Puppeteer [Interstellar]

About half of the fifteen days had passed, Lyle still hadn't found the group of Earth Lost, and at this time most of the resources on Lyle's body had been consumed. When Lyle checked the substances on his body, Lyle's consciousness He realized that if he still hadn't found any news about the missing persons that night, he would have to return.

They don't have enough resources, and they don't have much food. Most importantly, Lyle's oxygen reserves and air fresheners have also been used up a lot, which is the most important thing.

Food and water are easy to talk about. Although there are not many resources on the earth, some animals can still be hunted occasionally, and the occasional water source can also replenish water, but the air is too deadly for Lyle, and he cannot adapt to living in such a place. environment to survive.

So after this night, Lyle has to go back. He may try to take another road when he returns, so that he can expand the area on the map that he has not explored. Maybe he will be able to find those on the return trip. The survivors are gone.

But it's just maybe, the probability is too slim, and Lyle can't help thinking about whether it would be better if he chose another road when he set out.If he didn't go across the desert, but went in the opposite direction, he might have found the remnants by now.

But Lyle has no room for repentance. After all, time cannot be turned back. This is not a game, and there is no chance to restart after loading the file. Therefore, Lyle still has no choice but to move forward.

It's just that this night is destined to be an uneasy night.

Lyle and Scar continued to move forward as usual, continuing to search for traces of the leftovers on the earth, but an unexpected situation happened suddenly!

Lyle saw the meteor first!

While driving his skateboard forward, he inadvertently glanced at the pitch-black night, and saw a very bright, meteor-like thing streaking across the sky, and the speed of that thing was not particularly special. Fast, or compared to a real meteor, its flight speed is a bit too slow.

Lyle didn't intend to pay attention to that meteor-like thing, and of course he didn't believe in the saying that "seeing a shooting star makes a wish", he just found that the "shooting star" seemed to be getting closer and closer to him, and it was just a small one at first. The small bright spots then began to grow larger, and the direction and angle of their flight were basically heading towards Lyle.

Lyle didn't know why at the time, he just looked at the "stars" in the sky curiously, but Scar beside him suddenly moved!He suddenly hugged Lyle into his arms, and controlled Lyle's magnetic levitation skateboard with one hand, turning on the extreme speed mode of the skateboard.

Then, Ska held Lyle in one hand, and controlled the skateboard with the other, on the rugged mountain road, in the dark night, along the road all the way!

Scar's action was too fast, and Lyle hadn't figured out the situation yet, so he nestled in Scar's arms a little dizzy. Although he didn't know what Scar wanted to do, but he didn't know why, he felt that Scar He is very handsome, whether in terms of appearance or his unparalleled mobility, he is so handsome that Lyle is in a mess.

After Ska took Lyle for a long distance on the skateboard, the "star" that fell rapidly from the sky over there hit the ground directly after a loud noise that pierced the sky!

At the same time as it hit, it was accompanied by the sparks ignited when it moved at high speed and broke through the atmosphere, as well as the violent earthquake caused by hitting the ground. The moment it hit the ground, a huge deep pit was also dug out on the ground.

Fortunately, Ska took Lyle and escaped with the skateboard in a very timely manner, otherwise, the two of them would have been smashed into a huge hole in the ground by the "star" just now.

After leaving the dangerous area, Ska stopped the rapid slide of the skateboard, and the two of them stopped, and looked back at the same time to see the huge deep hole that was smashed out behind them.

At first, Lyle thought it was something like a meteorite. It is common for meteorites to hit various planets, but he also felt that the meteorite happened to hit the area he was driving, almost on top of his head. This is really too much of a coincidence.

But then Lyle discovered that it wasn't a meteorite at all.

In the deep pit that was smashed out, some soil and stones were burned by the high temperature brought by the falling objects, and turned into scorched stones emitting green smoke. A strange smell of burning substances.

And in that huge deep pit, after the surrounding dust gradually settled, Lyle held a flashlight in the night, and vaguely saw a huge black unknown object in the center of the deep pit.

And it was a moving black unknown object.

It seemed to be slowly wriggling its body in the bottom of the smoky pit, then stretched out its limbs, unfolded something like wings, and then gradually got up from the bottom of the pit, revealing its long tail and flicking it back and forth Go, it seemed to have discovered Lyle and Scar immediately, turned its head and let out a sharp howl towards Lyle.

Its voice was very sharp, and it was creepy to listen to. Lyle was shocked by the cry, and he suddenly realized what the monster at the bottom of the pit was!

"The Zerg...!? Why are they here?" Lyle was shocked and couldn't help muttering to himself, but before he understood why, Ska by his side moved again, holding Lyle with one arm and continuing on the road. He had to take Lyle to a place safe enough to avoid the bug's pursuit.

Do not doubt that the Zerg is the only alien creature with high intelligence discovered by humans so far, and it is a creature with an extremely strong hostile will. Their development and civilization are completely different from humans. It can even be said that they are... A super life form beyond human imagination.

Why is it called a super life form?Because they can travel in the universe, relying only on their own strength.

Without mechs, battleships, spaceships, and without relying on any external objects, they can fly in the starry sky by their own strength, span tens of millions of light-years, travel through time-space wormholes, and travel directly from a galaxy. Bounce to another galaxy!

If it's just like this, then that's fine, but the problem is, this kind of super life form survives by gnawing on the planet!

What kind of concept is eating the planet?

That means they eat everything, organic and inorganic, living and non-living, whether it's living flesh and blood, or hard rock and dry soil, even metal and minerals.

But under normal circumstances, they still choose to eat more delicious and nutritious things, that is, living things.

After the encounter between the Zerg and humans, this terrible race has been chasing humans as if they had discovered precious and delicious food. They drove humans away bit by bit, like wolves chasing sheep. Trying to take what they need from humans, they want to eat up humans bit by bit.

The number of Zerg is huge, in groups of three or five, but in fact the overall number is still not as large as the hundreds of millions of human beings. From the outside, they are just a kind of indescribable and indescribable monsters. The reason why they are called "Zerg" , because their social system is somewhat similar to some bugs.

The entire population of the Zerg is basically all males. There is only one female in the race, which is the Queen of the Zerg. The function of the queen is to lay eggs and lay eggs, and continue to multiply for the growth of the entire race. In order to lay eggs, the queen needs a very large In other words, she is absorbing nutrients continuously and unscrupulously, and in order to supplement her nutrition, other males will look for food everywhere, the best food.

This is one of the main reasons why humans are targeted by Zerg.

It's just that, since Rain made extraordinary achievements, hijacked the Queen with a bold strategy, and forced the Zerg to retreat, humans have finally established a slight advantage in the battle against the Zerg. With the emergence of human beings, human beings are no longer fish on the chopping board to be slaughtered by the Zerg.

In particular, the rapid development of human science and technology, and the gradual maturity of space technology have enabled human beings to build a space defense network in their own territory. Zerg cannot break through this layer of defense network, nor can they use wormholes to directly step in. Therefore, human beings successfully He kept these monsters out of the defensive net, and lived a life that could be called leisurely for the time being.

After that, General Rein made great achievements repeatedly, successfully attacking the arrogance of the Zerg, which made the group of bugs dare not launch a general attack on humans, and stayed in a state of confrontation with humans in their own territory.

In any case, humans gained an absolute upper hand in the subsequent battles. The existence of the space defense network also made many humans feel at ease. They thought that there would be no more bugs to harass humans wantonly, and humans won!

But until now, Lyle believes that his eyes are not blurry, he is not short-sighted, the one in front of him is indeed a huge bug, it appeared in the galaxy surrounded by the defense net, it even appeared in the on Earth!

No matter how you think about it, it is an impossible thing!

But no matter what Lyle thinks, the bug that just landed here has already discovered the existence of Lyle and others, and naturally crawled out of the deep pit quickly, just crossing the distance of light years in space, making It consumed a certain amount of physical strength, and it happened to be very hungry right now. Although it lacked physical strength, it didn't think that the mere two humans could escape from its grasp.

The hungry and panicked Zerg rushed towards Lyle and Ska immediately. In such a critical situation, Lyle became nervous unconsciously, although Ska, who was beside him with a blank face and controlled the skateboard all the way, gave him a certain amount of confidence. , but it is impossible to get rid of this big bug just by holding the skateboard.

The Zerg has a strong single-body combat ability, and one is comparable to several mech warriors. Being able to navigate in the universe means that they have strong armor and can resist extremely high temperatures and extremely low temperatures , The respiratory structure is different from ordinary people, they can survive in various environments, no matter how difficult the environment is, they can survive smoothly.

The Zerg seems to have no eyes. At least from the outside, Lyle can't see where its eyes are, but it is unusually sensitive to light and sound. It should have a sensory system similar to thermal imaging or sound wave induction. It seems to have A certain sense of smell, but the sense of smell is not very sensitive, but it is better than humans.

Zergs have horns on their heads, which seem to be their navigation system and information exchange. This kind of creature that can navigate in the universe naturally has an excellent navigation system, which can lead them to wherever they want to go.

In summary, this kind of creature is excellent in all aspects, with full evolutionary ability and environmental adaptability skills. Although they are not as mature in technological development as humans, in some respects, their development is still mature, so now, Even if just one of these terrifying creatures is eliminated, it would be a great contribution to mankind.

Lyle tried his best to search for all the information and clues about the Zerg in his mind, and tried hard to think about whether the Zerg had any weaknesses that could be targeted. After thinking about it like this, Lyle suddenly realized something that surprised him.

He felt that the puppet around him seemed to be similar to the Zerg chasing them to some extent, such as the ability to survive, the ability to fight, and Lyle had seen the mutated claw of the puppet... ...is this a coincidence?

Or is the Alliance conducting some horrific experiments unknown to the public?