Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 161 Genetic Enhancement
In that kind of epiphany-like state, SARS generally produced a worm species capable of producing a variety of biological enzymes. They intercepted the genes from SARS in a practical sense, and then passed various The pathways are spliced ​​into the soon-to-be-born Zerg individual.

These Zergs that are about to hatch are the experimental materials of Sass this time. They will use their lives to verify what kind of trait expression the base chains obtained from Sass represent.

Zero also paid considerable attention to this. Even if his mentality was indifferent, he would not turn a blind eye to such a major event related to the future of the Zerg.

There are a total of 73 pairs of samples, each of which is exactly the same individual to prevent accidental appearance, and all of them are one-water Zerg land units.In order to maintain the pristine state of the experiment, Sass did not interfere with their hatching in any way.

73 pairs, this is also the number of types of biological enzymes, all the results of SARS in that state of divine assistance, a total of 73 different base pairs were "cut out", corresponding to 73 groups of completely different expressions.

In addition, there is also a pair of Zerg units that have not changed at all and hatched simultaneously as a control group, with a total of 74 pairs and 148 Zerg individuals.

They will complete two developments in the next few hours and grow into adults.

The process is lacklustre, nothing more than waiting and then conducting a comprehensive comparison with the control group.

Among the 73 experimental groups, 28 pairs died immediately after the larvae hatched, and among the remaining 45 pairs, 39 pairs became deformed, or had limb degeneration like SARS, or had grown outgrowth. There are strange organs, some of which have similar gene expressions, in short, they are strange shapes, and there are all kinds of them.

Their ability to survive was probably due to the Zerg's tenacious vitality, and those who died directly were probably implanted with gene fragments that control cell self-destruction.

The gene fragments that were originally expressed under certain conditions broke away from certain restrictions when they were extracted separately, directly killing them.

In the end, there were only 6 groups that looked relatively normal.

Among these six groups, four groups are almost indistinguishable from ordinary Zerg land units in appearance. Zero is not sure what their respective expression results are. It may be a long lifespan like Sass, or it may just be more digestive organs. A batch of fluff.

This is all possible, and Sass indeed retained these fragments, but even it can only determine the corresponding external expression in this way.

The difference in the body can be distinguished through anatomy later. Although it does not rule out that some subtle differences will be ignored, it is still a feasible solution after all.

In short, these units that have been hatched by the Zerg are not rare species. If they find something, they can be copied at any time and generally hatch more.

As for the last two groups, both of them maintain the normal shape of their bodies, so they won't look mutilated or deformed at first glance, so they won't be of great use.It's just that they changed significantly compared to the control group.

One, as Zero expected before, showed a very high similarity to SARS in the brain, but the size was much smaller.

However, perhaps it is indeed because of the small size, which does not seem to bring them higher intelligence. Compared with the control group, this pair has no other characteristics except that it is much weirder.

Obviously, it is also a useless transformation.

The other group has been tested and proved to be much more useful, and it is also the most useful genetic modification result so far among all the achievements of SARS this time, and it also gave Zero a big surprise!

Because it inherited part of Sass's ability to store and store memories!
If Sass has any obvious advantages besides his smart brain and long lifespan, it is undoubtedly his ability to read other biological knowledge.

This ability gives the Zerg a lot of convenience, allowing them to easily learn the opponent's intelligence at the beginning of facing the enemy, and more directly obtain the results of the accumulation of research on the opponent's civilization, which has a very obvious role in promoting the development of the Zerg. .

But this point has always had a huge flaw, that is, Sass must come into contact with living biological individuals with a certain brain capacity to complete this task.

Speaking of brain capacity, the main reason is that the main thinking organ of the intelligent creatures encountered by the Zerg is the brain. It is not clear whether Sass' ability will be useful if they encounter other types of creatures in the future.

But in a war, Sass usually sits in the Zerg base camp, and it is impossible for Zero to take the risk and send it to the front line.

In this way, the important targets of the enemy captured by the Zerg on the battlefield have to travel thousands of miles to come to Sass, and in the process, the Zerg must also ensure the safety of the opponent's life .

This will add great difficulty to the task. During the battle with the Lizardmen, many high-value individuals captured by the Zerg died during the journey. It has to be said that this is actually a damage to the property of the Zerg. What a huge waste!

Zero also thought of many ways to avoid this situation, but because of the uniqueness of Sass, whether it is to make it close to the front line after the war or let the Zerg transport the captives back, or even go in both directions, it actually requires a lot of people. time.

Often in this process, accidents occur frequently.But now, this problem finally has a solution.

This sudden surprise really made Zero happy after a long absence.

Of course, this kind of bug is just a storage container, and it doesn't have the reading ability of Sass at all. Its existence is equivalent to replacing the captives transported in the middle with the Zerg itself. Compared with the uncontrolled Enemy prisoners, your own units are undoubtedly much safer and more reliable!
However, at present, it seems that the intercepted gene fragments may be missing, or other fragments are needed to fully achieve this. At present, after the memory obtained by this bug is read by Sass, there will be a considerable part of it. The exact amount of loss cannot be accurately estimated, but the sense of loss of memory is quite obvious.

Obviously, although it has demonstrated its potential and its effect on the Zerg, it is still not really useful and can only be regarded as a semi-finished product.

As for when this semi-finished product can be completed, it depends on when Sass can have the ability to "read" genes, or if he is lucky, it is not impossible to find out through continuous testing.

Afterwards, Sass conducted in-depth research on the four groups of bugs that could not be seen to change in appearance before, and finally ruled out two pairs of meaningless changes again, leaving only the last two groups. Couldn't find any noticeable difference.

It is possible that the gene fragments they are implanted in are not expressed at all, or it may be only a recessive expression. With the current level of understanding of SARS, no conclusion can be drawn yet.

More than 70 gene fragments seem to be a lot, but for the gene chain of the Zerg, it is only the level of one tree in a hundred acres of jungle, and it is far from being able to get all the secrets of Zerg evolution.

However, the research results of Sass this time do not actually lie in the changes of these bugs themselves, even if all the intercepted gene fragments are useless, it is also expected by Zero.

It is an accident that he can get something, because he will not expect to draw an SSR in a single draw out of thousands of card slots, that is an extremely low probability event.

The significance of Sass' achievement this time has nothing to do with how the intercepted gene fragments are expressed. The real significance of this achievement lies in that it helped the Zerg directly open the door to gene research!
Not only SARS itself, but with this precedent, all life on this planet with genetic material, the secrets contained in their genes have opened their arms to the Zerg!
Sass has made a breakthrough from zero to one. With this successful experience, future research in this area will be pointed out.

A road to success is already ahead, it will no longer have a slow groping stage, which will prevent it from making big mistakes in the research direction, thus saving a lot of time!

This is the real benefit that this research brings to the Zerg. Zero estimates that the far-reaching impact it will have will save the Zerg at least hundreds of years!
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Zero, unsurprisingly, threw all subsequent research at Sass, which had advanced biotechnology to such an extent that Zero actually had very little to teach it.

Afterwards, all research projects will be decided by itself. He will only propose a general direction, and let the Zerg as a whole develop in this direction.

Regarding the records of celestial bodies in the starry sky, Ling has recently become more and more experienced.

The reason is that Sass once again upgraded his "observation equipment", allowing Zero to truly observe all optically visible celestial bodies in the star system from any angle on the entire planet!

As for the stars or even galaxies farther away, there is really nothing that can be done. Even the distance estimation is quite laborious, let alone the precise observation of the interior of the star system.

That's a huge distance in light years!
To observe their true colors at this distance, Sass still needs to work harder.

In the zero observation, the satellite of the planet Ori is not completely locked by the Ori tide due to its relatively long distance, and it still has a certain rotation speed.

So from the point of view of Ori, it will show different appearances at different times.

During this period of time, he observed the surface of the satellite almost completely. Although Zero couldn't know the specific situation before he actually landed here, he could probably draw a conclusion.

Zero made a simple calculation of the Auri planet under his feet through the Zerg. If it is approximately regarded as a sphere, its equatorial radius is about 6000 kilometers, and its circumference exceeds [-] kilometers.

As for its mass, Zero also used a method in his mind to perform a simple calculation. In simple terms, he measured its gravitational constant very roughly through a slightly complicated experiment, and then deduced it based on the estimated radius of the sphere. Its approximate mass is about 55 trillion gigatons.

A veritable behemoth.

It is not meaningless to calculate these, and it can play a certain guiding role for the future interstellar navigation of the Zerg.

Therefore, Zero invented a new mass unit, that is, Ori.

In the future, the description of the mass of celestial bodies can be described in the unit of Ori, which can save a certain amount of trouble.

For example, the mass of Ori’s satellite, after a simple calculation of zero, is about 0.2 Ori.

This is not a difficult task. After the mass of one of the two celestial bodies and the distance between the two sides are determined, it can be easily obtained.

Of course, this is just a rough estimate. Even if the Zerg has made a qualitative breakthrough in biotechnology, it is still not capable of accurate macroscopic measurement.

This is not their forte.

Speaking of the Zerg's progress in biotechnology, as time went by, a large number of experiments were carried out in the Zerg's main base. In order to draw conclusions as soon as possible, Sass almost opened up the experiments, and the algae that reproduced in the surrounding sea area were all One of them is empty, giving the native species whose life is becoming increasingly difficult a rare respite.

On the one hand, it verifies the external expression corresponding to each pair of base codes bit by bit through continuously narrowing the scope and a large number of experiments; .

In this process, it constantly improves its cognition and understanding of these codes that exist in the deepest part of living beings. One day, it will be able to become a decoder, or even a coder!
In addition, Sass also had two purposes, trying to analyze the underlying mechanism of the firefly's use of "saltpeter" that he had been thinking about before.

Time has passed for so long, and Zero still has not given up on the research on this project.

To be honest, with the current depth of the Zerg's biotechnology, it is barely capable of analyzing the mechanism of this ability. If a conclusion can be drawn, it may lead to another leap in the individual strength of the Zerg!
Zero is still a bit greedy for the iron and even firearms used by the lizardmen.

It's not that I'm greedy for these external tools, these things themselves are not very attractive to Zero.

What he thought was, if it could be skillfully used on the Zerg, what a wonderful thing it would be!

Just imagine, if the Zergs were born with bones like steel, it would be an interesting thing to combine the war technology of other races with the Zerg's own biological technology, and even further develop it. Big boost.

Generally speaking, the natural defense ability of living things is only to prevent the attacks of natural enemies. Those outer armors made of protein cuticles are completely unable to withstand the impact of kinetic energy weapons or even higher-level weapons.

As for the denser structure, it is no longer at the biological level, it is the characteristics of the aggregation of different molecules and atoms, and it even involves in a smaller field.

All living things are made of basic substances, and Zero has no reason to repel using these substances on the Zerg themselves.

Taking a step back, all the creatures that the Zerg have come into contact with so far do not have such abilities. The basic understanding of the world tells Zero that if the Zerg really want to run rampant in the universe, it is a feasible way to turn the external elements into their own use. the road.

(End of this chapter)