Chapter 144 Answers to Questions
Looking down at the entire underground cave, the attackers who suddenly rushed in were just like the remains of leaves washed up in the river, even if they included the huge airdrop cabin.
But the insect swarm could not shake the attackers. They could only attack powerlessly and be killed powerlessly.
The think tanks in the team who have gradually learned to use Qin Xia's spiritual energy have had great effect. One of them can achieve results comparable to that of a combat team.
Ordinary space warriors need to stand together and form groups to intercept the insect tide through non-stop accurate shooting. The think tank only needs to release psychic lightning or fire once to resist it once.
Think tanks have shown amazing fighting power.
But this is not the first time that their power has been discovered and known by others.
If the psykers were of no use and would not bring even any benefit to the Legion, then the Twelve Legions would have already removed all think tanks.
Think tanks have their own advantages, but they also have disadvantages.
Chief Librarian Varis shouted to the young Librarian on the left side of the team who was resisting the insect wave: "Brother Ioka! Take a rest to avoid making mistakes in your use of psychic powers!"
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"Yes! Brother Varis!" Ioka immediately retreated.
A pharmacist named Garan Sulak took Ioka's place and used firepower to fight off the insect tide.
The firepower of the pharmacist alone was definitely not enough, so Dantioch rushed over.
This extremely brave Iron Warrior said nothing. Whether he was swinging his war hammer to sweep away a large group of insects, or being attacked from the side by insects, he remained silent, like a pure war machine.
Dantioch's strength is astonishing, and Garlan'sulak seems useless in comparison.
With just one blow, this Iron Warrior can directly hold on to one direction and resist the tide of insects coming from one direction, just like Ioka who has retreated to rest.
Tireless and fearless.
Never give in.
“Go back to your fighting position!”
Qin Xia, who had not been paying attention to the battle since the battle began, suddenly came back to his senses and ordered Ioka, the young think tank.
"Nothing will happen if you use my psychic powers to fight!"
Ioka quickly returned to the left side of the team and took over the task of resisting the insect tide from Dantioch.
Dantioch didn't want to stand between the psychic attacks and insects released by Ioka, so he temporarily withdrew and stood next to Qin Xia.
Qin Xia's eyes were filled with spiritual energy and he glanced around as if he was looking for something.
“Our goal is not to stand here, right?” Dantioch’s voice was no longer calm, and he was obviously a little anxious.
Qin Xia still glanced around, but no longer said a word.
“There is a kind of material or existence in this place that can isolate psychic energy.”
“If I weren’t a little special, we wouldn’t be able to use psychic energy in this place.”< br>
Speaking, Qin Xia walked forward.
Everyone protected him, Dantioch and the pharmacist Garland.
After approaching a stone pillar that looked like it was naturally formed, Qin Xia punched the outer shell of the stone pillar, revealing a dark purple crystal ore inside.
"This place is full of these things." Qin Xia looked around, "No matter what these ores are, they have the effect of resisting psychic energy."
Hearing this sounds like scientific research. With the same words, Dantioch frowned.
Everyone was fighting. They thought there would be some super big bugs, some bug mothers, this and that, which could directly end the battle, but it turned out that there were only some crystal ores here.
"If you want to study it, then knock off a piece and take it away instead of letting us all be besieged by bugs here." Dantioch said and smashed down a large piece of crystal with a hammer.
"This kind of crystal is actually their secretion." Qin Xia glanced at the insect swarm, "Their anti-spiritual method is to absorb spiritual energy and then store it in this kind of crystal. This is simply a biological miracle. Such a race seems to be specially designed to clean up psychic energy."
"That's not a big deal. What's really amazing is that these crystal ores can even be reused."
"Let's imagine that we make a weapon that only psykers can use, but now we don't need psykers to use that weapon, we can use this crystal that contains psionic energy as a charge object to activate the psychic weapon."
"..."
Dantioch found himself the subject of Qin Xia's lecture.
Just like a student listening to a teacher, Dantioch listened to Qin Xia describe what he discovered.
But Dantioch was not interested in these things at all: "I don't know what the hell these things are for, I just know that if there is no battle we have to fight in this place, we have to get out of here, and then Go to other lairs and continue fighting. "
"Are these crystal minerals containing psychic energy secreted by insects?" Varis Think Tank began to ask, "But why do they have anti-psychic effects? This place looks like a shadow under your psychic vision..."
"These crystals themselves should have no function other than storing the absorbed psychic energy." Qin Xia looked at the creatures coming from all directions. , "Perhaps there is some kind of anti-psionic creature supported here, and its anti-psionic method is to use psychic energy, similar to the effect of the void shield on the flagship covering the entire fleet."
"It feels really, this It also explains why there are shadows here in psychic vision but not elsewhere." Varis nodded.
"So is it possible that the creature being supported is the apex creature that controls the entire alien race?"
"It is possible."
"..."
Dan Tiok couldn't bear it anymore and swung a hammer to smash the crystal pillar in front of Qin Xia: "We are not here for scientific research!"
"Be patient." Qin Xia looked indifferent and just raised his head He fired a shock wave with his hand to repel the insect swarm in front of him, "The discovery here is very important."
"How important?" Dantioch asked.
Qin Xia Yun replied calmly: "It's so important that if Perturabo discovers this place, he can make thousands of you die for this thing, and if you can't capture this place, he will He will kill you eleven, it’s so important.”
“Impossible, he doesn’t like these mysterious things, and he doesn’t believe in the existence of witchcraft in this world.”
"But when his twelfth brother appears, he will believe it, and he will also think about how to defend his brother's psychic talents." Qin Xia still answered calmly, "He will be here. Everything is interesting.”
Dantioch seemed to be hit by something and could no longer argue.
"Don't worry, I am different from the original body of your Fourth Legion. I care about people's lives. I will not be so relaxed whenever the situation is critical." Qin Xia said and led the team further forward.
"This man's mouth is really..." Dantioch muttered in his heart, but he still kept vigilance around the team, followed them with a hammer, and did not raise any objections.
The group continued to move forward.
Dantioch stood in the center of the team and looked around, then felt that this must be a nightmare fighting experience.
You can't even see the sea of insects rushing over. Everyone is like walking in a tsunami.
And those psychic spells used by the Think Tank to clear the way are like swimming rings.
Dantioch, who knew that psychic powers were fundamentally unstable, had been on tenterhooks, fearing that some think tank would have a brain attack and blow everyone up to the sky.
This Iron Warrior does not understand Qin Xia, and he is not a psychic, which is understandable in Qin Xia's opinion.
“As I expected.”
Everyone walked forward for a moment, and suddenly saw an egg like a red gem hanging in a huge hollow in front of them.
Qin Xia stopped and motioned for everyone to look at the egg.
But except for him, Dantioch and the pharmacist, the other think tanks are already very busy. They are using the spiritual energy provided by Qin Xia like a weapon that continuously releases spiritual energy. Deactivates psychic attacks on incoming bugs.
“Look, it is being fed.” Qin Xia pointed at the giant egg.
The bugs fighting everyone have carapace, but the bugs near the egg are different. They are a group of soft-bodied bugs. They take the crystals that were discovered before and feed them to the holes extending from the giant egg. Tubular mouthparts.
In the psychic vision, there is a living creature inside the giant egg. After being fed a crystal containing psychic energy, it continues to create a small "psionic shadow".
It is obviously the commander of those bugs, but it does not command the bugs in a psionic way. The psionic shadow is more like an anti-psionic defense mechanism.
This alien zerg race relies on brain waves to command and be commanded. What they are afraid of is psychic energy, so they have a psychic defense mechanism that is a shadow in the eyes of psykers.
Dantioch immediately took out the bomb he had brought with him before the operation.
A miniature tactical nuclear bomb.
In every previous battle against this alien race in this system, the Iron Warriors had slowly searched for the lair, then inserted micro-tactical nuclear bombs into the lair to destroy it.
Now Dantioch will do this.
“Wait.” Qin Xia grabbed Dantioch, “We will destroy it, but not now.”
“Garan Surak.”
The pharmacist heard Qin Xia calling his name, so he stepped forward to wait for the order.
Qin Xia pointed to the surrounding creatures: "Pick up samples of psychic crystals and creatures that secrete crystals, and then collect some samples of the eggs. From now on, you are responsible for studying and keeping them."
Biological research.
This kind of thing Garland likes very much, but he also has a task, which is far more important than biological research: "But the original body ordered the transformation surgery for his brothers and sisters, and I, as a pharmacist, ..."
"You pharmacists can only perform transformation surgery when I am present, so what I ask you to do now does not conflict with what you originally wanted to do," Qin Xia said.
Garland was stunned for half a second, then nodded and began to extract samples as Qin Xia said.
Qin Xia no longer analyzed and speculated, but instead released psychic attacks with other think tanks to cover Galan in carrying out the tasks he ordered.
Dantioch raised his hand when he saw the man wearing armor he didn't know where.
What is released is not psychic lightning, but a shock wave that directly clears a large area.
The bodies of the insects began to burn, inexplicably, as if someone ran up to them and threw an incendiary bomb at them, but they were only glanced at by Qin Xia.
Garland is under special protection.
A bug that looked extremely agile approached Garland and sprayed venom, but it only hit Garland's phantom reflected in the ice and snow.
Logical or illogical, all kinds of things become weird as long as they are related to psychic energy.
Dantioch now knows why Qin Xia did not use weapons, because it was not necessary.
Once this guy stops here, he will be a murder weapon.
Thinking of this, Dantioch glanced at the think tanks, and then realized that Qin Xia would also turn other psykers into murder weapons.
Garland took care of everything and collected all the samples that could be collected, whether it was minced meat, genes, blood, or psychic ores secreted by aliens in this underground cave.
The anti-psionic ability of these creatures is to absorb psychic energy and incorporate it into the secreted ore, which is what needs to be collected most.
“Give me the nuclear bomb.” Qin Xia reached out to Dantioch.
"How do you plan to use everything here?" Dantioch asked out of curiosity when handing over the nuclear bomb.
Qin Xia took the nuclear bomb and asked Dantioch a question: "If you Iron Warriors came to attack here, what would you do?"
"First we need to find this place, then bring a lot of people to attack here, dig passages, and bring tanks to transport huge amounts of weapons and ammunition." Dantioch speculated, "We won't use airdrop pods, because a small team comes here to seek death. . There are more enemies than bullets."
Qin Xia nodded: "Yes, because your Fourth Legion doesn't like psykers, and you won't set up a think tank, and even if you set up a think tank, it won't be like me. A stable think tank.”
Dantioch thought to himself that you are so proud.
“When I came here personally, I discovered that the way the creatures here resist psychic energy is to absorb psychic energy, secrete it into crystal, feed it to the huge egg, and release psychic energy through the giant egg to create After the shadows obscured the sight of the psykers, I realized they had great potential."
"I will breed them and improve them to make them controllable, safe, and efficient."
Qin Xia continued to explain to Dantioch.
“When your legion faces this kind of enemy again, I can give you psionic-driven weapons or equipment, and then give you some crystals secreted by this creature to use as energy.”< br>
"This way you can use efficient psychic technology without using psykers."
Hearing this, Dantioch suddenly felt that this matter was promising, and hurriedly asked: "Will you Can you provide the Fourth Legion with the efficient psychic weapons you mentioned?"
"Yes." Qin Xia nodded, "As long as Perturabo can take off his armor and weapons and place them on the ground. Then he knelt down and apologized.”
Dantioch frowned.
“I’m just taking your legion as an example, I don’t mean that I will apply the technology generated by this discovery to you.”
Qin Xia said and motioned for everyone to stand beside him. .
The giant egg has not been destroyed, the chain of command of the insect swarm aliens has not been shattered, and any teleportation technology relying on psychic energy cannot yet teleport people to this huge lair.
But the psychic shadow produced by the giant egg does not cover the entire planet. You can't get in with psychic energy, but you can get out.
After everyone disappeared into the ice and snow, the tactical nuclear bomb was detonated.
(End of this chapter)