Blessings to the beautiful stars

Chapter 9 The Dream That Died
Zuo Wu was looking at the illegal queen whom he met for the first time.

As far as he knew, the genes of all Stru people had been rewritten, and this treacherous queen was no exception.Her appearance has been modified to be almost humanoid, with a chitinous carapace forming a face and slender limbs.

It's just that her whole body was soaked by the spring water dripping from the stalactites, the scars on her abdomen were shocking, and even the carapace on her face and the simulated hair were messy.

If the legal queen I saw in the settlement looked like a graceful and luxurious queen, then she is the princess in distress.

Now is the age of the Star Sea, trillions of beings are enjoying the geometric explosion of information in the Milky Way, and the hobbies of some human beings in certain aspects are even more outrageously introverted.If the illegal queen in front of them is placed in front of them, I am afraid that there will be an endless carnival.

Hiss, Zuo Wu secretly took a deep breath.Tell yourself again and again that you must not be such a person.My own preferences are normal, and I like elves not because she is the food sold in the window, let alone because she is Venus with a broken arm.

for sure!
The illegitimate queen remained silent.The smoke from her body indicates that she is thinking at high speed and already knows the identities of the two.Unlike the law enforcement officers at the end, what the queen never wants to meet is the two of them who slaughtered their armed ethnic groups like chickens.

And Zuo Wu finally regained his mind, looked at Ai Shanshan at the side: "You first and I first?"

"What shall I do first?" Ai Shanshan blinked suspiciously: "Ah... oh, what about the bounty and salary increase? That, you come, I don't need it."

Now Ai Shanshan has seen the gold and silver hidden in the body of the man in front of him, and a mere bounty seems really worthless.She just had to think about how to make that golden mountain and silver mountain have her own name, she licked her lips with her forked tongue.

Zuo Wu nodded unceremoniously, and went forward to rub his hands with the queen: "Your tribe bought a pair of feet from a butcher shop. I will tell you the number of the butcher shop. It's nothing else, I just want to get it back." .Of course, I am not discussing with you."

As he said that, he reported the eight-digit number of the store, and passed by the queen directly, making the latter tremble with fear.

Zuo Wu walked up to the insects with specialized food storage functions and waved.

The unused dark blue lasers that had been stored before were fired casually, and the bugman was immediately chopped into pieces.After repeating this several times, most of the queen's tribe was killed and injured, and the precious meat and her young eggs were scattered all over the place.

The queen was silent.

Zuo Wu looked around, his face collapsed in disappointment.No.

He gritted his teeth and turned his head: "Did you see it? Tell me where your hands and feet are."

And the desolate princess in front of her twitched the carapace on her face: "...Of course, my family is a hive consciousness, so I naturally know what you are looking for, but as you can see, it is not by my side."

"Where is that?"

"I don't know for the time being... because the memory of my race is kept separately, the race that keeps this part of the memory is dragged behind by other law enforcement officers. They must be brought back and exchanged with me, so that I can know the specific location ,"

The queen looked at the dark back, with a strange light in her compound eyes: "However, there is one thing to remind, that is, your management AI will bomb here in 40 minutes and [-] seconds, or it will be bombing and carrying out the bombs." The kind that comes with lasers."

Zuo Wu looked back at Ai Shanshan.Ai Shanshan was taken aback, and immediately turned around to try to contact the government.After several failures, anger appeared in his eyebrows and eyes.

They were sold by that stinky AI!

"What should I do?" Ai Shanshan immediately sent a message to Zuo Wu through Vision.

But Zuo Wu returned the message with a reassuring look: "Don't worry, I can absorb the vibration of the ground penetrating bomb and the temperature of the penetrating laser. As long as there is physical contact between you and me, I can also absorb what is applied to you." Injury, there is still time."

"Oh!" Ai Shanshan smirked: "Then I will watch the illegal queen here, and wait for you to find the ethnic groups she mentioned?"

After all, the queen still has an abdomen that is several meters long, so it is really inconvenient to carry her.

"No, there's no guarantee she won't lie about the timing of the attack,"

Zuo Wu shook his head seriously: "You have to go with me. My arms are only so wide, but I can't protect you who is hundreds of meters away."

"……Oh."

Seemingly moved, Ai Shanshan took a deep breath, turned his head suddenly, took out a pink grenade from his power armor, and hung it on the Queen without any explanation:
"Don't think about taking it off! I specially modified it, take it off, or if I find out that you have escaped, it will explode immediately! Although the power is weaker than your antimatter gadgets, it is more than enough to kill you!"

The queen gently raised her hands in surrender, saying that she would not resist, and then revealed the characteristics of the few tribes that had memories.

Zuo Wu nodded, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Ai Shanshan's wrist.

……

In the airship in the sky, the AI ​​is bored.

After all, the preparation of weapons is much simpler than the troublesome calculations.

The preheating of the laser and the printing and loading of the live ammunition are about to be completed, perhaps a little earlier than expected.

……

Ai Shanshan can't use the thrusters on her waist, because Zuo Wu, who is holding her, will absorb all the "force" on him.

But even so, their speed is exactly the same.The impact and friction of the worms blocking the way will be absorbed by Zuo Wu together, allowing the two of them to slip through the worms like swimming fish.

This is a wonderful experience, which made Ai Shanshan have some guesses.For example, if Zuo Wu could absorb the electromagnetic force between atoms in the enemy's body, what a terrifying character he would be!

But it shouldn't work, after all, Zuo Wu can only decide the type of absorption, and cannot affect the source and amount of absorption.If he really wants to absorb the electromagnetic force and accidentally disturbs his body composition, maybe Zuo Wu himself will explode before the enemy, right?
Is that so?
It's funny...huh.Ai Shanshan curled his lips, realizing that his curiosity had grown vigorously like a forest.

……

Zuo Wu didn't notice Ai Shanshan's small thoughts, and the search for those targets went very smoothly.

After all, the bugmen who store memories already have a prominent position in the tribe, and their carapaces have special patterns.Spot them quickly, even in chaotic scenes.

Zuo Wu leaned towards those bug-men.The actions of the two of them were discovered by several law enforcement colleagues who were interspersed and killed in the swarm, but they were repulsed and driven away by Ai Shanshan muttering "Sorry, sorry, sorry".

It seemed that the queen had left a substance on the two of them. The moment the memory worm saw Zuo Wu and Ai Shanshan, they followed them without reservation.One, two, three...the number seems to be less than what the queen told me, but that's all there is to it.

"There are still six minutes and 12 seconds!" Ai Shanshan whispered: "Time is running out."

Zuo Wu nodded, and ran back to the Queen's place with the buggers.The speed of the return trip was a bit slow, because it was impossible for him to distribute his favor to all the bugmen.But the memory worms also have a solution, they only need to touch each other with the same race, and the latter will pay the greatest price to make way for the memory worms.

This is also the power of the Queen's Transmitter?
Feeling a little restless, Zuo Wu finally returned to the Queen's place after another few tens of seconds.She is sitting at the door, is she welcoming?

But the surviving personal guards who had been taking care of the downhearted queen suddenly rushed out together, but turned towards the memory bugs.Then, right in front of Zuo Wu and Ai Shanshan, the guards tore the Memory Bug into pieces without hesitation!
Their efficiency in killing their own race was almost the same as Zuo Wu's blue laser, presumably it was because the memory worms had no resistance and took the initiative to relax their joints.The personal guard removed the organs of the Memory Bug, then ran back to the queen, and put the parts back together for her.

The Queen trembled for a while, then raised her head thoughtfully, and waved to Zuo Wu.

Huh?Got results?Zuo Wu still held Ai Shanshan's hand, excitedly leaning towards the downcast queen.

But she saw her stretch out her chitin slender arm and put it on Zuo Wu's shoulder.

……

next second.

From the sky down, there was a crisp sound.

Like a meteor kissing the earth.

The fiery beam of light fell, followed by a fierce impact from the depths of the earth.The airship in the sky launched an attack, and the boulder opened underground was easily lifted to the boundary dozens of kilometers away.

The AI ​​is content.

……

Zuo Wu will be slow to absorb solids, but he has indeed been hit by live ammunition weapons.

So what happens when the flying bullets fall on him?

All kinetic energy will be lost in an instant, and the speed will drop from a terrifying kilometer per second to zero in an instant.Then it was easily captured by gravity, and fell quietly to the ground.

The same goes for penetrators and piercing laser attacks.

The blowing impact and the temperature of the laser were directly absorbed by Zuo Wu; the moment the raised boulder touched them, it slid down and was swept away by the ensuing impact; Become honest and steady.

Several of the Queen's personal guards were smashed to pieces the moment the attack came. The Queen watched all this helplessly, but was helpless.

In contrast, Zuo Wu, with Ai Shanshan and the queen, was simply strolling leisurely in this apocalyptic scene.He even took the time to block a few huge pieces of rubble with his feet, evaluating which ones were bad and which ones were ugly.

Ten minutes later, the shock finally dissipated.The movement just now may be the rare noise after this planet fell into dead silence tens of thousands of years ago.

Zuo Wu raised his head and put down Ai Shanshan and the queen who were still in shock.The impact just now made the silted clouds in the sky disappear.When the sun comes, the blue sun and the aurora in the sky complement each other.

The queen rubbed her mouthparts, slowly raised her body as she became alone, and spoke the human language she hated the most: "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Yes." Zuo Wu nodded.

"But we worms don't like to stay in the wilderness, you know?"

"Just found out."

"...Now, your female companion is more than ten meters away from you, have you noticed?"

Zuo Wu turned to Ai Shanshan in doubt, and saw that she seemed to be attracted by the beautiful scenery as well, walking around, staring straight at the sky.

The queen suddenly flicked her arm wrapped in chitin carapace, and threw an antimatter grenade towards the negligent Ai Shanshan!But the words she rubbed out were still aimed at Zuo Wu, in the same tone as when she just lamented the beautiful scenery:

"You can absorb and release. But apart from this favor, your physical ability is no different from that of ordinary people, right?"

"Can you catch up with this grenade flying slowly at a speed of 15 meters per second?!"

The grenade passed through the air leisurely. This speed was indeed too slow compared to the dust and rocks that destroyed the sky and the earth just now, but it was also much faster than the running speed of humans.

But Zuo Wu didn't need to chase.

When fighting with Ai Shanshan in the trap before, she explained to herself the structure of this antique grenade in detail with great enthusiasm.So Zuo Wu just stretched out his hand, and the blue laser burst out, accurately cutting off the fuse of the thrown grenade.

The grenade hit the back of Ai Shanshan's head with a "bang", making her turn around in a daze.

But the Queen brandished her slender but sharp branches, and let out an almost sharp battle cry: "But you can't release it when you absorb it, and you can't absorb it when you release it, can't you!"

The limbs stab forward!Insects on the earth can bounce themselves to heights several times their body length through muscle power, and the queen's spurs also have the power of a car to crash forward with full force!
And Zuo Wu couldn't absorb it when he released it, which means that at this moment, he is just an ordinary human being who couldn't be more fragile.

The blue laser light disappeared immediately, and the queen's sharp claws also pierced Zuo Wu's body.

Zuo Wu turned his head back calmly, looking at the lonely princess in front of her, the lights and shadows in her compound eyes were changing; watching her unable to move forward even if she exhausted all her strength.It was like being stabbed in an unfathomable sea, and the power of betting was absorbed without a trace.

After a while.

The queen lowered her hands dejectedly, and then collapsed directly on the ground, looking up at the blue sun, with a relaxed tone: "Why can you switch between absorbing and releasing so quickly? This is simply Cheating."

"Actually, it can be regarded as a seamless switch." Zuo Wu scratched his hair helplessly: "How did you know my favor?"

"My tribe has captured a starfish who has been watching you secretly. He seems to want to plot against you, so he eavesdropped on your conversation."

The queen spread her hands: "If you force a confession a little bit, you will be recruited."

"That's it." Zuo Wu nodded: "I have no intention of avenging these colleagues, and you don't need to attack me. Where are the hands and feet I want?"

"In my stomach," the Queen chuckled, "I have no sense of taste, but its delicious smell is impressive."

This is exactly the same as what the leader of the legal worms in the settlement said, Zuo Wu inhaled: "Can you spit it out?"

"The Stru people don't have this function, and the bugmen will never hand over their captured prey."

"...Like this." Zuo Wu knelt down slowly, touching the queen's abdomen with his hands: "I'm sorry."

The downcast queen closed her eyes, and the carapace on her face put together a real smile: "No, there's no need to be sorry. It's because I'm not as skilled as others... No, it's just that I'm simply weak. Isn't that what the Milky Way is like? Beyond 600 million civilizations, the jungle is full of predators."

"Maybe," he nodded, "it won't hurt very much."

The blue laser burst out again, but the queen's eyes were still looking at the bluer sun in the sky."Do you know what star that is?" she asked.

"...a pulsar?"

Pulsars are dying stars that glow brilliantly with light and heat.However, this "dying" is still calculated on a scale of millions of years.

"Yes, a pulsar. It will send regular signals to the depths of the universe. Thousands of years ago, when the Milky Way was not so lively, this signal would always be recognized as a message from other civilizations,"

"Nowadays, this signal is just noise to those regimes like gods. But for civilizations that have just entered deep space, it can still be an accurate timer for civilizations on starships. Therefore, it can also be used to It writes a new calendar,"

She sighed: "I've made up my mind! After my tribe and I enter the galaxy again, we will no longer use the name Stru, but change it to Stella! From that moment on, I will be the free Stella." The new first year determined by the new calendar..."

The queen's face suddenly distorted, not because of the pain from the blue laser cutting her body, but a more piercing sadness:

"I am not reconciled, I am so unwilling... The galaxy and even the universe should be very big, they are so big... But why can't I find a free home that belongs to me!?"

Left Wu Moran.

After a long time, he cupped the queen's face and whispered softly, "As you said, the weak prey on the strong. However, you don't have to be reconciled."

He murmured something in the queen's ear, and the queen's distorted face suddenly froze for a moment.

Then, she showed a calm expression of relief and relief.

The moment the laser light flickered, the consciousness of the fallen princess fell into eternal darkness.Zuo Wu looked at her dissected abdomen, where the left leg and right hand that haunted him were shining brightly.

Taking it out solemnly, Ai Shanshan walked with his hands behind his back, looked at the blue light of the pulsar in the Queen's compound eyes, and kicked the dust on the ground: "What did you say to her?"

"I told her that I would record her genetic information, and that one day I might find an uninhabited planet and clone her tribe again,"

Zuo Wu got up and shrugged: "The ultimate goal of the bugman is to reproduce, and her bloodline has not been cut off. I have directly realized her dream. This should be a good ending for this queen."

"Hey, it's so disgusting, why are you doing this?"

Zuo Wu opened his mouth, wanting to say that he just wanted everything to have a happy ending.But when the words came to his lips, he changed his mind.

He just scratched his hair and made his expression look a little shy: "Because the insect lady is great, I want to raise it myself."

(End of this chapter)