Something's wrong with these zerg

Chapter 12 Starfall Insects

When communicating with the earth, Mo Lan's body did not lose consciousness. Although she doesn't know the reason, she can indeed do multiple things at the same time without feeling multitasking.

Originally, it would be enough to just drag back the corpses of the unlucky six-eyed bears from the second family, but Mo Lan suddenly felt that she might be able to open a second base and expand her territory. The previous cave was fine for her to live by herself. With more Zerg hatching, there is not enough space.

So he took Xiao Jiang back and walked back. This time, the Six-eyed Bear family was obviously not as rich as the previous family. The lair was just a small cave. Compared with the six-eyed bear's height of three or four meters, it was extremely narrow and did not occupy the height. And geographical advantages, the nearby prey is not too much.

But don't let it go, Mo Lan doesn't dislike it, the four workers have already cleaned up the garbage inside, so she just went in to have a look.

Seeing this, Mo Lan's eyes narrowed in an instant, and she turned around to look sideways at Xiao Jiang who seemed to know nothing.

"嘿嘿嘿嘤" three malnourished six-eyed bears were screaming, the strongest one was crawling towards the largest figure in the field of vision, and the other two were also lying on the ground with their front feet and back feet, but they hadn't seen it for a long time. One meter progress.

Little Jiang, once again let the cub go!

"Has he awakened his memory?" Shi Qi asked in Mo Lan's ear, it knew what happened last time.

"No, it doesn't have any spiritual nodes." Mo Lan frowned tightly. If there is anything, it's okay to say. The problem is that she checked it several times. Xiao Jiang's spiritual nodes are obviously normal, just like ordinary Zerg. It looks blank, nothing special.

"Maybe it's an instinct in the genes? Don't hurt the weak."

Shi Qi summed up her outdated information and helped Mo Lan make a judgment.

"How could there be such an instinct..." Mo Lan shook her head. The so-called instinct inherited from genes refers to the behavior that is more conducive to survival without thinking about the body, and the second refers to the ability to face a specific environment or a specific creature. Physical behavior logic.

The former is like a baby sucking milk, the latter is like a fish swimming, a bird flying, and more complex camouflage like a chameleon.

It doesn't hurt the weak, it's just that humans, creatures with ideology and morality, impose on their own consciousness and violate the shackles of survival instincts. Without independent consciousness, it is impossible to establish.

If there is no food in a closed space, there is a cub with no resistance in front of it, and a powerful beast, maybe some people will choose to fight the powerful beast to strengthen their moral shackles.

But if it is in an unconscious state, without thinking or thinking ability, and only relying on instinct, what is the choice made?
Mo Lan shook her head, not thinking about such complicated things, if something happened, she would wait until it happened, she pursed her lips, her expression suddenly became more indescribable.

Not to mention that Xiao Jiang let go of the cubs after defeating the six-eyed bear's parents, but the four workers who were assigned to work here turned a blind eye to these cubs.

Mo Lan watched with her own eyes that the worker insects who were about to move the stones to another place naturally bypassed the six-eyed bear cubs crawling on the ground as they passed by...

Mo Lan raised her forehead. It should be that when she left those two six-eyed bear cubs before, she gave an order in the spiritual network not to eat the cubs as food. The six-eyed bear cub was also classified as inedible, so he just ignored it.

Is it really good that her group of Zergs are so kind? !

It's just that these six-eyed bear cubs are alive after all, and they have raised two before, so it doesn't make any difference if there are three more, so Mo Lan no longer hesitates, and asks Xiong Er to come over and pack them back.

Worker insects can also do this, they can easily carry things more than ten times their own weight, but for cubs that have just been born for more than a month, the hard shell of worker insects is really not suitable for mounts, bears Most of Er's body is made of flesh and blood, which is much more suitable.

Xiong Er has been idle since he hatched. Mo Lan thought about it now, and let Xiong Er do some carrying work. Although he doesn't have the exaggerated carrying ability of workers, he can carry an object several times his own weight. , it's still okay for Xiong Er, she can't let her raise idlers to eat dry food.

As for hunting, because the large prey had already fled to other places, the rest were mostly small and flexible creatures, but Xiong Er gained a lot of strength, so he was not flexible enough in speed, far less useful than soldiers and spiders.

To sum up, it is still cost-effective to carry dry.

Looking around, Mo Lan reluctantly raised the thin armor on the spider's buttocks again, placed a new combination of decay membrane and hatching nest, and recovered the corpses of the two six-eyed bears into more than nine parts. With a little energy, three soldier bugs, two spider bugs, and four worker bugs were hatched, and this will be her second stronghold from now on.

Mo Lan walked out of the cave again, the sky was already dark, and the huge stars were shining in the sky. This was the first time she saw the night on a different planet. The difference between this planet and the earth is that its rotation time does not change. Not 24 hours, but 36 days, that is, eighteen consecutive days of day and eighteen days of night.

Or the timing on this planet is completely different from that on the earth, but Mo Lan is used to using the time on the earth to record.

The six-eyed bear has grown three pairs of eyes, perhaps because the night here is too long. After all, losing night vision is equivalent to imprisoning oneself in a very dangerous situation.

Fortunately, the night has no effect on the Zerg, and even has a lot of bonuses. Mo Lan's vision in the dark is still clear.

There are silver shimmers on the top of the Kahur tree, as if it has been pasted with some sequins. Against the backdrop of the stars in the sky, it looks like the Milky Way flowing on the ground.

"What is that?" Mo Lan exclaimed, this scene is so beautiful, she must take a screenshot and post it on the forum for the group of people to see.

"Starfall insects, insects like stars falling from the sky, can absorb sufficient sunlight during the day and emit light at night." Shi Qi explained.

"Sounds like a firefly." Mo Lan thought of the little bugs on the earth.

"But really, that's just how they capture their prey."

Shi Qi signaled Mo Lan to look.

An unknown bird flew by, pointed at one of the light sources that were glowing, and grabbed it.

The leaves swayed, and several long tentacles suddenly jumped out of it, tightly wrapping the bird that threw itself into the net, and sent it into the huge dark mouth covered by the leaves.

"It's just a little decoration on its body that shines." Shi Qi showed Mo Lan the real picture of Xingluochong.

It was a sarcoma-like creature covered with tentacles, the middle part was their mouthparts, which could expand to the size of the entire body, and the luminous part was a part of those tentacles, which could resemble fluorite at the tip It also absorbs and releases light.

They will put the tip of the luminous soft tentacles on the leaves, pretending to be the light emitted by the leaves or some small insects, and when the prey of similar size approaches, they will use the tentacles next to them to quickly tie up the prey and swallow them.

If the prey is too big, it will also cleverly break off the tentacles to protect itself.

Mo Lan's expression was a little disillusioned, she thought that the firefly-like creature turned out to be a tentacle monster!Damn, there really are tentacle monsters on this planet!
"They will choose a tree when they are very young, and hide in the canopy of the tree from then on, growing and developing together with the tree." Shi Qi spoke slowly, finding what he wanted from the vast sea of ​​data. that part.

"Unlike other insects that parasitize on plants and rely on the nutrition of the plants themselves to survive, the starfall is a creature that only uses the companion tree as a simple residence."

"Their life and death will not have any impact on the companion tree, whether it is harm or benefit."

"It's like a falling star, the light flashes by, but leaves no trace."

Mo Lan blinked her eyes, her dislike for the tentacles suddenly dissipated a little, only a little.

"Is the starfall worm very powerful?" Mo Lan looked up. She was in an open space where the Kahur tree was relatively thin, so she could see the tip of the crown of the Kahur tree, which was hundreds of meters high.

At such a high position, climbing up the tree from below seems to be completely free, and flying over will be caught and swallowed like that bird. Looking at it this way, isn't it very strong.

"Why do you think so?" Shi Qi was puzzled, it didn't seem to have said that Star Falling Insect was very powerful.

"Uh..." Mo Lan was about to speak when she saw a group of birds flying towards the starfall worm that had just been exposed. The leaves shook, and a group of birds rushed in and ate a meal. Satisfied, those who left no traces flew away.

Mo Lan was shocked, no, didn't she just kill alone?

"The starfall itself is very fragile, and it can only face a single prey, and the prey that exceeds its ability will turn into a predator."

"Besides, at such a high height, the starfall worms will fall to their deaths. Maybe that's why they don't change the tree after choosing a companion tree."

Star Falling Insect spends its whole life only in the treetop it chooses.

Mo Lan didn't know what to say, but she was full of respect for the unknown world. Not only the earth, but also other worlds had more and more wonderful lives.

"It's really amazing nature." Mo Lan sighed.

"..."

Mo Lan noticed that Shi Qi was looking at her, and seemed to have something to say, so she blinked, "Is there anything else? Shi Qi."

"Don't you think Xingluochong is suitable?" Shi Qi paused, luck brought a little complexity.

"Suitable for what?"

Mo Lan thought for a while, but had no clue.

"Doesn't your Zerg lack stronger combat power?" Shiqi re-released the information of the Star Falling Worm.

"The starfall worm itself is an insect, and its genetic compatibility with the Zerg is very high. Simple fusion genes should not be difficult, but it can directly improve the fighting ability of the Zerg and solve your most important problem of hatching energy shortage."

The Zerg Queen turned out to be me!Mo Lan covered her face. She, the Zerg queen, hadn't thought of this at all. The most suitable for Zerg must be insect life.

but……

"What a tentacles!"

(End of this chapter)