Dark, damp, and cold.

That is the most suitable word to describe the underground cave. There is no light source here, and even the air is pitifully thin. Everything seems to be compressed by high pressure, tightly packed together, unable to stretch or free.

Heat, pain, and crazy itching were branded in Gran's bones. He had long since lost his reason to think, but rolled like a wild animal that had lost its mind on the gravel-covered ground.

The shriveled egg clusters that existed on the ground before disappeared, or in other words, all the egg clusters in this cave disappeared.

—Where did they go?

- They went to a warm, moist nest.

The hatching ground is cast by the body of the subfemale. The warm blood, beating heart, intertwined meridians, and strong vitality fascinate the shriveled eggs, so they simply burrowed into this place to find the mother for themselves.In the middle of the wound, all the wounds were occupied, and even the deeper part of the wound was covered with dots of black egg nuclei.

Like sesame seeds stuffed into the flesh, small blood holes are densely pierced on the flesh, and the black dots even move together with the mother's breathing—as if they have become one.

But that's not the end.

The power of the original eggs is always unimaginable, and they are full of mystery, so when these dying egg groups are combined with newborn flesh and blood, no one can imagine what they will look like in the future.

Just like at this moment——

The tumbling black egg nucleus extended a somewhat transparent egg membrane, and the egg membrane became full and plump due to the absorption of blood from the subfemale body, and strands of blood were caught in the egg membrane, holding it together.It was extraordinarily full, like an eyeball about to burst.But soon they crawled forward again, and continued to drill in through the invisible gap between the skin and flesh, so the torso of the subfemale was propped up one by two... many pieces of meat of different sizes.

"A lot... There are a lot of things in the body that are squirming..."

Gran, who had broken his ribs, sat up miraculously, and even wobbled like a puppet standing up on his knees. His eyes were dull, his face was pale to blue, but his mouth was redIt was terrible, as if the lip makeup was painted by blood.

He stood tremblingly on the spot, the skin and flesh on his body staggered and staggered into pieces of flesh, which covered his waist and thighs at first, and soon climbed to his chest, shoulder blades, and all the way to theNeck, cheeks.

In less than a minute, Gran's entire face was filled with swollen flesh, his facial features were deformed, and his mind was lost.

Primitive insect eggs are adapting to their "new body", they are full of curiosity to explore every piece of flesh, regardless of whether the narrow space can hold it, so under the almost bursting skin texture, they can evenI saw groups of black round nuclei huddled together breathing together with their mother body.

This change lasted for a long time, until another round of the sun and the moon alternated, the swollen flesh gradually calmed down, and the empty right eye of the blond female was intertwined with blood and flesh, and the egg nucleus fused, and a pure black eyeball gradually grew out.

But if you get closer, you can find that it is not an eyeball at all, but a substitute of countless black egg nuclei gathered together to form an insect compound eye.

Gran and the original eggs formed the evolution of me in you and you in me. Under the subfemale skin, there is no longer bright red red meat mixed with blood vessels, but clusters of crowded, blood-sucking longA large group of eggs; the brain full of grooves in the skull is also occupied by the eggs, so Gran's thinking and the group of eggs collide with each other, barely forming a weird balance.

[Ho ho ho... great, hee hee, new body...]

[So warm...]

[Mom... now... I want mom!Mother!Mother!]

[Hey, mom, where are you?]

The weird screams, like the screams of children choking their throats, echoed in Gran's brain, and the cries of the worms kept on attacking the fragile nerves of the subfemale.A carnival belonging to the egg swarm rolled under the texture, and in Gran's mind, he dug out the history and changes in the Zerg society.

Then the weird voice sounded again, distorted and sharp——

[We are... Asian females.]

[To hide in a new body.]

[We should get out of here and go find Mom.]

[Learn, speak.]

[Ho...hungry...]

The learning ability of the primitive insect eggs is extremely powerful, perhaps it can be said that it is the memory of gathering tens of thousands of egg groups to study Gran at the same time, so they quickly reproduced the behavior and language of the subfemale.

With a face as stiff as a puppet, Yayu slowly opened her mouth, and said the first sentence with some stumbles: "I, 自, 自, 了."

"Hahahahahahaha..." followed by a burst of sharp and ear-piercing laughter, the subfemale parasitized by the eggs danced and danced, his arms suddenly extended into chunks of flesh protruding from the meridians, and at the same time secreted a sticky liquid, grabbingThe jagged stone wall quickly sent the twisted and deformed "monster" to the hole where he first fell.

They knew that there were no other worms here, so they didn't bother to maintain their shape anymore. Crowded pieces of flesh came out from the tight skin again, light red, flesh red, dark red, those flesh and blood were extraordinarily loose, and they could be seen through the light.From the translucent egg membrane, the black round nucleus moved rustlingly, forming the skeleton that supports the movement of the "monster".

This "monster" babbled happily in the cold and empty underground cave, murmuring like a child's attachment to its mother, but the layer-by-layer sharp teeth that gradually grew out of the meat in the darkThe circular mouth of the mouth wriggled fiercely, as if frantically eager to swallow something completely.

The sarcoma rolled over, and the mouth of blood was surging.

The actions of the "monster" caused restlessness in the egg clusters in other caves.

At the same time, on the starship——

[what happened?what is that?]

[I can't see' clearly!]

[It's coming!What the hell is that?gross!]

[It stinks... it's rotten flesh, it's disgusting!what is that?Do not!do not come!]

...

Noisy voices flooded into Gu Ting's mind in an instant. He stood at the door of Crystal's room and his figure flickered, with his elbows tightly propped against the wall, and his tense arms were exposed under the half of his white sleeves that had been rubbed up.

"Well……"

The young male was holding his head in pain, the sounds were too chaotic, like stirring in his brain with a knife and fork, and even accompanied by many unidentifiable screams, all kinds of emotions were mixed in it, Disgust, fear, rejection, panic... Being forced to bear the emotions of outsiders is simply a torment.

The tentacles of mental power floating around him instantly drilled into the crystal room, and they pointed directly at the egg clusters in the bathtub, almost suppressing the restlessness and quarrels of the egg clusters with a forceful method.

Gu Ting endured the swelling pain on his temple and walked in. He looked at the eggs in the bathtub that were throbbing fiercely even though they were bound by the tentacles of mental power, and said helplessly, "What happened to you just now? My brain almost exploded."

It’s okay if you don’t ask, when the male worm asked, the egg clusters that had finally stopped slightly “exploded” again——

[We 'see' a monster!Ahhhh it's getting closer!]

[Will it be eaten?Why does it have such a big mouth?]

[It's disgusting, and there are squirming pieces of meat, what the hell is that?]

[Don't come here!]

"Wait, wait...you say it one by one..." Gu Ting, who was surrounded by all the sounds in 3D, carefully tried to distinguish the specific content they wanted to express from the howls of the eggs at first, butHe failed to appease, and these noisy quarrels even tended to intensify, shaking his whole brain to buzz.

Unable to bear the noise, Gu Ting suddenly raised his hand and patted the bathtub, his voice was several times harsh: "Shut up!"

The moment he scolded, cracks appeared in the glass in the bathroom.

Now the whole room is silent.

The egg clusters were wrinkled and crowded together, and the most irritable one said to Gu Ting:

[In the underground cave where we live, suddenly a monster covered with lumps of flesh appears, and they seem to be approaching another part of 'us'.]

"Do you know what that is?"

[I don't know, it's a very strange breath, I can't recognize it at all.]

"Will it be dangerous? Otherwise, I'll take some worms down now and pick you all up?"

[wait]

The voice that always liked to say that he was boring suddenly sounded, and there was still some uncertainty in its tone——

[The monster changed direction, not the position of another part of 'us'.]

[I 'see' it and it walks away.]

[There was no such monster in the cave before, right?]

[It's strange, did it grow out on its own later?Eating such a piece of meat will cause indigestion.]

[Shut up!]

The irritable voice scolded its companion, and it said to Gu Ting:

[I feel that monster is dangerous.]

"I see." Gu Ting nodded, "We will take the worm to the cave to have a look again."

As he said that, Gu Ting remembered the conversation he had vaguely "heard" from the egg clusters when he and Campbell were lingering. He said, "Did you say that some egg clusters disappeared?"

[Yes, suddenly I can't sense it.]

They were not a whole at first, but in a long-term dormant state, the egg groups will rely on each other in order to maintain the minimum vitality, so as time goes by, even the eggs that have no connection at first will also become weak due to long-term interdependence.With the help of each other, the fusion of egg fluid and the deepening of the connection took place, so in the later stage, the egg group in the entire cave will basically default that they are one.

The part of the egg group brought out by Gu Ting and most of the egg group in the cave are regarded as "one body" by default, but they also have eggs that are commonly rejected—that is, the guys living deeper in the entire underground cave.

[We don't like those eggs, they are annoying, and the smell is very weird at first, and it doesn't seem to be one with us.]

[We wanted to take them to blend together and prolong their lives, but they refused, saying that their mother was theirs.]

[Mom obviously belongs to everyone!]

[At one point they even tried to eat me!]

The egg clusters lying in the bathtub are all enemies, and they don't like the ones who have disappeared at all.

Gu Ting hesitated: "Will those disappearing eggs be related to the monster you saw?"

[……do not know.]

[They have different auras, shouldn't they?]

[Not sure yet.]

"Okay, then I understand." Gu Ting nodded, he edited the matter and sent a message to Campbell and Englie, and then continued to focus on the purpose of his visit this time, "You said before that you need my help to hatch, so now I have brought you out of the underground cave, what else do you need to do?"

The egg clusters that were still chirping like children quarreling suddenly stopped, and even huddled together in clusters, you squeezed me, I pushed you, but there was no sound at all.

Gu Ting was puzzled, and asked again: "What's the matter? Why don't you talk anymore?"

[No, no... I'm sorry...]

[You say you say!]

[I will not say!let it say it!]

[It can fart besides eating?]

[okay!To shut up!I say!]

That irritable voice was always like an old man who was forced to do nothing by his companions, with a vicious voice, but he was still a bit cautious when facing Gu Ting——

[We need your blood.]

The young black-haired male was taken aback for a moment, which reminded him of his self-taught method of "raising" crystals, "Do you need a lot of land?"

[Not too much, one drop at a time, estimated...]

The voice hesitated, as if calculating the amount they needed to hatch.

But before the irritable old man finished his calculations, another timid voice yelled that he was very hungry every time:

[A maximum of thirty days is fine.]

The egg group moved, and they stacked on top of each other, slowly forming a small triangle higher than the bathtub, as if "watching" Gu Ting, waiting for the other's answer.

One drop a day, persist for thirty days... Gu Ting thought about it in his mind, and it can be said that he has almost nothing to lose.

He nodded and said, "Yes, I'm fine."

Gu Ting basically said that he would do it right away. It just so happened that he accidentally shattered the mirror in the crystal bathroom. He picked out a shard and wiped it clean, then wiped it with his fingertips—crimson blood immediately sprang up and gathered.Formed into a small bead, the slender fingers shook, and the blood bead fell into the spacious bathtub.

It was as if water had fallen into a hot oil pan, and the entire bathtub changed violently when the blood droplets melted in. The egg clusters were trembling, and countless fine blood threads stretched out from the translucent egg membrane in an instant., obviously there is only one drop of blood, but it is divided into countless small droplets by the surrounded eggs, which are absorbed into the egg nucleus.

The black round nuclei wriggled and changed slowly. According to Gu Ting's naked eyes, they seemed to grow a little bit, but such a "point" was almost negligible.

Gu Ting: "Are you feeling alright?"

[Cool!]

[Hic, I'm full.]

[thanks.]

[So comfortable!Thanks!]

"It's okay." Gu Ting thought for a while, picked up what the worm mother had told him, and told the egg group again, "My preliminary guess, maybe you may be that group..."

The word "deformed" was swallowed by Gu Ting, and he chose to replace it with a more gentle word, "That batch of special eggs."

[Can't remember exactly, we've been there since we woke up, but we know we're all mommy's kids!We miss our mother very much, but we dare not look for our mother.]

[We can feel the breath on the other side, which is Mom, but those breaths hate us.]

[It's very annoying and annoying, so we never dare to go there.]

[If we go, mother may hate us even more...]

[But I really want to see my mother again.]

Gu Ting felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Every time he heard the story about the "Mother of Insects", he would become very emotional, and he couldn't help thinking about why the gods believed by the Zerg race created the "Mother of Insects"Such species, no matter whether they are humanoid worm mothers or worm-like worm mothers, they seem to have been doomed to a tragic ending from the beginning of their birth.

Perhaps in comparison, the treatment of humanoid worm mothers is much better than that of worm-shaped worm mothers, but is it true that humanoid worm mothers are glad that they are not worm-shaped worm mothers?

In this world, even the worm mothers who shoulder the responsibility of "reproduction" would not be willing to be trapped underground as reproductive machines for a lifetime, but they never had the right to choose, even after leaving the male worms,They don't even have the ability to move on their own-like weak and boneless dodders, but they are more pitiful than dodders.

Gu Ting's voice was very soft, "Do you want to go and have a look with me?"

At first Gu Ting thought that the familiar breath felt by the egg clusters might come from the bone nest, but after listening to the story told to him by the worm mother in the dream, Gu Ting guessed that the "breath" in the mouth of the egg clusters should come from another eraworm-like insect mother.

Xin Zhu said that under the quicksand was the original worm battlefield he had been looking for, but according to the news Gu Ting got from Arnold and the worm mother, what was buried under the quicksand should be the replacement of the previous generation of worm mothers on planet Herdik——Under the gravel, under the rocks, under the caves, each generation of worm mothers may be consciously or unconsciously covered by the same piece of quicksand.

Gu Ting thought, maybe they should visit the cemetery where the insectoid mother finally died...

The egg clusters were quiet for a while, and finally replied in unison——

[Want to go and see.]

They are attached to their mothers from the moment they are born, even if they are locked in a dark cave, even if they have never been fed by their mothers, but for them, "mother" is always their most attached existence.

Gu Ting, who temporarily solved the problem of the eggs, installed a small robot to change the glass in Crystal's bathroom, and then hurried to the meeting room on the starship. At this moment, Campbell and Engley should be there, so it is convenient for him to talkLet's talk about "monsters".

"Monster?" Engrie frowned. The news from Little Gem was just a brief statement, not specific enough. "When did it appear? The army female who came back from the search today said they didn't find anything."

"Just now," Gu Ting looked at the communicator, "about ten minutes ago."

Campbell said, "What about the eggs?"

"Yeah." Gu Ting nodded.

"Then go and have a look." Toines, who was leaning on the edge of the table with his arms folded, said indifferently: "Gran hasn't found it yet, isn't there another search scheduled for tomorrow? Just go down and look at that 'monster''what exactly is it."

Wei: "I agree, it's more reassuring to have a look."

Campbell also nodded, "Then let's go and have a look tomorrow."

"I don't know where Gran has gone." Gu Ting walked over and sat next to Campbell, the tail hook hidden behind him shook, and then consciously hooked the silver-haired female's calf, "If you don't find him, then how can I explain to Major General A Lai? The Junting Legion will probably be angry too."

Speaking of A Lai, Gu Ting looked at Engrie, "Is there any news from Ye Lai? How is A Lai's recovery?"

Englie: "It's much better than when I just woke up. Now I'm receiving some mild mental comfort, but there is basically no possibility of a complete recovery."

A Lai's experience is like another tragedy, but fortunately he woke up, but the hope of healing is slim. Major General Jun Ting, who once fought on the front line, can only lie on the hospital bed now. Who feels such a sense of gap?All too serious.

The young male was frowning, but something flashed through his mind quickly. The flash of inspiration at that moment made him unable to restrain himself from saying, "I should ask Arnold."

"Ask him?" Campbell, who knew that Arnold was Jacques, paused and looked at Gu Ting.

"Yes," Gu Ting nodded, "I'll ask first, and I'll let you guys know if I have any news."

Arnold lost Jacques' bloodline ability long ago because of the sacrifice many years ago, but Crystal, as the only successor of the Jacques species, if he can really master the ability to reverse subversion, curse and wish, perhaps for A Lai'sThere is still hope for recovery.

However, Gu Ting also remembered that Arnold said that when all the worm abilities are implemented, a corresponding price must be paid at the same time, so he does not intend to impose his own ideas on Crystal's head. This is why he chose to ask Arnold in private first.reason.

Fei Leng Cui, Chenxi Community——

After Ye Lai finished his day's work, he saw the recent situation on the planet Herdik sent by Engley earlier. The blonde female was sitting in a large chair, and her slender fingers were slid across the contactor.Light screen, quickly browse the contents to the end.

He frowned and pondered, Xin Zhu and Gran's various actions in the past three years appeared in his mind one by one.

Amor, who sneaked in without knowing when, also saw the news from Engley.

The delicate red-haired female whispered: "Is there something wrong with this Xin Zhu? Is he stupid for searching for something that may not exist for so many years?"

"He's not stupid, he's just persistent." Ye Lai's eyes were complicated, and even he couldn't imagine that Xin Zhu, who had been hiding behind the scenes, would do so much for the so-called "primordial worm battlefield".

"Isn't this obsession ridiculous?"

"Amor!" Ye Lai warned in a low voice, "I cannot agree with Xin Zhu's behavior, but for him, it is faith."

"Okay, okay." Amo shrugged, and sat obediently on the sofa not far away, "When will the little gem come back? Ever since he was with the boss, I feel like I'm seeing the little gem."Time is running out for gems!"

"Soon." Ye Lai: "Wait a little longer and I should be back. They still have a few things to deal with on planet Herdik."

"I should have gone with you in the first place!"

Ye Lai, who was drinking tea, glanced at Amor, who was listless, and couldn't help but said, "Well, when they return, I agree with you to drive a small starship to pick them up..."

"Really?"

Before he finished speaking, Amor jumped up and rushed to the table, almost knocking over the tea in Ye Lai's hand.

Enduring the throbbing veins on his forehead, Ye Lai threatened on the ground: "If you continue to be careless, you will not even think about stepping out of the community in the next month!"

But obviously, Amor, who only listened to the previous sentence, didn't care at all, "I got it! Ye Lai, you are so kind! I'm going to practice driving skills again!"

Seeing the red-haired female running out in a hurry, Ye Lai shook her head and sighed silently: "Tsk, when will I grow up..."