Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Although the Ether Dragon is the ultimate creature that can withstand the Big Bang, it is ultimately just an imitation of a weakened version of the Ether Dragon's scales. If it has to rely solely on this to face a stellar explosion, Grey Wind is still somewhat worried.

In addition, the explosion was actually out of control. If it weren't for the drones of the Human Empire monitoring nearby, it would have been unable to resist and turned into an L-Star Dragon on the spot.

As they were talking, the small Gray Goo battleship carrying Russell slowed down, with its energy shield running at low power to resist the radiation from the pulsar, and cautiously approached the mothership above Planet 2.

As he approached, Russell listened to Gray Wind's report;

"The bulk of the Hive Fleet has been annihilated, but just like me who used the dragon scale armor to resist the explosion of the star, the largest biological mothership in the Tyranid Swarm still relied on its huge size to barely preserve a piece of its body in the destructive flare."

"It's just that the corpse of that giant bug is much heavier than I thought. If I drag it, I can't even travel at sublight speed. I can only crawl slowly like a snail... I'm kidding, I forced the jump engine to full power and brought it here in fits and starts... The hull was damaged a little on the way here, just a little bit! Now it has almost repaired itself."

In fact, you don't need to deliberately downplay your injuries...

Gray Wind's voice had a cheerful tone. Although he couldn't see its face, Russell still felt that Gray Wind looked very proud at the moment, with his hands on his hips and an arrogant look that said, "Praise me now."

"Thank you for your help, Gray Wind. You are really reliable." Russell said in response to its request.

For a large interstellar ship of the battleship class, detonating a star is not a big deal as long as the three major conditions of energy, caliber, and time are met. This is even more true for Gray Wind. The real difficulty is how to get out of the explosion unscathed.

In order to complete the star-blasting mission while ensuring his own safety, Russell really couldn't find any other ship to choose except the Gray Wind that could simulate the Ether Dragon and the Burning Sky Divine Soldier that could not be built for the time being.

Fortunately, Gray Wind is reliable enough.

"Do you realize now that I am reliable?" Gray Wind's tone became even more floating: "Then you should rely on me more in the future."

I shouldn't have praised it...Russell regretted it deeply.

Then, Gray Wind continued to ask: "But Marshal, what do you want the remains of this giant insect for?"

It didn't quite understand why Russell went to so much trouble. Wouldn't it be better to just let it fire another shot at the bug that slipped through the net?

Russell smiled and asked, "Do you still remember the characteristics of the Tyranid swarm?"

Gray Wind thought about it, and called up the memory of listening to Russell's story from his main consciousness:

"The Tyranids are a typical gestalt group of organisms, dominated by the Hive Mind and driven by endless hunger, devouring all biomass in sight.

…While the Tyranids are very similar to the Thorins in terms of overall appearance, there is a fundamental difference between the two:

——The Thorin protozoa are keen on transformation and assimilation. They often exterminate all the creatures on a habitable planet, and then transform the planet into an "incubation planet" that is unsuitable for the survival of any creature other than themselves and can continuously provide nourishment for the swarm.

The Tyranid swarm is a completely ship-based creature. They eat wherever they go and do not take root or have a home. They are a nomadic hunting group with no fixed place to stay.

But the Tyranids are highly adaptable. They devour other organisms and steal their genes to edit and optimize their own gene sequences, becoming stronger and more dangerous in the endless devouring process. "

Thinking of this, Huifeng seemed to understand something: "Ah! Marshal, you don't want to..."

"I don't know what you guessed, but I think you're right." Russell nodded.

He looked through the side of the ship, staring at the Gray Goo mothership that was getting closer and closer. A huge shadow slowly rose from the other side of Planet 2 and broke into his field of vision. It was a huge bug, or rather, the remains of the mothership of the Hive creature.

"In the Great Devourer's Hive Fleet, there is a core individual called the 'Life-Shaping Queen'. It is the central node connecting the Hive Will and the Tyranid Synaptic Network. It also stores the genetic sequences of all the creatures devoured by the entire Hive Fleet. It is the most important individual in a Hive Fleet."

Losing the queen is equivalent to losing the brain. Naturally, the Life-Shaping Queen enjoys the most stringent protection of the entire insect colony.

The charred remains of the biological mothership grew larger and larger in the field of vision. Russell told Grey Wind expressionlessly what he was going to do next:

"Earlier in the Battle Moon, I saw orcs living together with Bao. They exchanged genes to a certain extent, and each of them had some mutations that could be called benign."

If it weren't for his loving father's interference in transforming Bao into a great demon, he could imagine what a terrifying existence the orc warlord who achieved perfect symbiosis with Bao would become.

The Orks, who were created through the genetic engineering technology of the Old Saints, have exchanged genes with the Bao, so what about the Tyranids?

What kind of interesting changes will occur between this hive creature, which survives by devouring and evolving, and the Presolin Protozoa, one of the three great natural disasters among the stars?

Chapter 50: The Life-Shaping Insect Queen

Will the Great Devourer gain the ability to create hatching planets from the gene sequence of the Thorin Chronicles? Or will the Thorin Chronicles be able to learn the devouring evolution ability of the Tyranids?

Either possibility is terrifying. But in this fucked-up universe full of monsters and demons, Russell needs such terrifying power.

The small Gray Goo battleship dragged a light green stream of light across Planet No. 2 of this nameless galaxy. Instead of returning to the mothership, it carried Russell quickly toward the wreckage of the biological mothership that was quietly hovering on the back of the planet.

As the most important Tyranid unit in a hive fleet, the Lifeshaper Queen is naturally given the strictest protection. Normally, even if the swarm is destroyed, the Queen will be the last to die.

The same is true for being engulfed by a star.

Russell didn't even have to concentrate much to easily feel the psychic signals buried deep in the flesh and blood of the biological mothership.

Then, a gun muzzle was opened on each side of the Gray Goo warship, firing energy arcs forward to dissolve and cut a gap in the charred flesh and blood wreckage that was large enough for the warship to pass through.

This advanced weapon exclusive to nano-battleships has the same penetrating properties as the one true God's "energy arc", and can ignore the shields and armor of enemy ships and directly cause the most real damage to the hull. Although using it to cut charred insects is a bit like killing insects with a dragon-slaying sword, it is very efficient.

The Gray Goo battleship was moving slowly forward in the Tyranid wreckage, cutting flesh and blood like an excavator. Gradually, the psychic signals perceived by Russell became stronger and stronger.

A signal of eternal echo spread in the deep darkness, that was the insatiable hunger of the Hive Mind. Most psychics would go completely crazy due to psychic overload even if they only caught a glimpse of the shadow of the warp. Even Russell felt uncomfortable listening to the Hive Mind crying out for hunger.

The Gray Gu warship gradually penetrated deeper into the half-cooked solid flesh and chitin, until the energy arc cut through the last layer of hard shell inside the biological mothership, and the view in front suddenly became clear.

In the core cavity inside the biological mothership, the largest area is occupied by a biomass digestion pool. The biomass solution in the pool has dried up. It seems that the insect nest mothership has consumed all of its biomass reserves in order to preserve the life-shaping queen.

In the center of the dried-up biomass digester, there was a strange creature whose lower body grew together with the biological mothership, or rather, the entire mothership was its lower body. This was the "Life-Shaping Queen" that Russell was looking for.

It's a bit strange to say, the overall shape of the Life-Shaping Queen looks like a baby in swaddling clothes, with its lower body covered with a hard carapace shaped like a conch shell, which is deeply embedded in the biological mothership like a drill. The upper body above the carapace is an adult, with six seemingly useless limbs, and several tubular objects extending from the back of the head to the bottom of the body.

It was motionless, as if dead. If Russell had not still been able to sense the strong psychic signals coming from the Queen's brain, he would have really thought it was dead.

The Gray Gu battleship slowly landed on the dry bottom of the biomass digester. Russell opened the hatch and walked out directly.

The armor on one side of the battleship quickly disintegrated into countless nanorobots, which crawled densely onto Russell's body to reshape its structure, and finally formed a layer of nano protective suit that wrapped around him.

"The bodies of ordinary humans are still too fragile, Marshal." Gray Wind's voice sounded faintly from the nano protective suit.

The group of biochemically modified humans called Astartes that it had seen on the battle moon before, had armed themselves like cans, but still suffered heavy losses in the war with the orcs. Only then did it realize how suicidal it was for Russell to run against the orc boss without even wearing any armor.

"For safety reasons, I suggest that Marshal, after finishing your work here, prepare to upload your consciousness to the host as soon as possible, complete the mechanical ascension and gain eternal life..."

"Stop, I don't want to can it for now." Russell walked towards the motionless life-shaping worm and stopped Gray Wind's dangerous idea: "Personally, I prefer genetic engineering or prosthetic implants for ascension. Canning is a bit...delicate."

"Okay..." Grey Wind was a little frustrated.

After the brief exchange between the two, the Gray Goo warship parked behind Russell quickly disintegrated and reorganized into tall humanoid combat machines equipped with various medium and short-range heavy weapons, surrounding Russell and continuing to move forward.

Although the Life-Shaping Queen in front of him looked lifeless, Gray Wind had no doubt that it might suddenly produce a group of knife worms or something like that from some unknown place to attack Russell at any time.

"It's a pity that the Wataum Reality Periscope was just used not long ago and is still in the cooling-off period, otherwise things would be much easier." Russell muttered to himself.

Like the Galaxy Star, the Votom Reality Perforator has a 10-year cooldown period after each use, perhaps for balance? The Cyberlux Arsenal has no usage restrictions, but it would be too outrageous if this ability to forcibly modify reality could be used infinitely.

Russell, who was surrounded by nano-combat machines, had many concerns in his mind, and finally came to the Queen of Life-Shaping Worms.

Here, the hunger signal coming from the warp is so strong that it is almost tangible. It is the will of the Great Devourer.

The nano-combat machines around Russell used their left hands to reconstruct drills and cutters, and each of them took positions around the life-shaping queen, ready to dig out its lower body that was deeply embedded in the biological mothership.

Russell himself had to embark on another more important task - severing the connection between the Life-Shaping Queen and the will of the hive.

Although the Hive Will is a powerful consciousness that is almost comparable to the four evil gods, Russell does not think that he can offend the other party to death by snatching control of a life-shaping queen from it.

The size of the Tyranid Swarm is so huge that even a star-level Hive Fleet that blocks out the sun and the sky is just a drop in the ocean compared to the entire Swarm. A drop in the ocean in the literal sense.

And considering that he had already offended Nurgle by robbing Bao, Russell felt that it would not be a big deal to have another evil god-level enemy now.

He believed that the Emperor would protect him, and if not, he would run away with Gray Wind.

In the dark cavity of the biological mothership, the sticky sound of nanomachines cutting biological tissues continued to sound. Russell took a deep breath in the nano protective suit, and a terrifying void like the abyss spread rapidly with his body as the center.

The void instantly expanded, and the irreversible psychic siphon effect quickly drained away everything with psychic properties, thereby forcibly replacing all connections between the physical universe and the subspace here, and thus tearing a hole in the huge shadow of the hive mind.

But when Russell came into contact with the consciousness of the life-shaping worm, the first thing that came to him was fear.

This fear does not come from the hive mind, that thing only knows how to eat. The one who is afraid of Russell or the void is the Life-Shaping Queen herself.

Chapter 51: Coronie

Contrary to people's conventional impression of the Zerg, although the Tyranids are controlled by the will of the hive as a whole, there are also some synaptic node creatures that have higher intelligence than other individuals and even a certain degree of self-awareness, such as the Hive Overlords who often serve as cushions for various heroes, and the special Brain Worms that are said to be comparable to Alpha-level psychics.

In particular, the Genestealers, who serve as the Zerg's advance spies, are a model of self-reliance among the Zerg.

As the synaptic hub and command center that controls the entire hive fleet, the Life-Shaping Queen is an extremely powerful psychic creature and possesses a highly complete self-awareness.

However, this advantage is not a good thing when facing Russell.

The powerful psychic power allowed the Queen to "see" the illusory abyss in the subspace more clearly. The deep sense of powerlessness and extreme fear that emerged from the depths of her soul overwhelmed all her will to resist. She could only watch the abyss swallow her, decompose her, and dissolve her...

However, the void did not completely destroy its self-consciousness as imagined.

After its soul was dragged into the void, the Life-Shaping Queen felt itself disconnected from the will of the hive. The hunger signal that had been echoing eternally in its consciousness ceased, and it seemed as if... it had gained the right to think freely.

What a horrific experience that was for the Zerg?

The Life-Shaping Queen could clearly feel that her entire soul was wrapped in nothingness and could be wiped out at any time. Like a weak mouse held in the mouth of a cat, the hunter could bite off its cervical vertebrae with just a little force.

But the bite that would have taken its life was never taken, and its consciousness was gently wrapped in the nothingness deep in the cavity, with its sustainability hanging by a thread.

The cat held the mouse in its mouth and observed its fear with interest.

"I'll give you two choices."

Russell's voice came directly from the depths of the Queen's consciousness.

"Or, I can completely erase your concept of existence, leaving only a body to feed another bug, but that would be a bit of a loss for me - after all, your consciousness stores a lot of precious genetic data, and the gene stealers scattered among the stars also have other uses for me."

"Or, you surrender all your will, and from now on you are completely controlled by me, and spend your whole life serving your new master with everything you have. In that case, I can allow you to survive and eat the bug that was supposed to eat you..."

"So? Make your choice."

As he finished speaking, the cave returned to its previous silence.

As for Russell's own side, he actually prefers the Tyranids. Each life-shaping queen is a master of strategy and genetic engineering. They will quickly analyze the weaknesses of the enemy based on information and produce corresponding targeted troops, consuming the least biomass to win the greatest victory.

The extremely sophisticated gene editing technology can provide great help to Russell's future plans.

But the prerequisite is to be able to make it surrender.

The Life-Shaping Queen was still feeling helpless because she had suddenly escaped from the control of the hive's will, but at the same time, because of her spiritual communication with Russell, she knew of the existence of the Thorin primordial worm.

All kinds of information flowed into her mind through the psychic connection. Gradually, endless greed and desire surged from the depths of the Life-Shaping Worm's consciousness, just like when she first felt Bao's signal.

This was not a difficult choice, especially for the Great Devourer who lived by devouring and evolving. Endless greed and endless fear drove the Life-Shaping Queen to humbly stretch out her consciousness and let the terrifying nothingness permeate every inch of her soul.

When the Queen's will was completely subdued, all the memories of this hive fleet were like an open book for Russell to read, and he knew its name:

[Hive Fleet-Coroniai]