Chapter 997 No Free Lunch

"Wait for me here for a while." He comforted the three, followed him to the balcony, jumped on the back of the Euglena, and flew to the core space. Although the two sides have now turned their hostility into friendship and are no longer the relationship between the enemy and us, it is undeniable that Sonia died under the gun of the Angel, and it can be said that there are no bones left. It is really sad to leave such a severed hand.

He didn't regret such a development, but from a humanitarian standpoint, he felt that accompanying Cathy to bury her sister's remains was an act that could buy people's hearts, and at the same time make the little uneasiness in his heart disappear. Keep her within your sights to guard against possible mishaps.

The speed of the floating vehicle was not fast, and it was overtaken by the eyeworm less than 5km away from the earth's core space. Tang Fang stood side by side with her, looking straight ahead, but did not say anything. In many cases, it is not necessary to speak out to comfort others. Chicken soup for the soul is never as good as silent companionship.

He thought that this would move the other party, and it was an opportunity to buy people's hearts, but what happened next did not develop as he imagined. Cathy didn't open the regular hexagonal prism, put her sister's regrets in it, and then set up a tombstone, engraved some life stories, or the survivor's message or something, she took Sonia's severed hand and flew into the depths of the mist.

Tang Fang's expression was slightly startled. When he came back to his senses, he suddenly saw Lu Huolong, who had been submerged in the incubator to recuperate, disperse the thin cloud of smoke and appeared on the opposite side. Its two heads have not yet fully grown, but a prototype has evolved. Countless new granulation twists and tangles at the wound with a diameter of tens of meters. The sight makes the scalp numb.

Next, he saw the tube that had been retracted into the abdominal cavity protrude from below, the hard skin covered by scales squirmed, and the tube that was originally used to penetrate the back of the female Atlante grew and elongated, but it did not It was divided into two and turned into a Y-shaped structure, but stretched out in front of Cathy, the worm-like mouthparts were slightly opened, revealing sharp teeth.

Then she thrust the severed hand in, not tenderly nor dignifiedly, like a wooden wedge into the earth.

Tang Fang stretched out his hand, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything... Perhaps for the Elante people, eating the remains of their loved ones as food is a kind of funeral.

Facts have proved that he was wrong, very wrong. The worm's mouthparts at the end of the hose bit Sonia's severed arm, and the sharp teeth pierced deeply into the skin. The coagulated blood gushed out again and mixed with a liquid secreted by the hose, like a suddenly inflated balloon. The end of the hose turned into a sac, and then estranged when exposed to cold, the original light blue skin became tougher and more transparent, looking like a 3-meter-high giant cocoon.

"This is..." He blinked, puzzled. Although guessed something, but not sure.

Cathy looked at the translucent cocoon glowing with blue brilliance at the core and said, "This can be faster."

"You...you don't mean that she...she can be resurrected, right?" The blue brilliance at the core of the giant cocoon was beating slowly, just like the heart in a human body contracting and contracting, making a thumping sound.

She was still expressionless, but the light in her eyes was no longer cold, but a little lighter, like a pool of water, a little cold. "She won't die if I'm alive," she explained.

Captain Tang finally knew why the incubator unlocked the brain worm. Just like the setting of StarCraft 1 brain worm, as long as the overlord is still alive, they will not really die and have the chance to be resurrected. Back to the female Elante, as long as the incubator is safe, they can die and come back to life. Similar to the server-network device-client model of a computer network, the incubator is the server, 6 Fire Dragon is the network device, and Cathy and Sonia are the clients. Even if the client is damaged, it will not be a big problem. Change to a new device, load the update program, synchronize the data from the server, and the client can run again. In other words, the incubator, 6 fire dragons, Sonia and Cathy are originally a whole, but there are some subtle differences in the unity.

"It really is an 'alien'..." Tang Fang sighed, thinking how amazing evolution is. Following in the footsteps of the Ypsilon girl Liana, I visited Serepas and the images of the pendant records obtained from the Ashtolando Palace, coupled with the architectural functions and layout rules of the Lost Land,

Let him give birth to the cognition that the social structure of the Ipsi dragon is roughly the same as that of human beings, and then preconceived that the Elante, the hostile race of the Ipsi dragon, is also in a similar social environment, but now it seems that the two sides are different. There are big differences, which stem from different evolutionary histories.

Aliens are always aliens, and Cathy and Sonia showed a human side only because the male Elante did not fulfill the responsibility of being a guide. Their cognition of the world is more through human beings. Memory and experience, so they know that they are not human, but they tend to be human in the way of thinking.

This kind of cognitive structure has both unity and opposition. What is rare is that they did not appear to have split personalities... This reminded him of a sentence involuntarily, "Humans and monsters are born of mothers. The difference is that people are people. Born, the demon was born by the demon's mother, when the demon has a benevolent heart, it is no longer a demon, but a human drug."

Tang Fang watched Lu Huolong retract the giant cocoon, slowly sink into the mist, re-enter the inner chamber of the incubator, and asked casually, "How long will it take for her to break out of the cocoon?"

Casey said: "It will take about three months, it may be longer..."

She didn't explain the specific reason, but Captain Tang, who is as smart as Captain Tang, can naturally think that for the incubator whose biological function is suppressed to a great extent, there is no guarantee that it will not delay the time it takes to rebuild Sonia's body.

On the way out of the core space and heading towards the tower, he asked another doubt in his mind, what role did those fish monsters play in this set of biological systems. The answer Cathy gave was "food".

He was shocked and puzzled by this answer until Cathy gave a more detailed answer.

Yes, the ichthyosaur is food for the incubator, it produces them, it devours them, it directs them, it feeds them.

Just like Abathur obtained the tissue samples from the body of the six fire dragons, and found the phagosome structure by analyzing the dna, and then concluded that the incubator can absorb energy substances in a relatively gentle way to serve as nourishment for the growth of the body.

When the two sisters were young, the male Elante would not return to the wandering planet for a long time, so he used the characteristics of the relic to store extremely rich energy substances in the earth's core space. After Cathy and Sonia grew up, the remaining energy Substances cannot make the body continue to grow, and can only be used to maintain daily consumption.

As they became more and more interested in hunting to relieve the loneliness that gradually grew after devouring humans, and inspired by the phenomenon that hunters raised eagle dogs to assist in hunting, the two decided to find some helpers for themselves, so the remaining energy was transformed into life by the incubator. Matter, by combining the dna fragments of an epic creature that looks like an ocean fish, many small fish monsters were bred, and by injecting different amounts of essence substances and dna fragments, long-nose fish monsters, sharp-toothed fish monsters, and cross-boned fish monsters were created. Fish monsters and other varieties, but because the main genes are derived from fish-shaped epic creatures, these fish monsters look very similar.

The incubator, in turn, conceives them and devours them. Just as plants release carbon dioxide during respiration at night, they release oxygen during photosynthesis during the day. When the local nuclear space lacks energy substances, the incubator will swallow a large number of fish monsters and transform them into the needs of its own life activities; when the relics capture energy substances through functional activities, the incubator will continue to breed fish monsters. After a long period of accumulation, the fish monsters The number of monsters is increasing, gradually becoming a huge group, and later combined with the genes of other powerful creatures to breed a means of transportation such as Luchaolong --- for Cathy and Sonia, it is equivalent to An armed shuttle used by humans for short-distance flights.

After listening to this narration, he really didn't know what words to use to describe the shock and complexity in his heart. If Freya is his mobile charging treasure and electric baton, then the fish monster swarm is the incubator's portable lunch box, which can not only be used to satisfy hunger, but also to smash people with it.

Then he thought of another thing, a mature fish monster can contribute 300 crystals and 200 gas to him, and a full body like a cross-bone fish monster can do more. Doesn't it mean that the incubator can continuously produce fish monsters that can be converted into system resources? As long as there are energy substances, the incubator can convert them into system gas resources. Although it is not as convenient as directly extracting zero element ore, it is also an excellent way to collect resources.

Cathy didn't understand his enthusiasm for hunting fish monsters, but she still told him that as long as it could provide the energy substances needed for the incubator's daily life activities, those fish monsters in the earth's core space could be disposed of by him, but mass production of fish monsters is not a problem. up.

Breeding fish monsters consumes a lot of energy and matter, and it takes a lot of time for the incubator to secrete biomass, just like humans plant trees and cut them down. There is a stepped growth cycle. The reason why there are so many fish monsters in the earth core space is that The biochemical performance of the energy accumulated by the incubator for thousands of years, in the absence of energy, it is impossible to form a cluster scale in the short term.

And the most important thing is that the various physiological indicators of the incubator, which is dragged down by the disease in the body, have dropped sharply, and its functions are far worse than before. It is absolutely impossible to realize his whimsical and weird ideas. What he needs most now is not fantasies, but to worry about what to do with the energy substances needed by the incubator to maintain life activities and inhibit the spread of lesions. He can't just sit and eat. Once the fish monsters are exhausted, might they make his sisters hungry? Being his subordinate is not for nothing, and "salary" is also required.

Of course, this is not to say that the incubator has completely lost the ability to breed fish monsters. Under the condition of sufficient energy and substances, it can carry out long-term and small-scale production tasks under the current situation.

Regarding this result, Tang Fang was very depressed and unhappy. I thought I got a great benefit, but I didn't want to end up with a big stomach and a big burden. The key point is that he didn't dare to clean up all the type II phagosome polymers in the incubator, giving up the strategic advantage over Cathy and Sonia.

In fact, for Captain Tang, who is in charge of the interstellar system, producing energy substances is not a big problem, but what the incubator can quickly absorb are relatively mild and stable energy substances, such as organic biomass, zero elements, zero element isotopes, and electrical energy. wait.

It's obviously unwise to exchange Zerg units for fish monsters, their bodies don't contain zero elements, and the biomass contained in 50 puppies may not be able to breed a mature fish monster. Needless to say, zero element and zero element isotope, he was out of his mind to feed them to the incubator. As for electricity, how big a fusion reactor needs to be built to satisfy a big guy with a body length of over 100m?

Although I decided to let the fish monster swarm go, I don't have to worry about it for a short time, but I have to think of a permanent solution, right?

Gentle, stable energy substance, but also to satisfy the appetite of a behemoth, where can I find it... eh? This thing looks far away in the sky, but it is actually close in front of you. He thought of an object --- the foundation of the civilization and cultivation of the Protoss, the Catherine crystal.

However, for a body like an incubator, it must be a huge Catherine crystal to maintain long-term consumption, at least ten times larger than the crystal of the mothership core, or more than 10 mothership cores output energy together.

There is no doubt that this is a very difficult thing for him, but the difficulty now does not mean that it will be difficult in the future. Whether it is the crystal tower of the Al Protoss or the void crystal tower of Nerazim, it must be able to become an energy source. Donors, to help the incubator carry out life activities --- the premise is that they can be visualized, not just functional buildings in the base.

Sister Logic will not explain the system structure and hidden elements to him. Emma has no authority to consult relevant information, but it does not mean that he does not have his own ideas. Through the scenes that appeared when the system core level was upgraded, the system expanded the data of the Legacy of the Void campaign, and gave him the opportunity to experience new expansion packs, etc., he guessed that the moment when the Baidao, which was bound by many rings, was completely opened, might be the moment when the system A moment when architecture becomes concrete. In other words, the most likely situation is that when the system core is upgraded to the top level, the architectural visualization function can be activated.

T power stone...or T power stone...

The three of Tang Lin watched Tang Fang and Cathy go back and forth, and returned to the console on the 8th floor. Seeing that the two were not in a good mood, they thought it was a sentimental feeling and pity for the dead, so they didn't speak, waiting for them to rely on their own strength to get out of pessimism , cheer up, and seriously consider what to do next.

The female Atlantean went straight to the console after landing, and injected weak currents into the crystal lattices of different colors with her four palms. The image on the water screen display changed several times, and finally adjusted to the gravitational field structure diagram of the tunnel section.

As the hostesses of this ruin, their ability to control the gravitational core is naturally far beyond that of Tang Lin and Walton. (To be continued.)