Zerg in the crystal wall world

three days later.

on the ground.

Dragon and lion collar.

A king insect carrying the consciousness of domination was flying from the split pool to the direction of the heart forest.

This king insect is really different.

The body surface of Zerg units often has irregular protrusions and asymmetrical bone spurs. This structure usually has no special significance and is just a remnant of the Zerg's ancient genes.

But this king insect has none of those things on its body surface. Its carapace is flat and its bone spurs are symmetrical. The most important thing is the head.

Normal king bugs have round heads, and with the jaws and small tentacles around their mouths, they look like flies.

But this one is different. Its head is slightly convergent below the eyes, where the jaws are, showing a structure similar to cheekbones. The overall lines of the head are relatively strong, plus the carapace above the eyes. Lines shape the "eyebrow arch" and "eye sockets". His insect-like face seemed to be worthy of being called "heroic".

The reason for this change is also very simple: when it entered the split pool to heal its injuries, the elf's genes were inserted into it.

Yes, this is the king insect that was shot by Eral, and it was cured.

Because when the Evolution Chamber analyzed the genes of the elves, they found that the elves had an incredible sense of direction and space, so they inserted it into the body of the king insect who was soaking in the splitting pool to heal. However, he did not expect that the genes of the elves could have the effect of plastic surgery.

The Lord has given this king insect the name "Handsome Ball".

Because of the Lord's possession, Shuaiqiu's handsome face was filled with a look of human expectation.

The experiment of transforming the venomophage into a tree failed. Reality is not a game after all, and it is not so easy to get stuck. The Overlord has lignified 80% of the carapace of the venomophage. Even due to too many tree genes, the functions of the venomophage have been reduced by 40%, but there is still no sign of the heart becoming a tree.

Just when the master was about to give up, the vitality-specific evolution cavity of the Heart Forest happened to send a message - there was a breakthrough in the testing of vitality.

The total distance between the Heart Forest and the Split Pond is not that far.

Not long after the handsome ball took off, it began to land again.

At this time, the heart of the forest has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Sarcomas mixed with flesh and blood tissue and plant fibers sprouted from the tree trunks one after another; huge pieces of meat were supported by the tree trunks as skeletons, bulging and beating like fetal movements; flesh and blood tentacles continued to branch, become thinner, and spin out several roots and small twigs. grow together.

The entire forest has become a veritable "meat forest".

The brain of the evolutionary chamber has amazing information processing capabilities, but like most units of the Zerg, it has no concept of self.

It's not that it can't evolve, but that the birth of self-will is firmly locked by Zerg genes. Only the powerful Overmind can bypass the genetic blockade with the help of the Hive Mind.

Producing Zerg units with a will of their own is often a sign of Overlord maturity.

Therefore, even if the Overlord really wants it, there is still no commentator crawling out of the evolution chamber to explain every evolutionary detail to the Overlord in detail. Unless the Overlord is willing to let the infected units with their own self touch the evolution chamber, the core building of the swarm.

Link and search for information on the evolutionary cavity brain, and control the king insect so that it focuses its perspective on a piece of meat deep in the woods that is constantly expanding and contracting.

A faint, but visible green light is constantly shining from the piece of meat.

It turned out to be the case.

The evolution chamber has verified organs closely related to the power of life.

For living organisms, "organ differentiation" is a fairly basic evolutionary technique.

To put it bluntly, it means functional specialization. For example, the lungs are dedicated to breathing, the heart is dedicated to pumping blood, and the liver is responsible for the decomposition of toxins... It is the same as the industrial assembly line. The simpler the work a single organ is responsible for, the higher the efficiency.

The same is true in the extraordinary field. The optimal solution for an organism to exercise extraordinary power is to gather the extraordinary power into one organ and grow a full-time "extraordinary organ."

For example, most psionic units have integrated the ability to manipulate psionic energy into their brains, and whether they are protoss or advanced psionic units in Zerg, they have all evolved a special psionic power called "nerve cord" organ.

The same is true for vitality. Although even elves do not have organs specifically designed to manipulate vitality, this extraordinary power is inseparable from the heart.

If you think about it carefully, isn't the core organ of the Heart Tree also a heart made of roots and vines?

There is also the forbidden ritual of "Heart of Thorns" in Eral's memory, which is to replace the heart of flesh and blood with a special root to obtain stronger life force.

The evolution chamber has completed basic testing. "Highly active accessory heart" has become an evolutionary cavity technology that can be installed on Zerg units.

Yes, the secondary heart, because too many elf genes are activated, its blood pumping ability is reduced and it cannot meet the circulation needs of the zerg unit.

It is no longer the job of the evolutionary chamber to continue to enhance its function. It needs to popularize the organ on a large scale, increase the mutation base and conduct directional selection.

So, the master immediately ordered: Try the dragon dog first, its genetic chain is strong enough.

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Split pool.

The dragon dog, which was seriously injured some time ago, just ran out of the pool. The mucus on his body had not even dried. He shook his body and was about to have fun when he suddenly stopped.

He turned around and jumped back into the splitting pool...

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By the way, you also need to pack a "highly active accessory heart" for the construction unit. Maybe after adding the "heart", the "Venophage Heart Tree" will be completed?

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On the ground

Spider forest.

The Lord on the throne opened his eyes.

In front of him stood a strange venomophage.

It does not appear dark reddish brown like other zerg buildings, but is instead a delicate emerald green. It can also be clearly seen that its internal circulation system has grown into leaf veins. If you carefully observe its carapace, you can find some wooden textures. At the lower end of the building, many thick roots have grown, which penetrate into the fungus carpet to absorb nutrients.

The master stretched out his finger, and insect-like fan leaves like pitcher plants quickly developed around the venomophage, wrapping the venomophage inside and quickly starting to fill it with thick slurry.

Parts of the phage's tissues will be rapidly dissolved and restructured. The Juggernaut relies on this rapid transformation mechanism to deeply lignify the venomophage within three days.

After the cyst squirmed for a few moments, a handsome king insect was seen flying from a distance in the sky with a ball of cocoons.

The cocoon brought by Handsome Football is certainly not a living heart. There is just a ball of thick slurry in the cocoon, and its essence is the "essence" packaged in an evolutionary cavity. Contains "highly active accessory heart"-related nucleic acids and a string of proteins together.

With the blessing of "Essence" and the efficiency of the Zerg, it won't take too long to grow a heart. In two hours at most, the transformation of the circulatory system can be basically completed.

But only half an hour later, a wave of green suddenly burst out of the cocoon.

The Overlord can clearly sense that the venomophages in the capsule are being rapidly reshaped.

After just a few breaths, the cocoon burst open.

A poisonous body with green mist rising from its entire body was revealed. Through the vesicles below the phage, you can clearly see a green heart beating powerfully at the central axis of the phage.

Its changes are not over yet.

Under the influence of vitality, the heart continued to expand and get bigger and bigger.

At the same time, the numerous conductive tissues on the bacterial carpet that were originally used to provide nourishment for the phage have become thicker and more developed. After being connected to the heart of the phage, they also beat slightly with its beating...

Wait until all changes are over.

The heart has become the main body of the building. Instead, it is part of the venomophage and has become an "accessory tissue" to the giant heart.

With the venomophage as the heart and the fungus blanket with a radius of one kilometer as the tree, a "heart tree" unique to the insect swarm was born...

The Master witnessed the entire process with his own eyes, and even possessed it through the Hive Mind, completely recording the entire process of the rapid development of the heart and the changes in the positive carpet from both the psionic and genetic perspectives.

If a similar process is repeated two more times, this "heart of the swarm" can be engraved into the DNA of the swarm and become a constructible building.

Stretching out his hand, the Lord pressed on the "heart". For a moment, the Lord only felt a warm power filling his body. Just because his body function was in a deep sleep, the master himself didn't feel much, but he could clearly feel that the biological activity of the throne under his butt had increased by one step.

The essence of "Tree Heart" is to collect the overflowing life force in the environment, and when it cannot bear it, it will actively disperse the extra life force to increase the activity of surrounding units in the form of a halo.

Because the "Insect Heart" is an out-and-out insect unit, it can inject life force into the body of the insect unit directly through touch...

To put it bluntly, there is no rejection reaction between Zerg units. Zerg units can become part of the "worm heart" through contact. Nature can share the power of life.

In the same way, all the buildings on this carpet can become part of the insect heart. Enjoying the efficiency of a Zerg build that is almost elite unit level.

But after thinking for a moment, the Overlord did not build a hatchery or evolution chamber around the heart of the insect.

Instead, he summoned a group of worker bees and began hatching venomophages in batches.

The Overlord will use the heart of the insect as the core to build a phage array to produce highly active disease-carrying spores and be ready to spread them into the atmosphere.

With such an array, the Overlord also has the trump card to infect the entire world in a short period of time.

It's just that... the cost of maintaining such a venomophage is not small, and it may not be enough to put all the output of the newly built twisted node.

The Lord took a deep breath, suppressed his distressed emotions, and patted the armrest.

The throne began to float slowly towards the spider cave...

I have to throw the throne into the splitting pool and transform it later. This speed is too fast!

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