Chapter 62 The Pretender
"Welcome back, Commander." Shuer entered the control room alone and left everyone outside. Even Friesen, who had been sneaking all year round, was called out by him to make sure that he did not hide in the control room in advance. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the artificial intelligence greeted by the military salute, "Wei is at your discretion, Your Excellency."
"Lock the door and always observe the situation of several doors around you. If someone tries to eavesdrop, he will report to me immediately." Shuer ordered with a gloomy face, "I will start to show the records I have said, mainly Mia's records, her facial expressions, and overall body language. I will read them all."
"Yes, yourselves." Wei would never ask the commander why, and cooperated to release the three-dimensional image of the past period.
"I just heard a very ominous noun." There are two images, one is Mia's three-dimensional image from beginning to end, and the other is enlarged. Her synchronized facial expressions. Xiu'er stared at the image without turning his eyes and said thoughtfully, "I heard the master of the Soul Clan mention a kind of insect called the disguiser. Do you have any impression of this insect?"
"Yes, the disguiser is the name of the Zerg. The soul clan has no record of its name memory bank. It may also be called the disguiser, but we usually call them brain-controlling insects."
"Explain it in detail."
"The data in the local database is not comprehensive, only basic introduction."
"It's okay, wait, stop here, well, it's okay, keep showing the image." Shure's eyebrows were already shrunk, "This name sounds more ominous than the disguiser. Please tell me as much information as you have about it."
"Brain-controlling insects are a unique parasitic branch of the Zerg. They have no attack ability and have almost zero defense ability. Commander, please see, this is their child image, very similar to a parasite called tapeworm on the parent star."
"Yeah." Shuer nodded, "Continue."
"The method of brain-controlling worms to parasitize the human body is still unknown. It may be infected through direct contact with wounds or skin, but special cases of indirect infection have also occurred. They prefer weak individuals. The better the physical fitness, the lower the possibility of parasitization. No examples of warriors above level B are found so far."
"It's this rating again," Shuer asked, "It's up to you to judge, what are the eight of us? You know who I mean."
"Your Excellency and your colleagues should be classified as the middle A-level section, and there is still a certain gap between the S-level elites." Obviously, Wei has made a distinction between the thirty-four people in the base, "The 15 soldiers have rated one B-level, and the others are C-level."
"The oldest and seriously injured one is B-level, I think so. In other words, except for the eight of us, everyone else may be parasitized?" Shuer nodded slowly, "What are the consequences after parasitization?"
"The mother of the brain-controlling worm always stays in the mother nest of the swarm, and the daughter parasitizes in the organisms. It can occupy the victim's brain in a very short time, absorb all the victim's memories, and control the victim's actions, use the victim's body to lurk in the ethnic groups of other organisms, waiting for an opportunity to expand the range of parasitics."
"Ha, sure enough, it's almost the same as what I'm worried about." Xiuer knocked on his thigh and said, "Is there any way to find out?"
"The soul race has a way to discover parasites through mental body scanning, but our technological direction is more physical, and it is difficult to detect the existence of brain-controlling worms, even if the craniotomy is opened. The larvae will temporarily hibernate until the victim enters a deep sleep state, the larvae will regain activity, anesthetize the host and quickly swallow the host's brain, while absorbing the host's memory. When we wake up the next day, the larvae have completely replaced the host's original brain, and there is no difference between the appearance of the brain. Only by performing destructive behavior on the brain can the stress behavior of brain-controlling worms be triggered. However, if the test results are negative or positive, the subject will die in brain, and there is no meaning to detect."
"Can the Soul Clan scan? They can even control the Soul Clan?"
"No, the soul clan is pure spiritual bodies, and they cannot control it."
"Ha, the affected races cannot find them, and the races that can be discovered are not afraid of them, which is really ironic." Shul sighed and shook his head, "It's a very troublesome bug. Is there any way to identify the person being controlled?"
"Our clan has not found a feasible method so far, but it can be used to borrow the scanning equipment of the soul clan for verification. However, it is necessary to return to the main base of the K45 galaxy to perform."
“Where is the daily behavior observation?”
"The brain-controlling worm absorbs host memory and not only masters all the knowledge in the host's brain, but also imitates all the host's daily habits. Unless an individual who is very familiar with the host, the chance of being able to observe an abnormality is less than one in ten thousand. It is not recommended that the commander waste time on this matter at this stage, and there is no practical significance."
"Wei, there are actually some methods that cannot be explained routinely, and maybe we can find problems."
Artificial intelligence does not say a word, and obviously cannot understand what methods cannot be interpreted routinely.
"Ha, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Wei, can I let my voice be heard outside so that everyone can hear it?"
"Yes, Commander, it's ready now."
Shuer nodded, closed his eyes and remained silent for a moment, as if he had made up some decision. Through the entire station broadcast, he summoned the other seven high-level mercenaries into the control room. Several people actually came in at the same time, including Yuli and Friesen. After Shuer entered the control room alone, everyone felt that the atmosphere was different and they simply gathered together.
"I'll tell you something first, Moria has probably guessed. Today we learned about a parasite, called the disguise, which can control the body of the host and disguise as the host for any activities." Shuer still closed his eyes and said no one looked at it. "The disguise is dominated by the queen of the swarm. Once there is any abnormal movement, it will pose a great threat to us. In order to eliminate the unstable factors in advance, I decided to organize a commando team to break into the swarm's mother nest for the beheading mission, and directly eliminate the swarm's queen."
This guy is crazy, this is everyone's most direct idea.
In just a few minutes, Moria had roughly explained the information about the insect nests observed today. The vast number of insects and the overwhelming number can only be described as horror and despair.
Indeed, everyone is a golden-level powerful man. Among the bugs found so far, there are not ones that can hurt the eight people here, but the number can sometimes be transformed into mass, and the number is too large to a certain extent. Unless like a demigod, half a foot into the sacred realm, even the most powerful individuals will have a headache. Just like today, both of them can destroy groups of insects at will, but in the end they are chased by the insects and flee in a hurry.
So, beheading? Stop making trouble, just send it to the door and let others behead them.
However, although most people think similarly, no one directly said it. Everyone is familiar with it, but professional qualities cannot be thrown away. During the battle meeting, the captain proposed a plan. Even if he had any opinions, he had to wait until the plan was explained and entered the discussion before he proposed it. Otherwise, it would not be called a meeting but a quarrel. Therefore, everyone remained silent and waited for Shuer to continue explaining.
However, Shuer still closed his eyes, as if he was asleep. As time passed, the atmosphere in the control room gradually became strange.
"It's almost OK." The expressionless mountain elf suddenly asked with a sneer, "Have we found the problem?"
"Ha, congratulations to everyone, they are still themselves, they haven't turned into insects, well, that's the case." Shuer opened his eyes and smiled, "Okay, I admit that my plan just now was nonsense."
"Sensing hostility?" Lin Jing reacted the second time, "This is a way. The disguiser does not have only instinct like other insects. Since it can be disguised as we are not discovered yet, it must have thoughts. We will not regard an idiot who acts on instinct as our own. Even if the insect itself has no thoughts, the manipulator behind it must have the queen of the swarm. The brain-controlling worm is equivalent to an extension of its consciousness, and its hostility will be transmitted through the brain-controlling worm."
"No wonder you said you were raiding the Zerg Queen." Militi said thoughtfully, "Indeed, if it were me, I would have become hostile when I heard someone intend to rush in and kill me."
"So, the result is normal?" Mia asked with a stern face, "Didn't you find anyone trying to kill you?"
"Ha, there will be more or less hostility between any two people, but it is just strong or not," Shuer said slowly, "and the magic of perceived hostility can only warn the hostility around him and distinguish the general direction. As for who released the hostility, it is difficult to judge unless there is only one person around him."
"The results of the test just now are still within acceptable range. Except for three people who want to beat me up. The idiot with a sinister face holding a rose, and Militi, put away the bone whip. I know you are one, who is there, who is the other one? I stand up and admit it myself, wow, why has it become five, and the hostility is getting stronger and stronger, you must have been accused of parasitizing brainworms. Hey, it has become seven. Do you guys want to murder the captain?"
In fact, it is impossible to perceive hostility so accurately. You can also tell who is at the level of being able to beat him up. This magic technique is just a rough judgment of hostility. Everyone knows this, so after Shuer said a few words, he knew that this bastard was talking nonsense again. Of course, you can't be polite to him at this time, just as you beat him to death first.
Of course, the reason for beating him to death was not because of nonsense, at least not all, but mainly because he suspected everyone present. It is understandable and admitted that this is the only way, but after all, he was suspicious for no reason, and everyone was somewhat unhappy. It seems like a small matter, but the serious problems in many teams are caused by small matters accumulated bit by bit. It is best to take the opportunity to vent it like this. Well, this is the reason why Shuer talks nonsense, not because he has a bad taste and wants to tease everyone. Yes, it is definitely not.
Fortunately, this is the control room, and the artificial intelligence Wei is still next to her. In order to avoid being suspected, everyone finally endured this tone and just waved their fists to the bastard to threaten.
"The joke is over. Since everyone has not been parasitized, let's talk about what they think later. I think we must leave within four days, and the mutant spider mother can only support us for four days at most. If we don't leave within four days, we can only stay here forever."
"Wei, can the scanning radar be ready tonight?"
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander."
Chapter completed!