The situation in Chaos Purgatory has entered the final darkness before clarity, while the situation in this vast universe is still dark and confusing.
The Xel'Naga took its minions and hid in the darkest corners of the universe, and erased all clues that could lead to them.
The heroic angel Imperius and his angel army are still missing. Although Xue Hua has also suspected that this guy may have been caught by Xel'Naga, there is no evidence to prove this speculation so far.
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In addition, in the past ten years or so on Earth, the Monitoring King Insects and Node King Insects deployed by the insect swarm in the territorial star area have both observed a number of abnormal cosmic singularities.
These cosmic singularities are like tangles in the threads of a piece of fabric due to damage. They are not very noticeable if you don't look carefully, but their existence itself means that something is wrong with the universe!
The insect swarm and the protoss once teamed up to try to study this cosmic singularity phenomenon, but those cosmic singularities that appeared were like the occasional flash of snowflakes on the TV screen, always fleeting and very difficult to capture.
In the limited information recorded by the Star Spirit Phase Technicians about these singularities in the universe, several common features of these singularities are that when these singularities appear and disappear, they will cause turmoil in space and time around the singularity.
In some cases, the appearance and disappearance of these singularities will cause space-time distortion in a small area of the surrounding space. According to the data collected by Protoss's cosmic ray monitoring, where the singularities of the universe have appeared, the time and space of the rays there have
The data is completely different from the data outside the influence of the singularity.
Specifically, where a singularity occurs in the universe, time may move backwards or forward rapidly, and time turbulence usually causes associated space turbulence. That is to say, the space where a singularity occurs may differ from the space where the singularity occurs.
Exchange of space elsewhere in the universe...
This is a very serious and terrifying matter.
Just imagine, if this kind of thing starts to happen often, then you may be walking on the street and suddenly find that a piece of your stomach is missing for no reason.
Or the head is directly teleported away, or the right hand suddenly goes back in time to your infant arm, and then the left hand suddenly accelerates in time, fast forwarding to your old age, or even your arm after being buried.
The scary thing is that according to the three-party reports from the swarm's monitoring king insect, the node king insect, and the protoss deep space probe, the probability of such singularities in the current universe is getting higher and higher, and
The scope of influence of the Singularity is also becoming larger and larger.
According to a recent observation of a singularity, the size of the current singularity is comparable to that of a car, and its duration has been correspondingly longer.
If this phenomenon is allowed to continue to develop, I am afraid that one day a giant singularity will appear that can cover the entire planet.
What can be called "lucky" at the current stage is that this universe is very vast, and even with the abilities of the insect swarm and the protoss, it has only just explored less than one ten thousandth.
Therefore, it will be a long time before the singularity of the universe can really have the kind of horror movie effect just mentioned.
But "unfortunately", if the frequency and scope of the singularities in the universe are really linked to the eternal war... then all life in this universe will probably soon face an unprecedented catastrophe.
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In addition to observing these cosmic singularities, the insect swarm has also been looking for new biological genes in the area it occupies to expand the gene pool of the insect swarm. Currently, Abathur has been unable to come up with the final version of the "golden gene".
", so a new round of main nest upgrades for the entire insect swarm has not yet begun.
This also means that before this round of main nest upgrade begins, the swarm still has enough time to collect more effective genes for the upgrade, so as to make this upgrade as perfect as possible.
In the process of collecting these genes, the insect swarm continues to expand its territory.
They encountered many advanced intelligent beings in the vast universe.
Some of these lives come from nearby star regions, and some come from other distant star regions.
Some advanced intelligent life - or most of the advanced intelligent life encountered by the insect swarm are still in the initial stage of civilization or at the end of the initial stage. Only a very small number of civilizations have the characteristics of a first-level cosmic civilization.
After these very few civilizations encounter the insect swarm, well... they are generally not very friendly. Their "fleet" will regard the insect swarm fleet as some kind of galactic monster, and they will attack as soon as they meet...
It's like a hunter meets a rhinoceros drinking water, as if he wants to get something from the insect swarm to transport back as a trophy... But the final result of these guys... you know...
In the "friendly discussions" with these civilizations, the swarm also found a lot of good things from them.
One of the good things is an original strain of a special fungus obtained from the wreckage of a "ship" of a civilization that looked like a moss spirit.
This strain has a very special ability and is almost completely immune to high temperature burning. The higher the temperature, the more fruitful it grows. Moreover, they can also convert the energy collected from high temperatures into a gaseous substance and discharge it.
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This gaseous substance can be collected by the worker bees of the insect swarm using sporangia, and after being put into the main nest for transformation, it becomes an energy resource with very rich spiritual energy content!
After obtaining this original strain, Xue Hua immediately ordered Zuzade, who was very proficient in fungal organisms, to improve and reuse this thing.
Zuzade genetically hybridized this fungus with the insect colony's carpet, and after several years of experiments, he developed a new type of special carpet.
Zuzad calls this creep a "thermoeater," referring to its tendency to grow in extremely hot places.
The characteristic of this kind of carpet is that it must survive in an environment with a temperature above 500 degrees. If you want it to start growing, the ambient temperature must reach at least 5,000 degrees.
There is no limit to the temperature, the higher it is, the more vigorous it will grow.
Once this kind of carpet starts to grow, it will start to secrete gaseous substances that can be converted into resources for utilization. After Zuzade combined the original strain of the fungus with the insect colony's carpet, its growth rate will be the same as that of the insect colony.
Converting heat into gaseous ore is also much more efficient.
Therefore, once the insect swarm can find an area indicating the large-scale reproduction of this new type of "heat-eater" carpet, the insect swarm will once again have an inexhaustible source of huge resources.
However, even in the vast universe, there is only one environment that can match the growth conditions of the "Thermoeater" carpet, and that is the surface of stars!
The surface temperature of stars is generally at least above three thousand degrees, and some stars can even reach tens to hundreds of thousands of degrees.
This undoubtedly provides the best conditions for the growth of the "Heat Eater" bacteria blanket, and when Xue Hua saw this new type of bacteria blanket, the first thought that came to his mind was the "biological Dyson sphere"! (Unfinished