Chapter 167 Mechanical Ascension, Plan to Kill the King Spinal Bug

"The human king..."

"The able ones live there..."

Lin Feng murmured to himself...

It sounds tempting.

When he saw Lin Feng's thoughtful look, the corners of his mouth raised slightly:

"You humans have great genetic potential, especially in terms of spirituality. Many high-level powerful people with artistic conceptions may evolve in the future..."

"But the evolutionary process of the human race is still too short. If you take the shortcut of mechanical evolution, you will have to wait at least a thousand years before you return to the right path and start your individual evolution and awakening."

"As for now, the accumulated gene storage is not rich, so you need to learn more from other races and eventually form your own gene pool."

"And this will also have to go through a long integration and evolution."

"Otherwise, they will be just like genetic warriors and samurai insect hunters. They are just deformed monsters that are forcibly stitched together."

"Although it is fast, there will be more disadvantages in the future."

Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"Are there no races in this universe that follow other evolutionary paths?"

"For example, the mechanical ascension you just mentioned..."

The corners of Zhiyi's raised lips turned into a sneer:

"Why not? But most of them are losers in StarCraft, so they give up their flesh and blood bodies and use their mechanical bodies as vassals of the strong to survive."

Lin Feng was stunned. In his understanding, the mechanical ascension was very powerful, and its lethality and troop explosion speed were no worse than those of the Zerg.

In Lin Feng's future plan, Chen Yanyan can follow such an evolutionary path, and with her mechanical pioneer ability, she can control the entire fleet in the future and become a true queen of war.

But now, from what Zhi Yi says, it seems that the strength and status of the mechanical body are extremely low in the context of the universe...

So he opened his mouth and asked:

"This...how is this possible? The production speed of mechanical assembly line factories is much faster than the cultivation of flesh and blood life. Even if it is as powerful as your Zerg's biological mother nest, it cannot compare with the productivity of mechanical factories."

"Besides, their energy consumption is much lower than that of living organisms. When they are inactive, they can cut off the power supply and enter a standby state, which will require less energy."

"With the same resources, the combat strength of mechanical ascension is definitely stronger than that of flesh-and-blood evolution."

Looking at Lin Feng, who had an incredible look on his face, he snorted and continued following his words:

"You also know that the mechanical body consumes very little energy. If the whole family ascends, it can survive until the day the galaxy of origin is destroyed."

"But the race that chooses this path will have two endings. One is the consciousness of the whole race, which is uploaded into the program of the online world. According to us, it is the spirit body in the artificial realm."

"If this continues, the result of evolutionary development will only become a circle of computer matrices underground on the planet or in extraterrestrial orbits, serving as the carrier of consciousness."

"They no longer have access to external information, and the internal spirits will pass over time. The programs will continue to malfunction and eventually die. So what is the difference between this and death?"

"As for the second type, the transformation of the prosthetic body, the flesh and blood body is completely transformed into a mechanical body, and a mechanical legion is formed, which is probably what the fleet under your command looks like..."

"But here comes the problem. There is no shortage of strong people in this universe. Basically, those who can set foot on alien colonies are races with life in the universe. And for the strong people in the universe, even nuclear bombs can hardly damage them. ”

"As for tearing apart large mechas and mechanical beings with bare hands, that's even more so."

Speaking of this, Zhiyi stretched out his hand again and pointed at the nearby primitive planet:

"Look at this artistic world, it requires a very high energy density to condense and maintain."

"And to create artistic conception, or even the future divine realm, an entropy-reducing environment is needed to maintain the stability of order."

"The flesh-and-blood body, which consumes a lot of energy, is the best carrier to stimulate the life state. You also mentioned above that after mechanical transformation, the demand for energy will be greatly reduced..."

"So correspondingly, there is no mechanical race in this universe that can give birth to existences of level four and above."

"Of course, some galaxies are located in remote locations. Even if fourth-level life has evolved, a certain degree of prosthetic body modification will be carried out in order to reduce the energy consumption for survival."

"But it won't be like you said. The entire race is completely based on machinery as the carrier and chips as the soul. Isolating communication with the outside world is refusing to integrate into the universe. Naturally, its destiny can only be set in its ways, causing the entire civilization to stagnate."

"There is no evolutionary path that can lead to qualitative change. No matter how many there are, they will be swallowed up by the cold universe and the entropy of time increases, and eventually turn into decay..."

After listening to Zhi Yi's theory, Lin Feng was deeply shocked. It turned out that the underlying logic behind this was to use his own entropy decrease to counteract the entropy increase of the entire universe.

The process of entropy reduction is to evolve the brain tissue that consumes the most energy, give birth to spiritual consciousness, condense artistic conception, and finally upgrade it to a domain.

It is also the realm of God that has always been mentioned in the mouth.

Reminiscent of the Insect Hive Mind Divine Realm that she used to use the secret technique of artistic conception to summon...

Although I heard her introduction later, the virtual divine realm only had less than one ten thousandth of the divine power of the complete body.

However, Lin Feng's thousands of spiritual attributes that had already broken through the limit were still as small as dust in the wind in front of him, too small to be noticed.

Perhaps only fourth-level beings who fully grasp the artistic conception are qualified to become ants in the eyes of the gods.

As for mechanical civilization, it can only quickly sweep away the primitive races that are still developing on the planet. Looking at the universe, just as Chi Yi said,

The future of civilization can be seen at a glance. What's the difference between this and death...

Sighing lightly, from the bland and ironic narration of Ling Yi, Lin Feng felt more and more the profoundness of the sentence that the universe feeds on the weak.

And when he passed through the black stone area with mixed feelings and arrived near the foot of the volcano, the scene of the sulfur hot spring belt appeared in front of the two.

"Why didn't I see the black-backed worms and tiger-backed worms mentioned by the awakeners along the way?"

Lin Feng looked around, but didn't find any living things. There were only poisonous bubbles gushing out from the volcanic geothermal nearby, making a gurgling sound.

But this volcano is very large, seven or eight kilometers wide.

Like a small island in the plate earthquake zone in the ocean of Blue Star.

Long Yi looked at a large piece of volcanic rock:

"I guess they were all killed by Shen Jie. Every death and rebirth means starting over. He has to accumulate strength again to reach the top and challenge the king insect."

"I feel a stronger killing breath there. Go and take a look and be prepared."

Lin Feng knew what she meant. If Shen Jie fell into a state of madness and lost himself, he might attack indiscriminately without distinguishing between enemies and friends.

The first batch of soldiers who had undergone the second awakening encountered this situation. Although they solved the pursuit of the insect tide with the help of Shen Jie, they also died in his madness afterwards.

Once encountered this situation, Lin Feng had to prepare in advance to control the self-lost Shen Jie and protect Long Yi from harm.

Danger was approaching, and this time Lin Feng took the lead.

Ling Yi followed closely behind, with a slightly nervous expression. In order to maintain the mental channel, she needed to disperse her mental power, which made her strength most seriously weakened in the killing state, and it was even difficult to control the tiger spine insect affected by killing.

Soon, after passing a hot spring lake, the two saw a pile of second-order tiger spine worm corpses behind the gray-black volcanic rocks.

Their trunks were hollowed out, leaving only the hardest giant jaws and four fleshless legs.

The worm corpses were piled up one after another, filling an area as big as a football field. At a glance, it was roughly estimated that there were more than 40 or 50...

There were also a bunch of black spine worms, discarded on the periphery.

"There!"

Before Lin Feng could carefully observe the appearance of the original spine worm, the voice of Ling Yi came directly, pointing to the opposite side in the distance.

Lin Feng clenched the tiger tooth chain saw sword in his hand, always keeping vigilant, and stepped forward cautiously.

When he could see a black shadow, he stopped, holding the electromagnetic cannon in his left hand and the tiger-toothed chain saw sword in his right hand, and shouted out a powerful call:

"Shen Jie! Is that you!?"

The black shadow was lying on a dying tiger spine worm. After hearing the call from behind, he slowly stood up and turned his head. A head with a giant jaw of a spine worm and a face with the flesh and blood of the insects on the side of the mouthparts appeared in front of the two.

The electromagnetic cannon in Lin Feng's hand had already been aimed and locked. As long as the opponent rushed over, he would use the magnetic storm bomb to restrict its movement first, and then use the chain saw sword to suppress it.

However, the humanoid insect who saw the two did not attack, but stayed in place. After a while, he began to gesture with his hands, and at the same time, a hoarse whimpering sound came out of the giant jaw.

Seeing this, Lin Feng turned his head and looked at the dragon. After seeing the other party nod, he stepped forward.

But the weapons and equipment in his hands have not been relaxed.

It is not possible to lift the guard at present.

It was not until the two of them walked 20 meters in front of the insect man that Lin Feng confirmed that the insect man in front of him was Shen Jie through his specific appearance.

Because its current form is quite similar to Shen Jie's black warrior.

Although it is affected by the original gene of the spiny worm, it does not look as ferocious and terrifying as in reality, but the pattern of the outer armor and the bone blade on the side of the arm have not changed much.

"Are you conscious?"

Lin Feng frowned and asked.

Shen Jie nodded, then pointed to the black giant jaw on his face, meaning that he could not speak.

Lin Feng looked at the 覉一 beside him:

"Can it be solved? Can't your infinite reproduction state control gene fusion and separation?"

After a nod, he walked forward to the feet of the insect man.

At this moment, Shen Jie was three meters tall, and Zhiyi, who was less than 1.7 meters tall, was like a little doll in front of it.

As 艦一 put her hand on Shen Jie, a strange golden light was seen from her hand into the outer armor of the insect man.

"Let's not go to other places for now, so as not to affect the combat effectiveness by removing too much."

Long Yi said while controlling the machine.

Then the giant jaw covering Shen Jie's entire face slowly fell off, with traces of blood and mucus.

On Shen Jie's original face, a thin layer of skin was peeled off, but fortunately the deeper layers were not injured, and the red face was quickly restored to its original state under the self-healing power.

Then he turned pale, leaned over and retched a few times, vomited some organs with Zerg characteristics, and then he came to his senses and spoke in a human voice:

"Finally... I can finally speak..."

Lin Feng put away his weapon and walked forward:

"When did it become like this?"

A trace of confusion flashed in Shen Jie's eyes. After thinking for a moment, he replied:

"Big... About half a month ago, after sending off the third batch of second-awakened soldiers, I have been hunting tiger spine worms. Unknowingly, the assimilation of Zerg genes changed my organs. Until I noticed it, my throat could no longer speak."

"It's mainly because I don't use it. In the past few months, except for chatting with the soldiers, I can only talk to myself at other times."

Lin Feng nodded. It seems that the lonely days in the artistic conception must be hard.

"You...how did you get here?"

After adapting to the normal human state, Shen Jie remembered that the appearance of Lin Feng and the others was a little abnormal.

Lin Feng coughed lightly and briefly explained the situation, saying that the countdown was one month and that this was Shen Jie's last chance.

After listening, Shen Jie did not worry or feel distressed, but instead showed a relieved look, and then cheered up:

"It's good..."

"If it happens again, I guess I can't hold on. While I have your help this time, let's get to know each other!"

Said Shen Jie stood up and looked up at the towering volcano in front of him, his eyes firm:

"Life or death depends on this life!"

Lin Feng nodded and asked for relevant information:

"How many times have you been up there?"

"How much do you know about the strength of the king spinal worm?"

Shen Jie thought for a while:

"Twice. I didn't have much experience the first time, and after going up, I headed towards the crater. He roared, and then was stabbed by the king spine worm. The second time, he had experience and thought of other ways. He climbed to the edge of the crater in his prime state, lured out the king spine worm inside, avoided the attack of the sharp feet, and was finally hit by its huge jaws and flew several kilometers away. His body was shattered and he couldn't move. He was eaten by the black spine worms..."

"The high-level king spine worm is very powerful, mainly because there is no way to break its defense. It's the same as the second-level peak tiger spine worm in the underground hatching nest. The artillery can only tickle it, and you have to use the tiger tooth chain saw sword. "

Hearing his tragic experience, Lin Feng could already imagine the desperate feeling of powerlessness.

Then he sighed and looked at the side of him:

"Do you have any information about this?"

"Breaking the outer armor's defense is just the first step, right?"

Ling Yi nodded:

"Yes, breaking the outer armor's defense is only the most basic, proving that we have a chance to hurt it."

"But if we want to kill it completely, we must first solve it!"

Following the direction pointed by Ling Yi, Lin Feng and Shen Jie turned their heads and saw the majestic volcano in front of them.

Lin Feng reacted quickly and asked in disbelief:

"You mean, we have to destroy the entire volcano and the habitat of the king worm?"

Ling Yi said seriously:

"Of course. Active volcanoes with high heat concentration are the best habitat for king worms. They can absorb the energy in them for their own use, and as long as they stay in the volcanic magma, they are invincible. Even if they are seriously injured by broken limbs, they can quickly repair themselves."

"And it is much more difficult to lure it out of the crater than to destroy the entire volcano."

"So what we have to do is to detonate this active volcano that has been unable to hold back for a long time, and have a volcanic eruption!"

"Detonate the entire artistic conception!"

"Then the king worm will be injured by the violent energy released by the volcanic eruption. It is easier to kill a high-level king worm with low blood than to face it in its prime!"

Hearing Ling Yi's shocking plan, Lin Feng and Shen Jie all showed an expression of disbelief.

Lin Feng took a deep breath, raised his gun with his left hand and pointed it at the waist of the active volcano:

"Are you sure you want to do this... After the volcano erupts, the entire state of mind... won't collapse instantly?"

Ling Yi shrugged and didn't care:

"Yes..."

After admitting it directly, he pointed at Shen Jie and continued:

"But as long as he is still alive, the speed of collapse will slow down, and it will probably last less than an hour."

"This is our chance!"

"Don't look at me like that, who told you that your strength is too weak, especially you, Shen Jie. Even the powerful second-level peak tiger spine insects are dozens of them, and they will start the high-level state of mind trial together. They will be here first. After a round of fighting, the winner will be decided. Finally, they will challenge the king worm together. The winner will naturally become the new king worm. "

"As a half-human and half-worm, although your spiritual power is enough to start the artistic conception trial, you happened to encounter the life-and-death crisis of the underground mother nest, which accidentally activated it passively..."

"So, make a choice now..."

"It is to adopt the step-by-step method of climbing mountains and fighting monsters, but the final winning rate is less than 30%! "

"Or listen to my advice..."

"Destroy the artistic conception world, reduce the difficulty of the trial, and finally give it a try. In this way, you can have at least a 70% winning rate!"

After speaking, Long Yi and Lin Feng...

looked at Shen Jie at the same time.