Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 343

Laplace

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Look away from the rat people. It is too easy for them to destroy a civilization without heaven.

Since becoming Overmind, Zhang Han came to Hatchery, especially Hive, the opportunities have become less and less. Even when encountering major events that require attention, Zhang Han only has a little energy to come forward.

But this time, he manipulated the body of Overmind to solemnly come to a special Hatchery, and solemnly looked at the green Hatchery Pool that was full of life energy.

What came this time was not a consciousness, but Overmind consciousness and human consciousness. They waited quietly together, feeling the increasingly powerful aura in Hatchery Pool.

The two minds who originally liked to quarrel with each other were also very silent at this time.

A few minutes later, a force erupted from the inside of Hatchery Pool. One tentacle pierced the cocoon wrapped in nutrient solution, then the second and third tentacles.

This time, the ferocious tentacles of flesh and blood climbed up along the inner wall of Hatchery Pool, like an octopus. Zhang Han watched as the two-meter-thick tentacles stretched out from the green nutrient solution, grabbed the outer wall of Hatchery Pool and pulled his body up.

Its body is so huge that the shadow under the nutrient solution occupies the entire incubation pool. This is the incubation pool of the sixth-level insect nest. The output of fighting insects exceeds eight million every day.

The head emerged bit by bit from under the nutrient solution, and the huge existence that slowly rose up could be seen clearly. It was a 'brain' with a width of more than two hundred meters, and it was covered with various thick tentacles.

"The Demonic Insect Laplace, Swarm welcomes you back." The thirty-meter-tall Overmind body said as he looked up at the monster-like behemoth in front of him.

"You actually woke me up? Is Operation Galaxy Consume over? What special genes or technologies have you collected?" the demonic insect replied, shaking the air with its mental power.

"No, not yet, let me explain to you what happened." Zhang Han put his hand on one of Laplace's tentacles and pulled its spiritual body into his own consciousness space.

In the consciousness space, Zhang Han did not hide himself with gray fog this time, but once again revealed his human-like consciousness.

The form of the consciousness can be disguised, but generally this is not done because it will affect the consciousness of the self. After being a chameleon for a long time, it will not remember what it is.

In front of Zhang Han, Laplace's consciousness is a mountain, a Meat Mountain made of flesh and blood. It is huge, towering into the clouds, and the mountain is covered with the characteristics of various insects, and they also have their own micro-expressions.

With the powerful mental power of the two spirits of Zhang Han temporarily merged into one, when seeing this kind of thing, the sanity level was greatly hit, as if seeing an evil god.

After taking two deep breaths to calm down the discomfort in his heart, Zhang Han packaged up his memories, the recent development of Swarm, and the information about the galaxy and sent them to Laplace.

It only took five seconds after the message was transmitted, and Meat Mountain-like Laplace responded.

"I didn't expect this galaxy to be so strange. Are you the current Overmind?" Laplace seemed to look at Zhang Han with non-existent eyes, and continued, "Yes, such a great Overmind. Since the purpose of hatching and awakening me is to study Shroud, please allocate computing power to me and let me start working."

"..." Zhang Han was very surprised by Laplace's attitude. As the original insect, the first carrier of Overmind's consciousness, didn't Laplace have any other opinions about him? He didn't hide any memories.

Laplace's mental power is very strong. Just after he was hatched, he was on the same level as Zhang Han before he had split consciousness.

Now that he has experienced so much, Zhang Han's human consciousness and the mental power of Overmind's consciousness have increased significantly. Now the two combined into one are only about one-third stronger than Laplace.

"Don't you have any opinion about me, the respected Primordial Insect?" Unable to bear it, Zhang Han still asked. "My core logical consciousness does not come from Swarm, but from a place called Earth. For me like this, don't you object to me controlling Swarm?"

"I am a member of Swarm, why should I oppose my own Overmind?" Zhang Han could hear a smile from Laplace's words.

Under Zhang Han's astonished gaze, Meat Mountain, who made people crazy, turned into an old man, an old man who did not exist in Zhang Han's memory, but who made people feel friendly at first sight.

"I think our new Overmind lacks some knowledge and understanding of Swarm. As the original insect, I also have something to tell Overmind."

The old man stretched out his hand and transformed into a table and two antique chairs. After signaling with his hand, he sat down first.

Zhang Han was not polite and walked up and sat down. He did have his own confusion and confusion. It would be great if Laplace could help him clear up his confusion.

"There is something called tea in your culture that is very good. Fortunately, Swarm's database is very powerful and it is very easy to find similar drinks." After that, the old man teapot made a cup of tea for Zhang Han.

"Mental power is a very useful thing. It can be simulated as long as there is relevant data. Swarm not only knows Consume and killing, we can also have a good understanding of art, culture and aesthetics."

He picked up the tea and took a sip. It tasted good. To be honest, before time travel, Zhang Han was not a wealthy person, and he had never dabbled in tea. He only thought it tasted good, but he didn't know why it tasted good.

"Young Overmind, you know that I invented Swarm Network. Do you know how I invented it and the purpose of inventing it?" The old man looked at Zhang Han and asked happily.

Although these problems are all in Swarm Network's database, Zhang Han has never seen it once. He only thinks that Swarm Network is easy to use and dangerous, but he has never seriously understood it.

"Is it for better governance and unity Swarm?" Zhang Han said tentatively.

"Hahaha, that's just the result, yes and no." After laughing for a while, Laplace said, "At first, I just wanted to save Zerg. Every civilized race does not want its civilization to perish, and I am the same."

"This is the history of Zerg. It is a long story, so please listen to me while drinking tea..." Laplace poured another cup of tea for Zhang Han.

"Our home planet is a cruel place. It is full of vitality and energy and has produced a large number of lives. Once any life is born, it will face the dual pressure of evolution and survival. The same goes for Swarm. However, we did not give ourselves names at that time. Other races gave us many names of such and such Zerg."

"In order to evolve and survive, life hurts each other and preys on each other. This is the law of nature. Nowadays, such a norm can be found on any wild and living planet. Later, we took this law as the criterion for our development."

"In the process of constantly devouring each other with other species, by accident, we gained the ability to plunder the genes of other species. In fact, all species have this ability, and most species will undergo morphological changes due to their own diet. However, we are more efficient and more extreme."

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