How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 723 Individual Spy

"slow down!"

With an order from the leader of the cluster, the antimatter shield directly in front of the Leaping Creatures shone with dazzling light, and the reverse propulsion made the overall speed of the Leaping Creatures Cluster begin to decrease, the starbow phenomenon gradually weakened, and the stars in the sky gradually left the circle of the starbow. ring, returning to its original correct position.

What came into the sight of the collectors was their destination, the source of the distress signal, the star system that gave birth to the civilization of the X people.

"All turns, 37 degrees 84!"

Glancing at the destination ahead, the leader of the cluster gave new instructions to the cluster.

The leap forward biological cluster as a whole began to deflect its course, and began to approach the star system at an oblique angle.

"Our purpose is to understand them before the Zerg understands us, so the cluster cannot enter the star system rashly, which is equivalent to exposing information to the other party in advance."

The cluster leader spoke again in the channel to prevent individuals from ignoring this point. If the other party were to learn about the collectors instead, the group would be very passive.

However, it is impossible to prevent information leakage. As long as a thing exists, it will release information all the time, and after actions are taken, more information will be released.

Individual collectors in the cluster have been identified, and the whereabouts of their clusters have been known to all intelligent creatures in the destination star system.

"The strong gamma emission phenomenon produced by our deceleration should have been noticed by the other party."

When the sub-light speed voyage decelerates, because the annihilation of matter and antimatter is used for deceleration, a large amount of gamma rays will be released, so that there is an extra star in the background of the universe, which can be observed by looking at the night sky with the naked eye without the aid of instruments.

Unless the intelligent species X and Zerg in the star system are blind, it is impossible not to notice the inexplicable extra stars in the sky.

"But we haven't had contact with each other yet, they still don't know anything about us, and we don't know anything about them."

Regarding the fact that the existence was known, the leader of the swarm knew very well that this kind of invisible deceleration trace would expose the existence of the swarm to the Xers and Zergs.

But that doesn't explain anything, so what's the point of knowing it exists? With such a long distance, it would take a long time to reach them even with sublight-speed shells. Even if intelligent species in the star system have super long-range observation capabilities, it would take many days for the light from the cluster to reach the star system. .

Unless the other party has the ability to obtain information faster than the speed of light, they will know nothing about the increase in the number of 'stars' caused by the deceleration of the gatherers.

Maybe not even thinking about the space power of other alien civilizations.

"Arrange an individual as a spy unit, disguised as a wandering meteorite, go to the star system to obtain information about the Zerg, use the gravity of the star to deflect the orbit, and after leaving the star system, just meet the cluster of revolving stars, thus completing the information delivery .”

The cluster leader explained to the group that once the cluster enters the star system and is observed by the other party, it means that more information about the cluster will be obtained by the other party, which obviously does not match the purpose of the collectors' trip.

"But if captured, it also means that the information of the ethnic group will be exposed to the other party."

Some individuals are worried that the Zerg's ability to move across the stars is something that has been determined based on the help information of the X people, so the collectors benchmark it to the same level of technology as their own.

If the spy individual is captured, and the other party has the technology of genetic language, it is possible to have a sufficient understanding of the ethnic group by obtaining the genetic memory of the spy individual.

Such consequences are undoubtedly more serious than exposing the leap forward biological cluster.

In response to this problem, individuals within the Yuejin biological cluster quickly thought of a solution.

"You can commit suicide without leaving a corpse. Arrange a one-cubic-decimeter antimatter reactor for the individual spy. Once captured, it will be activated immediately. Strong gamma rays will kill the individual spy, and it has its own gene destruction effect. If there are corpses left, the other party will get nothing."

"good idea."

The cluster leader agrees.

Some matter was evened out from each leaping creature, and a spherical object of one hundred cubic meters was constructed. This was the wandering meteorite disguised by the collectors, and a large amount of solid helium and an antimatter reactor were placed inside.

A large-caliber electromagnetic gun evolved from the side of a leaping creature, and the camouflaged wandering meteorite entered the chamber smoothly.

"Are you ready?"

Leap forward biological interrogation as a launching entity.

"Ready."

"The voyage time is two years, the precautions are the priority, don't expose yourself."

The leaping creature instructed that the spy individual would disguise itself as a small meteorite, pass the star from a close orbit at high speed, be deflected by the star's gravity, and then fly out of the star system to join the cluster.

During this process, the individual spies will obtain all the information about the Zerg and the X people inside the star system, such as their space power, such as their space industry strength.

"clear."

"Set off!"

Accompanied by the launch command of Yuejin Biology, the bioelectrical signal transmitted from the solid-state brain prompts the internal antimatter reactor to increase the release of heat energy, and the thermal sensing cells accelerate metabolism to convert heat energy into electric current, and the resistance value increases to complete the boost. Driven by strong voltage, The wandering meteorite ejected and headed towards the star.

After being ejected for a period of time, the meteorite disguised by the collectors passed through the outer Kuiper belt smoothly and continued to approach the star.

"Use high-power radar first... No, it can't be used, and it will be discovered if it is used."

Individual spies subconsciously want to use high-power radar, but it stops immediately, because releasing the radio outside is like shouting out, as long as the Xs and Zerg in the star system have radio reception technology, they will definitely pay attention There is something wrong with this meteorite.

There is only one way for individual spies to obtain information, and that is to observe the environment in the star system with the help of the electromagnetic waves naturally released by the stars.

The spy individual repeatedly switches the electromagnetic wave receiving angle, sometimes in the ultraviolet band, sometimes in the infrared band, and sometimes in the visible light band.

"A star system with four planets, I didn't see any space buildings..."

"One gaseous planet, three solid planets, and there are no planets on the back of the star."

Through the data summarized by observations in various bands, the collector sketched a general model of the star system, but what puzzled it was that, as it expected, there were space units everywhere in the entire star system, as a way to step into the universe. civilization, which is obviously unreasonable.

"Without enemies, doesn't that Zerg have space units?"

Forget about the X people, they originally lived in this star system, why didn't the Zerg from other star systems not? Collectors don't understand.

After thinking about it to no avail, the spy individual set his sights on the planet where the X people were located.

"I remember that the X people's distress message said that their rocking star is on the second orbit in the star system... Is that it?"

"No, no, it's an icy planet. This planet is too far away from the star. From this point of view, there should be planets that are blocked by the star, so I couldn't observe it."

According to the constructed star system model, the second planet is an icy planet. Even if it is not close, the collectors do not think that any decent civilization will be born in the harsh environment there, and there is no sign of civilization activity anywhere. .

In this way, the collector can only think that there are still planets that have not been observed by it.

The fake meteorite skims the star from a close orbit, and the solid helium inside is released, dragging a long trajectory. From a distance, it really looks like a wandering meteorite flying from outside the star system.

When deflected by the star's gravity, the fake meteorite went to the other side of the star.

At the same time, this position is also an excellent viewing angle. The sun-facing side of the planet is illuminated by the star and will reflect the light of the star like a mirror.

The collectors clearly observed a planet previously obscured by the star.

"Yes!"

"The planet is covered in a large area of ​​brown, and there are other colors in a certain area..."

"This should be the rocking star of the X people."

"It is necessary to adjust the trajectory a little, otherwise nothing will be observed."

The angle at which the fake meteorite erupts helium has been slightly adjusted, so that the fake meteorite can be closer to the planet on its trajectory after flying away from the star.

After the fake meteorite approached the planet for some distance, it was observed that a large number of space units existed in the close orbit of that planet.

"Are those the fleets of Zerg civilization?"

"The units of the same appearance are of different sizes, and the estimated diameter is in the range of about 50 to 100 kilometers."

"There are other units, but they are too far away, and they are too small to get much information..."

"...Should I get closer?"