I Am the Swarm

"Master Master, Knight 3857 is honored to serve you." Sensing the arrival of Rowan's consciousness, the knight controlling the biological spaceship greeted Rowan.

A year ago, the two Feilu-class transport ships carrying the Rowan script had passed through the outermost meteorite belt of the Proxima Galaxy, and have now reached the vicinity of the Proxima A5 planet.

The two biological spacecraft disguised as meteorites did not fly directly to the Great Venus, because the biological spacecraft wanted to reach the Great Venus, and the time was not allowed, and they needed to decelerate and adjust their orbits many times in the middle. This is obviously not what a meteorite should have. the behavior of.

And the swarm doesn't know how well the performance of the shipboard observation system of the alien civilization's spacecraft will be. If the swarm meteorite performs this operation, will it be found to be abnormal.

For the sake of caution, the two meteorites pretended to be captured by the gravitational force of the passing planet Proxima A5, and hit the No. 2 satellite of the planet A5 along the normal trajectory.

Just after landing, Rowan came to his consciousness to check the situation of the main body. The main body has been dormant for decades, and the condition is not bad. He didn't continue to pay attention, but ordered the creep to start working, and hatched ten queen eggs.

Thanks to the progress of the swarm technology, the Feilu-class transport ship does not need an ecological circulation system, so it has a much larger internal space than the old version of the swarm meteorite, which is enough for them to load more items.

As for the vehicle of the Rowan body, each transport ship is loaded with dozens of queen eggs, and these eggs live with the Rowen body day and night, and their gene pool versions are all up-to-date.

A month later, the swarm base on the adjacent planet A5B2 was initially formed. Apart from incubating some auxiliary units for digging holes, the queen began to produce eggs for biological spaceships.

During the period during which the eggs were developing, the swarm had already found a radiation mining area on the satellite. Proxima Centauri does not have the giant charger of a gaseous planet, and some radiation mines can make do with it.

After the worm eggs hatched, the mining area had been dug into several radiation-filled cavities, where a large group of larvae of biological spaceships bathed in radiation and developed.

And when they grow to three or four meters in length, they will be sent out to directly absorb space radiation. Most of the structures of these spaceships are nearly transparent aerogels, and there is a layer of camouflaging nanocrystals on the surface. It is very difficult to find them if they are not specially inspected here at close range.

The bug swarm is still accumulating troops on the side of the adjacent planet A5, and the search on the Riken side has already had preliminary results.

"Reggie, after several years of hard work, we have basically grasped the situation on the surface of the planet and established a model. But apart from detecting a few places where radiation remains, there is no other discovery." In the captain's room, Lu Dr. Te said.

In the room, apart from Dr. Root, there were Captain Reggie and Major Kamais, who was in charge of all security work for this operation. These three people are in charge of administration, military affairs, and scientific research. They can be said to be the most powerful people on the cat-ear spacecraft.

So, don't look at the meeting is not very formal, but the level is quite high.

"In this way, is the anomaly hidden underground or in the sea? An underground civilization or deep sea civilization?" Captain Reggie asked doubtfully.

"It's not certain yet, but we can say that we have been active on the surface unscrupulously in the past few years, but we have never been attacked. If there is a civilization hidden here, then they can really tolerate it."

Captain Reggie nodded. Dr. Root made a lot of sense. If it was him, he would at least try to make contact.

He turned his head to look at the expression of Major Kamis, and thought to himself, these reckless people in the military, they can't bear it, they probably will do it directly.

"However, I think it is more likely that they are hiding underground. Over the years, I have called up most of the satellites to closely monitor the sea surface situation, and arranged for Celia to use most of the computing power to investigate sea surface anomalies. , but nothing was found." Captain Reggie said.

"According to the fact that there are no artificial traces in the orbit of the planet, they are not marching into space, and they should not be wary of surveillance from an altitude of 10,000 meters. They have not been found in this way, and they should not be under the sea."

"It's possible, but now I have another guess." Dr. Root thought for a while, nodded, and shook his head again.

"What guess?"

"If the nuclear explosion is some kind of creature, similar to those beasts, but it is more powerful. It usually sleeps and comes out to hunt when hungry, which can explain the weirdness before."

"I thought you were a scientist at first, but I didn't expect you to be a dreamer. Do you know how high the temperature in the body of the monster you mentioned needs to withstand? It's impossible." Captain Reggie re-acquainted with the old man Looking at the friend's expression, we can see that Dr. Root doesn't seem to be joking, and his expression gradually becomes serious. "are you serious?"

Dr. Root nodded affirmatively: "Of course, the universe is too big, and there are too many unknowns that we don't know. Don't use our limited science to define everything in the universe."

"Have you discovered anything?"

"I found some shallow pits on the seaside more than ten kilometers away from the two radiation points that were first discovered. Their size, specification and shape are approximately the same. I checked the environment and sandy soil around these shallow pits and found that they are likely to be The footprints of some kind of creature. When these footprints were first formed, they should have been very deep, but they were near the sea and surrounded by sediment layers with a very high water content, so they became shallow pits. I estimate that they were formed in ten About a year."

"You mean, they were formed at the same time as the last time we observed a fusion reaction?" Captain Reggie immediately understood what Dr. Root meant.

"That's right, they were formed at almost the same time as the two fusion points more than ten kilometers away. You can imagine that the two teams of beasts were fighting on the plain at that time, and a huge monster crawled out of the ocean and headed for They fired two fusion attacks, then turned and headed back into the sea."

"This is really... really unimaginable." Captain Reggie was a little shocked. He really couldn't imagine how a creature should launch a fusion attack.

"This is just a guess. However, if this is the truth, then this monster will be very huge. It can even reach a height of hundreds of meters and weigh tens of thousands of tons."

Captain Reggie's lips twitched, a little astringent. He really wanted to say a few words "this is not scientific", but he didn't say it in the end. If Rowan were here, he would definitely applaud Dr. Root's conjecture. Except for the warring parties on the grassland, he almost deduced what happened at that time.

Seeing his friend's shocked look, Dr. Root said with a smile: "Don't worry, even if it's true, it's just a monster. We are a race capable of space travel, so why should we be afraid of a monster? "