Chapter 130: The Purpose of the Swarm

Xiao Ming's third head-to-head confrontation with HSS in this time and space still ended in an extremely unpleasant way. And he also kicked out the backwater base, this time he estimated that he had been included in the lore list by HSS. Because the old general, they went to check the backwater base at this time, although there would certainly be no results, but how could the HSS not have suffered losses? In order to clean up all the tone, materials, and personnel, there are many things to be erased.

These actions will naturally be caught by the military and parliament, even if there is no conclusive evidence, it can make the HSS much more restrained, and after such a thing, it is not so easy for the HSS to recklessly conduct live experiments.

In short, Xiao Ming's purpose has been achieved, whether those HSS guys will be angry or not, he doesn't care. As for saying that HSS wants his life, then unless HSS dares to risk offending the military and send an S-class supreme powerhouse to assassinate him at this time - this is obviously impossible. And if HSS had looked for him after the war, Xiao Ming would have already returned to his original time and space.

Hydra listened to Xiao Ming's request for HSS, and after thinking about it, he agreed, but it also put forward its own request, that is, the experiment must be carried out under the supervision of one of Xiao Ming or Remidios - of course, if the laboratory is moved to the edge of the tough guy army - obviously HSS will not agree, and it is also unrealistic, because the camp of the tough guy army is constantly moving, and with the advancement of the human front, as the current ace unit, it is impossible for the tough guy force to stay in the rear.

Another half a month has passed, and Xiao Ming has been in this time and space for three and a half months. Bai Zhen told him. When there are ten days left. He'll feel it. But apparently he didn't feel anything at all now, indicating that it was far more than ten days before he left.

Because entering time and space does not affect the timeline of his era, Xiao Ming is not in a hurry, but just continues his own affairs step by step.

Hydra's experiments went very smoothly, and HSS is worthy of being an expert in this field, and has quite high technology in biochemistry, abilities and other aspects. Through analysis, they reconstituted Hydra's biological cells and compared them with the original Hydra cell data recovered from historical fragments. It was found that the cell activity of Hydra was increased seventeen-fold after being modified. If Hydra was almost immortal before, now it is truly immortal. As long as the energy in its body is not depleted. Even if it is thrown into a star, it will not die before the energy consumption in its body is unprecedented.

Ordinary human weapons can only inflict heavy damage on it, but cannot kill it.

What's more, Hydra's cells possess the ability to store will and the ability to replicate and stabilize genes, that is, to say. Hydra, if conditions permit, can achieve the horror of being reborn again with a piece of his own flesh and blood. And this is something that even high-level bugs can't do.

Obviously, after cultivating Hydra for 2,000 years, the insect originally wanted to add this ability to the genes of the swarm by completely insectizing Hydra, but Xiao Ming inserted it so sideways, which made the plan of the swarm fall fall through.

This discovery made the old generals who saw the results all break out in a cold sweat, if Hydra was completely insectized, how terrifying would it be? And what is even more terrifying is that once it is completely insectized, the insects will read its completely insectized genes, so that all the insects have this immortal ability, then human beings will be in trouble.

Fortunately, Hydra is strong enough, so that the insect colony is reluctant to directly and forcibly decompose and absorb it, but uses this advanced and reabsorbed method, but in the end, Xiao Ming picked the peach, and I don't know if the mother nest insect queen of the insect colony will be angry.

In short, Hydra's defection gave the bugs a heavy blow and a chance for humanity. After obtaining Hydra's consent, HSS once again extracted a portion of Hydra's living tissue to be cultured. The purpose of this cultivation is not to create the same existence as Hydra - this is impossible, the original data that created Hydra has completely disappeared, even if you directly clone Hydra cells, what you get is just a good thing, and it is impossible to get a 100% Hydra.

And who can guarantee that the cloned Hydra is as good at talking as the current Hydra? The biggest problem with cloning is that the clones are not in a unified spirit. Unless you transform your thinking, it's like the dragon tooth leopard that Xiao Ming met in Luo's house, and the nine-tailed fox you met in Yingshunmen. But this kind of transformation actually outweighs the losses. Nowadays, human beings have long proved that whether it is a supernatural or a modified person, or a star beast, the use of spiritual power is the most critical part. It is absolutely impossible for a Hydra clone without intelligence to exert the immortal trait of Hydra.

So the HSS, whether it is the military, has no intention of replicating Hydra from the beginning, and what they want to cultivate with Hydra's living tissue is a special existence, a semi-biological, half-mechanical product that can restore the humans controlled by the swarm to normal sanity again, and its code name is "Awake Light".

Hydra was also very interested in such things, so he didn't stop it.

Half a month has passed, and the cultivation work has barely gone smoothly, but there have been a few small accidents in the middle, and Hydra's living tissue has been turned into a murderous monster, but fortunately, the strength is not strong, and it was quickly killed as soon as it got out of control. After that, the cultivation became more cautious.

The slogan of the old general is, not the fastest, but the most stable.

And in half a month, the battle situation in front of them has changed again, and the swarm has once again pressed in, it seems that the death of the mother worm last time and the stimulation of Hydra's rebellion, the swarm has completely lost patience, and they are pressing on it this time, as if they are planning to have a decisive battle with humans.

However, the military already knew that the swarm had the ability to pull the entire human fleet to the end, so it was not fooled, and continued to defend the fleet in a relatively dispersed way, cooperating with planetary weapon platforms and the defense bases of each planet to resist the attack of the swarm. Although this will consume more resources and manpower, it is the best way to think of at the moment.

However, this is not a long-term solution. Under such means of defense. The human consumption is significant. Although there is no problem in terms of materials, the consumption of personnel is really painful for the military - compared to the quantity, humans can never compare to insects.

Therefore, the key to the battle situation depends on who breaks the deadlock of this war of attrition first, and for humans, this urgency is far higher than that of the swarm.

"What we don't understand now is why the bugs have to stare at the Bonander airspace?" the old general pulled all the high-level officials of the front finger to a meeting together, and Xiao Ming and Remidios participated as special personnel.

"We thought the swarm had opened up here, and we fell for bugs for various reasons. If we start a war with the Bugs, then our fleet will be wiped out by the Bugs, and the Bugs will win the entire Battle of Ponandel, so that we humans will no longer have the right to go into space for decades to come. The military boss Levi glanced at Xiao Ming and Remidios when he said this, with a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and then continued: "But now, the bugs were first seen through by us, and then we fought in the ghost star, and we successfully killed the insect mother on the front line of the insect swarm, and plotted against Hydra Hydra. The swarm can be said to have fallen to the downside. Why are they still clinging to the Ponander region?"

"For revenge?" said a colonel's staff officer subconsciously.

"Impossible!" the old general interrupted with a wave of his hand, "There is no revenge for the hatred of bugs and humans. Because it was originally a situation that never stopped. If it is only the insect mother who comes to command at this time, then it can be considered that the insect is annoyed and angry. But the current situation is that the other party has even come out of the third-level brood, which means that the insects must have some purpose here!"

The role of the mother nest in the insect swarm is so great that it has been proven by humans for two thousand years. And the wisdom of the brood does not need to be questioned. The reason why insects have become a major problem for human beings is not only because of their numbers and madness, but also because of their intelligence.

If the bugs were just a bunch of stupid people competing for the advantage of a place, humans would have killed the bugs long ago. Where will it be back and forth for 2,000 years?

"Ponander doesn't have too special significance in terms of strategic location!" Another staff officer stood up and opened the star map: "Look, in the entire Ponander area, except for the Ponander Space Fortress, there are actually not many human gathering areas in our human race at all, and most of them are still under development. Although this area is a resource extraction area, it is not unique and irreplaceable. And in terms of strategic location. The Ponander airspace is located in the southeast star sector, where the Nanji star field meets the witch star field. It's kind of a fringe zone. ”

The staff officer paused for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Even if the most unbearable situation happens. The swarm has taken over the entire Southeast Sector, and that's just the Southeast Sector. As a marginal star sector, unless we have been tricked by bugs before and the fleet is completely wiped out, we can completely block the bugs to the southeast star sector. And if the biters do gather here on a large scale, it will still be beneficial for us, and the planetary weapon platform can fire with impunity. It's not going to do the bugs any good!"

Another place where swarms have been a constant headache for humans is that they have no fixed home. Humans generally find low-level insect nests, which can be said to be everywhere, but the base camp of real insects is to follow the mother nest. And for this kind of existence that can open the spatial insect path by itself to migrate, it is impossible for humans to concentrate on attacking the insect base camp itself.

But if the insects really occupy the southeast star region, it is obviously impossible to not have enough troops, but once they gather too much, it will give humans a chance to concentrate on attacking. This is like the embarrassment of the previous finger now - if you don't concentrate the fleet, you can't beat the bugs. But if you concentrate the fleet, it is very likely that the bugs will sacrifice a brood and end the fleet.

And in the past two thousand years, the bugs have not really carried out the occupation of the entire star area, they are more of a hit-and-run tactic, grabbing enough resources and slipping away. And to do this, two prerequisites are required.

One is that the target area is not easy to seal, and the other is that the swarm itself is flexible.

And the problem now is that if the swarm really dares to occupy the airspace of Ponandel, or the southeast star sector, it will indeed hurt the human race, but it is also equivalent to exposing itself to the attack of the human race. As long as human beings are ruthless, it is not impossible to lock the space of the entire southeast star region. Once the ability to move is lost, then the swarm will really be shut down by humans and beaten by dogs.

And when there are many swarms, there is no talk of flexibility. With the number of biters appearing now, it has begun to have nothing to do with the word flexibility. It would take a day or two to complete the battle just by sending troops to form a formation, and in such a situation, it is possible to fight a decisive battle, but it is obviously unrealistic to fight a guerrilla war.

And the mother nest of bugs is very cunning, they do not make such mistakes. So it's safe to assume that bugs have a purpose.

"From these situations, it can be analyzed that the bugs have a purpose. And I personally think that their purpose is in this location!" the staff officer pointed to the star map, zooming in on one of the places.

It is the edge of the Nanji Star Field, and the place pointed by the staff officer is called the Planetary Cemetery.

Because it was a white dwarf formed after a star exploded, its strong gravitational pull captured many planets into its nearby orbits, and then tore them to pieces. Originally, these planetary fragments would have been captured on the surface of the white dwarf under the strong gravitational pull of the white dwarf, and then under the gravitational pull of a billion times stronger than that of the terrestrial planet, the atoms would collapse and become cosmic particles. But the existence here is challenging the limits of human physics and astronomical theory.

The white dwarf, known as the "Monument Carver", after capturing the planet, simply shreds it apart and then distributes it around it, forming a huge planetary graveyard.

"Colonel Doromin, your evidence?" Levi asked.

"Yes, I found some evidence!" said the staff officer named Doromin, but he immediately smiled bitterly, "A piece of evidence that I can't even believe myself!" He paused and said, "My department has found that the person who carved the monument has emitted an electromagnetic pulse!"

"What? A white dwarf emits an electromagnetic pulse that only a neutron star emits? Aren't you kidding?" another staff member cried out in shock.

"It's no surprise that the gravers have long since challenged all of our knowledge of physics and astronomy. But if it only emits an electromagnetic pulse, it doesn't seem to mean anything?"

"What if I said that every time the engraver emits an electromagnetic pulse, it is when the swarm becomes restless and changes significantly?" Doromin opened a new light curtain, which contained a large amount of data: "Everyone, please see, the red part of this table is a record of the time and size of each electromagnetic pulse occurrence of the inscription in the past two years. On this side, however, is a record of the actions of the swarm in the past two years. It can be seen that the two have an amazing solstice in time. Every time the engraver emits an electromagnetic pulse, the swarm is bound to change. (To be continued......)