Chapter 441: New Varieties
The spider vehicle scurries through the underground tunnel, eight spider legs alternately pulling ore in front of it at a very high frequency, and then the main body squeezes through the narrow tunnel.
This high-tech vehicle has long had a variety of options for breaking through the limitations of the terrain.
The tunnel area was quickly breached, and Nanling came to an intricate underground space in the spider vehicle.
"This is the underground kingdom of this hive," said Liki, "and they seem to think that this labyrinthine structure can withstand us. ”
There was not much caution in her words, after all, the locusts on this planet looked powerful, but they had not fully entered the interstellar age after all.
Or rather, it's just equivalent to what humanity has been like not long after it entered the interstellar age.
If humans had encountered such an opponent 50,000 years ago, it would have been very distressing, but now......
The Spider Vehicle ignored the Stygian Locusts surrounding the tunnel, and dug straight downwards in a straight line.
These locusts are good at everything, and the only thing that doesn't work is about construction.
Their bodily fluids can corrode many superalloys, but they can't build their nests well.
All the way down, the spider vehicle easily broke through the dome above the hive, and then hung upside down above the hive's empty underground space.
At this moment, countless locusts raised their heads to look at the sky, and they didn't know if it was Nan Ling's illusion, he seemed to see the fear in the eyes of these locusts......
It's as if this spider vehicle is a terrifying monster that has invaded their realm.
This feeling surprised Nan Ling, could the Stygian Locust actually have emotions?
He had always thought that the locusts were ruthless killing machines, how did they give birth to intelligence?
Just when Nanling was curious, Liji had already started the operation.
She first manipulated the spider vehicle's mechanical legs to unleash a three-element weapon to suppress the barrage below.
Then the bottom of a cargo compartment under the torso opened, and the battle robots armed to the teeth were seen jumping down from it like dumplings.
Their all-ternary weapons have been extremely effective in striking at these severely degraded locusts.
And as more and more robots were released, the space for the swarm in the hive was soon greatly compressed.
Nan Ling noticed at a glance that in the midst of the swarm, a chubby thing with a white flower was trembling and running into the distance.
It seemed to want to burrow into the pit on the other side, but it was too small for it to get stuck in the hole.
"That's the king worm?"
Liggie asked.
She didn't have much information about the king worm.
Nan Ling took a closer look, then shook his head and said, "No, the king insect is more delicate and small than it, it seems to be just an individual with reproductive function in the insect colony." ”
"And it looks like the swarm here is protecting it, that is, it's the actual master of this hive?"
Nan Ling didn't know, but he knew that there were people in this world who would be interested in this kind of thing.
In addition, his current identity is no longer the same, so he simply called the seeker directly.
"Seeker of the sky, what is looking for me?"
The seeker responds gently.
Nan Ling directly transmitted the picture of the white flowery chubby flesh worm, and then said, "This is the individual I found when I was cleaning up the swarm of the edge galaxy, I have never seen this kind of individual." ”
The seeker was interested, and he said, "If it's convenient, could you ask the transgressor to capture some samples?" ”
"By the way, the bibliophile boss should also be interested in this, so I'll call him over."
As the voice fell, another communication was connected.
Liji trembled, she was stunned, are all Nanling's socials so high-end now?
These are all Xingcan pioneers, she is also in this communication at this time, and she always feels that she is a little unqualified.
However, she thought that she was Nanling's 'companion aunt', and suddenly she didn't seem to be so worried.
People value Nan Ling not her, and it is natural that Nan Ling can get this honor.
After learning about the situation, the bibliophile said, "If I am not surprised, this should be a new entity that this Stygian Locust race has evolved to cope with the current situation. ”
"According to the social structure of the locust, the king worm rules everything, and the king worm can rule all the locusts in a galaxy."
"In this case, the lower-level ruler is completely unnecessary, because the king worm's psychic domination can cover the entire planetary system."
"But according to the Sky Seekers, this horde of the Dark Locusts originated from a genetically altered king worm by humans, and its upper limit is to rule one planetary system, but it cannot rule only one planetary system."
"It was in this situation that this kind of ruler who was inferior to the king worm appeared."
"Their psychic power can't even cover the entire planet, so they can only move on the hive."
Nan Ling listened and nodded again and again, this book collector is worthy of everyone who studies the Dark Locust.
He now suspected that the content related to the Stygian Locust in Galactic Cyclamen Plague originated from this person.
Nan Ling hesitated and asked, "Your Excellency, may I ask if this Dark Locust will cause harm to the current human race?" ”
The bibliophile Wen Yan said in a relieved tone: "Don't worry, the genetic limit of this creature is greater than you think, and the upper limit of the king insect is the king insect, even if humans have strengthened it, it is just a special king insect." ”
"Moreover, even if the emperor worm appears, the current human race is not the human being of tens of thousands of years ago...... Don't forget, you're the team that can resist and even defeat the Plague of Stygians head-on! ”
Nan Ling listened to it, and her heart was really much more relaxed.
That's right, the locusts are terrifying, but that's only once.
In the past, the locusts could slaughter civilizations in the entire galaxy, but with humans using them as imaginary enemies for tens of thousands of years, they are not so terrifying for a long time.
Nan Ling herself was also smiling, after all, human beings are a civilization that has grown up from crazy involution.
Then the seeker suddenly said, "In fact, we have decided to give these locusts a limited laissez-faire. ”
Nan Ling was surprised.
He asked, "Isn't a cyber crisis enough?" ”
"Because we have found that human civilization needs external crises to oppress its internal potential, otherwise they will only destroy themselves in comfort," said the seeker. ”
In other words, this is a civilization that must be rolled up in order to develop.
Nan Ling didn't object to this kind of thing, but said helplessly: "But in this way, there will really be a constant war." ”
The bibliophile also said in a gentle voice: "For the individuals in the civilization, this may not be a good thing, but for the entire civilization, as long as the challenge is controlled to a certain extent, it is an effective tempering." ”
Nan Ling was speechless when she heard this, maybe this was right.
Although the war is terrible, but after a long time of peace, the ghosts hidden under the peaceful and prosperous world are probably even more terrifying.
(End of chapter)