Chapter 180 The Devil is in Bad Luck for Eight Generations
As a pirated star god, Hogg is different from the scientists of the Empire. His creations are very practical and have strange appearances.
After several data collections, Hogg successfully created a psionic relay station by hand on the day he arrived in Alicia, and the effect made him very satisfied.
As soon as Hogg returned to Alicia, he found his teacher Candice and asked the great sage to score his work to see if it could be promoted throughout the empire.
After listening to Hogg's design ideas, Candice approved of this plan. She felt that her disciple was finally on the right track instead of engaging in dangerous biological manufacturing.
But when she walked into the laboratory and saw this so-called relay station, Candice's heart was still hanging. She looked at Hogg with a smug look on his face and was so angry that she was fuming. She gritted her teeth and said:
"Hogg, are you really worried about my peace of mind? Tell me what this thing is?"
Candice was so angry that she grabbed Hogg and hung him in front of her with her mechanical tentacles, as if to say that if he didn't explain himself clearly, he would not be able to leave.
It’s not Candice’s fault that she’s worried about her life, it’s because Hogg’s creations are too weird and completely distort her worldview.
Looking at this monster that is covered with ceramic steel armor, has several huge antennas, and is a complete fusion of flesh and blood and machinery inside, Hogg still shamelessly said that this is a comprehensive advancement of fusion technology.
"Teacher, you are too one-sided. The psionic relay station I designed may look ugly, but it has good performance! Look at this psionic flesh and blood and the perfectly integrated machinery. Don't you think it is very cost-effective?"
After listening to Hogg's explanation, even the more unorthodox Candice began to doubt whether her eldest disciple had a problem with his brain. This thing was not a question of cost-effectiveness at all, okay?
As if she saw herself being crushed to death by the Emperor, Candice pointed at the gaping mouth of the relay station and shouted:
"You're talking nonsense. This is clearly an alien. How can it move? I'm not young anymore, but I don't have Alzheimer's or am I blind. And why did you install a plasma rapid-fire cannon on it? To shoot down airplanes?"
Perhaps sensing that the atmosphere was not right, the "Relay Station" twisted its body, shrank its huge body into a ball, and lay on the ground pretending to be dead.
Such a humane scene would definitely make people feel warm if it happened to a cute pet, but this monster, which is estimated to be ten meters tall and weighs over a hundred tons, will only make people shudder.
Perhaps sensing Candice's disgust, Hogg took out a mini version and threw this basketball-sized thing on the great sage.
"Teacher, don't worry. I have a home version. I named it Xiaobao. This is my weapon to conquer the home market! Wouldn't it be great if everyone could have one?"
But Candice didn't want to complain anymore at this time. The mini relay station actually peed, and the sticky liquid splashed all over her.
Feeling her newly maintained living skin being touched by the alien, and the disgusting mucus soaking her newly changed Taoist robe, Candice couldn't stand it anymore and started to run away.
"Ah! You traitor, I will throw your disgusting creation into the star and burn it to ashes!"
Seeing his great sage losing his temper, Hogg was horrified. He had never seen Candice lose her composure like this before. Even when he called her a fart spirit, she didn't get so angry.
All he could do was watch Candice burn her creation to ashes with a flamethrower, and then she turned her spearhead on the trembling "Big Stinky" huddled in the corner. Hogg shouted:
"Teacher, please don't! The child is innocent. Look, it's so small and pitiful. It's still a baby!" Feeling its life was in danger, "Big Stinky" opened its ferocious mouth and made a whimpering sound to beg for mercy, but this made Candice even more determined to kill it.
But when Candice's phosphorus fire hit "Big Stinky", a spherical scarlet shield emerged, blocking the attack that could burn through heavy armor.
Seeing this, Candice suddenly stopped moving. She found that this strange creation seemed to have some merits. This ugly-looking thing could actually open a shield.
Thinking of this, Candice plugged in a cable and carefully examined this so-called big stinker.
After testing, Candice discovered that Hogg might really be a genius. Apart from looking disgusting, this strange creation maintained a delicate balance in terms of performance and production difficulty.
"But it's still too ugly. Anyone who sees it will think it's a monster! What's going on in your head?"
Candice is Hogg's mentor and a great sage specializing in biology. She is fully aware of Hogg's scientific research capabilities, but just like the Zerg before, Hogg's aesthetics are indeed not good enough.
Seeing that the Great Sage had calmed down, Hogg slid out of the tentacles smoothly and walked to Candice's side:
"My dear great sage, this is only the first version. I didn't say there would be no improvements! I asked you to come here just to give me the whole package, but who knew you would react so strongly.
Poor little baby, he was killed by worldly prejudice before he was even one day old. I wanted to give him to Old Man Huang, right? "
Candice thought to herself, let’s not even mention what the Emperor would think when he sees this thing, the moment you take this thing out, the Emperor will whisk you away to the Himalayas.
But since the product is generally feasible, the Great Sage can only get involved to improve it. After all, she is deeply bound to Hogg.
In this way, the master and apprentice worked together again, and just like the time when they created the Zerg, they ran to Catachan and hid in the 'Beehive' biochemical experimental base buried deep underground.
As the saying goes, an old person in the family is like a treasure. Although Hogg did not know the exact date of Candice's delivery, her experienced experience was exactly what Hogg, a wild man, lacked.
The two people had a clear division of labor, one designed the external structure and the other designed the internal organs, and they soon produced several failed products.
After all, Hogg and the others are not gods, so it is normal for the experiment to fail. Even the Primarch cannot get what he wants, so they can only continue.
During this period they discovered a problem, that is, psionic energy also has its limits, and the communication distance cannot be compared with the psychic energy transmitted through the subspace.
Unlike the metaphysical subspace, psionic signals in the physical world will inevitably attenuate, and if you want to increase the power, you can only increase the volume and psionic content.
Psionic energy does not appear out of thin air. Every psionic energy carrier is like a blue-bar mage in the game. When the energy is used up, they have to wait for recovery, rather than communicating with the sea of souls like a psychic.
However, the property of psionic energy that it can absorb other energies saved the experimental progress that was in a dilemma. Each base station can be plugged into a battery!
Hogg was very creative and thought of a creature - the devil.
(End of this chapter)