How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 590: A 700,000-Year-Old Antique

I'm in.

The leap creature is next to the side of the mothership-class spacecraft, and the rhizome is etched from the chemical coordination hole, and the rhizome then breeds the collector, and the collector uses this method to invade the interior of the spacecraft through the small hole.

At the same time, the rhizomes will be full, which not only ensures that the jumping organisms will not leave the spacecraft, but also ensures that the internal air pressure of the spacecraft remains unchanged.

The collector looked around. It was in a corridor. There was an airtight lock on the left and right of the collector, and he could hear the sound of a suspected alarm. It should be that the owner of the spaceship had noticed that the collector their invasion.

However, this thing is useless to the collectors, because the collectors can play with chemistry and use the same method of breaking through the armor of the spaceship to break through the airtight lock. It will always work, the only difference is the time it takes.

The collector looked at the airtight locks on both sides, and then bred another individual.

Usually, when people face a fork in the road, they usually choose one of the fork roads to go down, but the collectors do not need to make a choice, they can increase the value of the individual, take a fork road by themselves, and other members of the same race take the fork roads they choose.

Let's split up. The collector said to his clan.

OK.

After thinking about it, the collector had a word of advice to this newcomer.

Remember to keep in radio contact at all times, you go that way, I go this way.

Um.

The method that the collectors used to deal with the outer shell of the spacecraft was also used on the airtight lock. After etching a suitable hole, they separately drilled into the opposite side of the airtight lock.

There is one thing that attracts the attention of the collectors, and that is the age of this spaceship.

While using chemical coordination to etch the outer armor of the spacecraft, the collectors also measured the atomic half-life, and the result was 700,000 years.

After a period of exploration, the collector inquired about another individual through the radio. During this period, it encountered many forks in the road, and gave birth to several other individuals of the same race to explore separately.

Where have you been? the gatherer asked the nearest kin.

I'm still in the channel, there are so many barrier layers, and it takes time to penetrate them with chemical coordination.

After confirming the situation, the collector told his fellows that he bred that these newborns were still inexperienced, and they were not even proficient in how to turn their brains around.

So far no aliens have been found, which is very strange. You have to pay attention to concealment. If you are attacked in such an environment, I can't provide you with support.

Okay, I'll be careful. The newborn individual replied.

The collector turned his attention back to himself, and there was a closed metal door in front of it. From the appearance, this door was different from the airtight door, that is, the door of a certain room, not the door To airtightly lock the channel.

I have found a room here and am trying to enter.

The old way, using chemical coordination, even though the metal door is extremely strong, collectors can easily enter behind this door.

The collector entered the back of the door, vigilantly observed the surrounding situation, digitized its own visual information, and sent it to its fellows outside the spaceship by radio.

The room is big, but not high, only long and wide. You can see a lot of tables and chairs. At a glance, it looks like a farmland with tables and chairs.

It feels like a special place for eating on this spaceship...

The collectors outside the spaceship muttered after seeing such a scene.

What is the basis for your thinking like this? asked other members of the same race.

There are a lot of tables and a lot of space here, which is very similar to the 'canteen' on the Serin side.

What is a cafeteria?

Today's collectors don't have a deep understanding of Serene people, because many of them have never seen Serene people since birth. The reason why they know Serene people is purely because they exist in their knowledge memory, and Once threatened the survival of the entire ethnic group.

It's a place dedicated to eating. Serene people are weird in some ways. They like to gather together to eat. Unlike us, they waste some time walking around. Because of these inexplicable behaviors, their production capacity has always been very low. .” The collector answered the questions of his fellow clansmen.

Then what can be found in such a place?

Uh...let me think about it. The collector was silent for a moment, and tentatively replied, The eating habits of aliens?

Another individual gave a more appropriate answer.

At the very least, we can learn about each other's elemental composition through their food.

The exploration is still going on, and the collectors rely on the infrared perspective to wander around in places without light sources, touching east and west, like curious babies.

A lot of dust has accumulated, it seems that this place has not been used for a long time...

The tables and chairs are placed neatly, but a lot of dust has accumulated on them. This spacecraft uses the rotation of the spacecraft to create artificial gravity, which also leads to conditions for dust accumulation.

After searching around, the collector did not find much, only found a place different from the tables and chairs. This place has a lot of buttons, and there is a solid long table in the large space where the tables and chairs are located. Across the table, something that looks like a chopping board can be seen on the long table.

Didn't see any food, no rubbish, very clean...

The collector muttering to himself suddenly fixed his eyes on one place. He saw behind a pile of silicon crystal plates, there were many gorgeous-looking containers on display. The containers were colorful, but at the same time they were also transparent. You could see the liquid inside.

Huh? This is...

The collector didn't hesitate too much, and even took out a transparent container and opened the package.

It didn't think too much, and directly drank the liquid in the container.

It's ammonia.

The collector made a judgment, and the drunk liquid was analyzed by the collector's miraculous stomach to obtain the most accurate composition ratio of the liquid, down to the molecular level.

There should be others... There are!

The collector saw a crimson button with a cover on the wall, it didn't even think about it, let go of the cover and pressed it directly.

Immediately, the entire canteen instantly became brightly lit, and the ceiling, floor, and walls in the room all turned into light bulbs, emitting bright light.

Oh—it's lit.

In addition to these changes, the collector also heard a strange sound. Following the sound, he could see a pair of mechanical arms protruding from the wall, and he didn't know what he was doing.

About six minutes later, the robotic arm held a plate and handed it to the collector.

On the plate is a charred black object, on which a transparent light green liquid is poured, and the periphery of the plate is decorated with green plants.

Uh... is this for me?

The collector was stunned for a moment. It could tell that this was a piece of food, so it took the plate, rolled up the scorched black object that was still hot with its tentacles, and ate it in one bite.

Ahh...

This genetic structure is... a silicon-based organism?

Although the high temperature will cause the gene chain to disintegrate, this does not prevent the collectors from analyzing what kind of organism the food came from. After all, the high temperature of the furnace has not yet reached the level of destroying the atomic structure.

Immediately the collector started another analysis, and this analysis was more difficult, because it had to rely on the remaining gene fragments to know in reverse what kind of organism this food came from.

Generally speaking, this is a difficult thing to do. It is like kneading a stone into powder and then reassembling the powder into the original complete stone, and there is no difference at all.

But the collectors can do it, because they have already verbalized the genes. To the collectors, genes are just a language, and they can say whatever they want without looking up a dictionary and spelling out words one by one read.

Let me see what this gene expression is.

Strange, according to the expression of this genetic blueprint, the transcribed organisms should only be the size of bacteria. Why is this food so big?

The collectors were puzzled by the answers they had found, and coupled with the previous calculation of the half-life of 700,000 years, the collectors' doubts expanded.

Obviously, in 700,000 years, sows will definitely be able to climb trees. A civilization, no, without a civilization, the people on a spaceship develop on their own, it is enough to build a civilization, and this civilization has the ability Developed to a height far beyond the collectors.

After simply wandering around a few more times, the collector didn't find anything new, so it decided to continue exploring elsewhere.

And soon, the collector found that its doubts and surprises in the cafeteria were nothing compared to what they saw afterwards.

After destroying an airtight gate, the collector came to a large space, and everything in front of him suddenly became clear. This time, not only the length and width, but also the height. This is a cubic space with a length, width, and height of three kilometers. The building is Pillars support this space.

Walking in this place, the collectors are like grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, dazzled and muttering to themselves.

where is this place?

Retracting his thoughts, the collector noticed that this place had not been used for a long time, and a lot of dust had accumulated.

Take another half-life sampling.

The collector stopped walking, randomly picked up a little material from his feet and put it in his mouth for analysis, the result was still the same as before.

Seven hundred thousand years.

Continuing to explore, the collectors came to the foot of these tall buildings and supporting pillars. Some areas had soil and were not covered by the floor.

What are these clearings?

The collector was puzzled—could it be that the builder of this spaceship was being lazy?

The collectors outside the spacecraft answered this question.

It should be a planting area for potted plants. The Serenes also like to put some useless things in their spaceships.

Don't be so absolute. This may be a food planting base, or it may be an air circulation room. There is such a special space in the Carter spaceship, which uses the photosynthesis of plants to circulate air.

They also went around several times, but the collectors couldn't find any useful clues at all. All the signs in the spaceship showed that this spaceship had not been used for a long time.

Maybe there are no aliens on this ship at all.

But this doesn't make sense in theory, because 700,000 years is really too long, and the spacecraft is still moving all the time, which doubles the probability of encountering danger.

If there are no people on this spaceship, who replied to us before? And if there is no one, how can this spaceship exist in 700,000 years?

After some discussions, the collectors still couldn't come to a conclusion, because there is too little information at present.

In short, let's find the source of the reply to us and make a conclusion.

The collector who was just about to leave the room heard the approach of an unknown object, like something rolling.

There is a sound? It's that direction!

It took only a second for the collector with sensitive five senses to lock on the source of the sound.

Taking a closer look, I found that the source of the sound was indeed rolling over. It was a metal ball with many patterns of mechanical parts on it. It should be the service robot on this spaceship.

The robotic orb heard the forager's approach, and unfolded into a robot.

It greets gatherers first.

Hello.

Can the machine talk?

The collector looked at the robot in front of him with astonishment.

It should just be a program.

The collectors outside the spaceship express their opinions, but their opinions cannot hold water.

No, it's speaking Serin. If it's programmed by the maker, it shouldn't be able to speak Serin.

The program is dead, and the only channel for this spaceship to obtain information in the language of the Selene is the language text that the collectors delivered not long ago for the purpose of diplomacy.

This also proves from the side that there are intelligent bodies on this spaceship!

And more likely, the intelligent body is the robot in front of the collector!

What... are you? The collector asked with some vigilance, A life? Or just a machine?

You asked...three questions...I can't...answer you...because I don't...know the answers either.

The robot's stumbling answer may be that the program is not good enough, or it may be that the hardware is not up to standard, and the words to the collector are intermittent.

Are you looking for me? the Gatherer asked.

Yes.

What do you want me for?

Seek... your... help.