Thank You for Your Cooperation

Between the first and second orbits of the Kess home star system stood a Celestial Mechanism megastructure established by the Collectors.

Unlike other megastructures, the Celestial Mechanism megastructure was a composite entity and possessed no unified individual consciousness. Compared with a unified individual consciousness, a collective consciousness was better suited to work.

Thus, other megastructures were "one," while the Celestial Mechanism megastructure was "a group."

Under normal circumstances, this megastructure remained dormant. Its energy consumption was too high when it was not needed, which did not align with the Collectors' resource-conserving mindset for the sake of the species.

Now, the megastructure awakened from dormancy because the species had assigned it a task—one that urgently needed to be completed.

The brains extracted from the Zerg command echelon were connected to the neural fibers within the Celestial Mechanism megastructure.

"What exactly do you want?"

The Zerg intelligent individuals questioned the Collectors through thought.

Having lost all their senses, the Zerg intelligent individuals knew nothing of the outside world and could do nothing about it. They clearly understood that they were incapable of putting up any resistance against the Collectors.

The Zerg did not fear death, so even after being stripped down to nothing but brains, not a single intelligent individual chose to surrender and beg the Collectors for mercy.

After being captured, it was only natural to assume they would be interrogated for intelligence. Otherwise, why go out of the way to capture them?

Therefore, the Zerg intelligent individuals had already prepared themselves for every kind of chemical torture. They were fully confident that they would not yield.

The Zerg had no concept of surrender!

Yet the vigilance of the Zerg intelligent individuals seemed entirely unnecessary. They waited and waited, but no external stimuli were inflicted upon their brains.

It was quiet—so