Chapter 2550 Doubt

“They’re all crazy.”

"They keep talking about repentance, and I agree with that, but why destroy the entire empire for this?"

"I feel like that's a little weird."

There was one researcher who was a little unusual.

This researcher, who looks like a centipede, is the product of a... special experiment called the symbiotic brain experiment.

Initially, a certain creature's brain was infected with an incurable disease. The healer told it that its brain would soon be completely... devoured by the disease, and there was no way to cure it.

But it was unwilling to die like that, so it adopted the method of microbiome therapy.

It is to use those specialized microorganisms to treat the brain. Usually this method is not advisable because these microorganisms can easily cause various irreparable damages to the brain during the treatment process.

Because when the microorganisms are treating the disease, they are actually waging a war with the pathogens inside the body, and the brain, as a battlefield, will definitely be... severely damaged.

If it is damaged somewhere else in the body, it is easy to recover, but if the brain is damaged, it will be very troublesome.

That's true for this species.

But it didn't care about that and directly used microorganisms for treatment... and the treatment was indeed successful.

But the microbiome also destroyed a large part of its brain.

But it did not die. A rather miraculous thing happened. These microorganisms mixed with the rest of its brain.

This formed a whole new consciousness, and the fact that its brain was mixed with microorganisms with collective consciousness surprised the doctors who were treating it, because it looked intact and had no loss of memory.

But slowly, changes began to appear. Although its memory was still retained, its personality and eating habits had undergone tremendous changes.

It really loves to eat… microbes.

That is, the therapeutic microorganisms, and it keeps purchasing these microorganisms to eat.

After eating a large number of microorganisms, its body structure also underwent great changes. It gradually grew a lot from its original appearance and became the later centipede shape.

Because the centipede is considered good in the aesthetics of many races in the Void Empire, no one is afraid of it.

But in the end, the Empire decided to let the Research Department capture it for research.

After entering the scientific research department, the researchers discovered that its entire body was covered with specialized microbial communities, and that these communities had all merged into a unified consciousness within its... body.

It's very clever, and they can't figure out why.

Later, they conducted some experiments using microbial communities to treat the brain, and found that... none of the other treated subjects were able to integrate their brains and microbes like it did, and instead all suffered severe brain damage.

Therefore, it became the only...strange species in the entire Void Empire that could mix with microbial communities.

Moreover, its thinking is very rich and full of... wisdom. Researchers often chat with it while conducting experiments on it.

They found that this 'centipede' was very smart, so they conducted an intelligence test on it and found that its intelligence... could reach the top of individual creatures in the entire Void Empire.

So, they finally decided to let Centipede join the scientific research department and become one of them.

This is the history it joins.

Later it was also one of the researchers involved in the pioneering study.

Although this centipede seems to have a strange life form, it also has rich... emotions like any other individual creature.

So it initially felt that it should confess its sins to the pioneers.

Its method of penance was to try to repair the Precursors to their full potential, returning them to their original size.

This way, I can continue to ask them for advice on how to make the transmission device. This is like hitting two birds with one stone. It should be the best solution.

However, it discovered that other fellow researchers did not think so. Other researchers not only believed that they should atone for their sins to the pioneers...

They even felt that the entire empire was beyond salvation, so they decided to destroy it.

This made the centipede feel...suspicious.

Why do these researchers, who usually have good personalities, suddenly become so extreme?

It also persuaded this group of researchers, but they completely ignored its persuasion and they all agreed that the empire should be destroyed.

So the centipede had to... study it on his own.

At first, it just suspected that these fellow researchers had some disease, but after observing the researchers for a long time, it slowly began to suspect... the Pioneer.

Because these researchers have always consulted with the Pioneers before taking any action for everything they do against the Empire.

It looked as if the Pioneer was directing them, although it could also be seen as the Pioneer simply fulfilling the wishes of these researchers.

But it always felt...not right.

This idea caused it to think a lot, such as what exactly these pioneers were.

Why would they be willing to help the Empire unconditionally? Why would they do so much...

The centipede has been trying to study all the time. It keeps trying to find any pioneering information and obtain various intelligence and clues.

However, its actions were not going smoothly because other researchers kept teleporting away various things from the past.

Of course, this also includes archives that store past materials.

In order to save these materials, the Centipede has been acting quickly, and it has also revealed its doubts about those pioneers to many residents of the Empire.

Although some residents of the Empire began to doubt the Pioneers, they were now too busy with the civil war to care about it.

But during the investigation, Centipede also made some special discoveries.

Because for a long time, there were creatures in the Empire who had doubted the Pioneers. Many creatures had doubted them and conducted many investigations on the Pioneers.

After a series of investigations, Centipede discovered some...truths about the Pioneers.

Then it formed an organization and named it the 'Anti-Pioneer' organization.

This organization is formed by a group of creatures who are suspicious of the Pioneers. The main purpose of this organization is... to hunt down the Pioneers.

They initially succeeded in capturing and killing some of the smaller Harbingers, who themselves did not fight them.

But the researchers soon noticed this and angrily fought against the anti-Pioneer organization.

The researcher finally killed all the members of the organization, including the centipede, and its body was thrown into the void.

And then... is everything over?

Apparently it's not over.