2042, Togot Swarm
Unknown Regions, Catlia.
A blood-red Luukri-Hok-class battleship is hovering outside the planet's atmosphere, and countless drones are flying around the planet, collecting and scanning intelligence on the planet.
One of the ships of Red Comet III, Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao.
But at this moment, Tang Xiao did not enjoy the various luxury configurations as luxurious as a palace on the spaceship. Instead, he went to the surface of the planet in person to communicate with the Kilik Swarm tribe here.
Tang Xiao, wearing a black cloak, came to the tribe's mother nest surrounded by countless ferocious and terrifying insects. This is a biological structure that is tens of meters high and looks like a ferocious mushroom. Countless tentacles and tunnels are connected to the bottom of the mother nest and go directly deep into the ground.
Countless bugs brought Tang Xiao to the mother nest, only to see the surface of this huge biological structure squirm, and then the surface cracked, and a huge eyeball with a diameter of more than two meters protruded. The eyeballs squirmed in front of Tang Xiao, looked up and down for a while, and then stretched out two tentacles with green light at the tips from the side.
A burst of high-frequency vibrating sound waves was emitted from the mother nest, and then two tentacles touched the temples of Tang Xiao for a while. Although Tang Xiao couldn't understand it, he probably understood that this brood wanted him to connect these two tentacles to his temples so that he could communicate with it.
Tang Xiao smiled coldly, Kilik Swarm is a very typical Gestalt consciousness. They are composed of countless groups, each group has a mother nest, which is also the only intelligent existence in the group, and other insect swarm individuals are all children under the control of the mother nest.
In the heyday of Kilik Swarm, there should be a supreme and highest-level consciousness above these Mother Nest consciousness, but now that Kilik Swarm has been scattered and degraded, all they have are the Mother Nest consciousness of those ethnic groups themselves.
Therefore, the strength of these Mother Nest consciousness depends on the strength of this ethnic group.
If it is the very powerful Kilik Swarm tribe, their mother nest can directly use telepathy to communicate with others, but this tribe in front of them obviously cannot, which also shows that this tribe is not actually powerful.
But piercing these two slimy and greasy tentacles into my temples just to say a few words to you? Tang Xiao sneered again, raised his hand and touched it gently. The eyeball in front of him trembled violently as if it was being eaten by electricity, and the nest let out a sharp hissing sound.
At the same time, the surrounding bugs became restless. They roared horribly at Tang Xiao, bared their teeth and claws, and seemed to want to tear him into pieces.
But the powerful consciousness of the mother's nest prevented all of this from happening, and the bugs just stood there without taking any action.
"I know you can understand what I am saying now." Tang Xiao said coldly, "My request is very simple, surrender to me, and then I will help you reunify the entire swarm. Otherwise, you will be destroyed by me. In addition, if you want to say something, find a way yourself. If you can't do it, then you have no value. You are worthless garbage and can only be destroyed."
The eyeball of the brood twitched for a while, and then seemed to be thinking.
After a while, a cavity with a ring of sharp teeth under the mother's nest squirmed violently for a while, and then a maggot-like insect came out. This bug crawled next to Tang Xiao, its body bulged, and there was a vibration inside, and it actually made a sound that was similar to human pronunciation.
"You destroyed three groups. Food was burned and wasted. Give me food and I will make it bigger and more." The bug made a sound with great difficulty, using Galactic Basic, and the pronunciation was not standard, but it was still understandable.
Tang Xiao raised his hand and waved, and more than a dozen insects around him immediately fell to the ground without warning, withered rapidly, and finally turned into a pile of dry carapace, and finally turned into fly ash, "The lives I killed will not even have ash left, and you can't even become food."
"You are strong, and I am weak. I am able to be bigger and more. I want food." The Brood said.
"I can give you food, piles, or even mountains of food. But what I need is your surrender! Of the three previous swarms, one wanted to eat me as soon as they met, the other pretended to surrender but wanted to sneak attack me, and the last one brought me to the mother nest and surrounded me with countless bugs, then rejected my request in person. And you should already know their fate." Tang Xiao said.
"Nado Swarm, Ujik Swarm, and the planet is the largest, Koma Swarm." The brood said, "I am different. I want bigger and more food, and I surrender."
"If you want to surrender, this is not just talk. I will directly implant a gene into the core of your brood. And this gene will give me the ability to kill you anytime, anywhere." Tang Xiao said coldly, "Don't play tricks on me. I already know part of you Kilik Swarm. At least I know where your real brood core is."
He stepped towards the direction of the mother's nest and said as he walked, "Open your outer layer, I want to get to your core."
"You are powerful and can easily kill me. The core is open. My life belongs to you," the Brood said.
I saw the huge mother nest squirming again, and then opened a dark and deep passage, leading directly to the underground. Looking at the mucus everywhere in the passage, Tang Xiao waved his hand, "Clean it up."
Countless small insects crawled over immediately. They found leaves and even dust from the surroundings and spread them inside, covering the passage with a dry road. Obviously, the mother nest was very uncomfortable during this process, but it still endured it.
"Very good, tell me your name." Tang Xiao nodded with satisfaction.
"Togot tribe." The brood replied.
Tang Xiao walked down the passage, which was at least tens of meters deep. At the end, there was a small chamber of about ten square meters. Then, the chamber squirmed violently again, and the flexible and solid biomass separated, revealing an irregular flesh ball. This flesh ball was squirming rhythmically, like a heart.
Tang Xiao took a look at the core, but did not intend to inject anything into it. Instead, he stretched out his hand and flicked the flesh ball.
"Hiss~~~~~~" Togurt Mother Nest roared in pain, and the entire chamber was violently twitching and contracting.
"Ah, I forgot to tell you that I didn't bring anything I wanted to inject you with. However, since you are willing to show me your core, I understand what you mean." Tang Xiao said, "Togot Swarm, very good."
He turned around and walked out again.
Returning to the ground again, Tang Xiao looked at the dense insects around him. Togot Swarm There are two main types of bugs. One kind looks like a dung beetle, but has no horny shell and almost no defense capabilities. However, its very stretchable belly can accommodate a large amount of food, which can be carried and fed to the mother nest.
The other kind of bug is mainly responsible for fighting. This kind of bug is not big, generally about 1.7 meters tall, has four legs, a pair of forelimbs, and a pair of cicada-like wings that can fly short distances. The forelimbs have sharp claws and sickles, which are almost a combination of a fly and a mantis.
It is said that the body structure of the claw sickle is very common among the major tribes of Kilik Swarm. It is probably a gene that has been generally recognized in the process of evolution. At the same time, this can also be regarded as proof that Kilik Swarm once had a higher level of consciousness above the major broods.
"Surrender, confirm. Food, request." Togurt Mother Nest said.
It's very straightforward, it means you get paid and you do the work. Tang Xiao likes this attitude very much. Now he can easily meet all the requirements of this small group. But when he gradually controls this group, then it will not be the mother nest that has the final say.
Tang Xiao waved his hand, and a transport ship that had been hovering in the air began to lower its altitude. After he boarded his shuttle and took off, the hatch at the bottom of the transport ship opened, and countless corpses fell from the sky.
These corpses are all those of Crustai!
Crustai was the first planet controlled by Grysk discovered during the previous joint fleet expedition against Grysk Hegemony led by Admiral Qiyala. In the process of capturing the seven Grysk on this planet, Crustai, who was controlled by them, launched a suicide attack, and it was global!
In this battle, Crustai suffered more than 70 million casualties! This was an extremely tragic massacre.
Now, these corpses were brought over by Tang Xiao and used as food for these insect swarms. The corpses falling from the sky plopped down, and the Togot Swarm bugs immediately started to boil, and they immediately pounced on them to feast on them. Even though most of these corpses are highly decomposed, these bugs are not picky eaters at all and will not reject anyone who comes.
Countless worker insects also devoured a large number of corpses. Their bellies bulged visibly to the naked eye and were filled with preliminarily ground meat. Then they came around Togurt Mother Nest, connected themselves to the tunnel tentacles, and sent food into the mother nest.
Togurt Mother Nest also started laying eggs immediately, and other worker insects immediately crawled over and carried the eggs to a special incubator to prepare for hatching.
Tang Xiao was too lazy to watch this disgusting scene and took the shuttle back to Red Comet III. He walked directly into the cabin without any disinfection process. His extremely powerful the Force was enough to completely eliminate all Kilik Swarm pheromones attached to him.
If you are an ordinary person, once you come into contact with Kilik Swarm, you need to thoroughly disinfect your whole body immediately. Otherwise, the pheromones secreted by Kilik Swarm will soon erode the person's brain, allowing him to connect to the mother nest of the insect swarm and become a part of the insect swarm, that is, Joiner (Joiner).
According to the plot understood by Tang Xiao, even some weaker Jedi Knight cannot completely isolate the erosion of Kilik Swarm's pheromones.
"Grand Duke, the reinforcement fleet from Dawn Star Planet has arrived." An assistant came over and said respectfully.
"Haha, my Gene Master is finally here." Tang Xiao waved his hand, "Ask him to come to the office to see me."
"As commanded."
Arriving at his office, Tang Xiao had just taken off his black cloak when the assistant's gentle voice came through the communication, "They are already here."
Tang Xiao waved his hand, and the Force turned on the switch from a distance of more than ten meters, and a person walked in.
"Ah, dear Grand Duke, it's really great to see you here." The visitor said loudly and happily as soon as he came in. At the same time, he took off the very conspicuous top hat he was wearing, put it on his chest and bowed.
Tang Xiao raised his hand to support his cheek and leaned on the desk, looking very casual. He asked lightly, "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be taking up your duties at Csilla now?"
"Haha, if I go to Csilla, it will definitely be very busy. So after much thought, I decided to seize the time before taking office and give myself a vacation." The man said, "As for the other... uh, 'person' you are looking for. He is not interested in the conversation between us. At this time, it is time to go to the laboratory to visit the specimens of Killiks."
He is a young man who looks about 30 years old, with brown hair and wheat-colored skin. He is healthy and cheerful, and he even dares to talk about vacation in front of Tang Xiao.
"Okay, Shien-Morabito (Sean Morabito, as the first governor of Chiss territory, you came to Catlia for a vacation, do you want me to send you down? I happened to have reached an agreement with a Kilik group, maybe you can go and exercise your duties as the governor and talk to their Mother Nest consciousness?" Tang Xiao said coldly.
"Hahahaha, to be honest, this is exactly what I hope. However, I also hope that when I talk to their Mother Nest consciousness, I can get your protection Grand Duke." Shien-Morabito said with a smile.
This guy looks shameless and has a playful smile everywhere he goes, and he actually asks Tang Xiao to protect him?!
Tang Xiao looked at this person with great interest, and said with a sneer, "You dare to ask me directly like this, and even ask me to be your bodyguard. You are really the first one. Generally speaking, I will extract the soul of such a person and torture him forever."
"Hey, don't be like this, Grand Duke. These Kilik Creatures should be my neighbors in the future. Chatting with my neighbors is what I, the governor, should do, isn't it? Besides, how can you say this? You are my bodyguard? It is clear that Grand Duke cares about his subordinates and creates a good working environment for them," Shien-Morabito said with a smile.
Under the surface of the playful smile, there is a heart that is not afraid of death.
This governor seems good.
A smile appeared on the corner of Tang Xiao's mouth.