The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2042, Toget ethnic group

Unknown star field, planet Catlia.

A blood-red Rookery Hook-class battleship is hovering outside the planet's atmosphere, and countless drones are flying around the planet, collecting and scanning intelligence on the planet.

Red Comet No. 3, one of the ships of the Grand Duke Tang Xiao of the Dawn Principality.

But at this moment, Tang Xiao did not enjoy the various luxury configurations as luxurious as a palace on the spaceship. Instead, he went to the surface of the planet in person to communicate with the Kilik insect tribe here.

Tang Xiao, wearing a black cloak, came to the tribe's nest surrounded by countless ferocious and terrifying insects. This is a biological structure that is tens of meters high and looks like a ferocious mushroom. Countless tentacles and tunnels are connected to the bottom of the mother nest and go directly deep into the ground.

Countless bugs brought Tang Xiao to the mother nest, only to see the surface of this huge biological structure squirm, and then the surface cracked, and a huge eyeball with a diameter of more than two meters protruded. The eyeballs squirmed in front of Tang Xiao, and he looked up and down for a while, and then stretched out two tentacles with green light at the tips from the side.

A burst of high-frequency vibrating sound waves emitted from the mother nest, and then two tentacles touched Tang Xiao's temples for a while. Although Tang Xiao didn't understand it, he probably understood that the Brood wanted him to connect these two tentacles to his temples so that he could communicate with it.

Tang Xiao smiled coldly. The Killik swarm is a very typical Gestalt consciousness. They are composed of countless groups. Each group has a mother nest. This is also the only intelligent existence among the group. Other swarm individuals , they are all offspring individuals under the control of the mother nest.

In the heyday of the Kilik swarm, there should have been a supreme and highest-level consciousness above these brood consciousnesses, but now that the Kilik swarm has been dispersed and degenerated, all they have is the group itself. The hive consciousness.

Therefore, the strength of these brood consciousnesses also depends on the strength of this group.

If it is a very powerful Kilik insect swarm tribe, their mother nest can directly use telepathy to communicate with others, but this tribe in front of them obviously cannot, which also shows that this tribe is not actually powerful.

But piercing these two slimy and greasy tentacles into my temples just to say a few words to you? Tang Xiao sneered again, raised his hand and tapped it gently. The eyeball in front of him trembled violently as if being bitten by electricity, and the nest let out a sharp scream.

At the same time, the insects around him began to stir, and they roared horribly at Tang Xiao, baring their teeth and claws, as if they wanted to tear him into pieces.

But the powerful consciousness of the mother's nest prevented all of this from happening, and the bugs just stood there without taking any action.

"I know you can understand what I am saying now." Tang Xiao said coldly, "My request is very simple, surrender to me, and then I will help you reunify the entire insect swarm. Otherwise, you will be destroyed by me. In addition, if you want to say something, find a way yourself. If you can't do it, then you have no value. You are worthless garbage and can only be destroyed. "

The eyeball of the brood twitched for a while, and then seemed to be thinking.

After a while, a cavity with a ring of sharp teeth under the mother's nest squirmed violently for a while, and then a maggot-like insect came out. The insect crawled next to Tang Xiao, its body bulged, and there was a vibration inside, and it actually made a sound that was similar to human pronunciation.

"You destroyed three groups. Food was burned and wasted. Give me food and I will make it bigger and more." The bug made a sound with great difficulty, using the galactic common language and pronunciation It's not standard, but I can still understand it.

Tang Xiao raised his hand and waved, and more than a dozen insects around him immediately fell to the ground without any warning, withered rapidly, and finally turned into a pile of dry carapace, and finally turned into fly ashes, "The lives I killed will not even be ashes." There won’t be anything left, and you can’t even become food.”

"You are strong and I am weak. I am capable of bigger and more. I want food." said the Brood Nest.

"I can give you food, piles, or even mountains of food. But what I need is your surrender! Of the three insect swarms before, one wanted to eat me as soon as they met, and the other was just pretending Surrendered but wanted to attack me. The last one brought me to the mother nest and surrounded me with countless bugs, and then rejected my request in person. You should already know their fate," Tang Xiao said.

"The Nado ethnic group, the Ujik ethnic group, and the Koma ethnic group, the largest on the planet." Brood said, "I am different. I want bigger and more food, and I surrender."

"If you want to surrender, this is not just talk. I will directly implant a gene into the core of your brood. And this gene will give me the ability to kill you anytime, anywhere." Tang Xiaolen He said coldly, "Don't play tricks on me. I already know a part of your Kilik swarm. At least I know where the core of your true brood is."

He stepped towards the direction of the mother's nest and said as he walked: "Open your outer layer, I want to get to your core."

"You are powerful and can kill me easily. The core is open. My life belongs to you." The Brood said.

I saw the huge mother nest squirming again, and then opened a dark and deep passage, leading directly to the underground. Looking at the mucus everywhere in the passage, Tang Xiao waved his hand and said, "Clean it up."

Countless small insects crawled over immediately. They found leaves and even dust from the surroundings and spread them inside, covering the passage with a dry road. Obviously, the mother nest was very uncomfortable during this process, but it still endured it.

"Very good, tell me your name." Tang Xiao nodded with satisfaction.

"Togot tribe." The brood replied.

Tang Xiao walked down the passage, which was at least tens of meters deep. At the end, there was a small chamber of about ten square meters. Then, the chamber squirmed violently again, and the flexible and solid biomass separated, revealing an irregular flesh ball. This flesh ball was squirming rhythmically, like a heart.

Tang Xiao took a look at the core, but did not intend to inject anything into it. Instead, he stretched out his hand and flicked the flesh ball.

"Hiss~~~~~~" Toggart's nest let out a painful roar, and the entire chamber was violently twitching and contracting.

"Ah, I forgot to tell you that I didn't bring the thing I wanted to inject you with. However, since you are willing to show me your core, I understand what you mean." Tang Xiao said, "Please Gett tribe, very good.”

He turned around and walked out again.

Returning to the ground again, Tang Xiao looked at the dense insects around him. There are two main types of bugs in the Togt tribe. One kind looks like a dung beetle, but has no horny shell and almost no defense capabilities. However, its very stretchable belly can accommodate a large amount of food, which can be carried and fed to the mother. nest.

The other kind of bug is mainly responsible for fighting. This kind of bug is not big, generally about 1.7 meters tall, has four legs, a pair of forelimbs, and a pair of cicada-like wings that can fly short distances. The forelimbs have sharp The claw sickle is almost a combination of a fly and a praying mantis.

It is said that the body structure of the claw sickle is very common among the major tribes of the Killik swarm. It is probably a gene that has been generally recognized in the process of evolution. At the same time, this can also be regarded as proof that the Killik swarm once had a higher level of consciousness above the major broods.

"Surrender, confirm. Food, request." said the Togt hive.

It's very straightforward, it means you get paid and you do the work. Tang Xiao likes this attitude very much. Now he can easily meet all the requirements of this small group. But when he gradually controls this group, then it will not be the mother's nest that has the final say.

Tang Xiao waved his hand, and a transport ship that had been hovering in the air began to lower its height. After he boarded his shuttle and took off, the hatch at the bottom of the transport ship opened, and countless corpses fell from the sky.

These corpses are all the corpses of Krustians!

The planet Kruste was the first planet controlled by the Grisk people discovered during the combined fleet expedition led by Admiral Chiara to conquer the Grisk hegemony. In the process of capturing the seven Grisk people on the planet, the Krusta people controlled by them launched a suicidal attack, and it was global!

In this battle, the Krusters suffered more than 70 million casualties! This was an extremely tragic massacre.

Now, Tang Xiao had people bring these corpses over and use them as food for the insect swarm. The corpses falling from the sky plopped down, and the insects of the Torgt tribe immediately started to boil, and they immediately pounced on them to feast on them. Even though most of these corpses are highly decomposed, these bugs are not picky eaters at all and will not reject anyone who comes.

Countless worker insects also devoured a large number of corpses. Their bellies bulged visibly to the naked eye and were filled with preliminarily ground meat. Then they came around the Toget mother nest and connected themselves to those cavity tentacles. Get up and deliver food to the mother nest.

The Toget mother nest immediately began to lay eggs, and other worker insects immediately crawled over and carried the eggs to a special incubator to prepare for hatching.

Tang Xiao was too lazy to watch this disgusting scene and took the shuttle back to Red Comet Three. He walked directly into the cabin without any disinfection process. His extremely powerful force was enough to completely eliminate all Killik swarm pheromones attached to him.

And if you are an ordinary person, once you come into contact with the Killik worm swarm, you need to thoroughly disinfect your whole body immediately. Otherwise, the pheromones secreted by the Killik worm swarm will soon erode the person's brain, making him and the insect swarm. The mother nests of the swarm are connected and become part of the swarm, that is, a participant.

According to the plot that Tang Xiao understood, even some weaker Jedi Knights could not completely isolate themselves from the erosion of the pheromones of the Killik swarm.

"Your Majesty, the reinforcement fleet from Dawn Planet has arrived." An assistant came over and said respectfully.

"Haha, my genetic master is finally here." Tang Xiao waved his hand, "Ask him to come to the office to see me."

"As commanded."

Arriving at his office, Tang Xiao had just taken off his black cloak when the assistant's gentle voice came over the communication line, "They are already here."

Tang Xiao waved his hand, and the force switch was turned on from a distance of more than ten meters, and a person walked in.

"Ah, my dear Grand Duke, it's really great to see you here." The visitor said loudly and happily as soon as he came in. At the same time, he took off the very conspicuous top hat he was wearing and put it on the table. He bowed in front of his chest.

Tang Xiao raised his hand to support his cheek and leaned on the desk, looking very casual. He asked lightly, "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be performing your duties on the planet Hesla now?"

"Haha, if I go to the planet Xisla, I will definitely be very busy. So after thinking about it, I decided to seize the time before taking office and give myself a holiday." The man said, "As for what you are looking for The other...er, 'person'. He has no interest in our conversation. It's time to go to the laboratory to see the Kilik specimens."

He is a young man who looks about 30 years old, with brown hair and wheat-colored skin. He is healthy and cheerful, and he even dares to talk about vacation in front of Tang Xiao.

"Okay, Sean Morabito, as the first governor of the Chiss Territory, you went to the planet Catlia for a vacation. Do you want me to send you down? I happened to be talking to a gay The Lik tribe has reached an agreement, maybe you can exercise your duties as governor and talk to their hive consciousness?" Tang Xiao said coldly.

"Hahahaha, to be honest, this is exactly what I want. However, I also hope that when I talk to their brood consciousness, I can be protected by you, the Grand Duke." Sean Morabito said with a smile. .

This guy looks shameless, smiling playfully wherever he goes, and he actually asks Tang Xiao to protect him? !

Tang Xiao looked at this person with interest and sneered: "You are really the first one who dares to ask me directly like this, and even asks me to be your bodyguard. Generally speaking, such a person , I will extract his soul and be tortured forever.”

"Hey, don't be like this, Your Majesty. These Kilik bugs should be my neighbors in the future. Chatting with my neighbors is what I, the governor, should do, isn't it? Besides, how can I say that you gave me this? What about being a bodyguard? It’s clear that he cares about his subordinates and creates a good working environment for them,” Sean Morabito said with a smile.

Under the surface of the playful smile, there is a heart that is not afraid of death.

This governor seems good.

A smile appeared on the corner of Tang Xiao's mouth.