Chapter 602, Princess

Chapter 602, Princess

Arno did a big thing in the Alfonzo star field: he mobilized a large amount of resources to rescue Sebastian Moreau.

Not only the personnel from his Central Bureau of Investigation, but also the other two major foreign intelligence agencies of the Alliance and even the Demon Hunter Force were united by him.

At the same time, he also mobilized the network of relationships he had built up through the struggle between doves and hawks since entering the Alfonzo star field.

But even so, Moreau is a very important person and must be held in strict custody.

In order to ultimately succeed, perfect preparation and careful planning are essential, but some luck at the final moment is also inevitable.

After encountering many dangers and setbacks along the way, they boarded the small boat of Arno and Moreau himself and actually secretly crossed the Vinci-Vuchi line and entered the alliance side.

Afterwards, the pursuing ships of Alfonzo's Mechanicum rushed over and collided with the Alliance's garrison fleet in the Vuchi star system.

Of course not.

Moro arrived in the alliance just like that.

Gu Hang still attaches great importance to this.

Before being captured, Sebastian Moreau was the Forging General of the Forging World - Dragon Star. He had the title of Sage and was ranked among the top five in the entire Alfonzo Sect.

At the same time, he was also one of the most important figures among the doves. It was for this reason that he was taken down by Varük, who used his imprisonment to suppress the doves.

He is now in the hands of the Alliance, which means that if the Alliance marches into the Alfonzo star field in the future, the doves within the Mechanicus will most likely be influenced by Moreau and turn against them.

Of course, this also depends on Moro's own willingness and whether he is willing to follow the alliance.

There is no use in forcing.

The good news is that his willingness to "escape" and follow Arnault to the area under the actual control of the alliance itself proves his attitude.

Gu Hang hoped that this guy would be able to play a significant role in the future, so that the Alliance's investment in Alfonzo's intelligence network would not be in vain in order to save him.

The matter would have ended here. If he was to be used, it would be the intelligence department's business, and he would have to be brought along during the subsequent advance.

However, after arriving in the alliance's controlled area, this former casting general strongly requested to meet Gu Hang in person.

In addition, Arno also strongly suggested to Governor Gu through the intelligence structure that he should meet with Moreau, claiming that he had very important intelligence, but Moreau was only willing to tell Gu Hang.

It's about the Zerg.

This aroused Gu Hang's interest.

The high-ranking members of Alfonzo's sect have intelligence about the Zerg, which should be reliable.

If you want to meet, then meet.

……

Sitting in a high position, Gu Hang met the former casting general.

Sebastian Moreau looked rather embarrassed.

He was wearing a red and black robe, but his body was... too small.

According to Gu Hang's understanding of the high-ranking members of the Mechanicus, each of them, no matter which direction they develop in, will always transform their bodies to become more and more outrageous.

Even Wu Jiarong cannot avoid this.

They have to keep too many things ready at all times, not just weapons, but also a large number of scientific research equipment and tools.

These transformations are not done all at once. They usually start by replacing an eye, turning a finger into a drill, or changing the digestive system to save the effort of eating... Gradually, the dehumanization will become more and more exaggerated.

As more and more things are installed, the size of these high-level engine oil men naturally becomes bigger and bigger.

At Morrow's level, his body shape should have been completely different from that of a normal person. But now, he looked like an ordinary person, even shorter.

This was mainly because when he was imprisoned by Varuk, he had to be "disarmed". Most of the mechanical modifications on his body had been removed. Otherwise, if a casting general was imprisoned intact, he would have too many ways to make a noise and escape.

Arno used this to save him. After he got out of prison, he installed a simple humanoid body and disguised himself as an ordinary mechanic to escape for a while. After that, it was a thrilling process of hunting and hiding in the sea of ​​stars. He had neither the conditions nor the time to get himself a new body.

From this angle, Moro's appearance, which looks like a human being, is indeed very embarrassing.

Gu Hang withdrew his scrutinizing gaze and said with a smile: "Welcome, Sage Moreau. I deeply sympathize with what you have experienced in the Alfonzo sect. We should jointly condemn the actions of apostates who betrayed the Empire, the God-Emperor, and the God of All Things. However, before that, you should have a good rest."

"I have important information that I must present to you in person."

"So, what is the information?"

Moreau said nothing more, but fiddled with his robes for a moment.

Gu Hang waited patiently.

He could feel that under the black and red robe, Moreau's hand seemed to reach into the body from the chest, then reach all the way up, and took out something roughly at the back of the head.

When Moreau's hand came out of his robe, he was holding a dark stone tablet in his palm.

Gu Hang stared at the stone slab: "Is this what you want to give me?"

"Yes."

Morrow did not put on airs, and his current condition was not suitable for doing so.

He raised his hands respectfully, as if making a contribution.

Invisible psychic tentacles extended from Gu Hang's mind, gently rolled up the black stone in Moro's hand, and brought it in front of him.

Looking closely, there is nothing special about it. It is just a neatly made oval stone piece. At best, the surface is round and shiny, which makes it look pretty.

But in reality it is certainly not that simple.

After taking it on his face, Gu Hang carefully examined it and was able to feel some weak psychic reaction.

Seeing that Moro had no intention of explaining, Gu Hang simply probed more of his spiritual power into the stone.

Suddenly, his eyes blurred and the scene changed.

He seemed to be in a fantasy world, and everything he saw was rippled like swaying jelly.

One after another, the scenes recorded on the stone tablets flashed before his eyes.

These things obviously happened at different times and places, but the content they describe is quite strongly related.

The first few scenes should be in a certain star port, where Space Marines wearing the Ironclad livery are handing over a batch of goods to members of the Alfonzo sect. These goods are warehouses of Void Zerg corpses.

The insect corpses are soaked in various types of petri dishes of various sizes.

And then a few images flashed by, and the corpse turned into a living Zerg in the petri dish.

Then many more clips appeared, all of which showed Alfonzo's researchers dissecting and studying the corpses.

There are also scenes of them reporting to the Iron Armor Legion.

Seeing these, Gu Hang felt that there was nothing strange about them.

For a long time in the past, the Iron Armored Regiment was stationed in the Empress Star Region for a long time. Their duty was to fight against the Void Zerg that kept emerging from the Empress Star Region. During the war, some corpses and living bodies were captured and sent to the Mechanicus, which had a good relationship with them, for research. Is there anything strange about that?
It is nonsense to convict Tiekai based on these images.

They can even say that these studies are simply for the purpose of studying the enemy's situation in order to better fight against these aliens.

In fact, this may be the truth.

Gu Hang also has these studies, and the Alliance’s research institute even has live samples of greenskins.

Nothing surprising.

Even when Gu Hang saw the living brain worm tyrant that had impressed him so deeply being transported here, he didn't think anything of it.

Using the power of aliens is taboo in the empire, but who hasn't done it?

If this was an exaggeration, Gu Hang himself would not be able to justify using it as decisive evidence to say that Tiekai had been attacked by insects, let alone use it to convince others.

This is not quite what Gu Hang wants.

But just when Gu Hang was feeling a little disappointed, the last scene appeared.

It was a huge square petri dish, about thirty meters long. In the purple translucent culture fluid, a bug was floating, filling the entire petri dish.

If it was just huge in size and alive, it wouldn't be enough to surprise Gu Hang.

It's not like I haven't seen large-sized Void Zerg in previous scenes. They are all very precious samples, some big things like living cannons, swarm tyrants, assassin worms, etc., and many of them have relatively complete corpses that were transported here as experimental materials.

Although there are few living big insects, there are some.

But what attracts people's attention is that this insect has no sharp teeth or claws, no iconic shell, and from the appearance, it seems that it has no fighting ability.

Instead, it's more like a larva.

A cubic petri dish that is thirty meters long and wide is required to hold the larvae.

Gu Hang didn't react at first, but then he knew what was strange: Let's not talk about what kind of creature's larvae can be so big, another important question is, do the Void Zerg have larvae?
According to Gu Hang's understanding of this great enemy of humanity, they are genetic weapons born directly from the incubation pool. No matter what type of insects, they should be in the form of adults when they are born. Generally speaking, their functions when they are born are determined. Some are responsible for fighting, some are responsible for swallowing and transporting everything they swallowed back to the digestion pool... Often, after completing their work and mission, they will jump into the digestion pool by themselves, be digested into biomass, and then be transported to the incubation pool by living pipes, waiting to be reorganized.

There is no report claiming that a single individual of the Void Zerg has reproductive capacity. Their powerful reproductive capacity does not depend on the individual, but on the swarm as a whole, using biomass to form eggs in the hatching pool, or directly using biomass to form their bodies.

In this case, are there any Void Zerg in larval state?

Could it be that my knowledge of the Void Zerg is not deep enough, resulting in some deviations in my understanding?
Gu Hang couldn't help but doubt himself.

He used his psychic powers to freeze the scene, then tried to zoom in to get a closer look at this strange bug.

But the next moment, when everything in the picture was still, the countless eyes of the "larva" suddenly opened and stared at Gu Hang.

Suddenly, a creepy feeling rushed to my head.

It wasn't that Gu Hang was scared.

His mind was suddenly pulled out of the illusion.

The dark stone slab was blasted away by the sudden out-of-control force, hit the wall of the hall, and rolled several times before coming to a stop.

Gu Hang sat on the chair, breathing heavily.

Simple emotional changes would not cause him to have such a drastic physiological reaction.

That is...psychic power.

This spiritual energy made Gu Hang feel a powerful mental shock.

If it was a slightly weaker psychic, this impact would be enough to directly destroy his brain.

Some guards tried to catch up but were stopped by Gu Hang.

He carefully savored the taste of the psychic energy that had just burst into his mind.

He discovered that he had experienced and confronted it personally.

That was during the battle with Alfonzo's fleet, when the Neurozoa was imprisoned on the War Ark and enslaved and used by the Mechanicum.

The taste of the psychic energy of the protozoa is exactly the same as what I am experiencing now.

But this larva is definitely not a neurotoxin.

Gu Hang could tell that the two were... very different.

He even had a vague feeling.

The spiritual energy just now was not hidden in the stone flake to attack him by surprise. Instead, it was more like a warning that passed through a very long distance through the stone flake as a medium.

It was as if Gu Hang saw it, even if it was only through the remaining images of the past. It, which was far away in who knows how many worlds, also saw Gu Hang and greeted Gu Hang "cordially".

If this is the guess, it would be a bit scary.

What kind of insect could have such terrifying psychic powers?

Gu Hang sat back for a while before he asked, "Sage Moruo, do you know what appeared at the end?"

"That's 'Princess'."

"Princess? Would you mind explaining it to me a little more?"

"I really want to tell you in detail, but... I'm sorry, there are many things I don't know."

"It doesn't matter. This matter is very important. Just tell me everything you know, including your guesses."

"Okay." Moreau responded, "'Princess' is the name given to it by Humphrey Paul. It was captured one hundred and eighty years ago and is regarded by the Iron Armored Chapter as the greatest hope to completely end the threat of the Void Zerg in the Empress Star Domain. He sent the 'Princess' to Alfonzo, hoping that we could help him with research..."

(End of this chapter)