Resurrection Empire

The sublimated ones chose to evolve biologically. This is a shortcut that can easily change the level of civilization and continue to advance without any difficulty.

But if you take shortcuts, you have to bear the price of taking shortcuts.

The simplest way to deal with living things is to fight fire with fire and destroy them using biological methods.

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Rabies is the most terrifying virus that humans have encountered in the entire history of civilization in the 21st century.

This virus is a natural enemy of mankind.

Even though human beings have an immune system comparable to precision instruments, they are still overwhelmed by viruses the size of peas.

It is so terrible that humans turn pale when talking about it.

But from the perspective of some biological classifications, it is not even a living thing at all.

It relies on the simplest five sets of genes with five core functions of infection, escape, transfer, reproduction and repetition. It can survive under the strict defense of the human immune system and be invincible.

Even in the middle of the 21st century, when medical science and technology were so advanced that even cancer was conquered, humans on Earth have not yet found a way to treat rabies patients after the onset of the disease.

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I don't know when it started. Bai Long often felt drowsy and felt a little lethargic.

It's incredible.

As a noble first-class queen, Bailong can be said to be an existence above the pinnacle of evolution.

It never gets sick, and even if there are occasional abnormalities in its body, Bailong's super immune system can easily eliminate the hidden dangers.

The Mother Emperor Ship is a master of biological evolution and has the ability to compile genes on its own. I really can't imagine any disease that can deal with it.

As we all know, among the entire Ascendant Queen Ship sequence, there are only a handful of them with obvious personalities, such as the Hundred Emperors.

Baihuang's lethargy is famous. In order to be lazy, the former war queen even evolved ten auxiliary brains to help her complete basic tasks. Now she has paid the price and has become a joke.

But this is not the case for Bailong. As a new-generation War Queen who has just advanced for less than 100,000 years, she still has great ambitions and needs to accumulate meritorious deeds. She cannot sleep on her merits like the Hundred Emperors.

Bailong knew something was wrong, and he checked himself again and again, but found nothing.

It failed to detect any abnormalities in the body, and also adjusted the load of the immune system to the highest level, but found nothing.

Nearly half a month passed, and Bai Long finally found something wrong.

The one that fell first was not itself, but the relatively small low-level space life forms in the army of proliferating bodies guarding it.

In fact, the Ascendants did not completely follow the evolutionary path of silicon-based life. Ascended creatures capable of spacewalking usually have a composite body structure.

For example, the stinger has a silicon-based outer shell that is solid and has excellent sealing properties. This silicon-based shell can effectively prevent the leakage of air and liquid, allowing the stinger to form a self-circulating ecosystem and maintain stability.

At the seams of the silicon-based shell, there are flexible alloys with a semi-biological and semi-mechanical structure composed of pipes and tendons, with blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, neural networks and other structures inside.

At the same time, there is a backpack-like honeycomb structure on the back of the stinger. The honeycomb structure is also covered by a fully sealed silicone carapace, and the interior is filled with liquid and a fine network of tubes. A large number of chloroplasts with ultra-high activity and ultra-high efficiency are densely distributed on the fine tube network, which can convert carbon dioxide and water into organic matter and oxygen.

If in an area with abundant radiant energy, the chloroplasts will rely on the outermost photovoltaic layer of the silicon-based carapace to absorb external radiant energy to complete the conversion to improve battery life. If it is in an area far away from the star that lacks radiation energy, the energy supply mainly relies on the reserve energy in the body. When the reserve energy is exhausted, additional supplies are needed. Supply methods include passive supply and active supply. Passive replenishment is a bit like aerial tankers refueling fighter jets in the 21st century, while active replenishment is biological-style eating.

In short, although the stinger is small, it is actually a complete semi-closed ecosystem.

The same goes for other space creatures. There are production organs, consumption organs, decomposition organs, and silicon-based organs used to seal off the outside world. They also have complex neural networks, which are composed of two systems: electrical conduction and biological neurotransmitter conduction. .

Like the rabies virus, the half-energy, half-material dust virus developed by the Chifeng Institute of Biology has dual characteristics. It can easily penetrate the force field shields of most sublimates with its weird energy state like neutrinos. When the silicon-based carapace hits the microelectric signal inside the nerve, it will be excited and converted into a material state. It will re-polymerize into an olive-shaped virus prototype inside the neuron cell, and then attach to the dynein. It drives dynein forward like a mecha, until it enters the nucleus of the nearest neuron and then stops there.

Next, it deceives the cell nucleus, then reproduces, transfers again, deceives the cell nucleus again, reproduces again, and so on. There will be some links to deceive the immune system.

This entire infection process is highly similar to the process of rabies virus expansion in the human body, and its process of deceiving the immune system is almost exactly the same.

But compared to the rabies virus, this space dust virus has an additional energy state and an additional camouflage gene targeting the core gene fragment of the sublime.

Although sublimated people were once native humans, in order to obtain a larger body and to break the carbon-based upper limit on the path of biological evolution, all sublimated people have an extra fragment in their huge genetic sequence.

It is this fragment that allows the cells of the sublime to have unlimited telomeres and unlimited proliferation capabilities, and can also splice and embed the characteristics of silicon-based life. It is somewhat similar to the immortal gene of Ren Zhong, but it is fundamentally different.

In short, the current Ascendants have no antibodies against this new virus, which is like a natural enemy.

When Bailong observed the characteristics of the out-of-control proliferators, such as photophobia, drowsiness, hydrophobia, neuronal volume expansion, etc., he realized with horror that this might be some kind of virus, but it was already too late.

He immediately reported the situation to the other nineteen first-class queens and one hundred starry sky beasts in the joint expeditionary force, and then he discovered to his horror that this was not an endogenous virus, but an infection from the outside. of viruses.

If it is an endogenous virus, the worst case scenario would be to self-destruct and be done with it.

Death is terrible, but if it is done in service to the Ascended, it is honorable and well worth it.

But the current situation is that except for the double-eyed beast that should have taken the blame and acted as a feint, all the other queens and starry sky beasts, including the low-level proliferating offspring below, have not been spared, and the infection progress of everyone is very close. The fact that the smaller, lower-level proliferators developed the disease first showed that the virus was not mutated and generated in the body of a certain individual, but came from the outside world and infected all the sublimated people at almost the same time.

As a result, almost all the first-class empresses were trying to sort out the information and send it to the outside world to warn the entire Ascended people. At the same time, they quickly showed off their magical powers, trying to actively mobilize the immune system, produce targeted antibodies, and determine a treatment plan.

You won’t know if you don’t check. If you check, you will be shocked.

It turns out that the virus spread extremely fast. In just half a month, it spread along the neural network to all parts of the Imperial Mother Ship, and even invaded the vast majority of the brain structure of all Imperial Mother Ships. Among neuronal nuclei, the severe infection rate exceeds 95%.

This means that even the Mother Queen cannot treat these cells back, and can only make the immune system work abnormally to kill these infected cells.

But if 95% of the neurons are killed at the same time, especially the brain neurons, even the first-class empress will lose most of her memory and fall into a long-term state of dementia, which will take tens of thousands of years to recover from. .

But the current situation is that the United Expeditionary Force is only three light years away from the Red Front Legion's station. The handover is due in the near future, and the many mother-imperial ships and starry sky beasts have no chance to rest in peace.

There can be no more hesitation and a solution must be found as soon as possible.

As time went by, this new terrible virus was still multiplying rapidly, and even the first-class Queen Mother clearly noticed that her thinking was becoming slow.

Some mothers suggested that the ambush should be decisively abandoned and evacuated quietly.

As for the double-eyed beast whose whereabouts have been exposed, its mission naturally changes to attracting firepower to other queens.

At this moment, Bai Long, who was the first to try to send information to the outside world, gave a brand new bad news.

It suddenly sensed that serious information flow storms were erupting in the surrounding area.

This storm came suddenly, and it was obvious that someone was detonating ultra-high-yield and extremely targeted information flow interference bombs one after another.

Their information can no longer be transmitted.

This is not the end.

"Before the information flow storm appeared, I once took the initiative to briefly scan the situation at the Red Front Legion station. I found that they were mobilizing on a large scale and shrinking towards the center. Then the Red Front Legion ships near the center would be in three dimensions. The sudden disappearance in the space clearly indicates that it has entered the warp subspace passage."

Where the Red Front Army is going and what it is going to do is simply self-evident.

At this time, Bai Long waited for the Queen Mother to finally get rid of the interference of the dust virus and recognize the reality.

In the words of one of the first-class Queen Mothers, it was "Fell into a trap! Ambushed!"

The United Expeditionary Force had prepared an ambush plan for many years, but it was completely self-inflicted. It was unbelievable, but it had become an established fact.

The distance between here and the Red Front Legion's station is only three light years. If the other party has built a warp subspace passage all the way, it will only take 0.3 years to arrive.

Under the current situation, although the Joint Expeditionary Force has a strength advantage, everyone is "seriously ill" and has no time to take care of themselves, let alone fighting.

"Escape! Scatter and escape!"

Bo Long shouted.

This is the only option.

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At such a critical moment, Baihuang was still sleeping, leaving only two specialized auxiliary brains and Shi Lin to "fight fiercely".

Mainly because Baihuang counted the days and thought that it would take another six or seven years at the earliest before the United Expeditionary Force and the Red Front Legion would come into direct contact. He was just wasting his life by being awake like this.

Since Shi Lin wasn't going to leave anyway, there was nothing he could do about it, so why not entrust it to the assistant brain and just hang up and troll people to finish the job.

Baihuang thought to himself, if he wakes up a year early and tells Shilin that I didn't bother at all and was just playing around with you, he will definitely drive this guy crazy and make him lose money.

So, Shi Lin stayed until the end before leaving.

Of course, Baihuang eventually woke up early.

As Shi Lin entered the warping subspace channel, the relative distance between him and Baihuang continued to widen, and the intensity of the information directly connected to the spirit continued to weaken. Baihuang's auxiliary brain gradually became aware of this "signal abnormality", and when the abnormality exceeded After a certain limit, a warning is given to the main brain, triggering a situation of early awakening.

After Baihuang woke up, he looked at the empty and barren universe around him and felt a little dazed for a while.

Fuck! Heck, where are the people? Where have they all gone?

When the Red Front Legion was stationed here, this star field was extremely prosperous. In addition to the 100,000 planetary ships floating in the sky regularly, there were also a large number of ships flying back and forth, so busy that they never touched the ground.

There are also a large number of starry sky heavy artillery aimed at Baihuang around the clock, threatening the "captive" at all times, making Baihuang extremely uncomfortable.

But now the building suddenly became empty, leaving Baihuang at a loss of ideas.

He didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed.

At this moment, Baihuang picked up an information ball left by Shi Lin in the vacuum.

"We're off to meet the United Expeditionary Force. You're free."

"Idiots! They are all madmen! Are you going to die?"

Bai Huang was slightly angry at first.

He had been persuading Shilin for so long, but not only was it a waste of time, but he didn't expect that things would change again when he woke up.

"Bah! What kind of freedom is this! It hasn't even been a thousand years yet. I am an authentic and powerful first-class mother queen. I am still sleeping and have no power to resist. You actually treat me like this? Oh, why don't you just leave a mother queen here and walk away? What do you mean? Who are you looking down on? No dog wants the freedom to give alms!"

Baihuang continued to curse.

But as it scolded, it felt something was wrong.

It feels like it is sick. Anyway, this is a good thing!

This is a great opportunity to get away!

"Wait, something's wrong. As the Mother Queen, since there is a war, I can't just sit back and watch. I have to go to the war!"

As a result, Baihuang cheered up and hurried to the rear of the original legion's station.

"Hundred Emperors! Don't go! Run away!"

Just as Baihuang flew back a short distance, he received intermittently information about the double-eyed beast.

But this information is very vague and cannot be heard clearly. If Baihuang's decompilation ability was not stronger than that of ordinary Queen Mother, he would not be able to understand it at all.

Obviously, the interference in this nearby area is very serious. If the distance is further away, the information about the double-eyed beast will not be recognized.

Baihuang asked reluctantly: "No, what is the situation?"

Double-Eyed Beast: "I don't know for sure. I only know that the other Queen Mothers are probably sick."

Baihuang: "Sick? What disease?"