Chapter 150 The Problem of the Golden Insect Swarm Project
Xue Hua saw the situation of the wild zerg nest that was isolated from the main hive mind through the eyes of the supervisory king worm.
To describe it in one word, it’s “shocking.”
A special layer of red and yellow keratin spreads on the shells of all hatcheries and buildings in this wild zerg nest. These keratin layers look like metal and some kind of biological shell.
This weird cuticle not only seriously affects the larvae production in the hatchery, but also has an extremely negative impact on the surrounding bacterial carpet.
The carpet spread from the wild insect nests shows an unusual inertia.
This kind of inert mushroom carpet shows a strange color of red and yellow. They can no longer spread as quickly as ordinary mushroom blankets, and at the same time, they cannot even provide effective supplies for the insect colonies on the mushroom carpet.
The Zerg units in the wild insect nests still acted according to their instincts, but Xue Hua saw that many of the worker bees, springtails and larvae had grown a large number of useless multipliers with metallic properties.
Not only do these proliferating bodies fail to bring convenience to these Zerg units, they even interfere with their normal functioning.
A large group of red and yellow spherical proliferating bodies proliferated on the mining claws of a worker bee. This mass of proliferating bodies seriously interfered with the worker bee's resource collection work, and also slowed down its movement speed.
Examples of this worker bee are everywhere in this wild Zerg nest. There are springtails whose hind legs are wrapped by proliferating bodies and become lame. There are also larvae that are completely covered by proliferating bodies and cannot egg and mutate into other Zerg units.
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All in all, the effects are almost always negative, and the effects are quite random.
Faced with this situation, Abathur's explanation is that the combination of the Protoss Arms and the World Stone solvent has produced unforeseen negative consequences. This consequence is reflected in gene editing, which is what Xue Hua is seeing now.
Runaway random evolution.
And if you want to control this evolution and let these proliferators truly play their due role, you need to reorganize the genetic sequence of the entire wild insect hive and re-edit the mixed solvents one after another.
In other words, in simple terms, it is necessary to destroy this failed wild zerg nest, and then re-establish multiple wild zerg nests for experimental sample comparison.
Only by optimizing genes step by step and improving the editing effect can we obtain appropriate gene editing results and apply them to the insect swarm.
Abathur told Xue Hua that what they are doing now is something that no one has ever tried in the entire history of insect swarm evolution.
This is a cross-race gene editing and stitching of organic and inorganic substances.
The difficulty of this kind of innovation can be imagined, so failure is also expected.
However, if this innovation is finally successful, they will create a new branch race based on the insect swarm.
This is similar to the way Amon transformed the primitive zerg on the planet Zerus, but it is undoubtedly much more difficult.
Without the miraculous effect of the World Stone Solvent, which can perfectly mix inorganic and organic matter, this biological evolution operation will always remain a theory.
Abathur also told Xue Hua that the current experiment has actually achieved the expected effect of the first part of it and Keles. They at least proved that this special mixed solution can be added to the gene editing of the insect swarm.
Next, they just need to conduct more experiments and learn more experience from continuous failures. I believe that they will eventually be able to come up with a perfect gene editing model and apply it to the entire insect colony.
Xue Hua has no doubts about Abathur's ultimate success. He fully trusts Abathur's ability.
But he hopes that the process can be accelerated, at least not until hundreds of years later before the results are available.
Faced with Xue Hua's request for acceleration, Abathur came up with a solution - using Youjin to suppress the psychic intensity of the mixed solvent, so that the genes of the insect swarm can more fully accept the influence of the mixed solvent, thereby allowing the genes to
The editing process becomes easier.
Ghost gold is a special mineral that can suppress psychic energy. This mineral is scarce in reserves and often appears as an associated mineral with other high psychic energy minerals.
In the current universe, Xue Hua has only seen Youjin once, and it was pulled out from the laboratory left by Xel'Naga...
That amount of gold is simply not enough for the entire "Golden Insect Swarm" plan, not to mention that the gold has been made into three tubes of psychic talent enhancer by Abathur.
Two of the tubes have been used by sisters Anne and Funia, and the remaining one is still gathering dust in Xue Hua's inventory...
"Youjin...Okay, you are posing a problem for me..."
Xue Hua sighed helplessly and held his forehead with a headache.
It seems that it is unrealistic to create a swarm of golden insects in a short time. For now, we can only let Abathur follow its plan slowly and see if we can see gold in Xue Hua's lifetime.
The birth of the swarm...
Xue Hua quickly approved Abathur's plan to reshape the wild insect colonies, and assigned most of the entire mysterious sand dune to these wild insect nests as breeding grounds.
But at the same time, he also warned Abathur that he must keep an eye on these wild zerg nests. He did not want to raise a new master with his own hands to cause trouble for himself.
He has enough troubles now, and he can't handle any more...
After finishing his visit to the mysterious sand dune experimental base, Xue Hua turned his attention to the main nest of the giant insect swarm under the barrier mountain range.
Now the insect swarm has basically hollowed out the barrier mountains. These mountains only look like ordinary mountains, but in fact they are filled with all kinds of insect nests, large and small.
The worker bees of the insect swarm are now trying to extend their resource collection activities underground into the Nobile Sea, preparing to extend the insect nest base from underground to the seabed.
Anyway, the Zerg units are not afraid of water at all, so as long as they don't dig down the continental shelf, Xue Hua doesn't care what they plan to do.
What he is concerned about now is whether this insect nest can continue to support the increasing resource consumption of the insect swarm, because according to Isa's statistics, if the current size of the insect swarm includes the small insect nests scattered everywhere,
It has reached the terrifying level of hundreds of millions.
A few mineral collection points alone may not be enough to support such a large insect swarm.
However, just when Xue Hua was discussing with the mother insects on accelerating resource collection, his body suddenly received a wake-up prompt, as if someone from the outside world was calling him.
Xue Hua immediately cut off the connection with the shelter world and returned his mind to his true body.
The moment he opened his eyes from the chair, Kasha's figure opened the curtain and rushed in.
"...Sister, if you just wander into the opposite sex's tent like this, I'm afraid it will have a bad influence. Aren't you afraid that I'm not wearing any clothes?"
Xue Hua looked at her helplessly and said with a wry smile.
"Tch...I've lived for so many years, and I haven't seen any big storms or waves. Just a little thing like yours, and I wouldn't even look up if I aimed wrongly!"
Kasha's fierce words made Xue Hua's forehead throb with veins.
What is "that little thing"?
I'll scare you to death if I take out my labor and capital. Do you want to try it?!
"Also, how many times have I told you, don't call me Big! Sister! Head!!"
Boom!
"..." Xue Hua held his head and squatted in defense, smiling bitterly without saying anything.
"Forget it, I won't bother you anymore. There are two little guys crying and asking me to bring them to you. You can figure it out yourself."
Kasha smiled and turned around to open the tent door. Two beautiful figures that made Xue Hua think about it day and night appeared in front of him who was unprepared. (To be continued)
