The Cubs Picked Up Are All Villains

After the test results came out, Ruan Shiqing went to Garland's laboratory again and did a full set of strength tests.

The test results showed that, except that his physical functions were better than before, his strength did not increase much. According to Garland's guess, when he woke up after a coma, he had better appearance and inner functions. There have been quite a few changes in the past, so there should be an increase in strength.

After all, if Ruan Shiqing and Ruan Jiao were related, they both had an inseparable relationship with the Zerg.The Zerg has always been known for its powerful strength.

But Ruan Shiqing's strength test results are still no different from those of ancient humans.It's just that he used to be in the middle and back at most. Now that his physical function has improved, he can go to the front, but there is no essential change.

Ruan Shiqing was not surprised by this, but he was even more surprised that Ruan Jiao had a blood relationship with him.

Seeing that he was in doubt, Rong Heng remembered the business and quickly told him all the speculations about Ruan Jiao's identity.

Ruan Shiqing fell into deep thought after listening.

Since waking up, he has been busy comforting Rong Heng and the cubs. Many things have not been straightened out, and naturally he has not mentioned the dream he had when he was in a coma. In the dream, he witnessed the Queen of Worms Two eggs were born.According to the Zerg, it was the king's egg.

According to Rong Heng, the queens of the Zerg have been dead for many years, and the current queens, including most of the Zerg, are artificial products, and the genes of these artificial Zerg are from Ruan Jiao.And Ruan Jiao has been trapped by the Zerg for many years... He immediately thought of the king's egg that was taken away by the Zerg before it had time to hide.

The dead queen was the last queen of the Zerg race.She completed the final evolution, possessed the human form, and also accepted the human mind, trying to end the war that lasted for thousands of years, but finally died in a murder.When he was dying, he left behind two king eggs.

If he and Ruan Jiao were related by blood, and as evidenced by the Zerg tentacles growing out of his forehead in the dream, he, or the body he passed through, was probably the first king egg hidden by the queen of insects.

However, in the records about the Zerg, it has never been mentioned that the queen will give birth to a male.

The Zerg race is a typical matrilineal social structure, and the queen who holds the right to reproduce is respected. Therefore, the king eggs laid by each queen must be female.

Now he lacks too much information, as if he can correspond everywhere, but there are self-contradictions everywhere, and he cannot justify himself.

But in that dream, everything he saw was so real and reasonable.Whether it's the silence of the Blue Star, the expansion of the Zerg to the evolutionary division, or the death of Queen Farah...it seems nonsense, but many details just explain many unexplainable situations at present.

Thinking of Queen Farah, Ruan Shiqing subconsciously glanced at Rong Heng.

When the other party mentioned the deceased mother, his expression was always nostalgic and sad, but never angry or hatred.Obviously, he didn't know the truth about the queen's death on the front line.The cause of the queen's death announced by the empire was that the queen took the lead and died of exhaustion in the insect swarm that happened once in a century on the front line.

Ruan Shiqing couldn't confirm which was true and which was false, so he could only find a way to verify the authenticity of the dream before telling him the truth.

He skipped over the unspeakable part, and only said vaguely: "When I was in a coma, I didn't seem to lose consciousness." He described the situation when his whole body was immersed in the boundless water body: "At that time, there was a long growth on my forehead. It has the same tentacles as Ruan Jiao."

Tentacles are a Zerg-only trait.

Garland was thoughtful after listening, and said after a while: "From what you described, it is very similar to the state of looking inside the spiritual body. The study of spiritual power in the Empire is very unpopular, but I have read a lot of related books recently. And research papers, some scholars once put forward the hypothesis that the essence of human beings is the spiritual body. The scholar compared the spiritual power in the human brain to a sea, which is also called the "spiritual sea". The spiritual body is self-awareness , is the concretization of the self. When a person looks at his "spiritual sea", it is like a "person" immersed in the sea. The sea is endless, but the "person" is small. When the "person" can be in this sea When you come and go freely, you have mastered spiritual power."

This theory is just a hypothesis, has never been verified, and was even denounced as heresy at one time.The scholar who once put forward the theory of "spiritual sea" was not only not recognized, but also suffered a lot of ridicule and attacks, and finally died in poverty.

In the past six months, Garland has read a lot of research works on spiritual power in order to find out the abnormality of Ruan Jiao and the reason for Ruan Shiqing's coma.Coupled with the ready-made living example of Ruan Jiao in front of him, it gave him a lot of insights.

He felt that the "spiritual sea" theory might not be nonsense, but what Ruan Shiqing said now strengthened his thinking.

After pondering for a moment, he suggested: "Do you want to go and see those Zerg captives? If your guess is correct, those Zerg captives should respond to you."

He was on the edge of a dead end before, but now Ruan Shiqing's words pointed him in a new direction - the power of the Zerg is indeed strong, but the direction of their ultimate evolution may not be power, but spiritual power.

For example, those anthropomorphic Zerg, such as Ruan Jiao.

The closer they get to full human form, the stronger their mental strength; but correspondingly, their physical strength is weakened.But that doesn't mean they're weaker.For example, the anthropomorphic Zerg has a very high status among the Zerg, and Ruan Jiao can even make those hostile Zerg captives surrender after training.

Thinking of the falling star vines growing wildly in the repair shop a few days ago, Garland thought that Ruan Shiqing could verify it with the imprisoned Zerg.

But before Ruan Shiqing answered, Rong Heng became nervous first: "No!"

With a sullen face and tense body, he subconsciously pressed Ruan Shiqing's arm.

Ruan Shiqing fell into a coma before because of the dead newborn queen.Now that he has just woken up, what if he is plotted against by the Zerg again... As long as he thinks about this possibility, he will become irritable.

Ruan Shiqing could feel the strength of the pressing arm, and understood Rong Heng's worries.

But he did have many guesses to verify, and after a little thought, he had already made a decision.

Ruan Shiqing's slender fingers nimbly moved down along the slightly stretched muscle lines, and finally folded on the back of the hand with blue veins.

He held the other's hand tightly with some strength, letting him feel his determination: "You go with me, I will be careful, and there will be no more accidents."

Rong Heng looked at him for a moment, and finally had to compromise.

It's just that he was unwilling in the end, and when he went to the prison where the Zerg was held, he gave Garland a vicious look.

Garland pretended not to see it.

The prison where the Zerg is held is built under the arsenal.In addition to the three anthropomorphic Zerg captured at the beginning, many more prisoners were added as the rescue operations increased.From the high-level anthropomorphic Zerg to the low-level ordinary Zerg, they are all imprisoned in prisons, and only the minimum survival needs are guaranteed every day.To supply Garland Research.

The lower the Zerg, the more imprisoned in the periphery.

When Ruan Shiqing and his party went in, they heard hissing and crashing.These low-level Zergs don't have high IQs. Without the command and dispatch of high-level Zergs, they appear stupid and can only use brute force.

When they passed by, just as the Zerg had just drank the nutrient and gained some strength, they started banging against the prison railing again.

The whole underground prison resounded with the sound of crashing, and it was very noisy.

Ruan Shiqing subconsciously frowned.

Immediately, those lowly Zergs stopped their impacting movements, and all retreated to the corner of the prison in horror, their sharp jointed limbs shrank in the carapace, their abdomen pressed against the ground, and they didn't even dare to lift the tentacles on top of their heads.

Seeing this, Garland raised his eyebrows, and looked at Ruan Shiqing: "When Ruan Jiao came, this situation would never have happened. What did you do?"

After all, Ruan Jiao is still young. Although he can make these low-level Zergs submit through learning and training, it is not as easy as it is now.

Ruan Shiqing shook his head, somewhat inexplicably: "I didn't do anything."

While talking, they continued to move forward.

The Zerg held on both sides of the corridor retreated to the corner of the prison one after another, posing in a gesture of submission.

The further you go, the higher the intelligence and status of the imprisoned Zerg. They are not completely surrendered like the lower Zerg, but they all show a tense posture, and some even can't wait to look out, with pairs of red compound eyes scanning back and forth After that, it fell on Ruan Shiqing.

There are no more crashing sounds in the prison, replaced by "hissing" sounds one after another.

It was the unique sound of Zerg, like fingernails scraping irregularly on rough paper.In the past, Ruan Shiqing didn't understand, and Ruan Jiao was needed as an interpreter.

But this time, he clearly heard their conversation.

"I smell a familiar scent."

"It's the worm queen."

"The queen died long ago, and there hasn't been a queen for many years."

"Why is it a male..."

"Perfect anthropomorphism, he evolved more perfect than the queen. Did he mix into humans?"

Ruan Shiqing swept across the cells on both sides calmly, remembering the Zerg that mentioned the Queen of Zerg one by one.

At the end of the corridor is a separate cell.

"Here is No. 4, the highest-level Zerg we have caught so far. His genes are different from those artificial Zergs. I guess he is a small part of the natural Zergs born from the queen." Garland gave these Zergs They are all numbered for easy data recording.

Ruan Shiqing looked through the cracks in the fence and found that the prisoner was an adult male, tall and thin, with sickly white skin, wearing a shirt and trousers, at first glance, he looked no different from a human being.

Rong Heng saw his doubts and explained: "He seems to have evolved a bit more completely than other anthropomorphic Zergs. When he transforms into an insect form, he looks half human and half insect."

He was this Zerg caught during a rescue.

The evolved anthropomorphic Zergs are very cunning. They disguise themselves as ordinary humans, hide among rescued survivors, and command other Zergs to fight through Zerg-specific mental waves.

That rescue operation was very difficult. Whether it was the rescue team or the rescued planet, the casualties were incalculable.

The other party mixed among the survivors and was familiar with all the conditions inside the planet.With the enemy in the dark, the rescue operation lasted for nearly a month before it ended.

If he hadn't seen the anthropomorphic Zerg disguised as a human before, Rong Heng had been careful and ordered people to spy on the suspicious object, and almost let this cunning Zerg escape.

Later, the Zerg was finally captured, and when escorting him back to star B3024, he also encountered a mobile bug swarm.Those low-level Zergs were not afraid of death, and charged their warships again and again, probably to rescue this Zerg.

Based on this, Rong Heng judged that the Zerg's status was quite high.

It's just that he is obviously more cunning than other anthropomorphic Zerg, and after several tortures, he failed to get much useful information.

Ruan Shiqing looked at the Zerg through a door.

He always felt that this Zerg gave him a very familiar feeling, but he looked at him carefully and was sure that he had never seen him before.Even in dreams, no Zerg is half-human, half-worm.

Concentrating for a while, Ruan Shiqing didn't want to let go of any clues, and asked, "Are there any photos of him turning into a Zerg?"

Garland said yes, and called up the stored image from the brain to show him.

Ruan Shiqing flipped through one by one, and finally fixed his eyes on one of the photos, his expression became solemn - in the photo, the man looked like a Zerg from the waist down, with three pairs of jointed limbs stretching out from the spine on his back, his naked body The body is covered with strange patterns, but the most striking thing is the conch-like red pattern on his chest.

He had seen this pattern before—in a dream.

When the queen broke out of her eggs in human form, countless zerg worshiped her. Among them, the zerg who stood closest to the queen and had the largest body had such a red conch pattern on its chest and abdomen when it stood up. .

But it was obviously just a Zerg at that time, and it didn't evolve.

Ruan Shiqing's eyes darkened, she suppressed all her emotions, looked at No. 4, and wrote lightly, "I've seen you."

The Zerg looked up at him, their pupils shrank, and they didn't speak.

But Ruan Shiqing inexplicably sensed his hostility and a trace of fear.

This feeling was inexplicable, but he did feel it. He looked at Ruan Jiao, and saw the cub holding the corner of Rong Heng's clothes. His eyes were wide open and he was staring at him vigilantly, apparently also aware of his bad intentions.

He squinted his eyes, and didn't ask this time, but said in a firm tone: "It seems that you also recognize who I am."

When he said this, his expression was filled with just the right amount of sarcasm.

The silent Zerg finally spoke, speaking fluent interstellar lingua franca: "She hid you very well, it seems that you have obtained all the inherited memories now." If you didn't have the inherited memories, it would be impossible to recognize he comes.

Ruan Shiqing extracted a lot of information from his words.

[-]. It is indeed the Zerg in the dream;

Second, the dream is not a simple dream, but the inheritance of memory.

Ruan Shiqing quickly passed through the analyzed information in her mind, and continued to speak in a calm manner: "She has anticipated your betrayal and made preparations."

No. 4 showed such an expression on his face, he turned his eyes to Ruan Jiao, gritted his teeth and said, "She intentionally left us a flawed royal egg, but she hid you properly, no wonder we have spent so much money all these years Energy, still can't breed a real queen."

The reproductive rights of the entire ethnic group are in the hands of the queen, but since the queen completed the transformation of human form and infiltrated the Galactic Empire several times, she no longer has sex with them for the future of the entire ethnic group as before. egg.

He even started to be whimsical, wanting to shake hands with humans and coexist peacefully in exchange for the "Sky Stone" that promotes the evolution of the ethnic group.

But the "Sky Stone" is crucial to the evolution of the ethnic group, how can the lifeline of the ethnic group be handed over to a foreign race?

This kind of thinking is too naive!

Rather than being restrained by others, it is better to completely occupy this star field, and then the entire ethnic group can go further.

Originally, their plan was perfect, and the queen was forced to a desperate situation. When she was dying, she would definitely give birth to a king egg. As long as she brought back the king egg and cultivated the next queen, everything would remain the same.

Unexpectedly, the king egg brought back was a male!

With no queens, the number of ethnic groups decreased with the war, so they had to find a way to artificially breed new queens.

The gene that can be extracted from the king's egg has great defects in the bred queen.The eggs they lay are weaker, and after laying eggs at most three times, they will die completely.

The reproduction of the Zerg has fallen into an unprecedented crisis.

It's not that they didn't suspect that there was something wrong with the king's egg, but the queen could only give birth to one king's egg at a time, so even if they suspected it, they couldn't confirm it.

Now Ruan Shiqing's appearance confirmed to him that they had fallen into the trap of the queen.

She intentionally left a defective king's egg, but hid the one that got all the inheritance.

But now, this grown-up king egg, like his mother, is close to human beings.

Unwilling to let out an angry hiss, the Zerg rushed forward, and the jointed limbs on the back suddenly stretched out, trying to attack Ruan Shiqing.

Rong Heng, who was guarding the side, had sharp eyes, took a step forward, and caught the sharp jointed limb with his bare hands, and chopped off the opponent's jointed limb with his other hand like a hand knife.

Three pairs of arthropods were cut off one after another, and the severely injured Zerg fell to the ground. Human eyes gradually transformed into compound eyes of the Zerg, staring at Ruan Shiqing with hatred.

Ruan Shiqing stared at him for a moment, guessing that there was nothing to say today, so she simply turned and left.

Just told Garland not to let him die easily.

After getting on the elevator and getting away from those worms, Rong Heng, who didn't say a word, opened his mouth: "What kind of riddle were you playing with that worm just now?"

Galan and Ruan Jiao were obviously also very puzzled, and the three pairs of eyes looked at him, waiting for him to clarify.

Ruan Shiqing sighed slightly: "I'll talk to you guys in detail when I go back."

With No. 4, it is confirmed.He has basically confirmed that the broken fragments in those "dreams" are all real.

That is the memory passed down from generation to generation of insect queens.