Chapter 579, Capturing Protozoa
Ewing did not give a direct reply to Gu Hang, claiming that he needed to go back to discuss with his battle brothers.
Actually, not so.
Ewing's prestige in the war group is relatively high, and the Blood Sharks don't have anything like the Presbyterian Council, the Old Legion, the Secret Society, or the Inner Circle. He has the final say.
However, there were many things that he had not thought clearly about this matter. He needed the opinions of some veterans and company commanders to refer to, and he also needed more time to think clearly about Gu Hang's proposal.
His abundant experiences in his long life made him disbelief that there is any free lunch in this world.
The conditions proposed by Gu Hang were still generous even if those who challenged the group's traditions were taken into account.
He also believes that with the strength shown by the alliance, it can fulfill Gu Hang's promise.
But it was precisely because of this that he was very vigilant.
However, he could not imagine too many pitfalls from these conditions.
After becoming a 'close ally' with the Alliance, will it be controlled by the Alliance? Probably not, they are not involved in command positions within the war group. No matter what kind of life experience they have had, it is only about ten years. Compared to the almost infinite lives of Space Marines, they will be nurtured in the culture of the Chapter for decades at least. What does the little life experience I once had mean?
Aren't all Space Marines like this? After accepting the transformation of the gene seed, as a long time passes, the short-term experience as a mortal will gradually fade away, and eventually become a loyal warrior of the Emperor.
Then after becoming an ally, will the alliance forcibly assign tasks?
It should and will not happen. Conditionally, the two sides are equal and allies. What comes from the Alliance is a ‘request’, not a ‘mission’. Of course they can refuse.
As for intentional entrapment...that is considered malicious behavior. The Blood Sharks are not a bunch of new recruits. They will definitely investigate the information on their own before starting work. It is impossible to just believe whatever the alliance says - at least not until enough trust is established.
So what's the problem?
Ewing didn't expect it.
He decided to make a limited and preliminary promise first.
This matter is not about signing an eternal covenant at once.
The two sides were currently on the same battlefield, and Gu Hang was still the nominal commander of the theater. To a certain extent, they had to obey Gu Hang's orders and command.
You might as well give it a try first in this war.
Look at the effect and decide whether a longer-term agreement needs to be concluded after the war is over.
Ewing's decision was quickly verified.
In the large-scale naval battle not long ago, the Blood Shark fleet participated and played a role in the battle situation according to unified command and orders.
They also participated in the ship-seizing operation of the Retribution-class battleship now named the 'Iron Horse', and played a very important role. Their achievements were slightly worse than those of the Phoenix, but not much worse. .
Going further back, the Blood Shark rescued three Alliance battle cruisers and destroyed the New Age Torch Chapter's flagship, the Torchlight.
In general, they have played a great role in this war.
And the loss is not small. Especially in the battle to destroy the Torch Light, they had a head-on fight with the New Age Torch and lost more than a hundred Space Marines.
For the blood sharks, this is the biggest loss in the past two decades.
If Gu Hang really wants to fulfill his promise, he should give him benefits, right?
Of course there is no problem.
But not now.
Gu Hang suggested that it would be more convenient to wait until the battle is over and then calculate it together.
After taking care of the main part of the group of Alfonzo ships heading towards the Phantom Moon Galaxy, there is another group that still needs attention.
The only remaining sage of the main industry, with the Emperor-class battleship, is rushing all the way to the Wuqi-Wenqi line.
He ran pretty fast.
Of course Gu Hang would not let them go.
He was very greedy for that Emperor-class battleship. If possible, we must find a way to seize the ship.
Speaking of value, the Emperor class may not be as good as the War Ark that was destroyed by the Alliance before. However, the positioning of the two is completely different.
The War Ark is, to put it bluntly, an ‘Ark’ type ship of the Mechanicus. In essence, it is still the core base identity of space war. A normal Ark is almost a mobile factory. Although the War Ark has discarded many of its production, life, and scientific research functions and transformed it into a combat aspect as much as possible, it is still the foundation of an Ark after all.
It is naturally large and has a complex structure. The number of people it can accommodate inside is dozens of times that of the Emperor-class, which is equivalent to a specialized giant transport ship like the Big Belly.
At the same time, due to the characteristics of its Mechanical Ark, a large number of operations must be performed by Mechanicus personnel.
Of course it would be valuable if you robbed it. At least the Mingyang Sect could smash its head to pieces and beg Gu Hang to sell the boat to them. However, after all, it cannot directly enhance the combat effectiveness of the alliance, and there are tens of millions of Skitarii combat troops in it, as well as a neuroprotozoa, making it too difficult to seize the ship.
But the Emperor level is different. There are 700,000 people inside? Eight hundred thousand people?
Moreover, it is highly versatile and is not a ship exclusive to the Mechanicum.
After snatching it and repairing it, it can really improve the strength of the alliance navy fleet to a big step.
Definitely going to grab it.
However, before going to grab the boat, Gu Hang had one more thing to do.
In the Bowang galaxy, on the battlefield of the previous space naval battle with Alfonzo, the alliance work ships floating in the void and responsible for cleaning the battlefield sent a message that Gu Hang was very concerned about:
They found the neuroprotozoa.
It's not dead.
Gu Hang was a little surprised.
Good guy, is this thing so tenacious?
It's on Alfonzo II. This war ark was blown to pieces by the concentrated fire of the Alliance fleet during a naval battle without any additional defense.
When a naval battle breaks out a ship, there is almost no possibility of survival for the life forms on the ship.
Even if he didn't die for a while, after the ship disintegrated into a pile of fragments, the life support system was gone. How could a living body survive in the cold space with no air and no food?
Unless you are very lucky and survive in a relatively complete cabin.
But he won't live long either.
Gu Hang asked himself, if it were him, although he had some ways to survive, such as hiding in subspace, the neuroprotozoa definitely did not have such conditions. Under normal circumstances, it would be quite difficult to survive.
It certainly wasn't luck that the neuroprotozoa survived. Its powerful vitality, especially its powerful spiritual energy, allowed it to survive the most dangerous process of the ship being bombed, exploded, and disintegrated, and survived in the void.
In fact, according to the latest report, this neuroprotozoan even broke away from the wreckage of the ship and moved in an unknown direction in the void of space using its spiritual energy to drive its body.
Alliance ships are following.
The neuroprotozoa must have been seriously injured, or it may have relied solely on spiritual energy to drive its speed, so it couldn't fly fast enough for the ship to keep up.
But I dare not follow him any closer.
There were already two Blackfish patrol ships that were caught by the psychic power of Neuroprotozoa after accidentally getting too close.
First, the energy shield was torn apart, then the evil in the engine could not escape, and then the crew inside began to go crazy and attack each other. Someone broke into the energy capsule and detonated it...
Two ships and a total of thousands of crew members were lost in this mysterious way.
Having learned a lesson, the ships of the Alliance that were cleaning up the wreckage of the battlefield would not dare to be careless. The only two remaining patrol ships could only keep an eye on the Neuroprotozoa from a very distance.
Due to the lack of main ships and no clear orders from their superiors, these patrol ships did not take the initiative to launch attacks.
This is not very accurate. In fact, they have tried to fire, but it is obvious that conventional patrol ships are not the special disposable black fish ejected by the Zhuge class. They will not give up everything and use all their firepower and equipment. . The conventional weapons of the patrol ship were too low to pose a threat to the neuroprotozoa.
So, they reported the information.
The original intention was to obtain a higher level of military support, such as bringing a few larger ships to bomb this thing to death. As a result, they didn't expect that the order given by their superiors was to keep tracking them, not to get close, and just make sure they didn't lose the target.
They asked again how to deal with it, but the superior did not hide it and told them: the Governor would come to deal with this problem personally.
……
Gu Hang took the Angry Owl and quickly arrived at the Bowang Galaxy and found the neuroprotozoan that had been followed by the Alliance ship.
In fact, it is actually a very long distance away. Even if the Neuroprotozoa is huge, it is still a living thing, and it is difficult to observe it with the naked eye.
The battleship is located through the radar that is continuously locked. The Neuroprotozoa has tried to interfere, but will soon be re-locked.
But Gu Hang is even simpler, he can sense directly through spiritual energy.
The neuroprotozoa was very sensitive to the psychic energy exerted by Gu Hang, and immediately mobilized its psychic power to fight against Gu Hang.
It is still very strong, reaching S-level psychic strength. However, even though he is already comparable to the top psykers among humans, how can he fight against Gu Hang?
In the previous 'Battle of Bowang', by manipulating and enslaving its power, the people of the Mechanicus were able to exert alpha-level power, or even some beyond. Even Gu Hang, when he was tearing open the subspace rift with all his strength, was almost the strongest power he could use in the real universe, he could only achieve a draw in a head-on confrontation.
Of course, he was distracted and manifested a large number of heroic spirits, but the neuroprotozoa was also in a state of imprisonment at that time, and its power was transferred. It was not that it was fighting against Gu Hang with all its strength.
The two should be equally matched.
He should never be as weak as he is now.
Gu Hang ordered the ship to continue approaching.
With him around, a Neuroprotozoa whose current power could not reach the Alpha level could not threaten the Raging Owl.
As the distance got closer and closer, even when it was close, the neuroprotozoa remained obedient.
——You are so suppressed by Gu Hang’s spiritual power, how can you be dishonest?
And when Gu Hang was on the bridge and could see the appearance of this neuroprotozoa through the visual screen, he probably knew the reason why its strength was so unbearable at the moment:
Disabled.
When the ship disintegrated, this neuroprotozoan was definitely not lucky enough to be in a safe area. It might even have suffered a very direct bombardment, or suffered a secondary blow during the disintegration.
With psychic power as a means of self-protection, its body suffered extensive damage.
Gu Hang judged that it might have used psychic power to hold on until the last moment, but the psychic shield finally broke. The explosion, debris impact, violent energy...the aftermath of these things hurt its body.
But its physical strength is also strong enough, allowing it to carry it through, or it may have time to prop up a new shield.
He didn't die in the explosion, but now he fell into Gu Hang's hands.
As for how to deal with it, Gu Hang was a little hesitant.
If you want to take advantage of it, first think about what happened to Alfonzo's fleet.
The war ark was originally the most powerful warship in Alfonzo's fleet, but if Gu Hang hadn't detonated the Neuroprotozoa mine from the inside, even if Gu Hang tried his best to solve it, it would still take a long time. Less effort.
Although Gu Hang was confident that he could suppress this monster, could he guarantee that he would always be in full strength?
What's more, even if it can be suppressed, it would be quite fucked to have to worry about this one day when dealing with a strong enemy.
But... as it is almost the top single creature among the Void Zerg, there is no capture record in the entire empire - maybe it is kept secret.
Its research value and utilization value after finding the method are very great.
Returns, risks.
These two heavy weights made the balance in Gu Hang's heart constantly swing.
Some troubles.
But fortunately, there is no need to make an immediate decision on this matter.
It can be captured first and then placed in a safe place.
For most forces, it is too difficult to create a cage that can completely safely imprison neurotoxins. The Alfonzo Sect has already achieved this with very mature research results, so how can the Alliance do it?
But the alliance can't do it, Gu Hang can.
He really has a very safe place.
His Kingdom of Storms.
After stuffing this neuroprotozoa inside, we need to study and use it in the future, although we still need to let it out. But at least, just talking about the safety of detention and transportation, there is absolutely no problem.
The power of the Kingdom of God can continuously torture this neuroprotozoa, and the millions of heroic souls inside are not just free food. If they are immortal, they can help Gu Hang take care of it.
If there really was a riot, it would be convenient for Gu Hang to suppress it himself.
In the Kingdom of God, his power is much stronger than in the real universe.
He can find a way to kill even big demons, and Neuroprotozoa is no exception.
(End of chapter)