Azeroth Shadow Trail

   Chapter 1194 290. Poor genes! There is no collection value, it is recommended to throw it into the larvae nest-【Seeking Monthly Ticket 33】

   "How many bugs are there?"

On the way to the giant insect nest on Shanze Island following General Lireza, the "commander of the insect swarm" who had no choice but to greet guests, Taran Zhu looked at the busy and orderly army of worker insects and felt uncomfortable. Sect Master Zhu couldn't help but ask.

   "How many? It's a layman's question, you should ask how many groups are there, not how many."

  Windrunner's mother scoffed at the question, saying:

   "That's a number beyond your imagination. If you count the eggs that haven't hatched yet, it's probably comparable to the number of pandaren in the Jade Forest?

   Of course, not every worm egg can be hatched, but even if only two-thirds of the battle worms can hatch, the mantid will face challenges at the quantitative level. "

   "But doesn't it take time for bugs to grow?"

  Little Mage Jaina also asked a question she was curious about when she was in the Silithus desert.

   At that time, she was going to join the battle, but because the annoying Mr. Black gave her a hypnotism, she slept in Cenarion Fortress for three whole days, and missed the battle with the bug perfectly.

   The little mage's knowledge of the swarm is limited to the information that her stupid sister Fenna said when she was bragging.

   "You have so many questions, but I don't have that much time to answer your questions.

  I am going to work, there will be someone to answer your questions. In addition, don't walk around on Shanze Island, some swarm hunters are not perfect for their pet control

   I mean, it would be very troublesome if you were eaten. "

  General Lireza, who was already an undead, was very tired of answering questions, so she made a random excuse to escape, and called her adjutant, Black's titular disciple, Imuriel Shadowguard, to answer these "basic questions".

  The summoned Miss Shadowguard quickly flew over on her own lord of the swarm, which was a gray-white flying insect covered in heavy **** armor.

   looks very intimidating.

  Especially when its thick sickle opens and closes, it is exactly the same as the predatory action of a mantis.

   However, her swarm lord is in the low-level position of the forward commander in the Qiraji command system, and is not as "high-level" as General Lireza's Princess Yalki.

   "Yo, little Jaina. Oops, I should call you 'Lord Commander' now."

   After a period of cultivation, Miss Yingwei is obviously in a good mood.

   She jumped down from behind her flying insect lord with agile movements and landed next to the little mage, and did not so standard a monk etiquette to Taran Zhu.

   I wished the Sect Master to return the gift, and asked Jaina's previous question again.

   "Ah, this, generally speaking, it does take time for larvae to grow into adults, but after the swarm as a whole enters a state of war, the growth time of larvae can be greatly shortened."

   Miss Shadowguard who was in a good mood took Jaina and Taran Zhu to continue to move towards the hive, walking on the bad creep, she turned back and explained to the two:

   "Bugs are really amazing creatures. The druids of the Cenarion Circle have been studying their habits for a while, and they found that the lord of bugs can speed up the growth of larvae through special hormones.

   is like giving an order, and then the larvae will complete development within a day or two by means of heavy feeding, but such rapid growth is done at the expense of the lifespan of the worm.

   Even if these 'ripened' bugs can survive the war, they will not be able to live for more than ten years like other bugs, and they will die within a month of birth.

   Therefore, such a 'war order' is also an emergency measure for the swarm. "

After   , the Shadow Guard pointed to the ground outside the worm's nest and said:

   "You see that Shanze Island has been scraped off a layer of ground within a few days, that is, the swarm is preparing enough food for the fast-growing larvae.

   Of course, just an island is not enough.

   The currently hatched larvae are just enough to start a raid, and when enough mantid are killed, the remaining larvae will really start mass breeding.

  According to the estimates of several swarm hunters, the real swarm may take three to five days after the war to form. "

   "That is, our warriors need to buy three to five days for the swarm?"

   Taran Zhu narrowed his eyes.

   He thought about it in his heart, and then looked at the dense insect eggs hanging around the big insect nest. The monk leader saw the war potential of these insect swarm hunters with his own eyes.

   Although he was still disgusted in his heart, he quickly made up his mind.

   "A battle with the mantid for even three days would have caused horrific casualties, but such casualties were avoidable."

   Sect Master Zhu rubbed his chin and said to Miss Shadow Guard:

   "Do you bugs eat food? Rice, wheat, sorghum, etc.?"

   "They eat everything!"

   Miss Emeril seemed to remember some unbearable scene, she covered her eyes and said:

"In extreme starvation, they even devour each other. When a sample of the swarm was transported to Moonglade, our hunter neglected to prepare food for the box, and when it arrived, there was nothing but a swarm of worms left. one head.

   That guy made himself fat and strong, and even mutated his body because he swallowed too many of his own kind, and almost scared the little Druid sister who was in charge of receiving it to death on the spot. "

   "Then we provide you with enough food, can you make your swarm reach the limit before the war starts?"

   Zhu Taran blinked and said:

   "If we can let these evil bugs charge, then our side can effectively reduce losses, and the soldiers are very fast. If we can defeat the mantid army in a short time, it will be good for us.

   Keeping your evil bugs in Pandaria for one more day is a terrible danger to the order of the land. "

"sure."

   Shadowguard looked at Taran Zhu with a puzzled expression, and she said:

   "But to meet the needs of so many bugs, the food you have to provide is an astronomical amount. Do you have that much food? Don't starve your own people because of a war."

   "The tradition of Pandaren making wine with grain has lasted for nearly 10,000 years, Shadowguard."

   The little mage shook his head and explained:

   "The most important thing in Pandaria is food. I saw their granary when I passed by the Valley of the Four Winds before. Seriously, pandaren could use their food to kill human civilization.

   You don't have to worry about this.

   And I also agree with Mr. Zhu’s opinion.

  Although this is my first time as a commander, I think if we can reduce casualties on our side, it should be a great boost to morale. "

   "Then start now?"

   Shadow Guard accepted the suggestion without much hesitation. She looked at Taran Zhu and said:

   "When can you bring the food over?"

   "No special transshipment required."

   Master Zhu shook his head and said:

   "There is enough food in Niuzao Temple. I will go back and prepare. The first batch of food will be delivered this afternoon last night. How long will it take for the number of insect swarms to reach the limit?"

   "If there is enough food, two to three days."

   Shadow Guard calculated the time and said:

   "It will also take three days for the Nydus worms to dig the underground tunnel. At that time, the swarm will be divided into two, one team will support the front line, and the other team will directly attack the Queen's palace from the rear under the command of the swarm hunter.

The    mantid are also descendants of the Aqir Empire, they are also special bugmen, and they also have the will of the swarm.

   Therefore, the tactics against the Qiraji can be applied to them, as long as the Queen Shek'zeer is killed, the command system of the mantid will be in terrible chaos. "

   "Very good, I will personally lead the elite monks to join this beheading battle!"

   Zhu Taran's eyes flashed a cold light, he said:

   "Pandaren have been exhausted by the mantid's once-in-a-hundred-year cycle of reincarnation, and this problem should be resolved in our time."

   After he finished speaking, he made a monk etiquette to the Shadow Guard, turned around and left and went back to allocate resources.

   And watching Taran Zhu leave, Emeriel said with emotion:

   "This Sect Leader Zhu is really an outlier among the pandaren. He is indifferent to outsiders but warm to his own people. Although he sometimes speaks rudely, he does not reject beneficial powers because of his stubbornness."

   "Master Zhu is indeed a qualified leader, and he has a lot for me to learn."

   Jaina also nodded.

   She is also ready to leave and go back to deal with the heavy military affairs.

But when I left the big insect nest on another road, I saw an amazingly large and brightly colored Qiraji lord doing something very "strange" to a few captured mantid in a worm nest space .

  The giant Qiraji flapped its dragonfly-like wings and hovered in the air.

   On a black altar in front of it, the mantid injected with paralyzing poison knelt there like a sacrifice.

   And the Flying Insect Lord used his sharp mouthparts like a dagger to pierce the mantid's skull, absorbing its bodily fluids, making the elite mantid twitch and tremble.

   After a few seconds, the unfortunate egg lost its breath of life, and a few small flying insects flew over and lifted the shriveled corpse that had been drained and sent it to the larval hatching room on the other side.

   This cruel scene made Jaina widen her eyes.

   If the other little girls were here, they might have been frightened, but Jaina is an archmage after all, and she has seen some more cruel experiments in Dalaran.

   She resisted the discomfort in her heart, turned her head to look at Emeril, and said:

   "What is this doing? Is this some kind of interrogation between bugs?"

   "Uh, let's not talk about it."

  Emeriel was also a little uncomfortable with this scene. She reached out to cover Jaina's eyes and whispered:

   "I'm afraid you'll have nightmares at night, go back quickly, don't listen to the dark secrets of these swarms."

   "This is Ayamis' excellent gene for selecting the swarm."

  Emeriel wasn't going to say it, but the other guy didn't hide it.

   The Beastmaster Rexxar, who was dragging a few "fresh" mantid just caught with a rope, took his big bear Misha into the worm's nest. He explained in a loud voice:

"Qiraji and mantid belong to the descendants of the ancient Aqir Empire. They migrated to different regions after the demise of the Zerg Empire, and chose different evolutionary branches in tens of thousands of years, thus possessing different shapes and sizes. strength.

   But they have an ancient unified lineage.

   This means that the less evolved Qiraji can achieve the unified 'evolution' of the swarm in a short period of time by devouring the high-quality swarm genes of the mantid. "

   "Oops, what do you say this to a child?"

  Emeriel Shadowguard said to Rexxar angrily:

   "We just need to know this kind of evil, the outside world has misunderstood us enough, and once the information of the evolution of the swarm swallowed up, our reputation will be even worse.

   The idiots out there don't even know what to do with us. "

   "It's not evil."

  Rexxar watched as he was choosing a pet of the flying insect lord with the mantid gene. The big orc explained seriously:

   "This is the beast's way of self-strengthening, an extreme manifestation of nature's will to survive the fittest.

   is no different from a wolf eating a rabbit.

  I think the reason why you have been unable to achieve a perfect fit with your flying insect pet is because you subconsciously feel that the evolution of insects is evil.

   But it is not.

   This is just the way of the beast of the swarm. As hunters, we should adapt to it, not actively reject it. "

   "You still think it's normal for beasts to eat people."

  Emeriel spit out:

   "You're an extreme beast-affinityist, Rexxar, and I'll admit you're a good hunter, but please don't spread this slightly indifferent eccentricity around.

   Do you know that recently, the recruits recruited by the secret passage in the elves have been asking some weird questions to their mentors?

   Obviously, your thoughts have begun to affect them.

  We are hunters, we command the herd.

   But we can't live like the beast, that's a very dangerous act. "

  Rexxar is noncommittal about this. Obviously, this big "Batman" thinks that people can survive and fight like beasts. He and Blake's animal understanding has perfectly proved this.

   "Can bugs become powerful by swallowing genes?"

  Little Jaina is no stranger to the word "gene". There are also mages in Dalaran who study this topic. She listened to the argument between the two hunters with relish, and interjected:

   "Then can they break through the limit of beasts by devouring alien genes?"

"good question."

  Rexxar praised.

  The orc with the wolf head mask shrugged and said regretfully:

   "I hope so, that means the future of the swarm will be extremely bright, but unfortunately, they can't do it yet, they can only accumulate evolutionary genes by devouring the mantid who are also bugs.

   We have been busy with this for the past few days.

   But unfortunately, the mantid has not gone too far on the evolutionary tree of the insect swarm, and my Ayamis is about to collect all the dominant genes.

   If I want to find more, I am afraid I have to look for those ancient mantid heroes and nobles. Their genes in intelligence and strength will definitely allow my flying insects to evolve faster. "

   After finishing speaking, Rexxar threw the mantid he had captured on the altar of his flying insects, and patted the brightly colored head of the hunter Ayamis.

  The latter also touched Rexxar in an intimate gesture, with the terrifying scythe limb that could easily shave off an orc's head.

   I have to say that this orc's talent in beast taming is really terrifying. He is currently the hunter with the highest degree of compatibility with his insect pet among all the swarm hunters.

   Even Windrunner's mother is nowhere near as good as him.

   But this time Rexxar also miscalculated.

   The mantid he captured was not accepted by his own flying insects.

   On the contrary, the brightly colored flying insect lord just sniffed the prey in front of him and showed a disgusting attitude.

   It hissed a few times, and immediately a flying insect guard flew over and threw the living mantid into the larvae nest next to it.

   Soon the chewing noises in the nest and the screams of the mantid made little Jaina's scalp tingle, and she left here as if she was fleeing with Emeril.

   Watching Jaina leave, Rexxar withdrew his gaze, and he said to Misha, who was glaring at the flattering **** little bug beside him:

   "That's because his sister is really similar to him, especially those eyes, they are exactly the same."

  “Ow~”

  Misha called out, and Rexxar nodded in agreement and whispered:

   "Well, sure, not very smart."

   "Blake's poor disguise, she didn't even notice it."

  PS:

   Not much else to say, ask for a monthly pass!

  Reasonable.JPG

   (end of this chapter)