Chapter 72 : Chapter 72

Chapter 72 : “Godzilla burping.”

Among the Zerg, there was a species known to humans as the "Spine Lasher."

They had sharp spines on their backs, which could become more compact when their body size was reduced.

The spines would also become denser and sharper, increasing their attack power.

When they expanded their body size, the spines would extend, forming a deterrent defensive barrier.

If they encountered a situation where the barrier was not wide enough, they would break their own endoskeletons to extend their bodies to the maximum extent.

Chu Zu was learning from them, retracting the sharp edges on his tail.

Similarly, he also learned the trick of breaking bones from them, because he had a cocoon and didn't have to worry about them not growing back together.

As for his appearance... it didn't matter.

He would look however he would look.

It wouldn't affect the plot.

If he was directly restored to his six-year-old self, then he would have to bite the bullet and pretend to have a baby face.

But the tail was indeed a big problem.

There was another Zerg species, the "Devourer."

Chu Zu recalled the characteristics of the "Devourer."

When hunting, they would approach their prey quietly by hiding their own characteristics, and then capture them with a surprise attack.

Their digestive system had an embedded nervous system that could quickly process digestive information and instantly control the shape and color of their exoskeleton to camouflage their biological characteristics.

Because humans had consciously tried their best to avoid close combat in the interstellar war, the "Devourer" had no room to play on the sun.

They were currently in a state of natural iteration and were being gradually eliminated by the Mother Bug.

He couldn't learn it.

Chu Zu couldn't just go and swallow a person to try it out.

Even if he did, simulating human biological characteristics probably wouldn't make the tail disappear.

“Can the tail grow back if I chop it off?”

Chu Zu asked the system in a regretful tone.

He quite liked this tail.

The system read the host's hesitation and answered very thoughtfully: “But you have no motive to chop off your tail.”

Chu Zu sighed: “I know. I'll only chop off the people who want to touch my tail. My mom personally installed this for me. Lu Anji was so envious that he vomited.”

Little Yellow Chicken: “...”

Just as Chu Zu was about to break his bones and enter the cocoon, he suddenly stopped, deep in thought.

The system asked him in a low voice what was wrong.

Chu Zu shook his head with a chuckle: “I've been influenced by the King of All Kings.”

The system was slightly bewildered.

“I don’t need to think about how to sneak into the academy.”

To save energy, the gravity simulation device in the cabin was not turned on.

Chu Zu hooked his tail on the side railing and pulled himself onto the seat.

He had gradually adapted to the low gravity and low temperature, and his speed was incredibly fast.

“I’ve supplemented four settings. The first two have been basically fully realized, and the last two have some slight deviations.”

Chu Zu said.

Azul was transformed into a structure similar to a worker Zerg.

The Mother Bug had transformed him into a more complex biological organism.

Azul lived with the Zerg for many years, until Mother Bug thought the time was right and had him meet humans for the first time.

The Mother Bug had no concept of timing.

It was Azul who had slipped away on his own.

“The supplementary settings end here. I don't need to experience them any further.”

Chu Zu said, “In other words, we can go back to the main storyline.”

“...Oh, right.”

The system slapped its forehead.

It had completely forgotten that they were here to supplement the settings this time, not to sort out the background.

Once the settings were supplemented, what should take effect would naturally take effect, and the redundant plot would be automatically supplemented by the worldview.

The little yellow chicken was severely self-criticized.

It was originally its job to remind the host of the relevant rules, but the host was much clearer about it than it was.

Was this even right!

“Then I’ll end the retrospection. If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, tell me right away!”

Chu Zu was uncomfortable all over.

It wasn't the usual lethargy and fatigue in his head after a retrospection.

It was as if steel nails had been driven into his limbs.

His body, which was used to being flexible, was forcibly stiffened.

Every movement was painful.

It was so painful that he was numb.

Chu Zu retreated to the sea of consciousness and asked the system: “What part of the plot is this?”

The system quickly gave him a painkiller he had stocked up before: “It should be just after entering the academy…”

The painkiller took effect quickly.

Chu Zu felt it for a while.

Although he still felt a strong sense of exhaustion and numbness, it was much better than before.

“It can’t be my mom coming to teach me a lesson, right? What other plot could make me like this?”

System: “One moment, please. I’ll check right away!”

The little yellow chicken was very efficient.

It quickly sorted through the main storyline and projected the results into the sea of consciousness.

After leaving the sun, Azul’s frigate quickly ran out of energy.

In order to last until the next place he could land, Azul turned off all equipment except for the thrusters and the star chart.

But this frigate was an antique from who knows how many years ago.

The solar system had long since changed with the collapse of the sun into a white dwarf, and the protracted war between humans and the Zerg was also gradually changing the layout of the universe’s galaxies.

And so, Azul got lost.

With the ship's fuel about to run out and a lack of nutrients, Azul had to enter the cocoon.

He believed that if he was really going to "starve to death," his mother would definitely come and get him.

His mother could always find him wherever he was.

The ship’s navigation instruments flickered with a faint light.

As it passed through the interstellar dust, it was affected by gamma rays, and the electronic components of the power system short-circuited and temporarily shut down.

At that moment, the universe swallowed all light.

It was as if the lights had been turned off for Azul, who was entering the cocoon.

It wasn't the Mother Bug that found Azul, but the humans who were cleaning up the wreckage of the universe.

Azul’s frigate was a batch from over a hundred years ago, and it was too intact, making it stand out among the floating metal junk in space.

The investigating soldier carefully opened the ship and found the cocoon.

To this day, humans have never set foot on the sun, so naturally, they have never seen a Zerg nest.

But with a little bit of common sense, one could basically judge from the size and shape of this cocoon that it was not a product of humanity.

In the solar system, and close to Earth, what else could it be a product of?

The soldier immediately reported it to his reconnaissance ship.

The captain ordered that the cocoon be brought back immediately.

Through the layers of instructions from the human military, Azul was thus taken to the star ring closest to the wreckage of the universe.

“Transport to the Allied Military Academy Research Institute.”

Not only was it close, which could avoid any accidents along the way, but more importantly, it was equipped with complete research equipment.

The scientists at the research institute tried various methods but could not open this cocoon.

Whether it was a living cocoon or a dead shell, this was perhaps the closest humanity had ever come to studying the evolution of the Zerg.

For hundreds of years, they had been trying to analyze the Zerg’s gene sequence.

Why could the Mother Bug hatch Zerg with different appearances, organs, and practical functions?

The gene sequences extracted from the living Zerg were completely identical, almost clones.

There should be no difference in expression.

How did the Mother Bug do it?

This cocoon might be the breakthrough.

They were reluctant to destroy or dispose of it.

And the "gentle" high-temperature heat sources that were applied to the cocoon all became nutrients for the cocoon, and were then transferred into Azul’s body through internal conversion.

Finally reaching the threshold for awakening, Azul woke up, ravenous.

It was "night" on the star ring at that time, and there was only a yawning person on duty.

Just after waking up, Azul, who was acting on Zerg instincts, began to search for nearby "nutrients."

***

Chu Zu paused: “I didn't eat the person on duty, did I…”

System: “Humans might gnaw on people when they are starving, but Zerg won’t. Humans are not on their menu. They can eat them, but there's no nutrition.”

It said, “You were completely following your Zerg instincts and went and ate forty percent of the star ring’s reserve energy.”

Chu Zu: “...”

Chu Zu: “This doesn’t sound like a Zerg. It sounds like a new energy vehicle version of a Transformer gnawing on a power bank.”

“You don’t eat electricity. The star ring is powered by nuclear fusion, which is similar to the power supply on the sun.”

“Because they have lived on the sun for a long time, the Zerg have biologically evolved for dozens of generations and can gradually absorb energy from radioactive materials, but the conversion rate is not high… so you ate up 40% of the entire star ring’s energy at once.”

The system held the plot in its left claw and the settings in its right claw, its little chicken head swaying from side to side.

“The automatically completed setting says that it was also due to ingesting the ‘nutrients’ belonging to the Zerg that you finally grew a little from your original six-year-old appearance.”

The system said rigorously: “So to be precise, you’re not like a Transformer, you’re like a Godzilla who likes to burp in a nuclear reactor.”

Chu Zu: “...”

It would be better to be a Transformer.

At least it still belongs to the science fiction category.

***

The sudden loss of energy in the star ring caused a huge commotion.

Many pieces of equipment failed, the power supply was limited, and the artificial sun did not rise on time as scheduled.

At this time, Azul was like the worker Zerg that had been abandoned by the Mother Bug on the battlefield.

Even if there was no threat to their survival and their own condition was good, because they were cut off from the collective consciousness, and their bodies without a mind could not make their own judgments, the individual would soon die.

If Azul had been clear-headed enough, he would have known that this was just a "misdirection" from the Zerg genes.

He didn't have to pay any attention to it at all.

The collective consciousness had nothing to do with him in the first place.

He was still dazed.

In order to resist this kind of death, Azul began to search.

He found Lu Anji.

The Zerg genes recognized the interactive biological signal and thus "changed their mind," as if to say, you don't have to die.

“Lu Anji’s expression was extremely wonderful when he saw you. Just as you had speculated before, he didn’t dare to hand you over, couldn’t kill you, and couldn’t shake you off.”

The system said, “Lu Anji stuffed you into the new batch of war orphans received by the academy.”

This should have been impossible.

All the war orphans found in space would go through strict screening, physical examination, and aptitude tests.

Finally, the person and the list would be sent to the Allied Military Academy together.

Azul's "hunger" had messed everything up, giving Lu Anji an opportunity.

“The other plots are not too different from the original work. Lu Anji has been trying his best to hide the strangeness between you and him…”

Chu Zu: “Little Yellow Chicken, come, look me in the eye and say it again.”

System: “...There is no deviation on the surface.”

“The Allied Military Academy Research Institute is developing a coupling agent against the Zerg based on your cocoon.”

The little yellow chicken said, “The doctor in charge of Lu Anji also came to the academy's research institute. Every time Lu Anji goes to cooperate with the experiment, he will steal a little bit of the coupling agent and come back, tricking you into thinking it's a good thing, and then slap, inject it into you…”

Chu Zu chuckled: “He's giving me poison in batches, right in front of my face?”

The system nodded: “And then you feel uncomfortable and just tie him up and throw him to the ground. You used to do that often on the sun too.”

The little yellow chicken said, “You move your tail… Lu Anji is still hanging on your tail…”

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