The Collection of The End

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Tarsonis, Federal Underground Research Institute.

Perhaps it is because the research on plants and insects is a project that the Federation pays more attention to. Their phased research results are not hung up like Thor's design drawings, but are stored in storage media and locked in a safe.

However, the problem is... the password of the safe was written by the user and stuck on the door of the box.

Do they want to keep it secret or not?

Arcturus took out the storage medium, used the reader provided by Swan to crack a not-so-savvy security program, and then began to view the contents.

In view of the explosion at the first site disguised as a chemical factory, and almost all important information was destroyed, these peripheral research institutions can only speculate the course of the event from the sporadic information they revealed and the development of the situation.

Arcturus tried to restore the whole story of the insect plague from those slurred terms, a large amount of data and strange charts.

First of all, the origin of everything, the most critical "psychic transition" technology and the means of training "ghosts" are provided by the "Mobius Foundation".

What happened next was not surprising: the Federation used these two technologies as substitutes for "ghosts", and planned to establish a network of "psychic jumps" all over the star area and separated from each other by the same star gate, while "ghosts" would To perform the original work of the "ghost".

These technologies were fairly stable at the beginning, but as the number of uses increased, strange accidents began to increase, including but not limited to the inexplicable disappearance of jumping objects, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations of jumpers, serious deviations in destinations, and so on.

The Federation questioned the Mobius Foundation for this, and got the intelligence of the concept of "jump cooling". The Federation was furious, but was helpless to the Foundation. It could only pinch its nose to remedy it. At this time, "Zerg "Appeared.

Most of the information pointed out that the origin of the "Zerg" was an insect that was mutated by Diazin radiation in Marsala, but a few pieces of information emphasized that before the "Zerg" appeared and brought back from Marsala to Tarsonis, Other planets that use psionic transition have similar forms of organisms. It is likely that the key to their mutation is not only diazine, but also the behavior of "psionic transition".

When the various research departments were in a quarrel, the research base of Haven Star tried to merge the "Zergs" with the living vine "Solian" they were studying, which led to its runaway and the destruction of the Haven Base.

However, on the same day that Haven star lost contact, an unconscious person almost merged with living vines and arrived at Tarsonis through a psionic leap, confirming his identity as "Alex Riem", a former ghost Instructor.

What exactly happened is unknown. Only from the results, the base was destroyed by a violent explosion on the second day after Alex arrived, and then "Alex Riem" and "Underground Unknown" appeared at the same time. These two strong psychic reactions of "existence" and their respective subordinates.

The federal government immediately launched an emergency plan to block relevant urban areas and carry out message control, and then used "psychic shielding" to block outside visits.

Fortunately, both of these reactions regarded each other as mortal enemies and fought directly in the blocked area. Obviously, they did not intend to expand outside before the victory was determined. So the Federation took the opportunity to activate the secret research institute and base within the sheltered area to fight against insects and The vines are analyzed to control them.

As for the results, it cannot be said that there is or no.

Researchers here have discovered that the two parties who are attacking each other are not actually insects and plants, but "plants mixed with insects" and "worms mixed with plants", which explains why they are so eager to kill each other.

One of the results of the research is to be able to simulate the psychic energy fluctuations of insects and plants of the opposite camp, attracting the "beacon" that the other party is chasing wildly, but the application conditions for this are not very wide, at least there must be enough insects or Only plants can be used.

The other result is the analysis of the powerful existence of "Alex" on the plant side and the powerful existence of another insect that has never been seen.

The former does not have the memory and acting style related to "Alex" at all. It can be determined that he is just a plant mimicry with an appearance. However, since the other party seems to think that he is "Alex", perhaps we can start from this point. Targeting, such as creating detailed evidence to deceive him that he is actually a loyal agent of the Federation.

The latter is more troublesome. Apart from knowing that it has stayed in the depths of the explosive base since its birth and can control all the bugs, there is hardly any substantial direct intelligence.

However, there is still some indirect information.

For example, it should be able to easily erase the will of inadequate creatures and search for their memories, even humans. The evidence is that several federal agents were inexplicably lost contact when they went through the internal channel to the base where the explosion occurred. The remote monitoring they carried The device did not capture anything at all, and the signal interruption looked like the agent turned it off.

The only gain from these monitoring is the sound. Before the monitoring is turned off, a faint sound similar to "YoSe" comes out, and its meaning is still unclear.

In view of its ability to control other Zergs and to erase and modify memories, it is temporarily named "Master".

From a comprehensive analysis, "Alex" is likely to be erased by the "master" in the accident, but because of fusion with plants and get rid of control, it hates insects, but out of fear of its instinct, there is no direct Breaking into the ground to launch an attack, but looking for intelligence on the "master" on the surface to develop a countermeasure.

Finally, these pieces of information give the possibility that "Alex" and "Master" will be controlled or aligned. The former is "about 37%" and the latter is "0% or 100%."

It is not difficult to understand if you think about it carefully, "Alex" has an amnesia and acts extreme and is naturally difficult to control, while "Master" has obvious self-awareness, and whether it can cooperate depends only on its willingness.

"Um..." After reading all the information, Arcturus closed his eyes and thought about the useful parts, then opened his eyes to look at his companions: "The information says there is an'internal passage' to the explosion site?"

"Of course, as long as the secret bases of the Federation are large enough, there will be a secret channel connection between each other," Angela also saw that part of the explanation: "But they didn't cut off the connection with the explosion site. "

"Hmm~internal passage~" Emil raised her little hand and put on a hand knife posture: "We rushed over, and then killed it."

"...Alright." Arcturus decided to give up making plans that were necessarily useless.