EROS [Zerg]

"What on earth is going on?!" Eros returned to his dormitory, pulled the blanket over his head, closed his eyes, and forced himself to calm down and try to communicate with Evanson.

"I don't know," a voice echoed in my mind.

"Didn't you say you have the same memories as Lieutenant General Evanson? How come you don't know?"

Eros sensed the deception.

“I’m not lying to you,” Evanson replied.

"I only have part of his memories now, or rather, he only gave me part of his memories."

"what?!"

Seeing Evans's puzzled expression, Evans patiently explained to him:

“Evanson is not an insect. You have seen it with your own eyes. The bodies in Evita’s laboratory are all Evanson.”

"Kewy didn't lie?" Eros felt a sense of dread.

"what is going on?"

"Kewweh modified his insect eggs for his unknown purposes."

"He fused the genes of the ancient giant insect he discovered with his own genes to create Evanson."

"Perhaps related to his experiments, Evanson showed extraordinary talent from the cub stage, among which his exceptional mental strength attracted much attention."

“But Evanson wasn’t a perfect test subject. When Kove created him, he knew he had a fatal flaw…” Evanson paused.

"What is it?" Eros

"His body could not withstand the ever-increasing mental energy."

"At first, Kove only gave him to His Majesty the Insect King as a failed experimental subject, not thinking that he would grow up. But after Evanson, who was still a cub, successfully went through his first differentiation, he realized that Evanson still had research value."

"Kewey retrieved Evanson from His Majesty the Insect King and observed that his body did not exhibit the same growth and development as the previous test subjects, which had almost completely ceased."

"Although Evanson's physical growth and development cannot keep up with the rate of increase in mental strength, it can differentiate like a normal female insect."

Eros understood: "You mean, his body grows in the same way as a normal female insect, but his mental strength far surpasses that of other female insects?"

"Yes, it's even faster than a normal female insect, but it still can't keep up with the rate at which his mental strength is growing."

"For better research, Kove cloned Evanson. When the larva Evanson could not withstand the mental energy, Kove transplanted his larvae's core into the clone that had been cultivated earlier."

"That clone acquired the larva's consciousness and replaced him as Evanson."

"That successful cloning gave Kuwait a breakthrough."

"Kewicz cloned many 'Evansons' as his backup bodies."

Eros thought to himself that the "he" he was referring to must be Evanson.

"If that's the case, then aren't all of Evanson's worm cores the same, and his body is cloned from his own cells? So how can they be considered different worms?"

“You’re right. If that’s all there is to it, we can’t really say they’re different insects,” Evanson said.

"Transplanting the insect nucleus into a clone is a risky operation; a single mistake could ruin the entire experiment."

"Subsequent transplants also confirmed that this operation not only has uncontrollable sequelae, but also that because the cloned body and the insect nucleus have different adaptability, the duration of their survival is also different. Therefore, frequent cloning transplants are required, which greatly increases the risk of failure in the middle of the experiment."

"At that time, bioinformatics technology had just developed, and memory retrieval technology had been applied to prison interrogation work."

"Through memory extraction technology, the insect's memory can be converted into data and then used to synthesize images on a terminal for projection."

"Kew has spent decades developing a technology that allows the memories of one insect to be reproduced in the core of another insect."

"The extracted memory data was engraved into a special chip, and then the chip was implanted into a special insect-made core. Kowe implanted this core into the clone, and a new Evanson appeared."

Eros noticed something was off: "What about the original Evanson?"

“Memory extraction is an operation that is extremely damaging to the insect core. If all of Kowe’s memories were extracted, the insect core would naturally be rendered useless.” Evanson’s voice was emotionless: “Naturally, he would die.”

"Dead?" Eros frowned involuntarily. "Isn't this the life of a mere insect?!"

"How many star coins do you think a bug's life is worth in Kowe's eyes?" Evanson asked. "In the research of this technology, how many live bug cores do you think he used for his experiments?"

Eros felt that the world was too chaotic: "So the later Evanson was a clone with implanted memories?"

"Then how can you tell who's who? Since they all have the same memories, how can you tell who's real and who's fake?"

“This is the effect Kowe wanted.” Evanson’s voice carried a hint of sadness: “If I could tell the difference, I wouldn’t call myself Evanson.”

“Those Evansons before didn’t even realize they weren’t insects.”

"Then how do you know?"

"Because the last Evanson to possess Evanson's identity discovered this secret, he extracted his memories in segments, wanting to create another version of himself to change this predicament of being manipulated."

“I am the Evanson he created.”

"Why did he create you?" Eros asked.

Evanson didn't hide anything: "For you."

"what?!"

"You are the product of the collision between Zerg technology and the technology of another civilization. You possess the 'key' that allows the Zerg to solve their predicament through technological means."

"He wants me to use all the knowledge he has in his memory to protect you."

"Protect me? That's all you're telling me, but I don't know any of this." Although Eros felt that the guy in front of him who called himself Evanson hadn't explained things clearly, he was still a little touched to hear that an insect wanted to protect him.

But this feeling of being touched was quickly met with a blow from Evanson.

"You don't need to be moved by this. He wants to protect you because he wants to protect the secrets you have from falling into the hands of those unscrupulous insects and humans. This is related to the future of the insect race."

“You don’t seem to want to be bound by ‘his’ will.” Eros keenly sensed the rebelliousness in Evanson’s words.

Evanson denied it: "He didn't want to bind me. The reason I'm willing to protect you is that I also want to see if his sacrifice can change the future of the Zerg."

"I was supposed to come to your side using the cloned body he gave me, but something unexpected happened along the way."

"I don't know who transplanted the insect core that carries my memories into your body. I only regained consciousness after you successfully differentiated and your body could withstand my mental power."

"Eros, I'm here to help you."