Tarsonis, Federation Underground Research Institute.
Perhaps because research on plants and insects is a project of greater concern to the federation, their phased research results are not hung as grandly as Thor's design drawings, but are instead stored in storage media and locked in safes.
However, the problem is...the user wrote a note on the safe's password and stuck it on the door.
Do they want to keep it secret or not?
Arcturus took out the storage medium, cracked a not-so-smart security program with the reader provided by Swann, and began to view the contents.
In view of the explosion that occurred at the first site disguised as a chemical factory and almost all important data was destroyed, these peripheral research institutions can only speculate on the course of the incident based on the sporadic information they revealed and the development of the situation.
Arcturus worked hard to reconstruct the beginning and end of the insect plague from those awkward terms, large amounts of data, and strange charts.
First of all, the origin of everything, the most critical "psionic jump" technology and the means of training "ghosts" are provided by the "Mobius Foundation".
What happened next was as expected: the Federation used these two technologies as substitutes for "Ghosts" and planned to establish a "psionic jump" network throughout the star region, with the same star gates isolated from each other, while "Ghosts"
This is used to perform the original work of the "ghost".
These technologies were relatively stable at the beginning, but as the number of uses increased, strange accidents began to increase, including but not limited to the inexplicable disappearance of jumping objects, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations in jumpers, serious deviations in destinations, etc.
The Federation questioned the Mobius Foundation about this and got the information about the concept of "jump cooling". The Federation was furious, but it had no choice but to hold its nose to remedy the situation. At this time, "Zerg"
"Appeared.
Most of the intelligence pointed out that the origin of the "zerg" was an insect mutated by Terrazine radiation in Marsala, but a small amount of information emphasized that before the "zerg" appeared and was brought back to Tarsonis from Marsala,
There are also reports of similar morphological creatures from other planets that use psychic jumps. It is likely that the key to their mutation, in addition to terazine, is also the behavior of "psionic jumps".
Just when the various research departments were arguing, the research base on Haven Star tried to fuse those "zerg" with the living vine "Thorian" they were studying, which led to its rampage and the destruction of the Haven base.
However, on the same day that contact with Haven was lost, a mindless man who was almost integrated into the living vines arrived in Tarsonis through a psychic jump, and his identity was confirmed to be "Alex Reim", a former ghost.
instructor.
What exactly happened is unknown. Judging from the results, the base was destroyed by a violent explosion the day after Alex arrived, and then "Alex Reem" and "Unknown Underground of the Base" appeared at the same time.
"Existence" of these two strong psychic reactions, as well as their respective subordinates.
The federation immediately launched an emergency plan to seal off the relevant urban areas and conduct information control, and then used "psionic shielding" to block outside visits.
Fortunately, these two reactions regarded each other as mortal enemies, and fought directly in the blocked area. Obviously, they did not intend to expand outward until the winner was determined? So the Federation took the opportunity to activate the secret research institute and base within the sheltered area to attack the bugs and
Vines are analyzed with a view to controlling them.
As for the results, I can’t say they are yes or no.
Researchers here have discovered that the two parties that are attacking each other are not actually bugs and plants, but "plants mixed with bugs" and "bugs mixed with plants", which also explains why they are so eager to kill each other.
One of the results of the research institute is a "beacon" that can simulate the psychic fluctuations of bugs/plants from the opposing camp and attract the other side to pursue them crazily? However, the application conditions for this are not very wide. At least there must be enough bugs.
Or plants can use it.
Another result? It is the analysis of "Alex", a powerful existence on the plant side, and another powerful existence on the insect side that has never been seen.
The former has no memory or behavior related to "Alex" at all. It can be determined that he is just a plant mimic in appearance, but since the other party seems to think that he is "Alex", maybe we can start from this point.
Target him? For example, create detailed evidence to deceive him into actually being a loyal federal agent.
The latter is more troublesome. Apart from knowing that it has stayed deep in the explosion base since its birth and can control all bugs, there is almost no substantive direct information.
However, there is still some indirect information.
For example? It should be able to easily erase the will of weak-willed creatures and search their memories, even including humans? The evidence is? Several federal agents inexplicably lost contact when they went to the base where the explosion occurred through the internal channel? The remote monitoring they carried
The device captured absolutely nothing, and the signal was cut off in such a way that it looked like the agents had turned it off themselves.
The only gain from these surveillances is sound. Before the surveillance was turned off, a subtle sound vaguely similar to "YoSe" came out, and its meaning is currently unable to be analyzed.
In view of its ability to control other zerg and erase and modify memories, it is temporarily named "Overmind".
From a comprehensive analysis, "Alex" was likely to have his memory erased by the "Master" in the accident, but he got rid of control because of the fusion with plants. Therefore, he hates bugs deeply, but out of his instinctive fear, he did not directly control them.
Instead of breaking into the ground to launch an attack, they search for information about the "Overlord" on the surface to formulate countermeasures.
Finally, the intelligence gave the probability of Alex and Overlord being controlled or aligned, with the former being "approximately 37%" and the latter being "0% or 100%".
If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand that "Alex" lacks memory and acts in extreme ways, so it is naturally difficult to control him, while "Master" has obvious self-awareness, and whether he can cooperate only depends on whether he is willing or not.
"Hmm..." After reading all the intelligence, Arcturus closed his eyes and thought about the useful parts, then opened his eyes and looked at his companions: "The intelligence said that there is an 'internal passage' that leads directly to the explosion site?"
"Of course, as long as the secret bases of the Federation are large enough, there will be secret passages connecting each other." Angela also saw that part of the description: "But they didn't cut off the connection with the explosion site. It's really arrogant.
"
"Hmm~Internal passage~" Emil raised his little hand and made a knife gesture: "Let's rush over and kill it with a bang."
"...Okay." Arcturus decided to give up on making a plan that was bound to be useless.
