Zerg evolution road

Chapter 11 Hive Worker Bees
The continent where Zhang Fan is located is a supercontinent called Pangea, with an area of ​​about 1 million square kilometers.

Relatively speaking, both Life Lake and Yaohu are very small individuals.

The entire continent is located in the north, and the north occupies most of the area.

Above 20 degrees north latitude, the entire northern continent is covered, while to the south it is an endless ocean.

Zhang Fan's hometown is located in the south-east of Pangea.

Yaohu Lake is actually not too far away, it is also east of the south, but it is closer to the center.

Although the terrain is high, it is rich in water resources.

Through the monsoon phenomenon of land and sea, there will be a three-month rainy season every year, but the subsequent dry season will make most life a little bit too much.

So whichever side owns the lake, there is life.

The size of the lake determines the length of life. The reason is that Zhang Fan has occupied the two largest lakes in the southeast region, and he can enjoy a huge amount of accumulated water every year, so there is no need to worry about water resources at all.

These days, he is busy making hives.

The hive is the nest built by the bees, the place where they live and reproduce their offspring. It is composed of a comb and composed of many regular hexagonal beeswax cells.

Zhang Fan appropriated it and used it as his own base. The internal structure has tended to be perfect, so he doesn't plan to make too many changes.

The honeycomb structure has higher strength and stiffness than other sandwich structures. The size, height and thickness of the honeycomb cells in the interlayer and the thickness of the thin slices that make up the lattice determine the critical stress of the local buckling of the surface plate and the buckling of the cell wall.

All in all, this structure is very strong.

The general design has been completed, and then the construction of the first base will begin.

But who will complete this great project?
The only aquatic organisms that can be used are water bears, but they do not have the ability to grab materials, so they simply give up.

When Zhang Fan was thinking, he saw the trilobite, and he thought of the worker bee in StarCraft.

This kind of worker bee is not a bee. He is the basic construction unit of the Zerg. It looks more like a scorpion and belongs to arthropods.

The mouthparts are similar to scissors, which can cut minerals or the neck of the enemy. There are a pair of huge claws on the left and right. The eight legs provide the worker bees with a faster movement speed. There is a layer of webbed between the legs, which can move in the water.

There is a hard armor on the back, which extends to the tail. The tail is short and thick, which is to balance the weight of the giant claws at the front.

Zhang Fan already knew the external shape, but what about the internal organs?
A heart is a must. This is the pump that provides biological power. The stronger the heart beats, the stronger the vitality of the organism.

Although Zhang Fan has made hearts, those are small hearts. Although the heart rate beats fast, the power provided is not high.

For worker bees, it is definitely not enough. He must have a strong heart and be able to undertake high-intensity work.

In addition, the stomach is an indispensable organ, which is the place where food is digested and the source of energy, including the large and small intestines.

Zhang Fan did not consider such things as lungs and kidneys for the worker bees. The lungs can be replaced by skin, and this gene can be extracted from the water bear.

The kidney has the functions of detoxification and reproduction, but Zhang Fan's worker bees can completely rely on the bacteria in the body to detoxify. The efficiency of detoxification is very high, and they all reproduce asexually. Cells can be spliced ​​together, and there is no need to consider the docking of chromosomes.

In addition, the most important thing is the brain, which was also removed by Zhang Fan. Just kidding, Zhang Fan can completely control all the cells in the worker bee, what brain do you want.

The basic appearance has been completed, and Zhang Fan started to implement it. The implementation process is quite difficult. As far as the heart is concerned, countless plans have been tried, but they all ended in failure.

These hearts either didn't pace enough, or couldn't work properly, so Zhang Fan had to reduce the size of the worker bees, using the water bear's heart as the standard.

The skin was also copied from the tardigrade, and the appearance was soon completed. After installing the heart and stomach, Zhang Fan began to make the eight legs of the worker bees.

This leg is one of the characteristics of arthropods, with tiny hairs on it to enhance friction, muscular and encased in an exoskeleton.

The legs are carefully crafted, and the muscles are referenced to worms. Some of the larger worms have evolved muscle cells.

Zhang Fan had eaten crabs before, and knew how the two pairs of giant claws should be connected, so he could divide them into three sections.

At the top of the first section, a part is fixed, and a part is designed to be movable, and a movement axis is designed.

The moving part is larger, and the two muscles are connected to the exoskeleton. The movement axis is not centered, and it is biased to one side, so that the pulling force is longer and stronger force can be generated.

In order to enhance the strength of the giant claws, Zhang Fan designed a hydraulic system, which is a system that contracts muscles by excluding water flow.

The other two parts are movable arms, which are made in a similar way to legs, with a thicker shape and rich muscle cells.

The next step is to make the exoskeleton. The only creature with an exoskeleton is the trilobite.

Considering the issue of defense, Zhang Fan thickened the entire exoskeleton, and the entire worker bee suddenly became bloated.

These exoskeletons can contain a lot of water, so they won't die from the sun when driving on land.

The web between the legs can be said to be the simplest, just splice those dead cells together tightly, and then combine them with the eight legs through muscle cells.

In addition, the teeth on the mouthparts have the same properties as the exoskeleton. In order to make it easier to eat, they did not design too long sharp teeth.

The whole worker bee is made in this way, and its body size is only 10 cm. Although it is a little small, its work efficiency is quite high.

Under Zhang Fan's search operation, the hive was continuously filled.

The honeycomb link relies on a kind of glue, which is like a shriveled cell wall, firmly fixing it. During this process, Zhang Fan made a large number of load-bearing cell walls to provide the support of the honeycomb.

The construction of the first-generation worker bees and the first-generation base is completed, and Zhang Fan will then consider making brain worms.

Why make brain worms?
This is an intelligent unit that must be developed in order to speed up the evolution of the Zerg, such as thinking and analyzing evolutionary potential or performing biological simulation.

In the future, the cerebrum can achieve the function of conveying its own ideas and expanding the organization. The cerebrum will not die due to any attack, and will eventually be resurrected by Zhang Fan.

No matter how powerful an ordinary person is, it is impossible to completely control hundreds of millions of people.

But if you have more sub-units, each managing an aspect, it's a lot easier.

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