Zerg in the crystal wall system world

Chapter 44 The Heart of the Swarm
three days later.

on the ground.

Dragon and lion collar.

A king worm carrying the consciousness of dominance is flying from the split pool to the direction of the heart forest.

To say that this king worm is really different.

The body surface of the Zerg unit often has irregular protrusions and asymmetric bony spurs. This structure usually has no special meaning, but is just a remnant of the ancient genes of the Zerg.

But this king worm's body surface does not have those things at all, the carapace is flat, and the bony spurs are symmetrical.The most important thing is the head.

The heads of normal king worms are round, and with the jaws and small tentacles around the mouth, it looks like a fly no matter how you look at it.

But this one is different. Its head is slightly constricted below the eyes, where the worm jaws are born, showing a structure similar to the cheekbones. The overall line of the head is also relatively tough, plus the carapace above the eyes The lines shape the "brow arch" and "eye socket".A worm face looked like a "heroic".

The reason for this change is also very simple: when it entered the split pool to heal its injuries, it was inserted with the gene of the elves.

Yes, this is exactly the overlord worm that was shot by Eral, and it was cured.

Because the evolution cavity found that the elves have an incredible sense of direction and space when analyzing the genes of the elves, so they inserted them into the body of the king worm who was soaking in the split pool for healing at that time, but did not expect the genes of the elves to have the effect of plastic surgery.

The master has given this king worm the name "Shuaiqiu".

Because of the master's possession, Shuaiqiu's handsome face now has a humanized look of expectation.

The experiment of transforming the venomous body into a tree of hearts failed. After all, the reality is not a game, and it is not so easy to get stuck with bugs.Juggernaut has lignified 80.00% of the carapace of the poisonous phage, and even because of too many tree genes, the various functions of the poisonous phage have been reduced by 40.00%, but there is still no sign of heart tree.

Just when the Juggernaut was about to give up, a message came from the special vitality chamber of Heart Woods—there was a breakthrough in the test of vitality.

There is not much distance between the heart forest and the split pool.

Not long after the handsome ball took off, it began to land again.

At this time, Heart Forest has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Sarcomas mixed with fleshy tissue and plant fibers appeared on the trunk; huge pieces of flesh were propped up by the trunk as a skeleton, bulging and beating like fetal movement; fleshy tentacles kept branching, thinning and capillary, with several roots and tiny branches grow together.

The entire forest has become a veritable "meat forest".

The brain of the evolution cavity has amazing information processing capabilities, but like most units of the Zerg, it has no concept of self.

It's not that it can't evolve, but the birth of self-will is firmly locked by the Zerg gene.Only a powerful master can bypass the genetic blockade with the will of the hive.

Producing Zerg units with a will of their own is usually also a sign of Juggernaut maturity.

Therefore, even if the master really wants it, there is still no commentator who climbs out of the evolution cavity to explain every detail of evolution for the master.Unless the overlord is willing to let the infected units with their own self touch the core building of the swarm, the evolution cavity.

Link and search the information of the brain of the evolution cavity, and control the king worm by the way, let it focus on a piece of meat that is constantly expanding and shrinking in the depths of the forest.

A faint, but visible green light is constantly shining from the meat.

It turned out to be the case.

The evolution cavity has verified the organs that are closely related to life force.

"Organ differentiation" is a fairly basic evolutionary technique for living organisms.

To put it bluntly, it means functional specialization. For example, the lungs are dedicated to breathing, the heart is dedicated to pumping blood, and the liver is responsible for the decomposition of toxins... Just like the industrial assembly line, the simpler the work that a single organ is responsible for, the higher the efficiency.

The same is true in the supernatural field. The optimal solution for organisms to exercise supernatural power is to gather supernatural power into one organ and grow a full-time "supernatural organ".

For example, most psionic units have integrated the ability to manipulate psionic energy into their brains, and whether it is the protoss or the advanced psionic units of the Zerg, they have all evolved the special psionic power of "nerve cord". organ.

The same is true for life force. Even though elves don't have organs that specialize in manipulating life force, this extraordinary power is inseparable from the heart.

Think about it carefully, isn't the core organ of the heart tree also a heart made of root vines?

The taboo ceremony of "Heart of Thorns" also exists in Eral's memory, which is to replace the heart of flesh and blood with special roots to obtain stronger life force.

The evolution cavity has completed the basic test. "Highly active sub-heart" has become an evolution cavity technology, which can be installed on Zerg units.

Yes, the secondary heart, because too many elf genes are activated, resulting in a decrease in its blood pumping ability, unable to meet the circulation needs of the Zerg unit.

Continuing to enhance its function is no longer the work of the evolution cavity, it needs to popularize the organ on a large scale, increase the variation base and direct selection.

So, the master immediately ordered: first try the dragon dog, its gene chain is tough enough.

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split pool.

The dragon dog, who was seriously injured some time ago, just ran out of the pool, the mucus on his body was not dry yet, he shook his body, and was about to have fun when he suddenly stopped.

Turned around and jumped back to the split pool...

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By the way, I have to pack a special "highly active sub-heart" for the construction unit. Maybe after the "heart" is installed, the "venomous heart tree" will be built?

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On the ground
Spider Forest.

The master on the throne opened his eyes.

In front of him, stood a strange poisonous body.

It is not a dark reddish-brown like other Zerg buildings, but a delicate emerald green throughout, and it can be clearly seen that its internal circulation system has also grown into leaf veins.If you look closely at its carapace, you can find some wooden lines. At the lower end of the building, there are many thick roots that penetrate into the creeper to absorb nutrients.

The Master stretched out his finger, and the venomous phage quickly developed fan leaves like pitcher plants, wrapped the venomous phage in it, and quickly began to fill the thick slurry.

Part of the tissue of the phage will be rapidly dissolved and remodeled in it.Juggernaut relies on this rapid transformation mechanism to deeply lignify the venomophage within three days.

The cyst squirmed a few times, and in the sky, a handsome king worm was flying from a distance with a ball of cocoons.

Of course, the cocoon brought by Shuaiqiu is not a living heart.The chrysalis is just a mass of thick paste, and its essence is a section of "essence" packaged by the evolution cavity.Contains "hyperactive accessory heart" related nucleic acids and a string of proteins.

With the blessing of "essence", relying on the efficiency of the Zerg, it would not take too long to grow a heart, at most two hours, and the transformation of the circulatory system can be basically completed.

But only half an hour later, a green wave suddenly burst out from the cocoon.

Master can clearly perceive that the poisonous phage in the capsule is being rapidly reshaped.

After just a few breaths, the cocoon burst open.

A poisonous body with green mist rising from its whole body was revealed.Through the vesicles below the venom phage, it can be clearly seen that a green heart is beating vigorously at the central axis of the venom phage.

Its changes are not over yet.

Under the effect of vitality, I saw that the heart continued to expand, getting bigger and bigger.

At the same time, the countless channels on the creeper that were originally used to support the venomous phage became thick and well-developed. After connecting with the heart of the venomous phage, they also pulsated slightly with its beating...

Wait for all changes to complete.

That heart has already become the main body of the building, but it is part of the poisonous body, which has become the "subsidiary tissue" of that giant heart.

A "heart tree" with a venomous body as its heart and a [-]-meter-square creep as its tree, which belongs exclusively to the swarm, was born...

The master witnessed the whole process with his own eyes, and even possessed it through the will of the nest, and completely recorded the whole process of the rapid development of the heart and the change of the positive creep from the two perspectives of psionic energy and genes.

If the similar process is repeated twice, this "heart of the swarm" can be engraved into the DNA chain of the swarm and become a constructable building.

Stretching out his hand, the Juggernaut pressed on the "heart". For a moment, the Juggernaut only felt a warm force filling his body.It's just because of the slumber of body functions, the master himself doesn't feel much, but he can clearly feel that the biological activity of the throne under his buttocks has increased by a bit.

The essence of "Tree Heart" is to gather the overflowing life force in the environment, and actively radiate the extra life force after it can't bear it, and increase the activity of the surrounding units in the form of aura.

"Insect Heart" is a Zerg unit through and through, so it can directly inject life force into the Zerg unit by touching it...

To put it bluntly, the Zerg units have no mutual rejection reaction, and the Zerg units can become part of the "worm heart" through contact.Nature can share life force.

By the same token, all buildings on this creep can become a part of the Worm Heart.Enjoys the efficiency of almost elite unit-level Zerg structures.

But after thinking for a while, the master didn't build a hatch or an evolution chamber around the worm heart.

Instead, they summoned a group of worker bees and began to hatch poisonous phages in batches.

The Overlord needs to use the worm's heart as the core, build a phage array, produce highly active disease-carrying spores and be ready to spread them into the atmosphere at all times.

With such an array, Juggernaut also has the trump card to infect the entire world in a short period of time.

It's just... It's not a small cost to maintain such a piece of venomous body, and it may not be enough to put all the output of the twisted nodules just built.

Master took a deep breath, suppressed his distressed emotions, and patted the armrest.

The throne began to slowly drift towards the spider cave...

Later, I have to throw the throne into the split pool to transform it, this speed is too fast!

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(End of this chapter)