Chapter 602, Princess
Arno did a big thing in the Alfonzo Star Territory: he mobilized a lot of resources to save Sebastian Moreau.
Not only the personnel of the Central Bureau of Investigation to which he belongs, but also the other two major foreign intelligence agencies of the alliance, and even the demon hunter force, have been united by him.
At the same time, he also activated the relationship network he had built through the dispute between doves and hawks since entering the Alfonzo Star Territory.
But even so, Moreau is a very important person, and he must be detained tightly.
In order to succeed in the end, perfect preparation and careful planning are essential, but some luck at the final moment is also inevitable.
There were many crises and stumblings along the way, and on the small boat of Arnault and Moreau himself, they really sneaked across the Wenqi-Wuqi line and entered the alliance side.
Later, the pursuing ships of Alfonzo Mechanicus rushed over and collided with the alliance's fleet stationed in the Wuqi star system.
Of course not.
Morrow just arrived in the alliance.
Gu Hang still attached great importance to this.
Before Sebastian Moreau was taken down, he was the foundry general of the forge world - Yalong. He had the title of sage and could be ranked among the top five in the entire Alfonzo sect.
At the same time, he is also one of the most important figures among doves. It is precisely because of this that he was taken down by Varuk, and his imprisonment was used to suppress the dove faction.
He is now in the hands of the Alliance, which means that if the Alliance enters the Alfonzo Star Territory in the future, the doves among the Mechanicus will most likely be influenced by Moreau and directly switch sides.
Of course, this also depends on Morrow's own wishes, whether he is willing to follow the alliance or not.
There is no use in forcing.
The good news is that his willingness to 'escape' and follow Arnault to the alliance's actual control area proves his attitude.
Gu Hang hoped that this guy would play a major role in the future so that he could save him without wasting the alliance's investment in Alfonzo's intelligence network and suffering a reinvention.
Originally, the matter ended here. He had to be put to use. That was also a matter for the intelligence department, and they had to take him with them during the subsequent march.
However, after the former foundry general came to the alliance's control area, he strongly requested to see Gu Hang himself.
Moreover, Arnaud also strongly suggested to Governor Gu through the intelligence structure that he should meet with Moreau, claiming that he had very important information, but Moreau would only tell Gu Hang.
It's about the Zerg.
This piqued Gu Hang's interest.
The senior leaders of the Alfonzo sect have information about the Zerg and should be reliable.
If you want to meet, then meet.
……
Sitting in a high position, Gu Hang met the former foundry general.
Sebastian Moreau looked quite embarrassed.
He was wearing a red and black robe, but his body was... too small.
According to Da Hang's understanding of these high-level leaders of the Mechanicus, each of them, no matter what direction they develop, will always modify their bodies to become more and more outrageous.
This is inevitable even for Wu Jiarong.
There are too many things that they need to be prepared at all times. Not only weapons, but also a large number of scientific research equipment and tools.
These transformations are not done in one go. They often start with changing the eyes, turning a finger into a drill, changing the digestive system to save the effort of eating... Slowly, the dehumanization will become more and more exaggerated.
As more and more things are installed, the size of these high-end oil guys will naturally become larger and larger.
At Morrow's level, it stands to reason that the body shape is completely different from that of a normal person. But now, he looks like an ordinary person, even shorter.
This was mainly when he was imprisoned by Varuk, who must have been 'disarmed'. Most of the various mechanical modification structures on his body have been removed. Otherwise, if a foundry general is imprisoned intact, he will have too many ways to make trouble and escape.
And this time Arno went to save him, taking advantage of this a little bit. After coming out of the prison, he installed a simple humanoid body, disguised himself as an ordinary mechanic, and escaped for a while. What follows is a tense and exciting process of hunting, hiding, chasing and escaping in the sea of stars. There is neither the conditions nor the time for him to get a new body for himself.
From this point of view, it is indeed very embarrassing for Moreau to look so human now.
Gu Hang withdrew his scrutinizing gaze and said with a smile: "Welcome, Sage Moro. I deeply sympathize with what you have encountered in the Alfonzo sect. We should jointly condemn those who betrayed the empire and the God Emperor. , the act of betraying the God of All Machines, but before that, you should take a good rest.”
"I have important information that must be presented to you in person."
"So, what information is it?"
Moreau said no more, but fiddled with his robe for a while.
Gu Hang waited patiently.
He could feel that under the black-red robe, Moreau's hand seemed to have reached into the body from the chest, and then pulled it all the way up, and took out something at about the back of the head.
When Moreau's hand came out of his robe, what he held in his palm was a dark stone piece.
Gu Hang stared at the stone: "Is this what you want to give me?"
"Yes."
Morrow didn't put on airs, and his current state wasn't suitable for it.
He raised his hands respectfully, making a show of contribution.
Invisible psychic tentacles extended from Gu Hang's spirit, gently rolled up the black stone piece in Moro's hand, and brought it in front of him.
Looking at it, there is nothing peculiar about it. It is just a neat oval stone piece. At best, the surface is round and shiny, which makes it a little pretty.
But it's certainly not that simple.
After getting it on his face, Gu Hang probed carefully and could feel some weak psychic reaction.
Seeing that Moreau had no intention of explaining, Gu Hang simply penetrated more of his spiritual power into the rocks.
Suddenly, his eyes blurred and the scene changed.
He seemed to be in an illusion, and everything he saw was rippled with water, like swaying jelly.
One scene after another recorded in the stone flashed before his eyes.
These things obviously happened at different times and places, but the content of the stories is quite closely related.
The first few scenes should be of Space Marines wearing Iron Armor regiment uniforms handing over a batch of goods to members of the Alfonzo Sect in a certain star port. These goods are warehouse after warehouse of corpses of the Void Zerg.
Insect corpses are soaked in various types of petri dishes, large and small.
And the next few scenes that flashed through, soaked in the petri dish, changed from corpses to living Zerg bodies.
Then many more footage appeared, showing Alfonzo's researchers dissecting and studying the corpses.
There is also a scene of them reporting to the people of the Iron Armor Chapter.
Seeing this, Gu Hang felt that there was nothing strange.
For a long time in the past, the Iron Armored Chapter had been stationed in the Queen's Star Territory for a long time. Their duty was to fight against the Void Zerg that kept emerging from the Queen's Star Territory. During the war, some corpses and living bodies were captured and sent to the Mechanicus with whom they were well connected for research. Is there anything strange about it?
It is nonsense to try to convict Tie Jia through these scenes.
They can even say that these studies are simply to study the enemy's situation and to better fight against these aliens.
In fact, this might just be the case.
Gu Hang also has these studies, and there are living green skin samples in the alliance's research institute.
Nothing surprising.
Even when Gu Hang saw the living body of the brainworm tyrant that impressed him deeply being transported, he didn't think it was anything.
Using the power of aliens is officially a taboo in the empire, but who hasn't actually done it?
It would be a big fuss if this was the case. Gu Hang himself felt that it was unjustifiable to use it as decisive evidence that Iron Armor had castrated insects, let alone wanted to use it to convince others.
This is not quite what Gu Hang wants.
But just when Gu Hang felt a little disappointed, the last scene appeared.
It was a huge square petri dish, about thirty meters long on a side. In the purple translucent culture fluid, a bug floated, filling the entire petri dish.
If it was just a large body and a living body, it wouldn't be enough to arouse Gu Hang's surprise.
It’s not like I haven’t seen the large Void Zerg in the previous scenes. Those are all very precious samples. Some big things like living cannons, insect swarm tyrants, assassin bugs, and so many relatively complete corpses were transported as experimental materials.
Although there are few living giant insects, it is not impossible.
But what attracts attention is that this insect has no fangs, claws, or iconic carapace. Judging from their appearance, they don't seem to have any fighting ability.
Instead, it's more like a larvae.
A larvae needs to be contained in a cubic petri dish thirty meters long and wide.
Gu Hang didn't react for a moment, but then he understood what was strange: let alone why the larvae of this thing could be so big, another important question is, do the Void Zerg have larvae?
According to Hu Hang's long-standing understanding of this human enemy, they are genetic weapons born directly from the incubation pool. No matter what type of insect it is, it should be in the form of an adult insect when it is born. Generally speaking, their functions when they are born are determined. Those responsible for fighting, those responsible for swallowing and transporting everything they swallowed back to the digestion tank... often, after completing their work and mission, they will jump into the digestion tank themselves, be digested into biomass, and then be transported to the digestion tank again by living pipes. In the incubation pond, waiting for reorganization.
There are no reports claiming that a single individual among the Void Zerg is capable of reproduction. Their strong reproductive ability does not depend on individuals, but as a whole group of insects, using biomass to form hatching eggs in the incubation tank, or directly using biomass to form their bodies.
In this case, are there any Void Zerg in a larval state?
Could it be that my knowledge of the Void Zerg is not deep enough, leading to some deviations in my understanding?
Gu Hang couldn't help but doubt himself.
He used his spiritual power to forcefully freeze the scene, and then tried to zoom in closer to take a closer look at this strange insect.
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 straight to his forehead.
That wasn't because Gu Hang was scared.
His spirit was suddenly withdrawn from the illusion.
Under the sudden out-of-control force, the dark stone fragments were ejected and hit the wall of the hall. They fell to the ground and rolled several times before stopping.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, was sitting on a chair, breathing heavily.
A simple emotional change would not cause him to have such a violent physiological reaction.
That's... psionic energy.
This spiritual energy made Gu Hang feel a powerful mental impact.
If it were a slightly weaker psyker, this impact would be enough to directly destroy its brain.
There were guards who wanted to catch up, but were stopped by Gu Hang.
He carefully savored the taste of the psychic energy that had just entered his mind.
He discovered that he had experienced and fought against it himself.
That was during the battle with Alfonzo's fleet, the Neuroprotozoa was imprisoned on the War Ark and enslaved and used by the Mechanicum.
The psychic taste of neuroprotozoa is exactly the same as what I feel now.
But this larva is definitely not a neuroprotozoa.
Gu Hang could tell that the two were... very different.
He even had a vague feeling.
The psychic energy just now was not hidden in the stone fragments, but it caused a sudden attack on him. It is more like a warning that travels an extremely long distance through this stone piece as a medium.
It was as if Gu Hang saw it, even if it was just through the leftover past images, it was countless worlds away and it also saw Gu Hang and greeted Gu Hang 'kindly'.
If this is the case, it would be a bit scary.
What kind of insect can have such terrifying psychic power?
Gu Hang sat back for a while and then asked: "Sage Moro, do you know what the last thing that appeared was?"
"That's 'Princess'."
"Princess? Do you mind explaining a few more words to me?"
"I really want to tell you in detail, but... I'm sorry, there are many things that I don't know."
"It doesn't matter. This matter is very important. Just tell me everything you know, including what you guess."
"Okay." Moreau responded, "'Princess' is the name given to it by Humphrey Paul. It was captured one hundred and eighty years ago and was regarded as the final end of the princess by the Iron Armor Chapter. The best hope for the Void Zerg threat in the Star Territory. He sent the 'Princess' to Alfonzo, hoping that we could help him with his research..."
(End of chapter)