Zerg evolution road

Chapter 8 War Escalation
Water bears are carnivorous creatures, and worms are their best food.

But this time the situation is a little different, as usual, the water bear waits for the arrival of the worm and hunts.

The small life is very chic, um, not bad, today's meat is a little bit chewy and tastes good.

what's the situation?earthquake?The water bear felt that the ground was shaking, and the water waves spread very frequently.

All the water bears turned their heads in the same direction, which was the direction of the fighting creep's attack.

The water bear, which had never been threatened before, suddenly became excited, and also rushed towards the battle worm in a mighty manner.

They don't know that this charge is facing death.

It is completely different to have thinking and not thinking. Zhang Fan controls the battle worm army and can do micro-manipulation.

On the other hand, the army of water bears charged without thinking, trying to bite the battle worms with their stronger mouthparts, but Zhang Fan easily dodged them.

Not only do tardigrades not know fear, they also don't know fatigue, because they never get tired either.

Zhang Fan used wheel battles to deal with the water bears, and gradually the water bears began to lose their strength.

One or two water bears fell down, their mouthparts were still opening and closing, completely unaware that they were exhausted.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the modified cells and the virus entered the water bear's body at the same time.

Imitate, imitate, imitate, devour, devour, and devour.

Another biological map was obtained by Zhang Fan, and he made it at home.

Speaking of water bears, Zhang Fan discovered that this is a creature that has both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.

How can you tell?
First of all, from the appearance, when aerobic respiration, the water bear's skin is brown, which is somewhat different from the gray stones around it, which proves that it has just finished eating.

When breathing without oxygen, the skin is gray, which is waiting for hunting.

In addition, it breathes through the skin, just like a frog, and will produce a lot of air bubbles after eating.

Judging from the current environmental conditions, the oxygen content in the water is still quite high.

The addition of the water bear is like Zhang Fan getting an aircraft carrier, as long as it doesn't go deep into the bottom of the lake, it won't cause any harm.

The next step is to look for snails. Speaking of which, snails are a good home-cooked dish with delicious gravy.

But during this period the snail is a deadly creature.

It has a poisonous needle in its body, and its exterior is covered with a secreted cuticle, like a fortress.

For this kind of creature with strong defense and gluttony, Zhang Fan's method is very simple, that is, let the virus army invade.

Sure enough, as expected, the snail opened its shell and swallowed the worm, and the virus was released instantly.

The water content in snails is actually higher than that in worms, which Zhang Fan did not expect, and there are traces of toxins in the water.

These toxins are like the original virus, and immediately decompose the worm.

Then there is the battle of toxins against viruses.

This toxin is a chemical reaction chain, and the body of the snail will secrete a protective film to protect itself from being infected by the toxin.

This toxin is smaller than a virus, and it is a grain.

Zhang Fan tried to absorb it with a virus, but the problem appeared again. Once this toxin enters the interior in large quantities, the virus can be quickly eliminated.

"So this is your method of confrontation." Zhang Fan thought.

It doesn't matter, now that there are so many others, I don't believe that you can't run out of toxins!
Avoiding the toxin-intensive area, Zhang Fan manipulated a small virus into the snail's body.

The virus starts to play a role, infecting the surrounding environment and destroying the snail's body.

At this time, the snails were not vegetarian either, and used the method of killing each other.

It completely removed its own protective film, and the toxin penetrated into the body, finding the viruses that were destroying.

The two sides fought fiercely, and it was so lively when you came and I went.

Zhang Fan estimated that the snail would be almost dead in one hour, so he dispatched the modified cells to stand by at any time.

But what he didn't expect was that the opponent's toxin sprayed out from the tank, and the modified cells were caught off guard.

The whole body slowly turned purple, which is a sign of poisoning.

Zhang Fan was startled, but the transformed cells resisted tenaciously.

The sphere glowing with purple light is really beautiful, it seems that the modified cells have adapted to the toxin.

Now it's easy to handle, let's make a whole transformation.

In an instant, along with the gene transfer, all of Zhang Fan's bodies turned purple, some dark and some light.

This purple not only resists ultraviolet rays, but also has no effect on the photosynthesis of creepers.

With an anti-drug body, the transformed cells fearlessly entered the snail's body to divide.

"Ka Ka" There were slight cracks on the shell of the snail.

After all shattered, a new purple snail appeared.

Thinking back home, the home also began to synthesize purple snails.

The entire area has turned purple, and it looks like it has been infected by the plague from a high altitude.

There are viruses and toxins, so it is not wrong to say that Zhang Fan is a plague now.

"This direction is really more and more Zerg-like." Zhang Fan vaguely felt this way when the creep appeared before, but now that his body has turned purple, this feeling is getting stronger and stronger.

"Do I want to change the strategic direction to the Zerg next?" Zhang Fan thought.

But first we have to get over the difficulties in front of us.

An area of ​​the current Yaohu District has been corroded.

Zhang Fan is not in a hurry to attack right now, he will sort out the fruits of his labor first.

The biggest achievement is creep, another achievement is poison resistance.

At present, these two are strategic transformation and upgrading, one can provide nutrients through photosynthesis, and the other improves its own offensive and defensive capabilities.

It obtained the genes of the opponent's flat worm and cuticle, the genes of anaerobic and aerobic tardigrades, and the genes of snail armor and venom injection.

This combination greatly improved Zhang Fan's tactical requirements.

The next step is to rectify and re-plan the strategic deployment.

The First Legion has always been a battle worm army. Its body is covered with a thin cuticle, and its mouthparts are also densely packed with sharp teeth. It has a huge number and an army of one million.

The second army is the water bear snail troops. They are mainly responsible for defense. Because it takes time to manufacture, there are not many of them. The water bears also have exoskeletons, which greatly improves the survival rate.

The Third Legion is the United Legion, which is composed of phagocytic cells, T-viruses, modified cells, and flagellates. They are responsible for logistics and cleaning, and they are very efficient and can lurk inside the First and Second Legions at any time.

The conventional troops have already been deployed, and the numbers are huge. The only thing missing now are strategic creatures, such as airdrops.

(End of this chapter)