Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 140 Another Path of Evolution
The large-scale exploration of the ocean not only brought Sass into a period of rapid growth, but also brought the development of the Zerg into the fast lane.

With a large number of new species being incorporated into the gene pool by SARS, it can be said that new ideas are colliding in its mind every moment.

Perhaps these auras are limited by its current ability, and there is no way to perfectly use them on the Zerg, but this is the brilliance of wisdom shining.When the conditions are ripe, these accumulated inspirations will be like wildfires on the prairie, igniting the prairie fire called evolution.

When the corpse of the sea snake was sent to Sass by the swarm, it was put on the agenda to use this poison, which is almost fatal to the zerg, to become its own weapon.

On flying dragons, this ability has been initially used. Their tails can spray poisonous mist in the air, causing damage to enemies within the range. At the same time, the poisonous glands hidden under the sharp teeth can also make their normal bites Bring deadly threats.

But although this application surprised Zero, it was not perfect.

Among them, there are two problems that need to be solved urgently. One is the problem of spear and shield.The venom attack can be regarded as the spear transformed by the Zerg this time, but the Zerg itself does not have a shield for defense.

It is true that for the Zerg, killing regardless of the enemy and the enemy may sometimes have a miraculous effect, but dying under the attack of a companion is not only a waste of resources, but also unnecessary.

Like a newborn flying dragon, imparting resistance to this toxin to every Zerg unit is what Sass is working on during this time.

As for the other one, it is to improve this "spear" as much as possible, and to maximize its effect on various units of the Zerg.

Zero has already carried out a more detailed test of the poisonous mist attack sprayed from the tail of the flying dragon.

If it is released in close combat or at a very low altitude, the attack range of the poisonous mist of each flying dragon is within a radius of about five meters. Once it exceeds this range, due to the rapid dilution of the toxin in the air, its effect will be greatly reduced. If it is lowered, the lethality will also drop sharply.

The distance of five meters seems not small, but on a real battlefield, unless the opponent forms a dense formation, it will not cause much damage, and the need to approach the attack will become the fatal weakness of the flying dragon.

In addition, placing the poison gland on the head to provide venom for the sharp teeth of the Zerg does strengthen the melee ability of the Zerg to some extent.But if the swarm already has the ability to bite each other, then the presence or absence of this toxin actually makes little difference, which seems a bit tasteless.

If it is said that the venom attack can achieve the greatest degree of effect among all the units of the Zerg today, it is undoubtedly the forager.

Compared with the land, the number of large organisms in the ocean is much larger. For the Zerg, given the absolute superiority in numbers, it is not difficult to kill them.It's just that sometimes the efficiency is worrying. These large creatures have extremely strong vitality, and they can often burst out with great power when they are dying. This will not only cause damage to the Zerg, but also take a long time.

If this problem can be solved through toxins, it will undoubtedly be much more efficient.

After the initial surprise, Zero gradually became aware of the various drawbacks of the original flying dragon.

From the perspective of the positioning of air units, zero hopes that they can undertake long-range delivery, high-altitude reconnaissance, long-range attacks, and even ultra-long-range attacks beyond the line of sight, instead of fighting the enemy personally, which is the responsibility of land units.

It takes several times or even more resources to incubate them. If they are only used as flying melee units, it is too wasteful.

Zero even feels that it is a bit tasteless to use toxins, a "weapon" that can only be effective at close range, on them, but since Sass has already achieved this, and has not yet achieved the conditions he expects for the future of the flying dragon , they don't have much use for them, so they can only do so first.

In addition to the toxin newly added to the "arsenal", there is another "weapon" that Zero has high hopes for, that is, the self-detonation research of the fire bug. Small veins, and handed over to Sass to study.

Now that there is no war, Zero does not have much demand for the immediate combat power of the Zerg. The existing Zerg swarms all over the continent and ocean are sufficient to meet all the needs at this stage.

Therefore, Zero is not in a hurry to let Sass produce results quickly. Compared with speed, he hopes that it can improve these functions as much as possible, so that the final hatched Zerg unit can have a more reasonable structure and give full play to various " The role of "weapon" has even gone a step further on the original basis.

Zerg's creativity has never been questioned. When the Zerg had just landed from the ocean, in order to cope with the crisis faced by the Zerg, it directly transformed the original warriors into engineers with smoother lines that met the needs of the Zerg.

And this is what it has done when its accumulation is most barren.During this period of time, with the deepening of accumulation, the various abilities of the Zerg it transformed have been significantly enhanced, and the most critical driver is undoubtedly the strange abilities of various newly discovered species, but other than that, Sass is among them Its role cannot be underestimated.

After all, for those creatures, take the sea snake as an example. Except for the snake venom, the Zerg hardly uses any other abilities on its body, because what it possesses basically the Zerg already has, or even stronger.

And Sass has this kind of ability, like the stitch monster, concentrates the strengths of various races on the Zerg unit. At the beginning, he could still feel a little bit of disobedience, but now it is almost integrated.

Learn from others' strengths and use them yourself.

This is the current path that the Zerg is taking to become stronger, and it is many times better than the random mutation on the island at the beginning.

Moreover, in the process of transforming Sass, it did not completely copy it. Every time it transforms, it will zergize this utilized ability to make it fit the body structure of the zerg without causing additional burden to them. able to enhance its capabilities.

It seems to be the same as copying, but in fact it is very different.

This means that even if the Zerg Swarm never encounters any new species in the future, Sass can still use the collision of thoughts in his mind to continue to strengthen the Zerg, but without the addition of new samples, this process may be much slower.

This road of becoming stronger has become the mainstream of the current evolution of the Zerg after the emergence of the Zerg. Relying on Sass, new Zerg arms are constantly verified to meet the needs, and thus are hatched in large numbers, such as marine foragers, diggers, and engineers. and dragons.

However, with the results obtained in this research on the self-explosion of "saltpeter" on fire worms, Zero believes that it is likely to open another door for the evolution of Zerg.

Fire worms cannot produce "saltpeter" by themselves, a substance that helps detonate themselves and attack the enemy. They live on the rock wall, use the peculiar body structure of their abdomen to slowly absorb "saltpeter" into the body for storage, and then when needed, use it as a "saltpeter" Lead" ignites itself.

This is a very peculiar ability, even a bit similar to the application of tools by the lizard civilization.

Before, the swarm encountered many kinds of creatures. The substances they ingested were basically to meet the needs of survival. There had never been a kind of creature that ingested external substances to destroy itself and attack the enemy at the same time.

Although they may not be aware of what their behavior means at all, in Zero's mind, this is an improvement for the Zerg that is comparable to the lizard ancestors who ignited the flames in the wilderness!
Call it great!

Of course, this kind of greatness does not refer to the fireflies themselves, but the admiration for the miraculous creator!

This way of absorbing foreign objects into one's body and transforming one's body into a weapon, for the Zerg, this is the door to a new world!
Study it, master it!Incorporate substances with various properties from the outside world into the body in every possible way, so as to strengthen themselves, this is another way of the Zerg!

As for the research on this point, after obtaining a large amount of "saltpeter", SARS has already started.

Although it is almost busy, but the thinking on this point has never stopped.

For it, it is very simple to apply the completed items such as the resistance of the dragon to poison to other arms.Because the various units of the Zerg are essentially the same.

They are all redeveloped from larvae, and to accomplish this, just do it on the larvae.

This doesn't take much of its time.But Zero also knows that the first step from scratch is always the hardest, so he didn't ask Sass to put down all other research work to concentrate on this matter, but asked him to spare some energy Just for research.

Today, a full year has passed since the firefly was caught in the cave, and a period of time was wasted because of not understanding its characteristics, but now, Zero still ushered in the initial stage of SARS research results.

It is said to be an achievement, but in fact it is just a replica of the body structure of the firefly on the Zerg.And this kind of bug is not like all the Zerg units hatched before, but a small Zerg unit that is almost the same as the fire bug itself.

In order to reach a conclusion as quickly as possible, Sass also took some shortcuts.Undoubtedly, imitating the firebug directly is the easiest way, without even thinking too much about the changes required to apply it to other Zerg individuals.

This bug is also redeveloped from Zerg Larvae, which means it is essentially no different from other units.

It's just that when the larvae hatch into adults, they are no longer the relationship between one larva and one adult.

Often one Zerg larva can hatch hundreds of Zerg units that are very small compared to other arms!
Regarding this point, it is not the result of Sass transformation.The Zerg larva is said to be a bug, but in fact, according to Zero's idea, it is more like a piece of living plasticine, and the process of re-hatching is like reshaping it.

This is the innate talent of the Zerg. If Zero wants, he can even make a living spherical bug out, but that doesn't make any sense.

As early as when Sass appeared, Zero thought about this problem, including when he wanted to transform him into the Zerg's own explorer, he also had the same idea, that is, through the re-differentiation of larvae, to achieve the miniaturization of the swarm individual, only But later, due to the appearance of the firefly and Sass's never-ending busyness, it was put on hold.

If you have to make a metaphor, compare the Zerg larvae to plasticine, then Sass' ability is like carving on this piece of plasticine. If the ability is strong enough, it can carve out enough to meet the requirements according to its own mind. .

Of course, if you are not as capable as you are now, and you are not enough to carve complex patterns by yourself, you can also expand the template in front of you and directly reproduce it. In addition to being not flexible enough, it reduces the difficulty too much.

Dividing the larvae into smaller ones was originally considered by Zero to be an important way for the Zerg to enter the microcosm, but it has not been tried at all, and it has been applied by Sass in the research of fire worms, and the facts have proved that this idea is feasible of.

This group of bugs that Sass reproduced almost according to the template is very similar to the fire worms in appearance, but Sass is obviously not a complete copy, it still added some Zergs as much as possible on this basis The original characteristics, and made some changes in the details.

Zero saw that compared to the fire worms in nature, the worms hatched by the Zerg were slightly larger in size. Sass obviously made some explorations in the position where the burning material was stored in the abdomen, although in subsequent experiments It proved that this extra body size did not increase much attack power at all, but it at least represented the achievements of Sass in this direction.

As long as it is given time, even if the application of "Saltpeter" is still in the stage of duplication, it can still transform into more powerful Zerg-like units.

However, compared to really clarifying the utilization mechanism of "Nitre" and kicking open the door to another development path for the Zerg, this point is relatively light, because Sass has already taken the first step , it means that there is no fundamental obstacle for it on this point, and success is something that can be foreseen in the near future.

Although the Zergs are still fighting with various races in this world all the time, basically there is no room for this new unit. Or in the ocean, they are all invincible.

So although Sass seems to be always busy, but now, it actually has plenty of time.This newly hatched bug, including the various defects exposed by the flying dragon before, and even the existing various Zerg arms, in the eyes of Zero today, has actually become a "semi-finished product".

Even if they do have a considerable degree of immediate combat power, and are already strong enough in the current environment, but because Sass has more and more new ideas, Zero still feels dissatisfied with them.

It's not that a powerful swarm of insects is needed to deal with the current situation. In fact, killing chickens with a bull's knife is a huge waste of resources.

However, there are two different things between not using it and not having it at all. It may not take a powerful Zerg unit to conquer this world, but no matter what, Zero wants to make everything as perfect as possible.

　Thank you book friend [Ye Tai Mei Rong] for rewarding 100 starting coins! !

　　
　
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