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Chapter 1457 1454. Stay Calm! How could such a great cause as Gene Ascension not go astray?

Almost ten hours after the Battle of Deep Shadow City, when the stone pillars representing the time scale of one day in the Shadow Elf City roared, and under the influence of psychic energy, a ball of white flame emitting light and heat was pushed high into the sky along the stone pillars, announcing the arrival of a new day.

The family guards patrolling the city began to change shifts, and the psionicists also sent another group of apprentices to repair the damage to the city walls. The civilians who had just left the shelters searched for things that could still be used in the ruins of their houses.

The people in the Deep Shadow Tower were also very busy; they had hardly any rest the whole night.

This elven city that had just experienced an insect plague was running like a clockwork machine. There were also many Transians from foreign countries who were touring the city to appreciate the exotic customs. Some were even looking for people in the city to help the Transian shadow elves bring letters back from home.

Some of the more sentimental people are now enjoying the peace between the wars in the pubs in the city.

However, while the players were given a day off, their main NPC, Lord Murphy, was not idle. The Vampire Governor was yawning at this time, being protected by the Silver Moon Group, and moving towards the insect nest along yesterday's battlefield.

"What's wrong with you, Master Murphy? You look so bad, as if you have lost a lot of vitality. You look so weak and sick. Can a powerful vampire like you get sick?"

Terranova, riding her cool "Monkey Swarm Lord" mount, came over curiously and asked, but was glanced at by Murphy with an expressionless look.

The Vampire Governor was unwilling to answer this terrible question.

The main reason was that his waist and pelvis were still aching and kept protesting as if they wanted to go on strike. The protest of his body was so violent that his sitting posture while riding the black unicorn given by Grandmother Shadow was a little crooked.

Trish and Adele must have gone crazy last night.
Murphy complained like this, but in fact, he knew very well why his wife and lover "punished" him in that way, so he did not dare to get angry. He could only be treated as a plaything by the two vampires and ravaged by them all night.

The young Terranova had intended to continue asking questions, in order to show off her part-time job as a doctor and examine Lord Murphy to improve his favorability. However, when she was racking her brains to continue the topic, she was immediately pulled away by Madam Water in the name of other things.

As a married woman, Mrs. Shui knew what the problem was as soon as she saw Lord Murphy's sitting posture.

She was trying to save Terranova, who was silly and couldn't read the air, to prevent this guy from asking too many questions and being quietly put on the blacklist of the "Black Hand Clan" by the angry Lord Murphy.

Thinking back to the Black Disaster, she was imprisoned in the Black Hand Clan for casually interfering in the relationship between Adele and Lord Murphy. She stayed there for more than a month before being released. She didn't want her little sisters to experience that again.

She is not a masochist like Brother Wumiao, who clings to the throne of the chieftain of the Black Hand Clan and is unwilling to share it with others.

"How did you breed these two bugs?"

When Murphy saw Nova being pulled away by Lady Water, he felt that it was a bit cheap for an intern creator to have the same knowledge as a foreign girl, so he found a topic to ask Jim Raynor, an entomologist who was also riding a "downgraded version of the Swarm Lord" next to him.

Renault, who was sorting files with a database-model computing orb, raised his eyebrows when he heard Murphy's question.

As a truly ordinary player, let alone improving Lord Murphy's reputation, it was his first time to carry out missions with the main NPCs, so he was quite nervous, just like a graduate student who had messed up an experiment and faced questions from his supervisor, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

He thought for a moment and said to Murphy:
"Nova is quite radical. She originally planned to use the enhanced genome in the genetic messenger of the Zerg to transform our scarabs, but Boss Matcha said that this would not work. Although part of the Zerg's genes were derived from the blueprint of the scarab, the two have already formed a difference in the level of life.

To give an inappropriate example, just like the difference between Homo sapiens and modern humans, the genes of the two cannot be mixed casually.

Therefore, with the assistance of Madam Cement, we used the Creator's gene weaving technology to extract some superior samples from the gene messengers and reorganized them, and then biologically enhanced our scarabs.

Of course, the two insects you see are successful cases after three enhancements, representing the breakthrough progress of the ancient profession of insect tamer in this era.

The two bugs we strengthened already have destructive power close to that of the Golden Ones. Of course, wild beasts have their own power system, but according to the royal insect trainer of the Songhai Empire, Nova's and my bugs already have the potential to become legendary creatures.

Unfortunately, Palom's gene sample was wasted in a failed experiment. Otherwise, with the current life forms of our two bugs, they would be able to carry out such a dangerous attempt."

"Well, that sounds amazing."

Murphy stroked his chin and asked:

"So which one is more powerful, your bugs or my summoner apprentice Xiao Fu's manticore?"

Hearing Murphy's chess-like question, Jim wanted to scold that this comparison similar to "who is stronger, a tiger or a lion" was very stupid, but he didn't dare to offend the main NPC, so he could only say awkwardly:
“If it comes to combat power, then Xiao Fu Ge’s stinky treasure is definitely more powerful.

That guy has already completed the Lord Challenge of the Star Scorpion Lion and has his own territory and mate in the Star Realm. At least he has reached the realm of lower-level legendary creatures.

But if we talk about potential, our bugs are definitely more powerful!
The demigod of the Star Realm Scorpion Lion tribe died eight hundred years ago. No matter how rich Little Rich is, he can't afford to buy a demigod. But as long as Nova and I continue to work hard and find more genetic samples of the dragon worm, then our worms may be able to break through the boundaries of demigods in the future and become legendary worms like Palom and Hades! "

"Ding"

As soon as Jim finished speaking, the personally triggered legendary quest "A New Miracle of the Swarm" jumped into the player interface of him and Terra Nova.

The mission content says that Lord Murphy thinks the entomologist's ambition is great, so he decides to assist this reckless ideal. As long as Jim and Nova can strengthen the two bugs to the level of "Beast Lord", he will take the initiative to help them obtain genetic samples of sun bugs and dead moon bugs to help the birth of a new generation of demigods in the insect swarm.

But the problem is that Jim himself knows that he is just bragging.

It has taken a lot of effort for him and Nova to strengthen their bugs to the current level. Further research will require not only technological strength but also luck. The deeper the genetic strengthening, the more likely problems will occur.

If one thing goes wrong, both of them will lose the insects they have now.

Jim himself is fine, but Nova treats the two bugs as "children".

Therefore, after this dangerous legendary quest was triggered, Terranova, who was talking to Lady Water, immediately screamed and rushed over, pushed her pale-faced boyfriend aside, and started fighting with him while screaming.

This scene made everyone in the Silver Moon Group very upset. The mean Little Potato came to mediate but actually added fuel to the fire and almost triggered a PK between a boyfriend and girlfriend.

And Murphy.
Well, the petty-minded Lord Murphy finally got his revenge for Nova's casual exploration of his privacy.

The change in Murphy's expression was seen by Madam Shui, who had been observing him. The wife felt that Lord Murphy was indeed a dark guy. Just as she was about to complain to Sister Pomegranate beside her, she saw Murphy suddenly turned his head and looked at her with a subtle look. Madam Shui was so scared that she coughed immediately and pretended that she knew nothing.

Ah, it's really enough to have such a main NPC.

But to be honest, Murphy has been generous enough.

The genetic samples of sun worms and dead moon worms are not something that can be obtained easily, especially the latter. Hades has become a god. If you want to get some flesh and blood samples from him, unless Nova and Jim hire a group of godslayers to start a war of gods, only Murphy can do it.

Therefore, this mission is indeed risky, but the benefits are also considerable. After the two entomologists calmed down, the Silver Moon Group discussed for a while and decided to invest in this project!
This group of sisters who have neither lack of money nor resources want to see whether the players can cultivate true legendary creatures and witness them cross the line of demigod.

Of course, the elite players have not forgotten the main mission of today's outing.

Calculating the time, the gene bomb bugs commissioned by the "Abyss Sisters Courier" to be delivered on the battlefield yesterday should have completed assimilation with the hive, and the first batch of bugs born under its influence should have entered the swarm sequence. They came here to observe this result.

"As long as one-third of the bugs are affected by the 'out-of-control evolution' genome, the mission of this genetic bug will be accomplished!"

Nova rode on her beloved Pseudo-Zerg Lord and said to the others in the team, "Once the weapon test is successfully completed, we can start using this idea to develop a truly lethal targeted genome to eliminate the Zerg. The knowledge, samples, and vectors are all ready. We only need to confirm the technical route, and we can complete the weaponization of the genetic worms in fifteen days."

“So, what exactly should we be watching for?”

The druid master Huo Zige was leaning on a thornwood cane made from branches of the Pale Tree. He asked:
"It's impossible for such a small number of people to attack the center of the hive, so they must grab samples randomly, right?"

"Well, we don't need to attack the center of the hive."

Jim added:

"As Madam Shui said yesterday, once a large-scale genetic disorder occurs in the insect swarm, the nest master insects will most likely take the initiative to kill those 'unhealthy' guys. They are creatures that pursue evolution and have zero tolerance for defective products.

Therefore, we only need to determine whether cannibalism occurs inside the hive to determine whether the genetic weapon is effective.
Look!
Abandoned insect corpses have appeared here!"

The war bug under him made a strange buzzing sound, which made Jim immediately smell some exciting changes. He let go of the reins and let his dragon beetle carry him to a certain direction, with everyone following behind.

A few minutes later, they arrived at a tunnel dug by the ratmen near the insect nest. Murphy's powerful perception allowed him to immediately capture what was in the tunnel.

Corpse!

The dead bodies of insects were scattered everywhere.

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Judging from the postures of the dying insects, they did not even resist the perpetrators, but accepted their fate calmly.

When everyone arrived here, they could see a group of normal flying insects dragging some thinner and even obviously disabled insects and throwing them into the tunnel, as if leaving them to fend for themselves.

"Don't they bring all the dead bugs back to the nest to reuse the biomass?"

Xiao Ashina exclaimed:

"It's not like a bug to be so wasteful!"

"You are stupid."

This time, Lady Judy, who came with her sisters, tapped her daughter on the head and said:
"Didn't your sister Nova tell you? These bugs are contaminated. The swarm won't use their biomass. They're afraid that similar contamination will be transmitted to other healthy bugs through the fungal mat."

"No, no, no, Aunt Judy, that's not what I meant."

Nova immediately corrected:
"To be precise, these discarded bugs are not infected with diseases. They just have problems with their evolutionary direction. Theoretically, they are all healthy. The reason they are not reused is that the nest master insects have determined that these 'evolutionary failures' do not conform to the principles of insect swarm evolution."

"So, this is another effect of 'runaway evolution'?"

Murphy said:
"Forcing the swarm to voluntarily abandon these weak individuals, thus causing them to waste biomass?"

"Yes! There are factors in this regard, which weaken their logistical resources."

Nova nodded and said:
"But the most direct result is that the 'correct answer' has been changed, turning the Zerg's open-book exam into a closed-book exam. As long as this genome can be spread to the Zerg, the evolutionary direction of the entire Zerg will be disrupted and enter a chaotic system. Whether it can accurately evolve advantageous traits depends entirely on luck."

“There are some ‘unexpected benefits’!”

Jim looked into the tunnel with a telescope, and after a few minutes he said:

"Come on! We caught a big fish."

He rushed down with the players, bypassing the soldier insects that were "executing" the failed insects that tried to escape, rummaging through a pile of insect corpses, and finally dragged a strange-looking insect out of the "corpse pit".

This insect has very strong vitality.

It must have been expelled from the incubation room at the birth stage and could not swallow more nutrients, which made it unable to complete the molting smoothly. But when Murphy saw the unique black shell of this worm, he immediately realized what the "big fish" Jim was talking about.

"Is this a giant dragon?"

Murphy said:
"It also evolved out of control?"

"Yes, look at its claws!"

Jim placed the dragon larva that had failed to molt on the ground. He and Nova examined it while they spoke to the other players who had gathered around:
"This fellow's evolutionary direction should have been dragon armor and dragon claws, which is a powerful evolutionary route that has been adopted by the insect swarm. But unfortunately, it mutated. Its chitinous shell is too thick compared to other dragon insects, so it cannot break out of the shell through its own efforts. It has no dragon breath ability at all, but has grown four dragon claws.

This is obviously a specialization for physical attacks.

However, it overemphasized offensive capabilities and lost agility, speed, and long-range attack. This form does not conform to the evolutionary path summarized by the Zerg in previous battles. Its poor speed can only be used for defense and it cannot participate in the Zerg attack, which sharply reduces its value!

We guessed right.

The Hive Master would rather lose precious biomass than leave such a mutant individual to "pollute" the pure gene pool of the Hive."

“But it looks amazing.”

Little Potato seemed to associate her own situation with the "disabled bug" in front of her. She bit her lip and said reluctantly:
"It was abandoned just because it didn't match the Zerg's fighting style? That's too much of an abandonment, isn't it? Then can we keep it? I can learn the skills of a tamer, can I keep it?"

"Unfortunately, no."

Nova, who had entered the working state, answered without even looking up:

"Although it was abandoned, this dragon still abides by the cruel rule of devoting itself to the 'Scale Father'. It will not obey any other master except the Scale Father. Boss Matcha and we have also tried to crack this 'loyalty gene', but unfortunately, this thing is probably not just a supernatural force acting on the genetic level and cannot be modified artificially.

We will bring it back to study as a special specimen.”

"and many more!"

Little Ashina reached out to stop Nova. She blinked and said:
"As long as Scale Father is here, they won't obey anyone else, but what if Scale Father is gone? What if Scale Father is killed by us? With the help of Lord Hades's authoritative summons to the insect swarm, can it respond to the call of the insect trainer?"

"Uh"

This question made Nova hesitate.

She glanced at her boyfriend, and after a few words, she said:
"Perhaps it is possible, but it is also possible that at the moment when Scale Father dies, all the bugs in the world will fall into an irreversible frenzy. We dare not guarantee it for you, Little Potato. But I will keep it until the end. If there is hope, we will help you 'adopt' it."

(End of this chapter)