Zerg in the crystal wall world

Two hours later.

The Lord opened his eyes.

The blanket's coverage area expanded to about the size of two football fields.

Viewed from above, this spot of black and purple in a forest is already slightly dazzling.

Agatha has infected a large army, and the Lord can see this clearly in "The Road".

A snake, two squirrels, five small lizards, nine mice, a pile of bird eggs, and tens of thousands of bugs of various species—mainly ants and termites.

There is only one large animal for the time being, the leopard that was strangled to death by the master. The virus repaired the damage to its spine, but at the cost of it, a large tumor grew on its neck, and because it had been dead for so long, part of its nerve tissue was deactivated. Its movements were as if it had suffered a cerebral thrombosis for three years, and it could not climb a tree. .

The Lord's main attention is on the pile of eggs.

Because of Agatha's existence, the more important problem now than the lack of defense power is the ignorance of the surrounding environment.

He urgently needs to know what the world is like now, whether there are humans, and if so, what the level of technology is. There are no difficult enemies within a radius of 14,000 square kilometers. A group of infected birds are very suitable for investigation work.

It's a pity that the adult birds are very cautious. The fungus carpet spread to the tree trunk and flew away halfway, without catching any alive.

The Overlord puts his hand on the creep and uses psionic energy to connect.

This piece of fungus carpet tissue immediately began to divide and proliferate at a high speed, and the surrounding fungus carpet tissue also squirmed and flowed towards the bottom of his hand. The fungus carpet thickened and gradually became loose and porous, swelling like a doughy steamed bun. After a while, a bug nest version of the incubator was formed.

The master picked up a collected bird egg.

The psionic energy was linked in the bird eggs. The Overlord found the infected young bird embryos. While searching for relevant experiences from the Hive Mind, he compared them and began to modify them.

The infection mechanism of the hyper-evolved virus is to insert zerg genes into the DNA of the infected animal.

However, the basic virus without any mutation will not cause the infected person to become deeply zerg. In addition to making the skin tougher and rougher and producing large and small keratinous thorns, it only causes changes in some functional proteins in the infected person's body, such as more efficient myosin, respiratory proteins with more oxygen carrying capacity... How long will it take for a few to Several organs, but the malformation rate will be very high.

Just because the nervous system is eroded, the movements will appear slow and stiff. In addition, the excessive burden on the gene chain will lead to various tentacle hyperplasia and tumors. It is difficult to say whether the assimilated creatures will become stronger. , but still weakened.

But if the infection starts from the fertilized egg, none of the above problems will occur.

The carpet is dominant from the start and does not compete for nutrients to engulf the infected and induce tumors. Viruses can also maximize their effectiveness. Some units can even carry out targeted modifications to infected units through specific instructions.

I don’t know if it’s the effect of nether energy, or an organ in my modified body that hasn’t completely slept. When the master modified the bird egg gene, he was able to predict its future development appearance to a certain extent.

It's just that this is the first generation after all. Without the cooperation of the Zerg organs, the super-evolved virus also has its limits, and there are not many places that the Overlord can modify.

But the infected can also continue to deepen the process of zerg transformation as the generations accumulate, and use this to cultivate more targeted and efficient super-evolved viruses... and eventually incorporate the unit into the swarm, which can Hatched directly from larvae in the hatchery.

It's just that this assimilation route starting from viruses has not been used much in the history of the insect swarm.

In most cases, the insect swarm throws the species they like into the splitting pool, and the genes are "uploaded" to the hatchery and evolution chamber—the assimilation is completed.

After finishing decorating one bird's egg, the Master inserted the bird's egg into the expanded fungus blanket, and then picked up the second bird's egg.

Before it could connect, he noticed the "troops" surrounding him and standing guard beside him.

The master simply ordered Agatha to command these gadgets to do something:

Snakes, squirrels and lizards go to the trees to find bird nests and remove the eggs from them.

The mouse went to dig a hole.

The soft or hard nature of creep means that it is extremely suitable as a "lid" for trap pits. This can be used to enhance the surrounding protection when the troops on hand are insufficient.

As for the bugs... assist the carpet to expand underground and strive to dig underground coal seams as soon as possible.

I don't know how long it took, but after the master stuffed the last egg into the puffed bird's nest, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief and leaned back on the chair.

Yes, on the back of the chair, when the Master sat down, the carpet began to proliferate and gather under his body. After he decorated a dozen bird eggs, a sofa-like structure supported his body and It continuously adjusts with his sitting posture and bone structure to form a perfect ergonomic seat.

The Lord stood up, turned around and patted the seat twice. Water-like ripples spread on the fungus carpet sofa, making it look extremely elastic.

I sigh again, this thing that can change the material at will is really a black technology of Zerg.

I don’t know what time it is.

The Lord subconsciously raised his head, only to find that the sky was already filled with stars, and a full moon hung high in the sky. It was obviously late at night.

But everything around him is still as bright as day in the eyes of the Lord.

Low light vision.

As a race that travels through the tunnel network all year round, the zerg have extraordinary dark adaptability.

Even if his body is still in a deep sleep, the optical structure of his eyes still allows him to see at night.

Creep expansion, troop infection, and genetic modification attracted most of his attention. The Lord was stunned and didn't notice that night was falling.

only……

"Why don't I feel hungry?" the master asked subconsciously, then realized and turned to look at Agatha, "Wait a minute, how often do I need to eat."

Because her nerves were overloaded, Agatha paused for a moment before replying to the master: "Under normal circumstances, your nether energy is enough to support your body's energy consumption. So your body does not consider your ability to eat. Of course, you You can command the bacteria blanket to develop special organs to synthesize proprietary nutrients and inject them into your body."

The essence of nether energy is the void energy that has been pulled into reality and filtered and transformed by the Hive Will. It comes from outside the world. From a certain perspective, dominating the body is equivalent to relying on the entire insect swarm for sustenance, which does not violate the conservation of energy.

The human body's chest and abdominal cavities only have so much space. For an individual like the Zerg Master who does not pursue individual survival ability, filling them with digestive organs such as the stomach and intestines is too wasteful. It is better to separate the eating function and let the bacteria carpet take care of it, so as to make room for other organs.

"A lot of Zerg units don't have digestive systems." Agatha's two claws meet at the face, and she is a good example. Not to mention the digestive system, the insect queen doesn’t even have a mouth.

"As if I still have a mouth."

"Yes, you can analyze and obtain the essence of biological tissue by swallowing it." Agatha said, "It also has the function of absorbing nutrients, but this alone cannot obtain enough types of nutrients. In order to completely digest the residue, it will It consumes more energy.”

"Complete digestion? Then my... wait! I don't want to know, please don't tell me!"

……

Just when the topic discussed by the two became more and more eccentric, Agatha suddenly became serious and gave an early warning: "I have sensed abnormal fluctuations in psionic energy. Please prepare for battle, Master."

As he finished speaking, the Master also noticed several abnormally large bags bulging out of the germ carpet not far away.

The bulge of the creep is getting bigger and bigger, and the Overlord can even see abnormal light surging under the creep tissue that is almost stretched into a thin film...

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