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Chapter 177 Gift (Part 1)

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    After so many years of training, Li Ping has become very confident in his subordinates. Not to mention the main consciousness of those ship bugs and the Queen's experienced handling methods, as long as Louise is watching, Li Ping can relax.  And the Zerg did not disappoint Li Ping.  Not long after Li Ping went to bed, a flying mantis drifting by inertia accidentally discovered an obvious man-made object, which was most likely a detector.  However, fortunately, the flying mantis is also smart, and this flying mantis happens to be a veteran insect. It has experienced almost all the battles of the Zerg in the universe. On several occasions, it was beaten badly, and only the remaining  Half the chest.  Fortunately, the biological brain inside is intact, and it is dragged back and regenerated every time the battlefield is cleaned.  Up to now, even if it is just a flying mantis, its biological brain has grown extremely developed for such a long time. Except for its mental strength, its intelligence is not inferior to the queen at all.  As soon as Fei Mantis saw this man-made object, he knew that it must be related to the group of mercenaries.  As for those mercenaries, Fei Mantis didn't have a good impression at all. He had been beaten by them several times and was missing arms and legs. He would never forget these grudges.  After notifying Crusu of the news, the mantis twisted its body, flapped its elytra slightly, then changed its course and floated behind the detector.  During this process, the flying mantis remained motionless and even reduced the biological activity of its surface carapace to a minimum, making it just a piece of ordinary gravel.  When passing by the gravel attached to the detector, a soft tentacle suddenly popped out of Fei Mantis's body. This tentacle silently touched the gravel, and then stuck firmly.  Because this flying mantis is very smart, Li Ping often entrusts it with samples or special tasks. Therefore, it is different from ordinary flying mantises in that it has evolved many other organs, and this ejection catching hook is one of them.  Relying on the tentacles of the catching hook, the flying mantis landed lightly on the gravel, and lay there waiting quietly. It was waiting for the gravel to enter the dense dust area in front of it.  Soon, the rubble entered the dust area, and large and small dust and even ice crystals hit the rubble. With each impact, the flying mantis took a gentle step in cooperation and quietly climbed to the vicinity of the detector.  There was only a thin layer of rock between them.  The flying mantis remained motionless, but a tentacle on its head began to slowly wriggle and extend, and quietly poked out from the gap in the rock.  It turned out that there was a tiny compound eye on the top of the tentacles. At this glance, the flying mantis recognized this kind of detector.  So Fei Mantis also stuck his head out and looked at the detector carefully.  This kind of equipment without visual detection and vibration sensing is extremely sensitive to magnetism and gravity, and can easily detect regular magnetic fields and artificial gravity in the distance.  Having encountered this kind of detector before, I know that it is also very sensitive to electromagnetic waves and I absolutely cannot scan it with bioradar.  And the detector, which is twice the size of Fei Mantis, can be connected to other detectors to form a detection network, which means there must be detectors in other places.  Fei Mantis knew that the most troublesome thing about this kind of detector was not this, but the inter-space communication equipment inside, which could quickly transmit information back.  However, in a detection network, only one detector has cross-space communication equipment. As long as that communication equipment is destroyed, these detectors will no longer be a threat, and the various rare elements in it are for Fei Mantis.  Really delicious.  Slowly approaching the detector, the flying mantis also stretched out a flexible tentacle from its mouth. The top of the tentacle was split and was as flexible and powerful as a human hand.  Fei Mantis controlled his tentacles to touch around on the detector shell, as if he was looking for something.  It wasn¡¯t until he touched the entire detector that the mantis revealed a small tooth as sharp as a dagger hidden in its tentacles.  Although this small tooth is very compact, it is still very easy to cut through the outer shell of this detector with its high frequency wave capability.  Sure enough, the small teeth easily penetrated the shell like poking tofu, and then with a twist, a small round piece was cut off from the shell.  The tentacles flexibly picked up the fragments, then stretched out a thin branch and poked it through the round hole.  After a while, the branch retracted, because the communication equipment was no longer inside this one. However, through the activation number of the built-in antenna, Fei Mantis knew the number and location of other detectors.  With the tentacles and tentacles retracted, the flying mantis left the rubble with a slight bounce and flew towards other detectors.  A day later, Fei Mantis found the second detector.  It still opened the detector shell using the old method, and this time it discovered that the cross-space communication equipment was a small cylinder!  Once you find it, it will be easier.  After cutting a large piece of the shell, Fei Mantis chewed up the communication device and swallowed it.  The rare elements inside are supplements for the flying mantis, and these detectionThe rare elements in it are also good things.  So, through the core network, Fei Mantis began to call the Fei Mantis brothers who were assigned to him. After all, there were many things, and he could not move like a bug.  At this time, Louise also thought, would those mercenaries also discover other silicon crystal gathering areas and take some precautions there?  So, Louise mobilized a large number of flying mantises and flying insects and began to carefully investigate around the silicon crystal gathering areas.  Sure enough, the feedback after a week showed that almost every silicon crystal gathering area was monitored by many different detection equipment. Some of the equipment had detection methods that even she had not thought of. Therefore, there were many inexperienced bugs.  Having been discovered, the arrival of the mercenaries was inevitable.  Louise felt ashamed and even more angry.  Every time the master takes a rest, these people come to make trouble for her. Even if the master can bear it, she can't bear it anymore.  So, Louise summoned all the ship bugs and the queen to start the second high-level meeting of the Zerg clan.  After several days of discussion, no good solution was found. The large-scale breeding of flying mantises and flying insects was recognized by everyone present. Anyway, there is a lot of materials and energy here.  So, in order to better expand the scale of reproduction, more than a dozen queens quickly came up with an improvement plan for the insect nest-the space insect nest.  Unlike ship bugs, this kind of space bug hive has no other power except some jet propulsion capsules to control the attitude. The entire bug hive floats in space and is connected into one or even several hives through thick conveying pipes.  Can be stacked together to form a three-dimensional structure.  These insect nests can absorb matter and energy in space. They do not require worker bees and have no site restrictions at all. As long as there is sufficient material and energy supply, these insect nests can exert amazing efficiency.  As for the selection of arms, in addition to flying mantises and flying insects, even the flying dragon, which Li Ping had forgotten for a long time, was revealed.  If anti-ship flying insects are more powerful, then anti-aircraft cannons are suspected of killing mosquitoes against those mechas, fighter planes or combat robots. To deal with these things, Louise thought about it and felt that flying dragons are more suitable.  However, in order to allow the somewhat cumbersome planetary group of flying dragons to move in space, certain improvements are still necessary, but this does not require much effort.  For the Zerg, who have a lot of space navigation experience, this couldn't be easier, any queen can do it!  "Replace the energy organ, add the propelling jet sac, wrap it in a space carapace, and then improve the body structure and add some high-energy fat reserves, it will not be difficult for the Queen at all.  When it came to whether the flying dragon should use the heavy carapace of a flying insect or the light carapace of a flying mantis, the Queen was a little hesitant.  Because the Queen discovered that flying dragons neither need to charge into battle with firepower like flying insects, nor do they require the high mobility of flying mantises to run around, so it is somewhat inappropriate to directly use the carapace of both.  It would be best if the characteristics of the two could be combined.  But the Queen has no right to directly modify it. After all, it affects the entire Zerg race, so she can only report it to Louise.  After Louise learned about this situation, she also discovered the current problem with carapace classification.  Recalling what her master had said before, Louise decided to systematically organize and optimize the Zerg's carapace.  Taking advantage of the opportunity of all the senior executives to have a meeting together, Louise directly divided the work among the senior executives present.  Although these high-level Zerg leaders present have no emotional intelligence, their IQs are much higher than those of humans.  There is a queen who is good at studying genes, and there are ship bugs who are good at space navigation. Even if they are in the background, the whole work is progressing very quickly.  After the meeting is over and all the work is arranged, the work assigned to each consciousness is completed. Louise only needs to integrate and improve it. For the next work, in addition to Louise who fully understands Li Ping's thoughts and plans,  Besides, no one is more suitable.  After allocating some energy for integration, Louise also participated in the establishment of the space sniper network, making the Queen and the shipworms even more handy.  Now, resources that were wasted before can be used. For example, the "waste pile" condensed after extracting silicon crystals can now be recycled. With hundreds of millions of worker bees busy, this huge waste pile  It was sent to the insect nest bit by bit and synthesized into organic matter.  With a large amount of organic matter, the space insect nest plan began to be implemented.  Piles of worker bees began to gather together to incubate the space insect nest.  Unlike ordinary insect nests, although space insect nests are not hatched in the air, they do not have a strong geothermal root system and can be easily pushed into space after they mature.  Some ordinary insect nests have also begun to mutate into space insect nests under the control of the core network.  With the support of the huge number of worker bees and insect nests, the first batch of 300 space insect nests soon hatched out, and began to progress with the help of flying mantises and flying insects.??Space.  In order to achieve maximum efficiency, these space insect nests have implemented hatching restrictions. Although they are smaller in size, they hatch flying mantises, flying dragons and flying insects faster than ordinary insect nests.  A large amount of matter and energy has been stored in itself, so these three hundred space insect nests quickly grew a large number of transmission tubes, connecting all the space insect nests into one in space.  After being connected together, the surroundings of these transport tubes began to change. Gradually, some leaf-like tissues began to grow, gradually filling the gaps between the space insect nests. These things are the collection leaves of the particle collection system improved from the ship insect.  , can collect dust and gas in space for use by the insect nest.  However, the current area of ??the insect nest network is too small, and the collected materials are not enough. When it reaches a certain scale, the collected materials will be able to fully support the incubation of the group.  The ship worm slowly drove to the edge of the worm hive network, and then stretched out a tentacle to connect with the network, providing power for the network of three hundred space worm hives to move towards the destination.  Ten days later, a total of more than 1,600 space insect nests, including those transformed from land insect nests, had been networked and were dragged by the ship insects to a silicon crystal gathering place.  It is more difficult to collect silicon crystals here than in other places, because here the silicon crystals are mixed into extremely small crystal particles and a large amount of gas and tiny dust.  But now there is such a big net, and the layers of collection leaves are enough to filter out most of the silicon crystals contained here.  After collecting silicon crystals, Louise will take some out and use them.  After all, compared to other energy sources, silicon crystal contains much more energy. As long as a small amount of silicon crystal is consumed, it can support the full reproduction of the insect nest network for a long time.  Here, although the Zerg can also collect radiation energy, thermal energy and some chemical energy, they cannot support the full operation of the Zerg Network, and consuming too much of the Zerg's reserves is not what Louise wants, so Louise simply  Silk directly plans to consume some silicon crystals, and by the way, he can also test the actual utilization of silicon crystals by the Zerg.  Along the way, the insect nest network also collected a lot of material and energy, so under Louise's order, these insect nests began to operate at full capacity.  Half an hour later, the first batch of flying mantises hatched. One after another, these flying mantises crawled out of the closed hatching holes on the insect nest, then spread their wings and jumped, flying around.  These flying mantises are only semi-finished products, they do not have much high-energy fat reserves in their bodies, and they do not carry guide worms or disposable collection wings.  Anyway, it still took a lot of time for the mercenaries to arrive here, and Louise also made some small improvements based on the idea of ??making full use of so many bugs.  When they are just born, these flying mantises, flying dragons and flying insects are like the collecting mantises, collecting dust and other materials in the space and bringing them to the insect nest.  But as the guide worms in its body mature and the high-energy fat storage reaches its limit, these flying mantises will degenerate their collection wings, re-grow combat elytra, and then go to the assembly point to standby.  This assembly point was set up in a rubble area, surrounded by trillions of space rubble, enough to provide sufficient cover for the Zerg space army.  While the bugs were being hatched here, several other silicon crystal gathering areas were also found, and collection operations began. In order to collect silicon crystals faster, the ship bugs enlarged the particle collection system on the ship bug's body.  Reaching the limit, several ship insects and a large number of flying insects, dragging a huge collection net, began to sweep away the gravel and dust containing silicon crystals in space.  Densely packed flying mantises are scattered around, some are cleaning up fish that have slipped through the net, some are detecting dangers, and some choose to run around to maintain the integrity of the huge "trawl net".  As the scope expanded, a large number of detectors and alarms were discovered and destroyed.  But this also made those mercenaries discover something unusual.  In the harsh space environment, it is normal to lose some equipment, but it is very suspicious to lose contact one after another.  Especially knowing that the Zerg have slipped out of the No. 3 galaxy and penetrated deeply into the No. 2 galaxy, all the troubles are worth noting.  As a result, some mercenaries began to leave the main army.  This didn¡¯t attract many people¡¯s attention.  After all, we only know the general location of the Zerg now, so it¡¯s understandable that some people don¡¯t want to get together.  Besides, for those advanced civilizations, this is better. The more spread out, the greater the chance of discovering the Zerg.  No matter which spacecraft discovers the Zerg, with the technology and power of these advanced civilizations, the news can be obtained immediately, and it will be too late to rush over.  So these mercenaries are completely exploring the role of cannon fodder, and they are also secretly excited. The cannon fodder is not for nothing. If they are lucky, they can eat a mouthful of soup.  They know their own strength, and since they haven¡¯t made any changesIf you change, you can just be your own cannon fodder in peace.  If they really take the first bite of soup, even if it is just soup, it will make their brains full of fat.  Even if they have to hand over something in the end, those advanced civilizations can only spend money to buy it according to the rules. If they don't follow the rules, then the entire cosmic society will know about it.  Even a higher civilization cannot bear the resistance and oppression of the entire society.  These mercenaries were rushing along like crazy, and after two weeks of continuous hyperspace navigation regardless of risks, they finally arrived near the Cluster Nebula.  At this time, the Zerg, under the command of Li Ping who woke up, had begun to pack up their belongings and prepare to run away.  "Are you ready?" Li Ping asked happily as he looked at the silicon crystals that had been collected, purified and transported to the mothership.  Can you be unhappy? There is a warehouse of sparkling blue silicon crystals. This time, Li Ping has gained more than before.  "It's ready. All ship bugs can jump at any time." Looking at this deep blue silicon crystal, even Louise was a little excited. These are resources. Intelligent creatures are not all busy.  Is it for materials and energy?  "Then let's go. I don't know if they will like the gift I left." "They will definitely like it!" "I hope so. We have been prepared for a long time." "Yes, Master, I sincerely hope  "They like it." "Hahaha" In Li Ping's obscene laughter, the Zerg fleet began to accelerate with blue-green ion flames, and finally disappeared with a burst of lightning. The destination of this hyperspace voyage had another purpose.  An important mineral - gravity crystal.  Unlike silicon crystals, gravity crystals are much easier to collect. As long as they are discovered, they can be collected quickly. It does not need to be as time-consuming and laborious as collecting silicon crystals this time, because gravity crystals are all in a crystalline state.  Just when Li Ping was running towards the next target with a happy face, on the other side of the nebula, a mercenary was yelling.  ;
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