong vitality, it also has relatively ordinary regeneration;

It takes a few years for the individual to slowly regenerate the carapace of his arms, feet, and other parts, but in terms of the artifact, he can only make up for the small defects and heal them, and cannot restore the more severely injured organs to their original state.

Therefore, when suffering from severe trauma, especially if the abdomen is severely injured, it is common for the state of life to be mutilated and immortal.

These and so on did not affect their dominance in the primitive ecosystem, but after civilization, they became a weakness that was generally targeted in the civil war.

During that long period of time, the people who had been disabled by abdominal wounds flooded the rear, becoming a burden to the battlefield, unable to do heavy work, and unwilling to die easily, which was deeply hated by almost all the leaders of the forces, and rumors or truths often appeared that the war damaged were massively mended by their own side.

So naturally, how to get rid of this drag has become a serious project, and in many common schemes such as armor and energy shields, the biochemical scheme of a certain force based on mutant individuals has become the mainstream of exploration by all parties in the long-term stealing, diffusion, and accumulation.

For a period of time, joining the army is often equivalent to voluntarily participating in biochemical modification experiments, and later it has even developed to the extent of using newborns as receptors, and the original intention of research and transformation has long been transformed from 'eliminating weaknesses' to 'super soldiers' and 'individual strength'.

Although there are achievements, there will be more tragedies due to them, such as loss of fertility, defects in physical and small signs, early death, etc., which are very common individual sequelae, and in addition to genetic information pollution and other tragedies at the population level;

It was only later, when civilizations were bridged together in wars and exchanges of interests, that they began to solve the problems left by these transformations;

However, it took tens of thousands of galactic years before and after, but in fact, it only made the obvious and common symptoms gradually silent, and from time to time there were defective babies, stillbirths, malignant mutations, benign mutations and other conditions, and gave birth to many bad studies that occurred within the dark society and even its main mother civilization.

However, after so many years, the population form has stabilized somewhat and to some extent solved the original abdominal weakness.

At present, some parts of the abdominal organs are merging, degenerating, and evolving to the main trunk of the torso, and the remaining parts are mostly concentrated in about 20% of the area of the abdominal apex, and the more flexible soft ring armor is replaced by integrated hard armor, making it a compact armor chamber that is not too large connected to the torso.

The remaining 80% of the abdominal cavity is deformed into a scorpion-like shape that extends outward from the new cavity, and retains a retractable pinprick male reproductive cavity at the very end, while the female reproductive cavity is located at the bottom of the new cavity.

The latter is just the size of the former, and after piercing, it releases a germ cell that can also be used as venom, while the female scorpion tail will gradually begin to become hypertrophied after conception, and even return to a similar appearance smaller than tens of thousands of years ago, and finally give birth to more than a dozen transparent babies that have hatched in the mother's body from the end of the tail;

Influenced by the experiments that have been modified, there is also a certain proportion of congenital stillbirths and alien fetuses, whether in the civilization headquarters or in the dark forces, their belonging is in the laboratory in the vast majority of cases.

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Returning to the barracks, the six-legged and four-armed warriors inside were nearly four meters tall, with slanted armored torques that seemed to be dragged with chains attached to the end of the counterweight;

The head is also covered with armor and the skull is small, and there are four long and short armor tentacles that sway back and forth, and a dense compound eye structure protrudes from the side top, giving it a wide field of vision with almost no dead ends.

Further down, there are four lip flaps on the left and right that overlap the closed mouth, and when they open to the sides to reveal the inner surface and the end, you can see that they resemble blades and icebreakers.

At this moment, they are waving their long barbed tails, holding various tools with their lower arms and methodically busy, such as maintaining carapaces, maintaining scythes, inspecting weapons and equipment, etc.;

And apart from the busyness, there seemed to be no sound coming from it, as if they did not know each other and did not communicate.

Inside the barracks, several Scythe soldiers folded their lower arms backwards with brushes, smeared a layer of grease and lacquer on their backs, and formed a matte film on the outside of the carapace.

In the station where only the same clan exists, these warriors who only have vibration sensing systems all over their bodies but have no ears, obviously do not deliberately turn on the lingua franca translator at the moment, but only rely on their own habits to complete communication with each other, and their medium is a dense pheromone diffuse around them, from which those who understand can naturally taste and even mix with information with complex artistic conceptions

At this point, for example, there is a warrior with a matte coat of matte coating, expressing his dissatisfaction with the ugly state of the carapace

You must know that in the primitive instinct period, the reflective ornate carapace was an important means for them to attract females and show their strength, even in the civilized and civilized world, it is also an important aesthetic standard;

Therefore, applying a matte layer to the carapace is like allowing the elf to open the silent barrier, which is also a kind of concealment of the beauty of its own place, which will cause dissatisfaction, unwillingness, and even inferiority.

Therefore, at this moment, the surrounding information atmosphere is full of the dissatisfaction of him and his companions, and the content that is used as an expression of the body or auxiliary artistic conception of the virtual and real.

The beautiful female who lives in the long-term place, the collision of the armor and body, the gnawing of the mouthparts, the tangled arthrops, the threat and restraint of the female's remaining instinct before leaving;

The longing for the long-term habitat of the population branches, although the poor artificial ecology is not really comfortable, has even caused the awakening of some ancient instincts;

The ambition and nostalgia before this trip, the boredom of longing for garrison missions abroad, the yearning for the free plundering of caravans after the round, and the helplessness of eliminating the carapace for safety.

And so on, all of these are received by the sub-centers that process relevant information in the transmission of pheromones, and form their unique communication methods with extremely high information density and high efficiency.

If you want to use the lingua franca translator to paraphrase the expression at this time, there may be only one sentence in the usual state - 'I'm so ugly now';

The rest, etc., will be discarded as redundant information.

Only high-level equipment can translate it, but usually no one wants to turn on this function, and the content he focuses on at this moment is indeed just 'I'm so ugly', and there is no need to substitute the artistic conception of the rest of the series into it and read it.

(End of chapter)