How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 683 The Fortress That Was Slaughtered

"But now these are all gone, why?" Some collectors have doubts about this.

The same family responded, "Because the planet's surface temperature dropped, they all turned into ice, and with the subsequent burial of sandstorms, these ices also sank underground."

"It may be due to the lack of mass of this planet. Small mass means that the core temperature cools faster. Once the core of the planet is completely cooled, the planet's magnetic field will not be able to maintain. It is caused by blue dwarf stars that are many times stronger than ordinary stars. When the wind blows, the original planet's atmosphere will naturally be blown thinner."

"Then the subsequent interstellar dust fell on the original ice layer, and there was a dusty surface environment like today."

"Because of such a dusty environment, whenever the planet reaches perihelion, the dust particles floating in the atmosphere absorb more solar energy, and the air full of dust particles will be hotter than the surrounding atmosphere, so it will rise rapidly. The vacant space is quickly filled by other air, and this is how dust storms are formed."

The reason for the formation of the current surface environment of the planet is not complicated. Collectors of more complicated environments have seen it before, especially the environment of gaseous planets. It is too difficult. Compared with the traceable environment of today's earth-like planets, it is really better.

"In an environment like this, even if there are any buildings left over from the civilization we are looking for, it will probably be completely deserted in five thousand years and become a part of the dust in the sky."

Some individuals are very worried, and this concern comes from the possibility that 'the cluster's actions will achieve nothing this time'.

"It may also be buried by wind and sand. Anyway, we still have to look for it." The collector with an optimistic attitude comforted his worried kin.

As long as man-made buildings can be buried by wind and sand before they are completely eroded, the possibility of being completely deserted will be very small. The sand and dust buried in the buildings will play a good role in blocking wind and drifting, which is equivalent to a protective layer for ruins , This is why things like ruins and fossils often need to be excavated from the ground, because they cannot withstand the baptism of time on the ground.

With a network of rhizomes all over the world, it is very easy to search for underground monuments. Collectors only need to hit the rhizomes and explore vertically.

In just a few days, a piece of life field information spread throughout the entire planet, and was known to all collectors on the planet.

"I found it! It's a man-made building complex!"

The found building was 3,000 kilometers away from the ground and was buried very deep. The building was a composite building made of ceramic bricks, sandstone, and metal strips. The surface was severely eroded, pitted, and inlaid with many fine sand particles. .

"It's full of sand, so it's not easy to explore."

The collectors who saw these knew that they had encountered a problem. The building was buried very deep, which meant a lot of pressure. It was an old antique that had been deserted through the baptism of time. If they came into contact with it rashly, it might cause the building to collapse. damaged.

Therefore, there are individual proposals.

"I propose to solidify the surrounding sand first, and then clean up the sand inside the building to solidify the building itself."

"I agree."

According to the proposal, the rhizomes secrete a colloid that sticks to the sand around the building, making it a hard protective layer that wraps around the building. It looks a bit like an egg in appearance, because such an appearance structure is easier to disperse pressure. .

Afterwards, the collectors began to drive their own rhizomes, while cleaning the sand in the building, while solidifying the building itself, so that it would not be damaged when it came into contact with the air.

The efficiency of a large number of individuals working together is amazing. It didn't take long for the collectors to complete the solidification of the building and the general exploration.

By building a physical model, the collectors can intuitively see the relics they surveyed in the channel.

"The structure of this place... well, it's probably a fortress."

When each type of building is designed, there will inevitably be some deviations due to its use. For example, the housing of ordinary residents must be different from that of military forts. Housing is about living people, and fortresses are more about the ability to withstand attacks.

Perhaps it is precisely because this complex is a fortress that it has survived the baptism of the years until the collectors have unearthed it.

"I think so. Many places have anti-shock and anti-shock designs. The skeleton of the building complex is also connected in parallel with multiple sections. Obviously, it is to improve the design idea of ​​external damage."

Some individuals agreed with the collector's thinking, agreeing that this ruin is a fortress, otherwise there is no way to explain such a structural design.

The exterior has basically been explored, and the collectors started to explore the interior of the ruins. After a certain distance, some biological fossils began to appear.

"It's a corpse, it should be the occupant and builder of this complex."

The collectors are sure of their judgment, because after searching around, there are only this kind of biological fossils in the building, and there are no fossils of other species, which means that the owners of these biological fossils should have lived in this fortress before. It is also the intelligent species that built this fortress.

Of course, there are other speculations. For example, these bones are invaders. The builders of the fortress fought with them and wiped out these invaders, and then evacuated collectively for some reason.

However, among all the speculations, the collectors still prefer the first one, that is, the owners of these fossils are the builders and occupants of the fortress.

"This is the first time I have seen such a creature with a brain growing in its body, without the biological structure of a head."

The limbs are all similar, there is no neck, from the perspective of bone structure, the place where the neck should be is a mouth, the brain is inside the body, and based on the position of the brain, the eyes have to be connected to the back.

But what makes the collectors feel weird and curious is how does this species achieve vision with such an eye design idea?

Regarding this issue, because it is not the main issue, they decided to discuss it later, and first investigate the death scene of these intelligent species to find out the cause of their death.

"What was their cause of death?" one individual asked.

"Let me take a look, um... According to the various traces observed on the spot, it should be caused by suffocation or penetrating rays, or viruses, poisonous gas, etc."

Because there are no scars on the skeleton, that is to say, unnatural death can only be killed in a way that causes little damage to the body, so these assumptions came into being.

However, soon some individuals raised objections, because the objectors found something around and inside some of the skeletons.

"No, they died from some kind of weapon, even though their bones are intact, but that's because the attack they encountered was so weak that it just killed them."

The weapon is a kind of steel needle, about five centimeters long, which exists around and inside the skeleton, and some steel needles are inside the walls of the fortress.

"Steel needle..."

"Relying on this kind of steel needle to penetrate the brain, so as to achieve the purpose of killing, this is the first time I have seen this kind of weapon."

This is a massacre, targeting all intelligent species in a fortress. Their enemies are trained and powerful special fighters who hold a weapon that can shoot steel needles, which can kill intelligent species in a fortress with one blow. .