Puppeteer [Interstellar]

Lyle drove the spaceship to carry the little queen to attract the big queen to change its direction. This behavior undoubtedly used the spaceship as a "bait", and they would be attacked by the swarm led by the big queen.Therefore, Lyle and his party inside the spaceship watched the black swarm of insects coming up behind the spaceship, all of them could not help but look solemn and prepared.

This "bait" spaceship was prepared by Clarence, an X-79006 interstellar aircraft carrier with the highest technology in the entire alliance, loaded with countless heavy interstellar rail guns and mechs, to ensure that even if the aircraft carrier Even when surrounded by swarms of insects, they still have the power to fight.

But because it is loaded with too many weapons, this large spaceship is very heavy, and its flight speed is a bit too slow compared to the swarm, although Lyle can manipulate the spaceship to continuously perform "space jumps" to pull away The distance from the swarm, but the worms are still getting closer to them.

Seeing that the insect swarm was about to catch up, most of the people on the spaceship felt very heavy in their hearts. They knew very well that most of them who had become the "bait" of the insects would die here.

The crew on this X-79006-star aircraft carrier is basically the elite of the First Legion brought out by Lyle, and Ray's former adjutant Daryl is also here. Lyle will take the command to fight the Zerg later, Full authority was handed over to Daryl, because Lyle was not good at commanding armies to fight, or rather...he knew nothing about commanding armies to fight.

Although Lyle doesn't understand, Daryl understands. Daryl has followed Rain for many years, and the combat capability of the First Legion has been brought to the extreme by Rain.After hearing and seeing, no matter how stupid Daryl is, he knows how to command this elite army, not to mention that Daryl is not stupid at all.

Before the battle started, Daryl found Lyle and asked Lyle about his plan: "Master Lyle, what are you going to do?"

Lyle said: "As long as the bug queen is killed, the remaining bug swarms are not threatening. Once the big queen dies, we can let the little queen inherit the 'throne', so that the little queen can order the bugs to 'retreat'. Question How to find the insect queen among the thousands of insects and kill her."

Clarence was also listening to Lyle's words. Clarence said: "The only way I can think of now is to make the puppet change into a zerg form, sneak into the swarm, get close to the worm queen, and kill it with one blow. .”

As Clarence spoke, he glanced at Scar beside Lyle, and said to Lyle: "Ska is easy to do this, because Scar is the only monster that can maintain the Zerg form for a long time without going berserk." Oops. But doing so is also very dangerous... It’s almost like a narrow escape, after all, before the queen of insects is completely dead, she can order the swarm to attack Scar, as long as Scar can’t kill the queen in an instant, then she will die It's Scar."

Lyle had actually considered Clarence's proposal, but he shook his head and rejected it.Lyle raised his head and looked at Scar. Scar seemed to understand Lyle's inner anxiety. He moved a little closer and touched Lyle's face with his fingers. He silently encouraged Lyle with gentle eyes.

"I can't do this." Lyle looked at Scar. "Whether this plan succeeds or fails, it is tantamount to sending him to die. He is the one I love, and I will not let him die."

When Lyle said this, Clarence turned slightly sideways. Clarence glanced at Lyle and sighed, "You are the only puppeteer who can openly announce that the person you love is a puppet...well, It seems that we can only think of other ways to kill the bug queen."

Lyle suddenly turned his head and asked Daryl: "You have been with Rain the longest. How did Rain manage to charge into the insect swarm and force the insect queen to retreat? Can you tell me in detail?"

Daryl frowned slightly when he heard the words, he thought for a while, and replied to Lyle: "Rein had an elite team at that time, and the whole team rushed into the swarm while protecting Rain. When he came to the Zerg Queen, he had an anti-Zerg weapon in his hand, an energy knife specially developed for the Zerg, which could easily destroy the armor of the Zerg, but it was too expensive to mass-produce, and Rain used this knife to hurt the Queen's body. Belly, the queen retreats."

Clarence also interjected, "So it turns out that the reason why the Queen of Worms retreated was probably because Rain hurt the Queen's ovaries."

"Ovary?" Lyle repeated the word suspiciously.

"The bug queen's body is much larger than the average Zerg, and her lower abdomen is slightly protruding, which is the ovary used to lay eggs." Clarence said, "She is the only female Zerg, and her function is to lay eggs. Production is important to her. It is very important, and it is related to the fate of the entire Zerg race. The Zerg Queen hardly has much combat power, although she also has a strong shell armor, but once she is approached, she can only flee."

"Rein was probably lucky at the time." Clarence said seriously: "According to my years of research on the Zerg, there are usually seven or eight fixed males guarding the Queen of Zerg, and these males can't leave every step. They are the personal guards of the Queen of Bugs, and their strength is also the top among the bug swarms. At that time, Lei Yin didn't know how to get past the 'Queen's Guard' and successfully hurt the Queen. It can only be said that it was really luck."

"I think... there can't be so many coincidences or luck in this world." Lyle put forward his own idea, and he thought of a possibility, "Clarence, is there such a possibility..."

"You once told me that Rein became very, very powerful after undergoing your biological genetic modification surgery. You also said that this operation actually transformed Rein into a 'golem', and Rein is The first 'golem' born in history."

Clarence nodded: "Yes...but the surgery was not considered a success at that time, because my research on puppets and transformation techniques were not perfect at that time, and Rain was actually a 'failure', although he Perfectly exerted his greatest value and ability, he is still a failure, but he is also unimaginably successful."

"Since Rein is a 'golem'." Lyall thoughtfully, stretched out his hand to hold Scar's paw beside him, and proposed an idea to Clarence, "Then he should be able to emit the same pheromone as the Zerg , you said... is he able to 'court' the bug queen?"

"Courtship?" Clarence was stunned by Lyle's words. Clarence couldn't help but scratched his hair, "Courtship... yes! Courtship! I didn't even think of it!"

Daliel, who was listening silently, couldn't understand, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Courtship? What do you mean?"

Clarence then explained: "In the Zerg system, as long as the males have powerful abilities, they are eligible to woo the queen, and the courting males will emit this ambiguous pheromone to the queen. If you accept it, the queen will disperse the guards around her, and let the male go to the queen's side—that is, let it mate."

The more Clarence talked, the more he felt that this possibility was very strong, and he was overwhelmed: "Yes, it is very likely that Rain used this pheromone to send a message of courtship to the Queen, and the Queen accepted it, and sent the guard Drive away and let Lei Yin pass by, and Lei Yin went to hold the queen hostage, and the queen can only retreat!"

Lyle said with some seriousness: "You told me before that the bond between the golem and the puppeteer is actually the same as the male worm courting the queen, but the puppet masters are not worm queens, and few people Can correctly understand the 'love' expressed by the puppet to itself."

Daryl frowned and said, "This 'love'...is it really love?"

"At least for the worms, this is love." Clarence said, "As long as the male worms have a 'relationship' with the queen, they will use their lives to protect the worm queen. No matter whether the worm queen cares about them or not, they will defend to the death. Everything about the queen. And this kind of defense is special and unique, I mean, if this queen dies, then those males who are related to the queen will commit suicide immediately."

Farrell of Clarence had never heard of it before, and was a little surprised for a while: "You mean, those males who have had sex with the queen will only defend the only queen, no matter whether a new queen is born or not, as long as this Once the next queen dies, they will die with them too?"

Clarence nodded: "Yes, this is also reflected in the relationship between the puppet master and the puppet. Once the puppet master dies, the puppet will commit suicide or go crazy. On the contrary, the puppet will not treat the puppet master when it dies. Makes too much of an impact... I've always thought it was Zerg-style 'love', even though it's a love that humans can't comprehend."

Lyle understood a little bit, and subconsciously held Scar's claws tighter: "Indeed, knowing that he might die for the queen, and knowing that he would not be able to escape when the queen died, he still chose to woo the queen. It is appropriate to interpret it as 'love'."

Daryl said: "Don't care about love or not, what I want to know is, now that you have said this, can you reproduce the method that Lord Rain once tried? Court the Queen of Bugs, and then take advantage of her relaxation Just rush over and kill him with one blow?"

Clarence said: "This method is indeed feasible. It's just that Rain used this trick to assassinate the Queen of Worms before. I don't think she will be easily fooled again."

"If you change your strategy a little bit, she will still be fooled." Lyle narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled, "For example, let Ska take the little queen in his mouth to claim credit, pretending that he took back the little queen from the 'human' side , and then use this to send a message of 'courtship' to the queen, even if the queen does not accept it, I am afraid that he will meet the soldier who 'successfully recaptured the little queen', as long as he can get close, Scar will certainly have many opportunities to strike."

"And as long as you take the little queen with you as a 'hostage', other Zerg will naturally not easily attack Scar, because the little queen is their 'hope' and the lifeblood of the swarm, and they won't be so stupid as to give their lifeblood to strangle."

Clarence also laughed: "Indeed, it's a good plan...but you need to prepare a little bit, the little queen is too weak now, if you take her out of the nutrition cabin, maybe she will die young."