The Mech Touch novel Chapter 7254

While Ves was visiting the labs, he made sure to study all of the physical data and conduct a few experiments by himself.

One good thing about the voribugs was that they were available in abundance. They were not that special on an individual basis. It was easy to capture them from the battlefield. The tricker challenge was containing them, but so long as all of the security protocols were up to standard, the chances of contamination breaches were small, though not zero.

Under Lord Richard Brownstone's instruction, Ves received full permission to operate any idle lab machine and access a restricted database that did not contain too much confidential research data.

Numbers flowed in his partially digitized mind as he rapidly began to develop an understanding of the properties of numerous different subspecies of voribugs that the Goliath Hive produced up to this point.

He tracked their changes and extrapolated them to guess what their mature forms would be. He speculated on divergences and made predictions on the emergence of new subspecies that were better equipped to fight against human assets.

The Goliath Hive placed most of its energies on developing its Goliaths, so the status and importance of its regular voribugs was fairly small.

Even so, they were all becoming increasingly more durable and annoying by the day. Ves noticed that their offensive capabilities only saw minimal improvement.

Much of their evolution was geared towards optimizing their exoskeleton structures.

By making them more durable, they could soak up more damage and form a greater distraction.

The main job of breaking through adversary lines and defeating the core of human resistance rested on the shoulders of the Goliaths.

It was too bad that a research facility like this was completely unable to safely contain a Goliath.

Even capturing one of them was a huge pain as they always committed suicide without question no matter how much of an ego they possessed. Their obedience towards their hive exceeded their sense of self-preservation.

"The only safe way to capture a Goliath is to put them in stasis before they realize what is happening." Lord Richard told Ves. "We managed to succeed the first few times, but the Goliath Hive quickly wised up to our means. Before a warship equipped with a remote stasis module can come close enough, the Goliaths have already retreated or committed suicide in advance. When the latter happens, all of the bonds between their cells and molecules have broken down, causing them to collapse into useless dust and matter."

Ves frowned. "Does this happen when you pull a Goliath out of stasis?"

"Yes. We do not dare to deactivate stasis because the Goliath in question will immediately disintegrate. We can only conduct limited research and examinations due to the interference produced by the stasis effect."

Stasis technology was a form of high technology that Ves did not fully understand. He had the sense that it was messing with time and space in a very odd manner.

He had made contact with stasis technology very early on in his career when he and the Flagrant Vandals raided the Starlight Megalodon. He had become amazed that human technology had advanced to the point where it could metaphorically freeze any object.

Ves hardly learned more about it as the technological principles of stasis technology were too advanced for him. Even if he decided to study it from today, he doubted he would make any significant attainments in a short amount of time.

It was too far from his field of specialization.

He knew that it was quite troublesome to study any object under stasis. He also knew that the demands for putting anything under stasis drastically rose in proportion to volume. Ves could easily procure a high-tech gadget that could place a data chip into stasis, but it was impossible for him to obtain a giant apparatus that could put a Goliath in stasis!

While Ves was eager to begin his studies on Goliaths, he first wanted to complete his examinations of the regular bugs.

They came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Among the 6 hives, red humanity had already observed over 1000 individual species and subspecies, many of which were continuing to evolve over time.

The sheer variety of voribugs did not seem to hinder the command and control of voribug swarms. They still operated as if they were perfectly controlled by a local commander, a regional princess or maybe even a central queen.

Try as he might, Ves failed to figure out what sort of organ or signal the voribugs used to exert such excellent control.

"We have made no progress on that front either." Lord Richard said with regret. "We have tried numerous different jamming methods to disorganize the voribugs, but none of them produced any noticeable effects. We have employed both technological biological sources of disruption. We have also given our qi cultivators an opportunity to employ their newly developed abilities in the hopes of producing change. None succeeded. It is as if we are operating in 4 dimensions while the voribugs operate in 5 dimensions. Their bugs are being controlled through a transmission channel that is undetectable and unblockable by our current means."

"Wait... are you suggesting that the mutated voribugs of all races employ an unknown means of organic superdimensional technology?"

Lord Richard snorted. "No. Definitely not. There are admittedly fringe theories circulating through our ranks that claim that the mutated voribugs are intricately connected to the phase whale race. However, this is just a story that people have invented to explain the unexplainable. There is no credibility to these unfalsifiable claims. We must remain rational and avoid bias and superstition. The survival of our people and our colonial star empire depends on our scientific rigor."

Though the Rubarthan mech designer clearly sounded dismissive, Ves couldn't help but feel attracted by the hint of this supposed theory.

"Can you share the details of this story with me? I am curious about what your researchers have come up with. Maybe I can provide insights from an unexpected angle."

Lord Richard clearly disliked this request. He did not want to give a mech designer who was famous for coming up with the craziest ideas a wrong lead. Who knew what sort of madness he would pursue.

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