Chapter 602, Princess

Arno did a big thing in the Alfonzo star field: he mobilized a lot of resources to rescue Sebastian Moreau.

Not only the personnel of the Central Bureau of Investigation to which he belonged, but also the other two major foreign intelligence agencies of the Alliance, and even the Demon Hunter Force, were united by him.

At the same time, he also launched the network of relationships that he had built up since entering the Alfonzo star field through the dispute between doves and hawks.

But even so, Moreau is a very important person and must be detained tightly.

In the end, perfect preparation and careful planning are indispensable, but some luck at the last moment is also inevitable.

There were many crises and stumbles along the way. On the boat of Arno and Moreau himself, they really secretly crossed the Vinci-Vuchi line and entered the Alliance side.

Afterwards, the ships of the Alfonzo Mechanicus that were chasing them rushed over and collided with the fleet stationed by the Alliance in the Vuchi star system.

Of course they didn't.

Moreau arrived in the Alliance territory just like that.

Gu Hang still attached great importance to this.

Before being captured, Sebastian Moreau was the Forge General of the Forge World-Arlong Star, with the title of Sage, and he could be ranked in the top five in the entire Alfonzo sect.

At the same time, he was also one of the most important figures among the doves. It was for this reason that he was captured by Varuk, and the doves were suppressed by him through his imprisonment.

He is now in the hands of the Alliance, which means that if the Alliance enters the Alfonzo star field in the future, the doves in the Mechanicus will most likely be influenced by Moreau and turn against the Alliance.

Of course, this also depends on Moreau's own willingness and whether he is willing to follow the Alliance.

Force is useless.

The good news is that his willingness to "escape from prison" and follow Arno to the actual control area of ​​the Alliance proves his attitude.

Gu Hang expects this guy to play a major role in the future, so that the Alliance will not waste the cost of investing in the reconstruction of Alfonzo's intelligence network to save him.

Originally, the matter would have ended here. If he was to be used, it would be the business of the intelligence department, and he would be taken along in the subsequent march.

However, after arriving in the Alliance's control area, the former Casting General strongly requested to meet Gu Hang himself.

Moreover, Arno also strongly suggested to Governor Gu through the intelligence structure that he should meet Moro, claiming that he had very important information, but Moro was only willing to tell Gu Hang.

It was about the Zerg.

This aroused Gu Hang's interest.

The high-level officials of the Alfonzo sect had information about the Zerg, which should be reliable.

If you want to meet, then meet.

...

Sitting in a high position, Gu Hang met the former Casting General.

Sebastian Moro looked quite embarrassed.

He wore a red and black robe, but his body was... too small.

According to Gu Hang's understanding of these high-level officials of the Mechanicus, each of them, no matter what direction they develop in, will always transform their bodies more and more outrageous.

This is inevitable even for Wu Jiarong.

There are too many things they need to be prepared at any time. Not only weapons, but also a large number of scientific research equipment and tools.

These modifications are not done all at once. Often, they start with changing an eye, 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-level oilers will naturally become larger and larger.

At Moreau's level, it stands to reason that the size is completely different from that of a normal person. But now, he looks like an ordinary person, even shorter.

This is mainly because when he was imprisoned by Varuk, he must have been "disarmed". Most of the various mechanical modification structures on his body were removed. Otherwise, if a casting general was imprisoned intact, he would have too many ways to make a noise and escape.

And this time Arno went to rescue him and took advantage of this a little. After coming out of the prison, he installed a simple humanoid body, disguised himself as an ordinary mechanic, and escaped for a while. After that, it was a tense and exciting process of you searching and hiding, you chasing and escaping in the sea of ​​stars. There was neither the conditions nor the time for him to get a new body.

From this perspective, Moro's appearance now was so human, which was indeed very embarrassing.

Gu Hang retracted 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 the apostates who betrayed the Empire, betrayed the Emperor of God, and betrayed the God of All Machines. However, before that, you should have a good rest."

"I have important information that I must present to you in person."

"So, what is the information?"

Moro did not speak again, but fiddled with his robe for a while.

Gu Hang waited patiently.

He could feel that under the black and red robe, Moro's hand seemed to reach into the body from the chest, and then went all the way up, and took out something at the back of the head.

When Moro's hand came out of his robe, he held a dark stone in his palm.

Gu Hang stared at the stone: "Is this what you want to give me?"

"Yes."

Moro did not put on airs, and he was not in a good condition to do so.

He raised his hands respectfully, making a gesture of contribution.

Invisible psychic tentacles extended from Gu Hang's mind, gently rolled up the black stone in Moro's hand, and brought it to him.

Looking closely, there was nothing special about it. It was just a neatly crafted oval stone. At best, the surface was round and shiny, and it looked a bit good.

But in fact, it was definitely not that simple.

After taking it to his face, Gu Hang carefully examined it and could feel a slight psychic reaction.

Seeing that Moro had no intention of explaining, Gu Hang simply probed more of his psychic power into the stone.

Suddenly, his eyes blurred and the scene changed.

He seemed to be in a fantasy world, and everything he saw was rippled with water, like swaying jelly.

One after another, the scenes recorded in the stone flashed before his eyes.

These things obviously happened at different times and places, but the contents of the stories are quite closely related.

The first few scenes should be in a certain star port, where the Space Marines wearing the Ironclad Legion's livery are handing over a batch of goods to the members of the Alfonzo Sect.

These goods are warehouses of Void Zerg corpses.

The Zerg corpses are soaked in petri dishes of various sizes.

And the next few scenes flashed by, soaked in petri dishes, they turned from corpses into Zerg living bodies.

Then there are many more clips, all of which are Alfonzo's researchers dissecting and studying these corpses.

There are also scenes of them reporting to the people of the Ironclad Legion.

Seeing these, Gu Hang felt that there was nothing strange.

For a long time in the past, the Ironclad Legion was stationed in the Queen's Star Region for a long time. Their duty was to fight against the Void Zerg that kept emerging from the Queen's Star Region. In the war, some corpses and living bodies were seized and sent to the Mechanicus, which had a good relationship, for research. Is there anything strange?

It is nonsense to convict Tiekai based on these images.

They can even say that these studies are simply for the purpose of studying the enemy's situation and for better fighting against these aliens.

In fact, this may be the truth.

Gu Hang also has these studies, and there are live samples of greenskins in the Alliance's research institute.

There is nothing strange about it.

Even when Gu Hang saw the live body of the brain worm tyrant that impressed him being transported here, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

Using the power of aliens is a taboo in the empire, but who hasn't done it in fact?

If this is also a big deal, as decisive evidence to say that Tiekai threw insects, Gu Hang himself feels that it is not justifiable, let alone wanting to use it to convince others.

This is not what Gu Hang wants.

But just when Gu Hang felt a little disappointed, the last scene appeared.

It was a huge square culture dish with a side length of about 30 meters. In the purple translucent culture fluid, a worm floated, filling the entire culture dish.

If it was just a huge size and alive, it would not be enough to surprise Gu Hang.

It is not that he has not seen large-sized Void Zerg in the previous footage. They are all very precious samples. Some big things like living cannons, swarm tyrants, assassin bugs, etc., many of which are relatively complete corpses transported as experimental materials.

Although there are few living big bugs, they are not absent.

But what attracts people's attention is that this bug, judging from its body shape, has no sharp teeth and claws, and no iconic shell. From the appearance, it seems that it has no combat ability.

On the contrary, it is more like a larva.

A larva that needs a cubic culture dish of 30 meters long and wide.

Gu Hang didn't react for a while, but then he knew what was strange: let's not talk about what kind of larvae can be so big, another important question is, do Void Zerg have larvae?

According to Gu Hang's understanding of this great enemy of mankind, they are genetic weapons born directly from the hatching pool. No matter what kind of insects, they should be in the form of adults when they are born. Generally speaking, their functions when they are born are determined. Some are responsible for fighting, some are responsible for swallowing and transporting everything they swallow back to the digestion pool... Often, after completing their work and mission, they will jump into the digestion pool by themselves, be digested into biomass, and then be transported to the hatching pool by living pipes to wait for reorganization.

There is no report claiming that a single individual of the void zerg has reproductive ability. Their strong reproductive ability does not depend on the individual, but as a whole swarm of insects, they use biomass to form hatching eggs in the hatching pool, or directly use biomass to form the body.

In this case, are there any void zerg in the larval state?

Could it be that my knowledge of the void zerg is not deep enough, resulting in some deviations in understanding?

Gu Hang couldn't help but doubt himself.

He used his psychic power to forcibly freeze the picture of this scene, and then tried to zoom in the picture to observe this strange worm carefully.

But the next moment, while everything in the picture was still, the countless eyes of the 'larva' suddenly opened and stared at Gu Hang.

Suddenly, a creepy feeling rushed to his head.

It wasn't that Gu Hang was frightened.

His mind suddenly pulled out of the illusion.

The dark stone was flung out by the sudden uncontrolled force, smashed against the wall of the hall, and rolled several times before stopping.

Gu Hang sat on the chair, gasping for breath.

Simple emotional changes would not cause him to have such a violent physiological reaction.

That was... psychic energy.

This psychic energy made Gu Hang feel a strong mental impact.

If it was a slightly weaker psychic, this impact would be enough to directly destroy his brain.

Some guards wanted to catch up, but were stopped by Gu Hang.

He carefully tasted the taste of this psychic energy that had just bombarded his mind.

He found that he had experienced and fought against it personally.

That was when he was fighting with the Alfonzo fleet, the neurozoan that was imprisoned on the war ark and enslaved by the Mechanicus.

The taste of the psychic energy of the neurozoan was exactly the same as what he was experiencing now.

But this larva is definitely not a neurozoan.

Gu Hang can tell that the two are... very different.

He even has a vague feeling.

The spiritual energy just now was not hidden in the stone flakes and gave him a surprise attack. It was more like a warning through a very long distance through this stone flake as a medium.

It seemed that Gu Hang saw it, even if it was only through the remaining past images, it also saw Gu Hang from countless worlds away, and greeted Gu Hang "kindly".

If this is the guess, it is a bit scary.

What kind of insect can have such a terrible spiritual power?

Gu Hang sat back for a long time before asking, "Sage Moreau, do you know what appeared at the end?"

"That's the 'Princess'."

"Princess? Do you mind explaining it to me?"

"I'd like to tell you in detail, but... I'm sorry, there are many things I don't know."

"It doesn't matter, this matter is very important, just tell me everything you know, including your guesses."

"Okay." Moreau responded, "'Princess' is the name given to it by Humphrey Paul. It was captured 180 years ago and was regarded by the Iron Armored Corps as the greatest hope to completely end the threat of the Void Zerg in the Queen Star Domain. He sent the 'Princess' to Alfonzo, hoping that we could help him with his research..."