The Zerg Overlord Who Devours the Starry Sky

Chapter 67 Zerg unit selection

Why are Zerg called Zerg?

Zerg species that appear in the universe often have huge mouthparts, hard exoskeletons, and ferocious insect-like shapes.

Their biological forms and characteristics are also highly similar to insects, which is one of the important reasons why they are called Zerg.

If all animals were made the same size, insects would be the most powerful among arthropods.

Normally, insects' body structure makes it difficult for them to grow too large because their exoskeletons and muscles cannot support their large size.

But the emergence of the rr virus has made this impossible a reality.

When other creatures on the earth evolved and mutated, these insects also evolved and mutated, and became one of the most terrifying monster groups.

It's just that they often like to live in vast wilderness, jungles, and cities. They don't appear much.

At the beginning, Qin Mu chose tiger mastiffs in order to give the Zerg their first combat unit.

Later, in order to expand the size and combat power of the insect swarm, new monster genes were continuously absorbed.

The monsters that appear in the city are often mutated monsters from dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, snakes and other creatures that were common in the human world during the Great Nirvana Period. In order to better integrate into it, Qin Mu chose these most common monsters. , and then hatched on a large scale.

This choice allows the insect swarm to integrate well into the city and has not been completely exposed so far.

But this also greatly limits the development of the insect swarm.

When the insect swarm's tentacles extended into the wilderness and hunted wildly in the wilderness, the insect swarm discovered more types of monsters, and a large number of them were insects.

These insect monsters are often more powerful than monsters of the same level. Just for the sake of hidden development, the insect swarms do not hatch on a large scale in the city.

“Currently, in the Zerg gene pool, there are hundreds of thousands of monster genes above the beast soldier level.

The insect swarm is about to start a full-scale war with the monsters, so there is no need to consider other factors, as long as the strongest and most suitable insect can be hatched with the same energy. "

Sitting on the rooftop of the ruined building in the city, Qin Mu thought about the structure of the insect swarm.

When the strength is insufficient, the concealment and growth of the insect swarm are the most important.

Now that it has developed, concealment is not the primary factor, but combat effectiveness is.

"The Brood begins to select the strongest Zerg units with the same energy, mainly at the Beast Soldier level and Beast General level.

Mainly consider the optimal and most reasonable arrangement for large-scale operations and group operations. "

Passing his will to the insect swarm, all the mother nests immediately began to adjust the type of insect that hatched.

In City 023, the larvae around a mother nest began to mutate.

Fifteen minutes later, huge mantis-shaped monsters hatched out of the eggs that were as tall as a person.

This is a monster called Blade Mantis, whose strength is at the level of a high-level beast soldier.

The blade mantis usually lives in the jungle. It is gray-green, has a slender body, nearly three meters long, has a triangular head, short hind legs, long front legs, and the front legs are like a sickle.

To put it simply, he has a scythe on his arm, and the weapon and body are integrated into one. He is born with a sword and is full of ferocity.

After crawling out of the insect egg, the blade mantis shook its body, spread its two pairs of wings, jumped outside along the passage of the insect nest, and flew at low altitude.

At a subway entrance, nearly a hundred bladed mantises crawled out one after another.

"thump--"

"thump--"

These blade mantises kicked hard with their six legs and jumped into the air. Their wings were beating in the air and they flew up and landed on a building, rushing towards the monster in the distance.

These blade mantises are not very capable of flying and can only fly at low altitudes.

But this is enough for them to roam freely in the city.

After leaving the territory of the insect swarm, it didn't take long for them to find a group of hundreds of wild tiger mastiffs under the guidance of the mother nest.

These tiger mastiffs had no idea that they were being targeted, and were wandering around the city as usual under the leadership of a junior beast general level tiger mastiff.

"Plop-"

Blade-blade mantises swooped down from the surrounding buildings, swinging their front legs like sickle-shaped weapons, easily cutting through the tiger mastiff's fur, tearing their flesh and blood, and taking away its life.

Most of the tiger mastiffs had their throats slit before they could react, and only a few experienced tiger mastiffs escaped this attack.

Some tiger mastiffs immediately fought back, but when their claws bit the Blade Mantis, they were often blocked by the hard bones.

Just one flying attack killed and injured nearly half of the tiger mastiffs, and only three blade mantises were injured by the counterattack.

The junior beast roared furiously at the other tiger mastiffs and bit a bladed mantis.

The Blade Mantis was not afraid of being targeted by the Tiger Mastiff at the beast general level. He raised a pair of jagged forelimbs, and when the Tiger Mastiff flew over, it was like two big knives slashing into the Tiger Mastiff's body.

The tough fur of the junior beast-general monster was unable to withstand the jagged sickle.

Just when the sharp claws of the tiger mastiff hit the Blade Mantis, the Blade Mantis dodged aside very quickly. Only one hind foot was injured by the tiger mastiff's attack and broke.

But the next moment, the Blade Mantis, which was passing by the Tiger Mastiff, spread its wings and flew into the air.

In a confrontation, the Blade Mantis, a senior beast soldier, and the Tiger Mastiff, a junior beast general, were both injured.

Other tiger mastiffs were not so lucky. Facing the Blade Mantis, their speed and reaction were not as good, and their attack range was not as good as the Blade Mantis's jagged sickle.

Even the defense is inferior to the Blade Mantis' body covered by an exoskeleton.

These blade mantises can also fly!

Once injured, fly away immediately to avoid it.

This is an asymmetrical battle.

When the other tiger mastiffs were killed by Blade Mantis, the junior beast general-level tiger mastiff was also attacked by Blade Mantis and cut into pieces.

Without a beast general-level Zerg under the leadership, the number was almost equal to that of tiger mastiffs, and the tiger mastiffs were led by a beast general, Blade Mantis was completely victorious!
On another battlefield, a group of giant beetles covered in darkness, with sickle-shaped upper jaws, large teeth inside, and a thick black shell on their fat and wide bodies crawled out of the subway.

These beetles can reach up to five meters in length, and the pair of extremely asymmetrical and extremely huge jaw teeth in front of them alone accounts for one-fifth of the body.

This giant beetle is also recorded in the military database and is suspected to have mutated from the King Tiger Beetle before the Great Nirvana Period.

Guided by their mother's nest, these giant tiger beetles soon encountered a group of tall and strong bulls.

When the two sides started fighting, the giant tiger beetle with its thick carapace easily withstood their impact when it collided with the running bull.

The wild cows are defenseless against the nearly one-meter terrifying jaws of the giant tiger beetle. Even their thick leg bones will be easily cut off when faced with the attack of the jaws!
Not only the Blade Mantis and the King Tiger Beetle, but also more insect monsters appear in major cities.

Some mother nests hatch out a large number of scorpions. These scorpion-like monsters are heavily armored and attack with venom.

When fighting monsters, they often have an absolute advantage with their two pincers and tail spines, three attack weapons.

There are also some broods that hatch out insect-like monsters with long-range attack capabilities.

That is also a giant beetle. They can spray a high-temperature and highly toxic liquid from their tails with a range of hundreds of meters.

The lethality of this liquid is astonishing. Once it hits, it can easily kill monsters at the level of high-level beast soldiers. There are groups of ant-like monsters covered with carapace, and they rely on their excellent group combat capabilities to kill everyone in the monster group.

In addition to those on the ground, some flying insect monsters were also hatched and joined the selection that would determine the main units of the Zerg in the future.

Among them, what attracted Qin Mu the most was the thunder dragonfly, a beast-level monster with a wingspan of more than ten meters.

Dragonfly is one of the earliest flying animals on earth, and it is also the best at flying among insect monsters.

As the rr virus evolved, they became an extremely terrifying monster.

The Thunder Dragonfly has two pairs of wings, each pair of wings can work independently and change the angle at will.

The unique mechanism allows them to fly forward and backward at will.

They can actually fly in any direction, even upside down, and can stop and rotate 180 degrees at high speeds.

There are few movements that cannot be performed without them.

When their size exceeds ten meters and their speed exceeds the speed of sound, they become the most terrifying aerial gods of death.

A thunder dragonfly was suspended above the ruins of the city. Suddenly, its body suddenly sank and flew across a street.

The selected one-horned boar, a beast general, didn't even react. A bloody wound appeared on its head, and it was killed instantly.

There are giant poisonous bees with a wingspan of nearly two meters. They fly in the air in swarms and make a buzzing sound.

The poisonous needles on their tails can easily sting monsters, and they can even spray venom like poisonous snakes, which is extremely corrosive.

Too many insect monsters appear in cities, appearing in places where they were not originally supposed to live.

Feeling that more and more Zerg units were competing for hunting, Qin Mu also felt a little emotional.

"No wonder this race is called the Zerg race. The insect monsters hatched with the same energy are much more powerful than monsters of the same level."

In actual combat, a blade mantis at the advanced beast soldier level is simply not on the same level as a tiger mastiff at the same advanced beast soldier level.

How can we fight when our opponent's speed, attack, defense, and even nerve reaction speed are inferior to each other?
The most disappointing thing is that the Blade Mantis can fly!

This gives Blade Mantis an absolute advantage in the battle.

It’s not just the Blade Mantis that rivals the Tiger Mastiff.

There are also King Tiger Beetles that compete with heavy units such as the One-Horned Boar, the Bloodthirsty Tank, and the Rough Ox.

The strength of the King Tiger Beetle also made Qin Mu's eyes shine. This kind of insect monster, whose weakest strength is at the junior beast general level, shows super combat power.

The lethality of the pair of giant mandibles is simply unparalleled among its kind, and even monsters known for their defense such as bloodthirsty tanks cannot resist it.

This is true even for some higher-level monsters!

Compared with their lethality, their defense is also extremely amazing.

The black carapace of that layer was as hard as metal. Qin Mu saw with his own eyes that a charging bull hit the carapace of a giant tiger beetle head-on with the horns on its head.

As a result, although the king tiger beetle was pushed back more than ten meters, it just turned over on the ground and got up to continue fighting.

Not only that, although the King Tiger Beetle cannot fly, it has a common ability that many insect monsters have, and that is burrowing into the ground!

Even in urban ruins covered with concrete, they can easily break through the ground.

"That's outrageous!"

"The energy required to hatch a beast-general-level king tiger beetle is equivalent to that of a beast-general-level one-horned wild boar, but the combat effectiveness is several times different!"

In addition to these two types, after seeing the beetle with long-range attack capabilities, Qin Mu did not hesitate to list it as a key unit to pay attention to.

Although the attack method is a bit unsightly, its practicality is very powerful.

After checking the military's database, Qin Mu also learned that this was a mutation of an insect called the artillery beetle before the Great Nirvana.

In fact, the cannon-carrying beetle is a common fart bug.

It's just that after mutation, this long-range attack ability has been strengthened.

After this test, most of the Zerg units that were originally hatched almost all faced the fate of being eliminated.

Not only the main combat unit on land, but also in the sky.

The most numerous flying monsters in the insect swarm today are gray skylarks, but the gap between them and similar flying insect monsters is equally huge!
Almost every one of the dozens of flying insect monsters that competed with Gray Skylark surpassed it.

In terms of combat power, the finch monsters really don’t rank high.

Among these flying monsters, the one that attracted Qin Mu's most attention was the Thunder Dragonfly.

This beast-level monster is one of the insect monsters that the Brood uses to compare with medium-sized flying units such as the Golden Vulture.

So silky!

The way it flies is so silky smooth!
In Qin Mu's eyes, the flying ability of the thunder dragonfly can be called an art!
Not only is it faster than the Golden Vulture, its flexibility is also far superior to any Zerg unit.

For flying monsters, when the opponent is faster, more flexible, and of similar size than you.

It means that the other party can play with you at will!

The result of the battle will only make people despair.

"Continue the test, pull out all those with strong combat abilities in the gene pool and compare them! Conduct actual combat tests!

I want to select a group of the most powerful units! "

Qin Mu transmitted his will to the entire insect swarm.

In the past, too many powerful units were hidden in the city.

On the first day alone, so many Zerg units appeared that surprised Qin Mu.

"Such tests should be kept and conducted every once in a while."

Qin Mu thought.

This time the screening is limited to the beast soldier level and beast general level, and only land units and flying units.

The reason why there is no lord level is because there are too few types of lord level monsters currently owned by the insect swarm. There are only dozens of them. You can tell which ones are more powerful at a glance, so there is no need to test them.

The same is true for water monsters. There are not many that actually have combat effectiveness. However, when the insect swarm enters the ocean, similar screening will definitely be carried out.

Compared to the ocean, there are too few monster species in land lakes.

“Once the selection of Zerg units is completed, we can hatch them on a large scale.

But before that, we need to contact Councilor Jia first. "

Sensing that under the surveillance of the insect swarm, a military team seemed to have decided to risk their lives to enter the subway to explore.

Qin Mu whispered to himself.

(End of this chapter)