The bottom layer of the planet Coruscant with more than 5,000 layers of the earth's crust is in the bottomless and unsightly lower area, and below the slum full of crime and violence, two Coruscant security employees are directing a group of spherical suspended machines to investigate the sewer.
They just looked at the various traces left on the scene, while directing the floating spherical machines to scan and record footprints, the liquid remaining on the dirty steel walls and some fresh scratches, and swearing and talking:
‘Here!’
‘Come here, scan here and look at these tracks and footprints, and they look like they are left by some kind of beast or insect?’
‘Maybe!’
‘I really don’t understand what kind of creatures attacked the sewer cleaners here, and they ate so clean that even the patrol robots were attacked…’
‘Don’t worry about so many, it’s too bad here. Hurry up and finish the investigation and go back to report!’
‘Well, man, you’re right, the air here is really bad, I can smell that odor with my mask…’
'That's because you Toguta people have a very sensitive sense of smell. It's not very smelly here, at least it's not as smelly as the following layers? We may have to go there later. We must investigate it clearly. If you don't want to run it a second time?"
‘This is really bad news…’
‘Hey! Let them come and scan here, and here! Look, the traces left on the walls, the metal is scratched!’
‘I saw it, what exactly is that?’
‘I don’t know, it seems that some creature with sharp horns left behind when they ran past. I hope they don’t appear in front of us, so that’s definitely not easy to mess with…’
‘Don’t worry, we have a blasting gun, and we are even less likely to mess with it!’
'Too……'
‘Man, have they not recovered the true faces of those attackers based on footprints and traces left?’
‘Not yet, it seems that those things are different from creatures that live in this kind of place in the database, so they may have to collect some DNA information.’
‘Then hurry up, I’ve had enough, we shouldn’t have come down just now!’
‘…’
The above is what Anakin discovered when he drove to this floor and just got off the bus and walked shortly after he walked.
In front, he saw the two Corusanian security employees investigating there impatiently, and using the investigation robot to constantly scan the footprints and traces in the walls and pipes, and were fumbled to the entrance leading to the next floor.
Seeing this, Anakin, who thought that the situation was not good, hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, deliberately made obvious sounds of footsteps and walked forward.
‘!!’
‘Who is there?’
‘Come out now! Or we will shoot!!’
The two security employees soon heard the footsteps coming from behind, and turned the blaster in their hands and looked nervously at the back. At the same time, the floating spherical machines that were originally scanning forward also turned around and surrounded and shone a bunch of visible beams on Anakin, who was walking out of the darkness.
'ah!'
‘It’s the Jedi…’
‘!!’
‘It’s that Jedi, Skywalker!!’
'What?!'
Soon, as the police used scanning robots to project Anakin's information in the first holographic manner, the two security employees who read the information and recognized who the person was quickly put away the explosive guns in their hands and exclaimed.
"snort!"
"Who are you, why are you here?!"
Relying on his identity and authority as a Jedi warrior was countless levels higher than those of these employees in charge of public security, Anakin walked over with a stern face, and directly asked the two people in a question.
'ah!'
‘Report, report to the sir!’
‘That’s right. We just went to the previous level to investigate a case. Then the investigation robot we carried seemed to find some problems with the ecosystem below the negative layer of the planet Coruscant. Many creatures at the bottom actually disappeared, so we came down to see what happened.’
‘But sir, why are you here too?’
The Toguta security employee explained nervously and asked Anakin curiously.
After all, it is really strange to appear a Jedi in such a dirty place. Generally speaking, these high-ranking Jedi savages rarely come to such a bottomless and unsightly lower area... In fact, no one with some power or status will come here. Only employees like them, who are at the bottom, have to come to such dangerous places to deal with the same dangerous poor.
"I had a pet a few years ago and then left it here, just to see if it's still alive..."
"How did you investigate and what problems did you find?"
Ana Jin said without changing his face, not hiding it, and began to think of various ways in his heart.
Because he knew that what the other party was investigating must be that his Zero insect swarm destroyed some of the creatures and ecology in this negative layer for energy and food, which led to the abnormality being discovered by the spherical reconnaissance robots in Coruscant?
‘Report to the sir!’
‘We have not found anything yet, but judging from the evidence we have at present, it should have been done by some powerful predator, and it may be a large group?’
The Toguta security employee did not dare to hide anything in front of a Jedi, especially in front of a legendary terrifying Jedi? So he just gave the truth.
"Um!"
"So that's the case, but where are you going next?"
Nodding, Anakin walked directly to a floating spherical reconnaissance robot, clicked directly on the operating system on it, and checked the information above as if no one was present.
When he found out that the two men did not seem to have investigated more valuable information, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
‘Report to the sir!’
‘We plan to continue to investigate clearly. According to the existing traces, those guys should be moving downwards, so we are going to the negative N-level first to take a look.’
Although I don't know why a Jedi warrior was so concerned about such a small matter, since the other party asked, the two security employees had to bite the bullet and continue to answer.
"Negative N-layer..."
"Did you find something abnormal below? The negative N layer is not a good place. It is said that no one has been there for many years. Not only is the environment very bad, but there are also many ferocious and huge creatures?"
To be honest, Anakin almost couldn't help but exclaim when he heard the other party say he was going to the N-level.
Because the negative N layer below is the base of his No. 0 insect swarm, and it has now spread anywhere below. If these two people really go down, they will definitely find it!
‘It’s indeed that…’
‘We didn’t want to go at first, but you see, there seems to be something strange here, like some creatures have preyed on all the animals responsible for maintaining the ecological balance of the sewer, and there is no left at all… Look here, this area has become much cleaner.’
‘It won’t work if this continues!’
In fact, these two security employees should not have been investigated by these two security employees, but since they discovered it, they felt that it might be of great benefit to both of them after the investigation was clear, and they could even advance with their merits and completely get rid of the unlucky errands of duty patrolling in this dangerous and dangerous lower-level area that is not necessarily the case?
Anyway, they have had enough of the days they performed tasks in the upper floors of urban poor and crime-filled areas, and they will not miss any opportunity to get them out of that kind of unlucky job!
"strangeness!"
“Isn’t it better to be cleaner here?”
Anakin knew about the matter here, and he was a little disgusted with seeing those disgusting huge maggots and sticky dark creatures every time he came, so he acquiesced to the insect swarm's occasional hunting and killing them as biological energy. However, even he didn't expect that he hadn't come back for nearly a month. They did this to this extent and attracted the attention of these two guys?
‘It’s not bad either…’
'But, sir, this situation may lead to chaos in the sewer ecology and affect the balance of the entire planet... But this is a very complicated matter. We are only responsible for coming here to simply investigate the situation. The specific situation must be found after the report is reported and the municipal department will send professional environmental assessment robots to conduct the evaluation.'
Seeing the Jedi who had appeared here for no reason, asking questions endlessly, just as if they were prisoners, the other security employee explained it impatiently.
“!!”
"Your superiors don't know about this? Haven't you reported it?"
Anakin asked suddenly with his eyes narrowed, and at the same time, he pretended to take a casual glance into the dark passage in the distance.
‘Not yet.’
‘Sir, you may not know, and you don’t know what’s going on here. The signal was blocked. We just tried it, but it failed, so we were ready to investigate the lower level for a while before going back to report it.’
"Yeah?"
"If that happens, I'll be relieved..."
Finally, when he heard the other party say this, Anakin, who had been struggling for a long time, suddenly became relaxed, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
“??”
‘Sir, why are you...’
The Toguta man and another security employee of unknown race were a little confused. He didn't know what kind of race he was, and he didn't know what happened to Anakin, a Jedi. However, they subconsciously felt that the other party seemed to be uneasy and kind. They had just had time to take a step back and touch the handle of the explosive pistol on their waists with their hands, and a change happened!
Whoosh~! Whoosh~!
Without waiting for the two security employees of the Coruscant planet and the floating spherical patrol robots to react, soon, the spine pricks were shot out from the distant darkness at an extremely fast speed!
Then, in addition to Anakin, the spherical suspended robots were beaten to explode and decline to the ground. The two security employees even pierced the head and body of the head and body of the huge underground drainage channel when it fell into darkness. Then, under the action of the highly toxic toxin, they fell directly to the ground of the negative N+1 sewer.
"Inoza..."
"You guys have disappointed me so much. Haven't I warned you not to do too much action?"
Anakin stared blankly at the two innocent security employees who were dying with his eyes closed. After a while, he raised his head and sternly pointed at the insect that was slowly crawling over in the darkness ahead with a few thorn snakes.
Although even if these two people are under the N-level investigation, it will not necessarily expose his huge secret to the public in Coruscant... But in Anakin's opinion, this situation is indeed a very bad omen. If it happens once, it may happen a second time. This is contrary to his incomplete plan. He does not allow things beyond his plan, especially if it can be avoided and prevented?
‘Sorry, Master, we will pay attention to it later…’
'only……'
‘The children are so hungry. Although they can barely maintain our minimum consumption due to the energy provided by the bacterial blanket, the feeling of hunger is constantly tormenting us… We thought that no one might come to this floor, so...’
Hearing Anakin's reprimand, the worm named "Inosha" slowly crawled into Anakin's presence, and then hurriedly lowered his head and defended with grievance.
"I know you're feeling very uncomfortable, and you also know that you don't have enough resources. However, this is only once, so I won't be the case!"
"Now, let them come out and clean up the scene!"
Seeing the other party's appearance, Anakin, who had originally wanted to scold him for a while, thought about it and endured it. Instead, he said to the corpses who fell to the ground in the dark and the reconnaissance robots that were still experiencing sparks and lightning.
'yes……'
With Anakin's order and Enosa's response from the insect, countless jumping insects and worker bees rushed out of the darkness behind, and soon packed and took away the bodies of the robots who fell to the ground and the two unlucky security employees.
Every twenty seconds, nothing is left here, as if the things just now have never happened.
"Let's go!"
"Take me to the base below to see..."
Anakin didn't take the death of those security employees seriously and was not worried about it.
After all, Coruscant is too big, and they came down through the slums, even if they disappeared, they would not cause much noise. At most, they would just prepare individual cases. When the inefficient Coruscant bureaucratic departments remember and want to investigate, it would probably happen several years later.
Of course, the greater possibility is that they are directly put on hold, and then the bureaucrats directly deal with the disappearance of the two people as a case of being attacked by thugs? Anyway, no one will be in a friendship to investigate the two missing persons in such a bottomless and unsightly lower area. Anakin is not in a hurry at all. He is very sure that his swarm will not be discovered because of that incident.
"By the way!"
"Does your genetic information indicate how the insect swarm solve the problem of hunger and resources in that Kepru Star region?"
As he walked, suddenly, Anakin, on a whim, frowned and asked.
In other words, these insect groups will look for resources and development by themselves. If it were him, he would probably be exhausted and would not be able to find enough resources and energy to supply their extremely rapidly developing tribes! Thinking about it, when Obi-Wan and the other two raised a larvae, it took a lot of effort.
'have!'
Surprisingly, the insect queen Inoza answered confidently.
“What is it?”
'war!.'
“…”
"But what if the problem is not solved after the war?"
Anakin was a little surprised when he heard the other party's answer, but he was relieved soon. After all, he had known for a long time that his swarm was indeed a terrifying war machine that would be self-responsible and proliferated infinitely!
‘Hmph…’
‘Then keep going to war, expand endlessly, spread fear into every corner of the universe, and threaten to devour anything that dares to hinder us…’
The eyes were filled with a cunning and dangerous red light. The hero unit of the swarm, Enoza, turned around and said in a sinister tone-
Chapter completed!