Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 240

Consciousness splicing

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The church members here are very loyal to Queen Chloe and to the gods, but they still have some scruples about Swarm's flesh and blood technology.

Transforming the body in Hatchery, which is full of blood vessels, bones, and mucus, is difficult for most ordinary people to accept.

The painting style of Swarm is full of terrifying fangs and spikes. Ordinary people will be frightened when they look at it. It will probably take a lot of time for them to get used to it.

The bishops and pastors of the church have raised similar concerns. Many people suggested spending some time to beautify and publicize Swarm, and then slowly integrate flesh and blood technology.

A pastor was eloquently talking about ways to beautify propaganda, and Chloe grabbed his throat with Psionics.

"Okay, I understand. I think there is no problem with Cerebrate's plan. I will implement it immediately." Chloe replied to Isa on the Internet.

Everyone in the church was shocked by Chloe's actions, and they all knelt down to the Queen.

"Ika, I will pass the plan to you later, and you must do your best to implement it. Go to Emil, and I will give her the right to kill anyone in the Durom Empire."

After saying that, Chloe let go of his hand and let the priest fall to the ground.

"Everyone, listen up, the time has come for the gods to test your loyalty and faith. I need a large number of people, especially smart and literate people, to join the insect network. All specific work will be done according to Ika's instructions."

After giving the last order, Chloe returned to its original appearance, ignored the church personnel kneeling on the ground, and left the palace and flew to Hatchery.

Overmind's conscious body was blown to pieces. When Chloe heard the news, he was panicked. Overmind's clone is also Overmind, so there can't be any mistakes.

Chloe, who returned to Hatchery, saw that Typhon was here, and she still had some injuries. After searching the Internet, Chloe found out the reason.

Splicing the fragments of consciousness of Overmind requires a logical consciousness with strong brain power. Typhon is the most mentally powerful being in Hatchery now. After calculation, Isa let a Overlord wrap around her, and then let the only remaining Swarm Leviathan put her in the barrel and hit her back.

Typhon is now connected to the giant Cerebrate, and her power will play a decisive role in this crisis.

After taking a look at Typhon, Chloe mentally blamed himself for being too slow and falling behind Typhon. He then took out a transparent nerve needle from the sticky folds of the giant Cerebrate and inserted it into the back of his head without hesitation.

The severe pain was exactly the same as the first time she connected to Hatchery's brain, but now Chloe's body was no longer that ordinary mortal, and she quickly adapted.

The task for her, Typhon, and Cam, a mentally powerful node, was the most important. They needed to quickly sew together the largest fragments of Overmind's shattered consciousness to prevent the consciousness from being further broken or even dissipated.

Chloe entered the first fragment of consciousness of Zhang Han. What caught her eyes was a small town in a third-tier city. Although Chloe was a little surprised that the memory scene was not in Hatchery, she still read on patiently.

At this time, Zhang Han was still relatively young, just a student who was about to take the college entrance examination. After a night of self-study, he nervously asked out his childhood sweetheart, whom he had a crush on.

He walked back and forth excitedly under the moonlight, reciting the lines he had thought of over and over again. He had obviously thought about it for a long time, but every word seemed inappropriate.

He is an introvert. If he hadn't been destined to move away from home after the college entrance examination, he would never have dared to do such a bold thing.

After a long time, the girl he admired appeared. She was dressed simply and came here under the moonlight.

In Chloe's eyes, this round-eared female girl is not beautiful. The ugliest among her maids is prettier than the girls. If there is any advantage, it is that she has a hint of immaturity.

That's right, among the palace and the nobility, even if the daughter has long understood the dirtiness of politics and has been involved in the struggle of interests, how can she be immature and naive? In that kind of environment, naive people need luck if they want to survive.

Zhang Han stared at the girl blankly, all the drafts he had just prepared in his mind disappeared. He opened his mouth like an idiot and couldn't say a word.

The girl was quite generous. She looked at Zhang Han with a smile, tilted her head and said, "Zhang Han, what are you doing calling me out so late?"

"I... I..." Nervousness made Zhang Han's mouth become less obedient, and even the words he had thought of in his mind couldn't come out.

The girl put her finger on her chin and said with a smile, "Are you going to confess your love to me? Look, I'm right here."

After hearing his intention being told by the girl, Zhang Han nodded dully, as if he felt a little like being led around by the girl.

"Oh, I can't understand it unless you say it yourself." The girl's words became even more playful.

Finally Zhang Han plucked up the courage and said loudly, "So-and-so, I like you!", but suddenly the memory stopped at this point.

Chloe's mind is full of doubts. Why is there not a Swarm in Overmind's memory, but this picture instead.

However, it was indeed quite fun. Thinking of this, Chloe smiled. At least she knew the name of an incarnation of Overmind.

No, once the fragments of Overmind's consciousness are spliced together, the memories of all those involved must be deleted. This secret cannot be known to more people!

Without stopping, Chloe began to watch the second memory.

There is nothing special about this memory. It is of a huge Swarm Consume fleet. They are conducting Consume operations in several galaxies.

A huge Leviathan approaches a blue planet. This Leviathan is so big that its body seems to be able to swallow the entire planet. This is the Leviathan carrying the consciousness of Overmind.

Just getting close, the planet pulled by Leviathan's gravitational force began to vibrate violently. In order not to tear the planet into pieces, it would affect Swarm's Consume actions.

Overmind ordered Leviathan to stop. A moment later, Leviathan shot out sporangia that could cover the star's light and landed on the planet.

The blue planet was instantly flooded with sporangia, and the defense fleets and defense platforms in orbit were as fragile as canoes in the storm.

Looking at it from another perspective, the side of the entire planet facing Leviathan has turned black, and it is covered with various Zerg units with strong Consume desires.

Next, Chloe saw that the planet was eaten up by Overmind's Consume fleet, not even air or water was left. When they left, only a bare rocky planet was left.

This memory is normal. In the course of the Swarm Consume galaxy, the number of planets like this Consume is measured in billions.

It's not completely Consume clean, just because the efficiency is too low and it's a waste of time.

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