Larva
Raynor and Tychus took Revolutionary Army soldiers to carefully search all Fujita Peak Research Institute's laboratories, isolation rooms and dissection rooms, and thousands of compartments. As more and more discoveries were made, the existing evidence was pieced together into an intriguing truth.
As early as two years ago, Terran Confederacy was already studying this sudden appearance of alien creatures. Augustus realized that Psi Emitter, who had destroyed Terran Confederacy, came from his own research on Zerg.
After Augustus stared at the deep purple Creep behind the glass wall for nearly twenty minutes, a Revolutionary Army soldier wearing a dark red Power Armor with a golden wolf head logo on his shoulder armor walked up to him, holding a portable battery freezer in his hand.
"What is that?" Kerrigan took the suitcase, and the close-fitting Umojan Shadow Guard refractive combat uniform tightened her slender waist and hips when she bent over.
After removing the Psionics suppressor, as a level 10 Psionics user, Kerrigan can release far more Psionics power than before.
"The dissected alien creature." The Revolutionary Army warrior's orange-yellow matte mask barely reflected light under the bright light, and a heart-stopping voice came from the loudspeaker unit. "Marshal Mengsk, two of them are alive."
"Open it." Augustus ordered immediately.
The iris lock of this freezer has been unlocked. Kerrigan put on laboratory gloves and held the lock of the freezer to open it. In the white smoke of condensation, three worm-like gnarled creatures, covered with a layer of white frost, were lying quietly in the freezing layer of the box.
"Maggots, maggots with carapace." Kerrigan quickly made his own judgment and added, "Seeing them really scares me."
"Dr. Francos, how much do you know about this creature?" Augustus said to Dr. Confederacy, a biology doctor who was ordered to stay where he was and was not allowed to go anywhere.
One of these three slender and multi-tentacled creatures has been dissected, and part of its beetle-like hard shell has been neatly peeled off, revealing complex organs and white brain tissue. There is no stomach pouch, intestines, or excretory organs where its abdomen should belong. As a result, questions about what this creature should make a living have troubled Confederacy scientists for a long time.
"We guess that these are the larvae of Zerg'zerg', like the larvae of metamorphosed insects. After they absorb enough nutrients, they will form cocoons and transform into another completely different creature. These creatures seem to be just for killing. They have thousands of dense muscles on their bodies and are covered with sharp claws and fangs." The doctor used the word Zerg for the first time. Apparently Confederacy had already named this newly discovered creature.
"But the adults of these creatures are not exactly the same. There may be very obvious differences in the specialization of traits among each individual. There will also be huge differences in size and aggressiveness between Zerg with the same characteristics." He said.
"Later, we realized that the DNA of the larvae of this organism carries billions of sequences. There are almost infinite possibilities for the combination of these sequences, not to mention the possibility of genetic mutation and recombination."
"Infinite possibilities for evolution."
"Is there a way to use a catalyst or other means to cause it to deform in the direction we gave it?" Augustus said, "Or we can control these organisms through modification in a more efficient way. Since we can produce Resocialized Soldier, why can't we use this method on alien organisms."
"No, this is impossible. It can't be done with human technology." The doctor immediately denied it three times, making Augustus very disappointed.
While Augustus was talking to the doctor, due to the gradual increase in temperature, a larva of Zerg woke up. Its centipede-like multi-legged body squirmed like a snake, and its polysynaptic head had multiple scarlet, triangular eyes that slowly opened. This slimy little monster seemed not to be fully awake yet. It squinted its scarlet eyes and looked around for something, but found nothing.
The larva moved, making a pitter-patter sound like walking in muddy mud with rain boots. Every once in a while, it would stop and remain motionless, as if waiting for some order.
The sound of guns being drawn and loaded was immediately heard from all around. The extremely nervous soldiers scrambled to stand between Augustus and the larvae. The sound of heavy breathing sounded in the communication channel.
"Don't be nervous." Although Augustus knew that this larva was actually not offensive, he still took a loaded Gauss Rifle from his subordinate's hand. "I want to take a good look at this beast."
Revolutionary Army When the soldiers dispersed, the slow-reacting larva finally raised its head like a cobra, stared at Augustus, and made a squeaking sound.
But the target of the larva was not Augustus. Its gaze stayed on him briefly and then moved to Kerrigan next to it.
The ugly creature immediately made a high-pitched squeaking sound. It squirmed out of the freezer, landed on the smooth floor of the laboratory, and crawled slowly towards Kerrigan.
Augustus walked over and stepped on the tail of the larvae. The heavy pressure of Power Armor's power boots made it immediately make a louder noise. However, soon, the larvae flopped a few times like a fish that landed on the shore and then lay on the ground and stopped struggling.
"What does it want to do?" Augustus leaned down and looked at the little monster without fangs and claws.
"It's looking for something. It's waiting for something." At this time, Kerrigan suddenly rubbed his temples, looking a little tired.
"Can you read its thoughts?" Augustus looked at Kerrigan in surprise.
"No, I just sensed something. It seems that this low-level creature without thought is waiting for the order of a more advanced and powerful creature." Kerrigan shook his head and said.
"It's waiting for my order."
"." Augustus stared at Kerrigan's face for a few seconds, and then he let go of his feet. "Prove it to me, Kerrigan."
Kerrigan's eyes suddenly glowed with a color like molten gold, and the larva lying helplessly on the ground suddenly formed into a ball and circled around its tail on the ground, as if it were a cat chasing its own tail.
"This is incredible." A soldier couldn't hide his surprise.
"You are special." Augustus said, "The next step is to try to control this larvae so that it can transform into an adult."
Originally Augustus thought that Kerrigan only had the ability to control Zerg after becoming Queen of Blades. Now it seems that she is born with the ability to control these creatures. From this point of view, Overmind is targeting Kerrigan not just because she is a Level 10 Psionics er, because she is not the only Level 10 Psionics er in the human race.
Augustus I don't know whether this news is good or bad.
"No... I can't..." Kerrigan replied.
The resonance between Kerrigan and Zerg in the human period is reflected in the official novel "Uprising".