A worthy death

Della's consciousness can span the vast sea of ​​​​stars and travel across tens of thousands of light-years in an instant, achieving communication with almost no delay at both ends.

This ability comes from the genes inherited from the Ether Dragon; although the Ether Dragon has an almost endless lifespan of tens of billions of years, it has survived the collapse of the old universe when it died and the grand explosion of the singularity when the world was born.

It is an almost perfect creature, but it also has the need to reproduce.

It will give birth to young dragons, and the young dragons will go to every corner of this sea of ​​​​stars after growing to a certain extent and slowly grow on their own; the old dragon can project his consciousness onto the young dragon anytime and anywhere, which also means

The old dragon can have a panoramic view of the entire galaxy and even the entire universe without leaving home.

Eternal life achieved by constantly taking away offspring is also a kind of eternal life. Ether Dragon obviously does not have any moral pressure in this regard.

Different from the hive consciousness of the insect swarm, the ether dragon can only maintain one consciousness from beginning to end. After taking away the offspring, it means that it needs to temporarily give up control of the old body.

But Della doesn't do that.

She possesses dragon genes and is also an insect girl; her hive consciousness instinct allows her to control Gary's body while allowing her body in the Star Sea Alliance to continue to listen attentively in the tutor's class.

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Della is still a little unskilled in the projection of consciousness.

She stood up unsteadily, trying to reach the peak and bend down politely, but halfway up she could only hold on to the bed where Gary was lying before, and smiled faintly:

"Ah! Sorry, Miss Feng, I'm still a little unskilled. The distance between my two bodies is a bit too far this time, and the time on both sides is different!"

"Just stand firm, or in other words, just cherish the body of your tribe. After all, Gary and I are acquaintances. If its body is used as a pure tool by you, I will be a little sad,"

Feng looked at Della and joked:

"You are His Majesty's princess, please don't complain to your old father about my rudeness."

Della shook her head quickly: "No, no, this has nothing to do with dad... Ah, if I shake my head too fast, will it be regarded by you as not cherishing the body of the tribe?"

"Of course not."

Feng's projection also shook its head, and the frequency was deliberately close to Della's. For a moment, the two heads shook their heads toward each other, like two tireless windmills.

Then, Feng began to adjust the structure nearby, making preparations for Della to enter the universe later.

The place where Gary was lying before was a special launch site, which was established under the guidance of Gou Yisu. It is a facility that allows small-mass objects to move in and out quickly within and outside the compressed galaxy.

Speaking of which, Gou Yishuo has been fishing in the compressed galaxy since he found it and sent Marika away.

He has no natural deity at all. He is often picky about the food provided in the cafeteria, and will appear in unexpected corners at any time to stare at the sky or the ceiling in a daze.

This made everyone tremble with fear before sitting down, making sure again and again that Gou Yixuan's silly face looking up at the sky would not suddenly appear on the chair.

Even so, the facilities he built with the power of the natural gods are indeed easy to use. The fleet of aircraft produced by Xiao Hui in the compressed galaxy was also quickly launched into the battlefield facing the Thorin protozoa through these fast-in and fast-out facilities.

Feng is still preparing.

However, Della walked slowly behind it and hesitated for a few seconds before making up her mind and speaking:

"Miss Feng, how can you cherish your own tribe? I am using Gary's body now, and I also know that the next process of capturing the protozoa queen will be extremely dangerous. Wanting to ensure that this body is unscathed is... right? Possible."

Feng made a new projection and stood next to Chong Niang: "Are you afraid of the tribe's sacrifice?"

"... I can only say that I am mentally prepared, at least what I think is mentally prepared. I will keep the relics of each sacrificed tribe, and I will not erase their memories, never."

The price is that the relics of the dead insect people tend to pile up like mountains. Fortunately, the space in the compressed galaxy is large enough, so it won't be full anyway.

Feng listened, raised his eyes, and looked at Della's face carefully: "This is enough. Even in the bright and starry sea of ​​​​the past, I shouldn't expect you to do more."

Della pursed her lips: "Miss Feng, I heard that the sea of ​​​​light and stars where you come from can unite all races in the galaxy. What is the state of the insect people there?"

"How should I put it? What unites the other races is the collective hive consciousness of the insect people, and the individual insect people are just cells of the hive consciousness. When you make friends with others, you don't take the other person's cells into consideration, right? "

Della nodded dully.

Feng's projection rested on her shoulder: "You are one of the most special queens I have ever seen. You will take your people so seriously. Considering the genes and abilities you possess, you may not be able to do this." One' can also be removed;"

"And, according to what Your Majesty believes, any civilization or ethnic group living in this sea of ​​​​stars cannot be wrong in adopting any kind of survival style; so I cannot give you advice that will affect the tribe you created for the next thousands or even thousands of people. The responsibility of tens of thousands of years of civilization is too heavy for me to bear."

Della patted her face: "But the question you asked Gary is very practical! If I seize the protozoa queen and gain control of the Thorin protozoa swarm, how can I ensure that I can cherish the changes I made before?" Are there any weak tribes?"

The topic has returned to its original point.

Feng's projection on Della's shoulder did not move away: "Della, do you remember them and keep their relics, but still feel that you have not done enough?"

"Not enough!" Della shook her head decisively: "It is better to say that I have done too little. I don't know what kind of price I can pay in exchange for their lives; remembering them and leaving their relics are obviously just basic things. internal affairs;"

"What about the others? Give them some medals of honor plated with precious metals? But I have personally seen countless medals sold as garbage in the Star Sea Alliance. Medals with numbers and stories will be more expensive. I bought one to hang as a decoration. On the schoolbag...ah! Don’t tell my dad about this;"

"Or give them property as a pension? Most pensions are given to family members, but my tribe is already a family member to each other. I am the parent who told them to die. In the end, is it me who gives the pension to me? Own?!"

The insect girl hugged her head and was very distressed: "I really hope that I can be more bossy like other masters of the hive consciousness, so that I can relax and my tribe will not be confused. Everything will be left to genes and instincts." How convenient?”

Said.

The facility suddenly flashed with light, and the passage for fast in and out was about to open; Xiao Hui commissioned the factory to work overtime to produce a fleet of machines that gathered together, preparing to enter space with Della.

Della pursed her lips.

It is true that she confided in her heart just now that she values ​​Gary's body, but the Insect Queen will never lose sight of the importance. Of course, the Insect Queen will do her best to seize the body of the Protozoa Queen.

The flying speed of the fleet is accelerating, and Xiao Hui outside is gradually increasing the signal strength to communicate with the fleet——

Strong acid may follow the signal and invade into the compressed galaxy, but if no signal is established at all, it will be impossible to contact Della to come out of the compressed galaxy to fight for the body. Xiao Hui needs to grasp the delicate balance between this.

It's just that it's much easier than imagined.

After the protozoa that first arrived at the library civilization were reduced in activity due to the efforts of Jinmian and Wolfe, the planetary bodies also became lethargic. Although they were still attacking by instinct, their attack movements were so slow and no longer as before.

They also show more and more diverse abilities as the distance approaches.

It's time.

The fleet around Della received the strongest signal so far, and directly transformed into a sword-like landing cabin next to the insect girl.

The insect lady exhaled softly and climbed aboard; the main body on the Star Sea Alliance side also found a comfortable nest, and she would focus all her attention here.

soon.

The facility was activated, and a deep hole appeared in the space above that connected to the outside world; the aircraft fleet that did not form the landing module were pulled out of the hole together with the wind that had no time to escape. Della's body shook and she tried her best to stand still.

The interior of the compressed galaxy can be regarded as another world. The breach connecting the inside and outside of it not only creates a vent due to the difference in atmospheric pressure, but also has energy from the void depositing silt around the breach, making Della feel like she is about to throw herself into a giant beast.

mouth.

The projection of the peak is swaying a little below the break, as if this space does not even allow light to continue to propagate stably.

The landing cabin was slowly suspended in the air, and Feng kept looking at Della's face. If the insect girl felt something, she turned around and showed a bright smile, although she was still confused.

In an instant, Feng felt as if a part of his heart had been sunk; he was laughing at himself, wondering whether he had been the parent of a curator's descendant for too long recently, and had changed a lot.

Although he was laughing at himself, the words had already blurted out from Feng's mouth:

"I think at least Gary is not afraid of death. What he is afraid of is not dying well!"

A worthy death?

Della couldn't understand this sentence for a moment, and suddenly she had boarded the landing capsule and arrived in the universe shrouded in green.

…

Zuo Wu kept squeezing the compressed Milky Way, and his palms were all sweaty.

The protozoan celestial body was already very close, and the long defense line built by Xiao Hui was captured and bent by the gravitational force generated by the celestial body, covering the sky like a fishing net.

The celestial body was also in the drowsiness at this moment, and began the most violent counterattack it could make based on instinct, but it was just a crazy struggle without consciousness and logic——

The celestial body is squeezing itself, squeezing out all the strong acid in the bodies of all individual protozoa, like a sponge that can compress itself, but what is being squeezed out is not water, but a jet of acid explosion.

Relying on the high pressure generated by the compression, the acid explosion jet becomes a water jet that can cut everything into pieces based on the kinetic energy of the jet alone. The barrier formed by countless jets wants to blow away everything that comes close to it.

During the extrusion, the celestial body is also gradually shrinking due to the loss of water. Since each protozoan individual has an alien body like a brain cell, the current celestial body is like being opened by someone, and is gradually shrinking and drying into a small one under the sun.

The brain of the group.

Soon, all the protozoa on the surface of the celestial body were the first to have all the strong acid in their bodies squeezed out. After their lifeless bodies were shattered into pieces, they were pushed tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of miles away from the surface of the celestial body by the acid blast jets that followed.

Meters high in the sky.

The fragments of the protozoa are really like meteorites moving at high speed. Combined with the acid blast jet, they can almost penetrate the defense line of the small ash that surrounds the protozoa's celestial body.

Della's landing module emerged from the compressed galaxy at this time, and was almost carried away by the remains of the protozoa thrown out with the acid blast jet.

Fortunately, Zuo Wuyan quickly grabbed him in the landing cabin, inhaled, and pulled off a broken insect eye that fell on his face. He had no time to say any more words, so he could only shout to Della: "Della, you can feel it.

Where is the Queen of Protozoa?!"

Della turned her head and pursed her lips: "It should be in the center of the celestial body... I think it is in the center of the celestial body. As a queen, she must be guarded by the tribe in the safest place!"

The center of the celestial body.

Zuo Wu looked down and saw that he was stepping on the starship that Xiao Hui had transformed into, heading towards the celestial body quickly against the acid burst jet.

Time is still very tight, because Jin Mian and the others only used the Creation God Prototype to temporarily suppress the consciousness of the protozoa on the ground. If the distance between the celestial body and the ground continues to get closer, the celestial body will still get rid of its drowsiness and wake up again.

Also, although Zuo Wu can absorb the impact of the acid blast jet on Xiao Hui and the landing module, the defense line surrounding the celestial body like a fishing net cannot.

The defense line was being eroded rapidly by the acid explosion. If the celestial body had not temporarily lost consciousness in the coma, causing the acid explosion to lose the ability to change the "recipe" according to the eroding object, the defense line would have been completely corroded long ago.
To be continued...