Bright Sword starts with the grenade flat.

Chapter 406: The Terrible Parasite of the Zerg
Although it seems that the humans on Blue Planet No. 2 are adopting a nuclear winter approach that would kill one hundred enemies but lose a thousand of their own.

But the result was extremely effective. With the coming of nuclear winter, the Zerg Queen could no longer obtain sufficient food.

After all, the Zerg Queen is not picky about food. She can eat not only animals, but also plants and even wood and convert them into nutrients.

However, the temperature on the surface of the earth is now minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. Although the most basic laborers, food porters, and consignors of the Zerg are fearless, they will be frozen to death if they go out in the weather of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius for half an hour.

Therefore, as food becomes less and less, the Zerg Queen has now even begun to eat the lower-level Zerg in her own family to maintain her own life activities.

So according to the current situation, as long as the surviving humans can survive the nuclear winter for more than ten years or even decades, it is very likely that the entire Zerg, including the Zerg Queen, will be killed.

After seeing this situation, Liu Xiu thought about it and felt that it was possible to study the Zerg, but it would be better to send drones and unmanned robots to conduct the research, and humans themselves should not experience it personally.

Of course, the unmanned robots here are remotely controlled by humans, rather than robots with self-awareness.

After all, once the technology of quantum entanglement communication, which can transmit information across time and space, is acquired by the humans wandering on the blue planet, there is no need to worry about signal delays and interference.

Ordinary electromagnetic interference has no effect on quantum entanglement communication. Of course, if we encounter a more advanced civilization that can interfere with quantum entanglement communication, that’s another story.

However, just as Liu Xiu continued to send unmanned exploration spacecraft carrying a large number of unmanned robots to land on Blue Planet No. 2.

The Zerg Queen on Blue Planet No. 2 seemed unwilling to be defeated by the humans on Blue Planet No. 2 in such a mutually destructive way, and she actually started to create some cold-resistant beetles.

And there are not only cold-resistant beetles, but even parasites.

Especially this parasite is so scary and makes people feel terrified.

This thing can parasitize the human body without people noticing, and then continue to absorb nutrients from the human body to develop and reproduce, and finally break out of the body.

The unmanned reconnaissance aircraft sent out by Wandering Blue Star saw this situation. A human survivor base on the plateau was breached by the Zerg from within in this way.

The images captured by the stealth drone at that time were really terrifying. Countless human stomachs suddenly swelled up like balls, and then exploded, and hideous-looking parasites crawled out from them.

This scene not only made the senior executives of Wandering Blue Star feel shivering, but also made Liu Xiu's scalp tingle.

Because Liu Xiu discovered that it was difficult to detect this kind of parasitic behavior using the friend-enemy map. Unless Liu Xiu used the friend-enemy map to observe one by one through the perspective, it would be difficult to determine whether any humans were parasitized.

Moreover, the observations from Liu Xiu's friendly and enemy maps are naturally more detailed than those from stealth drones.

Liu Xiu then discovered an even more shocking situation, which was that the even more shocking thing about these parasites created by the Zerg Queen was that after parasitizing humans, they could actually control the behavior of the parasitized humans.

Of course, this kind of parasite's control over humans is equivalent to the Zerg Queen directly controlling humans.

Liu Xiu used the enemy and friend map to observe that at first a parasite controlled the person in charge of domestic water supply at a survivor base on the plateau, and then the controlled person put a large number of parasite eggs into the domestic water. It was precisely because of this that all the people in the base were infected and parasitized without anyone noticing.

In fact, Liu Xiu was not unfamiliar with things like insect infections and parasites. After all, Liu Xiu had been parasitized by insects before he traveled through time.

Of course, the parasites are not these terrible insects, but roundworms.

This kind of insect is the one that left the deepest impression on Liu Xiu about parasites.

There is no way Liu Xiu would not be impressed! After all, Liu Xiu was only seven or eight years old that year, and he felt that he was always hungry, but even if he ate a lot, he still felt malnourished.

He then went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said that he had roundworms in his stomach, so he prescribed anti-worm medicine and also asked to observe his bowel movements.

Of course, the anti-ascaris medicine prescribed by the doctor tasted very good and sweet. Liu Xiu remembered that it was the only time that he took the medicine and was not urged to take it. Instead, Liu Xiu took the medicine on his own initiative.

And he ate a lot of it. Then when Liu Xiu defecated the next day, he felt shocked, because he didn't expect that the roundworm he excreted would be more than 30 centimeters long.

Seeing the roundworm that was more than 30 centimeters long and half a centimeter in diameter, Liu Xiu, who was only seven or eight years old, was so scared that he ran out of the toilet without even pulling up his pants.

Of course, this incident naturally became an indelible shadow in Liu Xiu's heart for the rest of his life.

It was precisely because of this incident that Liu Xiu took the initiative to take anti-worm medicine for several years without his parents' urging to ensure that the roundworms in his body were completely eliminated.

However, although roundworms look scary, they are one of the few non-lethal parasites in nature. After all, compared with some other parasites, roundworms are relatively mild and gentle to the host.

You have to know that in Liu Xiu's time, the rate of children being infected with roundworms was as high as 60 to 70 percent!
That is to say, six or seven out of every ten children are parasitized by roundworms. However, even with such a high parasitism rate, there are only a few cases of large-scale deaths caused by roundworm parasitism.

Of course, most of them are like Liu Xiu, suffering from malnutrition caused by roundworm parasitism, and the most serious ones are because the roundworms in the body are too large, leading to intestinal obstruction, appendicitis, intestinal perforation, etc.

Of course, this type of situation can be easily cured as long as you seek medical treatment in time. It is not an incurable disease like cancer.

And the most important thing is that if your own resistance is good, parasites such as roundworms can be excreted from the body on their own without taking medicine.

Of course, compared to roundworms, the parasite created by the Zerg Queen is like a big devil. Not only can it make humans unaware, it can even control humans to achieve what it wants.

However, although the parasites of the Zerg Queen are powerful, there is also a kind of parasite in nature that can be compared with the parasites created by the Zerg Queen.

That’s right, in Liu Xiu’s impression, the only parasite that can be compared with the parasites created by the Zerg Queen is the iron wire worm.

Of course, Liu Xiu didn't know much about parasites like iron wire worms at first, but it was not until a movie called Iron wire worm invasion that Liu Xiu had a deep understanding of iron wire worms, and even developed a psychological trauma towards things like mantises.

(End of this chapter)