Zerg in the crystal wall system world

Chapter 23 The Twisted Soul

Exploring the goblin haunt went surprisingly smoothly.

The day after the overlord sent out the birds, an arrowgull found the goblin's camp.

Only four hours later, hundreds of prey birds hovered over the goblin camp.

After careful observation for two days, the master confirmed that there were no high-level psionic units in this group of little green men.

At the same time, there is no social division of labor in the actual sense, and there are no sentries, leaders, fighters, hunters in the camp...

Goblins do not work, they are happy to fight, kill, and destroy, but they have an unreasonable reproduction speed and digestion ability—perhaps it is not just in the category of digestion. Relying on the perspective of the arrow gull, the master saw a The newborn goblin didn't even have a mouthful of milk, and grew up quickly under the beatings of the elders around him, becoming a standard adult goblin in just one night.

This growth rate is already comparable to Zerg.

But the number of goblins is not too out of control. It seems that the population and the size of the camp will limit the breeding of goblins.

It was also determined that the Goblin camp had no combat power worth mentioning, so the master simply sent three large infected birds.

They were all infected by large storks or cranes in the wetlands. Their infection level did not reach the point of alienating combat bodies, but their size was enlarged.This shortens the stability of their genes, and their lifespan is only a few months when they are free to move.

But relatively speaking, their load capacity has greatly increased, and they can carry hundreds of kilograms of weight for long-distance flights.

The master controlled them and captured two goblins.

Although he can observe these little green men through the senses of the Arrow Gull and the Bird of Prey, he still needs the assistance of advanced units or construction units to study their genes and extraordinary power in depth.

Not long after the liquid storage vesicles of the poisonous phages were thrown into them, the examination of their whole bodies was completed. Agatha immediately reported: "Their brains are exceptionally developed."

The master was taken aback, this thing doesn't look particularly smart, does it?
Agatha continued: "Their brains have specialized divisions for numerical and geometrical problems."

The brains of mammals are divided according to their functions. One brain area is responsible for a kind of information processing. For example, the parietal lobe of the brain is responsible for the body perception function. Agatha removed part of the brain of the dragon and lion, so that the dragon and lion lost Sensitivity to the back.

Compared with other animals, in addition to the extremely developed prefrontal lobe responsible for thinking and logic, the human brain also has an extra center dedicated to understanding language, which is also the basis for human beings to build civilization.

But even in humans, there is no dedicated number-processing center in the brain.The reason is very simple. Human beings have had language tens of thousands of years ago, but mathematics is a new thing that has only appeared in the last few thousand years.

Goblins have a mathematical center, which means that they should have had the concept of mathematics early, and in a stable social environment, they have been screened for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.

"You mean, they are actually very smart? It's just that the civilization has lost and they look like wild beasts?" the master said in disbelief.

In fact, the wild beasts have already praised them a bit, and the wild beasts also know to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but they are all lunatics through and through.

"It should not only be a matter of civilization inheritance," Agatha denied this, "Their brains are very smart, but there is no trace of being used."

"..." If he didn't understand Agatha's character, the master really thought she was telling a joke.

"The power in them, which you named 'soul', is significantly different from that of normal creatures. It bypasses the nerve center and directly manipulates the body, making most of its brain structure idle."

"Oh? That makes me healthy." The master finally became interested and connected Agatha's senses.

Sure enough, compared to the exquisite and complicated souls of normal beasts, the soul of a goblin feels like a pile of scattered building blocks. Its structure is simple and chaotic, but at the same time it is extraordinarily stable—all fell apart into a pile , can not be unstable.

This special structure gave Juggernaut a familiar feeling—a rooted vine monster.

Of course, there are still differences. The goblin's soul cannot be transformed into that kind of green, full of vitality, but directly acts on the body.

Therefore, the goblins did not show the almost immortal self-healing speed of the root vine monsters. They just allowed them to grow rapidly without eating, and at most stimulated the body, so that some of them appeared as strong as bears. Mutant individuals.

Speaking of this, Juggernaut has always been quite puzzled. The essence of psionic energy is the void energy from outside the world. It is pulled into the present world relying on the will of living things. Where does the energy brought by the soul come from?

Both root vine monsters and goblins can proliferate regardless of energy conservation. Even the dragon and lion, the kinetic energy it can output is far greater than the energy it eats, especially the fire-breathing ability. The heat of that mouthful of dragon flames can be equivalent to Hundreds of catties of meat.

If this point is solved, the expansion speed of the Zerg can be raised to a higher level...

"Do they have the value of infecting?" The master suddenly asked.

The souls, brains, and veins of normal creatures are closely integrated, so the Zerg can manipulate their behavior by affecting their flesh and blood.

But the essence of manipulating the goblin's behavior is its twisted and mutated soul that is out of touch with the body. It is a "spirit" rather than a "body", which is difficult to control through infection, and even the power and Protection also increases their combat effectiveness.

Agatha obviously didn't think about this problem, and after a two-second pause, she replied: "There is indeed this problem, even if the connection between their centers and limbs is strengthened, the existence of abnormal 'souls' will interfere with its actions. "

"Anyway, let's give it a try first." The master made a decision.

With the order issued, slight changes appeared on the surface of the creep, and the super-evolved virus drove straight in. At the same time, the creep stretched out its tentacles and connected to the goblin's blood vessels, providing extra nutrients to the zerg-like tissues and suppress the immune function of the host.

The characteristics of the Zerg appeared on the goblin at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the master actively intervened, modulating the goblin's nervous system, strengthening the control of its central nervous system over all parts of the body.

But it doesn't work well.

Goblin souls can not only adjust the body through the nervous system, but also directly affect its muscles, bones, endocrine and other aspects.Even if the ruler rages the goblin's whole body, it can't completely overwhelm the influence of its soul on the body.

This means that Juggernaut can only guide Goblin infected bodies, but cannot completely control them: they cannot cooperate with other infected bodies, they will attack each other in a dense formation, and it is difficult to force them to sleep... The only advantage is rapid reproduction and no need to eat.

But after the hatchery was established, the Zerg's reproduction speed was already extremely fast, and the Zerg's dormancy characteristics did not consume much. Generally speaking, it was very tasteless to infect such a group of guys.

Try to see if the will of the hive can suppress their souls, if not, just kill them all.

Thinking this way, the master pulled the goblin's chaotic consciousness into the will of the hive.Completely turns it into a Zerg unit.

Unexpectedly, when the goblin's eyes began to glow red that is unique to the psionic energy of the Zerg, it suddenly let out a tragic howl.

"Its soul is fluctuating violently!" Agatha's warning voice came immediately.

The master's consciousness immediately entered the will of the hive, trying to suppress the goblin's ego.

But before the master could mobilize the psionic energy, the changes in the goblin's body had already ended, the ferocity between the brows quickly faded, the pupils gradually cleared from the original turbidity, and the whole creature changed from the original brutal and distorted state to "normal." "Get up.

It's just like the building blocks of a broken city that can't be restored on their own. After all, its soul has not returned to the delicate and complex state of a normal creature, but quickly fell silent and decayed, so weak that it is almost unrecognizable.

The master couldn't help but frown, it didn't look like psionic energy, he just pulled the goblin's consciousness into the worm's nest, and he hasn't exerted any force yet.

It seemed that the act of pulling the goblin into the Hive Mind itself catalyzed something.

"Its soul has fallen into silence." Agatha reported, "Its state is close to that of an infected body that has lost its nerve center."

During the annexation of the dragon and lion territory some time ago, some infected bodies were crushed by high-level root vine monsters, but their bodies remained active under the support of the creep.

When the master was studying the extraordinary power of "soul", he also inspected these headless infected bodies. After losing their nerve centers, their souls still existed, but became quiet, weak, and simple. Even a head cannot restore its soul to its original state.But the remaining soul residues still have the function of cooperating with the reproductive system of the body to give birth to a new healthy soul.

Perhaps this goblin, with only the residue of its soul, also has the ability to give birth to "normal" goblins...

Maybe I can try to make a normal goblin myself.But the practical significance is not great. After all, no matter how developed the brain of the goblin is, the lack of the unique brain structure of the Zerg, and the inability to absorb knowledge and experience from the will of the hive means that its growth rate is slow.

If you have a system, you may be able to achieve some "achievements" by collecting a "healthy" goblin.

"It seems that these monsters don't have much research value," the Overlord said. "Let the birds of prey fly over every inch of the Goblin Forest, and spread out the creep after ensuring safety. Agatha, I'll leave it to you."

The average lifespan of goblins is not long and their consciousness is confused. Their memories are not of much reference value, but the fact that such weak, annoying, and fearless creatures can spread over an area also shows that there are not many creatures that can be beaten nearby.

"How should I deal with them?" Agatha disconnected from the goblin and asked the master.

"Infection is the main thing, don't force it deliberately, by the way, spawn a few 'normal' goblins, maybe they can be used in the future."

Agatha nodded: "Your will."

As for the master, he needs to spend some time on the genes of the swarm to prepare for the establishment of the hatchery.

Adjust the structure of the creeps: let the creeps differentiate into well-developed transporting tissues in advance to facilitate the mobilization of substances; by the way, store a large amount of nutrients at specific locations and synthesize some key proteins in advance to minimize the time for hatchery establishment.

Juggernaut doesn't want to have that kind of unlucky situation where, at the critical moment, he is guarding a developmental sac and fighting the enemy desperately, and finally he is raided by someone just before the hatchery is successfully developed, and the result falls short...

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(End of this chapter)