Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 184

Unearthing secrets

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How could a mortal, an inexperienced little girl, endure Swarm Network? At first she just wanted to be Drone's friend, but in the end Drone turned into Hatchery and became the source of her pain.

There are only three things in Typhon's mind right now, hatching, Consume, and killing, just like the most common fighting bugs.

Typhon can communicate with Drone through her mental power, which has proven her super Psionics potential and her mental power far beyond that of ordinary people. However, her life and talent were wasted on the Astrologers' Association's ambition.

After checking the strength of Typhon's mental power, Zhang Han felt a little regretful. If she had fully grown up, her mental power would be comparable to a core node that controls hundreds of millions of Swarm units.

In StarCraft, the talent of Psionics is comparable to Kerrigan.

Without any genetic modification, this should be the limit of mortal talent.

Out of pity for Typhon, and in order to prevent her talent from being wasted, Zhang Han plans to repair the gene of Hatchery, and then spend energy to upgrade it to level four Hatchery.

During the evolution process, Hatchery is separated from Typhon. Hatchery remains unchanged and Typhon evolves into Swarm Queen.

Of course, if you do this, Typhon will no longer be Typhon, she will just be Queen with Typhon's memory.

After taking care of Hatchery, we can deal with the colony ships of the interstellar civilization below Astrologers' Association.

Under Zhang Han's mental scan, this colony ship was a little larger than an ordinary battleship. It was buried relatively deep, and using ordinary methods, it would take a week for Drone to hatch it and dig it out.

Time is too precious for Zhang Han. He just let go of an unknown spaceship. God knows when Stellaris Council's fleet will swarm out of hyperspace.

Even if it is divided into two parts, Overmind's mental power is as powerful as a god. In addition, the body of the ether dragon is also very powerful. Zhang Han plans to use the power of Psionics.

After touching the real boundary between Psionics's virtuality and reality, he extracted a large amount of mental power, which was as viscous, substantial, and hot as magma.

In order not to harm Swarm, Zhang Han explained his intentions to the surrounding Swarm through the Internet. Soon, Chloe and Cam left here with a large number of fighting bugs.

Psionics turned into a huge purple palm in reality, covering a huge area. The towering and luxurious Astrologers' Association headquarters was smashed into powder by this palm.

Among the ruins, the huge palm continued to penetrate deeper, like a giant inserting his hand into the soil.

When Psionics held the underground colony ship with his giant hand, Zhang Han first checked the stress situation in all aspects on the Internet. He accidentally used too much force and tore the ship in half.

After confirming, Zhang Han operated Psionics's giant hand to pull out the colony ship buried in the ground little by little. The process was a bit like pulling a loach out of the mud.

The colonial ship, which is blue and purple in color and carries a lot of soil, is exposed to the sun. The ship has elegant lines and a lot of strange patterns on the hull, making it look particularly mysterious.

The ether dragon's body was too large to enter the interior of the spacecraft to search for information. As a last resort, Zhang Han could only activate the spiritual connection with Chloe to let her go in to search.

In order to ensure her safety, Zhang Han wrapped her with Psionics. With Overmind's mental strength, even if there was a nuclear bomb inside as a trap, it would be difficult to kill Chloe immediately.

Chloe excitedly carried out the tasks assigned to her by Zhang Han. In her opinion, this was a sign that Overmind would re-accept her and return to Swarm. Overmind wrapped her mental power and made her feel extremely safe.

The entire ship was originally scanned by Zhang Han with mental power, and Chloe quickly arrived at the core area of the colony ship.

The first thing that catches the eye is the vast array of water tanks, each of which contains a person. These are hibernation devices for long-distance interstellar voyages. They have now been transformed into equipment to house Psionics ers. Joanna relies on them to divert the mental oppression caused by connecting a large number of Swarms.

This huge water tank area also made Zhang Han feel strange. Since there are so many people on the colony ship, why not just colonize the planet completely?

Even if you only use Psionics, it is enough to defeat the natives on Tabi Star, and there are obviously not so many people on the Astrologers' Association.

With this question in mind, Chloe passed through the hibernation area and walked into the bridge.

There is indeed a security system here, and bullets and lasers put on a wonderful fireworks show on Chloe, but without exception, they were all blocked by Zhang Han's Psionics barrier.

In line with the principle of using big bricks to fly without using decoding methods, Zhang Han directly violently tore the door open, crushing all the security systems.

After entering the bridge, because of the remote support of the giant Cerebrate, it didn't take much time to crack the computer's firewall and extract the data inside.

Then, problems arise. The first is the text. The text in the data does not belong to any type of Tabi Star. It is easier to solve this problem. As long as you spend time, have enough samples, and use the computing power of Cerebrate, the exhaustive method can always produce results.

The second is a big problem, that is, you need to input a gene to decode the most important part of the information. This gene is very similar to Stars, but only partially similar. It is either impossible to use the exhaustive method, or it takes too much time.

So Zhang Han thought that maybe the living members of the association could provide some help. There must be nothing left in the Gale Valley. They had been killed by Swarm led by Chloe, and their corpses were crushed once by Zhang Han with Psionics.

Connected to Chloe's small network, Zhang Han wants to use the flying insects on the battlefield to bring back a few Astromancer who are still fighting.

Then he saw a very horrific and bloody scene. Countless angry highlanders surrounded all Astrologers' Association people, killed them like wild beasts, and cut them into pieces, with President Joanna's head still on a spear.

Even if Joanna has a mental breakdown and goes crazy, so many associations Swarm are not so easy to kill. But after Zhang Han merged the Hatchery controlled by the association into the network, the association Swarm began to kill each other.

Zhang Han really didn't pay attention to this at first, but now he understands that this is an order issued by the newly merged Hatchery, in order to prevent those Swarm units that are outside from affecting Overmind's Swarm Network, and to ensure the purity of Swarm Network's thoughts.

This is a default rule for Hatchery grid connection. The number of Swarm units that can connect to the new network shall not exceed one thousandth of the scale of the integrated network.

For example, if the scale of Swarm Network of Zhang Han is 1 million, and other Hatchery are merged, in order to ensure that the original trend of Swarm Network is not affected, only one thousand units of Swarm that are merged with Hatchery can be merged.

This is all to ensure Swarm Network's loyalty to Overmind, so sometimes they will even kill them all just to be safe.

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