Zerg in the crystal wall system world

Chapter 6 The Army of Insects
two hours later.

The master opened his eyes.

The creep coverage expanded to about the size of two football fields.

Looking down from above, the dark purple in a forest is already slightly eye-catching.

Agatha has already infected a large army, and the ruler can see this clearly in "The Road".

A snake, two squirrels, five small lizards, nine mice, a pile of bird eggs, and tens of thousands of different kinds of bugs—mainly ants and termites.

There is only one large animal for the time being, the leopard strangled to death by the master.The virus repaired the damage on its spine, but the price was that a large tumor grew on its neck, and because it had been dead for too long, part of the nerve tissue was deactivated, and its movements were as if it had suffered from a cerebral thrombosis for three years, and it was impossible to climb trees. .

The overlord's main attention was on the pile of bird eggs.

Because of the existence of Agatha, the more important problem now is the ignorance of the surrounding environment than the lack of defense forces.

He urgently needs to know what the world is like now, whether there are human beings, and if so, what is the level of technology.Are there any difficult enemies in a radius of [-] square kilometers.And a group of infected birds is very suitable for investigation work.

It's just a pity that the adult birds were very cautious. The creep spread to the tree trunk and flew away halfway, failing to catch any live ones.

Juggernaut put his hand on the creep and used psionic energy to link.

This piece of creep tissue immediately began to split and proliferate at a high speed, and the surrounding creep tissue also squirmed and flowed towards the bottom of his hand.The creep became thicker and gradually became looser and more porous, puffing up like steamed buns. After a while, a nest version of the incubator was formed impressively.

The overlord picked up a bird egg that had been collected.

The psionic link is in the bird's egg, and the ruler found the infected young bird embryo. While looking for relevant experience from the nest will, he began to modify it by comparison.

The hyper-evolved virus works by inserting zerg genes into the DNA of the infected animal.

However, the basic class virus without any mutation will not cause deep zergization of the infected.In addition to the tougher and rougher skin and the growth of large and small horny spines, it only changes some functional proteins in the body of the infected person, such as more efficient myosin, respiratory proteins with more oxygen carrying capacity... How long will a few of them last? Several organs, but the deformity rate will be very high.

It's just because the nervous system is eroded, the action will appear slow and stiff, and the overburden of the gene chain will bring about various tentacles and tumors. It is difficult to say whether the assimilated creature is getting stronger. Yes, it's still weak.

But if the infection starts from fertilized eggs, none of the above problems will appear.

Creep dominates from the beginning, and will not devour the infected and induce tumors in order to compete for nutrients.Viruses can also be maximally effective.Some units can even modify infected units through specific instructions.

I don't know if it's the effect of psionic energy, or an organ in my transformed body that hasn't fully fallen asleep. Master can predict the future appearance of the bird egg to a certain extent when modifying the gene of the bird egg.

It's just that it is the first generation after all, without the cooperation of Zerg organs, and the super-evolved virus also has limits, and there are not many places that the master can modify.

However, the infected can also continue to deepen the process of zergization with the accumulation of generations, and cultivate a more targeted and efficient super-evolved virus... Finally, this unit can be included in the swarm, which can Hatch directly from larvae in the hatchery.

It's just that this kind of assimilation route starting from viruses has not been used much in the history of the swarm.

In most cases, the swarm throws the species they like into the split pool, and the genes are "uploaded" to the hatchery and the evolution chamber-the assimilation is complete.

After grooming a bird egg, the master inserted the egg into the puffed creep blanket, and the master picked up the second bird egg.

Before waiting for the link, he noticed the "troops" around and standing guard waiting by his side.

The master simply ordered Agatha to direct these gadgets to do something:

Snakes, squirrels, and lizards go to trees to find bird nests and remove their eggs.

The mouse went to dig a hole.

The hard or soft nature of Creep means that it is ideal as a "cover" for trap pits, which can be used to increase the surrounding defense force when the number of troops on hand is insufficient.

As for the bugs... assist the creep to expand underground, and strive to dig into the underground coal seam as soon as possible.

I don't know how long it took, after the ruler stuffed the last bird's egg into the puffed bird's nest, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, and leaned back on the chair back.

Yes, the back of the chair. When the master sat down, the creeps began to proliferate and gather under his body. After he modified a dozen or so eggs, the structure similar to a sofa supported his body, and Constantly adjusting with his sitting posture and bone structure, a perfect ergonomic seat is formed.

The Juggernaut stood up, turned around and patted the seat twice.Water-like ripples spread out on the creep sofa, looking extremely bombastic.

Sigh again, the material of creep can change at will is really a black technology of Zerg.

I don't know what time it is.

The master raised his head subconsciously, only to find that the sky was covered with stars, and a full moon hung high in the sky.Apparently it was already late at night.

But everything around is still as bright as day in the eyes of Juggernaut.

Low-light vision.

The zerg have extraordinary dark adaptation ability as a race that travels through the tunnel network all year round.

Even if his body is still in a state of deep sleep, just the optical structure of his eyes still gives him the ability to see things at night.

Creep expansion, troop infection absorption, and genetic modification attracted most of his attention.Juggernaut didn't notice the nightfall in a daze.

only……

"Why don't I feel hungry?" The Master asked subconsciously, and then reacted, turning his head to look at Agatha, "Wait, how often do I need to eat?"

Because of the excessive nerve burden, Agatha paused for a moment before replying to the master: "Under normal circumstances, your psionic energy is enough to support the body's energy consumption. So your body has not considered the ability to eat. Of course, you You can order Creep to develop special organs to synthesize exclusive nutrients for you and inject them into your body."

The essence of psionic energy is the void energy that is pulled into reality by the will of the hive and filtered and transformed. It comes from outside the world. From a certain perspective, dominating the body is equivalent to relying on the entire swarm for support, and it does not violate the conservation of energy.

The chest cavity and abdominal cavity of the human body are only that big. For an individual like Zerg Master who doesn't pursue individual survivability, it's too wasteful to fill it with digestive organs such as the stomach and intestines.It's better to separate the eating function and let the creep be responsible, so as to make room for other organs.

"A lot of Zerg units don't have a digestive system." Agatha, whose two claws meet in the face, is a good example.Not to mention the digestive system, the queen doesn't even have a mouth.

"Looks like I still have a mouth."

"Yes, you can analyze and obtain the essence of biological tissue by devouring it." Agatha said, "It also has the function of absorbing nutrients to a certain extent, but this alone cannot obtain enough types of nutrients. In order to completely digest the residue, it will Consumes more energy."

"Complete digestion? Then mine... wait! I don't want to know, please don't tell me!"

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When the topic of the two people's discussion became more and more biased, Agatha suddenly became silent, and gave an early warning: "I have sensed abnormal psionic energy fluctuations, please master to prepare for battle."

After the words fell, the master also noticed that there were several abnormal large bags on the creep blanket not far away.

The creep bulges are getting bigger and bigger, and Juggernaut can even see the abnormal light surging under the creep tissue that is almost stretched into a thin film...

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(End of this chapter)