Gods: The Swarm

Chapter 260 This one-eyed person?

Just when Dimi looked solemn and thought that the Queen of Insects might fail this time, this life was over.

The cocoon had already begun to vibrate violently.

"Tap..., tap..."

The egg made a slight muffled sound, and pressed its head tightly against the outer wall of the incubator. Dimi was startled.

Dimi's huge compound eyes suddenly showed a glimmer of surprise.

Because of his mental power, he had clearly sensed the situation inside the egg.

In his opinion, this one-eyed human embryo, which had not even grown a body, had actually tried to break out of the cocoon.

This was definitely a laboratory accident.

Before Dimi could figure out how to deal with it, he heard a few "pops", as if a needle tip pierced a water ball.

Looking at the cocoon again, although it was not completely broken, it was pierced from the inside by a pink tender fleshy tentacles with sharp tips.

The tentacles, which resembled the tentacles of an octopus, kept swaying and dancing.

Driving the entire cocoon, it was running around in the sticky nutrient solution.

"Huh?"

Seeing this scene, Dimi was instantly stunned, his head buzzing.

He saw that the inner side of these tentacles, like octopus tentacles, had many suckers, and they were madly sucking the nutrient solution.

The fleshy pink tentacles kept wriggling like a pulse, quickly absorbing nutrients for the body still in the cocoon.

As time went on, the outer surface of those pink tentacles quickly keratinized at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The delicate skin gradually covered the tough and soft shell, which continued to extend to the main body.

In less than ten minutes, the main body, which was still inside the cocoon, completely tore the cocoon membrane.

"Uh............."

Dimi looked at the creature that emerged from the cocoon, and his mood was quite complicated.

At first glance, it really looked like an octopus.

But if you look closely, it is much uglier than an octopus.

The outer surface of the main body has not yet fully materialized, and it looks bloody.

It looks like a complete brain tissue just taken out of the skull of a single-eyed tribe.

At this time, floating in the nutrient solution, it is no different from the brain specimens soaked in formalin in the laboratory.

A blood-red single eye grows on the surface of the main body, and the sound, hearing, and smell systems are all concentrated on his tentacles.

This doesn't look like a single-eyed human at all. Except for the fact that it has a single eye, it is a completely new species.

"Is this the masterpiece of Her Majesty the Queen of Zerg?"

"Really... incredible."

Dimi really couldn't think of a suitable word to express his mood at this moment.

After taking this octopus-like life out of the incubator.

After another month of detailed testing, the test results were finally released.

This new species has a strong ability to adapt to the environment, and is not much different from ordinary Zerg populations.

It does not have reproductive capacity, and even does not have that organ at all.

To put it simply, the entire body tissue is a brain plus tentacles and some functional systems.

That tentacle has all the functions of the original one-eyed human body, and is also responsible for continuously supplying energy to the brain tissue.

Yes, continuously!

Once the tentacles stop supplying bioenergy and nutrition, the brain tissue after inducing mutation will also rapidly fail in a short period of time.

Shirley didn't care about this problem at all, and her approach was simpler and more brutal.

If there is not enough bioenergy and nutrition, then increase the supply.

If your own body cannot provide consumption, why not change to a body that can provide consumption?

As for the original inefficient body, it is useless and hinders the development of the brain, so it is all discarded.

Dimi flipped through the complete test report and scratched his head with a bone sickle.

"A parasitic species?"

"Daily consumption of bioenergy is not enough, as long as the host can provide enough nutrients for long-term symbiosis."

"The key is that when the mental power is used at a high intensity, the consumption of bioenergy will surge sharply until the host is completely drained."

Dimi pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind.

"Extract his genes and try to clone them in batches. I need more test samples and more detailed test data..."

In Dimi's opinion, although this new species is far from perfect, it can barely meet the requirements put forward by the master.

There is no one-step solution to scientific research.

Showing the interim results is more conducive to formulating the direction of future research.

Whether to improve, to start over, or even to change direction, the master must decide.

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A few months later, in the underground temple.

Han Fei silently flipped through the test data, and from time to time he glanced at the parasitic worm at his feet.

Then he looked at the tentacles that were deeply embedded in the worm, and reached a symbiotic relationship with the worm, constantly absorbing nutrients from the strange worm.

He couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Isn't this just plagiarism? I used the gene template of the intelligent Zerg in the early stage, and then replaced the main body with a single-eyed person, and mixed in some genes of later species."

"But, this is a single-eyed person? This tentacle monster has an octopus brain?"

"Uh..., it's still a brain worm."

Han Fei really didn't expect that Dimi would cultivate such a parasitic intelligent Zerg.

Well, to be more precise, this parasitic brain worm was optimized by Shirley on Dimi's fruit.

Shirley used those random genes, and Han Fei had been analyzing the fruits of common species over the years, and they were all stored in Shirley's gene bank.

When she was optimizing the genetic template, she probably didn't think much about it, and she didn't even consider Dimi's proposal for an experiment. She saw that it could be used, so she used it.

Han Fei took a rough look at the test data and asked with raised eyebrows: "Can you control millions of springtails, or one hundred thousand thunder beasts?"

Dimi stood at the feet of Han Fei's demigod body, wagging his tail, and hurriedly explained:

"Uh... the great Lord 꺶놅, the humble 놅께Dimi, please look at Appendix 3 again."

"After practicing the meditation method, the brain worms can stabilize and complete their mental mutation, and the number of controlled worms will continue to increase as their mental power increases."

"As the level of belief in brain worms increases, the number of controlled worms will grow exponentially."

"According to our calculations, the brain worms who are at the level of fanatics and whose mutated mental power has been completely stabilized are capable of controlling a formation of hundreds of millions of springtails."

Having said this, Dimi paused slightly uneasily, then continued to explain:

"놙놆..., we just gave birth to the 놅 experimental subject... uh..., brainworms like 놆 generally have low faith."

"At most, it's at the level of a devout believer. Moreover, so far, the meditation method has made the fastest progress, and the mutated mental power has not been completely stabilized..."

Han Fei sighed while reading the appendix and listening to Dimi's explanation.

Sure enough, as he expected, the addition of foreign genes has affected the high-intelligence Zerg race, and there will be problems with their beliefs.

Originally, he saw hope in Dimi to avoid this problem, but he didn't expect that it would come back again now.