Zerg in the crystal wall world

The exploration of the goblin haunts went surprisingly smoothly.

The day after the Lord sent the birds, an Arrowgull found the Goblin camp.

Only four hours later, hundreds of predatory birds were hovering over the goblin camp.

After two days of careful observation, the Lord determined that there were no advanced psionic units in this group of little green men.

At the same time, there is no social division of labor in the actual sense. There are no sentries, leaders, warriors, hunters in the camp...

Goblins do not work, but are willing to fight, kill, and destroy. However, they have unreasonable reproduction speed and digestion ability-perhaps it is not just about digestion. Based on the perspective of the Arrow Gull, the Overlord saw a Goblin with his own eyes. The newborn goblin didn't even take a sip of milk and grew up quickly amid the beatings of the elders around him. He became a standard adult goblin in just one night.

This growth rate is already comparable to that of Zerg.

However, the number of goblins is not too out of control. It seems that the population and the size of the camp will limit the breeding of goblins.

After confirming that the Goblin camp actually had no combat power worth mentioning, the Overlord simply sent out three large infected birds.

They were all infected by large storks or cranes in the wetlands. Their infection level did not reach the level of alienated combatants, but they were only enlarged in size. This shortens their genetic stability and, when free to move around, their lifespan is only a few months.

But relatively speaking, their load-carrying capacity has greatly increased, and they can carry hundreds of kilograms of heavy objects for long-distance flights.

The Overlord controlled them to capture two goblins.

Although he can observe these little green men through the senses of arrow gulls and bait birds, if he wants to study their genes and extraordinary powers in depth, he still needs the assistance of high-level units or construction units.

Not long after being thrown into the venomophage's fluid storage vesicle, the entire body examination was completed, and Agatha immediately reported: "Their brains are extremely developed."

The master was stunned. This thing doesn't look particularly smart, does it?

Agatha continued: "Their brains have specialized areas for numerical and geometric problems."

The brains of mammals are divided according to function. One brain area is responsible for one kind of information processing. For example, the parietal lobe of the brain is responsible for the body perception function. Agatha removed part of the tissue in this part of the dragon and lion's brain, causing the dragon and lion to lose Ability to sense the back.

Compared with other animals, in addition to the extremely developed prefrontal lobe responsible for thinking and logic, the human brain also has an additional center specifically designed to understand language. This is also the basis for human beings to establish civilization.

But even humans do not have a dedicated number processing center in the brain. The reason is simple. Human beings have had language tens of thousands of years ago, but mathematics is a new thing that has only appeared in the past few thousand years.

Goblins have a mathematical center, which means that they should have had mathematical concepts early on, and have continued to be selected for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years in a stable social environment.

"You mean, they are actually very smart? They only look like wild beasts due to the loss of civilization?" the master said in disbelief.

In fact, it is said that the beasts have somewhat praised them. The beasts also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but they are all complete madmen.

"It should not only be a matter of civilization inheritance," Agatha denied this. "Their brains are very smart, but there are no traces of being used."

"..." If the Lord hadn't understood Agatha's character, he would have thought she was telling a joke.

"The power you named 'soul' within them is significantly different from that of normal creatures. It bypasses the nerve center and directly controls the body, making most of its brain structures idle."

"Oh? Then make me happy." The master finally became interested and connected to Agatha's senses.

Sure enough, compared to the exquisite and complex souls of normal beasts, the Goblin soul feels like a pile of broken building blocks. The structure is simple and chaotic, but at the same time it is also exceptionally stable - all falling apart into a pile. , there is no way to stabilize it.

This special structure gives the Overlord a familiar feeling - a root and vine monster.

Of course, there are still differences. The Goblin soul cannot be transformed into that green, vital force, but directly interacts with the body.

Therefore, the goblins did not show the almost immortal self-healing speed of the root vine monsters. It only allowed them to go against common sense without eating and grow rapidly. At most, it stimulated the body and made some of them as strong as bears. Just mutated individuals.

Having said this, the Lord has always been quite confused. The essence of psionic energy is void energy from outside the world, which is pulled into the world by the will of living creatures. And where does the energy brought by the soul come from?

Both root monsters and goblins can proliferate regardless of energy conservation. Even the dragon lion can output much more kinetic energy than the energy it eats, especially its fire-breathing ability. The heat of a mouthful of dragon flame can be equivalent to Hundreds of pounds of meat.

If this is cracked, the Zerg's expansion speed can reach a new level...

"Are they worthy of infection?" the master suddenly asked.

The souls of normal creatures are closely integrated with their brains and blood, so the zerg can manipulate their behavior by affecting their flesh.

But what controls the goblin's behavior is essentially its twisted and mutated soul that is disconnected from the body. It is a "spirit" rather than a "body" and is difficult to control through infection. Even the power and power brought by zerg transformation Protection also increases their combat effectiveness.

Agatha obviously did not think of this problem. After being stunned for two seconds, she replied: "This problem does exist. Even if the connection between their center and limbs is strengthened, the existence of abnormal 'soul' will interfere with its actions. "

"No matter what, let's give it a try first." The master decided.

As the order was given, subtle changes occurred on the surface of the fungus carpet, and the super-evolved virus drove straight in. At the same time, the fungus stretched out its tentacles and connected into the blood vessels of the goblins, providing additional nutrients to the zerg-formed tissues and Suppress the host's immune function.

The characteristics of the zerg appear on the goblin's body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the master actively intervenes to modulate the goblin's nervous system and strengthen its central nervous system's control over various parts of the body.

But the effect is not good.

The Goblin soul can not only adjust the physical body through the nervous system, but also directly affect its muscles, bones, endocrine and other aspects. Even if the master made the goblin's muscles bulge, he could not completely overcome the influence of his soul on his body.

This means that the Overlord can only guide the goblin infected, but cannot completely control them: they cannot cooperate with other infected bodies, they will attack each other in a dense formation, and it is difficult to force sleep... The only advantage is that they reproduce quickly and do not need to eat.

But once the hatchery is established, the reproduction rate of the zerg is extremely fast, and the zerg's ability to sleep without any problems consumes very little. Overall, it is useless to infect such a group of guys.

Try to see if the Hive Mind can suppress their souls. If not, just kill them all.

Thinking like this, the Overlord pulled the goblin's chaotic consciousness into the Hive Mind. Completely turning it into a zerg unit.