How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 170: The Night Before

In the dark night, a gatherer differentiated from the rhizome, but it didn't do anything, just stood still on the huge rhizome that looked like the ground, staring upward at the night.

Without the pollution from the flames of civilization, the sky at night is extraordinarily bright, and the stars cover the entire sky, dotted with stars. This is a beauty that is difficult to see in the big cities on the earth.

【Hogu, what are you looking at? 】

The collectors were basically arranged by Huogu to hide in the refuge built by Ming. This collector is just an organic organism that simply lodged with Huogu.

Look at the stars.

[... I remember that the visual ability of the collectors is not outstanding, right? Wouldn't it be better to use other organisms to observe celestial bodies? 】

Collectors' observation capabilities are not strong. After all, the original intention of manufacturing is just 'labor', and their strengths are only endurance.

If you want to observe the movement of celestial bodies, you can use organisms that specialize in receiving electromagnetic waves to observe, and the efficiency of using collectors to observe is extremely low in Ming's opinion.

So Ming felt very strange about this.

I'm not here to get information, I just want to see more.

The starry sky of the collectors boarded by Huo Gu showed a hint of color in the eyes of the starry sky.

If you don't look at it now, you won't see it later.

[? ? ? 】

【What happened? 】

[Aliens probably haven't discovered our plan yet. 】

No, take it easy, it's not about the aliens, I'm talking about something else.

Speaking of aliens, we're going to have a battle with their fleet in a few days.

When Huo Gu mentioned this, he felt a strange fluctuation in Ming's thinking.

Ming, are you nervous?

Huogu interpreted this strange fluctuating mood in this way.

【This... In Huogu's words, it means—I always feel a little uneasy. 】

Fear of failure, not wanting to fail—this is Ming's idea.

Ming's situation is not incomprehensible to Huogu, this is the first time it has been the leader of the plan, before it either worked alone or cooperated, and it was the first time in his life that it was pushed to the center as the leader.

Accidents are more likely to occur when the state is not good.

Don't worry about it, if there is an accident, I will help you fix it.

[Well, I see. 】

After learning about Huo Gu's information, Ming still felt emotionally affected, but compared to before, he was much calmer. In analogy, it is equivalent to the difference between a strong wind and a huge wave and an ordinary sea tide.

Ming remembered his purpose of coming to find Huo Gu.

【By the way, Huo Gu, do you have that...uh, distant goal? 】

[No, no, it doesn't seem to be called that...]

【How to say...】

Ming's expression was very confusing. Although the life field can ignore communication barriers, if the meaning of the expression is ambiguous at the beginning, even the life field will appear to be very weak.

Huo Gu summed up the fragmentary information expressed by Ming and asked tentatively.

You mean 'big ambition'?

[Yes, this is it. 】

Why do you suddenly want to ask this?

[Before, Si obtained a lot of knowledge and information from the aliens. When I was helping to sort it out, I saw some incident records from the aliens. 】

Ming's message successfully aroused Huogu's interest.

Event record? Tell me.

[In the early days of the alien civilization, there existed certain large creatures with the ability to far crush the individual aliens. They could go to the sky and enter the underground sea, and they could use a variety of chemical attacks in their mouths. They liked to rob the status of the alien civilization. Extremely tall females, imprisoning them in their lairs. 】

For food?

【……It does not seem. 】

[In short, after the alien colony was attacked by this creature, the spouse of the female alien began to embark on a journey to rescue the kidnapped female. After experiencing various encounters, the strength will be gained through experience and the interaction of various factors Strengthen, finally defeat or kill the large creatures, and rescue the imprisoned female...]

【... After returning, he became the one with the highest power and status in civilization. 】

Why do I always feel that the 'event record' of this alien is so familiar? ——Huogu felt a little inexplicable, but he still thought about it carefully.

So what does this have to do with 'big ambitions'?

Huo Gu thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what this 'ambition' had to do with it.

[Don't you think it's a great thing for that male alien to dare to challenge an enemy whose strength is far from his own? He knew that he couldn't win, but he still chose to challenge because he set himself a goal that was almost impossible to cross. 】

When describing it, Ming was a little agitated, as if this record of events made him feel very excited.

However, Huo Gu was indifferent to it.

That's 'heroic' plus 'opportunity'. It's a good name, but it's 'impulse' plus 'luck'. The final result is 'chance', a matter of probability, and has nothing to do with 'inevitability'.

Also, I think this seems to have nothing to do with 'big ambition', right?

Huogu still couldn't understand why Ming would think of 'big ambition' because of that - because of the different thinking patterns, so the understanding is also different?

Probably because the radio waves were not compatible, Ming gave up on explaining and forcibly changed the topic back to the previous question.

[So, Huo Gu, what is your great ambition? 】

[You must be so powerful, right? tell me chant. 】

Ming is looking forward to it, Huogu can feel its emotions, it seems to have decided that Huogu has this kind of thing, the first thing to think about is not whether Huogu has it, but what is Huogu's big ambition.

The kindness is hard to refuse, and Huogu is not easy to refuse, it thought for a while, and answered.

Well, I actually have great ambitions.

That is—to live forever.

【this one? 】

Ming's feeling, if described vividly, would be equivalent to a basin of cold water suddenly extinguishing a flame.

Well, that's it. The longer I live, the more scenery I can see. Maybe I will be able to touch these things myself instead of just looking at them like I am now. I can't bear to give up this opportunity.

Huogu took it for granted, that was its original goal, and it was this from beginning to end.

【But this is too...】

Small?

【Is not it? 】

As the collector of Hogu's host body, he shook his head slightly, and the micro-movements of human thoughts acted on this organism.

You think that you haven't seen enough.

Huogu refocused his attention on the starry sky above his head. Compared with the vast and endless night sky, the collectors under the sky of stars were as small as dust.

One day you will find that even if you just want to live...

...It's also that difficult.