Did the worm king lose his horse today [Interstellar]

Going forward, the environment in each illusion is getting worse and worse.From the first illusion, Gu Yue brought out several sets of battle armor for landing on the planet.Although it is not the most perfect version, it is more or less protective against this harsh illusion, allowing him to maintain his basic mobility.

In the earliest days, countless warriors were dressed in lower-end armor and were forced to carry out landing operations again and again. In this way, human beings' space road was built with a little bit of sacrifice.

Only at this time did the differences of different races become more prominent.The first time Gu Yue saw Gu Jiurong walking in a snowstorm wearing short sleeves, he thought for a long time and said, "Be careful...don't catch a cold."

Gu Jiurong: "...OK." Then he continued walking in the storm.

But no matter how bad the situation is, he can't easily deal with it. Fortunately, this is a civilized aborigine's illusion, and there are more or less buildings that can withstand this environment.

So he and Gu Yue hid in the building, allowing the swarm to walk under the tremendous gravity or enduring the extreme heat. The solid shell and scales gave them excellent protection.

If they fight in one place for a long time, they can quickly produce corresponding evolution, although not perfect.

Sometimes the thickness of the scales is sacrificed, so that they can relax and dissipate heat in battle; sometimes the body becomes short and flexible, so that it can pass through complex and obstructed ground; sometimes the sharp claws degenerate, and the toxin has a special mutation, It can easily corrode the unique building materials of this civilization.

These evolutions and adaptations that would take tens of thousands of years for other species to complete, they can complete in just a few weeks and months, and continue to improve, biting at the weakest point of the opponent with instinct.

This is not only because of the variable genetics of the swarm, but also because the growth cycle is different from other groups, and the troops come extremely quickly and cheaply.Humans and fallen empires take years to train a warrior, while Zerg only takes weeks or even days.

For unsuitable illusions, each population has completely different ways of coping.

The fallen empire uses unimaginable technology to transform the planet. Humans protect themselves with hard armor and buildings, and then conquer that land. However, the swarm can only continue to evolve itself to survive, eliminate the unsuitable part, and continue to grow. To plunder survival resources.

These three different ways are destined to have completely different development methods and thinking modes in the universe.

And from a certain day before, Gu Xingyan, Ye Zhengqing and the others finally made a move.

Gu Jiurong didn't leave a lot of insects in the original illusion, but only a few to observe the cracks. Although the spiritual connection between them became extremely blurred and basically uncontrollable, he still managed to see that group of people coming from Crack left.

Ye Zhengqing and the others soon realized that behind every crack was a different world.

Then they kept following the route cleared by the swarm.This is the only option, because they cannot destroy other illusions with their strength.

They moved extremely carefully and slowly, guarding against the Fallen Empire and Gu Jiurong at the same time.Being forced to follow the Zerg footsteps obviously made Gu Xingyan extremely uncomfortable, and his face didn't feel any better.

"It's okay, if they catch up, they will catch up." Talking about this matter, Gu Yue was indifferent.

Gu Jiurong was in an underground residence with him at this time.This civilization is really in dire straits. Every day or two, burning substances similar to fire rain will fall from the sky, with extremely deadly temperatures.Therefore, the aborigines of molluscs here have no way of farming, and can only collect special substances underground as energy and food.

"I can even imagine what they will say to you." Gu Jiurong lay beside him and yawned.

Gu Yue said: "It's probably the same reaction I used to have." He smiled, "You see that I am already like this, why don't you pester me to sleep with me at night? You don't even try to comfort me."

Gu Jiurong: "...you have said that, do you think I will still pester you?"

Gu Yue rubbed his head and said nothing.

Gu Jiurong felt a little guilty, this was not the real reason.Now he is more and more haunted by that black nightmare at night, and he is afraid that once he sleeps with Gu Yue, it will be exposed.

The power of the white light is getting stronger and stronger, it seems to be constantly learning, and soon the technology of speaking human language or generating the mental fluctuations of the Zerg became more proficient. It just sounds like a normal person without the blunt words and weird voice.

Finally, for one time, it could condense into a clear human form.

Different from the hideous appearance in Gu Jiurong's dream, it looks like an ordinary human being in the light.

Gu Yue asked bluntly: "Are you studying time?"

"...Yes." Bai Guang replied, "Your address should be 'you', we are a whole."

"What accident happened, is it related to your stagnant development? Your experiment failed?"

The white light shook for a moment: "Your language is inefficient, and may even cause ambiguity. It should have disappeared in the ocean of spiritual power long ago. Human beings, pay attention to your words. It is impossible for a fallen empire to fail, and our fleet will be destroyed at any time. Can destroy your fragile civilization."

Gu Yue smiled: "Then you don't want us to help. And if you can really destroy our civilization, why did it take so long to attack the earth? There were only a few small fleets from beginning to end."

The light flickered even more: "You should be thankful that we are a higher group, and we will not be influenced by simple anger. The sacrifice will not be unrewarded, and we will give you what you want according to our promise."

Gu Jiurong was leaning against Gu Yue to play a terminal game, when he heard the words, he casually said: "Your attitude is too bad, if you open your mouth and keep your mouth shut, you are superior or inferior."

Gu Yue bent his eyes and smiled, scratching his chin: "Yeah. Let's go then."

"Okay."

Bai Guang: "..."

Bai Guang: "Your ethnic group is not without merit. Although we are backward, we still appreciate it very much and are willing to share our technology with you. Including, that dock."

Gu Jiurong didn't bother to care about the attitude of this ethnic group, he only cared about the dock: "So how are you going to give us the dock?"

"It's very simple." Bai Guang's tone was a little arrogant again, "It's just a trivial matter. Human beings, you want to have a dock, right? We can completely change the command mode of the fleet and reduce mental stress by suppressing the ship's energy supply. , so you can bear it."

Gu Jiurong said: "Then I can't let Leviathan drag the dock away? Remember to think of a way for me."

Bai Guang: "..." It flickered several times, presumably unable to bear the sarcasm of Gu Jiurong, but in the end he answered simply, "Our technology is not that simple, this dock itself is a huge star." The ship has the ability to travel faster than the speed of light."

Gu Jiurong felt relieved, and leaned comfortably against Gu Yue, flicking the tip of his tail.He didn't care about other things anymore, so Gu Yue continued to ask: "Then, why did you stop expanding?"

Bai Guang said nothing.

"If you want to solve this matter, tell us." Gu Yue said, "This is the real sincerity. Before we fully understand your civilization and experience, we can't face unknown dangers."

The white light shook again for a few seconds, and Gu Jiurong could feel their consciousness entangled, and finally one side completely occupied the top.

It said: "It takes a lot of hard work for you to fully understand our great civilization and our long past. I will try to explain it to you as simply as possible. This matter must start from a long, long time ago."

"At that time, your human and Zerg civilizations were still in their infancy, and we were just entering the space age. In your minds, we should not remember this because of the time span, but the great spirit that connects us allows us to share all Knowledge and memory, this is why we are strong."

"You have to go through the inefficient process of so-called 'learning', which does not exist for us. Everything is inherited. After the individual dies, the spiritual energy will return to the huge ocean, and will be born as a new individual soon. "

"Although it takes time to fully grow into a mature fighter, the collective memory will not disappear. After the new individual is mentally stable, he can immediately return to scientific research positions or serve as commanders."

"Spiritual power is a sufficiently efficient way of communication. Our progress is very fast, and technology is leaping and expanding. In a certain point, our point of view is consistent with that of the swarm: disputes have no effect in the group, and the unity of thought gives birth to will unity, we must do everything in our power to act in tandem."

Gu Jiurong nestled into Gu Yue's arms and listened quietly.The mystery about the fallen empire has finally unfolded slowly.

"Everything is going on in an orderly manner. According to your time calculation, 570 years after entering the space age, we have found a brand new spiritual substance in another star field - there are no corresponding words and concepts in your vocabulary, so we can only do this Call it rough."

"At the beginning, no one knew what that substance could be used for, until one day, scientific practitioners discovered that it could respond to the passage of time."

"The response was so complex that even we spent nearly 200 years working on it. Then a ecstatic possibility opened up to us: that time could be manipulated."

"Humans and insects both rely on reproduction to continue the population. Although we can continue to resurrect from the spiritual sea, energy is not conserved. As early as the early days of the space age, we realized that one day the spiritual sea of ​​the ethnic group will be completely consumed. Then What kind of ending we will usher in at that time, no one can know."

"So only this way can make our group truly become the overlord of the universe."

Gu Jiurong said, "Then you lost control?"

The white light flickered for a while: "That was just an accident. Our powerful civilization shouldn't stay here. Originally, these territories were our territory. We should be the ideology advocated by all primitive species and their leader."

Gu Yue said: "I sympathize with your experience out of morality, but things like the decline of civilization should not be simply described as 'accidents'. If one day human beings go to destruction, I can only think of it as a historical event." inevitable."

"...Maybe you are right." The white light suddenly went dark, appearing decadent, "We have seen too much of the danger of the universe and the helplessness of decline."

"So what happened to the loss of control?" Gu Jiurong asked.

"After mastering the matter, we need a medium to drive it to the maximum effect, so as to spread to the entire empire."

"Before this plan was implemented, all the small experiments were very successful. After the individuals who absorbed the material died, the time was frozen on them, and there would be no loss when they returned to the spiritual ocean."

"The first thing we created was a few rings. If we impact the rings with extremely powerful spiritual power, we can completely resonate with the matter. But unfortunately, individuals do not have such strong spiritual power. We spent a lot of time Time didn't work out either."

"Then we tried new methods, and after more than 100 years, we finally created two special stargates—the buildings you've seen before."

"Theoretically speaking, creatures passing through the first star gate will spontaneously resonate with matter and fix the time on their bodies. The second star gate is our escape route. Once we find that something is wrong, even at the cost of destroying the individual's spirit, we will It is also necessary to prevent this unstable substance from contaminating the population."

"Things didn't go the way we thought they would. The spiritual substance... has a consciousness of its own."

Gu Jiurong was stunned: "Is it a living thing?"

"We don't know, and we still don't know." Bai Guang said, "It's neither a living creature nor a purely spiritual body. We can't understand it."

Gu Yue said: "In other words, it also has its own civilization?"

"Maybe there is, we haven't found it yet. If there is such a existence, our civilization must not be able to surpass it." The white light began to become unstable, and continued to drift in the air.

"After our large-scale group was contaminated with matter, it began to corrode our spiritual sea. So the star gate was no longer under control, and even began to actively erode other healthy companions. Our technology gave it enough terrifying power, now It turned the spearhead on us."

"It wandered endlessly, catching any creature that came near. This substance spread in the spirit world like a virus in human civilization, and eventually our great empire fell. It left us all, in the same day .”

The white light was dazzling, and suddenly burned like a flame.

"Can you imagine that feeling? No matter how far the fleet flies, no matter how far it uses the wormhole to escape, it will return to the original place at the moment when time returns to zero. We spent countless hours and used all conceivable methods Can't escape!!"

The light fluctuated violently: "For too many years, we have been circulating in the same day like this, and we can't escape that small territory until we die. We invade other civilizations, we slaughter other species, we colonize other planets, it is all useless ! Everything will return to zero! So what if civilization is destroyed, our buildings and fleet will disappear when they land, and everything will return to the original state!"

"...Wait." After a brief shock, Gu Yue immediately came back to his senses, "If there is no way to continue to expand, then why are you able to occupy the earth? Your buildings are developing on the earth, which makes it impossible for us to return."

Guang Guang calmed down a little, with a cold chill: "Then you have to ask the people in your group. This is just an experiment by us, which proves that if other species don't cooperate, we really have nothing to do." way to expand aggression."

"In the alliance..." Gu Yue frowned.

"As I said before, unity is the key to hegemony. Human beings have obviously failed to achieve it. Busy internal strife and fighting with each other have consumed too much of your resourcefulness, resources and time." The light flickered again, "I don't want to mock your civilization. Because while human beings have shortcomings, there are indeed things we can't do."

"Many of our fleets cannot fly near the Earth in a single day, so humanity has been fighting only a few advanced fleets. What impresses us most in our battles with you humans is that even And meaningless situations, your individual can make sacrifices for another individual, and willingly."

"This is one of the few thoughts that we cannot have and understand, and it is probably your uniqueness."

"After all, humans and Zerg also survived in the universe for a short period of time, proving that they are qualified to be members of the space age. Since the emotions exist, there must be a reason."

Its figure was already dim, and the time of the day was coming to an end.It made a last effort to speak a few words, but failed, and the white light completely drifted away.

The illusion was quiet again.

Recalling the huge star gate again, it seemed as if one could see the unwilling decline of a huge empire through the icy shell.

That night, Gu Jiurong's dream became even darker.The tide will submerge him again, drowning in the deepest seabed.

In the most difficult situation, the silver-white ring hanging on the chest has a scorching temperature.

It scorched Gu Jiurong's chest and soul, and when another terrifying pointer sound struck, it gave off a faint light.

In a blur, he seemed to hear the voices of Celia and Shao Yufeng again.

It was still the familiar voice and the familiar dialogue, but Gu Jiurong finally heard the second half of that dialogue.

"And even if we die," Shao Yufeng was speaking, "that thing can still be left to this little guy, and he might have a place to use it. But," he said with a smile, "find us in the Fallen Empire Before, we even beat time."

"You humans," Celia's language was still blunt at this time, "you really like cubs."

"Who doesn't like it?" Shao Yufeng laughed, "I have made too many little kids cry over the years, because their parents died on the battlefield or something like that. I don't care about them, even if they die in front of me. .But he's totally different because of you."

In his vague memory, Shao Yufeng came over and touched Gu Jiurong's face.

The young insect king is not used to this kind of intimacy, there is no such part in the gene.So he wanted to attack the comer by instinct as before, but the baby's strength was too weak to constitute an effective resistance, and he was successfully rubbed on the face several times by Shao Yufeng, so angry that he was dying.

"Why so fierce?" Shao Yufeng pinched his face again, turned his head and said to Celia, "It's very similar to you."

"Zerg, it has always been like this." Celia said, "Of course my descendants also have such excellent genes."

"Of course I know that this is your way of life." Shao Yufeng turned his gaze back to Jiurong again, "But I said it, you are different from him. I didn't believe it before, but you are so rich like your life I actually have it too, and when I want to give someone else something I've snatched with all my might, I'm still fucking willing."

He pretended to sigh helplessly: "Just thinking about it, a villain like me who deserves to go to hell has the illusion that he is a good person and has a normal life. It is a new experience. Maybe in a long time A long time ago, I wanted to have a home."

"It suddenly came true now. To be honest, I still can't believe it. It's ridiculous to say that I just realized that I was not so bad. I found the flower under the blood-stained abyss."

"Celia, he's as lovely as you."

Under the brilliance of the stars, the pirate leader concealed all his arrogance and ferocity, like any ordinary elder who smiled until there were fine lines at the corners of his eyes, he gently grabbed Gu Jiurong's hand that was about to wave to attack, and rubbed it Rub your palms.

He said, "So you see, this is the light of my life."