Chapter 1441 Crazy Scholar
In a clean and bright operating room, a rickety and shrunken figure is surrounding the operating table. The furnishings in the room are very simple, with a few lighting balls suspended in the air and a chair. , several sliding tables, plenty of trays, and a huge operating table.
"It's really not easy."
Sighing with satisfaction, the rickety figure pulled off the white cloth of the operating table, revealing a grotesque life.
It is covered with a rubbery lavender carapace. A chitinous ridge extends from the top to the lower part. There is also a group of pink tendrils under the body. Many tendrils are still there. Twitching, as if they each had life.
Behind this, there is a swollen brain covered with meridians.
Tyranid brainworms, the weirdest Tyranids, are also very rare in number. They are rare and powerful psychic units in the Tyranid army. According to the research of some biological sages, they may be used by the Hive Fleet. With the newly absorbed alien genes, these living psychic conduits can be created to use the psychic power gathered by the Hive Mastermind.
From the outside, these creatures have evolved to the extreme. They have no limbs and cannot walk on their own. Their shrunken bodies and bulging heads rely entirely on spiritual energy to float, suspended above the battlefield, and launch attacks on the enemies below. Psychic attacks, or delivering orders from the Hive Mastermind to the smaller Tyranids.
Just defeating such a target is extremely difficult, because the Cerebrates are different from the low-level Terra Zerg in that they know how to retreat, so there are no capture records so far.
However, this stooped figure did it, even though it took a lot of effort.
He looked like an extremely frail old man, wearing purple robes. His body had shrunk to only half the size of a normal Eldar. His face was full of deep wrinkles. Without those pointed ears, it would be impossible to identify him. An Eldar.
For the Eldar, who have extremely long lifespans, aging to such an extent can be said to be very difficult.
So in terms of appearance, he is almost no different from an old human man.
But now, he showed no signs of weakness at all, but was full of excitement.
He looked at the brainworm with his dim eyes. The opponent had been injected with various tranquilizers and drugs that inhibited psychic abilities. His strength was greatly weakened and he could not pose a threat.
Then, the old Eldar turned around, picked up a syringe, and stabbed the skin underneath through the crack in the opponent's carapace.
This way, it won’t struggle during the subsequent surgery.
For him now, torture is useless. All methods are actually just to reveal the secrets under the cracked flesh of the experimental subjects.
Then he picked up the bell on the table and shook it, and a man walked into the cell muttering. This deformed freak was holding a large tray in his hand, which contained a row of tools, nutritional jars and Strange device.
"The Tyranids, I have been exploring their secrets for more than a thousand years. However, every time I think I have reached the end, they give me new surprises. This is extraordinary, Maybe I can uncover a huge secret about the universe, but first I have to know where they come from and why they come. I don't believe that they are just simple devouring beasts. These creatures must have a shocking goal. "
Faced with the nagging of the old Eldar, the human pig just made a squeaking sound in reply.
The old Eldar then turned to face his captive, first inspecting a series of organs on the side of its body, then picking up the sharp-edged appendage and peeling away the rough edges of the carapace and the mesh tissue woven underneath. It immediately attracted his attention. After checking, he picked up a black needle and gently poked the swollen nerve bundle. After confirming that the other party would twitch as a result, he nodded, turned around and wrote something on a booklet.
Then he took out an empty bottle, put part of the brain tissue and blood of the brain worm into the bottle, and mixed it with another commonly used detection liquid that he commonly used. This liquid can analyze The psychic component of living things.
The old Eldar frowned and raised the bottle, shaking the contents inside into a whirlpool. However, the result surprised him. The brain tissue and blood of the brainworm did not contain psychic media. Usually, many psychic creatures contain a small amount of hormones or enzymes and other substances that can promote psychic activity in their blood or brain tissue.
However, the organization of brainworms is very simple, which means that their spiritual energy is completely stimulated by their organs. In a sense, they are indeed closer to weapons.
“Tsk tsk tsk, interesting.”
The old spirit tribe then conducted a quick scan to check the distribution of the opponent’s internal organs. This kind of sample is extremely rare, and there is no certainty that he will not De-dissection destroys the integrity of the sample.
After scanning, he found that the brainworm has a very short tongue, but this creature does not have a vocal organ, so what is the function of the tongue?
"Is it emitting some kind of infrasound wave that can command low-level Zerg? But the communication between Tyranids is usually considered to be brain waves or psychic energy, or is this their backup means of communication?"
With doubts, the old spirit tribe opened the other party's mouth full of sharp teeth and used tweezers to pull out the purple tongue a little.
After putting his fingers in, the old Eldar found that it felt warm to the touch, and there were more strange touches besides.
With countless years of experience, he roughly analyzed that the tongue is actually hollow, and the bud-like structure at the tip of the tongue is actually its mouth. In other words, this soft tongue is its mouth. throat!
Obviously, the brainworm has a vocal organ, but what it emits should be some kind of infrasound wave that is difficult to capture.
"Extremely weird structure, but this has always been my interest. Do you think for yourself? With such a developed brain, is there a mind? I have observed some of your war machines and some of your tyrants There will be special and unique behaviors. Is that the awakening of self-awareness? Is the honeycomb structure just a cover? ”
The old Eldar stared at the unconscious creature, muttering to himself as he tilted his jaw in one direction and twisted his thumb in another.
"You are one of my rare well-preserved Tyranids. One day, I will gain a lot of knowledge from you, but first..."
As he said that, he Use a knife to peel off the carapace on the forehead of the brain worm, then slide the tweezers into the white diaphragm to gently hold it.
Slowly and carefully, open the diaphragm to the sides, exposing the nerves to the air.
Then he put down the surgical device, lifted a jellyfish-like semi-spiritual bone creature, and placed it on the brainworm's exposed nerves.
Many creatures in the galaxy have means to prevent others from slipping into consciousness, but if a creature enters a dream, the situation is different.
(End of this chapter)