How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 512 The Probe of the Luo People

Since the artificial womb technology allows complete population reproduction without the help of female Luo people, the collectors wondered why they only found traces of Connor's activities when they surveyed the underground facility.

The time interval between the time Connor landed and the time when the collectors logged in was quite long. During this period, he did not carry out population reproduction to expand the scale of the underground facilities, which is very strange.

As the saying goes, more people are more powerful. This is not simply a competition of strength. One more person means more creativity and labor. As a leader, Connor will reduce the work pressure a lot. If Connor increases the population, the collection When the hunters dived into the ground, what they saw was not just a small-scale underground facility, it should be an underground city.

Regarding this issue, Connor showed deep helplessness.

"Because the artificial womb was damaged when it encountered the tsunami for the first time. Although I tried to repair it later, the damaged part was basically repaired, but the core circuit board was damaged and needed to be replaced. I don't have a finishing machine, so I can't Completely fix it."

It’s not that Connor didn’t want to increase the population, but that he couldn’t do it. The spaceship was impacted by the Mach tsunami head-on. At that time, the internal environment was like drying clothes at high speed in a drum washing machine. It survived, but many of the instruments inside the spacecraft were irreparably damaged by the tsunami.

Among them, the artificial womb is a mechanical device to increase the population.

"That's really unfortunate."

The collectors expressed sympathy. They also had colonized across stars. They could not imagine the severe challenges they would face if the colonized individuals lost the ability to expand the population.

I'm afraid it's more difficult than Connor the Luoren. After all, the technology of the collectors is based on the huge number of individuals, from the basic surface rhizomes to the giant organisms in the universe.

Of course, all of this is just an assumption formed by the hard analogy between the collectors and the Luoren. After all, there are differences between them and the Luoren, and such differences doom the probability of them encountering such problems to negligible. Excluding.

The Luo people's attitude was the opposite of that of the collectors, he was very optimistic.

"I am very lucky to have survived the supersonic tsunami. Although I am the only one on the planet, after the underground survival station is built, tasks such as mining and planting are basically handed over to machines. Part of the time is lying in the hibernation pod and sleeping, waiting for my civilization to receive a distress signal and send a rescue team over."

One must learn to be content. After going through so many things after setting off from the home planet, what he gained after the ups and downs is a strong psychological quality. Most people can't stand being confined for a week, but Connor can't stand it after a month of hard work. He said that he has seen it very openly, even if his innocence has collapsed, he can still watch the show calmly.

After thinking of something, Connor hesitated for a while.

In the end, Connor made up his mind, and tentatively asked himself the cartoon image of the Luoren displayed on the wall in front of him, that is, he was asking the collectors.

"Can I ask you some questions?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Who are you? Where are you from?"

Connor asked these questions nervously, because he was not sure how these aliens viewed him as an alien. His life and death were decided by a group of aliens who didn't even know what the real body looked like. That's why he was getting hairy in his heart.

This is mainly due to the uneasiness caused by the unknown, which is also very common among human beings. It is a sense of crisis evolved by organisms after a long evolution. Such a sense of crisis will prompt organisms to try to understand the unknown, so as to achieve The purpose of eliminating fear.

And after eliminating the unknown, the probability of survival of organisms that understand things becomes much higher.

Of course, it’s not just that. The Luo named Connor knows in his heart that aliens will not talk to him about human rights. The other party may even have a different social structure from his own race. It may also be for other purposes.

The purpose of his inquiry is not only to eliminate his fear of the unknown, but also to try to understand the alien civilization that rescued him, at least to confirm whether the alien civilization is malicious or good.

What is malice? What is goodwill?

Malicious means very aggressive, and kindness means not aggressive. This is the standard summed up by Luoren civilization itself.

Of course, everything is very complicated, and even humans do not have absolute good and absolute evil, let alone a whole civilization? Therefore, the civilization of the universe should be a complex mixture of good and evil, not absolutely black, nor absolutely white, they should be gray, and take different action strategies according to different situations, some situations can become black, some situations They can turn into white again, and what drives them to act like this is interest, which is related to the interests of the entire civilization.

Connor hopes to use this to find out whether the alien civilization that saved him is aggressive or willing to communicate with his mother civilization. The latter is definitely what Connor wants to see.

This point can be easily judged. A civilization that is willing to communicate will not mind showing the other party information related to itself.

Soon, Connor got the result he wanted, and because of this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Our civilization is called 'Amoeba', and it was born from a star system thirty-two light-years away from its current location."

"Why do you come near the black hole? Or are you just passing by?"

The hanging heart relaxed a bit, and Connor turned to ask some questions that he was more curious about. It stands to reason that there should be no civilization willing to approach a ghostly place like a black hole. After all, a black hole is such an extreme celestial body. There are very few resources that can be used around. If it wasn't for the black hole companion star that was sent to colonize, the Luo civilization would not have sent Connor near the black hole.

"We are to establish a signal station to make the coordinates of the black hole obvious, so as to improve the safety of interstellar routes."

"Interstellar routes? Can you achieve large-scale interstellar voyages?!"

Connor froze for a moment, and then his emotions became violent, his eyes widened, staring straight at the cartoon image on the wall of the room, as if he was very surprised.

The collectors were also puzzled by Connor's reaction.

"Your question is very strange. Didn't you land on the companion star of the black hole to colonize after an interstellar voyage?"