Him and their stars.

Chapter 1912 Xia Li, why are you still so uneducated?

I have to say that using neural networks to transmit messages is fast.

This complete mental connection only lasted less than half a minute, and Yu Lian soon learned from the big slug that, including itself, Xia Li had left four war lords in Helots, each of whom had the authority to reproduce and expand the swarm and army independently, as well as the task of actively attacking the imperial army. Of course, all of the above must be done under the premise of ensuring its own concealment as much as possible.

Then again, concealment, expansion, and active attack are an impossible triangle. As for how to operate it, it all depends on the judgment of the "theater commander" and "group leader".

So far, they are doing quite well in this regard.

After six months of migration and fighting, two more swarms of Zerg have successfully settled on the desert planet on the edge, developed a population of hundreds of thousands in the rugged mountains, and successfully ambushed the Imperial Army's military station.

The last swarm of insects was the one that the Silence encountered half a month ago.

They gathered a lot of "elite troops" and have been wandering in the starry sky, almost acting as a guerrilla fleet. They also successfully destroyed a deep space detection station and provided cover for two refugee ships escaping from the empire.

Yu Lian was naturally very pleased. The intelligence of the Swarm Lord was getting higher and higher, which could also be a disguised way of saying that Xia Li's ability was getting stronger and stronger. If it were in the past, he might have reacted as if he was facing a great enemy.

But now I am only filled with joy and emotion, as if my little girl has grown up.

Of course, hiding in Iron Trail 4 to ambush the Imperial patrol fleet was a bit reckless. If the Silence had not happened to pass by, they might have been able to inflict heavy damage on the Imperial Army, but they would not have been able to win, and they might even have been surrounded on the small dwarf planet by the swarming Imperial Army.

By that time, the secrets of the Zerg will no longer be kept.

However, the big slug brain worm told Yu Lian quite complacently that this was their original purpose. The lord worm that ambushed had strengthened the functions of jump and navigation guidance, but its ability to develop and expand the group was not as good as the worms expected. Considering that his companions had already established a foothold in the remote star region, he needed to consider maximizing the damage to the enemy.

The interior of that dwarf planet is full of caves, making it a natural battlefield for a war of attrition.

If the Imperial Army arrives, they will definitely not miss the opportunity to uncover the secrets of the Zerg, and will certainly send a large number of troops to land. If the enemy can sense the information exposed by the Lord, they will most likely mistake it for a spiritual creature, and perhaps even a high-level psychic will end up like this.

When a sufficient number of imperial troops have entered the dwarf planet, we can hold a heaven-earth-life celebration.

Many of the towerworms hiding deep in the planet's underground caves have high explosive materials hidden in their bodies, which are enough to quickly disintegrate the dwarf planet and take away all the landing enemies in one go. The shattered dwarf planet will turn into a burning stream, which may even attack nearby imperial warships.

The above is their battle plan.

"In other words, I ruined your ambush plan?" Yu Lian said in shock.

The Fat Slug Lord did not answer immediately.

“Wakakakakaka! You ruined their ambush. Dawn Dragon, the greatest general in the contemporary universe, the savior of the Earthlings, the nemesis of the Galactic Empire, the liberator of the aliens, the breaker of shackles, but you just ruined your ally’s battle plan.” Xiao Hui pointed at Yu Lian and laughed like a barbell: “Wakakaka! I wanted to say this before, your previous bombardment killed more bugs than the imperial soldiers.”

Yu Lian automatically ignored the content and was more curious about Xiao Hui's method of interrupting. He was clearly in a mental connection with the insect swarm, so why could this robot hear him?

"Because of the distance. No matter what kind of conversation it is, it all comes down to information. And information has the possibility of being collected." Xiao Hui sat on the lord's huge head and patted its shell gently.

The lord twitched his tentacles, still looking completely defenseless with all his flaws.

Yu Lian stared at Xiao Hui with a stern face.

"What? You don't understand this?" Xiao Hui sighed, and at the same time restrained his smile and showed a solemn and dignified demeanor like a goddess: "My great power is not something that your carbon base can solve? When I simulate synapses with silicon crystal arrays, I can traverse the patterns of quantum tides. The intersection of information is like the collision of star veins. After the imperceptible tremor, it will form ubiquitous breathing channels. When I strike the seventh encryption surface with imaginary strings, the phase-shifted golden cotangent is indestructible! Even the firewall built with mysticism will disappear like morning mist in the light, not to mention the data adhesion of biological concepts? Remember, as great as Gray Saint is, there is no deus ex machina, only the return of authority."

"speak English."

"This child is a good kid and he has opened his heart to me." Xiao Hui patted the big bug's head again, as if he was patting a well-behaved pet dog.

"To be honest, I am actually very interested in the mental network formed by the swarm. In a sense, they do have some similarities with my nanocell network, and both use the hyperspace connection of forbidden matters. Maybe it regards me as one of its own kind? Ah ha ha, it would be great to have more close contact with this kind of creature. It can expand my understanding of forbidden matters and forbidden things, and maybe I can find a way to prove the flaws of the forbidden matters school."

"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to say it." Yu Lian said with a straight face.

"However, it only opened up individual information rights to me, not the deep swarm network."

"This is the difference between allied units and our own units."

"That's right. But you have dealt a heavy blow to our own units! Wahahaha!" Xiao Hui pointed at Yu Lian and laughed at him condescendingly, while his other hand was still slapping the lord's soft canvas skin.

In this regard, the Lord Worm, who has both the authority of signal relay and war zone commander, remains emotionally stable, as stable as an oversized Caucasian shepherd dog.

Yu Lian pretended not to hear and expressed his doubts to the Swarm Lord Fat Slug again. Didn't we agree to hide ourselves?

The fat slug then gave a detailed explanation in all seriousness: The Lord has said that each lord has his own autonomy. The weight of attack, development or concealment is naturally determined by them.

In fact, even the master herself didn't know whether she should continue to develop slowly or make a big fuss, and the instructions she gave were ambiguous.

However, thanks to this, the lords began to freely generate the underlying programs, as if they were autonomous AIs that had received vague instructions.

The above words are not the original words of the fat slug, but we just need to grasp the spirit.

In short, a mere bug, a mere branch commander, and an information gathering point of the Zerg swarm mental network still looks very proactive, and its operations and development are also quite methodical. Of course, Yu Lian was not particularly surprised.

In another world line, when the Zerg Scourge spread throughout the galaxy, every lord with combat autonomy was a cold, efficient, deadly and tireless general. He was always tirelessly analyzing the battle situation, controlling every node under the legion, and commanding every individual Zerg to produce, expand and fight.

Fighting the Zerg feels like fighting the most efficient combat machine.

Considering the biological attributes of the opponent, it might be even more difficult.

Being killed by a swarm of insects is like being wrapped in a dense web and having your blood and marrow sucked alive by spiders. Once you experience that kind of cold fear, you will never forget it.

However, to be honest, although Xia Li's insect swarm was also very cold and efficient, it was inexplicably quite to his liking. Yu Lian now liked dealing with them more and more.

As for the problem of the ambush operation failing, and the large number of elite dragonworms dying in friendly artillery fire, the swarm lords didn't seem to mind at all.

Anyway, there will be opportunities for ambushes in the future. Moreover, since Yu Lian and his Silent have arrived, the situation is different, and the Zerg thinks it is still possible to change the battle strategy.

Now, Guerrilla Lord No. 1, who had left the Iron Trail, was preparing to meet with Farming Lord No. 2. He asked his comrades for some larvae and rebuilt a group of dragon worm troops.

Guerrilla Lord No. 1 originally had tens of thousands of dragon insects under his command, but now they are all gone, and he can only spend another half a year to rebuild. But it doesn't matter, this is just a small misunderstanding.

As lords, they have no opinions at all, really.

Of course, the above are not the original words of the lords, you just need to understand the spirit.

"…So, do you really have an opinion? Or are you using information-generated opinions to play with my emotional value?"

Emotional value does not only come from flattery. Showing some harmless temper, little temper, and little opinion to satisfy the leader's desire to preach in a condescending and fatherly manner is actually a kind of emotional value, and may even be more effective than subtle flattery.

Adults who are working in society must understand this.

"So, as theater commander, what are your strategic goals?"

There was no answer, as if the computer had crashed.

"…Did Xia Li make any strategic requests to you?"

It still didn't answer. This time it was no longer a stable giant Caucasian shepherd dog, but more like a computer that had crashed and had its power cord burned out.

Yu Lian couldn't help but sigh. This uneducated look is really typical of Xia Li!

If you want to be a master, you must first be educated. It's such a simple truth, why don't you understand it, Xia Li?

"Thinking back to the old days, when you were still working under that master, you were not so useless. At that time, you were all so gloomy, cold, cruel, efficient and emotionless. Your purposefulness and execution could make the most elite army pale in comparison, as if you were born into this world just to become the world of our hopeless upright ape civilization.

But, after following Xia Li, everyone...

Yu Lian had to admit that, in comparison, this type of swarm was more in line with his aesthetic taste.

If it is under Charlie's control, it may develop into a special civilization. The universe is too big, there is plenty of space to accommodate a more diverse future.

As to whether there really is an irreconcilable contradiction between the bee swarm civilization and the upright ape civilization, this may be a biological problem as well as a philosophical problem, but it will ultimately be decided in the future.

Yu Lian glanced at Xiao Hui and thought, if he became a representative of silicon-based civilization, who would not accept it?

Xiao Hui nodded slightly: "Very good, I am finally satisfied with this look."

Yu Lian said to the fat slug, "So, what are your plans next? Oh, stay here? Fight guerrilla warfare? Attack the imperial army and cover the workers' escape ship? Well, I wanted to ask before, when did Xia Li get involved with the Primary Color Organization and the Xumohe Rebel Army?"

At this point in her life, even if one used their knees to think, one could tell that Xia Li did have unspeakable relationships with various primary color organizations and various rebel forces.

"Could it be that she developed a deep friendship with the rebels while I was driving her... uh, traveling thousands of miles?"

The fat slug did not answer this time. What Yu Lian was asking about was the private memories of the master himself, which was not something that a mere master like him could discuss.

"Well, good luck to you." Yu Lian patted the big slug and said goodbye. He had already obtained all the information he wanted, so he could end the conversation.

However, before leaving, he added: "When necessary, shrink to the innermost part of the dwarf planet and enter hibernation. There is no reason to self-destruct at every turn. I said, you are still very expensive. From the perspective of development, you can ignore life, but you must care about cost."

The fat slug remained silent a little longer this time, and then crawled down.

It does not have the function of saying auspicious words, but it does express blessings to Yu Lian in its own way.

In his previous life, Yu Lian had dealt with Swarm Lords many times, but this was the first time he felt such direct, pure friendliness without any other demands from this creature.

So, they really don’t have... souls?

As soon as he thought of this complicated question, Yu Lian looked at Xiao Hui again, his eyes as if he was looking at a visual spectacle.

The AI ​​of the Enlightened Age did not roll his eyes, but shrugged and said, "Soul or no soul, that is the question. In other words, the soul can be understood as a philosophical concept. For example, I, little brother Yu Lian, do you think I have one?"