This Is My Last Psychic Power, Swarm

After all attacks proved ineffective against Lin Fan, the Norn Queen made her wisest decision: she ordered the swarm to abandon the protection of the mothership and advance toward other star systems.

The Norn Queen's death would disconnect the fleet, reducing it to a mindless pack of beasts.

Her death would also interrupt the Tyrants' memory preservation, making adaptive evolution impossible to complete.

But she had other means of fulfilling the Hive Mind's mission. She infused commands and psychic power into other node organisms in advance, allowing them to use that psychic strength to keep the swarm from completely falling apart.

The corpse-collecting bugs avoided Lin Fan's path and used spore pods to travel to other living warships. Their bodies contained part of the genetic code left behind by the Queen. From this point onward, the swarm would have to rely on this old data to ensure its survival.

The work proceeded steadily as the Norn Queen left as much precious knowledge as possible to the surviving node organisms.

There was simply too much information to transmit, and Lin Fan was arriving far too quickly.

"Ah... you strange little thing..." Lin Fan heard the psychic sigh clearly. The cavity that housed the Queen was completely empty, with no bugs left behind to guard it.

A blade bug still clung to Lin Fan's leg, gripping his calf tightly in an attempt to slow him down.

He shook his foot several times but could not fling the bug off, so Lin Fan could only crush it with his other foot.

"What exactly are you?"

"Is this the Hive Mind speaking to me?"

"Yes."

"I'm your father."

The Norn Queen was dead, and the Hive Mind's control over the swarm had been interrupted. It stared blankly at the Silent King and found