The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2045. The evolution of the Torgt swarm

Abathur's work was very efficient. One day later, three new types of bugs were born in the Torgt tribe. The egg sacs inside the mother nest are laying eggs almost all the time, and then the workers send the eggs to the incubator for hatching.

Just two days later, the first batch of new bugs hatched. The bugs broke out of their shells and immediately began to eat. After eating a lot, they grew almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. After another two days, they had grown into adult bugs.

There are three types of new bugs. The first one is a very bloated looking ball, at least 5 meters high. There are more than 20 small insect legs below the insect to support the body, which can only move slowly. There is a huge mouthpart full of sharp teeth on the front, and there are dozens of worms around the body that are constantly wriggling like intestines. Accent.

As soon as this bug was born, the soldier bugs once used by the Torgt tribe moved towards it under the command of the mother's nest, and were then eaten by it bite by bite, and then converted into highly concentrated biomass and stored in the body.

This is a female worm. The organs throughout its body are very simple - eating organs, digestive organs, storage sacs, excretory organs and feeding organs. The only function of this kind of bug is to eat, keep eating, and then use its powerful digestive organs to transform and store it, and then feed it to other bugs.

The powerful digestive organs of the female worm can even digest the cuticle, and the substances excreted by it are dregs that cannot be transformed no matter how they are processed.

The second bug is a modified soldier bug called the Fusarium bug. This bug has greatly strengthened its body muscles, including strong hind legs that can jump five meters high, as well as forelimbs and scythes that can even cut through the armor of armored vehicles. In order to maximize the effect, the sickleworm has eliminated its feeding and digestive organs, and almost its entire body is made up of strong muscle groups. The only remaining mouthpart can be connected to the feeding organ of the female worm, and it can directly obtain concentrated biomass from the female worm. , stored, one meal can maintain activity energy for at least a week.

If this kind of sickle bug were to fight against the previous soldier bugs that were a combination of flies and mantises, they would be able to defeat at least twenty of them.

The third type of bug is called a transport bug. This insect has six well-developed legs and can cross mountains and ridges very quickly. Even in complex jungle and mountainous environments, it can reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. If it is flat land, it can run at least 80 kilometers per hour.

The transport insect also has four very flexible long arms that can pick up objects of various shapes and carry them on its back. There is a groove full of barbs growing on its back. The objects it grabs are placed in the groove, and then the long arms turn around to hug the objects, even if it jumps up and down.

There is no doubt that this kind of bug is specially used to collect resources, bring them back to the mother bug to eat, and then convert them into biomass.

Abathur told Tang Xiao that this was just the beginning of the foundation. Next, he would gradually build the Torgt swarm into a terrifying and efficient cluster.

In fact, if you compare it, you can see that the bugs before the Torgt swarm were actually bugs. They have all the organs in their body. They can find food for themselves, store the energy of the food they eat, and can attack immediately when they find an enemy. The advantage is that such a bug can eat here and there in the wild without having to return to its nest. It can wander outside for several years without any problem.

The bugs created by Abathur are ruthless tools that specialize in one thing! The sickleworm is used for fighting, even the step of eating is omitted. All body structures are muscles, muscles, all kinds of muscles! There is even a bio-hydraulic structure on the forelimb of the sickle. If the sickle is curled up and used as scissors, a 20mm homogeneous steel plate can be cut!

But the disadvantage is that these sickles can only move around the nest. But it doesn't really matter. As long as they can expand the scope of their nest, these bugs will become a terrifying force!

If we want to make a comparison, the insects of the Togt tribe before were just a group of miserable refugees, as long as they could eat, drink and survive. And now the bugs created by Abathur are an extremely sophisticated army! This army will be composed of countless detailed and precise parts. Although it is more complicated internally, from the outside, this force will be irresistible!

Of course, in order to maintain such a sophisticated insect swarm structure, the consciousness of the Torgt hive itself also needs to be upgraded. Abathur told Tang Xiao that before he could completely decipher the mysterious gene that enables the Kilik swarm to produce intelligence, he could only enhance the thinking ability of the Toget hive by enhancing physical functions, but this was possible. upper limit.

Therefore, the key to the matter is still to decipher the genes of the Killik swarm.

By the way, in the process of transforming the Torgt group, Abathur used all the genetic sequences of the Torgt group, and did not use the genetic sequence of the Zerg that Tang Xiao gave him. Although his current ideas for transformation are actually based on those of the Zerg. For example, the design of the sickle is, to put it bluntly, a replica of the Zergling.

However, neither the sickleworm nor the springtail actually involves any complicated genetic sequences, so it is not surprising that they have the same purpose.

Moreover, Abathur also said that the genetic sequence of the Torgt group can be said to be useless, and the only value is the genes of the mysterious Killik swarm.

However, no one knows what the organizational structure of the Killik Swarm was at its peak. Their largest known nest was on the planet Alderaan, and it also left an extremely huge nest relic. The planet Alderaan has had a dedicated research team studying the Killik Swarm for a long time.

But even so, even experts from the planet Alderaan can't tell how the Killik swarm fought at its peak. They have swept the entire galaxy without any rivals, and have even become the chosen sons of Tai Ren, building the center point of the super miracle project. No one still knows the true identity of the Kilik swarm that is so brilliant, so brilliant, and so powerful.

Therefore, Abathur can only reconstruct the structure of the Torgt group according to his own ideas. If he follows his ideas, he will definitely be able to master the Zerg's ideas.

Only after Abathur discovers more information about the mysterious genes of the Kilik swarm can he gradually shift the trajectory of evolution to the route of the Kilik swarm.

As for how to explore more genes?

Abathur's statement is very simple and direct, "The genes of the Torgt group are incomplete and weak. War, expansion, and collecting the essence of other groups. Dismantle, analyze, and piece together to find a more complete Kilik insect group gene. Re- Discover, improve, sublimate...achieve the ultimate evolution.”