I Am the Swarm

"But I don't really care about this, Hummings. You should know better than me, our definition of the Zerg. The Zerg is not those intelligent individuals, but those mass-produced biological combat units, a huge number of bugs. "

Cecil thought for a while and continued: "As far as I know, the cost of Zerg combat units is very low. They only need to make an embryo to hatch, and then consume some time cost to harvest a powerful biochemical warrior. Just give them time , Their numbers will fill up this star field, and even we will have a hard time fighting against them."

"Our technology is several generations ahead of them. With the technological gap of qualitative change, quantity cannot make up for all of this."

"Hummings, although I just said that the Zerg is a name for those biological legions, it cannot conceal the fact that they have intelligent individuals. This allows them to learn and improve, and narrow the technological gap with us."

"But we're not going to give them that chance, are we?"

"Who knows?" Cecil said seemingly unintentionally.

"What's the meaning?"

"The Zerg now have some interesting technologies. In their case, it is obviously not their own handwriting. It is obvious where these technologies come from. Shouldn't we recycle these technologies? After all, we are the orthodox inheritors of the original Ji clan. .”

"But I think the Zerg will not be willing to hand over what they have. After all, I have given them a very favorable point exchange policy before, but so far, they have not exchanged anything."

"Really?" Cecil frowned slightly, and said after a while: "There are two possibilities. One is that the development route is different. Our technology is biased towards the mechanical route. They think these things are not helpful to them."

Hummings shook his head and said: "Although the routes are different, the theory is the same, but the way of expression is different. They don't need to exchange the finished product, but those theories are helpful to them. But they haven't changed anything. , including various theories, so this possibility does not hold.”

"Indeed, then there is only another possibility." Cecil agreed with Hummings' point of view: "Although they are still very weak, they have mastered more things than we imagined. Therefore, they see Not on our redemption list."

"I feel that this possibility is also very low." Hummings shook his head again and said: "They are an intelligent race. If they could, they would not do things so uniquely and attract attention."

Hummings' rebuttal did not cause Cecil to have negative emotions. She thought about it again and found that what Hummings said was very reasonable. Put yourself in the shoes of the Zerg, if she were a Zerg, she would definitely act in a low-key manner. Even if there were no usable items in the exchange, she would exchange some. more and more eyes.

"So, it's not that they don't want to exchange, but they have to."

Hummings nodded and said, "It's very possible. Their system may have some restrictions, such as the gene lock. If we can master it, we can dissect the Zerg unit by ourselves and understand some of its mysteries."

"That's right, this gene lock is definitely the core technology. No matter how easy to understand the composition of those biochemical units, as long as we can't open the gene lock, it's all empty talk."

"It's really a powerful anti-theft system, which makes people yearn and daunt."

"So we orthodox successors should confiscate them."

"But it's still the same problem. The Zerg will not hand it over willingly. In case the original Jizu left something for them to save their lives. They don't have anything to worry about now, they just run away. If we really let them run away, then we But it’s not worth the candle.”

"So we can't force it. We should let them develop well. The family they develop is big and the business is big. At that time, there will be loopholes when they are involved. That is the time for us to do it. We have to rely on you, Hummings, in this regard. Now, you have the closest contact with them, and you should give them more benefits without leaving a trace. At the same time, find out their weaknesses."

"It's easy to talk about giving some benefits, but the weakness of the Zerg... Their social system is very strict, and they can't penetrate at all. I still don't even know where they come from, let alone find their weaknesses."

"Actually, we can boldly guess this. With the current level of technology of the Zerg, the range of activities will not be too large. We analyzed it just now, and there must be a biological laboratory of the original Zerg around there, and they should have run out of there. So, if they didn't come out of LKDW399, they were in a nearby star system."

Cecil thought for a while and added: "Although there is no evidence, because of the thermonuclear creature, I think the possibility that the Zerg came from LKDW399 is very low. Hummings, have you found anything else nearby?" other anomalies."

"Speaking of this, it is true that in the LKDW398 star system to the southeast of LKDW399, a race that claims to be Ratman has risen. Their development process is so fast that it only takes a few hundred years to go from the period of ignorance to technological civilization. time."

"Hehe, this speed is already several times faster than that of the Ji clan. I don't believe that any race can surpass the Ji clan. Now I can almost confirm where the Zerg came from. It should be this LKDW398 star system."

"Why so sure?"

"intuition!"

"What?" Hummings was a little dumbfounded, didn't we all talk about the evidence for a long time just now? Why did you suddenly talk about metaphysics?

"That's right, and it's a woman's intuition. I trust my intuition."

"Okay." Hummings wisely chose not to argue, but continued to ask: "Then what is the relationship between them and the Ratman?"

"It's not clear yet. I hope Hummings will pay more attention to this ratman in the future. There must be some kind of connection between them and the Zerg."

"Is this also intuition?"

"That's right!"

Hummings felt that this day's conversation was over, but his task was basically completed, so he wisely decided to end this topic. Afterwards, the two exchanged a few words of greeting again, and after smiling at each other, they hung up the communication, keeping everything in silence.

In fact, when Cecil asked the question for the first time, Hummings did not refuse to answer, and the two sides reached a certain tacit agreement. Therefore, in the subsequent conversation, Cecil did not hide the fact that he knew the Zerg quite well.

However, what Cecil and the forces behind her want is nothing more than information sharing with Hummings, who is a neutral party. And what they pay is the continued support for Hummings.