Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

Different from people's conventional impression of the swarm, although the Tyranids are controlled by the Hive Mind as a whole, there are also some synaptic node creatures that have higher intelligence than other individuals and even a certain degree of self-awareness. For example, they often give various The hero of the road acts as a hive overlord on the mat, as well as a special brainworm that is said to be comparable to an Alpha-level psyker.

In particular, the Gene Stealer, who is the vanguard spy of the swarm, can be regarded as a model of self-reliance among the swarm.

As the synaptic center and command center that governs the entire Hive Fleet, the Life Shaper Queen is not only an extremely powerful psychic creature, but also possesses a highly complete self-awareness.

However, this advantage is not a good thing when facing Russell.

The powerful psychic power enables the Insect Queen to "see" the illusory abyss in the subspace more clearly. The deep sense of powerlessness and extreme fear emerging from the depths of the soul drowns all its will to resist, and can only Watching the abyss swallow me up, decompose, and dissolve...

But the void did not completely wipe out its self-awareness as imagined.

After the soul was dragged into the void, the Lifeshaper Queen felt that it was disconnected from the Hive Mind. The hunger signal that echoed eternally in its consciousness stopped. It seemed that... it had gained the right to think freely.

What kind of terrifying experience was that for the Zerg?

The life-shaping insect queen can feel extremely clearly that her entire soul is wrapped in nothingness and may be erased at any time. Like a weak mouse caught in a cat's mouth, the hunter can bite off its cervical vertebrae with just a little force of its mandible.

But the bite that took its life was never taken. Its consciousness was wrapped tenderly in the nothingness deep in the hole, and its life continued to hang on by a thread.

The cat held the mouse in its mouth and observed its fear with interest.

"I'll give you two choices."

Russell's voice sounded directly from the depths of the Insect Queen's consciousness.

"Either I completely erase the concept of your existence and leave only a body to feed another insect, but that is a bit of a loss for me - after all, there is a large amount of precious genetic data stored in your consciousness, scattered among the stars. The Genestealers among them have other uses for me, too."

"Either you surrender all your will, be completely controlled by me from now on, and spend your whole life serving your new master with everything you have. In that case, I can allow you to survive and eat the one you should have eaten. Get rid of your bugs..."

"So? Make your choice."

His words fell, and the silence of the past returned to the hollow.

If you want to talk about Russell's own side, he is actually more inclined to the Tyranids. Every life-shaper queen is a master of strategy and genetic engineering. They will quickly analyze the weaknesses and produce corresponding weapons based on the enemy's information. Corresponding targeted units consume the least amount of biomass to win the greatest victory.

The extremely sophisticated gene editing technology will be of great help to Russell's future plans.

But only if you can make it surrender.

The Life-Shaper Queen was still at a loss as it was suddenly freed from the control of the Hive Will, but at the same time, it knew the existence of the Thorin Protozoa due to its spiritual communication with Russell.

All kinds of information flowed into the mind along the psychic link. Gradually, endless greedy desires surged deep in the Queen's consciousness, just like when she first felt Bao's signal.

This is not a very difficult choice, especially for the Great Devourer who lives by devouring and evolving. Endless greed superimposed with endless fear drives the Lifeshaper Queen to humbly stretch her consciousness and let the terrifying nothingness permeate every inch of her soul.

When the Queen's will completely surrendered, all the memories of the Hive Fleet were like an open book for Russell to read, and he knew its name:

[Hive Fleet-Coroniai]

As a result, Russell successfully snatched away the life-shaping insect queen named "Coroniai" from the control of the Hive Mind.

In the cavity of the biological mothership in the real universe, the nanomachines transformed by Gray Wind have also dug out the lower body of the insect queen that was deeply rooted in the mothership.

This is not a hard job, but it is just that while digging and caring about Russell's safety, Gray Wind is always tense. As a result, nothing has happened until now, and it begins to feel that its worries are unfounded.

Then it saw the Life Shaper, which had been motionless and at its mercy, and opened all six of its eyes, emitting a faint glow in the darkness.

Gray Wind immediately reacted and activated all weapons to prepare for battle, but then Russell stopped it:

"Don't attack, Gray Wind. Koroniai is already under my control."

"Huh?" Gray Feng was a little confused and locked the sensor on the big bug that the marshal called Koroniai.

But I saw its six eyes drooped down, and the six jointed limbs of its upper body also hung down humbly. Its ferocious mouthparts spit out a hoarse voice that sounded like it came from hell:

"--Owner."

"Huh? Who did you call master?" Gray Feng was even more confused.

"Call me." Russell said, and walked forward slowly under Gray Wind's nervous gaze, and came to the front of Coroniai, Queen of the Life-shaping Insects.

He raised a hand, and in the palm of his hand lay a clear crystal only the size of a finger, with illusory mist flowing inside.

"Eat it," Russell said.

"Yes, Master..." Koroniai obediently lowered his head, its mouthparts opened, and a long, sticky tongue dripping with digestive juices protruded from its throat. It was carefully aimed at many energy arc generators. He stretched it out in front of Russell, rolled up the crystal in his palm with his tongue, and swallowed it into his stomach.

This is a fragment of the Zero Soul Stone, which serves as the medium for Russell's awakening of his psychic powers, and is conceptually connected to the void in the Warp.

When Koroniai swallowed this fragment and committed himself to nothingness, an unequal soul connection was established between one person and one insect.

This life-shaping queen, once dominated by the Hive Mind, became Russell's slave.

Then, it's time to go.

Although Russell claimed that he had completely dominated the insect queen Koroniai, Gray Wind still remained extremely vigilant. The nanomachine carefully installed the life-shaping insect queen on the rear of the battleship and left along the tunnel dug when it came. Inside the wreckage of the biological mothership.

While dragging the insect queen back to the gray goo mothership, Gray Feng kept confirming with Russell whether the complete control he said was reliable and whether there were any risks. On the hangar of the Gray Goo mothership.

Even during the process of taking Koroniai into the warehouse where the Thorin protozoa was imprisoned, the weapon system of the Gray Goo mothership was always locked on the life-shaping insect queen that originally belonged to the Tyranid, ensuring that if something unexpected happened, it could be Blast him to pieces as quickly as possible.

But until the end, none of what Gray Feng was worried about happened.

Koroniai was as obedient as a tamed lamb along the way. He allowed Russell to move him around without any resistance. He even didn't dare to cry out in pain when his head was accidentally hit by the door frame.

Until they crossed the gate and walked into the largest warehouse in the Gray Gu mothership, and the Thorin Protozoan Queen, who was imprisoned in mid-air by countless position generators, appeared in front of them, Koroniai, who had always behaved meekly and docile, appeared in front of them. Suddenly he seemed excited.

"Master, Master, I'm so hungry...I want to eat, eat it...Master, I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry...Master."

Koroniai's almost hysterical madness made Gray Wind's energy arc generator almost misfire. Its voice trembled and entered Russell's mind, full of longing and pleading.