Zerg in the crystal wall world

"what should I do?"

Agatha's claws were closed together, and her eyes reflected a mysterious red light: "Use psionic energy to link it."

"I don't even know what nether energy is..." Before he finished speaking, the young man's nether energy was linked to the callus in his hand as his attention shifted.

Just like Agatha before, the young man at this time only felt that he could control everything about this callus. Obviously, the so-called psionic connection has become an instinctive reaction for the young people at this time.

"It's pretty simple."

As the young man's attention was further focused, the young man felt that he was being stretched and widened like a noodle, and finally turned into an astonishingly wide and boundless "road".

This road is bustling with endless swarms of zerg units, from wolfdog-sized springtails to sun-blocking leviathans, all zerg units are among them.

But almost all the creatures were silent and dim. Only half of the body of one insect queen was bright and active.

This is who he is now, which is the consciousness of the young man. It is also the collection of all biological units that exist and have appeared in the insect swarm. It also stores all the knowledge and knowledge of the insect swarm.

Looking at the starting point of the "road".

Suddenly, the young man felt as if he had traveled through endless years and arrived in the ancient times. In the primordial soup of the Split Pool, the first larvae were born.

Driven by parasitism, devouring, killing, and indescribable creatures from the sky, the discrete swarms of insects were gathered together to form an orderly and tight population. The spirit of the zerg formed a mountain-like The individual - the Master - is born.

Since then, the insect swarm has grown rapidly under the leadership of one master after another... until the last master broke down the barriers and chose himself for the development of the insect swarm, regardless of the rebound of the entire universe...

The young man also understood the nature of his "path" - the will of the worm's nest.

Although Agatha is the only unit of the insect swarm under his command so far, his figure has been engraved in the history of the insect swarm and integrated into all the insect units...

Because, I am...

After a shudder, the master came back to his senses.

"Master?" Agatha looked puzzled, "What happened?"

The Lord turned to look at Agatha. His consciousness entered the Hive Mind again and descended on Agatha.

Agatha's movements slowed down, the red light in her eyes flickered twice like a human blinking, and she began to look at her three-fingered claws. The carapace of the upper body opens, and the spines retract.

Suddenly, he waved his claws out of thin air, and there was a crackling sound like the tip of a whip being whipped. Even just by moving your fingers, you can make a soft whirring sound.

This is the power that high-level Zerg units should have.

The red light in Agatha's eyes became stable and bright again.

The master's consciousness also returns to his body. He once again focused on the callus in his hand.

Deeper into the "road" But this time, he didn't linger too long and went deeper. Under the combined influence of nether energy and consciousness, after a while, the master felt that he was in front of an extremely complex network.

This is...the gene of the insect swarm?

The genetic arrangement of the zerg is messier than the young man imagined.

Because the organs of various units have something in common, it is not a long gene chain. This section belongs to springtails and this section belongs to hydralisks. But it's all mixed together.

The gene that builds the inflatable shell of the king insect may be connected with the gene of the digging foot of the cockroach; next to the wing gene of the brood insect may be the single-molecule giant scythe gene that controls the thunder beast... which also contains the genes of various organisms absorbed by the insect swarm. Fragments, and the emergence of multiple copies of genes due to repeated use...

Moreover, various genes also have cross-influence.

For example, a gene that promotes egg production may also affect muscle development, and a gene that improves metabolism also controls gastric acid secretion...

Such a complex and messy gene pool is like a huge "dung mountain". The stable existence of any Zerg unit relies on the mutual restriction and interaction of tens of thousands of genes to achieve a balance... But fortunately, As a master, he is naturally sensitive to the genes of the insect swarm. In the eyes of the master, everything seems to have annotation.

In addition, the genes of the creep are really simple.

It didn't take long for the master to awaken a small half of the genes in the callus belonging to the carpet.

This small piece of flesh that originally belonged to Agatha began to proliferate and swell visibly to the naked eye, and eventually fell off the master's hand like sticky oil.

pat-

The thing finally landed on the grass at the Lord's feet and began to slowly devour the blades of grass.

At this time, the efficiency of this creep tissue is about 10% of the efficiency of the zerg's most basic creep.

"It's enough," Agatha said. "After more than a dozen generations of division, the bacteria carpet will activate all genes independently."

Even because it is transformed from callus tissue, the bacteria carpet can also have some special functions.

"When will the hatchery be established?"

"According to the program set in the genes, a hatchery will be developed only after the carpet coverage area is large enough. With your current level of psionic energy, even if you actively intervene, you can only adjust the establishment time of the hatchery. It is difficult to completely reverse this program..."

Under normal circumstances, expansion is the top priority of the carpet. In the case of super-evolved viruses that assimilate native organisms, developing a hatchery prematurely does not have many benefits except adding a fatal weakness.

Of course, this is also because the young man is too weak at this time. The more powerful the master, the less bound he is by the primitive instincts of the zerg. As the carpet area expands and the body of the zerg organisms increases, the young man who is the will of the hive will gradually become stronger.

"Based on your experience, make a comprehensive calculation and give me an estimate." The master said directly.

Agatha calculated for a moment: "The hatchery can be developed under your command when the carpet covers approximately fourteen thousand square kilometers."

"Fourteen thousand square kilometers..."

What is this concept? Let's put it this way, the area of ​​​​the capital is 16,000 square kilometers.

The size of a prefecture-level city... I pray that this world will be deserted.

The fungus carpet is constantly dividing. For humans, more than ten generations will take more than 150 years at the fastest. But for the creep, it only takes a few minutes.

Just as he was talking, the bacteria carpet had completed the correction of its own genetic chain and began to rapidly expand outwards.

Almost visible to the naked eye, the grass leaves contaminated by the bacteria blanket began to quickly wither and decay, and their nutrients were quickly converted into new bacteria blankets.

Tall trees are even more unbearable. The fibrous conductive tissue will become a natural petri dish for mycelium. Corrosion from the inside out will cause a tree to collapse within a few hours.

The lush rainforest is like an ocean of organic matter to the fungus carpet. As everything dies, the fungus carpet expands extremely rapidly, extending outward at a speed of almost one meter per minute.

At this speed, 14,000 square kilometers would take two and a half months. Of course, this is the time it takes for the master to induce carpet nodules, sow the carpet in multiple locations, and unlock more efficient carpet genes without any intervention... It will take less time. Information obtained from the Hive Mind It seems that the most advanced bacterial carpet can infect the entire planet within a few days.

Although not the main source of organic matter, creep can also photosynthesize. And the efficiency is much higher than that of green plants. Just looking at the almost pitch black color of the fungus carpet, you can tell that it can absorb almost all bands of light.

Swarms have always been known for adapting to their environment, but their ability to transform it is just as powerful.

Humans can use planting, animal husbandry, fermentation and other methods to allow all the energy in a small artificial ecological environment to eventually flow to humans.

But the Zerg can go one step further. With the power of one family, we can take over all the functions of producers, consumers and decomposers. One species builds an entire ecosystem...

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