Academician Xiao picked up the tissue that was connected to the brain of the Insect King and handed it to the Little Crab. Upon seeing this, the Little Crab immediately understood what to do and directly connected to the tissue with its tentacles.
Suddenly, the Little Crab released its tentacles and fell straight into the liquid below. Academician Xiao quickly scooped Little Crab up; the Little Crab had already lost its vital signs and was limp and hanging in Academician Xiao's hand.
Academician Xiao pondered for a moment, then took out another Little Crab and connected it to the Insect King through another tissue. However, a few seconds later, the Little Crab immediately began to convulse. Academician Xiao ripped the Little Crab off, and the Little Crab trembled in Academician Xiao's hand as if it had been greatly frightened. A moment later, it also lost its vital signs.
"Don't even try to control me or get anything useful from my mind, you will all die, you will all die!" The Insect King's voice echoed in Academician Xiao's mind again.
Accompanied by a strong shock to his Consciousness Field, Academician Xiao also felt a splitting headache. He was too close to the Insect King's brain. If the Insect King hadn't been in a weakened state, Academician Xiao probably would have fainted. Seeing this, Chen Peng immediately ordered the RoboCop to smash the Insect King's brain with a single slash.
The Insect King died instantly, leaving only its massive torso twitching uncontrollably, continuing to convulse with the pain transmitted from its brain. The Insect Race's neural transmission speed is very fast; it received the signal of brain death in an instant, but the body continued to experience this pain until several minutes later when everything returned to calm.
Meanwhile, the Insect King in the other large pit seemed to sense something and began to struggle frantically. Its head and Reversed State began to rub against each other, cutting several gashes hundreds of meters long and tens of meters deep. Juice gushed down like a waterfall, but the Insect King didn't care at all and continued to struggle bitterly.
Academician Xiao returned to normal, looking at the dead Insect King and the trembling Little Crab in his hand, wondering what terrible things and sights the Little Crab had sensed.
The Little Crab is merely a rudimentary synthetic organism. Aside from its parasitic effects on living organisms, it possesses little intelligence. Due to Little Crab specific purpose, Academician Xiao's numerous improvements have only enhanced Little Crab loyalty and parasitic influence, without imbuing it with intelligence. Adding intelligence would raise ethical issues; even as a biological product, it would be emotionally difficult to accept. Furthermore, excessive intelligence would hinder control. The Little Crab's subtle and gradual influence is the most suitable approach.
"Academician, what do we do now?"
"It's impossible to get any useful information from the Insect King, but I already have some ideas. For now, I'll completely envelop the Insect King in Reversed State and bury it inside this planet. I'll deal with it when I make progress. To be on the safe side, I'll move the planet outside the galaxy after it's finished."
"Okay, Academician."
Back at the base, Academician Xiao picked up a brain tissue sample from the Far Watcher Civilization. The Insect King's Consciousness Field was so strong; how could the Far Watcher Civilization's brain withstand it?
Where does consciousness originate, how is it born, and how can it be utilized? Academician Xiao has been studying this diligently for years, but without much progress. He only knows that the Consciousness Field must originate from consciousness, and it has nothing to do with the level of intelligence. Even the complex structure of nebulae can generate consciousness, which shows that the universe is not lacking in the conditions for generating consciousness.
However, Academician Xiao and other academicians in the Department of Biology tried to create many life forms by controlling atoms. These life forms were truly artificial life forms, but no matter how hard they tried, the life forms they created had no consciousness. This was also the case with life forms replicated according to biological prototypes. More than 10,000 years ago, when microscopic technology was not yet perfect, Academician Xiao created artificial humans.
Later, Academician Xiao created various other life forms, from advanced to primitive. As long as they were synthesized from atoms, none of them had consciousness. But strangely, any life form that was artificially synthesized, as long as it grew naturally and was of poor quality, would develop consciousness after the success. It's possible that this consciousness was crazy or chaotic, but at least it would exist.
After returning to the base, Academician Xiao immediately rushed to produce a large crab. It took two years for the crab to grow to more than ten meters tall and several tens of meters wide. It was not good-looking and its intelligence was less than that of a real crab. When this large crab came out of the breeding room, it really gave the academicians a headache.
It's big, strong, and incredibly clingy. It'll grab the academicians with its tentacles and lick them, leaving them covered in slime and making a mess of the lab. Luckily, the crab is quite obedient to Academician Xiao. After playing for a while, it quietly lay down on the lab floor, letting the academicians do all sorts of tests on it.
The test was completed, and the giant crab was taken aboard the warship to the outer reaches of the galaxy, more than 5,000 light-years away. The other living Insect King was buried inside a planet outside the galaxy. Now, Academician Xiao was preparing to conduct another test to see how much information the Little Crab could obtain from the Insect King.
Five million Reaper ships remained stationed near this planet. The fleet used a spatial attack to shred the planet into pieces, exposing the Reversed State sphere buried inside. A wave of magnetic field lines was launched, and the outermost Third Reversed State immediately turned into energy and dissipated into the air.
The Insect King was still bound. Although it hadn't received any energy replenishment from the Reversed State Sphere over the years, it had recovered a lot of its strength. The huge wound on its head, hundreds of meters deep, that had been cut by the Reversed State had disappeared, which was no longer surprising. It would have been strange if it hadn't healed.
Having gained experience from dissecting the first insect, Academician Xiao directly ordered the Reaper to launch antimatter, using it to consume the positive matter in the Insect King's head. Tens of thousands of tons of antimatter were fired, creating a huge deep space in the Insect King's head. The energy burst of antimatter did not cause fatal damage to the Insect King, but only made it suffer greatly and struggle bitterly.
Academician Xiao ignored the Insect King's pain and went straight in through the breach, accurately locating the Insect King's brain. This time, he used an enlarged version of Little Crab and made some optimizations and improvements to the Insect King so that it wouldn't be scared to death. He hoped that the crab could control the Insect King and reveal some information.
Although the Little Crab is just an ordinary new species, it embodies the hard work of Academician Xiao and all the other academicians in the Department of Biology over tens of thousands of years, and can be said to be the crystallization of cutting-edge biotechnology.
This time, Academician Xiao found the thinnest tissue connecting to the brain and asked the big crab to make the connection. Upon seeing the tissue handed over by Academician Xiao, the Little Crab immediately raised a tentacle and connected to the tissue.
Suddenly, the giant crab began to tremble. Academician Xiao immediately raised his knife and cut off the Insect King's tissue, but it was too late. The giant crab had already fallen into the fluid inside the Insect King's body, trembling all over. Academician Xiao checked and found that the giant crab was dead, but its muscle tissue was still twitching.
Only one sentence and one picture were conveyed to Academician Xiao's mind.
"Humans, run! Run!" This was a message sent by the giant crab controlling the Insect King.