EROS [Zerg]

Eros had no appetite to continue eating, but when he heard Kove ask him to go with him to the Evita Laboratory, he immediately put down his cutlery and got up.

After saying goodbye to the two remaining insects on the table, he left with Kowe.

Eros followed behind Kowe, his mind a jumble, so much so that he didn't even notice that Kowe, who was walking ahead, had stopped.

"hiss--"

Eros felt as if his nose had hit a hard steel plate, and the soreness instantly cleared his head.

"Clumsy little bug." Kowe turned and looked down at Eros, his tone not accusatory but rather affectionate.

"I'm sorry, General, I didn't see the road clearly."

"What did Yaqiong say to you today?" Kove led Eros to a door.

With Kuwaiti leaders leading the way, the layers of guards easily cleared the road.

Eros only remembered that they turned many corners, and it seemed that there was a team of guards in front of every door.

Eros was certain they hadn't passed through the same place twice, because none of the guards he saw had the same face twice.

There were twenty-eight gates, with sixteen female insects in front of each gate. This was only what he had seen. Eros strongly suspected that there might be a regiment of soldiers here.

As he followed Kuwait, his heart grew colder and colder.

When he heard Kuwait's question, he even had a premonition that he wouldn't be leaving here today.

"Yaqiong Xiongzi took me to see the red roses..."

“But Evita’s lab doesn’t have red roses.” Kove smiled at Eros. “Lying isn’t the mark of a good bug.”

"His Excellency Yaqiong told me that the Evita Laboratory once lost a test subject."

He said I was the test subject.

Kove listened quietly to Eros's noticeably trembling voice, and upon hearing this absurd conjecture, he couldn't help but sneer: "The test subject has been retrieved, and it has already been destroyed."

Eros watched as Kowe turned around and opened the door in front of him.

“The male insects’ cores are ridiculously small. It’s already quite remarkable that they can even come up with some schemes and tricks. Even my insect offspring, Yaqiong, is no exception.” Kove stepped into the room. “They simply cannot understand what a great cause is. They can only focus on the pleasures brought by the power of their own little plot of land.”

"Hoping to solve the Zerg's reproduction problem by appeasing these stupid things is a stupid decision in itself."

“Eros, you are the smartest bug I’ve ever seen.” Kowe walked ahead, behind which was a huge corridor built by the military, with a new metal door every fifty meters.

As the eighth metal door opened, Eros watched as Admiral Kowe turned to look at him: "I want you to join my plan."

"What plan?" Eros followed Kove into the laboratory inside the door, looking around anxiously.

The laboratory contains countless cylindrical crystals, each containing the "body" of an insect.

“He is…” Eros walked to a crystal pillar and looked at the face revealed after the female insect’s long golden hair was parted by the bubbling gas inside the crystal.

“Lieutenant General Evanson?!” Eros’s expression changed drastically. He took a step back and turned his head to see countless identical faces.

He discovered that every female insect immersed in each crystal column had the same face! They were all Evansons?!

“What…what are all these?!” Eros finally broke down, his face contorting with near-collapse. “How can there be so many Evanson Eastland?!”

“You’re wrong. It’s not that they are all Evanson Eastland, but rather that they together make up Evanson Eastland.”

"What do you mean?" Eros's eyes widened as he scanned the various sizes of the bodies within the crystal pillars. Although they all had the same face, their bodies were different.

Eros had a bold guess in his mind.

"Are all these Evanson Eastland? Or were they all Evanson Eastland at some point?"

"Eros, you are very clever."

Kowe looked down at Eros, who was bewildered and covered his face with his paws, his voice trembling: "Am I one of them too?"

“No.” Kove shook his head. “I don’t know where you came from. Every body in the Evita Laboratory is marked with its own serial number, but you don’t have one.”

"Why do this?"

"To prove I'm right."

Eros was somewhat confused: "What's correct?"

“I once worked with a Zergling on a hypothetical problem,” Kovey said, looking at the surrounding crystal pillars. “What would happen if the Zerg didn’t have males?”

"Our race will perish."

Kowe nodded: "That's what the bug said too."

"But have you ever considered why our species would perish if we lost the males?"

Eros replied, "Without males, we cannot reproduce. Without offspring, the insect race will naturally become extinct when the current insects reach the end of their lifespan."

“You’ve all got one thing wrong.” Kowe nodded and smiled: “Without male Zerg, the Zerg won’t go extinct immediately.”

"It was bound to happen sooner or later."

Kowe shook his head: "No, the lack of male Zerg is only an indirect factor that may lead to the extinction of the Zerg."

"What will truly lead to the extinction of the Zerg is clearly that our lives are finite."

"So all we need to do is give our generation of female Zerg an infinite lifespan, and the low birth rate problem that has plagued the Zerg race for hundreds of years will be solved."

Eros shook his head in disbelief: "That's impossible! That's just wishful thinking, it defies all common sense!"

Kuwait sneered: "To deny facts based on common sense is simply foolish."

The facts are laid out before you, aren't you going to look at them?

Eros looked up and followed the direction Kowe pointed. The bodies, numbered from 0, an undifferentiated female larva, to 113, an adult female.

"The female insect's body does not age, but its core is fragile. Once its mental energy surges and the core shatters, the insect dies."

"It can be said that as long as the insect's core is not destroyed, the insect will not die."

“Emotional agitation, blood loss, pain... all of these can cause mental breakdown to lead to death.”

"In order to preserve the insect core intact, I conducted many experiments, but found it very difficult. In the end, I discovered that although it was impossible to preserve the insect core intact, it was possible to use technology to copy all the mental energy fluctuations generated by the insect core into data and record them into a specially made insect core."

"But during the process of implanting the Zerg core into the Zerg body, I found that the Zerg body rejects the Zerg core, so I used the Zerg's own genes to create these bodies."

"Because these bodies have never been awakened, their insect cores are all blank. After the extracted mental energy data is imported into the blank insect cores, the 'resurrection' is successful."