Chapter 566: Brainworm Tyrant

Of course Gu Hang knew what a brain worm was.

Although the Alliance has not yet dealt with the Void Zerg, a lot of research information has been widely circulated about these newest powerful enemies the Empire has encountered.

It must be pointed out that in this universe, various intelligent races and civilizations emerge in an endless stream.

But most of the civilizations encountered by the empire were not worth mentioning. The worst ones were civilizations that had only developed on their own planets and had not yet entered space; the stronger ones were civilizations that were active in a few star systems or at most multiple star regions.

People call this level of civilization a "pocket empire."

Compared with the enormous size of the human empire, these civilizations are indeed like "pockets".

In the history of the Empire, there have been alien civilizations that are much more powerful than the Pocket Empire, but most of them were wiped out in the founding war led by the Emperor himself when he was still alive.

The alien civilizations that can be encountered nowadays are all "pockets" for the empire. It doesn't take much effort to exterminate them. When expanding the territory, encountering such things can only be regarded as a minor problem at most.

By the way, in the Sun Expedition, most of the enemies that the Sun Lord targeted were actually this type of enemies.

However, among the many new enemies discovered by the human empire, the Void Zerg are the most terrifying.

No one knows where they come from. They are locusts in the universe, devouring one vibrant planet after another.

They are the ultimate predators, and human records of them are always based on words such as "plunder", "devour", and "evolution". Not only can they tear the enemy apart with their claws, but they can also use biochemical guns to shoot at long distances, including biochemical artillery and biochemical Terra Zerg. The biological warship clusters rampant in space are the end of the Imperial Navy.

And it is not just an enemy of humans. Other space forces have also been attacked by this monster cruelly and ruthlessly.

The Void Zerg are the pinnacle of biological evolution, and exist for a single purpose: to reproduce, to reproduce endlessly. By digesting and absorbing the organic matter of the entire planet, these monsters multiply more and more, and they will continue to absorb genes to transform themselves, turning themselves into even more deadly killing machines.

Only a fool would mistake the Tyranids' brutality and bloodlust for a lack of intelligence. The Hive Mind controls the activities of all Tyranid colonies with cold precision to ensure the survival of the entire species.

The hive mind is an abstract existence without actual individuals. It is a super-information concept collection with extremely powerful energy formed by the Zerg cluster in the real world and the subspace.

As a high-dimensional life form, the operating instructions of the Hive Will are transmitted through nodes, and can even interfere with the brains of nearby creatures, making them fearful and uneasy, and amplifying the fear of psychics.

In Gu Hang's opinion, this thing called "Zerg Shadow" and "Subspace Shadow" that came along with the Zerg is a reverse influence of real creatures on the Subspace.

The Warp is the immaterial world, the ocean of souls.

The Void Zerg seemed to be monsters without souls or emotions. However, they were still creatures existing in the real universe. A single Zerg might not have an individual will, but the will of the Zerg hive combined together was extremely huge. It would naturally be reflected in the subspace, becoming a ruthless subspace monster.

When a swarm of insects passes by, a part of the hive mind descends with the swarm, and it will "suppress" the subspace in the corresponding area.

Or rather, that was the cold nature of the Zerg. The will of the Zerg Hive was cold and emotionless, only concerned with survival, plunder, devouring, and reproduction. When it became the mainstream in the subspace, all psychic activities in that area would naturally be suppressed.

Human psykers were better off, just having headaches, which could be cured by cutting off the connection with the warp. Demons and Chaos followers were more affected. In the few times the Empire observed wars between Void Zerg and Chaos Demons, the latter never gained any advantage.

Correspondingly, when the Void Zerg devoured certain races that were good at using psychic energy, such as the Space Eldar and Chaos Demons, they not only further mastered the means of using the shadows of the Warp to suppress psychic reactions, but also evolved things like brain worms within the cluster.

Neurozoa, the king of brain worms, are top-notch psychic control units. It is generally believed that Neurozoa have the strength of Alpha-level psychics.

Alfonzo is really brave.

They actually dared to try to enslave something of this level?

The key is...it actually fucking succeeded?
However, the huge hidden dangers contained therein are bound to still exist.

After Gu Hang learned that the battle on the northern front of the Spider Web Universe, where the Infinity Regiment, the Bat Regiment and the Inquisition were jointly led by the Void Zerg, was blocked by the Void Zerg, he strongly suspected that the Iron Armor Regiment might have some unclear relationship with the Zerg.

Otherwise, it would be too much of a coincidence that an insect plague suddenly broke out on the route of advance when the iron armor on the northern battlefield was powerless to stop it.

Therefore, Gu Hang conducted special research on the psychic powers of the Void Zerg in order to prepare for the future and avoid being at a loss when encountering such an enemy.

The opponents in the current scenario seem to be different from expectations, but some of the methods prepared by Gu Hang can still be used.

However, before using those methods, Gu Hang thought that there was a simpler, more direct and more destructive method that he could try first.

Since this psychic power does not belong to the Alfonzo sect, then... is it possible to make it get out of control?
What would happen if a neurozoan with alpha-level psychic powers lost control and ran amok in the enemy's war ark?
Are the several main business sages on that ship capable of suppressing it?

Gu Hang wasn't sure.

The Mechanicus is also capable and should not be underestimated.

But even if they could, great chaos on the ship would be inevitable.

This is almost equivalent to destroying the most powerful war ark among the enemy forces.

While thinking, Gu Hang never stopped moving.

His psychic energy continued to tangle with that of the neurozoa, but in a very... careless way.

Du Bo felt that Gu Hang's psychic power had become easier to deal with.

Although I have doubts, this is good news.

Anyway, he also gave up the idea of using the psychic power of the protozoa to attack the Alliance ships.

He just needed to entangle Gu Hang's spiritual energy and prevent him from destroying his warships. Even if Gu Hang suddenly withdrew his power later, he was determined not to be fooled. He would just guard his main warships honestly and wait for Gu Hang's power to emerge again before entangling him immediately.

As long as Gu Hang's psychic power cannot affect his own ships, the firepower of the Mechanicus fleet will be enough to destroy the Alliance fleet.

Dubo had no doubt about it.

But in the next moment, Gu Hang's psychic power suddenly condensed into an extremely tough and penetrating force, which penetrated a large hole in the subspace original energy ball of the protozoan.

(End of this chapter)